Conscious Culture: The Evolving Future of Work

Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!

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Today I'm joined by Peter Moriarty. Pete and I have connected through a number of conferences and mutual friends, and I'm excited to finally have him on the podcast.

Pete is an expert in Small Business Cloud Computing and has been ranked as one of Australia’s top 10 entrepreneurs under 30 four times by SmartCompany and Australian Anthill publications. He has also been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review and Sky News Business advising on Business Cloud Technology.

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In this episode, we explore:

• Freedom for employees
• Questioning “traditional” ways of running a team
• Working with younger teams
• Putting your team first
• Flexibility in team structure
• Freedom of remote work
• Making your own schedule
• Team health and productivity
• Face to face time with remote teams
• Co-work spaces
• Transitioning between work and personal time
• Practical tips for remote workers
• Working with employees who are new to remote work

*Stay tuned until the end for the "bonus material" where Pete expands on the value of a fully remote company

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Connect with Peter

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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work. A podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.

Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episodes, subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcasting app.

For more information about remote work, check out more of Grow My Team here.

Or email Sarah directly to have a chat about remote work, how it’s done and how it can benefit your company: sarah@growmyteam.com.au.

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“When you’re an entrepreneur, you build that culture. Founder-led companies are usually more culturally-aligned and driven with a purpose and a mission that drives business results."

Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!

Sarah and her guest Zuhairah Scott Washington were connected through Sarah’s partner, Joe, who is participating in a accelerator group for developing keynote presentations with Z. Having heard Zuhairah’s keynote presentation and hearing the similarities with Sarah’s upcoming book, Joe had to make the introduction for the pair to talk all things conscious leadership and conscious culture.

Zuhairah Scott Washington is a tech executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor. She’s lived multiple lives in the industry over the last 15 years, most recently as an executive in high-growth start-ups including Uber and Expedia Group.

Zuhairah is now working on answering the question: what is missing from the leadership space?

She has the credential of an MBA and works in business, yet, as an African-American woman, brings a different perspective to the traditional learnings about what it means to be a leader. Her keynote is about bringing your humanity to work and leading with human kindness and a full heart, something that is rarely spoken about in a corporate context.

So, how can we embrace over this missed opportunity in corporate culture and our own businesses? Let’s dive in.

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“I think more and more people are hungry for connection. And not only connection to others on their team, but a deeper connection for what their work means for their life purpose."

In this episode, Zuhairah Scott Washington and Sarah Riegelhuth get into leading with courage and compassion, the validity of our feelings as a leaders, and the next generation demanding more authenticity from their leaders.

As we globally transition from the old world archetype of corporate culture and what leadership is into the new one that is being shepherded, this conversation with Zuhairah is one that will resonate: change and evolution is uncomfortable sometimes. The fear of going into the unknown will show up.

But every time we test the reigns a little bit, we’re choosing expansion and possibility. Thank the fear, and do it anyway.

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“How do you show up in that way and still succeed in a world that is largely on the evolution, on the journey, of leading in this way?”

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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Zuhairah Scott Washington also discuss:

• Making space for emotions and bringing our full selves to work
• Not showing weakness as a leader
• Self-awareness versus pushing our emotions down
• Vulnerability and fallibility
• Seeing each other as humans on the journey to do the best work of our lives
• Working from a position of cautiousness
• What we think we should be compared to what is really in our hearts and minds
• The freedom of the gig economy
• How millennials are driving the change to purpose-led work
• The generational shift in workplace culture
• The changing barriers to self-actualising work
• Living in the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Self reflection and doing the inner work as a leader
• Awakening to racism globally and awareness of judgement, privilege, bias and the work that needs to be done
• Creating containers for risk and opportunities for our teams
• Being a leader is not a title, and a title does not make you a leader
• Resonating with people and making them feel psychologically safe

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“We don’t even know the stories we create sometimes. Check me, because I don’t want to write any bullshit. I want to speak our truth as a company, our truth to where we are right now, what we’ve learned, our culture. I want to speak it.”

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

• Connect with Zuhairah: zuhairahwashington.com

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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work. A podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.

Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episodes, subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcasting app.

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For more information about remote work, check out more of Grow My Team here.

Or email Sarah directly to have a chat about remote work, how it’s done and how it can benefit your company:

“Without space between notes, there’s no music. And without space between thoughts, there's nothing beautiful that's going to come out. You’re just stacking noise.”

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Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!

Today Sarah is joined by her friend Andy Seth from Flow Marketing. They’ve known each other for about five years, having met through EO in Colorado and bonding over sushi!

Along with running Flow Marketing (his ninth company!), Andy has his own podcast, the Andy Seth Show, has written a best selling book, and more than anything, he enjoys the game of business.

Andy was also once a DJ, and just celebrated 20 years of retiring by buying some new decks!

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“I love the creativity and the artistic nature of what business allows you to do. Once you understand business, you can look at things in a different way and say, I want that!”

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“Business represents to me that I get to create my life however I want it.”

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In this episode, Andy Seth and Sarah Riegelhuth get into the game of entrepreneurship, having the final say in creative endeavours, free reign in implementation in our companies, and being intuitively led in business and life.

Andy shares his story around the process of writing his book Bling, from how it came to him in a meditation as a speech, to creating extensive visuals and becoming a best-seller. It’s also a conversation about cultivating intuition and letting our paths come to us through meditation, cooking or eureka moments in the shower.

Plus, we discover just how similar Andy and Sarah are, from the number of companies they've started to their backgrounds in finance and how that how influenced their world views.

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“I will live with the results. Good, bad or indifferent, I’ll live with them, but this is what I want to put out into the world.”

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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Andy Seth also discuss:

• Owning your masters and creative control
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Book writing and publishers
• Taking control over our creative licenses
• Deciding to not finish a book
• Working out what holds our attention
• Visual breaks
• Freedom in creative control
• Meditation and meditative activities
• Allowing for space between thoughts
• Not being able to shut off our minds
• The human experience and deciding to deal with it
• Feeling purpose-driven
• B Corps
• Creating positive net impacts with our businesses
• Money mindset and finance in Australia and the US
• The concept of intrapreneurship
• What millennials value: freedom, flexibility, empowerment and being engaged with the mission of the company
• How millennials are natural entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs
• Letting go of the reigns as leaders
• Fulfilment in helping build a company from the inside
• Integrators (eg, COOs, operations managers or GMs) in businesses and how appreciated they are
• Getting creatively blocked by our list of ideas
• Using flow state as a productivity and creativity tool
• Getting into flow state and intentionally triggering flow states
• Active release
• Flow state routines
• Multitasking and high intensity brain power
• Working with our energy states
• Working with our menstrual cycles
• Soft flow and hard flow states
• Removing distractions
• Staying open and curious

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“Isn’t it fascinating that we learn about our intuition through all the times we didn’t follow it?”

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

• Contact Andy: www.andyseth.com
• Entrepreneurs’ Organisation Colorado: https://www.eonetwork.org/colorado
• The Andy Seth Show: https://www.andyseth.com/theshow/
• Flow Marketing: https://www.feelmeflow.com/
• Andy’s guided meditation: https://bling.andyseth.com/download-the-bling-meditation
• Bling the book and the album: https://www.andyseth.com/bling/
• BONUS: Andy will sign and mail a copy of Bling to the first three listeners who text "feel me flow" to 646-495-9867

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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work. A podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.

Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episo...

Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!

I’m very excited to have my first guest from Europe on the show today: Katrina Jones, a friend of mine through the League of Extraordinary Women, another one of my companies!

We’ve known each other since the League’s early days, and we were lucky enough to have Katrina actually launch the League in the UK. We might one day share this story on the League podcast, but for now let’s get into Katrina’s group of companies under the Kendall Bailey brand, and her journey to becoming a conscious team leader.

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Katrina Jones is the founder and director of Kendall Bailey.

Since founding her first business over seven years ago, Katrina has gone on to build a million-pound group of Property Investment Companies in the UK. She now spends her time mentoring lifestyle entrepreneurs on creating their ideal businesses, giving them the time and financial freedom they desire through property investing.

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“The hardest part of what I’ve done in the last decade is learning how to be a powerful leader.”

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Remote work has long moved beyond simply being a trend or a lifestyle.

It’s a natural evolution in the way we work and collaborate and a complete and vital redesign with profound positive impact for businesses, teams and society as a whole.

With it comes a work culture revolution that requires putting culture, freedom, trust and conscious behaviour at the core of every business who wants to thrive.

I’m Sarah Riegelhuth, your host, and I’m a serial entrepreneur, investor and expert in growing happy, high-performing remote teams.

Since 2014 I’ve been running all of my businesses remotely and that has deeply changed who I am as a leader.

I’ve gone from micro-managing an unhappy team suffering high turnover and working long hours to moving to the US, traveling roughly six months of the year, loving the sh*t out of my team and being constantly amazed as to what we’re achieving!

Join me as we dive deep into conversations about remote work magic, conscious culture, and the future of work with some of the most inspiring founders and leaders in the remote work space.

Insights, tips, success and failure, innovation.. we share it all. Let’s dive in!

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“Your job on that journey is finding the people you want to learn from and educating yourself.”

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In this episode, Katrina Jones and Sarah Riegelhuth get into self-development as leaders, learning from others, authentic leadership and aligning with our values.

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“The only thing I would prescribe to others as leaders is to do the inner work. Learn yourself as much as you possibly can, and bring yourself to your leadership.”

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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Katrina Jones also discuss:

• Educating ourselves
• Self-trust and confidence in our leadership style
• Looking up to other leaders
• Tossing out 90 day plans
• Trusting our intuition
• On-going business planning and implementation
• Finding what feels most resonate to us
• The sizes of our companies vs the number of our team members
• The difference between a leader and a manager
• Gaining the confidence to hire someone better than us at a job
• The honesty behind the cliche of being the dumbest person in the room
• Understanding our egos
• Figuring out where we want to play in our businesses
• The guilt involved in hiring staff
• Lean teams
• How our self-worth and identities are linked to our companies
• Being a martyr in business and feeling valuable
• Doing the inner work and expanding our experience
• Limiting beliefs in business
• Our stories around building a business
• The incessant desire to not stop doing
• Working in a sustainable way
• Putting energy and intention into our work

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“The art is to do all of the research, learn all of the lessons, and then stop and reflect on which ones work, which ones resonate, which ones give me goosebumps and make me think, Yes! That’s me!”

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

• Love My B&B: https://www.lovemybnb.com/
• Katrina Jones: www.katrinajones.uk
• Katrina Jones Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrina_jones_01/
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Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!

I’m super excited today to be joined by one of my best friends, Mike Arzt, who lives here in Colorado where I’m also currently living. Mike was one of the first people I ever met in Denver, having met through an Entrepreneurs’ Organisation event. He’s been a great support to me personally and an inspiring leader in his business The Public Works which has an incredible culture.

I’m so happy to have Mike on the podcast to talk about what makes The Public Works what it is, how he cultivates team culture and how it all began with working at Burton Snowboards and soaking up Jake Burton’s leadership style.

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“Our lives were redefined by being there, but so were everyone else’s. That wasn't just Jake. That was what Jake created. And to me that’s culture.”

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Remote work has long moved beyond simply being a trend or a lifestyle. It’s a natural evolution in the way we work and collaborate and a complete and vital redesign with profound positive impact for businesses, teams and society as a whole.

With it comes a work culture revolution that requires putting culture, freedom, trust and conscious behaviour at the core of every business who wants to thrive.

I’m Sarah Riegelhuth, your host, and I’m a serial entrepreneur, investor and expert in growing happy, high-performing remote teams.

Since 2014 I’ve been running all of my businesses remotely and that has deeply changed who I am as a leader.

I’ve gone from micro-managing an unhappy team suffering high turnover and working long hours to moving to the US, traveling roughly six months of the year, loving the sh*t out of my team and being constantly amazed as to what we’re achieving!

Join me as we dive deep into conversations about remote work magic, conscious culture, and the future of work with some of the most inspiring founders and leaders in the remote work space.

Insights, tips, success and failure, innovation.. we share it all. Let’s dive in!

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“You cannot even begin to grasp the ripple effect in the world because of that one person who followed their passions.”

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In this episode, Mike Arzt and Sarah Riegelhuth get into passion in our work, the lasting affects of good leaders in our lives, and the sprawling effect of empowering our teams with conscious culture.

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“We get to just show up, all of it, as we are, and not have to hide and be this way or that way. When we bring our whole selves to work, when we have our crises people are like, You know what? I get it. They don’t see you as the big boss with all the money and you have all the masks on.”

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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Mike Arzt also discuss:

• Pursuing the fun side of work
• All the people who count on us, from our team to our building tenants and their families
• Culture doesn’t always pay the bills
• COVID-19
• What ifs
• Challenges of running businesses
• Team loyalty
• Business opportunities that look good vs business opportunities that feel good
• Culturally aligned team members
• The delineation between our professional and personal lives
• Changes in mindset
• Solidifying our connection to our team
• Supporting team members going through hard times
• All the experiences that life has to offer

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“We don’t have to go and do this. We could quit. People could bail and do something else. But we get to get through this, as a team.”

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Public Works: https://www.thepublicworks.biz/
• Entrepreneurs’ Organisation: https://www.eonetwork.org/colorado
• Battery 621: http://www.battery621.com/

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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work. A podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.

Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episodes, subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcasting app.

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For more information about remote work, check out more of Grow My Team here.

Or email Sarah directly to have a chat about remote work, how it’s done and how it can benefit your company: