Social Media Marketing : SEP Episode #115: Building a Heart Centered Culture with Mike Bledsoe

Building a Heart Centered Culture with Mike Bledsoe

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On today’s episode, we have Mike Bledsoe. He shares his personal journey of accessing empathy and connecting his mind and heart. He also shares how he has created a heart centered culture in his businesses and how empathy played a huge role in getting him where he is today.

Mike Bledsoe is the founder of The Strong Coach. The Strong Coach helps coaches build six and seven-figure coaching businesses. He is the program developer for Training Camp for the Soul. He is a multiple seven-figure business founder and coach. He is a nationally competitive athlete, coach, and a Navy veteran. He is also the founder of Barbell Shrugged, a #1 fitness and nutrition podcast on iTunes.

We discuss:

[01:16] Mike shares about his defining moment.
[03:48] He went to a conference and realized that he had no idea what empathy was.
[05:58] He realized he was the one creating his own reality. He was responsible for where he was right then and anything he didn’t like about his life, he could change. He also realized that he wasn’t giving anybody his full attention.
[07:47] When he became more interested in other peoples’ experiences life got easier for him.
[09:28] Accessing empathy was really an opening of his heart.
[10:54] The mind and nervous system are conditioned to operate from a place where the mind is in control and the heart is not in control.
[11:58] Mike discovered he had to align his mind to his heart. You have to start tuning the mind to a place of love. It takes time and practice to make these changes.
[13:12] He changed how he communicated and listened. He started listening to the heart of others, not exactly what their words are saying.
[13:54] Being able to connect your mind and heart is not a quick easy process.
[16:27] It is important to build the right language while having an open heart.
[17:25] A really quick and easy language tool is speaking about what you do want versus what you do not want.
[20:12] When we are speaking from the heart, it is a lot easier to know what we do want. The heart is where creation comes from.
[23:09] They have foundational language tools in their business.
[25:38] Every business has a culture whether they put attention to it or not. Every company has a culture and it is based on the leadership and how the leaders are behaving and speaking.
[26:53] If you are not continually developing culture then you are going to be out of alignment.
[28:02] Their workers learn how to resolve conflict in a way that creates more connection and intimacy.
[30:54] Everyone in their culture cares about the same core things.
[32:27] Mike’s goal is to make himself unnecessary. If he can do that then he has done a great job as a leader.
[35:30] As we learn that we are not our ego and that we have been operating from ego then we can heal those wounds and move forward.
[38:44] His new role in his company is to create a really clear vision of the future for himself and his teams to live into.
[40:38] You need to have space to have clarity of vision.
[42:17] Part of their vision is to be the leaders in the healing industry.
[46:34] You’re going to change the world by changing how you show up.