Podcasts about conscious leadership group

On this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, I am beyond excited to bring you a conversation with the incredible Kate Hutson from the Conscious Leadership Group.  We're diving into two of my absolute favorite relationship tools: the drama triangle and the empowerment triangle, frameworks that have completely shifted how I think about conflict, power, and emotional leadership, not only in marriage but in every kind of relationship.  Kate's brilliant perspective will help you see the unconscious patterns we all slip into and how these show up in even the most loving partnerships. In our conversation, Kate and I explore the three roles of the drama triangle—villain, hero, and victim—and how we each tend to cycle through them when we feel overwhelmed, reactive, or disconnected.  We also talk about what it looks like to shift into the empowered versions of those roles and how that transformation can ripple through your entire life.  Kate shares examples from her coaching and therapy work, and I share personal insights and questions I ask myself when I notice I've landed on the drama triangle (because let's be honest, we all land there sometimes!). What I love most about this episode is how universal and practical these tools are.  Whether you're navigating tension in your marriage, struggling to set boundaries at work, or trying to reconnect with yourself, using the lens these tools provide gives you a clear map to move from reactivity to conscious, grounded presence.  No matter what kind of relationship you're trying to improve, these tools will meet you where you are and help you move forward with more clarity, compassion, and connection. Listen in to hear more about: How to spot when you're in the drama triangle and shift into a more empowered stance What each role—villain, victim, and hero—really looks like in daily relationships Simple questions to help you reconnect with your values when you're feeling triggered How to cultivate compassion for the scared part of you that activates reactive patterns Why seeing the innocence in others (and yourself) can be the beginning of real healing   RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Connect with Kate on Instagram The Conscious Leadership Group The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership The Drama Triangle The Questions for Couples Journal Private Coaching with Maggie  

Do you find yourself caught in constant battles with your teen, unsure of how to truly connect? Have you ever wondered how your own emotions and reactions shape your relationship with your child? In this episode of Power Your Parenting: Moms with Teens, Colleen O'Grady speaks with transformational coach Anne Marie Chereso about the power of conscious parenting. They explore how self-awareness is the foundation for authentic connection and why parenting from a place of presence—not fear—can help reduce drama and conflict. Anne Marie shares her personal experiences navigating parenting challenges and offers insight into how our own unresolved emotions can affect the way we interact with our children. Through mindfulness, self-reflection, and a commitment to emotional regulation, moms can transform their relationships by fostering deeper understanding and trust. Author, Meditation Teacher, and Transformational Coach, Annmarie Chereso empowers parents, children and families to discover authentic happiness and true success. With over two decades of expertise, Annmarie has trained educators, students, and parents globally through online courses, coaching, speaking engagements, workshops, and retreats. She's collaborated with renowned leaders including Dr. Shefali Tsabary and The Conscious Leadership Group. This episode highlights three key takeaways for moms. First, true connection with your teen starts with self-awareness—when you understand your own emotional triggers, you can respond rather than react. Second, resisting the urge to control your teen's experience and instead acting as a compassionate witness allows them to navigate challenges while feeling supported. Lastly, making space for daily joy, even in small ways, helps shift the energy in your home and fosters a more positive parent-child dynamic. By embracing conscious parenting, moms can create a calmer, more connected relationship with their teens. Learn more at https://annmariechereso.me/ Follow on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/annmariechereso/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Fellas,  In 24 minutes the great Jim Dethmer gives a master class on Emotional Literacy.  (This recording is a clip from a longer training we did for our members.  We have over 100 trainings like this in our content vault.)  For those that don't know, Jim is a best selling author and Co-Founder of The Conscious Leadership Group.   Jim speaks with insights from his  45 years of helping leaders be their best.   He shares why recognizing and processing emotions is essential for not just your personal growth but also for building stronger relationships with your kids, partner, and even colleagues.    We cover : What emotions really are and why they're misunderstood.   The 5 core feelings that shape your emotional world: anger, sadness, fear, joy, and sexual energy.   How to map your emotions to physical sensations in your body.   Practical tools to develop emotional intelligence and navigate challenging situations.    Here is a PDF that has the workbook pages that are covered in the episode if you want to take your experience further.   I hope you enjoyed the show and if you want more content like this from our Vault hit reply and let me know! Jon P.S.  There is still a little time left to get your tickets for FRDL. 

In this episode, we explore the critical theme of self-awareness as highlighted by various influential leaders and coaches, including Shaka Smart and Dr. Michael Gervais. Our guest, Dolores Stevens shares insights into the "Above and Below Line" framework developed by Jim Detmer and the Conscious Leadership Group, an organization renowned for its work with top leaders and CEOs. We delve into the transformative concepts from the book "The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership".Tune in to gain practical tools for fostering conscious leadership in your own life. Learn more about “The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership" https://conscious.is/15-commitments Get the Podcast Notes and Subscribe to our weekly newsletter!  https://www.tocculture.com/newsletter  Interested in booking TOC for a team meeting/consultation? Click here→ https://www.tocculture.com/contact TOC Coaching & Culture Certification- https://www.tocculture.com/coaching-and-culture-certification  Learn More about TOC and how we can help enhance your coaching experience https://www.tocculture.com/tocculture  Learn More about Besty Butterick and her work with coaches! https://betsybutterick.com/ Follow Us On Social Media Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/tocculture/  TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@tocculture  Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/@tocculture

'm Dom. I'm a wilderness guide, and the creator of VIVIFY.I'm on a mission to foster regenerative leadership, blending personal vitality and ecological harmony. I strive to empower individuals to live and lead in ways that enhance their own aliveness and presence and create a deep and lasting relationship with the more-than-human world.​I've had a foot in two worlds for a decade - I've led wilderness immersions in remote locations including Patagonia and Alaska, and and I've held leadership roles at climate-tech companies, serving as Chief of Staff at Terramera and Head of Product at Solara Energy. In a past life, I was also Captain of the Stanford University Golf Team.My work is inspired by the Animas Valley Institute, where I trained in the Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion with Bill Plotkin. I've also completed coach training with the Conscious Leadership Group.I live for movement in the mountains - I've skied on the tallest peaks of the lower 48, completed a solo traverse of the Southern Sierra High Route, and ridden dogsleds across the Boundary Waters. 

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career ✓ Claim Key Takeaways Check out the episode pageRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgJonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a course that has helped hundreds of founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. Having personally benefited from Jonny's teachings, I'm especially excited to have him on the show. In this episode, we discuss:• How shifting your focus from the mind to the body can help ease nervousness• The power of breath in changing states• The importance of “interoception”• Specific breathing exercises to both calm and excite your nervous system• The A.P.E. (awareness, posture, and emotion) framework for recognizing body signals• The “feather, brick, dump truck” phenomenon• The concept of emotional debt and how to release it• The competitive advantage of feeling emotions—Jonny's five-week boot camp, Nervous System Mastery, will equip you with evidence-backed protocols to cultivate greater calm and agency over your internal state. Learn to rewire maladaptive stress responses and improve your sleep (use code LENNY for $250 discount). Apply here.—Brought to you by:• Teal—Your personal career growth platform• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security.• Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life—Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/managing-nerves-anxiety-and-burnout—Where to find Jonny Miller:• X: https://twitter.com/jonnym1ller• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnym1ller/• Website: https://www.jonnymiller.co/• Podcast: podcast.curioushumans.com • Email: jonny@curioushumans.com• Course: https://nsmastery.com/lenny—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Jonny's background(07:19) The bottom-up approach to nervousness and anxiety(09:42) The power of breath in changing states(11:47) The concept of state over story(13:56) Personal experiences with nervousness(15:01) Breathing exercises to calm you down(20:40) The “espresso” breath exercise to give you energy(25:44) Interoception and the A.P.E. framework(34:47) The “feather, brick, dump truck” phenomenon(37:40) Recognizing emotional debt and avoiding burnout(40:47) Using somatic-oriented therapy for healing(45:26) Telltale signs of emotional debt(48:13) The competitive advantage of “feeling the feels”(50:20) Advice for people overwhelmed by stimuli(52:36) The NSDR (non-sleep deep rest) practice for emotional release(55:38) Daily practices for emotional well-being(58:23) Thoughts on meditation(01:01:26) The Body Keeps the Score(01:01:58) Contrarian corner(01:04:43) Lightning round—Jonny's If [This] Then [Breathe] Recipes:• If [overwhelmed], then [hum]• If [anxious], then [breath of calm]• If [lethargic], then [espresso breath]—Referenced:• The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System: https://every.to/p/the-operating-manual-for-your-nervous-system• Afferent vs. Efferent Neurons: https://www.osmosis.org/answers/afferent-vs-efferent-neurons• Insular cortex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_cortex• Jonny's TED Talk, “The gifts of grief”: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonny_miller_the_gifts_of_grief/details• Humming (Simple Bhramari Pranayama) as a Stress Buster: A Holter-Based Study to Analyze Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Parameters During Bhramari, Physical Activity, Emotional Stress, and Sleep: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10182780/• 14-Minute Guided NSDR (non-sleep deep rest) practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjXX2c72fYY• Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety | Dr. Andrew Huberman on the Physiological Sigh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZKIupBUuc• Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes well-being: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/15/the-hidden-sense-shaping-your-wellbeing-interoception• Exteroception: https://dictionary.apa.org/exteroception• Interoceptive Awareness and ADHD: https://chadd.org/adhd-news/adhd-news-adults/interoceptive-awareness-and-adhd/• Childhood Trauma Affects Stress-Related Interoceptive Accuracy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813623/• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Hour-Between-Dog-Wolf-Transforms/dp/0143123408• Somatic Experiencing: https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/• Hakomi Institute: https://hakomiinstitute.com/• Decisions and Desire (about Antonio Damasio's work): https://hbr.org/2006/01/decisions-and-desire• When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/when-enough-is-enough-andy-johns-ex-fb-twitter-quora/• What Is Yoga Nidra?: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-yoga-nidra• Becoming Fully Yourself, What AI Wants, Family Rituals & Rites of Passage, with Kevin Kelly: https://podcast.curioushumans.com/episodes/becoming-fully-yourself-what-ai-wants-rites-of-passage-with-kevin-kelly• Tim Ferriss: https://tim.blog/• The Power of Sensations: Intermediate's Vipassana Body Scan: https://insighttimer.com/carola.ananda/guided-meditations/the-power-of-sensations-intermediates-vipassana-body-scan-meditation• Vipassana Meditation: https://www.dhamma.org/en/index• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0670785938• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Tiger-Healing-Peter-Levine/dp/155643233X• Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/29/david-whyte-consolations-words/• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success: https://www.amazon.com/15-Commitments-Conscious-Leadership-Sustainable/dp/0990976904/• The Conscious Leadership Group: https://conscious.is/• Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Recapture-Rapture-Rethinking-Death-World/dp/0062905465• Kubo and the Two Strings on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/Kubo-Two-Strings-Charlize-Theron/dp/B01K5BSWX0• Wolfwalkers on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/wolfwalkers/umc.cmc.amuoq00hqelfi98j0gvg641x• Scavengers Reign on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/scavengers-reign/50c8ce6d-088c-42d9-9147-d1b19b1289d4• Jerry Colonna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-colonna-reboot/• Ra Optics “Sunset” blue-light blockers: https://raoptics.com/collections/night-lenses• Nurosym vagal stimulation device: https://my.nurosym.com/vns1564/• Pulsetto vagal stimulation device: https://pulsetto.tech/new-year/?gc_id=20124962116&h_ad_id=686249897188&gad_source=1• Apollo vagus nerve stimulator: https://apolloneuro.com/products/apollo-wearable—Additional research:• Cellular allostatic load is linked to increased energy expenditure and accelerated biological aging: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453023003001• Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00093/full• Relationship between interoception and emotion regulation: New evidence from mixed methods: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032718323723• Out-of-the-blue panic attacks aren't without warning: body sends signals for hour before: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21783179/—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Send us a textIn 2015, Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz finished court earlier than expected, and beelined to the Mindful Leadership conference in Crystal City, Virginia, in part to meet speaker Roshi Joan Halifax. Snagging a ticket to this soldout event, Jon met Roshi Joan, and also sat mesmerized by speaker Jim Dethmer's (co-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group) talk about conscious leadership, and about the difference between leading from above the line (where one is open, curious, and not attacking) versus from below the line. This conscious leadership approach is fully addressed in The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Warner Klemp. The challenges abound for criminal defense lawyers and their clients to get sidetracked by actually or apparently slinged mud, heartlessness, dehumanization efforts, underhandedness and prevarication from various quarters in the courthouse and beyond. Getting angry and misdirected is weakening. Smiling in the face of proverbial flying vomit and diarrhea -- when knowing the possibilities of sweet success that may be right around the corner -- is the powerful way to proceed. Conscious Leadership's Deb Katz pulls no punches in addressing how she transitioned from years of proceeding as an unconscious leader to a conscious one. She talks about how it is possible to say f--k you from above the line, and how sweetness does not automatically put one above the line. Deb addresses how Conscious Leadership draws on numerous pre-existing approaches to leading in a beneficial way. She and Jon both benefit from the teachings and practices of Ho'oponopono, which is featured on a previous Beat The Prosecution podcast episode. This conversation between Jon Katz and Deb Katz (same last name, but no close family connection) dives deep into transitioning into the conscious leadership approach. The universal and Apple podcasts URL for this episode are at https://podcast.beattheprosecution.com/2293867/episodes/15777966 and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beat-the-prosecution/id1721413675?i=1000669998168This podcast with Fairfax, Virginia criminal / DUI lawyer Jon Katz is playable on all devices at podcast.BeatTheProsecution.com. For more information, visit https://BeatTheProsecution.com or contact us at info@BeatTheProsecution.com, 703-383-1100 (calling), or 571-406-7268 (text). Hear our prior podcasts, at https://podcast.BeatTheProsecution.com/If you like what you hear on our Beat the Prosecution podcast, please take a moment to post a review at our Apple podcasts page (with stars only, or else also with a comment) at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beat-the-prosecution/id1721413675

Welcome to Part 2 of our discussion with Joyce Chen!  Unlock the secrets to conscious leadership with Joyce from The Conscious Leadership Group as she outlines the transformative power of recognizing the drama triangle's roles—villain, victim, and hero. You'll walk away with a deeper understanding of how these roles play out in everyday leadership scenarios and how this awareness can boost your self-awareness, helping you maintain a calm and effective leadership style.Click HERE to order The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership Click HERE for The Conscious Leadership Group websiteClick HERE to connect with Joyce on LinkedInHERE ARE MORE RESOURCES FROM REAL GOOD VENTURES:Never miss a good opportunity to learn from a bad boss...We use The Predictive Index as our analytics platform so you know it's validated and reliable.  Your Reference Profile informs you of your needs, behaviors, and the nuances of what we call your Behavioral DNA.  It also explains your work style, your strengths, and even the common traps in which you may find yourself.  It's a great tool to share with friends, family, and co-workers.Follow us on Instagram HERE and make sure to share with your network!Provide your feedback HERE, please!  We love to hear from our listeners and welcome your thoughts and ideas about how to improve the podcast and even suggest topics and ideas for future episodes.Visit us at www.realgoodventures.com.  We are a Talent Optimization consultancy specializing in people and business execution analytics.  Real Good Ventures was founded by Sara Best and John Broer who are both Certified Talent Optimization Consultants with over 50 years of combined consulting and organizational performance experience.  Sara is also certified in EQi 2.0.  RGV is also a Certified Partner of Line-of-Sight, a powerful organizational health and execution platform.  RGV is known for its work in leadership development, executive coaching, and what we call organizational rebuild where we bring all our tools together to diagnose an organization's present state and how to grow toward a stronger future state.Send us a text

How can conscious leadership transform your career and personal life? Join us for an eye-opening conversation with Joyce Chen, a certified coach from The Conscious Leadership Group, who brings her impressive 20-year journey in marketing and advertising, including her stint as Global Head of Production at Meta, to the forefront. Joyce shares her path from the high-pressure creative industry to the tech-driven realm and how her passion for understanding fulfillment led her to conscious leadership coaching.Click HERE to order The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership Click HERE for The Conscious Leadership Group websiteClick HERE to connect with Joyce on LinkedInHERE ARE MORE RESOURCES FROM REAL GOOD VENTURES:Never miss a good opportunity to learn from a bad boss...We use The Predictive Index as our analytics platform so you know it's validated and reliable.  Your Reference Profile informs you of your needs, behaviors, and the nuances of what we call your Behavioral DNA.  It also explains your work style, your strengths, and even the common traps in which you may find yourself.  It's a great tool to share with friends, family, and co-workers.Follow us on Instagram HERE and make sure to share with your network!Provide your feedback HERE, please!  We love to hear from our listeners and welcome your thoughts and ideas about how to improve the podcast and even suggest topics and ideas for future episodes.Visit us at www.realgoodventures.com.  We are a Talent Optimization consultancy specializing in people and business execution analytics.  Real Good Ventures was founded by Sara Best and John Broer who are both Certified Talent Optimization Consultants with over 50 years of combined consulting and organizational performance experience.  Sara is also certified in EQi 2.0.  RGV is also a Certified Partner of Line-of-Sight, a powerful organizational health and execution platform.  RGV is known for its work in leadership development, executive coaching, and what we call organizational rebuild where we bring all our tools together to diagnose an organization's present state and how to grow toward a stronger future state.Send us a text

“I worked for people who have achieved a lot but didn't seem all that happy in life,” shares Jim Barnett, a seasoned CEO with leadership roles at Wisq, Glint, and LinkedIn. This realization sparked a 35-year journey into happiness and consciousness, leading Jim to explore meditation and conscious leadership.   Introduced to meditation by a monk in Los Angeles, Jim's daily practice has since become a cornerstone of his personal and professional life. Through YPO and transformative retreats, he deepened his commitment to conscious living, eventually partnering with Diana Chapman of the Conscious Leadership Group. Her teachings on the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership impacted his approach to leadership.   Jim discusses how shifting from a stress-driven mindset to one focused on awareness and intentionality transformed not just his well-being but also the culture within his organizations. He also highlights the potential of AI to fill gaps in traditional HR, offering accessible coaching and support to managers and employees.   For entrepreneurs, Jim emphasizes the importance of building a strong company culture from the outset. His advice? Prioritize actions that reflect thoughtfulness, inclusion, and collaboration to create a workplace where happiness and success can thrive.   Quotes “I'm so dedicated to helping people be happy and successful at work that I see this as a way of being of service to humanity, rather than trying to achieve a specific business outcome.” (17:33 | Jim Barnett)  “I think the role of a manager is to be a guide for the team and the people on the team in all areas. The challenge is that a lot of managers don't have the skill set required to be a good manager. Typically, what we do is find the highest performer, and that performer then becomes the manager.” (25:53 | Jim Barnett) “I would say one cheat code for approaching anything consciously is to approach it with curiosity. If you come from a place of “I'm right, they're wrong,” that's not likely to lead to the best outcome.” (32:48 | Jim Barnett) “Don't just talk about culture. Let your actions show how important culture is. Dedicate yourself to creating a culture of thoughtfulness, inclusion, empowerment, responsibility, communication, and collaboration. Be very thoughtful and purposeful about it. I think it's super important.” (42:51 | Jim Barnett)    Links Connect with Jim Barnett: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-barnett-a5312/ Website: https://www.wisq.com/   Connect with Alex Raymond: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/afraymond/ Website: https://consciousentrepreneur.us/   HiveCast.fm is a proud sponsor of The Conscious Entrepreneur Podcast. Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

“A bit of a puzzle around finding the right piece to fit and being willing to say no to the pieces that don't—that was what got me excited about the M&A process,” says Brenda Jacobsen, the managing director of STS Capital Partners. “The last piece is just creating a win for all because there's nothing worse than making someone who's given up or agreed to sell you their life's work and feeling like they were cheated out of what they feel it was worth,” she adds, emphasizing that transparency and realistic valuations are crucial to prevent either party from feeling shortchanged, thus fostering trust and successful outcomes in M&A deals.   In this episode, Brenda joins Alex Raymond to explore the intricacies of mergers and acquisitions. Brenda shares her extensive experience in M&A, stressing the importance of transparency, realistic valuations, and building strategic partnerships. She attributes much of her professional success to mindfulness and conscious leadership principles, which she learned from the Conscious Leadership Group. These principles have helped her navigate her career with resilience and responsibility.   The episode touches on Brenda's experiences in the healthcare sector, where she led acquisitions of physician-owned practices, highlighting the importance of trust and transparency in these deals. She advises entrepreneurs to prepare for exits by focusing on profitability, growth, and reducing dependency on the founder. She also shares insights on raising capital and the significance of a supportive community, such as the Young Presidents' Organization.   Join Alex and Brenda for practical advice and insights on navigating the complexities of M&A, grounded in mindful and conscious leadership principles.   Quotes “I have a very high threshold for staying uncomfortable for as long as I need to in order to make decisions. As an entrepreneur and a leader in any company, but especially in earlier stage companies, that is incredibly valuable.” (06:10 | Brenda Jacobsen)  “One of the things that makes M&A scary, both for companies being acquired and for companies acquiring, is that no matter what you're buying, you are also buying this talented group of people that make that company work. You may not have plans for all of them to continue on in the new entity, but you need them for a certain amount of time, even if it's just for the transition. By really thinking people first through that process, it doesn't have to be hard. It just has to be intentional.” (23:02 | Brenda Jacobsen)  “I think bringing in outside capital can feel like market validation, but I see it as giving away what you've invested blood, sweat, tears, and sleepless nights into, often at a valuation that's not favorable to you in the future. I try to encourage people to think about using the proceeds from the business to reinvest and grow, even if that means the pace is slower, because then the upside is yours instead of someone else's.” (42:57 | Brenda Jacobsen)   Links Connect with Brenda Jacobsen: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendajacobsen/   Connect with Alex Raymond: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/afraymond/ Website: https://consciousentrepreneur.us/   HiveCast.fm is a proud sponsor of The Conscious Entrepreneur Podcast. Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

Jim Dethmer is Co-Founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, one of the most successful and sought-after executive coaches in the world, and one of my closest and most treasured mentors.In this conversation, I get Jim's take on the meaning of soul and what it might look like to create Soulful Impact in our lives.Jim is incredibly skilled at distilling deep wisdom into practical and relatable terms, which is part of why I thought he'd be a perfect first guest on this podcast.Perhaps the most beautiful thing about Jim is his radiant, wise and loving presence.In this episode, we explore how that gift — the Soulful Impact that just naturally flows from him as he embodies the deepest truth of his own being — has been cultivated and earned through intense life experience.Jim opens up about his prior life chapter as an evangelical Christian minister, which despite making him quite successful and somewhat of a celebrity figure within that world, wasn't deeply aligned with his soul. Jim reflects how the failure of that path was a result of looking outside himself to find something that can only be discovered from within.Jim's humility is truly inspiring — I once heard him say “I don't think I've ever had a single original thought” — and yet I experience him as one of the most powerful, skilled and empowering leaders I've ever known.This episode is a delicious exploration into the deeper truth of who and what we really are, how life conspires in support of us waking up to that deeper truth, and how we can orient ourselves to live from that truth — with joy, gratitude and awe — each and every day.--Links & ResourcesWatch this episode on YouTubeConnect with Brooks on LinkedIn, Instagram and XSoulful Impact: www.soulfulimpact.coGet newsletter updates & future episodes delivered to your inbox: Subscribe on SubstackThe Conscious Leadership Group: www.conscious.is Get full access to Soulful Impact at www.soulfulimpact.blog/subscribe

Welcome to The Eric Ries Show. I sat down with Dustin Moskovitz, founder of not one but two iconic companies: Facebook and the collaborative work platform Asana. Needless to say, he's engaged in the most intense form of entrepreneurship there is. A huge part of what he's chosen to do with the hard-earned knowledge it gave him is dedicate himself and Asana to investing in employees' mental health, communication skills, and more. All of this matters to Dustin on a human level, but he also explains why putting people first is the only way to get the kind of results most founders can only dream of. We talked about how to get into that flow state, why preserving culture is crucial, his leadership style and how he decides when to be hands-on versus when to delegate, and how Asana reflects what he's learned about supporting people at all levels.  Dustin sums up the work Asana does this way: “Our individual practices are meant to restore coherence for the individual, our team practices are meant to restore coherence for the team, and Asana, the system, is meant to try and do it for the entire organization.” I'm delighted to share our conversation, which also covers: • How he uses AI and views its future • Why he founded a collaboration platform • How he applied the lessons of Facebook to building Asana • Why taking care of your mental health as a founder is crucial for the company as a whole • His thoughts on the evolution of Facebook • The importance of alignment with investors • His philanthropic work  • And so much more — Brought to you by: Mercury – The art of simplified finances. Learn more. DigitalOcean – The cloud loved by developers and founders alike. Sign up. Neo4j – The graph database and analytics leader. Learn more. — Where to find Dustin Moskovitz: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmoskov/ • Threads: ​​https://www.threads.net/@moskov • Asana: https://asana.com/leadership#moskovitz Where to find Eric: • Newsletter: https://ericries.carrd.co/  • Podcast: https://ericriesshow.com/  • X: https://twitter.com/ericries  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eries/  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theericriesshow  — In This Episode We Cover: (00:00) Welcome to the Eric Ries Show (00:31) Meet our guest Dustin Moskovitz (04:02) How Dustin is using AI for creative projects (05:31) Dustin talks about the social media and SaaS era and his Facebook days (06:52) How Facebook has evolved from its original intention (10:27) The founding of Asana (14:35) Building entrepreneurial confidence (19:22) Making – and fixing – design errors at Asana  (20:32) The importance of committing to “soft” values. (25:27) Short-term profit over people and terrible advice from VCs (28:44) Crypto as a caricature of extractive behavior (30:47) The positive impacts of doing things with purpose (34:24) How Asana is ensuring its purpose and mission are permanently enshrined in the company (41:35) Battling entropy and meeting culture (44:31) Being employee-centric, the flow state, and Asana's strategy (47:51) The organizational equivalent of repressing emotions (52:57) Dustin as a Cassandra (56:51) Dustin talks about his philanthropic work and philosophy: Open Philanthropy, Good Ventures (1:02:05) Dustin's thoughts on AI and its future (1:07:20) Ethics, calculated risk, and thinking long-term — Referenced:  Asana: https://asana.com/ Conscious Leadership Group: https://conscious.is/ Ben Horowitz on managing your own psychology: https://a16z.com/whats-the-most-difficult-ceo-skill-managing-your-own-psychology/ The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek Dr. John Sarno The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership Awareness: Conversations with the Masters, by Anthony de Mello Brené Brown: Dare to Lead , The Call to Courage (Netflix trailer)  Open Philanthropy Good Ventures GiveWell — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co  Eric may be an investor in the companies discussed.

In this episode, we dive into the concept of the scarcity mindset with our in-house guest expert, Joyce from The Conscious Leadership Group. Joyce explains how a scarcity mindset impacts both personal and professional lives, often driven by three toxic fears that manifest in our behaviors and decisions. We explore the pervasive belief that "more is better" and its detrimental consequences on business and personal development. Joyce provides insightful strategies to shift from the belief that "there is not enough" to cultivating a mindset of sufficiency. We also discuss how sufficiency is not an amount but an experience, and Joyce shares practical ways to cultivate this experience in our lives. Addressing common misconceptions about sufficiency, Joyce reveals how perspective shapes our experience of abundance or lack, particularly regarding time and money. She introduces the three truths of sufficiency, guiding individuals toward a more abundant mindset. Tune in to gain insights and practical strategies to overcome the lies of scarcity and embrace a life of abundance and sufficiency. 00:00 Introduction 00:37 What is Scarcity Mindset? 02:59 The lies of Scarcity Mindset  04:41 The 3 toxic fears of Scarcity Mindset  05:01 #1: More is better  05:49 #2: There is not enough  07:00 #3: That's just the way it is 08:58 Sufficiency Mindset vs Scarcity Mindset  11:55 The 3 Truths of Sufficiency Mindset  12:26 #1: Money is like water, you direct where it goes  15:17 #2: What we appreciate, appreciates  17:11 #3: Collaboration creates prosperity  19:13 How to cultivate self-worth beyond external measures of success  21:39 Soul Domain vs Money Domain  24:00 Final thoughts  25:35 Exercise: Sufficiency Meditation Follow Rachel here: https://www.instagram.com/ms_rach/ Get connected with Joyce: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-chen-coach/ Additional resources:  The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp: https://amzn.to/3UXJFgL The Soul of Money by Lynn Twist: https://amzn.to/3UW2kcL Take a scarcity inventory using this handout from The Conscious Leadership Group to increase awareness around how scarcity lives in your life: https://bit.ly/3KjdYtu

This series on spiritual awakening has been conceptual in nature so far, and rightly so. We need to understand what awakening is (and isn't).  We need to know what starts us on a true spiritual journey (and what doesn't), and we need a map that shows us how to get there. Those are some of the things that have been covered so far in this series.   But now that the conceptual foundation has been laid, we need an up-close-and-personal conversation with an awakened being, and that's what we have here.   In this episode, Roy interviews his long-time friend and mentor, Jim Dethmer. Jim is the co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, the co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, but more than anything else, Jim's life is about awakening and spiritual realization.   People like Michael Singer, Eckhart Tolle or Byron Katie are rarely interviewed. And when they teach in large group settings, they rarely get personal and describe their own journey from beginning to end.   But in this episode, you get both. You get to hear from an enlightened person, and you get to hear him talk about his journey and what he's learned along the way. This is the best episode ever produced by this podcast. Don't miss it. Jim's Blog referred to in this episode: https://conscious.is/blogs/three-waypoints-on-the-journey   Additional Resources Roy may have mentioned on the show:   Roy's Website: https://coachingwithroy.com   Roy's Relationship Fitness Self-Assessment Test: https://coachingwithroy.com/the-relationship-fitness-self-test/   Roy's 3 Books: ·      Relationship Bootcamp: https://amzn.to/360UsMR ·      Attracting Lasting Love: http://amzn.to/1UnYeYh ·      A Drink with Legs: https://amzn.to/31UBl3K     Roy's Group Coaching Program: https://coachingwithroy.com/group-coaching/   Roy's Complimentary 45-min. Coaching Session: To set up an appointment, email him at roy@coachingwithroy.com or call his cell 407-687-3387.   The Attracting Lasting Love podcast explores the dynamics of mature and adult dating, delving into the issues of emotional intelligence, the law of attraction, and the quest for a life partner or soulmate, while offering conscious insights and mindful advice on navigating modern relationships.

The old way of showing up to work meant shoving our emotions away, not being vulnerable and putting on a facade of confidence, no matter what. Admitting you were afraid, unsure or overwhelmed? That was an absolute no-no.   The problem is, this also meant we were showing up without a lot of the intelligence we actually need to have emotionally healthy workplaces and great results.   Today, we give our emotions a seat on the team, we tap into the intelligence of our feelings, and we are vulnerable when we feel afraid or uncertain. Not only does this create a new way to work, but a new language for living. It allows us to band together as teams and face this rapidly changing world as an emotionally intelligent unit.   How do we invite emotional intelligence to work? Why must this process start with committed leaders? In this episode, co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, Diana Chapman shares how work is changing for the better and how we can start working alongside our feelings.     Vulnerability in leadership is now an act of courage, not an act of weakness. -Diana Chapman   Four Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -The intelligence of fear  It's okay to say “I don't know”, “I'm doing the best I can” - how do we demystify being vulnerable and what impact can it have on even the bottom line?   -Pay less in “drama tax”  Teams cut off from their emotions pay a lot in “drama tax”. How does this weigh our teams down, and how can we create awareness of this dynamic and get our team out of reactivity?   -The rise of bottom-up leadership  The old way of introducing changes to a workplace was for leaders to tell people what to do. Why do leaders need to commit to befriending their feelings before anyone else?    -Teach the class If something we don't want happens, how can we use play to recreate the situation and laugh our way to creative solutions?   Guest Bio   Diana Chapman is the co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group. She is an advisor to exceptional leaders who has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams, and is a founding partner at Conscious Leadership Group. She has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer—with clients such as Asana and Esalen. In addition to facilitating CLG Forums in the Bay Area for founders, venture capitalists, and CEOs, Diana facilitates YPO Forums and Chapters worldwide. She also trains coaches in conscious leadership in the CLG training program she and Jim created. Diana co-authored the best-selling book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, in 2015. She has been a speaker at TEDx, Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business, YPO, and Kauffman Fellows.  

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“From my perspective, one of the reasons we tell stories is it helps give us a sense of who we are, we use stories to affirm our identity. And that's part of the reason why we don't actually like to call them stories, because if we call them stories, and we begin to see that the self is actually rooted in construction, made up interpreted reality, it can be very threatening to us and to our sense of who would I be without this story. And so that's one of the things that I really love about this is you can begin to see that my sense of self has to change, if I'm willing to look at my stories, what is going to happen is my sense of who I am is going to change.” So says Courtney Smith, a coach, facilitator, and dear friend who is schooled and trained in many different modalities: Conscious Leadership Group, Byron Katie's work, the Alexander Technique, and the Enneagram. She is one of my favorite thought partners because of the range of her intelligence and the structure of her mind: She was a math econ major who happens to have a J.D. from Yale and a masters in public health from NYU. Before taking a turn toward the mystical, she was a McKinsey consultant. So in short, she's a multi-hyphenate Renaissance woman whose bookshelf looks much like mine. You might remember Courtney from our conversation on Pulling the Thread about the Enneagram—if you missed it, there's a link in the show notes—but today, we're going to talk about Stephen Karpman's Drama Triangle: What it is, how to know when you're in it, and how to move past it…while recognizing that you'll be in another one soon enough. We also do a little bit of live coaching and role-playing, so you all will really get a sense of how this powerful tool works.  Meanwhile, if you want to work with me and Courtney, together, we're hosting a workshop from May 17-19 at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina. It's called “Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness” and will be a combination of On Our Best Behavior and Courtney's techniques. Honestly, I can't wait—I hope you'll all join us. The link to sign up is also in the episode page, or the link in bio on my Instagram account, @ eliseloehnen.  MORE FROM COURTNEY SMITH: My Workshop with Courtney at AOLRC: “Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness” First Pulling the Thread episode: “The Practical Magic of the Enneagram” Courtney's Website ALSO MENTIONED: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leaders Elise's Substack Newsletters: Ending the Manel The Perception (and Reality) of Scarcity Who Gets to Be an Expert? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To what extent are our inner lives shaped by the stories we tell ourselves? And how can we learn to see the world as it truly is? Today on the podcast we have Diana Chapman, Co-Founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, an organization that helps leaders and their teams build trust and create conscious cultures through coaching, training, and more. She is also a facilitator, CEO coach, speaker, and co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, a book that distills decades of accumulated knowledge from working with CEOs and other leaders. In today's conversation with Diana, we delve into the complexities of what it means to accept our inner emotions, how we can learn to understand our reactivity to other people, and how these skills can help us foster environments that preserve psychological safety without sacrificing candor. Tuning you'll learn about the profound lessons Diana learned at The Hendricks Institute, the impact they had on her life, and how she and her team help organizations foster conscious leadership and collaboration. We also delve into the importance of play, why the enneagram is such a useful tool for leaders, and what it means to operate in your Zone of Genius. Tune in to hear all of Diana's insights on life, leadership, and learning how to see the world as it truly is!Key Points From This Episode:Get to know today's guest, Diana Chapman, and how she discovered the Hendricks Institute.The tools Diana acquired there and how they changed her life.Understanding the radical concept that ‘I am the creator of my own suffering'.Reactivity, acceptance, and how to change your behavior (and the outcomes).Unpacking the concept of radical responsibility.Learning to get comfortable with all the emotions and sensations in your body.The intelligence underlying our emotions and what they can teach us.How to preserve psychological safety without sacrificing candor.Diana's approach to creating an environment where candor can propel innovation.The practices she and her team give organizations to foster these environments.Diana's insights on the importance of play.How to assess whether there is enough play in your life.Advice on bringing more play into your life.Why the enneagram is such a meaningful tool for leaders.Learning to embrace the gifts and shadow side of your enneagram type.How you can use the enneagram as a parent to deepen your connection with your kids.The Zone of Genius: what it is, why it's important, and how can discover it.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Diana Chapman on LinkedInDiana Chapman on XThe Conscious Leadership GroupThe 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable SuccessThe Hendricks InstituteBernard RothBrendan BoyleJennifer Brandy WallaceJeremy UtleyJeremy Utley EmailJeremy Utley on XJeremy Utley on LinkedIn

Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a course that has helped hundreds of founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. Having personally benefited from Jonny's teachings, I'm especially excited to have him on the show. In this episode, we discuss:• How shifting your focus from the mind to the body can help ease nervousness• The power of breath in changing states• The importance of “interoception”• Specific breathing exercises to both calm and excite your nervous system• The A.P.E. (awareness, posture, and emotion) framework for recognizing body signals• The “feather, brick, dump truck” phenomenon• The concept of emotional debt and how to release it• The competitive advantage of feeling emotions—Jonny's five-week boot camp, Nervous System Mastery, will equip you with evidence-backed protocols to cultivate greater calm and agency over your internal state. Learn to rewire maladaptive stress responses and improve your sleep (use code LENNY for $250 discount). Apply here.—Brought to you by:• Teal—Your personal career growth platform• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security.• Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life—Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/episodes/. Today's transcript will be live by 8 a.m. PT.—Where to find Jonny Miller:• X: https://twitter.com/jonnym1ller• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnym1ller/• Website: https://www.jonnymiller.co/• Podcast: podcast.curioushumans.com • Email: jonny@curioushumans.com• Course: https://nsmastery.com/lenny—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Jonny's background(07:19) The bottom-up approach to nervousness and anxiety(09:42) The power of breath in changing states(11:47) The concept of state over story(13:56) Personal experiences with nervousness(15:01) Breathing exercises to calm you down(20:40) The “espresso” breath exercise to give you energy(25:44) Interoception and the A.P.E. framework(34:47) The “feather, brick, dump truck” phenomenon(37:40) Recognizing emotional debt and avoiding burnout(40:47) Using somatic-oriented therapy for healing(45:26) Telltale signs of emotional debt(48:13) The competitive advantage of “feeling the feels”(50:20) Advice for people overwhelmed by stimuli(52:36) The NSDR (non-sleep deep rest) practice for emotional release(55:38) Daily practices for emotional well-being(58:23) Thoughts on meditation(01:01:26) The Body Keeps the Score(01:01:58) Contrarian corner(01:04:43) Lightning round—Jonny's If [This] Then [Breathe] Recipes:• If [overwhelmed], then [hum]• If [anxious], then [breath of calm]• If [lethargic], then [espresso breath]—Referenced:• The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System: https://every.to/p/the-operating-manual-for-your-nervous-system• Afferent vs. Efferent Neurons: https://www.osmosis.org/answers/afferent-vs-efferent-neurons• Insular cortex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_cortex• Jonny's TED Talk, “The gifts of grief”: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonny_miller_the_gifts_of_grief/details• Humming (Simple Bhramari Pranayama) as a Stress Buster: A Holter-Based Study to Analyze Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Parameters During Bhramari, Physical Activity, Emotional Stress, and Sleep: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10182780/• 14-Minute Guided NSDR (non-sleep deep rest) practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjXX2c72fYY• Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety | Dr. Andrew Huberman on the Physiological Sigh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZKIupBUuc• Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes well-being: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/15/the-hidden-sense-shaping-your-wellbeing-interoception• Exteroception: https://dictionary.apa.org/exteroception• Interoceptive Awareness and ADHD: https://chadd.org/adhd-news/adhd-news-adults/interoceptive-awareness-and-adhd/• Childhood Trauma Affects Stress-Related Interoceptive Accuracy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813623/• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Hour-Between-Dog-Wolf-Transforms/dp/0143123408• Somatic Experiencing: https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/• Hakomi Institute: https://hakomiinstitute.com/• Decisions and Desire (about Antonio Damasio's work): https://hbr.org/2006/01/decisions-and-desire• When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/when-enough-is-enough-andy-johns-ex-fb-twitter-quora/• What Is Yoga Nidra?: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-yoga-nidra• Becoming Fully Yourself, What AI Wants, Family Rituals & Rites of Passage, with Kevin Kelly: https://podcast.curioushumans.com/episodes/becoming-fully-yourself-what-ai-wants-rites-of-passage-with-kevin-kelly• Tim Ferriss: https://tim.blog/• The Power of Sensations: Intermediate's Vipassana Body Scan: https://insighttimer.com/carola.ananda/guided-meditations/the-power-of-sensations-intermediates-vipassana-body-scan-meditation• Vipassana Meditation: https://www.dhamma.org/en/index• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0670785938• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Tiger-Healing-Peter-Levine/dp/155643233X• Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/29/david-whyte-consolations-words/• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success: https://www.amazon.com/15-Commitments-Conscious-Leadership-Sustainable/dp/0990976904/• The Conscious Leadership Group: https://conscious.is/• Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Recapture-Rapture-Rethinking-Death-World/dp/0062905465• Kubo and the Two Strings on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/Kubo-Two-Strings-Charlize-Theron/dp/B01K5BSWX0• Wolfwalkers on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/wolfwalkers/umc.cmc.amuoq00hqelfi98j0gvg641x• Scavengers Reign on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/scavengers-reign/50c8ce6d-088c-42d9-9147-d1b19b1289d4• Jerry Colonna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-colonna-reboot/• Ra Optics “Sunset” blue-light blockers: https://raoptics.com/collections/night-lenses• Nurosym vagal stimulation device: https://my.nurosym.com/vns1564/• Pulsetto vagal stimulation device: https://pulsetto.tech/new-year/?gc_id=20124962116&h_ad_id=686249897188&gad_source=1• Apollo vagus nerve stimulator: https://apolloneuro.com/products/apollo-wearable—Additional research:• Cellular allostatic load is linked to increased energy expenditure and accelerated biological aging: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453023003001• Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00093/full• Relationship between interoception and emotion regulation: New evidence from mixed methods: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032718323723• Out-of-the-blue panic attacks aren't without warning: body sends signals for hour before: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21783179/—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. 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Have you recently thought about what your upper limiting beliefs are, and how they are holding you back from realizing your fullest potential? In this episode, we discuss with Joyce Chen, coach and facilitator at the Conscious Leadership Group about:

"Part of what happens when human beings experience difficulty is the same difficulty, the same fact pattern, can resonate very differently for different human beings. And so, part of what happens when a human being encounters a challenge is not just, Oh, you hurt me, but it's how do I make meaning of the fact that you hurt me. Is it that there's something wrong with you? Is it that there's something wrong with me? Is it we should never have been involved in the first place? Is it that I need to fight and stand up for myself so that never happens again? Is it I need to make myself really small so that never happens again? So type is about how I made meaning of a challenge that happened to me early in life and because of the way I made meaning of it, that's how my adaptive strategies arose." Welcome to the first part of a four-episode special on metaphysical systems. These episodes don't build on each other, per se—you can cherry pick what's interesting to you—but they all go together. In this first set of systems, we'll explore the Enneagram, Asterian Astrology, Human Design, and Tarot. Today, we're kicking it off with Enneagram, specifically as interpreted by my dear friend, Courtney Smith, who is, quite frankly, one of the smartest people I know.  I heard Courtney might be one of my soulmates for years before we finally met—not only because we have the same taste in people (we have many dear mutual friends), but also because she's an Enneagram genius, and the sort of person who is happy to talk about G.I. Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way at a cocktail party. Courtney has a robust coaching practice—individuals, executive teams, women's groups—where she integrates the Enneagram, which she studies under Russ Hudson, along with trainings from the Conscious Leadership Group, the Alexander Technique, and the Work of Byron Katie. She also adds her own perception and raging intelligence. Courtney is brilliant, particularly at assessing systems on both the micro and macro level, and she's also exceptionally warm, excavating all of our human foibles and patterns for the treasures of promised growth. My favorite part of Courtney though is that she plays against type: I love finding the mystical and metaphysical in a woman who has a degree in mathematical economics from Wake Forest, a masters in Public Health from New York University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Courtney also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Okay, let's get to our conversation. MORE FROM COURTNEY SMITH: Courtney Smith's Website Further Listening on Pulling the Thread: ASTROLOGY: Jennifer Freed “A Map To Your Soul” ENNEAGRAM: Susan Olesek “The Power of the Enneagram” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As part of the Reimagine Leadership limited series, this is the first episode where we dig into content that we actually threaded throughout the program I developed for the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas.Jim Fallon is an Executive Coach for The Conscious Leadership Group and a Strategic Advisor for many organizations. He spent decades as an executive for many organizations across various industries, which I feel results in a very grounded pragmatism in his approach.We talk about the book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, and specifically about the organizing principle of the book: leading above and below the line. Here are a few highlights from our rich conversation:Jim's wake up call and why he transitioned from CEO to Executive Coach and Strategic Advisor.The important distinction between content and context.Another Big Idea of the book: To Me, By Me, Through Me, As Me.A great description of Locating Yourself (above or below the line).The power, and necessity of accepting ourselves when we find that we are ‘below the line' (which happens regularly for most of us).Jim does a walkthrough of the 15 Commitments with lots of context.Try the novel and playful approach for teaching others how to get the results you DON'T want - another way that CLG has made this content easier to take in.Jim gets vulnerable and provides a personal example of taking Radical Responsibility, which is Commitment #1.Jim does a beautiful job of embodying the generous, humanizing content from The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. As you listen, you hear in the conversation my own ah-ha moments and how this conversation will impact the way I explain some of these concepts in the next program.You can find out more by connecting with the following:To discuss executive coaching, leadership development program design, and workshop facilitation, please visit: https://rise-leaders.com/contact-info/To subscribe to Rise Words newsletter, visit: https://mailchi.mp/426e78bc9538/subscribeLearn more about Rise Leaders at www.rise-leaders.comConnect with LeeAnn Mallory on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeannmallory/Follow Rise Leaders on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/47Wk8doConscious Leaders Group https://conscious.is Jim Fallon: https://conscious.is/team/jim-fallon Book: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: https://tinyurl.com/15-Commitments Locating Yourself handout: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=udhrtalK

Our host, Roy Biancalana, has had the privilege of learning from, and being trained by, some amazing relationship teachers, and in this series, he shares insights that not only produced a quantum leap in his life, but they are sure to significantly impact yours as well.   In this episode, which is part four of an 8-part series, the “quantum insight” is about Body Intelligence, and it comes from Roy's former coach, Diana Chapman, co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group.   Body Intelligence, and its cousin, Emotional Intelligence, are keys to making healthy, sustainable, intimate connections, so don't miss this episode!   Additional Resources Roy may have mentioned on the show:   Roy's Website: https://coachingwithroy.com   Roy's Relationship Fitness Self-Assessment Test: https://coachingwithroy.com/the-relationship-fitness-self-test/   Roy's 3 Books: ·      Relationship Bootcamp: https://amzn.to/360UsMR ·      Attracting Lasting Love: http://amzn.to/1UnYeYh ·      A Drink with Legs: https://amzn.to/31UBl3K     Roy's Group Coaching Program: https://coachingwithroy.com/group-coaching/   Roy's Complimentary 45-min. Coaching Session: To set up an appointment, email him at roy@coachingwithroy.com or call his cell 407-687-3387.

Are you ready to redefine your business realm and discover what happens when you let go of drama?This week, Mike and Gay are stepping into the genius zones of Diana Chapman and Jim Dethmer, two extraordinary leaders doing groundbreaking work in the business world.They'll delve into the art of "Ineffective Training," a profound exercise designed to crack open your consciousness, and the enlightening distinction between "Stories and Facts."They'll also unmask the roles of the "Victim, Villain, and Hero" in our daily narratives and discuss the 'Big Three Payoffs' of saying NO to drama. It's a revelation you don't want to miss!Additionally, they'll explore the vast ocean of "Word of Mouth" marketing, unveiling the messages that resonate best and making some pretty large splashes along the way. Be prepared for some massive Aha moments.This episode is a veritable buffet of wisdom, so grab your notepads, jot down these gems, and gear up for some instant transformation. Whether it's in your business or personal life, this episode is designed to impact, inspire and help you step into your zone of genius. Happy listening!Key Takeaways (05:10) Meet Diana and Jim and how they created The Conscious Leadership Group (11:24) How the book “15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership” came about (14:40) How to create a functional COO (22:14) What it's like working with Diana and Jim (25:14) The concept of the “drama triangle” (30:57) The power of authenticity and sharing your truth Additional Resources Learn how to work with Jim and Diana at Conscious Leadership Group Get Jim + Diana's Book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success Get on the Early Bird List for The Big Leap Experience!

How is emotional literacy different than emotional intelligence? Why do we need both? Have you ever had the inkling that you may play some part in the relational drama you see unfolding at work or in relationships? Today on the podcast, we welcome Conscious Leadership and Executive Coach, Justin Mulvaney. Justin shares his origin story into coaching and the deep work he is doing on his end to play with the principles of Conscious Leadership. This episode is for anyone looking to better understand emotional intelligence and how to take radical responsibility for their lives. Today we cover:  Justin's early influences in nature and key influences The journey from tech industry to coaching  Why Justin chose The Conscious Leadership Group as the method he wanted to embrace and learn  What has changed Justin the most throughout his training with CLG and coaching clients over the past few years How Justin defines emotional intelligence  How and why the journey of embracing consciousness is messy and scary at times  How to examine reactive patterns and beliefs  How to feel your feelings to completion  Justin Mulvaney is a conscious leadership and executive coach who helps leaders and leadership teams become more conscious, connected, and effective. He helps founders and leaders in technology and corporate environments identify and shift the patterns that hold them back and discover new ways of living and leading. To learn more about Justin, click here: https://justinmulvaney.co   To learn more about Elisa and her work, visit www.elisamaryhaggarty.com and follow her on Instagram @thesoulpodcast and @elisamaryhaggarty 

Our host, Roy Biancalana, has had the privilege of learning from, and being trained by, some amazing relationship teachers, and in this series, he shares insights that not only produced a quantum leap in his life, but they are sure to significantly impact yours as well.   In this episode, which is part one of a 7-part series, the “quantum insight” is about Radical Responsibility, and it comes from Roy's long-time friend and mentor, Jim Dethmer, co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group.   Radical responsibility is the key to creating the life and love life you most want, so don't miss this episode!   Additional Resources Roy may have mentioned on the show:   Roy's Website: https://coachingwithroy.com   Roy's Relationship Fitness Self-Assessment Test: https://coachingwithroy.com/the-relationship-fitness-self-test/   Roy's 3 Books: ·      Relationship Bootcamp: https://amzn.to/360UsMR ·      Attracting Lasting Love: http://amzn.to/1UnYeYh ·      A Drink with Legs: https://amzn.to/31UBl3K     Roy's Group Coaching Program: https://coachingwithroy.com/group-coaching/   Roy's Complimentary 45-min. Coaching Session: To set up an appointment, email him at roy@coachingwithroy.com or call his cell 407-687-3387.

If you would like to share your story on the podcast, please send me an email using link https://nishantgarg.me/contact Podcast survey form: https://forms.gle/dt5BoVNJMSM2oDoc8. If you haven't already filled the form, please Let me know your "likes", "dislikes", and everything in between so that we can make sure to serve you at the highest level possible. And, for your time, I'd love to buy you a cup of coffee/tea/Kombucha Guest: Diana Chapman Diana Chapman is an advisor to exceptional leaders who has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams and is a founding partner at Conscious Leadership Group. She has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer—with clients such as Asana and Esalen. In addition to facilitating CLG Forums in the Bay Area for founders, venture capitalists, and CEOs, worldwide. She also trains coaches in conscious leadership in the CLG training program she and Jim created. Diana co-authored the best-selling book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, in 2015. She has been a speaker at TEDx, Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and many others. Diana lives in Scotts Valley, CA with her husband. Connect with Nishant: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter

The above the line/below the line framework or theory was first introduced by the Conscious Leadership Group, a coaching and consulting company.What are above and below the line behaviors? Above the line behaviors are positive, proactive, and solution-focused behaviors that help individuals and teams achieve their goals. Examples include taking responsibility, being accountable, and seeking solutions. Below the line behaviors, on the other hand, are negative, reactive, and problem-focused behaviors that hinder progress and create conflict. Examples include blaming, denying responsibility, and avoiding difficult conversations. Blame, shame, justify. Leaders can identify above and below the line behaviors by observing how team members respond to challenges, opportunities, and feedback. For example, if a team member takes responsibility for their mistakes and seeks solutions when faced with a problem, they are exhibiting above the line behavior. If a team member blames others for their mistakes or denies responsibility, they are exhibiting below the line behavior.What about in leadership? Below the line leadership occurs when a leader is closed, defensive, and committed to being right. On the contrary, above the line leadership occurs when a leader is open, curious, and committed to learning.Above the line leadership is critical to business success.So todays suggestion for you to think on is this – how can you be a more consistent, above the line leader for your team?

Watch on YouTube Diana Chapman is a founding partner at Conscious Leadership Group and an advisor to exceptional leaders who has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams!  and i Her cofounder and co-author of the best-selling book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success was Jim Dethmer who was on Episode 257 and is a must listen.  On this episode you will learn: ⚡️How to start understanding what your feeling and emotions can teach you  ⚡️How to cultivate your effectiveness as a leader  ⚡️The importance of taking Radical Responsibility for your life ⚡️& ways to develop self awareness    https://conscious.is/ 15 Commitments of Conscious Leaders - https://whatgotyouthere.com/15-commitments-of-conscious-leadership-by-jim-dethmer/ FREE Conscious Leadership Resources - https://conscious.is/resources    About Host Sean DeLaney: For the last 15 years Sean DeLaney has been working at the intersection of elite performance, entrepreneurship and personal development. As an executive life coach, former professional athlete, entrepreneur, investor and podcast host Sean has been helping people discover their untapped potential and live their best life. He has been an advisor to INC. fastest growing companies, has interviewed billionaire business titans and personally coached CEO's and executives. Interested in having Sean coach you? CLICK HERE I've studied hundreds of the world's must successful people and compiled:13 Insights from the World's Most Successful People – Click Here to get access  https://youunleashedcourse.com/ You Unleashed is an online personal development course created by Sean DeLaney after spending years working with and interviewing high achievers.The online course that helps you ‘Unleash your potential'! You Unleashed teaches you the MINDSETS, ROUTINES and BEHAVIORS you need to unleash your potential and discover what you're capable of. You know you're capable of more and want to bring out that untapped potential inside of you. We teach you how. Enroll Today!- Click Here Subscribe to my Momentum Monday Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere TikTok YouTube Twitter Instagram   

What's Good Revolutionaries? What happens when you wake up and you see life from a different perspective? What happens when you begin to take full responsibility for your life? The result is, you become a conscious human, a conscious leader. Filmmaker, Former Head of Production at Meta (Yes, Meta), and now acclaimed leadership coach with Conscious Leadership Group, Joyce Chen joins me on the show to detail how we can revolt and evolve into the people we need to be. There are so many gems, but one that stands out is how Joyce details the value of a "whole body yes" when making decisions. This alone has shifted how I move through world and how I decide what my next revolution is going to be. JOYCE SAYS "A WHOLE BODY YES IS THE PATH TO GENIUS"? Joyce left a high-paying dream job at one of the most influential companies in the world to move at her own pace. This is a revolution! Who does this? Joyce did and she details how we all can find joy, peace, and happiness while creating a life that allows us to have the impact on the world that we desire. Please see Joyce's blog to discover her why and how you can unsubscribe from the toxic tenets that hold us back from experiencing our most exquisite life. https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6962864009666580480/ You can learn more about conscious leadership at consciousleadership.io and make sure that you go get the book, the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership.

About This EpisodeWith over a decade of experience in nutrition and healthcare, Elisa Haggarty is a conscious leadership coach, guiding individuals and teams on leading mindfully with agility by decreasing what's called the drama tax. From workplace gossip and interpersonal relationships to procrastination and staying small, there are many forms of dramatic energy in our lives. Elisa describes how to not only identify this drama tax but how to control and overcome it as well. She also emphasizes the interconnectedness of our lives, particularly how our energy has a direct correlation with our health, mindset, and work. From her own personal experiences and mental health journey, Elisa invites us to release what is not serving us and become radically responsible for our own physical and psychological health. Part of this is understanding the areas where we experience flow, a concept that Elisa describes as being completely immersed and fully present. Tune in to hear how to mitigate the drama patterns in your own life, while strengthening the elements that bring you joy and energy.  About Elisa HaggartyElisa Haggarty is a former corporate leader turned Conscious Leadership Coach, working to guide leaders and teams all over the world to master the skills necessary to lead mindfully and with agility. Through experiential learning and coaching, Elisa helps professionals to embrace stress and change by mastering core skills. Elisa was an early team member of Parsley Health, where she launched the Learning & Development department, helping the company to scale 30x and deliver world class medicine. Prior to her work at Parsley, Elisa was a consultant for international wellness companies like Chosen Experiences and founded Culinary Farmacy, a global nutrition consultancy aimed to educate individuals on the importance of upgrading dietary choices. Elisa trained with the Conscious Leadership Group, with Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman, and runs The School of Unlearning Podcast. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her two cats, Josie and Lou. Additional ResourcesWebsite: https://www.elisamaryhaggarty.com/Check Out Her Podcast, The School of UnlearningLinkedIn: @ElisaHaggartyInstagram: @elisamaryhaggarty

Get ready to upgrade your life with executive and leadership coach Jim Dethmer's powerful Four Pillars of Integrity. From owning your mistakes to boosting your emotional intelligence, Dethmer shares essential strategies to improve your relationships and live more purposefully. As a coach to over 150 CEOs and founding partner at The Conscious Leadership Group, Dethmer brings experience and results. And if you want more from Jim Dethmer, don't miss his first appearance on The Knowledge Project. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish Our Sponsors: MetaLab: Helping the world's top companies design, build, and ship amazing products and services. https://www.metalab.com Aeropress: Press your perfect cup, every time. https://aeropress.com

In this episode, I interview Beth Jannery, CEO and founder of Titan, a woman owned small business specialising in strategic communications, advising and life coaching, working with C-Suite executives in Fortune 100 companies. Beth and I explore the welcome and increasing trend to more conscious leadership in companies, organisations and groups, as well as in our personal lives within our families, relationships and friendship groups. We talk about what it means to be 'conscious', ''self-aware', 'present' or living in 'presence', compared to living a life full of drama, stress, anxiety and a feeling of things being out of or beyond our control. We consider what it really means to be 'being' rather than just 'doing' and consider aspects of language relating to these concepts. This conversation follows on from my previous podcast with Michaela Smith where we considered similar concepts, attitudes, behaviours and language. In Beth's professional work with companies, she focusses on their strategic communications, enabling companies to make the right impressions of themselves in their chosen markets and to communicate effectively with their customers, directors or trustees and stakeholders. Beth has established a brand, 'The Advisor' where she actively supports companies to work through issues they are facing in a mindful, creative and indeed, playful way. She also describes herself as a Life Coach and we talk about how some people are still a little uncomfortable with that term. To find out more about Beth's work, please visit her LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethjannery/ or her website at https://bethjannery.com/ Listeners may find the excellent short videos produced by the Conscious Leadership Group of value and these can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@ConsciousIsNow The general aim of the podcast series is to be entertaining for all listeners, as well as being educational, assisting upper-intermediate and advanced level English language students with additional listening practice. I've been told the podcasts are the perfect travelling companion for long car journeys, train rides and even for airplane adventures. For more information on this podcast series, or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk or visit my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/ or my company page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/john-scott-lawton-consulting/?viewAsMember=true Please use a sound comment if using the Anchor App, if possible, to ask any questions or to comment on the language used in this podcast. Finally, please take a look at my website where I post additional content to support this podcast series: https://johnscottlawtonsenglishyouknow.wordpress.com/ #Coaching #ConsciousLeaders #ConsciousLeadership #Consciousness #Transformationalcoach #Leadership #burnout #anxiety #impact #self-talk # Mindset #English #Language #Listeningskills #TESOL #IELTS #toefl #confidence #confidencebuilding #Englishlanguage #Slovak #Slovakia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/john-lawton/message

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out Lenny's Podcast Episode Page & Show NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMatt Mochary, CEO of Mochary Method, is a full-time executive coach who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and finance, including investor Naval Ravikant and the CEOs of Notion, OpenAI, Coinbase, Reddit, and many others. In today's podcast, we talk about the skill of firing people, why it's so important, and Matt's framework for approaching layoffs. We go deep on recognizing emotions like anger and fear, and what to pay attention to when you feel angry or fearful. He also shares how to build new products within a larger company, important tips on how to make sure everyone in the organization feels valued and heard, carving out time for your top goal, and how an energy audit can help you eliminate tasks that are draining your energy.—Find the full transcript here: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-work-through-fear-and-nurture-innovation-matt-mochary-ceo-coach/#transcript—Where to find Matt Mochary:• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattmochary• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-mochary-34bb4/• Website: http://www.mochary.com/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making this episode possible:• AssemblyAI: https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=lennyspodcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=nov10• Lemon.io: https://lemon.io/lenny• Vanta: https://vanta.com/lenny—Referenced:• The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building: https://www.amazon.com/Great-CEO-Within-Tactical-Building-ebook/dp/B07ZLGQZYC• Mochary Method: https://mocharymethod.org/• Leo Polovets on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lpolovets• High Output Management: https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business when There Are No Easy Answers: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205• Andrej Karpathy on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://lexfridman.com/andrej-karpathy/• Wei Deng on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dengwei/• Free Solo: https://films.nationalgeographic.com/free-solo• Ryan Hoover on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rrhoover• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: https://gregmckeown.com/books/essentialism/• Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every/dp/0525572422• Centered app: https://www.centered.app/• Diana Chapman at Conscious Leadership Group: https://conscious.is/team/diana-chapman• The Mochary Method curriculum doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18FiJbYn53fTtPmphfdCKT2TMWH-8Y2L-MLqDk-MFV4s/edit—In this episode, we cover:(04:43) Matt's background(07:39) Areas where even very successful founders struggle(12:24) How to address people to minimize defensiveness(13:24) The destructive nature of anger and how to feel your feelings so you don't hurt others(15:02) Which books led Matt to his coaching journey and software platform(19:03) When and how to let an employee go(31:47) How to make people feel heard(38:05) How Matt's coaching has evolved to include psychological obstacles to success(39:41) What is “top goal,” and how can it help you make massive gains?(41:25) Why Matt has an accountability partner for his top goal time(43:44) How to approach mass layoffs humanely(53:21) Matt's thoughts on the Twitter layoffs(54:10) How to innovate within a large company(1:01:53) How to do an energy audit—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out Lenny's Podcast Episode Page & Show NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMatt Mochary, CEO of Mochary Method, is a full-time executive coach who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and finance, including investor Naval Ravikant and the CEOs of Notion, OpenAI, Coinbase, Reddit, and many others. In today's podcast, we talk about the skill of firing people, why it's so important, and Matt's framework for approaching layoffs. We go deep on recognizing emotions like anger and fear, and what to pay attention to when you feel angry or fearful. He also shares how to build new products within a larger company, important tips on how to make sure everyone in the organization feels valued and heard, carving out time for your top goal, and how an energy audit can help you eliminate tasks that are draining your energy.—Find the full transcript here: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-work-through-fear-and-nurture-innovation-matt-mochary-ceo-coach/#transcript—Where to find Matt Mochary:• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattmochary• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-mochary-34bb4/• Website: http://www.mochary.com/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making this episode possible:• AssemblyAI: https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=lennyspodcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=nov10• Lemon.io: https://lemon.io/lenny• Vanta: https://vanta.com/lenny—Referenced:• The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building: https://www.amazon.com/Great-CEO-Within-Tactical-Building-ebook/dp/B07ZLGQZYC• Mochary Method: https://mocharymethod.org/• Leo Polovets on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lpolovets• High Output Management: https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business when There Are No Easy Answers: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205• Andrej Karpathy on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://lexfridman.com/andrej-karpathy/• Wei Deng on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dengwei/• Free Solo: https://films.nationalgeographic.com/free-solo• Ryan Hoover on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rrhoover• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: https://gregmckeown.com/books/essentialism/• Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every/dp/0525572422• Centered app: https://www.centered.app/• Diana Chapman at Conscious Leadership Group: https://conscious.is/team/diana-chapman• The Mochary Method curriculum doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18FiJbYn53fTtPmphfdCKT2TMWH-8Y2L-MLqDk-MFV4s/edit—In this episode, we cover:(04:43) Matt's background(07:39) Areas where even very successful founders struggle(12:24) How to address people to minimize defensiveness(13:24) The destructive nature of anger and how to feel your feelings so you don't hurt others(15:02) Which books led Matt to his coaching journey and software platform(19:03) When and how to let an employee go(31:47) How to make people feel heard(38:05) How Matt's coaching has evolved to include psychological obstacles to success(39:41) What is “top goal,” and how can it help you make massive gains?(41:25) Why Matt has an accountability partner for his top goal time(43:44) How to approach mass layoffs humanely(53:21) Matt's thoughts on the Twitter layoffs(54:10) How to innovate within a large company(1:01:53) How to do an energy audit—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Matt Mochary, CEO of Mochary Method, is a full-time executive coach who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and finance, including investor Naval Ravikant and the CEOs of Notion, OpenAI, Coinbase, Reddit, and many others. In today's podcast, we talk about the skill of firing people, why it's so important, and Matt's framework for approaching layoffs. We go deep on recognizing emotions like anger and fear, and what to pay attention to when you feel angry or fearful. He also shares how to build new products within a larger company, important tips on how to make sure everyone in the organization feels valued and heard, carving out time for your top goal, and how an energy audit can help you eliminate tasks that are draining your energy.—Find the full transcript here: how-to-fire-people-with-grace-work-through-fear-and-nurture-innovation-matt-mochary-ceo-coach/#transcript—Where to find Matt Mochary:• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattmochary• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-mochary-34bb4/• Website: http://www.mochary.com/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making this episode possible:• AssemblyAI: https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=lennyspodcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=nov10• Lemon.io: https://lemon.io/lenny• Vanta: https://vanta.com/lenny—Referenced:• The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building: https://www.amazon.com/Great-CEO-Within-Tactical-Building-ebook/dp/B07ZLGQZYC• Mochary Method: https://mocharymethod.org/• Leo Polovets on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lpolovets• High Output Management: https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business when There Are No Easy Answers: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205• Andrej Karpathy on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://lexfridman.com/andrej-karpathy/• Wei Deng on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dengwei/• Free Solo: https://films.nationalgeographic.com/free-solo• Ryan Hoover on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rrhoover• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: https://gregmckeown.com/books/essentialism/• Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every/dp/0525572422• Centered app: https://www.centered.app/• Diana Chapman at Conscious Leadership Group: https://conscious.is/team/diana-chapman• The Mochary Method curriculum doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18FiJbYn53fTtPmphfdCKT2TMWH-8Y2L-MLqDk-MFV4s/edit—In this episode, we cover:(04:43) Matt's background(07:39) Areas where even very successful founders struggle(12:24) How to address people to minimize defensiveness(13:24) The destructive nature of anger and how to feel your feelings so you don't hurt others(15:02) Which books led Matt to his coaching journey and software platform(19:03) When and how to let an employee go(31:47) How to make people feel heard(38:05) How Matt's coaching has evolved to include psychological obstacles to success(39:41) What is “top goal,” and how can it help you make massive gains?(41:25) Why Matt has an accountability partner for his top goal time(43:44) How to approach mass layoffs humanely(53:21) Matt's thoughts on the Twitter layoffs(54:10) How to innovate within a large company(1:01:53) How to do an energy audit—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

We spelunk the internal caverns of leaders' minds with Dolores Stevens from The Conscious Leadership Group. Dolores teaches us how to become more effective leaders by living more self-aware, overcoming our fears, and developing more freedom to realize our potential. The post Conscious Leadership with Dolores Stevens from The Conscious Leadership Group appeared first on Rattle and Pedal.

We spelunk the internal caverns of leaders' minds with Dolores Stevens from The Conscious Leadership Group. Dolores teaches us how to become more effective leaders by living more self-aware, overcoming our fears, and developing more freedom to realize our potential. The post Conscious Leadership with Dolores Stevens from The Conscious Leadership Group appeared first on Rattle and Pedal.

The "Great Unknown" in this episode is the question, "what am I going to do now, after my career just ended?" Minette Norman had a 30 year career in the IT industry, for the past 20 years with the same company and the last 5 as a VP. Leadership changed, and as often happens when leadership changes, she was now an outsider of the new leadership group. The environment became very uncomfortable until she finally decided it was time to leave. Now what? Friends had ideas. She had the belief that she was not entreprenuerial, and after much soul-searching, she stepped into the fear and started her own leadership consulting practice. We talk about rebuilding confidence after a job loss. We talk about the importance of continuous learning. We talk about her new book, The Psychological Safety Playbook, that will come out in February of 2023. And we talked about asking yourself, "Can I give that a Whole Body Yes?" Episode Takeaways: 1. We are not done yet, unless we want to be. We still have so much to give. 2. Never stop learning! 3. Be open to new experiences 4. Embrace "what if..." Treat everything as an experiment. Thanks so much for listening. Subscribe on Apple Podcast, Stitcher , Google Podcast. or Spotify Follow up on Facebook and Instagram You can email me with questions or comments at wendy@heyboomer.biz – Wendy Green is a Certified Life Coach, working with people going through the sometimes uncomfortable life transition from full-time work to “what's next.” Find out more about Wendy's 6-week “What's Next Transition” Coaching workshop – You can email Minette at minette@minettenorman.com or connect wiht her on her website at minettenorman.com  Transcript Welcome to the Hey Boomer Show. My name is Wendy Green and I am your host for Hey Boomer. And we go live every Monday at 1:00 Eastern Time on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Hey, Boomer is a show for people who believe that we are never too old to set another goal or dream, a new dream. It is for lifelong learners who are finding meaning and purpose in their lives and living their best life at this next stage of life. The push is on for the Hey Boomer Walk to End Alzheimer's and I want to thank my Walk to End Alzheimer's team. Prudence Taylor, David Bell Ann Golden, Doris McLallen are on the team in Greenville, South Carolina. Melanie Whitlock is building a team in California and Bernadette Wagner is building a team in Maryland. So we are all in the fight to end Alzheimer's. And anybody who joins our team is going to get a cute, Hey, Boomer hat that you can wear for the walk and then you can wear proudly afterwards. To join our team or to make a donation, If you don't feel like you can walk with us. You would go to act.alz.org/HeyBoomer. So help us walk to end Alzheimer's. I also wanted to mention the What's Next group coaching program. This program helps answer the question Who am I now? Who do I want to be? And how am I going to feel useful and relevant again? It's a six week group coaching program. At the end of six weeks, you're going to have a six month plan. And if you're really motivated, you might even have a one year plan to get yourself moving in the direction that's going to feel good to you. That's going to feel like you are on the right path to your next act. You can set up a 20 minute free consultation with me using this calendar link. It's calendly.com /heyboomer/20min, it's 20 minutes that could change your life. And if you want to check out the website first, you can just go to heyboomer.biz/coaching. Today, you know, we're going to talk about stepping off into the great unknown. And I thought it would be good to give you a little background for myself. In February of 2009, my beloved father passed away. Within two years my second marriage ended. I moved out of my beautiful home. I sold my business for a loss. And I found myself sitting in a group program about being grateful. And at the time, I was struggling to figure out what I was grateful for. I was depressed. I felt depleted. My heart was closed. I just didn't know what I was good at anymore or what made me happy. I rejoined the corporate world. And then in 2017, I got laid off because of a corporate merger. Took another job. And then in March of 2020, the pandemic shut down the place I was working, and there I was again. What was I going to do? But this time I decided I was going to start a show that was going to inspire people and help all of us through that time. So I started, Hey Boomer, in April of 2020, and it wasn't long after I started, Hey Boomer, that I experienced this amazing sense of freedom. And it came over me that I could say what I wanted to say. I could be authentic. It was my show. And if people didn't want to listen to what we were talking about on the show, they could turn it off. But it was finally an opportunity to really be authentically myself. And it felt great. And I think that is what stepping off into the great unknown will do for you when you find that passion. It can be very unsettling. It can be terrifying, but if it matches your passion and as you settle into it, you will begin to feel that sense of freedom also. And that is what we're going to talk about today. I am going to bring Minette on because I'm super excited about this conversation. Hi, Minette. Hello, Wendy. So glad you could join us today. Thanks for inviting me. Yeah. Let me do a quick overview of your background and then we'll get into more detail. So Minette spent decades in leadership roles in the software industry. Her last role before leaving the company was as vice president of engineering practices at Autodesk. She began her consulting practice, Minette Norman Consulting LLC in the spring of 2020. Her passion is to develop transformational leaders who create inclusive working environments with a foundation of psychological safety. Minette was named in 2017 as one of the most influential women in the Bay Area business by the San Francisco Business Times and as business role model of the year in 2018 by the Women in Silicon Valley Awards. And she is a recognized leader with a unique perspective. Minette is also the co-author of a book about psychological safety for leaders. The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being Human, which will be published in February of 2023. Oh, boy. And she's also finishing up another book on inclusive leadership. So you've been busy since you left your corporate job? Yes, I have. Absolutely. Well, let's start there. Like, why did you decide after 20 or 30 years in the industry that you were going to step out? You know, that question could be the whole podcast that we're doing today. It's a really long, it could be a really long answer. So I'm going to try to try to give you a succinct answer to that question. But maybe I'll start by saying I had this amazing career. I spent three decades in the software industry. I didn't expect when I started in 1989 as a technical writer at Adobe that I would end up 25 years later as a VP. I just never considered that. But I did. I had this amazing run. And I guess the short answer is that I had a fabulous career that ended really badly, and the way it ended badly was it was kind of insidious. I didn't quite see what was happening, but with hindsight I can see it very clearly. There I was in this VP role. I was appointed by an SVP who was kind of my sponsor. And when he left the company, that was really the beginning of the end. But I didn't see it so clearly at the time. I got a new boss who was a former peer and he was the peer I got along the least well with, of course, and suddenly he was my boss. And then after I think maybe a year, he brought in a new VP. And so basically the new VP was my boss. I was moved down a rung. And then what happened? This was really the unraveling was this new VP who was my boss. Gradually he did a big reorg and almost all of my responsibilities were taken away. And I had this I had had a very large, very impactful role that really was a wonderful role. And I loved it. I worked with like 3500 people around the globe. I had a big staff, I had big responsibilities, and those were taken away. And at the same time, what I didn't see and that I can see so well now is that basically they were just they were trying to get me to leave because I was now, you know, when the leadership change, they no longer really needed my services, but they didn't say that explicitly. And instead I got some really unpleasant things happen in that I won't talk about because I've signed one of those non-disparagement agreements, so I just am not going to say what actually happened, but it resulted in me leaving and I didn't plan on leaving when I did, but I did. So there I was in 2019, late 2019, and didn't have a plan. Yeah, and that is so common when leadership changes that everything gets shook up and they don't want you. So you didn't have a plan. And, you know, one of the things that we've talked about before we are doing the show live was so how did you feel? What did you do? What do you mean? That's pretty scary. Yeah, I really I didn't have a plan. So, you know, it's kind of interesting when you leave under those conditions, you're always leaving to pursue new opportunities. That's sort of the verbiage. You know, Minette is leaving to pursue new opportunities. And one of the things that was in my mind had been sort of planted by a good friend of mine. And we were attending a nonprofit gala event and we were sitting at a table and he said to me, You know, Minette, you'd be a really good executive director for a nonprofit. And, you know, he's a good friend who's known me for a long, long time. And I thought, what a great idea. And so I started looking around and I got really far into an interview process with a local nonprofit that was looking for a new ED. And it's very good that they ended up picking someone else. And the process took a really long time because midway through it I realized this is not what I want. You know, this was sort of like someone else's idea of what I should be doing, but it wasn't what I really wanted. And I knew this because I'd been on a nonprofit board for several years, and I know what the ED goes through and how hard it is to work with a board and all of that. And I thought, No, I don't want to do that. So that idea sort of faded away. And then, then I was back to Now what? Now what? And one of the things yeah, one of the things that I really knew, like in that last job that I had for five years, I had been, you know, my on paper description was to transform engineering practices across the company and really modernize how we develop software. But what I was actually doing was changing the culture and changing how people interacted. And really I was doing a lot of work on diversity, equity and inclusion and trying to have more inclusive leadership. And in my mind, that's really what was important to me. And I was spending more and more energy on that even when I was in the job. So as I was doing some soul searching about what I might do next, I thought, well, well, maybe I can do that work working for somebody else, right? So whether it's another company or another. Consulting firm. I definitely never thought I'm going to start my own business because, you know, there was part of the self talk that we do. I said to myself, I am not entrepreneurial because I've always worked for somebody else for my entire career. So, you know, the words we say matter. I'm not entrepreneurial. I believed that. And so then I was introduced to another woman who was starting a consulting firm, and she wanted to hire a group of women. She was very deliberate about hiring a group of women who would be leadership consultants and that we would help build better workplaces. And so I thought, well, this is perfect. I don't have to start my own thing. I can go work with her. And so I actually spent a few months meeting with her and meeting with the small team she had assembled, and I was ready to sign on. And then she offered me an agreement. It was a legal agreement of how we would partner. And as I'm reading the fine print, I see that it says that she and her firm would own all perpetual rights to anything I created, whether it was a workshop, a talk, written materials, blog posts, whatever. And honestly, one day that was the aha moment for me where I realized, okay, this is what I have. My intellectual property is really all I have. And people are interested in hiring me because of this experience and knowledge. And I can't give that away. I absolutely cannot give that to anyone. I have to own that. And so I realized, okay, if you want to own it and you want to make the decisions yourself, that means you're going to have to start your own thing. And so that's what I did. There's so much in what you just said. Minette So when did you actually leave the company? I left Autodesk in August of 2019, 2019. So it took you a little over a year to kind of figure out what you were going to do next and go through that journey. It was actually about it was about six months, I guess, because it was like August. And then by kind of the same time you were starting this podcast, I had decided to launch my business. So that's like what, six, seven months? And of course, both of us doing this right at the beginning of a pandemic. The pandemic. Right. That's what we do. Yeah. So you talked about some of the self-talk, you know, like, oh, I'm not an entrepreneur or, you know, or I mean, I think our self-talk can definitely get in our way. And how did you manage to shift that to Oh, well, I could be an entrepreneur and I am an entrepreneur. You know, that's a I don't have, an easy answer to that because I think it was all a very gradual process. Part of it was getting over the fact that my self confidence was so shaken I had to. So when I left when I left Autodesk, I really felt very damaged because I felt like I thought I had a bunch of credibility and that manager that I had made me doubt that. And so I had to really kind of rebuild my my strength and my my belief in myself. And part of that for me is always talking to people that know me like I have I have really good close friends, but I also have a network of trusted ex-colleagues and friends I've made through work and really just talking to them about like what really went down. Am I seeing this clearly? I also I will tell you a little sort of a funny story that when I left Autodesk, because I'd been there 20 years, I knew a lot of people I'd I'd had a very big platform those last five years. So many people had heard me speak or knew me. And I got all these emails as you do when you leave a company you've had a long time. So before I left, I get I had I mean, there were well over maybe there were 100 or 200 emails and I'm like, I can't I don't want to forward all these to my personal account. So what I did is I went through them and I actually copied and pasted some of them, the ones that were like the most meaningful to me. And I put them into one document. So I had this sort of encouragement document of like people who said, you made such an impact, you were really a role model, whatever it was. And I, I went back to that document, however corny that sounds, I would sometimes read the comments in there just to realize that like, okay, you didn't imagine that you, you, you were a good leader and you really did have a positive impact on many people's lives and careers. And so kind of just gradually rebuilding my confidence, I would say, took several months and I was kind of a wreck when I walked out of there. And by the beginning of of 2020, I was starting to feel better. I remember it was just before the pandemic shut down. I did a speaking engagement in San Francisco, and that went really well. And then someone I knew from Salesforce invited me to come in and do a workshop, and it was a leadership offsite. And I did a workshop and it was completely in my wheelhouse and in my comfort zone. And it was. Was great. It went really well. And that gave me that confidence of like, okay, you've just had two wonderful experiences. People wanted you to come in, they appreciated what you had to share. And I was very energized by that. And that that experience was like, okay, well, there's something here. Let me explore what that was and what that is and what that might be. And the first thing I did, because I'd been in tech for so long as well, let's, let's just build a website not knowing what I was getting into. But I thought, well, if I have a website, I have a business. And so I built my first website which I have since turned over to an expert. But at the time that was like, let me do something tangible. And that just sort of got me going. And the other thing that's funny about that, though, because of the timing is I had a website, I had announced my business and every budget was shut down because of the pandemic. So that's right. Right. Everyone I reached out to was like, Oh yeah, we'd love to bring you in, but all of our budgets are frozen. So in a way that was kind of good because it gave me that 2020 period to figure out what is my offering going to be, what is my sort of, as they say, the value proposition that I uniquely can provide. And I took I took a class that was being offered by someone who has his own leadership consulting practice, and he's really successful. How how? Adler And I took this class with him, and he gave us very practical tips for like, how do you run a leadership consulting business? And that was so helpful to like even just practical things like how do you do proposals, how do you do invoicing, how do you do marketing, etc.? So that kind of built my confidence. And then going into the end of 2020 and into 2021, I got my first client and then, you know, it starts to go from there. Yeah, no. And I appreciate your vulnerability about that because, you know, I felt the same way when I got let go in 2017. I was building a training department, I'd built their online university, I was enjoying my job, and then it just went away. And it does rock your world. It does shake your confidence. And it's so funny that you said about your list of positive comments that you got because I did the same thing with you. I did. I did the same thing. And, you know, every once in a while, I, I still will go back and look at things that people have written to me or that I've written to to recenter myself. Because I think as human beings, we sometimes do get off center. And I think fear is a big thing that gets in the way of people. And I was just curious about, you know. Of like fear. There's an acronym. Fear is false evidence appearing real. Right. So we we look out and we go, oh, people are never going to buy our product or they're never going to sign up for what I'm doing. And then you have to step into it. Right. And so some of what you did was, like you said, you took a class. You talk to people. You know, I think part of what people have to realize, we're not alone. Right. So how how are you working that network now and still stepping into that courage that you have to continue to have as a solopreneur? You do. You do. Because I honestly especially because I still feel I'm very new to this this consulting world is that each new engagement, each new potential client, each new introduction is like, okay, can I do this one? Like I did the last one that gave me a little bit of a confidence. But can I can I do this engagement? Is this so? I remind myself, I often remind myself of what I've done before that has worked and that was good and and also what went badly. I haven't had any absolute disasters in my consulting so far, but there are definitely things that didn't go as well as I wanted or things that I would do differently. So just that continuous, like what? What went well, what can I repeat? What can I learn from? What can I do differently? But I also I really I'm a very social person. And so being a solopreneur wouldn't work for me unless I did have this really supportive network. And so I talk to people a lot and I bounce ideas off of people and I'll talk. I know we're going to talk a little bit about the book that's coming out, but I now have this fabulous colleague in Germany who's my co-author on this book that I wrote, and she's also a leadership consultant. And so she's someone when I'm working on something, I bounce a lot of ideas off of like, how would you do this? How have you done this? And just having someone to talk to when you're in business for yourself is really helpful. And I have others as well. And, and even how this person, his company is called Leadership Landing. And I remember like I had gotten a potential client soon after I took his class and I had no idea how to price something. Right. Pricing is actually really hard, especially when you've worked inside. Like I remember when I used to hire consultants when I was a VP and we'd pay him $25,000 for a one day thing, you know? And then when I was out on my own, I'm like, How could I possibly charge that kind of money? Right? So I had no idea how to price my offering. So I actually remember shooting at Hal a text and like I have a proposal to write. How would you even think about pricing this? So having a group of trusted people in the somewhat the same space has been really helpful and has given me confidence. And I remember when I, when I did my first engagement and it was someone who I had worked with at Autodesk and she brought me into another company she was working with. And I totally underpriced. I completely underpriced when I realized how much time I would have to spend on it. And that's that's okay. That's a learning experience. Like, okay, now I need to charge more next time. Yeah, yeah. None of it's fatal, but it's just like you learn as you go and you keep iterating. It is a learning experience. I think that's part of the journey that we're on and that's part of the confidence to right. You start to price yourself a little more as you gain your confidence. Exactly. You realize how good you are. So let's talk about your book, Psychological Safety. And I'm curious what it is. And then I know it's geared to the corporate world, but I'm wondering if there's an application for it as people are moving into this next transition in their lives. Okay. So let me first explain the basic definition of psychological safety, which is and it's not it's not only for the corporate world, it is basically a team phenomenon. So any team, any group you a part of and what it is, is that you have the belief in this group that this is a safe place for you to ask a question, for you to take a risk, make a mistake, and really show up as yourself without fear of embarrassment, humiliation, rejection, ostracism. Right. So that you can in this group, you can challenge someone in the group. You don't have to agree with everybody. That's the basic concept of psychological safety. The research around it, which has one of the biggest researchers in the space, is Amy Edmondson from Harvard, and she's written a book about it called The Fearless Organization. The research has shown that when you're in a psychologically safe environment, you're more innovative because people can share those wild ideas, right? People are not afraid of sharing their ideas because it is a safe place, but also that teams perform better when you have a safe environment and when you don't have it, what happens is that people feel compelled to agree with everyone else. You get this conformity bias because it's not safe to be the one who descends and who says, you know, I have a different viewpoint on this. So that's that's the basic concept. We we decide so how the book came to be. And then I'll talk about your I'll answer your question about your personal and your personal world. So so the how that how the book came to be is I, I hid under under stood the concept back when I was at Autodesk. And in fact I had found Amy Edmondson research. I tried to hire her as a keynote speaker at one point, so I had found her research. Google did a huge study called Project Aristotle that was written about in the New York Times around 2018 or 15. I forget one. So that came out and people started to understand the term beyond academia. So I had understood it, but I had also lived and breathed the absence of it. Right. And I had I had been in and it wasn't just like a toxic environment that I ended up in at the end, but it was. Even being part of a leadership team that was fairly functional. We were really careful, like we were careful with what we said and what we didn't say and we didn't challenge the leader of the group even though he was a good guy, but he didn't invite challenge. You know, he kind of you kind of needed to agree with him. And so it wasn't many of the teams I was a part of were not particularly safe environments. And I remember this feeling of like holding back, being in a meeting and having something I wanted to say and then just holding back and go, God, I don't dare, I don't dare, you know, or and when I did, sometimes, you know, a couple of things would happen. Sometimes people would just ignore you because they didn't want to hear it, and sometimes you'd get an eye roll or just it often wasn't a good situation. So I had definitely been aware of the term, I had experienced it. I had been in rare teams where there was a high level of psychological safety and realized like how powerful that is and how much you can get done when everyone can fully contribute. So I was a real believer in it. And then speaking of classes, so in last year, last spring, I signed up for a class that was based on Amy Edmondson, Zork, and it was to do psychological safety assessments. So basically it was a certification program in her methodology to be able to go into a team and run an assessment on psychological safety. In this class, there were probably about 20 or 25 of us, and we were divided up into smaller groups. And in my smaller group was this woman named Colleen Helbig, who's this leadership consultant in Germany. And she and I just hit it off. And I was on a podcast with another of our students, and she heard it and she emailed me and said, We have to save this email forever because the title of the email said Crazy Idea. And she wrote to me and she said, You know, Minette, I heard you on the podcast and you said, There's not much material that's practical, like how leaders can actually increase the level of psychological safety in their teams. And she goes, I feel that too. And I have this crazy idea. What if you and I wrote a little she wrote pamphlet. The word she used was, What if we wrote a little pamphlet about it? So that was the beginning. And we got on a zoom call and we set up an online whiteboard, or she did, which was great, and we just started brainstorming and we ended up collaborating on a short, deliberately short, but it's not a pamphlet, a full book on how to increase psychological safety. It's called The Psychological Safety Playbook lead more powerfully by being more human, and it's coming out next year. And the idea is that it's really something that you as a manager or a leader in any field could pick up off your shelf, turn to any page because it's got discrete tips in there and and pick up a tip that you might want to try out with your team. And so that's how that all came to be. And we're excited about that. But I do want to answer your question about developing. I think your question was, can we have psychological safety for ourselves? Is that what it was? Yeah. And let me give it a try. Right. Okay. Because listening to what you said and here we are, we've stepped into this great unknown. We're solopreneur as we're trying to build our business. And I would think like I have a board now of advisors, and so I run ideas by them and I feel very safe running my ideas by them. And sometimes they go, Yeah, that's a really great idea. And other times they'll say, Oh, I think you really need to think that. So I think for personally in my own business, I can see psychological safety. In your personal life, there are certainly going to be people that it's not safe to be say things with. That's absolutely right. That yeah, absolutely. I mean, you ideally you want to surround yourself with people with whom you can be real like that you can always be real and that you don't have to hold back. But of course, there are people in your lives where you do, you are cautious and you you choose your words wisely. And that's normal, too. I think one thing is in your personal life is that is maybe not about psychological safety, but it's like, what do we give ourselves permission to do? You know, that's that's more the way I think about it for yourself is. Yeah, yeah. What do what do we let ourselves do and not do? But in terms of our relationships, there's that. Can I. Can I be real with this person? Yeah. And you know what? That makes me think you brought this up earlier too, about the shoulds and the expectations. And I think a lot of the time that we follow those shoulds and those expectations that people have of us, it's because we feel it's safer. You know, it would be so much harder to say to them, oh, that's not really that doesn't really fit me or Yeah, I don't know that that's what I really want to do. It's easier to just say, Well, if that's what you think I should do, okay, I'll go ahead and do that. So I think it plays out there too. And, and having the courage, that was a big thing. Having the courage to say, you know what, it's my time in life now and I don't have to do it. Everyone expects I have to do what I expect, what I feel good about. So, I mean, you've experienced that transition, too, right? Totally. And, you know, I think about you like I'm going to start a podcast, right? Like, did did anyone try to talk you out of that or did you just say, I know I want to do this in my heart of hearts? Sure. A lot of people I mean, a lot of people said to me, how are you going to make money with that? You know, and I wasn't sure at the time, and I'm still developing ways to make money with it. But I knew in my heart minute I knew I had to do this because I knew that there were going to be a lot of people that needed this positive, inspirational, inspiring stories of other people in similar situations. Yeah. And so I just had to do it and, and I just it gave me the strength to say, don't worry about it, I'll figure it out, you know, and it will happen and it will grow. And yeah, it was scary. But it is. It is, you know, it's it's very interesting. I didn't know this term until Caroline introduced me to it. And I think it's from the conscious leadership group. The term you may have heard is can you give it a whole body? Yes. And you heard that term? No, I love that. I do, too. We were talking about Caroline and I were talking about what we might and might not do to promote our book. And she said, like, I don't want to waste time on things that that sap our energy. I want to spend time on things where we can say with our whole body, yes, yes, we want to do this. We're all in on it. Our heart, our mind, our spirit, we all want to do this. And so I really like I ask myself that when I'm hearing the shoulds in my mind, like you should be you should be sending out some emails this week to try to get some more clients. And I'm like, Do I really want to do that? No, I actually want to work on this project. Right, right. And my whole body is saying yes to this and not to doing prospecting emails. Right. That's not what I need to be doing. I want to be doing. So I know and it's not so much that other people are telling me what to do. It's the voices in my own head saying that you should be doing this and doing that. And, you know, we're hard on ourselves. That inner critic is is active all the time. Well, and we've both been leaders and companies. And so when you are used to all the shoulds that things that have to get done, the goals that you have to meet, yeah, you definitely do that to yourself. And I like that whole body. The whole body, yes. Yeah. The book that that's in is is I think I think it's called The Conscious Leader 1515 Tips for the Conscious Leaders from the Conscious Leadership Group. And it's a really good book. Yeah. That's what it comes from. And then I think there's a book, another book called The Whole Body. So anyway, it's it's a known term now, but I'm I'm embracing it, definitely. Yeah, I really like that because it's. Yeah. When you're when you. You know, I make a to do list every week for the whole week and then I do have to prioritize. Know what is it? I guess I look at it two ways. Mannat and tell me if you do something similar. First of all, I look at it and say, what do I want to do? What's going to make me excited? And then what do I need to do to bring in more business? And then the rest of it can kind of go by the wayside and study. I also am studying all the time. Oh, yes, yeah. No. And that's I think that's one of the most important things that I am reading voraciously and listening to podcasts and listening to audiobooks. Because in reading articles, because I feel like, you know, I actually, I, I was going to say imposter syndrome and I hate that term, so I'm just going to leave that one out. But I always feel like there's more to learn and I don't want to feel like I'm stagnating in terms of what I know and what what my body of knowledge. And so I'm I feel like that reading and listening and and informing ourselves is just a constant part of this work. And, and I enjoy that. That's not something I feel like you should be doing. Although there are times when I'm like, I want to read a novel and I should be reading this business book. And so balancing that is an act sometimes, right? It is. So I have my novels by my bedside, my schedule, and I get up early to do some of my early morning. Work type of reading. But you're right. I mean, there's so much to learn. And and and some of it is just reinforcing stuff that we know. That's right. And in fact, I was talking to my sister about this the other day, you know, that we we read something and we learn what we're ready to learn at that moment. And then we go back and look at it another time. Maybe a year later, two years, and you're like, Oh, there's so much more here. You're now ready for more. That is absolutely true. And I have I'm pointing down to my floor here because my shelf is over here. But I have like this stack of business books that I recently ordered that I want to read. And I found one that I had read quite a while ago that I picked up again. And it was like, Oh yeah, I just totally have a different perspective on it. It's so. Interesting, deeper understanding of what what that's. About. Yeah, it's so interesting how that happens. So where are you finding the best places to kind of reach out to the audience that you're looking for? Oh, so the the whole social media question or. Social media in person networking. What are you. Yeah. I have not been doing much in-person stuff yet because of because of COVID. I mean, honestly, just I haven't I've had like two in-person speaking events this year, but the rest has all been virtual. So I've mostly been doing LinkedIn as my primary platform for connecting with people a little bit on Twitter. I use Facebook for personal stuff. And you know, it's really interesting now because the personal and the professional have blurred so much like I know an author that I met who does everything everywhere. So her Facebook is all about promoting her work and I haven't done that. So I mostly LinkedIn for my for my work. But, you know, it's so interesting with this book, these books coming up because the first one is in February and then the inclusive leadership will be out later in 2023. And so building an author platform is a whole thing that I'm just getting started on. And so, you know that that's where my energy is, honestly, right now is like not as much client work as much as trying to build this author platform. Although I have a client engagement with a new client this week. So yeah, it's a it's a mix. And of course everywhere I meet anyone, I'm talking about the book and we have a URL for the book so people can sign up for our mailing list and things like that. But you'll definitely have to let us know when the book comes out. So I. Can. I can promote it to my audience, too. Oh, I will, I will. Yeah. And the social media thing is, you know, I've been taking some classes about promotion and podcasting and growing the audience and and, you know, they say pick two to get really good at. Exactly right. Don't spread yourself across all of the different platforms because they're all different the way. They are all different. So what are your two that you use for the podcast that are your go to ones? Yeah. So I use Facebook because I also have a private group on Facebook for people that are going through this transition to what's next. And so it's a place where we can share ideas and ask questions and that kind of thing. So I really love having that. And then LinkedIn is, you know, there's so many people on LinkedIn that are now in our stage of life. Yeah. And either they've been pushed out or they are thinking about what's next. And so I think LinkedIn is. You know, I think LinkedIn is an interesting place because you have to combine the personal sometimes with the professional so that they get to know you as a person. You know, you and didn't you and I connect because in my viral post about turning 62, that's how we connected, right? Yeah. That's such an interesting story because I had until then been very work focused on LinkedIn. Like when I would post, it was always about my work, those client work or whatever. And for some reason I had turned 62 in June and I had this compulsion to write a post on LinkedIn about anyway, it was personal, but it was also about like ageism in the workplace and, you know, having the freedom to be my own boss and that sort of thing. So I posted that the day after my birthday and it is the first time a post of mine ever went viral. And I had like 1.5 million impressions and 25,000 reactions in 2000 comments and hundreds of shares. And I'm like, What was that? And how am I ever I mean, since then, I haven't had any posts even close to more than 10,000. So yeah. How do you get the 1.5? I would love to get 1.5 million when I start talking more about my book. All the time. And it's my friend Laura that's on this call right now that that pointed me to your post. And. That's right. You know, you've got to connect with her. And of course, the minute we connected, I was so excited and I felt like a kindred spirit. Absolutely. And you know, what was so interesting about that post is how many people reached out to me through private messages. And I ended up having several Zoom calls with people, women who were dealing with the same thing at this stage of their life. Some younger, some a little older. But like, what's next? I've been forced out, you know, trying to reinvent. And there's so many of us. There are so many with so many. Talents and so much energy and so much wisdom and so much to give. And everyone's trying to figure it out. Right? And the ageism is rampant. And it is. And we are not done yet. We are not done yet. Very interesting. Many of the comments were about diversity, equity and inclusion. And several people said, you know, DEI is so popular now and yet no one talks about ageism. When they talk about aspects of diversity, that's the one that seems to be left out. That's right. That's right. So I always like to ask my guests at the end of the interview if they have two or three takeaways. Now, there's been so much we've talked about, so I know it's going to be hard to narrow it down, but do you have a couple of things you'd like to leave with people today? Yeah. I think the first one has to be that you are not done yet no matter who you are and where you are. Like you have so much to give and it's really figuring out what's what's important to you and what is that whole body. Yes. That you want to move forward with and what can you cast aside? And so so you're not done yet unless you want to be. And if you want to be, then embrace what that next phase is. If it's truly retirement and that you want to enjoy time with friends and family, that's cool. But if you don't want to be done, you are not done. And I guess I mentioned it earlier, but I think that what's so important to us is that we never stop learning. And I am absolutely convinced that continuous learning is what keeps us vibrant and relevant and engaged in the world. And one of the things that I learned about taking classes is that it's not only what you're going to learn, but it's who you're going to meet in those classes. So I met my co-author in Bonn, Germany, and an online class, right? Who knew we were going to be friends and colleagues and write a book together? You just never know who you're going to meet in a class. And I've met some amazing people in classes, and they are people who help me with my work going forward. And so maybe a third, you said two or three. I think my third and final would be that one of the things that made our collaboration so successful for Caroline and me is she often would say things like, What if we da da da and she's like, What if we set ourselves a little deadline? And it would be very non-threatening, but to embrace the idea of what if and like treat everything like an experiment. And what if I tried this and what if I did that? And learn from what works and what sticks and what feels good and cast aside the rest and that what if and that treating things like an experiment is very freeing and very it's not as scary as like I'm going to. Instead, it's like, what if what? That's a brilliant. Those are brilliant. And those with tie in together the continuous learning and the what if because you're learning and that whole body. Yes I love that. Thank you. Thank you. I've been sharing how to reach you. You can certainly email minute at but at minute at minute, Norman And you can check out her website at Minette. Norman So get in touch with her. Let her know how much you liked this and sign up for her next book. Thank you so much for having me, Wendy. It's been great to talk to you and I'm looking forward to staying connected with you as well. Me too. Me too. Me too. Just remind everybody. Join our walk to end Alzheimer's. Hey, Boomer team. I see that Kathy joined while we were doing the show, so thank you, Kathy. It's active ALS dot org slash go to slash hey boomer and connect with us on the Callan Leon well on hey boomer dot biz slash coaching or sign up for a 20 minute free session to just kind of talk about where you're at where you want to be, how you might want to get there. And you probably don't even know yet. So so let's have a chat next week. Next week should be interesting. My guests name is Deborah Benfield and Deb is the founder and owner of Body in Mind Nutrition, a group practice of registered dietitian nutritionists. Deb contends that there is an a just diet wellness culture that leads to a lack of body respect in the pro aging movement. And Deb wants to blaze a path to elder hood without the scales. So we stop worrying about how much we weigh and what we're eating and those kinds of things. 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Jesse Pujji is a seriously impressive guy. He's a graduate of Wharton, and an alum of great companies like Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. But perhaps most impressively he is an incredibly successful entrepreneur. He built and successfully exited a multi-million dollar business in the digital marketing world He started and runs a venture studio called Gateway X from which he has already launched three successful businesses And in his spare time, he has a built a massive following on Twitter where he regularly shares insights on entrepreneurship. In this conversation, Jesse and Greg go deep on topics like: Why finding a coach changed Jesse's life - and how you can find one for yourself What really motivates us - from fear to love (a Conscious Leadership framework) How to operate in your Zone of Genius. Jesse also shares detailed tips on how he manages everything from his fitness to his inbox. Make sure to follow Jesse on Twitter: @jspujji And a few other programming notes... Here is the Ric Elias (Red Ventures) TED Talk Jesse mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zk2DpgLCs Here is the Conscious Leadership Group site Jesse mentioned: https://conscious.is/ - Don't forget to follow Greg on Twitter @gregorycampion and subscribe to his bi-weekly newsletter: https://gregcampion.substack.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider rating and reviewing Intentional Wisdom wherever you get your podcasts. Link to (very) raw transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/mDdgVuQdFjq --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intentionalwisdom/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentionalwisdom/support

Annmarie Chereso is the Founder of BringIt! Home, which gathers, inspires, and equips students, parents, and educators to empower themselves and the next generation of conscious leaders. For almost two decades, Annmarie has taught and spoken at schools and universities, facilitated workshops and trainings for teachers, and coached adults and young people. In 2015, Annmarie co-hosted Chicago's first Conscious Parenting Summit featuring international speaker Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Conscious Leadership Group co-founder Jim Dethmer. In 2019, Annmarie published her first children's book and is currently working on her newest book. Annmarie has received coaching certifications from Martha Beck Inc, Mindful Schools, MEI, The Conscious Leadership Group, and Positive Discipline. Over the course of her career, she has had the good fortune of training with master teachers such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Thich Nhat Hanh, Daniel Rechtschaffen, Susan Kaiser Greenland, and many more. In this episode… Creating a space where kids or employees are free to make mistakes, grow, and learn sounds risky, but risks can lead to the greatest rewards. Parents and leaders should know this better than anyone else. So, how can you create an environment that helps you and your team grow? Annmarie Chereso believes that parenting is leadership, leadership is influence, and the way you parent is the way you lead. Also, people operate efficiently when they are free. When people are in a contracted state, they shut down their access to creativity, intuition, innovation, and a deep curiosity about the unknown. So, as a leader, it's not about being in control. You have to be self-aware, tap into your innate power, and move past your fears and limiting beliefs to step into your most empowered self. Dov Pollack has an insightful conversation with Annmarie Chereso, the Founder of BringIt! Home, where they discuss effective parenting and leadership skills. Annmarie explains the correlation between parenting and leadership, the value of creating a free environment where people can make mistakes, grow, and learn, and the common mistakes parents and leaders make. Learn how to be a better leader by listening to this episode of the Next Wave Leadership podcast.

In this episode, Annmarie Chereso comes on the show to talk about taking out the fear in conscious parenting. For almost two decades Annmarie has taught and spoken at schools and universities, facilitated workshops and trainings for teachers and coached adults and young people. In 2015, she co-hosted Chicago's first Conscious Parenting Summit featuring international speaker Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Conscious Leadership Group co-founder Jim Dethmer. In 2019, Annmarie published her first children's book and is currently working on her newest book. You can find her at annmariechereso.me

Were you thrust into a leadership position without a lot of training and preparation? Have you risen rapidly as a leader and find yourself a bit uncertain? Or maybe you're a founder making things up as you go, and finding yourself managing other incredible people. Being a leader who has to learn on the job can be intimidating and scary. Imposter syndrome and its sibling, the inner critic, can leave you struggling to be your best. And all of this is only compounded when you have brilliant people on your team who are smarter or better than you at their job. That's why we have VC turned leadership coach Steve Schlafman on to talk about how you can navigate all of this and thrive as a leader, even when you're on your own to figure out this leadership thing. Some helpful links related to the topics we covered:Conscious Leadership Group by Diana Chapman and Jim DethmerUnarguables: https://conscious.is/excercises-guides/speaking-unarguably 68% of managers are afraid to communicate with their teams. Learn what you can do to be like the 32% that aren't.  How to embrace curiosity as a leader. Shirzad Chamine - Inner critic: https://www.positiveintelligence.com/about/ Books we discussed:Non-Violent Communication by Marshall RosenbergOFNR: Observe - Feeling - Need - Request structure outlined here: https://drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/NONVIOLENT_COMMUNICATION.htm   Key actions for you to take today from the interview: Be open and curious rather than closed and defensive: Embrace what you don't know and look for opportunities to learn from others, even your own team. Question the stories about yourself: Ask yourself what stories run in your mind and if they're helpful for you and your goals. Have self-acceptance and compassion: No one is harder on you than you. Recognize that, and look for opportunities to be less hard on your self, and compassionate when you have work to do. Make a list of your accomplishments: Build more self confidence and quiet the inner critic when they're too loud, by listing out what you've accomplished to show yourself what you are capable of doing.   Where to find and follow Steve: You can follow Steve on Twitter @schlaf and learn more about his coaching practice atwww.schlaf.co  https://rebrand.ly/cfa3ed

Today's guest is Todd Adams.We go deep talking about:Dealing with conflict and other difficult aspects of life as a parentHow to use fatherhood as a means of going deeper into your selfNot reacting in ways that will build resentmentExercising prudence in our parenting since children mimic our behaviour, which may have an impact on what they perceive to be normal as adults.Being able to recognize and articulate feelings that are buried deep within you.Celebrating our wins as fathers instead of just focusing on our shortcomings Why it's important to raise emotionally intelligent children Working through your childhood trauma and being able to recognize your triggers as a dadThe need to join a men's group and share authentically as a dadTodd is an advocate for men supporting healthy masculinity, conscious relationships, and prosperous careers. For nine years he has co-hosted Zen Parenting Radio, a top-ten kids and family podcast on iTunes, and co-founded MenLiving where he leads monthly meetings and offers annual adventure retreats. He is in the process of obtaining a 15-month coaching certification through the Conscious Leadership Group (https://conscious.is/)Todd is a member of The Mankind Project, a staff member for the New Warrior Training Adventure, and a blogger for The Good Men Project. He also received his life coach certification through the Tony Robbins Core 100 Life Coaching Program, and is a certified instructor for the Institute of Heartmath where he was trained in stress reduction and relaxation. Cathy and I have three school-age daughters.Find Scott online at:https://toddadamscoaching.com/---Welcome to the Dad.Work Podcast!It's my goal every episode to help dads suffer less, love more, and parent confidently.We'll be diving into mindfulness practices, healing trauma, conscious parenting, natural living, compassionate communication, the spiritual aspect of fatherhood, and more.There are a lot of amazing teachers and guides who help men become more aware and conscious, but there's not a lot of resources for men who are both fathers and interested in a mindful exploration of consciousness and improvement.This podcast aims to help bridge that gap.Resources, Links, Show Notes:https://dad.work/pod/Get our Free 14-Day Better Man, Better Dad Email Series:https://dad.work/email/Join one of our Men's Groups for Dads and be seen, heard, supported, and challenged by a group of other fathers who have your back unconditionally:https://dad.work/group/

In this episode, Shaun and Chris talk with Jim Dethmer, co-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group. The guys talk golf as a metaphor, frameworks, life coaches, emotions and the power of sexual creative energy.

Normally on the show, I interview military veterans about what they're doing post-service. My guest today is not a military veteran, but I believe her message and perspective are a great contribution to our community.  Diana has helped a lot of veterans and is one of the authors of a book called The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, and I am so honored to have her on the show. I love this book so much that I send a copy of it to every new client that I sign up for my company, Executive Presence. In this conversation, we talk about your zone of genius and how to find a career that fits into that. We speak about limiting beliefs about ourselves, how those can cause us to rule out careers and career paths that we really shouldn't, and how to identify and overcome those limiting beliefs. We also talk about integrity. Diana's definition of integrity is slightly different from what I learned about at the Naval Academy and in the military. And I think it's very powerful. And then lastly, we speak about shifting to a life of play, how to gamify things rather than take everything seriously, and how much faster we learn when we find a way to do it through play. About Diana: Diana Chapman is an advisor to exceptional leaders who has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams, and is a founding partner at Conscious Leadership Group. She has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer—with clients such as Asana and Esalen. In addition to facilitating CLG Forums in the Bay Area for founders, venture capitalists, and CEOs, Diana facilitates YPO Forums and Chapters worldwide. She also trains coaches in conscious leadership in the CLG training program she and Jim created. Diana co-authored the best-selling book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, in 2015. She has been a speaker at TEDx, Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business, YPO, and Kauffman Fellows.

Diana Chapman is a Founding Partner of the Conscious Leadership Group and the co-author of the best-selling book The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. She has worked with over 1,000 different organization leaders and many of their teams to grow in self-awareness and eliminate drama in the workplace. She facilitates leadership forums around the bay area for founders, VCs, and CEOs, including YPO forums and YPO chapters worldwide.  Diana also co-leads a training school for coaches who want to learn how to facilitate her coaching models. She has been a speaker in a number of different places including Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School, Haas School of Business, and YPO. Diana Chapman, a Founding Partner of the Conscious Leadership Group, joins John Corcoran in this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast to talk about helping organizations and their teams eliminate drama in the workplace. Diana also explains why she formed the Conscious Leadership Group and how she has been working with clients during the pandemic. Stay tuned.

“If you stop numbing the pain that's there because you are not living in your deepest, fiercest loving way, the pain will escalate to where you have to do something different. And it won't just be a temporary fix, you'll have to do something meaningfully different.” - Jim DethmerJim Dethmer has been called to reduce suffering by targeting the institution that's more central to our lives than ever: work and business. As the founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, he finds the ways that teams are struggling and shows them not only how to better their experience at work, but improve their lives as human beings. By smuggling transformational principles into corporate worlds, he is cultivating true conscious leadership from the people who never knew that was something they even needed.This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, let go of the belief that you must always be seeking more. Let yourself feel the pain of existence so that you may finally act, push fear aside, and become fully alive.(03:15) - Changing paths(11:31) - Fully alive(24:31) - Receptivity to these principles(30:55) - Cornerstones(34:50) - Commitments of conscious leadershipJim Dethmer is a coach, speaker, author, and founding partner at The Conscious Leadership Group. He has personally worked  with over 150 CEOs and their teams to integrate conscious leadership into their organizations. Jim also leads monthly Forums for select leaders in Chicago and New York, and trains coaches through The Conscious Leadership Group. He has spoken at Conscious Capitalism, Wisdom 2.0, Mindful Leadership Summit,  Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and USC School of Medicine Greenville (where conscious leadership is part of the curriculum). He is co-author of High Performing Investment Teams, and The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, an Amazon bestseller (2015).Do you want to unleash your inherent love and goodness, liberate yourself, and free humanity from the oppressive systems and structures we have created? We are here to support you in finding your fierce and loving life. Join us in Our Circle, a vibrant membership community rich in opportunities for engagement and transformation. Find out more at lolawright.com/our-circle.You can follow Lola Wright, on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter and learn more about my work at lolawright.com.Chicago born and built, Lola grew up in wealth and privilege, yet always sensed something was missing. She sought out aliveness and freedom in music, immersing herself in the hip hop and house music scenes of 90s Chicago. After finding herself on her own at 23, as the mother of two young children, she became determined to create a new experience.Lola is an ordained minister with a gift for weaving together the mystical and material, she served for many years as the CEO of Bodhi Center, an organization committed to personal transformation, collective awakening, conscious activism, and community-building. This podcast is produced by Quinn Rose with theme music by independent producer Trey Royal.If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to Find Your Fierce & Loving in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. Your reviews help others find the show.