Conscious Capitalism Begins with Mindful Leadership

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
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It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
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with us today, is A Partner, saying she's a life and business strategist.

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She served as an advisor to help
European startups enter the Silicon Valley in

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the US market, working for e
T Digital. A Partner was also appointed

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as a Fellow on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
in the US Department of State, focusing

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on President Obama's goal of building entrepreneurial
ecosystems around the world. Among other interesting

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experiences she's had. Today A Partner
brings her passion for mindfulness, meditation,

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and yoga to explore the inner dimension
and create a life of purpose, passion,

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and joy. She also serves as
the executive director of the Conscious Capitalism

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Washington, d C. Chapter.
We'll be talking about conscious capitalism and the

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importance of ongoing inner work and meditation
and mindfulness in our leaders or leadership.

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She joins you today from Washington,
DC. A Partner, Welcome to working

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on purpose. Thank you so much
to scited honor to be here. Well,

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I'm so grateful our paths crossed.
As you may know, I am

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a member here of the Conscious Capitalism
Dallas chapter and you and I interacted on

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LinkedIn about coming on the show,
and we had some great things to converse

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over in some common interests, and
I said, let's do it, and

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you said yes, Yeah, this
is one of my favorite topics. So

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especially working on purpose is everything I
live for and have for a long time.

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So isn't it great that we found
this community of conscious capitalism. It's

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a great community to be part of. And with that, in fact,

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a part I really wanted to open
this conversation with the conscious Capitalism creato.

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I just think it's really fantastic.
It's such an inspiring way to start.

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So here's what it's says, listeners. We believe that business is good because

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it creates value. It is ethical
because it is based on voluntary exchange.

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It is noble because it can elevate
our existence, and it is heroic because

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it lifts people out of poverty and
creates prosperity. Free enterprise capitalism is the

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most powerful system for social cooperation and
human progress every conceived. It is one

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of the most compelling ideas we humans
have ever had. But we can aspire

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to even more. Isn't that beautiful? A partner I think it's just it's

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inspiring, it's something to it's something
to step into every day exactly, and

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it's just an honor that now we
can you know, it's something that I've

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played it for probably my entire professional
life. But I'm so glad we're able

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to now talk about it openly in
our in our work community, you know,

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and people are actually excited speaking more
passion and herbots in their work.

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Absolutely, And I don't know if
there's anything of a teacher that that statement

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says to you beyond what we just
talked about, anything about that statement really

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inspire and compel you. Well,
I think for me, the most important

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thing that really inspires is inspiring to
me. And why I love the organ

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version is because you know, M, we're having a hard time hearing you

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a partner. You think your connection
is not very good? Can you hear

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me? The position business advocates sometimes
business a capitalism. It's a bad rap.

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But if it's done consciously, that's
going to get into the deep learning

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and the wisdom and also be able
to really create last the impact. Yeah,

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you cut out there for a little
bit there, so we may miss

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some of that. But before I
forget, let me. Let me remind

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our listeners or tell our listeners that
if you are listening live to this program

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right now on W four C,
why you can use a chat function to

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interact with us and ask questions or
comment. So those questions that commist will

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be directed to me. So if
you want to do so, go for

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it. So whatever you were starting
to say there, Mike, cue up

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to what I was going to ask
you next? Anyway, up, partner,

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But I wanted us to first talk
about conscious capitalism. That's what a

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lot of this conversation today is about. So I think it's helpful for us

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to distinguish for our listeners what we
mean by that. So you're the executive

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director of the Conscious Capitalism DC chapter. I'm a member of the Dallas chapter.

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So help our listeners understand what does
conscious capitalism mean? How is it

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different from just regular capitalism? We
also, well, well, I'll also

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follow a parables that we will call
all folks alcohol starting to says and in

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follows me about possi poperism, that
capitalism there's always a major force for good,

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and then there are something way capitalism
has helped us lift ourselves from poverty,

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bring good for you know, helping
create massive movements of guiding Thesese,

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and now we're able to actually have
businesses and organizations that pride themselves on being

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consciously oriented. So it's such an
important especially at this day and age.

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I think capitalism coming together is really
important because we want to create business that

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is a force for good. I
think somewhere in there we lost track of

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the fact that capitalism is always intended
to help and lift communities off of poverty

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in all and really alleviate some of
the big social issues that we're facing time,

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you know, a Pardner, I
just I'm thinking about this, and

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I'm sure I won't get this right, but I'll get the gist of it

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just about right. So a couple
of days ago I read something in the

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Wall Street Journal. So this is
we're speaking on August twentieth, twenty nineteen,

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and so it's a couple of days
ago, and it had something to

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do with how in the s SEC
documentation it used to be that the primary

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directive of companies was to deliver value
for shareholders, and now that's been replaced

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by to also include serving employees,
customers, and society at large, which

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I thought was incredible I don't know
when that happened. Do you know anything

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about this change? You know,
I didn't know about the change, but

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it should have been a long time
ago, right, Yeah, I don't

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think it was that long ago,
so I have to I should. Maybe

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one of our listeners will be able
to dig this up and let us know.

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It'd be great to hear back from
the listeners if you do find that

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article in the Wall Street Journal that
we're talking about here. So next I

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want to be able to bring this
back to you again because you have really

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quite a very unique lens on the
world. So why is conscious capitalism important

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to you? Such that you are
the executive director of the DC chapter?

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Why do that? There's a lot
of other places you can come play,

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Yeah, exactly. So for me, it's actually really important because I am

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really inspired by all things conscious and
so what that means is that I have

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had a chance to work in a
lot of different corporate settings now and I've

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always been very very driven towards success. But by the same token, I've

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always had a really deep practice,
a self practice and the self awareness practice.

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And now with conscious and capitalism coming
together, I think consciousness starts with

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the individual so no matter what your
role is within a company or what you're

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aspiring towards, unless and until we
create a community of consciously aware individuals,

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it is very difficult to get into
conscious capitalism. And I am inspired by

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the fact that I can take some
of my Eastern wisdom around self awareness,

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self discovering, mindfulness, and so
forth and bring it to the forefront in

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a way that we can create business
as a force for good. I love

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that. And again to make this
topic, which maybe for some of our

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listeners who are maybe new to conscious
capitalism, bring it really more to a

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concrete or a visible place for them. How does conscious capitalisms serve communities?

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Well, so right now, I
mean in the way the organizations has grown

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is pretty tremendous. Actually, I
started out with being actively involved in the

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San Francisco chapter, and when I
moved to DUC in a conversation with John

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Mackey, I mentioned that I would
like to bring it to the Washington,

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DC area. And the way it
really makes is really important in business today

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is that people are actually able to
As an organization, we have chapters all

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around the world, So we have
sixty plus chapters all over the world,

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and we're able to bring this whole
notion of business for good. You know,

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we started by the book that John
Mackey wrote on concient Capitalism around Whole

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Foods and how when you walk into
the whole food store, the idea is

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to get away from just thinking of
it as a grocery store, but thinking

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of it as a playground for whole
helping way of life. So when you

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walk into a Whole Foods, you
notice that the produce section is the larger

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section, and it's almost like it
feels really good to walk in there,

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inviting individual to really connect with the
wholeness and the things that we're kind of

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at the very core of our wholeness, like whole foods, you know,

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healthy foods and fruits and vegetables and
everything that contributes to creating all individuals.

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And now with this organization we are
allowed we're taking this whole message all over

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the world to talk about how important
it is to carry that for it.

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So it goes beyond our diet,
but it also gets into other realms of

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our whole being. And one of
the most important realms of that is our

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work and our professional life. So
I don't know if you if you remember

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the quotes around. You know,
someone said that there are two really important

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days in our life. The first
most important days when we're born, and

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then the second most important day is
when we find purpose in our life and

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what our true purposes. So each
one of us has a purpose that we

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are here for, and once we
dial into that purpose, we are no

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longer famous foot scream of pushing ourselves, where we are actually being pulled and

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guided by our markets. So I've
been organization. We really also promote purpose

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driven leadership, so people who are
in line with our purpose naturally become better

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conscious leaders. And then those kind
of people are really inspiring to work with

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and for I completely agree upon,
and I just have to chime in because,

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as you know, a big part
of the work that I'm doing today

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is to help people to discover their
passion, inspiration, and purpose and bring

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it into their lives, into their
work, and absolutely into their leadership.

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And what I've been really focused on
of late is I heard Karen Hoyas say

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that right now, only one percent
of the world is fully living their purpose.

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When we get to three percent,
she says, human consciousness will be

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raised such that peace is actually possible. So I begin to think that,

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well, what if our whole reason
for being here on earth is to discover

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our purpose and then to struggle mightily
to serve it and fulfill it and bring

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it no matter what it takes in
order to make that contribution. What if

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that's the whole reason we're here.
So I really do stand for helping people

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discover their purpose because I know the
magic of that what happens when they do,

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absolutely And and I love all the
great works you're doing, and I

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mean, just imagine, I can't
believe we're just that one percent. So

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just in order to get through a
really consciously awakened society, even if we

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can move that needle, just like
you said, to three percent or even

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higher numbers, imagine a world that
would just where everybody is truly awakened to

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their purpose and working. You know, we would be able to create.

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What we would be able to create
is probably in more this I found it.

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I think it's might would be mind
blowing. And then that's a that's

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a that's a vision and a future
that I'm willing to get up for every

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morning and work toward for sure.
So so with that in mind, then

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kind of going back to the overall
just of what we're talking about here,

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Why do you think more people don't
practice conscious capitalism or even work to find

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their purpose. Yeah, so that's
actually a two part answers. So from

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a business standpoint, I think what's
what happened is, you know, when

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we are, when we live in
a capitalistic society, a lot of the

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measurements are around the amount of money
we're bringing in and the investor value that

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they sharehold their value that we're driving
towards. So a lot of times people

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think, well, if we're going
to do that, we need to stay

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focused on that and not get caught
up in some of these other things.

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And a lot of there's a misconception
there around if you are a consciously driven

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business, you're not necessarily going to
be the most profit of bishole business,

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you know, that business. Somehow
we lost track of the fact that business

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was always there for good and not
necessarily something that has to be so cut

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throat, if not necessarily the survival
of the fittest. But we're creating communities

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and really through healthy competition you're really
able to create innovation and change and really

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creates a good in it in the
world. Now, when we get into

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the individual level, I think,
truly and totally honestly, to find our

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true purpose in this world, it
takes some work, It takes some digging,

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of God being touched that you're going
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program and then you're going to come
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a lot of times it doesn't translate
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because it really impacts your livelihoods.
You're a bil to you. You get

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and it can get messy. To
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to maybe why their purpose hasn't shown
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you for that. And on that
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I'm your host, Alice Cortez.
We're on the air with a partner,

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saying she is a life and business
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meditation, and yoga to explore the
interdimension and creates a life of purpose,

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passion, and joy with the people
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me. She has served as an
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Valley market working for EI Digital,
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meditation and y'll go to explore the
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passion and joy. She also serves
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Capitalism Washington EC chapter. She joined
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I wanted to focus on my infulness
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work you're doing in that space and
couldn't agree more that these are really strong

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anchors for each of us to develop
individual and certainly as leaders. So I

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know you help leaders develop mindfulness as
part of what you're offering today, will

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you talk with us first about why
this practice is so important as a leader.

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From your vantage point, I think
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a leader can do. And the
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all is a sense of self awareness
and discipline. I think a lot of

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leaders have a lot of discipline in
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self awareness which allows them to connect
with themselves and which is the single most

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important thing before you can connect with
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once you're self aware, and the
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the more enhance your ability is to
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be employees or even your customers or
people around you. And then people that

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are self aware, especially leaders who
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they're pleasant to be around. There
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with and working for and with.
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feeling safer to be more creative and
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path of innovation and creativity. So
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are truly self aware, they are
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and creativity in the organization, And
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like Job who although he was he's
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but he had a strong self awareness
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that he was able to really think
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different things in different situations where he
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And to this day, even as
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able to really benefit from all that
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his five hundred seventy six page biography, which was incredibly powerful to learn more

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about Steve Jobs in his life and
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was why I started using Apple products
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But so so for our listeners and
me frankly, how can we or

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how do we maybe help help ourselves
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mindfulness? How can we do that
for ourselves or how do you do that

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with the people that you work with? Yeah? So one thing I suggest

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is the simplest thing is starting to
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awareness. So with mindful message.
You know, mindfulness is a big movement

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around breath awareness and just kind of
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the breath allows us to come into
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movement, moment. And the way
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as a whole is maybe setting up
a ten minute practice before you even begin

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the day and then once you get
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sense of self awareness for yourself,
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team. So starting, for example, each meeting, taking some time maybe

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even in like two three minutes as
a practice and just breezing into that moment

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and just saying, you know,
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meeting, and see if anything is
arising for somebody or anybody, and just

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kind of checking in and centering yourself
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I think it's really important once a
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to start showing up that way it
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kind of centering yourself taking two three
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that you are embarking upon, and
then that allows you to have a keeper

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connection with the individual or the groups
that you are engaging with. And it

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also gives an impression that you really
genuinely care and also want to be there

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at the times that you may have
noticed when we get into our speedy mode

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of like trying to achieve something,
we forget that we want to really check

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in and we want people to feel
like, you know, we do care

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and their opinion matters and we're there
for a reason. And yeah, that's

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beautiful a partner. I think any
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you are, can somehow find three
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That is very, very actual.
Thank you for that. Okay, Now,

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the next thing I want to ask
you, and you just brought this

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up quickly in our phone call,
and I purposely didn't want to hear about

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it then because I want to hear
about it fresh with our listeners. How

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does mindfulness relate to the area of
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I love talking about this because I
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takes place. Consciousness is a really
important or Once you become consciously aware,

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you start to recognize that, you
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deep spiritual practice, and I used
to think money is not should not be

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a part of that initially because in
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to ignore money or tend to downplay
it play it. But as I have

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come back into integrating myself into the
work world, I realize that it's not

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that money is not important, but
it's how we view money. So when

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we come into it from an abundance
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you know a lot of discussions around
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an entity that allows us to go
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to us and start looking at from
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this larger part of us, and
you know, we're at that allows us

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to chime into and do the things
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also is a really big part of
us being able to share our message.

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So if even for example, with
this movement around conscious capitalism, if we

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didn't have some really impressive names on
our board and people who have been truly

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successful in this capitalistic society, we
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impact that we've been able to create. So when we start looking at money

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as something that allows us to plain
an abundant mindset, that's when we really

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start to view it as a tool
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and once we start cultivating a really
healthy relationship with money, that's when we

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start to see more money coming into
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more businesses view it that way too. So instead of thinking of like,

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you know, really competitive and we
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it as something that we're putting out
that's attracting more money to us, or

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attracting you know, good attracts good, unlike attracts like. So when we

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start thinking about it in that kind
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paradigm shift. I completely agree,
and I think you're so right on that

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if you didn't have very successful leaders
and companies within the movement, it would

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be a little less compelling, for
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Such a great point. All right, well, let's move on to meditation.

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Then. The other thing that I
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your in your world is meditation.
So first, why do you recommend leaders

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practice meditation? Well, I think
it's at the very very core of self

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awareness practice. So in order to
be consciously aware, you've got to begin

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with yourself. So you know,
any kind of change that Gandhi used to

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say, change begins with with with
our inner selves. So once we start

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having a meditation, and I think
what's happened with meditation is because it's so

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popular people, we tend to make
it really complicated. I mean, if

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you think about it, meditation is
the one thing that is super simple.

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It requires no money, no external
tools, nothing on the external side of

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the world is to require. All
you require is a few minutes, whether

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it's five minutes, seven minutes,
ten minutes, of just being aware of

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your breath and being aware of your
body and your presence. And that's all

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that's required to create a practice of
meditation. And we've made you know,

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we tend to we have so many
fancy apps out there, and it's great

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to have them because it's really helped
us popularized meditation and make it super cool.

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Now I've seen people put meditation and
their resumes just to give you an

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idea of how popular it's become.
So it's definitely a really important to us

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an individual, But as a leader, I think it extremely important because when

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people and I'm so glad that some
of the big leaders out there and the

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world cups started sharing the fact that
it's been meditating for like ten fifteen years,

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Mark Benny Haaf and a lot of
other leaders out there, like,

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you know, we've been meditating for
fifteen years, but now it's become cool

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to talk about it in public.
So I'm glad that leaders are sharing the

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fact that they have a practice that
allows them to be more self aware and

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self disciplined and really disconnect with ourselves
wherever we are. We don't have to

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be perfect beings, nor do we
have to go into the Himalayas and go

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into a deep meditation practice, although
I do recommend that for people. Once

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we start getting comfortable with having a
smaller practice, a daily practice, then

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I recommend people start playing with different
ways of taking retreats. Every now and

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then, I'm really coming into and
playing with what it would be like to

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have a longer setting, you know, where you're sitting for doing asylum retreat

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or doing if that's too daunting,
maybe even just having a couple of days

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like a weekend retreat, of just
getting away from a lot of things.

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But one of the more important things
to get away from as a as a

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leader and as an individual is all
the technology that we're surrounded with, so

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at least one thing is that,
as you may agree, we are bombarded

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with so much external information these days. It's so important if when we can

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have a meditation practice to just get
away and detached from all of that and

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just center ourselves. I completely agree
with that, completely agree with that.

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In fact, I don't know if
there's any particular form of meditation that you

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teacher recommend, but I will certainly
share that I have recently begun meditating,

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doing transcendental meditation. And I want
to give a shout out to my previous

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radio show guest now colleague Paul Skinner, because he mentioned doing meditation and I

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ask what kind and he told me
that, so I began that, And

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definitely it is a way to talk
about being in touch and self aware and

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helping my body to relax and my
nervousness and to relax, and then working

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towards using the mantra to get pure
awareness. It is definitely a beautiful addition

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to my life. And I did
it frankly a partner because I was hoping

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to develop greater awareness, consciousness,
and deeper spirituality. But whatever happens happens.

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But I know it's a good contribution
to my life. Definitely. I'm

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so glad you started that. I
actually have my own form of meditation that

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I teach because I've spent a lot
of time living in an ash room in

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India and where I've cultivated a deep
sense of stillness and also silence. So

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I've done a really long silent sittings
like twenty one days and so forth,

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and i teach meditation as a really
good tool for self awareness. And this

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is also bringing teams together. So
when individuals come together in that way,

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sometimes in the work mind frame,
we don't think of that. And then

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once people come together and that way
and you start sharing and connecting, that

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way creates a really deep sense of
connection with each individual on your team.

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How beautiful, How beautiful, and
what a great way, as you say,

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to respond to shut the outside world
at all, the noise of the

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outside world, that just connect meaningfully
together. I think that's beautiful. With

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our last break, here here we
go. I'm Elise Cortez, your host.

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We've been on the air with a
partner saying she is a life and

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business strategist. She brings her passion
for mindfulness, meditation and yoga to explore

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the inter dimension and create a life
of purpose, passion, and joy.

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She also serves as the executive director
of the Conscious Capitalism Washington DC chapter.

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She joins today from Washington, d
C. After the break, we'll hear

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something about how she does her work
with inner work, actually her work with

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inner work and leaders Stay with us, We'll be right. Elise Cortez is

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a speaker and engagement and development catalyst. She designs and delivers professional development,

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leadership and engagement workshops and can bring
her expertise to your organization. She will

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help ignite meaningful development within your workforce
that will increase employee engagement, performance and

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retention. To learn more or to
invite Elise to speak to your organization,

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please visit her at www dot Elise
Cortez dot com. She would welcome the

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opportunity to help get your employees working
on purpose. This is working on Purpose

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with Elise Cortet. To reach our
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Alis at Elise Cortez dot com.
Now back to working on purpose. Thanks

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for staying with us, and welcome
back to working on purpose. If you're

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just tuning in, my guest is
a partner saying a life and business strategist,

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she was focused. She was appointed
to as a Fellow on Innovation and

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Entrepreneurship and the US Department of State, focusing on President Obama's goal of building

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entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world, among
their other very interesting experiences she's had across

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her career. Today, A Partner
brings her passion for mindfulness, meditation,

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and yoga to explore the interdimension and
create a life of purpose, passion,

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and joy. She also serves as
the executive director of the Conscious Capitalism Washington

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DC chapter. I'm your host,
Elise Cortez. So for this last segment

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here a Partner, I would love
to be able to help our listeners understand

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more about what you mean about this
ongoing inner work you so recommend stand for

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for leaders. So in our in
our previous station we were talking about coming

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on air together, you distinguish the
importance of the inner work of a leader

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versus that of a traditional leadership.
So first, how would you characterize traditional

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leaders and their their preparation for leadership. What's what's that all about? What's

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that focus? Well, so I
think traditional leaders and I actually have an

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MBA. So I remember, like
in the business goals and in different settings,

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we aren't taught as traditional leaders to
know more. You know, we're

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a lot of the traditional leadership models
all about the education, the information,

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the work experience as we've had,
and our ability to kind of showcase that

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and get ahead in the world.
That traditional leadership models are all centered around

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our external achievements is what I have
experienced and noticed. So now is when

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I've noticed that people or even curriculums
in universities are shifting to where the inner

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work is becoming more important. So
I think in the traditional leadership style for

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example, and coaching is starting to
pay a big part in this. In

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the traditional leadership style, I noticed
that we were all about, you know,

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what kind of companies you work for? What are our achievements? Where

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did our degrees come from? And
also that's actually run to a behavior of

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feeling somewhat superior. You know,
I have all these degrees and this experience,

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and so therefore I am the right
person for these leadership positions. As

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we shift our direction towards more of
a conscious leadership model, we are starting

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to look at things like, you
know, in order for you to be

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a conscious leader, You really have
to be able to inspire and motivate your

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team, and you have to be
inspiring and motivating to individuals in general,

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whether it be you're employees or your
customers. So that kind of a mindframe

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is what I think of as a
more conscious model, where in order to

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be inspiring and to become passionate or
even pap into your intuition and creativity,

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you have got to cultivate a deep
sense of self awareness, self awareness,

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some sort of self discipline and self
awareness. Being requires your ability to really

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understand your strengths, understand your weaknesses, and really play with that. So

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the reason I emphasize it so much
and call it the inner work is because

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in some levels it is work.
It's something where you actually have to go

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into some practices of and hire a
coach or have some sort of spiritual practice

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or some different disciplines that allow you
to engage with the good side of your

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personalities, your achieve meds and so
forth, but also things where you feel

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tested and challenge. I'm really plain
with that and seeing what your whole being

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is like in different settings and different
situations. Does that make that? It

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does? And I think the way
you distinguished traditional leadership versus what you're up

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to and what both of us are
up to was beautiful and really helps gifts

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them to our listeners and open something
for all of us. So thank you.

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That was beautiful. And now when
we go on to one of the

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things that you and I talked about, is you really emphasize that today's leader,

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especially a conscious capitalist, it must
cultivate creativity, compassion, and trust

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based work. Completely agree with that. Why do you think these qualities and

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values are so important in today's marketplace
and economy. Yeah, I'm glad you

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asked that, because one of the
big buzzwords we've had around in the business

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community for a while is innovation.
And in order to be in companies are

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spending so much millions of dollars to
become more innovative, to create a culture

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of innovation and hiring the right brains
to make their bigger current products more innovative.

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And the US is a leader in
the space of innovation. But the

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thing is to get to innovation and
innovation, the core of innovation is creativity,

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and to get to creativity, you
have to be willing and you have

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to have a certain amount of consciousness
in the way we are as individuals.

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You cannot just force people to be
innovative. It just is unheard of,

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right, So in order for people
to be creative, you know, you

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have to have a certain element of
trust. There has to be an ability

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for people to take risks. And
one of the big things and the pillar

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of innovation is the ability to take
risks and to fail. And you know

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that's a big four letter word,
but in order once you feel safe to

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be able to fail or not succeed, that's when you can take bigger leads

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and bigger risks in a business as
an individual. And we in the US

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in certain areas, like I've spent
a lot of my professional career in Zoka

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Valley, and we always talk about
failing fast. So it's great, you

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know, you test things out.
If you fail, that's it's okay.

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You switch and you pivot, and
we use a lot of terminology around that.

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And really that really is at the
essence of being able to be innovative

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and be able to be creative.
So those are some of the big qualities

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I think that are really important in
today's marketplace. Innovation will always be important,

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but how we get to innovation is
what really that consciousness really allows us

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to really cultivate and go deeper with
that and create bigger innovation. So when

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you look at things like the Ubers
of the world, you know, that's

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a huge shift in the way we
you know, in this whole shared economy

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play and that kind of stuff.
We can only get to when we take

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big risk, when we feel safe
in taking big risk, when we really

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chime into our creativity as individuals.
We'd have to feel safe bringing that to

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our workplace. M I love how
you distinguished that. I completely agree with

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that and that then that then makes
me wonder, based on what you've been

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talking about here, then is there
a place for what you're you've been referring

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to as traditional leaders in today's economy
and if so, where what circumstances?

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Well, I think traditional leadership,
I mean there are still some really core

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principles and traditional leaderships. One is
like, I mean, it's nice to

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have the education and so forth,
but now we are we're learning them more

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and more. You don't need the
traditional models of education like the you know,

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the the Ivy League educations and so
far necessarily to have a successful business.

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In fact, a lot of leaders
that when you look at Mark Zuckerberg

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and a lot of people have dropped
out of college to create these super successful

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businesses. So, you know,
I think traditional leadership has a lot a

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few valuable skill set that we can
still bring and have and cultivate. One

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of them is our ability to really
take to learn from our mistakes. So

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when you do have experience, that's
when we start learning from our previous mistakes

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and we start taking more calculative risks, and we're able to then leverage that

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and still put frameworks and you know, traditional leadership allows us to have kind

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of some frameworks and principles so that
when we are being super creative, we're

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still able to take that creativity and
bring something to the marketplace. I think

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that's where it's really valuable having some
frameworks. You know, we have like

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things like in the startup world,
we have the lean startup model, and

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those are frameworks that allow us through
in a calculated way, take risks and

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learn and then still bring some tangible
products to markets. Wow. That's that's

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that's really I appreciate how you package
that and situated how these different perspectives can

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work together and compliment each other.
That's fantastic. And as this conversation was

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playing out in my mind, I
was thinking about what we might want to

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talk about. That just drew me
to another thing that I wanted to ask

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you about giving your space. So, among other things, I'm a social

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scientist. I care about what happens
with the world, the people, and

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I'm always an inquiry about that.
And I'm increasingly aware of the shift between

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genders in society. As more women
earn college degrees, they're increasing their earning

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power and many becoming head of their
households, and increasingly more men are opting

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to stay home and for the children. And so I'm wondering, is there

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some there's whispers I'm hearing about is
there a testosterone being washed out of men

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in this society today as we talk
about you know, mindfulness and meditation and

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conscious capitalism such. What's your view
on this conversational topic. Wow, this

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is a really interesting topic. We
could probably have a show off. We're

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good. Yeah, our expressive book
of us being women. I think that,

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you know, finally we're getting to
a stage where we're starting to level

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at the plain field a little bit
when it comes to the gender bias and

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so forth. We're I mean,
we're so far away from it. But

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I think, you know, with
more and more there's people as a competitive

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advantage. Businesses are making it easier
for women or people to work from home.

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People are there making it easier and
providing opportunity these for even if you're

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not working from home, you know, providing coaching and a lot of support

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in organizations that allow us to make
sure that we are being supported so that

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women are not feeling so tapped when
they're in the professional workforce and they're also

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mothers and they're wearing all these different
hats, so that can be really draining

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and straining. So you know,
really, I think now workforces and businesses

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are allowing and creating a framework where
we can show up as whole individuals and

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really to leverage fools that we need
to become more wholes I notice like well

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being is becoming a really important part
of corporate offerings, and actually a part

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of that, I teach a lot
of corporate mindfulness, meditation and even full

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body yoga because it allows people to
disengage and engage with themselves in a way

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where you know, once you bring
your body into it, you're sure to

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have a whole another level of awareness
and intelligence. But you know, I

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think it's really allowing women to flourish
more in the workplace. There are things

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being set up. I mean,
we're still a little ways away. It

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would be great to see our first
female president come on board at some point,

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and that would really help us level
out the playing field. But in

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the business world, I think women
are being more supportive. Also, the

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way we are reviewing the roles of
men and women is changing. Just as

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you mentioned about, the earning power
of women is increasing, and so men

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are actually sometimes feeling okay to be
able to stay at home and take care

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of the kids if that's what inspires
them, and that's what's being pulled they're

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being pulled away. So you know, some of these old gender biases are

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being are being kind of falling away, and we're allowed to be whome whoever

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and however we wish to show up
in the world. I really appreciate that.

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I'll just quickly comment because they're almost
at a time. I am very

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interested and attracted to the idea of
androgyny from the sense that I love that.

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I think it's wonderful when women can
embrace their masculine energies and men can

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embrace their feminine energies. And to
me, maybe that gets to what you're

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speaking of, the whole person.
That's what I would hope that we're navigating

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too. So thank you for dancing
with me on that question. I just

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wanted to dangle it out there and
see if what we could kick up.

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So thank you. That was beautiful. So our last question here we have

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time for. You know, this
show is about helping people across the globe

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more meaningfully and purposely connect with their
lives and their work. What would you

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like to leave listeners with today?
You know, the one thing that I

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would love to have our listeners listen
to. There are a lot of fancy

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work is out there. There's mindfulness, there's meditation, there are all of

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these things out there. What I
would like to leave a listener with is,

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in order to be a conscious individual, or even have a self awareness,

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discipline and practice, simply start to
engage with your heart. More So,

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I cannot emphasize enough the importance whether
you're a man from woman, whatever

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background you come from, the importance
of really dialing into your own heart and

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really looking at that as a way
of showing up as a whole being.

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We spend a lot of time as
professionals in our head we want to all

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achieve and I get that totally,
but really listen to your heart, especially

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when you look for purpose at work. What is your heart telling you every

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now and then? Time take some
time and just even walk out into the

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nature and short listening to your own
heartbeat and your own heart tweets and messages,

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and then let them light you up
from the inside out. That is

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beautiful. And then I would I
just have to add that if you're going

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to listen to your heart, then
you're gonna be grateful that it's beating as

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it is each and every day.
What a beautiful way to finish a partner.

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Thank you so much for joining us
and sharing your wisdom, your heart,

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your soul with us today. Thank
you, Thank you for having me

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as I really enjoyed it. I
loved talking about purpose. Yes, me

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too. Listeners. If you want
to learn more about a partner saying or

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connect with her the work she's doing, the best way to reach her as

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00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.559
her email It's a partner Saying at
gmail dot com. Let me spell that

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for you. It's ap A R
N a s Ai n at gmail dot

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com a partner saying at gmail dot
com. Last week, you can miss

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the live show, you can always
catch it recorded podcast. We were on

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the air with Adrian Court. She's
the chief human resources officer at Alchemy,

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a digital banking company of five hundred
alchemists known for their intentional culture that inspires

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meaningful work, connectedness, innovation,
and retention. She shared with us just

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open open Robe what they do there
and really is desiring to be able to

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get more people creating meaningful cultures like
that, which is part of the work

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that I do as well, So
I wanted to showcase her for that reason.

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Next week, we'll be on the
air with Mike rus talking about how

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he turned himself around after serving time
in prison in a large and full life

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he has since created. Afterwards,
see you there, Remember that work is

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at least of our lives, So
let's work on purpose. We hope you've

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enjoyed this week's program. Be sure
to tune in to Working on Purpose featuring

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your host Alice Cortez, each week
on the Voice America Empowerment Channel. This

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week, find your life's purpose at
work