Podcast appearances and mentions of adam quiney

Just listen. Why is it important to listen? If you ever take on any recovery work, you'll notice a lot of what makes that so potent, which is simply that people listen. You share, they thank you for your share, they listen, and then they move on.  In this episode, Adam Quiney narrated a scenario he witnessed when a person didn't get the opportunity to feel heard in any of this. What they've got was being told what to do over some time. Listen and know why just listening is very important and the difference it creates by just practicing the art of just listening. Enjoy the show!

Humans are incredibly adaptive and tolerant. We are very reliable just like a frog who sits in hot boiling water slowly but surely dying. We can tolerate things and as we tolerate them more, they just slowly shift and become our baseline. It's not until there's an acute moment in our lives that people reach out and ask for support.  This is related to the subject of the regression towards the mean, or a phenomenon that is studied extensively in skeptical communities and in scientific communities where it comes to the efficacy of anecdotal evidence, which is to say you take a remedy and you conclude based on your subjective feeling. Listen as Adam Quiney discusses this topic and what it means about your motivation for transformation and creating a shift. Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a powerful live coaching conversation with Ral West. Ral , an accomplished entrepreneur from Alaska, has built several businesses and is now launching an exciting new mastermind. In this episode, Adam and Ral explore a surprising realization: sometimes, what looks like a gap in our growth or goals simply isn't there. Rather than jumping in to offer advice or fill space, Adam models what it means to coach powerfully by reflecting the absence of a gap - and allowing that clarity to lead.

Have you heard of people who complain about people complaining? Why do people complain? In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney distinguished the three categories of people in terms of complaining:  The first group is those who don't care about things. Sometimes they complain, and sometimes they don't.  The next category is those people who complain about stuff.  The third category is those people who hate complaining and would never complain at all.  Some may think the last two categories are a total opposite, but they are not.  Listen as we dive deep into the ontology of complaining, how complaint is related to the idea of desire, and how we can be understanding to the part of us that wants to complain and other people who want to share their complaint with you. Enjoy the show!

When you are presented with someone who is boring, the first thing that happens is that you want to stop talking and lose interest in them. You start to turn your attention elsewhere and move away. Therefore, one of the consequences of being boring is that it turns people off to them. You have to ask these questions: Why would someone choose to become boring? Why would someone want me to look past them? There are many reasons you can't think of, and in this episode, Adam Quiney dives into the ontology of being boring and how to transcend boring people. Listen and enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam Quiney hosts a Live Coaching and Feedback Demonstration with Mounica Veggelam and her client, Brian Piper.

What does it mean to stand? The stand is not a much-talked-about topic in leadership conversations. The art of standing is something that we learn not from a didactic or informational context, or just by knowing. It's more like about riding a bike. The way stand is best learned by having yourself stood for, and by getting to practice standing for people. By this, you get to see the internal experience in your own body and get the experience of someone loving you and holding you with compassion.  Listen as Adam Quiney, in this episode of The Transformational Leader, talks about the distinction of the stand, its importance in transformational conversation, and how it creates breakthroughs. Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam Quiney discusses Theory vs. Practice.  

When people come into coaching or getting into leadership conversation, the starting point is a question of "What do you want to do?" One of the most common things leadership coaches hear is that people want to see their blind spots. The reason that being eager to see your blind spot is problematic is that inquiry allows you to avoid putting any skin in the game.  Listen as Adam Quiney talks about the fallacy of seeing a person's blind spot, and how you can put your attention on other things than focusing on seeing your blind spot. Enjoy the show!

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the ontology of the empath. What does it mean to be an empath? The idea of the empath has become popular in the last 10 years. It is described as someone with a heightened ability to feel what others are feeling. Society has dismissed or bullied this trait in favor of a more emotionally detached and masculine approach. Listen as Adam dives deep into the ontology of the empath, the misconception of people about being an empath as feminine or weak, and contrary to this, empathy is an important trait. Enjoy the show!

Quiet quitting is when employees disengage and leave without a fuss. Employees seem fine on the surface and everything is good, then suddenly they disengage and leave. Leaders in this situation are often left feeling frustrated and powerless.  In this episode, Adam Quiney dives into the ontology of quiet quitting. What is going on with quiet quitting and what is happening below the surface? Listen as he explores this topic and answers questions like why leaders struggle with quiet quitting and how transformation can support a leader to address this properly. Enjoy the show!

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On this week's mid-week episode, Adam Quiney discusses The Ontology of Play in High-Stakes Arenas, The Unjust Nature of Transformational Work, The Ontology of Readiness, Soft Power in Leadership, The Ontology of Motivation, The Ontology of Blame,  The Art of Unlearning, and more!

In this week's episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney, whose profession involves selling relationships with people, introduced a new concept on how to learn to sell.  A lot of entrepreneurs end up being stuck in the idea of not having to feel the context and pain they have around rejection. They are no longer conscious of these rejections, so instead of creating a breakthrough in what they are doing, they end up just creating a thick callous. In this episode, you will learn how to sell. In Adam Quiney's context, moving from that place of saying, "Let me know shortly if you would like a coaching conversation," to asking a straightforward question, "Do you want a coaching conversation with me?" From this, you can now stand for them to be a yes or no. This will allow you to be clear with yourself and with them on how you can provide value to them. Listen and know the right response to these situations, moving from the old context to the new context that will create a breakthrough. Enjoy the show! 

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with David Hardy about the parallels between functional neurology and ontology.

If you are someone who does a lot of speaking and wants to be able to bring people along with you, this is an exceptional skill to develop, leading people's listening. When we are leading someone's listening, most of the time, we have an understanding of what we want to do, and then we just begin to speak from that place. What often happens is that people sit there listening, and they are stuck with the question in their mind: Why am I being told this? When we are given information like this, we don't have a context for our listening. How to lead someone's listening? How do leaders speak in such a way that they get heard? Why is it so important? Leading people's listening is a skill that effective leaders do. A skill, approach, or technique that those who do it often haven't been trained. Listen and know more about this topic as Adam Quiney dives deep into this! Enjoy the show! 

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guest JoinMichèle Soregaroli, as they talk about all things related to living a fully-expressed life. Come join us.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney discusses the ontology of reframing. He will briefly explain what is the ontological thing happening when we reframe. Reframing is about choosing how we want to relate to the circumstances of our lives. Most people frame the way they approach, feel about, and relate to life as it shows up.  What a lot of us want to do is figure out how to manage life perfectly, so that we only have to be with the people we find enjoyable or the job that we like doing. In short, we are basically trying to manage the circumstances of our lives to feel the way we want to feel. It will never work because life is infinite and will continue to find ways in. We can never fully control our circumstances, so trying to manage them puts us on the back foot.  Listen as Adam talks about the good side of reframing or when it is empowering and supportive, as well as the risk of making this like a duality of things. Enjoy the show!

As a leader or coach, the time you are going to stand up for people to go beyond their comfort zone also means that some might get triggered and confronted. In short, you are going to piss or upset people. The only way we can ensure we never upset people is to keep ourselves quiet. Being upset is part of the abundance of a fully expressed life. In this episode, Adam Quiney tells you why being upset has to be part of leadership, and what it means to be a leader that embraces upset as part of leadership. You will hear more about the ontology of upset in this podcast, listen and enjoy the show!

Adam Quiney is an executive coach specializing in transformational leadership for high-achieving professionals who often find themselves as "the smartest person in the room." Through his coaching programs, including The Forge, Adam helps clients integrate their intellectual prowess with emotional intelligence, transforming their approach to leadership and life. His work focuses on bridging the gap between analytical thinking and heart-centered decision-making for executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals in fields like medicine, law, and accounting.Adam's journey as a coach and business owner reflects the transformational work he guides his clients through. Navigating personal and professional challenges, from reinventing his flagship program to managing family loss and new responsibilities, Adam embodies the resilience and adaptability he teaches. His story of overcoming apathy and continuously pushing beyond comfort zones offers valuable insights into sustained growth and innovation in the coaching industry. Adam's approach to balancing high-level thinking with emotional depth provides a unique perspective on modern leadership and personal development.Here's where to find more:My website: http://adamquiney.comMy podcast, The Transformational Leader: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/get-lit/id1386362594My Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/aquineyThe archive of my Live shows: https://adamquiney.com/tvLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamquineyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamquiney_YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHz_zDZJOeYp9V-6I0P6qcw___________________________________________________________Welcome to The Unforget Yourself Show where we use the power of woo and the proof of science to help you identify your blind spots, and get over your own bullshit so that you can do the fucking thing you ACTUALLY want to do!We're Mark and Katie, the founders of Unforget Yourself and the creators of the Unforget Yourself System and on this podcast, we're here to share REAL conversations about what goes on inside the heart and minds of those brave and crazy enough to start their own business. From the accidental entrepreneur to the laser-focused CEO, we find out how they got to where they are today, not by hearing the go-to story of their success, but talking about how we all have our own BS to deal with and it's through facing ourselves that we find a way to do the fucking thing.Along the way, we hope to show you that YOU are the most important asset in your business (and your life - duh!). Being a business owner is tough! With vulnerability and humor, we get to the real story behind their success and show you that you're not alone._____________________Find all our links to all the things like the socials, how to work with us and how to apply to be on the podcast here: https://linktr.ee/unforgetyourself

Today, Adam Quiney will be talking about one of the big breakthroughs that he had to create for himself along the way; it is about making 'The Path and A Path.'  'The Path vs A Path' is a fundamental trap of leadership. Most people into coaching and leadership are on the wrong side of the distinction between 'The Path' and 'A Path.' The nature of our human experience is that we are prone to arrogance, which is given to us by virtue of our own subjective experience. We think that our experiences are the ones that people also must have because of the success we had in them. Listen as Adam shares more about this topic and gain a unique view of someone's breakthrough through a million ways of doing it. Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guests, Seth Drugatz and Maggie Buchana.  In this episode, they dive into exploring the topic of possibility.

Live from a retreat location in Costa Rica, Adam Quiney talks about one of the things they do at the start of the retreat which is establishing breakthroughs. In this episode, Adam revisits the concept of a breakthrough which is often a missed concept and poorly understood.  How do we make breakthroughs happen? What most people think about breakthroughs is the things that they will get or the tangible results of it. We define our breakthroughs in terms of the outside world and our circumstances. This is not a very powerful way to define a breakthrough.  In ontological leadership, we work with breakthroughs in a different way. The specific definition of breakthrough is access to a new way of being.  Listen and learn more about breakthroughs, their misconceptions of them, and the kind of breakthrough we look forward to at a retreat. Enjoy the show!  

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guest, Hans Phillips.  In this episode, they dive into talking about all things life, leadership and everything in between.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about practicing the fact that you won't always get things right. He also talks about working with the fact that you are not going to get something right, and why not getting it right actually supports you in transforming. Usually, early on, people will explore things that they want to try and commit to move their lives forward and take on some practices.  Most of the time, the things we expect are not always the things that happen, and many people relate to that as a failure. You actually end up in the place that you think you shouldn't be and would rather avoid.  The miracle of coaching is that it brings you to that place, what shows up, and how you move beyond it. That's where the transformation starts! Listen to learn more about this topic, and enjoy the show!

What a great opening statement for 2025! In the first episode of the Transformational Leader for this year, Adam Quiney talks about this essential aspect of your journey in leadership. The journey of developing yourself as a leader through the experience of being with someone whose leadership is genuinely something they've worked on and spent time honing. When you work with a leader who has been managed for many years, the first thing you will see is their wisdom, skill, and capacity for leadership. You will hold them up in high regard and set aside yourself in honor of them. You will be glamoured by this experience, and you will stop seeing your leaders as human doing their best, but more special than that. The complication of this is once you trust your leaders fully, it will swing to the other side and just go with yourself.  This is the point where there is usually a breakdown, and what's going to happen no matter what is that your leader will continually let you down. The more you hold them on a pedestal, the more often they are going to let you down.  Listen and know more about this topic, enjoy the show!

The Mirasee FM podcast team chooses their favorite episode of 2024 to close out the year. In this pick, Melinda talks with executive leadership coach Adam Quiney about his key insights for facilitating breakthroughs, allowing discomfort for growth, and creating tangible results in a co-creative process.Adam Quiney is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the “Smartest People in the Room.”In this episode, Melinda and Adam explore the secrets behind breakthroughs and the difference between transformational and transactional results. They discuss the importance of meeting clients where they are and testing and navigating the limits of their worldviews. Melinda and Adam also delve into the process of breakthroughs and the challenges that arise along the way. The conversation highlights the significance of trusting intuition and making room for spirit in the coaching process — and we learn practical strategies to facilitate breakthroughs and create tangible results.Key Takeaways:Transformational results require a fundamental shift in the way we show up in our lives, while transactional results are surface-level changes that don't require a fundamental shift.Coaches should meet clients where they are and explore the limits of their worldviews to support them in creating breakthroughs.Breakthroughs often involve a process of discomfort and uncertainty, and coaches should hold space for clients to be in their own process.Creating tangible results and setting measurable goals can support clients in staying on the path of breakthroughs.Coaches should make room for spirit and trust the process of co-creation in facilitating breakthroughs.Chapters:00:00 - The Secrets Behind Breakthroughs01:46 - Adam Quiney's Journey of Self-Discovery and Transformation02:45 - Transformational Results vs Transactional Results04:14 - Creating Transformational Results05:12 - The Difference Between Surface Level Changes and Transformation06:34 - Meeting Clients Where They Start08:02 - Exploring the Limits of Clients' Worldviews09:23 - The Process of Breakthroughs10:49 - Navigating the Challenges of Breakthroughs13:14 - The Structure and Magic of Breakthroughs16:29 - Trusting Intuition and Being in the Process18:18 - Creating Tangible Results20:43 - Making Room for Spirit in Breakthroughs22:34 - The Journey of Trusting Spirit28:22 - Approaches to Facilitate Breakthroughs“To create the transformational result where I worked half as many hours and made twice as much money, that was going to require a breakthrough, a fundamental change in the way I showed up in my life.” — Adam QuineyGuest Bio:Adam Quiney is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the “Smartest People in the Room.” A former software developer and attorney, Adam's learned the hard way about the costs that come from keeping your heart safe and chasing after external rewards to feel whole and complete.From a place of love, Adam is connection, passion, presence, wit, and brilliance. From a place of fear, he is awkward, robotic, apathetic, irrelevant, and arrogant. He's learned to embrace all these parts of himself and works with others to do the same in their own lives. Living with his beautiful wife and their dog in Victoria, British Columbia, he is a man on a mission to bring the world to a more inspired and fully-expressed place.Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:MiraseeCoaches ConsoleMelinda's book: The Confident CoachAdam's website: AdamQuiney.comAdam's podcast: The Transformational LeaderAdam's YouTube channel: @AdamQuineyCredits:Host: Melinda CohanProducer: Michi LantzSupervising Producer: Cynthia LambAudio Editor: Marvin del RosarioExecutive Producer: Danny InyMusic Soundscape: Chad Michael SnavelyMaking our hosts sound great: Home Brew AudioTo catch the great episodes that are coming up on Just Between Coaches, please follow us on Mirasee FM's YouTube channel or your favorite podcast player. And if you enjoyed the show, please leave us a comment or a starred review. It's the best way to help us get these ideas to more people.Music credits:Track Title: CloudsArtist Name: AcreageWriter Name: Marshall UsingerPublisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONSTrack Title: Coastline DreamArtist Name: Wild SkyWriter Name: Adam SimonsPublisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONSTrack Title: Coo CoosArtist Name: Dresden, The FlamingoWriter Name: Matthew WigtonPublisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONTrack Title: Stars & TreesArtist Name: Outside The SkyWriter Name: Dustin RansomPublisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONSpecial effects credits:24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.Episode transcript: Team's Pick: Co-Creating Breakthroughs (Adam Quiney) coming soon.

There are three kinds of conversations that we usually see in coaching and leadership. These are neutral conversations, facilitative conversations, and transformational conversations. Transformational conversations are the type of conversation that most people get into coaching for. It is more of seeing your blind spots. Inside a transformational conversation, we are entering into the context that there are some things that you simply cannot see with your own eyes.  Facilitative conversation tends to be more of the steps you need to take. After the transformational conversation, the facilitative conversation aims to give you direction. This part of coaching can feel very confronting because it moves you into your fear.  Lastly, a neutral conversation is a conversation where the person basically doesn't have a gap. In this situation, we need to get curious about ourselves, and what are the things you need to happen in your life. Listen as Adam Quiney gives clear illustrations and examples for these kinds of conversations! Enjoy the show! 

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a conversation on Resistance —the hidden force that holds us back from our next level of leadership. Tune in now to explore how resistance shows up, its impact, and strategies for transformation.

Do you ever find that e-mails are overwhelming? Do you ever find yourself with a never-ending list of things to do? This system will help you manage that! It is an approach designed to help you stay on top of these tasks.  In this episode, Adam Quiney talks about The Weekly Review. The Weekly Review is a core part of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology created by productivity consultant David Allen. The intention of doing a weekly review is to get on top of and manage all of the papers, e-mails, notes, messages, and all other stuff accumulating throughout the week. Through this, you will stay on track of things you find overwhelming. Listen to Adam explain all the important aspects of The Weekly Review in this episode! Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guest, Kraye Grymonnt.  In this episode, they dive into talking about all things ontology.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney distinguishes between trusting yourself versus being impenetrable. It is important to see the distinction between these two because they can look similar on the surface. A lot of leaders in the world believe that they are showing signs of trusting themselves. But the reality is that they are showing up in a particular way that is actually the antithesis of trusting themselves—they are the opposite of it. That is impenetrability. Impenetrability is where you have a belief or way of being in the world where you show up, and others can say anything to you because you trust yourself. It cannot make an impact on you because no matter what other people say, it just bounces off of you. Impenetrability or the inability of people to make an impact on you is a sign of a lack of trust. It is a sign of a lack of sovereignty. Listen and know more about this topic! 

In this episode, Adam Quiney talks about the ontology of being always right.   Anytime you've been around a leader who always got the answer or is always right, that's the ontology or the way of being that we are going to talk about. It is a way of being that is automatic and unconscious.   The way of being of being right. These are the leaders that if you volunteer something, they are already aware of it. They already know that. The underlying experience that this creates is that there is no way for you to actually have an impact; everything you bring bounces off.    While this is nice in that it provides a degree of certainty, like the leader always knows how to handle the situation, it creates the rest of us as followers because there is nothing we can really contribute. There is nothing we have to offer.   Listen as you will know the impact of being right. Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam is discussing two topics provided by our community: 1. How to support clients through recognizing patterns in their life, Navigating difficult conversations with colleagues, and taking yourself out of coaching and being fully present with the client (i.e., not leading them based on your own "stuff.") and 2. Relationship with the unknown. Whether it is something small unknown I meet with in my daily life, or I have something big (in my mind) unknown coming for me or I am going towards something unknown so far for me. I believe we all have the unknown with us under some form. 

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the metaphors of transformation. This episode will help you understand why transformation is challenging and what we are working with, in terms of our human nature when we are up against that. Human nature is to experience a problem and want to solve it. That's what humans do. The trouble is we can't see with much altitude in our lives. We can see it with other people, but in terms of ourselves, we are stuck inside our perspective and our worldview. What that means is we don't see our beliefs as a set of beliefs. Instead, we see them as reality. Listen and know the metaphors you can relate to in terms of transformation as a leader. Enjoy the show!

Today, Adam Quiney shared some of the things he noticed and learned from the Intensive. The intention is to create breakthroughs not just for those who attended but also for Adam and the team. Most people see a breakthrough as an insight. The meaning of breakthrough, in Adam and his team's lenses, is access to a new way of being that was previously unavailable while a person's circumstances remain the same. The work of any transformational approach is to confront your resistance to what you fear. Whatever you want that is not currently available to you is locked behind the door made up of your fear and resistance to that fear. Listen and learn more of the lessons from the Intensive. Enjoy the show!

On this episode of The Prosperous Empath® Podcast, I'm sitting down with Adam Quiney, an Executive Leadership Coach for leaders and high performers. Adam left a successful career in law because he didn't want to shut his empathy down, and in our conversation we're exploring an interesting topic that I haven't touched on the podcast before: the “other side” of empathy. Adam and I talk about the ways in which our empathy can get twisted by fear and discomfort as well as the survival strategies we can create for ourselves as empaths and HSPs. Tune in to deepen your understanding of your empathic nature and build up your emotional vocabulary.    Topics: How Adam went from a career in law to becoming an Executive Coach for leaders and the role empathy played in his story  What we can learn from the “other side” of empathy & the liability of having a wide open heart  Understanding behavior patterns and survival mechanisms we develop as empaths (and what to do about them)    Episode Resources: Give and Take by Adam Grant Movie: Shirley Valentine Grok Decks   Connect with Adam: Website  LinkedIn  Facebook  Instagram: @adamquiney_    Connect with Catherine: Apply to join the free Unbounded community, a vibrant group of empathpreneurs who are passionate about supporting each other on our entrepreneurial journeys.  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.    Work with Catherine: Interested in working 1:1 with a certified coach on Catherine's team, or joining her in one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.   Visit this episode's full show notes page here. ---------------- The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.  

In the previous episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the heartbreak of leadership. The heartbreak of leadership occurs as you are leading someone, and they turn against you, fight with you, and argue with you. Today, we will look at the other angle. We can't see the new dimension. All we can do is pull whenever someone is trying to help us see beyond our current worldview. All we can do is pull that into our worldview. The whole process of leadership transformation starts here. You start getting very inspired and excited and suddenly, it will direct us back towards the world we know. What happens over time is we see our failure and not see our results.  This is where the heartbreak of leadership begins. Listen to know more and enjoy the show!

If you ask people who are high performers how they experience disappointment, they will tell you that they don't have a lot of disappointment in their life. Disappointments are uncommon for these people. What is going on is that people learn to perform and put out some excellent work, and they constantly try to outrun the specter of disappointment for themselves and other people. There is a pattern for high performers that leads to a great deal of burnout because there is an inability to slow down and take a rest. It is the trait or pattern where someone hurts and injures themselves and drives them crazy.  In this episode of The Transformational Leader with Adam Quiney, we will start to look at it from a different perspective. We will look at it not on how they have always been, but on how they became. Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam is breaking down all things related to the topic of Empathy. You'll hear him discuss What is in the way of our empathy, How empathy is related to our aging process, How empathy can provide access to our own blindspots, What the consequences of opening our heart empathetically are, and more.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the danger of the typing model. The trouble with the typing systems is that they are ostensibly in service of helping people transform and grow, but what they do is diminish possibility. They take it off the table because if you relate to yourself as low emotionality, you will not bother investing that much time in it. You learn that emotions are a liability or you don't like how it feels when you are sad, so you start cutting off your sadness and thinking about it. When we cut off one emotion, we end up covering up the other emotions. A lot of these typing models are very ironic and they celebrate the fact that you are being diminished. Listen and know the dangers of labeling ourselves in a particular way. Enjoy the show!

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the Ontology of Indecision.  If you find yourself indecisive, what often happens is you conclude "That's just the way I am, I am indecisive." It doesn't give you any other options but to label yourself indecisive. Looking at it ontologically, we are looking at how this way of being comes to be and discern the depth of being available there. Indecisiveness is someone who takes so long to make a decision. When you are looking at something through this lens, what it does is it tells us indecision is something learned or a pattern you learned along the way. As we understand that pattern, it helps you to see what is it that is causing this. When you get to the root of the issue, you can resolve it and have it go differently. Listen to learn more about this topic. Enjoy the show!

In this week's episode of The Transformational Leader by Adam Quiney, we will talk about the interaction of ontology and other models. It is the ontological layer and how it interacts with various models.  Once you work with people ontologically, it's not so much about a model as it is about cultivating in ourselves, the ability to deeply feel, see, listen, and speak to someone who is being below what they are doing. Most models are about a particular approach to speaking or a lens on how it is being done. The ontological layer interacts with these modalities so that we can have a deeper understanding of how these all play out. Listen and know more about how the ability to look, see, and experience the ontology of the moment of how someone is being will support us no matter what model, modality, or approach we are using. Enjoy the show!

Growing up, we learn of particular ways to survive our circumstances. When we reach the capacity of willingness to keep doing the stuff or experience a growing level of resentment or frustration, external circumstances will occur to us like they are the issue.  We are fixated on the issue that we can see externally. We aren't aware that what we see is a mirror or reflection of ourselves projected out in the world. It will result in us changing our jobs, fields, careers, spouses, or everything in our lives. In this week's episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about why changing your job, field, career, or spouse doesn't change things. Why it doesn't work? Listen and learn more about this topic. Enjoy the show!

There is a tremendous amount of proximity between cults and leadership.  In this episode of The Transformational Leader with Adam Quiney, he talks about the NXIVM cult and other cults. NXIVM is a cult led by convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. It started as a group called "Executive Success Program" that taught a lot of ontological work. You will learn about the concerning facts of NXIVM and other cults where a leader is brilliant and used to manipulate and get hold of people. Listen and know the nature of these cults and how it is related to transformational leadership.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney dives deep into the ontology of the legal profession. The starting point for the legal profession is that people get into this profession with a really big heart and brain. People want to make a difference in the world, care so much about it, and want to see positive things happen. They also have brilliant minds and are very good at strategic, logical, and tactical thinking.  What happens with these people is that growing up, they learn a couple of things. They discover that having a big heart is a liability. When you have a big heart, you feel down a lot more. You feel a lot of disappointment, heartbreak, and betrayal. Because of this, we learn to shut the heart down and run everything up to our brain. Listen as you discover the impacts of this and other qualities people in the legal profession tend to have. Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, for Part 4 of Adam's series on Ontological Leadership. In this episode, Adam will be teaching about the concept of context, which is arguably your most powerful tool in deepening your leadership and those you lead. He'll explain how our beliefs create our reality, and then how our reality reinforces and reifies our beliefs. 

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney is on a series of discussions about the energetic laws. Today, he discussed Energetic Law #6: "Love and power." The energetic law of love and power states that your power as a leader is proportional to the amount of love you can hold. The lesser the capacity to express and allow love, the lesser the capacity to express and allow power. There is a distinction between power and force. Anyone can be forceful. It requires no art, it requires no skill, and it does not need love. Forcefulness is the mark of the amateur leader. The force will tend to move something temporarily.  It is distinct from power. Power is the capacity to have the kind of impact you want to have.  Listen as we dive into this energetic law and how it impacts our leadership. Enjoy the show!

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam continues his discussion on Ontological Leadership, and shares how our context or lens for someone is determinative of our capacity to lead them.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney will open a series of discussions about the energetic laws. These laws are things that you have spiritual or folk wisdom that leads to them.  Today, Adam discussed Energetic Law #5: "That which you resist, persists." The wisdom that follows this energetic law is that if you can let something be, it will let you be. This fifth law provides some insight into why the things that you must try to eliminate from your life tend to be the things that keep showing up. The fact that those things are actively continuing to be compliant for you is a function that you actively resist. The most obvious example of this is procrastination. By resisting the work, the work persists. Listen as we break down this energetic law and help you understand why that action is the case. Enjoy the show!