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Season 4 - Episode 45 - How do you know when your a leader? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the Coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. So we're talking about
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  leadership today and the question of the day is how do
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  you know when you're a leader? Someone asked me that question
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  this week and I sat there for a second and I was like, that is
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  such a great question. How do you know when you're a
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  leader? Because if we ask what defines
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  leadership, we all have some sort of construct in our head
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  about, you know, what leadership looks like.
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  But we really don't ever sit down and pull it apart and say,
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  well, how do you know when you're a leader?
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  Like, what puts you in that role?
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  And I myself pulled back and said, wow, that's a fantastic
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  question because it's causing me to pull back and go, OK, how do
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  I define them? Whether it's for myself or
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  someone else. But I started with myself, how
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  do you know when you're a leader?
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  And it came up because this person was asking, being asked
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  in his role to do something that he did not define as part of his
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  role. And we were discussing if that
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  was they were putting him in this position to push him into
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  something else along the way because he is currently not in a
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  leadership role. And we were defining if this was
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  going to be right for him. And so I said, well, you know,
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  we were running through what the aspects of what he was being
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  asked to do and it, it is clear it is a leadership role they are
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  trying to push him into. But when that question was
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  asked, how do you know when you're a leader?
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  When he said to me, well, how do, how do you know when you're
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  a leader? I was like, well, first and
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  foremost, my conclusion, my definition of this is I believe
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  you know, when you're a leader, when you are able to inspire
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  other people to take charge and do things with you as well As
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  for you on your behalf. If you need them to be part of
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  your team and you need them to go out and do something, you
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  need to inspire them to want to do that with you as well As for
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  you in whatever the capacity is, not for you personally, but for
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  the greater good of whatever the role is.
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  And this is where the, the, the rub came in for him because he's
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  like, well, I, I don't want it to be about me at all.
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  And when you dig into leadership, when you really dig
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  into leadership, you have to have people buy into you besides
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  the cause because you're the person, the 'cause they may see
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  the cause on paper, they may see the outcome on on paper or in
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  reality. But the truth is, in order to
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  push through whatever steps it takes, you need someone there
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  that they can attach it to or go to with their challenges or feel
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  safe with. It's all about the emotion and
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  the feeling. So the real part of the first
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  step in leadership is recognizing that so that, you
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  know, yes, I am an integral part of this.
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  I have to be that. I want to do that.
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  I want to inspire people, so I don't necessarily think of
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  myself on a daily basis when I'm here on the farm and I'm
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  coaching people on, you know, over the phone as quote, UN
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  quote, a leader. I see myself as, you know, I'm
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  the curator for people of what they're looking for.
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  I help them put it all together. But the reality is I am leading.
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  I'm doing this podcast, I'm putting out content.
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  I am definitely in a leadership role, whether I liked it or not
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  for a portion of my life. That is the role that I am in
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  because I'm doing that. And I just don't think about it
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  that way regularly. So when it's when you frame it,
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  it puts me in a position where I have to go.
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  That's true. And so the moment you start
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  thinking about that, you start really defining, well, would a
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  leader do that? Is that how a leader shows up?
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  Because for some reason human beings really have a lot of
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  emotion around that word. You love it, you hate it, You
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  have no, there's really very little ambiguity with people in
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  it. It's kind of right down.
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  Most people are like in a love hate relationship with it.
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  We've all had leaders we love and we've all had leaders we
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  can't stand. And sometimes we'll define
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  somebody as good in their middle of the road, but still, we have
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  emotion around it. And it's why it's so challenging
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  for us, because it is. We all have our own definition
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  of it. We all have our own beliefs
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  about it. So when you dig in and you start
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  to define it for yourself, you're actually able to move
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  into a much more powerful role in whatever you're doing in your
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  life. Because it, it's almost like it,
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  it, it, it, the framing itself inspires us because nobody's
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  watching. But when we attach that name to
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  it, all of a sudden we want to get better.
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  So it's a great question to ask yourself today.
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  How do you know when you're a leader?
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  So I hope you guys ask that question, dig in, and I will see
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  you all tomorrow and have a blessed day.
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  Bye.