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This week, you get to peek into the world of aerospace pioneer and exemplary leader, Tim Ellis, co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space. As one of my long-time clients, Tim has gained valuable insight into the world of Conscious Leadership, which he has learned how to put into action as his company has grown from a seed to a full-blown revolutionary venture.  In this episode, he shares his unique e...

This week, executive coach and partner in Evolution, Anjani Bhargava, is back on the show to share her personal experience on how to turn your family into a high-performance team.  In this episode, you will learn how to make your family a team that trusts each other, that works well together, that can make decisions together, and that can really co-create the life and impact you want to have as in...

This week, learn about a pernicious problem that you might be contributing to without realizing it.  One of the most common issues that come up in organizations, families, teams, and even within ourselves is gossip. Gossip is a pervasive form of drama that infects entire teams when left unchecked. Gossip matters because it is one of the easiest ways to spread drama in any social setting, in any re...

Many great leaders understand that company culture is one of their greatest customer advantages and the foundation of culture is in the health of not only the individual team members but also of the team as a functioning whole. The first step to becoming a leader of a high-performance team is to be completely accountable as a steward of culture through your behaviors, actions, and communications....

Join Caneel for a frank discussion about body shame.  Discover how to break free from shame and guilt and how to move away from drama and towards empowerment. Learn how to shift your mindset by questioning the stories you’ve been told and internalized and watch how your energy is freed up.  You can choose to stop shaming, blaming, and judging yourself.  Use this episode to guide you away from body...

One of my top recommendations for you as a leader is to learn to speak in a language that is unarguable . You CAN speak about anything you want to in a way that nobody can argue with. This communication ninja skill allows you to move into action and brings you out of drama. To speak unarguably means to speak in the language of facts, not stories.  Learning the difference between facts and stories...

Today I’m sharing one of my favorite tools that is useful in all areas of your life, regardless of if you are an executive, a formal people manager, or if you are in a family leadership position.  ARCI is a tool that I teach to my executive teams when I'm doing executive team development and offsite training. It's a framework. It's a way of understanding the ‘who’ behind ‘who will d...

Don’t forget the most important thing to do this Valentine’s Day!  When you hear the term ‘self-love’, you probably think about bubble baths, chocolate and massages. However, none of those things are truly self-love.  Today, we’ll break down some barriers that we often have against self-love. We’ll also discuss what self-love actually is and what it could look like for you.  Self-love is inner wor...

You’ve learned all the basics of Conscious Leadership, right? You’ve gone to the community meetings. You’ve listened to all the podcasts… So… What’s next?  Today we speak with the remarkable CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Shelli Taylor. Shelli’s career as an executive highlights her passion for people as she leads through the lens of all her teammates and stakeholders to deliver results. Througho...

Most agreements are designed to fall out of integrity right away. End the friction of confusion and complication by fine-tuning how you make your agreements. You empower yourself and your team to work with integrity, by having concrete, literal, and clearly-defined plans from the onset, rather than vague suggestions.   Today, we're going to talk about how to create high-integrity agreements u...

Today’s episode breaks down one of the main goals of conscious leadership - integrity. As one of the most sought-after corporate values, understanding and embodying integrity is an invaluable leadership skill. This crash course episode explains what integrity is and what acting with integrity looks like. During this episode, you will learn how to shift back into integrity when you’re leading witho...

You used to think that gender was a simple thing. For some of you, you simply were born into one, and for others, you have questioned, identified and discovered for yourself. Whatever your gender is, gender does play a very important role in shaping what your life looks like – this is undeniable. And in this post #metoo era, it is often an uncomfortable topic to discuss. Today we're going to...

True design breakthroughs come, not just in whatever your innovation is or whatever it is that you’re designing, but through a process of learning how to serve and how to best understand your users.  Design thinking is a powerhouse skill that can be applied to any situation where there is a problem to solve. This simultaneously rigorous and flexible methodology can be applied to healthcare problem...

Are you pumped about your 2021 Vision, your New Year's Resolutions, or your annual goals? Wherever you are on your journey, this is a great time to give yourself and your goals a recharge. Here is your chance to align or realign all of your goals with my goal-setting workshop. In this free session you will: Clarify and set (or re-set!) a goal that means a lot to you this year Learn the secret...

There's nothing that you're not allowed to want. You are allowed to want what you actually want. There's no, “should”, necessary. There's no, “I need to”.   If you're heading into a new year's resolution process or you're setting goals for your team, your company, or your family, I invite you to build a foundation for making a massive change that's actually...

This week is Thanksgiving in the United States and it's one of my favorite holidays, although this year is going to look pretty different for almost all of us. This is also normally the week where we would talk a lot about gratitude and why it's important. One of the things that I often see is that it's easy to be grateful for things that seem really profound and important. It'...

Today, we are tackling one of the most commonly experienced ways to suffer that I have ever come across in all of my coaching work, and it is something called the Imposter Syndrome.  The Imposter Syndrome is when you really feel like you are a fraud, and everyone might find out that you've been faking it this whole time, and that you aren’t qualified to actually do the job that you're do...

How do you ask for and get what you want? I used to be a business school professor and one of the key courses I would teach to MBAs, undergrads and executive MBAs is negotiation, the skills and theories around negotiation and how to get what you want. By far, the biggest takeaway is how most of the time people ask for what they think they can get, instead of what they want. Last week on the show,...

It’s time to get inspired to design the business and leadership lifestyle of your dreams.  Regardless of what you do, you are a leader of your own life. You lead in your home. You lead in your work. You lead in your personal life. A common struggle that many of you have already faced is how to lead as a whole human with a whole life. Leaders often compartmentalize and make choices in one area of t...

Today, let’s dive into the concept of humans being made of many selves. You’ve likely heard me mentioning “a part of me” or “a part of you”. There are a lot of different parts of you that, combined, make up your whole self. Each of these parts can be identified as a different persona with its own unique needs, fears, desires, personality, and quirks. They even have their own heroes, role models, a...

Throughout this coaching session, learn how to tell whether you’re above or below the line. Explore why trying so hard to be out of drama can lead you into drama. Empower yourself to acknowledge the wisdom that comes from both being Above and  Below the line.  This episode will help you move into a place of true acceptance of yourself and others, no matter where you find yourself at the moment. Th...

You are allowed to kick ass, reach your full potential, and be healthy and happy. Tap into the transformative power of your Zone of Genius in this free, exclusive, on-demand workshop. Your Zone of Genius is the space where you nurture and enjoy your deepest, most organic talents and traits: your soul’s essence. It is here that you use your natural strengths to catapult you into a life with more op...

Your body can teach you important information about yourself, your leadership, and your lifestyle. Gain wisdom about what you need and truly want by listening to your body.  Throughout this episode, learn how living outside of integrity can result in both physical and mental fatigue. Suffering is not necessary for your success. Hear how integrity can not only end your suffering but empower you to...

Unlock a whole new level of deep personal development. Enhance your communication and find an even greater level of fulfillment in your interpersonal relationships. How? Learning about an ancient personality system and how your personality type influences your mindset and behavior.  In this episode, the remarkable Erin Rocchio joins Allowed. Erin is an executive coach, a partner in Evolution, and...

As a leader, you use your storytelling abilities to inspire and motivate. But to create lasting change, use the language of facts to speak unarguably.   In this week’s episode, explore the fundamental invitation of conscious leadership, which is to understand the difference between a fact and a story. This episode will provide you with the framework to begin to notice whether you’re expressing you...