The Pain of Leadership

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Sacred Masculine Podcast

Religion & Spirituality


THE OFFERING: Leaders must develop the power to create the impossible in order to realize their highest potential. No entrepreneur, leader or creator is happy with maintaining the status quo, even if they’ve achieved success, accolades and comfort from their accomplishments. Successful people know that the “zone of genius” can become a golden anchor that impedes your evolution. Most people have a huge vision for themselves that they’ve broken apart and watered down because they are scared of the scope of their dreams. In doing so, they are settling for the smaller incentives that are within reach, rather than striving for the bigger prizes on the highest shelves. They stop stretching. The power to create the impossible is the ability to first acknowledge these huge dreams that feel completely “unrealistic,” declare them possible and then create the circumstances in your life that move those dreams from unreality to reality. The speed at which you’re able to take those dreams from “impossible” to possible is defined as Power. In order to create the impossible from a state of Power, individuals must undergo a period of complete reinvention in work, life and self — counterintuitively shedding themselves of old beliefs and habits in order to make room for the ideas that will actually help them succeed. Reinventing yourself is not about changing what you are “doing” — it’s about changing who you are being. Reinvention is not as simple as a “pivot” or a new position in the market. It’s not just about doing better work. It’s about changing your relationship to the past, present and future so that you become capable of accomplishing anything you declare possible, regardless of your past or current experiences. An executive cannot reinvent their products, company or culture without first reinventing themselves. A musician cannot reinvent their sound without discarding what made them relevant in the past. It takes courage. As Tracy Goss would say, “Reinvention is putting at stake the success you’ve become for the power of making the impossible happen.” Reinvention can be triggered externally, but must take place internally. Anybody who seeks the power to create the impossible through reinvention can follow the guideposts until the road ends, but each reinvention is unique. Great CEOs, athletes, artists and world leaders have always endured the fires of change as they reinvented themselves. You can study great icons to understand how and why their reinventions happened — but you’ll never be able to copy the process. Your reinvention will happen with a series of transformations that fundamentally change your understanding of who you are and what you’re capable of, creating quite literally a different person on the other side who has no recollection of the limitations of the past. If reinvention is the key, what’s the catch? Everybody wants to reinvent themselves. Hardly anyone does. But that is how you wield the power.   THE MEDICINE SUMMARY: Daniel DiPiazza joins us on this episode as we dive into dimensions of pain, depression, and burnout, and discuss how these dark spaces can present unique challenges to those in positions of leadership. We discover how utilizing the wisdom and softness of the feminine energy can serve as an effective strategy to fully feel and process these difficult emotions and provide us with the courage to ask for help, leading us to uncover the gifts and lessons that are often waiting for us on the other side. THE BLESSING: "Let this blessing serve as a download that drops into your mind, leaks into your soul, opens up your being, and allows you to channel everything you already know. This great knowingness, this deep wisdom, the thing that stirs inside you, that you are the drop in the ocean, the drop of rain, the drop of dew off the giant tree of life. And know that you are the roots, and you are the tree, and you are the sky, and all of it. And let yourself remember and re-member that you are the center of all of it, and that every single human being is the center of everything, because infinity stretches out onto both sides of us in every single direction. And from that position of power, you sit at the seat of grace, impossible to be perturbed, unshakeable, immovable, strong, and rooted in your divine elegance. And know that if ever you need to call upon the strength, call upon the force, it's there, already inside you, with the guidance directing you exactly where you need to go, which is home, which is where you live, which is where you'll always rest."