Entelechy Leadership Stories

On today's episode, meet Lisa Kies and Chris Kies.

Lisa says, "As a clinician for the past 30 years, I have met with thousands of people and I recognized that those individuals who were committed to making sense of energy, in their way, moved into sustained alignment and their reality shifted. In my practice, in groups, and in my membership meetings, we take science and metaphysics and create more conscious synchronicities. I now dedicate my practice to those who are curious about creating their new paradigm and desire a higher dimensional way of being. STATE is dedicated to people who know there is more to life and want to have fun creating. YOU are the creator of your reality. You are the Divine however, you already knew that."

mystateofbeing.org

instagram.com/stateofbeing2020

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCoUP3Y9wJcoxH1SWLwBeoZA

https://twitter.com/Stateof1111

Chris says, "As a business owner and former corporate employee for the past 30 years, I have a unique ability to understand the challenges and opportunities that people face in their careers. For example, I had taken two different sabbaticals during my corporate career. I did these about eight years apart so that I could develop new skills. The first was creating a television show in 2002 that was directly connected to a membership website. The second was when I built a house and managed the entire process in 2011. There are many reasons why I decided to go outside my comfort zone but above all else, I needed to prove to myself that I was more than what people told me I was. I created Blue Sky to assist people who want to learn how to create and experience the lives they've always dreamed of having. I want people to hear my story and know that they have the power to do the same or more. "

https://myblue.org/

Nadalette La Fonta, author and lecturer, has written and lectured, through books, including #leroseaupenchant, her first singular work.

Nadalette lives between Paris and La Rochelle, with her family. She is partly paraplegic since 2014 following an operating accident (http://www.fauves-editions.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=64). Before 2014, she held responsible positions in major international groups, and lived a very different life, despite an already keen interest in the causes and ideas that animate her today.

Articles that can be found on her website https://www.nadalettelafonta.com or inspiring public speaking engagements :

TEDx "Rien de nous arrive par hasard", https://youtu.be/8S8mie3bwtw over 1,800,000 views, subtitled in French, English, Spanish and Japanese,

Nadalette received the ReStartAwards 2018 award at the Olympia.

She has just released a second TEDx "I don't want to kick the bucket" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfRGouD1PE&t=56s

Her favorite themes for taking the lead:

• resilience
• listening
• self-confidence
• using the challenge as a springboard
• living one's life
• towards a feminine incarnate
• respect for diversity and difference
• invisible disability
• the link between generations,
• inclusion
• another look at our origins and roots
• and more.

Her trademark: starting from a real and lived history to move towards a universal and shared vision, with total authenticity and without any make-up.

Nadalette is part of the SOOPC anthology "Passionately striving in Why" in english, now available on https://soopllc.com/product/fate-not-a-threat-an-opportunity/

She is a member of the Digital Ladies' "Committee of wise".

Our guest today is Dr. Chris Driscoll

Christopher M. Driscoll, PhD is an assistant professor of religion studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

A scholar of race, religion, and culture, Driscoll has written and lectured extensively across the U.S. and internationally on topics related to white European and American religious and philosophical traditions, hip hop culture, and mountain cultures.

He is

• author of White Lies: Race & Uncertainty in the Twilight of American Religion (Routledge, 2015),
• co-author of Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion (Lexington Books, 2018),
• co-editor of Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning (Routledge, 2019),
• co-editor of Mountaineering Religion – Culture and Religion 21.1 (January 2021), and
• author of the upcoming Who You Calling Devil? White Men, Black Gods, and Religious Codependency (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Website: https://www.christopherdriscollphd.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherdriscollphd/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christopherdriscollphd/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteliesbook

Let’s welcome Tim Peek to Entelechy Leadership Stories. Tim is a four-time National News Emmy winner, and he currently works as a Consultant with the Conscious Leadership Group.

Tim has years of experience as a conscious leader, developing a lot of his conscious leadership skills from years of leading NBC NextMedia Productions. During his time there, he was responsible for creating innovative transformations for his company. Tim works with companies to develop new leadership skills through awareness and empathy while teaching his principles of leadership to help facilitate a new workplace culture - and to teach leaders how to live a well-balanced, integrated life.

Throughout the show, Kirstin, Mark, and Tim spend time discussing what conscious leadership is, the importance of having conscious leaders in the workplace, and what this process entails. There is also a focus on the issues that the world is experiencing today - such as the COVID-19 pandemic, oppression, and toxic workplace environments - and how we can grow through community, creativity, and collaboration during these times. 

Adapting to changes is essential for a business to be successful, but doing so in a way that promotes a healthy, collaborative workplace is difficult. Tim highlights the importance of shifting your mentality from being a victim to being an accountable creator of your experiences. Throughout this interview, Tim touches on how he works with companies to become conscious leaders, but also how he manifests this in his own life - and how others can utilize these tools as well. 

• 01:56 - How empathy, effective listening, and questioning is utilized by effective leaders.
• 02:35 - Why Tim calls CEOs “Chief Energy Orchestrators” and how this leads to successful leadership.
• 04:00 - How social issues, workplace changes, and the pandemic are affecting leadership.
• 04:53 - Conscious leadership conversations about how people experience the world differently.
• 05:56 - Shifting the “to me” mentality to the “by me” mentality.
• 08:12 - The importance of higher consciousness - and how it affects creativity.
• 10:11 - Discussions about companies having to adapt and transition from old ideals, and what role we play in these experiences.
• 13:21 - Being open to feedback and utilizing radical curiosity as a leader and as a company.
• 18:08 - The difference between being a victim and having victim consciousness.
• 21:02 - Tim explains how his background at NBC NextMedia taught him to become a conscious leader.
• 23:21 - How to know when a company needs higher consciousness training.
• 26:44 - Play in Rest Principle from The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success.
• 31:54 - A discussion on the future of Leadership.

• Check out Tim Peek and his coaching services here!
• Visit the Conscious Leadership Group to learn more.
• Purchase The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success to start on your journey of becoming a Conscious Leader.

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Today we talk with Dominique Oyston, of The Goddess Voice Academy. She is an International Opera Singer, Visionary Voice Coach, Divine Feminine Ambassador, and Best-Selling Author.

She has 25 years of experience on the international stage. Her coaching focus is authentic performance and speaking with power and presence for women.

We're introducing Sabrina Osso on Entelechy Leadership Stories this week! Sabrina is the Founder and CEO of OSSO Safe, a company that is working on combining education with technology to create safer home, school, and work places. Her amazing company focuses on educating, training, and creating advocates to better recognize the signs of domestic violence - and to help prevent it.

As a victim who grew up in an abusive home, Sabrina's background has largely influenced her desire to create a company that positively impacts people's lives. Her goal is to shift the responsibility of addressing domestic violence off of the victim and onto the institutions these victims are in, such as schools, workplaces, and landlords.

Sabrina mentions in the interview some staggering workplace statistics: “There are 2 million incidents of workplace violence that occur each and every year in the United States. That comes out to be about 33,000 per week, and of those, about 17 results in a murder. That’s just in the workplace.”

If this is just reported violence in the workplace, clearly there's a much larger issue at hand.

Sabrina decided early on that she didn't want to be another non-profit working to help domestic violence victims - she wanted to be an advocate that created solutions for victims in hopes of preventing abuse before it starts.

From workplace and school safety trainings and seminars to revolutionizing the real estate industry with innovative technologies to assess, monitor, and educate landlords and tenants on domestic violence in the home - OSSO Safe is tackling it all. Listen to the full podcast to learn more about what Sabrina's company is doing to truly make a difference in domestic violence situations, and what the future generation of Entelechy Leaders can do to support this cause.

• 02:25  - A discussion about the increase of domestic violence in the home during the pandemic, why we are seeing this uptick, and the importance of having a support system in your home.
• 06:27 - The roles and responsibilities of others to create safe environments at home, in the workplace, and in schools - and how to be aware of these issues.
• 08:48 - Why everyone is essential in working to make all homes safe and free of domestic violence. 
• 09:37 - Sabrina discusses why her company focuses on training schools and workplaces on identifying violence.
• 11:10 - Addressing statistics on violence in homes and the workplace in the United States annually.
• 13:56 - For many years, the institutions that were designed to recognize violence and protect people living through those traumas were failing. Are they changing?
• 15:33 - Sabrina delves into the OSSO Safe Certification, the OSSO Safe Home Sweet Home Package, and being an OSSO Safe Property - some innovative tools and policies that her company is implementing in the real estate industry to protect victims.
• 17:42 - The second level of certification involves an app that detects domestic violence in rental properties to prevent “he said, she said” situations.
• 21:52 - Understanding why Sabrina called her Ted X “If You’re a Victim of Home Violence, Don’t Leave...Stay.”
• 26:27 - Elevating passion and personal experiences to the business level.
• 30:37 - Sabrina closes the podcast with words of wisdom as an Entelechy Leader to other Entelechy Leaders.

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Let’s welcome Claude Silver to the 75th Entelechy Leadership Story!

Claude's official title at VaynerMedia for the past five years is Chief Heart Officer - and her job is to cultivate employees who bring their heart to their job and personal lives every single day.

Claude has been integral to shifting her workplace to adapt to the rising demand from younger generations to cultivate a workplace that truly cares about its employees. Her job description is to simply "...touch every single human... [in order to] infuse the agency with empathy." She is creatively pushing boundaries and breaking workplace norms to "[create] places where people come to feel loved, period."

For many years, companies instilled the "hustle" mentality in their employees. This standard of being overworked and not fulfilled in your job is exactly what Claude is trying to change as an Entelechy Leader.

The basis for her position at VaynerMedia is to see the entire picture - one that encompasses passion and joy in both work and personal life. The idea that employees should come to work with an energy and excitement every day permeates into all aspects of life.

While it is not easy to change the way companies hire, train, and ultimately fulfill employees, it is essential to lift up and encourage employees to better themselves in their work and home lives. These changes are leading to higher productivity and increased innovation. Leaders that are working with employees to focus on the whole human development process is the future of leadership.

• 01:35 - Claude discusses the background of what a Chief Heart Officer is - and how this impacts leadership in business by doing what you love.
• 04:01 - What is the importance of bringing your heart to work? How does it impact the work culture, especially with younger generations in the workforce?
• 06:11 - Addressing how to put measurable policies in place to create “human intelligence” that cultivates the whole human to succeed in work and life.
• 09:13 - Building a new workplace culture is difficult, so finding ways to balance productivity, innovation, and emotional intelligence is key.
• 10:53 - Claude explains the intensive, unique onboarding experience for Vayner X - and the energy they look for in their employees.
• 13:58 - How a Holistic Wellness Wheel, life coaching, meditation, and other tools are utilized in VaynerMedia to support their employees - and how it increases productivity and innovation.
• 17:15 - Claude gives an overview of how she implements these tools in her work, leadership, and personal life.
• 19:18 - Trying to solve the world is impossible, but we can make progress and huge changes by trying to do everything we do with joy and love.
• 20:58 - What can people do to change the world with this type of leadership?
• 22:16 - Claude dives into her own growth process, and how she came to develop this mentality she is utilizing in all aspects of life.

• Check out Claude Silver and her services here!
• Connect with Claude Linkedin.
• Follow Claude on Instagram.
• Visit Vayner X to learn more!

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Welcome Becky Morrison to Entelechy Leadership Stories! Becky is the author of a new book entitled The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide to Living What Matters.

Becky has an impressive background in Litigation, working in financial markets and services, and years of experience in various aspects of the law. She spent her life checking off the boxes - going to good schools, getting good grades, getting herself a good job, having a family. Ultimately, these became a series of "career left turns", as Becky calls them. She spent all of this time going through life the way you're "supposed" to, but she was left feeling unfilled; as if she was always working towards the next goal to be happy, instead of being happier right now.

As Becky says, "Happiness is for today, it's not for tomorrow. And so, it's not about being happy when you've achieved the title or achieved whatever you think the thing is, and it's not even about necessarily making a giant transformation in your life. It's about how do you incorporate more of what makes you tick into your life today, and allow that to drive your evolution forward."

While it may seem like Becky has all of the answers now, she emphasizes throughout the podcast how long it took her to get to this higher plane of understanding on how to cultivate true happiness in her daily life. She describes two key moments that shifted perspective for her:

• The Bathtub Moment: Becky describes a time about 15 years ago when she was deep into her full-time career in litigation - while raising a toddler! She was bathing her toddler while simultaneously handling paperwork and phone calls for work. At first, she thought, "I'm doing it all... I can have it all!" - but this immediately followed with the thought of how exhausted she was, and how this situation was completely unsustainable.
• A Life-Threatening Moment: Becky describes this situation more throughout the show, but a life-threatening situation becomes a true wake-up call - especially when the "flashing before my eyes" moment was "conference calls and conference rooms". This is when she knew this was not her priority - and that she needed to start making what is a priority to her the center of her life, and ultimately her happiness.

How many of you can relate to this overwhelming feeling of not living your best life? Becky continues to dive into the essence of her book, what drove her to write her book, and how she uses it daily in her life, but also to help others through her own coaching business.

Throughout the podcast, they explore Becky's often-used analogy of "The Butterfly Season". This process of change, death, and rebirth is not one that we experience only once in life - we live through it many times. Becky's insight into letting go of the constant fear of change, of letting go of not trusting the process, and of learning to be more open to the butterfly cycle is heavily tied into the rebirth we are seeing in leaders throughout the world. These changes, and the willingness of the next generation of leaders to be open to the possibilities of what can be created - both in personal and professional lives - is the true pillar of being an Entelechy Leader.

• Becky's book, The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide to Living What Matters, emphasizes the importance of living here and now. The present is all we have, but the reality is that mother nature doesn't wait around for us to get on board with the changes of life. We must learn to adapt, to be resilient, and to let go in order to grow.
• This episode gives unique insights into the differences of setting specific "goals" versus setting...

Meet our guest today, Greg Yan!

He has over six years in IT Sales and always had the goal of achieving the President’s Club. Last January, he told his manager, “I’m going to get this. I’ve always wanted to do this. I promise you - I’m going to do this… and I did.” But it wasn’t easy, and it wouldn’t have been possible without Greg spending more time with a commitment to self; by learning to be an Entelechy Leader who continuously focused on always seeing his role in any obstacle, who made an effort to give back to his communities and put more effort into his relationships, even when he was too exhausted. He makes the hard choice to look inward when things aren’t working quite right.

His background is filled with obstacles and challenges that have allowed him to shape a clear idea of what integrity, service to others, and being your true self means to him - and how to navigate all of life’s obstacles while thriving. Greg has found that focusing on his integrity, being authentic and real with who he is, and being of service to his community cultivates success for himself every day. With the help of his life coach, Kirstin Gooldy, he has become an Entelechy Leader in his professional and personal life - because success is so much more than making money. Learning to find the balance of all that life throws at you - the challenges, the successes, and all of the in-betweens - but doing it with integrity, honesty, and authenticity is the true key to success for Greg.

As a Chinese American that immigrated with his family to America as a young boy to find the American Dream, as a gay man, and as a person diagnosed with ADHD, Greg has had many reasons to be unsure of who he is, to not know where he fits. As he mentions in this podcast, he didn’t have a role model who looked like him [timestamp around 7min] - a sentiment that so many can relate to. While it didn’t always feel like it, he now realizes that these obstacles were shaping who he was and helping him find success in all facets of life throughout adulthood. But how did a young man who lacked direction and understanding of himself and his passions learn to thrive in a successful relationship with his partner, all while achieving his goals in a highly competitive industry?

Greg’s journey started by looking inward. Before he could give back and do more for others and his career, he had to start by cultivating his own self-worth, discover his self-understanding, and find what integrity meant to him. That constant commitment to looking inside led to an intricate understanding of integrity - one that is centered in no longer conforming to what society deems he is. As Greg puts it, “That’s one definition of integrity for me - just to be my true self.” Being honest with yourself and with others; committing to what you promise to do, and giving respect to others - all of these are pillars of Greg’s personal integrity that permeates into his professional and personal success. 

The key to being an Entelechy Leader is having a well-blended and balanced life for Greg. After spending time looking inward, Greg has found that focusing on being of service, giving back to those in need, and being an advocate for his community is what has led to most of his success and happiness today. Being able to cultivate stronger leadership skills through self-worth and understanding facilitated his ability to be of service to others. This stoked the passion in him to help discover his purpose in life - this key to success allowed all things to feel possible for...

Chrissy Levett is the founder & creative director of Creative Conscience, a global platform that encourages, trains, and rewards creative thinking for social justice, sustainability, and many other issues.  

She is also a TEDx speaker, lecturer, and educator, who believes that design & creative thinking should be used to solve global challenges and as a form of positive activism. 

Chrissy worked for NGOs in the field in a developing world using graphics to teach people around the issues of landmines and, and repeat getting refugees repatriated into different countries. Then, some of those kids and she ended up working in a big agency in London where she felt she was creating products that weren’t at all helping in the future. 

After going through a rough patch in her life, and not feeling fulfilled, Chrissy started on a journey of self-curiosity and self-learning. Through consciousness, she was taking time to sit and work out what you love and what isn’t working. Chrissy emerged feeling there had to be a better way of designing, building, and manufacturing products that were beneficial to the future and would have a better impact on people and the environment.  That’s where Creative Conscience was born. She ended creating a platform for the world without any media budget, no funding or anything else. But she learned she was able to change the world just with her actions. 

“And where do you start? Well, Nelson Mandela said the greatest weapon that we have to change the world is education. So if we can build from the ground up, which is what we started 10 years ago. Now, those young people are kind of infiltrating our industry as positive creative activists and they're changing organizations and agencies from, from inside.”

Chrissy referred to a project that came in this year from Jonathan Ford, from the Danish school. He worked with the green party, the alternative party in Denmark. The project is called The Ice Poster. It changed the course of the conversation in their government. So his idea changed the election. The policy changed the conversation for that country and that is something that deserves to be celebrated. 

Chrissy believes that our current academic system is too focused on consumption and finance money and that it is time to look to other ways of thinking.  And for that, there is also a need for mentors. 

And how to become one? Well easily:  If you have something that you're really passionate about, say you're someone who has been in the corporate world and you've got some experience, you could mentor someone who might want to start a social enterprise or a business where you might have a challenge that you feel is really important. It might be around the environment. It doesn’t have to be completely specific to your fields, just something that you’re truly passionate about and help other young people.

• Creative Conscience is where people in the creative and design industry use their talents and skills to create social and environmental impact. Chrissy uses her platform to teach conscious consumption and gets people to understand that in everything they do, they can serve people and the planet while making money and changing the world.
• Through Creative conscience, she trains and supports young people and creatives from all over the world who want to make a change in the world. 
• Chrissy believes one of the ways to push for creative conscience is through education. By getting into creative schools, universities, and educational establishments and encouraging them to start...