Transcript 0:00 [upbeat music] Welcome back to The Peggy Smedley Show, the podcasting voice of IoT and digital transformation. Hello, listeners, and welcome back to The Peggy Smedley Show. 0:16 My next guest is going to be a regular on the show this year, and he is one of the world's foremost leadership and performance advisors. His mission is to positively impact a million... 0:27 a minimum of one billion lives and businesses worldwide. I gotta love that. So please welcome James Arthur Ray, entrepreneur, au-author, and business coach. James, welcome back to the show. How are you? I'm doing great. 0:44 Happy New Year, Peggy. It's good to be here. Happy New Year to you. I'll tell you, are, are you somewhere warm? Because half the country is somewhere cold right now. So I hope you're in a warm place right now. 0:56 Well, well, it's all kind of relative. You know, my- [laughs] -my home is in Henderson, Nevada, so no, it's chilly here for us, but, you know, forty degrees is probably not real cold for some people. 1:07 [chuckles] I hear ya. I hear ya. I'm trying to make a flight out there later today, so yeah, I'm with you on that. So we'll see. We, we don't know what's happening from here, from Chicago there. 1:18 But let's talk about something exciting. So let's talk about entrepreneurs and leaders in today's world. 1:25 Um, I think when we think about what's happening in the world today, um, we, we really are missing what needs to be good leadership right now. 1:34 And, and I think, you know, you have, we've talked about in pa-- in the past what it takes. 1:40 So I, I think I, I'm curious from your s-perspective, what do you believe is the number one imperative for leaders and entrepreneurs in today's world? 'Cause maybe your advice maybe help a lot of people in Washington. 1:55 Well, well, I hope so. [laughs] And, and let's bring it back from Washington because it has to start at home. 2:02 And I think the biggest problem is what I call authentic leadership, and I talk a lot about that in my new book as well as my blogs, et cetera. And I think, you know, authentic leadership is much, much different. 2:15 In fact, I don't think I know than a position or a title or a big following or a lot of people agreeing with you or any of those things. Those are not authentic leadership. 2:27 It has, it has to start inside, and what that means is we need to regain our big ideas in the world. We need to reorganize our values. S-so what's missing then? I mean, have we lost sight of what we need to do? 2:45 Because it seems like r-right now that some businesses are doing well, some businesses are not, and I think generally people have a, a, a direction, an idea, a passion, but what are, what are we missing? 3:01 Well, I, I think what we're missing is what's truly important, Peggy. 3:05 And, you know, this is not gonna settle well with a lot of people, but, you know, what is happening is what Robert Kegan from Harvard University calls socialized mind. 3:18 And we've all been conditioned in socialized mind that says it's all about the economy, it's all about money, it's all about materialism, it's all about more, whatever that more is. 3:30 And the fact is, is that we really are, are missing the whole point because all those things that we tend to chase are only a mechanism by which we are attempting to make ourselves happy and fulfilled, and they're not working. 3:49 They're not working. I talk to people every single day who are six, seven, eight-figure income earners who are, who are not happy and fulfilled in their lives, so something has gone askew. 4:01 So that whole idea of thinking about money, that bottom line, that, that whole idea of, you know, which sometimes we might call greed is, is, is over the top. 4:13 You know, when we think our focus number one is, is money might not be satisfying. So how do you exact change then? Do you have to say... 'cause, you know, that idea of giving it all away isn't gonna do it either. 4:26 But at the same time, you, you have to personally wanna change, right? H-how do, how do we get people then to wanna make change? 4:34 Well, unfortunately, most people very rarely, if ever, make a significant change in their life until they experience enough pain. And that's unfortunate, but it's just true. 4:45 And so, you know, pain is the mother of all growth. Now, that's not a popular idea either, but it's true nonetheless, whether you're going to the gym or whether you're transforming your life. 4:56 I mean, let me just give you a couple of, of things that are going on in our world right now that we never hear about. 5:02 You know, Gallup tells us seventy-two percent of the people surveyed are miserable every single day in their work. Every forty seconds in our world right now, someone commits suicide. 5:14 And more than that, for everyone who is, quote, "successful," twenty people attempt and fail. 5:21 The National Drug Institute-- Drug Abuse Institute tells us that a hundred and thirty people every single day in the United States die from opioid overdose. 5:31 So the values that we have and that we're pursuing, why are we not talking about these things? We're talking about building walls. We're talking about economy. We're talking about, you know, government shutdowns. 5:45 And I'm not saying those things aren't important, but the fact is there's an underlying dis-ease that, that is ubiquitous throughout our society, and no one is talking about the fact that more people die every, every single year by suicide than die from war, terrorism, and crime combined. 6:06 There's something wrong with that, Peggy.Is it because we've kind of lost sight of the charitable things we do? 6:14 You know, we have a motto over here about, and, and it's not about what your faith is, but we say faith, family, business. You have to give back to society. 6:22 You have to your community, and then your family, and business is the third part of the thing you do because it's-- business is gonna come and go, but you have to be fulfilled. 6:31 So is the idea of what we're saying, you know, the bottom line's always gonna be there. 6:35 Is it because we're so focused on all these other things that sometimes we lose sight that, you know, work's always gonna be there, but you gotta be doing all the other things that make you happy first? 6:46 Well, well, absolutely. 6:47 And the fact is, Peggy, and, and nowhere is this more prevalent than in social media, is that continually just looking at the bottom line or ROI drives mediocrity because, because people who change the world typically are cutting-edge, leading edge. 7:07 And the fact is... I mean, I mean, I, I grew up in the sixties, and I remember JFK talking about, about, "Hey, we need to start educating-" You, you mean-- Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You remember the sixties? 7:19 I just wanna say, you remember the sixties? 7:22 Well, I was, I, I was really, really young, so I, I remember them as a, as a kindergartner and grade schooler, but it made impact on me, um, because, because he, he said things like, "We need to stop hiding the truth from the public. 7:39 We need to start, you know, having, having full disclosure in the media." And, and look at where we are today. 7:46 I mean, there are so many things, a-and anyone with half an intelligence knows that we're not being told the full story. 7:55 We're being fed propaganda and fear so that we, you know, continually look outside of ourselves for leadership instead of looking inside. So- My advocacy is that we... Go ahead. 8:09 No, we're running out of time, but what we're gonna do is each month when you come back, we're gonna-- and when we have you on, each time we have you on, we're gonna talk about how we build a gentler, kindler world, right? 8:20 That's what we gotta do. Right. So we're gonna hold that thought 'cause we're out of time. James Arthur Ray, entrepreneur, author, life business coach, where can our listeners go to learn more about what you're doing? 8:30 Uh, go to jamesray.com. All right. Hey- And there's a whole host of things there for you. Hey, thank you so much for being with us. 8:38 Sorry I had to cut you short, but you're gonna be back, and we're gonna talk to you again. I'll look forward to it. Have a, have a magical day. You too. 8:45 All right, listeners, remember, we are broadcast live every Tuesday, twelve PM Central. We're out of time, but tweet at us. 8:51 I'll bet you if you tweet at us, I can get James to answer any questions you might have, and we can do some things on LinkedIn as well. Have a great week. Remember, tweet at us at connectedwmag. 9:02 [upbeat music] This is The Peggy Smedley Show, the podcasting voice of IoT and digital transformation. And remember, with great technology comes great responsibility. 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