The Ten Thousand (10,000) Heroes Show

Welcome back to The 10,000 Heroes Show with your host Ankur Shah Delight.

The goal of this podcast is nothing short of the total evolution of society, so get settled, it’ll take a while.

Our best guess at how to do that is through individuals. Specifically, helping each one of us align our external actions with our internal sense of mission and purpose, so we gain energy every moment from that which we used to call “work”.

And that, of course, is our definition of a hero. Or, to put it another way, A Hero is someone for whom just being their best selves is the biggest contribution they can make to the world.

In this episode, I interview Alida Miranda Wolff. There’s a lot that’s impressive about Alida, from her career trajectory to her recent book to her art. But what I really love about her, and this interview, is her transparency about her own journey, and her relationship with vision.

Alida interacts daily and intentionally with her sense of vision and purpose. It wasn’t until this conversation that I realized the degree of entitlement many of us (including myself) have around vision, as if we just Deserved to know our purpose in intimate detail, or a divine figure would reveal it to us fully formed.

So here’s the challenge: take her advice and run the experiment.

Of course, we do something pretty similar in Momentum Lab, our coaching program.

The important thing to me is not the specific actions or methodology, but rather the practice of keeping that vision alive and at the forefront of our consciousness. Every month, every week, every day.

Show Links:

Voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @10khshow

Guest References:

Alida’s book: https://alidamirandawolff.com/book/

Alida’s newsletter: https://alidamirandawolff.com/newsletter

And @AlidaMw on Twitter and on LinkedIn!

Hello and welcome to episode 00022 of the Ten Thousand Heroes Podcast.

I recorded today’s interview with Robert MacNaughton.

Robert MacNaughton is an executive coach and facilitator who specializes in balancing interpersonal development alongside individual performance.

Robert founded the Integral Center in Boulder, Colorado in association with renowned philosopher Ken Wilber, which hosted an international community of thought leaders, practitioners, and "evolutionaries."

He now hosts a podcast and works as an executive coach, supports leaders in resolving the gaps between their vision, roadmap, team alignment, and sustainable execution.

I got Robert to give me a watered-down digestible overview of integral philosophy, complete with a simple color coding system, and then to present some of the best and worst features of each level of development.

The invitation to the listener is not to try to categroize yourself or the people you dislike, but rather to widen your perspective to the point where you realize every perspective has beauties and flaws, or, as Robert’s own podcast is called, “disasters and dignities”.

What are the negative consequences of my own worldview? How can I address them by integrating aspects of worldviews that I have heretofore despised. That’s the point, as far as I’m concerned...

Thanks again for listening to today’s show. Stay tuned after the interview for the debrief with my co-host Nathan Ramos. And remember to email us at [email protected] or follow us on twitter at @10khshow.

References:

Robert's podcast: https://anchor.fm/dignitiesanddisasters

Best way to contact Robert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertmacnaughton/

His most recommended KW/Integral books:

Trump and a Post-Truth World: https://amzn.to/2LBBlTg (most relevant)

The Eye of Spirit - http://amzn.to/2mZCCGU (bitesize anthology of timeless articles)

Reinventing Orgs, http://amzn.to/2lpXHtc (not Wilber, but good case studies of teal orgs)

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Eric Grace is a kind of an angel. And he means that more literally than can you possibly imagine. He also estimates that 40% of us are in the same boat as him.

This provenance is not always a blessing. It comes with challenges in adapting to life on Earth and mixing with the more Terran souls.

Is that a challenging cosmology for you? It was for me. But Eric is also a pragmatist and grounds all his angelic talk in working with people to help them feel comfortable and use their gifts for the greater good.

We also talk about his many adventures through the wilderness of isolation, community, and drama on the fringes of society.

It’s thoroughly deep, thoroughly entertaining, and addresses head-on the questions every human has about meaning, purpose, and belonging.

Eric’s website:

https://eric-grace.com/

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Why are you here?

What is this short and fragile life about?

These questions have easy answers in traditional cultures. You listen to the myths and stories of your elders and nod along.

But once we’re exposed to the chaos and diversity of the larger world (#thanksglobalization), the simple narratives of our ancestors suddenly seem silly and unattractive.

Rationality leads us into a desert of meaning.

But it turns out that we left something important behind: Purpose.

The Ten Thousand Heroes Show aims to restore our collective sense of meaning and fulfillment through demystifying purpose.

We present empirical techniques and rational arguments for taking Purpose seriously, while leaving room for fun and mystery.

And we interview inspiring humans along the way, each of whom has a clear sense of Purpose, and whose sense of Purpose has allowed their success.

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The Ten Thousand Heroes Show is brought to you by Momentum Lab.

I normally refer to Momentum Lab as an experiment-based coaching program or a goal accelerator.

But it’s beyond that. It’s a deep investigation into Purpose, Vision, and what it takes to achieve our goals in every area of life.

If you’re interested in falling in love with who you are, what you’re doing, or what you’re surrounded with, there’s two roads:

1. Accepting what is
2. Transforming your situation

We help you do both.

The best way of learning more is to sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Ten Thousand Heroes Club:

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In this episode I present what I learned from William Ury's The Third Side.

The basic idea is that our communities and societies are the most important element in developing an effective conflict management system, and that the essence of being effect is to exert peer pressure on resolving the conflict instead of taking the "side" of any of the parties.

Hence, the 3rd side...

(For the video version, go here: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes)

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The first interview of Season 5! The first interview of 2023! I am so excited!

I’m also delighted to have had some really beautiful moments with my guest, Noah Rasheta.

Noah’s probably best known as the host of the Secular Buddhism podcast, and an author, and a paragliding instructor. I was really moved by his story – from Dan Greening, a previous guest – and I really benefited from his story, and his Vibe.

The “Vibe” is a hard concept to define. For me, it’s something about what a person has really integrated into themself, versus just what we say or claim to have learned.

There’s a lot of people who talk about Buddhism. Who are interested in Enlightenment. Who have spent years (or decades) studying it. And I’ve met quite a few of those in my travels and my studies.

And then there’s the sense I get when I’m around someone who feels “different”. And that’s the Vibe. That there’s more than an intellectual understanding, but a lived experience behind the words.

It’s what Uncle Jamal would call “Knowledge of the Heart” as opposed to “Knowledge of the Tongue”. And Noah has it.

And when someone has it, it almost doesn’t matter what’s being communicated out loud. Because the real communication is a bass note, almost inaudible, below the words, and more impactful than the words could ever hope to be.

Cherished listeners: Noah Rasheta.

Show Links:

Voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @10khshow

Guest References:

https://secularbuddhism.com/

https://secularbuddhism.com/author/noahrasheta/

https://www.amazon.com/Secular-Buddhism-Noah-Rasheta/dp/1366922735

About our sponsor:

10,000 Heroes is brought to you by Momentum Lab.

I normally refer to Momentum Lab as a coaching program or a goal accelerator.

But you could also call it a Master's degree in life.

When you join Momentum Lab, you get crystal clear on what it is you actually want. Who you want to be, what you want to do, and how you want to contribute.

And then we get into all the painful details of what has been blocking you this whole time.

Once that’s all in the clear, we can give you the knowledge, tools and support to actualize your vision.

Sometimes that's a spreadsheet. Sometimes it's a mindset hack. Sometimes it's a lecture and sometimes it's a hug.

Our only attachment is to your higher self.

So when you're ready to be the next version of yourself and your business for your family, or just for your own sense of fulfillment, drop me a line ;)

www.momentumlab.com

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