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It’s been a quarter of mayhem, and as I take a restock of where I stand, I’m excited to share all of the things we have been accomplishing.
First, we did Not a Webinar with Bess Freedman, launching the new program to provide candid insights from executives that are rocking the new economy.
Right after, I was off to Northern Ireland, where I had the privilege of speaking at TedX Downpatrick, at the incredible St. Patrick’s Centre.
The speech was focused on Personal Accountability, and how we have an obligation to ourselves to prepare for change, even when we don’t know what change is coming. The speech, only 12 minutes in length, gives a framework of reflective questions to help us get along.
More on the podcast, but it goes without saying that some things are crazy right now. It’s up to each of us individually to lay down the bed we lie in.
Enjoy the week!
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Welcome to Bellwether. Thank you for joining again this week. We are on episode 118. Back at it, it’s been a busy quarter, and now that’s all behind us and I’ve got so many updates and so many good things to talk to you about. And, uh, today I want to talk about two things. One, I just recently did a TED Talk, TEDx down Patrick. Um, so I’m gonna tell you a little bit about that and the lessons I learned from doing that.
0:31
Um, and also a little bit on personal accountability, which is kind of what the TED Talk was about, um, in one aspect, but then was also in in terms of others. So it’s been a bit busy. Few weeks if you haven’t been following or if you haven’t been following, I’ll, I’ll give a quick recap. We had our first, not a webinar with Best Friedman.
0:51
It was awesome. Um, she’s an absolute rockstar, so if you haven’t checked that out, check it out. It’s online. We did a live stream.
0:58
We had an in-person audience. The reason I did that, not a webinar, we’ve got seven more that are gonna be queued up, um, is that I’m so tired of the webinars being inundated by webinars that, um, I, I half joke, I say it partly in jest, but they’re just not good. You know, we’re inundated with these webinars. So I wanted to create an event, um, with just real talk from people who are doing really good things and that’s what not a webinar is all about. And so, uh, Bess really lived up.
1:26
She set a very high standard for the rest of the guests. They’re gonna be very cool. They’re gonna be announced soon. The week after that, I was on a plane over to Northern Ireland, um, which was amazing.
1:38
It started in Belfast. And, and the reason I went over there, I was invited to speak at the TEDx event in down Patrick in Northern Ireland, which is a little bit south of Belfast. Um, had an amazing time at Belfast. Got some nice tours of, of community centers, and we had this great dinner and, and I met some really good people.
1:56
And, um, amazing. You, if you’ve heard the podcast before, you know, my love affair with Belfast and how much I love Belfast and, and how I think it’s one of the coolest cities out there. Um, I, I’d almost call it like the Brooklyn of Europe . Um, it’s just so cool, uh, and it’s done amazing things and great, amazing things are coming out of it.
2:15
But the TED Talk, if you’ve ever wanted to do a TED Talk or if you’re ever interested in kind of how the sausage is made, um, Catherine Muran was the, the curator, they call them curators of people who put it on. And it’s a series of speeches. Um, and there are crazy rules on the speeches in terms of what you can speak on and, and how to get approved and, and there’s time limits in all kinds of, of stuff. Uh, it was at an amazing place called the St. Patrick’s Center in down Patrick in county down. Um, it’s just below the down cathedral. It’s this center where if you go around the back, St.
2:54
Patrick’s actually buried there, which is neat. So I gotta see St. Patrick’s grave, which is, you know, I I, you’d be hard pressed really to find a, a more famous saint. So that’s kind of cool. Um, also in that same grave as, as St. Bridget, who’s the other patriot saint of Ireland. Um, and it was just this cool center just on the history of St.
3:11
Patrick. And you could learn all about St. Patrick and all this good stuff, but they had this nice little theater TEDx events. My understanding is that it’s limited to only a hundred people in the audience, which was a perfect size, I think. I think that’s a really good, uh, a really good thing. And, and so eight speakers, I wanna say eight speakers, great topics. Um, everything from a, a woman who started an Irish dance school to an accountant who teaches people accountancy.
3:38
Uh, but he, he’s also really told his personal story with his family and, and how much he loves his local area is really of a historian. Um, other coaches spoke a, um, a disability advocate spoke. She had an incredible kind of perspective in terms of what our assumptions are in terms of what’s appropriate for just the way we structure things from, from an architectural standpoint and, and how we think about people with disability. And so the, the talks that are gonna be coming out are meaningful, and I think people will get some really good, really good tangible aspects out of it. What I spoke, the, the title of the speech is Thriving Amid Constant Change, A Personal Accountability Framework.
4:21
And it’s just my jam. It’s like, how do you prepare for change when you don’t know what change is coming? And macro change requires a focus on the micro individual, and it’s what the book Adapting Emotion was all about and incredibly relevant today, especially as we look at AI and the massive amounts of change that are coming through. That’s really what I jumped on, is we’re so focused on the change externally that we’re never really focused on what we can control, what we can, what our responsibility is to ourselves, um, and the personal accountability of taking care of ourselves so that we’re best able to prepare for whatever change comes, like things like AI or, oh, I don’t know, pandemics and, and whatever else. And so I walked people through the framework that I’ve done on the podcast before, but I added in a few extra, uh, quick stories why I quit drinking, and, um, uh, a good story at the end that people really love. And I’ll talk a little bit about how I met my future self, which was a little wild. Um, and just walking them through the physical aspect of what’s so important for, you know, as we prepare for change and get ready for whatever change is coming, we have this obligation to ourselves that we never really take the obligation for ourselves. We’ll do anything for other people, but we never do anything for ourselves in order to make ourselves in this healthy selfishness type of way.
5:37
And so the focus on the physical, of course, the diet, fitness, sleep, we all know it, we ignore it, but it it’s one of those things that we have to focus on. What are we eating? Are we eating the right things? Um, how are we active every day? And get some sleep, get that good sleep.
5:53
But beyond the physical, the fun stuff is the, the mental preparation, the self-love. How can anyone be satisfied in life if they’re not satisfied with the one person they can never be separated from? Um, and finding satisfaction with ourselves. And that takes work, a lot of work all the way to self-care. And that’s where, ...
By Jim Frawley, Bellwether4.6
1212 ratings
It’s been a quarter of mayhem, and as I take a restock of where I stand, I’m excited to share all of the things we have been accomplishing.
First, we did Not a Webinar with Bess Freedman, launching the new program to provide candid insights from executives that are rocking the new economy.
Right after, I was off to Northern Ireland, where I had the privilege of speaking at TedX Downpatrick, at the incredible St. Patrick’s Centre.
The speech was focused on Personal Accountability, and how we have an obligation to ourselves to prepare for change, even when we don’t know what change is coming. The speech, only 12 minutes in length, gives a framework of reflective questions to help us get along.
More on the podcast, but it goes without saying that some things are crazy right now. It’s up to each of us individually to lay down the bed we lie in.
Enjoy the week!
Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings.
Welcome to Bellwether. Thank you for joining again this week. We are on episode 118. Back at it, it’s been a busy quarter, and now that’s all behind us and I’ve got so many updates and so many good things to talk to you about. And, uh, today I want to talk about two things. One, I just recently did a TED Talk, TEDx down Patrick. Um, so I’m gonna tell you a little bit about that and the lessons I learned from doing that.
0:31
Um, and also a little bit on personal accountability, which is kind of what the TED Talk was about, um, in one aspect, but then was also in in terms of others. So it’s been a bit busy. Few weeks if you haven’t been following or if you haven’t been following, I’ll, I’ll give a quick recap. We had our first, not a webinar with Best Friedman.
0:51
It was awesome. Um, she’s an absolute rockstar, so if you haven’t checked that out, check it out. It’s online. We did a live stream.
0:58
We had an in-person audience. The reason I did that, not a webinar, we’ve got seven more that are gonna be queued up, um, is that I’m so tired of the webinars being inundated by webinars that, um, I, I half joke, I say it partly in jest, but they’re just not good. You know, we’re inundated with these webinars. So I wanted to create an event, um, with just real talk from people who are doing really good things and that’s what not a webinar is all about. And so, uh, Bess really lived up.
1:26
She set a very high standard for the rest of the guests. They’re gonna be very cool. They’re gonna be announced soon. The week after that, I was on a plane over to Northern Ireland, um, which was amazing.
1:38
It started in Belfast. And, and the reason I went over there, I was invited to speak at the TEDx event in down Patrick in Northern Ireland, which is a little bit south of Belfast. Um, had an amazing time at Belfast. Got some nice tours of, of community centers, and we had this great dinner and, and I met some really good people.
1:56
And, um, amazing. You, if you’ve heard the podcast before, you know, my love affair with Belfast and how much I love Belfast and, and how I think it’s one of the coolest cities out there. Um, I, I’d almost call it like the Brooklyn of Europe . Um, it’s just so cool, uh, and it’s done amazing things and great, amazing things are coming out of it.
2:15
But the TED Talk, if you’ve ever wanted to do a TED Talk or if you’re ever interested in kind of how the sausage is made, um, Catherine Muran was the, the curator, they call them curators of people who put it on. And it’s a series of speeches. Um, and there are crazy rules on the speeches in terms of what you can speak on and, and how to get approved and, and there’s time limits in all kinds of, of stuff. Uh, it was at an amazing place called the St. Patrick’s Center in down Patrick in county down. Um, it’s just below the down cathedral. It’s this center where if you go around the back, St.
2:54
Patrick’s actually buried there, which is neat. So I gotta see St. Patrick’s grave, which is, you know, I I, you’d be hard pressed really to find a, a more famous saint. So that’s kind of cool. Um, also in that same grave as, as St. Bridget, who’s the other patriot saint of Ireland. Um, and it was just this cool center just on the history of St.
3:11
Patrick. And you could learn all about St. Patrick and all this good stuff, but they had this nice little theater TEDx events. My understanding is that it’s limited to only a hundred people in the audience, which was a perfect size, I think. I think that’s a really good, uh, a really good thing. And, and so eight speakers, I wanna say eight speakers, great topics. Um, everything from a, a woman who started an Irish dance school to an accountant who teaches people accountancy.
3:38
Uh, but he, he’s also really told his personal story with his family and, and how much he loves his local area is really of a historian. Um, other coaches spoke a, um, a disability advocate spoke. She had an incredible kind of perspective in terms of what our assumptions are in terms of what’s appropriate for just the way we structure things from, from an architectural standpoint and, and how we think about people with disability. And so the, the talks that are gonna be coming out are meaningful, and I think people will get some really good, really good tangible aspects out of it. What I spoke, the, the title of the speech is Thriving Amid Constant Change, A Personal Accountability Framework.
4:21
And it’s just my jam. It’s like, how do you prepare for change when you don’t know what change is coming? And macro change requires a focus on the micro individual, and it’s what the book Adapting Emotion was all about and incredibly relevant today, especially as we look at AI and the massive amounts of change that are coming through. That’s really what I jumped on, is we’re so focused on the change externally that we’re never really focused on what we can control, what we can, what our responsibility is to ourselves, um, and the personal accountability of taking care of ourselves so that we’re best able to prepare for whatever change comes, like things like AI or, oh, I don’t know, pandemics and, and whatever else. And so I walked people through the framework that I’ve done on the podcast before, but I added in a few extra, uh, quick stories why I quit drinking, and, um, uh, a good story at the end that people really love. And I’ll talk a little bit about how I met my future self, which was a little wild. Um, and just walking them through the physical aspect of what’s so important for, you know, as we prepare for change and get ready for whatever change is coming, we have this obligation to ourselves that we never really take the obligation for ourselves. We’ll do anything for other people, but we never do anything for ourselves in order to make ourselves in this healthy selfishness type of way.
5:37
And so the focus on the physical, of course, the diet, fitness, sleep, we all know it, we ignore it, but it it’s one of those things that we have to focus on. What are we eating? Are we eating the right things? Um, how are we active every day? And get some sleep, get that good sleep.
5:53
But beyond the physical, the fun stuff is the, the mental preparation, the self-love. How can anyone be satisfied in life if they’re not satisfied with the one person they can never be separated from? Um, and finding satisfaction with ourselves. And that takes work, a lot of work all the way to self-care. And that’s where, ...