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How do we tap into our unique genius so we can live a life of purpose? 

If we are not living a life that is authentic to us, we lose access to our own vitality and creativity. There are many “templates” out there for what success should look like… but unless we choose to live by our own template, we might be living by someone else’s rules and never truly knowing ourselves. 

This is exactly what Kevin Kepple helps people uncover. Inside this episode, you will learn:

• Why “success” doesn’t feel like success when it's someone else’s definition 
• How being right (or the fear of being wrong) can keep us stuck in a cycle of avoidance and addiction 
• Why burnout is a symptom of a deeper misalignment, and the many flavors it can take
• Why truly being in our gifts is the key to serving others 

This episode is full of useful stories and anecdotes. Kevin’s story of building his own self-awareness, choosing a life of authentic purpose, and now helping others to do the same is an amazing journey. 

Kevin is the host of the Unlock Your Freedom podcast, where I had the opportunity to be a guest, so if you loved this episode, come hang out with us on his show too!

More about Kevin Kepple

Kevin works with business owners and executives to help them create clarity in their business's, massive impact with their leadership, and freedom in their lives. Kevin is a top ranked podcast host, author and certified strengths and executive coach.

Kevin teaches leaders how to align with their genius so that they can truly create massive impact and build strong cohesive cultures. Kevin is the founder of Kepple Coaching where he leads a powerful and cohesive team of coaches and creatives.

https://kevinkepple.us/ 

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What if sharing the authentic story actually got us better results? What if being real was more important than being perfect?

Jason Cercone joins me on the show today for a conversation about brand authenticity and storytelling. Although imposter syndrome might keep us too afraid to share the good, bad, and ugly, doesn't it also make us human? The journey to hitting our goals or building a platform like a podcast (which happens to be Jason's speciality), is not linear... 

It takes putting ourselves out there even when it's scary and learning to befriend failure as a teacher. As Jason shares in the episode, it also takes commitment and perseverance. The myth of overnight success might be alluring, but authentic relationships of trust are built in the challenges along the way. To share the authentic story is not only healing for us as individuals, but it gives others permission to be their whole human self.

In this episode:

• Why authentic storytelling gets better results
• The importance of building trust as a brand
• The connection between personal evolution and brand evolution
• Why staying in integrity yields better results
• How play and curiosity keep us going when mastering a craft (like podcasting)

Meet Jason Cercone

With nearly a decade of experience in the podcast world, Jason Cercone has built his brand around the consumptive power of storytelling and simplifying podcast guesting. He helps leaders craft their authentic story and tell it with confidence as a podcast guest while simultaneously maximizing the value of each guest appearance and establishing thought leadership in their niche. You'll also find him hosting Evolution of Brand, a podcast featuring stories and strategies for building an authentic personal brand.

Learn more: https://jasoncercone.com/podcastguestingsimplified/

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What can executives and business owners learn from the world of end-of-life care? We’re about to find out, from today’s guest, Jan Booth, who happens to be a palliative care nurse and seasoned death doula. 

Loss and change are an inevitable part of the human journey. Each time we change jobs or relationships or homes, there is a “death” and a grieving of what once was. We mourn who we used to be, and the loss of opportunities we didn’t take. Death is all around us. 

However, in Western culture we are conditioned to fear death, and Western medicine often views death as a “failure.” We try to prevent death at all costs, sometimes taking away the opportunity for a natural death. Even talking about death can feel uncomfortable and taboo, let alone expressing the emotions (anger, grief, sadness) that come with it.

When we lose a family member, we get 3 days of bereavement if we’re lucky, and then we’re expected to go back to work. The pace of business as usual doesn’t allow the space for emotional processing, so we suppress and numb. This can make us feel isolated and disconnected. 

We find ourselves in an increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world, and we are watching entire industries and systems come to the end of their life… how might we hospice business as usual with compassion and care? 

In this episode:

• What can executives and business owners learn from end-of-life care?
• How leaders can help others through big change
• Why slowing down to process our emotions is more strategic than pushing through
• How our relationship to death mirrors or relationship to change 
• Death doula skills that any leader can use 

About our guest:

Janet Booth, MA, RN, NC-BC

Jan has worked as a nurse for many years at the intersection of quality of life and end of life, as a hospice/palliative care nurse and as an end-of-life coach and educator. She has served as faculty for the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy, the Conscious Dying Institute, and the Art of Dying Institute’s integrative thanatology certificate program; and presents workshops on the transformative possibilities of end-of-life care. Additionally, Jan is the author of Re-Imagining the End-of-Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches, and one of the co-authors of Bold Spirit Caring for the Dying.

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What does the future of community, governance and finance look like? 

Humanity is a massive evolutionary moment across all systems. Many of our systems are failing, and we’re seeing the harmful limitations of our dominant western culture play out on a global scale. When you layer in climate change and biodiversity loss, the future starts to look pretty grim…

However, humanity is adapting and prototyping new ways of being and doing, all around the globe. Today’s guest, Martin Theis, is one of these humans. Through various communities and the music scene in Germany, Martin has first hand experience playing in non-monetary systems of exchange, self-organizing communities of creation, and different governance structures. 

In this episode:

• Piloting new ways of doing community, governance and value exchange 
• Prototyping money-less economies 
• Embodying our values to serve as models to others 
• Governance and decision making in a self-organizing system 
• Moving from transaction to reciprocal generosity 

About Martin Theis

Martin is a spiritual coach and teacher who focuses on mental and emotional well-being through the art of shamanic journeys. 

The coaching practice Light Trails Co.'s mission is to assist others on their journey from suffering to inner peace and joy.

Martin lives in Germany, Norway and Hawaii and is in the process of building a decentralised network of non-profit orginizations that aim at building low entrance barrier refuges for people to find healing and regeneration. 

Learn more about Martin and his work: https://www.lighttrails.co/webinar-series/ 

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Leaders today have an opportunity to stop cycles of harm and heal patterns of multigenerational trauma. 

Leadership today can be very reactive. Our work cultures often don’t leave much room for us to be human, and so we find ourselves living predominantly in the logic mind, rather than in our physical or emotional bodies. 

Greg works at the intersection of leadership and healing. He believes that “to be a leader is to be a vessel of healing.” And this starts with self-healing. Greg works with leaders to heal burnout, anxiety and depression. His approach is rooted in trauma healing and weaves both somatic and mindfulness-based practices.

Inside today’s episode:

• Why healing our trauma makes us better leaders
• Regenerating ourselves after periods of burnout
• Why unresolved trauma is a liability 
• To be a leader is to be a vessel of healing

Visit https://www.gregwieting.com/ to download your copy of the 7 Essential Pillars to Heal the Past & Lead the Future (the free tool that Greg mentions inside the episode).

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What is high performance leadership? And what are the most effective leadership qualities during a crisis? 

Who better to answer this question than Mark Ashby. Mark has held Specialist roles in the Australian Army and was deployed to Iraq as a team leader in the highly-dangerous private security sector for eleven years in Iraq. He has found himself in the most acutely stressful and high pressure scenarios that one can imagine. 

Today, Mark Ashby assists multinational companies and their leaders in crisis awareness, cultural change & high performance leadership. As global pressures increase across every sector and system, we need to nurture the leadership skills for navigating complexity, uncertainty, and chaos. How can leaders keep themselves (and their teams) safe and sane as they navigate the challenges of our times? THAT is what we will be exploring in this episode.

Inside the episode: 

• What is high performance leadership?
• What leadership behaviors or characteristics are essential for high pressure, high stakes environments?
• How can leaders become more adaptable and fearless?
• How can leaders transcend toxic work culture, to break these cultural patterns for good?

To learn more about Mark and his work (including his FREE masterclass on effective leadership) head to https://markashbyconsulting.com/masterclass/ 

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What happens when we've built everything we thought we wanted, but still aren't happy? We have the successful career, the house, the family... but we're still missing something... our true selves. 

When we stay in the addiction cycles of "busyness" and perfection, we don't have time or space to reflect on what truly makes us happy and fulfilled. We continue in the momentum of the life we've created, doing what we think we "should" do.

Dmitria's story invites us into a "pattern interrupt." She began to question the track she was on, and by using powerful but simple tools like breath, self-care, and rest, she was able to create enough space and stillness to truly see herself and discover where self-worth actually comes from. 


You can learn more about Dmitria and how she supports others through her work at: https://www.findingluminance.com/

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Karyn Seitz is known as The Happiness Mentor. 

What is happiness? And what is preventing us from being fully happy? 

Like many of us, Karyn was chasing success externally, and outsourcing her happiness to others. As she did, the void and imposter syndrome got bigger. Despite the spiritual seeking and achievements, she still didn’t feel like she was “enough.” That is, until she realized this truth. 

SHE was the problem…and therefore the solution.

In this episode:

• Why the pursuit of happiness leads to unhappiness
• Is happiness a choice?
• Releasing external validation and becoming “enough”
• Setting boundaries (including with ourselves) is an act of self-love
• Offering self-love and healthy discipline through parenting ourselves
• Why YOU are the answer you’ve been searching for your whole life 

Karyn supports others to find their version of happiness, and to have both the self-love and self-discipline to create it. You can learn more about Karyn’s work and the programs she offers at https://ahappinesscourse.com. 

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If you’ve ever been burnt out, questioned the conventional definition of success, or wondered if there is more to life than hard work, then this episode is for you.

In this episode:

• Redefining “success”
• What burnout really is
• Why we can trust our bodies to tell us the truth
• Discerning what is true vs. what is your conditioning 
• Letting our evolved standards be a filter for anything that isn’t a fit
• The temporary financial hit that can come from redesigning work 

I’m here with Dr. Victor Manzo.

Dr. Vic is a successful business owner turned business mindset coach. He’s written 3 books, all with very compelling titles I might add. He is the creator of The Mindful Experiment Podcast, ranked in the top 1% of podcasts globally on ListenNotes. He is a reiki master, who has studied many other healing arts, and even took a deep dive studying end of life at one point!

Today, Dr. Vic and I explore “success,” and the burnout that can come from chasing it. After reaching the “top,” Dr. Vic realized that he wasn’t actually happy or healthy working this way. Something had to give.

With some powerful mindset shifts, Dr. Vic was able to get clear about what was most important to him, and then redesign life + work to match those values. This shift didn’t come without a financial dip, though. Tune in to hear how Dr. Vic navigated the transition into a new mindset, and a new way of operating, and who he became on the other side… spoiler alert, he’s now tapping into quantum physics and helping others step out of the matrix!

Learn more about Dr. Vic and his work:
https://www.empoweryourreality.com/
^ here's where you can find Dr. Vic's free ebook on the power of visualization, and order your copy of his latest book, Decoding the Matrix. 

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Initiation is the process of stepping into a new version of oneself. It often involves stepping into the unknown and leaving behind a version of self that you can’t ever go back to. This can be quite terrifying. However, when these big transitions are sacredly held, we can find deep meaning and purpose as we move through the fear zone. So how do we bring the magic of initiation into business?

Each time we are promoted or enter the cultural fabric of a new company, we are initiated into a new chapter. We become a new version of ourselves, that we are meeting in real-time. But if the culture is one of “go go go” or “jump in and figure it out yourself,” we can miss all sorts of value that is ONLY available to us in those early stages of a new team member joining us. 

Fresh eyes bring fresh perspectives and vantage points that haven’t been accessed yet. New team members can see things that those too close to the problem cannot. If left to operate from old habits and assumptions, a new team member’s early enthusiasm may quickly dwindle or go towards building something that isn’t in alignment with where you want to take your company. Or worse, they may feel the neglect and generate all sorts of narratives about you and your company, eventually poisoning the well and making their way for the door. 

The first 90 days of onboarding are the most important in a new team member’s journey. How can we as leaders do the due diligence during hiring, so that we can feel like a f*ck yes to investing time and energy into the PERSON who has just joined. How can we infuse this process with appreciation and care, while setting high standards for quality and integrity in a role? How can we intelligently and empathically plug a new person into a company’s DNA?

In today’s episode, we’ll be exploring the strategic role that initiation and integration processes can bring to our businesses. That’s right y’all – we are integrating the best wisdom from our spiritual practices WITH world-class business know-how. Let’s get into it. 

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