Leadership coach and author of Expand Shannon Graham is focused on changing the world by doing the impossible. On this show, he interviews top leaders from around the world combine with insightful solo episodes. What is the future of leadership? How can we unlock more of our individual and collective potential? What is the secret to creating a legacy of fulfillment and achievement? Discover all this and more on Leadership's Edge.
Leadership's Edge
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Leadership coach and author of Expand Shannon Graham is focused on changing the world by doing the impossible. On this show, he interviews top leaders from around the world combine with insightful solo episodes. What is the future of leadership? How can we unlock more of our individual and collective potential? What is the secret to creating a legacy of fulfillment and achievement? Discover all this and more on Leadership's Edge.
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March 29, 2020
001 - Leadership's Edge
Visit <a href="http://ShannonGraham.com/contact" rel="noopener">http://ShannonGraham.com/contact</a> if you are a highly committed leader who is ready for quantum leaps in your personal and professional growth. Let's talk.<br /><br />Due to the popularity of Leadership's Edge first episode, we bring it back again!<br /><br />Leadership is the most important factor in moving our world forward. I believe in what I call personal leadership. Whether you have a business or you have a dream, you are the leader of that. And your success in your business, in your legacy or even in your personal life comes down to your ability to successfully lead it. This show is going to dive into the mindsets, the tactics, and the strategies that are going to help you take your leadership to the next level. <br /><br />Today, we're going to talk about what I feel like is one of the most important factors in leadership: worthiness. It is your ability to accept your own value. Most people that I have worked with over the span of 16 years, and even thousands of people from all over the world, all struggle with this concept of worthiness. When we doubt our value, one of two things happens. Either we never gain the love and respect that we desire, or we do gain all of those things, but they never feed us the way that they're really supposed to. And so either way, you lose.<br /><br />As a leader, first and foremost, you are creating whatever it is that you're creating. Worthiness is an inside job and most people have it backward. Most people are looking for their value externally and that becomes a problem because your value is your value. No one else can give that to you. No amount of money will validate that for you. A big opportunity that I see from a leadership standpoint is to be able to create a wave of leaders who feel deeply worthy and create their reality from a deep-seated place of worthiness. Think about what I call the ROI, the ripple of the impact that would create.<br /><br />Worthiness comes down to your identity. At an early age, we begin to believe that our value is conditional. You'll get a toy if you're good, we will give you a car if you get good grades in school. It also creates what's called a performance-based identity. You perform for your value. Now the danger there is that what if some of those things change? Does that mean that you're no longer worthy? And so the question that you have to ask yourself is, what is my worthiness story? <br /><br />The goal for this episode today is for you to saturate into the idea and truth that your value is unconditional. If we are desiring a different future, then we must internally change first. I want you to take a moment and close your eyes and sink into this feeling of I am worthy. I am enough. I unconditionally accept and love myself and just let yourself feel how that feels. It might feel a little awkward at first, and I encourage you to just be okay with that.<br />Where are the areas in your life where your worthiness has messed you up? Is it money? Is it relationships, or is it just your own relationship with yourself? Where has your worthiness story held you back? And then let's ask a new question. If your worthiness story was different, what would that part of your life look like?<br /><br />For a long time in leadership, there has been this concept that leaders must sacrifice themselves. I believe in sacrifice in the right context, but I do not believe that your happiness, your fulfillment, and what it is that you truly desire to be, to do, to have, and to give as a person should be sacrificed. <br /><br />Your job right now is to decide that you have a new story. It is your job as an individual to claim as much of your worthiness as possible to deeply believe that you are enough - because it’s going to create a world that yields results and makes an impact. <br /><br />The majority of our leadership has led from a place of lack. Now it's time to usher in an era of leadership...
December 9, 2019
010 - Through The Artistic Lens
Visit <a href="http://ShannonGraham.com/contact" rel="noopener">http://ShannonGraham.com/contact</a> if you are a highly committed leader who is ready for quantum leaps in your personal and professional growth. Let's talk.<br /><br />I have considered myself to be an artist. When I was young, I grew up doing martial arts and writing poetry. <br /><br />I always looked at life through this artistic lens; and with that artistic lens came an appreciation for mastery and for beauty. That lens of being an artist has served me very well throughout my life and frankly, through my ability to be a leader and to make an impact. <br /><br />There's another side to being an artist that I believe is important to talk about: passion. If you are an artist, it means that you are willing to be immersed in something. <br /><br />We live in a culture currently that is kind of shy when it comes to extreme words like ‘obsessed’ or ‘addicted’, because they can often bring with them negative connotations. To be immersed in something doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. I think sometimes culturally, we can miss out on a lot of the juice that life has to offer. <br /><br />Life as an artist is the willingness to go to those extremes - to feel the highs, to feel the lows, but also to put yourself out there. If it's one thing that artists do on a regular basis, whether it's music or drawing or art, they're willing to express themselves publicly. They're willing to put themselves out there and be critiqued for it. <br /><br />I think what our global culture needs the most is more people who are willing to be self-expressed. This has served me very well in my life because everything I've done, whether it's relationships or my professional career, have all benefited from this lens of being an artist. <br /><br />I have this philosophy that I call ‘highest probability of deep impact’. I heard John Travolta say that he had been offered lots of different jobs over his career; but if he was offered a job that he didn't feel was worth it to him, then he wouldn't do it. <br /><br />Many actors will take whatever jobs they can get, but he was so committed to the craft. He was so committed to the mastery that he was only willing to do jobs that he really liked and that he felt like he could do a good job with. And in his world, by the way, doing a good job means create something meaningful for other people. <br /><br />One of the greatest things I ever learned from Tony Robbins was, “If you want to change your life, you have to change your standards.” My question to you would be: what is it that you are willing to turn down? What is it that you're willing to say no to? <br /><br />You might say that you don't think of yourself as an artist. You should. The reason is because we are all the creators of our reality. We all have the same opportunity to create our own reality, the way we see fit. <br /><br />Life can be as rich, as fun, as expansive, and as impactful as you decide. If your life currently is not exactly the way you want it, then this is a great opportunity for you to reflect on that and to think to yourself, “Maybe I can take more ownership of this ability to create my reality.” <br /><br />The other thing that most people forget about is that you become an example of what's possible. I think a lot of people admire rock stars and movie stars that achieve at a very high level, not because they're famous, not because they have lots of money, not because they travel the world, but because they're so self-expressed. <br /><br />The next best thing is to be a fan and to be in close proximity to the people that are like that. Still, I think it would be better if you decide to be your own version of that. <br /><br />When you do that, you give other people permission to do the same thing. That's leadership. The greatest definition of leadership that I know is that: a leader is not someone who creates more followers but creates more...
December 2, 2019
009 - Interview with Christopher Graham
Visit <a href="http://ShannonGraham.com/contact" rel="noopener">http://ShannonGraham.com/contact</a> if you are a highly committed leader who is ready for quantum leaps in your personal and professional growth. Let's talk.<br /><br />I recently talked with my brother, Christopher Graham. He is quite frankly one of the brightest guys that I know. He graduated from Emmanuel College with a degree in International Relations and Philosophy. <br /><br />The topic that day was essentially how technology is empowering mankind and the collective consciousness. The recent issue that the people Hong Kong were experiencing, made him think about how technology allows people all around the globe to communicate with each other through video, through Twitter, or through any sort of social media. <br /><br />We're able to watch videos and literally hear from these protesters. And that in itself is a great example of how technology is allowing people to become more conscious of their ability to fight for their rights. <br /><br />Moreover, Christopher thinks that social media, at least at this point in time, is sometimes more objective than news. He says it’s because you have an individual sharing their experience with the world. It's unfiltered. <br /><br />He believes that social media and with the advancements of technology and how relatively easy it is today for people to access social media, allows the individual to tell their story to each other. It empowers each other to tell that story. <br /><br />Meanwhile, I believe a collective consciousness is only as good as the individual consciousness. An individual who sees someone else having a voice purely as a function of this piece of technology has the opportunity to be inspired by that, and do that themselves. <br /><br />It's a little bit of this domino effect of when someone sees someone else talking about a subject that they're very passionate about, and it gives them the kind of courage to “pick up the microphone, vocalize, and have a voice for themselves.” <br /><br />Christopher and I also agreed that the youth is becoming a formidable agent for change. Suffering is a universal language that everyone understands. <br /><br />If there's a Twitter video today that you see from kids in Australia that were all protesting together to create climate change, every kid in the world can relate to that. You don't have to understand English, to understand that kids all over the world understand that urge for protests to change the world, and to change the way politics and economics are affecting our climate. <br /><br />Connecting this topic to leadership in the business standpoint, Christopher noted that sometimes, leaders become leaders and they don't even expect to become a leader. Leaders are people who inspire and enact courage within others that they did not know was there. <br /><br />Leaders have such a level of courage that they may not even be aware of how much they're influencing others. He thinks that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are creating a lot of inspiration for younger entrepreneurs and people, who are having that drive to think outside the box and create something new. <br /><br />He believes that similarly with technology leaders in the business world, Bezos and Musk understand the power of social media. They understand how far and how vast their reach can be with social media, and how many eyes and ears can see what they're doing and how they're changing the world. <br /><br />Christopher added that sometimes, people can take things the wrong way. Sometimes kids can see certain people in the spotlight and take it in a negative way. <br /><br />We agreed that with great power, comes great responsibility - especially as we advanced in social media and our ability to expose ourselves to thousands, if not millions, of people within minutes. <br /><br />For me, technology is enhancing the collective consciousness. There's no question about it completely. From a...
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