PowerPivot

Sometimes there's a reality in the fake that isn't in the real thing. We always craft our narratives- bringing forward some details, pushing other details back. This way we tell a story that feels real, without the distraction of all of the facts that complicate the thing and make it difficult for our listeners to know what is important, and what is not. When we are careful and when we are wise and when we are skilled with the art of carving a story out of a set of facts: that's when we move the world forward.

For more on Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, look here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/97395/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/

If we all discount our own power, then we forget that if we all act together, things can change. It is now on us to alter ourselves to recognize the interdependent web that we are a part of, engaging with all of those people to ask the question: what are we going to do? How are we going to be different? Who do we know who can make an even bigger difference? How can we collectively make a bigger difference? This is all about using your power, my power, our power- for good.

Recorded September 19, 2022.

Let's talk about what it means to be an intensive. And why we need and love intensives.

Are you an intensive? Take the SIEF assessment and find out. (Or, if you already know you're an intensive, find out how much of an intensive you are.)

https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

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When I was a kid, I used to dread going to school every single morning, I'd get a little bit sick. And honestly, I thought it was normal. So when I grew up and started going to work, and it kept happening, I thought that was normal too. And it was a long time before I found out that that's not in fact, normal. And then I started my own business, and I figured that the problem would probably go away. Yeah, spoiler, it did not go away. People are unpredictable, and they bring all their emotions with them into the business relationship. And we bring all our emotions with us into the business relationship. And that, that's the part that made me nervous. Wouldn't it be great if everything was just a little more predictable? Wouldn't it be great if you could like guess better what people were going to need or want or what was going to make them mad or what was going to make them happy? With executive coaching based on the Sinha Intensives-Expansives Framework you can do that. We'll help you find just a little bit more of that predictability by understanding what your people want, what your people need, and what makes them feel good. You can better anticipate their responses and meet them where they really are, negotiate better, serve them better, and grow your business better. For more information, book a call at intensivesinstitute.com.

"I've been experimenting with the possibility that makeup does not have to be an artifice. That it can be a bold-faced statement. In the same way a shirt is. Nobody believes that the shirt is your skin."

I'm going to go a place that I've been avoiding: I'm going to talk SIEF and intensives and expansives and elections and politics.

Mentioned in this episode:

Ignorance Was Bliss

Check out the Ignorance Was Bliss podcast: http://iwbpodcast.com

Marketing authentically and speaking to the importance of personal well-being in our businesses.

More on The Lorax and the Once-ler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax

When we pour a little bit of ourselves into the world, and then we pump, we get water. But a dry pump yields nothing.

Mike Sowden's "Everything is Beautiful" Substack can be found here:

https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/

What if everybody had "I will not take it out on others" on their top priority list?

Quiet Quitting isn't really quitting at all. And if employers treated employees with dignity, we wouldn't be talking about it.

An article from In These Times on the Fed, interest rates, and how the Fed's response to inflation is "highly likely to involve some pain."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/federal-reserve-workers-pay-biden-inflation-corporations-profits-wages

We are made to be interconnected. We are made to rely on each other, which means we need other people around us. We fall down when we become too reliant on our individualism because being an individual is like being a table with only one leg.