How to Be Awesome at Your Job

947: How to Unlock Clarity through Your Brain’s Blueprint with Rachel Rider

Mar 25, 2024

34:17

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Learn how to gain clarity and overcome negativity through visualization techniques and biological hacks with Rachel Rider. Discover the importance of mind-body alignment in leadership and explore tools for personal transformation. Dive into unconventional perspectives and skill enhancement in the workplace, including a unique pogo stick visualization method.

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Visualization can help break out of negativity, while somatic experiencing aids in decoding body signals for leadership improvement.

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Rachel Ryder's Approach to Leadership and Inner Work

Rachel Ryder, the founder of MetaWorks, helps leaders unlock change by focusing on internal decluttering and body awareness. By using techniques like somatic experiencing, leaders can find clarity and make decisions from a confident space. Through visualization and understanding body signals, Rachel guides clients to break out of negativity, overcome anxiety, and decode tension signals. Her work emphasizes connecting to one's internal compass to foster deeper connections and better professional outcomes. A key aspect is translating intangible inner awareness into concrete behavior.

The Struggles of High Achievers

01:24

Shifting from Frustration to Insight

01:21

Embracing the Power of Somatic Experiencing in Leadership

01:35

Introduction

3min

Navigating Success and Well-being Through Visualization

18min

Exploring Mind-Body Alignment in Leadership

8min

Exploring Mind Clutter and Favorite Things with a Sponsor Ad

2min

Exploring Studies, Books, Tools, and Habits for Personal Transformation

2min

Exploring Unconventional Perspectives and Skills Enhancement in the Workplace

2min

Rachel Rider shares visualization and other approaches to gain individualized insights on improving your leadership.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) A powerful visualization to break out of negativity

2) The biological hack to overcome anxiety

3) How to decode your body’s tension signals

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— ABOUT RACHEL —

Rachel Rider founded MettaWorks in 2015 after a distinguished career in HR, receiving executive coaching certification from Columbia University, and extensive training in meditation, Somatic Experiencing, and Polarity Therapy. Starting as HR Business Partner responsible for developing and coaching leaders and teams at Bloomberg, she went on to specialize in leadership coaching at AppNexus (since acquired by AT&T) and Digital Ocean, the third-largest hosting company in the world. She studied under renowned teacher and Zen Mountain Monastery founder John Daido Loori Roshi for 13 years before continuing under his successor, Shugen Arnold Roshi.

Rider completed a three-year intensive certification in Somatic Experiencing in 2018, and a 2020 training in Polarity Therapy with the aim of bringing leaders tools to unlock effective, long-lasting change in concert with the body. Since 2020, she’s been working intensively with anti-racism coach Makeda Pennycooke. Rider lives in New York with her husband and two children.

• Book: Who You Are Is How You Lead

• Instagram: mettaworks

• LinkedIn: Rachel Rider

• Website: MettaWorks.io

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

• Book: Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin & Ken Abraham

• Podcast: Dr. Trevor Kashey’s “Coffee with Dr. Kashey”

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