Some people are naturally more forward looking and others tend to focus more on the past. In this final episode (at least for the time being) we explore the difference between looking backwards and looking forwards and how it affects your future.
Many people are experiencing that their business feels a bit repetitive. There’s an itch to do something more but it’s hard to know what that might be. Some people even feel called to contribute more or at a larger scale than they have previously. How do you rise to that challenge?
Sometimes it feels like human beings love to create a drama and business owners are no exception. But what lies beyond the addiction to drama and what’s a better way to respond?
More and more, in today’s world, people are questioning their sense of purpose, the way they work and the way they live and then decisions have to be made. Do you stay in your comfort zone or do you expand into unknown territory?
Another conversation about money, where Lina Chero describes how to she overcame her Catholic roots of shame and guilt about money and a belief that the harder you work and the more you suffer the quicker you go to Heaven.
Exploring the story of Gail Spence, who was the designer of iconic glasses worn by many celebrities during the nineties. Gail recently came out of retirement as her glasses are relaunched. A fascinating story of a woman who was always driven by her desire to create and innovate.
Special guest, Dave Smith, describes his personal money journey. He changed direction from going deeper and deeper into debt to discovering a sense of agency and power in his relationship with money and life, which brought financial abundance with it. And he shares a remarkable insight right at the end about the true nature of gold.
If your business has a big purpose or a powerful mission, you may find yourself feeling very small at times. It can be daunting to face major world challenges, large numbers, unethical competitors or a significant and sizeable goal. So how can you manage your own feelings when facing your noble goal?
When business is busy it’s easy to forget to celebrate your achievements. It’s important to keep your eye on where you’re going, but it makes such a difference to stop from time to time and look back at what’s happened so far. There’s usually a lot more to celebrate than you might imagine.
Your energy is your most precious asset in your business and sometimes you may feel that it needs some love and attention. It’s important to give yourself permission to protect your energy and do whatever it takes to look after it well.
How do you recover your energy if you’re on the edge of exhaustion and burn out and struggling with the current level of uncertainty?
Do you ever wonder what people will say about you when you’re no longer here on this planet? Or even how other people see you now? How much does it matter to you, what you’re known for? And if you could leave a lasting legacy, what would it be?
Many entrepreneurs are naturally intuitive but we all have times when we need some deeper insight into what’s going on. That’s where Candice Hozza comes in. She’s a professional business intuitive who helps you align your business with your purpose. You can find our more about her work here: https://www.candicehozza.com/
Many people consider that flow is the ultimate way to work. But it is not always easy to experience it on demand. What are the key ingredients for achieving a flow state in your work?
Science is changing rapidly and it’s going to affect how we do business more and more. This week we’re joined by Jude Currivan, Ph.D., who’s a cosmologist, planetary healer, and futurist. She was previously one of the most senior business women in the UK as CFO and on the Executive Boards of two major international companies. She shares her fascinating blend of current science with practical business experience. Find out more about Jude: https://www.wholeworld-view.org/
Some business owners are very expert at giving advice to other people but don’t necessarily take it for themselves. That’s a very uncomfortable way to run your life and business, so it’s worth figuring out how to get your act together and take care of your own affairs as well as you do it for your clients.
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat the people around you? Do you sometimes let yourself down so you don’t need to experience conflict with someone else? Do you give away too much but fight for everyone else? Let’s detangle this behaviour.
We put so much emotion into competition, which is ultimately about winning and losing. But does it really help us run better businesses?
When everyone in a team is aligned with the core purpose of a business, it should be much easier to make decisions and collaborate. But each individual has different values, so is it even possible for them all to be aligned?
Running a business can be hard and we can’t do it alone, so the people we surround ourselves with make a real difference. It’s important to find the right kind of support for you, and it’s also important to make sure that your support systems work well for you.
Words like health, wellbeing and happiness are easy to roll off the tongue and often get mixed up together. How can we distinguish between them and have more of them so we run better businesses and live better lives?
When you look at your business holistically it becomes necessary to account for much more than the financial flows. We’re exploring a simple, intuitive way of accounting for the whole business, that has the capacity to generate rich information on which you can base your business decisions.
Traditional financial accounting systems pick up a part of what goes on in a business, but they don’t help us to account for the true wealth of a business or the wider impact of its activities. Integral Accounting is a way to evaluate a business on a broader spectrum of criteria to gain a more accurate and informative picture of what it’s achieving.
What happens if we look at business in a radically different way and view it as a sacred activity? How does that change our relationship with our business, with ourselves as business owners and with all the activities that are a part of daily business life?
When you start asking deeper questions about yourself and your life, it has an immediate effect on the way you do business and how you think about yourself. This week we ask the questions: Who are you? Where are you? Why are you here? What are you doing about it? What do you want? The exploration is surprising and enlightening.
The questions you ask about your business have a powerful effect on the decisions you make. Sometimes it’s easier not to ask the bigger questions, because it’s more comfortable to keep everything going as it is, even if it’s not producing the quality of life you’d love to experience. So what might happen if you looked for a much deeper question to ask?
What are the elements of a great relationship with money? Money links with the way we work, our sense of purpose and our organisational ability, as well as the transactions that move money from one person to another. It’s very revealing to look deeply into your personal relationship with money.
Sometimes you reach a point where your current story can’t go any further. You either give up or you have to change. So what happens when that’s not just a personal experience, but when people all over the world are longing for a new narrative that promises a better life in the future?
Our guest, Tracy McNeal, CEO of Materna Medical (https://www.maternamedical.com) discusses how she successfully raised capital twice during the midst of the pandemic when others were saying it was impossible. She shares how she changed her perception of money, and how she manages her energy and uses her intuition as essential parts of doing business.
How do you draw the line between protecting and overprotecting your business? How do you find the balance between risk and creativity? And how can we fire the Devil’s Advocate forever?
