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3 episodes with epic leadership
2 episodes with epic leadership
2 episodes with epic leadership
2 episodes with epic leadership
2 episodes with epic leadership
Welcome back to the Trekkie Book Club, ah, The Lafayette Library — where we run our library as efficiently as a Sisko kitchen! We resume our discussion of 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko' written by Derek Tyler Attico, as we cover chapters 11 and 12. In this episode, Benjamin stands up for Starfleet values in Prime Directive 101, finds love in an unlikely place, and unknowing becomes a leader! Join us as we dive into the deets, look for connections to Trek-lore, and much more.
Welcome back to the Trekkie Book Club, ah, The Lafayette Library — where we run our library as efficiently as a Sisko kitchen! We resume our discussion of 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko' written by Derek Tyler Attico, as we cover chapters 11 and 12. In this episode, Benjamin stands up for Starfleet values in Prime Directive 101, finds love in an unlikely place, and unknowing becomes a leader! Join us as we dive into the deets, look for connections to Trek-lore, and much more.
Explore the critical role of emotional intelligence in leadership with Rich Hua, AWS's Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership, Innovation and Transformation Programs. Rich discusses how leaders can manage their own stress and mindset to effectively lead digital transformation and innovation initiatives in the age of rapid AI advancements. He also shares strategies for cultivating trust, psychological safety, and generative disagreement within organizations to unlock the full potential of human-AI collaboration.
In this transformative episode, we dive into redefining high performance. Discover actionable strategies to integrate intuition with your decision-making processes, ensuring holistic success and personal fulfillment. Join us for an inspiring conversation that blends practical tips and personal anecdotes to help you achieve your highest potential while staying true to yourself. Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C., is a healer and a dynamic speaker with a gift for intuitive and visionary coaching. She is an expert in integrative wellness, transformational leadership, mental edge + resilience optimization, accelerated + sustainable high-performance, influential communication, and soul-aligned living mastery. Incorporating her expertise along with her athletic gifts as a former D1- collegiate track athlete and 2x All-American, she has had the honor to become a 2x TEDx speaker as well as share here message on the NBC news, Fox Radio, and top Summit & Podcasts. With 25+ years experience in wellness advocacy + business leadership management, she inspires those to unleash their potential in all areas of their life. She is the CEO of Watson World Wide (WWW) which supports the ambitious business leaders, executives and high-performers to step out of chaos into creation and live their legacy now. WWW does this through shifting Mental-Emotional State, optimizing Healthy High- Performance and engaging higher-level leadership traits that accelerates sustainable peace, impact and profit. Her gift is truly to tap into the leaders “Flow State” in Wellness + Leadership and create their extraordinary business and life with ease & joy. In addition, Jennifer is the founder of Run Your Race Global whose vision is to create healing, opportunity, and prosperity in every community and country around the world with mission to accelerate influence of the 1% Leaders & Entrepreneurs in their area of impact to achieve ambitious results for good. Watson World Wide & Run Your Race Global has given rise to Jennifer's great passion of supporting people in their journey to live their EPIC Health, their EPIC Leadership, and their EPIC Legacy that they were destined for...to change the world for good. Connect with Jennifer: https://www.instagram.com/thejenniferwatsonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-watson-6b08b9121https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyNWqvZHr0B1Gxe8t5PW0ghttps://www.facebook.com/jennifer.watson.75491https://www.jenniferwatsonleadership.com Take my Free Quiz: Are you abandoning yourself? https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/6601c102113eab00155de14f Connect with Kelly: www.optimalyouhealthandwellness.com Socials: https://www.facebook.com/drkellykessler https://www.instagram.com/drkellykessler https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkellykessler/ Dr. Kelly Kessler is a licensed physical therapist, transformation coach, host of the globally ranked podcast Rewiring Health™, the owner of Optimal You Health and Wellness, LLC and a mom of two boys. Kelly helps high-achieving women recognize and heal from dysfunctional patterns of abandoning themselves and feeling unrelenting stress. Through nervous system regulation and subconscious mind reprogramming, Kelly guides her clients through a personal transformation to step into their own power, reclaim their worth and honor their health and inner peace. Inspired by her own journey of self-abandonment including perfectionist beliefs and people-pleasing tendencies, Kelly has healed from an eating disorder, chronic back pain, and panic attacks, Kelly helps high-achievers harness their profound ability to shift from survival mode to thriving. Kelly has been featured in Authority Magazine, DailyOM, The Everygirl, and Thrive Global. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rewiringhealth/support
Leading Change: Dr. Ben Allen's Approach to Inspiring Innovation in Primary CareEpisode Description: In this episode of EPIC: eGPlearning Podblast Implementation Consultation, Dr. Gandalf welcomes Dr. Ben Allen, a visionary GP from Sheffield, to discuss the pivotal role of leadership in driving innovation and positive change within primary care teams. Dr. Allen shares his experiences and strategies for fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement in general practice.Episode Highlights:The Role of Leadership in Primary Care: Dr. Allen explains how effective leadership can influence and motivate a primary care team.Inspiring Innovation: Discover the innovative practices and changes Dr. Allen has successfully implemented in his Sheffield practice.Building a Collaborative Team Culture: Learn how Dr. Allen fosters collaboration and teamwork to enhance patient care and operational efficiency.Challenges and Triumphs: Hear about the obstacles Dr. Allen faced and how his leadership helped navigate through them.Practical Leadership Strategies: Get actionable tips on how to cultivate leadership qualities within your team and drive meaningful change.Impact on Patient Care: Understand the direct benefits that strong leadership and innovation have brought to patient outcomes and satisfaction.Future of Primary Care: Dr. Allen shares his vision for the future and the ongoing role of leadership in adapting to the evolving healthcare landscape.Tune in to this inspiring episode to learn how leadership can be a catalyst for innovation and excellence in primary care. Gain insights from Dr. Allen's journey and discover practical strategies to implement in your practice to lead your team towards continuous improvement and high-quality patient care.Keywords: Leadership, innovation, primary care, NHS, general practice, patient care, practice management, healthcare improvement, team collaboration, Dr. Ben Allen, Sheffield GP, eGPlearning, healthcare podcast, Dr. Gandalf, operational efficiency, healthcare vision.Boost your triage skills with our dynamic 5-session live webinar course, tailored for primary care clinicians. Led by Dr. Gandalf and Dr. Ed Pooley, this comprehensive training covers all facets of remote patient triage—digital, on-call, and more. Gain practical knowledge, exclusive tips, and direct access to our experts through open Q&A sessions. Elevate your ability to manage primary care challenges effec Join Dr Mike as he shares how to get started and fly using EMIS to make your life easier with this clinical systembit.ly/EMIScourse
Hey Leaders! This week on the Marli Williams Podcast is a unique invitation to revisit the highlights of Marli's transformative podcast series. Whether you're a seasoned leader or just starting out, this episode gives you a chance to reconnect with the foundational Episodes 1 and 2, focusing on Marli's personal journey and the game-changing "mindset of epic leadership." Plus, gain exclusive tips from Episode 14 with guest expert Joanna Lindenbaum on crafting transformational experiences. Discover why these episodes are listener favorites and gain insights into becoming a change-maker. Marli's break in the wilderness is a great opportunity for you to revisit these pivotal episodes and refresh your perspective. Ready to lead with purpose? Tune in now!Links to top episodes:Let's Lead Together: My Journey to EPIC Leadership -01The #1 Thing That Changes the Game: The Mindset of EPIC Leadership -02The Art of Creating Transformational Experiences -14Marli Williams is an international keynote speaker, master facilitator, and joy instigator who has worked with organizations such as Nike, United Way, Doordash, along with many colleges and schools across the United States. She first fell in love with transformational leadership as a camp counselor when she was 19 years old. After getting two degrees and 15 years of leadership training, Marli decided to give herself permission to be the “Professional Camp Counselor” she knew she was born to be. Now she helps incredible people and organizations stop waiting for permission and start taking bold action to be the leaders and changemakers they've always wanted to be through the power of play and cultivating joy everyday. She loves helping people go from stuck to STOKED and actually created her own deck of inspirational messages called StokeQuotes™ which was then followed by The Connect Deck™ to inspire more meaningful conversations. Her ultimate mission in the world is to help others say YES to themselves and their big crazy dreams (while having fun doing it!) To learn more about Marli's work go to www.marliwilliams.com and follow her on Instagram @marliwilliamsStay Connected to The Marli Williams PodcastFollow us on Instagram: @marliwilliamsOur Website: www.podcast.marliwilliams.comHire Marli to Speak at your next event, conference, workshop or retreat!www.marliwilliams.comReally love the podcast and want to share it??Give us a review on your favorite platform and share this (or any) episode with a friend. Let's Lead Together and reach more people - we appreciate your support!!
Step into a world where California sunshine meets the minds of mattress executives, seasoned industry veterans, and eager newcomers. Welcome to Dream Camp Palm Springs, where every moment is an immersive journey toward personal and professional growth. This past week was nothing short of extraordinary. From the sprawling landscapes of Guatemala to the rugged beauty of Montana, participants converged from all corners of the globe, each bringing their unique perspectives and aspirations. California's warmth embraced us, while the vibrant energy of North Carolina and the tranquil charm of everywhere in between infused the atmosphere with diversity and dynamism. Guiding us on this transformative odyssey was none other than Kristoffer Carter, affectionately known as “KC.” As the author of the acclaimed book “Permission to Glow” and a revered leadership coach at Epic Leadership, KC's presence electrified the camp. With wisdom drawn from his extensive experience, he illuminated the path to personal and professional excellence through the lens of the four crucial permissions every business leader must embrace. From granting ourselves permission to innovate fearlessly to unleashing our creative potential, KC challenged us to transcend our limitations and unlock our true potential. His insights resonated deeply with every participant, igniting a spark of inspiration that would fuel our journey long after the camp's conclusion. But Dream Camp is more than just a gathering of minds; it's a sanctuary for exploration, connection, and profound transformation. Amidst the palm trees and desert vistas, lifelong friendships blossomed, and alliances were forged that would ripple through the fabric of our professional lives. As the sun set on another remarkable week at Dream Camp Palm Springs, we departed with hearts full of gratitude and minds ablaze with possibility. For in this hallowed space, we discovered not only the keys to unlocking our own greatness but also the boundless potential that lies within each of us, waiting to be unleashed. Until we meet again under the desert skies, may we carry forth the lessons learned and the connections made, forever basking in the glow of our shared journey at Dream Camp --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleepsummitshow/message
In this episode of Change Leader Insights, Jessica Crow speaks with Kristoffer Carter, CEO and founder of Epic Leadership, a training organization for conscious leadership, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. In addition to serving as CEO, Kristoffer is the author of "Permission to Glow— A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership", which guides his team's coaching of Fortune 100 executive leaders at Amazon, AT&T, eXp Realty, Edward Jones, and many more. He is also a professional songwriter, TEDx speaker, and international retreat leader. Kristoffer lives in Akron, OH with his wife of 24 years and their three children. Tune in as Jessica and Kristoffer deep dive insights from his book, which explores how people relate to change, what we can do to improve our response to it, and how we can help others do the same by granting ourselves one of the 4 Permissions™, which include Permission to Chill, Permission to Feel all the Feels, Permission to Glow in the Dark, and Permission to Glow in the Light. Highlights from the conversation include: • The impact of stress on leaders and teams, and solutions to lower stress levels• The pitfalls of micromanagement and how to make more conscious leadership choices, and • The seven most powerful words in leadership and business If you would like to better understand your response to change in the workplace and how to improve your leadership style and approach, listen in, and be prepared to take notes – this episode is full of insights and ah-ha moments!
What if walking away from the organization you've built is the bravest and most selfless choice you can make? Struggling to let go, battling founder's syndrome, feeling like an organization will fall apart without you, and putting your life above your work—these are emotions many leaders in our sector face. Today's must-listen episode is a conversation with one such leader who tackled these issues head-on. Then, he turned that experience into expertise he now shares with others.Mike Prosserman shares his story in this episode; from founder, to leaving the organization, to helping others transition gracefully from their roles. Mike ‘Piecez' Prosserman is a bestselling author, professional B-Boy (breakdancer), university instructor, and certified coach who specializes in scaling non-profits, team culture, and succession. In Michael's book Building Unity: Leading a Non-Profit From Spark to Succession, he shares practical tools to building resilient and responsive organizations. He founded and scaled Unity Charity, a grassroots movement using Hip-Hop to improve youth mental health. Through EPIC leadership, Michael is empowering non-profit leaders to build more resilient and responsible organizations.Key Episode Highlights: Recognizing Founder Syndrome: Mike shares his own struggle with letting go of an organization he started and how he overcame the 'founder's trap' to ensure the best for both his well-being and the nonprofit's future.The Journey to Distance: Departing from his role was not a snap decision. Mike walks us through the reflective and brave process of distancing himself from his nonprofit, setting a precedent for leadership transitions that place personal health and organizational growth at the forefront.Teaching Leaders to Prioritize Themselves: Now, Mike's mission is to educate and support other nonprofit leaders and founders. He discusses how he assists them in forging paths toward healthier work-life balances and prioritizing their needs along with their organization's objectives.Don't forget to become a supporter of our show!Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/cgxK1coghmU Links and Resources: Mike Prosserman (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/bboypiecez/Mike Prosserman (Linkedin): https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelprosserman/EPIC Leadership: https://www.epicleadership.ca/ Unity Charity: https://www.unitycharity.com/ Connect with Maria on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mariario/Support the show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/208666/supporters/newSupport the show
Fueling Kentucky talks with six of the 2023 EPIC participants as they share stories and experiences in the KPMA's EPIC Leadership Development Program this year. Hear how this program has helped these leaders enhance their understanding of the industry, develop new professional relationships, and encouraged them to connect with other members to engage in the work of the association.Fueling Kentucky is the podcast for all things fuel and convenience in Kentucky. Produced by KPMA, Fueling Kentucky provides listeners with timely information and insights about KY's fuel and convenience industry, highlights KPMA members in action, and continues the ongoing awareness of our industry's importance to the Commonwealth.
Are you ready to claim your identity as an epic leader? In this thought-provoking episode, Marli Williams explores the power of mindset in leadership. She challenges the idea that leadership is something bestowed upon us by others, and instead encourages us to choose it for ourselves. With inspiring anecdotes and practical strategies, Marli shares how to cultivate a deep sense of worthiness and belief in yourself.Through sharing her own journey as an entrepreneur and how she turned her vision into a reality, Marli emphasizes the importance of serving others and taking imperfect action, rather than waiting for the perfect moment to have it all figured out.If you're ready to step into your leadership role and make a difference in the world, this episode is a must-listen. Get ready to shift your perspective and unleash the epic leader within.Take it to the next level and Create Your Own EPIC Leader Manifesto and feel free to share it in the comments wherever you listen to podcasts!Marli Williams is an international keynote speaker, master facilitator, and joy instigator who has worked with organizations such as Nike, United Way, Doordash, along with many colleges and schools across the United States. She first fell in love with transformational leadership as a camp counselor when she was 19 years old. After getting two degrees and 15 years of leadership training, Marli decided to give herself permission to be the “Professional Camp Counselor” she knew she was born to be. Now she helps incredible people and organizations stop waiting for permission and start taking bold action to be the leaders and changemakers they've always wanted to be through the power of play and cultivating joy everyday. She loves helping people go from stuck to STOKED and actually created her own deck of inspirational messages called StokeQuotes™ which was then followed by The Connect Deck™ to inspire more meaningful conversations. Her ultimate mission in the world is to help others say YES to themselves and their big crazy dreams (while having fun doing it!) To learn more about Marli's work go to www.marliwilliams.com and follow her on Instagram @marliwilliamsStay Connected to The Marli Williams PodcastFollow us on Instagram: @marliwilliamsOur Website: www.podcast.marliwilliams.comHire Marli to Speak at your next event, conference, workshop or retreat!www.marliwilliams.comReally love the podcast and want to share it??Give us a review on your favorite platform and share this (or any) episode with a friend. Let's Lead Together and reach more people - we appreciate your support!!
Welcome to the Marli Williams Podcast!In this first episode of the Marli Williams Podcast, Marli takes you on her journey of discovering transformational leadership. Starting when she was 19 years old, going on a 50-Day Outward Bound Course. She has spent the last 20 years since then dedicated to helping others realize their full potential and is committed to helping other seasoned and aspirational leaders, speakers and facilitators cultivate their capacity to create and lead their own transformational workshops and retreats. Marli's passion for leadership shines through as she shares her journey from being a wilderness guide to becoming a full-time speaker, coach, facilitator, and entrepreneur. She emphasizes the importance of finding mentors, having a growth mindset and surrounding yourself with others who can lift you up and help you believe in yourself. The Marli Williams Podcast: Let's Lead Together aims to provide actionable insights, tools, and techniques to enhance and embody effective leadership skills. In the future, she will be interviewing her mentors, guest experts, and individuals passionate about facilitation, transformation, and leadership.Join Marli on her quest to help leaders, coaches, and speakers improve their ability to create transformation in other people's lives. Learn from her own experiences, reflections, and lessons as she shares her background, journey, and passion for this work.Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the Marli Williams Podcast to help reach more aspiring leaders and speakers. Let's Lead Together!Marli Williams is an international keynote speaker, master facilitator, and joy instigator who has worked with organizations such as Nike, United Way, Doordash, along with many colleges and schools across the United States. She first fell in love with transformational leadership as a camp counselor when she was 19 years old. After getting two degrees and 15 years of leadership training, Marli decided to give herself permission to be the “Professional Camp Counselor” she knew she was born to be. Now she helps incredible people and organizations stop waiting for permission and start taking bold action to be the leaders and changemakers they've always wanted to be through the power of play and cultivating joy everyday. She loves helping people go from stuck to STOKED and actually created her own deck of inspirational messages called StokeQuotes™ which was then followed by The Connect Deck™ to inspire more meaningful conversations. Her ultimate mission in the world is to help others say YES to themselves and their big crazy dreams (while having fun doing it!) To learn more about Marli's work go to www.marliwilliams.com and follow her on Instagram @marliwilliamsStay Connected to The Marli Williams PodcastFollow us on Instagram: @marliwilliamsOur Website: www.podcast.marliwilliams.comHire Marli to Speak at your next event, conference, workshop or retreat!www.marliwilliams.comReally love the podcast and want to share it??Give us a review on your favorite platform and share this (or any) episode with a friend. Let's
In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars Podcast, I'm speaking with Jeff Caldwell, V.P. of Operations for the Encore Boston Harbor Hotel. Jeff is a hospitality veteran who cut his teeth at Wynn Resorts; the company known for transforming the rebirth of Las Vegas into the world-class destination it is today. Listen as Jeff shares his passion for hospitality and Leadership including: - The importance of mentorship and inspiring others to their best performance - His career challenges and triumphs - How passion, pride and relationships lead to amazing guest experiences. - How to keep a close eye on the competition and then blow them away. - A company culture of teamwork, respect, and recognition - What it takes and how to prepare to become a leader in a hospitality organization And of course, his inspirational mantra from an early mentor: “It's not about right or wrong, it's about guest satisfaction”! This episode is all about the “right stuff” and best practices that lead to greatness in the hospitality biz! Watch or listen, then go out there and Rock YOUR Restaurant! Roger Ask Roger a Question or share a story: https://www.speakpipe.com/RestaurantRockstars Learn the Top 3 Profit Killers for Restaurants: https://restaurantrockstars.com/profits/ Thank you to our sponsors: Popmenu - For a limited time only, popmenu is offering our listeners $100 off your first month plus an unchanging lifetime rate. FREE Demo: https://www.popmenu.com/rockstars VERGE Funding Group: Set up your personal meeting with Karen to see how much money your business may qualify to get back at this link: https://calendly.com/vergefundinggroup/erc-qualifying-call-rrs The Restaurant Academy: Everything you need to know to optimize profits and maximize sales https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy/ GoTab – The GoTab platform empowers you the operator to run a leaner and more profitable business. www.gotab.com/rockstars
Dynamic and energetic only starts to describe our guest, Jennifer Watson. She is an identical twin who learned how to live, grow, thrive, and teach others all about leadership and wellness. Jennifer graduated with her Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. During her college time, she was an athlete and achieved All-American status. After a few years of working for others, she founded her own company, Jennifer Watson Leadership (JWL). She has grown the business to the point where she coaches many high performers from athletes to company leaders and others who wish to become leaders or adopt a leadership lifestyle. In addition to JWL, Jennifer has founded Watson Wellness which she will tell us about during our interview. This lady is so vibrant, dynamic, and unstoppable that I believe she will draw you into her sphere and you will leave our time together much better for the experience. She gives us much to think about today and her life lessons are invaluable not only for leaders of all kinds but also for everyone whether or not you feel you are a leader or can lead. Enjoy Jennifer. About the Guest: Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C., owner of Jennifer Watson Leadership, is a dynamic speaker and coach with a gift for intuitive and visionary coaching. She is an expert in wellness + leadership development, identity & mental edge enhancement, high-performance, post-trauma growth, movement & change adaptation, and soul-aligned living mastery. Incorporating her expertise along with her athletic gifts as a former collegiate athlete and AllAmerican, she has had the honor to share here message on the TEDx stage, NBC, Fox Radio and top Summit/Podcasts. With 20+ years experience in business-leadership management + wellness advocacy, she inspires those to unleash their potential and performance in all areas of their life. Her company, Jennifer Watson Leadership (JWL), supports ambitious leaders & entrepreneurs to step out of chaos into creation to live their legacy now. JWL does this through Mind-BodySoul Wellness Activation, Next-Level Speaking + Leadership Traits Amplification, and Sustainable High-Performance Creation Acceleration. Her gift is truly to tap into the leaders “Jedi Flow State” in Wellness + Leadership and create their EXTRAORDINARY Business + LIFE ease + joy. In addition, Jennifer is the owner of Watson Wellness. She received her undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a Master of Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at Wisconsin Jennifer was also a member of the University of WisconsinMadison track & field team in which she received All-American honors. As she began her work, her interests began to grow outside the athletic arena. She has completed over 1500 hours of continuing education courses in mental health, manual therapy, functional orthopedics, and postural restoration. Her areas of focus & expertise include high performance, gut health, brain health, mental health and a special interest in men & women's health. Jennifer Watson Leadership + Watson Wellness has given rise to Jennifer's great passion of supporting people in their journey to live their EPIC Health, their EPIC Leadership, and their EPIC Legacy that they were destined for. Ways to connect with Jennifer: https://www.instagram.com/thejenniferwatson https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-watson-6b08b9121 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyNWqvZHr0B1Gxe8t5PW0g https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.watson.75491 About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi, once again, it is time for unstoppable mindset. Another episode, we hope you'll have fun with us today, we get to meet and talk with Jennifer Watson who has two companies, Jennifer Watson leadership and Watson wellness. And through those companies, as she puts it, she really has a great passion of helping to support people live with their epic health, their epic leadership, epic leadership, I should say, and their epic legacy that they were destined for. And wow, that's a mouthful, and she'll say it better than I will. But Jennifer, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We got a lot to talk about, I think. Jennifer Watson ** 02:05 Oh, thank you so much for having me, Michael. I'm excited to be here. And I believe everybody can live in unstoppable and yes, epic life. So I'm excited get the conversation going? Michael Hingson ** 02:15 Well, let's start by probably what's a little pre epic. Tell us a little bit about Jennifer growing up in the early Jennifer. Jennifer Watson ** 02:24 Yeah, you know, the early Jennifer was actually a little bit of combination of really goofy. I love to have fun. I'm an identical twin. So my twin and I got into some fun, goofy things. We were very outdoorsy kids kind of like the tomboys we'd like to dress up to it was really fun. It was a really unique experience growing up with an identical twin. I will say it what is true about identical twins. One is usually the polar opposite of the other in many ways, and I was definitely more of the competitive one. i i believe that both of us were really definitely high achieving individuals from a very young age. I always like to do well at things but I was a competitor a high achiever from a very young age. And that grew into even athletic scholarship to the University of Wisconsin Madison, where I ran D one track and was an all American two times. So I really started playing a lot in the things I was good in at a very young age and really learning to master that in a powerful way. And was led me to do the work that I even do now. But my growing up was so dynamic, and I had a great family that was so supportive of things that I loved and still also supported. The goofiness the playfulness of me as well. Michael Hingson ** 03:36 What was your is your sister's name? Jennifer Watson ** 03:39 Jana J A N N A. So Jennifer and Jana, her Michael Hingson ** 03:42 and Jana? Yeah, what does she do? Jennifer Watson ** 03:47 So she is a writer. So I am a speaker for any of you that follow me, I'm a speaker and she does more the writing. And both of us have helped elevate each other in those different categories to help you to get better at the things that were a little more limited in but she's definitely the writer and the dancer. And she's always was considered probably more the creative one of the family and a little bit more laid back than me. But what we have found in each other as we've gotten older, is that she has competitive sides, she has to get up and go sides, I have the laid back sides. And that's what's been so really great to watch as a twin is how we kind of create and CO create together but there's still individuals kind of living these powerful, purposeful lives. Michael Hingson ** 04:24 Does she write your speeches? Jennifer Watson ** 04:26 She does not she does? That's such a great question. I've never been asked that before, but she does not write my speeches. She listens to a lot of my speeches if they're recorded and she always gives me very honest, powerful feedback, which I love. I love to surround myself with people that are going to give me honest truthful answers because that's how I get better as an individual and go figure I've done my own journey of like learning to take feedback. Well I know it's not about me, but making me better in a powerful way. So I love to do that for myself and for others. Michael Hingson ** 04:56 Now you live in Colorado Does she live in Colorado as well? Jennifer Watson ** 04:59 She does. that she was in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Before I moved back to Colorado, and we definitely see each other throughout the year, I'm very close with her two boys, which are like my own in many ways. But yes, we definitely have that dance even living apart. A connection there for sure. Michael Hingson ** 05:15 Yeah. And you, you have to figure out ways and times to see each other since you have such a distance apart from each other. Yes, yes. That always creates a challenge. Well, all right. So you made it through high school and so on. And then what did you do? Jennifer Watson ** 05:30 Yeah, so as I mentioned, you know, from a very young age, I was actually good at quite a few things. And I had a lot of fun doing it. What I really liked about growing up is that my parents, my family really gave us space to just try and explore different things. Before we got really good at it like more middle school, high school to master things. And from high school I as I mentioned, I got a full ride Deewan athletic scholarship to University Wisconsin, Madison, big 10 school, was able to have an amazing academic career. There also did my Master's in physical therapy there. And thus started my journey beyond athletics in mastering a new calling, which was wellness. And I started integrating all areas of wellness because of my own story of wellness, where I struggled a little bit through college and later 20s. In mental wellness, I struggle a lot with depression, even with all my different successes, and the things that I had accomplished, I still struggle with that. So the shame that went with that, but also the desire to really look at wellness in a better way. And thus began my journey once I got them being an athlete into PT school, really looking at wellness as a whole mind body soul. And when I did that, it not only helped me in mobilizing my wellness journey, becoming healthy and healing my brain, but it helped me to be a better practitioner. For all my clients, I have treated high level athletes to clients with cancer to those with PTSD after military work. And because of the integration that I've given to so many clients through Mind, Body Soul integration, I've been able to help people really optimize their vitality, their wellness, so they can now do the things they want to do to live the epic life to be the calm the epic leader, and to really live the legacy that they were created for. At my current journey, Adam, as was where I'm at now, Michael, is I get to now help others in the coaching and speaking space and use all my expertise from being a practitioner from being an athlete from being a human being, and just showing people how to be high performing leaders and human beings to get the legacy that you desire, while you're living in good vitality, while you're living in a space that exudes your highest frequency. And this is my true joy. Now I'm going to speak across the country on this, you really help empower people do the same. Do you have Michael Hingson ** 07:48 any insight as to why you had a bout of depression? Jennifer Watson ** 07:54 Yeah, you know, so I've been asked that, you know, several different times on different podcasts I've been a part of, and I will say this every one, wellness, not just Depression, depression is under the umbrella of just you know, navigating mental wellness, right. But wellness, I really want all of you to understand is very layered not only in Mind, Body Soul, it is the full package of you. But also when you look at different areas of wellness, in my case, mental wellness, there's also different influencers, not only genetics, but environmental. So from a genetic standpoint, my mom also had a little bit of depression, melancholy tendencies when she was younger as well. Some of this you guys, you can be genetically predisposed, sometimes believe that have more extensive cases of mental wellness discrepancies where we're looking at people that maybe have severe debilitating depression, where there's bipolar schizophrenia, and there's so much amazing support for that. But no matter what umbrella you're under, there are some genetic tendencies. The great news that we have now is when you know that it's just like if you know, you have history of breast cancer in your family, there's tools from food, from exercise from counseling from different tools that help rewire the brain to move you into a powerful space, in this case, mental wellness. So yes, there is a little bit of a genetic predisposition. But a lot of that comes from as well, the environmental factor, Michael, and this is what a lot of my high achievers where they feel some guilt and shame that they're very successful. But why are they struggling with anxiety, depression, there can be a lot of layers to that, for my reason, there was a lot of things growing up that I connected my performance, my ability to do well and master things to love because I got a lot of attention when I did well. So as a kid, I didn't have a lot of tools. And I didn't know how to filter like certain behaviors. So I just started connecting performance to love at a young age. And that's a rewiring pattern that happens at a young age, we learn a lot of our core beliefs as children good or bad. And as adults, we either have to amplify the good ones or rewire the ones that aren't aligned with where we want to go. So what I took into my adult life is just this fear If I didn't perform well that I would be abandoned that I would be unloved that people would leave me. And it led to a lot of anxiety, depression around anything that I was getting good at, and lost the joy in the things that I actually was really, really good at. So when I learned some genetics, that core from my mom and we dialogued about it, looked at things I could do to optimize my diet, my exercise, my meditation, counseling coaching, when I looked at reasons why I had depression with the the behavior and environment that I created as a child, we took both of those you guys and layer them in and really stepped back and looked at the powerful equation to get better, you can get better so that as a long answer, Michael, to your question, but I will say it's really individual, but there is definitely environmental, and usually coming from childhood experiences, as well as genetics. And when you have both those, it is so empowering Michael, because you can do diet changes, your mental health changes meditation breathwork, I did EMDR cognitive remapping, rewiring techniques that helped me to this day I say is my greatest, greatest performance is that I healed my brain. And now I get to teach others that you can perform and not feel like that depression, anxiety, but performing because you love mastering things and living to your full potential. Michael Hingson ** 11:16 And you've probably discovered that you don't need to have attention all the time to still be a good hole person. Jennifer Watson ** 11:23 Oh, of course, but you don't like I said, you guys a lot of that as an adult. You're like, when you hear that? You said Michael like Well, of course not. But I want people to really get this a lot of you smart, high performing people. That makes sense what Michael said, The problem is, is your subconscious your unconscious does. So that's why you have to go back to childhood and rewire the pattern. It's just like when you say I know that doughnuts, not good for me. But you keep eating it over and over again, the old pattern of a food relationship that's not good that we need to rewire. So I always tell people, you guys, there's no shame or blame in understanding consciously like, Hey, this is probably not a good behavior or probably not in alignment with where my full potential is. But that doesn't mean you stop there. Usually coaching, counseling, extensive work, to rewire can be super powerful, but just owning that, that's where you're at. It's great awareness, and then getting the proper tools to rewire it. And before you know it, your body and your brain can heal. I want everybody to know this, your brain has 100,000 miles with a blood vessels in it. And 100 billion neuronal connections, it's the most adaptable organ in the human body. So if you have something a thought, a belief or behavior that's not aligned with where you want to go, your brain wants food, all you have to do is give it the right food. It does take some time structuring delaying these old stories, and sometimes professional help. I love to work with people on this. But at the end of the day, just know and hope for that you can master your brain master like get out of depression, if that is where you're at and not be ashamed that even if you're high performing, successful and very grateful for things you have doesn't mean you can't own that you have a part of you that you want to shift into something more aligned with where you want to go. When I got out of shame Michael and stepped in and actually shared with people vulnerably close to me, what I was starting with is when my healing actually began and many of you have heard that story of stepping in courage with your dark secret doesn't mean you have to initially go on the Today show about it. But you can at least step in with someone close with you to start that healing process and get the tools to help you align and get onto your epic life. Michael Hingson ** 13:29 Yeah, you mentioned the the well, word or phrase EMDR? What is that? Jennifer Watson ** 13:38 So EMDR is actually I rapid eye movement, if you've ever heard of it. So EMDR is part of rewiring the brain by addressing eye movement. And there's a certain structure of questions that are asked, while we're tracking an eye a certain frequency. So EMDR is really taking eye modulation regulation tracking to another level, the eyes have a lot of activation to the brain, we take in a lot from our eyes, right? Many of our past experiences come first through visual or auditory or smell. So when we can activate an old memory and old behavior, and then re wire the eyes how they track with that old behavior. We can rewire new behavior for something that may be similar to something in the past. If that makes sense. Everyone, you guys, if you want more information on EMDR, among other deeper subconscious rewiring techniques, 100% reached out to me, but that's kind of the general synopsis of the EMDR is we're utilizing your eye tracking to activate an old behavior and realign behavior with a new behavior that's better for you versus what it was triggering before in the past. Michael Hingson ** 14:52 What does EMDR actually stand for? Jennifer Watson ** 14:55 Yep, so our eye module Yep. So I E M module. Digital retracting Michael Hingson ** 15:01 got it. Okay. I don't know how well that would work for me but that's okay. Jennifer Watson ** 15:08 And there you know there's but the thing is you guys there are so it's at the top three Michael, ways that we take an old memories and align behaviors subconsciously is through auditory smell in visual This is why VR is just one of them but there's so many tools that rewire. So you don't have to access through a difference you can remember your guides you can do that for sure. Michael Hingson ** 15:34 Understand Yeah, I'm moving doesn't work for me very well, but that's okay. Having never learned to to control eyes. It's a different story. So So what did you do after college? You got a bachelor's? Did you go beyond a bachelor's or just a bachelor's degree or Jennifer Watson ** 15:49 as a as a master's in physical therapy at the same school. And as mentioned, I started becoming a physical therapist and utilizing some of this Mind Body Soul integration tools. And I had a physical therapy practice a holistic integrative Mind Body Soul integrated practice. And as I mentioned, I did a lot of work with high level athletes to clients with cancer, to those with military PTSD, and everything in between, it was an honor to help heal, and serve them and help them thrive using some of these modalities we mentioned. But also bodywork exercises, looking at nutrition, looking at different things in in their environment that was feeding into mental emotional, physical well being or lack of, and the beautiful part of all that I've been a practitioner, integrative physical therapist for 22 years, Michael. And what I've done is be able to now integrate that into wellness and leadership coaching for highperformance. And speak now about all these expertise and tools in my own stories of healing, and stories of some other people I've worked with in powerful ways. Michael Hingson ** 16:52 Well, so you went through college? And then did you immediately start with your own companies? Or did you work for anyone else first, I worked Jennifer Watson ** 17:00 for someone for a few years to gain some managerial, some business experience and then hopped on my own fairly quickly, spend had an outpatient clinic for quite some time, and still do. And it's a very small part of my business as I do mostly the coaching the speaking now. But yes, I got into becoming an entrepreneur pretty early in my career, because I saw where I wanted medicine to go, where I wanted healing to go because I felt it was more powerful than some of the traditional techniques we use as not only physical therapists, but in the medical world. And by the way, you guys that doesn't mean medication surgery is not needed some time. What I'm saying is when I did my own research, I found that more holistic integrative approaches and different modalities were as effective if not more with treating different areas of wellness, mental, emotional, and physical and allowed more accelerate sustainable improvements. And again, I've moved that into into the coaching space, where I've done the same both in my wellness modalities, and now leadership for high performing leaders and entrepreneurs to really gain the wellness game, the leadership game, the frequency that they want to bring the vitality want to bring to their company to the world and continue on. Michael Hingson ** 18:09 So clearly you are a very exuberant person and a person with a lot of vitality. What does vitality mean? And then why is it important to leaders? Jennifer Watson ** 18:20 Yeah, I think that's such a powerful powerful question. And I believe when leaders are looking at leadership differently now especially since 2020, Michael and one of the things we're looking at go figure is our wellness we realize when we aren't showing up fully in our mental our physical our spiritual wellness, which can go through all those three parts. That is our vitality when we don't have those areas are one is really plummeting. A lot of leaders are realizing that this is our vehicle, everyone and if we don't have that dialed in, if we're not vital in our own human self, Mind, Body Soul, we can't show up powerfully as leaders, our productivity goes down our profit goes down our ability to communicate because we're not even in full healing full stability of ourselves when we're in higher vitality we have more resilience everyone to things that come at us business right? When we're in higher vitality and wellness you guys if we get a cold a physical cold like sneeze we rebound more quickly right you guys so this works for leaders not only in their overall wellness when when things come at them and they don't feel so good but also in leading their team when again you have this vehicle where your mind is intact and sharp where you're physically on all good cylinders and you're spiritually in your truth which you can go through that part of vitality. You're going to show up so in who you are an anchored to that your productivity, your profit, your impact your clarity to your team, your clients. skyrockets, I've literally seen leaders Michael, that had the best systems in the world. But they were still struggling last two or three years, and they had a great team. But they were struggling with this area of vitality. And when you start optimizing these areas of vitality, they're like, oh my gosh, Jennifer, my staff is leading into me. They're actually doing what I'm telling them to do. They're actually actually even getting more vital themselves. Oh, my gosh, our productivity is going up you guys when you get your vitality, first and foremost, and that includes Mind, Body Soul, wellness, and keep it there during growth and change and adversity. Game over you will be unstoppable as a leader, and I've seen it in my own clients just working within the last two or three years. And as mentioned, I think more leaders are realizing the influence of vitality. Well, it's not allowing themselves, but their team and how they're showing up. So I've been able to go and that's one of my things I go in on I do a lot of leadership training on different aspects of communication, optimizing productivity performance, but we always start with Vitality, versus if you don't have that everything else we just talked about and your systems and being more productive, make more money will not happen if that is not addressed first. Michael Hingson ** 21:10 Well, here's another question. Let's go back and be a little bit more basic, what is the leader? Jennifer Watson ** 21:16 Wow. I love that. I love that. You know, I think when we look at leadership, for one, I will say this, I believe a lot of leaders that have been doing leading leading teams leading their family for a while, understand the basic foundations of leadership, if they're doing it well. And what we consider a leader doing it well, I know is very subjective, you guys, right? Is it keeping team culture? Is it making a lot of good money? Is it creating high performance and productivity, no matter adversity? There's a lot to that. But what I'm going to say is this, I believe, especially over the last several years since 2020, I believe leadership has rapidly changed into what I call leadership that is deeply connecting, and deeply vulnerable, with their culture, aka their clients, their team, their community, we are at a different space and leadership that many leaders and their teams, Michael are creating intimacy, safety, transformation, not only in the community, but for themselves. At work. They actually did a poll on that every one after 2020 What teams when they were stepping into a business, what a leader could offer them and what was the most important to them, guess what it was everyone, one of the top two was psychological safety ability to transform and elevates, at some point, climb up the corporate ladder and contribute more powerfully, and do it in a safe powerful way and be more connected to their team more intimate with their team. Those were over money. You guys think about this, okay, over money. People want to buy into you in your culture, they want to be intimate and connect with you. So an answer to your question as far as leadership, yes, there's a lot of basic foundational things that I think leadership does entail, including ability to really bring out the best version of people being authentic being integrity, and your vision and mission, you know, creating consistent performance, opening and humbly taking feedback and helping others do the same and blah, blah, blah, and those are all great. But I would say the leader of today is one that is vulnerable, and is willing to deeply connect with their community of people, Team clients, etc, etc. And I believe that is going to make you as your podcast says, unstoppable and accelerating your deeper purpose of impact your money and beyond, that's for the good of the world. Michael Hingson ** 23:49 Well, one of the things that I've talked about on this podcast and observed in many cases, is that we have to distinguish between the whole idea of being a leader and being a boss, because he has a boss is not necessarily a leader, although they think they are and that tends to create grief or challenges. But true leaders are the people who do connect, and are the people that that people do want to gravitate to in one way or another. And there, they may very well be times that a boss is a good leader, but a good leader when exercising leadership, I also think isn't an individual who appreciates and knows when maybe someone else in a given situation has the ability or a better ability to lead in whatever is occurring in the company or whatever they're doing. Leaders also know when to give up temporarily the whole idea of leadership and let someone else do it. Jennifer Watson ** 24:50 100% And this is why by the way, why Michael my two loves health, wellness vitality and leadership. To combine and make you unstoppable because for you to do what you just said, to realize the step and go, someone might be able to do better than me requires super self awareness, which comes from being in stability of your mind, body soul, you cannot be intuitive, you can't be solution oriented, you can't be humble, you can't be aware of your surroundings, if you aren't even aware of your own self, and how to heal self and create stability there. And this is why I get so giddy about bringing wellness into the leadership space and really bring the science behind you guys, this is chemistry. This is hormones, this is physical, the tools I use to help leaders not only perform from the leadership component, okay, but from the wellness component. And when you do the dance together, you really find that some of the things you're talking about makes such a great leader, Michael become super easy. When you are in a more healthy, vital state of being. You guys, I don't even have to give you the science right now on this podcast. Each of you can come up with great examples in your life where you felt like you were on fire with your team, the communication was rolling, your product was up. And you can probably list on a piece of paper right now the top 10 things that were going on around you and your culture. And I guarantee you one of them, if not, the number one would be areas of your vitality or mental, emotional and physical wellness was intact, if not all of them, at least majority of them are two of the three of them. Because that creates your ability to lead well if you are in your body and healthy in your body. Right you guys. So remember that as you go further into some of these other next level leadership traits that Michael and I are continuing to talk about. When you pull in that vitality. Some of these other areas of integrity, consistency, hard work, making tough decisions, having humility to reach out for help, getting delegating, and getting a team that's just powerfully communicate kidding together, that all comes from you. Being in integrity and stability and health of all parts of you. And when you got that, again, you're unstoppable as a leader. Michael Hingson ** 27:13 So, leaders are leaders because they're, they're recognized, and people want to connect with them. And although leaders can have bad days, anyone can have an off day from time to time, leaders probably have a lot of great days, what's the one activity or what's the major thing that you would say? Is the the vehicle that helps leaders have great days. Jennifer Watson ** 27:41 You know, I will say this everyone, your team doesn't want you to fake it. I just want you to know that because what Michael just said, you're going to have your hard days and when you're vulnerable. I also think that's a superpower for leaders sidenote, is when you're being vulnerable. I don't mean that you're sitting there and shedding all of your deep dark secrets in in crying about it for several hours, you guys, what I'm saying is that when you're struggling, that you're showing up vulnerably and letting you know, I've let team members know what I'm gonna stop me like, Listen, you guys, I'm having a rough day because of this. I need some support here. What are your ideas on this solution? Or this, you're the problem here and the solutions at hand. So first and foremost, everyone, I really want you to get out of your head that you have to be Rockstar 100% Knocking on the park every single day. Okay, be vulnerable, lean on your team, lean on your people lean on your family lean on or whoever you need to, to help you navigate some of this that is actually strength and courage as a leader when you are vulnerable. Okay, now that we have that aside, what is the thing that I use to show up powerfully every day, no matter what the outcome is, no matter if I end up on the wrong side of the bed, or at the beginning of the day, no matter if something comes out of left field during work that I wasn't expecting. How do I continue to lead well, then make it still a powerful day. Michael. For me, it's knowing that it's always a lesson. I don't care if I had a knock it out of the park day, or I had a lot of quote problems coming at me that day personal professional. When I treat both sides of that coin, the quote good days and the days that are harder, as in they're all lessons, guess what happens, leaders, everything becomes neutral, then you don't get triggered hit taken out of your game out into the weeds because something bad happens or something good happens. How many of us get really excited about something that good that happens? And it's still there because we're just marinating all the joy then we're like, oh crap, we haven't gotten done with A, B, C and D. That's the same thing with things that happen you guys that are hard. I really want you to get this. This is something that's game changing for me as a leader when I am neutral on the good things and the hard things or the bad things that happen during my day and look at both as lessons to continue to accelerate My goals for me and my team, it's game changing. Michael, we lose hours, they actually did a research study on this as well, we lose hours not only as leaders, but as people suffering, what I mean is suffering, going back and just spinning all the problems spinning on the emotion that came from the problem of not stepping into our healthy self, and coming up with a solution and moving on with the day with the lesson. Most of us lose productivity and profit and performance, because we spend too much time per separating on what isn't going well, or what is going really well. And just staying in those lanes versus just getting neutral on both of them. learning the lessons from both of them, they keep moving on, if we would get out of suffering more during the day and get back in our lane. And I have tools that I use all the time. With my coaching clients, it's the big problem that a lot of leaders have. Then I learned to master that and a lot of powerful ways to get back in my lane. It is the biggest tool that you'll have, as a leader to make every day a win, no matter if it ends up being a quote, good or bad day. I'm telling you guys, I have some great frameworks for that you guys just DM me if you want to, you know some more support in that area. But I'm telling you, that's would be my answer, Michael is if you can treat every thing that happens is neutral and a lesson. You can get back into your mojo, your epicness for the day and keep going. And that's where your next next unstoppable, unstoppable self really comes from? Michael Hingson ** 31:24 Well, when you're dealing with a lot of these issues of being vital or having great vitality, and dealing with the lessons and so on and trying to keep neutral. How do you get leaders or anyone to step back and really analyze their day, and recognize that there are lessons to be learned. And I guess what I'm really getting at is one of the things that I advocate a lot is introspection at the end of the day, do you take time at the end of the day to really look at what happened? What was good, maybe what you felt wasn't so good. But even the good stuff? How could I have made it better? Or the bad stuff? isn't bad, but rather a learning experience? And so what what do you do? Or do you do much to try to get people to do more introspection and just think about themselves? And what happened in the course of the day? Do you have? Do you help people to do that at the end of the day? Jennifer Watson ** 32:21 Yes, absolutely. So I believe you know, a lot of people ask me what is you know, a daily consistent tasks of make the biggest domino both in their personal and professional life? I say it's morning, and evening rituals. Now, by the way, everyone what that equation is for you, as I work with clients, it depends on a variety of things. So but I'm gonna say this morning and evening rituals are very important to begin and seal the deal. Bookings of the day because what this does, morning ritual gets you in that high vibe, right? And get you already this, this kind of shield and armor, high frequency vibe, when you have the right morning ritual that will create resilience to anything that good or bad that comes out you see and get back into your lane really quickly. What's really purposeful you guys this is really big. This is where people go wrong. They're like, Yeah, I got the morning rituals, Jennifer, the evening ritual is super, super important. I'm going to go off what Michael said, one of the big things no matter what your evening ritual is everyone and how long it is, and how much time you need is different for everyone. I work with people on that. But one of the things you definitely want to do is briefly assess your day, what went well, what didn't and what you want to improve on for the next day. And this is when we say this is the the next layer to this Michael, which is going to seal the deal on what you just said, from a neurological rewiring of your brain standpoint, let's say you pick top three things you're like, these are things I struggle with today, or these are things that went well, but I want to go better tomorrow or the rest of this week, what I've been wanting you to do is write down one or two things that you're going to do to try to make it better. Okay, and then guess what you're gonna do you guys, right before you go to bed, you're going to take those things you wrote down, that you're going to do tomorrow or the rest of the week to make those two or three things that you want to go better. You're going to lay down for five minutes and you're going to visualize your next day. Okay, this is very important, everybody, visualize your next day of how you want it to look a little bit different from today, and go through your day, or the next day, literally visualizing in real time for five minutes before going to bed. Guess what this does everybody. This is planting food into your brain. So even when you're sleeping during rest, it's already rewiring patterns and solutions because you already activated the creative zone right before you went to bed. It started to rewire for solutions for the next day to happen. Keep it posted by your deathbed you might wake up with a solution and write it down. But in no other case when you wake up you will find your morning ritual goes more efficiently. You get a write down and start all your solutions. You visualize them before and it will happen more quickly, more effectively more productively, you will be surprised how much better your next day will go. When you visualize remember your wheel rewiring the brain by putting it into the system right before you rest, and has seven to eight hours to do the work for you wake up, unbelievably motivated, unbelievably creative and ready for your day. By the way, you guys side note for leaders, the other big top 10, I do this whole podcast top 10 things for leaders Sleep, sleep, sleep, do not underestimate sleep, the whole bs of you sleep when you're dead is not true. You sleep this is when you rejuvenate Mind, Body Soul. For the next day, it's an absolutely active activity, the body is repairing itself, don't deny yourself sleep, if nothing else for this thing that we just mentioned for the evening ritual. Michael Hingson ** 35:52 Now the reality is, of course that if we don't sleep, if we don't get eight hours, people may disagree. But that's too bad. If you don't get eight hours, you're not really giving your your brain and your whole system, the chance to revitalize and you're not giving, as Jennifer just said, your body and your brain the ability to begin the retraining process. And the other part about it is okay, let's say you do what Jennifer suggested and you write down thoughts for the next day. And then the next day comes up. And let's say you actually put those things into practice. And a lot of times it doesn't necessarily happen the first day because training can take time. But let's say you do put it into practice. The other part of it is at the end of the day, you need to go back and look at it again and go Now how did it go today? It's a building process. Jennifer Watson ** 36:50 100% And by the way, everybody as leaders because a lot of you listening are high performers. Again, remember let go of if it was good or bad in what it means about you what did I say back about my story about love and significance if I performed well or not look at it again, as a lesson awesome opportunity to play the game and try again tomorrow. I always tell most leaders, the biggest problem we have is we don't give ourselves grace. You guess what newsflash are not going to knock it out of the park every day. There's too many other environmental factors going on. But you can still feel that you won the day. When you look at remember the neutrality, the pluses, the minuses, the lessons in both. And start again tomorrow. Give yourself Grace leaders. And guess what, when you do that, you get permission to give that to your team. And you become a lot more connected, vulnerable. And I'm telling you guys, research is showing this now just in the last year, since we've been seeing more companies that are more connected, more vulnerable, giving themselves grace, looking at the lessons, and doing things in vitality that we just mentioned, that are literally taking off and they haven't changed anything else haven't changed branding. They haven't changed their systems. They're just doing what we're talking about you guys, it will be game changing for you. Michael Hingson ** 38:10 And you know what? Something that just came to mind. Let's be real clear what Jennifer is talking about in this whole discussion is not just true for quote, leaders and accreditation. But for everyone, the reality is that we all can put these things into practice and improve our lives. That doesn't mean that every one is going to go out and start running operations and so on tomorrow, but it is all about establishing a new mindset, it goes back to this whole issue of unstop ability and stop ability is is a process. It's an evolving process for most all of us, but it is still a process. And it doesn't matter whether you are a so called leader today or not. I think Jennifer would agree this is valuable insight and advice. That's good for anyone. Jennifer Watson ** 39:03 Yes, absolutely. For sure. And the reason why we hire a lot of times into leader leaders, you guys is because they're often paving the way for a lot of different things. And I'm gonna tell you, these tools help every human being because at the end of the day, even if leaders are paving the way a lot of things and, and whatnot, we're all still learning and we're all still human, and we all are still contributing to this world. So yes, these tools, these tips are 100% necessary for all of us. And I would say at the end of the day leaders are just helping themselves, help other people lead themselves well and live their best life. So these tools are necessary for all of us. Even though we've given examples more in the leadership role. They're 100% are going to be make you more effective, more powerful. Feel like you win your day and live to your fullest potential no matter who you are. Michael Hingson ** 39:53 Of course the issue is that you never know when the need to lead will find you Do. And the fact is that having these kinds of traits will always help other people connect, collaborate, and become better at interacting and working together. I have a question. You mentioned earlier that you think that the whole concept of leadership has changed over the past several years. What do you mean by that? And how has it changed? Jennifer Watson ** 40:23 Well, you know, as I mentioned, one of the biggest changes I've seen is the need for intimacy, deep connection and deep transformation, that anybody coming in on your team, as a contract worker, as an employer, as the team leader, is, it's more than about money, by the way, I love money, money is a beautiful thing. And it's what makes the world go around allows us to invest more in ourselves in our company and make greater impact karma is not what people are looking for. Okay, leaders, we they are looking for deep connection, that's where leadership has changed, as I mentioned, is that they want intimacy, they want deep vulnerability, they want connection, they want major transformation, of not only themselves in their ability to use their gifts in your business, but as human beings, they want to feel it's transforming their life outside of work. So we have to create a culture as leaders that we give them opportunities to use their gifts, and move up the ladder, so to speak, to contribute to your cause, but also give them opportunities to evolve as human beings. And that is where it's different, the intimacy, the connection, the desire for transformation of the individual along with just what you're contributing, you know, you know, in your business, that's where the change is at, for sure. Michael Hingson ** 41:35 So, the the idea is, again, I'm not sure that there's anything new there, but it is just now more that it's become pretty visible, that we really need to be more involved in trying to find ways to be connectional. Because the world has changed in a lot of ways, because now we're not doing everything where everyone is sitting in the office, and the world is getting smaller. And in fact, we're doing more to communicate with people all over the world. So it is it is a process where we do need to recognize that connection comes from many different places, and you never know where you need to find it or are going to find it. Jennifer Watson ** 42:15 Yeah, and transformational leadership has not been a phrase that's been around that long, Michael in vulnerability, it was not spoken about in the workspace, as it was less than five minute 5% of businesses. So that is new in leadership is this vulnerability and this transformation that was not even talked about me, the Tony Robbins had been around 2030 years, but it wasn't a mainstream thought. So that's where now it's becoming like 100% in all cultures of business, where we're seeing many of the teams and leaders really putting up pushing, but really being open more than ever to have this conversation. I mean, the word vulnerability and transformation was not around, talked about when I first started business, that's where leadership is changed. I feel it doesn't mean vulnerability never never was around in Prince Richard. But it was never cultivated as as a necessity as a way of meeting making the biggest changes on the team and the individual in a business. Now they're seeing it's a huge Domino, along with Vitality, leaders are seeing that bigger than ever before, and how it's affecting their business. So that's where I would say leadership has really shifted, at least not necessarily that it's never been around, but where the emphasis and where people now are all hearing about it and vulnerability, connection, intimacy, transformation, and 100% vitality. And those tools, those parts of leadership are what I believe are changing companies into being the best companies out there. Michael Hingson ** 43:36 Just as an observation, it seems to me, we talked about this a lot. We talked about vulnerability, we talk about the various concepts that you're discussing today. What strikes me is though, when we carry that over into the whole concept of political leaders, it's a different animal. You don't dare be very be vulnerable in any way you don't dare make a mistake, there's no room to be able to connect and do things and truly lead the way you're describing, which is so unfortunate. Jennifer Watson ** 44:11 And you know, it's interesting, and I totally agree with you when you say that, but I'm going to challenge the narrative. Maybe that's what we need. Maybe that's why, you know, with some of our political voting, and I'm not speaking for everybody out there, but a lot of people have voted for the lesser of the two evils I will align with a political candidate for a while, by the way, you guys are not this is just subjective. I'm not saying yeah, Michael Hingson ** 44:34 this is not talking about any candidate or taking any position. Jennifer Watson ** 44:38 But But I will say this, everyone, I would challenge any person running for political office, no matter what your beliefs are, that you stand in your truth, your stand and vulnerability, maybe stand that connection with your crowd, and maybe, just maybe there might be a shift in how leadership can be done more powerfully in the political realm. So I agree with you. But maybe there needs to be a shift there. That's just kind of my challenge to the political offices and see if there might be an ability to make even a greater change in areas that I care about. Because I care about the leaders of our country. I know you do, too, Michael. So maybe if we challenge them to look at leadership in this way, maybe we can see some changes that we haven't seen for a while. Michael Hingson ** 45:22 And that's why I brought it up. Because I think that's exactly what we need to do. That they the people who are political leaders need to lead and need to deal with the issues that we're talking about here, just as much as people in companies and organizations do. If we can't allow ourselves to be ourselves, people are going to see it. And you know, salespeople are always involved in selling a product. And oftentimes, I hear of sales situations where people have sell this product no matter what, and aren't ever willing to say this won't be the right product or won't deal with being totally truthful. And the reality is, people can see through that, and people won't trust you, they will learn not to trust you. Because they can tell the difference between reality and smoke and mirrors. Of course, Jennifer Watson ** 46:22 absolutely. And you know, whether someone considers themselves intuitive, or can tell someone is being truthful or not, we all have it at our core a little bit. Now those that practice and get into their vitality, and really get into their awareness of self. They can be the spidey senses that they can tell when someone has always been in and out of integrity, right. And I believe that you can refine that. But I agree with you, the average human being often can tell when someone's being truthful or deceptive. And no matter what you guys deception is in low frequency. And whether it's conscious or unconscious, it moves people away from you, they don't, it's just like, when you go to a party, you're like, that person has great energy, and you're kind of drawn to them. And then the person that you feel Doesn't your pull away, you guys are already practicing that whether you're conscious of it or not. So you can feel low frequency aka deception, and that pulls people away from you. So it serves no one when we're not in that space. So that's where I encourage it doesn't matter if you're a political leader, or a business leader or a leader in your family, when you're being authentic and truthful in your space. People are drawn to because by the way, I have gone into situations where I knew people 100% disagreed with me. But because I was staying aligned with my truth, I wasn't trying to be deceptive or manipulative. Just like this is who I am. This is why I believe they actually have said to me like, Jennifer, I don't agree with anything you just said. But I like you because they can tell you really standing in your truth. They literally say like, I want to sit here and hang out a little bit more. Do you guys this stuff is real. We're never all going to agree. But if you step in, truthfully your truth and give it that way. You guys people are drawn to that. And they're open to conversations. Wouldn't that be a big thing? Michael Hingson ** 48:03 Why is that? Why are people drawn to that? Yeah. And it's Jennifer Watson ** 48:06 partly because we're, we're drawn to truth. So truth be look at frequency of emotions, anger, frustration, shame versus truth, forgiveness, Love Light. This Love Light truth is a higher frequency for humans, okay? When you get excited by someone, when you knock your data apart, that's a high frequency feeling right of joy, peace, you're a lot more creative in that zone, you're more nice in that zone, you're more connected to people in that zone. When you're low frequency, it takes that away from you. So if you're surrounding yourself with people that are low frequency, you don't want that because it naturally doesn't feel good. It's kind of like negative and negative. You're like repelling each other. Right? It doesn't bring out the best in you, if you're around a negative person all the time or person angry, is going to bring you in that low frequency of anger or frustration, right? Do you think you can be can become creative in that zone, happy in that zone. powerfulness only No. So that's why we want to have tools in in people around us that we can surround ourselves with that gets us into that. Hope, Joy frequency. And there's things you guys can do individually and with other people to get you there. We are naturally drawn to high frequency people because we want to be high frequency because it feels better right? To be joyful and loving and truthful. You guys come on, let's just be honest, we all of us have, like shared a little fib with someone told a lie at some point in our life. Did it actually feel good when you did it? No, I can guarantee you guys whether you're aware of it or not. When you go back to that situation you probably felt if not a little bit a lot bad about it. And then yeah, maybe moved on with your day. Now if you keep doing that, because while you're in your brain that you don't think about it, right? But if you're you're feeling that low frequencies because you know that's not in alignment about where you need to be and people can feel that so it repels us like negative negative repel. We want to be in truth, love and light because that's where our greatest gifts shine. So someone has not been that way. We naturally want to pull away from them, we can feel it all of us can you guys again, go to a party, you can tell the one that's being honest with you, I'm not exaggerating the one that isn't okay. And who's the one that you are usually are drawn to the one that's being truthful, okay, whether you're again consciously realizing or not, because it ups your frequency it makes you want to be more truthful, and makes you feel good. You drop off the serotonin, the happy pills, the dopamine and makes you feel good. And that's what we crave, right, everyone. So understanding high and low frequency, and that lie is a negative frequency. Start with yourself, make sure you're staying in alignment with truth. And then you're going to pick up radar when other people aren't, and you want to align with people that are going to be more honest and truthful with you doesn't mean that we're honest and truthful. 100% of the time, I know a lot of us have been in that story. But when you get more in alignment with it, you will be surprised how much more can drew growing healthy and powerful you feel because you're staying with who you are and what you believe you are. Michael Hingson ** 50:58 And that was what I was just going to say is that if you are truthful, if you can stay in that path, you're going to feel a lot better, and you're going to feel more vital and you're going to feel more powerful. And you're going to do it for the right reasons. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think that's what's really important. What is intuitive leadership, Jennifer Watson ** 51:20 intuitive leadership. So you guys, a lot of times we'll look at intuition as this kind of like intangible intangible kind of woowoo energy, like some people kind of have spidey senses about a gut instinct, you guys know, it's very science is very physiological. So you all of us have intuition, all of us have it within us. But if you don't learn to get on the mat and use it, it goes dormant. So I really want to be, you know, I want to be very clear about that all of us have the opportunity to be more intuitive. It is our sixth sense. We have our five senses than our sixth sense. Intuition literally lives, in our different energy channels in our body, right between our eyes at our heart and our gut, we hear about gut instinct, right? That's intuition. All intuition is, is that you know, just you know, you just know, you just know, with no evidence, you can look at stats on paper, and it doesn't make sense that you should make a decision. But you feel right, you should go with your intuition. Okay. Your intuition will trump every day that we can twice on Sunday. Objective stats, if you're truly in intuition, Okay, everyone, sometimes, when you aren't practiced at learning what your intuition is, you do make a wrong choice that gets into intuition that ends up being a lesson when we talked about earlier. But intuition is you know, just because you know, and how we all sense it is different how we describe it something I teach in my my coaching program, when it called seven levels of intuitive mastery. So you learn how you feel it in your body, so you can utilize it for big decisions to small decisions. You guys, people like Oprah Winfrey, and you know, you know, the Kardashians guys, I'm serious, you guys, big people do use intuition more on major money decisions over stats in a book. Did you know that? Okay, why? Because your intuition, what do we just talked about earlier? Is your truth. It's your antennas. When you get information in should I do this or not? It's saying yes or no. If it's in truth, where we say it's your truth, so it's always going to be the right decision. It never lies. So intuition is understand that you just know because you know, because it's in your gut to do but there's nothing to really back you statistically or not, you just know and when to know how to utilize that, you know, it is intuition. Again, it is the greatest and the best decision you're going to make over any stats. By the way, everyone that doesn't mean I'm saying ignore stats ignore things that you see that have happened in the past to make better decisions in the future. What I'm saying is when you're going through decision making day in day out big and small decisions, you never want to lose out on intuitive space. Intuition is science. It lives energetically in our body, in the mind, in the heart. And the gut, as I mentioned, is actually physiological activations. When we're using our intuition, it is our sixth sense. This is part of who we are, it is not woowoo Okay, that is literally where you're living, you are literally taking out a part of a human that you are otherwise we'd be like every other animal on the Animal Planet, okay. That's what makes us among other things, the highest level in the animal kingdom is our intuition, our ability to look at status so rise above it if we feel there's something better there. Do you know most presidents have said because women are naturally more intuitive partially because it lives in the feminine space it doesn't mean guys can't be beaten with a lot of presidents have said they love turning back to their wife to ask on major decisions what they feel intuitively to do, because they feel it's the right decision. You guys okay? We're checking out massive big leaders that know and value intuition it is physiological. It is science, using is a framework that I utilize to learn how to tap into your unique intuition is going to change your efficiency with with decision making during your day, it's going to change your ability to be in high energy and help other people to use intuition as well. It's going to change your life. So intuition at the end of the day is, you know, you just know it is a sixth sense it is physiological, you can get on the mat and expand it through seven levels of intuitive leadership. And when you combine that in decision making you become unstoppable. Michael Hingson ** 55:28 It is a skill that needs to be exercised it grows, the more you use it. My favorite example, and I've talked about it several times on this podcast is trivial pursuit, love to play Trivial Pursuit and how often do you get a question? You think you know the answer, but then you think about it? No, that's not right. I gotta choose this one. And the original answer was the right one. Because your intuition your mind is telling you that and I think it's so important that we, we work to exercise that muscle. They're ready to talk to us anytime we're willing to listen. Jennifer Watson ** 56:03 100% And what you just said, on standardized tests, those they've looked at correlations of those that do better on standardized tests, like you're talking about, like which answer to choose, one of the components was that they were highly intuitive, they consider themselves highly intuitive, and that they would stay with the answer that they were. Because it's your truth is, you're drawn to the right answer. You guys, when I say we are drawn to high frequency, aka truth, you guys don't undress me, I could spend a whole another podcast giving the seven levels deep framework on intuition on different hard to easier decision making. I'm telling you, it's powerful. If you guys want to connect with me on that, do that. But don't underestimate that in leadership. And it's another thing I'm seeing a lot of leaders are craving, because they're seeing the value of it more than ever. And it's something I teach in my program. So go after my friend, because intuition is yours to be had. Michael Hingson ** 56:53 So let's talk about very quickly because we have been doing this a while, which is great. How do people reach out to you tell us about your companies? How they can they can reach out to you? And first Have you written any books? Jennifer Watson ** 57:05 I have not, but I will be Michael Hingson **
Michael ‘Piecez' Prosserman is a bestselling author, professional B-Boy (“breakdancer”), university instructor, and certified coach who specializes in scaling start-ups, team culture, fundraising, and succession. In Michael's book Building Unity: Leading a Non-Profit From Spark to Succession, he shares practical tools and stories to launching, leading and leaving a sustainable organization. He scaled a grassroots organization from the ground up as the Founder of Unity Charity, an organization using Hip-Hop to improve youth mental health. Over 15 years Michael grew Unity from a volunteer group to employing 80 staff, raising $7 million, and having an impact on 250,000 youth. By high school, Michael was accepted into Cirque Du Soleil and featured in the major motion picture “Honey”. Michael is committed to empowering leaders in the public and private sector to build more resilient and responsible organizations through his social enterprise EPIC Leadership. EPIC facilitates peer learning for a growing community of over 60 senior non-profit leaders. Mike's Book: Building Unity: Leading a Non-Profit from Spark to Succession https://amzn.to/4289s7H Connect with Mike on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelprosserman Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielfrancavilla Growth for Good is hosted by Daniel Francavilla, Marketing Advisor & Brand Strategist. The show is produced by CreatorClub for Daniel Does Consulting. Get more from Growth for Good at http://GrowthforGood.ca. For support with marketing and more for your organization visit https://danieldoes.co. Looking to produce a podcast of your own? Visit http://CreatorClubStudios.com.
Kristoffer Carter is the CEO and Founder of Epic Leadership, a training organization for conscious leadership and daily meditation. He has coached and taught meditation since 2015 and was recently named to the Board of Directors for Yoga Alliance. Kristoffer also works as a keynote speaker and author. His latest book, Permission to Glow — A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership, was featured in Men's Health, SUCCESS Magazine, NBC, CBS, and ABC morning news programs. In this episode… Being coached is a skill in itself. A lot goes into how to coach others and be respected as a coach. While this is crucial for passing on knowledge and experience, there is the overlooked ability to receive that mentorship. Any successful entrepreneur or executive should ultimately learn both sides of the equation: continuously growing while sharing your growth with others. So, how do you improve in both areas? In this episode of Access to Anyone, Michael Roderick talks with Kristoffer Carter about coaching, meditation, and connecting people. They discuss Kristoffer's introduction to living with purpose and how it ties into his mentoring style. The two also touch on relationship building, helping others succeed, and how to curate potential mentees.
Leadership coach and speaker Jennifer Watson shares here origin story. In this episode, Jennifer talks about speaking your truth, the spiritual journey of entrepreneurialism, zooming out; as well as sharing leadership insights and business tactics taught through her coaching practice. Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C., owner of Jennifer Watson Leadership, is a dynamic speaker and coach with a gift for intuitive and visionary coaching. She is an expert in wellness + leadership development, identity & mental edge enhancement, high-performance, post-trauma growth, movement & change adaptation, and soul-aligned living mastery. With 20+ years experience in business-leadership management + wellness advocacy, she inspires those to unleash their potential and performance in all areas of their life.Her company, Jennifer Watson Leadership (JWL), supports ambitious leaders & entrepreneurs to step out of chaos into creation to live their legacy now. JWL does this through Mind-Body- Soul Wellness Activation, Next-Level Speaking + Leadership Traits Amplification, and Sustainable High-Performance Creation Acceleration. Her gift is truly to tap into the leaders “Jedi Flow State” in Wellness + Leadership and create their EXTRAORDINARY Business + LIFE ease + joy. In addition, Jennifer is the owner of Watson Wellness. She received her undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a Master of Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at Wisconsin Jennifer was also a member of the University of Wisconsin- Madison track & field team in which she received All American honors. As she began her work, her interests began to grow outside the athletic arena. She has completed over 1500 hours of continuing education courses in mental health, manual therapy, functional orthopedics, and postural restoration. Her areas of focus & expertise include high performance, gut health, brain health, mental health and a special interest in men & women's health. Jennifer Watson Leadership + Watson Wellness has given rise to Jennifer's great passion of supporting people in their journey to live their EPIC Health, their EPIC Leadership, and their EPIC Legacy that they were destined for.To learn more, visit:linkedin.com/in/jason-Shupp-18b4619bListen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/Jason-Shupp/
Are you, your team, and your company performing optimally? Even if things are good, do you ever wish they could be better? Do you want to accomplish more, take more risks, and lead a healthy team at the same time? Then it's time to lace up your running shoes. In this episode we discuss… The draw of leaders and entrepreneurs to running The benefits of running on business performance Navigating risk within our organizations A brief look at Bryan's EPIC Performance framework About Our Guest Bryan has over 25 years' experience in Leadership and Organizational Development with executive and senior-level responsibilities in small and large companies. Before starting his consulting practice, he was on the Executive Committee as the Vice President of Human Resources for a mid-size, global-technology company. In addition to running Human Resources and Payroll, he has extensive experience in Leadership Development, Organizational Design, Communications, and Mergers & Acquisitions. For recreation, he is a dedicated endurance athlete completing many long-distance cycling or running events including cycling across the United States, cycling 300 miles in 24 hours, and running 200 miles around Lake Tahoe in 76 hours. His book, EPIC Performance: Lessons from 100 Executives and Endurance Athletes on Reaching Your Peak based on his experiences reaching lofty goals as well as the experience of 100+ CEOs, CxOs, founders, and endurance athletes who have also reached amazing goals is out now. Resources Mentioned on the Show epicperformances.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryangillette/ EPIC Performance: Lessons from 100 Executives and Endurance Athletes on Reaching Your Peak The Transcript James Laws: Are you, your team and your company performing optimally? Even if things are good, do you ever wish they could be a little bit better? Do you wanna accomplish more, take more risks and lead a healthy team at the same time? And it's time to lace up your running shoes on this episode of the Leading to Fulfillment Podcast. The podcast where everything we talk about is meant to encourage people first leaders, empower individuals to achieve fulfillment and to help your organizations become places people love to work. I'm your host, James Laws, and I have a great show in store for you. I had a really fun conversation with my guest on this episode. His name is, Brian Gillette. He has over 25 years' experience in leadership and organizational development with executive and senior level responsibilities in small and large companies. And before starting his consulting practice, he was on the executive committee as the Vice President of Human Resources for a mid-size global technology company. In addition to running human resources and payroll, he has extensive experience in leadership development, organizational design, communications, and mergers, and acquisitions. The fun part though is for recreation. He is a dedicated endurance athlete completing many long distance cycling or running events, including cycling across the United States. Cycling 300 miles in 24 hours and running 200 miles around Lake Tahoe in 76 hours. He has a book available now called: Epic Performance, Lessons from 100 Executives and Endurance Athletes on Reaching your Peak. This book is based on his experiences of reaching lofty goals as well as the experience of a hundred plus CEOs, CXOs, Founders, and endurance athletes who have also reached these amazing goals. The book is, again, it's available now, and in my conversation with Brian, we discussed the draw of leaders to entrepreneur and entrepreneurs to running and endurance sports the benefits of running has on professional performance, navigating risks within our organizations. And a brief look at Brian's epic performance framework. But first I wanna invite you to subscribe to the Leading to Fulfillment podcast in your, whatever your favorite podcast tool is. We're on all of the platforms, Apple, Google Podcast, Spotify, and you can also watch us on YouTube. And if you don't mind giving us a hand, go ahead and leave us a review. Your reviews help us expand our audience and reach more people. And so I would love it if you would take the time just to leave us a review and let us know what you think about the show. Now let's jump into my conversation with Brian Gillette. Bryan thank you so much for joining me on the Leading to Fulfillment podcast. Bryan Gillette: Oh, it's great to be here, James, and look forward to chatting a little bit more about leadership and some great categories. James Laws: Oh I love it. The reason I started this podcast is I love talking about it, and I like talking about it from a bunch of different people who have very different experiences, so our audience can get to know you and your experiences. Could you give us a little bit of a background, the elevator pitch of who is Bryan Gillette and makes you tik? Bryan Gillette: All right. So couple things that that, that fill me is one is, I'm, Former executive Vice President of Human Resources for a technology company have been doing, running my own consulting practice for the last 10 years, focused really around leadership development, executive facilitation. So pulling teams together, helping 'em figure out where are we gonna go for the next couple of years. Also, and I know we're gonna dig into this later, an ultra-distance. Around did a lot of ultra-distance around running, around cycling, and then a father of two and a husband. I got two teenage boys at home. So that's who I am. James Laws: I love it. You, let's start right there. You talk about being an ultra-distance athlete. You do cycling, you do running, you kinda do all of that stuff. About nine years ago, I was running a lot. I ran my first marathon or my half marathon; not a masochist or anything. I'm not, I can't do that ultra-distance Stuff necessarily just yet until I was forced to stop because I had a hernia and I was recovering from surgery. And you know what? They don't tell you about running. And I didn't realize. This is when you stop running for any significant amount of time, you start over. You almost start from scratch and so I remember I was recovered. I'm like, all right, let's get back into running. And I got out there, I had just run a, like a half marathon in two hours, which. Not amazing, but it's not good. Bad. Yeah. And so I was like, so I get out there and I get on the pavement and I start running and after a mile I'm like, I'm done. I can't do it anymore. What happened? But one of the things that I notice is anecdotally, anyway, I'm trying to get back into running shape now. I've just started walking. I do about six miles a day just trying to get. Nice cardio back endurance in place. But anecdotally, I notice that it seems like a lot of entrepreneurs and business leaders are drawn to running. I see this a lot in my conversations. I see it in my Twitter feeds and all of them posting their pictures about their running, and they're posting their videos as they're cooling down or warming up for their run, giving their insights. What do you think it is that attracts them and maybe more specifically you, what got you into this activity of endurance? Bryan Gillette: When I started writing the book I had all this kind of indulge endurance background behind me. I a lot in the cycling, a lot on running, and so I started to put together the framework for the book, and then I thought, I need to go out and talk to other people. And similar to what you just talked about, I went and I interviewed a hundred people and about three quarters of them were executives, CXOs, and a lot of 'em do things outside. They have an exercise program. So you know, the executives that I talk to, they recognize the importance of being strong at. But in order to be strong at work, they also have to have a strong body. And that strong bi body starts to build a strong mind , whether it's running, whether it's cycling, whether it's swimming or whatever. You gotta be able to keep your mind your body in shape. And so I think there's also a competitiveness to it. People that reach the top of, into the executive office, they have some competitiveness in them and so you, they can get the sport out through running or cycling or swimming or whatever it is. James Laws: I've talked about this with, especially with running. The reason I love running so much for me is my ability to compete with myself. Yeah. I think as far as leadership, our goal is always to be better tomorrow than we were today. And it's an iterative process and step by step and it's, they're small changes. They're not drastic changes. And when I get out and I run, I can, I have so many metrics that I can play with. I can run a little farther, I can run a little faster, I can maybe make my splits a little bit tighter. I can, whatever the case may be. I can dig into that. So this, there is this competitive nature, even internally, like with ourselves, hey, I can beat me today from what I did yesterday. Bryan Gillette: And what you're doing, James is you. It's am I improve? and yeah, as part of being an effective leader, being good at whatever we do at work, we have to know, okay, we are getting little bit better at what we're doing. And so if it's a run or if it's a bike ride, it's normally I can go from this point to this point in 30 seconds and I just did it in 29 and a half Seconds. So you see that improvement. And so it's having those metrics, it's pushing yourself, whether it's at sport or business, I think is so critical. So you hit on some key things and I know, one of the other things I like about either getting out on a run or a bike ride is it just allows my brain to focus on something else and think through things. When I was training for one of the longer runs I had done I would go out and I could just think, and I would write a lot of stuff in my head. So I was writing blogs or writing for part of the book, and I could just go out and I could run, and then it's okay, yeah, I wanna say that and I wanna say that and I could write it in my head first, and then I al always ran with an iPhone so I could just dictate it into Siri. And cuz you know, my, as my brain gets older, it forgets more and so I would just dictate it in Siri and I'd get back to my computer. It would be there. So there, there's, yeah. James Laws: Oh yeah. I'm not as good as that. If I try to dictate, it's gonna be mostly me, panting and heaving and, but I, you're right about that. In that run the thing about running and we know this right? When you get, when you're stuck on a project, when you're stuck on an idea, when you're thinking through something, you find yourself stuck. The best thing you can do is. Dive deeper. It's not dig into it more. You're already stuck. You're just gonna get more stuck. So the best thing you can do is walk away and do something that engages your brain in a different way. That kind of, it's I look at it like our brain, like a computer. It's a reboot. It's, I have to restart the system. Yeah. Get that stuff out of working memory. Load every, do something else. And when I come back to it, I'm fresh and running. Does that for so many people. I love that when I run, I think more clearly and you don't think about it, but like you are thinking about a lot of things when you're running, you're thinking about your breathing and your pace and you're trying to make sure if you're getting cramps, you're trying to trying to land on that foot on the side of the cramp and kind of work it out and kind of power through it. You're thinking about so much and by forcing you to think about those. There's other parts of your brain that are released to have great ideas. That just come and I just I never think more clearly than after I've finished a run and I've just totally wiped kind of the computer clean for that period of time. Bryan Gillette: It's a great point and it's a good way just to get rid of that stress. I know. My, my wife will often say, if I start to get a little stressed and she'll go, hun, maybe I ought to go for a bike ride or go for a run, and that's her, that's a euphemism for her saying, you're really driving me crazy. You need to get out. And it'll it's a good stress reliever as well and just Okay. Whether it's meditation, whether it's run, you need that way, as you were talking about running and how to manage the difficult times. I often look at, when you train for something big, you have to know how to persevere through, through big challenges. And one of the things is you gotta be able to think about the big picture. It's like, why am I. But, and this is where I think you were going, is you also gotta really focus and look at what what's a small picture, what do I need today in order to keep me moving forward? What are those little things that just keep me moving forward because it's just, I need to get one more step in, I need to go, I need to go a little bit further. Yeah. How do you persevere up in the big challenge? James Laws: It's powerful stuff and I agree. You talk about high impact or high performing leaders who find themselves doing this stuff because of their competitive and other reasons. But one of the reasons too is just right they're, hopefully they didn't get to that position because they didn't have a drive to be that little bit better and prove, and this is just another place where they get to apply what is probably many times their superpower is that iterative improvement and constantly pushing forward. So when we talk about all of this running and kind of this endurance stuff. I think about the journey of your book. So you wrote a you've recently read a book at the time. This airs you. It's released, it's available. People can get it. We're gonna talk more about it. You wrote a book called Epic Performance and the kind of the byline is lessons from 100 executives, and endurance athletes on reaching your peak. Can you tell me a little bit about the journey of interacting with these hundred people in these different, what seemingly is completely separate ideas and thoughts and how they came to coalesce into this framework that you've developed. Bryan Gillette: Interviewing the a hundred people was probably one of the more enjoyable aspects of this whole because I got to talk and you get to do it all the time. You get to talk to interesting people and that's what I really liked. And one of the reasons, so I had some ideas. I had done some things and I thought, okay, this is gonna be the limit of how far I can go. And, I did it, it was like a, one of the first one was, it was a 300 mile bike. And I thought 300 miles, 24 hours through the night. The first time I'm gonna be riding through the night and I wanted to understand where does the mind and the body stop? And earlier in the day, I had seen somebody die dead on the side of the road. I had collided with another bicycle and now, I only have 25 miles left to go and I can see the finish line and I thought, I didn't come close to that limit, and it got me thinking, and this was about 10 years ago, it got me thinking that we put these limits in our head and they hold us back sometime. And then, about five years ago, my wife and I took our kids outta school for a year and we travelled around the world and as j as we are getting ready to go, friends held a going away party and a couple people came up to me and they said, I could never do that and it hit me. Wait a minute. You're telling yourself you can't do it. And those two things started to get me thinking about, okay, there's a book here. It's what is it that, gets me to think I can run or I can ride 300 miles or I can run eight marathons back to back, I've got some ideas, but I wanna go out and talk to a hundred other people, mainly executives to understand what do they do in order to set really big goals and then go ahead and achieve them. And so talking, about 75% of the people are, were at the CEO level or founders of companies, and then the other 20 to 25% were ultra-distance athletes. People that had done minimally, an iron man or equivalent run a hundred miles. Something along those. And just to learn from them and glean their experience and what, one of the big things I learned is the similarities between what they do in sport and what they do in business. There's a lot of crossover. People that are successful in one area often are successful in another area because of the mindset, because of the discipline they have the ability to see that finish line. James Laws: It reminds me of a common quote we all hear, right? Those who believe they can and those who believe they can't are both right, , right? There's this idea, like there is this mindset issue. If you continually tell yourself you can't do something, it's gonna be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Like you, that's true, right? I tell this to my eight year old all the time when he says he can't do something, I'm like, you're right. As long as you keep saying. But if you don't, but those who believe they can try and surprise themselves at what they are capable of because they believe there's potential on the other side of that trying. And so I love that. Bryan Gillette: Yeah. And I heard that over and over James. And people. It's we believed we could do it. We had the confidence in ourself. I was reading an article as I was putting into the book together about a woman. She wanted to ride her bike 500 miles and she made it 300 miles. And that's still an impressive journey. And at the end she goes, I thought I could only ride 300 miles. And it's you failed before you started because you thought you could only do 300 miles. You weren't thinking you could do 500. So it, it goes back to your point of both people are right. If you, I can do it or I can't do it, you're right. James Laws: Yeah. Now, I wonder as you you're interviewing all of these people, executives, endurance athletes, some both, right? That are here in both, and you're seeing and you're seeing this crossover. I wanna put you on the spot, Brian. What was the most surprising. Insight or interview that you had that you took away from all of these calls? My guess is there's gotta be someone that you're like, Ooh, I didn't expect that. Bryan Gillette: Oh gosh. I don't know that I would say there's one, I heard this one several times from a couple of people, and when we would talk about. and I would, I'd say, what's your comfort level with risk? That was one of my general questions. And everyone, and quite a few people came back and said, I don't like to take a lot of risk. A and these are people that, maybe founded companies. These, done some pretty risky things. And they say, I don't like to talk, take a lot of risk. I like to manage my risk. . And so what I expected is these people, oh yeah I'm comfortable with risk. I have no problems. But it's like they really like to manage it and know what they're getting into and break the risk down into smaller chunks so they can better mitigate what the downside is. One of the guys I spoke to he founded a company, ended up selling it for a couple billion dollars and now he skis all over the world. Great skier. And what he was telling me, he goes, Brian, we often think about the worst case scenario. when something happens or, as we're getting ready to go into something, he goes, but what we really should be thinking about is what's the realistic worst case scenario? Because the worst case scenario is only gonna incur, chances are when a s number of things go wrong. It's generally not one thing that goes wrong. It's several things that go. In order for that worth that have to go wrong. And so how do you think about what that worst that realistic worst case scenario is? So that's that one thing that it's oh, I expected these people to come out and say, Hey, I love risk and I take it all the time. But no, that was the opposite. James Laws: So it's interesting cause I've been having this conversation with my team. We've been in this transition period where one of our particular products is being run by the team and I've stepped back and away from it and allowing them to of lead and I constantly told them right, the next great idea isn't coming from me. It's coming from you. And so you have to be, and I've taken my share of risks in building this product and getting it to where it is. The next big risks and leap is yours to take. What do you think it is? And I always encourage 'em, right? Do it. Take the chance. I've got you. Like when I started my business I talk about this. I didn't have a safety cushion at the bottom. I just of started and did it. But I get the opportunity to be that safety cushion for my team and I encourage them to say, take the risk. I got you. It's okay. We'll figure it out. , but do it. What is it that holds people back from taking those big leaps, taking those big chances to do the next big thing in their lives? Bryan Gillette: There's a million things that we're afraid of, and it's being able to understand what that fear is. Is it fear of rejection? Is it fear of impacting my career? Is it fear of losing money? Think. I think back when we were a kid, or at least when I was a kid, you'd go to the grade school dance and you'd be sitting, when I was a kid I remember like seventh or eighth grade sitting on one side of the gym. All the boys were on one side of the gym and all the girls were on the other side of the gym. And it was like four and a half miles to walk to the other side of that gym to go ask a girl out. And we were afraid. And what we were afraid of is hearing that? No, because if you got it, then you had to do the walk of shame back and it was a long walk. It's really understanding what are we afraid of? And I think the other thing is there are some people that just love trying new things, love going out on the limb and some people like to be a little bit more. It's no let's make sure everything's buttoned up. And if you've done any work around styles, like disk communication styles or Myers-Briggs and there's those types of things, there're those people that are the entrepreneurs and they'll go out. And I think as leaders we have to understand what is the style of the person and You think about when we learned to swim, we started out in the shallow end of the pool and then we worked our way to the deep end. Some people have no problems going really quickly to the deep end, and some people, the people that are more. More analytical, more focused on, okay what do we need to do? What's the steps? They're not gonna go running into the deep end really quickly, and so we have to take 'em a little bit slower from the shallow end into the deep end. And that confidence to try new things comes from being successful on smaller things. So it, that's you just may have to take people at different. James Laws: I think that's great. I wanna take that a little bit further. So we have our team. We know that one of the common reasons that, that people resist taking risks are, one is fear and some is just simply personality, right? They just have a different way that they see the world and they wanna attack it and or approach it in a different way. As leaders in an organization, we know we need to lead all our people differently. We can't be the same leader to team member A as we are to team member B. They're individuals and so they have to be led individually. And we know this, I think. Consciously, and yet sometimes we go into our organization, we cast our big vision, and we just say, and we just go and tell everyone to go. How can we as leaders be, be more encouragers and help our organizations and the individuals on our team take risks? I know one of them you already said is that help them take small wins and go through that and step slowly through that process. What are some other we can use to help? Bryan Gillette: And I think the other question to ask ourselves is, when I, so I've got five elements to Epic performance and let me of briefly go through them. The e stands for how do you envision the big things? That's where we're thinking about really big. Ideas that we wanna accomplish over the next 10, 15 years or so. The p is how do you put a plan in place to, to do that? The I is, how do you iterate? How do you of work your way up to things? You don't, you didn't start off running a half marathon. You started off running a mile, then at two miles and you worked your way up and you failed at some places, and then you succeeded. And hopefully you learned, you did because you eventually ran it. The C is how do you learn, collaborate for with other people and learn from their mistakes, learn from their successes. And the lastly, how do you perform it? So we are not great at all five areas and even the hundred people that I talk to. One of the first CEOs I talked to I worked for him the best, one of the best leaders I've ever worked for. And he goes, know, Brian I'm not strong at the strategy. He goes, I'm really good at iterating and planning, and so I have to bring people in to help with the strategy. And so figure out what your superpower is, focus there and get better there. So one strategy James is, if envision isn't their superpower, figure out what it is and have 'em focus there. It's, we don't all have to be the visionaries. Be and we shouldn't. If you have a team of visionaries, you're gonna have a great vision, but you're not gonna get anything done, , right? Yeah. So cuz you don't have the people that can tactically do it. So those people that may not have that vision it's where do they fit into the process in order to then implement it? If they want to work on their envisioning skills, one is finding out, okay, what are some of the things that they may be afraid of? Are they afraid of drowning in the deep end? And then is it a confidence issue? , how do you build that confidence up? I think the other thing, and this is when I work with teams and they say, God, we just we're not thinking big enough and we, we don't, we, we have these failures and I'm okay with failures. And then I ask what happens when a team fails? What happens? Are they rewarded? Are they, are they punished? Because if you punish them or there's some negative consequence, They're not, they're gonna be, they're gonna play it safe the next time. Yeah. So what are the types of incentives programs that encourage big thinking ideas and that's gonna get people to do the big thinking? So that the two points is, one is all right. Do we is it a superpower and should we really be building it? Or it's like, all right, how do you try to make it safe? James Laws: One, one of the things you said reminds me of something that we talk a little bit about this in our organization, we always tell everyone that this is a safe place to fail. It's okay. Failure is always an option, and failure isn't terminal. We learn from failure. We, there's so much to be gained from the experience of not quite accomplishing the thing that you wanted to accomplish and analyzing that, but I like something that you said it but didn't say it, is this, we always celebrate the wins but do we celebrate the failures? Because a failure means somebody tried something hard that was beyond them and they had, they experience that and that's how you encourage and influence risk takers is by saying when they take the risk and fall short. You don't parade them, you don't yell at them. You don't punish them. You celebrate them and say, this was awesome. Now let's talk about what we can learn from this. Thank you for taking that risk for everyone else. Let's see that, right? Bryan Gillette: I used to tell my teams, I said, okay, we're gonna set our MBOs, our goals for the quarter and you'll have your three to five goals. I want, five to 10% of your time to be focused on something that has nothing to do with those. And it's to, it's the stuff that is gonna, we're gonna need to be doing in five, 10 years. So it's that skunk works mentality. And you're not gonna be graded on that. You're not gonna be bonused on that, you're not gonna, it's not gonna be in your performance appraisal. So how do you do that? But most of the time one of the ways you figure out is do people really say, oh yeah I love I, I reward failures. We say that, but then go back and look at, let's look at some of the failures. Look at the people that you terminated in the last. Look at the people who got the low performance, look at the people who got the high performance and when a failure occurred, what happened? And really gotta dig into that because that's gonna drive it. It's, we put a lot of wi lip surface to it and say, okay, I'm okay with failure. But when that failure occurs, What happens? I was working with one client and we were talking about risk. This was years ago, and it was a fortune a Fortune 500 manufacturing company and very conservative. And so we were talking about risk and how they handle risk. And I said, where can you take more risk? And the CFO of the organization said, I am comfortable with people taking more risk in this organization as long as they analyze the numbers and assess what could go wrong. And they have very clear game plan on how to avoid, you the problems and my response was, that's not risk. When you know the answer to everything, you are not taking a risk. So I don't think you like the answer James Laws: No. I think that's a good point, right? Sometimes we can double talk people we're like, yeah, take risk, but here's what I want you to do. I want you to mitigate any possible thing that could go wrong and have a plan for doing that so that there's no chance of failure. Yeah. Risk. Comes with failure there. The chance of failure is always a possibility. If you're taking risks, there is no, there's no chance of failure. Otherwise, it's not a risk. I love that Bryan Gillette: One group I was working with recently, they put up kind of their goals for the next year or two. I, they would think it was two years. And we're looking at that up on the wall. And I said does this make you nervous? Just, did these things make you nervous? It's that nervous quotient. And they all said not really. I said, it's not big enough. You gotta go bigger. That's the good way to know if you're doing enough risk and your nervous quotient, James is gonna be different than mine. And so being able to throttle and understand where's your nervous quotient and how do we push it a little bit further? , James Laws: That is a great gauge. I love that. I think about that all the time, and I haven't quite put it in those terms, but I like that the idea is like, how do you turn up the heat just a little bit if you're not a little uncomfortable with the goal that you've set. We talk about this when we talk about OKRs and all these other ways of kind of managing performance, is that if you don't, if there's not a chance if it's a sure thing that you're gonna hit the goal. And it's not big enough. Yeah. If you're not nervous that you're gonna fail, it's not big enough. And people who wanna do big things have to risk. Sometimes some big things, right? That's a part of that process. Now I want to talk to all of the, or I want you specifically to talk to all of the people who may be listening to this. And they think, all right, this sounds like a really good framework. I love the pillars and vision, plan, iterate, collaborate, perform. I get that. That sounds good. The book, maybe a little intimidating, epic performance from, endurance athletes and, I don't know how much, I'm a bit on that, push, push, push. And you talk a lot about pushing oneself and your team to achieve extraordinary results. How do we as leaders in organizations, in what is, let's be honest, a new world, especially after the pandemic and the great resignation and people calling people back into offices, and there's this definitely this strain between employees and employers in the corporate world and really all over the world. How do we as leaders balance this need for performance? This need to stretch ourselves and take big risks and have epic perform. That with healthy practices that respect the realities of life. Yeah. Family members get sick. I, employees get sick. They're in a bad, they ne they need to take care of their mental health for other reasons. There's so much things that can ha so many things that can happen in the world. There's wars, there's so much stuff that happens. How do we balance the realities of life with the fact that we have big goals, big risks, big performance. Bryan Gillette: We could talk about this for hours. And you use, when you're describing, the book and, could be intimidating and thinking about epic performances. And my intent was to put a framework that makes it pretty easy on what you could do. And what's big for me is different than what's big for you. For me it was going out and running that eight marathons back to back. One of my clients, she is, she's trained to run a half marathon. That's not big to me. Because I've done it before, but it's big for her, and so she's stretching just as much as I stretch. So I, it's, as managers, we gotta understand where, where we can stretch people. But. what's interesting is we I hope we, I hope I can say this, are coming out of this pandemic James Laws: Yeah, Bryan Gillette: I've been saying that for a year and a half though. Oh, I was gonna say, yeah. Yeah what I hope we walk out of this thinking that I can actually do more than maybe I think I can. And if we were to back up in time three years, And, I was ahead of HR and I know that had I gone to my CEO at that time, three, three years or before, and said, Hey, I think we ought to have everybody work from home. The CEO would've said, you're nuts, Bryn. He probably would've then said, why don't we start with you? Why don't you work from home? And we're also gonna try this new thing where we're not gonna pay people or we're not gonna pay you. So I'm hopeful that it gave us the, a little bit more confidence that we can achieve bigger than we think we can. And so our job as manager, I mean you talk about all these things going on in our personal life, our job as managers has always been the pandemic. Just put a brighter light on is to understand what is going on in that person's personal life. What are some of the challenges that they may be facing personally, professionally and there are sometimes when it's okay, James, I can push you now but maybe there's other times, a year down the road when maybe you're going through a divorce or you just lost a family member. That now's not the time. I can push you. I remember one of the, one of my colleagues years ago lost his, in a period of about 18 months, lost his daughter, his mother, and one of his in-law. And he was not pushing it. He just needed to hold it together. And that's always our job as a manager to understand, okay, what is it, how far can I push somebody? And some people you can push further more I, and at different times, just because that's how they are today doesn't mean that's how they're gonna be tomorrow. James Laws: Yeah. And I think it goes back to what we said earlier in the episode, right? Is that, we're leading individuals, we must lead them individually. Yeah. And so we need to be aware of our team. That's where one-on-ones are powerful tool to get to know your team and understand what's going on in their lives and help them manage. The, perhaps the pulling of what's happening in their work culture and in their home culture and figuring out how do you make that work and how do you make sure that both those spaces are safe for them to explore whatever it is that they need to explore to get through that. I love this. I think I'm looking forward to reading through the entire book myself. I've skimmed some of it and I'm excited to dig into it. For those who want to learn more about get a hold of this book, where can they find it and how can they learn more about you and get connected to what you're doing? Bryan Gillette: Yeah. The books on Amazon as all books, so Epic Performance, Lessons of a Hundred Executives and Endurance Athletes on Reaching Your Peak. You can also go to epicperformances.com. I'm on LinkedIn, so you can go there and learn more about the book and connect up with me, I do on the on the epic performances. I have an assessment that allow you, and it's a free assessment for anybody listening that they can go on and assess how well they do each of the five pillars, envision, plan, iterate, collaborate, and perform, and it'll lasts for a company code. And so then you can go ahead and type in leadership. And that will get you through. James Laws: Awesome. Bryan Gillette: We're not good at all Five. James Laws: No, you're right. As I look through them and this is true of, there's lots of organizational systems out there. If you are looking to adapt this one has all of the things that you need to think through your business and prepare to process through. But like all of them, right? We have strengths and we have weaknesses. And good leaders surround themselves with people who make up for their weaknesses. I know I'm not great at this. I'm honestly, I'm not great at the. A lot of times in the execution. I'm great with the plan, I'm great with the initial idea and casting the vision and communicating and getting people hyped up. But then it's like, all right, I did that. I just like who's next? Who do I hand this off to take it the rest of the way. Bryan Gillette: And that's where we have to collaborate. That's why. That's right. Yeah. James Laws: Yeah. Absolutely. So I encourage everyone, get a copy of this book, check it out. Bryan, thank you so much for being on the podcast Today. I look forward to many more conversations with you. Bryan Gillette: Thank you, James, for the time. James Laws: I wanna thank Brian for taking the time to be on the show and join me as we talk to this idea of epic performance. Now, everything that we mentioned on this show including a full transcript of the show, is available over on my website, which has changed. This is something new. We just recently transitioned, ciircles.com and leadingtofulfillment.com. Both addresses will point to jameslaws.com, but the new website is jameslaws.com. You can find all the information about this episode on my website there. There you can also subscribe to my brand new newsletter. We're calling it Leading Culture. So if you wanna subscribe to the leading culture newsletter, it's where I talk about leadership. Culture and remote teams. So if you're interested in that kind of information, sign up. I send out a weekly tool or framework or idea to challenge how we lead cultures in our organization. And so I would really encourage you to sign up and be a part of that. It's gonna be a lot of fun. What we talked about today was a lot about leading a healthy and sustainable team and I want you to remember these words as you interact with your team moving forward to lead well. Tune in. If you wanna lead your team well, you need to understand what they're dealing with from day to day. And this doesn't just mean knowing when they have a sick family member or planning a big vacation or knowing their kids' little league schedule. It's great if you do, it's awesome. But oftentimes the things that are impacting your team aren't so obvious or they require greater empathy to really connect to. So how has your team handled things like the pandemic for. All right. That's probably an easy one, but how about Russia invading Ukraine? How about the senseless murder of people of color by police? Or what about when there was all of the BLM protests going on? How have various members of your team been impacted by the overturning of Roe V Wade, or any number of other contentious battles around the world? The point is that your team has a lot coming at them from all direct. In order to be mindful and an empathetic leader, you need to know what's going on in the world and take a moment to consider how these things could be influencing the current mental health of the individuals on your team. You're not a psychic though, so you need to actually talk to your team about these things, about what's going on in the world and what's about what's going on in their lives. Make your one-on-ones a safe place to express all the things that might be impacting them, and then let them know what you can do to help them navigate the storm. So one more time for the people way in the back, to lead well, tune in. Thanks for listening, and I hope you'll join me on the next episode. And until then, may your businesses be successful as you lead your teams
In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Richard Hua, Global Head of EPIC Leadership and Chief EQ Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. In the conversation, Richard Hua shared his origin story, why he became interested in the power of emotional intelligence, the importance of emotional intelligence to individual and organizational success, and how we can all develop our emotional intelligence EQ. Finally, Richard Hua shared leadership practices for leading with greater emotional intelligence. Some highlights:- Richard Hua on growing up in a challenging environment - How the people around us affect our happiness, as well as our emotional and spiritual wellbeing- Richard Hua on transitioning from being a missionary to a role in high tech - The main elements of emotional intelligence- Richard Hua's thoughts on the importance of seeking advice and the role it plays in greater self-awareness- How and why Richard Hua started an EQ movement in Amazon- Richard Hua on the value of training in developing greater emotional intelligence - The role emotional intelligence plays in organizational leadership and how to do it wellMentioned:John Rossman (Listen to John Rossman's episode on Partnering Leadership here)Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional IntelligenceBill George, author of Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting ValueCarol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Connect with Richard Hua:Richard Hua WebsiteRichard Hua on LinkedInConnect with Mahan Tavakoli:MahanTavakoli.comMore information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: PartneringLeadership.com
Do you wish everyone in your organization was practicing habits that drive life-giving leadership, performance, and trust? If so, this is your episode. Today I am joined by Epic Rivers Leadership Founder & Chief Coaching Officer, Chuck Ainsworth. Chuck is also the former Head of Coaching at the Center for Creative Leadership, one of the largest and most respected coaching practices in the world. Today we discuss elegantly simple yet powerful habits to transform conversations, accelerate performance, build trust, and increase connection & belonging. Epic Rivers offers life-giving leadership skills, performance and trust at scale with their leadership program, Every Conversation Matters. Chuck is a leadership coach with more than 20 years in the space. This show is dedicated to Chuck's journey, this conversation is what we make it. This is Counsel Culture. Learn more at www.ericbrooker.com | www.epicrivers.com | www.pilgrimpro.com
According to Fortune 100 executive coach and meditation teacher Kristoffer Carter, our work as leaders is to expand our spiritual capacity to hold more of what life and business are constantly throwing at us. In his book, Permission to Glow, Kristoffer explains how to create awareness of the universal forces that hold us back and offers 4 Permissions we can activate “to transcend the crazy train of overwhelm and disruption by using everything life offers as fuel to glow.” Show Notes 00:45 Coming out of the "Spiritual Closet" and bringing spirituality to the corporate world 06:32 How to notice when the Universe is giving you very clear answers about what to do (or not do do) next 10:25 The 4 Permissions #1: Permission to CHILL 13:50 Permission #2- Permission to Feel all the FEELS. Be at peace with what your heart does 17:16 Permission #3- Permission to Glow in the Dark. Becoming self-actualized 21:07 Permission #4- Permission to Surrender for the Greater Good 23:24 Feminine genius- "Allowing" vs masculine "Striving" 26:27 The biggest hurdles people face when trying to invest in themselves 27:57 Closing thoughts & further resources Kristoffer's links: Website LinkedIn Instagram
So…your leaders and colleagues could all improve their emotional intelligence, or EQ, to better collaborate - and you want to change your company culture for the better - but where the heck do you start? Today, I talk with Rich Hua, Global Head of EPIC Leadership at Amazon. Rich's personal journey from self-professed non-emotionally intelligent person to where he is today will inspire even those of you who falsely believe you'll never be good at this stuff! He shares how he intentionally built those muscles through self-reflection, coaching, and learning. We discuss the state of EQ and empathy in the corporate world and what talent is now demanding from leaders. He shares how we created his current role and started this movement at Amazon - still a work in process but already having a profound impact - and he will inspire you as he did me, with tips to do the same in your organization. Where is EQ headed in our workplace world? Let's find out! Key Takeaways:It takes work, self-reflection, and self-awareness to grow and hone your EQ. As humans we don't like to be uncomfortable, but it is in that discomfort that we grow. We all have a sphere of influence. It doesn't matter if it is our families, our neighbors, our church, or an audience of thousands. We can work on expanding our sphere as we embrace and teach empathy. Everyone is looking for hope and inspiration. That is human nature. Be the light in whatever sphere you are in. "I think of it as inputs and outputs: Diversity, equity, or inclusive behavior are actually outputs. You don't necessarily teach people that. It's the result when you teach them empathy." — Rich Hua About Rich Hua, Global Head of EPIC Leadership, Amazon:Rich Hua is a technology strategist and innovation evangelist, and he currently serves as the Global Head of EPIC Leadership at Amazon. His mission is to train Amazon's leaders in emotional intelligence and interpersonal dynamics, enabling them to lead with greater Empathy, Purpose, Inspiration, and Connection (EPIC). Rich has spent decades training and mentoring people in leadership and interpersonal skills—from CEOs to aspiring managers to early career professionals. He launched the Emotional Intelligence and Success initiative at Amazon, and his team has trained over 150,000 Amazonians in emotional and social intelligence. His training is now an integral part of onboarding, sales, and leadership development programs across numerous parts of Amazon globally. Connect with Rich Hua:Website: www.richardhua.coTwitter: https://twitter.com/RichardTHuaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richhua Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake my LinkedIn Learning Course! Leading with EmpathyLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice
So…your leaders and colleagues could all improve their emotional intelligence, or EQ, to better collaborate - and you want to change your company culture for the better - but where the heck do you start? Today, I talk with Rich Hua, Global Head of EPIC Leadership at Amazon. Rich's personal journey from self-professed non-emotionally intelligent person to where he is today will inspire even those of you who falsely believe you'll never be good at this stuff! He shares how he intentionally built those muscles through self-reflection, coaching, and learning. We discuss the state of EQ and empathy in the corporate world and what talent is now demanding from leaders. He shares how we created his current role and started this movement at Amazon - still a work in process but already having a profound impact - and he will inspire you as he did me, with tips to do the same in your organization. Where is EQ headed in our workplace world? Let's find out! Key Takeaways:It takes work, self-reflection, and self-awareness to grow and hone your EQ. As humans we don't like to be uncomfortable, but it is in that discomfort that we grow. We all have a sphere of influence. It doesn't matter if it is our families, our neighbors, our church, or an audience of thousands. We can work on expanding our sphere as we embrace and teach empathy. Everyone is looking for hope and inspiration. That is human nature. Be the light in whatever sphere you are in. "I think of it as inputs and outputs: Diversity, equity, or inclusive behavior are actually outputs. You don't necessarily teach people that. It's the result when you teach them empathy." — Rich Hua About Rich Hua, Global Head of EPIC Leadership, Amazon:Rich Hua is a technology strategist and innovation evangelist, and he currently serves as the Global Head of EPIC Leadership at Amazon. His mission is to train Amazon's leaders in emotional intelligence and interpersonal dynamics, enabling them to lead with greater Empathy, Purpose, Inspiration, and Connection (EPIC). Rich has spent decades training and mentoring people in leadership and interpersonal skills—from CEOs to aspiring managers to early career professionals. He launched the Emotional Intelligence and Success initiative at Amazon, and his team has trained over 150,000 Amazonians in emotional and social intelligence. His training is now an integral part of onboarding, sales, and leadership development programs across numerous parts of Amazon globally. Connect with Rich Hua:Website: www.richardhua.coTwitter: https://twitter.com/RichardTHuaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richhua Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake my LinkedIn Learning Course! Leading with EmpathyLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice
Kristoffer Carter is the CEO and founder of Epic Leadership, a training organization for conscious leadership, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. He is the author of the new book Permission to Glow— A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership, which guides his coaching of Fortune 100 executive leaders at Amazon, AT&T, eXp Realty, Edward Jones, and many more. In today's episode you'll gain insights into how a daily meditation practice can increase your productivity and ability to think creatively. Links mentioned: https://www.thisepiclife.com/ (ThisEpicLife.com)
Global Finance and Business Conference This event is to educate others on various topics regarding finance and business. Hosted by Regeline Sabbat and Dawna Campbell. Hosted by Regeline Sabbat - Motivational Keynote Speaker, 5x Bestselling Author, Life Coach, First generation Haitian American, the host of Walk With Me Podcast on JRQTV, Financial Expert, and CEO and Founder of Life Service Center of America, LLC. Endorsed by Les Brown. Hosted by Dawna Campbell- Known as the Mind Whisperer, Dawna combines her past knowledge, wisdom, and experience to assist you in creating and restoring a life of happiness, prosperity, and love. Dawna has over 25 years combined years of professional experience. As a former Financial Advisor, her book, Financially Fit, is a #1 Amazon International Best Seller bringing together the world of money and the energy body, and the soul's essence. She is a professional speaker sharing her techniques during interactive workshops and maintains an international private practice. Dawna has shared the stage with Lisa Nichols, Dr. Joe Vitale, Sharon Lechter, and David Meltzer. Her personal Heart Centered Healing philosophy is to create a world that is a better place for all to live. www.dawnacampell.com (Master of Ceremonies) Dr. Lakisha James - Corporate event planner, Set Designer, Mentor, Author, and Atlanta Chapter Leader for World Women Conference & Awards Speakers: (Keynote Speaker) Speaker#1 TBA Speaker #2 Josh Jalinski- The Financial Quarterback, Radio Host, TV Commentator, and Best Selling Author Speaker #3 Lisa Wiese Williams -Lisa Williams is an Entrebeliever, Wealth mentor, and Chief Inspiration Officer at Lisa Williams Co, creator of the Perfect Side Gigs program, Dream Business Launch and Journey to Financial Wellness Programs. After spending 25 years in a corporate career that blessed her life with financial freedom and reaching a networth of nearly $2 million, Lisa's goal is to empower, equip and inspire 1 million to hire themselves! Perfect Side Gigs' coaching and business pursuit platform helps those interested in pursuing the path of business builder and entrepreneur, equips people with the tools necessary to make the shift and provides a variety of vetted business platforms to consider. Lisa has been blessed with a successful sales and recruiting career for over 27 years. After nearly 3 decades of market ups and downs, she found her learning curve had waned and was feeling less joy in her day to day life of match making. The politics of corporate life got more complex. The clients she was working with seemed to also be asking, "is this all I am meant to do?" She wanted to offer more than just a job. Lisa took the advice she had given countless others and went on a journey to find HER passion and what she would do next in life. Through that journey Lisa entered the world of business builders and entrepreneurs. Lisa has taken the skills she mastered in corporate America and has shifted to helping others find their true passion and business pursuit. One of Lisa's passion is financial education and that topic and business will always be at the core of everything she teaches. Financial wellness is key to success in any business. It also happens to be the most lucrative business in the world in a time where the demand is at the highest and supply is at the lowest. On a personal note, Lisa is an Alaska girl born and raised, married with three kids, is a life-long learner, loves to travel, and sings in a praise band. Those that know Lisa remember a time she helped them and would agree that Lisa's faith is the biggest part of her life. One of her “whys” is that her children will never have an employee mindset, will be life-long learners and continue to find the next version of themselves. The mission at Lisa Williams Co is to bring joy and passion to people's lives through the principles of business building and entrepreneurship. The pillars of her company are faith, family, finance and “Filanthropy”! The “why” behind Lisa's own shift is simple. She was living life less than she knew she was capable of living. She was meant to use her gifts to help others discover theirs. The firm is dedicated to the memory of Lisa's mom Sue Wiese and her dearest friend Elizabeth Meier. She lost both of them to a horrible battle to cancer in the span of 10 months. These were two of the most inspiring and God loving women on the planet. They lived their lives with purpose, a heart for serving others and were lifelong learners until the day they went to heaven. From Lisa: “I won't know until I am up there with them why they are no longer with us, but I will make sure that I live the rest of my life with intention, purpose and discovery. I will grow into the women I was meant to become and my prayer is that our company can help others do the same! Save some extra-dry Cooks champagne for me girls!” Speaker #4 Christie Love -Award Winning Speaker, Confidence and Public Speaking Coach, Executive Teacher, Author of the book, “From Stage Fright to Superstar!” and Podcast Host of the Be Seen Be Loved Podcast. Speaker #5 Mark Quann- Founder & CEO of the Perfect Portfolio, a division of REMii Group, Inc Speaker 6 # Michael Silvers - Executive Vice President Global Training for PowerTeam International Speaker #7 Zoe Lim - Zoe Abbott is a Financial Consultant, Entrepreneur and leader in the Financial Services Industry. Through education and non-judgemental but honest consulting, Zoe has helped thousands of families across the nation eliminate over 50 million dollars of debt while also assisting them to secure their financial future through investments, savings and insurance plans. Zoe is consistently working to expand across all areas of her life both personally and professionally. This past year Zoe has been on a health journey. She took her knowledge of having built a multiple six-figure income level business and applied those tools to health and fitness. She has lost over 160 pounds and transformed her relationship with her body. Zoe Abbott is passionate about helping others achieve financial security and ultimately the happiness that comes with having the freedom to explore passions and enjoy life now and into the future. Website - https://thezoeabbott.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thezoeabbott/ Speaker #8 Eric K. Hudson- Eric K. Hudson is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hudson Wealth Management, an investment advisory firm he established in 2018. From humble beginnings, Hudson was raised in Chicago, IL in lower-class socioeconomic environments and decided to focus on academics and athletics as his way out. Upon graduating high school, he shipped out to the south to study business management and play football for Alabama A&M University. After completing undergrad he went on to serve for several years in the U.S Army as a combat logistics officer to join the fight against terrorism. After his Army tenure, Hudson spent numerous years working in the building materials industry while also earning an MBA in finance along the way at Colorado Technical University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in finance while operating his wealth management firm. Aside from managing investments & financial planning, Hudson also enjoys fitness training, reading novels, speaking at conferences, publishing articles about investing, mentoring aspiring finance professionals, and volunteering for veteran-based programs. Speaker #9 James Laster - James Laster, M. Ed Master Financial Planner and CEO of James Laster Financial. James holds licenses in Life, Health, Annuities and Long Term Care. For over a decade he has been a proud member of the financial services industry. He loves serving his community of Ashburn, Virginia and carries the highly regarded title of being a certified Chapter President of SOFA, a 501c3 non-profit educating the public on financial wellness. James values education and studied diligently to earn a Master's of Administration from George Mason University. Please go visit James's website: https://lasterfinancial.com/james/ Speaker #10 Jennifer Watson- Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C., owner of Jennifer Watson Leadership, is a dynamic speaker and coach with a gift for intuitive and visionary coaching. She is an expert in wellness + leadership development, identity & mental edge enhancement, highperformance, post-trauma growth, movement & change adaptation, and soul-aligned living mastery. Incorporating her expertise along with her athletic gifts as a former collegiate athlete and All- American, she has had the honor to share here message on the TEDx stage, NBC, Fox Radio and top Summit/Podcasts. With 20 years experience in business and leadership management + wellness advocacy, she inspires those to unleash their potential and performance in all areas of their life. Her company, Jennifer Watson Leadership, elevates ambitious + conscious woman leaders to break free permanently their blocks keeping them stuck creating TRUE ALIGNMENT, redefine their unique gifts as leaders creating INTUITIVE LEADERSHIP, and reclaim their unique LEGACY creating SERVANT LEADERSHIP IMPACT. Her gift is truly to tap into the leaders “Jedi Flow State” in Wellness + Leadership and create their EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. In addition, Jennifer is the owner of Watson Wellness. She received her undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a Master of Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at Wisconsin Jennifer was also a member of the University of Wisconsin- Madison track & field team in which she received All-American honors. As she began her work, her interests began to grow outside the athletic arena. She has completed over 1000 hours of continuing education courses in mental health, manual therapy, functional orthopedics, and postural restoration. Her “bread & butter” is in unique and profound body work, Integrative Manual Therapy with certification from the Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy. Her areas of focus & expertise include high performance, gut health, brain health, mental health and a special interest in men & women's health. Jennifer Watson Leadership + Watson Wellness has given rise to Jennifer's great passion of supporting people in their journey to live their EPIC Health, their EPIC Leadership, and their EPIC Legacy that they were destined for. Jennifer's special interests and hobbies include hiking, running/ competitive racing, yoga, stand-up paddle and anything to do with the beach or mountains! She also enjoys reading, hanging with family & friends and takes special joy in hanging with her nephews. Jennifer has a passion for organizations that support Mental Wellness as well as active & retired Military. Sponsors: Ragne Sinikas - Founder of World Women Conference & Awards (WWCA), Women Entrepreneurs TV, Change Makers Coach, Public Speaker Michael D. Butler -CEO of Beyond Publishing, Book Publisher, Global Speaker, Media Coach Daniel Gomez- Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Executive Coach, Confidence Architect, and Author Melahni Ake- Melahni Ake, is the founder of Everyday Leaders Professional Coaching and Consulting, a Certified John Maxwell Team leadership coach, speaker and trainer, and as a Certified WHY Institute Agent she helps others Discover their own WHY, Melahni professional influence began at Walt Disney World and carried into financial services, fundraising and medical device sales and leadership. She believes in the power of our mindset to design our life with purpose. She is a popular Event Master of Ceremonies, Voice Actor, Leadership Podcast Host of Everyday Leaders 50in50, best selling author, motivational speaker and life strategy coach who challenges her clients to dream beyond their limiting beliefs and create better strategic ways to make sense out of the possibilities in front of them to change the world. What she knows is that When you know your WHY, and START with WHY, What You Do has more Impact. Dr. Lakisha James- Corporate event planner, Set Designer, Mentor, Author, and Atlanta Chapter Leader for World Women Conference & Awards
Richard Hua Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership & Chief EQ Evangelist at Amazon Proven leader with extensive experience in leading large, complex and globally distributed organizations. Developed and implemented innovative expansion strategies and groundbreaking programs across two continents. Possesses outstanding skill in evangelizing ideas, mentoring empathically, building teams and leading change initiatives, which transformed multiple organizations from bottom tier performers to top tier performers. Globally respected speaker with audiences as large as 10,000. Consistent track record of exceeding expectations for revenue goals and achieving the highest levels of customer satisfaction. Spearheaded training programs to evangelize cloud solutions, both with internal audiences and with external customers. Regularly commended by customers and colleagues for ability to add value through technical knowledge, communication skills, and mentoring expertise. Founded the Amazon Culture of Innovation program in the SF Bay Area and regularly present innovation briefings to senior executives of the world's largest corporations. Launched emotional intelligence training programs at multiple companies which have impacted thousands of people across by enabling their professional, personal, and interpersonal success. Highly refined ability to synthesize information and communicate insights and solutions. Utilized this skill to earn a perfect score of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Earned a Bachelor's of Science with Honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Awarded the university's most prestigious distinction, the Regents' & Chancellor's Scholarship. On today Show we Talk about: We dive into what is the Amazon “6 pager” and how it is used to propose a new idea? What are the 4-pillars of innovation? What is “Day 1” of the internet? How should someone train their mind to make it through tough times? Connect with Rich Hua https://www.linkedin.com/in/richhua/ richhua@amazon.com richardhua.co Sam Wong https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-wong-startup/ sam@execmatters.com https://www.fundablestartups.com/
It was a pleasure interviewing Kristoffer Carter, author of Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership. Kristoffer is also a speaker, coach, and retreat leader. He has coached top executives from businesses such as Amazon and AT&T, using his 4 Permissions Framework. This was a fantastic book and I really enjoyed taking a deep dive into the different parts of the book and how it relates back to his overall spiritual teachings of the intersection of consciousness and business. Book Topics we will discuss: Permission to Chill Permission to Feel all the Feels Permission to Glow in the Dark Permission to Glow in the Light To learn more about Kristoffer, click on the links below: Website: https://www.thisepiclife.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/permissiontoglowbook/ https://www.instagram.com/kristoffercarter/ Book: Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership Sign up for the February 7th FREE Overcoming Time Famine Masterclass here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SYLWmWPITVi0SAjkhie8xQ To learn more about my services and to stay connected, visit me at: Website: Advocate to Win Instagram: @imheatherhansen Sign up for your 15 Minute consultation:https://calendly.com/advocatetowin/15min Also, don't forget to Subscribe to the Advocate with Elegance FREE private podcast here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/613921e87accb4c0210201c5
Jennifer Watson is a Tedx Speaker and a motivational speaker. Also, Jennifer is the owner of Jennifer Watson Leadership, and she is a dynamic speaker and coach with a gift for intuitive and visionary coaching. She is an expert in wellness + leadership development, identity & mental edge enhancement, high- performance, post-trauma growth, movement & change adaptation, and soul-aligned living mastery. Incorporating her expertise along with her athletic gifts as a former collegiate athlete and All- American, she has had the honor to share here message on the TEDx stage, NBC, Fox Radio and top Summit/Podcasts. With 20 years experience in business and leadership management + wellness advocacy, she inspires those to unleash their potential and performance in all areas of their life. Her company, Jennifer Watson Leadership, elevates ambitious + conscious woman leaders to break free permanently their blocks keeping them stuck creating TRUE ALIGNMENT, redefine their unique gifts as leaders creating INTUITIVE LEADERSHIP, and reclaim their unique LEGACY creating SERVANT LEADERSHIP IMPACT. Her gift is truly to tap into the leaders “Jedi Flow State” in Wellness + Leadership and create their EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. In addition, Jennifer is the owner of Watson Wellness. She received her undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a Master of Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at Wisconsin Jennifer was also a member of the University of Wisconsin- Madison track & field team in which she received All-American honors. As she began her work, her interests began to grow outside the athletic arena. She has completed over 1000 hours of continuing education courses in mental health, manual therapy, functional orthopedics, and postural restoration. Her “bread & butter” is in unique and profound body work, Integrative Manual Therapy with certification from the Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy. Her areas of focus & expertise include high performance, gut health, brain health, mental health and a special interest in men & women's health. Jennifer Watson Leadership + Watson Wellness has given rise to Jennifer's great passion of supporting people in their journey to live their EPIC Health, their EPIC Leadership, and their EPIC Legacy that they were destined for. “Optimizing Your Unique Creative Power” | Jennifer Watson | TEDxWPIYouTube · TEDx TalksAug 29, 2019 www.jenniferwatsonleadership.com
On this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Kristoffer “KC” Carter about his book, Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership, and how it has changed his life and business.
What role can yoga and meditation play in the business world? Can leaders use these unconventional methods as an epic spiritual guide? How do you use empowering techniques to coach executives and corporations toward greater success? Today our guest is Kristoffer "KC" Carter, author of Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership, which outlines the first of four permissions that will create a long-term framework for Kristofer's works. He's the author of Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership, as well as an international speaker and retreat leader who teaches at the intersection of consciousness and business. We begin our conversation by exploring what KC means by "spiritual leader," and how meditation connects to business and thought leadership. Techniques like yoga and Transcendental Meditation are being used by high-profile CEOs around the world, and KC's methods bring those insights into the business world. KC discusses the ways that spirituality and meditation are critical to business leadership, and how he's pushing past the barriers of skepticism to bring deep insights to leaders from the Fortune 100 as well as newly-minted start-ups. He uses mindset to help leaders find clarity, and commit to the things that energize, inspire, and ignite them. KC's deep knowledge of instructional design is being put to good use, creating a strong thought leadership IP that is teachable, and requires only 15 minutes a day for leaders to change their lives. He shares details on his coaching certification program, allowing others to manage relationships within their organization and take back control of their lives. If you are curious about how spiritually can give your business a boost, KC's insights and thought leadership are a great place to start. Listen in, and it might just make your life epic, too! Three Key Takeaways: · Help organizations justify the expense of bringing in your thought leadership by providing benchmarks, methods for measuring success, and hard data to back up your content. · Creating a program of certified coaches to deliver your Thought Leadership is a great way to take your message to scale. · Without proper instructional design, your thought leadership programs could feel like nothing more than speaking notes. Take some time, and prepare for success!
To bring light and peace to other people's lives and transform them could be one of the greatest gifts one could give. Join your host Alicia Dunams as she talks with Kristoffer Carter about a spiritual guide to an epic leadership. Kristoffer is a spiritual teacher at the intersection of consciousness and business. He is the founder of This Epic Life, a website and podcast devoted to conscious living, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. Rooted in yoga's ancient science of union with spirit, Permission to Glow offers four paths from panic, to peace, to power. Tune into this episode to dig deeper on what's holding you back and give us insights on the four permissions. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! http://aliciadunams.com/
On Tuesday's "The Extra", we featured guest Kristoffer Carter, an author/speaker/consultant who works with executives in the business world and recently had published a new book, Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership which was named by Men's Journal as one of the best self-help books of 2021. Carter talked about completing 2021 strong, and making room for your best possible 2022, as well as specific ways you can prepare for a fresh new year, no matter how busy and demanding your holiday plans are. More at thisepiclife.com.
Adversity: “It's been the greatest gift for me.” ^Lance Essihos, our speaker today on the Soul Purpose Leadership Podcast! Episode 71 is here and we are getting nitty gritty into the ART of adversity, because we believe adversity might actually be the true “nuts and bolts” of EPIC leadership. Lance Essihos is the host of the University of Adversity Podcast, which has ranked Top 50 on iTunes Worldwide! After a whirlwind of major obstacles, Lance has pivoted his mindset to view adversity as a necessary ally to fulfillment and personal development, and now works to foster unity in allying adversity. What does adversity mean to you? “I believe adversity is the catalyst for greatness. It's coming for you whether you like it or not… you're going to be faced with these things, and you have an opportunity each time to embrace, learn, and grow from it… or retreat, and play the victim.” -Lance Essihos We chat about trying to help people see adversity for what it is and help change our perspective. As Lance says, we're all going “through it,” and it's not easy. But “adversity is a game.” Ready or not, here it comes, so let's just play with it! Let's dance with it, move with it… “it doesn't have to be the be-all end-all.” We also discuss how adversity refreshes your identity and makes you more malleable as a person, which is a SUPERPOWER! Soul Purpose Leadership Episode 71: “The Art of Adversity: The True “Nuts & Bolts" of EPIC Leadership” is live + streaming on your go-to podcast app. We can't wait to hear your thoughts. Connect with Lance via IG We'd love to hear your thoughts via an iTunes rating/review, and be sure to connect with us on Instagram and Facebook @jenniferwatsonleadership. Music by HookSounds
Kristoffer Carter is a spiritual teacher at the intersection of consciousness and business. He is the founder of This Epic Life, a website and podcast devoted to conscious living, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. He is also an author, international speaker and executive coach. In his latest book ‘Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership', he reveals how to lean in to what makes us all ‘glow'.I had a great time catching up with Kristoffer, and hearing about his relationship with fear. We also spoke about the four types of permission such as feeling ‘the feels', the power of compounding effects, how to overcome ‘work for work's sake' – and some interesting parallels with WrestleMania. Talking Points Why we need to give ourselves more permission The four types of permission Lessons learnt from wrestlers Leaning in to your big scary dream Working with coaches and the power of practising Quote"Learn to dance with the ever-presence of fear."Helpful Links This Epic Life ‘Permission to Glow' by Kristoffer Carter ‘A Minute to Think' by Juliet Funt Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up (ft. Kate Bush) Want to discover some of the books mentioned on the podcast? Check out Scribd, my reading app of choice. If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. Also don't forget to check out all of our podcast sponsors found on our podcast sponsors page. If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Glowing in the dark is the work of being a patient warrior for our gifts. Our light is the medicine our aching planet needs.” KC flips the traditional leadership script, giving us permission to pause, chill, breathe, and shine. We discuss unicorn symbology, vulnerability in launching big creative projects, identifying work that aligns with your soul, and what we can all learn from the art of making mix tapes. More About KC: Kristoffer Carter is the founder of This Epic Life, a website devoted to conscious leadership, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. He is the creator of The 4 Permissions framework, which guide his coaching of executive leaders at Amazon, AT&T, eXp Realty, Edward Jones, and many more. KC is also a professional songwriter, TEDx speaker, and international retreat leader. He lives in Akron, OH with his wife of 22 years and their three children, the "Carter Force Five." We're discussing his first book, just released, Permission to GLOW— A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership. ❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you'll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private feed.
Kristoffer Carter is a spiritual teacher at the intersection of consciousness and business. He is a frequent speaker, author, and founder of This Epic Life, a website and podcast devoted to conscious living. In this episode, Eric and Kristoffer discuss his book, Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership.But wait – there's more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It's that simple and we'll give you good stuff as a thank you!Enrollment for the Spiritual Habits Group Program is now open through October 12. Click here to learn more and signup!In This Interview, Eric and Kristoffer Discuss Permissions to Glow and …His book, Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic LeadershipDeveloping a conscious awareness of our internal experienceHow a meditation practice strengthens our ability to listen to the inner voiceThe “frenemies” within usSurrendering the ego and having trust in othersHow he brings spirituality into his work with corporate leadership training Giving ourselves permission to claim our own power“Permission to Chill” and pausing to see things as they areThe 3 phases of meditation“Permission to Feel all the Feels” “Permission to Glow in the Dark” and befriending the darkness“Permission to Glow in the Light” and connecting with othersKristoffer Carter's Links:Kristoffer's WebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterLinked InNovo Nordisk – Explore the science behind weight loss and partner with your healthcare provider for a healthy approach to your weight management.If you enjoyed this conversation with Kristoffer Carter, you might also enjoy these other episodes:Kristoffer Carter (2014)Tasha Eurich on Growing Self-AwarenessTransformative Mindfulness with Shauna ShapiroSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
What does it mean for us to reclaim our power and unlock our highest purpose? In his new book, “Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership”, executive coach and meditation expert KC Carter returns to the podcast to show us how to transcend overwhelm and disruption, step into our full potential, and become a guiding light for others. Tune into learn how you can expand your capacity to lead, hold more of what life throws at you, and simultaneously unleash the collective power of others.
I first met Kristoffer Carer nearly a decade ago when he raised his hand to participate in the inaugural Good Life Project immersion. It was a yearlong deep dive into work and life that we ran for about 5 years. Kristoffer or KC as most people call him, was running fast. I wasn't sure if he was running toward something as much as he was running from it. In the end, like most of us, it was probably both. A married dad of three living in Ohio and working at a Chicago ad-tech startup after exiting life as a touring musician, he stumbled upon a book that would change the direction of his life. Our lives intersected just as that existential reimagining was shifting into high gear. There was this moment during our first weekend together, 15 strangers who'd become fast family in an industrial space in downtown Manhattan. I caught him out of the corner of my eye, sitting cross-legged against a 100-year-old wall of leaded windows, the light pouring in behind him. Hands laying open over his knees as he sat in meditation. It was a moment of powerful foreshadowing. In the ensuing years, KC would become an initiate of Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship, a Kriyaban yogi meditating hours a day. He'd find himself exiting his career to carve his own path, bridging the worlds of spirituality and business as an executive coach, founder of This Epic Life consultancy, and someone who remains fiercely devoted to bringing all parts of himself - the deeply spiritual yogi, the bouncing-off-the-walls kid and musician, the wise mentor, husband, and dad - to everything he does. In his words, full life integration. And along the way, he developed his own philosophy he calls the four permissions, which also happens to be the focus of KC's new book, Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership.You can find KC at: Website | InstagramIf you LOVED this episode:You'll also love the conversations we had with Daniel Goleman about meditation, which it turns out, changes you, on the level of DNA.My new book is available!Order Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive today!Check out our offerings & partners: Sarah Flint Shoes: Comfort-driven design, with features like arch support and extra footbed padding. Sarah Flint shoes are handcrafted in Italy by the artisans who make the highest quality luxury shoes in the world. Get $50 off your first Sarah Flint purchase when you go to SarahFlint.com/GOODLIFEEverlane: Shop Everlane for the most beautiful essentials, at the best factories, without traditional markups. Go to everlane.com/goodlife and sign up for 10% off your first order plus free shipping. And get easy returns within 30 days of your ship date.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
I'm thrilled to be joined in this episode by Katie Ceccarini, founder of Endurance Management Coaching. She is an executive coach and trainer who works with leaders to empower their vision and unleash their strengths. She is also an endurance athlete and mom.In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground. Katie first shares her own career journey and her career transition to becoming a business owner, trainer, and coach. She shares what prompted her to leave Corporate, lean into what was drawing her next, and how a shift in life stage coupled with the pandemic led her to think differently about the work+life she wanted to craft for herself.We delve into leadership and the work that Katie does as a coach. She shares tips on improving leader effectiveness and shares one of her pet peeves, the focus on “fake it till you make it.” She'd say it's much more powerful to be vulnerable, be genuinely curious, and find footing in purpose and making it matter.We close with some wise tips on how Katie leads a full life while staying in sync with her life vision and keeping herself sustained and whole.Thanks so much for being on with me, Katie! SO many good, clear tenets you share in this episode for people to take forward and apply in their lives, careers, and as leaders.Resources MentionedFind Katie:Endurance Boss: https://www.enduranceboss.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-ceccarini/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enduranceboss/Want to work with Katie? Find her here: https://www.enduranceboss.com/contactOther episodes mentioned:Episode #29 - On Permission to Glow & Epic Leadership with Kristoffer Carter: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/29Episode #30 - On Work + Life as a Breadwinning Woman with Bethanie Baynes: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/30If you're looking to learn more about strengths, check out Episode #8 - On Paying Attention & Knowing Your Strengths with Maghan Haggerty: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/8Thanks for Listening!If you liked this episode, please rate, review, and share the episode. Thank you so much!Get show notes for this episode at https://sustainableambition.com/podcast I'd love to hear what's on your mind! Take the Sustainable Ambition Listener Survey: http://bit.ly/sapodcast-survey Submit a question or comment for future episodes at podcast@SustainableAmbition.com Get my curated bi-weekly Sustainable Ambition Forum newsletter. Sign up https://sustainableambition.com/subscribe
How does Lisa, a mom and pawnbroker, manage her team and family and at the same time serve the industry and her community? Every pawnbroker should listen and learn from her! From issues she faced as a leader to epic pieces of advice to new pawnbrokers, you will get a ton of value in this episode. Join our discussion, and be sure to check us out in the Pawn Connect Community.
In this episode, I'm speaking with Kristoffer Carter (“KC”) who is a spiritual teacher at the intersection of consciousness and business. He is the founder of This Epic Life, a website and podcast devoted to conscious living, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. We discuss KC's new book, “Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership.” The book is available for pre-order on September 7 and comes out on October 5.Don't get scared off by this episode if you aren't a spiritual person! I suggest you be open to the power of what KC is “preaching.” This is all about ways to open ourselves up to truly lead in all aspects of our lives and do so in a way that is sustainable. KC might say this is “soul level work,” and it's about being able to show up in your life as your true, unapologetic self and to allow others to do the same.So if you're looking to up your leadership game in any area of your life and to find more capacity for what life is throwing at you, then KC's 4 Permissions™ framework can help unlock new potential and give you insight into building more Sustainable Ambition.Resources MentionedFind KC at: thisepiclife.comThe book: permissiontoglowbook.com#PermissionToGlowBookKC on LinkedIn: @kristoffercarterInstagram: @permissiontoglowbookGet meditating with KC at Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/thisepiclifeBook KC mentions, "Permission to Feel," by Marc Brackett: https://www.marcbrackett.com/about/book-permission-to-feel/Thanks for Listening!If you liked this episode, please rate, review, and share the episode. Thank you so much!Get show notes for this episode at https://sustainableambition.com/podcast I'd love to hear what's on your mind! Take the Sustainable Ambition Listener Survey: http://bit.ly/sapodcast-survey Submit a question or comment for future episodes at podcast@SustainableAmbition.com Get my curated bi-weekly Sustainable Ambition Forum newsletter. Sign up https://sustainableambition.com/subscribe
On today's podcast, we get to talk to Kristoffer Carter (“KC”) who is the founder of This Epic Life and the author of Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership. KC shares how spirituality is a key part of the conversation when you are a leader and or entrepreneur and why spirituality should not be stripped from the corporate world. KC shares his powerful 4 Permission ™ Framework and gives us insight on how and why we all need to start with the first Permission, which is Permission to Chill. Take a listen and share your takeaways with us on Instagram @OneWade and @Permissiontoglowbook . Want more chill vibes in your life? Head on over to Centered in the City and sign up for our 7 day free trial. Build sustainable practices in your life that will help you feel more calm, focused and energized. You will have over 150+ meditations, mindful movements, mindful cooking and eating recipes and introspective journaling prompts all to support you feeling more centered in this chaotic world. ***** Kristoffer Carter (“KC”) is the founder of This Epic Life, a training organization for conscious leadership, which has created a daily meditation practice for thousands. He is the creator of The 4 Permissions™ framework, which guide his coaching of Fortune 100 executive leaders at Amazon, AT&T, eXp Realty, Edward Jones, and many more. ‘KC' is also a professional songwriter, TEDx speaker, and international retreat leader. He lives in Akron, OH. For more info, visit thisepiclife.com.
Are there things you want to accomplish in life, but something is holding you back? In this week's episode of Mike Behind the Mic, we get some insight into how to overcome those roadblocks from one of the most sought after coaches to the executives, Kristoffer Carter. The author, speaker and consultant has worked with executives with top companies like AT&T, Amazon and Edward Jones and has a book due out this fall titled, Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership. But instead of yet another discussion on leadership skills, we focused more on people like you and me. Those of us just trying to tackle some challenges to move forward with our lives. Here's our conversation and I hope it helps someone on the fence between standing pat or moving forward.
Getting promoted to manager is easy. Advancing to be an executive leader takes a whole new strategy and set of skills you've never needed and no one taught you. In this episode of Career Confidante Radio, host Marie Zimenoff welcomes Lori Howard, Executive Career Coach. They discuss how to get the visibility you need, how to lead through disruption and make an impact, how to get that promotion, how to get support, and more. If you want to learn the process that is key to leadership success, listen in!
Getting promoted to manager is easy. Advancing to be an executive leader takes a whole new strategy and set of skills you've never needed and no one taught you. In this episode of Career Confidante Radio, host Marie Zimenoff welcomes Lori Howard, Executive Career Coach. They discuss how to get the visibility you need, how to lead through disruption and make an impact, how to get that promotion, how to get support, and more. If you want to learn the process that is key to leadership success, listen in!
Today, I'm blessed to share the show with an extraordinary leader from my Alma Mater, Jennifer Watson. I was first introduced to Jennifer through a mastermind group online and was shocked that one of the first things I saw on her Instagram page was her dancing, in a bikini, in the snow. But it's that kind of fiery love of life that makes her and the way she leads so very special.On this episode, we're talking about how to find your quantum identity. I promise, it isn't as complicated as it might sounds and I know you will fall in love with Jennifer, just like I did.WHO IS JENNIFER WATSON?Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C., owner of Jennifer Watson Leadership, is a dynamic speaker and coach with a gift for intuitive and visionary coaching. She is an expert in wellness + leadership development, identity & mental edge enhancement, post-trauma growth, movement & change adaptation, soul-aligned living mastery. Incorporating her expertise along with her athletic gifts as a former collegiate athlete and All American, she has had the honor to share her message on the TEDx stage, NBC, Fox Radio and top Podcasts. With 20 years' experience in business and leadership management and health + wellness advocacy, she inspires those to unleash their potential and performance in all areas of their life. Her company, Jennifer Watson Leadership, elevates high-performing, conscious business leaders to get rid of permanently their spiritual blocks keeping them stuck (TRUE WELLNESS), redefine and fan their unique gifts as leaders (TRUE IDENTITY), and reclaim their true VALUE and purpose (TRUE LEGACY). Her gift is truly to tap into the leaders “Zone of Genius” in Wellness + Leadership and create their EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. In addition, Jennifer is the owner of Watson Wellness. She received her undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a Master of Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at Wisconsin Jennifer was also a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison track & field team in which she received All-American honors. As she began her work, her interests began to grow outside the athletic arena. She has completed over 800 hours of continuing education courses in manual therapy, functional orthopedics, and postural restoration. Her “bread & butter” is in unique and profound body work, Integrative Manual Therapy with certification from the Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy. Her areas of focus & expertise include high performance, gut health, brain health, mental health and a special interest in men & women's health. Jennifer Watson Leadership + Watson Wellness has given rise to Jennifer's great passion of supporting people in their journey to live their EPIC Health, their EPIC Leadership, and their EPIC Legacy that they were destined for. Jennifer's special interests and hobbies include hiking, running/competitive racing, yoga, stand-up paddle, and anything to do with the beach or mountains! She also enjoys reading, hanging with family & friends and takes special joy in hanging with her nephews. Jennifer has a passion for organizations that support Mental Wellness as well as active & retired Military.HOW IT STARTEDJennifer recognizes that being an athlete has shaped her in ways as a leader that are beneficial, along with some attributes that may not be beneficial. BENEFICIAL QUALITIES GAINED FROM BEING AN ATHLETE:· Perseverance· Communication· Teamwork· Getting up time and time again after failure · Refining your craftSOMETHING THAT IS NOT BENEFICIAL THAT CAME FROM BEING AN ATHLETE:· Equating performance and success to significance and loveJennifer emphasizes the importance of separating success and significance and that these two things do not equal each other. Your success is not your identity.WHERE SHOULD YOUR IDENTITY COME FROM?Jennifer realizes that many people connect their identity to something they are good at and when that thing has to stop or comes to an end on its own, it can be detrimental. “How to separate your identity from something you're good at is highly, highly important as leaders.”Our success is very subjective, and Jennifer teaches leaders how to constantly be separating who they are without all the “bells and whistles.” The way we get to our true identity, is if you took all these “successful” things away and see what would be left. “Identity is who you're being without thinking about it.”THE FIRST STEP: SELF-AWARENESSJennifer believes the first step towards finding your identity is being self-aware of what you're made up of. Why you do the things you do, where your beliefs come from. Rattling off the things you do, is not who you are.During this step, you may find certain beliefs or behaviors that you find yourself doing, but that really don't feel like you. This then allows you to move into self-actualization and fanning into flames your giftings and passions in order to make a difference. BETRAYAL OF SELFThe worst form of betrayal is not being the person you were meant to be. It doesn't feel good when you first realize you may be living true to who you are. But no one has the same blueprint as you and no one's path is your path. As humans, we need connection, and we need our tribe. But we have to be careful to not allow the dopamine rushes from the praises we get for doing things well lead us down a path that we aren't supposed to be on. Jennifer talks about how she dealt with depression after she stopped playing sports because she found herself asking, “Who am I without sports?” We have to take time to find out who we truly are so that we can pick the right tribe. “You shouldn't want to be a part of a group that's not speaking your language just to be a part of something.”When you self-betray, you're not only hurting yourself, but you're also hurting the people around you. It takes courage to be yourself and find those who resonate with you. This can be hard for people because we don't like rejection. But it's so worth it in the end.CREATING BOUNDARIESAs we evolve and continue to grow as we learn in this process, family and friends who knew you before may not be as easy to get along with. Jennifer discusses the importance of knowing what your yes's are and what your no's are. As these people are seeing a different part of you and may not be getting you like they used to, it's so important to know who you are and what you stand for. You can then set boundaries around these factors.EX: You may limit the time you spend with certain people. It's also important to recognize when someone no longer belongs in your life. It's not that these people are bad, it just means you are in different spaces. You are responsible for your intentions, but not their response.This also applies when leading a team. The 90-day probation period is a great time to learn boundaries and how that person will fit into your business, or not.ACTION STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TODAY1. CONTRAST. Write things down you want to try to find what you like and don't like. Start with things that are polar opposites. EX: If you don't know whether you're truly an extrovert or introvert, go to a party and then go by yourself into the woods.2. Just sit and create space. This allows your mind to start bringing up old beliefs and behaviors that don't serve you anymore but may also be playing out in your current life. It then allows your brain to problem solve these issues.“Let's make epic-ness happen.”MORE FROM JENNIFER WATSONTune into the episode to hear Jennifer share in more details about finding your true identity and what it takes to get to being the real you. Follow Jennifer on Instagram @jenniferwatsonleadership or on LinkedIn: Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C. Jennifer answers her own DMs and would love to help you live your true identity and be the leader you were meant to become! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ambitious women have two choices when it comes to love and leadership. Want to know what they are? Well you definitely want to listen to this epic with Nadeen Matthews-Blair, Chief Digital & Chief Marketing Officer at the National Commercial Bank, Jamaica. Nadeen shares her unique #ladyboss journey which has some unexpected pivots that all contributed to her success as a female leader. She also shares her beliefs on making choices in the space of love relationships. This includes insights on choosing your romantic love partner, how you are being with your children and how you are loving yourself.
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