Meet Me at the Highland™

In Episode 4 of Meet Me at the Highland™, Gabrielle sits down with author, yoga teacher, and rest advocate Octavia Raheem to explore how rest as self-leadership helps leaders move beyond burnout and into sustainable creativity. Together, they discuss why rest vs sleep is more than semantics, how daily pauses act as a sacred practice, and why saying no to dysfunctional success can open the door to authentic legacy work.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

How rest can serve as self-leadership and a source of clarity.

Why distinguishing rest vs sleep is vital for leaders and creatives.

Practical tools like time audits, pauses, and everyday legacy practices.

How rest protects imagination and fuels sustainable leadership.

Use #MeetMeAtTheHighland to share how you are practicing rest as leadership and creativity in your own life.

About Octavia Raheem:Octavia is an author, yoga teacher, and rest coach whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Yoga Journal, and Well + Good. She is the author of Pause, Rest, Be and Gather.



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Creators and Guests

Host
Gabrielle Wyatt
Creator and Host of Meet Me at the Highland™

What is Meet Me at the Highland™?

Meet Me at the Highland™ is a podcast and sacred space centering Black women's leadership, imagination, and legacy. Hosted by Gabrielle Wyatt, founder of The Highland Project, it offers intimate, intergenerational conversations with changemakers, artists, and cultural architects reimagining what it means to thrive. It's a rhythm of rest, reflection, and radical dreaming, where we remember who we are, reclaim our joy, and begin again.

Season Two, Seeding, is unfolding now, with Highland Leaders like Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Dr. Topeka K. Sam, and Brea Baker. Each episode arrives with a love letter, journaling prompts, and reflections that invite deeper introspection.

This is your invitation. To lead. To rest. To imagine forward. To meet us at the Highland.

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