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Are you curious to learn how human behavior and the law interact? Dr. Mark Levy delves into the fascinating world of Forensic Psychiatry, shedding light on the intriguing dynamics at play. Join us as we explore the riveting cases of The People vs. O.J. Simpson and The State of New York vs. Donald Trump. It’s a fascinating discussion that will make you think!
Dr. Mark Levy is a licensed clinical and forensic psychiatrist with over four decades of experience. He has degrees from Columbia University and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Levy and his team of 22 board-certified psychiatrists and 10 forensic neuropsychologists practice forensic psychiatry at Forensic Psychiatric Associates, L.P. (FPAMED.com). Dr. Levy has been retained as a forensic psychiatric expert in more than 500 civil lawsuits and related matters. He has published numerous articles and presented countless talks on forensic psychiatric topics, such as “Mental Illness In the Workplace” and “Shrink in the Courtroom: Forensic Psychiatry and Law.”
I chose to discuss the O.J. Simpson and Donald Trump cases because they spontaneously came up in our conversation. Our legal system has loopholes that get exploited. In one case, someone is guilty but found innocent. In the other, the offender was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records that kept a sordid extramarital affair from the public before the 2016 presidential election. The men accused in both cases committed the crimes.
O.J. Simpson died earlier this year on the 30th anniversary of his yearslong 1994 criminal case, The People vs. O.J. Simpson. He was found not guilty by a Los Angeles jury of the gruesome murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Just because he was found not guilty doesn’t mean he didn’t commit the crime. We discuss the role of the prosecuting attorney, the broader cultural context, and the impact of societal influences on legal cases, which can blur the facts and conceal the truth.
We taped this podcast conversation in the middle of The State of New York vs. Donald Trump trial. I asked Dr. Levy if he thinks Donald Trump is a psychopath. Dr. Levy explains the Gold Water Rule and the ethics of diagnosing people you haven’t examined. Dr. Levy gives insights into Donald Trump’s reactive and impulsive behavior and transactional focus in relationships regardless of norms or the law. Irrespective of the nation’s needs or individuals in the country, Donald Trump is focused on what is in Donald Trump’s best interest and projects onto others so whatever he accuses others of doing, it is really him who is doing it. If he calls President Joe Biden a criminal, flip it. He is talking about himself. That is what we can predict.
Two psychopath researchers give us insights into how psychopaths operate. Hervey Cleckley, in The Mask of Sanity, labels psychopaths as “grossly selfish, callous, irresponsible, impulsive, and unable to feel guilty or be able to learn from experience or punishment.” Robert Hare defines psychopaths as “social predators who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plow their way through life… violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.” If we cannot learn from our experiences, we are stunted in our capacity to grow, heal, and change with new information.
We can stop being manipulated, shamed, and traumatized by electing leaders who have the capacity to grow, heal, and change. Authentic leaders, respect the rule of law, show compassion for themselves and others, stand up for the truth with courage, and have an overall desire to make our world a better place, not destroy it.
Other highlights in our conversation to understand human behavior and the law:
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It’s your turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Guest Mentor, Dr. Mark Levy. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
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Dr. Mark Levy attended Durham University, U.K. (1965-66), and is a graduate of Columbia College (A.B. 1967), the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D. 1971) in New York, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute (1984) in San Francisco. He currently practices clinical and forensic psychiatry and has been licensed as a Physician and Surgeon since 1972 by the State of California and since 2004 by the State of Hawaii.
He was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry (1981) and Forensic Psychiatry (1999, recertified in 2009, 2019). In addition, he was certified by the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons in both Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry (2019).
He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, where he has been on the faculty since 1977 and has taught in the Law and Psychiatry Fellowship since 2000. He is also on the Faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He is the Founder, former Chairman, and President of the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis, a community service outreach organization. He is now also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Since 1975, Dr. Levy has been in full-time private practice, originally in psychiatry and beginning in the 1980s in psychoanalysis and forensic psychiatry as well. He has been retained as a forensic psychiatric expert in more than 500 civil lawsuits and related matters. He has testified in State and Federal Court on 64 occasions. He has never been disqualified from testifying as an expert by any Court in any jurisdiction where he was retained.
As a result of his service and contribution to the profession, Dr. Levy was designated a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (“DLFAPA”) and has been an active member of numerous local, national, and international medical, psychoanalytic, psychiatric, and forensic psychiatric organizations, including The American Academy for Psychiatry and the Law. He has published numerous articles and presented countless talks, both in person and via webinars, to attorneys, physicians, and the general public on a wide range of forensic psychiatric topics. He has also been interviewed regularly as an expert by the print and broadcast media, discussing psychiatric and forensic psychiatric topics of general interest.
In January 2006, Dr. Levy established Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corporation, of which he continues to serve as its medical director. In January 2020, together with his colleague, forensic psychiatrist Charles Saldanha, MD, Dr. Levy also established and serves as the medical director of Forensic Psychiatric Associates, L.P. (www.fpamed.com), a growing group of forensic psychiatrists and forensic psychologists that develop expert opinions for attorneys and Courts on behavioral issues within a broad range of civil and criminal matters. In addition, fpamed as a team specializes in assessing psychological injury claims from populations of litigants in mass tort and multi-plaintiff litigation. We have previously been retained in more than two dozen such cases.
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How prepared are you to confront your abilities and put yourself on the line in a way that generates a new revenue stream? Can you be enough, no matter the outcome? Edmond Huot answers those two questions and others.
In our first conversation, we learned that Edmond’s early years on a farm in midwestern Canada shaped his imaginative storytelling over all things relating to aviation, architecture, and illustration. The beautiful part of turning 50 is revisiting your childhood, mining what lay dormant, and resurrecting a newfound passion you can bring alive today. Edmond is stepping out of the career lane he built to bring out his ‘inner illustrative artist.’ Stepping Out of the Linear Career Lane with Edmond Huot, Part I | WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCAST
Edmond has succeeded in New York as a creative director in an NYC-based company of 20+ advertising, design, and PR firms, working for clients like Honda, TD Bank, Expedia, Singapore Airlines, Microsoft, and Kenneth Cole Fashions. In 2016, he shifted gears to focus his time and attention on revisiting his childhood passion for aviation and built a practice area in the airline space with partner and longtime friend Peter Clark. They formed an aviation-focused design firm called Forward Studio, a division of their Forward Media company.
It isn’t often that we can have friendships in our youth that evolve into business partnerships and entrepreneurial collaborators like Edmond found with his Canadian friend, Peter Clark. Through their collaboration and innovative thinking, they expanded their international airline branding and public relations studio work to include brand design, media, advertising, and special events. You can hear insights into why their partnership works.
The new twist for Edmond is overcoming the internal challenges of becoming a professional illustrative artist, where their public relations and special events will include the backdrop of his artwork and eventually feature other artists’ works. He gives a special event his signature, like the sketches he makes on thank you cards. He adds a personal touch to everything he does.
Edmond ran his concept by an aircraft manufacturer, who gave him his first green light. His description of how the special event is coming together is fascinating and a must-hear conversation if you are an entrepreneurial artist or anyone enthralled in making a living from your resources.
Below are other aspects of our conversation, which feels like a conversation just between the two of us that you secretly get to listen to:
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Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Guest Mentor, Edmond Huot. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.
As chief creative officer and founding partner at Forward Studio, Edmond Huot shares more than 25 years of experience with his clients, colleagues, and friends.
Growing up on a farm in midwestern Canada, Edmond spent countless hours lost in imaginative storytelling, obsessing over all things airliner, architecture, and design. His penchant for the dramatic and theatrical laid a formative foundation for what would eventually blossom into a career in advertising.
Edmond and his longtime friend, business partner, and entrepreneurial collaborator Peter Clark founded several companies in Canada and the U.S. In his late thirties, Edmond rose to become the creative head of a New York City-based holding company comprising more than 20 advertising, design, and public relations firms, whose clients have included Honda Cars, TD Bank, Expedia, Singapore Airlines, Microsoft Tableau, and Kenneth Cole Fashions. In 2016, he shifted gears and began focusing his time and attention on revisiting his childhood passion for aviation, building a practice area in the airline space. Today, his creative outlook and point of view touch a range of bespoke services, including brand design, PR, media, advertising, and special events.
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When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
* As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
* As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
* As a Mentor/Role Model, and
* As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!
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“As a kid growing up on a farm in midwestern Canada, Edmond Huot spent countless hours lost in imaginative storytelling, obsessing over all things relating to aviation, architecture, and illustration. His penchant for expressive design helped to lay a formative foundation for what would eventually blossom into a long career in brand advertising.” (Press Recent stories (forward-studio.co))
Edmond emerged as a creative director in a NYC-based company of 20+ advertising, design, and PR firms, working for clients like Honda, TD Bank, Expedia, Singapore Airlines, Microsoft, and Kenneth Cole Fashions. In 2016, he shifted gears to focus his time and attention on revisiting his childhood passion for aviation and built a practice area in the airline space with a partner.
Revisiting his childhood passion connected him with a longtime friend, Peter Clark, in a new way. Together, they formed an aviation-focused design firm partnership called Forward Studio. It isn’t often that we can have a childhood friendship evolve into a business partnership and entrepreneurial collaborator like Edmond found with his Canadian friend, Peter Clark. Through their collaboration and innovative thinking, they expanded their international airline branding and public relations studio work to include brand design, PR, media, advertising, and special events.
Recently, it occurred to Edmond that he could explore another dimension of himself outside of Forward Studio. In our podcast planning session, he said, “Every advertising campaign begins with sketches. I draw the sketches.” He began wondering if there was a market for his aviation drawings.
That curious question is where we find Edmond Huot in a creative space, stepping out of his linear career lane to examine the connections between art and aircraft. You will find out what he is learning.
Edmond is finding the ‘newness’ in his life transition at age 50. He is the creative director and design professional, putting himself, as the artist, on the front line. I especially love the free-flowing conversation and how Edmond explains his creative process.
He has a public relations project with a prominent aircraft manufacturer he cannot name, but he can tell us his idea and how he plans to integrate his art into a public event. It serves a dual purpose that satisfies his spiritual desires and emotional connection to his lifework.
Edmond describes the difference between commercial art and how he challenges himself as an artist, which he explores: “Commercial art doesn’t have the same virtues. Art, for the sake of art, has a greater purpose. And I believe some of our clients want to be aligned with that and not something that comes across as commercial.”
Edmond is taking the concept of “microcosms” and viewing it through the lens of airliners. He is fascinated with how untethered from the ground we are when we fly. The world is in motion and flux. “Art and aircraft have always inspired artists,” he says, explaining how artists have always been fascinated with flying and aircraft.
How do you think about your lifework through a dual purpose, as Edmond Huot describes it, or through another lens? Not only is it stimulating to ponder where spirituality, emotional connection, and pragmatism intersect with your lifework, but thinking this way can bring a deeper meaning to your work and life. DOWNLOAD
Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Guest Mentor, Edmond Huot. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.
As chief creative officer and founding partner at Forward Studio, Edmond Huot shares more than 25 years of experience with his clients, colleagues, and friends.
Growing up on a farm in midwestern Canada, Edmond spent countless hours lost in imaginative storytelling, obsessing over all things airliner, architecture, and design. His penchant for the dramatic and theatrical laid a formative foundation for what would eventually blossom into a career in advertising.
Edmond and his longtime friend, business partner, and entrepreneurial collaborator Peter Clark founded several companies in Canada and the U.S. In his late thirties, Edmond rose to become the creative head of a New York City-based holding company comprising more than 20 advertising, design, and public relations firms, whose clients have included Honda Cars, TD Bank, Expedia, Singapore Airlines, Microsoft Tableau, and Kenneth Cole Fashions. In 2016, he shifted gears and began focusing his time and attention on revisiting his childhood passion for aviation, building a practice area in the airline space. Today, his creative outlook and point of view touch a range of bespoke services, including brand design, PR, media, advertising, and special events.
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We lead by expanding an entrepreneurial leader’s capacity to lead. We mentor by collaborating with you to co-create a plan. We role model equality, inclusion, healthy relating, resiliency, wealth creation, and accountability. We value compassion, courage, and connection.
When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
* As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
* As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
* As a Mentor/Role Model, and
* As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!
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Congratulations! 2024 is upon us. Let’s use it to influence positive change for the greater good by seizing the fresh opportunities this year brings us.
I want to start by being grateful to you and the many opportunities you explored with your businesses last year. Take an inventory of your activities and accomplishments with those who helped you reach your hardest-won goals. It will increase your energy and those who helped you, validate your progress, and spur new aspirations for 2024.
I am thankful for the United States’ strong economy and the low unemployment rate. I am grateful that we have survived the hottest year in history. I am also thankful for the vulnerabilities exposed by the previous president of the United States. This has made us aware of the need to fix our executive privilege laws and apply them to all those who serve in government positions, including the highest office in the land.
Gallup.com did The Year in Review: 2023 Most Notable Findings. The trends gave me insights into how we can improve our world. One positive trend I am grateful to see is that young adults are drinking less than previous generations. With the legalization of marijuana in more states, they might be smoking more weed instead, ha! The other trends about how our attitudes are shifting, like how employees feel their employers don’t care about their well-being, are troubling.
According to the Gallup survey conducted in 2020, 47% of employees felt that their employers cared about their well-being. However, it seems that after the COVID-19 pandemic crisis was brought under control, employers became less concerned about their employees’ well-being. In the latest survey conducted in 2023, only 22% of employees felt that their employers cared about their well-being. This information is essential as it reminds us to show our employees we care about them. We need to encourage open communication about our feelings with our staff by starting with the business owner, you.
Gratitude for History Makers
Taylor Swift and Greta Gerwig stunned the world last year. I am grateful for their creative genius and entrepreneurial spirit, which they used to break national and global records. In her historical 2023 Era’s Tour, Taylor Swift broke Elvis Presley’s long-standing record of 67 weeks for most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart by a solo artist. Taylor Swift hit her 68th week at No. 1 by the end of 2023.
Greta Gerwig made history by directing the “Barbie” movie, which had over $1 billion in ticket sales. That is a first for women directors. Go, Greta!!
I recently re-watched the “Barbie” movie with my daughter, Olivia. Initially, I watched it once before with my husband, Matthew, in a movie theater, and it was fun to hear the audience’s reaction. Watching it again sparked a conversation about our different upbringings. When Olivia was young, I passed on a Barbie doll that I called Ruth, not realizing at the time that Ruth Handler was the creator of the Mattel Barbie doll. My natural attraction toward entrepreneurial leaders started early, and it was highlighted in raising Olivia.
Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken portrayed the ‘stereotypical Barbie’ and Ken’s iconic Mattel characters. The storyline is about evolving. The many Barbies and Kens showed us the matriarchy of Barbieland and the patriarchy of reality in the world of Mattel.
Barbie gave us a visual representation of her awakening into being human. She noticed her “flat feet” and the gasp of her Barbie friends when she asked if any of them thought about death. In Barbieland, everything is pleasant, beautiful, predictable, and light. There was a lot in the movie to analyze about matriarchies and patriarchies, their positive and negative impacts on culture, and even how to begin co-creating an integrated new life. Barbie encourages Ken to take time to figure out who he is outside of being Barbie’s boyfriend. At the end, they needed to learn how to be interdependent instead of co-dependent and allow each other flexibility in figuring out who they are becoming.
I’m grateful to be alive to see this next generation of trailblazers inspire us all with new thoughts and ways of being in our world. When we see trailblazers expressing their creative genius in various industries, psychological freedom feels more achievable individually and collectively.
We can engage our creative intelligence by co-creating interdependent work cultures that benefit all genders. We can be more assertive in co-creating healthy relationships and constructively unearth unconscious bias. We can acknowledge all voices in discussions as equally important. We can work side-by-side toward common goals and look for qualities of strength to build upon with co-workers, colleagues, vendors, and those we employ.
We can eliminate one-upmanship by appreciating ourselves and realizing that everyone has universal human needs and is worthy of meeting them. We can reflect this in our policies, laws, rules, regulations, agreements, and through verbal promises wherever our lives intersect with others.
Trailblazing for Fresh Opportunities
Let’s look for fresh opportunities to enhance humanity this year and blaze new trails wherever we lead. I am blazing a trail to expand equality in the bakery industry and with bread consumers.
Bread consumption has grown by 20% since 2021. The average American now consumes 53 pounds of bread per year. Part of the reason our waistlines are expanding is because of our unhealthy bread choices. We are helping grocers widen their views of what they offer and to whom.
You might be seeing how grocery chains buy more locally grown and produced foods and offer a more comprehensive selection of foods to all ethnicities. As the climate continues to change along with our demographics, so is our ecosystem. Support for local growers and producers continues to rise giving local small businesses like Midwest Bakery and its artisan bread more opportunities to flourish.
Mahomud Ali founded Midwest Bakery Inc. to make the best Halal loaves of bread and all-natural hoagie rolls in the Midwest. Halal certified means that Midwest Bakery follows the Muslim definition of Halal, ensuring their bread-baking process and ingredients are permissible under Islamic law. Through in-store hoagie demos, we are learning what I already discovered: Midwest Bakery bread items are embraced by not only those with other faith practices. All ethnicities want all-natural artisan bread items.
Yes, I am continuing to work closely with Mahomud. We are now in seven Cub Foods stores, four Kowalski’s Markets stores, and 36 other local restaurants and daycares. I will continue engaging my entrepreneurial skillsets to expand their brand, encourage leadership growth, and build a new midwestbakeryhalal.com website. It takes all hands on deck and many skills to intentionally grow Midwest Bakery Inc., or any business for that matter.
The great thing about leadership growth is that every business owner gets to choose the village of mentors to help them realize their dreams. I am fortunate to be a chosen mentor by many.
And now I end where we began. Congratulations! 2024 is upon us. Let’s use it to influence positive change for the greater good by seizing the fresh opportunities this year brings us. DOWNLOAD
Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Mentor, Nancy Meyer. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.
Nancy A. Meyer, M.A., is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader, business and life mentor/coach/teacher, podcaster, author, and certified mindfulness yoga and meditation integrator (she integrates those skill sets into everything she does). Nancy has a compassionate and collaborative approach that reinforces resilience and maintains accountable conversations that support how you redefine how you lead as you redesign your business model.
We collaborate with you to do what will work for YOU in becoming the leader you envision yourself to be! Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in our country by providing emerging and existing business owners with mentoring so they can evolve with their ventures. Nancy calls this Dual Innovation Leadership.
You can redefine how you lead as you redesign your business. We know that Dual Innovation Leadership works because Nancy has mentored thousands and is eager to work with you! Assert self-leadership and get started today!
Clients say, “Nancy is a compelling, engaging, and ‘decipher the trees from the forest’ kind of mentor, speaker, and leader. A dedicated entrepreneurial leader and mentor who role models what she preaches. Her style and candor enrich the content she delivers and the results clients experience.” Nancy accepts people where they are at while inspiring them to breakthrough to new dimensions:
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When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
* As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
* As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
* As a Mentor/Role Model, and
* As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!
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Who doesn’t love hitting a home run in business? It’s the feeling of pure excitement, accomplishment, and success all rolled into one. Achieving our goals and exceeding expectations is what every entrepreneur dreams of. Let’s dive deeper into what it takes to hit that home run and make your business the best it can be.
When you hit a home run in business, it opens the floodgates of opportunities. This was the case for one of my clients, who permitted me to share their story with you. The work began in July 2022, when their business was still finding its footing. I then met Mahomud Ali and Saido Ali Jama at an annual MEDA meeting. MEDA is an international economic development organization that creates business solutions to poverty.
The First Strategy for hitting home runs in business is to make sure you have someone you trust who has your best interest at heart to talk things through and help you clarify what you want.
Before attending the MEDA annual meeting, I discussed things with my husband, Matthew Foli, as usual. To have someone you trust to talk things through and help you clarify what you want is priceless. It takes time to get to the heart of what truly matters to you, and having someone invested in your best interest to witness your journey and provide valuable feedback can empower both of you.
I went to the annual MEDA meeting with clear intentions. I first wanted to learn more about how they are helping minority-owned businesses and how the organization is evolving. Additionally, I wanted to meet and mentor at least one business owner and connect with potential guest mentors for my podcast.
After the meeting ended, I spoke with a few people before scanning the room one last time. As I was leaving, Mahomud and Saido introduced themselves, and Mahomud mentioned that he needed help with marketing. Though I am not a marketing expert, I have been involved in marketing since 1992 and offered to meet with them to see how I could help them achieve their goals. At the very least, I could provide them with valuable resources.
Second Strategy: Understand that the Universe works on our behalf.
Even when we feel alone, we are not. There is a spiritual realm of Guardian Angels and spirit guides waiting for us to invite them to help us. The Universe collaborates to bring our dreams into reality when we know what we want. That’s why people say, “Be careful what you wish for.” Or, more commonly now, “Be mindful of your thoughts and words.”
Many times, the Universe delivers beyond our wildest dreams in unexpected ways. What we achieve at Midwest Bakery fits my understanding of how the Universe pleasantly surprises us. If this isn’t the case for you, refine what you think, say, or what you put out into the Universe. Let go of the outcomes and ensure your intentions are not from a place of fear or avoidance. The Universe keeps giving us the same lessons in different ways until we get the lesson. Permit yourself to keep experimenting with the Universe.
Third Strategy: recognize the value of your contribution to a project and negotiate from that standpoint while considering what the other party needs. This is the first step towards developing good communication skills and building solid relationships. Begin by having an honest discussion about money and showing respect for both yourself and the other person.
I met with Mahomud, and we co-created a working agreement. I left our strategy session with a healthy supply of whole wheat and white loaves of bread and hoagie rolls, which are now a staple in our household.
Initially, I hesitated to charge $300 per session, considering the costs of starting and running a business. Mahomud told me a story about when he began his first job at an auto repair shop in Boston. After a few years, he wanted to learn how to fix trucks and semis at a different auto repair shop down the street.
Mahomud met with the auto shop owner and stated his hourly rate. The owner said he wasn’t sure he could pay Mahomud’s hourly rate. Mahomud agreed to start at the rate the owner offered but told him he would expect a raise once the owner saw how good he was at fixing larger vehicles.
Mahomud’s first paycheck reflected what he had asked to be paid. This was the beginning of a great working relationship. He shared this story with me because he wanted me to know that he believed in paying people for their work and that I deserved the fee I had asked for. Mahomud pays each invoice with gratitude and often includes a tip.
Fourth Strategy: Do your best and see what happens.
We are in a world of unknowable possibilities/innovation. Give yourself room to explore. I knew intuitively that I could get a meeting at Cub Foods; I couldn’t promise what would happen afterward.
Next, Mahomud is clear that he wants to grow his burgeoning bakery. I knew that he needed help expanding outside of his current niche. He had a contact within Cub Foods but didn’t have time to follow up because Midwest Bakery is his second business, and he didn’t have time. I told him I was the country’s #1 telesales fundraiser for the Minnesota Special Olympics many years ago and would get us a meeting with Cub Foods.
A few weeks later, Mahomud, Saido, and I were bringing loaves of bread and hoagie roll samples to the new business developer at Cub Foods. I compiled a FLYER with the following background information and how Midwest Bakery has grown since I began working with them in July 2022.
Mahomud established Midwest Bakery Inc. on November 21, 2017, to provide the Somali community with healthy Halal bread options as a staple in their daily diets. In just a few years, we successfully built a commercial kitchen. We began supplying fresh loaves of bread and hoagie rolls to over 36 local immigrant-owned restaurants, coffee shops, and daycare centers.
By 2022, we expanded our deliveries to include four Cub Foods grocery stores and added four Kowalski’s Markets locations in 2023. We can make 2,000 loaves an hour, which allows us to expand to larger grocers offering healthy plant-based bread options to all ethnicities. Why not spread the love?!
Midwest Bakery Inc. is a certified Halal bread bakery, meaning the process and ingredients used to make the loaves of bread and hoagie rolls are permissible under the laws of Islam. Halal bread is bread that meets the Muslim definition of Halal, which means the bread-baking process and ingredients are permissible to eat for members of the Muslim faith and don’t contain alcohol or pork-derived products.
We were young immigrants with hopes and dreams of succeeding in this country through hard work, ambition, and business ownership. I married Saido Ali Jama in Boston, where our families had immigrated from Somalia. Eventually, we settled in Minnesota to raise our five children, a state full of opportunities. On May 9, 2008, I founded Midwest Auto Repair, Inc. From the start, we focused on providing comprehensive car repairs and towing services, which helped us build a loyal customer base. Eventually, I purchased a building on Stinson Blvd. in Minneapolis.
We realized in 2017 that we could expand further by creating a bakery in the other part of our building. Today, our building houses two successful enterprises: Midwest Auto Repair Inc. and Midwest Bakery Inc.
Our mission is to serve the needs of our local communities by fixing cars and making HALAL breads with love baked in. We are proud of our strong commitment and entrepreneurial spirit, allowing us to provide quality services that our customers trust. Our energies are on serving the everyday needs of our Minnesota communities and expanding beyond our borders.
Mahomud and Saido have lived a life of doing their best and seeing what happens. It seems to be working for them.
Fifth Strategy: Look for opportunities for both clients and yourself.
Recently, I discovered an excellent opportunity for minority business owners to win a $10,000 grant. I applied for it on behalf of Midwest Bakery Inc., and we won! We will receive the grant from Elevate Together, which recognizes the winners this week. Their win is my win. Mahomud and Saido earned this home run. Filling out the paperwork was like giving them a bat to hit the home run, and that feels awesome!
This success led me to my sixth strategy for hitting home runs in business.
Sixth Strategy: Be flexible and renegotiate terms as the work shifts, and it always does.
This strategy could lead to many business home runs. With growing businesses, flexibility is the key. Allow for flexibility in every contract you draft. Where you start with a client is not where you will end up.
Let your contract reflect your client’s needs and clarify why changing the original contract for both of you makes sense. This strategy helps you practice integrity and respect the critical work you need to do together.
I renegotiated my contract with Mahomud from hourly to monthly earlier this year. The hourly rate was hindering our work progress, so I decided to leverage my acquired skills and experience to help Midwest Bakery Inc. in a significant way. And it is working. Our work together feels like we have many more home runs in our future. I will keep visualizing.
In the spirit of flexibility, I am thrilled to share that the frequency of my podcast episodes will go from weekly to an open-ended format that allows me greater flexibility. Since its inception in January 2016, I have been producing meaningful conversations weekly, and it has been surprisingly incredible and intense and has opened my world to new opportunities. I am grateful.
When I started, only 22% of the population listened to podcasts, and most people had no idea what they were. However, over the years, the podcast industry has grown exponentially, and now 79% of the population listens to podcasts. Projections for 2024 estimate that over 100 million people will be regular podcast listeners, which is incredible!
As the industry expands, I’m excited to keep participating and contributing to it. We have already tracked over 250,000 downloads of WeMentor Mondays with Nancy, which is a testament to the show’s progress. I’m confident that my podcast will continue growing despite the frequency being less. I’m excited to see where it takes you and me!
Starting now, I will change my podcast format from weekly shows to publishing on Mondays only when I have something important to share. This new open-ended format will feature some Guest Mentors, and we’ll see where we go.
I hope you understand and continue listening when I post the next episode. I promise to continue providing meaningful conversations that will help you redefine how you lead while redesigning your business through Dual Innovation Leadership. It is possible to evolve and innovate on purpose.
The reason for the change in strategy is this. I see the opportunity with Midwest Bakery Inc. to collaborate to realize their dreams entirely. We are excellent collaborators, and as you know, it takes a great team and focused energy to achieve greatness.
This also fits with WeMentor’s mission to be part of the change you wish to make in the world. We lead by expanding an entrepreneurial leader’s capacity to lead. We mentor by collaborating with you to co-create a plan. We role model equality, inclusion, healthy relating, resiliency, wealth creation, and accountability.
We value wholehearted living and leading (compassion, courage, and grounded confidence). When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
We started with one entrepreneur and will continue to help thousands over a lifetime. Our work together will continue for those of you who are also clients. It is the podcast that I am changing, not my work with you. You know where to find me if you want to work with me. I want you to hit home runs, too!
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Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Mentor, Nancy Meyer. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.
Nancy A. Meyer, M.A., is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader, business and life mentor/coach/teacher, podcaster, author, and certified mindfulness yoga and meditation integrator (she integrates those skill sets into everything she does). Nancy has a compassionate and collaborative approach that reinforces resilience and maintains accountable conversations that support how you redefine how you lead as you redesign your business model.
We collaborate with you to do what will work for YOU in becoming the leader you envision yourself to be! Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in our country by providing emerging and existing business owners with mentoring so they can evolve with their ventures. Nancy calls this Dual Innovation Leadership.
You can redefine how you lead as you redesign your business. We know that Dual Innovation Leadership works because Nancy has mentored thousands and is eager to work with you! Assert self-leadership and get started today!
Clients say, “Nancy is a compelling, engaging, and ‘decipher the trees from the forest’ kind of mentor, speaker, and leader. A dedicated entrepreneurial leader and mentor who role models what she preaches. Her style and candor enrich the content she delivers and the results clients experience.” Nancy accepts people where they are at while inspiring them to breakthrough to new dimensions:
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When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
* As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
* As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
* As a Mentor/Role Model, and
* As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!
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“At Beyond Carnism, we believe that people need and deserve to know the truth about carnism so they can make their food choices freely—because without awareness, there is no free choice.” –Melanie Joy, Ph.D.
Dr. Melanie Joy is an award-winning psychologist specializing in the psychology of oppression and social transformation in relationships. In our discussion, she lays out a roadmap for effective relational communication, emphasizing the advantages of self-awareness, mindfulness, and allyship over adversarial attitudes. By improving our relational skills, we can contribute to ending injustice and move beyond oppression in all forms.
Dr. Melanie Joy’s latest book, How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving all Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet, is an inspiring read that captures the wisdom she acquired from her travels to 35+ countries and the practical ways we can improve interpersonal, intrapersonal, and societal relationships. If you’re committed to ending injustice, her book and this podcast conversation are a must-have for your reading and listening library.
Melanie says we communicate “because we want to share our thoughts and feelings. Our inner selves.” Melanie also says, “The more we can communicate with people in a way that they feel safe with us, the more likely we are to set an atmosphere for our message to be heard as it was intended to be heard. The more we help other people feel safe with us and recognize that we are safe people to be in relationship with, the more likely we are to create more safety and connection in those interactions.”
During our conversation, Melanie shared one of many vital insights – achieving mutual understanding is the ultimate goal of any healthy relationship. Our discussion was enlightening and affirming, and I appreciated Melanie’s surprising gesture of gratitude toward the end.
Last week, Melanie mentioned that shame and contempt can harm relationships. The antidote for both emotions is self-empathy and compassion towards others, which can help us share experiences and learn from one another.
We often only express a part of our true feelings and desires. This leaves us with unaddressed needs and unfulfilled interactions. Suppose we view our relationships and ourselves as a continuous work in progress. In that case, we can have more enjoyable interactions and be open to giving and accepting second chances until we reach a mutual understanding. This allows both parties to get clear on what they want and view the relationship as one in progress (openness) and not necessarily an end result of perfection (closed-mindedness). We make mistakes all the time when we are learning new things. Why not give each other space to evolve and change?
I learned a helpful communication technique called ‘whole messages’ from Melanie. It involves breaking down what we want to say into four parts: observations, thoughts, feelings, and needs. How she explains the four parts makes it easy for us to apply. This technique has helped me get clear on what I am feeling and what I need. Melanie also recommended reading Messages: The Communication Skills Book by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, and Patrick Fanning to learn more about this technique.
What is the common denominator that drives all injustices? We learned last week that we could root out injustices everywhere by building upon our relational literacy and understanding the psychology interwoven into nonrelational systems. Practicing integrity in our everyday interactions and honoring our dignity and the dignity of others is part of this roadmap that Melanie says points us in a relational direction.
I finish our conversation with a quote at the conclusion of Melanie’s book Ending Injustice Everywhere. She writes, “Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. This statement makes intuitive sense. And when we understand the contagious nature of unjust, nonrelational behaviors, we can truly appreciate how injustice reproduces itself, no matter where it shows up, no matter from or to whom it’s directed.
That injustice breeds injustice is why it’s so important that those of us who want to create a better world recognize the nonrelational common denominator driving all injustices. Every time we choose integrity over indignation, compassion over contempt, dignity over defensiveness–every time we avert an unjust dynamic and practice a just one instead–we’re interrupting the process of nonrelational dysfunction that’s at the root of so much suffering and harm, and we’re redirecting that process toward healing.”
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Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate Guest Mentor Dr. Melanie Joy because…
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.
Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M. is an award-winning psychologist specializing in the psychology of oppression and social transformation in relationships. She is a longtime advocate for justice and was a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, for 11 years, teaching courses on privilege and oppression, feminist psychology, psychological trauma, and animal rights. She has written seven books, including the bestselling Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, and she’s the eighth recipient of the Ahimsa Award–previously given to the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela–for her work on global nonviolence. She’s also the founding president of the international NGO Beyond Carnism. You can learn more about her work at melaniejoy.org and Who We Are | Beyond Carnism
Beyond Carnism is a US-based, international organization dedicated to exposing and transforming carnism, the invisible belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals. Beyond Carnsim was established in 2012 after Melanie published Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. This book introduced us to the term she coined, carnism.
It is worth mentioning that in the 2021 Annual Report, Melanie’s organization, Beyond Carnism, registered over 10,000 people for webinars from 88 countries, received 20 million views in one week of the video The Secret Reason We Eat Meat, and completed 50 trainings in 35 countries on five continents, expanding awareness and increasing healthy relating.
On the carnism.com website, it says, “Carnism causes extensive suffering. Animal agriculture is responsible for the unnecessary slaughter of 72 billion land animals and between one and three trillion fish and other aquatic animals worldwide per year, and it is a major contributor to environmental degradation, human disease, and human rights violations. However, the majority of people who eat animals are unaware that they are contributing to such destruction.
At Beyond Carnism, we believe that people need and deserve to know the truth about carnism so they can make their food choices freely—because without awareness, there is no free choice.”
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When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
* As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
* As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
* As a Mentor/Role Model, and
* As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!
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I am feeling reinvigorated after a six-week hiatus. I worked with more clients, wrote, and integrated some significant life events during this time. The break was well worth it, and I’m eager to bring more meaningful conversations and ideas to support the evolution of leadership that aims to improve our world.
How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving all Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet is now my go-to reference as we strive to end injustice. Dr. Melanie Joy has a unique ability to break down complex concepts into practical and easy-to-understand nuggets, helping us gain a deeper understanding of the systems we participate in on a daily basis. This knowledge can help us positively create a better world for all – humans, animals, and the planet. She is today’s guest mentor.
The work of Dr. Melanie Joy has had a significant impact on me, as indicated by the quote above. When we see the same things differently, we change our lives and how we lead.
Since learning from her teachings, I have gained a new perspective on my dietary habits and transitioned to a plant-based diet, eliminating all meat, dairy, and egg products a few months before our first podcast conversation on June 7, 2021. Melanie has helped me comprehend the psychology and invisible systems that condition us to consume certain animals.
I feel physically healthier and more in sync with my ethical values. It no longer makes sense to me to harm animals when I have committed to not hurting myself or others. Why should I consume something with eyes if I am devoted to treating all beings with kindness and respect? This is my viewpoint; it doesn’t have to be yours.
My perspective has become clearer and more relational after reading Melanie’s research, attending her webinars, and listening to our podcast conversations. Melanie is an exceptional teacher, mentor, entrepreneurial leader, and advocate. Her distinctive understanding of oppression and social transformation in relationships offers an explanation for the dysfunction in our world and provides actionable steps to address it.
I greatly admire Dr. Melanie Joy and her brave efforts in leading a worldwide movement to awaken us from our oppressive state and guide us toward a more enlightened way of relating to ourselves, other humans, animals, and the planet. She embodies integrity and demonstrates respect for the dignity of every individual, and I encourage everyone to follow her example of practicing relational literacy.
When I was introduced to Dr. Melanie Joy.
My daughter Olivia heard Melanie on Simon Hill’s Plant Proof podcast a few years ago. After purchasing a few of Melanie’s books, like Getting Relationships Right, Beyond Beliefs, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, and Powerarchy, I emailed her assistant.
In June of 2021, I interviewed Melanie in two podcast conversations. I re-aired those conversations in 2022. You can revisit those two podcast conversations in the Episode Resources at wementor.com. We discussed Getting Relationships Right in one conversation.
She helped us understand how to practice integrity and honor dignity through connection, communication, security, and compassion. Those practices require us to be mindful, compassionate, and accountable in how we listen and what we say and do.
In the second podcast conversation, we talked about Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows in the other. It was our introduction to carnism, a term Melanie coined to describe an invisible system that teaches us to eat certain animals.
Today’s conversation is focused on Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book, How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving all Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet. Her seventh and newest book captures what she has learned traveling to 35 countries.
Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate this week’s meaningful conversation with Dr. Melanie Joy because…
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.
Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M. is an award-winning psychologist specializing in the psychology of oppression and social transformation in relationships. She is a longtime advocate for justice and was a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, for 11 years, teaching courses on privilege and oppression, feminist psychology, psychological trauma, and animal rights. She has written seven books, including the bestselling Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, and she’s the eighth recipient of the Ahimsa Award–previously given to the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela–for her work on global nonviolence. She’s also the founding president of the international NGO Beyond Carnism. You can learn more about her work at melaniejoy.org and Who We Are | Beyond Carnism
Beyond Carnism is a US-based, international organization dedicated to exposing and transforming carnism, the invisible belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals. Beyond Carnsim was established in 2012 after Melanie published Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. This book introduced us to the term she coined, carnism.
It is worth mentioning that in the 2021 Annual Report, Melanie’s organization, Beyond Carnism, registered over 10,000 people for webinars from 88 countries, received 20 million views in one week of the video The Secret Reason We Eat Meat, and completed 50 trainings in 35 countries on five continents, expanding awareness and increasing healthy relating.
On the carnism.com website, it says, “Carnism causes extensive suffering. Animal agriculture is responsible for the unnecessary slaughter of 72 billion land animals and between one and three trillion fish and other aquatic animals worldwide per year, and it is a major contributor to environmental degradation, human disease, and human rights violations. However, the majority of people who eat animals are unaware that they are contributing to such destruction.
At Beyond Carnism, we believe that people need and deserve to know the truth about carnism so they can make their food choices freely—because without awareness, there is no free choice.”
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When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
* As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
* As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
* As a Mentor/Role Model, and
* As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!
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I find inspiration in artists and musicians, especially during times of growth. Playing piano and journaling helps me express my emotions and relieve stress. How do you find inspiration during times of transition?
As I was getting ready to talk about the importance of self-respect, I decided to dance to the songs Respect by Aretha Franklin and Respect Yourself by The Staple Singers. You might too.
Why is respecting oneself essential for leadership growth?
Respect for ourselves and others is crucial for personal identity and healthy relating. It becomes even more critical as leaders because we set an example for those around us. If we don’t have self-respect, we may allow others to cross our boundaries and take unnecessary risks. This can hinder our growth as leaders and damage our relationships.
Respect has a give-n-take element to it that researchers refer to as reciprocity. We speak kindly to one another, and they are more inclined to talk kindly back. If we respond defensively in a conversation, the other person might match or elevate the intensity of the conversation.
When we respect ourselves, we set boundaries, communicate our needs clearly, and let others know our expectations. If there is a conflict or misunderstanding, effort is put toward understanding each other and talking openly about what we are experiencing. This may involve apologizing and starting the conversation again with a clear mindset. Ultimately, respect is a crucial factor in personal identity and interpersonal relationships.
How can business owners create a healthy work environment?
A business owner must create a healthy work environment based on respect. This means open communication and setting boundaries, rules, and limits to demonstrate respect by showing people you care. Honoring one’s dignity and acting with integrity to foster emotional security and connection among employees is another way to express respect.
Roles may be fluid in small businesses, so sharing power and empowering others to act positively is vital. I’ve learned that joining together to solve a problem works better than attacking each other. Think us against the problem.
Encouraging a mentoring culture within a small team can lead to a more cohesive and interconnected working environment. This could mean teaching and learning each other’s roles and responsibilities, creating opportunities to develop respect further. Ideas could be generated that improve teamwork and morale.
In contrast, leading with a fixed mindset where roles and rules are unchanging can stifle innovation and respect, ultimately leading to an unhappy team and difficulty meeting individual needs. To overcome this, try being flexible and open to feedback. Create a mentoring environment to keep the focus on learning. Everyone can make mistakes and quickly learn while working to keep more revenue coming in than what is going out.
The leaders I collaborate with are eager to learn how to foster healthy relationships in their workplaces and families, creating open systems. When change is necessary, I encourage my clients to take a step back, reflect, learn, and adapt.
How I took a step back, reflected, learned, and adapted.
Recently, I had three wake-up calls that prompted me to pause and reflect. I spent time exploring how I was not valuing myself and putting others in danger. I experienced a range of emotions as I had an epiphany. I identified the root cause of my need for speed and experimented with driving within the speed limit. Once I found the trigger for my adrenaline rush, I was able to confidently commit to respecting the rules of the road, thus respecting myself and not endangering others.
The three wake-up calls started with a speeding ticket, followed by catching the flu, and then encountering a mishap with a web designer that almost resulted in the destruction of my wementor.com website. These events were disruptive enough to make me wonder what was going on in my unconscious mind. I found myself asking, “What is happening to me?”
I managed to restore my website and recovered from the flu quickly. However, I realized that I had to do some introspection to understand why I was putting myself and others in danger by driving recklessly and over-speeding. I paid a fine of $250 for driving 86 miles per hour, after which I delved into my past to understand when my need for speed began.
I remember following my older brother during a snowstorm in my late teens. He modeled recklessness for me and endangered his life and mine many times. It didn’t take much since all six of us siblings felt devalued. We were raised in a closed, oppressive family system. Acting out our abuse was common.
Mark told me to follow him on this particular day with blizzard conditions. I don’t remember why we were even driving in a blizzard—another reckless trauma-inducing adventure. We were traveling on Hwy—94 toward Sauk Centre, MN. He told me to keep up with him, so I did.
He moved into the fast lane and began passing cars one after another, driving faster than everyone else. I don’t know why we were driving so fast. Terrified as I was, I was hell-bent on keeping up. Snow flying, wind whistling. Windshield wipers were squeaking back-n-forth. Knuckles white from gripping the steering wheel. I could barely see the cars in front of me.
I focused my attention and followed with determination to reach our destination. As I sped by people, I glanced over and noticed someone giving me the finger as I fishtailed ahead of them. Mile after mile, I kept on his tail until I hit some ice and lost control swaying enough to plunge into the snowy ditch. Mark said he watched me in the rearview mirror. No one was hurt, not even the car, thank goodness. He went to get help. We arrived by tow truck late to our destination.
Following that incident, some individuals may have chosen to exercise caution and avoid taking such risks in the future. However, I viewed it as a chance to enhance my driving skills, which involved persisting with high-speed driving and operating vehicles in hazardous weather. If we are on a journey in severe weather, I assume the role of the designated driver.
I am confident in reaching our destinations safely and on time. And have for over 30 years. I now have learned (the old dog isn’t too old to learn new tricks) that I don’t need to break the law to arrive safely, emotionally grounded, and present. I am now experiencing what it feels like to arrive with everyone in the car feeling emotionally grounded, respected, present, and safe.
It always pays to learn from the lessons gifted to us by the Universe and respond to them when it is time to evolve. Respect Yourself. Value Yourself. We are worthy. Let’s keep evolving together. To increase your level of self-respect, complete the three C.A.L.M. activities below.
P.S. I am taking the rest of August off from podcasting. Clients are calling. I am here to answer their calls as they courageously redefine how they lead while redesigning their businesses.
I will be back in September with Melanie Joy, Ph.D. She has written a new book, How To End Injustice EVERYWHERE: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving all Injustices to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet. I received a reviewer copy; it answers our prayers to end the oppressive insanity in our world! Stay tuned in for more meaningful conversations.
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A Confluence of Events and 3 Wake-Up Calls | WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCAST
Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Mentor, Nancy Meyer. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.
Nancy A. Meyer, M.A., is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader, business and life mentor/coach/teacher, podcaster, author, and certified mindfulness yoga and meditation integrator (she integrates those skill sets into everything she does). Nancy has a compassionate and collaborative approach that reinforces resilience and maintains accountable conversations that support how you redefine how you lead as you redesign your business model.
We collaborate with you to do what will work for YOU in becoming the leader you envision yourself to be! Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in our country by providing emerging and existing business owners with mentoring so they can evolve with their ventures. Nancy calls this Dual Innovation Leadership.
You can redefine how you lead as you redesign your business. We know that Dual Innovation Leadership works because Nancy has mentored thousands and is eager to work with you! Assert self-leadership and get started today!
Clients say, “Nancy is a compelling, engaging, and ‘decipher the trees from the forest’ kind of mentor, speaker, and leader. A dedicated entrepreneurial leader and mentor who role models what she preaches. Her style and candor enrich the content she delivers and the results clients experience.” Nancy accepts people where they are at while inspiring them to breakthrough to new dimensions:
WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCAST. Join your peers and hear meaningful conversations as you evolve how you lead and redesign how you are doing business. SUBSCRIBE HERE!
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When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
* As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
* As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
* As a Mentor/Role Model, and
* As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!
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Sometimes we need more than one experience to raise awareness that a behavior change is required. A confluence of events shifted my perspective and primed me for three wake-up calls that led to reflection, integration, and behavior change.
I first noticed a shift after reading The Taste of Joy: Mediterranean Wisdom for a Life Worth Savoring by Emily A. Francis and listening again to our two podcast conversations. I can’t say if it was a comment or the whole concept of continuing to live mindfully and naturally to nourish our bodies and souls, as Emily encourages, that prompted my perspective shifting. Or the massive leap of faith in moving their family to Malta to live the Medattearan life.
My second perspective shift is the unexpected heart-opening with Letty in our lives. Letty, our seven-year-old miniature Schnauzer, came into our lives on March 7, 2023, and Olivia, our daughter, said I seemed happier with Letty in our lives. That comment stuck with me. Was I not happy before welcoming Letty into her retirement home, our home? She has had 50 puppies and made 50 families enormously happy.
She brings joy to our family with just her presence. She is a love bug and comfortable in her skin. Being comfortable in our skin is what few humans learn. The rest of us hustle to belong through pleasing, perfecting, and performing, as we know from Brené Brown’s research on shame and resilience. Letty let us know she belonged with us by providing unconditional love; we shower her with it. A different kind of contentment is setting in.
The third shift involved taking a 10-session Movement For Living Well class taught by Stephanie Ross-Russell that releases myofascial tissue using the movement disciplines of Yoga, Pilates, and Slings Myofascial Training®. We have one session left. This class improves skeletal movement, enhances blood flow, and has countless other benefits. I feel different physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. I think more grounded, resilient, and buoyant.
This Movement For Living Well class has integrated asanas or yoga poses while having a pilates feel with small repetitious movements designed to target small muscles and nerve fibers. The goal is to move more freely. This integrated experience reminds me of one of the world’s yoga masters, B.K.S. Iyengar’s writings in his book Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom. “Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of disease, and it aids recovery from ill health.” I definitely need that.
“Health begins,” he writes, “with firmness in body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom, and finally the unveiling of the soul.” Iyengar teaches us that there is more to us than physical health. There is moral health, mental health, intellectual health, and even the health of consciousness, the health of our conscience, and ultimately divine health. With the confluence of those events, my body, mind, and soul were primed for three wake-up calls that supported my behavior change. One never knows whom the next enlightened soul will cross our path. We need to be vigilant.
My first wake-up call started on June 18, Father’s Day. Olivia, our 21-year-old daughter, had a nasty stomach flu leading up to Father’s Day. I was worried about her. Matthew and I decided to drive to Madison, where she lives and goes to school, and spend a few days with her.
I drove down with my Waze App connected. The App lets us know where cars are by the side of the road and where cop cars are parked at differing locations along our Hwy—94 path. I’ve been known to be a fast driver. I love driving and the freedom I feel behind the wheel. No one is telling me what to do. No one is in my way for too long. I can always pass them. Only the weather, construction, and unforeseen human errors slow me down between where I am and where I am going. My destination is clear.
I was barreling along, leading the pack of fast cars in the left lane. I was getting high on the adrenaline rush passing cars, almost like a teenager. I noticed my Waze App was slow. The App works because drivers report what is on the road, and it says stalled cars on the road or other information well after I pass it. What is that about?
In Eau Claire County, I pressed the gas pedal more intensely as the traffic moved. I needed to keep the pressure on and reach our destination in four hours. I wanted to ensure our girl, now a woman, was okay. Matthew was reading away, sitting beside me—Letty in the back seat.
I see a cop car and nestle behind someone in the right lane. Too late. I watch the squad car lights go on, and the vehicle pulls out quickly. There he is, right behind me. Shit.
Matthew initiates me to open the window on his side as the officer approaches. The officer bends over and looks into the vehicle. Matthew has his book in his hands. I have my hands on the wheel. Letty has her paws stretched on the armrest. Ears raised, tail wagging.
The officer asks where we are going. I tell him we’re going to Madison to visit our daughter. He says, “My radar clocked you at going 86 mph. Did you know you were speeding?” I say, “Yes, I was speeding. I didn’t realize I was going quite that fast.” The officer asks for our insurance information. Matthew goes into the glove compartment and gives it to him. The officer goes back to his car. About 10 minutes later, he returns, looking me right in the eyes. “Here you go. Do you have any questions?” I say, “No.” What I wanted to say but couldn’t right then was, “Thank you for the wake-up call, officer.” He said, “Safe travels.” And we left.
I had been pushing the speed boundaries for some time now. My awareness was increasing with intuitive whispers, “What are you doing? This is dangerous. Why are you breaking the law?” I am known as being a little speed demon. I told myself, “Just because I am going fast doesn’t mean I am reckless. I am hyper-vigilant and have a quick response time. I have had a few minor incidents like being stopped at a stop light in the dead of winter and watching my car slide on ice into the car next to me at a speed of fewer than 2 miles an hour.” It happened to be a psychologist I hit. We processed the event in her car, huh? Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?
I needed to collapse the adrenaline-junky part of my ego that was putting my life and others in harm’s way and bring my benevolence of spirit to the forefront of this adolescent behavior, and I did. I am following the speed limit.
The second wake-up call came from my body releasing and integrating new experiences. My four-year streak of good health ended with a cleansing flu bug. Yes, our body tells us what it needs; we need to listen. Last Wednesday, I reached exhaustion from this unfamiliar flu bug. I slept from Wednesday evening on and off to Friday morning. My throat was slightly congested. I took Cépocal throat lozenges and a couple of rounds of Tylenol for the achy body pains. Drank lots of water and hot tea. Several Lavender Epsom salt baths soothed my body further and put me into a relaxed spiritual state so I could sleep deeply like a baby each night.
My body needed rest to integrate the physical and emotional changes from my Movement For Living Well class and the officer intervention.
I felt better by Friday, so I set up a staging environment for a web designer I would hire to redesign my website. A staging environment is when you clone your website so a designer can design a new site without going ‘live’ prematurely. The clone becomes the new site when the redesign is ready and signed off on.
I log into the back end of my website. The Host Gator, technical support staff, had coached me on how to set up the staging environment. They made it sound like something I could seamlessly do. I realized too late that I knew enough to be dangerous and, with that, crashed my wementor.com website. I call Host Gator, my website host provider. They are inundated with customers requesting website help restoring their websites like me. For 21 hours, my website was down. I have had a website since 2000. That has never happened before. If you weren’t able to listen to one of my podcast conversations over the weekend, I apologize for the inconvenience. You can listen to any of them now.
I needed to reflect and connect the dots between these experiences. Integrate what I became aware of, let go, and change my behavior.
Why am I sabotaging my podcast? WTHeck. First, the speeding ticket, then my exhausted body is working through a flu bug, and now this. Then it dawned on me, like many of you, that life lessons come in threes. What do I need to integrate, let go of, and change? Have I been manifesting this change?
What I know about how I manifest is this. I have been imagining, envisioning, and meditating on liberating the next part of my soul for months and months and months. It is the big picture. I never know precisely how this liberation will happen. I know it involves a build-up emotionally. I knew it would be messy and embarrassing, and I would see a side of myself I wasn’t proud of, but it would be worth it in the end. Like someone looking at themselves misbehaving and knowing they are acting uncharacteristically bad but unable to stop themselves. Not a train wreck, but heading in that direction.
I needed the confluence of events and the three wake-up calls to release the sheath that had grown accustomed to encasing the light in my soul. That sheath included the behavior of my adolescent self. I asked myself, “Did I need a police officer to offer me this message? Did I need to get sick to integrate these experiences into my body, mind, and soul? Did I need to self-sabotage my lifework temporarily?” Apparently, yes, and that is okay. No judgment; there is only learning, recommitting to do what is needed to grow, and evolving.
Like a snake shedding a coat of skin because they have become too big for it. We need to let go of what no longer serves us. I feel I am releasing a sheath around my soul that concealed my inner light, and I couldn’t do it without a confluence of events and humans directing me in the right direction.
None of this kind of work is done in vain. It all has its place in the Divine Universe. I got a speeding ticket, a natural consequence that I took seriously. The flu bug is almost 100% out of my system. I am taking care of myself. My website is up, and I’ll get the help I need to complete the redesign I see in my mind’s eye. I am grateful to have liberated my soul. It will take a few more days, weeks, or months to integrate all of these lessons fully, but I am happy for the freedom in my soul today.
After all this work, I am taking a podcast break during July to work with clients, have fun, and tape more meaningful conversations to air this fall. Enjoy July.
B.K.S. Iyengar says, “A happy and serene mind allows us to pursue our quest as well as live with artistry and skill. Does not the American Declaration of Independence talk of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? If a yogi had written that, they would have said Life, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Liberty. Sometimes happiness may bring stagnation, but if freedom comes from disciplined happiness, there is the possibility of true liberation.” (p. 26) And that is what I am after. DOWNLOAD
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Before exploring Mediterranean Wisdom with Emily A. Francis, I acknowledge Juneteenth. This commemorates the day enslaved people of African descent were informed that they were free under the Emancipation Proclamation. From the Council For Minnesotans of African Heritage website, the earliest Juneteenth celebrations began in 1866 in local African Heritage church communities in the South. Us folks in the North, Midwest, and Western United States learned of Juneteenth during the Great Migration, where 6 million Black Americans were enticed to move north for work from about 1916-1970.
In January 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. In January of this year, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a bill recognizing Juneteenth as a state holiday.
Here is a link to 10 ideas to commemorate and celebrate JUNETEENTH.
As Rumi describes above, Emily is letting the Mediterranean life live through her and shares her wisdom to help us savor our lives. The Mediterranean lifestyle is one of the world’s healthiest lifestyles and is known in the West through the famous Mediterranean Diet.
Emily invites us to live simply, mindfully, and naturally to nourish our bodies and souls. I start this conversation with a quote from Emily’s fifth book, The Taste of Joy: Mediterranean Wisdom for a Life Worth Savoring. Emily is in her third year of living the Mediterranean lifestyle with her family on the European Island of Malta.
She is keenly aware of the stark difference between Atlanta, Georgia, where we are in our American Democracy, and where she and her family live now. This makes it easier for her to highlight what we need to bring joy into our lives to develop a life worth savoring. A bit of salt made from the sun, the wind, and the sea brings out the flavor of what we eat. Honey secrets help us adapt to new locations. Making our own dressing engages our senses, and one can never learn too much about figs and other essentials like good people to make life worth savoring. This conversation is packed with nuggets of goodness.
Emily dispels the American myth about the Mediterranean Diet with a definition she has observed from the Maltese people and now lives herself. She says the Mediterranean Diet misrepresents what the Mediterranean people live for food, fun, family, and faith. And they love sunshine. Those working in offices have snorkels, swimsuits, and other items tucked in their cars to weave play and enjoyment into their workday. They jump in the sea during lunch to enjoy the sunshine and then return to the office to finish the day’s work. Lots of ideas here.
We learn the limitations of what Emily was taught about happiness and explore what it means to love someone unconditionally. “In Malta, people aren’t climbing all over each other and trying to keep up with the Joneses. They want you to succeed,” says Emily. She uses the analogy of lighting a candle and using it to light another’s candle, making the light shine brighter and more prominent as a collective. There isn’t a finite amount of love, joy, and happiness. The more joy and happiness we can bring, our lives and those around us will expand.
In our first conversation, we got a taste of joy as Emily talked about her move from Atlanta, Georgia, to Malta and how that experience changed her and her family’s life. Unexpectedly, Emily found her soul in Malta when her husband Scott and their two daughters, Hannah, almost 11, and Ava, 9, moved. They took a mammoth leap of faith in 2020, landing exactly where they needed to be, a sight almost unseen.
I have been asking myself if I have found my soul in the place I live with my family in Golden Valley, Minnesota. It is a tricky question to ask. With the remnants of smoke from the Canadian wildfires hovering in our outdoor breathing spaces lately and the third year with drought-like summer conditions starting, I crave the coolness of rain and crisp fresh air in the early morning on my walks with Letty.
And yet, I love my family and friends. I love mentoring and elevating others to do their soul’s work. I love Minnesota, even as we reckon with Friday’s news. “The U.S. Department of Justice presented a new report detailing a “pattern or practice” of misconduct within the Minneapolis Police Department, marking the beginning of what is likely to be a yearslong process that requires the city to enact further reforms.”
U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland and other officials read the scathing report, validating what we have all known for generations. The “MPD uses excessive force, including unjustified deadly force. MPD unlawfully discriminates against Black and Native American people. MPD violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech. MPD and the city of Minneapolis discriminate against people with behavioral health disabilities when responding to calls for assistance.” To address these findings, the Justice Department has 28 ways to address the systemic issues so that senseless killings of people like George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers will never happen again.
Real change doesn’t happen unless we get the ugly truth in front of us. The underlying cause of discrimination is built into our institutions and culture. I am hopeful for the re-envisioning of policing and addressing our needs as a connected people. I am not naïve, even though I sound like it here. When we reckon with our past and get to the ugly truth, we can understand the harm and generational pain we have instilled, stop the pain, and create better lives for everyone out of all of this pain.
I feel that positive change is afoot in Minnesota. That is why we are continuing to live here. The harsh treatment of black, indigenous, and behaviorally disabled people by the Minneapolis Police Department is going to stop. Police reform will happen, no matter how messy the process is. We can share power in our work and how we parent and lead and bring out the light in our souls. I know because I am being the change I wish to make in the world and you can too. Like Maya Angelo has said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
A spark in my soul ignited as I read Emily’s book and decided to explore ways to bring the Mediterranean lifestyle into all of our lives, wherever we live—being intentional with how we carve out each day. As Emily suggests, remove the engrained tracking of every step and ensure I incorporate physical activities into every day. The possibilities are endless. I felt such joy in this meaningful conversation. I hope you get a taste of joy from Emily, inspiring you to change your life and how you lead. You can integrate the Mediterranean lifestyle into your life by living simply, mindfully, and naturally to nourish your body and soul as we create a better world together. Listen to five suggestions on how to get started.
Also, Emily has an audio version of The Taste of Joy: Mediterranean Wisdom for a Life Worth Savoring, where you can hear the speaker with a Maltese accent.
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Emily A. Francis Guided Meditations and Other Publications
1st Podcast Conversation with Emily
My Malta Life
Taste of Joy Video Trailer
JUNETEENTH
The Great Migration
Law and Crime
The Minneapolis Police Department Investigation
Star Tribune Federal Probe Article of the MPD
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
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“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator
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Emily is a highly sought-after speaker, radio host, columnist, bestselling author, and wellness expert with a vast array of education and experience. The Taste of Joy: Mediterranean Wisdom for a Life Worth Savoring, released earlier this year, is her 5th book. Her knowledge of the body and the body/mind connection is extensive, and her commitment to total body, mind, and spirit wellness is her driving force. Emily has a BS in Exercise Science and Wellness, a minor in Nutrition, and a master’s degree in Physical Education/Human Performance. She hosts the internet radio show “All About Healing” on Healthy Life Radio. In moving to Malta, Emily has become deeply involved with local food production on the island. She writes a regular column titled “Emily in Malta,” in the local tourism magazine Oh My Malta, where she interviews local farmers, fishermen, and chefs on single-ingredient farming.
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When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:
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