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Your body can teach you important information about yourself, your leadership, and your lifestyle. Gain wisdom about what you need and truly want by listening to your body. 

Throughout this episode, learn how living outside of integrity can result in both physical and mental fatigue. Suffering is not necessary for your success. Hear how integrity can not only end your suffering but empower you to live and lead sustainably by guiding you to your Zone of Genius.

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Unlock a whole new level of deep personal development. Enhance your communication and find an even greater level of fulfillment in your interpersonal relationships. How? Learning about an ancient personality system and how your personality type influences your mindset and behavior. 

In this episode, the remarkable Erin Rocchio joins Allowed. Erin is an executive coach, a partner in Evolution, and she’s certified in a revolutionary personality tool that you’ve heard mentioned on this show many times – the Enneagram. 

Learning about the Enneagram personality types can make a massive difference in your life and the way you interact with yourself and with others. The Enneagram model is uniquely suited to support lifelong transformation and development.  You can take it down a spiritual path, you can take it down a path as a parent, you can take it into your personal relationships, and you can take it into your work and your role as a leader. Throughout this episode learn how you can apply the wisdom of the Enneagram to your own life and leadership. 

Highlights:

• 3:14 - Erin Rocchio shares about her career and her experience with the Enneagram.
• 5:44 - What is The Enneagram?
• 13:22 - Erin provides some examples of the core aspects of The Enneagram.
• 22:46 - Erin runs through all the Enneagram types and their basic desire or drive.
• 28:20 - Erin explains how knowing your type is the most important step and a vital first step. Truly understanding your type allows you to move forward in deeply personal, professional, and relational development.
• 33:22 - How can you use your Enneagram type to grow?

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As a leader, you use your storytelling abilities to inspire and motivate. But to create lasting change, use the language of facts to speak unarguably.  

In this week’s episode, explore the fundamental invitation of conscious leadership, which is to understand the difference between a fact and a story. This episode will provide you with the framework to begin to notice whether you’re expressing yourself in the language of facts or stories. Understanding the key differences between facts and stories gives you the knowledge necessary to begin to consciously communicate. 

Throughout this episode, learn about externally and internally-based facts, then explore what a story is and why certain stories prevent progress and growth. Facts and your stories both matter. When you can clearly define facts and stories and use this framework to communicate with intention, you lead consciously. 

Highlights

6:11 - What is a story?

8:11 - What is the difference between a fact and a story? 

10:38 - What are the 3 types of inner facts you can observe? 

11:48 - Learn how to describe your emotions in an unarguable way. 

21:40 - Why understanding facts and stories are key to conscious leadership

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Conscious leaders strive to learn about how we can better manage, lead, influence, and support our teams, our colleagues, and ourselves, and how we can best lead, especially through crises or change such as COVID-19. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Dana Sumpter about a leverage-point that has great relevance for any manager in the workforce. In particular, we will be focusing on one of the most valuable and essential segments of the workforce – parents.

There's a lot of evidence that especially in this COVID era, with the shutdown of schools, working parents are feeling the pressure and scarcity of resources. They are a misunderstood group. Collectively as a society, and as leaders, in particular, we have a shared responsibility to better understand what this group is going through, and to understand what we can do to challenge the system, to create the change we want, and to stand for reformations, acceptance, and empathy, and how can we reorganize ourselves in a way that is creative and from above the line. 

In this episode, we talk about specific tactical recommendations for both parents and leaders of working parents to maximize growth, improve communication, increase support, and optimize productivity, especially in remote working and remote learning environments. 

You may be one of those who is needing to be better understood, better supported, or you may be not part of this demographic segment and yet it's very important that we better understand what they're going through right now so that we can move into a place of greater awareness and we can make conscious choices as leaders about how we might adapt our approach to be more in service of that to which we are most deeply committed.

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As creative thinkers and entrepreneurs, we create tools and products because we, ourselves, need to work on something. For Canadian entrepreneur superstar, Alex Ikonn, co-founder of Intelligent Change and creator of the best-selling Five Minute Journal and Productivity Planner, gratitude was his Achilles heel. When Alex, who had a challenging childhood and at times had felt like a victim of his circumstances, learned the power of gratitude, it shifted his whole life. 

If you have scarcity in your life of some sort, whether it be from things that are happening in your family, in your career, or in relationships, you can get into that trap of saying, "Why me?" 

When Alex had that first huge realization that you are planting seeds to your reality with your everyday thoughts and that what you focus on, you cultivate and create in your life, everything changed for him. He learned that if you want to make any difference in your life, you have to take responsibility. This led him to create tools like the Five Minute Journal that could act like “toothbrushes for the mind” and help people build new, healthy habits through a daily routine of being grateful that catapults them on a new life trajectory through changing their mindset.

No one can make you unhappy. Once you take responsibility in your life, there is power. If you take care of that one being that you can be responsible for – YOU – you're making a massive change that will create a ripple effect and you're going to inspire others. 

In this episode, Alex Ikonn shares his personal journey and it demonstrates how one truly simple question, asked once per day, can make a massive, fundamental difference in your life. 

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One of the most important skills of a conscious leader is asking yourself, “How did I create this current situation that is in front of me?” 

Mindset is really about the way you are being and the most important way of “being” is being present – in ease, in flow, aware, and grounded in current reality. We are not present when we’re focused on what we are going to do later. One way to remain present throughout your day is to focus your morning on cultivating that mindset and way of being.

There are so many different ways that you can support yourself through the creative use of your own morning routines, and it can actually be really fun. Today we share some of our favorite tools and tricks and give ourselves permission to continue to play and experiment and make this morning mindset time a time of self-discovery and expansion. 

Claim your role as the creator of your day. Connect your intention with your action. Be proactive. Be creative. By creating a personalized morning routine to develop the optimal morning mindset for yourself, you will gain the benefits of energy, clarity, and inspiration. The only person who can make you a conscious leader is you. And it starts first thing in the morning.

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One-on-one meetings can be tricky. The value can feel elusive in the blur of daily life and reacting to constantly changing needs and time pressures.  How do you have a one-on-one meeting that can make a real difference? Management and leadership is a constant balancing act.

Learn how you can leverage your one-on-one meetings in a way that helps you and your employees keep up with tasks and priorities while also expanding the value of your employee relationships. Leveraging your one-on-one time has huge benefits, not just for your team, but also for yourself. It's a creative game. Learn how to design a conversation that can move the needle in the future, using 10 tips for conducting a productive 1-on-1 meeting. Avoid wasting both your time and the time of your employees by discovering what to avoid during your one-on-one conversations. By leaning into the value of the individual you can foster growth that impacts both your team and your company at large.

Highlights: 

 04:31 - What are the true benefits of a consciously led recurring one on one meeting?

05:18 - Avoid some of these common pitfalls and mistakes when holding one on one meetings.

10:27 - What is the purpose of a one on one meeting?

11:30 - Why you should hold a one-time introductory and role negotiation meeting before beginning regular one-on-one meetings.

16:57 - What to do before each one on one meeting. 

20:27 - 10 tips to run a successful, productive, and high-leverage one on one meeting.

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We are in a time of deep change – a kind of change that requires not just incremental shifts, but deep transformation where we don't know what the end state is going to look like, both collectively, but also for each of us individually. It's changing the way that we need to show up as leaders and highlighting the importance of leading as whole humans with empathy and compassion for one another. Jeremi Gorman, the Chief Business Officer at Snap Inc, is here to discuss the importance of practicing and leading with empathy. Jeremi leads global sales, agency partnerships, customer and business operations, platform integrity, trust and safety, and creative strategy, and is also a huge influence on people's mindsets and the culture at Snap, and she brings some great insight into leadership, from both a corporate and a personal standpoint. Company values come from the top, and leaders who practice empathy are leaders that teams are eager to support, teams that are willing and able to pivot, teams that want to learn and to grow, not just professionally but personally, and teams that stand together during times of crisis. See show notes and get the free tools at AllowedPodcast.com.

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This week’s episode offers personal insight into Caneel’s journey to becoming a coach. 

Have you ever wondered what it takes to start your own coaching practice? Are you interested in getting an inside perspective on what training is out there? What training do you even need to get started in the world of coaching? 

Learn about common misconceptions and roadblocks that many prospective coaches run into, and hear about scams and pyramid schemes for you to avoid on your path to coaching. After listening to this episode, you will have a much better understanding of the purpose of coaching and what it might take for you to start on the path to becoming a coach of yourself or others.   

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Have you ever said yes to something where you had a bad gut feeling? How did that go? Or have you said yes to something where you knew you really didn't mean it? How did that go? The number one reason people end up breaking agreements is because they didn't really agree to begin with. They didn't have a whole body yes. Today we focus on a super easy hack to clean up your life, to free up your energy, and to allow life to flow through you – only say yes to things where you have a whole body yes. The whole body yes is a stepping stone. Every single yes you can say that's whole body is a stepping stone toward your purpose, toward living in your genius. So, what does it mean to have a whole body yes? How do you know if you have one? Why is it important? And how can you find one when you really want to make change and you just can't seem to find that whole body yes? Listen to this episode to learn about how you can access and begin using the whole body yes in your daily agreements. See show notes and get the free tools at AllowedPodcast.com.

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