Elements of Community

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, we are going to talk about building community inside corporates, and private marketplaces. Joining me in this episode is Thomas Power.

Thomas Power believes in Community Led Growth (CLG) supporting people to grow themselves, their health, their mind, their business, and increase their organization. All three of their children support them in their endeavor of Community Building.

Thomas and his wife Penny have been building communities online for more than 30 years.

Thomas mentioned that community building is his favorite thing to do, it is what he is passionate about, and ultimately what he will do on his final day.

The reason behind his love for community building is because he enjoys making connections that other people can't see.

Thomas said, "You can effectively build intimacy as a service that results in better outcomes, which includes making more money for deals, because I know people have got to make money."

What Thomas and Penny are trying to do is to support people through love and money, so they will get all the love and support for the issues they face.

• Who are the people unsuitable for community building?
• What is the main challenge with organizations these days?
• Why do businesses need to be personal?
• The reason why common language should be reincorporated into us living our daily lives.
• Which one of the elements of community would Thomas pick to drive his community forward?
• Lastly, the curveball question—why does it take so long to get from CSC to ORS?

If you want to know more about Thomas Power, you may reach out to him at:

• Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/thomaspower1964 
• Instagram Handle: thomaspower
• LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspower/

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, we will talk about how science-based tools help a community express humanity again. Joining me in this episode is Dr. Chris Lee.

Dr. Chris Lee is the founder and CEO of Elemental Shift—a neuroscience-based consulting company educating on brain-based creativity, productivity, motivation, and research-based strategy for a healthier mindset. Dr. Chris has consulted with 8 figure stockbrokers on Wall Street to technology companies in California using custom biometric and neurofeedback data to build more resilient companies from the inside out.

He has proudly served over 3,500 individuals and is currently working on getting his neuroscience-backed mindfulness technique into United States Prison systems.

Dr. Chris Lee has built out a community called Wired For Worthy, which is focused on giving science-based tools to help express humanity again. Humanity, which means showing up with a period, not a comma.

"A huge part of a community is having a direct vision of where you want people to start and where you want them to go," says Dr. Chris.

For Dr. Chris, Wired For Worthy creates an actual community through leadership, and it's not leadership of a singular person, but leadership through a purpose served.

He continued, “When you serve your purpose, you feel it in the way somebody shows up to take the trash out like it's something that is more embodied versus something that is done.”

• What makes a great community leader?
• How does one of the elements of community show up in Wired for Worthy?
• How does Dr. Chris build and support “Purpose” in Wired for Worthy?
• The curveball question—how good are you at asking yourself questions and answering honestly?

If you want to know more about Dr. Chris Lee, you may reach out to him at:

• Website: https://drchrislee.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.chrisleemindful

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, we are going to talk about a community as a place of belongingness and safety. Joining me in this episode is Cam Kashani.

Cam Kashani is a four-time Award-Nominated Intuitive Coach and Inspirational Speaker focused on Divine Feminine Embodiment, leading women to their true, authentic, core power.

She hosts a popular podcast called “The Cam Kashani Show”, focused on ‘Redefining Beauty, Body, and Self. Cam has worked with 5000+ people, was named one of the most "Inspirational Women" by Inc. Magazine, has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, LA Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Delta SKY Magazine, and more. She is also a single mom of twin boys.

Cam has her MBA in Entrepreneurship and Marketing, in addition to a degree in Advanced Spiritual Psychology and her Doctorate in Spiritual Studies.

Cam has a deeply rooted passion for working specifically with women, as she believes when women embrace their deeply rooted power, they can collectively shift the energy, and ultimately create a more harmonious environment for us all.

For Cam, community means having that sense of belongingness and safety. She added, “Every human being's fundamental need is to belong, and it's probably one of the biggest things that we neglect and we are not fully aware of, which is how we end up having games and terrorism because they're using the psychology of belonging.”

She says that when the community is used correctly and built with good intentions to help and bring people together, it can absolutely be life-changing and create some great things.

Cam is currently building a community very slowly and very organically. She calls the community Divine Feminine Community. It started from a space where she could bring women together, empower one another, and uplift one another.

Divine Feminine Community is more of a very authentic, close-knit community of women, where they can come with whatever they have, and the community is there to love, accept and help them.

At the moment the community is like an online group where they meet online every month, and every now and then, they meet in person if they are in the LA area. Cam helps these women conquer challenges through coaching.

• Cam’s thoughts about the difference between community sucking up your time from social media sucking up your time.
• How would people know they have found a real community?
• Cam’s additional thoughts about the idea of safety in a community.
• Why should all communities feel a sense of safety?
•  Is it possible to be loved and supported and still have a transactional model in place?
• What are Cam’s thoughts about leadership in the community?
• Cam deep dives into what self-awareness means to her.
• We discussed one of the elements of community which is the common heart.
• A zinger question—what's the most significant wound you've healed?

If you want to know more about Cam Kashani, you may reach out to her at:

• Website: https://camkashani.com/
• Instagram Handle: cam_kashani

Welcome back to Elements of Community! Today we are joined by Robb Wolf and we are chatting about how to bridge the gap between “The Virtual” & “The Real” in a community.

Robb Wolf is a former research biochemist and 2X New York Times/Wall Street Journal Best-selling author of The Paleo Solution and Wired To Eat. Along with Diana Rodgers, he co-authored the book, Sacred Cow, which explains why well-raised meat is good for us and good for the planet.

Robb has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world via his top-ranked iTunes podcast, books, and seminars. He also co-founded the 1st and 4th CrossFit affiliate gyms in the world, The Healthy Rebellion community platform, and is the co-founder of DrinkLMNT Electrolytes.

Learning to foster Healthy Rebellion in the community brings a certain willingness to share and a ton of emotional intelligence to the community members. It's not that the people uniformly roll over during conflict, but having people in the community that stoke the fires of conflict and keep that going can help bring the community together.

The members of his community are good at acknowledging what's going on. For example, if somebody needs a little bit of tough love, they get some tough love,  but it's done in a way that's honest instead of judgemental.

One of the elements of the community that makes Healthy Rebellion stronger is the common language. Robb raises the idea of the military, which is one of the places people can wrap their heads around when it comes to common language.

In Healthy Rebellion there was this big catch-up process between people that had this resilience mindset that they were able to foster. The processing was super quick and that's because everybody knows they had support and is using a common language around that.

• Does each and every member of a community have at least two roles?
• How does Healthy Rebellion help a member of their community that is in need?
• How else do people notice they come together through a trial?
• More about Robb’s product which is LMNT.

If you want to know more about Robb Wolf, you may reach out to him at:

• Websites: https://robbwolf.com/

                             https://drinklmnt.com/

Listen to Elements of Community today as Lucas Root talks about a tale of two communities; one is a real story and the other is an idealized version of an alternate universe with a different result.

Several years into our marriage, we bought a house in New Jersey, moved in, threw a party, and bought new furniture. We were very delighted.

After about six months of living there, our health had been steadily declining. We were seeking experts to help us understand what was going on with our health, which suggested it probably was environmental.

We went to all of the top environmental doctors in the New York and New Jersey area. On the other end of it, we had received diagnoses like, you are addicted to heroin, you have the metabolism of a 90-year-old man, and you obviously have brain issues. None of those were accurate or useful in the sense that they told us where we were at that moment, but didn't help us arrive at a solution to that problem.

It took us another month or two to self-diagnose the problem, which we did mostly by accident. It was a diagnosis of elimination, that leaves us with only one thing. If it’s environmental, the only way to test it is to go on a vacation.

My wife and I went on an extended vacation in San Diego and within two days, without making any other meaningful changes in our life, we started to feel better. By the end of the first week, we knew leaving our home  was the right thing to do or at least something about it was.

We then went back to New Jersey, going back to the place where environmentally, we felt we were putting ourselves in harm's way, and in fact, in hindsight, that was correct. We also went back to those same specialists and shared with them our observations, our reasoning, our logic, and our approach, then asked them to help us solve it.

Those same specialists said the same thing they had the first time around. Needless to say, we fired our doctors, left the house, lost our jobs, and spent the next year trying to recover.

It was devastating. We lost an enormous amount of money, lost money and equity in our house, and lost the down payment. The bank foreclosed. We spent money on Airbnbs because we couldn't even rent an apartment with a recent foreclosure on our records. We spent money on doctors. We spent money on food, and neither one of us was able to work or earn a living.

A year later, I was finally in a position where I could land a job and start the business I now run. We were not in the house anymore. Our brains were starting to turn back on. We were starting to be able to be some sort of real human, and the entire problem was a hidden black mold we could not see in the house we had purchased and moved into. As I mentioned, what should have been a moment of glory, a moment of wonderful happiness, a moment of stepping into truly what we thought of as the American dream was instead, us stepping into our own nightmare.

• The alternate version of the story.
• What is the importance of having a community?

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, we are going to talk about how Prowess Community takes women from home to hired. Joining me in this episode is Ashley Connell.

Ashley is the CEO & Founder of Prowess Project—an integrated job, training, and community platform, that exists to help caregiving women return to the workforce.

They have a 70% placement rate to date for women who complete their up-skilling programs, and 94% of their employers agree that they provide a better candidate/role fit, while cutting their hiring and ramp-up time in half. Their job-matching algorithm matches the compatibility of candidates and team based on skills, expertise, and behavior-style compatibility. They shortlist the top candidates best for YOU in as little as 48 hours.

After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, Ashley spent twelve years in tech marketing and entrepreneurship.

Since women's empowerment has always been  extremely important to Ashley, especially in the workplace. One of the most significant issues that continued to baffle her was, women are pressured to choose between their career and their kids. Why are the only mainstream options – continue a 40+ hour workweek or stop working entirely to become a caretaker?

Out of the frustration that a “gray area” didn’t exist, Prowess Project was born.

In the fall of 2018, Ashley joined an accelerator called Founders Institute, which jolted Prowess Project into existence. The more she spoke to frustrated, overwhelmed business owners and experienced, educated women who want to get back into the workforce, the more she felt compelled to bring this to life. With the support of her friends and family, she’s doing just that.

For Ashley, an effective community should have the gift of shift factor, meaning they must all relate to at least one single factor. Ashley typically sees this factor as most powerful when it's an emotional thing bringing everyone together.

It is not always a positive emotion that brings everyone together. It could be a negative one which ties both individuals together because they have both been through something, but it can usually end in a positive outcome.

• What kind of space does Ashley create to make it possible for Prowess to be in the community?
• What makes an effective community leader?
• How does common heart show up in Prowess Project Community?
• Ashley described how common heart creates a deeper engagement in Prowess Project Community.
• A question that should have been asked, but has not—who makes a good candidate for the Prowess community?

If you want to know more about Ashley Connell, you may reach out to her at:

• Website: https://prowessproject.com/

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, I am going to talk about one of the five elements of community which is the common language.

The common language is not just the base language we use to be able to enter into a conversation. It is the thing that makes it work. It is the thing that makes the conversation be communication. It is the thing that makes it possible for us to collaborate on the ideas we're sharing and getting into.

If it's not collaboration, then I'm just talking to a wall. If you're not on the other end of this microphone, then I'm not collaborating with anyone. Every single time you enter into any conversation, if you're not looking for collaboration, you're just talking to yourself.

I'm bringing these ideas up so you can really center on the notion that all conversations are a collaboration. They're an opportunity to work together and the successful conversations that opportunity has taken and run with. That's part of the reason why common language is so valuable.

It's not just about speaking English as I just centered on your brain. There are lots of scenarios where speaking English does not make a conversation. The lack of collaboration results in no conversation, it results in no exchange of ideas, and it results in no growth.

• The exact feeling of when you have a true common language.
• What makes common language beautiful?
• An amazing coffee date with a friend.
• The reason why common language is so powerful and important.

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, we are going to talk about community as teams and their differences. Joining me in this episode is Anastasia Neddersen.

Anastasia Neddersen is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of successful track record leading commercializing a broad portfolio of software and hardware products strategically and technically. In her experience, Anastasia has found that there are many inspiring and revolutionary undertakings in the world, but not many organizations do it with integrity, zest, and a kind of finesse that brings genuine value to the world and people. Anastasia's aspirations are to increase collective team intelligence in any business environment. She's on a journey to create accessibly and AI driven games to help teams build stronger connections and become exceptional at achieving their goals. On her quest, she is fueled by joy, authenticity, and personal growth.

Anastasia described a successful team as a group of people that's driven by common values, which is one of the key things that holds everyone together.

A team is also driven by the same goals or doing something that they striving towards. And typically identifies that there is a leader within a team.

With elements of community, values could be common heart. Values could be the bidirectional enrollment of the team, it could be the spoken or unspoken contract that people have with the team.

I have intentionally not focused on values as it pertains to the community, because I think that values are more like unspoken contract rather than a thing that people aspire to accept in corporate communities. Ironically in corporate communities, we find that values are often a marketing tool more than a true team cohesion driver.

• The difference between communication and a project.
• Communication in elements of a successful team as a common heart.
• How can two people be a community?
• Relating cell isolation in community and teams.
• The fluidity of leadership.
• Curveball question—do the elements of community elemental?

If you want to know more about Anastasia Neddersen, you may reach out to her at:

• Email: [email protected]

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, we are going to talk about the soul nutrients of community. Joining me in this episode is Jessica Encell Coleman. Jessica is a love activist, empowerment educator, gratitude alchemist, and the founder and creator of The Magic of Human Connection – a workshop she has facilitated for thousands of people and a movement to create (way) more love inside ourselves, with each other, and on this planet.

The gratitude adventure was born out of Jessica's favorite practices in the world. Every day for the past 10 years, she would start her day by going for a gratitude walk and do that anywhere between 30 minutes to 90 minutes.

Out of this practice, Jessica created a program in which they would meet weekly. After the program, half of the group says they don't want to stop. So she created a dive-in program where every day, they do all the practices and built upon each other.

The 4 enjoyments are the common language of the community. It is inspired by a quote from the Dai Lama saying, "I want to live a really beautiful life so that when I'm older, I can look back and live it twice".

The first enjoyment is looking forward to something before it's even happened. The second enjoyment is being in the moment—being responsive and creative at the moment. The third enjoyment is reflecting on the benefits of what we enjoyed, and created. And then, the fourth enjoyment enjoying things that you never experienced, it's that aspect of conversion, like celebrating someone else's enjoyments.

• What are soul nutrients?
• Jessica describes what makes an effective community leader.
• Supporting and creating the structure of winning for all.
• As many subjects as needed for the FREE episode, be very thorough.
• The art of cheating for our benefit.

If you want to know more about Jessica, you may reach out to her at:

• Website: https://themagic.love/

Welcome to Elements of Community!

I am your host, Lucas Root, and in this episode, we are going to talk about how to build and support an amazing community culture. Joining me in this episode is Jackie Nepola. Jackie brings over two decades of business experience and mom life. She hails from business stardom for transforming a failing business into the multi-award-winning—Kaizen Beauty Academy while winning the Excellence of Education Award for Company Culture.

A born connector, Jackie evolved her gift to bring business owners, entrepreneurs, and parents together to connect in an inspirational hangout zone. Married for over twenty years, she is an open (uplifting) book when it comes to creating Zen environments to talk about all things business, life, relationships, and raising overachievers.

Jackie strictly stays in her lane which is the beauty school world. She gets the best of both worlds. She’s creating her community, but she won't have the responsibility of the school. Such as dealing with accreditation and financial aid. She just gets to play with her students all day. It's the best job she could ever imagine.

For Jackie, in order to build a community, you have to first have a foundation. And the foundation is culture.

In her community, she created a culture first and did the core values. Then applied that with her team, which they go and they work with their students at the same time. So they know they could see them working together as a team. That was their underlying foundation and the community just grew from there.

• The reason why Jackie got into the beauty industry.
• Included MIM-Motivate Inspire Mentor as the community’s common value.
• The other aspects that make an effective community leader.
• What are Jakie’s lessons that are driving her community to be successful?
• The curveball question—what do you do for fun, Jackie?

AND MORE TOPICS ARE COVERED IN THE FULL INTERVIEW!!! You can check that out and subscribe at [www.ElementsOfCommunity.us/Podcast].

If you want to know more about Jackie Nepola, you may reach out to her at:

• Instagram Handle: jackie.nepola
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jackie.nepola