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Send it in and you might spur our next conversation. I'm Tara Thurber, Director of Talent Innovation, and joining me today is Terri Rozyla mindset and performance coach, owner of Beacon Blueprint Coaching. Terry is also a certified NLP practitioner, integrative nutrition health coach and yoga meditation therapist. Hey, Terry, how are you today?
Doing great, Tara, how are you?
I'm doing excellent. Thank you for joining us.
Awesome. Thanks for having me.
Absolutely. So Terry, super excited to have you on with us today, where we're going to dive into your top five tools to optimize organizational well being. Tell me a little bit about yourself, and how you got into what you do today.
Absolutely, um, thanks for asking, too. I mean, this is something so you're passionate about, it's something that you really comes from a tender space of my own personal experience, I'd spent 14 years in the corporate world in sales and marketing. Collectively, I've been in the sales and marketing role outside of corporate for 20 years. So it's truly a part of everything that
I've done. Predominantly, I was in the travel retail and aviation industry, which is a high stress environment, an environment that has you know, go go go, and non stop and demands just like anybody else. You know, it's through that timeframe that I loved everything that I did. And I applied myself 100%, if not more, but it was through the channels of life, and experiences where things got thrown at me. And at that moment in time, I didn't know how to
deal with them. So instead, I just threw myself into my job somewhere. And over the course of time, I began to break down. And ultimately, I ended up dealing with burnout. And that was actually why I left my role in the corporate world. And, you know, stepped into a new journey. And now for the last eight years of my journey, I've been working in the holistic field, I've been teaching, yoga and mindfulness therapy, I've been teaching, now stepping into NLP, which is neuro linguistic
programming. And it's a space where it's a psychological approach, where you get to analyze strategies, and how you actually apply that aspect of your life. And it really helps you to go after the goals that you have within you. And then timeline therapy is something
else that I've stepped into. And it's a part of the certification, where you are able to take a look at the underlying emotions, and heal those places of pain, heal those places of trauma, heal those places have even maybe emotions or feelings you didn't know that you had. So that's a little bit more of my journey after the
corporate world. But as I mentioned before, it definitely, you know, this whole program that I created stems from my experiences within that corporate space and within the sales and marketing space.
Excellent, excellent. I feel there's there's so many people out there that have felt that burnout, especially over the course of this past year. But I find that it's really fantastic to be able to bring this out to our audience and talk openly about it, because I also think that a lot of people aren't talking about it. And it's, it's a major, major effect that's happening within organizations, just within people in general.
I'm dealing with got the pandemic and dealing with new roles or pivoting from pivoting into a fully remote work role, as far as you know, professional but also bringing in the personal aspect of it as well. I'm really excited to dig in. I'm gonna talk to me a little bit about this type of program. I think you We're calling it MINDTEC R4 Circuit or something.
Absolutely, yeah. So I actually created an application called MINDTEC. And does it provides methods for professionals to be able to not just professionals, but their teams as well. So a leader can step into this space, or they can do this for themselves, and then introduce it to their teams. And it's a space for them to cope with their stress and their burnout, effectively, efficiently, and ultimately, you know, just improve their overall
company culture. You know, it's the MINDTEC R4 Circuit is something that is a derivative of mine tech, it's encompasses four different levels of engagement. And within that, that space of engagement, leaders and their teams, they have different methods that they can engage with, whether they're dealing with mindfulness meditation, whether they are going through the NLP therapy, if they're doing timeline therapy, you know, that yoga mobility or that therapy for
them. And then the other part too, is holistic nutrition. There's a lot of different vibes and vices that we lean towards. And sometimes food is something that we either shy away from, or we put ourselves a little we eat a little bit too much, and just different ways to be able to address food holistically, and on a healthy, a healthy way. You know, and why is this important? I mean, you even just stepped upon it very lightly. But I'd love to just kind of dab a
little bit more at it. And you're absolutely right, you know, we are presently dealing with a collective trauma from the pandemic. And there have been many organizational shifts, and a lot of different changes to organizational management and the strategies of which they are engaging with. And that space of resiliency is ever so crucial right now for a leader and their teams. So that's also where mine tech really comes into play for
these professionals. And it offers them these methods to be able to stay resilient in order to make better decisions for themselves, for their organizations for their team members. You know, a healthy employee is somebody who understands that work life
balance. And by engaging in these methods of mindfulness, meditation, NLP, timeline therapy, even yoga mobility, being able to have some type of movement at your desk a few times throughout the day, re energizes the brain, it refocuses the different places that you are able to then address the work that's in front of you, you know, taking five minutes from your computer screen, to look away to go do something else and then re engaging with it, you gain a different sense of clarity, you
gain a better perspective of not just yourself, but your work. So productivity changes 67% of the global population has reported higher levels of stress due to the pandemic. And within that alone, you have people who are completely stressed and they're still within those high performing positions. But now they've got different or more types of roles being put up in because maybe they had to let some people go. So they had to resume some responsibilities.
Maybe the scheduling is completely different than before. Maybe they're working from home and they're also trying to juggle that that work from home lifestyle as well as the professional lifestyle, added stress, edit anxiety, you know, it's 37% of the American population is anxious. Yeah. 27% are completely depressed.
Right.
All of that is absolutely a part of the equation from a holistic model. All of that is in equation to somebody not only their health, but then their performance.
Right.
You know, and when I was at my unhealthiest, I showed up for work, because I had to, but over the course of time, my engagement lessened the more that I became stressed out the more anxious I became the more panic attacks that I had. Therefore, was I an asset Was I a value system to that organization at that moment of time, no. So this is why MINDTEC and the R4 Circuit the R4 Circuit allows you to rewire, reboot, restore and refocus
yourself and your teams. So that then you can truly come into a space of unification and then take these methods, adopt them into your organizational management system, and then forecast out how can we become more productive? How can we use this for mind mapping? How are we going to add this into our organizational chain? To truly improve the company culture, as we deal with these after effects of the pandemic.
Right, and that' where that's where it all begin to is really from leadership, b inging it into the organizati n and, and working with our emp oyees, I feel that there's a lot of times everybody's in, g go go mode. And, you know, th re's a failure to pay atten ion to detail. There's, yo know, different meetings, an maybe you've got individu ls not showing up on time
or not showing up at all. And that's going to really tr gger a difference in a team nd the growth of that team nd how they're moving forward t gether as a team, how they're b coming sixth, how they are sho ing up successfully, and pr ducing successful results a
For sure, and you know, what, what you just described is something that is outside of our control.
Right.
You know, and we can't choose the environments, whether it's your physical environment of a workplace, whether it's a physical environment, or even just, you know, obviously, the pandemic and the outside worlds that we all live in. We also can't choose the colleagues that we work with, the one thing that we absolutely have control over and have a choice in is our own self, and our own behavior and how we show up, we can show up filled up or we can show up completely empty.
Yeah.
Which one would you rather be? And which one is going to make you more valuable asset, not just in your your work culture, but in your life? And give you that space of work life balance that I believe that we are all after?
Yeah, I love it with with mine tech R4 Circuit you you had mentioned, it' rewire. Reboot, restore an refocus. Can you just tell me little bit more about those fou R's
Sure. So with rewire, you are literally in essence, your brain, you're rewiring your brain,
Right.
You know, to backtrack, to give you a little bit of, you know, tech, medical neuro data, our brains can take in 11 million bits of information per day, we are actually only processing 28 of those bits. You have to really break it down technical, like I love technicality and stuff, but break it down technical.
There's 28 periods.
No more, no more, no less. And I'm going somewhere with this, I promise. But if you take those fields, 28 bits of information, it's coming down to be you know, maybe 30 to 40 thoughts per minute.
Wow
You're in a workplace environment, you're got your agenda you have you know, I'm on my to do list, I've got ABC 123. And now all of a sudden, like you just said, This one shows up late, this one cancels this one throw something else at you. Now all of a sudden, you need to pivot now all of a sudden, you need to take in this information as well. And you need to make a cognitive but productive decision. How do you do it? How do you navigate it? Rewiring is
how you do that. rewiring allows you the space to transform your habits. It allows you the space of understanding it becomes aware of who you are you're doing that through neuroplasticity. So in that space of neuroplasticity, you gain this awareness, you gain the ability to deal with what we just described. From there, what do you do then you are reframing your thoughts. So you're reframing as a matter of
rebooting those thoughts. So now you've rewired you deal with neuroplasticity and you've got all of this on your plate. Okay, rather than acting like you know, my biting off people's heads or just acting in a my behavior is not productive. My behavior is not engaging, my behavior is not friendly. Instead, now I'm choosing to reframe my thoughts to say okay, now I still have my to do list and I have to add this to it.
Let's rework it. Let's not only reframe my thought process, let me reframe now my to do list let me reframe my day. How am I going to achieve this? And it's through mindfulness meditation, and it's through yoga, mobility and yoga therapy, and NLP as well as timeline therapy for each person. It's Different, it's a different equation for each person, because we're all different. But through these processes and through those methods, you're able to rewire
you're able to reboot. And then continuing on when you restore, what you're doing then is you're optimizing your performance, you're optimizing your well being, you've gained a level of awareness, you've been able to pivot yourself in a positive fashion to now not only are you resilient, but now you're making better decisions, which then brings you to refocus, that decision making is key, especially in organizations, because it can cost a lot of money if you make the wrong one.
Buy restore virus, rewiring, rebooting and restoring you then get into a space of refocusing, which is adjusting and improving your clarification. That clarification, again, can either make or break your, the role and the objective that you have in front of you that decision making can make or break the
business relationship. And the team orientation that you are a part of that team will either come together or fall apart based upon how you rewire reboot and restore of whatever gets thrown at you.
It's an amazing, I feel like I need to use this R4 Circuit almost daily, you know, it's something that we're constantly, it's it's minute by minute that we really have to make these these choices, to make a difference in who we are and how we show up daily. Because, again, it is our
choice. And it's how we take care of that in order to make sure we're showing up to the best of our ability for our roles for our teams for companies in order to really be successful, while going through all the crazy shifts that are happening around us, right.
Yeah, absolutely. And you know, why from an organizational point, instead of you're just on a little Neil from, I don't know, we have in terms of doing this as an organization, instead of doing this as an individual, I mean, you can do this as an individual basis. But let's take it a little bit step further, let's forecast out just a bit. If you have a leader that is not able to pivot, not able to take in that information, and especially with everything going on, it's a trickle effect.
Right.
rickles down to verybody else within that rganization. So it's important hat a leader is also going hrough the MINDTEC are R4 ircuit, because not only is it trickle effect, but then it lso is a matter of showing ompassion, of self respect for elf. And that's going to gain hat's going to give a level of espect, compassion and empathy ithin the company culture. ecause negativity is a, you now, an effect, but so is
ositivity. It's truly a matter f our personal responsibility f how we show up for our jobs. nd for, you know, our output, e are responsible for our own utput. But because we're part f a collective team in a orkplace environment, it's also ur responsibility to make sure hat we are able to, you know, ork through these underlying motions, understand, some eople may not even understand hat these emotions are, maybe
hey can articulate that. That's here timeline therapy can come nto play, and help them nderstand the time frame that hey're going through and work rom an unconscious level to elp them bring it to the onscious level so that they can rticulate themselves. It's, t's all relative.
I think it's really great. When you bring this to organizations, do you work more together as a team to go through the are R4 Circuit or do you work on an individual basis based on the team?
I'll give you an example of a company that I worked with. It's a company in
New Jersey. And I was first invited in by the president of the company, the main person, main decision maker, and he brought me in he was expressing to me some of his stress factors expressing to me some of his where his mission statement was, was faltering and where he wanted to lead his organization, but at the same time where they were, which in all honesty is absolutely crucial, because we in order for us to grow in order for us to change, we have to be able to identify our
inadequacies and our areas of improvement. We have to get real we have to get raw I mean it just that's what it is. So this, this gentleman introduced me to his inadequacies of where he felt he was in business. So I started working with him on a one to one coaching basis, he started to see the changes within himself. He was a self proclaimed hothead, and he would tell me that he would fly off the handle, and he was drinking, like, you know, five to eight
cups of coffee a day. And I was trying to get him, you know, to at least get to, you know, like, how much you're a hothead, but you know, but you got a ton of caffeine, and you're there too. So there's, there's a little bit of a challenge there. So introducing him to different methods, not just from then, you know, a mindset principle, but then also healing some of those underlying emotions of where his animosity was coming from and where his resentment was coming from.
Yeah.
And then ultimately then to what was it affecting it was affecting his nutrition. So holistic nutrition, we brought into his into his plate of wellness. It opened up then why ended up working with his team, because the positive changes that he was making for himself, he noticed a different interaction between him and, uh, his main right hand person.
Yeah.
There were their business relationship was starting to improve, as he was making improvements with himself. So then he and had invited me in to work with his team, and sit down with them collectively we had done, it was actually a cold a mini retreat. Okay, at that point in time, we were still in person. So I was invited into his workspace environment, I was with his team for a couple of hours for the day, I wanted to say between It was like between 12 and two that I was with his team
Right.
Afterwards, you I left them with some data, I left them with some things that they could keep at their desk. And then they had direct response, or non response, direct contact with me via email. And then I was speaking with them on a bi weekly basis, okay. And I was speaking with them bi weekly. And then in between those weeks, they had then a recording that I
had sent to them. So in essence, they had, you know, four weeks of direct contact with me, but it was done in a way where then they were always being held accountable. And they were always engaged in the program that I worked on with this leader, to get his organization to where he wanted it to be.
That's really fantastic. I feel, you know, that ongoing connection is really important, especially if you're introducing new things to individuals, where they'll get an overview of it, but then, you know, by by the end of the day, it's like, oh, what did they say it was really good option? Or, you know, should I be eating differently? Or should I, you know, implementing different
daily habits, so to speak. And so I like, I really like the, the idea of it not just being that one time you're in, and then you're done. It's an ongoing process. And I think that that journey is really important for individuals to to, to accept as well, that you're, you're not just going to wake up and everything's going to be
different. you as an individual, you have to change your habits, you have to change your processes and make that choice to put yourself in a better state of mind or put yourself into a better mode in order for it not only to affect yourself, but for it to affect other people as well.
Absolutely. I mean, we're mirrors of one another.
Yeah.
If we give out animosity, we'll receive animosity in return.
Yeah.
We give out you know, compassion and empathy, and we include other people within our lives and our journeys, then we'll receive that in return too. And that's not just from a regular your personal life perspective. It's from a workplace environment, too. And it's definitely important to be able to do so.
I love it. Um, so your top five methods, you had mentioned the mindfulness, mindfulness, meditation, NLP, timeline therapy, yoga, mobility therapy, and holistic nutrition. I've heard I'd say I've heard about three to four of the five.
Can you just give me a short little snippet of you know what mindfulness meditation is or means within your, R4 Circuit and just kind of go through eac of these five methods, just t explain a little bit more fo those listeners out there tha don't know what NLP is or don' Know what timeline therapy is
Okay, yeah. So mindfulness, meditation introduces you to a space of consciousness. It allows you to hone in to your own personal space of self. you increase your level of awareness of not just, you know, it's not just breathing. It's your awareness of how you can respond or how you don't respond to certain environments in your life. You know, there's mindfulness meditation can be sitting down and breathing. And if you want it to engage in a mini mindfulness meditation today, we
definitely can. We all can today. It's like, I think it's snowing crazy out today. So I think we all can use a little de stressor.
Yeah, yeah.
But um, yeah. So I mean, it's mindfulness, meditation can be sitting down and taking a few mindful breaths. And there's different ways to guide the body. mindfulness meditation can also be through movement. And that's why I call yoga mobility therapy, whether you engage in yoga, or you engage in different types of mobility, with there's different things that you can do, literally at your desk, that are yoga, mobility, and it's a
therapeutic result. Equally coupled with mindfulness meditation, because then what you're doing is you're improving your level of awareness. So it always leads back to mindfulness meditation.
Yeah.
NLP is a psychological approach. It literally allows you to analyze different strategies that successful individuals are doing.
Right.
Taking basically with what you're doing is you're taking into consideration their language, you're taking into consideration their thoughts, their behaviors, their expressions, eah, and you are using those as tools or aspects in order to help achieve your goals. It's a learning conditioning. Timeline therapy is about literally diving deep. I'm not gonna lie, even when I went through timeline therapy, personally, it definitely, it's a raw experience. But it's a beautiful
experience. Because you gain again, that mindfulness, you gain that level of awareness of self, you heal spaces of yourself, which I don't know about you. But any, anytime I get stressed, I get like tightness in my shoulders and my neck. I'm like, therapy takes that off of you. But you just feel the stress melt off of you, you feel a sense of peace, because what you're doing is you are dealing with the internal emotions. You know, you haven't known how to process
Yeah.
And it does bring them to surface. But then through the therapeutic side of it, we're transforming that internal programming, so back to the brain, or transforming that internal programming. So that then you heal that space of self, and allows you them to show up differently than you had once before. It's truly transformational. It's It's amazing, absolutely amazing.
It takes those big bricks that we're all carrying on our shoulders and kind of gets rid of them or helps rebuild the structure.
Absolutely, yeah, that's exactly what it does. And holistic nutrition, that's another one. In another method, it's literally taking your entire so everything that we're talking about is a model for holistic nutrition. Nutrition is not just about the food that you eat, or nutrition, from a holistic model is also about your lifestyle, your your behaviors, your work environment, your your extracurricular activities, whether they're positive or
negative. And it's your nutrition plan is taking everything into perspective, and finding the spaces that you want to improve. You know, even if there's seven, new seven to eight wellness pillars in your wheel, you actually want to focus on maybe two or three of them, because those two or three of them are direct reflections of maybe why you're not
performing well in your job. So if we improve those outlets, then we're not only improving those two outlets of your life, we're also improving that outlet of your job. So again, you become a better a better, more skilled at what you do, you become more valuable employee and you become more just more engaged. in your life, as well as your company culture, so you're more included in everything you do and in everything other people do.
That's really fantastic. And I love that each one of these methods, it's all it's all it all relates. And it all kind of comes together in one way, shape or form to really provide that better version of you.
Definitely, it definitely does. That's why I created mine tech as well, because there's different outlets of your life that you know, we could engage with. And even to this day, I still practice this for myself, because they're still goals that I have. And there's different, you know, stinking thinking thoughts that come forward for
me too. And there's limiting beliefs that come forward for me, so I will debt and you'll dive into mindfulness meditation for myself, or I'll dive into some journaling that I do through what I learned in timeline therapy, and understanding my emotions and how they are affecting me negatively. So it's something that I sky continuously do. And it'll be a different equation for you a different equation.
For me, it was a different equation for the leader that I worked with in in his company, and with his team, each one of them had something different too.
Fantastic, Terry, do you have a couple of minutes to maybe do a little mindfulness meditation with us today?
Yeah, absolutely. It'd be my pleasure.
Awesome. All right, you take it away, then.
All right. So what you would like to do is, make yourself comfortable, wherever you may be seated. If you are sitting on top of any limb, I invite you to release any new anything within the body. So you want to press both feet into the the base of the floor. And make yourself comfortable in your chair. Ideally not crossed armed either. So you want all of your limbs to just completely relax.
Arms can be pleased to know why they're on the field, the arm chairs that can be placed within the lap cupped hands or not. Whatever feels most organic and natural for you. You're going to close the physical eyes to the external world. And want to just pause here for a moment or two before we even take this further. And just take notice to exactly have your yourself your stature sitting in the chair take notice to any sounds that are around you. Take notice to any fragrances that tickle your
nose. And this is becoming aware of your surroundings. This is creating mindfulness of who you are in the present moment and who you are in the environment that you exist. Now, just for a few more moments. Let's take this space a little bit more internal will press the tongue to the roof of the mouth, just behind the teeth. And this space is called fire point. This relaxes the entire jaw. And then inhale through the nose and nice deep, long breaths. filling up the chest. Feel the belly inflate
with air. pausing and holding that breath ever so slightly. And on the exhale, breath, release it through the nose. Acknowledge the softness of the shoulders as they release and melt down into the back. And take another round of breath in through the nose, filling up the chest filling up the belly pausing slightly and hold that breath and on the exhale breath separating the lips ever so gently inside away as we continue this repetition of
inhale and exhale. If there's any thoughts that are dancing within the mind, acknowledge them, each of them individually. They are part of you. They exist and they are beautiful. And then on the exhale, breath just allow them to pair what's around you Do one down you and relax the shoulders, relax the arms, maybe down through the hips and the legs. sinking the feet down just a little bit further in towards
the earth beneath you. Feeling the chair behind you the support structure that you always have breath in, expansion through the chest and the belly and on the exhale side away. Allow this tender space to completely unravel with each and every single breath that you may do. The main option is to also press the poem into the navel or one to the heart. And feel this space of self. and acknowledge who you are with the breath in feel the warm. Feel the
heartbeat. This beautiful heartbeat is your rhythm, your heart song to you are your identity. And it is your gift to the world. And as you breathe in deeply through the nose, feel the chest expand, feel the belly inflate. Simply pause and hold this breath. And on the exhale breath side away. going to leave you here for about a minute so that you can continue this space. And its thoughts do enter the mind again, that is okay.
It's part of who you are. We're not trying to shut the thoughts off, we're simply allowing them to exist and we're trying to muffle them with breath. So we allow the thoughts to be there and stay present by listening to the sound of the breath imagining an ocean wave ebbing and flowing. tickling the water's edge muffling the sounds of salt, releasing the stress
and pressure from the body. As you begin to reawaken back into the space of the external world marrying this internal light of you to the external movements can enter ever so gently and casually. The breath begins to soften the awareness returns to the external world once again taking notice to the sounds the sights and batting the eyelashes like a butterfly's wings to take in the newness and observe.
Thank you I feel like a brand new woman.
Awesome. I'm glad you're welcome.
You know, it's it's amazing what for people that are experienced in meditating or people that that was their first time just taking a minute to themselves. How special that one minute or that those three minutes can be when you just give yourself just that. I feel that a lot of times, you know we're always responding or reacting and having to give our energy but when you can just give yourself a short little snippet of this mindfulness. It really can allow you to do what you were just
talking your are for. I mean, I feel like that was a little bit of, you know, rewiring, rebooting, restoring to now I can refocus on the rest of our day today.
Absolutely, you can and it's it's there are you know, there are stats and there are different scientific evidence to prove that there is a rewiring happening within the gray matter of the brain, which allows you to do exactly what you want to do which is you know, refocus and to show up differently. Show up with We're conscious, because you're feeling better about yourself, you're feeling better in the space of self. And ultimately, you're optimizing your overall
health. There's a ton of health benefits for the MINDTEC R4 Circuit that far exceed even the organizational wellness. But there's different and many different health benefits to it as well.
This is wonderful, Terry. Listen, thank you so so very much for joining us today.
Thank you!
Of course, of course and run a little bit more on Terry Rozyla. She's got a beacon blueprint coaching which is combining a unique fusion of coaching services that optimize the opportunity to effectively guide professionals, their teams in a way that unearth their root causes to really help in prohibitive behavioral patterns and replace them replace them, excuse me, with more desirable actions, action steps, progress
and outcomes. Terry's also a speaker, yoga therapist, NLP practitioner, and cert and certified integrative nutrition coach, she's helped hundreds of people rewire themselves to remove mental blocks, taking them from pain to progress to success. Terry, thank you so much for bringing mine tech, our R4 Circuit to us today at top f ve. It's really been such a p easure and I'm looking forward t continuing some mindful m ditation as well.
Thank you to Tara. It's been absolutely a pleasure and an honor to be with you today and to share this with you. Thank you so much.
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