Nov. 27, 2024

Enlightening Leadership: Embracing Your Wholeness to Lift Lives and Steward Impact

Enlightening Leadership: Embracing Your Wholeness to Lift Lives and Steward Impact

In a world undergoing profound transformation, the old leadership model—focused solely on results and shareholder value—is no longer enough. A spiritual awakening is calling leaders to redefine the purpose of leadership, blending impact with higher...

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In a world undergoing profound transformation, the old leadership model—focused solely on results and shareholder value—is no longer enough. A spiritual awakening is calling leaders to redefine the purpose of leadership, blending impact with higher humanity. Join us as we explore how enlightened leadership, rooted in wholeness and purpose, can inspire organizations to thrive while uplifting the lives they touch. Discover how spirituality and strategy can work together to create powerful impact.

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guidance and inspiration to help usher in this world we

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all want Working on Purpose. Now, here's your host, doctor

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Elise corte Us.

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Welcome back to the Working on Purpose program, which has

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been brought to you with passion and price since February

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of twenty fifteen. Thanks for being with us. I'm your host,

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Doctor Release Cortes. If we've not met and you don't

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know me, I'm an organizational psychologist and logo therapist, speaker

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and author. My team and I at Gusto Now help

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companies to enlive and in fortify their operations by building

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a dynamic, high performance culture and inspirational leadership activated by

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meaning and purpose. You can learn more about how we

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getting In today's program, we have with us SHOCKT. Dudley,

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who has established herself as a trusted transformational leadership consultant,

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intuitive life coach, and spiritual guide offering a holistic approach

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to authentic, conscious leadership and life mastery. Also with us

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as Alan Prushan, a season professional with over thirty five

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years of experience in sales, management, leadership and consulting, and

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is a business mystic, blending experience, skills and wisdom to

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disrupt the thinking and stir the souls of leaders. We'll

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be talking about their work together helping to cultivate enlightened leaders.

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Alan and Shocktee, welcome to Working on Purpose.

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Thank you, Thank for having us.

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So great to have you on the other side of

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my mic. I loved reminiscing with both of you about

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our work together some years ago when we were all

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together at a consulting company. And that is where I

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like to say I picked you up along the way

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in life.

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Very terrible exp.

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It's really it's an amazing thing to sing called life.

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So happy to have you here and get to talk

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about what you're doing together. It's so great. So we'll

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get into that. But because our listeners and viewers don't

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know you the way that I do, let's have you

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each to share a little bit about your background and

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then what brought you together for this new venture.

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All right, Well, I've been in the field of transformational

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leadership for forty five years now, and for thirty of

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those forty five years I really worked on a separate

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path to work with clients in their spirituality, and I

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have been looking and searching for a way to bring

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those two together, leadership and spirituality. And a few years ago,

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through Alan's and my relationship and working together on other things,

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I just had this vision of that union between spirituality

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and leadership. Started to talk to Alan about it, and

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here we've went to work on it two years ago

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and here we are launching the Enlightening leaders Journey.

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It's fantastic, very exciting.

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Yeah, so my path is a little different, you know.

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I've spent my whole career working with the c suite

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literally from the CFO, the CIO to the to the CEO,

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and I have a very you know, global mindset, view

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of the world. And while I have some similar training

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in background to Shokti, I have also spent a fair

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amount of time in leadership development. So when Shocte came

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to me with this idea about integrating what we call

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the oneness of spirit and leadership, it was a natural

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for me to say yes to because you know, I'm

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very much like many of the people that we endeavored

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to serve inso much as they are our business focused

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first and the spiritual side has oftentimes been in the backseat.

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Well, I'm going to comment on that in just a

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second here of it. Before I get into that, I

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do want to have you presence what you are doing

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together at Enlightening leaders and how that really came to be.

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Why Why aren't we called, I don't know, Majestic leaders

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or something like that. Why Enlightening leaders.

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Well, we really looked very consciously, and you know, us

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the least, we're very very conscious and aware of language

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and the power that language and the energy that language contains.

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So we looked at enlightened leadership. We looked at all

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kinds of names, but we really wanted an adjective that

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had it be alive and present in the moment enlightening leaders,

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So enlighten enlightenment it really points.

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To obtaining you've obtained a.

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Certain level of wisdom in your spirituality, and it enlightens

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your path and enlightens your way. And we wanted enlightening

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leaders to really be about reawakening the oneness in today's

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leaders and shifting consciousness from separation to oneness and bringing

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that to leaders because we see that it's time to

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see spirituality in leadership as one and not as separate.

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M The only thing I've add to that, Alise, is

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we were very intentional, as shocked he said, to use

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the word enlightening versus enlightened. And the reason for that

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is the more one pursues being enlightened or enlightenment where

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they realize there's a gap from where they are to

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where they could be. So we never actually attain ENLiGHT

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being enlightened. You know, it's that It almost from my

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own personal experience. The more I see myself as becoming

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enlightened or you know, experience enlightenment, the more I realize

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how much further I have to go? Right right?

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What self actualization? Absolutely? Yeah, never ending ceiling if you.

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Will, exactly, And we didn't want people to believe there

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was a place to get to.

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Okay, I like that, you know, I like that. Now

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is let me hear you say a little bit about why,

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what your perspective is on why you think the world

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needs more enlighten leaders. And I think even I'm starting

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to sense that you you feel like people are ready

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for this or maybe wanting this. So what is it

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that's what's what's happening in the world that makes you

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think we need more of these enlighten leaders? And I

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tend to agree, by the way, Well, I'll start that.

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I mean, if you look at what the societal changes

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that are actually impacting our world today, you know, with

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the impact that social media has and that the small

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person has a bigger voice than they ever had before,

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what you can see is that people are clamoring for change,

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whether it's the LGBTQ community or you know, the me

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Too movement or other marginalized groups in society and in

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the workplace. People wanting to be in environments that are

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representative of who they are, what they're about, and as

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you pointed out in the in the heading of your show,

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is being up to something bigger than themselves. It requires

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a different type of leader to lead people that are

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interested in that right, and whether even when we look

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at like the wars that are going on around the

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world and how people are aligning with different groups of

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people in those spaces, they're actually saying the status quo

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and how we've dealt with these things in the past

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is no longer acceptable. And so what that means is

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the leaders need to change. So you could say it's

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being forced upon the leaders from the bottom up.

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Yeah, well said, that's quite insightful. Insightful, and I do

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agree with that. And what's amazing to me in this

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wonderful arena called Working on a Purpose podcast is I

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have had several guests on my podcast over the last

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several years, so there's a coalescence around this idea. I mean,

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just recently, I've had Steve Ferrell on my program and

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he is all about this idea of oneness and they

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started this organization called Humanities Team. It's all about celebrating

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and embracing the idea of oneness. Just a couple of

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weeks ago, I had yoc amrem On and he's all

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about spiritually intelligent leadership. The last chapter of my last book,

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The rib realization is on spiritual intelligence in the workplace.

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I mean, so I'm just seeing more and more people

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who are coming to very similar ideas about what they

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want from themselves, for the world, for their organizations, and

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I'm very encouraged by that, as are we.

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on to what you've both just said is that if

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we look at what's happening in the world, of course,

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in organizations, in families, in relationships, particularly with leadership around

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the world, the consciousness of humanity right now is one

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of separation, and that consciousness is causing an enormous amount

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of suffering. So there's a growing demand for spirituality in

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both our personal and professional realms, and leaders and employees

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are alike, and people in their lives are seeking deeper

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meaning and connection in their work in their lives, and

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they're yearning, they're yearning for an awakening to happen, to

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shift out of consciousness and into oneness. And that's going

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to require a profound rethinking of what leadership means and

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how it's practiced.

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You know one of the things that I find amazing,

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just it's a sacred thing to get to do this

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kind of work with people, you know, to be in

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that tender space with people on their level, under their

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journey of development. And at the same time, what I'm

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very primy to is that many people overestimate how well

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developed they are. In fact, I have something I do

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in my workshops now. I have a brand new book

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coming out later next probably next year, and a course

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along with it. It's really about nurturing higher consciousness and

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deeper emotions, and so I use David Hawkins's Map of

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Consciousness to be able to kick that course off. And

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I asked fordispants to guess where they think they are

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from zero to one thousand on that keeping in mind

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that the average to well a few years ago he

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would say it was two hundred and seven. People tend

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to estimate that they're at four hundred or five hundred,

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and it's amazing, right. So it's just there's so much

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work to be done and so much opportunity. So could

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you speak to this notion of there's there's opportunity and

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that people do tend to overestimate just how far along

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they are.

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So it's an very interesting thing.

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You point to, and it actually points back to something

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that we just spoke about, which is the more we

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pursue something, the more we realize how far far away

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we are from what it is that we're pursuing. Right, So,

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I think what you're pointing to is really the difference

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between you know, somebody who's not necessarily as it relates

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to this conversation all that much on an enlightening journey

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of their own. They just think they are. And so

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for us, we really this offering, this community that we're

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creating is really focused on senior leaders who already recognize

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that they have a strong connection to spirit and have

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their own spiritual journey that they're on, and yet they

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feel that they can't integrate it with their leadership. It

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seems like they're separate and distinct from each other. And

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that these things shouldn't intermix. And so the people that

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end up, you know, engaged in the conversation that Chocdy

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are really people that are already on a journey and Chucky,

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and I can think about a client that we work

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a servant leader, and he is, there's no question about it,

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would overscore himself because he engages with us, he works

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necessarily on that path that would likely overscore themselves than

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Yeah, that makes complete sense, complete sense. Now for our

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listeners and viewers are maybe new to this whole idea

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of this enlightening path, pursuing a path of toward enlightenment

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or being enlightening in my world of course, spiritual intelligence,

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inspiracial leadership, what might they be recognizing in their life

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if they're not on the path already, what might be

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happening for them that might be an indication that there

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could be an opportunity to step into this path that

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you're helping to. Stewart won't need like symptoms for them.

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they could be suffering. You know, they could feel this

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divide in themselves and not know how to wrestle it

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or how to tame it. They could be lonely. You know.

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at the top, not as an enlightening leader, but in

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lead and the traditional paradigm of leadership, it could be

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thought to be lonely at the top, and that they're

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looking for connection and don't know how to find it.

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but they're missing distinctions. They're missing the energy that they

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need to really catapult themselves and their organicization forward, and

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they're looking for guides, They're looking for mentorship and people

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that we're talking about, you know, the big dreams, big goals,

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big aspirations, and yet they feel a discontent between where

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they are and what they envision for the future.

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Beautiful way to open the possibility for those who are

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Thanks for staying with us and welcome back to Working

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And I wrote it to help leaders understand the nature

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And then I offer twenty two best projects to help

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Leascortes dot com, Gustadeshnoud dot com or on Amazon if

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you are just now joining us. My guests are Alan

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Prushan and Shakti Dudley of Enlightening Leaders. They're offering design

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for business leaders to embrace and integrate their spirituality into

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their lives, their leadership, and their businesses, which is what

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we're talking about today. So I would love for us

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to dive into as many of the of the attributes

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that you that you have. We probably won't get to

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all of them, but I would love for us to

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distinguish as we can as best we can, so people

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start to see what's the promise of this? What does

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this look like and smell like and taste like. So

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the first one I wanted to start with here is listening, looking,

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and leisure. What an interesting group of things to put

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in one attribute.

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Yes, shocky, if you don't mind, I'll start us off.

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I was you would, thank you.

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So it's very fascinating. You know, most of us in

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business get to senior levels of leadership because of our

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education and then what we're able to demonstrate at work.

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But in that education, we're never taught really about listening

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and looking. For sure, and in this context, when we

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talk about looking and listening, we're not actually talking well,

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what are we looking and listening for?

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spirits guidance. So what that looks like, and I was

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really prepared to give you an example is you know,

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when we get into the quiet in a meditative environment

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or situation, and then we present whatever it is that's

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top of mind for us and just being in the quiet.

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If we effectively listen for guidance frequently not always, because

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it's not like on demand, something emerges. And that happened

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actually for me today as I was sharing with Shakti

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two nights ago, I think, yes, two nights ago, I

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was driving home with my son and his partner and

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my wife, and my wife asked me a question and

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I overreacted to the situation, and you know, caused an

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explored it, and what showed up for me was I

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need to be accountable for my actions and I need

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to send an apology to my children and communicate, you know,

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what was kind of happening for me. And I copied

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my wife just so she knew that I actually did this,

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and my wife, you know, first thanked me for doing it,

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and I said, you're welcome. I just want to be clear,

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I didn't do it for you. I did it for

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our children and for me, right and part of it

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for me is a to be responsible for my behavior

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but also be and we'll talk about this some more,

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which is to be accountable and to be vulnerable. And

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these things are what enlightening leaders do. They don't act like, oh,

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I can't make a mistake, I can't be a week

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or something like that. And you know, I got really

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positive feedback from our children. That wasn't my objective. And

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I literally said, if there's something we need to talk

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about for you to be complete, please let me know.

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for what happened. So that's the looking and the listening,

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and the looking is really fascinating because we simply are

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not trained to look. We are so trained to use

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our brain for thinking and looking for me is literally

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closing my eyes and being able. I like taking pictures

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but using my imagination to create word pictures or pictures

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of situations in the past, and it helps reveal things

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to me. And that's what really looking is. And then

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the last thing is leisure. You know, when I grew

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up in the corporate world, we didn't vacationing and talking

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about leisure was not like a big deal. In fact,

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you know, there was a badge of honor when people

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didn't take vacations. But the irony of it is is

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that when we go into leisure, especially, it frees our

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mind up. We get released from the day to day

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burdens of our work, and new creativity and inspiration emerges.

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he's really known for stepping away from his work and

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just get to a leisurely environment. And he talks about

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the level of creativity that gets generated when he does that.

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And that's what's available to each and every leader by

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actually stepping away, creating leisure and then looking and listening

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and we'll see what emerges, right, and listening to our

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spirit and to the spirit of all that is as

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opposed to just trying to think things through for ourselves.

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It reminding me the second show that I ever did,

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which remember this is now almost nine and a half

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years ago, is Marty Ruiz, and Marty Ruiz would talk

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about how he gets divine drop ins, divine downloads right,

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and so I think that's what you're talking about here

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is and it's to be present to that, to be

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available for that. It's just so And I love how

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you distinguished that hell and that was that was yummy.

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So we got to the next one, or do you

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want to add something shocked.

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Now, I'll actually tie it into the next one.

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Okay, So the next one that I just couldn't resist

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hitting as well, distinguishing between the higher self and the

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human self.

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Yeah, so we're very intentional about using this language because

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we don't No one's ever taught us that, right. We

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think we're just human beings, but the truth of the

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matter is we're spiritual beings having a human experience.

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I love how you quote Chardon on your site. It's fantastic.

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And and if we're spiritual beings having a human experience,

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then I have to look at what does that mean

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that I'm a spiritual being. So we have this higher self,

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we have this higher knowing that's connected to the spirit

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of all that is. And when he talks about divine downloads,

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those divine downloads come to his higher self, then it's

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up to his higher self to apply them into his

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human life. So our human self is our everyday human activities,

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our mind, our body, our feelings and emotions, and our thoughts.

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But that's not our higher self. Our higher self operates

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at a much higher level of frequency and vibration to love,

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to pure love, and to the light of all that is,

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and we radiate that love through our human self, to

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ourself into the world. But as human beings, we have

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so much we have to heal in our own human self,

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and we can't do that without our higher self. Yeah,

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we need our higher self to guide us, and that's

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our intuition. Our intuition comes from our higher self. So

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it's a higher aspect of looking and listening and integrating

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our insights into our human choices that we need to

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make to experience growth.

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You know, that was beautifully rendered. Shockti, and I completely

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align with you. I've really come to understand that every

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single human being walking the planet is a walking wounded

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human and the opportunity is to get present to how

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to the extent in which we are wounded, and then

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what are we doing to try to heal ourselves. I

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think the most dangerous people that I've ever seen, including leaders,

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are those who are completely unaware of their wounds, and

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they are throwing so much shrapnel into the world as

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they thrust themselves about, you know, not realizing that they're

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really disgressing with a lot of pain.

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Absolutely, and I think through that pain that people are

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in and not being responsible for it, they think that

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their human thoughts and their human feelings is their higher self,

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right right, just not. And I most people are so

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surprised when Alan and I help them wake up to

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who they truly are. Then we have a higher perspective

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to deal with the human feelings and thoughts because we

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can't ignore them. Like you said, we have to heal

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those wounds. But from a place of love, not from

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a place of separation.

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Enough from the language of humanity per se either or

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ego and all the things that live in that space one.

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Hundred percent correct, at least not from there.

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Yeah, yeah, anything else you wanted to add to that

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for we go on to the next one.

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Oh, let's go, let's keep going.

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Great, all right, Well, this one's really intriguing to me.

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This idea attribute number three, the wisdom of the seasons.

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I have some favorite I have a favorite season and

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we're in it right now. But let's hear about the

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wisdom of the seasons.

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Why is why is the fall your favorite season?

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I lead a little bit about how you do how

469
00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:35.039
you describe it maybe a bit different for me is

470
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I find myself coming alive in fall. So we have

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this long, hot summer and then the cooler temperature comes

472
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and I feel the sense of I can get down

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to business kind of thing. And if I look at

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so many of like my job changes over the years,

475
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or when things happen, things get released, it's in the fall,

476
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and there's something invigorating for me about that before we

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go into the you know, the the winter when things

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get really cold and I feel like you need to hibernate.

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That's for me, that's what falls for me.

480
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:10.279
Well, kudos to you for actually being able to recognize

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00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.680
that connection that you have to the seasons.

482
00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:17.079
Now, you know, we all have connection to the seasons.

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When we think of spring as an example, you know,

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everybody would say, oh, the spring's about rebirth. You know,

485
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the plants are coming up out of the ground, the

486
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trees are blossoming, and.

487
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And that's all true.

488
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And what we would say is, okay, Well, if that's true,

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how does.

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That apply to business, right? Well, I don't know.

491
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So maybe we a great time to launch new projects

492
00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:47.200
or new products or new services, give birth to things,

493
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:52.079
just like nature is giving birth to the plants and.

494
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The trees in our world. So as a leader, we

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we would.

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Say that's a good time to mirror what spring represents

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in our businesses.

498
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Where most companies at least do it. You know that

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businesses are set up by quarters, right, right, and so

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that we follow this Gregorian calendar, which has nothing to

501
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do with the wisdom of the seasons. Nothing, nothing. So

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00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:28.400
if we understand that there are universal laws and principles

503
00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:35.200
in each season that give us higher knowing, higher wisdom

504
00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:40.279
to then apply into our businesses in our lives, we

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would rethink how we have things on our calendars and

506
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how our businesses are structured.

507
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I completely agree that our twelve month calendar is quite

508
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artificial and it doesn't pay attention to rhythms and such

509
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and so very very interesting. And of course as I

510
00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:04.720
go on my own journey Shati and Allen, I'm much

511
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:08.960
more present to my knee, my visceral need to be

512
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:12.880
in nature, to be enveloped by nature, to be overwhelmed

513
00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:16.119
by its beauty, to be just moved by its beauty.

514
00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:18.640
This morning, I ran my six miles with my friend

515
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.160
at the at white Rock Lake and just got moved

516
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.880
to tears. It was so beautiful, the sun just coming up,

517
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:26.880
just this beautiful orange orb coming up over the water,

518
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:29.039
and I was like, just for me, It's got to

519
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:29.559
be just for me.

520
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.559
And you know, like right now we're in the late

521
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:38.359
autumn season, and the divine teaching in the late autumn

522
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.279
is different than in the beginning of the autumn season,

523
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.359
which is about taking stock and inventory and being in

524
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:49.480
harvest and gratitude. But we're now in this tricky part

525
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:54.079
of the autumn season. We're betwixt in between seasons. It's

526
00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:57.200
no longer really the beginning of autumn. It's for sure

527
00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:00.680
not summer and it's not winter yet, but we're kind

528
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:05.559
of in between the two. And the divine principle what

529
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:09.839
this season teaches us in the late autumn is the

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00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:15.279
principle of death, regeneration, and rebirth. So we have to

531
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shed our skin, We have to let go of the leaves.

532
00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:22.559
The tree isn't trying to hold on to the leaves

533
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:27.680
that are naturally falling, right, Nor does anybody cry because

534
00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:31.119
the leaves are falling off the tree. Because we know

535
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:36.079
comes spring it's going to get reborn again. But we

536
00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:39.079
don't look at our own lives or our own leadership

537
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:42.960
or our own organizations. What is it we need to shed?

538
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.559
What is it we need to let go of that

539
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:50.839
no longer serves us, and allow that to regenerate our spirit,

540
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:57.960
regenerate our purpose, regenerate our power, and relook and listen

541
00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:00.480
for what's in the highest and best. It's good to

542
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.559
be reborn again. That's just your example.

543
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:09.440
So you could say, Elise that when you found that

544
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:12.960
it's the great time that the fall for you personally,

545
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.319
has been a good time for you to now these.

546
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:16.440
Are our words, not yours.

547
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:21.240
Shed work situations that no longer work for you.

548
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:22.039
You had an.

549
00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:25.880
Intuitive, your spirit had an intuitive knowing this that this

550
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:27.359
was the right time.

551
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.079
For you to be doing this, and it was serving you,

552
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:30.559
and you.

553
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:34.680
Were not necessarily conscious. And all we're saying is, well,

554
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.799
now you get to be conscious about it.

555
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:38.960
Right, And now I am conscious about it.

556
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:45.400
Yet, it would be so wonderful if leaders really could

557
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:49.759
be taught about the sacred teachings in each season and

558
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:54.519
come to each season with curiosity and wonder, you know,

559
00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:58.200
what does this season have to contribute to my life

560
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.279
as a human being, as a leader, And how could

561
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:04.880
I bring the teachings of this season into my company

562
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.720
and empower my company with these teachings.

563
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.880
Wow beautiful, really wow is right. Let's let our listeners

564
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:14.719
and viewers just think about that as we take our

565
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.239
last break. You think about the power of the seasons.

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Ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Doctor Release Cortes. We

567
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:22.199
are on the air with Shock T. Dudley and Alan

568
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:25.480
Prussian of Enlightening Leadership. We've been talking about a few

569
00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:27.679
of their attributes. After the break, we're going to talk

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about the next one, which is embodying completeness. We'll be

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right back.

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Doctor Elise Cortez is a management consultant specializing in meaning

573
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and purpose. An inspirational speaker and author. She helps companies

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visioneer for a greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose

575
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:02.360
inspired leadership and meaning infused cultures that elevate fulfillment, performance,

576
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:05.440
and commitment within the workforce. To learn more or to

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invite alease to speak to your organization, please visit her

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00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:11.840
at Elisecortes dot com. Let's talk about how to get

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00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:20.679
your employees working on purpose. This is working on purpose

580
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:24.039
with doctor Elise Cortes. To reach our program today or

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00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:26.880
to open a conversation with Elise send an email to

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00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:32.440
Elise A. Lise at Elisecortes dot com. Now back to

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working on purpose.

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Thanksteresting with us, and welcome back to working on Purpose.

585
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I'm your host, doctor Elise Cortes. I mentioned in my

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last break that my LAist book came out in twenty

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twenty three. It's called a Great Revitalization. What it did

588
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:51.519
for you is I created a simple three page assessment

589
00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:54.280
that you can take off my Gusto Dahanel site to

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00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:56.960
determine the extent to which your organization is meeting the

591
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needs of today's discerning workforce. You can find it again

592
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at gustodeshnow dot com if you are just now joining us.

593
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My guests are Alan Prushan and Shakti Dudley of Enlightening

594
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:10.639
leaders Leaders, where they offer design with something for business

595
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:13.639
leaders who enhance and integrate their spirituality into their lives,

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00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.400
their leadership and their businesses, which is probably what we've

597
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we've been talking about today, especially with them through their attributes.

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So the next one I wanted to cover is the

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idea of embodying completeness. Now that's a concept that of

600
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course all three of us are familiar with, but I

601
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:29.119
would venture to say, most people who are listening to

602
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.559
the show are not familiar with it, so talk to

603
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:33.679
us about embodying completeness.

604
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:38.440
Well, yeah, I think a good place to start is,

605
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:40.360
you know, a comment I think at least that you

606
00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:44.119
made earlier, that we're all, you know, wounded in some way,

607
00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:47.800
shape or form. Right as you said that, I was

608
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:51.760
thinking to myself, could you imagine like closing your eyes

609
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.920
and seeing the world and everyone interacting with each other

610
00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:03.039
just based upon their wounds. That's in reality, that's what's

611
00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:07.920
actually happening. Yeah, And it's you know, it's not a

612
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:11.280
pretty picture that one would see if we you know, now,

613
00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:14.760
we all try not to do that, Okay, or I

614
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.079
should say most of us try out to do that.

615
00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:22.639
But what embodying completeness could look like I already started

616
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to speak to when I shared my example of my

617
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:28.559
story about the conversation in the car on Sunday night,

618
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.840
and then me being responsible by sending an email to

619
00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:36.840
my children and to my copying my wife, because I

620
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:42.480
was clearly, clearly my own old wounds were at play

621
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.639
with Why I responded the way I did that was

622
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:50.199
my human self, not my higher self, responding to what

623
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.519
was happening in the conversation with my wife, and I

624
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:56.599
behaved in such a way that's inconsistent with who I

625
00:37:56.679 --> 00:37:59.760
hold myself to be, or I should say who my

626
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.559
self holds itself to be. Right, And so I did

627
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.079
it as for me for me to be complete with

628
00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:12.119
what I did that didn't work, also to be responsible

629
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:17.280
for it, and that I could move on unburdened by

630
00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:20.119
what happened in this case in the recent past.

631
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:21.920
So the truth of the.

632
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:22.559
Matter is.

633
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:24.559
Lightning.

634
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:31.000
Leaders are always seeking to get complete because we're all human.

635
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:31.960
We all make.

636
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:36.000
Mistakes like the one I you know, my example, And

637
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:40.239
if we don't get complete with the way things were

638
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:45.360
and the way things weren't, we carry that burden forward. Now,

639
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:48.880
imagine if I didn't get complete with my children and

640
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:52.199
then I went out to dinner with them again. Now

641
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:57.960
they're waiting for the next blow up by dad right now.

642
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.519
Maybe my son's more used to it, but his partner isn't.

643
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:04.119
Do I want her to be seeing me as this

644
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:07.840
you know person that at any point in time is

645
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.079
going to explode and make the environment.

646
00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:11.760
Uncomfortable for everyone. Of course not.

647
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:17.639
But when I take responsibility, then she knows that I'm

648
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:22.519
actually paying attention. I recognize the impact I had on others.

649
00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:26.280
I'm responsible for it, and because I communicated it, I'm

650
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:29.719
not committed to it. So yes, it was for them,

651
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:33.719
and it was every bit as much for me. Right

652
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:38.280
unburden myself from my poor behavior.

653
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:42.519
And you know, Elise, this one is really near and

654
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:48.400
dear to my heart, because we create a very safe

655
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:52.719
space for the leaders that we work with to really

656
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:57.800
hold their pain, for them to unburden themselves and tell

657
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:01.880
the truth, maybe even for the first time, things that

658
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:05.920
they just never dared to say out loud, are things

659
00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:08.400
that happened in the past that they've worked on and

660
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:12.920
worked on but just can't seem to get complete. And

661
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:17.280
we have some magic around us through the powers that

662
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:21.480
be and the light that Alan and I listen to

663
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:26.280
and give to others that really give people a safe

664
00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:32.760
haven to embrace their own pain and learn. How do

665
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:36.599
you forgive and let go of the past in a

666
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:40.119
way that's enlightening and in a way that lifts you

667
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:44.599
up and lifts others up where you can truly truly

668
00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:49.239
be complete. And then once you have done that work,

669
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:53.760
how do you then continue a practice of living your

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life being complete every day because as leaders, we have

671
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that responsibility.

672
00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:07.800
Yeah, if I could just add, you know's there's something

673
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truly magical.

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We see it, we've lived it.

675
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:14.480
When we're working with a leadership team and they get

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00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:19.000
complete with personal situations that have nothing to do with

677
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:23.559
anyone else on the leadership team, and or getting complete

678
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:28.840
with interactions with other members on that team, it brings

679
00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:35.000
seasoned professionals to tears. And I say that not like

680
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:38.360
as a badge of honor, but when you create a

681
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:43.559
safe space, people get to be their authentic selves in

682
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:48.639
a way that simply does not happen in the professional workspace.

683
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:53.320
And when they do, what gets created is a level

684
00:41:53.320 --> 00:42:00.880
of compassion and collegiality that you cannot create ate any

685
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:01.760
other way.

686
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:09.280
Because it can't be man h in factored.

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It has to be like when we're willing to truly

688
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:14.719
be vulnerable with each other.

689
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:18.480
I totally understand that and really really appreciate that. And

690
00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:19.840
you know, like we've been sort of saying this that

691
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I think it really bears seeing out forth right here

692
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:25.199
that I think all three of us are present to

693
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:27.440
just how difficult it is to be a leader today.

694
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:30.719
The spotlight has probably never been stronger on leaders today.

695
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:31.880
And as you said at the beginning of the show,

696
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:33.639
I think it was you Allen. Maybe it's just shock

697
00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:35.599
you can't remember what Seana said that that this being

698
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.039
the force from every one of the reorizations pushing up

699
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:44.840
on the leader to be more or to do more,

700
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:47.400
to you know, be more emotionally intelligent, to be more giving,

701
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:50.039
to be more understanding, to be more communicative, to more, more, more, more,

702
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:54.320
more and more. And I just really want to share

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00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:59.000
an express or for the work that we get to do,

704
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:00.880
to be in the space that we've been talking about,

705
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:03.920
to work with leaders on this really precious journey. It's

706
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:05.960
it's really hard work. A lot people were saying, you know,

707
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000
I'm not going to do this. I'm not. I'm out

708
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:09.960
of a leadership game. This is this is a lot

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to expect of me, and I appreciate that and support

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that and those that stay in the game they need help.

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And at least this is what you just said, is

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exactly why Alan and I are creating the Enlightening Leaders Community,

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so leaders from wherever can join the community. You know

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that's private, right, I mean it's public, it's a private community.

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Behold their heart and be with like minded, like spirited

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leaders that are on this path to learn about becoming

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an enlightening leader.

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You know, that's wonderful. I want I think that's horrific

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that you've got the community, because one thing that I

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have certainly heard from people that I work with is, gosh,

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it can be lonely in that smaller circle or not

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to have really someone that could really confide in beyond

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maybe you know who they're working with. So we're getting

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We're only got like about five minutes left here of

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the show, so I want to jump to one other

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attribute in particular here next as we can. And this

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is something that I've gotten really present to just in

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my own journey in the last probably three or four years,

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and that's the idea of everything is interconnected.

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One.

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If you could speak to that, I'll that's.

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Shock take the lead.

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Well.

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It really points to the universal law divine oneness. And

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one of the things that the Enlightening Leader's journey makes

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available to people is teaching the universal laws. And these

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universal laws elist are the most precious wisdom I have

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ever gained in my life, and nobody's teaching them in school.

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You know, I wish they taught these to elementary school

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and junior high school and high schoolers, but they are

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ancient principles that have been around since the time began

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and the underpinnings of everything in life. And the main

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one is the universal law of divine oneness, which says

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that everything is connected to everything else. Everything, what we think,

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what we say, what we do all has a corresponding

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effect on others, ourselves and the world around us. And

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leaders really need to rise up to that and really

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get that. You know, it's not us versus them anymore.

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That paradigm is bankrupt, and we must transform the mindset

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and transform the culture in our organizations that everyone and

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everything is connected. And our youth is going to be

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those pushing us up in the organization because that's really

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what they demand. They demand connection, they demand interconnectedness. They

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demand that everything matters, All living things matter. I will

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even go as far as to say objects matter, nature matters.

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Every single thing is connected. And if we don't realize that,

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then the universal law of cause and effect will be

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our demise. You know what I mean by that?

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That was powerful? I do, yes? Did you want to

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editing to that? Ellen?

761
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No? No, I think Chuckie said it very well.

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But I think what she just pointed to is, I'll say,

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people from our generation, okay.

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Don't necessarily have much connection to the universal laws, and

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they don't necessarily see that there is a cause an

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effect to the decisions and choices they make as leaders.

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They just say, well, this is my decision, and then

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they don't realize that there's a ripple effect. That they

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may not be able to point from A to B

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to see that this decision impacted X, Y, and Z.

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And that's what Shockedy's pointing to.

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And So if someone in my organization or family or

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friend circle is suffering, am I separate from that? Well,

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it's their suffering. No, I am not separate from that,

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not according to the universal law of oneness. So I'm

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going to extend my love. I'm going to extend my

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insight and be of help in any way that I

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can to aid them in releasing their suffering and coming

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more into a place of peace and harmony.

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Except in the old paradigm of leadership, if Shocked's purse

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only suffering in the work in her life, we are

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not allowed to talk about that in the workplace. We're

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not allowed to bring. I'm not saying we're not truly allowed,

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but in the old paradigm, it's not my job as

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her leader to actually deal with that. But that's just false.

786
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And then when she leaves, people wonder, well, why.

787
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Did she leave? Well, it's simple because nobody cared about her.

788
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They didn't care about the human being.

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They were so focused on.

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The task at hand, the results that were pursuing, the

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impact that we're having on the business, that they didn't

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tender the challenge that she was dealing with in her life.

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You know, I have a very dear friend that used to.

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Work for me, and then we're going to We've got

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like thirty seconds for you to out story help this.

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And she would say, the best thing that ever I

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had with you as a leader is that I was

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able to cry in your office and you always had

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it for me right, and that it was okay for

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her to have her experiences in life in my office.

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That's beautiful. That's the world I want to live in, Alan,

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for sure.

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It is.

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As long as we let our guard down and we

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do this work, this goes by so fast. You guys,

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thank you so much for coming on working on purpose.

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It's so good to see you again and celebrate the

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work that you're doing. It's so so important. Shock to

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er for coming on. Don't go away. Let me disclose

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the show. Listeners and viewers, you're going to want to

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learn more about Shock to Deadly and Alan Prushan and

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the work that they're doing together at Enlightening Leaders, So

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visit their website. It's Enlightening leaders dot com. Once again

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Enlightening Leaders dot com. Last week, if you missed the

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live show, you can always catch it be recorded podcast.

816
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We were on with doctors Christopher Wrong, Michaelson and Jennifer

817
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:52.880
Toasti Karaz talking about their new book, Is Your Work

818
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.519
Worth It? How to Think about Meaningful Work? It was

819
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a meeting conversation among those three meeting and work researchers,

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and I dare say it will make you meaning We

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question how you spend your own working hours and our

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steward and the experience for those you lead. Next week,

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we'll be on the air with Jennifer Pastikas talking about

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the brand new conference we both are part of, which

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is Thrive in twenty five. I mentioned that at the

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beginning of the show it's specifically curated to develop the

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whole woman. Jennifer is one of the organizers and I

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am proud to serve as the MC. You can learn

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more about this conference at www dot thrive dash in

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twenty five dot com and twenty five.

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Is then number.

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See you then for another inspiring and educational conversation on

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working on purpose and remember work as one of the

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best adventures and means of realizing our potential and making

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the impact we create. So let's work on Purpose.

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We hope you've enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to

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tune into Working on Purpose featuring your host, doctor Elise Cortes,

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each week on W four CY. Together we'll create a

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world where business operates conscientiously, leadership inspires and passion performance,

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and employees are fulfilled in work that provides the meaning

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and purpose they Craig. See you there. Let's work on Purpose.