Spiritual Entrepreneurship

In this episode, Devi chats with Joshua Spodek about “Leadership and the Environment.” Joshua, PhD MBA, wrote the #1 bestselling Leadership Step by Step, hosts the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, is a professor at NYU, writes a column for Inc., and blogs daily at joshuaspodek.com.

He holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate. He left academia to found a venture to market an invention that showed animated images to subway riders between stations.

He teaches and coaches leadership and entrepreneurship at NYU and Columbia Business School. He has spoken at Harvard, Princeton, West Point, MIT, BCG, PwC, S&P, and IBM.

Appearing on every major network, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and more, he has been called “best and brightest” in Esquire’s Genius issue, “astrophysicist turned new media whiz” by NBC, and “rocket scientist” by Forbes and ABC.

He visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, has done burpees daily since 2011 (108,000 and counting), takes 16 months to produce one load of garbage, and hasn’t flown (by choice) since March 2016.

Devi and Joshua discuss:

• Joshua’s inspiring journey as a leader
• His definition of leadership
• Having leadership goals
• Making BIG shifts
• What the environment means to Joshua
• Having a deep connection with nature
• How leaders work with emotions and people
• The advantage of having managerial skills as a leader
• Communicating creatively as a leader
• The feeling of making a difference
• What drives people
• Leading by example
• Being aware of the environment around you
• Interacting with nature
• Achieving greater freedom in leadership
• Joshua's choice to no longer travel by plane
• Influencing other people’s belief systems
• The feeling of having an emotional reward
• Leading effectively
• Living consistently with your values
• Influencing other people through your leadership
• Acting within your values

and more...

More about Joshua:

• Connect with Joshua @ www.joshuaspodek.com
• Listen to Joshua's TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb3nwRZmKBo

In this episode, Devi chats with Toku McCree about the Spiritual Business practices and life lessons of an ex Zen monk gone Spiritual Entrepreneur. Toku McCree's awesome journey as a Spiritual Entrepreneur started out in the music industry and took some unexpected turns through a Zen monastery and a preschool. Now he has a highly successful coaching business and works with brilliant leaders who are obsessed with greatness and understand that ‘success’ is just the beginning of an amazing life and not the destination. Toku runs the "Unexecutive" and has a coaching incubator called "The Samurai Coaching Dojo".

In this episode, Devi and Toku discuss:

• His journey: From... Music Industry professional to Zen Monk to Preschool teacher to Spiritual Entrepreneur and Coach.
• The "Unexecutive"
• "Facing ourselves" through Zen practice
• Living the life of a Shaman out in the world of business vs. a Monastic in a monastery
• Being willing to experience the “guilt” of what we want
• Being comfortable with and responsible for what we receive
• Recognizing that the money that we are receiving is about creating value for the client and has nothing to do with our perception of our own value
• The challenges facing "young" coaches
• The main issue that Toku sees coaches having and how he and his partner address it in their coaching incubator.
• How Toku created a six figure coaching business within 18 months.
• "Trickle Down Enlightenment"
• Creating a tribe of leaders who are working to be the wisest most compassionate version of themselves
• How he works with his clients to be in full alignment with the leader within
• How to enroll high end clients into your business
• Coaching as a two person meditation
• Tools vs. Being for coaching success
• The power of listening to your clients for success
• The “Golden Cage of Success”
• Toku's Spiritual Business Practices
• How to create powerful context in your life and business A
• ligning yourself with your values
• Values based business and serving people in a deep and meaningful way
• How to know your real life purpose
• Toku's big dream for the world
• Getting into the place of seeing everything in business as Spiritual Practice
• and more...

Learn more about Toku:

On His Website: Unexecutive.com Coaching Dojo: CoachDojo.com Resources Mentioned: The Prosperous Coach The Coaching Habit

Have a listen!

In this episode, Devi chats with Matt Sweetwood about "Reinventing Your Business". Matt Sweetwood, with over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, is a thought leadership and personal branding expert. He was the U.S. CEO of beBee and as president of Unique Photo, he was credited with the reinvention of the modern camera store, as well as the country’s largest in-store photography education program. However, by far, his greatest achievement is having raised five successful children to adulthood as a single dad. He is a business consultant, life coach and is a regular contributor on national TV in the social media, photography, business and parenting arenas and he is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur magazine. Matt was the winner of the 2014 CMO Club President's Award, the 2015 Aish Center’s Continuity award and the Photography Industry’s 2016 person of the year. He has a bestselling self-help book, “Leader of the Pack: How a single dad of five led his kids, his business and himself from disaster to success.”

Devi and Matt discuss:

• Matt’s inspiring journey in business as a single parent
• Fighting and standing up for what you believe in
• How Matt started his own company
• The nature of "business"
• How to reinvent your business
• Realizing the need to reinvent
• Deciding “when” to reinvent
• Deciding “what” to reinvent
• Identifying the problems in your business
• Having multiple solutions
• How to put yourself in a resourceful state
• Tips and practices for growing your business
• Starting your business with an intention
• Testing your intention
• Doing a "mind experiment"
• Having a divine intervention with your business
• Believing in miracles in your business
• How to manage reinvention in your business and personal life
• Looking at the positive and unique part of your business
• Identifying the assets of your business
• Controlling your panic
• Channeling your energy into something positive
• Remembering that “You never fail until you quit.”

and more...

Connect with Matt on his website @ www.msweetwood.com

(Septemberfest) In this episode, Devi chats with Sarah Anne Dordel about, Indicos and Indie Empaths “Who We Are and How We Heal”. Sarah Anne is a dear friend and she is a talented speaker, promoter, and a conscious business consultant who provides huge visibility in rapid transformation for conscious entrepreneurs and businesses. Sarah Anne is the leader of the Conscious Business Network of San Diego, a thriving community of 2000 plus professionals, and she recently founded the Conscious Business Chamber of Commerce in order to take her leadership global and support good people doing good things across the country and beyond. Devi and Sarah Anne discuss:

• Sarah Anne’s extraordinary life experience • Identifying an "Indico" • A new type of “empath” • Benefits of being an “Indico and Indie Empath” • Traits of an “Indico" and an "Indie Empath” • Creating a strong career by identifying your “Indico side” • Setting up healthy boundaries • Tips for establishing healthy boundaries • Setting your life up for success • Types of awakenings and activations • Going through each of your challenges • “Slowing down” is essential • Finding a community that you can relate to • Managing the energy in your body • Being relentlessly selfish • Making time for “self-care” • Becoming solution oriented • Stop easing the pain of other people • Caring for ourselves first • Having our own divine source • Intimacy for “Indicos” • The balance in doing the “soul-calling” • Being aware to be empowered to say “no” • Allowing all your energies to blend • Having your own “sacred space” • Tips on setting boundaries • Being prepared for people to hurt you

and more...

More about Sara Anne:

In 2014 and at the top of her career game, Sarah Anne's life started to crumble around her when she experienced a very abrupt and hostile job loss, followed by a spontaneous spiritual awakening. These experiences, although traumatic, were gifts as they ignited her passion to advocate for leaders who are truly ethical and heart centered in the world of work today, Sarah Anne specializes in helping others like her to awaken their business and healed themselves in the process.

Her clients are emerging leaders and she teaches them how to launch, lead and build their own large-scale network in order to position themselves as powerful influencers through trust of visibility and savvy event marketing. Sarah Anne prides herself on being a big dreamer, a passionate problem solver, and an expert in growing businesses organically and cost-effectively.

Your intuitive branding, strategic relationships, top-notch educational events, and exceptional systems. Her big dream is to elevate humanity through conscious collaboration, compassion, and a hardy appreciation for the imperfect moments on the path of life. Connect with Sarah Anne on her website @ sarahannedordel.com

In https://spiritual.libsyn.com/ep-285-lets-talk-manifesting, we talk about manifesting. This truly is one of my favorite spiritual practices. Not only, because it gives us the ability to create awesome things in our lives, but more importantly - it is a way of witnessing the Divine in your day-to-day world.

When we co-create in this way, we ask and witness the answer as our life experience. It is truly special.

In this episode, I share with you a 5 Step Process that you can use to create anything in your life....

Step One: AwarenessStep Two: Ask/IntendStep Three: AlignStep Four: ListenStep Five: Take Inspired Action

This is not a linear process - but rather an upward spiral - we move through these steps circularly and upgrade our consciousness, life, and business as we follow the steps of our manifestation and co-create with the Divine.

Here is a sneak peek at the episode:

[01:19] “It took me a long time to come to the place where I started to realize that true fulfillment in life comes from experiencing and expressing the voice of your soul in service to humanity in a bigger way. Through the journey of learning that, one of the things that I've discovered is - not only can we manifest and create what we want to create in our lives just by a simple process, but also I have realized that the gift is in the response of the Universe.”

[15:39] “One of the most beautiful things in this experience is when you follow that intuitive guidance when you listen, you are in a place of deeper alignment with that soul's voice within you.”

[16:15] “There are no big or small manifestations. I know people might think “I couldn't manifest that because that's big, but I could manifest a dime on the street or a dollar.”. Thinking that these two things are in some way different, but what matters is the positive expectancy and the alignment with what it is that you are wanting to create through the process of manifesting.”

Happy Weekend Listening, my friend!

PS - I would love to support you and to have you come and join us in the 21-day manifestation challenge, starting the first week of February... Join us at deviadea.com/manifest