Living in "Easy World"
09/10/21 • 41 min
Mike and Gay's guest, Troy Lavinia, says there is a lot of work we can do to help people see the intersection between entrepreneurship and spirituality.
The world is changing and growing really quickly.
We’ve never been more inundated with information or more stressed.
Yet SO MANY of us have an incredible desire to do something creative or entrepreneurial AND are super open-minded to spirituality.
This episode will show you how AND how to take it further.
Listen to this episode to learn how you can operationalize spiritual principles to create great organizations and LIVE IN "EASY WORLD".
Mike and Gay don’t do a lot of interviews on the Big Leap so when they do, it’s always with someone really special.
Gay has known Troy for over a year and has been really impressed with the way he goes about his business.
His company is Mosaic Research Management, and they’re what's called an “expert network.”
Essentially they’re a matchmaker between investors at institutional investment firms.
For example, they may have a client who is a hedge fund analyst and thinking about investing in Nike. They may end up taking a $100 million position in Nike, so they really want to do their homework.
They'll read everything there is to read but they also want to talk to “on the ground sources”.
Troy’s company might go find the former CFO of Nike, who understands that business and its drivers, or they might find competitors of Nike who can talk about on the ground competition.
They put those people as advisors in touch with their clients for one on one telephone consultations.
By speaking with those industry experts, their clients get more knowledgeable about the business, fortify their investment thesis, and have more conviction in their investments.
Then, about a year and a half ago, they started a subsidiary business, which is recordings and transcripts of those calls.
With the permission of the experts and analysts, they’re recording and transcribing those conversations and putting them in a library so that you can go in and read them.
So if you're an analyst who wants to do the research on Nike, you can go in and read the interviews that other analysts have done about Nike to get smart on that company really quickly.
They’re advertising and monetizing this subsidiary through a subscription.
There is SO much more valuable information on this episode including Troy’s first Big Leap that involves his concept of MIDNIGHT PIZZA. (You're not going to want to miss this... it’s life changing!)
PLUS you’ll learn about creating great organizations through spiritual principles and operationalizing them AND how to start living in “EASY WORLD", where everything IS easy.
Mike and Gay's guest, Troy Lavinia, says there is a lot of work we can do to help people see the intersection between entrepreneurship and spirituality.
The world is changing and growing really quickly.
We’ve never been more inundated with information or more stressed.
Yet SO MANY of us have an incredible desire to do something creative or entrepreneurial AND are super open-minded to spirituality.
This episode will show you how AND how to take it further.
Listen to this episode to learn how you can operationalize spiritual principles to create great organizations and LIVE IN "EASY WORLD".
Mike and Gay don’t do a lot of interviews on the Big Leap so when they do, it’s always with someone really special.
Gay has known Troy for over a year and has been really impressed with the way he goes about his business.
His company is Mosaic Research Management, and they’re what's called an “expert network.”
Essentially they’re a matchmaker between investors at institutional investment firms.
For example, they may have a client who is a hedge fund analyst and thinking about investing in Nike. They may end up taking a $100 million position in Nike, so they really want to do their homework.
They'll read everything there is to read but they also want to talk to “on the ground sources”.
Troy’s company might go find the former CFO of Nike, who understands that business and its drivers, or they might find competitors of Nike who can talk about on the ground competition.
They put those people as advisors in touch with their clients for one on one telephone consultations.
By speaking with those industry experts, their clients get more knowledgeable about the business, fortify their investment thesis, and have more conviction in their investments.
Then, about a year and a half ago, they started a subsidiary business, which is recordings and transcripts of those calls.
With the permission of the experts and analysts, they’re recording and transcribing those conversations and putting them in a library so that you can go in and read them.
So if you're an analyst who wants to do the research on Nike, you can go in and read the interviews that other analysts have done about Nike to get smart on that company really quickly.
They’re advertising and monetizing this subsidiary through a subscription.
There is SO much more valuable information on this episode including Troy’s first Big Leap that involves his concept of MIDNIGHT PIZZA. (You're not going to want to miss this... it’s life changing!)
PLUS you’ll learn about creating great organizations through spiritual principles and operationalizing them AND how to start living in “EASY WORLD", where everything IS easy.
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REWIND: This is How to Discover Your Life Purpose
We have a special treat for you this week! We’re REWINDING one of our most popular episodes of all time.
We know you’re going to love revisiting this very special episode. ENJOY!
Do you ever wonder... what’s the point? Why am I here? What am I really meant to do? What’s my PURPOSE?!
Maybe you’ve been there, done that, know it’s time to reinvent yourself but you don’t know how to start, where to begin or feel as though it’s too late or too hard...
What would you give to be able to FINALLY figure out what your life purpose is OR your “next purpose”?
You are not alone. Many, MANY of us have struggled with the very same questions and it can be SUPER frustrating, anxiety-filled and frankly, pretty depressing.
Don’t worry... Gay and Mike are here to help guide you through the process and figure it out.
Today on The Big Leap podcast, Gay Hendricks is going to tell you about the moment he finally figured out what his life purpose was and how it’s affected every moment of his life since. Needless to say, it was a major turning point.
Mike is going to share some of his big leaps and some of the reinventions that he's gone through throughout his life because for him, he hasn't had just one big leap... he's had a bunch.
Their goal is to give you the tools, resources, and guidance to get you to where you want to be, so let’s dive in!
The moment Gay figured out his life purpose happened at a time where from the outside, it looked like he had it made. He had jumped to a “new level” in life, (but as he points out in The Big Leap book,) oftentimes when you have a big upsurge of love, money, or fame, it trips old mechanisms inside that bring up fears and then you shut yourself back down.
Since Gay was 15 years old, he wanted to be a university professor but didn't know exactly what he wanted to teach. When he was 22 he was bitten by the psychology bug, got his master's degree in counseling, then his Ph.D. from Stanford, and landed his first job as a university professor at the University of Colorado. He had made his dream come true.
And yet, a week before he was supposed to start his new job, (he had already moved to Colorado, rented a cabin in the woods, and was having a great time communing with nature) he had a panic attack when he realized, “Oh my God, I know all the textbook stuff but I don't know anything in my heart about what it takes to have human beings transform their lives.”
In graduate school, he learned dozens of different marriage counseling techniques, and dozens of different anxiety treating techniques but he never had a real person sitting with him where he did his own, natural work and had them change. That’s when he knew there was something missing.
Then he had a once in a lifetime experience. Standing out in the woods, he said out loud to the universe and himself, “what is the essence of human transformation ?” What is it that we do that darkens ourselves rather than enlightens ourselves? He stood there for a while and felt the question rather than trying to work it out in his mind... then the magic happened.
He got this amazingly powerful roar of energy through his entire body and mind that seemed to come from the ground up. It was like a freight train of white light and it felt good. Like a rolling wave of energy that passed through him and after it did, he realized that it had answered his question.
The information it left behind was this; the thing we do wrong as human beings that keeps us stuck, is we resist what's going on inside ourselves and the feedback that's coming in from the outside. We take a stance of resistance towards the world and out of that stance, our experience gets rougher. Life starts to treat us more harshly, simply because we closed down that part of ourselves. We’re not open to learning. It's this defensive posture that keeps us stuck.
He realized that the only way to transform is to let ourselves be exactly where we are and love ourselves for being there. Instead of judging or shaming ourselves, we simply need to feel where we are, and then love ourselves for being there.
So that’s what Gay did. He simply wandered around the woods for a while loving all the parts of himself that he’d never been able to love before until that moment.
He ended up in a beautiful state of being, both open to himself and the world around him. It was this magical moment of being completely free of his programming and having no expectations of the future that left behind a meta-t...
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Rewind: This Is How To Pull Out Your Inner Genius
You know how you watch your favorite movies and TV shows over and over again because they’re SO GOOD?
That’s the idea with today’s REWIND episode!
It’s one of the most downloaded episodes of all time and Mike and Gay thought you might want to revisit it this week.
How well do you read your body to know what’s really going on?
How much time do you feel you stay in your Superpower zone?
What % of your day or life do you feel STUCK ? Like you’re just not going anywhere? Like nothing has changed, moved forward, or inspired you in a REALLY long time?
What if you could access an unbounded source of creativity inside of YOURSELF at any given moment? What if you could use your own natural body resources to feel good ALL the time?
Imagine being able to use your body as a dashboard that tells you exactly what's going on in your life.
Gay Hendricks and Mike Koenigs produced a new episode of The Big Leap that they think you’re going to LOVE — Especially if you’re interested in learning how to turn ON your deepest creativity. They include a very practical process that Gay uses to get unstuck.
They'll also talk about a big distinction between your zone of genius and your zone of excellence and how to get yourself there AND a really practical tool that Mike only uses with his $50,000 Superpower Accelerator Vision Day clients. (And how he activates energy to get in sync, and create together!) It's a never-fail process!
Gay describes something he calls your “emotional dashboard” and how to read your body in ways you may never have done before. It’s something that’s had a massive impact on Mike. It’s a Superpower Visualization you'll be able to start using today.
Something we all need help with is how to open up and let more of our true creativity emerge. There's a difference between ordinary creativity where you're using your creative skills to do things for other people and true creativity where you're using your skills to do things for other people that benefit yourself.
Gay says the antidote for getting unstuck, doing what you’re good at, and drawing on your genius is inviting people into the fourth genius. This gets you past The Big Leap and into your Zone of Excellence, where you’re doing stuff you’re good at.
When Gay is working with a private client (in addition to visioning) he spends a lot of time beforehand creating a space inside himself for connecting with that person, knowing something about their journey, and making space for that. Dedicating himself to serving them is incredibly important.
When Mike is working with high-end Superpower Accelerator clients, he always asks them to go out into an imaginary future a year from now, look back at where they are now and ask themselves, what will it take to get to this other place. Sometimes the act of simply shifting them out of the present and looking back at where they are now is enough to kind of pop into the SuperCreativity Zone because Mikes thinks our creativity is sitting there waiting to be invited.
So what are some of the resources and tools for pulling out your inner genius? What are the techniques that they've used with their highest-level clients over the years to activate that center and get them in the right fit space?
You’ll have to listen or watch this episode to find out AND to hear some powerful questions that you can use to elevate your relationships with people you care about and how you can elevate anyone you come in contact with.
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