Words like health, wellbeing and happiness are easy to roll off the tongue and often get mixed up together. How can we distinguish between them and have more of them so we run better businesses and live better lives?

When you look at your business holistically it becomes necessary to account for much more than the financial flows. We’re exploring a simple, intuitive way of accounting for the whole business, that has the capacity to generate rich information on which you can base your business decisions.

Traditional financial accounting systems pick up a part of what goes on in a business, but they don’t help us to account for the true wealth of a business or the wider impact of its activities. Integral Accounting is a way to evaluate a business on a broader spectrum of criteria to gain a more accurate and informative picture of what it’s achieving.

What happens if we look at business in a radically different way and view it as a sacred activity? How does that change our relationship with our business, with ourselves as business owners and with all the activities that are a part of daily business life?

When you start asking deeper questions about yourself and your life, it has an immediate effect on the way you do business and how you think about yourself. This week we ask the questions: Who are you? Where are you? Why are you here? What are you doing about it? What do you want? The exploration is surprising and enlightening. 

The questions you ask about your business have a powerful effect on the decisions you make. Sometimes it’s easier not to ask the bigger questions, because it’s more comfortable to keep everything going as it is, even if it’s not producing the quality of life you’d love to experience. So what might happen if you looked for a much deeper question to ask?

What are the elements of a great relationship with money? Money links with the way we work, our sense of purpose and our organisational ability, as well as the transactions that move money from one person to another. It’s very revealing to look deeply into your personal relationship with money.

Sometimes you reach a point where your current story can’t go any further. You either give up or you have to change. So what happens when that’s not just a personal experience, but when people all over the world are longing for a new narrative that promises a better life in the future?

Our guest, Tracy McNeal, CEO of Materna Medical (https://www.maternamedical.com) discusses how she successfully raised capital twice during the midst of the pandemic when others were saying it was impossible. She shares how she changed her perception of money, and how she manages her energy and uses her intuition as essential parts of doing business.

How do you draw the line between protecting and overprotecting your business? How do you find the balance between risk and creativity? And how can we fire the Devil’s Advocate forever?