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Creative Leadership | Episode #408 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make your
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Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international
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Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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Speaker 1: your Life Count. I'm so delighted that you joined me today.
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Speaker 1: Our topic is creative leadership. So what do we mean
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Speaker 1: by creative leadership. I'll share more about that in just
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Speaker 1: a few moments. Right now, I want to take a
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Speaker 1: moment to welcome you. If you're just joining us. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Gloria Burgess. This is Legacy Living, Make your
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Speaker 1: Life Count. I'd like to extend a special welcome to
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Speaker 1: those of you who are joining for the very first time.
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Speaker 1: You're in for a real treat. I'm excited to have
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Speaker 1: you listening in today, and I'm deeply honored that you've
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Speaker 1: allowed me to be part of your day so you
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Speaker 1: can be inspired by ideas and resources to make your
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Speaker 1: life count now. Like I said, today's program is all
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Speaker 1: about creative leadership. Now, some of you may not actually
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Speaker 1: think of yourself as a leader. Maybe you're a psychotherapist,
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Speaker 1: a clinician, a nurse, or maybe you're an entrepreneur like
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Speaker 1: me or like my niece. Maybe you're a student in
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Speaker 1: college and you have no idea right now of what
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Speaker 1: you want to be or do after you graduate. Well,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you something. It doesn't matter what you
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Speaker 1: do in your professional life, and it doesn't matter what
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Speaker 1: life stage you're in. You are a leader. How can
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Speaker 1: I say that with such assurance? Here's how. If you
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Speaker 1: are alive and participating in this great adventure we call life,
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Speaker 1: then you are a leader. Now maybe you're the only
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Speaker 1: person you're leading at the moment, but somebody has to
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Speaker 1: be in charge, right and that's you. You are in
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Speaker 1: charge of yourself, so you can make a difference in
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Speaker 1: your own life, and you can also make a difference
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Speaker 1: in someone else's life. When you know how to lead yourself,
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Speaker 1: you can transfer that knowledge. You can transfer those skills
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Speaker 1: so you can lead well in any circumstance. Now, today
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about how to do just that. Specifically,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about creative leadership, because if you
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Speaker 1: can tap into your own well of creativity, If you
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Speaker 1: can do that, then you will be equipped to lead
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Speaker 1: yourself and others in any situation that comes up in
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Speaker 1: your life. Now, remember, how you live is how you lead. Right,
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Speaker 1: it's how you do everything. So what you're going to
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Speaker 1: hear about today, you can also apply it in your
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Speaker 1: daily life as well. What I'm going to share with
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Speaker 1: you today is a wonderful, wonderful example of what legacy life,
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Speaker 1: make your life count is all about. Okay, here we
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Speaker 1: go creative leadership. Now we are in the process of
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Speaker 1: creating a new story, a new narrative, and that new
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Speaker 1: story is all about creative leadership. This new story is
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Speaker 1: compelling because now more than ever, we need all of
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Speaker 1: us to recognize and tap into our creativity to lead
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Speaker 1: well as co creators in whatever our sphere of influence
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Speaker 1: happens to be. In our relationships, in our families, in
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Speaker 1: our work teams and organizations, in our communities, in our
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Speaker 1: churches and synagogues and mosques, in our civic and political institutions,
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Speaker 1: in our cities, and in our nations. So this new
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Speaker 1: story actually puts creativity, the arts, and artistry right back
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Speaker 1: where they belong, along with leadership, not on the margins,
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Speaker 1: but at the very heart, at the very core, the
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Speaker 1: center of our spiritual, social, cultural, political, and economic lives.
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Speaker 1: In fact, this story joins creativity, art and artistry with leadership,
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Speaker 1: because you know what that is precisely what it will
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Speaker 1: take to lead well. To lead with authenticity, to lead
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Speaker 1: with courage, to lead with empathy and gratitude, faith integrity,
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Speaker 1: to lead with humility and hospitality, to lead with love
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Speaker 1: and legacy in the twenty first century and beyond. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know I've shared this lovely story before, but I
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Speaker 1: want to share it again. In the United States, there
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Speaker 1: is an absolutely stunning region of our country in the
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Speaker 1: Appalachian Mountains, in a part of that region we call
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Speaker 1: the Appalachia Hill Country. Now, the folks who live there,
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Speaker 1: especially the elders, these people have a very special, lovely
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Speaker 1: way that they greet you when you come to their door.
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Speaker 1: They will greet you not by saying hello, Hi, how
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Speaker 1: are you. Instead, they'll greet you by saying something like,
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Speaker 1: what's working you? Right? I'm gonna repeat that, what's working you?
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Speaker 1: That's right? So today I want to share with you
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Speaker 1: that in my journey as a leader, as an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: as an artist, in my journey as a mom, wife,
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Speaker 1: community steward, what's been working me is at the very
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Speaker 1: intersection of creativity, artistry, leadership, spirituality, human dignity, and freedom.
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Speaker 1: For all. These are the key things that have been
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Speaker 1: working me now. They've been working me for many decades,
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Speaker 1: so this really feels like home to me. I want
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Speaker 1: to share with you a way to consider creativity and leadership. Now.
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Speaker 1: For me, this is my way of being right, my
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Speaker 1: way of living and moving through the world, a way
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Speaker 1: that has helped me in all spheres of my life
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Speaker 1: as a creative, as an artist, and as a leader.
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Speaker 1: And now you probably know what I'm going to say next, right,
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Speaker 1: I don't actually even make a separation amongst those three
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Speaker 1: arenas of my life. Creativity, artistry and leadership. For me,
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Speaker 1: they all go together, and I hope they will for
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Speaker 1: you as well. It's something that I've written about, this
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Speaker 1: dynamic creativity and artistry and leadership. I've written about it
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Speaker 1: in all of my books, in Pass It On, in
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Speaker 1: Flawless Leadership, Connecting who you are with what you know
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Speaker 1: and do, in Sanctuary, in Dare to Wear your Soul
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Speaker 1: on the outside, Live your Legacy Now, and in a
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Speaker 1: book called Legacy Living Go Figure Right, Legacy Living This
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Speaker 1: Six Covenants for professional Excellence. Now. I've been writing these
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Speaker 1: books for well over twenty years, and it's no surprise
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Speaker 1: that there's this intimate connection. In all of these books,
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Speaker 1: I write about the art of creative leadership, and specifically
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Speaker 1: I write about the art of staying the course, the
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Speaker 1: choice of being faithful to whatever is working you. Okay, Now,
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Speaker 1: for the past several decades in my work life as
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Speaker 1: a leader, as a consultant, as an executive coach, a
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Speaker 1: life coach, creativity coach, as a professor, and as an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: as well as in my writing life, my singing life,
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Speaker 1: my making dance and music life, my parenting life, what's
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Speaker 1: been working me is this invisible matrix, or what I
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Speaker 1: call an armature that rules our lives as human beings.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it absolutely rules our lives. Now, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to share a little bit about this resource with you,
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Speaker 1: about this armature, because when you understand how powerful it is,
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Speaker 1: you will actually want to know more about it so
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Speaker 1: that you can harness that power and use it to
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Speaker 1: make your life and work better and to help others
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Speaker 1: do the same. So let's make one thing perfectly clear.
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Speaker 1: All right, we are all creative. That's right now. If
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Speaker 1: you're saying, oh no, not me, everybody but me, no,
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Speaker 1: If you still have breath in your body, if you
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Speaker 1: still have a pulse, you are creative. Now, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about making that invisible armature visible. That's what I want
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Speaker 1: to delve into with you today. I want to shine
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Speaker 1: the light here so that you can eat easily recognize,
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Speaker 1: or more readily recognize and amplify the power of this matrix,
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Speaker 1: this armature in your own life and in your leadership.
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Speaker 1: There are seven dimensions or seven aspects to this armature,
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Speaker 1: and they all work together in harmony to give you
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Speaker 1: a superpower in your life. I'm going to have time
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Speaker 1: to really talk about just one of them today, but
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Speaker 1: I'm going to name all of them. Some aspects of
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Speaker 1: these will sound familiar to you, especially if you're a painter,
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Speaker 1: a doctor, a professor, a gardener, a writer, a student,
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Speaker 1: a college administrator, a plumber, a firefighter, a police officer,
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Speaker 1: or a community servant. Now that covers a lot of ground,
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Speaker 1: doesn't it didn't I tell you before that everybody, all
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Speaker 1: of us are creative. Okay, So whoever you are and
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Speaker 1: whatever you do, you're going to recognize the parts of
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Speaker 1: this armature. You're going to recognize them as creative principles,
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Speaker 1: creative tenets, and some of these you're going to recognize,
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Speaker 1: but maybe not necessarily within the framework of creativity. Maybe
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Speaker 1: you learned what I'm about to share with you in
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Speaker 1: an entirely different context, and you know what, that's okay.
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Speaker 1: Here's what I've learned and chronicled in my own life.
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Speaker 1: I call the seven dimensions or the seven aspects. I
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Speaker 1: call them seven sacred promises. Why because these are promises.
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Speaker 1: These are contracts, right that we make to ourselves, to
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Speaker 1: one another, and to God. So when I talk about
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Speaker 1: this armature, this structure, I'm referring to the seven sacred promises.
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Speaker 1: Now the presences, the promises that I want you to
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Speaker 1: know about that I want you to be more aware
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Speaker 1: of so that you can harness their power. These promises
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Speaker 1: are gratitude, faith, love, vision, integrity, creative action, and legacy.
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Speaker 1: Let me repeat them. The seven sacred promises are gratitude, faith, love, vision, integrity,
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Speaker 1: creative action, and legacy. Now today we have time to
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Speaker 1: focus on one of these promises in a lot of detail.
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Speaker 1: I want to shine the light on vision. But before
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Speaker 1: I talk about it, I want you to know that
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Speaker 1: all of these promises work together. Like I said, they
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Speaker 1: work in harmony, and just like the musicians in a
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Speaker 1: band or orchestra work together all of the seven sacred promises.
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Speaker 1: They're always present. They are always there as resources that
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Speaker 1: work together for your good right to support us as
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Speaker 1: leaders and to support our creativity. And they help us
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Speaker 1: and support us as we keep moving through the days,
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Speaker 1: the weeks, the months, the conversations, the relationships in our lives.
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Speaker 1: They help us to keep on keeping on, and they're
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Speaker 1: ever present resources that we can draw on in our
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Speaker 1: day to day living, in our day to day, moment
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Speaker 1: to moment lives as leaders. So let's take a look
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Speaker 1: at vision. Now. Vision is the big idea, right, It's
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Speaker 1: the main event. It's the idea of what you want
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Speaker 1: to do with yourself, your team, your organization, your community. Right,
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Speaker 1: it's not only about what. Vision is also about how. Furthermore,
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Speaker 1: vision is about what and how, and it also includes who.
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Speaker 1: So when you're casting or sharing a vision, some good
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Speaker 1: questions to ask yourself are these who will go with me?
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Speaker 1: I love that one who will go with me? Another
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Speaker 1: question is who will I encounter along the way? Right?
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Speaker 1: You may not know the names of those people, but
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Speaker 1: you can expect that somebody, okay, or many somebodies you're
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Speaker 1: gonna encounter them along the way. So who will I
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Speaker 1: run into? Who will I encounter along the way? Another
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Speaker 1: question is who will I collaborate with or who will
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Speaker 1: I partner with. There's a wonderful African wisdom saying that goes,
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Speaker 1: if you want to go fast, go alone, If you
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Speaker 1: want to go far, go together. And let me tell
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Speaker 1: you anything worth doing, any vision worth pursuing, is worth pursuing,
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Speaker 1: it's worth doing together. Now, here's a really cool thing
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Speaker 1: about vision. You do not have to see the entire canvas,
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Speaker 1: the entire vision, all at once. In fact, if you
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Speaker 1: do see the whole thing and it's crystal clear, get
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Speaker 1: a new vision. That's right, get a new vision. Because
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Speaker 1: if you can see it and it's crystal clear, what
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Speaker 1: you probably have is a goal and not a vision.
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Speaker 1: Here's what I know. Your vision will change, it'll morph,
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Speaker 1: it'll evolve as you move into it and as you
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Speaker 1: move towards it, so naturally it will keep morphing and
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Speaker 1: shape shifting and changing up along the way. So be open,
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Speaker 1: be open to what is revealed to you. Now, don't
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Speaker 1: get stuck on the vision that you happen to begin with.
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Speaker 1: Why because that vision the one you start with. That
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Speaker 1: vision may no longer be relevant tomorrow or next week,
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Speaker 1: or next month, or even next year. And this is
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Speaker 1: true whether you are leading through a time of crisis
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Speaker 1: or adversity or not. So remember you can have your vision,
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Speaker 1: but you must always keep your knees bent as you
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Speaker 1: breathe and live into and manifest your vision. Another thing
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Speaker 1: to remember is this, don't get attached to the particular
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Speaker 1: way that your vision will manifest. In other words, be open,
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Speaker 1: be open to outcome, and like I said, keep your
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Speaker 1: knees bent. Now. One of the many lessons I've learned
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Speaker 1: from being a coach is that you have to be
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Speaker 1: a guide right, a guide on the side, not a
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Speaker 1: sage on the stage. You listen more than you talk, right,
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Speaker 1: and you have to see the people that you coach
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Speaker 1: as highly capable human beings, as highly resourceful individuals who
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Speaker 1: can access their own knowledge, their own resources as their
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Speaker 1: awareness increases. You also have to see the folks that
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Speaker 1: you coach as highly capable I'm gonna say, or bridge builders,
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Speaker 1: who can take their new found awareness and build on
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Speaker 1: it as they confront themselves and others in the real world,
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Speaker 1: in real time, in real relationships right in their families
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Speaker 1: and in their organizations. Now, I often apply these lessons
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Speaker 1: when I work with my consulting clients as well. Even
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Speaker 1: though many of them say they want me because I'm
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Speaker 1: an expert in this or that, what they really want,
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Speaker 1: what they really value, is when I help them discover
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Speaker 1: their own solutions, When I help them unpack their own knowledge,
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Speaker 1: and when I help them tap into their own expertise,
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Speaker 1: their own resourcefulness, their own genius and creativity. It all
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Speaker 1: boils down to helping them find their own path to
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Speaker 1: their own vision of what's possible. Now, I want to
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Speaker 1: share a little bit more about vision. Vision has all
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Speaker 1: kinds of facets, all kinds of dimensions to it that
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Speaker 1: we need to pay attention to. From a cultural perspective,
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Speaker 1: we tend to talk about vision as if we can
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Speaker 1: literally see something, see something with our anatomical eyes. But
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Speaker 1: in reality, what you usually see is pretty blurry. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of foggy, actually, okay, And if you don't see
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Speaker 1: it that way, you should be. You should be seeing
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Speaker 1: fog because, as I mentioned earlier, if what you see
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Speaker 1: is really crystal clear to you, it's not a vision,
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Speaker 1: it's not a dream. It's a goal, and there's nothing
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Speaker 1: wrong with having goals, but just be clear that it's
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Speaker 1: a goal and not a vision. Right. Vision consists of perception,
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Speaker 1: of insight and foresight and hindsight and reflection and revelation
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Speaker 1: and so much more, including respect, which means to look again,
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Speaker 1: to see again, right, to see with new eyes, to
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Speaker 1: see with a fresh perspective. And so I invite you
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Speaker 1: to think about the various aspects of vision. Now I
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Speaker 1: go into great detail in dare to wear your soul
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Speaker 1: on the outside into vision and to all the other
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Speaker 1: aspects the seven promises that I mentioned earlier. So as
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Speaker 1: you think about not only what's working you with regard
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Speaker 1: to vision, I also want you to pay attention to
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Speaker 1: what's working the people around you, nearby or far away,
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Speaker 1: because the world really is at our fingertips, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: the world is just a click away. So pay attention
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Speaker 1: to what's showing up for other people. Now why might
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Speaker 1: this be important, you might ask, Because these people are
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Speaker 1: your potential collaborators, your potential amplifiers. There are people who
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Speaker 1: can potentially be of service with you or to you,
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Speaker 1: or you know, maybe these are the people who can
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Speaker 1: gather around you and partner with you right now? Who knows?
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Speaker 1: So pay attention and know that if you have this
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Speaker 1: creative fire that's working. You know that we are made
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Speaker 1: not to walk alone. We were made we were designed
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Speaker 1: to walk together. We are social beings, We're made to
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Speaker 1: be in relationship. So pay attention to those people who
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Speaker 1: you can link elbows with and maybe even partner with
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Speaker 1: along your journey to your vision. Now, another way of
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Speaker 1: saying what I just said is don't try to take
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Speaker 1: the vision, your vision and do it all by yourself. Right,
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Speaker 1: that's a recipe for disaster, a recipe for heartache. Been there,
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Speaker 1: done that. And so as you begin to move in
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Speaker 1: the direction of your dream, the direction of your vision,
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Speaker 1: I invite you to ask yourself, who do I need
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Speaker 1: to know? Who do I need to bring along with me?
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Speaker 1: Who do I need to collaborate with or partner with?
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Speaker 1: You know what? Another facet vision also includes the dreams
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Speaker 1: that we have at night. These are night dreams. Now,
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Speaker 1: in the workplace, we don't often talk about these things, right,
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Speaker 1: this kind of vision, but this is huge. It's very important.
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Speaker 1: Why because in visioning there is a huge element, a
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Speaker 1: very big element of receptivity. That's right, of being on
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Speaker 1: the receiving side, not the casting side, but the receiving
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Speaker 1: side of vision. Now in Northern hemisphere Western culture, now
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Speaker 1: I'm generalizing here, so please forgive me. We typically think
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Speaker 1: about vision as something that flows outward, right, that vision
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Speaker 1: is something that pushes out and is external to who
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Speaker 1: you are. We talk about vision as something that is
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Speaker 1: very penetrating, having a very masculine energetic. But another core
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Speaker 1: quality that we sometimes miss is that vision can also
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Speaker 1: flow from the outside in. It can also flow inwardly.
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Speaker 1: Vision is also about receiving. So if you're receiving vision,
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Speaker 1: you are a receptor, right, You are a receptor, and
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Speaker 1: your work is to gather and collect. You're not an
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Speaker 1: outputter at this point. You are a receptor, a receiver,
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Speaker 1: which is a more feminine energetic. It's an energetic that's
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Speaker 1: probably more in tune with people who are very sensate, okay,
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Speaker 1: relying on their five senses, so to speak, very sensate
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Speaker 1: in terms of how they perceive and move through the world,
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Speaker 1: how they understand the world, how they make sense of
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Speaker 1: the world. This receiving energetic helps us tap into another
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Speaker 1: aspect of vision, which is revelation. Revelation. Now here's the
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Speaker 1: good news. The archetype of the twenty first century leader
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Speaker 1: is guess what it is, The archetype of the creative,
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Speaker 1: the archetype of the visionary. Other names for this archetype
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Speaker 1: is the archetype of artistry or the artist, right, the
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Speaker 1: archetype of the magi, the magician. Now, this archetype, by
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Speaker 1: whatever name we call it, has been around since human
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Speaker 1: beings have been around, and in times of great upheaval,
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Speaker 1: great change or transition or transformation, humanity can actually tap
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Speaker 1: into this pattern or archetyped to shift the way we do,
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Speaker 1: the things we do, to shift how we show up
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Speaker 1: as human beings. In fact, we can choose to show
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Speaker 1: up as human beings beings rather than as doing humans.
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Speaker 1: Let me say that again. We can choose to show
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Speaker 1: up as human beings rather than as doing humans. I
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Speaker 1: love that. So again, this pattern in human behavior, the
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Speaker 1: pattern of the visionary or the artist, the creative, is
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Speaker 1: now available to all of us. It is available to
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Speaker 1: all of us as leaders, as human beings who are
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Speaker 1: now more open, more receptive, and more conscious of this
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Speaker 1: amazing pattern in the collective, this amazing archetype. What's working
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Speaker 1: me today is creative leadership, specifically leading with authenticity and
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Speaker 1: artistry in our extraordinary times. These are surely what we
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Speaker 1: call vuka v uca vuka times now. For those of
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Speaker 1: you who might be new to that term vuka, what
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Speaker 1: it stands for are times of volatility. That's what the
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Speaker 1: V stands for, uncertainty, you, chaos, c and A for ambiguity, Volatility, uncertainty,
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Speaker 1: chaos and an ambiguity. Times where we experience wave after
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Speaker 1: wave after wave of disruptive change, wave after wave of
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Speaker 1: what we know and what we believe to be true. Now,
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Speaker 1: in times of vuka, the old, okay, what we are
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Speaker 1: sure about right just begins to fall away, just begins
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Speaker 1: to disintegrate. In this kind of world, what we know
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Speaker 1: for sure is not the same old, same old. What
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Speaker 1: we know for sure is that volatility, uncertainty, chaos, and
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Speaker 1: ambiguity will continue to be the norm. What we don't
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Speaker 1: know is what form or shape that norm will take right,
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Speaker 1: what form that disruptive change will take. This not new.
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Speaker 1: It may sound like it's new, it may be new
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Speaker 1: for you, but it's not new in the grand scheme
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Speaker 1: of the universe. In fact, it's happened numerous times. It's
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Speaker 1: occurred hundreds thousands of times in the history of humankind
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Speaker 1: and countless times throughout the history of the world. What
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Speaker 1: the world needs now to respond to this vuka world
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Speaker 1: we live in our visionaries. What the world needs now
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Speaker 1: is artists now more than ever, Our world needs artistry,
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Speaker 1: needs our imagination, our creativity, not on the margins, but
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Speaker 1: in the center of our individual and community and corporate
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Speaker 1: and public and institutional lives. Artists are what we call
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Speaker 1: the informants. They are the storytellers. Why because they get
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Speaker 1: the news first, right, And art is an informant, Art
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Speaker 1: is a messenger. Art is a storyteller too. Art is
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Speaker 1: also an armature. And if we're really conscious and intentional,
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Speaker 1: art and artists can become agents of change, agents of transformation,
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Speaker 1: of innovation, redemption and renewal. And again, I'm not talking
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Speaker 1: about artists the way we typically think about artists, you know,
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Speaker 1: as people who make a living as professional artists. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I am talking about them, but I'm also talking about you, Okay,
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Speaker 1: the news too. And we're storytellers. What do you think
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Speaker 1: we're doing when we're having conversations with one another, when
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Speaker 1: we're expressing our opinions when we're sending out texts or
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Speaker 1: blurbs on social media, right, that's storytelling. Now, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: we're all artists. So I'm talking about the folks that
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Speaker 1: we see in our homes, when we go out of
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Speaker 1: our homes and show up for our doctor's appointments. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about the folks we see when we're at the
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Speaker 1: grocery store, the folks who work at the food bank,
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Speaker 1: in our schools. These are the folks who work on
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Speaker 1: the front lines. These are the folks who work behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes to make sure that everything's working the way
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Speaker 1: it's supposed to work. The folks who deliver our blood
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Speaker 1: right come rain or snow or sleet or hail. These
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Speaker 1: are the folks who find a way when times are
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Speaker 1: normal and when times are hard, when times are unpredictable,
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Speaker 1: when we're in another wave of vuka right, volatility, uncertainty, chaos,
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Speaker 1: and ambiguity. These are the folks who find a way
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Speaker 1: to keep on keeping on. The ones who hang in there,
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Speaker 1: the ones who follow the energy of yes, the ones
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Speaker 1: who change impossible impossible impossible to I'm possible whose first
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Speaker 1: name is Can and whose last name is do. Right,
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Speaker 1: This is me and you. So as you go about
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Speaker 1: your day today or as you prepare for the rest
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Speaker 1: of your week, I want you to ask yourself one question,
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Speaker 1: just one one question, and the question is what's Because
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Speaker 1: what's working you is exactly what needs to come into
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Speaker 1: fruition now, not tomorrow, not next week, but right now.
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Speaker 1: What's working you is your vision, a vision that is
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Speaker 1: all yours that can only come through you. You know what,
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Speaker 1: if the vision came to you, it will come through you. Remember,
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Speaker 1: how you live is how you lead. And if you
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Speaker 1: can lead with creativity, with imagination, with innovation, with a
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Speaker 1: sense of possibility and knees bent and keep those at
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Speaker 1: the forefront, you will be equipped to lead in any circumstance.
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Speaker 1: All right, Okay, if you learned something in this podcast,
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Speaker 1: be sure to tell somebody. Share the wealth. Don't keep
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Speaker 1: it to yourself, Share it with friends, your family, co workers,
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Speaker 1: so they can be lifted up and inspired and equipped
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Speaker 1: just like you. You know what, one of the biggest
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Speaker 1: gifts you can give to someone else is to use
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Speaker 1: your gifts, your talents, your signature presence that exists nowhere
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Speaker 1: else on the planet. Ask yourself, how will I use
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Speaker 1: my artistry to reimagine my team, my family, my classroom,
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Speaker 1: my Sunday school, my dental practice, my community, my chamber
35:48
Speaker 1: of commerce, right my firehouse. How can I provide a
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Speaker 1: lifeline to someone I may never know and remember? What
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Speaker 1: is working you? That is your invitation to step into
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Speaker 1: your vision so that you can make a difference in
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Speaker 1: your own life and in the lives of others. As
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Speaker 1: we continue to celebrate the majestic music of your life,
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Speaker 1: I also want to celebrate you for making your life count.
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Speaker 1: my journey with what legacy living is all about, not
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