Discovering and embodying your unique way of being
This week’s show is with Adam Quiney, Adam is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the Smartest People in the Room. Adam’s clients don’t simply change; they transform their lives and the way they show up in world, creating massive impact in their relationships, companies, and families. They go from being natural born leaders that create followers, to transformational leaders that create leaders.
Adam brings the concision, skills and brilliance that he honed in his previous careers as a project manager and a lawyer. His clients include lawyers, doctors, executives, world-class designers, olympic athletes, financial professionals and CEOs across North America and Europe.
A couple of surprising facts about Adam: He trained with the founders of popping, locking, waving, tutting, and various other funk styles (here’s a video of Adam dancing!) and he’s played a card game called Magic the Gathering since it first started, and owns the most powerful card ever printed. It sells for around $4,000 when in mint condition. To Adam it’s priceless, because it’s his gold medal in the nerd olympics. Adam’s a self-confessed straight up nerd and I think that’s got a lot to do with why he and I get on so well.
This conversation is basically an hour of Adam and I geeking out! It’s on the topic of what Adam calls spectrums of being. Another way to describe it is our essence, that unique beauty and power that is there within every one of us. We explored what is it, why we struggle to know ourselves and then, you’ll be pleased to know… how we can begin to discover who we are.
I’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment below.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Adam described our unique ways of being like a coloured lightbulb which floats behind our heads – because of where it is and because it always shows up when we do, it’s very challenging for us to be able to distinguish our own unique essence
Understanding who we really are gives us choices, we can stop, or at least pause in our usual automatic conditioned way of showing up which is often a learned survival mechanism to make our unique essence more seemingly palatable to others.
To help discover our unique essence we can ask other people these questions: “What shows up when I do?” and “What qualities do I bring into the room?”
Resources and stuff that we spoke about:
Adam’s website
A deeper look at spectrums of being
Tim Kelley was the chap Adam referenced who came up with the light bulb metaphor in this book
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Lian & Jonathan