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Good morning listeners. It's Tuesday morning and it's so fantastic
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to be here with you as always, and today we
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have a really interesting topic which you know a lot
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of people kind of leave their jobs because of it.
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And before we get to our guest, I just want
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to share with you a beautiful kind of story. So
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one of my neighbors, and this is of course he
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didn't share with me. I just kind of observed him.
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He was walking his dog and then he saw one
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of the other neighbors struggling with I think. So he
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was trying to remove a rock from his garden and
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just kind of taking that shovel and edding it in.
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And this gentleman, Hells is the talks like all right,
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stay put and walking behind them, went up to the
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neighbor helped him move that drug out of the way.
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So what I want to share with you is that
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when we come together a little act of kindness can
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help someone because together we are stronger. So go ahead,
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take that time and be sure to set a few
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moments here and there throughout the month and do a
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kindness act because it's more for you than for anybody else.
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And if you have not, please do get our books
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their life. So and also part the proceeds go to
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key what our orgs together to be a changing lights.
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And let's welcome our guest.
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Hi, Davieah, how are you good?
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How are you welcome?
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Rob? Thank you so much for having me. And it's
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obviously you're doing incredible work and helping your neighbors out
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is always such a strong and fulfilling experience.
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I'm just reporting on that I didn't help move the rock,
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but but the goal is that we help move the
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needle for other people and it's so important. So Rob,
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share with us. You know, I love the background, like
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you know you're in coastery Gun and that's so fantastic.
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Share it with us. As to if you remember a
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moment or a person that left a positive mark on
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you in your young life.
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Yeah, so that's a great question I actually had. I
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used to play water polo, and I have a water
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polo coach from when I was twelve to eighteen, and
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he was amazing. Actually one of the most the biggest
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lessons he actually taught me. One was, of course, working
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hard and doing the work, but the other thing was
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I remember when I was about twelve years old and
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we were out of practice and I just didn't have energy.
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And I remember being frustrated at myself. And I know
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a lot of the listeners, especially if you demand a
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lot from yourself, like many of my clients do, it's
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very frustrating and you're like, why can't I deliver? Yeah,
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and he was he was telling me. He's like, you
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have times where you have energy and times where you don't,
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and it's a natural cycles to go through, and so
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you have to take into account that as you're progressing.
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And I think it's a lesson that in business, especially,
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a lot of executives think that they should be going
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one hundred percent all the time, and it's just not
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it's not reality, nor is it biologically true.
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Yeah, the brain works at its own pace, and the
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more you push it, the more it's going to this
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away you. So definitely, so tell us a bit about
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your journey from playing water polo and learning that beautiful
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lesson to where you are right now.
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Yeah, so it's been a fun ride. So so I
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played water polo, I went to my tea and got
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a mechanical engineering degree, and I started working in mining,
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so in coal mining out in British Columbia, and that's
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when I encountered my first toxic boss. And it started
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really chipping away at the confidence. At MIT, they're telling you, hey,
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you're a world leader, like you're going to be a leader,
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You're you're, you know, going to change the world, You're
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going to do these things. And you come out and
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you're like, let's go. And it wasn't. I wasn't performing
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at work like I spent the first year there, I
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saved them tens of millions. I was like, okay, here
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we go. And it started off as these passive, aggressive
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comments to you know, just like basically complete denial of me,
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and that started leading into depression.
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I'm sorry you had to go through.
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That, thank you. And actually it's something that like we'll
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talk more about it, but but toxic managers increase the
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risk of depression by three percent in their workplace. Yeah,
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and there's a study out of Stanford that talks about
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how the ways company managed their people is worth one
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hundred twenty thousand deaths per year in the United States alone,
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which makes it the fifth leading cause of death.
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Ah.
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So yeah, it's it's out of control. And like I'm
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sure you've you've heard the statistics like seventy percent of
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people would quit their job based on a batter, fifty
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percent actually have and then using the research that I use,
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sixty five point one percent of people have a destructive
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leader is what the research calls it to dict.
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Yeah, I mean these are sad statistics and it's it
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is really sad. So as you mentioned, you know your
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personal like you got impacted personally, how did you come
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out of it?
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Yeah, it took a lot, right, and so it kept
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chipping away and I really got into my own mind
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and ultimately led to a suicide attempt in twenty thirteen.
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Oh I'm so sorry.
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I'm actually grateful that for that experience today because it's
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put me on the path that I am now right
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and the thing deva I don't want to hold us
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in that space. But the part that's really I think
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the saddest part is the next morning, I went got
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dressed and I went to work, and I knew consciously
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that my boss and my life was killing me. But
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I didn't have the power to choose to do anything
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else because my mind was so trapped. And it took
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me a while to sort of overcome that and then
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to choose, Hey, I need to make a change. Yeah,
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And it was in late twenty nineteen where I started
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working very intensely and deeply on myself, obviously with help
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of coaches and therapists and all these things, right, And
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that was the unlock, and exactly what you talk about
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at the beginning of your show happened. In five years.
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I went from the preston suicidal as an engineer to
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an executive coach, an author, a tedex speaker. Right now,
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my TEDx talk has like roughly two hundred and thirty
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forty thousand views. My book's going to be coming out
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later this year. And I live in the beautiful sunny
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Costa Rica instead of Northern Canada. And the biggest change
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is what's going on in my psychology.
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Now. Congratulations, and I appreciate you sharing that. You know,
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we don't want to be in that space and at
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the same token, it's important to acknowledge it because in
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our society, the expectation is got to be strong. You've
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got to be that strong of a leader. The key
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is that, yes, you've got to be strong, but it's
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also important to recognize that you've got to be strong
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to recognize where you are at. Yes, you've got to
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be strong. You've got to be courageous to recognize where
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you are at. Be compassionate towards yourself, and give yourself
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permission that it's okay to feel that way, but not
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stay there, find help like you did, and move beyond it.
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So let's kind of come to the elephant in the room.
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You mentioned about sixty five plus some change. I mean,
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that's a huge number. So can you share as to
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how many different types of toxic leaders are there?
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Yes, so there's six types of toxic leaders. And so
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when we think about toxic leaders often we think about,
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you know, someone who's aggressive, they're yelling at their people,
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you know that kind of thing, right, Like that's the
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classic a whole boss. And when I when I talk
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about it, I like just think about like Gordon Ramsey
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on Hell's Kitchen and someone gives them like undercooked chicken.
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Right.
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That that's the classic, but it's actually not that common.
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So only five point five percent of folks have a
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boss like that. What's more common is a boss that's
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called an abusive narcissist. And so these are people who,
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again they make threats, they cut you down, they abuse you,
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and it's all about them. And a like a classic
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movie portrayal of this is Leonardo DiCaprio's role in Wolf
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of Wall Street. So like, you're right, so it's all
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about me. I'm putting you down, but I'm taking all
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the credit and like that's how I get ahead. And
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actually almost twenty percent of folks have a boss like that.
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Wow. Yeah, And how can they recognize because so many
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times what happens is that it's a different matter if
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you have a coach. So for example, when people come
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to me, then I will help them differentiate where they're
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at fault, where they're not what their boss is saying
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and taking. And sometimes the feedback is true. So we
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cannot just kind of say that, you know, every boss
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is bad because the destructive boss is out there. So
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tell us a little bit about how can people recognize?
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Yes, So if you get feedback. Right, if the person's
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yelling at you and swearing at you and calling you
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all these names, it's probably inappropriate.
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And that's very obvious.
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Like regardless if you didn't do a great job, it's
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still inappropriate. Right. Of course, the other side of it, right,
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is exactly what you're mentioning, right, is feedback is appropriate
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for the office, right And as a manager, as a leader,
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you have to give your folks feedback. When I talk
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about people giving feedback, it has to be structured, it
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has to be about the process, not the person, and
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it has to be sort of future centric. So hey,
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next time, I would like you to do this, or
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what was the decision that you made that led you
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to doing it this way? Next time, let's tweak that
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and do it this way. Right. So it's a little
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bit different in a sense. But if someone's just giving
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you feedback like rob your bad guy, or like that
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work sucked, like, that's not very helpful.
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Absolutely, those are great points. And you did mention that
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six different types of leaders, So if you're good with it,
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you know, kind of share with this in brief what
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do they look like and how can professional so like leaders?
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I mean, it doesn't matter. You know, I've worked with
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C suite exec teams and then they say, like their
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CEO is a narcissist or toxic, and it doesn't matter
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nowadays in the genders, it's no longer that women are
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nurturing all the time. It's just leaders. It's a gender irrelevant.
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So give us a little insight in that, like, because
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so many times what happens is that leaders or professionals
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thing that something is wrong with them because we, like
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you said, we tend to be hot on ourselves.
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That's the biggest part actually, right. So, and the studies
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show actually that narcisism helps you climb the ladder in
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the organization. Still, and I mean, if we look at politics,
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we can see this across the board. Right. However, when
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we're talking about ourselves. First off, folks who are narcissists
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or arrogant and violent bosses are never watching this show, right,
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So if you're watching this show, you're not one of them. Right.
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And so now it's about looking at how are we
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as a leader and what's going on upstairs in our psychology.
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And that's where the book and I talk about this
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a lot, but we start we need to start listening
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to those parts of us that are talking in our minds.
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And it's like in a movie where the devil or
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the angels on your shoulder, or folks have watched inside out.
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It's like those little characters that are standing at the
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troll panel in that little girl's mind. It's like that, right,
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And as we start listening to these parts of us