Spiritual Entrepreneurship

In this episode, Devi chats with Joshua Spodek about "Leadership and the Environment." Joshua, PhD MBA, wrote the #1 bestselling Leadership Step by Step, hosts the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, is a professor at NYU, writes a column for Inc., and blogs daily at joshuaspodek.com.

He holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate. He left academia to found a venture to market an invention that showed animated images to subway riders between stations.

He teaches and coaches leadership and entrepreneurship at NYU and Columbia Business School. He has spoken at Harvard, Princeton, West Point, MIT, BCG, PwC, S&P, and IBM.

Appearing on every major network, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and more, he has been called "best and brightest" in Esquire's Genius issue, "astrophysicist turned new media whiz" by NBC, and "rocket scientist" by Forbes and ABC.

He visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, has done burpees daily since 2011 (108,000 and counting), takes 16 months to produce one load of garbage, and hasn't flown (by choice) since March 2016.

Devi and Joshua discuss:

• Joshua's inspiring journey as a leader
• His definition of leadership
• Having leadership goals
• Making BIG shifts
• What the environment means to Joshua
• Having a deep connection with nature
• How leaders work with emotions and people
• The advantage of having managerial skills as a leader
• Communicating creatively as a leader
• The feeling of making a difference
• What drives people
• Leading by example
• Being aware of the environment around you
• Interacting with nature
• Achieving greater freedom in leadership
• Joshua's choice to no longer travel by plane
• Influencing other people's belief systems
• The feeling of having an emotional reward
• Leading effectively
• Living consistently with your values
• Influencing other people through your leadership
• Acting within your values

and more...

More about Joshua:

• Connect with Joshua @ www.joshuaspodek.com
• Listen to Joshua's TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb3nwRZmKBo

In this episode, Devi chats with AnnMarie Rose about "Building a Purposeful Brand". AnnMarie Rose is a brand development expert who empowers purpose-driven creative entrepreneurs to elevate and evolve their brands so they can make a meaningful impact online while growing businesses that align with the work they're truly meant to do in the world.

After spending more than half a decade working with a wide range of clients -- from multimillion dollar international brands, to startups and solopreneurs -- AnnMarie knows the key to creating long-term business growth and success online isn't a viral video or a popular Facebook Page. It's a clear, compelling message and a streamlined brand strategy.

AnnMarie is the creator of the Brand Impact Foundation method -- a brand development framework that's helped hundreds of creative entrepreneurs gain clarity, eliminate overwhelm and take their businesses to the next level while experiencing freedom and fulfillment in the process. She also shares her best brand development insights weekly on her live YouTube show "Ask AnnMarie Rose".

Devi and AnnMarie discuss:

• AnnMarie's life story as a brand development expert
• Building a purposeful brand
• Considering a purposeful brand
• The impact that you want to make in the world
• How to grow your brand online
• Knowing that you can't read the label from inside the bottle
• Bridging two different aspects of your work
• Creating a unified brand across platforms
• Having a signature platform to share your services
• Having a social platform to engage with
• Starting conversations on Instagram
• Wearing what reflects the real you
• Consistency as an important tool in branding
• Showing the different versions of who you are on your social platform
• Being mindful of how your audience is going to receive your message
• Reflecting what people are feeling with your brand visuals
• Cross-checking the alignment of your ideas with your message
• Determining how you want your voice or message to come across
• Sharing a message that reflects your soul
• Allowing your gut to tell you if you are making a good decision or not
• Knowing that you don't need everything to be perfect
• Getting enough clarity with your message
• Starting conversations with people online

and more…

Connect with AnnMarie @ www.annmarierose.com

In this episode, Devi chats with Shanthi Yogini about "Yoga". Shanthi, International Yoga Master Trainer, is a leading exponent on the ancient science of Yoga. Her ideal students are aspiring leaders and change makers willing to liberate Yoga from being chained to mere fitness exercises and eager to develop spiritual leadership through Yoga. Shanthi offers training for independent 2-minute Yoga-practices in order to be liberated from any limitation physically, mentally, intellectually and socially, be it ill-health, depression or lack of focus. Thus her movement is called "Liberate Yoga! Liberate You! Liberate the World!"

Shanthi is #1 international best-selling author twice and a speaker who offers an eye-opening presentation of Yoga not just as a solution for life problems but as a path to live life to one's highest potential.

Shanthi, a former software engineer, comes from a lineage of Yoga Masters. She is the founder of Yoga for Happiness Academy, where students become teachers by learning the authentic, pristine and purest form of Yoga presented as a science through in-person, online and digital media.

Shanthi is also a trained classical dancer, storyteller, interactive workshop presenter, and art & culture educator. She uses story creation and story narration through dance as a means of healing past hurts of her students.

Devi and Shanthi discuss:

• Shanthi's life story and the history of Yoga
• The root of Yoga
• HowShanthi perceives Yoga
• Knowing what's separated that needs union
• Yoga means "to join" or "to unite"
• Uniting with something bigger or larger than oneself
• Feeling the union within you
• Synchronizing your body and mind
• Having the feeling of integration
• Yoga as a science
• "Asanam" as one branch of Yoga
• Learning how to breathe right with Yoga
• Utilizing all parts of your respiratory system
• How breathing is connected to your mental state
• Taking a few right breaths when you are stressed
• Learning how to calm your body with Yoga
• Learning how to breathe properly using the diaphragm
• The three chamber breath
• Working on the diaphragm when breathing
• Understanding why breath is relevant
• Yoga as a pathway to union
• Training your mind to "be with" your body
• Giving your fullest attention to your body and what you are doing
• Creating the union within us
• Training your mind to be in the present
• Letting good vibrations prevail
• Letting all your negative emotions out and being aware of the present
• Taking care of whole well-being

and more…

Connect with Shanthi @ www.yogaforhappiness.com

You can download Shanthi's book "Happiness: The Key to Success" for FREE at www.HappinessTheKeytoSuccess.com

In this episode, Devi chats with Jen Mavros about "The Paradigm and Vibration of the Business Space." Hailed by Influencive Media as "a woman you need to know because of her ability to stir your soul", Jen Mavros is a Modern Day Spiritual Messenger, Hostess of the hit podcast - The Jen Mavros Show, which is ranked one of the top Spiritual podcasts on iTunes. She is the creator of the Loving Humanity Forward movement and The Mavros Method of Manifestation - a holistic pathway into empowered living.

As a voice for Love, she's dedicated her life to helping individuals manifest their soulfully aligned desires and dreams in life and in business - so you can be inwardly aware and outwardly successful.

A student of holistic self-mastery, she is an Internationally certified and licensed Life Coach having received training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming [NLP] and is currently obtaining her Doctorate Degree in Metaphysical Science. Jen also has a comprehensive understanding of energy through her work in the Akashic Records, as a Reiki and Pranic Healing Practitioner and her studies in Metaphysics and Meditation.

For the past several years, through her soulful online courses, retreats, and 1-to-1 offerings, she has had the pleasure of having served and supported over 5900+ purpose-driven leaders, entrepreneurs, businesswomen, healers, coaches, creatives and holistic network marketers from around the world, to co-create the lives and businesses they truly desire.

Jen is looking forward to connecting with you, heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul.

Devi and Jen discuss:

• Jen's soulful story as a spiritual entrepreneur
• Learning how to be a successful spiritual entrepreneur
• Being aligned with your message
• Definition of "hustle energy"
• Being aligned body, mind, and spirit
• Understanding the whole puzzle
• Doing business with the new energy and paradigm
• Transforming your feelings and being aligned with your purpose
• Allowing your emotions to run through you
• Emotions as "energy in motion"
• Stepping forward with your authentic Self
• Embracing all of our human experience
• Creating "oneness"
• Collaboration as a foundation for your business
• Empowering marketing
• Divine energy for the new marketing
• Being in our most authentic and radiant self
• Being in the "flow space"
• Making an impact through Contribution
• Taking a stand for what you believe in
• Being more thoughtful and mindful with the whole chain of your business
• Creating a sustainable business
• Making people the priority
• The "5 D" energetic paradigm
• The definition of dimension
• Being called to a greater standard
• Being an advocate of what we truly believe in
• Listening to the voice within us
• Bridging the gap and creating awareness

and more…

Connect with Jen @ www.jenmavros.com Resources: "The Jewel of Abundance" by Ellen Grace O'Brian *** Note: this is an affiliate link on Amazon***

In this episode, Devi chats with David Shriner-Cahn about "How Individual Entrepreneurs Can Build Consistent, Stable, Revenue." David is a recognized authority on entrepreneurship, leadership development, and the host of the business podcast Smashing the Plateau. Featured in Forbes and Inc. Magazine, over 400 episodes of Smashing the Plateau offer a wealth of personal experiences and practical advice about achieving business breakthroughs.

The mission of Smashing the Plateau is helping solopreneur experts build more stable and consistent recurring revenue in their business.

David provides expert individual and team mentorship, peer support and curated educational content to help solopreneur experts do what they love and get paid what they're worth.

Devi and David discuss:

• His journey as a spiritual entrepreneur
• What it means to become an individual entrepreneur
• Being clear on your emotions
• Having an abundance mindset
• Being clear on what you love doing
• Being clear on your target market
• Figuring out what you want to do with your business
• Knowing your story
• Paying attention to your innate potential and developed skills
• Bringing out the best in your clients
• Compartmentalizing your talents
• Surrounding yourself with like-minded people
• Getting a mentor for your business
• Tips on finding the right mentors
• Figuring out where you need help
• Sharing our gifts consistently
• Building consistent revenue
• Kicking starting your own business
• Helping other people with your gifts
• Figuring out what's easiest for you to do
• Having a good financial plan for your business
• Prioritizing generating revenue
• Knowing where your generation of revenue comes from
• Knowing your definition of success
• Having metrics for success
• Doing what you love and being paid what you're worth

and more…

Connect with David @ www.smashingtheplateau.com

In this episode, Devi chats with Melinda Wittstock about "Moving from 'to-do' Lists to 'Intention' Lists." Melinda is a four-time serial entrepreneur, acknowledged influencer and visionary in all things tech and media, and an award-winning journalist and host. A passionate advocate for women entrepreneurs, Melinda's mission is to catalyze the ecosystem where women "lift as they climb" by mentoring each other, investing in each other and throwing business to each other. Melinda is the host of the acclaimed and fast-growing Wings Of... Inspired Business podcast and a growing curated community, coaching and content platform called Wings of Success. She is also the CEO and Founder of Verifeed, the social intelligence company that assures its clients a Return on Authenticity™ from social media engagement.

A meditation, yoga and visualization devotee, as well as a Maverick adventurer whose travels have taken her to many exotic places including Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island and the Amazon rainforest, Melinda is also passionate about encouraging conscious leadership and evolved enterprise company's that do well by doing good. She's a loving mom to two teenage kids and a golden retriever.

Devi and Melinda discuss:

• Melinda's journey as a spiritual entrepreneur
• Getting into the balance of your left and right brain
• Having success on your own terms
• Moving from using "to-do" lists to "intention" lists
• Turning your meditation into asking for inspiration
• Knowing that you received inspiration
• Knowing your intentions for the day
• Moving your ego to the side
• Believing in visualization
• Becoming really involved in your environment
• Setting your intention in the morning
• Creating something new as a spiritual entrepreneur
• Being present
• Practicing meditation and gratitude
• Managing the process of having a supportive team
• Predicting your success in business
• Knowing what you love to do and what only you can do
• Making sure your team loves what they do
• Being smart about hiring
• Taking things off your plate
• Finding a really good team for your business
• Being open to inspiration
• Working on something that's game-changing
• Creating value as a spiritual entrepreneur
• Dealing with sales as a spiritual entrepreneur
• Finding the right people for your team
• The first 3-steps for upscaling
• Hiring the right sales person
• Being clear on what you want
• Allowing people the chance to have initiative
• Managing your different ideas
• Setting up and measuring your KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
• Loving yourself

Connect with Melinda @ www.melindawittstock.com

In this episode, Devi chats with Jon Berghoff about "LEAF and Affirmative Inquiry". Jon is co-founder and president of Flourishing Leadership Institute [FLI]. Companies like BMW, Facebook, Google, the US Navy, Army, VISA, depend on FLI, when they need to engage the strengths of an organization towards solving a problem, building a strategic plan, or accelerated culture shaping. Learning organizations (masterminds) like MMT, YPO, Vistage, Gobundance, FRD, Quantum Leap Mastermind, and Keller Williams, have all turned to FLI to help multiply the individual and collective intelligence of their groups.

FLI is the creator of the LEAF Certification, where over 150 leaders and consultants from 15 countries have learned to facilitate conversations and collaborations of all types, utilizing the latest science in Psychology, Experiential Learning, Design Thinking, and Strengths Based Management.

Jon previously led sales at Vitamix where, in less than five years, his division organically grew revenue from $42M to $174M, and from 175 to 600 team members. His large-group facilitation has brought him to Europe, South America, Japan and Australia, and he teaches Appreciative Leadership and Emotionally Intelligent Negotiating through Executive Education at Weatherhead School of Management, at Case Western Reserve University.

Jon is passionate about connecting with nature, music, and food. He loves his family more than anything in the world - spends as much time as possible with his wife Mara, and kids Ace (8), Sierra (6), and Kaizen (3).

Devi and Jon discuss:

• Jon's journey as a Spiritual Entrepreneur
• Tapping on the collective intelligence of a group
• What is LEAF and Affirmative Inquiry
• How Jon started his entrepreneurial journey
• How to accelerate the rate of strategically renewing ourselves
• Revitalizing our strategy
• Building action plans
• Having theoretical conversations about what could be possible in the future
• Ways to explore what is possible
• Realizing that it's a lot easier to "show" what a thing looks like
• Exponentially evolving the experience of your customers
• Trying to act out the future
• Regenerating your company
• Leading a community, team, or organization
• Co-creating your own set of values
• Aligning your personal values with the company values
• Finding out what people value
• Making sure that there isn't a conflict of values
• Revitalizing your set of values
• How to bring your values to life
• Recognizing another's personal values
• Designing interactions
• Generating outcomes that we want
• Facilitating conversations
• The meaning of "LEAF"
• The most effective way to create change
• How Jon came up with the rebranding of his company
• Unlocking collective intelligence
• Living inside of the conversation
• Elevating the importance of conversations
• Experiencing a glimpse of the future
• Enabling people to connect with their individual strengths
• Attracting coaches, leaders, and facilitators
• Creating change
• Giving away 100% of your intellectual property
• Creating a model for your learning community
• Empathizing with other people
• Creating solutions and healing

and more…

Connect with Jon via email @[email protected]

(Devi download) In this episode of Spiritual Entrepreneurship, we talk about the BIG SHIFTS in the "Collective" that are happening right now! Devi shares:

• How we are each being guided to move through the core wound that has brought us to the place that we are on our path and to our work as Spiritual Entrepreneurs.
• The collective calling to express our gifts together collectively in service to humanity.
• The new model of leadership that Devi is being called to and some of the shifts that she is currently going through right now.

and more... If you'd like some support from Devi on your journey of Spiritual Entrepreneurship, you can:

• Email the team @ [email protected]
• Apply to have a conversation with Devi here

Connect with Devi on her website @ deviadea.com.

In this episode, Devi chats with Joie Cheng about "The Benefits of Sharing Your Story as a Spiritual Entrepreneur." Joie, M.S.W., The Queen of Transformational Book Publishing, is passionate about helping people write and publish their books so they can make the income and impact they desire and deserve. She believes that when we share our stories we heal ourselves and we heal the world.

Joie is a Patrick Snow certified publishing coach, international best-selling author, professional keynote speaker, mentor, healer, circle facilitator, and a trained yoga teacher. She is the best-selling author of The Naked Truth: A Woman's Journey to Self-Love about her personal journey of healing herself naturally from deep depression and suicidal thoughts through self-love. Joie is a featured author in the international best-selling book Being Unapologetic and will be featured in the upcoming book Success is all B.S. She is the host of the podcast The Naked Truth Movement where she interviews guests who are willing to share inspiring stories and be vulnerable so less people feel alone.

Devi and Joie discuss:

• Joie's inspiring journey as a spiritual entrepreneur
• Sharing your own story
• Leaving a legacy through your story
• The fear of reliving what you've been through
• Joie's journey through depression and suicidal thoughts
• Connecting with your readers through your story
• The benefits of sharing your story as a spiritual entrepreneur
• Standing out through your story
• Knowing that your story makes you unique
• The importance of using your story in your books
• Deciding which story to tell
• Tips on how to share your story
• Figuring out the theme of your story
• Believing that we have a lesson to learn in each story
• Joie's biggest challenge
• Tips for people who are struggling to share their story
• Getting your story out there
• Making more money on Amazon through your audiobook
• Remembering your "why"

and more…

Connect with Joie Cheng @ www.joiecheng.com

In this episode, Devi chats with Tracy Higley about "The Serial Entrepreneur Journey as a Spiritual Entrepreneur". Tracy has been an entrepreneur since childhood, and is currently CEO of several ecommerce and logistics companies. She's also a prolific author, having written over a dozen novels and nonfiction books. She's the founder and CEO of Impactivity, which coaches entrepreneurial women to thrive by integrating business, health, and spirituality. She can be found at www.impactivity.com, and on Facebook and Instagram @impactivity.

Devi and Tracy discuss:

• Tracy's amazing journey of entrepreneurship
• The childhood experiences that led Tracy into entrepreneurship
• Figuring out how to be passionate about multiple things
• Where did "Impactivity" come from
• Tracy's wonderful business experience with her daughter
• Tracy's online e-commerce business
• Tracy's Shopify business with her daughter
• HowTracy grew her online businesses
• Getting in touch with Tracy's manufacturers
• The process of trying out a good product
• Looking out for a new product on Amazon
• Tracy's online shipping business through Amazon
• Being aligned with your goals
• Tracy's journey as a writer
• Focusing on what we want to do in life and in our business
• Being intentional about understanding yourself and what works for you
• Knowing that you are built differently and uniquely
• Selecting a team for your business
• How to know when to bring a new person on
• Knowing that everyone work on things differently
• Balancing family life and work life
• Stopping comparing yourself to other people
• Feeling grounded within your faith
• Understanding yourself better
• Starting to believe that there's a power outside of yourself
• The true power to serve
• Tracy's daily routine to create more balance
• Organizing your emails

and more…

Connect with Tracy @ www.impactivity.com