Mazzi Podcast

Our world use the words “relationship” and “partnership” in many different settings. Typically when we focus on these settings we only pay attention to the material or physical world - the two or more people present in the relationship or partnership. Our podcast today explores the third entity that is always present but mostly overlooked - the space or energy within, among or between each of us.

Movies continue to be useful metaphors and speak powerfully to us - especially when seen through the eyes of the Divine, wholeheartedness or We-centeredness. In this podcast Mazzi discusses some key insights within the context of Disney’s 2000 movie release of The Kid starring Bruce Willis. Bruce’s character is an unhappy and disliked image consultant and gets a second shot at life when he is mysteriously confronted by an eight-year-old version of himself. Join us we we wrestle to wake up and break free from both our individual and collective historical ways of thinking and being.

Judith Glaser discusses in her pioneering work, Conversational Intelligence, how difficult conversations and situations arise when we disagree with each other. She introduces an effective tool / process called the Ladder of Conclusions which removes the barriers that energized disagreement and then brings a powerful connection and trust-based energy that unite us together enabling us to co-create mutual success. Join Mazzi as we share our experience in using the Ladder of Conclusions tool / process.

Triangulation is a psychological device used by many leaders and followers in today’s business world. For many the directive of “don’t do this!” causes the behavior to go underground and it continues to flourish throughout an organization. In today’s conversation we’ll examine its usefulness - or not - and how committing to a “creating We” strategy positively impacts the need or usefulness for triangulation.

Being a powerful follower is critical and can be a challenging capacity for a follower to build and possess. Leaders and followers need each other to unite so that thriving businesses can be co-created. “Leading Up” language reflects traditional mechanisms to encourage followers to navigate force-based boss/employee business systems. Today we discuss transforming leading up strategies into “leading with” strategies which are designed to co-create Power-based partnering business systems.

Being “the boss” or being responsible for an outcome produced by a group has many challenges. Today we’ll explore how leaders, who may have powerful or useful insights (we’ll call that “seeing”), can shift from communicating in ways that embody “power-over” others (e.g., “listen to me since I’m the boss”) into communicating in ways that embody sharing and co-creating “power-with” others (e.g., “let’s listen to each other, including me, since no one individual has the complete picture and answer”).

Our culture teaches us to focus on pursuing happiness. Most of our cultural models, especially in the world of business, communicate that we must work hard and achieve (or at least attempt to) great success in our world so we’ll be able to both have and experience long-term happiness. Focusing on choosing and experience joy (especially in your vocation or business life) is different, and we believe, a more powerful option. In this podcast we’ll explore this distinction and wrestle with their respective consequences.

In this podcast we continue the movie metaphor conversation. Today’s focus surrounds Tim Burton’s movie Alice in Wonderland released in 2010. In our conversation today we’ll demonstrate our wrestling with several major characters (or archetypes) from the movie including: Alice, the Red Queen, the White Queen, the Rabbit and the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp’s character).

Today Paula leads our conversation as Jennifer Worthington joins us. Jennifer is the owner of Community Realty in Michigan and is partnering with us as she transforms the global real estate marketplace. In today’s conversation we explore the important work of integrating powerful feminine energy with powerful masculine energy - in the world of business and life.

Movies continue to be useful metaphors and speak powerfully to us - especially when seen through the eyes of the Divine, wholeheartedness or We-centeredness. In this podcast Mazzi discusses some key insights within the context of the movie Peaceful Warrior. In the movie, Dan is a gifted athlete whose desire for success drives everything he does. When a mysterious stranger - Socrates - opens Dan's eyes to a new vision of strength and understanding, the Olympic hopeful finds that he still has much to learn and more sacrifices to make. Join us we we wrestle to wake up and break free from both our individual and collective historical ways of thinking and being.

Our world today is filled with technologies that claim to be improving our alignment and connectedness with each other. Our leadership training focuses on creating alignment and compliance within our organization and our teams. However like so many, we continue to see more than ever before, a business and leadership world more disconnected, misaligned and ineffective. In today’s podcast we explore, using us as the model for this exploration, the distinction of connectedness leading to unification.

Movies can be useful metaphors and speak powerfully to us - especially when seen through the eyes of the Divine, wholeheartedness or We-centeredness. In this podcast Mazzi experiences some of the powerful distinctions within the context of the movie The Shawshank Redemption in a real-life business setting. Join us we we wrestle to wake up and break free from both our individual and collective historical ways of thinking and being.

Transforming the nature of leadership starts with focusing on helping leaders remember who they were created to be - their true self. This is the purpose of life planning and Mazzi’s Life Planning transformation service. The in-between-time from choosing to co-create your life plan and starting your Life Plan is an important part of the process. In today’s conversation we’ll openly discuss this important time period, including how best to prepare for an amazing transformation experience as well as the hurdles or barriers you may experience within yourself.

Movies can be useful metaphors and speak powerfully to us - especially when seen through the eyes of the Divine, wholeheartedness or We-centeredness. This is Mazzi’s first podcast of a regular conversation we’ll have focused on particular movies - as the basis of a metaphor for our life. Join us as we explore the movie Touching the Void based on a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates' successful but disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

Today’s podcast, like our most recent podcasts, continues an approach of a real-time look into a Mazzi team meeting. This is the part of an integration series where we explore and model the power of living an integrated life versus living a compartmentalized life - which is a historical norm for many, it is the way we’ve been taught to be in the world. In this podcast we’ll model our own transparent work and struggle to take responsibility for living an integrated life in business.

Today’s podcast, like our most recent podcasts, continues an approach of a real-time look into a Mazzi team meeting. This is the part of an integration series where we explore and model the power of living an integrated life versus a compartmentalized life (the norm for most folks). In this podcast we’ll set the context for living an integrated life and walk into a real life business challenge where we wrestle with our own habitual ways of being to compartmentalize ourselves and our service to our clients. This recording includes a reading of “Living an Integrated Life” written by Jim Spivey on January 1, 2006

Today’s podcast, like our most recent podcasts, continues an approach of a real-time look into a Mazzi team meeting. This is the first part of a two part series where we explore and model the power of living an integrated life versus a compartmentalized life (the norm for most folks). In this podcasts we’ll focus on the consequences of living a life that is disconnected and compartmentalized. We take a real-time business example as the basis of our conversation.

Today’s podcast continues our Part 1 theme - it is a real-time look into a Mazzi team meeting where we continue to discuss what it means to be engaged and committed. Including yourself and leaning in is easy to talk about theoretically, but very difficult to do - especially when we are scared. This podcast continues the topic from Part 1 and demonstrates how individual and we-centered engagement creates breakthroughs for everyone.

Today’s podcast is a real-time look into a Mazzi team meeting where we wrestle with engagement and commitment - individually and collectively. Transforming into a new and powerful way of being requires a dedication and willingness to open ourselves to each other and to conversations infused with caring and candor. Standing in the way of transformation is our fears and historical habitual ways of being. We need each other’s help to create new more powerful habits.

On previous podcasts we’ve talked at length about the differences between incremental change versus transformation - individually and organizationally. In this podcast our Mazzi team talks about the signs or markers that a leader can observe (in their own life or the life of their organization) that informs them they are ready for the journey of transformation.