The CREATOR MODE with James Andrews

Who is in Your Network of Contribution?

What would it look like to create being part of a community where you’re going to engage in important conversations about the world and about business?

 

Many of us have communities of people in different areas of our life that we experience real contribution from. That could be a yoga community, or a friend group where you experience connection and growth, or a faith community. But as it relates to business, that kind of community is really missing for most people (especially in large organizations). On this episode we invite you to start to engage in what it looks like to create a Network of Contribution.

 

A Network of Contribution is the antithesis of what a normal network community is. Let’s start with what it’s not. Is it not code for “I’m going to find some business”.  It is not made of convenience (where you’re giving opinions). It is not cheap. It is not that we show up and talk business goals.

 

Rather, it is one where like-minded ambitious professionals grow together and work things out together. Where you Invest energy and real thinking. You invest yourself, your time, and together you discover new pathways and new accesses.

 

Creating a Network of Contribution Is:

 

✔️Not in the world of transactional

✔️Not a short term business goal

✔️Access to invention

✔️A place where you bring real value

✔️You Investing yourself and your time

✔️Built on a shared commitment that is significant

 

Highlights: 

• How do you become part of a Network of contribution?
• Contribution vs. Convenience
• How evolution occurs
• Your commitment over time and how it evolves
• Breakthroughs vs. Evolution (connected to a commitment and engaged with over time) 
• Ah Ha’s and Integration
• Fundamental Concerns of Being Human

 

 

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - What is a Network of Contribution?

10:52 - What is the Autonomy Course?

24:04 - The dopamine hit we get from breakthroughs

26:27 - Glamorous Action - *George Leonard - on Mastery

26:52 - Long periods of monotony, then breakthrough, followed by long periods of monotony

27:00 - Why am I doing this, and what my ultimate intent? 

27:55 - What’s fundamentally important to being human?

 

“A big thing missing for business owners and leaders, they have no place to go to really talk, and to hear themselves think, and to work things out.” - Jeff Willmore

 

Contact Info:

Guests: 

Jeff Willmore (IG, LinkedIn, FB) & Richard Condon (IG, LinkedIn, FB)

@jeff_willmore & @rgcondon

www.autonomycourse.com

Reinventing Entrepreneurship, Reimagining Career, Discovering Connection

 

Host: 

Elizabeth Upton (on IG, LinkedIn, FB) 

@myobpodcast, @elizabethuptoncoaching

www.elizabethupton.com

https://linktr.ee/MYOBsocial

 

Original music by Adrian Vaca (on IG, FB) 

@adrianvaca

[email protected]

 

TRT: 32:33

 

How Trust Informs Our Business with Jeff Willmore & Richard Condon

To trust involves this risk of vulnerability, being betrayed, hurt, heartbroken…all of it. We don’t have to look far to discover experiences that have trained us to be distrusting. There are countless examples of it. So, what is one to do? Join us as we look at trust in all facets of our lives and business. We look at how it is the foundation for creating alliances, partnerships, getting complete, and creating our futures. Can trust really be an access to unpredictable and extraordinary results? 

 

Highlights: 

• Trust as a self preservation method
• Trust as a living breathing thing
• Distinguishing trust from an ontological perspective
• Giving trust with eyes wide open
• Trust as a foundation for creating alliances, partnerships, getting complete, and creating futures

Contact Info:

Guests: 

Jeff Willmore (IG, LinkedIn, FB) & Richard Condon (IG, LinkedIn, FB)

@jeff_willmore & @rgcondon

www.autonomycourse.com

Reinventing Entrepreneurship, Reimagining Career, Discovering Connection

 

Host: 

Elizabeth Upton (on IG, LinkedIn, FB) 

@myobpodcast, @elizabethuptoncoaching

www.elizabethupton.com

https://linktr.ee/MYOBsocial

 

Original music by Adrian Vaca (on IG, FB) 

@adrianvaca

[email protected]

 

TRT: 55:13

Why Slowing Down is a New Access for Performance with Jeff Willmore & Richard Condon

Summary: Join us while we discuss what it means to really slow down and how that simple act, can profoundly impact our lives and our businesses. Together we look at the paradox; you have to slow down to speed up. It’s no wonder that in the Buddhist tradition, it’s called the ‘sacred act of pausing’. We invite you to take the next week and slow down and see what happens for you.

Highlights: 

• Our brains are not designed to slow down 
• A new access for performance
• Beginning to start a practice for yourself
• Paradox: You have to slow down to speed up
• The power of Intent 

Quotes:

“If I’m not slowing down, I’m missing out on life. In the Buddhist tradition it’s called the ‘sacred act of pausing’.”

“With alignment comes unpredictable results, flow, power, velocity” 

“The moment you connect, that moment is no longer mundane.” 

“Very rarely are we present to and articulating, ok, here, what is my intention?" 

 

00:00 - Intro 

01:11 - What is it that you’re always reminding us to slow down

02:40 - Our brains are not designed to slow down  

03:31 - The way things occur for champions - gives us a new access for performance

04:40 -  Everyone is “too busy to…”

04:50 - Slowing down beyond moments of challenge & difficulty

06:20 - making choices that align me with what’s most important to me, vs. just react, react, react….

07:00 - Beginning to start a practice for yourself …Just STOP

08:26 - 100 mile per hour serve

10:10 - The way the ball occurred

13:40 - Paradox: You have to slow down to speed up

15:23 - What happens when you slow down

17:30 - recognition and how things happen in conversations

29:25 - Why live an aligned life? 

19:45 - Challenge: Take the next week and slow down. See what happens for you. Take several moments a day and STOP for a moment and connect with yourself.

21:19 - There’s nothing worse than the realization that “I missing my life. The thing about it you got to be there for it.”

22:00 - Slowing down in the business world; inquire into what is my intention for what I’m about to do.

 

Contact Info:

Guests: 

Jeff Willmore (IG, LinkedIn, FB) & Richard Condon (IG, LinkedIn, FB)

@jeff_willmore & @rgcondon

www.autonomycourse.com

Reinventing Entrepreneurship, Reimagining Career, Discovering Connection

 

Host: 

Elizabeth Upton (on IG, LinkedIn, FB) 

@myobpodcast, @elizabethuptoncoaching

www.elizabethupton.com

https://linktr.ee/MYOBsocial

 

Original music by Adrian Vaca (on IG, FB) 

@adrianvaca

[email protected]

 

TRT: 27:34

Discover & Articulate Your Calling with Jeff Willmore & Richard Condon

Highlights: 

• Gain access to aspects of your life that are hidden from view
• Being unique in the marketplace
• Discover 3 fundamental principles
• Ultimate Intent & Your Calling
• Ways to find Joy inside the world of business
• An intro into "The Forcefield of Business"
• Common vs. Uncommon Knowledge

 

00:00 - Intro 

01:11 - What is uncommon knowledge?

02:30 - 1) Inquiring authentically and deeply into a subject. 2) Rooted in your own commitment to evolve, invent, or reinvent your career or business (or your entire industry) to live true to something you’ve committed to. 

06:11 - When you’re willing to do the work and the thinking to access your own unique vision, we found most professionals have a vision but they haven’t been able to articulate it. 

07:15 -  “Give language to something that’s beyond language”. 

08:54 - Why would you want to be unique in the marketplace?

12:33 - 3 fundamental principles - intention, architecture, and environment (not from what your company does, but from why does your company exist) 

15:14 -Ultimate intent  - what does your company exist for? Infusing the world in which that company exists. Hint: It starts with your life. 

17:00 - Your calling - what are you saying is the ultimate intent of your life? 

20:00 - Ex: Joy in the world of business inside of a Noodle Co. 

23:16 - Connecting to your heart and soul - and then having it be consistent! Look at the way we do business (that’s the opportunity and the challenge) 

24:32 - The Forcefield of Business - I’ve got to work hard, I’ve got to cut corners, I have to be tough, I have to sacrifice. 

25:45 - Elizabeth’s work on her calling - that’s uncommon knowledge 

29:25 - Why live an aligned life? 

43:05 - Discover and articulate your calling 

44:44 - What is the ultimate intent of your life?

 

Contact Info:

Guests: 

Jeff Willmore (IG, LinkedIn, FB) & Richard Condon (IG, LinkedIn, FB)

@jeff_willmore & @rgcondon

www.autonomycourse.com

Reinventing Entrepreneurship, Reimagining Career, Discovering Connection

 

Host: 

Elizabeth Upton (on IG, LinkedIn, FB) 

@myobpodcast, @elizabethuptoncoaching

www.elizabethupton.com

https://linktr.ee/MYOBsocial

 

Original music by Adrian Vaca (on IG, FB) 

@adrianvaca

[email protected]

 

TRT: 49:13

Living True with Jeff Willmore & Richard Condon

Welcome back to the Mind Your Own Business Podcast! For the entirety of Season 2 we are exploring one central question –  What does it take to live an “Aligned Life” (and what would it allow for)? Join us at the beginning of a very deep conversation with thought leaders, Jeff Willmore & Richard Condon, who collectively have lead over 350,000 people in transformational programs and who have a profound understanding of what it means to be a human being and live an extraordinary life. They are active seekers and investigators of our human design, ontology, and have a keen understanding of how you too can live an aligned life.

Together we discuss the fundamental concerns of what it means to be human. We look at ways to gain access to our blindspots and discuss principles that can get you freed up, so you can live a life filled with power, joy, synchronicity, and experience the miraculous as a regular phenomenon. Get to know them, this uncommon knowledge, and why they do what they do, here on the MYOB Podcast, Season 2. Welcome back to the show!

Highlights: 

• Gaining access to aspects of your life that are hidden from view
• Creating power, joy, synchronicity, and experiencing the miraculous
• Understanding how your life can get in the way
• Discovering the 2 points of our life
• What we “inherited” and how that shapes everything around us (and yet we’re not aware of it)
• The experience of inspiration and living true
• Common vs. Uncommon Knowledge

 

Show Notes: 

00:00 - Intro 

07:00 - Why live an aligned life? 

12:21 - What do you do when you you have no more runway?

14:11 - Richard’s conversations with his Father 

15:12 - Living True to something NOW 

17:13 - Before you came to planet Earth  

18:20 - Inspired vs. Expired

19:38 - “You have never been inauthentically inspired”

20:30 -  Inspiration vs. Motivation 

21:40 - What is the most important thing that inspires me? What am I going to say is important to me? What ultimately inspires you? 

25:36 - It’s important to say that someone doesn’t have to live an aligned life - it’s not a have to. The choice to commit to take it on, is the beginning of being someone who’s up to the challenge of Living True. What did my life fulfill? What was it really about? What did I live true to? 

26:06 - I wish I lived more true to myself 

29:30 - what we mean by autonomy 

34:08 - The origin of the Autonomy Course. Success as defined as working your ass off (“the Game of Business”)

36:22 -  Common Knowledge - the more you use it, the more it makes you like everyone else

44:14 - the question of how to live a meaningful life  

47:30 - An Inquiry; More inquiry, less certainty - not to get an answer, but to engage with what emerges as I’m asking that question!  

49:45 - If you look in the landscape of our World, the impact businesses are making on society is way greater than an individual 

Episode Exercise:

Start to explore into the moments (in your real life) that inspire you:

1. Look into your real life (not a book or a theory) 
2. What you get inspired by is absolutely trustworthy 

 

Contact Info:

Jeff Willmore & Richard Condon

IG: @jeff_willmore & @rgcondon

www.autonomycourse.com

Reinventing Entrepreneurship, Reimagining Career, Discovering Connection

 

Host: Elizabeth Upton

IG: @myobpodcast, @elizabethuptoncoaching

www.elizabethupton.com

https://linktr.ee/MYOBsocial

 

Original music by Adrian Vaca 

IG: @adrianvaca

[email protected]

 

Duration : 60 minutes