Being Human

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week’s guest is perhaps one of the most experienced change leaders and advisors on the planet, Jake Jacobs. For over 35 years, he has worked in 61 industries, helping over 210.000 people implement changes in their businesses. What I love about Jake is his fearlessness in calling out what leaders really must do to achieve change in their businesses. We talk: The importance of leverage Thinking and acting as if the future were now Following the energy (you don’t always have to start at the top) The importance of large group work The paradox of honouring continuity to achieve change Links: Jake Jacobs Consulting  

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Dr Will Van Derveer. Will is the founder and medical director of the Integrative Psychiatric Healing Center where he has practised integrative psychiatry for 15 years. After discovering that his conventional psychiatric training was inadequate to answer many of his patients' challenges, he took an entire year out to meditate. Finding that meditation alone was also not the answer; he began investigating psychedelic therapy to resolve the root causes of common problems such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia. We talk: The power of using MDMA in therapy Will's ayahuasca experience The importance of sleep How meditation is not always enough 'Weirding' your way to healing Links: The Integrative Psychiatry Institute

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human has one of the most extraordinary life stories of anyone I’ve met. I give you Guy Felicella. Guy grew up in a middle-class home but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment, and jail. But a pivotal meeting with one of Canada’s most celebrated doctors changed the course of his life.  Guy is now nine years sober and in a stable relationship with three children, a remarkable turnaround. We dive into how he was able to achieve such a remarkable recovery. We talk: 30 years of gang life Meeting Gabor Mate The trauma therapy that changed everything Practicing 'doing kind' Confronting his abuser mother Links: Guy's Website Guy's Twitter   

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. I love Darcia's work because, unlike other psychologists, she doesn't simply look at our society's current pathologies and ask, how do we fix this? She takes in the broad sweep of human societal evolution and notes how our current ways of being and relating haven't always been so. She focuses especially on what we can learn from past and present indigenous cultures. We talk: How agriculture gave us hierarchy Predatory individualism and the cycle competive detachment Pre-competitive cultures Feeling the trees scream The power of the Gift Economy Links: Breaking The Cycle - The Film Evolved Nest Kindred Media Darcia's University of Notre Dame Website 

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is complexity theorist and author Ian Snape. A former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division, he has led teams on expeditions to both polar regions before focusing on coaching and training CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals. We discuss how resilience isn't just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of skills, techniques, creative processes. It's about new understandings of how we think, act, and interact with our environments and each other. We talk: How and why to quiet the Left Brain Clean language for resilience The power of using perspectives Coaching marines for breakthrough performance The one about the abductive turkey Links: Resilience By Design - The Book Frontline Mind   

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Christopher D. Lee, PhD, author and the HR Director at one of the USA's oldest and most prestigious colleges, William & Mary. Christopher has a passion for human performance. There are three things we know about traditional performance appraisals: they are widely used, universally despised, and probably ineffective.   What should leaders do instead? Adopt a coaching mindset and commit to regular, structured performance conversations. Christopher offers a wealth of insight and practical ideas about how to elevate these conversations for deep impact.  We talk: The mentor that changed Christopher's life Why relationships matter Your job is not to evaluate Focus on intent Have people feel good Links: Performance Conversations - The Book The Performance Conversations website

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is psychiatrist, empath and author Judith Orloff. Judith is the bestselling author of "The Power of Surrender", where she advocates for the art of letting go as the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging, and health and healing. We talk: Surrendering to her intuition as a medical professional Let's talk death Tuning in to the quiet voice Integrating ego and intuition Embracing your multitudes Links: The Power of Surrender - The Book

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar. As a teenager, Satish trekked from India to America via Russia to deliver ‘peace tea’ to the leaders of, what were then, the four major nuclear powers. He walked 8,000 miles without any money totally depending on the generosity of strangers. Now in his 80s, he has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. We talk: Becoming a monk at 9 years old Cultivating trust Staying committed Introducing The Cosmic Relationships Department Embracing 'enough' Links: Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine  

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is facilitator and author Corena Chase. Corena is co-author of The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lose Them and How to Get Them Back. Corena believes that everyone has superpowers when they are a child. While we tend to lose track of them as we grow up, they’re always there, right below the surface, ready for us to reactivate them and fully manifest our human potential. We talk: How her niece taught her the glory of curiosity Presence and resilience Why a jack of all trades might be a master after all Daring to play Smashing corporate taboos  Links: The Five Lost Superpowers - The Book Corena's Website

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is intuitive healer, mentor and life teacher Fiona Arrigo. What I found so compelling about Fiona is her profound belief that we can heal ourselves. With so many of us right now - including me sometimes - seeking external sources for our wellbeing, she's part of a growing movement of people rediscovering their innate healing potential. On this basis, she has developed her healing method The Arrigo Programme, where she offers a multi-layered approach to anything from anxiety and depression to relationship issues, chronic pain, or simply a feeling of losing our way. We talk: What it means to be human Working on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels How surviving a severe car crash became a spiritual awakening How there is no blueprint Owning "I don't know" Links: The Arrigo Programme Fiona's Instagram