Welcome back to season 2 of this activating consciousness podcast, and I am so excited to be bringing the important, powerful and inspiring voice  and energy of Tanya Obeng to you.

Affectionately known as The Communication Doctor, Tanya is the creator and guide of The Communication Hub and an incredible creative.

Join us as we explore conscious communication and the difference that Tanya is making in the world to help elevate consciousness.

"In the Western world we don’t say ‘hey, can I have a chat,’ sometime have this fakeness and this façade of showing up without trying to address the problems”

“The things that we avoid are sometimes the things that help us reach our goals”

“We’ve lost that sense of wisdom, there is wisdom in the old and the young. I think its about experiencing that wisdom and learning from each other and losing this ageism and losing these labels”

“We are not here to live the perfect life”

Bio

I am passionate about helping leaders, business owners and senior leaders reposition, unlock their creativity and get back on their pathway to success.

Contact Tanya as follows:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-obeng27/

Web - https://communicationdoctor.co.uk/

Hub - https://www.communicationdoctor.co.uk/#Hub

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3Jvpgcil-T-ABoIlSdV3g

You can contact me via the following means:

Email – g[email protected]

Web - www.hexochangenow.com

Work with me - https://calendly.com/garryturnerstrategicadvisor

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

It has been an incredible learning experience, spending an open, exploratory, curious space with so many truly inspiring human beings during our first season of this podcast which took in 11 conversations.  We will be back later in May 2021 with season 2.

This reflective episode is simply a summary of the key takeaways that I gleaned from the first 11 conversations with some personal connection points of particular interest, all insights brought to life brilliantly by resident artist Anna de Nardin and which can be found being shared on LinkedIn.

I invite you to join Samantha Suppiah, B Lorraine Smith, Anna and I in this truly regenerative/life-giving and deep exploration but to get you up to speed and give you a sense of the depth and meaning of these conversations, I hope that this reflective solo episode serves you.

I continue as all of us to be an ongoing work in progress, but I truly feel that these conversations are growth fueled and challenging, in a good way, what do you think and what are your thoughts?

Sam - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-suppiah/

Lorraine - https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lorraine-smith-155a875/

Anna - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annadenardin/

I must share my huge appreciation for each of our season 1 podcast guests who can be found as follows:

Ep 2 - Sigrid Dalberg-Krajewski  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigriddalbergkrajewski/

Ep 3 - Madison Butler  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bluehairedunicorn/ and Reese Byrne https://www.linkedin.com/in/reese-byrne/

Ep 4 - Helen Amery  https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenamery/

Ep 6 - Adrian Weatherill  https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-weatherill-b5bb7a120/

Ep 7 - Carl Calleman  https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-calleman-61a529/

Ep 8 - Dawna Jones  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/  and Stelio Verzera  https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiver/

Ep 9 - Nand Chaudhary  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nandkishorechaudhary/

Ep 10 - Marie-Pierre Bilodeau  https://www.linkedin.com/in/refarmers/

Ep 11 - Heather Younger  https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatheryounger/

You can contact me via the following means:

Email – g[email protected]

Web - www.hexochangenow.com

Work with me - https://calendly.com/garryturnerstrategicadvisor

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

I have had the pleasure of knowing Heather for the past couple of years and she is just an incredible human being who has just released her new book The Art of Caring Leadership, a practice, acitonable book using a blend of over 80 real life leaders and her own lived experiences to guide you through 9 key traits of Caring Leadership, a leadership paradigm that will allow for increased inclusivity, more fun and better outcomes for all.

“Caring leadership is showing concern and kindness for those we lead in consistent ways, it showing it, its expressing it, its doing, not a lets think, its not an I feel. Your employees are the end users of your leadership, they decide if you are a caring leader”

“If we are good humans, if we stand in our shoes and say I am going to do the right thing, I’m going to leave the person standing in front of me feeling cared for, feeling like I have seen them, like I’ve heard them, its so foundational. It is basic but you basically have to do it”

“If I had to boil it down to a kernel it is about being intentional, we can’t be caring leaders by accident”

“We can’t give what we don’t have, we can’t talk about recognition and listening if we do listen to ourselves, if we don’t give ourselves compassion. The least effective leaders moving towards this caring leadership journey are those that do not listen to themselves“

“You cant be empathetic well unless you are self-aware well”

Caring Leadership Community - caringleadership.co

The Art of Caring Leadership book - https://www.amazon.com/Art-Caring-Leadership-Leading-Organizations/dp/1523092149

You can contact Heather via the following means:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatheryounger/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/HeatherRYounger

Web - https://employeefanatix.com/

Web - https://heatheryounger.com/

You can also find out more about Garry as follows:

Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com

Email - [email protected]

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry

This is such a fascinating and important exploration of a Global North AND Global South conversation together.

The documentary that Marie-Pierre referred to is The Last Shaman - https://www.thelastshaman.com/

Marie-Pierre bio:

After twelve successful years creating and managing her “Organically Grown, Ethically Sewn” eco-clothing brand called Rabbit & Empee,

She studied permaculture and earned her PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) at Seven Ravens Permaculture Academy on Salt Spring Island

Refarmers is based on the unceded, traditional, ancestral land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations also known as Vancouver, Canada.

You can find Lorraine at the following:

B. Lorraine Smith is a writer and an independent consultant. She imagines a future where the economy serves a thriving society within a healthy biosphere. She invests her time in making those imaginings a reality.

As a writer, Lorraine shares her ideas through her blog which introduces different people, places and possibilities connected to the future we want.

As a consultant, since 2004 she has been working with companies in Brazil, the UK, Europe, the US and Canada, collaborating with corporate leaders who are keen to shape the next phase of business. Along with working directly with clients, she is also a senior consultant with BuzzWord, an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting and strategy group based in the US.

Lorraine is also a member of the Expert Council of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, an open source tool that quantifies how businesses are contributing to a sustainable future.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Lorraine has lived in Australia, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand and New York City. She currently calls Montreal home. To find out more about Lorraine, visit https://www.blorrainesmith.com/.

You can find Sam at the following:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-suppiah/

Linktree - https://linktr.ee/samsupp

The Global Room - https://www.theglobalroom.com/

You can contact me via the following means:

Email – g[email protected]

Web - www.hexochangenow.com

Work with me - https://calendly.com/garryturnerstrategicadvisor

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

What a privilege it was to learn first hand about Mr Chaudhary's incredible vision and journey creating Jaipur Rugs.

You can find The Healing Organization by Raj Sisodia and Michael Gelb here -> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Healing-Organization-Awakening-Conscience-Business/dp/0814439810 and you can also find my previous discussions with both Raj and Michael on my YouTube channel here -> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi25BCTiMJ0O0RzbzIJcl-6LAeDX_kZYh

“Too much knowledge developed without practice equals ego. Knowledge without practice can damage the business.”

“I often say we don’t sell carpet, we sell family blessings, we sell experiences, we sell stories and the carpet is free”

“What I have learned in my life is that destination comes from the mind, but direction comes from the heart. If you are not driven by love and compassion, then we do not have direction”

“I’m sure that anything in business, if it is not driven by love, it is not going to sustain”

Mr Nand Chaudhary bio:

Nand Kishore Chaudhary, a globally acclaimed social entrepreneur, is the founder of Jaipur Rugs, one of India's largest manufacturers of hand knotted rugs and is often referred to as ‘Gandhi of the Carpet Industry’. 

With just two looms and nine artisans in 1978, his journey four decades later stands at Jaipur Rugs becoming a global social enterprise exporting to over 60 countries while providing sustainable livelihood to 40,000 artisans in 600 remote villages across five states in India, out of which 80% of them are women. 

Management guru, C.K. Prahalad featured his revolutionary business philosophy in his globally acclaimed book -The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Mr Chaudhary has also been termed as ‘father of modern social enterprises’ by Prof. Jagdish N. Sheth from Emory University, USA. Sheth said, “Jaipur Rugs has become a role model, that business can serve society and at the same time … can be a capitalistic institution”. 

In 2019, Raj Sisodia featured Jaipur Rugs and NK Chaudhary in his book, ‘The Healing Organization’ for ‘The Power of innocence’. The book highly celebrated NK Chaudhary’s steps towards healing the customers and transforming the society with love. He has won awards including E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award, CNBC TV18 Emerging India Award, Social Impact Award conferred by former president Pranav Mukherjee among others

You can also find out more about Garry as follows:

Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com

Email - [email protected]

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry

This was a just S E N S A T I O N A L conversation with systems thinkers and visionaries Dawna Jones and Stelio Verzera.

Here are a range of the insights in advance but please do dive in to gain value from the full experience, you will also find the video of this conversation on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi25BCTiMJ0OiM-PdVsZ-FYPVfZgkK6AG.

· “I’ve been working in organisational evolution for all my life since the internet became something to talk about and I was one of the kids to go and talk about it” - Stelio

· “I have been one of these annoying, persistent learners, I get excited about diving into just about anything” – Dawna

· “If you stand at the intersection of a bifurcation, were the old system collapses and the new one is in co-creation mode, I’d say we are in the co-creation mode. We’re in the space where we can decide how we participate and what happens next” – Dawna

· “For a while I have been talking about coalescence and resonance, two much more interesting things happening in complexity. What I see is transcontextual coalescence is happening, similar to the unity that Dawna is describing” -Stelio

· “This may sound provocative but I really believe it; we think too much. I think we think too much. The only thing we should be is ourselves, that is something that we do, not something that we think about” – Stelio

· “Nature has got this phenomenally sophisticated technology, the planet has been resilient, been vibrant, it’s been abundant for 4.X billion years, and yes there have been cycles but nothing like the cycle that we are in now that man has accelerated” - Dawna

Dawna bio:

Dawna Jones’s capacity to sense and respond to underlying systems provide novel ways to get past growth constraints and release the full power of the human spirit to serve our world in more generative ways.

You can find Dawna at the following:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones

Stelio bio:

Fond of the ocean and of valuable experiences around the world, Stelio is a curious and active contributor to the global community evolving the concept and practice of work in this unprecedented century. His passion and main competence is the value-flows improvement in human systems. In 2011 he co-founded Cocoon Pro, and designed its end-to-end adaptive organisational setup and its award-winning open governance model, first in Europe and now known as LiquidO. In 2019 he designed the Eco-Structure organizational setup of the new Cocoon Pro, as an organic and polycentric organization devoted to supporting the evolution of society in this century. Find more about Stelio starting here: www.about.me/stelioverzera

You can find Stelio at the following:

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiver/

AboutMe - https://www.about.me/stelioverzera

You can also find out more about Garry as follows:

Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com

Email - [email protected]

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry

This was an incredibly fascinating conversation with chemist and philosopher Carl Calleman. “The first 25 years of my life were dedicated to solving chemical problems, there came a point in 1992 when a umber of circumstances made me shift and I started to focus on the Mayan calendar” “You cannot understand the evolution of consciousness and the universe without having a background in the Mayan calendar, that is what provides the quantum science of evolution” – 01.40 “If you have a mission you are compelled to do something specific in life, I believe. I had that” - 02.50 “Being in the presence of all these pyramids, it changed something within me” – 04.00 “We humans are at the interface of the macro cosmos and the micro cosmos, we are a product of this interface” – 06.05 “Awareness is the human language to describe consciousness” “All life forms are expressions of that consciousness. Small little bacteria are expressions of that evolution of consciousness” – 07.30 “The mind is not a product of the brain, the mind is something that the brain downloads from the cosmos. That changed the human beings“- 12.05 “The unity state of consciousness became available in 2011” “Its one thing that a state of consciousness becomes available, its another thing to actually access it, to resonate with it, to incorporate it within our mental design and make it part of us” “We to have the intention of downloading it” “I want to emphasise that this is a theory based on empirical evidence, on empirical science” – 22.20 Mayacal is my one-man company dedicated to understanding the nature of consciousness and the cosmic plan. 

Carl can be contacted via the following: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-calleman-61a529/ 

Web - https://calleman.com/ Here is Carl's talk that was shared with me by my good friend Dawna Jones -> https://evolutionarycollective.com/accessing-the-9th-wave-of-evolution-broadcast/ Carl recommends to investigate the work of the Evolutionary Collective and Patricia Albere https://evolutionarycollective.com/patriciaalbere/

You can also find out more about Garry as follows:

Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com

Email - [email protected]

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry

This was a brilliant conversation with a brilliant mind.

Here are a range of the insights in advance but please do dive in to gain value from the full experience, you will also find the video of this conversation on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi25BCTiMJ0OiM-PdVsZ-FYPVfZgkK6AG.

· “I think we’re missing a trick in business because people aren’t one dimensional”

·  “If there a way that we could figure out who people really are that are working for us or working with us, we could elicit so much more from people, their value, for the business that we are doing”

· “I think we’re missing a trick in business because people aren’t one dimensional”

· “From this military point of view, when you work for a company it feels to me like a bloodless battle against another military operation, another company, our competition; we’re competing”

Adrians bio:

Dare to be different.

Adrian Weatherill | Director of Empathy

Today's conversation was hosted and guided by Regenerative Design Strategist and Teacher Samantha Suppiah with myself and Regenerative leader B Lorraine Smith.

Here are a range of the insights in advance but please do dive in to gain value from the full experience, you will also find the video of this conversation on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi25BCTiMJ0OiM-PdVsZ-FYPVfZgkK6AG.

“There is really interesting literature that would say that the beginning of the industrial revolution was not the steam engine, it was the plantation economy, and that was based on, of course, slave labour” – Lorraine Smith

“It wasn’t a technological innovation, it was a sociological and socioeconomic, I hate to use the word, innovation, change, that used free labour and extractive methods that changed the way things were grown”– Lorraine Smith

“From the plantation economy to the birth of the slave trade, a very specific, conscious decision was taken by a very specific group of influential people, these are the sites of cultural evolution” – Samantha Suppiah

“There are some green bonds that are doing things that are generally good, increasing affordable housing, they’re retrofitting real estate, but it is FAR from regenerative” - Lorraine Smith

“We have an even bigger challenge when we ask, what does it look like to finance regeneration? Regeneration does not sit in a world of scarcity. Regeneration lives in a world of connection, collaboration and abundance. We are talking about financing the end of finance today” – Lorraine Smith

You can find Lorraine at the following:

B. Lorraine Smith is a writer and an independent consultant. She imagines a future where the economy serves a thriving society within a healthy biosphere. She invests her time in making those imaginings a reality.

As a consultant, since 2004 she has been working with companies in Brazil, the UK, Europe, the US and Canada, collaborating with corporate leaders who are keen to shape the next phase of business. Along with working directly with clients, she is also a senior consultant with BuzzWord, an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting and strategy group based in the US.

Lorraine is also a member of the Expert Council of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, an open source tool that quantifies how businesses are contributing to a sustainable future.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Lorraine has lived in Australia, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand and New York City. She currently calls Montreal home. To find out more about Lorraine, visit https://www.blorrainesmith.com/.

You can find Sam at the following:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-suppiah/

Linktree - https://linktr.ee/samsupp

The Global Room - https://www.theglobalroom.com/

My good friend and inside-out coach Helen Amery joins me for a rich exploration of our human condition, how our thinking shapes our reality and an alternative view on activating consciousness.

Here are a range of the insights in advance but please do dive in to gain value from the full experience, you will also find the video of this conversation on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi25BCTiMJ0OiM-PdVsZ-FYPVfZgkK6AG.

“Prior to our ideas as to who we think we are, there is this abundance of possibility and potential which gets limited because we think we are just this, we think we are this limited person, we think we can only do X, Y or Z”

“In the absence of personal thought, there is no fear, fear only comes with thought”

“The idea of self is all about outcome, its all about now isn’t ok, there will be better, and there is the outcome it is always chasing”

“I can’t prove this, but it seems like when the body just is the energy doesn’t go anywhere, it’s still here and may well come into form in a different place. The energy just is”  - in place of the “just is” did I say “dies”?

“I don’t see it as an activating, I see it as a revealing and that in the thinning of our confusion that clarity that we already are gets revealed, like the metaphor of the sun and the clouds”

“We are infinitely creative and we can create separations, difference, anywhere and we can create any systems we want as well”

Piers Thurston can be found here -> https://www.makingchangework.co.uk/

Helen can be contacted as follows:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenamery/

Web - https://wildfigsolutions.co.uk/

You can also find out more about Garry as follows:

Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com

Email - [email protected]

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/

Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry