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Self-sabotage is in the news these days and it inspired me to write a piece about today that I'm delivering in this podcast. It's a door into the paradigmatic processing of reality, which is a big part of my upcoming course that begins April 17, 2025, called The Art of Open Connection. You can find the article here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

This episode is a read and talk on a recently published article on protector styles. We all have them and it's one of the most important things you can learn about yourself. Here's the link to the original article: https://clearandopen.com/protect-yourself-from-change/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

It’s been a while since I dropped a podcast as I’ve had a number of other priorities these days, but I do promise to keep it going. I wanted to share a rich and challenging conversation we had in a recent Clear and Open webcast. This was the 8th session in a course we’re currently completing called Intuitive Leadership and Living. Some interesting things came out about challenging values, which in most circles would be considered taboo. Unfortunately, this enables people to stay comfortable and not grow. I’m a business coach, spiritual educator, and therapist and I specialize in helping leaders get out of their own way. For more information about what I do or to become part of the conversations you hear on this podcast, please visit clearandopen.com.  My next course, Revealing Your Unconscious, begins September 23, 2023, and this podcast actually serves as an intro to that course. It’s going to be very much a workshop like what we did in this session, with a focus on outlining and mapping aspects of your unconscious and related principles. This will include the different types of childhood wounding, compensation styles, finding your hidden medications, how to make your unconscious conscious, and much more. For more information on that, go to courses.clearandopen.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

Today’s episode is, like the last series, from my course, “The Art of Asking Questions.” We talk a lot about the importance of deep listening and using questions to get to the heart of the matter in this conversation, with some interesting real-time examples. I’m a business coach, spiritual educator, and therapist and I specialize in helping leaders get out of their own way. For more information about what I do or to become part of the conversations you hear on this podcast, please visit clearandopen.com.  This and future episodes are available as video at youtube.com/@clearandopen This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

I offer weekly member webcasts, online courses, and mentorship at clearandopen.com because it’s my truth that – with the right tools – anyone can eliminate the people, money, and time problems holding them back in business. And I share parts of these webcasts and courses on this show because I want to help you, too. This series is from the course entitled The Art of Asking Questions, which you can find at courses.clearandopen.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

I offer weekly member webcasts, online courses, and mentorship at clearandopen.com because it’s my truth that – with the right tools – anyone can eliminate the people, money, and time problems holding them back in business. And I share parts of these webcasts and courses on this show because I want to help you, too. This series is from the course entitled The Art of Asking Questions, which you can find at courses.clearandopen.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

I offer weekly member webcasts, online courses, and mentorship at clearandopen.com because it’s my truth that – with the right tools – anyone can eliminate the people, money, and time problems holding them back in business. And I share parts of these webcasts and courses on this show because I want to help you, too. This series is from the course entitled The Art of Asking Questions, which you can find at courses.clearandopen.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

We begin a four part series today from my course entitled “The Art of Asking Questions”, which you can find at courses.clearandopen.com. I’ll talk about the nature of curiosity, our poor conditioning about learning and what to do about it, how embarrassment can be productive, and a lot more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

This is the third and final part of the excerpts on excellence from my course entitled Embodied Values and Virtues, which you can find at courses.clearandopen.com. In this installment, we relate excellence to the 5 stages engagement, which you may remember from previous episodes, and the dead-end of striving. Then we connect passion work and soulmates to the final stage of flow, the place we’re all headed whether we realize it or not. Again, this series is from my course, “Embodied Values and Virtues.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

Today is part two of a three-part series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” We’re focusing on excellence and apply this to the domains of soul-mates and passion-path today, the person and work that is inextricably intertwined with your destiny.  Spoiler alert: doing your best with what’s in front of you is the path to get there, and we’re not entitled to anything we haven’t yet earned. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

This episode is part one of a series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” The topic today and in the next two episodes is excellence, and it’s quite relevant to the “quiet quitting” stuff we’re hearing about in the news these days. In this episode: why never giving up is bad advice, how will-based excellence isn’t sustainable, and the terror of letting go of what once worked, but no longer serves you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

This episode is part three of a series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” We continue the conversation about compassion today by deconstructing the ubiquitous judgment of judgment in our world, and how counter-intuitively accepting and investigating your own judgments can lead to authentic compassion. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

This episode is part two of a three part series excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” We continue the conversation about the limits of repressing feelings, fear or otherwise, and the process of dead-ending principles by living them out to their logical extreme. Then we transition from courage to compassion and deconstruct some of the most common misconceptions of compassion that tragically stop us from embodying it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

The last series was excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues,” and we’re following suit. This episode begins a three-part series taken from the hour that followed. We talk more about courage and move onto the next virtue on the list, compassion. We talk specifically about the importance of not repressing fear, which is the most common misunderstanding of courage. Related to this, I field a question about how to productively steer yourself into fear, in the name of healing. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe

This episode completes our four-part series on courage, excerpted from my course “Embodied Values and Virtues.” Today we explore “the cake and eat it too” dynamic, the necessity of diagnosing root causes, living paradigms all the way to their logical conclusion, the red herring of confidence, and finally, to wrap up the series, the punchline: get intimate with your fear. That’s what courage really is. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit content.clearandopen.com/subscribe