175: Engaging Virtual Meetings Mindfully with John Chen

What would happen if every member of your team came to work focused on finding solutions and creating better results? Based on ground-breaking new research in innovation and problem-solving, you'll learn what leaders like you are doing to build more creative and solutions-oriented teams. On this show we talk to Karin Hurt & David Dye to explore how this research will change the way you lead.

How many hours a day are you on a video or Zoom meeting? Make the most of that meeting with proper intentional planning. Author of Engaging Virtual Meetings and CEO of Geoteaming John Chen tells us how a little bit of mindfulness can increase the success of online meetings by 10x.

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I am love, I am in my heart, I am listening. In this episode, Holly interviews Juha Riverhill, spiritual teacher from Finland. Juha's inspiration comes from a lifetime of difficulties, from being bullied as a child to a tumultuous divorce in his later years. out of the worst moment of his life. A difficult divorce, overwhelm of the aftermath and the whisper from his spirit guide, Cecelia, led him to channel/write his book, The Golden Book of Humanity. Questions Holly and Juha explore include: • How did you come to the understanding of spirit guides? • What is something that you may be resisting in your life that gives you an opportunity to find a greater guide in your own life? • Where do you start and how can you implement a sense of curiosity in your daily life? • How can we ponder and practice the mantra I am love, I am in my heart, I am receiving? • The Divine approached Juha in many ways from the time he was a child. He asked to be shown the way to communicate on a deeper level with his spirit guides. • During a time in Paris, his time with Cecelia and other guides gained clarity and understanding the gifts they could help him bring to the world. He set a goal of becoming a spiritual teacher. Coming from a Christian background, he always had an understanding of the Holy Spirit, but he came to crave more of a spiritual exploration to a connection with unconditional love. He found this by bringing his living from his head to living in his heart. Through this it fulfilled an aching heart and created a raised vibrational state of sending and receiving perfect unconditional love with his life. Find out more about Juha's book here.

Greg Williams is The Master Negotiator. His experience and proven results in negotiation skills and body language, combined with his knowledge of emotional intelligence, make him a sought-after speaker and​consultant. ​He is a dynamic speaker who engages and motivates audiences by us​ing real life examples from the negotiations he’s participated in to illustrate the principles he shares. Questions that Holly and Greg discuss: ·     What are you top two or three tips for people to discuss the topics in today’s environment? ·     How do we iterate our master skills to meet the needs of today’s changes? ·     How insights can be gained by paying attention to body language during negotiations? ·     What are some introductory things that people can refine in today’s video environments? ·     Are you finding that you’re able to connect with a sense of oneness through body language? Everything I engage in works! Find more about Greg at https://www.themasternegotiator.com/ or email him at [email protected]. Remember, mindfulness matters and so do YOU! Find more resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/

A New view on ROI (Return in Intention) Holly interviews Jane Stevenson, Managing Director of Magnetic Minds in South Africa. The two shared a connection through stories that flowed together on stage at a South Africa conference in 2019. As the managing director of Magnetic Minds, Jane’s company helps reframe mindfulness in ways that serve organizations in planning for their teams goals and future big picture. Her purpose: Finding True North. Personalized business solutions that equip leaders and teams to magnify results and impact. Magnetic Minds brings teams together to help them shift their mindsets in safe spaces to have conversations about where they want their teams to go. Some of the questions that Holly and Jane unpack are: How do conversations within ourselves magnetize the right people to us? Who am I? Why does success in business not feel like success in my heart? Are you showing up and following the plan that you committed to? What is your purpose on earth? Am I winning? How to Reframe what success means - no more winners or losers. We are all wanting to feel like more than just the jobs that we do. We tend to focus on our jobs as the centers of our lives, but is this the most mindful way to live? Purpose is far bigger than profit! Jane mentions Elan Musk and his opening up his intellectual property to the world, and how his example of sustainability over profit is the perfect example of living with purpose. Collaboration brings a much higher influence than working alone and in isolation. Holly and Jane discuss global challenges such as violence against women. More questions that they address are: How can we use the negative stories and build purpose driven collaboration around these? What are we doing to affect change? How do we become part of the solutions? How could anger create the answer? Sometimes we need anger to move into a state of brilliant action. Jane actually uses Holly’s book, Everyday Mindfulness, https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Mindfulness-Chaos-Crazy-World-ebook/dp/B07KDVFL8S/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=everyday+mindfulness+holly+duckworth&qid=1576620104&sr=8-1 as one of her tools to give herself a framework for setting daily intentions. Jane leaves listeners with “Don’t ever think of it as a failure, but as a revelation of how to not do things in the future.” Find out more about Jane’s work at http://www.magneticminds.co.za/ or email her at [email protected]

Holly interviews Justin Foster about his work with Root and River Marketing. He and his team have cultivated blending spiritual and practical for mission-driven brands. His company helps define ways for every great brand to have a spiritual experience. A brand is how others experience what you believe. They philosophy behind their strategy is humanistic marketing practices. Do not market unto others the way you would not be marketed to. “Root” is the intrinsic mission, brand and message. “River” is how your message shows up in the world and these need to be congruent. Some of the questions they explore are: ·     What makes a “Mystical friendship”? ·     What thoughts do you have for navigating the deep roots of the changes happening right now? ·     What does consciousness mean to you? Justin pronounces that “Nature kills pretense!” These times are causing people to really examine what is really important. He also shares his belief that consciousness is the space between thoughts and feelings and YOU, your true self. Justin recommends that we be willing to ask more questions and incorporate “this is what it means to me.” His philosophy is to have a self-intervention practice. This involved three things to ask yourself: 1.    When you react to something ask yourself “is that true? “Don’t trust your thoughts and feelings completely. Listen to them, but don’t trust them completely. 2.    What are you feeling called to do, or action to take, that you haven’t been called to do before? 3.    What is something you can’t go back to? Justin says that something he is not going back to borrowing energy from other people. See more about Justin’s work at https://rootandriver.com/ or his personal work at https://fosterthinking.com/ Remember – Mindful Matters and so do YOU!! https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/

In Honor of National Hair Loss Awareness Month in August, Holly hosts an interview with The Alopecia Angel, Johanna Dahlman. After having alopecia and recovering through holistic and organic methods, Johanna created books, programs and a site that is filled with empowering information, healthy alternatives and side effect free results for hair and health. Health is the greatest form of wealth. She helps people reduce anxiety, depression, stress, weight gain, health problems that arise due to neglect and reduce the toxic burden you are potentially enabling, even unknowingly. Correcting steps now, avoids potential health risks and increases productivity along with prosperity. Questions Holly and Johanna explore: How do we have the conversation with employers when a health situation comes up? What are practices that can be done to start listening to the body? What are symptoms of alopecia? Where can we start to evaluate our lifestyles? The power is in your hands to improve your health! Visit www.alopeciaangel.com for more information. Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU! For more resources go to https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/

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