The Next Level

To show up fully as leaders, it's essential to know thyself. Knowing your triggers, what trips you up, along with your strengths and being emotionally intelligent is what will create strong and compassionate leaders.

Jenna Phillips Ballard began her career in 2006 as a certified personal trainer and life coach for celebrities and has been featured on Dr. Phil and The Doctors. Halfway through her career, she realized that she had a bigger calling. She's on a mission to motivate and inspire as many people as possible to become leaders and make this world a better place.

Jenna wants everyone to truly fall in love with themselves, because Self Love will heal this planet. She discovered the power of Self Love when she made a full recovery from brain damage after waking up from a coma in 2000. Her commitment to making a full recovery depended solely on how she thought of herself, and she realized that her purpose is to empower others to break through their limiting beliefs and create an unforgettable life.

In 2016, she cofounded Ascension Leadership Academy with her husband and together they have coached hundreds of people into their greatness. She is also the founder of Unicorn University - an online membership community where women never spend another day being beige, broke, or behaved.

Today we'll dive into leadership, emotional intelligence, overcoming low self-worth, and knowing your triggers.

In this episode you'll learn

• How Jenna recovered from a traumatic brain injury despite the doctors grim diagnosis
• Why living in another country can give you a completely different perspective on how other people live
• Jenna's definition of emotional intelligence
• How to respond and not react to your emotions
• Cultivating a strong and loving relationship with your ego
• How Jenna overcame her low self-worth, and how she continues to keep it in check
• Why seeking approval can control how you choose what you do
• And MORE…

Blame… oh righteous indignant blame. Pointing the finger is easy, and you know what, the more you practice the more you tend to do it.

There are many subtleties to blame. Versions of blame that are quiet and others that are big and ugly.

There's those passing moments where you can just toss it away, like it never happened. A driver cuts you off in traffic and you erupt for a moment. It's the rain's fault that you can't do what you wanted to do today. Your partner left all the dirty dishes in the sink before leaving for work and you come home to a mountain of filth. The salt is not in it's usual spot in the kitchen and you're sure it was your kid.

Then there's big ass ugly blame. This shows up and owns you. It finds the override switch and your intense anger, rage, sadness, despair… it's all someone else's fault, and in some cases, rightfully so. A physical assault or a legitimate injustice. Or at work, a team member dropped the ball on a project causing you time and money...

As entrepreneurs, artists, and transformational leaders, we often think we can do it all. But just because we can doesn't mean it's our best use of time or that it will lead us down the path of fulfillment and greater creativity and expression.

Before her son Kingston was born transformational leader, entrepreneur, and humanitarian Alexi Panos had her hand in every aspect of her business. With the arrival of a newborn, Alexi quickly realized that pioritizing was at the top of the list and with a few choices slashed her working hours from 80 to nearly 20 a week.

A leader in the Emergent Wisdom movement, Alexi Panos was named as one of INC's magazines TOP 10 ENTREPRENEUR'S CHANGING THE WORLD, one of Origin Magazines TOP 100 CREATIVES CHANGING THE WORLD, and is a featured expert in the films THE ABUNDANCE FACTOR, RISEUP and AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR. As a bestseller, Alexi has authored the books 50 WAYS TO YAY! and NOW OR NEVER, both by Simon & Schuster.

Today we'll dive into some of the strategies she's implemented to Work LESS and LIVE MORE and even some of the things that get in the way and how she works through them.

In this episode you'll learn

• How to see where your best use of time is in your business
• How to craft your day that works for you especially if a morning routine is not your thing
• How to be solution oriented when it comes to navigating conflict
• Some ways to continually step out of victim mentality and into personal accountability
• The difference between blame and responsibility
• What 100% responsibility really means and how to make it useful
• Why responsibility is empowering
• And MORE…

In The Beauty Diet: Unlock the Five Secrets of Ageless Beauty form the Inside Out, internationally acclaimed nutrition and natural beauty expert David Wolfe distills the five factors that lead to exceptional, lasting beauty.

David 'Avocado' Wolfe is the rock star and Indiana Jones of the superfoods and longevity multiverse. The World's top CEOs, ambassadors, celebrities, athletes, artists, and the real superheroes of this planet—Moms—all look to David for expert advice in health, energy, peak performance, beauty, herbalism, nutrition, and chocolate!

David is the author of many best-selling books, including: The Beauty Diet, The Sunfood Diet Success System, Naked Chocolate, Amazing Grace, Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future, Chaga: King of the Medicinal Mushrooms and Longevity NOW. He has also appeared in numerous breakthrough documentaries and films including: Food Matters, Hungry for Change, GMOs Revealed and Discover the Gift.

His Facebook page (www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe) and Facebook videos and posts reach millions of people each week around the world with succinct powerful inspirational quotes, news, health information and education. David's Facebook fan-base is over 12 million strong, making his influence one of the most widely commented, clicked, and shared in the world. David is also the co-developer of one of the world's leading kitchen appliances: the NutriBullet™.

If you're still feeling the slow sluggish nature of winter as we are shifting seasons, the cleanse and recipes outlined in The Beauty Diet are a great way to hit the reset button and bring back that healthy looking skin for the summer.

Today we'll unpack what David presents in his new book The Beauty Diet and how to begin eliminating toxins and focus more on detoxification instead of just nutrition.

In this episode you'll learn

• How the organic standard has changed over the years and what to look for when it comes to food
• What toxins are and why cleansing for beauty is the only way
• How plastics and BPA's act as hormone mimickers
• The difference between foreign toxins and metabolic toxins
• How detoxification is more important than nutrition for longevity
• When is the best time to cleanse
• Where to start with cleansing
• Some places to start with superherbs
• How to add more superfoods into your diet
• How to start restricting calories and add in more liquids
• How to cleanse with charcoal
• and MORE…

If you look at nature, every organism has it's role. In modern times, we've become the exception.

From early on, we are taught to conform, to blend in. After starting over at zero financially, after what many would consider a failed acting career, Adam Roa experienced a series of events that eventually led him to the moment of enough is enough. He started to carve his own unique path.

Since then he has gone on to become an artist, creator, and an inspiration in helping to assemble the new paradigm.

In this episode you'll learn

• What it took for Adam to start calling himself a coach even though he was already actively coaching
• The role of plant medicine in Adam's transformation
• What coaching and mentorship can do to change your life
• The big distinction between awareness and taking action
• How money is only a small part of the goal and what to aim for
• Understanding achievement and fulfillment
• How we assign value and meaning to different goals
• The lessons nature and its symbiotic relationships can tell us about our purpose
• What it means to reconnect with our own unique code and insticts
• Realizing the importance of all roles... leaders and supporters

In the spirit of switching things up, I thought it would be fun to turn the tables and unpack some of my coaching experience with Lauren Zander.

Lauren was on the show back on episode 069 to talk about her book Maybe It's You, and today she is back to help unpack a little bit about the coaching process and what doing the work really means.

Before this interview I had a coaching session with Lauren and let me tell you... it was no joke. It was rather enlightening actually and I learned A LOT about myself, my life up until now, and some things I had no idea were operating in the background.

It all started with the HW I did for the session. I was super intimidated at first when her assistant let me know that it would take about 8 hours to complete... 31 pages later, I not only realized a ton about my life, but I actually realized I really like writing.

Today we are going to unpack some of our session together, what I discovered working with Lauren, the power of integrity, unraveling what haunts us and so much more.

In this episode you'll learn

• Why we tend to pick coaches that are the opposite frequency of what we need
• The real work that's required with an iron clad system of coaching
• Some of the investigation that's required to uncover the truth about your personal history and contributing factors
• What hauntings are and how to start unraveling them
• How a swift kick in the ass was exactly what I needed but up until now was avoiding
• The difference between what you get out of a book and what can happen when you work with a coach
• The importance of metrics and measurements in defining a successful day
• and MORE…

David Burkus is a best-selling author, a sought after speaker, and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University. His forthcoming book, Friend of a Friend, offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. He's delivered keynotes to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and the future leaders of the United States Naval Academy. His TED talk has been viewed over 1.8 million times and he is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review.

In this episode you'll learn

• Why David calls himself a recovering academic
• Why you need to understand the unifying principles of how networks work and not just master your elevator pitch
• How most people find networking dirty and what to do instead
• The biggest mindset shift to see your network as something you exist in, not something you do
• What are Weak and dormant ties, and why they can be more valuable than your close ties
• Why thinking of people in a work context through more of a friend context can be helpful
• How there can be a great divide between personal and business and how to bridge that gap
• How the shared activities principle can result in a foundation for a deeper connection with new people
• Some useful conversation starters, and one David learned from Lewis Howes
• and MORE...

With a fast rate of change and the pace at which we as individuals are evolving and society as a whole, turning the lens inward and cultivating inner strength is a venture worth pursuing if you want to be equipped to handle life's challenges and develop true self-reliance.

My guest today, Rick Hanson, was on the show back on episode 059 to talk about his book Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom, and the work he does around understanding the natural tendencies of the brain and how to leverage that knowledge combined with practical neuroscience to create change.

Today Rick is back on the show to dive into his book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. This book dives into the principles Rick teaches in his online course, Foundations of Well-Being, which has been practiced by around 15,000 students. It's a deep dive to building 12 inner strengths, which became the basis of this book.

Resilient hits the shelves tomorrow March 27th and is already #1 in New Releases on Amazon.

In this interview we will unpack some of the key distinction in Resilient and what it means to cultivate inner strengths while getting your needs met.

In this episode you'll learn

• The true essence of self-reliance
• Why positive psychology is missing a few key pieces and where resilience bridges that gap
• The 3 Fundamental Needs - safety, satisfaction, and connection
• Achieving well-being through recognizing, resourcing, regulating, and relating
• Facing challenges while experiencing our needs being met vs. faces challenges while experiencing are needs not being met
• Why stress, uneasiness, panic and suffering can become a way of life for people and how they use it to meet their needs
• The fundamentals of what Rick calls the Red Zone and the Green Zone
• The difference between reacting and responding to adversity and meeting the next moment already feeling full and balanced inside
• and MORE...

It's pretty tough to deny the fact that we are influenced by unseen forces, energies and frequencies that we can't fully explain or describe from the rational mind. Frequencies, energy, and even emotion are an experience.

Giving more attention to how we feel and tending to our personal vibration and choosing to come from what Penney calls our home frequency is what I would consider a direct translation of what it means to be your authentic self, or that eternal aspect of you.

Penney Peirce was on the show at episode 120 to talk about her book Transparency and this particular stage in the Transformation process. Today we are going to come back around to understand another one of the stages of transformation through Penney's book Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration.

Penney unpacks and builds some powerful distinctions in here to help us understand what frequency is, different ways to regulate our personal vibration (especially in social situations where we may "assume" the frequency of others), and the importance of finding our home frequency and center.

Through mindfulness practices, meditation, and directing our attention, just to name a few, we can start to bring our awareness to more subtle levels of energy and tap into things like intuition, creativity, and even more peaceful states.

The desire for people seeking more meaning in their lives, have more fulfilling careers, and searching for a deeper purpose are just a few of the ways this desire to integrate the physical and the spiritual are starting to not only emerge, but be the norm.

In this episode you'll learn

• How energy and consciousness works and what is happening on the planet
• The difference between your personal vibration and your home frequency
• How we tend to frequency match other people in social situations
• What makes our moods and energy levels swing and how to get more centered
• Some ways we can start to familiarize ourselves with our home frequency
• What you can do to strengthen your sense of self
• Where Frequency and Transparency come together
• Understanding natural joy and your conditioned feeling habits
• and MORE…

I invited Sarah Sherwood back on the show today to talk about adult attachment theory and adult attachment styles. I'm relatively new to attachment theory, but the little I have dug into it helped me start understanding my own patterns of relating and why they exist.

The basic understanding of this theory is that how you regulate and experience yourself is in some ways a product of how you learned to relate with your primary care givers. We develop patterns of engaging with other people and relating based on whether or not our needs were being met and whether or not the world felt safe.

As you'll hear Sarah talk about, we develop behaviors from that experience to relate with other people to ensure we get what we need.

In this episode you'll learn

• How each of us have these biologically wired in patterns of relating
• Our most driving need is connection with other humans and how that helps us understand our sense of safety
• How these styles get patterned into our nervous system
• The 4 Attachment styles
• How our emotional needs getting met or not greatly impacts our attachment style and patterns of relating
• The relationship between attachment style and healthy boundries
• How anxiety and distraction could possibly stem from these attachment styles
• A mantra for parents is perceptive over perfect
• Having a balance between chaos and rigidity in parenting
• Practicing affective communication and vulnerability in safe relationships are some of the biggest places to start