You are now tuning in to discover your potential. So listen, participate, be inspired, know that you can discover your potential. Yeah, so primarily I'm working with leaders, so executives, C-level, women organizations as well as their teams. I do a lot of one-on-one coaching, conscious culture curation, retreats off-site, things like that within organizations. And I love that audience because especially working with founders, executives, I love the impact that that can have on so many people if they're willing to do their own inner work to shift the way that they're showing up and the impact that that can have on an entire organization. So that's primarily what I'm focusing. We're about supporting leaders in their organizations to understand when they're showing up from a place of reactivity versus a place of responsibility. And that's incredibly important because most of the time we don't even recognize how we're showing up. A lot of what we're doing is on autopilot and it can lead to us showing up in ways that maybe don't really feel in alignment with who we are, the leader that we want to be, or the organizations that we want to create. I love thinking about it from a place of foundationally recognizing that we as humans have choice. That's kind of our greatest gift as humans. And with that, we're able to respond to whatever is happening in front of us versus the definition of responsibility that most of us kind of have in our heads in some way of, oh, I have to do something or there's a set of rules or as an adult, I have to be responsible, whatever that means. And based on the stories we were brought up with, we probably have different flavors of what it means to be responsible. But if we think about it more of, oh, as a human with choice, I can respond to anything happening in front of me. It really comes from more of a foundation of empowerment, recognizing that we can choose how we want to show up and what we want to create next. I find that to be really such a key step in how I work with leaders because it's really, it's choosing how we want to do, or choosing if we want to shift in some way to do something differently. We're doing our best. We're going through life. And we're hardwired to perceive threat. So it's a part of our build that we become reactive. So we actually have these two almond-shaped clusters of neurons on either side of our brain called the amygdala. The amygdala's job is to scan for threats. And that's a really helpful part of our existence that we always leverage. So imagine back in the day when you're running from a cyber-to-tiger to try to save your physical existence. Amygdala senses that threat. 4F response kicks in. You start, you know, the flight fight, freeze or fawn response. So maybe you high-tail it out of there, or you play dead, whatever it is. Now today in a nine to five, you probably don't have that same problem where you're trying to save your physical existence all the time. But the amygdala can't tell a difference between it's like a threat to our physical existence or a threat to our ego. So oftentimes as leaders going throughout our day, something happens and our reaction to it, it feels like life or death when it really isn't. One example, I think this is the best example where it shows up for a lot of people is getting critical feedback. Are you open to some feedback and what happens? Everyone has a different flavor, but you might brace, you know, the fight, you might brace to get really defensive. You might shut down completely and not hear any of it, right? So we all have these different flavors of the way that we show up from reactivity. And if no one's teaching us how to recognize, like, oh, this is just part of my build as a human being to recognize that that's happening and to have the skill to know how to shift from that, right? To go back to a place of, oh, okay, can I just be present with this feedback? Can I not make it mean something about me as a human being that I can't shift or get out of? Can I even consider, do I agree with this feedback? Is there something for me to learn here, right? So there's the skill set that's involved that can really support us to recognize how often we're in that reactive state and determine if we do want to shift. How do we want to respond? Hey, DYP audience, this podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. I want to let you in on a little secret. I always interview people and ask them, is this a good time to be an entrepreneur? And they always say yes. 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Right, so we're doing a lot of work around how do we use AI as a technology, but we as humans that are building the technology, we always also want to tap into our leadership superpower, right, getting connected with ourselves. So what I'm going to be doing is leading leaders through a guided meditation to help you tap into what I see as your greatest leadership superpower that you're probably underutilizing, which is presence. So the meditation to help you tap into what does it feel to be fully present, right, to be in that place where I can authentically connect to what I want and how I want to show up and make decisions from that place. And so often where in organizations, you know, we've kind of built it into our culture now where we're constantly multitasking, we're doing, we're trying to do so many things at once and really we're just tasks switching very quickly. And that impacts the way that we're showing up for the people we're meeting with or the decisions that we're making. And what I'm going to be doing is helping you connect back to that part of you inside of you that knows authentically what do you want to do next? What is that next step? It can feel serious. Like, oh, we're reactive. We got to change something. You know, and especially with so much going on in the world, especially we mentioned AI earlier, but everything's moving so fast. So it does, it can feel really serious. But actually, if we want to be our most creative, if we want to think about possibilities, if we want to get alignment with actually, who are we? How do we want to show up? What are our desires? If we bring some play to that, it's much more likely that we're going to be able to get into that space. Right? The last one, when it feels very serious, even in our bodies, there's a constriction. We literally are not creating the conditions for us to be our most expansive of being in the space with people who actually want to do this deep work, right? Who are curious enough about themselves that are willing to step outside of their comfort zone to learn something about themselves, right? It takes courage, right? It really does get off the default kind of autopilot mode that many of us are in most of our day and actually start to examine how we're showing up. And if there's any area that we want to shift, what we're willing to do to make that happen. So I just love. This is Cindy Gilman and you're listening to Discover Your Potentials. So until next time, do something nice for yourself, but do something nice for someone else.
