How to navigate your edge in leadership
This week’s show is with my good friend Adam Quiney, Adam is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the Smartest People in the Room. A former software developer and attorney, Adam’s learned the hard way about the costs that come from keeping your heart safe and chasing after external rewards to feel whole and complete.
From love, Adam is connection, passion, presence, wit and brilliance. From fear, he is awkward, robotic, apathetic, irrelevant and arrogant. He’s learned to embrace all these parts of himself, and works with others to do the same in their own lives. He is a man on a mission to bring the world to a more inspired and fully-expressed place.
So in this show, we will be diving deep into the juicy topic of how to navigate the next edge in your leadership, we’ll talk about stages of leadership, blurting, taking responsibility and more. And if you don’t identify as a leader, I really encourage you to listen anyway – you’ll discover it’s absolutely for you too.
We actually recorded this as a special Behind The Scenes live on fb – and if you’d like to watch the recording of that, there’ll be the link on the show notes.
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 defines leadership in a specific way which is a way of being in the face of whatever one is up to in the moment – from being a CEO, to cleaning the house to parenting. It’s a way of being rather than a specific job role. Traits of leadership include being at cause vs at the effect, being impactable: allowing others to impact us and to be present to our own impact, and being responsible for our own needs and getting them met.
The stages of leadership are: 1. Apologising for our impact, including not even being willing to create an impact, playing safe to avoid the breakdown. Stage 2 is moving into blurting, radical honesty, speaking our truth, no longer holding ourselves back, no matter the impact. Stage 3 is being responsible for our impact.
Lastly, as much as knowing about these stages is helpful and empowering, firstly we don’t have to move through them, it’s choice we can make if we want the most meaningful, juicy expanded life possible. Secondly, there’s no hopping over or bypassing the messy Stage 2. If we choose to walk the path of expansion, the risk of making messes and the fear that brings is an unavoidable aspect of this path. If you’re choosing that path, then I deeply honour you for your courage.
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Lian & Jonathan