The Art of Authenticity

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How Not to Communicate Like an Amateur Oct 06, 2016

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Effective communication is both easy and hard at the same time. It's hard because we often make so many simple mistakes that lead to large issues over time. It's easy because communicating well can be as simple as remembering to be human when you're speaking with someone. In this episode, I share communication lessons learned while running the company I co-founded and sold to a Fortune 500 company after 15 years.

Felica Spahr: How to Focus on What Matters Oct 04, 2016

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Felicia’s a leadership coach who helps ambitious, professional women focus on what matters and eliminate and delegate what doesn’t to move towards bigger goals without burning out. And to find productivity systems that work so that you can stay consistent and motivated. She works with people who are project managers, lawyers, doctors, marketing, she works with all of them, you can have kids, married, not married, she’s just working with people who, women specifically, who want to do their best and feel overwhelmed and want that balance in their life.

Deserve: The Ugliest Word in the English Language Sep 29, 2016

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Have you ever wondered in the back of your mind, "Do I deserve this?" You can fill in "this" with anything. Do I deserve that ice cream? Did I work out enough today, do I deserve it? Do I deserve a promotion? Have I worked really hard at my job and have I been overlooked or I got a promotion, did I deserve it? Have you asked yourself if you deserve to find love in your life?

Jonathan Raymond: Good Authority Sep 27, 2016

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Jonathan is the author of the upcoming book Good Authority and the owner of Refound, an advisory firm that offers accountability skills training programs for owners, executives, and managers. He is the former CEO and Chief Brand Officer of EMyth, where he led the transformation of a global coaching brand and has worked in tech, clean tech, and the nonprofit world after graduating law school in 1998. After twenty years of not being able to decide whether he was a business development guy or a personal growth teacher, Jonathan stopped trying to figure it out.

How to Really Avoid Conflict Sep 22, 2016

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We all must constantly negotiate with other people in our lives — co-workers, family, significant others. Yet we often avoid these difficult discussions because we dread the seemingly inevitable conflict that arises. But is there a way to really avoid conflict without avoiding the necessary negotiation?

James Clear: Goals Are Just Guesses Sep 20, 2016

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James Clear, author and blogger on behavioral psychology, habit formation, and performance improvement. His site has been visited by over 1 million people per month and he has over a quarter million subscribers.

How We Are Unintentionally Harming Our Children(And Ourselves) Sep 15, 2016

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Today's episode features selections from my interview with Dr. Shefali on child rearing and conscious parenting. It was such an honor to have her on the show and I wanted to bring up the point that I thought was just so powerful, so meaningful, it has blown me away.

It's something I’ve been thinking about ever since we talked. She says that we - to survive - abandon our true selves.

These projected images that our parents put on us (or we put on our children) unintentionally causes us to never develop our true skin, our true selves. So we wonder why we can’t decide on dinner, we can’t decide where to live, what to do with our lives in a way that feels completely at peace within ourselves. It’s because we haven’t found that deeper self so we don’t know how to say yes and we don’t know how to say no to the things that we want or don’t want in our lives.

Thank you for listening to this episode - I think you'll get a lot out of it.

Zach Obront: On Finding a Business That's Authentic Sep 13, 2016

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Zach Obront is the co-founder of Book in a Box, a new type of publishing company focused on allowing busy experts with important messages to share their book without the usual barriers. Writing a book can be almost impossible for people who are really busy so Book in a Box helps by transcribing the book for the expert, they grew from zero to 300 authors in a very short period.

Why Authenticity Matters More Than Happiness Sep 08, 2016

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Today, I’m going to answer a question that actually has been asked so many times. I’ve probably gotten this question 10, 20, 30 times. I haven’t kept track. The question is: “Why did you do a podcast on the Art of Authenticity? Why not the Art of Happiness?”

People ask me that question in a variety of ways. They ask, “Why are you interested in authenticity and not happiness?” or they'll say that they are interested in happiness but don’t really understand authenticity.

Well, there's a very good reason why I chose to talk about authenticity over happiness, and I dig into it in this episode.

Ashley Turner: Walking the Winding Path of Authentic Truth Sep 06, 2016

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Today we have Ashley Turner joining us. Ashley is not only an M.A., MFTI yoga meditation instructor, she is a marriage and family psychotherapy intern, writer, and I know it’s out there, but she’s also an ordained priestess. I wasn’t totally sure what that entailed but she explains it in this episode. She goes into how to blend eastern-western yoga techniques, meditation, philosophy and traditional western psychotherapy into building a life that is deeply authentic and meaningful.

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