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"If we really used good intentions behind everything we did, we would make the world a better place. But, that world can't be a better place and we can't have completely good intentions if we don't know who we are."

Shantell Martin invites us to embark on this journey. Acclaimed visual artist, philosopher, and facilitator, Shantell's art utilizes questions to inspire self-discovery and the freedom to grow individually and together.

We explore how having a pure intention enables our art to come through us like a dance and the journey of trusting yourself as an artist. A deep believer in the process, Shantell illuminates how embracing it expands time and engages us in a circle of reciprocity where we're inspiring each other's art.

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Having worked with admired leaders and well-established organizations for 33+ years, one thing I've learned {about individual & organizational excellence} is that there's a fundamental difference between what it takes to be a good company and what it takes to be a great company. And, an even greater disparity between what it takes to be a great company and one considered amongst the world's best. The latter prioritize people and design the type of workplace environments where greatness can flourish, meaning can be multiplied, and the powerful forces that cause human beings to retreat to the comfortable and conventional can be eliminated.

Daniel Coyle has built a magnificent career thinking about, writing and contributing to many high-performing organizations; including Google, Microsoft, the Navy SEALS, and MLB's Cleveland Guardians. His two bestselling books - The Culture Code and The Talent Code - have had great influence on how I approach talent evaluation and culture design; particularly when it comes to team building.

Our latest conversation will highlight the key insights from Dan's latest book - The Culture Playbook: 60 Highly Effective Actions To Help Your Group Succeed - and will go behind the scenes with the leaders of the San Antonio Spurs, The Cleveland Guardians, The Navy SEALS, and Pixar to understand how their leadership embodies the culture that powers their respective organizations.

"If you are going to live a full life after loss, you have to find your way back to joy," writes Marisa Renee Lee.

In Grief Is Love, she unveils love as the compass to get there.

Marisa shares insight on navigating our healing journeys, from giving ourselves permission to grieve to naming our feelings and creating a healing circle of family and friends. Her definition of grief — as "the repeated experience of learning to live in the midst of a significant loss" — helps us cultivate the acceptance and grace we need to find our center in a new reality.

Living with grief since the heartbreaking loss of her mother continues to teach Marisa that "love never dies." She illuminates how we can stay connected to our loved ones by embodying their values and rebuilding their pillar of love in our lives.

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In this episode snippet, Edible Gardens LA Founder Lauri Kranz illuminates our path back to nature and the lessons it offers us.

How might you find your center in nature this week? What might you let go of when you do?

Editor's Note: This conversation was recorded via phone in 2019 meaning that the audio isn't as clear as usual. Lauri's wisdom is so resonant. I didn't want that to keep us from sharing. Thank you for listening!

"My calling is to heal; That is my truth."

When Dr.Michele Harper was growing up, two experiences seeded her mission to be a healer — A night in the ER with her brother and a divine voice she heard as a child. It was these awakenings that inspired her to become an ER physician, a journey she captures in her bestselling memoir, The Beauty in Breaking.

In our conversation, she shares the lessons on compassion, forgiveness, and strength she's learned through the healing of her patients and herself. Each is illuminated by the embodiment of unconditional love and the invitation to expand it.

Do you ever feel your body pulling you in the right direction?

This inner compass is the facet of Bob Roth's teachings on Transcendental Meditation that I was most curious about…How does TM help us access it?

"It's the nature of life, given the opportunity, to grow," he says. "With the body, you set up the conditions, it will heal itself. But, it's all about setting up the conditions."

Bob illuminates how tapping into this innermost part of ourselves amplifies everything from our creativity to our capacity to fulfill our purpose and love unconditionally. Each flourishes from discerning the conditions that enable us to embody our truth and allowing the rest to unfold.

Bob has taught thousands of people TM, and through his leadership as CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, facilitated the teaching of over a million students, veterans with PTSD, and survivors of domestic violence. As one of the most sought out teachers, his belief that we all need the ability to heal ourselves expands beyond our individual experience. It's essential to our collective vitality.

Few understand the depth of individual and organizational excellence as Marcus Buckingham - For 3+ decades, his work has had a singular focus to explore the hidden dimensions of greatness; and in this episode - he rejoins Moe to demonstrate why "love" is the essence of high performance - both personally and professionally.

"Beauty is a core moral value. It's an essential piece of how we stay resilient and find joy, even with all the difficulties of life."

In this episode snippet, On Being's Krista Tippett shares how her conversation partners, from poets to physicists, unveil beauty's vitality.

"The same person can organize in different ways depending on the signals they get early in life. That's why — What happened to you? — is so important. The timing and nature of these experiences plays a major role in how you unfold as a human being."

In this episode snippet, Dr. Bruce Perry, acclaimed neuroscientist, child psychiatrist, and co-author of What Happened to You?, illuminates how our experiences shape our brain development and thus our worldview and behavior.

This week, when we find ourselves in the throes of an old pattern, let's reflect on the central theme of his book. Instead of asking, What's wrong with me?, how might your response change if you asked: What happened to me? It's in claiming our agency that we begin to heal.