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How often do you find yourself losing focus at work or home? Do you ever have moments where you aren’t sure what you were doing or what was going on around you?  You probably slip out of presence all the time without even realizing it.  Luckily it’s easy to re-ground yourself back in presence and experience more ease, focus, calmness, clarity and awareness.  

One way is to practice meditating consciously.  In this mini-episode, learn how meditation can help you regain presence in those moments when you drift. 

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Presence in leadership is one superpower all successful leaders have in common. Understanding how to stay in presence or return to presence can help remove you from patterns of conflict.

A very simple way to re-ground yourself in presence is by appreciating someone. 

In this mini-episode, learn how fulfilling it can be to not only appreciate someone but to also regain presence in your life and leadership.

Today’s 12 Days of Christmas giveaway is from Lococo.  Visit allowedpodcast.com to enter to win jars of this special adaptogenic hot cocoa created by one of my clients. 

How often are you feeling grounded in the moment and completely aware of your surroundings? Presence is the key to functioning in a healthy and successful way in life and leadership.

One way to remain in presence is by practicing curiosity.  

Do you know what true curiosity is? How often do you practice curiosity in your life?  In this mini-episode, learn how you can use curiosity to ground you in presence. 

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Presence is the most fundamental concept of Conscious Leadership. Practicing presence will give you more conscious awareness, ease, and flow in your life.  One way to remain in presence is by speaking unarguably.  

In this mini-episode, learn how speaking unarguably will help you reground and remain in presence in your life and leadership. 

Today’s 12 Days of Christmas giveaway is from the Conscious Leadership Group.  Visit allowedpodcast.com to enter to win the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership and the Shift Deck.  

Expressing your gratitude for things that feel profound, positive, and important feels straightforward and easy. However, being grateful for that which we find most challenging is not usually something we consider or put into practice. Finding gratitude for the challenges you face allows you to take back control of something that may have felt beyond your control. When challenging moments and obstacles arise, we can easily slip into a state of powerlessness or victimhood that, in conscious leadership, would be described as being in the drama triangle, where we perceive life as happening to us and being against us. Living a life of conscious presence means that you acknowledge all aspects of your life as serving a purpose for your benefit and growth.

With the complex pivots and particular set of challenges 2021 has entailed, this Thanksgiving holiday in the US presents a unique opportunity to revisit one of Allowed’s first episodes, originally aired in 2019. Focused on gratitude in honor of the American Thanksgiving holiday, this personal episode touches upon the value challenges bring to our lives, the beautiful complexity of family, and being thankful for and celebrating differences. Throughout the episode, explore the distinction between entitlement and appreciation and the results you can see born out of these two very different mindsets. During Heather and I’s conversation, you will also hear how creating a community of gratitude can transform your own mindset. 

Across the globe over the past two years, humanity has faced life-changing challenges, strife, division, and loss. These challenges, while immensely difficult, have also provided an incredible opportunity to reevaluate our priorities and face many truths we did not have the will or opportunity to face before. Shifting our mindsets around these challenges and examining how this might be exactly the right thing for you right now can hugely benefit both your personal and interpersonal growth. 

When you accept the challenge of looking at every aspect of your life with a grateful mindset, you may find yourself feeling more powerful and motivated than ever before.

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We are proud to highlight the Google-sponsored 2021 Berkeley Haas John E. Martin Mental Healthcare Challenge, founded by Michael Martin, APAC Energy Markets, Regulatory, & Sustainability Lead at Google, this week on Allowed. 

A collaborative effort with the Haas Healthcare Association, a student-run organization that unites UC Berkeley students with a shared mission to build a more connected and impactful healthcare ecosystem, the John E. Martin Mental Healthcare Challenge invites graduate student teams from around the world to explore and develop innovative solutions focused on improving the quality of and access to mental healthcare. 

Consisting of an integrative business strategy competition, a podcast speaker series, and outreach programming, the Berkeley Haas John E. Martin Mental Healthcare Challenge works to broaden diversity, equity, and inclusion, promote advocacy, and establish strategic alliances. 

Join this powerful conversation on beauty as a form of social currency, the future of dating app technology, the paradoxical association between intelligence and appearance, and the shame around discussing beauty. Throughout the episode, you will learn how shifting your mindset about beauty can empower you to break free from fear-based stories and challenge your own subconscious associations of youth and beauty.  

Regardless of your gender identity, this episode breaks through the noise and helps identify your own thought patterns, and sheds light on how society has been shaping your own self-esteem. Putting aside generational differences, and stigma surrounding the polarizing topic of beauty as it relates to gender equality, Caneel and Brittany boldly address their own insecurities and how their experience with beauty and aging has transformed over time.

Highlights 

00:00 Intro

03:08 Meet Brittany Allyn, founder of Thirty Waves and SCOOPS

07:08 Caneel and Brittany discuss the pressures around aging and fertility 

15:06 Discussing Brittany’s startup SCOOPS 

21:36 Caneel shares her experience with disordered eating and beauty standards in LA

23:44 Discussion about beauty as a form of forward-facing currency 

25:15 Brittany and Caneel talk about how women are afraid to call themselves beautiful 

35:57 The importance of dismantling associations between youth and beauty 

37:54 The paradoxical association between beauty and intelligence

38:40 Caneel reveals that we often perpetuate stories we are told and internalize

41:04 Caneel discusses the existence of “pretty privilege” 

48:04 Discussing performative beauty 

54:32 Caneel asserts everyone has a choice whether to bond over shame or to overcome our stories

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For complete show notes and additional resources, visit allowedpodcast.com

Outer and inner beauty are at the forefront of this special bonus episode of Allowed, as we explore the complex relationship women often have with beauty- one of artistry, confidence, insecurity, and evolution. 

Join us as Brittany Allyn, founder of ThirtyWaves and SCOOPS, guides us through the art of her morning beauty routine while sharing her favorite beauty products and tricks. Throughout this beauty tutorial, this bonus episode also goes beneath the surface as we touch on how freedom to express oneself through beauty is feminist, context versus content, the Drama Triangle’s influence on beauty, and the power of hypnobirth. 

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This week, you get to peek into the world of aerospace pioneer and exemplary leader, Tim Ellis, co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space. As one of my long-time clients, Tim has gained valuable insight into the world of Conscious Leadership, which he has learned how to put into action as his company has grown from a seed to a full-blown revolutionary venture. 

In this episode, he shares his unique experiences as a co-founder of a company that is not only growing exponentially but is also challenging the way that we as humans view the future of space exploration. Since co-founding Relativity, Tim has helped change the future of space exploration by expanding the possibilities of manufacturing. Under his leadership, Relativity has skyrocketed, and as with all fast-growing companies, there have been a few growing pains along the way. 

Relativity Space is the first autonomous rocket factory and launch services leader for satellite constellations which is disrupting 60 years of global aerospace manufacturing. Relativity is developing the first and only aerospace platform to integrate machine learning, software, and robotics with metal 3D printing technology to build and launch rockets and other aerospace products in days instead of years, with the long-term goal of building the future of humanity in space. 

See show notes and get free tools at AllowedPodcast.com.

Highlights:

00:00 Intro

01:22 Meet Tim Ellis, co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space

04:00 Learn about Tim’s mission and vision with Relativity Space and his growth journey

06:59 Caneel and Tim discuss adapting to company changes with a fast-growing startup

10:00 Tim shares about challenging times in the company’s growth and how to grow into your leadership

15:15 Tim tells the story of how he camped in a tent at work for weeks to motivate his team and himself

21:25 Tim discusses imposter syndrome and learning about his Zone of Genius

25:25 Tim talks about how working with Caneel as a coach was a big part of their strategy and success

31:30 Tim and Caneel share how coaching benefits co-founder relationships 

33:00 How unstructured time keeps Tim sane and sustainable in times of extreme growth

36:20 Tim talks about the Fact vs. Story framework and how it helped his leadership

39:05 Why space exploration matters to Tim and how he wants to help pioneer multi planetary living

For complete show notes and additional resources, visit allowedpodcast.com

This week, executive coach and partner in Evolution, Anjani Bhargava, is back on the show to share her personal experience on how to turn your family into a high-performance team. 

In this episode, you will learn how to make your family a team that trusts each other, that works well together, that can make decisions together, and that can really co-create the life and impact you want to have as individuals and as a whole. Teamwork is built into our DNA and since we are interdependent in our families, teamwork is the integration of the “we”, the “I” and the “it”. Anjani reveals it is possible to use this natural tendency to coordinate and develop healthy team dynamics in your own family. 

 With 20 years of experience helping organizations build the right culture for their stage of growth, Anjani explains some methods and insights in how she approaches her own family as a team. We cover some things she has done inside of her own family to create a really beautiful system that has, not only a positive impact on her own life but also a positive impact on the world. 

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Highlights
01:22 Meet Anjani Bhargava, Partner in Evolution

04:30 Anjani tells us the amazing story about how she and her husband met and ended up together

09:50 Will you run for shelter in the rainstorm or will you go out and dance in it?

13:10 Anjani discusses some frameworks she developed in creating a team dynamic within her family

18:00 Anjani and Caneel discuss the importance of their morning routines.

21:00 Anjani coaches Caneel on why Caneel is not following through on her morning routine, and whether or not that serves her

31:48 We are interdependent in our families. Teamwork is the integration of the we, the I and the it 

33:30 Conscious listening routines for family well-being

35:40 Caneel shares her scrapbook journals and how they relate to her own family’s patterns and tendencies to constantly optimize

41:10 Get in contact with Anjani and Evolution

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