Lisa Gable: “We see people on their good days and we see them on their bad days. We make assumptions about who they are as a result of how they exhibit their personality at a moment in time. The reality is–we don't know what's going on in that person's life, we really don't. 

So if you start with the assumption that the person with whom you are dealing is a good person and perhaps the way in which they are reacting to a situation isn't what you would want, there is hope that you could come to know them better. 

This gives us the opportunity to appreciate who they truly are as a whole person. 

We have a tendency to be very judgmental, especially today in social media and politics when we’ve only seen a tiny aspect of someone's life.

In managing people for over forty years, I am always stunned at how someone would immediately assume their colleague was out to get them. It's been even more noticeable in the last five years.

My father was so amazing at finding something uniquely special about everyone he met. Even if they were the most annoying person on the face of the earth, he could find a specialness in them.

So look for that unique special kernel of an individual and help bring it out of them, so together you can explore it.”

Have a listen as I interview my special guest, Former US Ambassador, Lisa Gable.

Lisa Gable: “Sometimes we doubt ourselves and sometimes we doubt our ability to analyze what's going on around us. It may be how we are working with another individual or it might be how we're perceiving shifts that are going on in our communities. 

The reality is we actually know the answers to our questions, we can trust our instincts, and our decisions. 

I use decision trees. There is a starting point and a path to follow. As long as you have a clear vision, then you will have clarity in making decisions. Each decision leads to another question. If the answer is ‘Yes’ then you follow that path. If the answer is ‘No’, then that leads to another set of questions.

Your gut will tell you the right direction to go.

Type A people have a plan for their lives. That doesn’t mean we have to follow someone else's plan for how they see us fitting into their lives.

The world is changing so rapidly today. It helps to have a vision as to what you want your life to be, the impact that you want to have, and where you see your greatest opportunity. At the same time you get to zig and zag, which means to pivot. We saw that over and over again through COVID. As leaders, we would make decisions and yet something would happen within the supply chain or employees would get sick or money would be short. We were constantly having to pivot, while keeping our eye on what we ultimately wanted to achieve. I believe that applies to life as well.”

Have a listen as I interview my special guest, Former US Ambassador, Lisa Gable.

Lisa Gable: “I've had an incredible opportunity to do turnarounds in business, government, and philanthropy. I started my career during the Reagan administration at the age of nineteen. I was at the Pentagon during the Cold War at the age of twenty-one. And then moved over to the White House. So you can’t have a greater inflection point than the end of the Cold War. 

When I moved out of Washington, DC I went to Arizona, Taiwan, and then California. I stayed in Silicon Valley for fifteen years and I met my husband there. Jim worked for Apple. I had left Intel Corporation and started my own company. We married two years later. We’ve been married for twenty-seven years, during which time we adopted our daughter and she is now working on her profession in Texas. 

Jim and I have similar work histories, we understand the world of politics and philanthropy because that has been a core area where our families have invested. So, we come to life with a desire to value differences. 

Even though we may have certain opinions, we focus a great deal on finding the good in people. We identify a place where we agree with another person in order to build a relationship. The reality and quality of life comes down to people in our personal relationships.” 

Have a listen as I interview my special guest, Former US Ambassador, Lisa Gable.

Eva Vennari: “When we honor ourselves, that's our true power.  And when others honor themselves, that's when co-creation can happen. This is when two healthy beings come together to create and teach others. We teach people by example. When you know who you are you teach others how to interact with you. That's honoring yourself and it's sometimes holding people's feet to the fire. And I'm okay with doing that. 

Discomfort leads to growth.”

Have a listen as I interview my special guest Eva Vennari!

Eva Vennari: “Be you is about not concerning yourself with what other people think about you, because their opinion of you doesn't matter. Integrity is the agreement that you have with yourself to be only you and not allow others to compromise it. When you are you and blending your personality with your higher self you have a greater power that you might not have been aware of before. It's an unshakable wisdom. 

You are physically the magic, you're the reason why things can manifest. You're the reason why things can change. 

When somebody says to you, and they said it to me many times, Eva, we're not here to change the world. 

I argue.” 

Have a listen as I interview my special guest Eva Vennari!

Eva Vennari: “With the tunnel vision we get when we are in pain, we tend not to notice what is outside of us. I can remember a particular moment, when I was chronically ill and laying on the couch. My girls were very little and I was so fatigued that I could not get up and tuck them into bed. I said, "Come here. Give me a hug. You have to tuck yourselves in tonight. I can't do it. I can't move from here”. 

Being chronically ill, we lose perspective. We lose connection with ourselves and others. 

As I got stronger and my body was able to fight, my focus shifted away from the pain to, "Oh, my gosh, I have children that I need to raise! What do you guys need?"

There are red flags that we ignore and it's important to pay attention. 

Learning how to listen in a way that is not a knee jerk reaction is important. Being emotionally intelligent is one thing, you can know what you're feeling. But unless you know what to do with it, you're not being wise about it. In other words, EQ (Emotional Intelligence) has nothing to do with wisdom.

When we're in that place of tunnel vision, we forget that there are others around us who need us, want us, can help us, and are a part of us.”

Have a listen as I interview my special guest Eva Vennari!

Eva Vennari: “I was a hot mess as a previously sick corporate ladder climber, attempting to climb my way through the corporations of America. I was not making good progress, and it was beating me down. I became chronically ill, which included chronic fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, depression, fibromyalgia, itchy skin, heart palpitations, short term memory loss, hypothyroidism, and more than I care to remember. 

There are many doorways to becoming a whole person. 

It's not just one modality, it's a journey back to wellness. I knew I didn't want to be on medication. I knew I needed to start somewhere, and because I'm a stubborn Italian, my Sicilian served me well. So, one night, blessed with insomnia, and up at three o'clock in the morning, I Googled the list of ailments my doctors had found. I began digging through one weird article after another and I came across mineral balancing. What I was reading made sense to me, ‘give your body what it needs, it can heal itself’. Well, how do you know what it needs? Hair analysis and mineral balancing solves that problem. I sometimes forget how far I've come. 

We have to get over the idea that we are in charge of what our body is going to heal. This is why I couldn't just create an app or a course. I tried to create a curriculum that everyone could just follow. It didn't work out because each person needs what they need the moment their body goes to the next level of healing. 

Chronic fatigue is invisible in a way because you're not in a wheelchair, and yet it's not invisible energetically. People can pick up on it and they are less likely to engage with you and therefore your relationships suffer.” 

Have a listen as I interview my special guest Eva Vennari!

Nicole M. Heimann: “Power in itself is a neutral word. It all depends how we use it. If we come from a position of taking power over other people, nobody likes that. And that's where people make negative associations. We can be powerful individuals and create something great together. So to take away the confusion, I like to use the terminology power versus force from David Hawkins work. 

When we are not being our bright authentic selves, in our essence and connected to our true power, we will either give our power away or abuse power. It's important to know when we are in our power and who we are when we give our power away. I teach my clients to ask the question, 'Who am I when I am stressed?' Because that's when we use power over people. 

Leaders tend to diminish their own talents. When I say, 'Wow, this is really impressive. This is how you do it'. And I mirror their talent. Their response is 'Yeah, it's okay'. And I say, 'No, own it'. This is a superpower, this is really influential. You get to own it more. When they own it more, their impact increases.”

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If you would like to know more about the process of creating a new world, you won’t want to miss this interview with my guest Nicole Heimann.

Find out how to get in touch with your essence so you are able to be authentic, influential, and inspirational.

Nicole M. Heimann: "Freedom is permission to be who we are, and independent of needing others' approval. Being okay with the fact that some people will resonate with our energy and some will not is true freedom. When we are free, that's when we are really powerful. Being unapologetically you is about taking a stand for your freedom. 

Taking a stand is a big one for me. Far too many leaders are afraid they will be judged for being authentic and that's not what our world needs. So I give them permission. They have to want it, they have to believe in it, and they have to be courageous. It takes courage to go in front of a board that is more focused on short term profits, rather than on the long term impact and how their decisions will affect the planet. 

Once I get my clients in touch with their essence and reconnected with their values then we look at the values of their company. When CEOs step into their full authenticity and pursue their own freedom, they are able to take a stand for what they believe in. Then they mobilize their organization around it." 

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If you would like to know more about the process of creating a new world, you won’t want to miss this interview with my guest Nicole Heimann.

Find out how to get in touch with your essence so you are able to be authentic, influential, and inspirational.

Nicole M. Heimann: “The word authenticity means a lot to me. I've also written a book about it–‘How to Develop The Authentic Leader in You’. I went really deep with this book because I believe authenticity is very misunderstood. I've had leaders who say, 'Well, I'm emotional and I'm impulsive. That's who I am and people have to deal with it'. That's not being authentic. It's being unconscious and not taking responsibility for your own behavior. 

I believe that authenticity should be a verb. It's a process constantly evolving into the next best version of ourselves that incorporates taking responsibility for the impact we have. It takes a lot of courage to be authentic. I believe that life offers all of us opportunities where we must choose. 'Do I live in my deeper truth with the people around me or not?' 

We get to choose. Life's a choice. Choosing to be authentic is a courageous act. 

Authenticity gets us to our essence. That's really what authenticity is, it's who we really are at our core. It's important that we get to know our essence, that we feel it and experience it. I use a visualization process with my clients that really cuts through all the layers of their wounds and takes them to the essence of who they are. 

Every baby radiates light. 

We are born in our full essence and therefore we are born completely free. Then being influenced by the negativity of others, we eventually build a wall around us. We start to confuse the wall with our essence and start believing that we are everything that is in

the wall. Eventually we become a wall no longer in touch with our emotions and being controlled by our wounds. 

The way I work with this image of essence and the wall around it is to suggest repositioning the wall. Our essence begins to take up more space, which means the wall will have to shrink. Then working with CEOs, I teach them to ask themselves, 'Am I in my essence or am I in the wall right now?' Once they have their answer, they can choose which place they want to lead from. 

Coming from our essence we are always influential and inspirational. So when we are in our power, we are in our essence and able to be authentic."

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If you would like to know more about the process of creating a new world, you won’t want to miss this interview with my guest Nicole Heimann.

Find out how to get in touch with your essence so you are able to be authentic, influential, and inspirational.