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Elisa Camahort Page (she/her)
@elisacp.bsky.social
8.5K followers 940 following 690 posts
Current: Co-founder Optionality (https://optionality.life)
Speaker, Writer
Former: Founder/COO BlogHer, Start-up CxO
#theNOWofWork #vegan #undercoverintrovert

https://bio.site/ElisaCP
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Man holding sign suggesting how those reconsidering being MAGA can rehab themselves. Group of people holding signs. Dog wearing a sign saying Dog Save America Sign saying “The only good king is a Sacramento King.”
October 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Away on a girl’s weekend in a red part of CA this weekend. Closest #NoKings rally was in a nearby town of 10K. We all went, and it was great…great turnout, great vibes, great signs!
(I asked permission to take these pics & post them, except the one I took from across the street, so I blurred faces.)
Inflatable bear holds CA flag with friend Woman in her 70s holding up pick of herself in her 20s and today, still getting into good trouble. Young woman wearing tshirt with Mexico emblazoned on the front holding a protest sign. Inflatable fick and inflatable unicorn holding American flags.
October 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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That’s it. That the post.
August 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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#ProudCalifornian
#IChooseTheBear
#ThisIsMyFourthofJulyPost
July 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Join me in 30 minutes to hear from tech exec and investor Dave Lu on his calling to speak up and speak out…and invest in his values. In conversation with writer/journalist @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social.

(Live in 30 minutes, recording sent to all who register.)

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Compassion. It's not for the faint of heart.

substack.com/@colleenpatr...

mentioned: @joyfulvegan.bsky.social and Dr Shawn Ginwright.
Attending Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s 4-day mini-workshop series on compassion. Today's topic is about having compassion for others. Even others who we believe are not acting with compassion themselves, who do not act in accordance with our values. She says "Withholding compassion in the name of compassion is not it." This ties in quite well with The Four Pivots, the book I just read by Shawn Ginwright. If you feel like others are treating you like a "them," the answer isn't to work for the power to make those others be the "them." It is HARD. It does not come naturally to me. I can totally be Judgy McJudgerson, even if I don't always speak it aloud. And I think the key is that yes, I can deem someone's actions to not be in accordance with my values. But can I also think that such behavior has, at its root, suffering or illness of spirit? I think I can. Compassion doesn’t require lack of accountability. Or condoning anyone’s behavior. Or not calling people in or out. It requires seeing humanity where it’s hard to see it, I guess.
May 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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WTAF

I went to Perplexity to get some cites. Look at its fill-in suggestion in image below.

This is racist AF. Do racists use Perplexity enough that this is the 1st suggestion they have?

And yes, I did check MY chats to make sure I had never asked something similar to debunk a racist. I had not.
Screenshot of a perplexity chat. The user has typed in “what has research shown about…”, and perplexity has offered a fill-in suggestion, which is “what has About the relationship between race and intelligence?”
May 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Today in local: This wkend billboards went up in my hood celebrating a handgun. I wrote to my mayor/city councilperson. As did many ppl I know. My councilperson let everyone who emailed know that he was also against it and exploring legal or commercial options to take it down.

Today it came down. 👊🏼
April 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Jesse Green reviews the Sondheim revue "Old Friends" in today's NYT, and it's a beautiful piece of writing, evoking a lifetime of memory and emotion. Just as Sondheim will never be topped by AI, I don't believe this Green's weaving together of the personal and the universal will be either.
April 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I'm not grateful for today's tarrif pause, I'm pissed at the erratic behavior around tarrifs in the first place. Feels like an abusive relationship. If you've been activating about the tarrifs, now's the time to double down, not let up. You can smell the WEAKNESS.

#MomSky
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Outside my mom’s assisted living facility 🥺
April 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I'm trying a new way to share some thoughts, given the very tight character count here. How does this work?
I saw someone wonder where the "next Cory Booker" is...suggesting that every Senator should do their own Filibooker. I disagreed, and here's a 🧵 to explain: 1. First of all, not many of them would have his charisma and stamina. Secondly, it would become like mass shootings have appallingly become...unremarkable and hardly worth notice. Cory didn't have legislation to filibuster, so this was an untraditional version of a filibuster, and I'm fine with it standing on its own as a *catalyst*. ⬇️ 2. Now, when there's legislation or nominations to delay, then I would say, yes, they should take turns gumming up the works of those specific Senate actions. (Which, to be clear, they can only delay, not stop.) But mostly, we need to champion all the different actions being taken in various ways at every level. Like what? ⬇️ elisacp's profile picture elisacp Filibustering 3m · Author 3. Like Dems holding town halls in red districts, Dems joining protests/marches, Dems writing amicus briefs, Dems placing holds on VA noms (Gallego) and on the new DC DA nom (Schiff). The Congresspeople doing daily and weekly livestreams, press conferences, social media posts etc. I am here for ALL forms of disruption, delay, legislation (even if it will go nowhere), litigation, communications, etc. Even, and this is important, the messenger isn't PERFECT, or the message isn't even FOR ME. ⬇️ 4. When both the traditional national media outlets and the alogrithmic social media platforms and even too many *local* news outlets are run (and therefore editorially controlled by) people who either *are* or super-*want to suck up to* oligarchs, you won't hear about all of this unless you follow your representatives and party leadership directly. ⬇️ 5. When people say, what can I do? You can platform & promote ALL of these actions. Yes, when Bernie and Tim and AOC do it. Yes, when Jasmine and Ro do it. And yes when Sam and Patty and Amy and Adam and Ruben and Elizabeth and Ken and Malcolm and Maxwell and David and many many others do it too. People standing up for what they believe in and what is right is inspiring even when it doesn't last 25 hours 🙂 FIN PS Follow @ariella.elm here and on her Substack to get all the good news and wins!
April 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Call your Senators today!

NO Senator should be giving carte blanche to this administration’s lawless destruction of our national infrastructure, people’s lives, and democracy.

ESPECIALLY Democratic Senators.

It’s a NO on cloture and a NO on the spending bill.

www.senate.gov/general/reso...
Image of social post from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urging everyoe to call their Senators to stop the GOP spending bill in its track.
March 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Optionality's January member webinar is in one hour:
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Register to attend live (interactive Q&A will be available) or to get the recording afterwards.

My definition of productivity must now be: Doing more of your *best* work, not just more work.
January 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Cecile Richards was a light in the world. And a warrior. This is a huge loss. All my love and condolences to her family, and to everyone she inspired. 💔
A picture of the poster with Cecile Richards in front of a BlogHer '17 step & repeat. Cecile is wearing a blue dress and has her signature short blonde pixie cut. She is also a foot taller than the poster :)
January 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Californian born and raised.
#CaliforniaProud

Back story: The day Kamala became the presumptive nominee I decided to fly an American flag for the first time, flying it over my Kamala signs. Today I’ve switched it out for the California Republic state flag.
A picture of the California state flag
January 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Meanwhile over on Threads…

Useless as it is, I replied to Sheryl and expressed my, um, disappointment in her deciding not to actually lean into leadership by defending the values he’s *blaming* not crediting her for by his actions 🤷🏻‍♀️
A screenshot from Threads. Zuckerberg is praising Sheryl Sandberg (after throwing her under the buss the other day) and she replies by simpering about their great friends and building a great business together. 🤢
January 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? (I am feeling good about my chances 😊)
January 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride has the perfect ending. So much modern fiction seems hell bent on reminding us life is bleak. Like, I KNOW. I felt this sense of impending doom in the last quarter of the book, but McBride defied my expectations. I am satisfied. 5⭐️s
November 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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#unionstrong #ActorsEquityMember #IStandWithSAGAFTRA #IStandWithTheWGA #solidarity #ShareTheWealth #RespectTheWork #HappyAnniversaryToMe
Image of email congratulating me on the anniversary of joining the Actors Equity union
August 1, 2023 at 3:26 PM
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I did an off-schedule newsletter to recommend a must-listen Strong Songs episode. It’s the perfect 80s pop song…do yourself a favor and check out this recommendation to learn why!
https://open.substack.com/pub/elisacp/p/must-listen-strong-songs-podcast?r=1egsl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Promo image: Bonus This Week-ish newsletter sharing a podcast must-listen episode from Strong Songs, all about Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
July 28, 2023 at 9:00 PM
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This Week-ish is about Barbie. I bow down to Barbie's marketing machine. *That’s* how you maximize a ubiquitous brand. Max & X take note.

Everything always reminds me of how Silicon Valley operates and why patriarchy has such staying power. Check it: https://open.substack.com/pub/elisacp/p/barbie
Promo image for the This Week-ish newsletter, this week it's about Barbie. And patriarchy.
July 26, 2023 at 4:20 PM
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Had the fun and fortune to dissect #TedLasso S3 w/fellow Lasso-fan Maria Ross on her podcast. We talked easter eggs/fan service, toxic masculinity, female friendship, & more.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-empathy-edge/id1527435697?i=1000622283759

Take a listen, tell me what we missed!
Promo image: The Empathy Edge podcast with Maria Ross
July 25, 2023 at 10:37 PM
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The main segment is about the SAG/AFTRA/WGA strike (as a member of another creative union) and how the issues raised also exist here in Silicon Valley and in American capitalism writ large.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-op-ed-page-with-elisa-camahort-page/id1493850023?i=1000621895577
Promo image: Episode 94 of The Op-Ed Page podcast, entitled Strike!!
July 21, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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This week I was peeved by a job description. I put an excerpt in Notes wit the comment: “Just say you don't want to hire 'the Olds' and be done with it.” Am I over-sensitive? Or do you get the same vibe? Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/elisacp/p/subtext?r=1egsl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Promo image: 07/11/23 This Week-ish Newsletter. Title: The subtext behind job descriptions.
July 11, 2023 at 10:41 PM