The Transformational Leader

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Closing Your Heart in Service of Good, Having the Courage to be Dumb, Raising Rates, Preparing for something the right way, and more!

The practice of leadership is the practice of leaning into the unknown and being with what is confronting. Being confronted is challenging, and we close, and then as we do our work, we learn to open in the face of the unknown. Imperviousness is becoming detached, disconnecting from reality emotionally and spiritually. You are physically present, but you can't feel anything there. It is a natural a...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as p utting things on scales, loving the fall, strategies vs. discoveries, everyone is always doing good, and more!

There is a commonly held belief that you are a spiritual being having a human experience. The truth is there is a physical plane of existence with different layers of dimension. These are the physical realm or what we call reality, the bridge realm, which is more like the emotional realm, and the highest is the spiritual realm. Each realm has particular needs or requirements. The closer you are to...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as   overwhelm, overcoming apathy, projects and the tangibles you want to create in your life, being okay with the way life is vs. being open to possibility, ownership vs. surrender, living through or for your children, obvious fixes, and more!

Most of you focus on productivity, success, efficiency, and being good at things. You are moving quickly even if you are not relaxed but did you know that our innate pace tends to be measured relax? You have a natural speed at which you can move from closure to openness. Tempo is about the rate at which you are moving through life and is the speed at which you operate. If your body becomes tensed...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Tattoos and full-expression, Medicine vs. Drug, Hallucinations vs. Spirit, The Purge, What is Acknowledgement For, Insights through the Medicine, the challenges of integration, detachment and impervious vs. Unattachment and sovereignty, Passion and Apathy, generating people's backstory, and more!

Why and what's next have huge distinctions not just in leadership in organizations but leadership in yourself. "Why" is where you, as a human, put all your focus and attention whenever you are stuck. We want to know why and it is very human to seek understanding. It's a gift, but the trouble is that you use "why" as a reason to stop moving forward. There's nothing wrong with asking "why" as long a...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Transformation and our Family of Origin, Generosity and Martyrdom, Proving points and honouring confidences, Being with other people's sermons, What I bring to my coach, What he learned from writing a book, and more!

Most of the leadership advice provides you with the obvious thing to do. It's obvious what you need to do, yet it doesn't seem to work. That's the trap of the obvious fix, it is like clear solutions, but it doesn't seem to change things. It feeds your ego that you feel like having progress and protect you from work that will set you free. Because of this, you receive short-term solutions, but it p...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as when things aren't working, right action and right being, becoming the medicine you give, his book launch and journey, and more!

Leadership is about expanding your worldview and frames of reference that allow certain things to be possible and others impossible for you. Worldview is everything you believe to be true and frames of reference are everything you hold to be true about a particular aspect of the world around us. If someone challenges your worldview, you naturally have evidence and arguments to back that up. That e...

One of the starting points of leadership is to admit that there are things you don't know yet and things you don't see. What's challenging in your blind spot is not that you cannot see it but that you cannot see what you cannot see. You want to know a blindspot, but your resistance wins before you start. If you are actively moving towards something, it becomes evident over time, and the impact of...

The nature of our beliefs shapes what we do. It also shapes our reality and our reality shapes what we believe. If you believe something as the truth, you take action concerning them. If you believe something is impossible, you don't fully commit yourself to going after it because you believe it is impossible. That instantly impacts your action and ability to throw yourself toward what you want to...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as breakdowns and breakthroughs, staying connected with inspiration and vision, acceptance, why you would work with a coach and/or leader, what's the fastest way to…, and more!

People are geared to avoid conflict. If you feel that there is discomfort or you feel that something is not right, people collectively agree not to go near it. Just like a bump in a carpet, it is a thing that you ignore, pretending it's not there and not stepping past it. But did you know that spaces people collectively avoid are problematic in leadership? Addressing what's in the space is a funda...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as w orking with the water we swim in, leading up and supporting your leader, Three Principles (tacklin' the Ps), ongoing transformation and striving, self-worth and external validation, ego, confidence and egoism, and more!

When something is going on, maybe we are afraid, embarrassed, ashamed or confronted, we tend to hide it. We often try to fix whatever is showing up to us and remove these from the space. These are all excellent approaches until we notice that we are putting more time and weight into overcoming these issues. How do we shift the way it goes? It is through acknowledging the problem, allowing what's i...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as w orking with the water we swim in, leading up and supporting your leader, Three Principles (tacklin' the Ps), ongoing transformation and striving, self-worth and external validation, ego, confidence and egoism, and more!

There are ten Energetic Laws of Leadership. Energetic Laws of Leadership are like physical laws that hold weight in our life and are the source or reason for our trust. One of these laws that are essential to leadership is hate and judgment. Hate and judgment are the ones that we can't accept on ourselves you will direct it to others. It is also the reason why so many people fall into hypocrisy. S...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam has a d iscussion with his client Anna Huweiler about the journey of her coming down to Costa Rica to sit in ceremony with Adam, what that was like for the two of them, and also hear them answer questions about living a great life.

Most of the time, we are focused on looking at the area of knowledge. Having so much wisdom sounds good, but without experiencing it, we will never have an impact to make. We won't be able to truly lean into the experience and discovery required to create genuine wisdom and transformation. That is why experiencing something is crucial in leadership. It will give us the ability and empathy for our...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam shares about the medicine he received during his most recent Ayahuasca ceremony, and also discusses quieting the analytical brain when leaving our comfort zone, charging fees with Integrity, seeing essence in children, and what to do when it stops being fun.

There are a lot of instances wherein hindrances to achieve breakthrough is present. Procastination, laziness, fear of rejection - you name it. But what makes them a hindrance is that we allow them to exist and we let them be. Rather than seeing it as a possibility for transformation, we simply let them be and integrated them into who we are. What if that isn't the way you are? What if it's not the...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam shares his appearance on The Coaching Game with Laurie Lawson, including a discussion around why Adam says he coaches the Smartest Person in the Room.