By 2035, Social Security will not have enough money to pay retirees their full earned benefits. This topic was not even mentioned at our first Democratic Presidential Debate last week, aargh! Kelli Johanson has some IDEAL ways to grow your retirement portfolio. Income options worth checking into as you plan for projected declines in social security benefits.

Kelli and her dog, Marley:)

In this dynamic conversation, you will find out:

* How Kelli became a “spreadsheet

fanatic.”* Leadership qualities she learned from

her parents.* When two parents are entrepreneurial,

what can happen.* How the government is invested in corn

and bean farming, and how being part of something beyond herself, has

influenced Kelli’s life work (purposeful, intentional, mission driven work over

a lifetime).* What IDEAL Investment Properties can do

for your retirement portfolio. What the IDEAL acronym stands for.* How Kelli is expanding her real estate

investment portfolio with pets.* A tip for you about getting started.* How Kelli has included her extended

family in the entities she’s created.* What “quiet cash” means in the real

estate world.* What Kelli learned by participating in

the 7-month SBA Emerging Leaders program. This program is for owners generating

between $250,000 and $10M in annual gross revenues.

Happy 4th of July, to those

of us in the U.S.!!!

Mentoring Activation Exercises

After listening to our conversation:

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An IDEAL Way to Expand Your Investment Portfolio      Episode 181  Ideal Property Investments

Have you ever had a

conversation where it fills you up, and the energy of the exchange lingers?

Where you feel like you are so glad you took the risk to ask an insightful

question? When you learn that part about someone’s experience that it informs

your understanding of that person? This is one of those kind of conversations.

Mike Kabeya and I first dish about working together, dealing with racism, and the

ups and downs of producing this podcast. We then move into a five-word exercise

where the good stuff comes out, the empowering experience of self-knowledge. A

foundational element in Self-Leadership.

After listening, join us on July 9th and 15th for our next WeMentor Mini LAB: Exploring the Heart of Self-Leadership. It will be an enriching experience you won’t want to miss! Click here for details.

WeMentor Self-Leadership

Activation Exercises

After listening, do the following WeMentor Self-Leadership Exercises:

* Do the exercise I have many podcast

guests do, write down five words that describe your primary care givers growing

up?* Think about their influence in your

life. Tell someone. You can e-mail me. I read every e-mail I receive; [email protected].* Do this with your leadership team.

Why not get to know them better and help them boost their self-knowledge!

Mentoring Help

* One-On-One Mentoring * Sign-Up for the next WeMentor Mini LAB: Exploring the Heart of Self-Leadership * Subscribe to this podcast

Mentoring

Conversation Resources

* Mike Kabeya. Mike Kabeya Kazadi joined WeMentor, inc. in 2015 as sound engineer, photographer, and videographer. You will hear Nancy’s acknowledgement of his work on each weekly podcast episode of WeMentor Mondays with Nancy.

Mike adds a

unique ability and a creative flair to each project and every podcast episode.

His creativity, respectful demeanor, integrity, commitment to meet deadlines,

technical expertise, and leadership skills are a few gems that add to an

exceptional listening experience. Nancy enjoys working with Mike. Mike even

wrote a piano vignette for the show. You can hear him play the electric piano

each time you listen to the podcast.

Mike founded

Kabeya Media in 2013 to share more broadly, his technical skills and talents

across multi-media platforms. Mike is a journalist, photographer, audiographer,

media designer, and videographer originally from the Democratic Republic of

Congo. He has worked on hundreds of broad range projects including videos for

companies, multi-media videos for authors and other work events. He is a

photographer for family events like weddings, family photos, and anniversaries.

In 2019, Mike

became a certified Spiritual Director. This designation informs his lifework

creating a foundation for healing himself. In turn, he can facilitate the

healing process for others who are questioning their relationship with the

Divine.

Since relocating

to Minnesota in 2006, Mike has worked for the University of Minnesota as a

Communications Technician while building his communications company. He is

Mike Kabeya gives two ways to examine your inner landscape that, in turn, shifts your outer life. He views all relationships, and what we experience, as spiritual, even our relationship in how we have helped each other over the years of working on this podcast together.

One way to examine your

inner landscape is learning about Kundalini energy. Mike describes how one

awakens the Kundalini energy. The dormant serpent is best awakened with the

supervision of a skilled guide to clear out and open up the chakras. We have

these powerful energy centers within us and provided to us by the Universe. We

might as well learn how to use these energies.

Kundalini

The second way Mike has explored his inner landscape is through a contemplative spirituality known as the Nine Basic Personality Types in the Enneagram (or the nine faces or virtues of God). You begin with a test to determine which personality Type you view the world through. You have two accompanying Types known as wings. Knowing your Type helps you figure out what informs your actions. It is a tool to also develop tolerance. The end journey of the Enneagram leads you to embrace all nine liberating qualities. A journey beyond type and beyond self. You release quick judgments of others to become more informed about similarities and differences and learn how to live differently in the world.

Enneagram

I took the Fast

Enneagram Test after our conversation. You can too. (See the Activation

Exercises below). You start with understanding your top three of nine

personality types. Mike is the Peacemaker, Investigator, and Loyalist. I am the

Challenger/Leader, Enthusiast/Adventurer, and Loyalist/Security Seeker. We

discuss all nine types.

To continue your maturation process Self-Leadership is key. To mature means to take charge in  how you lead, manage the pace of self-growth and choose your mentors as you go. You own every aspect of your life. It is an interdependent state of leading where you release dependency on other people, institutions, and social and religious structures to determine who you are. You commit to a deeper investigation into who you are. You claim who you are and self-direct the areas of self-growth that you feel you need to work on next. It takes listening to your inner master.

Mike is an example of Self-Leadership.

He took charge of the next phase of growth by becoming a Spiritual Director. Your

spirituality is that integral aspect of your life as a leader that creates

meaning and purpose to your existence. It was a two-year process of using an

expansive lens to explore his spirituality. This process has strengthened his

intrinsic value as a human being. You can hear the clarity of his inner self

through the wisdom he shares. This designation informs his life work through

Kabeya Media.

Where can you take charge of your leadership? Join us on July 9 & 15, 2019 to investigate the Heart of Self-Leadership.

WeMentor Self-Leadership Activation Exercises

After listening, do the following WeMentor

Self-Leadership Exercise:

* Take the free Fast Enneagram Test here.* You can put $0.00 if you don’t want to give a donation and still get the results.

Mentoring Help

* One-On-One Mentoring * ...

Mike Kabeya of Kabeya Media, was called into a spiritual reckoning in his late teens. To reach inner stability he self-selected isolation from others and spent hours in silence in his room. This is the first time he is speaking publicly about something he couldn’t discuss when living in the Republic of Congo many years ago.

His inner stability was

achieved through the gift of resignation. Bit by bit, letting go. At the bottom

of his physical and psychologically terrifying experience, a surprise. I was

impressed with his insight at such a young age. You will be too.

You’ll discern:

* How reckoning

with earlier experiences can deepen your self-connection; where grounded

confidence is mined.* The way your lifework

can be viewed on a continuum. Mike’s new spiritual director designation doesn’t

change his lifework. It is informing and deepening his work with Kabeya Media.* Why and how a

Spiritual Director works.* Who and what the

Divine cares about. How the Divine can work in your life. * How being a

learner and gatherer of feedback with skilled mentors and coaches throughout

your life can facilitate a less attached view of oneself. * The value in

daily journaling and practices that feed your spirit and nourish your soul.* Working toward

your highest destiny involves engaging our Chakras and Kundalini energies (a

natural way to access your healing).

Summer Smoothie Recipe

Mentoring Activation

Exercises

After listening, do the following:

* Revisit a life changing experience

in your youth. Through adult eyes, write down what happened in detail. No BS.

Write down what you learned and the impression it made in your life. Write a

new ending with what you have learned from that experience.

July 9th & 15th WeMentor Mini LAB Details

Mentoring Help

* One-On-One Mentoring * Sign-Up for the July 9th and 15th WeMentor Mini LAB: Exploring The Heart of Self-Leadership* Subscribe to this podcast.

Mentoring

Conversation Resources

Podcast Conversations with Mike

* Mike’s Journey into Entrepreneurship* Sylvie’s Journey with Mike into Entrepreneurship* Present and Vulnerable Leadership* Working On Your Business with Mike

Other Resources

* 7 Chakra Energy Centers* ...

Neuromarketing influences our decision making in so many ways as you will learn from neuroscientist, Terry Wu. We zero in on three areas: professional services, retail industry, and manufacturing or production companies.

Forward thinking

decision makers are utilizing this New Science to shape end user experiences

and glean more profits. Arming yourself with neuromarketing principles will

help you also be an informed consumer. You can become more aware of tactics

that could be used against you like online scams.

Why is $100B wasted on 9 out of 10 products that don’t last more than a year? What has been missing? Marketing has been more of an art than a science. Not very predictable. Terry suggests fortifying your fast-thinking, intuitive brain with the New Science of Neuromarketing. This New Science compiles research from three disciplines: neuroscience, behavior economics, and social psychology to understand how consumers make buying decisions. Neuromarketing is a holistic approach to understanding consumer behavior.

We learned in our first

conversation that consumers like a predictable experience. Elegant, functional,

and simplicity are infused in websites designed by Terry Wu and his team. Terry

has insights into Google’s ranking system. A few of which he will pass along to

you.

Below are the three

areas we dive into and what we discuss about each area.

Professional Services: What is your overall goal? How do you make subtle

positive first impressions with potential customers?

* When buying or serving potential customers what do

you serve, a cold drink or warm drink? * Soft chairs or hard chairs? What impression do each

make on potential end users? * What colors do you wear? What colors are

intimidating? What is more attractive?* Printed materials, what is the best layout?

Retail Industry:

a big area in Neuromarketing.

* What kind of music is best in a retail store? * Scent has a powerful impact on our emotions. Find

out how many scents we can identify and how to use smell in retail stores.

Manufacturing and Product Design: Packaging and how work environments are designed,

matter.

* Frito Lay studies with packaging. Packaging

influences taste, find out how.* Setting up different work environments for different

purposes. What kind of environment do you want employees and yourself to work

in? Soothing work environment? Safe environment? Agitating environment? A work

environment that invites higher productivity?

Mentoring Activation

Exercises

After listening, do the following:

* Read the articles by Terry Wu in the

Mentoring Conversation Resources below.* Neuromarketing Principles are why

first impressions are lasting ones. Rethink how you prepare for initial

customer meetings: from what you wear and what you serve to drink to what you

sit on, music, and the scents you have in the room. * Be an informed consumer by being mindful and aware

of the subtle ways our decisions are being influenced. Notice how candidates

influence voting, or how packaging influences your liking of the content

within. Or, how you are influenced in relationships by smells and conversation

and ambiance, and just about every other aspects of our lives. Notice where you

are and what is going on. Another reason to focus in on the present moment.

Mentoring Help

*

This conversation will cause you to rethink your website focus. Dr. Terry Wu, a Neuroscientist and a Neuromarketing specialist, describes how we make decisions based on how our brain works. He just finished a TEDx Talk called Neuromarketing: The New Science of Consumer Decisions, which will soon be available on his website!

Terry says you can have a cool website but warns if the consumer doesn’t get what they want from your site, they don’t convert. This means they are less likely to revisit your site, which ultimately means no sales. What beats cool and creative? Terry will tell you.

Listen to our conversation NOW and learn how to:

* Notice subtle

cues when you are shopping that influence your decisions.* Understand how

consumers are influenced with subtleties that make the buying experience

easier.* Immediately adjust

the focus on your website to attract and convert more customers.* Dispel a myth

about a misguided Neuromarketing study. Neuromarketing is not creepy!* Refocus your

marketing efforts to zero in on the consumer and how they make decisions.* Anchor consumers’

attention on your website.* Get away from a

personal preference focus to a customer centric perspective.* Reshape

testimonials to be more appealing.* Take the guess

work out of marketing. Apply Neuromarketing principles to your marketing

efforts and track what happens. * Create a highly

predictable experience where consumers learn to trust your brand.

Terry was born in Beijing,

China. At age 25, an unexpected event occurred that influenced his decision on

June 4, 1989 (known as the Tiananmen Square Incident) to leave China and become

a United States citizen. His tenacious spirit, brilliance, and drive to create

a better life helped him overcome punitive governmental constraints and land at

Duke University initially as a medical student where he became enthralled with

neuroscience. At Vanderbilt University, he became a Neuroscientist. His path to

where he is today was a marriage between his two loves: neuroscience and

marketing. He is on a mission to expand the abilities of consumers to

critically think about how they make decisions so they can be informed consumers.

The seeds to Terry’s

passion and lifework in Neuromarketing were planted in his upbringing in China

and the love of his parents, especially the loving kindness of his mother and

brother. Growing up in a closed society where propaganda replaced critical

thinking and where the government controlled every area of your life, affects

brain development and the ability to forge deep family connections and trusting

relationships. The suffering is palpable when Terry describes the facts about

his life.

What is inspiring is his

liberated heart and gracious spirit that have flourished in this democracy; so

has his ability to help others. Terry built one of the first two local Search

Engine Optimization websites in 2004, generating great results. This work

engaged his entrepreneurial spirit and desire to help others become more

profitable.

Mentoring Activation

Exercises

After listening, do the following:

* Evaluate your website. What message

are you sending? Use the criteria we talked about to create a highly

predictable pattern of how consumers can navigate through your business

website.

This is such a delightful way to end a series. John Patching is visiting from the United Kingdom and joins our conversation. John is the calming, insightful psychotherapist nudging The Wallners to examine their inner selves and bring out their true selves during their individual journeys of acceptance. This journey was initiated by Alix’s transgender transition. As a result, their family has transformed into a stronger, unique family unit. They are more deeply connected with each other.

We discuss what has happened since they have gone

public, through this podcast, with their family’s journey to acceptance. We

venture into a discussion about power and control and gratitude. You will hear

what is next for Alix and what Alan describes as the next phase of everything

for them. John adds insights into the family’s next transition and gives some advice,

applicable to you.

Are you a people pleaser? Alan has some insights

about how he stopped that are worthwhile for you to hear. I even get emotional

as I acknowledge how impressively courageous they are, and describe how I

admire them.

Mentoring Activation

Exercises

After listening, do the following:

* Continue your own integration process. Notice where in your life you become rigid in your thinking. Where in your life do you create chaos to keep from dealing with your internal self? When you notice rigid thoughts passing through your mind, get curious. Examine what the source is. * Ask yourself, am I feeling either powerless or out of control? Think about some options and allow yourself to try out a new way of thinking, like looking at your situation from another’s perspective. Is there a gap in your ability to be empathetic? Try listening without an agenda, or get excited about someone else’s success. Or, use your empathic imagination to reduce someone else’s suffering. Or, reduce your own suffering through self-compassion. Be kind to yourself. * Take John’s advice to The Wallner family and apply it to your important relationships in life and business. Keep talking, keep feeling, and keep communicating your feelings.

Mentoring Help

* Get One-On-One Mentoring! * Check out a WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LAB! Reinvent who you are while you redesign your business.* Subscribe to this podcast.

Mentoring

Conversation Resources

* The Wallners Journey to Acceptance Podcast Episodes 1-7* 1* 2* 3* 4* 5* 6* 7

John Patching. John is a Life Coach, Mentor, Meditation Tutor, Hypnotherapist, and Psychotherapist. He enables others to discover their personal potential and life journey through the tantric value of his own life and understanding.

Who you are is how you lead. We would like to bring out more of who you are as a leader and mentor. This is your last chance to sign-up for our May 14 WeMentor Mini LAB: Strengthen Your Intrinsic Leadership and Mentoring LAB! Alan Wallner through W Creative Branding is sponsoring this LAB. The Wallner family therapist, John Patching, is co-mentoring the LAB with me. He is in town from the United Kingdom. Everyone in your life will benefit from you participating in this LAB!

In today’s episode, Alix’s two sisters join in the Wallner family conversation: Alix (age 22), Lizzie (age 27), Erin (age 13).

Erin has insightful advice for parents. She is wise beyond her 13 years.

Lizzie adds her journey to acceptance and the before and after of their family dynamics. She saw her parents in a certain light, the podcast series has changed her perspective.

This is

a great example of empathic resonance and perspective taking. Feeling what the

other person is feeling and taking on their perspective creates a depth of

understanding where judgement is unnecessary, emotions are validated, and understanding

deepens. This is that kind of conversation.

You can see John Patching and Alan Wallner in-person tomorrow, May 14th from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Experience empathic joy as we share the components for you to take charge of your leadership and create two plans: Self-Leadership Plan and a Leadership and Mentoring Plan for Others. Sign-up HERE! Clear out chaos and rigidity and open up to new possibilities!

John will also join The Wallners in next week’s podcast conversation.

Mentoring Activation Exercise

After listening, do the following:

* Incorporate empathic joy into your

day by sharing in someone else’s success. This expands the feeling of joy for

you and the other person. Try it out. It feels so darn good!

Mentoring Help

* WeMentor Mini LAB* Check out a WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LAB! Reinvent who you are while you redesign your business.* Subscribe to this podcast.

Mentoring

Conversation Resources

* The Wallners Podcast Episodes 1 through 6:* 1* 2* 3* 4* 5* 6

Meet The Wallners

Both Alan and Rosie are self-employed and over the years the business has been a big part of their family culture, and it’s not uncommon for the entire family to be involved with helping out on a project.

Alan

Today’s conversation has ideas to prime the pump for our May 14th WeMentor Mini LAB: Strengthen Your Intrinsic Leadership and Mentoring VALUE. We are working with our Inner Selfie to design a Self-Leadership Mini Plan and a Leadership and Mentoring Mini Plan. Sign-up here!

Barb Kobe has an Inner Selfie e-book you can download below, whether you attend the Mini LAB or not. Mike Kabeya—sound engineer and photographer for this podcast—joins our conversation to offer his perspective on the healing doll process. It is another stimulating conversation about Barb’s life work as a confident healing artist, visionary designer, teacher, facilitator, creativity coach, and author.

We discuss:

* How you can create a powerful business image/figure of who you are as a leader and mentor of others. Mike describes what his business logo for Kabeya Media represents to him.* The healing doll process and the five-pointed star in Barb’s book, The Healing Doll Way: A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for Self-Discovery, Awareness, and Transformation. * Who argued with Joseph Campbell about the differences between the Hero’s Journey and the Heroine’s Journey? What are the differences? Barb added lovingkindness and retreat center in her healing archetype process.* Discovering the masculinity and femininity within ourselves and your way of creating and healing in a patriarchal society.* Who makes healing dolls? How are these dolls used for guidance and to bare witness to one’s own healing journey?  * Discarding a myth about Voodoo dolls and how they were used to control people, witchcraft manipulators and fearmongers.* Getting a clearer picture of your inner child, your inner critic, and your nurturing creative parent. Learning how to recognize when you are in the inner critic realm.* Lots of art exercises to activate your imagination for growth within, working through struggles, and befriending fear. Getting unstuck from your story.* Learning to trust your intuition.* When children learn about emotions.* #MeToo Movement and its lifechanging teachings.

Mentoring Activation Exercises

After listening, do the following:

* Get Barb’s Inner Selfie e-book pattern here.* Create a powerful business image/figure of who you are as a leader and mentor of others. When complete, place it in a sacred space where only you have access to it.* Order The Healing Doll Way: A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for Self-Discovery, Awareness, and Transformation, click here! * Sign-up for the May 14th WeMentor Mini LAB HERE!

Mentoring Help

* Check out a WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LAB! Reinvent who you are while you r...

Barb Kobe: confident healing artist, visionary designer, teacher, facilitator, creativity coach, and author. Barb and I started like most of my professional relationships. She needed a business mentor, and so did her husband, Bill (a chiropractor at the time). In the 1990s, each WeMentor peer group worked on business planning. I wrote curriculum integrating emotional intelligence into the business planning and leading process. Barb added her creative insights as a participant and evolved into being a facilitator. Barb and I have become treasured lifelong friends.

Barb’s book, The Healing Doll Way: A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for Self-Discovery, Awareness and Transformation (Beavers Pond Press) just won a Next Generation Indie Book Award under the category of Body, Mind and Spirit.

Our

idea of play is to do a creative healing project together. Barb created a

loving kindness exercise you can incorporate into your day. The instructions

are described in the podcast. You can also scroll down to find them in the

Mentoring Tips below.

Barb

makes healing dolls and teaches others to heal themselves through doll making.

She spent 20 years honing the healing doll process and recently published The Healing Doll Way: A Guided Process

Creating Art Dolls for Self-Discovery, Awareness, and Transformation. Her book has

inspired women around the world, and a few men, to embark on healing the

feminine within. It is beauty, spirituality, and healing combined, writes one

of her fans. I ditto that comment.

Samba, Dance of Life doll by Barb Kobe

The healing doll process

is based on archetypes: Guardian (defender, protector, keeper), Scapegoat

(what’s in the way of what you want, going into the dark, or shadow), Talisman

(going after what you want or stepping into the light), Inner Healer (naming

your healing and wisdom ways) and Loving Kindness (nurture yourself and be

grateful). These characters are images and themes with universal meaning in

basic human experience and stay the same, regardless of the plot or time

period.

We delve into an encouraging

conversation of her upbringing with immigrant parents from Belgium. A modern, free enterprise economy tied to Europe. Belgium is known to

have a well-diversified economy in transport, services, manufacturing and high

tech, a brilliant infrastructure, and a solid education and health system.

In the 1950s, in Belgium,

many families could not afford to educate their girls. Barb’s mom raised her

and her three brothers with an 8th grade education.

Barb describes traditions

she grew up in. Her mother would get her dolls from all over the world representing

different stages of her life, like getting one of the first Barbie dolls. As

she speaks of this, she uncovers something new about herself. She then does

what she teaches, follows a thread of thought to see where it will lead with

great curiosity.

It is

time for a Healing Artist’s voice. A time where poets are consulted to

interpret the world around us. Barb lays out for us the content of her life and

ways she developed her talents as a graphic designer and doll maker and

emotional communicator. Her connections with her mother whom was raised in a

home with 10 other siblings’ sets her foundation. Her learnings from her father

who was raised in poverty, WWII vet, gifted wood-maker, an accountant, and world

traveler. She describes what it took for her parents to raise three brothers

and herself. Her admiration for both of them is clear.