Awaken The Possibilities: Integrating The Cosmos and Business


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In episode 3 of the new Awaken The Possibilities Podcast, Host Terry Wildemann interviews Brian Kelly Host on " From Fitness Training to Business Automation Doing Work That You Love”. Awaken the Possibilities Podcast features successful entrepreneurs and intuitive leaders who offer insights on how to attract success in business and life.


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ABOUT Chris Thompson

Chris Thompson has worked as a lawyer, economist, Oriental scholar, national campaigner, director of think-tanks in Scotland and the USA, and as an advisor to companies. He is an international speaker, and has published many articles. Today Chris focuses on helping people and organizations understand and address the deeper root causes of their problems, with a view to building a world that reflects our potential to be, one day, the most intelligent species on this small planet. He is also psychotherapist, mentor, writer, and course leader. He lives in Catalunya, and spends as much time as possible in the mountains.


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About Terry Wildemann:

Terry Wildemann is the owner of Intuitive Leadership® and a Business and Resilience Accelerator, Speaker and Certified Executive Coach.


Terry's specialty is working with tired, unhealthy, close-to-burned-out entrepreneurs and professionals and helps them leap off the stress hamster wheel. They evolve into unstoppable stress resilient intuitive leaders and practical business mystics. Terry’s timely message guides clients and students to integrate intuition, stress resilience, positive communications and leadership with grounded business systems to achieve success by positively serving and influencing others. Her leadership experience includes owning a manufacturing company, image consulting company, leadership and holistic education center.


Terry is a best selling author of The Enchanted Boardroom: Evolve Into An Unstoppable Intuitive Leader.  

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welcome everyone to wake in the possibilities podcast I'm your host Jerry will demand and I'm thrilled to be here today with that fabulous fabulous gas Chris Thompson and before we get in there I want to wish all of you a phenomenal twenty twenty this is our first podcast for the year and it's exciting to have someone like Chris with us because he's going to be sharing some very different but very clear and wonderful insight to help us get our twenty twenty two where we wanted to be here a little bit about Chris Chris has worked as a lawyer and economist a Synology S. which I'm gonna ask you to explain a little bit because I don't think a lot of people really know what that is and more recently as a psychotherapist course leader writer and director of think tanks in Scotland and New Mexico welcome to the show Chris I'm so glad that you're next Duterte spice to the show what are the challenges hello this is someone who studies tried background news in the sixties degree in Chinese and economics and after a short spell working in a bank bank of England I decided to go back overall I was persuaded to go back to the university and I did it in the development of scientific Chinese you don't know what that means it means the vocabulary in Chinese for the science chemistry cemex so that's what I did so in that sense I must've excellent eventually cool as I have an admin I wouldn't have anybody on any of my shows this is my third the cashier who it had anything to do with China or the study of China and here we are I'm really glad to hear that because it makes it very clear thank you so much so when things are gonna be talking about today is the customer so when you say the cosmos Chris can you tell us what you mean about that well it's just another word is you know all of the universe %HESITATION it is the Greek word for the universe because most of the exploding K. %HESITATION and it's used interchangeably quite often many scientists using your member call center or if you years ago did it be TV series on the coast so scientists are quite accustomed to using but when I use the term all right tends to mean something more than the physical okay so I tend to be more than the same sorry so if the universe has a spiritual dimension mentions that sort of thing being by the coast lawsuits both physical and non physical it's both material and spiritual that's my understanding knowing that this is a show about business and about life how do you connect your work with the customer and business well it's an interesting question I'm going to have to think on my feet as I am so stupid with this is not a solution for okay so business is business the business has to make money make a profit and all that okay apart from that business is like everything else it's it's it's it's choose your own lives in the world talk to %HESITATION and in a way it has to recognize the rules what do I mean %HESITATION when I go back to what I just said about the cost most this material and spiritual aspects I do believe very strongly that recalls most influences all over in more ways than we than we can imagine I'm not just talking about the fact that cosmic rays the surface of the planet I'm not just talking about the fact that we rely on the song for every a light fix I'm talking about more than that and I'm not talking specifics it seems like strong I don't just mean okay I really do mean that we are children of course I'm in no way reflect the cost look often in some way deep says we resemble it cost us and that means this is a strange thing to say because most resembles us of course if that's not it mmhm I agree of course that that that's a big discussion will spend a year in the day just talking but looking all I'm saying is it's a bit like %HESITATION climate change okay so to be fair to business most companies of walking up to the fact what the climate is changing dangerous Celeste narrow on everyone's agenda taken tying is finally happened so playing that change may be the most issue over time %HESITATION and that's a recognition that our actions have consequences okay %HESITATION and if you apply that to business I'm I'm stating the obvious it's mostly the old businesses actions have consequences I don't know why these people opposed to good business because they know that they are very similar with that you don't have to tell there are many people and businesses still really haven't crossed everything they do has consequences not just on the people who work cells not just on their customers on the whole world or in the case of very big business excell that's good news the case of Google for example Facebook equally all over but it's a place to any regardless of the solders regardless of age it has consequences okay so when I use the term because moss and I'm kind of extrapolating the bruising we do affects the cost okay and that balances back on those that reflects and all I'm saying to you more aware we are thanks the universe is reflexive flex back almost %HESITATION I sing the mole or useful and our lives will be I do like to preach we have come across as preaching but I do believe that stupid so knowing that %HESITATION and climate change it is a huge huge huge topic %HESITATION knowing and I'm gonna play devil's advocate here %HESITATION especially rather because Mrs concerning climate change how much of this yes we have contributed yes we have we are conscious point is based on the things that we have done but how much of it also is a natural evolution of our earth warming and we are contributing to it there's no doubt about it but how much of it isn't also a natural cycle and how does that play in with the cost not the short answer is no one really knows question do people to separate the effect we are having with human race problem natural cycles okay people who don't like to accept my gyms they tend to adopt the owner of the regardless of that regardless of the site sure it's still very clear that you know we're making a big impact on the planet yeah it's not just the client meeting I did research on this you're also and I discover something called life support system it's a technical term hello H. one minute including water biodiversity seems like yeah %HESITATION and it was almost all the finalists life support systems all of are you serious decline I just to complete last I just to complete the sentence them soonest applying cost if you let because of what I'm even again you even activities of the long ago normal daily activities this is this isn't about we even being is doing something special for her to destroy the planet this is our normal daily life courses so if you drive a car cause some problems if you fly in a plane to go to the courts if you have your conditioning prism central heating you're going to cause some problems okay individual level it's not very much of course it's not mmhm but as a collective level use very large but that's not to say you that's not to say we consult well it's not to say that people will suddenly give up your car was totally give up flying for air conditioning they want a new one but at least there was widespread recognition something big has to change got it so I'm curious Chris is your director of a think tank in Scotland and in New Mexico you tell us more about the thing tankless that was a long time ago so the first the first one was in school and it was set up about twenty years ago trying to moment when Scotland regained some self control %HESITATION so the Scottish parliament reopened after three hundred years that was in nineteen ninety nine this call delusion so some of us were repatriated to stop it's a bit like the system in the U. S. each state has its own %HESITATION quite apart from the federal power %HESITATION and because a this was being set top box and you all of this being said someone said we ought to think so we can think about the ideas for the speech grandmotherly in economics and business and health care and education %HESITATION and I was recruited I was had turned over to London to go under your direct turning it lasted a few years and coincided with my travel and I ended up doing more or less the same in a little place called Santa Fe New Mexico in about two thousand to two thousand three but the idea just in case you wonder think tankers ways you do blue sky thinking you have the luxury luxury we'll be able to sing as widely as deeply as possible okay about the big issues of the day yeah I'm curious in this think tank and this is about you know the shows about awakening the possibility one of the things that I talk about is more businesses are sung because they don't see what's underneath the iceberg you know the only to the top of the iceberg %HESITATION the bottom part of the iceberg is basically you know from the neck down okay it's it's our consciousness it's our energy we don't listen to our bodies the aches and the pains that are going on we're all we're you know we're from here up this is what seen above the water %HESITATION this is the practical technological stuff so in these think tanks do they include the bottom part of the iceberg or is it just from the head up I'll give an example of an answer is yes give an example so at that time one of the most buzz words which was still very fresh in the top twenty what is sustainable development or sustainable economic cross okay thank and to be fair your business is trying to move in that direction we set up something called call social responsibility you can do USA school business social responsibility this is same lighting okay okay however I would look it was no surprise that in many cases ended up books to keep exposed okay how do you plan to treat do you recycle your waste this kind we sure enough there's nothing wrong with and and the thing is better than nothing yeah okay but as you imply that woman who tended to ignore the big six we didn't use deep we were really causing why their private jets like this five repeat themselves three hundred times more than their lowest paid employees and things like that I would state or worse to Bruce subjects off limits subjects this certainly couldn't be discussed one was called campaign finance this call can be refinements in the states and other countries right okay see you soon as soon as another group it's in this context was tracks going to pay as little tax as possible which was strange which was strange because the very same company a source of themselves as good corporate citizens okay and yet you and I both know the concept is contribute to society and yet these good corporate citizens in quotation marks we're doing the best to avoid paying so it was a lot to contradictions yes to summarize your %HESITATION prompted me to respond a lot of stuff been niece the surface of the ice grow we simply not being addressed and to some extent but still she yeah I was just gonna say that was my next question %HESITATION do you think it's still trailing you just confirm that and I do believe it's true I think sometimes %HESITATION we want to do the right thing yet other things get in the way of are doing the right thing and they can truly %HESITATION compromise where it is we want to go and it makes me sad because when it comes to integrity and authenticity it's really important that we take here the people who are in our world both in their business and our lives and often times all the things you talk about that's not what they're doing %HESITATION and it makes me sad because to me that's not leadership the poor leadership so let's get back to leadership for a moment making the possibilities you've done an awful lot I know you're going to be doing I'm very excited to announce someone else on the video that Chris is going my my faculty members for our intuitive leadership university which will be launching this spring and it's very exciting he's going to be participating in the leadership with the score for those of you who aren't sure what that is all about %HESITATION we are opening the intuitive leadership university and it's going to have to be different schools leadership within the school the business business school and a life with them full and Chris will be doing some courses in the leadership within school so I'm very very excited about that so Chris as you look at leadership in the world now making a possibilities in the course of that you're gonna be delivering to the university can you tell us what the bottom line for excuse to you in leadership in connection with the cost most in connection with business the connection with humanity and what we leaders need to truly be looking at to be able to influence the world to influence and I don't like to see the world we influence the people who are part of who crossed our attack how how do we do that what is it what you know what is a golden nugget that weakens the possibility okay I'll have to summarize two things okay two things bring %HESITATION I'm very impressed influenced by the W. Jing bye bye the dollar judging by does that %HESITATION %HESITATION and there's even a book called the joke leadership you can buy a book called I think the %HESITATION also stolen hi %HESITATION I mention that because a journalist leader leads wrong both the front and the back he he %HESITATION she leads from the front in the sense that he leads by example so it's almost leader does not expect people to do things that he does not so he he takes a course okay so if for example he wants to the company the changes involved in mental he will be the first to start practicing that and these are my so leading from the front or leading by example okay leading from the front look at me look what type do you most of what I see not that that's a phrase that that kind of user who could use but also leading from the back this long strange history contradiction when I say leading from the back I will be pushing people okay %HESITATION what what what I need is a kind of invisible leadership %HESITATION where you act as a catalyst you know we would wear your sessions automatically stimulates people %HESITATION to behave well your presence brings out the best and that's what I need okay so it is a strange combination China lodging the strange combination over leading from the front leading by example and leading quiet almost invisible from the back okay so the %HESITATION so that your presence is almost enough to stimulate people to do their best that's what I'm trying to go there so I'm I'm not the I would say that the main %HESITATION if the child we could lead to someone who's able to lead from the front and the back this evening one of the phrases that are used commonly when describing the university is we teach leaders how to integrate the practical tactical logical with the emotional be energetically spiritually into it D. bat definitely fit with that rate does it not well by coincidence I've been asked to write a short book ebook by someone you may know that Stephen %HESITATION %HESITATION anyway since you talked clearly show which is effectively a concise of the book I wrote five years ago on intelligence right the last relative to what you just said big cost one of the main themes of this short book is that intelligence is about hello it's about all aspects of the human being not just not just applying not just the emotion not just the intuition not just physical but not just the spiritual aspect it's about all of these elements %HESITATION and the faculty I mean it's strange I'm just going to finish the special and okay but your mind is amazing the one of the main seat is to be able to work on the whole of ourselves rather than just on our %HESITATION exactly and that's what the university is all about having you as a faculty member it's absolutely heart warming and having Dr Hobbs is that also as a faculty member I mean it it that's what this is about leadership at the cutting edge as far as I'm concerned the cutting edge of leadership it's really creating leaders that are completely %HESITATION that they get it that is its whole leadership it's not just what's up here and it's really important that we do that in this day and age that we use all of our guests all ever since all of our tools everything that we have at our disposal to be able to influence upcoming generations S. that they can be because the world is changing and we need to provide the %HESITATION the army perhaps to be able to lead in ways that we can really really make a positive difference in the world well Chris I just want to thank you so much for being here today because every time I talk with you it just gets better and better battery I get more and more excited about having you on board and %HESITATION can I didn't share with folks that a I'm in coral gables Florida you can tell from the %HESITATION foliage in the back I'm a micro game of office and Chris you're in Spain that's correct in Houston right now well I'm in the nose of northeast office Estonian okay %HESITATION and the capital as you may know it's possible I'm in the car right right one to knees right next to the central and hold on just as you're talking an airplane decided to go over a lot of back and helicopter %HESITATION there we go %HESITATION %HESITATION Kay and I you know it's a catch twenty two when you come out here and I love being out here on %HESITATION I'm I DO with all the greenery behind us I kept putting my green screen up and kept falling so that to me was the signal from the universe get yourself outside in the fresh air into this wonderful interview with Chris outside so you have to put up with things like hi captors going overhead she %HESITATION so where were we when I %HESITATION when knowledge after decided to distract this you were we were talking about the importance of the whole process being cold okay and bringing the whole of your soul to your to your life and your work and I was thinking we need to work there used to be terms S. like renaissance man all of the chivalrous knight and these will describe someone who is well rounded they want a well rounded you so they've they've they've they were physically call mentally all emotionally intelligent they were spiritually and bonds they were kind of tunes they will also work to stick because the same people whose waters %HESITATION were expected to write poetry you can use it so I mean you really find that we will be seeing about a you know a specialization I often look at animals for sources of inspiration and she described and the animal that comes to me that %HESITATION it's what you're talking about is the unicorn it's a %HESITATION and here's why in next we've been logo for the program is the unicorn so you're not actually brought me here and here's the reason why first of all they're very mystical magical animal and this you know corn is a winged unicorn if you look at the logo it's a winged unicorn and why wouldn't you know point because many unicorn have four hooks on the ground it is very grounded and you can see what is happening at eye level you can see all around it when it flies up in the air you can see things from thirty thousand feet above so it has the perspective of being able to see a ground level see above and with that fantastic unicorn being part of the horn itself being part of the %HESITATION using it as a gift it's got a mystical quality that a lot of what %HESITATION %HESITATION %HESITATION what did she %HESITATION yeah but the name of the author if you read the book the corporate mystic %HESITATION that should should name is right here and actually his book is what influenced me to open my leadership center in two thousand one from two thousand one to two thousand nine if there's this mystical quality and indeed you do become the mystic and I call them the integrated unicorns because they can really fit it fits everything that you're talking about that land yes %HESITATION I I I like good morning in his two best we believe very much in having their heads in the clouds there's feet deep in the mud mmhm so they're fully grown goods and foodie in the heavens at the same time absolutely and so many of our but one of things I find with a lot of spiritual teachers who come to me their heads are in the clouds but their feet are also up there with them this brings and the thing is they don't want to bring your feet down because when we do when we bring your feet down they end up having to really steal the due and realize that they are human and may need to look at they don't need to do anything but it's the best feeling in a very different way and background in this can be very uncomfortable for them on the other hand we have people who are very practical practical and logical that are grounded but are very %HESITATION concerned and tend to poo poo going up into the spirit of the mountains and understand bad is as important as the practical practical a lot about that do you see that it's very interesting Terry because just recently started doing she'd grown get the local teacher not far from where I live and the other day he showed us an exercise which is designed to do exactly so the purpose of the exercise it used to be very very grounded and very much in the heavens at the same time it's a wonderful feeling is meant when you're that present because you truly are present you feel the clothes on your back you feel the jury on your body you you see very very clearly you see the colors different you are so integrated when you do that and if the image the powerful leader who can really influence only people to where they want to be because they see things that others don't taking Chris I want to thank you so very much for being here with us today and are there any parting words that you would like to share with the a week in the possibilities idea it's nice to see the green wings your I'm sitting here with heavy snow assigned well I will be in the cold not by Friday hi I'm enjoying it and appreciating it and believe it or not it has been a bit cool here and it was it's really %HESITATION if you're in the people watching it is quite comical when it's %HESITATION in the low sixties here watching people walking down the street with their faces covered because the with it all so it's all perspective so thank you again Chris this has been a lot of fun but a lot of insight into %HESITATION it and being an integrated leader working with the customers and understanding how all of that fits in our world thank you to our audience who was listening today and we look forward to seeing you again next time this is Terry will demand of intuitive leadership you can go to intuitive leadership dot com and find out all of our all about our university and upcoming events and Chris how can our audience thank you well we can find we Chris I'm Michael Chris Thompson don't block responding to and headed south Thompson with a P. C. O. T. H. O. M. S. I'm glad I asked one have an amazing amazing we stand next time



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