Extraordinary Minds

By Vishen LakhianiHealth & Fitness Mental Health Education

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October 29, 2018 Freedom At Work (Part 1) with Vishen Lakhiani
What does freedom at work look like? If you're thinking of scaling a company to greater heights, you'll need something far more than a vision. You need a great team to back you up. Vishen Lakhiani, founder and CEO of Mindvalley shares what freedom at work looks like in Mindvalley and why it's incredibly important to highlight "Culture" in the workplace. Here, Vishen shares how Mindvalley expanded to include over 40 different nationalities working on a shared mission together. Listen to the first part of the interview originally recorded for the WorldBlu podcast with Traci Fenton.

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22 min
October 21, 2018How To Create A Vivid Vision For Your Career And Life with Cameron Herold
The Biggest Thing We’re Missing to Create True Alignment in Our Lives
In this strategic episode, Cameron Herold shares some of the secrets of how he built two $100 million companies by the age of 35. Considered one of the most successful businessmen of the last decade, he reveals the key to his success: Vivid Vision. It’s the 3D world we can literally step into by creating a roadmap to keep our whole team on track. Entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners - this is not one you’ll want to miss!

“If everyone can see what I see, they’ll help me make it come true.

But if nobody can see, they’re guessing.”

Vivid Vision is a simple yet powerful process that most aspiring business owners are missing, yet it results speak for themselves. Tune in as Vishen and the man heralded as “the best speaker [who] hits grand slams” discuss the top business strategies for success.
In this episode you'll discover:

The 5 F’s and how this shapes our Vivid Vision

Why we need to Create Visions 3 Years Forward, and the danger of having them for 5 or 10 years

Cameron’s Personal BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)

The 4 Things that Successful Business Owners can Take Care Of to Eliminate the Need for a Customer Service Department

The Step by Step process to create a Vivid Vision

How a VV differs from OKRs

Why successful business people often only talk in the future

The difference between a Mission Statement, Vision Statement, Core Purpose, and Vivid Vision, and why the first three will never be enough to truly align a company

The #1 Reason Why so many Companies Fail

Why our grandmothers are the smartest people in the business world

Don’t waste another day - listen to this episode to learn the steps to create true alignment in your business and your life.
Resources and Mentions:

Verne Harnish - Rockefeller Habit

Jino Richman - Traction

Jim Collins - Good to Great

John Doerr - Measure What Matters

Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing about Hard Things

Elon Musk

Bill Gates

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44 min
October 14, 2018The 3 Keys To Manifesting with Sarah Prout
The Journey To Manifesting Do you believe in the power of manifestations?
If you say yes, you’ll be excited to know the step-by-step to manifest more powerfully in this incredible episode with Sarah Prout. Even if you say no, this episode will help you understand, how you can live a life that’s authentic to your core.

Sarah is the host of the Journey to Manifesting podcast and co-founder of the Manifesting Academy. Today, you’ll discover that you can manifest your truth through your connection to The Universe and through empowering your emotions. Get ready to be inspired.

“Feelings becomes things… (As) Sentient Beings, we are feeling all the time — the way we feel about those things is what drives the manifestation.” — Sarah Prout
Highlights from the episode

Sarah opens up about how she survived domestic violence and how it helped lead her to stumble upon the powerful ideas of manifestation

Sean and Sarah share the story of how their union transformed into an incredibly successful online business

Lean in, as Sarah explains the simplicity of manifesting and how to differentiate it from junk food personal growth

The first step to manifesting begins with taking ownership. Sarah explains in detail how you can do so effectively so look out for the keywords, emotions, and flow

Sarah explains how the second step to manifesting arrives through the challenges of uncertainty and the importance of getting comfortable with the uncomfortable

The third step to manifesting lies behind the concept of reverence. Listen as Sarah shares how everything happens in Divine Time

People mentioned in the episode

Sean Patrick Simpson, co-founder of The Manifesting Academy

Ursula Gestefeld, 19th Century New Thought author

Michael Singer, New York Times bestselling author

Resources mentioned in the episode

The Surrender Experiment, by Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul, by Michale Singer

Sarah's website: sarahprout.com
The Manifesting Academy

If you enjoyed this episode and would like to hear more of Sarah, listen to this 5-minute episode from her podcast Journey To Manifesting,

Quit Hiding Your Magic. The World Is Ready For You.

You can find Sarah on these social platforms:

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

Pinterest

For more episodes like this on The Mindvalley Podcast, we recommend this episode:

Anousheh Ansari On Daring To Dream: How A Young Iranian Girl Became An Astronaut

For more reading materials, we recommend the following articles:

How To Manifest Anything You Want

The Missing Link To Your Success And Manifestation Ability

The Complete Law Of Attraction Guide: How To Manifest Your Dream Life

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25 min
September 29, 2018 Vishen Lakhiani On Starting Your Day With Personal Growth
Do we have to choose between self-care and serving humanity? The community asks, and here’s Vishen’s answer. Tune in and let us know how you choose to start your day. We’d love to hear your stories because your growth is important to us.

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6 min
September 01, 2018How Billion Dollar Ideas Come To You with Jeffrey Perlman
Are you listening to your ideas? This questions may sound strange but this was how Zumba became the household-name brand it is today. And the speaker sharing this story on Mindvalley’s A-Fest stage is Jeffrey Perlman, former CMO of Zumba. Jeffrey will explain how we can discover our true legacy and harness the power of inevitability in three strategies. “Zumba was inevitable. It was more real in our heads than the real world.” — Jeffrey Perlman Highlights from the episode:

Jeffrey opens the stage with his truth; introducing, “Gonzalo."

He tells the story of how Zumba started from being the joke of the fitness industry to the mega-brand it is today

Jeffrey explains the continuum between consciousness and matter, and why you need to listen to it carefully

He shares the three stages of stepping into the inevitability of your billion dollar ideas

He offers a simple advice on finding inspiration from business models and having one for your business

Jeffrey drives the point home with his closing on how you have to honor your vision, mission, and billion dollar ideas

Influencers or businesses mentioned in the episode:

Beto Perez

Zumba

Inc. Magazine

Here’s one key takeaway from the talk for you to leave with, “If you have a moment of inspiration, a vision, something that feels right to you in the world… it has already started.” — Jeffrey Perlman Here at Mindvalley, we’re committed to more than just personal growth. We're determined to push humanity forward by empowering our audience, like yourself, to unleash your fullest potential, to be extraordinary, by using the most powerful tool of all — education. Mindvalley's A-Fest is an event pool of inspiring talks from incredible change-makers just like Dave, Marisa, and Sonia. If you’d like to learn more about Mindvalley’s A-Fest, visit our website at afest.com and apply to become part of our curated community and attend incredible events dedicated to personal transformation. *** The Mindvalley Podcast aims to bring to you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas in personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.
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20 min
August 25, 2018 How To Make The Impossible, Possible with Eric Edmeades
Is it possible to reach for the impossible? We all have dreams that we think are seemingly impossible to come true. If you think your life vision is a far-fetched dream, think again. This episode is another incredible talk by Mindvalley’s incredible teacher and speaker, Eric Edmeades. He’ll explain how you can turn the “impossible" into “actual.” If you haven’t already, get a vision board for your room. Have your pen, and paper ready so you can start implementing your learnings as soon as you can!

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14 min
August 18, 2018 How To Create Powerful Connections With Anyone with Sean Stephenson
Are you aware of the power of human connections? Creating connections is a skill anyone can learn. One inspiring example is the speaker of this episode, Sean Stephenson. He's a world-renowned American motivational speaker, born with a rare genetic disease called, brittle bone disease. The man's a legend when it comes to creating powerfully deep connections with some of the most powerful people on earth. Take home actionable steps to start implementing today!

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51 min
August 02, 2018 How To Raise Confident Children with Shelly Lefkoe
Are you instilling positive or negative beliefs in your children? We’re all working towards instilling positive beliefs but many parents struggle with the “how-to” of building confidence in their children. Listen as Shelly Lefkoe, founder of Parenting the Lefkoeway, leave you with 4 life-changing takeaways that will have an immediate effect on how you could best parent your children. Visit for more at go.mindvalley.com/podcast36

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20 min
July 20, 2018 How To Train Your Willpower (Part 2) with Dave Asprey

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25 min
July 12, 2018Hacking The 3 "F" Words of Willpower (Part 1) with Dave Asprey
This talk is part 1 of 2 by the one and only Dave Asprey of Bulletproof Coffee and host of Bulletproof Radio. Dave is a New York Times best-selling author and has spent over two decades on hacking his own biology to help him learn seemingly impossible things to transform himself into the success he is today. He has singlehandedly transformed the diets (and waistlines) of thousands of people around the world — not to mention, manage to hack his own biology to become Bulletproof. In this episode, he breaks down the three things that are affecting a fundamental contributor to our successes and failures; Our willpower. Like most people, willpower is something that causes a lot of energy drain and something we wish we can conjure at any given moment. He’s here to help you understand the core causes of why it feels difficult to control it. The biggest leak of willpower is applying your precious effort to things that are automated and urges from an untrained animal that’s thrashing inside your body — Dave Asprey Highlights from the talk:

Dave shares a story of his success and failures with willpower in his twenties

He explains the origins of willpower and the analogies to start hacking it

He shares the effects of the first “F” word of willpower on our abilities and general physiology

Our reactions and decision-making process is affected by something he calls, “The Labrador Brain"

Dave explains how the second “F” word of willpower is easily hackable once you understand the “why” behind your mental chatter

Getting to the root of energy drain, he explains how there exists a difference of speed within your body and mind

Dave get’s real with the third “F” word and how it responds to our basic instinct for humanity’s survival

Concluding part 1, Dave drops a challenge to all of us with an exercise we can begin practicing today

People and resources mentioned in the episode:

Vishen Lakhiani

40 Years of Zen

If you enjoyed this episode, we have another we’d recommend to you on understanding your state of being. Listen to this talk:

Eric Edmeades On Mastering Your State Of Being

For more reading materials, we’d recommend the following articles:

Biohacker Dave Asprey’s Top 5 Tips On How To Work Smarter And Think Smarter

5 Tools To Conquer Procrastination & Strengthen Your Willpower By Robin Sharma

Philosophers Say Self Control Is The Essence Of A Successful Life

Here’s a powerful quote by Dave for you to ponder on, if you don’t have enough basic energy in your body, you will not have the willpower that you were meant to have — Dave Asprey Here at Mindvalley, we’re committed to more than just personal growth. We're determined to push humanity forward by empowering our audience, like yourself, to unleash your fullest potential, to be extraordinary, by using the most powerful tool of all — education. Mindvalley's A-Fest is an event pool of inspiring talks from incredible change-makers just like Dave, Marisa, and Sonia. If you’d like to learn more about Mindvalley’s A-Fest, visit our website at afest.com and apply to become part of our curated community and attend incredible events dedicated to personal transformation. *** The Mindvalley Podcast aims to bring to you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas in personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.
Bonus:
- Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW

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22 min

About Extraordinary Minds

From the publisher's feed

Vishen Lakhiani is a global entrepreneur, author, and speaker. He's the founder of Mindvalley – an education company – and the author of 3 bestselling books: The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, The Buddha and the Badass, and The 6 Phase Meditation.