How to Live Your Truth
Today, we are on step number four of our five-part series on living an authentic life.
Building a life that is meant for you
We have been doing a series on how to build a life that is meant for you. Every life is different. We’re not trying to build lives that are for our friends, our neighbors or some collective group of people. We want to build a life that is meaningful and purposeful for ourselves, but how do you do that?
Where we are in the series
We have gone through awareness. We have talked about taking radical responsibility. Last time we talked about making choices and how to ditch the victim mindset and get rid of blame.
Taking action from your truth
Today we’re going to talk about the actual action of taking action from your truth. Your truth.
Frequently asked questions
What does it mean to live your truth?
To build a life that is meaningful and purposeful for you, not for your friends, neighbors or a collective group, and to take action from that truth.
What are the steps before taking action from your truth?
Awareness, radical responsibility, and making choices without blame or a victim mindset.
The five-part series
This episode is part of Laura’s five-part series on living an authentic life: 1. Awareness Re-Defined · 2. Radical Responsibility · 3. How to Make Choices That Matter · 4. How to Live Your Truth · 5. Why Living Your Truth Takes Daily Practice. It starts with How Do We Define a Happy Life?
Joshua Spodek: Becoming The Person Others Follow
In this episode of Art of Authenticity I had a thoughtful conversation with Joshua Spodek, an astrophysicist, entrepreneur, leader, and author of the book Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow.
Today, we have our very first repeat guest. We have Joshua Spodek joining us. He is a professor at NYU and a columnist for Inc, he holds – are you ready — five Ivy League degrees. If you’re having a complex at the moment, join me, because I am as well.He has a PHD in Astrophysics, and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate, he has done a lot of different things with his life, and at the moment, he is working on helping people in leadership, an executive coach for Columbia’s business school, and he’s just worked really hard on this idea of how to teach people how to lead.He believes very strongly that leading happens from experiencing it yourself. He’s written a book, Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow. It’s all about creating positive change, but how to do it, specifically, with actual guidance step-by-step, with exercises that he has used in his teachings and he is sharing with you.I am confident that Joshua has a ton to offer. Go check out his book, you can buy it right now on Amazon. If you’re looking to find out more about Joshua, you can find him at joshuaspodek.com, and I know that I haven’t had anybody on twice before, but I thought his book and his approach is particularly cool, and I thought you guys might be interested. So enjoy the show!
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Show Notes
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Why Joshua used a publisher for “Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow” [3:28]
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Why Joshua chose to write a book about leadership step by step [4:56]
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Leadership Bias: Are you naturally a leader? Can you learn to be a leader? [7:26]
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Coaching people can be beneficial in business and personal relationships [9:41]
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How to motivate someone when you do not have authority over them [12:12]
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Why might employees not want to open up to people in management [14:14]
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How to handle working with a difficult boss [19:22]
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Joshua’s opinion on what makes a good teacher when teaching leadership [23:25]
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Joshua’s experience and advice on marketing [24:45]
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Overcoming our internal critiques of ourselves [28:53]
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Where is the book be available on Amazon and Joshua’s contact information [35:24]
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Joshua Spodek's book: Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow
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How to Make Choices That Matter
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Art of Authenticity. This is the third part of a five-part series all about how to make decisions to build a life that you love.
Step one: awareness
We talked about the idea of awareness and how to think about awareness in a redefined way. Without awareness, we cannot even start the process.
Step two: radical responsibility
Then we talked about taking radical responsibility. You have to get rid of the blame, completely. No matter what has happened in your life to get you to this moment, this moment is completely about you and what you decide to do with it.
Step three: making choices
In this episode, Laura moves on to making choices that matter.
Frequently asked questions
What comes before making choices that matter?
Awareness and radical responsibility: letting go of blame completely.
The five-part series
This episode is part of Laura’s five-part series on living an authentic life: 1. Awareness Re-Defined · 2. Radical Responsibility · 3. How to Make Choices That Matter · 4. How to Live Your Truth · 5. Why Living Your Truth Takes Daily Practice. It starts with How Do We Define a Happy Life?
Mike Bundrant: Overcome the Hidden Cause of Self-Sabotage
In this episode of Art of Authenticity I had a thoughtful conversation with Mike Bundrant, an NLP practitioner and the founder of the iNLP Center and the A-ha process: the end self-sabotage.
Welcome to this week’s episode of the Art of Authenticity. I’m Laura Coe, yourhost, and thanks for joining me. Today, I’ve got Mike Bundrant joining us. He is the founder of iNLP Center. He is a Master NLP Practitioner. NLP is Neuro Linguistic Programming. It is a specific type of coaching that I love. It’s really effective, and if you’re a coach it is something you should definitely check out.He’s also a retired psychotherapist. He no longer focuses on the psychotherapy approach, he mainly focuses on NLP. I understand why, it’s Tony Robbins, a lot of people have popularized it, it’s a really, incredibly powerful tool to get change in your life.Mike and I had a chat before the podcast, and we agreed to a very different format for the show. You’re in for a real treat, hopefully you like it. I read his book, Your Achille’s Eel: Discover and Overcome the Hidden cause of Negative Emotions, Bad Decisions and Self-Sabotage. It’s a really short 30-page document. I felt like we could really get through this thing in the hour, and every single page that I read, I felt like he had outlined perfectly the process that happens when we move from our truth to an inauthentic life.
Thanks for ListeningAgain, thank you so much for your support! Please subscribe to the podcast if you haven’t already!Show Notes
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Mike’s background and an introduction to NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) [3:58]
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What does a NLP tool look like and how is it different from classic therapy [5:56]
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What is the message Mike is trying to portray at the beginning of his book “Your Achilles Eel: Discover and Overcome the Hidden Cause of Negative Emotions, Bad Decisions and Self-Sabotage | Improve Your Self-Esteem” [9:56]
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Why you should feed negative, frustrated, hurt, aimless and out of control feelings [11:38]
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How did Mike decide the three categories of Chronic negativity [15:25]
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How can an attachment (eel) save you [17:15]
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Do people unconsciously choose unhealthy behaviors and negativity into their lives [23:07]
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How to outmaneuver unhealthy behaviors and negativity into their lives [25:33]
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Mike’s “AHA” (Aware, Halt, Act) concept [27:10]
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What does it mean to have an authentic life [36:25]
Books Mentioned in this Episode:Mike Bundrant, Your Achilles Eel: Discover and Overcome the Hidden Cause of Negative Emotions, Bad Decisions and Self-Sabotage | Improve Your Self-EsteemFounder of INLP Center Coaching http://inlpcenter.org/Episode Resources
Authentic Affirmations Can Change Your Life
Today's episode comes from a reader, Abby. It's all about authentic affirmations. About practicing personal affirmations and how to connect the affirmation process to living a more authentic life. Do I think affirmations are effective at guiding us to our goals? If so, is there a best place to start? Find out in this episode.Thanks for ListeningAgain, thank you so much for your support! Please subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you haven't already!Episode Resources
Jennifer Brown: Diversity and Authenticity
In this episode of Art of Authenticity I had a thoughtful conversation with Jennifer Brown, an entrepreneur, author, and diversity inclusion specialist.
Jennifer Brown is the Founder, President, and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, which a strategic leadership consulting firm on diversity that coaches business leaders worldwide on the critical issues of talent and workplace strategy. She is really passionate, and she advocates for social equality to people in the LGBT community, people of color, women, and millennials.
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Show Notes
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How she went from opera singer to entrepreneur [03:00]
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Why you need to put your full self forward [07:15]
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What authenticity struggles she sees at Fortune 500 companies [12:55]
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Why the book, Inclusion, came to light [19:00]
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Whole Foods and diversity [25:35]
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Her daily habits and practices [48:40]
More About Jennifer Brown
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Radical Responsibility
Today, we’re going to talk about step two on how to build a life of purpose. As I thought about this more and more and more, it started to become clear to me interviewing 50 different people in authenticity, spending several years thinking about authenticity, reading all the greats; Plato, Aristotle, everybody on authenticity.What makes a life with meaning? What makes a life with purpose? What is this all about? It’s actually so complicated. The more I dove into it, the more complicated I realized it was. But then I started to realize, “Maybe it’s not that complicated, it’s just complicated to take it from concept into action.”Thanks for ListeningAgain, thank you so much for your support! Please subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you haven't already!Episode Resources
Ryan Holiday: How Your Ego Can Block Authenticity
In this episode of The Art of Authenticity, Laura Coe talks with Ryan Holiday, author and media strategist.
About Ryan Holiday
At his core, Ryan Holiday is a writer and a media strategist. He dropped out of college to apprentice with Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power. He then ran marketing for American Apparel and went on to write several books, including Ego Is the Enemy.
Ego and authenticity
The conversation covers Ryan’s definition of ego, ego versus confidence, how focusing on the task at hand can dissolve ego, how humility fits in, and what an authentic life means to him.
Show Notes
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The background of Ego is the Enemy [1:10]
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His specific definition of ego [05:58]
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Ego vs. confidence [07:15]
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How to manage your thoughts [10:30]
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Why focusing on the task at hand can dissolve ego [13:40]
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Where the line is between taking on too much and doing too little [18:10]
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How to figure out what you want [22:05]
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The world is at best indifferent to you [29:10]
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How humility fits into the picture [31:45]
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What an authentic life means to Ryan [37:32]
More About Ryan Holiday
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His book, Ego is the Enemy
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ego and confidence?
Ryan Holiday addresses ego vs. confidence in this episode (around 07:15).
How can you dissolve ego?
One idea from the episode: focusing on the task at hand.
Related episodes
Awareness Re-Defined
We’ve talked about the broader idea of purpose, but now I want to break down the critical parts of finding your authentic voice and bringing it into the world.
Why awareness comes first
This episode is about awareness. You might kind of hate it, because everything in self-help has to do with awareness. But give me a few minutes… you won’t regret it.
The five-part series
This episode is part of Laura’s five-part series on living an authentic life: 1. Awareness Re-Defined · 2. Radical Responsibility · 3. How to Make Choices That Matter · 4. How to Live Your Truth · 5. Why Living Your Truth Takes Daily Practice. It starts with How Do We Define a Happy Life?
Ali Shapiro: Truce With Food
In this episode of Art of Authenticity I had a thoughtful conversation with Ali Shapiro, a health coach and the founder of the Truce with Food ™ method for health coaching and weight loss.
Ali Shapiro is a health coach pioneering a new way to approach food, health and weight loss. She combined her background in functional medicine and holistic nutrition, to create an innovative health coaching method, Truce with Food ™, while at the University of Pennsylvania earning her Masters degree in Organizational Dynamics, with a concentration in coaching and change management.Her work is also informed by her own 18 year weight struggle and teenage cancer diagnosis. This is one interview that you don't want to miss — I learned so much talking with Ali and I
know
you will too.
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Show Notes
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Who is Ali Shapiro? [00:23]
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Experience/struggles with weight, body and food [00:36]
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What is her specialization as a coach and her main focus of her work? How she got there? [02:43]
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Master’s thesis subject: words & how we act[05:55]
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Motivation vs inspiration [07:03]
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How people are defining inspiration & what we really need in life [08:44]
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How to approach weight loss & your body goals [10:01]
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Why is food the biggest source of reward in your life? [11:34]
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Carol Dweck on growth mindset [13:15]
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The most meaningful things in life didn’t come easy [13:43]
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‘What is meaningful to me?’ vs ‘What do I think I’m supposed to want?’ [14:00]
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Step #2 in her process – adult development [14:42]
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Why weight can have an impact on confidence, but won’t work as goal [15:20]
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How to feel good regardless of weight [16:25]
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Physical and emotional go hand in hand [20:00]
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Healthcare doesn’t start at the doctor’s office [21:02]
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What does ‘capacity to have independent agency’ mean [22:41]
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Her approach | Experiments [24:56]
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Blood sugar & gut health [25:20]
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Story that makes people keep sabotaging themselves [26:14]
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Discover your own preferences [28:19]
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What does authentic life mean to her? [28:49]
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What she does when she’s stressed or facing fear to prevent her from making ‘bad choices’? [29:50]
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Daily practices that help her navigate success[32:24]
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What you fear persists [35:02]
More About Ali Shapiro
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