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Can You Stay Calm When Everything Goes Wrong? | Aileda Bailey (Ep 59) · Glovisor Podcast

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Speaker 1: The leaders who thrive aren't the most experienced. They're the
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Speaker 1: ones who can regulate themselves, stay clear under pressure, and
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Speaker 1: lead consciously. Welcome to the Glowvisor Podcast, where we explore
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Speaker 1: business growth, communication, and personal development through real conversations with
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Speaker 1: people that make an impact. Our guest is a strategic
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Speaker 1: operations consultant, leadership strategist, and creator of the Conscious Leadership
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Speaker 1: Development System. helping leaders and organizations navigate complexity by blending
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Speaker 1: evidence-based business strategy with a deep understanding of human performance
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Speaker 1: and conscious leadership. Globalizer welcomes Elida Bailey.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Joe. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: Elida, let's begin. Please share with us a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about what you do.
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Speaker 3: I'm a business consultant of 15 years, primarily strategic operations.
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Speaker 3: I will share a little bit about kind of the
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Speaker 3: Conscious Leadership Development Program, only because I'm super excited about it.
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Speaker 3: I have a book coming out next month called Wake
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Speaker 3: Up and Lead. And I will say that that whole
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Speaker 3: program and system was initially grounded in my strategic operational work,
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Speaker 3: primarily in crisis management. And that happened during the pandemic.
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Speaker 3: I was working in the city of New York and
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Speaker 3: it was with medical practitioners, medical owners, and various different
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Speaker 3: aspects of the industry. So, you know, internal medicine, urgent cares,
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Speaker 3: it was a war zone, essentially, when things hit in
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Speaker 3: New York. And so I myself, oddly enough, had a
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Speaker 3: group of medical owners and practitioners in different various aspects
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Speaker 3: of the industry. And they had contracted me about six
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Speaker 3: weeks before the pandemic hit, and they were all in
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Speaker 3: the city. And so When that occurred, it obviously sent
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Speaker 3: the dynamic of the work and what I was initially
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Speaker 3: contracted out to do into a whole different direction. And so,
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Speaker 3: you know, this program, Conscious Leadership Development and the system
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Speaker 3: was actually developed during that time frame because I realized that,
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Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, like I was running support,
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Speaker 3: you know, for all of the field teams and the
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Speaker 3: doctors and the nurse practitioners and just all of the
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Speaker 3: medical fielders. you know, teams that were on the ground.
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Speaker 3: And essentially we were in a war zone, for lack
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Speaker 3: of a better term. We ran out of protective gear
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Speaker 3: in three weeks. We were running out of, you know,
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Speaker 3: medicines that they were using to try and treat and
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Speaker 3: triage with. And it was crazy. So long story short
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Speaker 3: is I took a director of operations role and started
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Speaker 3: building and designing like in real time, right? At a
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Speaker 3: very high rate of speed, not just myself, but teams
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Speaker 3: of people, right, that I was responsible for conducting. And
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Speaker 3: so we built out all kinds of additional systems, programs,
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Speaker 3: you know, field teams, all kinds of things to meet
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Speaker 3: the demands of what was happening from one moment to
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Speaker 3: the next. And, you know, I try to explain it
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Speaker 3: to people like, you're up against all of that, And
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Speaker 3: then you also have, it's the medical field, right? So
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Speaker 3: you've got HIPAA compliance, you've got state laws, you've got
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Speaker 3: federal laws, all of those things were changing literally some
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Speaker 3: days by the minute. And so you had to have
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Speaker 3: the capability to stay calm and in a calmer, more
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Speaker 3: clear state of being. And that really starts with our
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Speaker 3: own operating system. And so this program developed out of
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Speaker 3: that because I realized that I almost felt like I
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Speaker 3: had been training myself for that moment in time when
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Speaker 3: all of that occurred because it was my capability to
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Speaker 3: hold myself in this very conscious and very calm state
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Speaker 3: of being that allowed me to execute with a lot
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Speaker 3: more clarity during that period of time. And the thing
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Speaker 3: that I realized coming out of that is that if
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Speaker 3: more people, more leaders in particular, who are trained to
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Speaker 3: do this and to think this way and to be
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Speaker 3: able to understand their own physical operating system, especially in
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Speaker 3: crisis situations, and now that we have all these technology
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Speaker 3: and all of the speed of light change that we
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Speaker 3: have in today's world, I think it becomes even more
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Speaker 3: important important that young leaders especially understand how to start
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Speaker 3: to transition and train their own leadership skills, right, in
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Speaker 3: this arena. It's more of an advanced level of leadership
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Speaker 3: than we've ever really kind of thought about before. And
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Speaker 3: so that's the reason why the program actually developed.
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Speaker 1: You developed a program during one of the most difficult
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Speaker 1: times in this country. And here you are working live,
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Speaker 1: just trying to figure this out and putting it all together.
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Speaker 1: So can you just take us back a little bit?
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Speaker 1: What was that moment when you realized I'm on to
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Speaker 1: something here?
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Speaker 3: It wasn't even so much of like I'm on to
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Speaker 3: something here. It was more like it was meeting the
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Speaker 3: demand of what was required at that given point in time.
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Speaker 3: And what it allowed me to do is to be
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Speaker 3: able to provide support on a far greater level at
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Speaker 3: a faster rate of speed with a lot of clarity
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Speaker 3: and precision. So I'm going to give you an example here.
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Speaker 3: So You know, a lot of people went into panic mode,
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Speaker 3: understandably so, right?
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Speaker 2: I even had a lot of.
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Speaker 3: Practitioners, medical practitioners who, you know, it was horrifying to
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Speaker 3: them and they wanted to run away and like tuck
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Speaker 3: themselves in a corner and hide and not come to
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Speaker 3: the forefront and lead during that time frame. And then
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Speaker 3: you have, you know, business owners who did a lot
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Speaker 3: of the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Their systems went into panic. They went into panic.
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Speaker 3: When people go into panic, you cannot do, you know,
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Speaker 3: you can't think about things in a strategic fashion because
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Speaker 3: your system, your physical system starts to shut down on you.
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Speaker 3: You know, cortisol starts racing into your body. And that's
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Speaker 3: because of the mind-body connection, right? Your brain controls your body.
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Speaker 3: So if you're in a state of fear and panic
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Speaker 3: in your brain, then your body starts dumping all these
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Speaker 3: chemicals into the body as a reactionary measure. oxygen starts
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Speaker 3: to shut down to the brain, moral to the story
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Speaker 3: is we are not optimal to take any kind of decisions,
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Speaker 3: let alone extremely strategic decisions, when we are in that
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Speaker 3: state of being. And so my reality coming back out
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Speaker 3: the other side of the pandemic was this capability would
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Speaker 3: have saved a lot of potentially a lot of lives
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Speaker 3: and a lot of businesses, too. You know, it was
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Speaker 3: like it's twofold kind of across the playing field because,
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Speaker 3: you know, a lot of people kind of almost gave
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Speaker 3: up during that period of time.
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Speaker 1: Is this something that you would say you had to
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Speaker 1: do a little self-talk to say, Alita, focus and do
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Speaker 1: this and do that? Or is this something that was
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Speaker 1: just inherent in you?
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Speaker 3: No, this was this is why I say like it
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Speaker 3: was like this is a lifetime of understanding and of
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Speaker 3: knowing and of learning.
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Speaker 2: And of growing.
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Speaker 3: Right. And so I say that only because like I've
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Speaker 3: always been I've had a passion about the brain.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: And so neuroscience, quantum physics, epigenetics, these are my key
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Speaker 3: core passions in my life. And so when I say passions,
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Speaker 3: these are things that I study deeply. simply because I
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Speaker 3: want to, not because anybody's ever told me I had to, right?
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Speaker 3: And so, you know, I think that that is what
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Speaker 3: really makes the difference for me when I say something
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Speaker 3: is a passion, right? And then I have, you know,
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Speaker 3: obviously like, you know, curriculum and all of that and
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Speaker 3: things that I've had to learn in life or that
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Speaker 3: I have learned through, you know, coming up through corporate
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Speaker 3: America and my career path and all of those things.
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Speaker 3: But when it comes to the brain in particular, You know,
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Speaker 3: my fascination with it, I think, started.
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Speaker 2: At a very young age.
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Speaker 3: I had a family member who had suffered brain trauma.
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Speaker 3: And so that kind of like brought me into awareness
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Speaker 3: initially of the importance of the brain and the different
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Speaker 3: lobes and the different functions. And then I had the
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Speaker 3: opportunity to actually rehabilitate a mass stroke victim at a
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Speaker 3: certain juncture in my life as well. And so that just...
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Speaker 3: literally like sent me down this path of like fascination
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Speaker 3: with the brain. And I will say this. So just
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Speaker 3: some fun facts, right, for your viewers here today. So
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Speaker 3: one thing I will say is like I equate conscious
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Speaker 3: awareness with essentially free will. And I equate that because
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Speaker 3: it's been proven that we cannot take new choices or
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Speaker 3: new decisions about anything unless we're consciously aware. Now, the
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Speaker 3: one thing that separates us from technology and separates us
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Speaker 3: from most everything on the planet as a human is
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Speaker 3: our ability to become conscious. So I find that super fascinating, right?
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Speaker 3: Like that's the one thing that kind of like defines
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Speaker 3: us and separates us from most everything in the world.
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Speaker 2: And so that's a gift.
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Speaker 3: And then when you look at like pop neuroscience and
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Speaker 3: pop psychology, they estimate that we are conscious as human
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Speaker 3: beings only an average of like, you know, anywhere from,
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Speaker 3: you know, five to 15%.
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Speaker 1: Of the time.
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Speaker 3: And that's, I mean, that's, so that means our brain,
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Speaker 3: which is incredible, is running our system essentially very efficiently
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Speaker 3: on a daily basis, but it's running it on autopilot,
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Speaker 3: meaning taking decisions automatically for us. And so I try
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Speaker 3: to teach people, you know, like if you think about this,
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Speaker 3: I can equate it to like conscious awareness is the
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Speaker 3: pilot of the plane. And then subconscious mind is like
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Speaker 3: the capability to put the plane on autopilot. Well, if
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Speaker 3: we're traveling internationally and I don't necessarily want that plane
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Speaker 3: on autopilot the entire time, especially if we start to
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Speaker 3: hit turbulence. Like, please, yes, put the pilot back in
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Speaker 3: charge of the plane, right? And so it's the same
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Speaker 3: exact thing, except this is our daily lives that we're living.
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Speaker 3: And so I maintain that we should be training ourselves
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Speaker 3: to be conscious and consciously aware so much more.
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Speaker 2: Of the time.
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Speaker 1: Interesting. Now, Some of the listeners may be thinking, well, Alita,
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Speaker 1: you've studied all of this. You're strong. You're a tough person.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's why you're predisposed to this. Maybe if I
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Speaker 1: went through this process, this learning process, I may not
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Speaker 1: have the same outcome. Do you agree or disagree with that?
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Speaker 2: I totally disagree.
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Speaker 3: This is something that we all have essentially the same
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Speaker 3: human design. And we've all got the capability to train
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Speaker 3: ourselves to hold conscious state of being for more prolonged
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Speaker 3: periods of time, for sure, without doubt. And this really
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Speaker 3: resonates well because I ground the system very intensely also
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Speaker 3: in science and science-based facts. And so I've trained and
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Speaker 3: developed aerospace engineers in this area. In this train of thought,
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Speaker 3: I have done it with entrepreneurs and business owners who
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Speaker 3: were just like, I like, I don't even know if
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Speaker 3: I want to keep.
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Speaker 2: My business, right?
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Speaker 3: Like, I don't even like, I'm just hitting this wall.
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Speaker 3: And I just feel like I want to give everything up.
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Speaker 3: And I want to just cash in all the chips.
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, Oh, wait a minute. How about if
11:55
Speaker 3: you just step in here with me for a second, right? Like,
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Speaker 3: let's put you in this program. And then if three
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Speaker 3: months from now, you feel the same, fine, right? But
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Speaker 3: if you just take a time out and you're willing
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Speaker 3: to actually, you know, work on like some key components,
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Speaker 3: not just with yourself, but, you know, address, we'll address
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Speaker 3: during that period of time, anything that happens to be
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Speaker 3: like major challenge in life. For some people, it's business.
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Speaker 3: For some people, it's family. For some people, you know,
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Speaker 3: there's a whole slew of things that people can be
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Speaker 3: viewing as like major stressors. And so that's the other
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Speaker 3: thing that I tell people is like, really pay attention
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Speaker 3: to the words that we're using too, because, you know,
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Speaker 3: the word stress or I'm so stressed, all of that
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Speaker 3: is like very ingrained here in our American culture and
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Speaker 3: our corporate, right? And social way of like viewing things
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Speaker 3: and essentially like almost even embodying things, right? Like if
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Speaker 3: I say the word stress, Just saying the word automatically
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Speaker 3: makes me want to like panic a little bit, right?
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Speaker 3: Gives me a little bit of angst, right? But if
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Speaker 3: I swap that word and it's just.
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Speaker 2: A word, right? But if I just change it to
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Speaker 2: the word challenge or maybe even, if you dare, opportunity, right?
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Speaker 2: It's an entirely different way that I look at that
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Speaker 2: something now I look at it and I view it
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Speaker 2: completely differently and my perspective is flipped and now I
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Speaker 2: can manage it differently. Does that make sense?
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Speaker 1: When you change the word, it goes from it's happening
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Speaker 1: to me to all of a sudden I become an
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Speaker 1: active player in my.
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Speaker 2: Own choices and decisions. Yeah. Yeah. Now I name it.
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Speaker 2: And so now it's outside of me.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Now that I can label it, it's outside of me
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Speaker 2: and now I can see it differently.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Now, how do you deliver your systems?
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Speaker 3: So my system starts with a three-month program. And that's because,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's designed for the first three months to
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Speaker 3: ensure that people don't feel like over-obligated because that's a
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Speaker 3: big factor initially in the beginning is like people are like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I don't know if I can commit. I don't know
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Speaker 3: how long I could do this for. I don't know
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Speaker 3: if I can do this, right? There's so many things
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Speaker 3: in the beginning. But it's always fascinating because once we
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Speaker 3: get about six weeks in, right, about midpoint through that
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Speaker 3: first three months, literally I'm sitting with people and they're
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Speaker 3: just like, I cannot believe how much my life has
14:35
Speaker 3: already changed for the positive.
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Speaker 2: And it's like I said, anything that's touching their life, right?
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Speaker 3: And so I'm one of those people who, you know,
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Speaker 3: people think that business and personal lives are separate and
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Speaker 3: they always intertwine.
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Speaker 2: They will always intersect.
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Speaker 3: You know, I don't know how many CEOs that I've
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Speaker 3: known throughout my career that if they have something going
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Speaker 3: sideways in their personal life, it definitely gets packed into
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Speaker 3: the business, whether they intend it to or not.
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Speaker 2: And so it just helps them.
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Speaker 3: Understand how to navigate life in a whole different way.
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Speaker 1: Do they have to learn anything or read anything in
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Speaker 1: preparation to start your system?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: So one of the really interesting things is, is that
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Speaker 3: when I work with people, I'll give them what I
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Speaker 3: reference as like a protocol on a weekly basis, right?
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Speaker 3: And so, and, and, and, or if they work with
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Speaker 3: another one of the trainers and the developers who have
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Speaker 3: been certified, right, with my program.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 3: They will go through a weekly protocol initially, sometimes that
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Speaker 3: depending on a person's need, once they start to become like,
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Speaker 3: they start to feel like they, I reference it like
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Speaker 3: almost like getting your training wheels, right? You're ready to
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Speaker 3: kick off the training wheels. Then you can go for
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Speaker 3: more prolonged periods of time in between. But the protocols
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Speaker 3: are designed initially to keep people very focused.
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Speaker 2: It's very....
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Speaker 3: The directive is really geared towards a customization of what
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Speaker 3: that individual's needs are. And I say that because no
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Speaker 3: two people have the same perception about anything. And so...
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Speaker 3: what is fine for some person might not be fine
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Speaker 3: for somebody else. And so we look at everything just
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Speaker 3: kind of like across the scope of somebody's life and
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Speaker 3: how they're viewing things and what their lens is. And
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Speaker 3: the three months is important because really what we're doing
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Speaker 3: is we're ingraining new behaviors and new ways of looking
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Speaker 3: at things as we're working throughout that period of time. Also,
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Speaker 3: helping people to understand their operating system. Like I said,
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Speaker 3: their human operating system, right? And so how that functions
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Speaker 3: and how to have more control over that. Like most
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Speaker 3: people don't realize that you can tell your brain what
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Speaker 3: to do and it does it. I mean, again, when
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Speaker 3: we're conscious, we have that capability. You can tell your
16:59
Speaker 3: brain what to do and it will execute whatever you
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Speaker 3: tell it to do. So, Just knowing that, right, is
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Speaker 3: kind of a key factor. But what we're doing through
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Speaker 3: that period of time is really what we call neuroplasticity.
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Speaker 3: And we're reprogramming whatever needs to be reprogrammed. And so
17:18
Speaker 3: if you think about it this way, you know, we
17:21
Speaker 3: kind of don't think about it, but like programming and
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Speaker 3: just even that term, right? Like it's in place for
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Speaker 3: a reason because we have TV programming. We have, you know,
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Speaker 3: And you think about broadcasting systems. You know, one thing
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Speaker 3: I tell people sometimes who are feeling in almost like
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Speaker 3: a state of despair is, you know, when you're watching
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Speaker 3: the news, right, literally in broadcasting systems and the programming world,
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Speaker 3: it's designed if it doesn't bleed, it doesn't lead. And
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Speaker 3: we often forget about that.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: And so it becomes fascinating because, you know, I'll have
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Speaker 3: I'll say, hey, how about you just, you know, as
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Speaker 3: part of the protocol? Hey, how about if you only
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Speaker 3: watch news half the time that you normally would or whatever? Right.
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Speaker 2: And people will be like, Alita, come on right now.
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Speaker 1: Like, I'm a realist.
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Speaker 2: Right. Like, I got to. And I'm like, okay, now
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Speaker 2: I'm here to challenge you, right? I get it. I'm
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Speaker 2: a realist too.
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Speaker 3: And reality is, right, that they don't have a camera
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Speaker 3: strapped on the back of every superhero that's racing around
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Speaker 3: the world and saving lives either, now do they? And
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Speaker 3: then people are like, oh, like, huh, you might have
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Speaker 3: a point there, right? And so, or I'm like, how
18:47
Speaker 3: about you walk outside your door, right? Like, how about you, like,
18:50
Speaker 3: go talk to some of your neighbors? How about you
18:52
Speaker 3: move around your neighborhood, right? Like, tell me, like, are
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Speaker 3: you seeing all that same stuff, right, that you're seeing.
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Speaker 2: On the news?
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Speaker 3: Like, odds are no, right? Nine times out of ten,
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Speaker 3: odds are no. They're not experiencing that. But they can
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Speaker 3: be all consumed by the news and, like, now all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden, like, the world is ending.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, do you have like a quick example or
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Speaker 1: maybe something that you can share that can make someone
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Speaker 1: who feels a little down and you can change their
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Speaker 1: state almost instantaneously?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of different things, right?
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Speaker 3: So I'll say, you know, like call up and speed
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Speaker 3: dial your funniest friend and share a good laugh because
19:36
Speaker 3: that's like inevitably going to do the trick every single time.
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Speaker 3: But I will say this, right? So as silly as
19:43
Speaker 3: this is going to sound, this actually works. And so
19:47
Speaker 3: they've started putting glass space back into cities worldwide because
19:53
Speaker 3: one of the things that they discovered is that when
19:56
Speaker 3: they start to take parks out and we start to
19:59
Speaker 3: do so much development that everything is concrete and now
20:03
Speaker 3: we've left no Mother Nature into the equation, it does
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Speaker 3: dramatically impact a person's mental health and a person's mental well-being.
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Speaker 3: And so they've started putting parks and planning that space
20:16
Speaker 3: back into cities again globally for that reason. And so
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Speaker 3: it's fascinating when you look at it because there's actually
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Speaker 3: a chemical that's put off by plants and by trees
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Speaker 3: that actually induces well-being and calmness in our physical systems.
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Speaker 3: And then there's science now that's backing if you, in fact,
20:39
Speaker 3: just get out and step away from your technology, right,
20:42
Speaker 3: for a period of time and just put your body
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Speaker 3: on the earth. Like it could be something as simple
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Speaker 3: as like, hey, let's go out for a picnic and
20:50
Speaker 3: let's throw a blanket on the ground like the good
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Speaker 3: old days, right? And let's just sit down and let's
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Speaker 3: just share a meal sitting on the ground and have,
20:59
Speaker 3: you It's amazing how in 30 minutes that can completely
21:06
Speaker 3: calm the human body and the physical system.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I've noticed
21:12
Speaker 1: that more and more of the CEOs that I talk to,
21:15
Speaker 1: they're walking around barefoot.
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Speaker 3: They're actually practicing the art of what's referenced as grounding.
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Speaker 2: Interesting.
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot more of that.
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Speaker 3: It's interesting, though, because one of my clients, an aerospace engineer,
21:30
Speaker 3: younger gentleman, high level of responsibility, though. It was interesting
21:36
Speaker 3: because when I first suggested this to him, that was
21:39
Speaker 3: where his head went. He was like, I can't go
21:43
Speaker 3: to my local park and just start walking around without
21:47
Speaker 3: my shoes on.
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Speaker 2: People are going to think I'm crazy. right?
21:51
Speaker 3: That was his initial thought. And I'm like, wow, you know,
21:54
Speaker 3: what happened to the days when we would roll up
21:56
Speaker 3: our pant legs and maybe take a stroll on the beach?
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Speaker 2: I get it. It depends on what location we're in, right?
22:02
Speaker 3: That might not be super safe in some if we've
22:05
Speaker 3: got broken glass and whatever. But In most cases, right?
22:10
Speaker 3: But that was where his head automatically went. And I
22:12
Speaker 3: was like, wow, that's so interesting, right? And then I
22:16
Speaker 3: was like, you know, I'm not even suggesting that that
22:18
Speaker 3: necessarily has to be what it is, right? Just go
22:22
Speaker 3: out and take a stroll through nature, through a park,
22:25
Speaker 3: or pay attention to the trees and get out amongst
22:27
Speaker 3: trees if you can. Go for a nice hike, whatever
22:31
Speaker 3: the case may be. I'm just suggesting that you maybe
22:33
Speaker 3: like stop and sit along the way and just breathe
22:37
Speaker 3: it in for a second and then see how you feel.
22:40
Speaker 3: And so super fascinating because that same person, yes, actually
22:45
Speaker 3: went to the degree where you were talking about, he
22:47
Speaker 3: might've been one of the people you saw in Florida
22:50
Speaker 3: walking around barefoot all of a sudden out in the
22:52
Speaker 3: middle of nowhere. And then it was fascinating because he
22:56
Speaker 3: started sending me pictures of like, you know, I would
22:58
Speaker 3: give recommended reads or whatever, you know, as he was
23:01
Speaker 3: going through the process of the program. And then he
23:04
Speaker 3: started sending me pictures of being outside.
23:07
Speaker 2: The rocket would be like right there, right, that they're
23:10
Speaker 2: working on, ready to launch.
23:13
Speaker 3: But him actually sitting on the grass with a, you know,
23:16
Speaker 3: a good read, like up and, you know, just paying
23:18
Speaker 3: attention to all of it. And so super cool for me, right,
23:22
Speaker 3: when I get to see the effect of that and
23:24
Speaker 3: the transition for people.
23:25
Speaker 1: Absolutely. It confirms the transformation that your work is having
23:29
Speaker 1: on other people. And I'm sure that's got to feel really,
23:32
Speaker 1: really good for you.
23:33
Speaker 2: Hugely gratifying, yeah.
23:35
Speaker 1: If one of our listeners wanted to work with you,
23:37
Speaker 1: what is the full process from getting in contact with
23:41
Speaker 1: you all the way through the system?
23:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have a scheduling system set up online.
23:47
Speaker 3: So people can just go to my website. It's askalita.com.
23:52
Speaker 3: And on my website, there's a book now or, you know,
23:56
Speaker 3: connect with me.
23:57
Speaker 2: Button or option.
23:59
Speaker 3: There's also content on there that they can view to
24:02
Speaker 3: kind of get a better idea of what the offering is.
24:05
Speaker 3: But there's an option to then just go in. If
24:08
Speaker 3: you're curious about any of the services that I offer,
24:11
Speaker 3: you can click on it and that allows you to
24:13
Speaker 3: come into a free consultation with me.
24:15
Speaker 1: Now, is there an ideal individual that should be contacting
24:20
Speaker 1: you right now? And is there also another group that
24:24
Speaker 1: you've identified that probably shouldn't be contacted you at this
24:28
Speaker 1: time and maybe they're just not ready?
24:31
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say I think people know when
24:33
Speaker 3: they're ready, right? So I think if you're at any
24:36
Speaker 3: point and juncture where maybe you're like, it's a situation
24:39
Speaker 3: like what I described, right? Like maybe you're ready to
24:42
Speaker 3: throw in the towel on something that's like really vitally
24:45
Speaker 3: important to you or that's always been important to you.
24:48
Speaker 3: And now you're just kind of like at your wits end,
24:50
Speaker 3: I would say probably a good time to connect just
24:54
Speaker 3: to get like also grounded advice, right? And advising through
24:58
Speaker 3: those critical kind of critical mass points in life.
25:01
Speaker 2: I would say.
25:02
Speaker 3: But also on top of that, this program in particular
25:07
Speaker 3: is for like that mission critical younger leader who's coming into,
25:12
Speaker 3: you know, having to make high level executive decisions. And
25:17
Speaker 3: anybody who's in that high level executive decisions, meaning I'm
25:21
Speaker 3: a leader, And my decisions are going to impact a
25:25
Speaker 3: lot of people. You know, I'll give you an example,
25:30
Speaker 3: an aerospace mission director, you know, like, hey, Alita, like
25:34
Speaker 3: if I make one decision wrong, it can all of
25:38
Speaker 3: a sudden cost millions upon millions of dollars. It's that
25:42
Speaker 3: type of leadership that could be in finance, it could
25:46
Speaker 3: be in cybersecurity, aerospace engineering, like it's across all industries, essentially, right?
25:52
Speaker 3: But when people are in that type of a role
25:55
Speaker 3: and they are just perpetually like you often hear the
25:59
Speaker 3: terms pushing through.
26:01
Speaker 1: Right.
26:02
Speaker 2: And if that's what somebody is feeling or sensing, then
26:07
Speaker 2: they're not at optimal level for sure. Right.
26:11
Speaker 3: If you feel like you're pushing through. You're not functioning
26:14
Speaker 3: at an optimal level yourself. You're just pushing your system
26:18
Speaker 3: as hard as you can to get to the next,
26:20
Speaker 3: you know, decision or the next whatever that you have
26:23
Speaker 3: to take. Right.
26:24
Speaker 2: And so so I would say that.
26:26
Speaker 3: Right. Because that's a pretty crummy feeling and it's a
26:29
Speaker 3: very high level of responsibility. That would be ideal.
26:33
Speaker 2: Right.
26:33
Speaker 3: To move those leaders into this type of program. You know,
26:37
Speaker 3: it's not going to work for everyone. And when I
26:39
Speaker 3: say that, like this, this would not work for like
26:43
Speaker 3: if if a corporation is like, oh, I'm going to
26:45
Speaker 3: sign everybody.
26:46
Speaker 2: In our company up for this training and for this development,
26:50
Speaker 2: which they could. Right.
26:51
Speaker 3: But if you sign everybody up and there's people who
26:54
Speaker 3: don't want to embark upon this training and they don't
26:58
Speaker 3: want this type of development, then it's not going to
27:01
Speaker 3: work for them. Right.
27:02
Speaker 2: Like somebody has to actually want it.
27:05
Speaker 1: We run away from pain or towards pleasure, right? So
27:09
Speaker 1: if you're not feeling some pain somewhere in your life,
27:11
Speaker 1: then you need that change right now. And then to
27:14
Speaker 1: your point that you were making earlier, if you're at
27:16
Speaker 1: your wit's end, this is it, then I think you
27:19
Speaker 1: have nothing to lose but to make the call and
27:22
Speaker 1: just look around to see if there's something else that
27:25
Speaker 1: can make that change for your life.
27:27
Speaker 3: Yeah.
27:28
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe.
27:29
Speaker 3: Also, you know, I will say this, and this isn't
27:32
Speaker 3: like an ideal situation, but just in general, a lot
27:36
Speaker 3: of high achievers have oftentimes turned towards drugs of some
27:41
Speaker 3: sort in order to like, you know, induce that level
27:45
Speaker 3: of like, I have to keep going, I have to
27:47
Speaker 3: keep going. And it's not something I like to talk about,
27:50
Speaker 3: but that's reality. Like that is what's happening and or
27:54
Speaker 3: what has been happening in large part for a lot
27:57
Speaker 3: of these high achievers. And there's other ways, right? I
28:01
Speaker 3: would say to that person, once you understand how your
28:06
Speaker 3: physical system is designed to work in a very optimal
28:10
Speaker 3: and a very efficient way for you, it doesn't have
28:13
Speaker 3: to be like that. That doesn't have to be your
28:18
Speaker 3: go-to in order to curate or continue to curate success
28:22
Speaker 3: at the level at which you're used to achieving it. Sure.
28:26
Speaker 1: Now, if listeners remember only one thing from today's conversation,
28:30
Speaker 1: what do you hope that message is?
28:32
Speaker 3: I would say, you know, I hope that they cling
28:35
Speaker 3: on to the few tips and tricks that we've tossed
28:38
Speaker 3: out there. Like, you know, get outside, you know, take
28:41
Speaker 3: in a little bit of nature. It takes down angst
28:44
Speaker 3: or anxiety really quickly. I would say that like that's
28:48
Speaker 3: a fast way to make yourself feel better. I would
28:51
Speaker 3: say also be mindful of, you know, how you're programming
28:54
Speaker 3: yourself with the word choices that you're using. If you
28:57
Speaker 3: are that person who uses stress all the time, please
29:00
Speaker 3: start to use few things more as a challenge or
29:03
Speaker 3: an opportunity, even if you dare go that far with it.
29:06
Speaker 2: Right. And hopefully you do. You know, I would say
29:11
Speaker 2: those are two very fast.
29:13
Speaker 3: Things that can change how something is feeling for you
29:17
Speaker 3: very quickly.
29:18
Speaker 2: Excellent.
29:19
Speaker 1: Great advice. Now, finally, can you tell us again, where
29:23
Speaker 1: can our audience connect with you? Find out more about
29:26
Speaker 1: your work and continue this conversation.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can find me on LinkedIn. So Alita Bailey,
29:31
Speaker 3: the spelling's not the easiest, right? It's on the screen here.
29:35
Speaker 3: So jot that down. And so you can find me
29:39
Speaker 3: on LinkedIn. under Alita Bailey. You can also find me
29:43
Speaker 3: via my website at askalita.com.
29:46
Speaker 1: Alita, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate
29:49
Speaker 1: your time and all of the value you've shared.
29:52
Speaker 2: Joe, I appreciate hanging out with you. Thanks.
29:55
Speaker 1: Likewise. Thanks, everyone, for listening. If this episode inspired you,
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