The Boundary Breakers Collective Talk Show

Welcome to the Boundary Breakers Collective podcast! Join host Helena Demuynck as she engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Radical Curiosity Coach Kimberly Jurgen. Kimberly, a seasoned career coach and former actor, shares her insights on the power of curiosity and its role in breaking boundaries and fostering personal growth.

• Curiosity Warriors: Kimberly defines "curiosity warriors" and discusses how living with curiosity can break societal boundaries and enhance decision-making.
• Introversion and Visibility: Kimberly shares her journey as an introvert and how curiosity fuels her ability to engage and connect with others.
• Self-Curiosity: The importance of understanding personal boundaries, recognizing the need for self-care, and honoring one's feelings.
• Curiosity as a Growth Tool: How curiosity combats a fixed mindset and encourages exploration, dialogue, and open-mindedness.
• Curiosity in Personal Life: Kimberly's personal stories of how curiosity has shaped her career and helped her navigate life's challenges.
• Curiosity in Business: Practical advice on applying curiosity to improve leadership, sales, and business growth.

• Cultivating Curiosity: Start small by questioning daily routines and choices. Be open to exploring new possibilities.
• Curiosity with Family: Engage in open-ended questioning with family members to foster deeper connections and understanding.
• Business Applications: Use curiosity to reframe sales approaches and business strategies, focusing on authentic engagement and empowered decision-making.

• "Curiosity is a great antidote to a fixed mindset."
• "You become more brave, the more curious you are."
• "Curiosity means you're okay with whatever answer you may get."

Explore more about Kimberly's work and her approach to curiosity:

• Website: https://kimberlyjurgen.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberly_jurgen/

Stay curious and continue breaking boundaries! We hope you enjoyed this episode and invite you to explore the world with an open mind.

Our guest today is Kira Leskew, a meditation master with over 25,000 hours of practice. She's also a former top-five world's master swimmer and serial entrepreneur. Kira specializes in teaching high-performance mind meditation to maximize focus, intuition, and decision-making.

In this episode, we dive into why meditation is essential for leadership and high performance in today's stressful world. Kira explains how meditation not only calms stress but also activates higher brain functions like creativity and focus. She shares techniques for gaining insights and setting priorities through meditation, and debunks the myth that meditation is just for relaxation.

Kira emphasizes that there are over 70 different styles of meditation, ranging from spiritual practices to those focused on awareness and stress reduction. For beginners, she recommends starting with stress reduction techniques before moving on to more advanced practices.

We discuss how meditation can benefit leaders by helping them handle different perspectives, evaluate their motives, and make better decisions. It also improves time management by enhancing prioritization skills and preventing overwhelm. Kira shares examples of her students increasing productivity while working less, proving that meditation can lead to extraordinary results with less effort.

For overachievers, Kira offers valuable advice on embracing rest and efficiency for sustained success. She reminds us that rest is a crucial part of high performance and training, encouraging listeners to focus on outcomes rather than time spent working.

To help listeners get started, Kira provides tips for beginning a meditation practice. She suggests committing to daily practice and learning proper techniques, noting that it may take 6 to 12 months to work up to high-performance mind meditation.

As a special gift to our audience, Kira offers a quiz on morals and a self-evaluation on stress levels. You can access this quiz in the comments section of this episode.

We encourage you to explore meditation practices and consider incorporating them into your daily routine. Don't forget to share your thoughts and experiences with meditation in our Boundary Breakers Collective community.

Thank you for tuning in to another insightful episode of the Boundary Breakers Collective Talk Show!

PS: Get the free Morals Checklist for High Performance Mind here: https://theeagleinstitute.com/high-perform-mind-traits

📍 Welcome back to the Boundary Breakers Collective Talk Show. In our first episode, I shared my origin story. But for any venture to be truly impactful and sustain challenges, you need more than an idea - you need a compelling why. So for our second episode, I'm diving into my purpose and what drives me each day.

As Maya Angelou said, people will forget what you said and did but never how you made them feel. I want our discussions to inspire feelings of positivity, motivation, and possibility. My why stems from a belief that we all have untapped potential, just waiting to be uncovered.

So often we impose our own limitations without realizing it, telling ourselves we aren't capable before even trying. Meanwhile, the world constantly bombards us with narrow messages about acceptable roles, careers, behaviors, and more. Women especially are faced with restriction after restriction about what we're supposed to do or what's deemed possible.

But I reject this type of restricted, risk-averse thinking. In my experience, true progress happens when we let go of artificially constructed boundaries. When we ignore narrow expectations and instead dare to fully be ourselves without apologies. That's when we blow previous structures wide open and create new opportunities.

I believe the boldest achievements arise from those unafraid to color outside prescribed lines. Those willing to take chances and follow their joy, intuition, and visions regardless of convention or safety. My drive comes from empowering others to access untapped gifts, see past perceived limitations, and have the courage to design boundaryless lives on their own terms.

I want to spread the belief that when we embrace roles as disruptors and mavericks, there are no limits. I recall naysayers who doubted my early entrepreneurial journey but their lack of faith only strengthened my resolve. I was determined to prove disruption could lead to boundless rewards.

While early days were challenging, pushing through adversity has given me so much - it taught me grit, resilience, and what we're capable of when we refuse to take no for an answer. Now I love coaching boundary breakers and playing a role in their growth, knowing I can light that same fire of reinvention in women worldwide. It's what keeps me energized each day to cultivate more disruption.

I hope these discussions ignite inspiration in all of you to keep challenging conventions. Get involved in our growing community by introducing potential guests - if you know anyone making waves through disruption, please email me their details at [email protected]. You can also apply to share your own boundary-pushing story as a future podcast guest by emailing me. This is only the beginning of our journey together to spark positive change through barrier-breaking conversations. Thank you for listening and I can't wait to bring more empowering discussions your way.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Boundary Breakers Collective podcast. Host Helena Demuynck shares her origin story - how experiences as an entrepreneur and coach inspired this platform to amplify female disruptors.

Helena discusses always being ambitious and driven to forge her own path. As a young entrepreneur, she learned resilience while growing her business and found fulfillment in problem-solving. She began advising ambitious women, seeing her younger self in them.

This led Helena to her work as a transformation guide, helping women uncover their purpose and potential. She explores approaching life and work from a place of fulfillment rather than scarcity. Inspired by disruption happening under the surface as women reinvent, the podcast was created to shine a light on rebels, mavericks and pioneers - women willing to color outside lines.

Each episode will feature empowering discussions on pushing past barriers and achieving more than imagined. Helena hopes to provide inspiration and strategies to help listeners step boldly into their power and purpose.

This launch shares the podcast's mission to amplify disruptors and unleash unlimited potential. Listeners are invited to subscribe and get involved by recommending innovators or sharing their stories.

Email [email protected] to introduce a guest, apply to be a guest, or recommend someone. Thank you for tuning in - now go spark disruptive conversations of your own!