July 23, 2024

Want to Amplify Your Impact? Connect and Activate Your Potential

Want to Amplify Your Impact? Connect and Activate Your Potential

We have a deep need to bring out our potential and connect it with and through others to make the impact we crave. It is this force, this energy, and our desire and ability to connect it that is the catalyst and activator of personal and professional...

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We have a deep need to bring out our potential and connect it with and through others to make the impact we crave. It is this force, this energy, and our desire and ability to connect it that is the catalyst and activator of personal and professional growth, deep learning, and transformed relationships, teams, families, and organizations. How to fully access it? We just need one mindset shift, one operating system, and one core practice, facilitating a ripple effect of exponential impact.

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Elise Cortez.

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Hi. There, welcome back to the Working on Purpose program,

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which has been brought to you with passion or pride

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since February of twenty fifteen. Thanks for tuning in this week.

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I'm your host, doctor Elise Cortes. If we've not met

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before and you don't know me, I'm an organizational psychologist

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dot com and Elisecoortes dot com. Now getting in today's

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program we have with us today. Pam August of the

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firm Connecting Potential, where she guides organizations, teams and leaders

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to unlock the potential that is already there for transformational results.

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She is the Director of Culture Activation at west Jet,

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one of Canada's most admired corporate cultures were for fourteen years,

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she was a fierce champion and developer of people in

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culture as a key enabler of strategic success. She's the

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author of Potential, How to connect to What's already there

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for Exponential Impact, which we'll be talking about today. She

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joined it today from her home and Prince Edward, Rhode Island.

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She also homes in Calgary, Canada. Pam, welcome to Working

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on Purpose.

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Thank you, Elisa. It's wonderful to be here. Thank you

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for having me.

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Welcome. As we were saying before we got on air,

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where were kindred spirits and doing some similar kind of work,

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care about some similar things, and I do like to

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celebrate authors that bring their works into the world.

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So looks a look at this beautiful.

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Thing that you put into the world.

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My third baby.

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It's totally a baby, as we were talking about, So

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party congratulations, Pam. It's beautiful, it's tight, it all hangs

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together beautifully. I love your model, which we'll talk about.

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But to kick us off here, I think it's important

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that we part with your really powerful story that you

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share in your book that really kicked off your own

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appetite to understand and grow potential. Let's start there.

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Yeah, Oh gosh, I mean, it's a story that real

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came into my memory. I remembered it during the writing process,

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and it became very clear that it was the inciting incident,

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the thing that led me to this life journey. And

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it was a really, really lousy story. It was an

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example of everything not to do. Yeah, and you know,

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I was a young person a little bit of a

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spoiler alert. It's a story at the beginning of the book.

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And I was a young woman who had really spent

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my whole life perfecting what I called the three p's,

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which are pleasing, performing, and the third pe perfecting, and

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there probably was a fifth P, which was pressure. And

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so I really believed in order to be worthy and worthwhile,

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I had to do those things. And I was always

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at person she would be amazing if she'd only just

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apply herself. And I found my thing, or so I thought, Well,

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I did find my thing, and I was put into

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though a very toxic learning environment, and I was told

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some horrific words that at the time were probably it

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was probably the second most devastating conversation I'd ever had

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in my life. And you know, at the time. It

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set me into quite a talesman. That led me, not

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led me to but probably was a catalyst for a

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lot of healing and really going deep inside to ask

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what is it? What is it that I own? What

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is it that others own? And what is it? And

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who do I want to be in this world? And

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did you want me to share the quote?

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Because I mean, yes, I think it's important because if

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somebody would receive the kind of message that you got,

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it would be interesting to see how they would handle that,

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especially at the younger age that you were.

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Yeah, so I was. I think I was twenty three

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at the time, and the words were this from a

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person in power, an instructor in a college program that

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had power over my education and my career. Really, who

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said I need to tell you that you have a

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personality defect that will prevent you from ever being successful

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in life. I'm only telling you this because I care

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and you need to know it. Now. Even as I

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say the words now and it was a long time ago,

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my heart pounds. Yeah, yeah, because I actually believed it

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to be true already, sure, and this was just affirmation. Yeah.

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Well, I was laughing because the bit about I'm only

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telling you this because I care. Is the part that really,

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you know, sings it home. But listeners and viewers, I

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want you to think back for yourselves. Every one of

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you has something that so I'm kind of mess that

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you have been that's been delivered to you that is

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sitting hanging heavily on your heart and weighing down, detracting

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you from realizing more of your own potential. So this

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conversation is for you too, all of us and I

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have a story like that too, which we don't need

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to talk about now because we're going to talk about

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the good stuff in your book. But it's important that

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we anchor that with where because you've blown way past

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what with this person thought of you. But the one

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important thing that you've come to that I really appreciated

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about your book is you've really distinguished that most of

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us tend to employ a problem oriented thinking way of

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going through life. And of course you know that's one

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way to do it. You of course embrace the potential piece.

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But why do you think most of us tend to

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employ the problem solving approach instead of the potential one?

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Yeah? And I think, well, gosh, I think there's no

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shortage of problems in the world to solve right, not

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to say not to say that that solving problems is

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not a worthy pursuit and an important endeavor. I mean,

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it's it's why I have the work I do, why

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you have the work you do, why many of us

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have the work that we have. The problem with a

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problem mindset is is that when we have a mindset

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of problem, that's all we see, yea. And really, you know,

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we come by it honestly because we're wired to act first,

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feel second, think last, because we're wired to be safe,

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to discern, you know, discover or uncover or detect threat,

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and then think about what we need to do to

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act to stay safe. And so we have this you know,

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negativity bias that's wired into us that serves us well

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in some situations. The problem is we use it in

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all situations, or at least far too many. And so

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when we see a problem, what we're doing is we're

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priming ourselves to take action on something. We want to

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move away from something that potentially is a threat or

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an annoyance or a frustration. But that a way response

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in our nervous system or what I call operating system

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is perceived like a threat, and it creates a neurochemical

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cocktail that includes things like cortisol and adrenaline and all

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of those things that actually contract us and disconnect all

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the parts of us that make it harder to actually

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get where we want to go, which is our potential,

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much less solve the problem that we want to avoid,

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which comes from that problem mindset beautifully explained.

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Okay, so now let's take it another step further here

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if we abandon that approach and we now embrace the

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potential thinking mindset paint for us the promise of that.

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Yeah, So I would say, in any situation, in any challenge,

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in any difficulty, there is some thing that wants to happen,

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and that's something is potential. And just before this call,

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I shared a very I do this as a facilitator

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and coach and educator. What's present for me in the

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moment is always what comes out. And so we just

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had a quick chat about this, and one of my

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dearest and longest friends made the essential and excruciatingly difficult

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decision to stop cancer treatment after four and a half

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years of dealing with ovarian cancer. And this woman, I

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know she wouldn't mind me telling her story, but I

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will keep her name confidential. Is she's just the most

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incredible human because throughout these four and a half extremely

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difficult years, eighty rounds of chemo five surgeries, septic clots

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in her lungs, Like we're talking existential threats here, what

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she was able to do was be real with the problem,

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be real with the trauma, be real with the difficult.

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And then what felt very quickly to me observing and

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being with her was turn it into what wants to

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happen here? And the thing like just even now, you know,

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there's been more bad news, and what wants to happen

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is she wants to connect with people. She wants to

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use this time to form, reform, reinvigorate connections, you know,

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like it's to me, it's it's I don't inspiring is

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not even enough of a word, because it's so much

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deeper than that and so potential, you know. And again,

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you know, in a more like everyday occurrence, I was

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working with a leader who's really challenged and dealing with conflict. Problem.

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I'm challenged dealing with conflict, yes, And I said to her,

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so what wants to happen instead? And she said, I

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want to show up powerfully to work through challenges and

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still be colleguial or in a relationship. I said, okay,

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that's the potential. So I said, what shifted when you

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move from so say to yourself, I'm not good at

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I'm not good at conflict. The challenge is conflict. What happens?

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And she goes like this, and I say, okay, so

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now what happens when you say the potential? What wants

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to happen is for me to show up in a

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way that builds relationship and deals with messy issues. What's different?

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And she said, well, I lean forward. I said yes,

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because potential is what we move toward. I didn't say

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this in the book, or maybe I did. I can't remember.

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Now the potential is all around us. The only place

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that's not is behind us.

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I think you did say that in the book. Yeah,

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one of the things I like about what you said

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about potential. And then I do want to talk about

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adversity because that's so powerful. As you know, you say,

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we have a deep need to bring it that is

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potential together and connect it. It is this force, this energy,

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and our desire and ability to connect it that is

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the catalyst and activator of personal and professional growth, deep

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learning and transformed relationships, teams, families and organizations.

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So powerful, Pam.

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And that's what you were just describing with your friend.

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Yeah, yeah, like it is. And again I wanted to

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then come back to the more kind of everyday example, right,

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because this thing called potential is always there in big

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and small, yes, right, in all of it, wanting to

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be connected. And it is really like, if you think

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about it in science terms, there's potential energy, right, and

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it's when you complete the circuit that the light goes

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off or the sound happens or whatever, you know, the

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air conditioning comes on. It is this point of connection.

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you're right, but it's here now. It's here now, and

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then and again and again this is where we also align, Pam.

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of what your friend has gone through just is astounding

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to the tremendous depth of power and strength that we have,

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there to be able to be activated as well. And so,

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but I'm also really present to it in my own life,

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you know, the notion of struggle, challenge, adversity. I remember,

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struggling challenge, especially depending on how we relate to that. Now.

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for it. Sorry, you say. While we can connect potential

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powerful connections of potential. These situations develop our resilience muscles

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and result in lasting transformations in their impact. Here here

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culture that we find ourselves in right where we're constantly

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when you screw up, when I screw up, all of it,

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our listeners and viewers reflect on maybe some of the

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which is so compelling. So I'm your host, doctor Alice Cortez,

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firm Connecting Potential, where she guys organizations, teams, and leaders

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to unlock the potential that is already there for transformational results.

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visioneer for greater purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired

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leadership and meaning infused cultures that elevate fulfillment, performance, and

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commitment within the workforce. To learn more or to invite

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a lease to speak to your organization, please visit her

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your employees working on purpose. This is working on Purpose

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to working on Purpose.

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Thanks for starting with us, and welcome back to working

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on Purpose. I'm your host, doctor really Scortes, as I too,

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am dedicated to helping create a world where people realize

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their potential at work are led by inspirational leaders that

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help them find and contribute their greatness, and we do

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business that betters the world. I continue to continue to

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research and write my own books. So one of my

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last ones came in March of twenty twenty three. It's

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called The Great Revitalization. How activating meaning and purpose can

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radically enliven your business. And I really wrote it to

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help leaders understand the changed workforce, what is it that

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they actually want from you as an employer, and then

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I give you twenty two best practices to build into

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your culture to provide that for them. If you are

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just now joining us. My guest is Pam August. She's

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the author of Potential, how to Connect What's already there

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for exponential impact, which we've been talking about today. So

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just before the break, we teased up that we wanted

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to share and get you to talk about your model.

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I really appreciate when people can create a model that

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conveys so much information and brings all the contents together.

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as you saw in our notes, I captured it for

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myself because I wanted to be able to keep and

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understand it, but kind of walk us through it, please, Pam.

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know why, you know, how does how do the components

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perfect perfect, and so yeah, it's it's actually one of

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the things in the book that I'm so grateful to

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my book because it was the catalyst for me to

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really synthesize what I call a life work of learning.

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a moment, and then we can dive into elements. It's

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really the way I speak about it, it is one

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mindset shift from problem to potential. One operating system, which

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is us as human beings and our capacity to act,

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to feel, and to think, one core practice which is intend, notice,

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and move, and then three dimensions of exponential impact. Because

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what I found in my work and I'm sure you've

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found the very similar things. Is that working with thousands

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of people and hundreds of teams and organizations all over,

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is that this thing called potential lives simultaneously in three dimensions.

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It lives within us as individuals, It lives between us

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in our relationships and teams, and it lives around us

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in this thing called culture and community. And because all

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three of those are connected to each other, if you

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influence any one of them, you actually influence every one

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of them. And so that's why I make this claim

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about exponential impact. Right. So again, it's one mindset shift,

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one operating system, one core practice, and three dimensions of impact.

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That's beautifully explained, very very very very crisp. Again, so

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what that also says, and I think I remember, I

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don't remember if you also were were a professor in

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the university system, were you? Yeah, I talked whole secondary

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for thirteen years. Yeah, yeah, I thought, I remember that

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I also have been a professor. And what I learned

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how much they understood the subject. When I got lost

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in their papers, I understood they didn't know what they

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were talking about. So this model really really signifies the

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strength of your own knowledge pan. It's very You're very welcome,

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it's very impressive, very tight.

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I've gotten that. Yeah, you know, you're welcome.

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the mindset, from problem solving to potential. I love that

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you did break down this, you know, this idea of

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one opera system that we are, we do, act, feel

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and think. I think that's really important to understand those

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those pieces. I definitely want you to talk about, you know,

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the disconneated, disconnected operating system versus the connected one, because

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you distinguished those beautifully. But you tell me how it's

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how it's best to kind of really now start.

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it's a fun story. I'll start with the story that

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through how fun is that? So so the fun story

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I loved that, by the way, I totally captured that.

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this time. And so doctor Dan Siegel, who was a

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leading mind in mindfulness, and I had the opportunity to

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one day mindfulness workshop in Oxford in England. My husband

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and I are ridiculous fans of British crime drumas you're

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going to the UK because I mind up for his workshop. Well,

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of course i share his model in my book and

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I'm giving him a signed copy and so that's that

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is that's the future story, right. But tying it back

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though doctor Siegel so beautifully, and I encourage your listeners

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to look up his hand model of the brain because

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it's just such a simple, visceral way to know about

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our operating system, which basically we're designed super quick through

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our brainstem and all the accompanying and it's not as

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simple as I'm making it, but simple just to get

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the idea. We are designed for action first, and in fact,

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if we didn't move, we wouldn't even need a brain,

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right like, we are designed for action. Our operating system,

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meaning our brain, is part of a whole system that's

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connected by the spinal cord. So we're designed for action first.

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which is literally the heart of the brain. And then

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we're designed to think last, which is the cortex. And

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on a good day, in a good moment, our operating

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system is connected. Our capacity and ability to act, feel,

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and think with energyes and effectiveness can happen. And I've

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got a joke, I can do Like you know, we're

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going through. Everything's going well. The reality is, though, the

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world is a challenging world. It's complex, it's complicated, it's uncertain,

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it's chaotic. It's it's all of these things and things

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happen that trigger us, that stress us, this wear us down.

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flip our and our ability to act, feel and think

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is gone. And so instead of energy ease, and effectiveness.

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swirl or stuck. And you know, again this is all

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like these these these these frames of energyes and effectiveness

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and strains, swirl, and stuck really come through a lot

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of my experiential learning, again working with thousands of people

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over years, and what I'm finding now and I'm testing

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as I'm doing my teaching and coaching and things like that,

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they can move, but it's hard, they're strained, they're going

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a million miles an hour using a word that I

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don't use and I tell my readers not to use

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it starts with B right, or they end up in

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that place of stuck where they can't move right. So

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it's like we can move, but it hurts, we can't stop,

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or we can't move, and we've probably all had experiences

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of that. Whereas ease, well, energy is we're finished something

461
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and we actually feel energized by it. Ease is the

462
00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:26.200
thing's not easy necessarily, but our experience of it feels

463
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more easeful.

464
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Yes.

465
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And then effectiveness is we can get it done, and

466
00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:35.920
we're always flipping between those two. I found myself just

467
00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:38.759
now in answering that question, catching one moment where I thought,

468
00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:42.160
my brain is whirling, breath out, Okay, we're back.

469
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It's beautiful, and it just it just it just really

470
00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:48.200
helps clarify, you know, where are you in this? And

471
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:53.680
so that is that's the uh, that's the operating operation,

472
00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:56.559
can that's the acting. And I also found that fascinating

473
00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:01.000
that you that you aligned our different brains, you know,

474
00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:03.440
to acting, feeling and thinking. I think I knew that

475
00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:05.440
on some level, but that was so crisp. So that

476
00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:08.319
was really helpful to me, which then moves us in

477
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.240
then to one practice intend, notice and move.

478
00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:16.279
Yeah, and so where that came from is and and

479
00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:18.480
just you know, my book ended up being a real

480
00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:20.960
act of narrative nonfiction. That was not the book I

481
00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:23.880
planned to write. I planned to write a book that

482
00:27:24.039 --> 00:27:26.680
was more of a I would say, a clean how

483
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to MM And then the story I shared at the

484
00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:34.720
beginning was the catalyst for the storytelling in the book,

485
00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:38.640
and it really wanted to have to teach readers things

486
00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:41.079
that they could use. But then much more of my

487
00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:44.240
story ended up in the book. Than I had ever imagined,

488
00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:46.039
but it was what the book wanted so well.

489
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:47.960
And nobody tells us when we when we start a

490
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.279
book that books actually have their own personalities and sometimes

491
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.440
their own agenda. Right, they don't tell us that, And

492
00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:55.960
so you get this surprise.

493
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.720
You know, as you're writing a book, I know what

494
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to mean. It started writing me. It was an incredible experience.

495
00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:02.200
And so.

496
00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:08.480
This, this model, this model framework of intent, notice and

497
00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:14.559
move really came from work I do in more the

498
00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:20.240
area of somatics and educational kinesiology, which is movement to

499
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:25.359
help rewire our nervous system. I was an aerobics instructor

500
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:27.519
a long time ago, and a bodybuilder and a yoga

501
00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:30.359
teacher and teach brain gym. So everything I do is

502
00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:32.920
always embodied. Then the reality is brains don't roll into

503
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:36.359
the room. We all walk into our workplaces and we

504
00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:40.359
walk back into our homes as an embodied system. And

505
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.960
so you know, the model of intent, notice and move

506
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:48.960
is intended to be unintended, intended to be a dynamic

507
00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:54.960
because as human beings, we are dynamic systems. That intention

508
00:28:55.279 --> 00:29:00.519
setting intention primes our operating system to folks on where

509
00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.559
we want to go, who we want to be. The

510
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:09.160
noticing part, the middle part of the framework recognizes the

511
00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:11.599
only place we can move from is where we are now,

512
00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:16.559
and if we don't notice our experience of now, we

513
00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:19.359
cannot be a choice about how we want to respond.

514
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:26.240
Right and then move is the thing that gets us

515
00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:30.319
from where we are or who we are being, to

516
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:32.200
where we want to go or who we want to be.

517
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:37.200
And in the book, I teach about actual physical movement,

518
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.640
really focusing on the breath because it's our most powerful

519
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:46.079
catalyst to regulate ourselves all the time. And then I

520
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:49.640
do get into because I realized as I was doing this, Gosh,

521
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:53.000
everything I do, whether I'm coaching a leader, working with teams,

522
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.599
working as a culture strategist, teaching in the college system,

523
00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:01.119
it's always about here's where we want to go, Where

524
00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:03.519
are we now? What are the actions that we need

525
00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:06.200
to take to get there? Intend, notice, and move.

526
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:09.359
I think it's beautiful. And then you take us home

527
00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:13.759
and direct us through those three dimensions of exponential impact.

528
00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:16.240
Of course what you introduced ahead, and I think that's

529
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:18.519
so powerful too, that last bit of your of your

530
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:20.400
of your model. If you would take us through.

531
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:25.480
That, Yeah, and I would say hmm gosh. So at

532
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.119
least would you like me to take you through the

533
00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:29.000
parts or how the parts come together.

534
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.240
Well, just this notion, just even what you did at

535
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:34.400
the beginning, just to bring the whole thing together, right,

536
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.759
because you know, this notion that you know it's within us,

537
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.240
between us and around us is just really powerful when

538
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:43.759
you turn on to that much potential.

539
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.519
Yeah, so I would say, okay, yeah, so so it's

540
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:51.400
it's it's one. So I think we've all had that

541
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:56.000
experience right where we've had that experience where we're not

542
00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.000
feeling it. We walk into a meeting, they're not feeling it.

543
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:06.119
We leave the meeting, and everyone around us nothing, nobody's

544
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.119
feeling it, right, Like, we get into that you know,

545
00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:12.680
that place, and then I think we've all had that

546
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:18.799
experience where you come into a situation and there's someone

547
00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:25.200
or something something that happens between one person shows up

548
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:31.759
with a lot of energy and potentiality, and they shift

549
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:36.039
the dynamic that's happening in the relationships in that team.

550
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:39.359
So people start talking to each other and then as

551
00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:43.039
a result of that, things out in the world that

552
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.599
they're working in start to happen differently. And then they

553
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:48.920
start coming back and they say, oh, well, this this

554
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:51.119
thing happened. We made progress on this, and we made

555
00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:55.240
progress on that, and then that makes the team more cohesive,

556
00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.960
and then each member of that team feels more empowered

557
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.440
as a member. It's I don't know if that did

558
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:03.119
that get in.

559
00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:06.079
No, that's absolutely beautiful. And now what that does is

560
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:08.599
you've just put the whole thing together. Now, let's take

561
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:10.480
our last break and let our listeners and kind of

562
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.200
viewers think about how that system hangs DA because after

563
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:16.039
the break, I want to talk about how we can

564
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.880
optimize your system to enhance effectiveness and energy. But so

565
00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:20.680
let's let them think about this first while we take

566
00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:23.880
our last break. I'm your host, doctor Elise Cortez. We've

567
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:26.039
had on the area with Pam August of the firm

568
00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:29.519
Connecting Potential, where she guys organizations, teams, and leaders to

569
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.599
unlock the potential that is already there for transformation results.

570
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:35.960
We've been going through her beautiful connect Potential operating system.

571
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She's now explained that to us. After the break, we're

572
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:40.480
going to help you understand how to better optimize the

573
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system to enhance your own effectiveness and energy.

574
00:32:43.119 --> 00:33:00.440
We'll be right back, doctor Release courts As is a

575
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management consultant specializing in meaning and purpose. An inspirational speaker

576
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.200
and author, she helps companies visioneer for greater purpose among

577
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:12.319
stakeholders and develop purpose inspired leadership and meaning infused cultures

578
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:16.480
that elevate fulfillment, performance, and commitment within the workforce. To

579
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:18.559
learn more or to invite a lease to speak to

580
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:22.759
your organization, please visit her at elisecortes dot com. Let's

581
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:25.720
talk about how to get your employees working on purpose.

582
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:34.559
This is Working on Purpose with doctor Elise Cortes. To

583
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.720
reach our program today or to open a conversation with Elise,

584
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:43.440
send an email to Elise alisee at elisecortes dot com.

585
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:45.640
Now back to working on Purpose.

586
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:53.119
Thanks for staying with us and welcome back to working

587
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:55.480
on Purpose. I'm your host, doctor e Release Cortes. I

588
00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:57.440
mentioned in the last break that my last book came

589
00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:59.759
out in March of twenty twenty three, The Greater Vitalization.

590
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:02.200
What I did for you is I created a three

591
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:05.640
page assessment that you can take off my Gusto Deshal site.

592
00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:08.280
It's free, and that will help you be able to

593
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identify where in your organization in terms of your culture

594
00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:12.679
that you're strong or where you might want to you

595
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:15.440
want to shore some efforts up to actually get yourself

596
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:18.440
into a place that meets the discerning needs of today's workforce.

597
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:21.039
If you are just joining us now, my guest is

598
00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:23.880
Pam August. She's the author of Potential, How to connect

599
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:26.719
what's already there for exponential impact, which is what we've

600
00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:29.559
been talking about today. So now that we've explained that

601
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:32.480
beautiful model here beautifully, now let's talk about how could

602
00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:35.920
people optimize the system to enhance their effectiveness and their energy?

603
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.559
Yes, I knew. I knew this question. On the break,

604
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:42.360
I was thinking about this. So I want to start.

605
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:47.079
I want to start with this analogy. I guess we could.

606
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:50.239
You know, I worked in the fitness industry, health and wellness.

607
00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:53.920
I was a nutritionist actually in a former life, remember yeah,

608
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:56.000
but I didn't care what people ate, So it was

609
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.840
a little bit of a career limiting move what interested

610
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:04.679
in pos So anyway, but I worked in fitness for

611
00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:09.440
a long time. And so January January second, fitness clubs

612
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:14.199
are full. January seventeenth, they're starting to empty out. And

613
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.519
so here's the thing is, we can belong to the

614
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:21.960
best workout facility, have the best equipment, best new runners,

615
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.599
the best ergonomic leggings, the best trainer, and the best

616
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:31.559
workout plan. If we do not do the reps, new muscles,

617
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:37.280
do not run, that's it, right, Like, there's no shortcut

618
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:45.679
to anything. It's just doing the practice of intent. So

619
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:48.320
a way that that could look is I get up

620
00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:51.000
every morning and I ask myself, I say, what's a

621
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.920
word that captures how I want to show up today? Intent?

622
00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:59.559
Notice I check in, I check in, and I notice

623
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.119
how I'm I know, what am I thinking? What am

624
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:08.000
I feeling? What's my physical experience like right now? Move?

625
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:10.199
What's the one thing I need to do to start

626
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:13.119
my day to move me closer to how I want

627
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:17.000
to show up and how I intend to be. That's

628
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:21.559
an example, right, and so it's the same thing before

629
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:27.400
coming on this radio show, I asked myself, how do

630
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.880
I want to show up? How am I now? What's

631
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.480
the thing that I need to do? And what often

632
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.800
shows up? Which is why I teach it in my

633
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:41.599
book in a number of different ways, is our breath

634
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:48.119
is our most powerful tool to connect our potential. We're

635
00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:51.719
already doing it when we do it intentionally. It's in fact,

636
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:54.880
it's the only autonomic body process that we can do

637
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.079
consciously as well. That's how powerful it is. And so

638
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.960
one of my favorite mantras is I breathe in, I

639
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:07.840
am ready, breathe out, I'm relaxed, because the in breath

640
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:11.760
gets us ready for action, the sympathetic nervous system. The

641
00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:15.000
outbreath lets us know we're safe and we can relax

642
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.519
in action, which is the pair sympathetic nervous system. So

643
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:22.679
I would really, you know, I tell my readers for

644
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.559
twenty one days. You know, in twenty one is probably

645
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:27.719
not even the right number, but it's a place to start.

646
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.800
Is you know, every day, three times a day, set

647
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:34.960
an intention before you go into a meeting. How do

648
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.000
you want to show up before you're having that conversation

649
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:40.719
with your child for the fifth time in the month,

650
00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:43.480
how do you want to show up? Notice how you

651
00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:47.039
are now? And what I find and I've found this

652
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:50.199
a lot is we like to skip the notice part

653
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:53.960
because it's the reality is we're not going to be

654
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:58.480
in alignment with our intention. Usually that's why we said it,

655
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.199
and people, you know, we don't like that. It makes

656
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:05.079
us uncomfortable. But the great thing about that discomfort. Is

657
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:06.920
it actually gives us the energy to move?

658
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.599
Yes.

659
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:11.400
Yes, And the reality is it's already happening. If we

660
00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:15.079
don't notice it, all we can do is continue reacting unconsciously.

661
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:18.639
Once we notice our current state, like me coming on

662
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:21.800
this interview. You know, I do a lot of speaking

663
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.679
and a lot of interviews and a lot of conversations.

664
00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:30.400
Every single time I feel nervous, right, and so it's

665
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.639
important to notice that and then say, so what do

666
00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:35.360
I need to do to show up the way I

667
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:38.960
want to show up, which is clear and connecting. And

668
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:42.079
so that noticing really is a superpower, especially in today's

669
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:46.840
highly distracted world. And then that move, if you do

670
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:50.119
nothing else, just focusing on your breath.

671
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Where you lost your sounds a little bit, maybecome closer

672
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to your computer.

673
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:02.440
Yeah, we got that, I think.

674
00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:05.559
Okay, So that was beautiful, just beautiful. You know, just

675
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:07.800
a couple of weeks ago, now, we had Finny and

676
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.159
Kelly on the program, and he was talking very much

677
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:12.599
about breath work, and he's in Denver, and he really

678
00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:14.440
taught us a lot about the power of breath work.

679
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.400
I'm guessing that if just a couple of our listeners

680
00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:19.480
and viewers are just heard you explain that you want

681
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:21.719
them to do this, you know, check in process. Three

682
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.360
times a day. We're quinn, I could maybe do it once,

683
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.920
but three sounds like a lot. But we've had other

684
00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:30.000
people on the program also giving very very similar advice.

685
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.639
Three times a day is the is an important number.

686
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:35.119
Can you maybe say a bit more about why three

687
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:35.760
times a day?

688
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:40.960
Three? Three is really a magic number? And and you

689
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:44.079
know three like I'll I'll just ask listeners right now

690
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:50.079
to finish this silently in their heads, finish these statements location, location,

691
00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:58.719
earthwind and right, blood, sweat and lights, camera action right.

692
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:03.880
Three is a magic number. And I found out through

693
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Google research that one of the reasons three is such

694
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a powerful number. It's the smallest unit that forms a pattern.

695
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Right if we go we're waiting for the third like

696
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one two three one two three one two three, It

697
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is a powerful pattern former. And so that's why we all,

698
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that's why number three three shows up so often in everything,

699
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because it's sticky. Right now, having said that, if three

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times in one day is way too much, make it

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three times a week. Make it a Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

702
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Maybe make it a Monday, a Monday, Friday and a Sunday, right.

703
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Right, just start exactly get emotion, Yes, just start.

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And honestly it's you know, what's what. We'll get to

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this later. But what's the one thing? Right? The three

706
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is a powerful number, you know.

707
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I so appreciate that. And the other thing, there are

708
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so many things about your book too that we could

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deal deeper into some of the stuff that I had

710
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planned to cover. I feel like you already did, but

711
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one thing I definitely wanted to speak more too, because

712
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increasingly this program has evolved so much over the nine

713
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and a half years i've been hosting it, but I

714
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find myself really getting really interested in neuroscience. And I

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really liked how you explain how you are connecting the

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potential operating system starts by looking at the brain and

717
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then really recognizing how that interaction takes place. So you

718
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say in the book about you starting to notice, you say,

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the operating system is much more than above the ears brain,

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and then you go on to say that neuroscience clearly

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shows that the human brain is part of a dynamic,

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interconnected system and the whole body via the nervous system,

723
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and you say, the neurons, the cells that make up

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the nervous system are found throughout the body. So when

725
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you hear things like trust your gut, or go with

726
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:04.719
your trust your heart, or go with your gut, there

727
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.719
is an actual scientific basis for that, and I think

728
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it's fascinating. So if you could maybe say a bit

729
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more help our listeners and viewers really understand this notion

730
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of this interconnected brain, well.

731
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Oh gosh, I mean so the simplest example is people

732
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we say things, I need to sleep on it, I

733
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need to go get some fresh air to clear my head.

734
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We know that if we go for a walk and

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move our bodies, we can actually think more clearly. We

736
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feel better after being in nature, going to the gym.

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I'll really hone into to one specific thing that I'm

738
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becoming I'm learning much more about these days, and that's

739
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the vagus nerve. Yes, yes, and so the vegus nerve

740
00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:50.960
is a nerve that really runs, you know, from our

741
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.960
trunk all the way through our whole system up up

742
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into our brain. And the vagus nerve is a powerful

743
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app evator when it's regulating properly of our para, sympathetic,

744
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.280
our rest, and digest nervous system. And so one of

745
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:10.719
the things I learned recently in a program I was

746
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taking called the Neuroscience of Coaching, is that we and

747
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:17.239
as a yoga teacher, I always tell my students to

748
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:21.000
belly breathe, you know, breathe deeply. Well, one of the

749
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things that happens when we breathe deeply is we actually

750
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put pressure on the vagus nerve that helps to tone it,

751
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which is why it's so calming. Right, there are more

752
00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:36.840
nerve impulses going from the gut to the brain than

753
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the brain to the gut. Right. And so if our body,

754
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:46.079
if our body, our brain below our ears is our

755
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:50.599
sensory input system for our environment. All of our senses.

756
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I mean, we do have sight and hearing that's above

757
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:57.400
the ears, But all of the tactile things, the pro preceptors,

758
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:01.440
the things that let us know where we are in space, touch, feel, sensation,

759
00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:04.719
all of those things come in through these channels that

760
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are embodied in the body. Channels. They go to our brain.

761
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:16.320
Our brain then uses past experience and future prediction to say, oh,

762
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these signals tell me this thing, So now this is

763
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.760
the action I need to take. And these happen in

764
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:26.280
milliseconds and so then what happens is signals then go

765
00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:29.960
back into the body where we take action. Right, So

766
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:33.639
that again that intending starts us in this above the

767
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year brain. The noticing when we notice what we're thinking, feeling,

768
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and experiencing, takes us into the whole system and then move,

769
00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:48.440
whether it's physical action or more action like I have,

770
00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:54.119
this conversation again becomes a whole body thing. And I

771
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:57.840
recently learned from Oh gosh, I'm going to forget Amanda's

772
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:01.960
last name, Amanda Blake. Amanda Blake, your body is your brain.

773
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And I love what she said here because I'm a

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strong proponent and have been for decades of experiential learning.

775
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Right that we have to experience something, we need to

776
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be able to observe and reflect on it, we need

777
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to be able to conceptualize it somehow, and then we

778
00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:20.599
need to actively experiment with it in order for learning

779
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.639
to be complete. And she goes as far to say

780
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that sustained change and transformation must be experienced and embodied.

781
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Otherwise it's just conceptual perception, is what she calls it,

782
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or what I call it, just an interesting idea.

783
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That's so powerful.

784
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:46.239
The body is the vehicle with which we experience the

785
00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:51.039
world and with which we act on our experience, and

786
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:53.079
it's part of an interconnected system.

787
00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:56.480
Well, and that goes back to your first career. All

788
00:45:56.519 --> 00:45:58.320
the more reason that we need to take really good

789
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care of this special I often think about the body,

790
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you know, especially when we're thinking about how we're so different.

791
00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:08.119
You know, I was issued this body. I didn't have

792
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any say in the matter, but so you know, I

793
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was issued this thing, and this is my my my

794
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:17.320
vehicle to experience life. And so part of what I'm

795
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:20.039
aware of is taking good care of it, giving it

796
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:24.599
good food and exercise and rest and different experiences. So

797
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:26.960
just all the more reason that you're really painting the

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picture of why to keep that strong and vital well.

799
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And us being strong and vital. If we come back

800
00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:36.639
to the three dimensions, how we show up as impact

801
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.840
absolutely wired to mirror each other. We're wired to qan

802
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:45.079
sense and react or respond. And so you you said

803
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:47.079
it when when we jumped on, Oh, I love you know,

804
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:50.519
I love your energy, right, I love your energy. And

805
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:54.960
it's it's it becomes this thing that this is where

806
00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:59.360
when we say this, you need to show up. So

807
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:01.920
what is it to show up? We need to show

808
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.000
up in a way that we can bring our energy,

809
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.360
that we can move with ease and we can be effective.

810
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:11.679
How might we do that? I propose its intend, notice

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and move right? How do we do that as individuals?

812
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:18.159
There's a variety of different ways. How do we do

813
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:21.840
it in teams? It's very similar, right, you know, as

814
00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:24.239
a team? How do we want to be as a team.

815
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How do we want to show up? How do we

816
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:29.199
know that we are working as a team. What do

817
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:32.239
we notice about our team right now? Oh? We notice

818
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:35.719
we're in silos. What's the action that we need to take.

819
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:37.199
We need to come together?

820
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Right?

821
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:41.920
We use the language of movement even when we're talking

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about things that are more cognitive.

823
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.039
So true. Okay, so that was a beautiful Come to

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the close here, Pamita already, because the show goes by

825
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so fast.

826
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It's really a good conversation.

827
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So let me give you a chance to close the

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conversations you like, you know that this show is listening

829
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:58.920
to our people around the world. They care either about

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00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:01.400
elevating their own exp p of work and realizing more

831
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of their own potential. They're trying to become a better leader.

832
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.639
They care about building a powerful effective culture always you

833
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:08.360
like to leave them with.

834
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I knew you were going to ask me this specific questions,

835
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:15.320
and now I'm going what do I want them to know?

836
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:18.719
There's so many things. I think what I want listeners

837
00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:23.880
to know is wherever you are right now is exactly

838
00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:25.960
where you need to be because it's where you are

839
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:31.800
right and the only place that we can move from

840
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is where we are now. So just take a moment

841
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:41.920
and notice you know, where are you now as an individual?

842
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:43.760
Where are you now as a team? Where are you

843
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:47.039
now as an organization, as a parent, as a partner,

844
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:52.239
as a friend. Ask yourself how an alignment is where

845
00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.719
I am now with how I intend or want to be,

846
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and what's one action I can take to move integrate

847
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our life?

848
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It beautiful way to finish well, beautiful way to finish,

849
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.000
new friend, Thank you so much for being on working

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00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:11.559
on purpose and sharing your heart, thinking soul with with

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with me and listeners and viewers. It is wonderful to

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00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.000
know you, to learn from you, and we remain connected.

853
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Thank you, Pam grateful, Thank you listeners and viewers. You're

854
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going to want to learn more about Pam August and

855
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:26.039
stay connected with her as well about including learning more

856
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about the work she does it Connecting Potential, or learn

857
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:30.599
more about her new book, or get your own copy.

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It's called Potential how to connect what's already there for

859
00:49:33.519 --> 00:49:36.400
exponential impact. So one thing that you could do, she's

860
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:38.960
just doing a little cheerleading stand. One thing that you

861
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:40.880
could do is go to her website to start. It's

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Connectingpotential dot c because she's in Canada Connectingpotential dot ca A.

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You can also find her very easily on LinkedIn and

864
00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:52.519
encourage you to open that conversation. Last week, you've missed

865
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:54.400
the live show, you can always catch it via recorded

866
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:56.880
podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. We were on

867
00:49:56.960 --> 00:49:59.519
with James Keys, the former CEO of seven to eleven

868
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:03.039
in block Buster. He has had a lifetime commitment of education,

869
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serving as a founding director of the Dallas Education Foundation

870
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and is the founder of the Education Is Freedom Foundation.

871
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He's also the author of Education Is Freedom The Future

872
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:15.400
Is in Your Hands, which is what we talked about.

873
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It was an incredibly inspiring conversation which in fact we

874
00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:20.199
plan to bring back on a future day because there

875
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was so much we still wanted to discuss. Next week

876
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:25.880
will be on with Hunter Hastings talking about his new

877
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:30.760
book Aberrant Capitalism, The Decay and Revival of Customer Capitalism,

878
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:34.559
which shares the journey of how entrepreneurial capitalism evolved in

879
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the world in US, where it began its downfall, and

880
00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:40.519
the promise of yet another emergent era now in the

881
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corporations in the digital age. See you there, and remember

882
00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:46.239
work as one of the best means and realize ways

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of realizing our potential and making the impact we crave.

884
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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 Cortez,

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00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:03.480
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

889
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.960
and employees are fulfilled in work that provides the meaning

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