Mazzi Podcast

Being in discovery is distinctively different than being in learning.  Both are very important, but being in discovery creates a powerful internal and external team energy which encourages connection, creativity and fosters safe engagement.  In today’s podcast we’ll share how we wrestle with the distinction of discovery energy versus learning energy.

Being self responsible and more conscious of who I’m being when I arrive to participate in a meeting is really important. In today’s podcast we’ll explore how we wrestle with how we show up and engage as we plan, schedule and participate in meaningful-purposeful meetings.

Each of us have a historical habitual unconscious way of being in life and each of have a powerful natural wholehearted way of being in life. Many remain unaware of this powerful natural self and therefore struggle to consciously choose it. In today’s podcast we’ll explore how we wrestle with becoming more conscious to our old habitual self and share how we choose to stay connected to our powerful more connected wholehearted self.

Many in the world of business have traded their humanity for a mask we call “being professional.” But what does this really mean when we say we should just be professional and, are we unconsciously eliminating an opportunity for each of us be our fully wholehearted human self. Must we pick one over the other? In today’s podcast we explore this distinction between “being professional” and “being fully human” and we hope to shine a light on the power of integrating the these two important ways of being.

Life, especially life in business, is filled with requirements and needs for each of us to perform and meet our commitments. So often we attempt to navigate through this by using a framework called “holding each other accountable.” In Mazzi we practice another framework we’ve called “holding each other in love.” In today’s podcast we explore this distinction, and as usual, remain committed for us being a teaching to help the listener understand how we work together within this framework of holding each other in love.

Getting and staying on the same page for some reason seems like a mysterious process. Just when we think we’re all on the same page our actions and conversations after some meetings plainly show us we weren’t. In today’s podcast we share our own experiences about the traps we can fall into that leave us believing we’re on the same page. We’ll also briefly share some of the tools or frameworks we use to maximize the possibilities that we get on and stay on the same page.

Being self-responsible in life - especially in our professional life - is often misunderstood and many times then avoided. Developing this capacity has significant and powerful consequences on ourselves and with each other. In today’s podcast we explore this powerful way of being as well as sharing our own experiences of wrestling to embody it.

The way we talk with each other really matters. As we know, our conversations can help create connection and establish trust among each other or they can do the exact opposite. In today’s podcast we explore the levels or types of conversations we all engage within. By Mazzi being a teaching first we’ll begin to help the listener understand how to create conversations that deepen connection, strengthen trust and ignite engagement.

The dictionary defines frenetic actions as those being hurried actions resulting from scattered thinking, nervousness, excitement, and uncontrolled emotions. The actions of a person are frenetic if they are full of energy and activity but without being rooted in truth, connection or the present moment. In this podcast we’ll explore Mazzi’s wrestling with our own frenetic energy. We also discuss and demonstrate how to escape its habitual and seductive trap.

Being connected with ourselves and each other has tremendous benefits. In our podcast today we explore the distinction of connection (what we mean when we use this word) and its tangible value to our relationships and our organizations.

In a world filled with activity focused on improving effectiveness and efficiency we rarely pause long enough to examine how our lives and experience at work is negatively impacted from being disconnected from ourselves and each other. In today’s podcast we explore the distinction of disconnection and its consequences or cost on individuals, leaders, husbands, and/or wives being disconnected from one another.

The Enneagram of Personality, or simply the Enneagram, is a description of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types. Mazzi has been influenced and shaped by the use of the Enneagram’s frameworks and in our podcast today we introduce the basics of this powerful framework. We also share the usefulness of it in our work together as we continue to awaken and transform the nature of leadership and business - first within us and then with our clients.

Our podcast today examines the movie Kung Fu Panda as a story or metaphor about the adventure of transforming into our individual and collective power. In this movie, Po the panda (voice performed by Jack Black) works in his family's noodle shop and dreams of becoming a kung-fu master. His dream becomes a reality when, unexpectedly, he must fulfill an ancient prophecy and study the skills with his idols, the Furious Five. Po needs all the wisdom, strength and ability he can muster to protect his people from Tai Lung, an evil snow leopard. Join us as we examine how each of us have a “Po” within and are invited to engage in our own transforming individually and collectively.

So much has been written about how to take care of our organizational system, assets or resources. In the world of business and organizational performance, minimal attention is given to our most powerful and important resource: our brain. In our podcast today, we’ll talk through how we pay regular attention to the health and welfare of this most complex organ or organs.

In our society, we tend to elevate our leaders to high and sometimes unhealthy levels as we idolize certain characteristics or personalities they may possess. When we do this we unconsciously fall into many traps or holes (for example: creating feelings of isolation / separation and even an “us versus them” mentality). Today we’ll talk about how idealizing our leaders or thinking of them as superhuman can trip us up in the area of thriving together or creating We.

Within the context of relationships or organizational working environments, the naysayers or skeptics can either be a blessing or a curse. In our podcast today we’ll talk through the many ways resistance can be a gift - even though the associated resistance or resistor may cause some short-term discomfort.

Shifting into powerful leadership requires transformation. Transformation in our capacities to create, listen, and engage with others around us. As adults inviting transformation and experiential learning has several barriers - some self created and others created by our past experiences and culture. Join us as we explore our own barriers to transforming and how we’ve created a system that sustains transformation and creating-we.

As humans we each struggle with clarity of our vision (our seeing). It’s normal for us to understand that our eyes don’t see everything around us and accept we have blind spots - especially when we’re driving! Recognizing that our human condition also comes with its own built-in blind spots can be a point of frustration or a point of liberation. In today’s podcast our team discusses how our internal blind spots can be either a blessing or a curse. We’ll talk through how co-creating a “we-oriented” community helps us, both individually and collectively, thrive while navigating our blind spots.

Each person and organization has an intention or a focused reason and way of being in the world. Understanding what is the underlying script for our lives and organization is key to discovering why things are the way they are - current reality. Bringing unity into our individual and collective intention is an important step in learning to create a thriving, enjoyable and sustainable life and organization. Listen as we explore this distinction together.

Our podcast today examines the movie The Incredibles as a case study in setting an I-centered context or a WE-centered context. In this lauded Pixar animated film, married superheroes Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) and Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) are forced to assume mundane lives after all super-powered activities have been banned by the government. While Mr. Incredible loves his wife and kids, he longs to return to a life of adventure and saving the world. He gets a chance when summoned to an island to battle an out-of-control robot. Soon, Mr. Incredible is in trouble, and it's up to his family to save him...and unlock the power of themselves and their family.