340: Liz Forkin Bohannon - How To Build Your Life Of Purpose, Passion, & Impact (Beginner's Pluck)

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Ryan Hawk

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Episode #340: Liz Bohannon - co-founder and co-CEO of Sseko Designs and the author of Beginner's Pluck: Build your life of purpose, passion and impact now. Liz and the Sseko story has been featured in dozens of publications including: Vogue Magazine, Redbook Magazine, O Magazine, Inc, Fortune and others. Sseko has appeared on national broadcasts including ABC's Shark Tank and Good Morning America.

Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:
- They do work that taps into their intrinsic motivation and they know WHY they do what they do.
  - You must drill down far to know this
- Vulnerable -- Look at Brene Brown. A "truth teller."
- Shoshin - An openness with eagerness. Have to have both.
Why is the "Beginner's Pluck" message resonating with so many people?
- "I believe it, but not sure if I really do..." People (women especially) tend to doubt themselves too much.
"You don't need to be extraordinary to build a life making a difference."
"Passion is something you build... I learned it through telling an untrue story."
Be driven by interest, and curiosity...
"I'm the CEO of a for-profit fashion company."
"My ego wasn't super involved. It gave me the freedom to just do it."
- "I got so obsessed with the problem and finding a solution to it."
"The work of an artist is to know what's inside of you. Be solutions agnostic."
- "The artist creates without thinking of the audience."
- "The entrepreneur has to think of the audience." --> What's the actual problem this fixes?
- Sit in the complexity of what it means to be a world changer.
- "We live in a world that is so quick to critique... Show up, do the work."
How did Liz learn to run a business?
- She took a six week crash course on basic accounting and followed her curiosity to learn each skill as she went.
  - Don't be caught in analysis paralysis
  - "The thing I had connected to me was my WHY."
  - "You don't get to know Step 7 when you're in stage 1. That's not how it works." Must take it a step at a time.
  - "What do I absolutely need to figure out?
    - The MVP - Minimum Viable Product -- Know that it's only Version 1. Can iterate as you go.
The 4 stages of Learning:
- Unconscious incompetent
- Conscious incompetent
- Conscious competent
- Unconscious competent
How often am I feeling out of my league? -- You should feel this often in order to grow.

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0:00.0	You're never going to find your passion and actually that language even the language is really unhelpful because it makes you feel like you are kind of a passive recipient and you might be struck one day with this information.
0:14.6	It might fall out of the sky.
0:16.0	You might stumble onto it.
0:17.5	You might open the right door at the right time
0:19.6	and it'll like jump out at you and then once it does,
0:21.6	you will definitely know. And the reality is that is not
0:24.8	how passion works. Passion is something that we build. It's an everyday thing. You can do it. You literally just have to
0:31.1	cultivate the mentality and the mindset and then be faithful and committed to that and be willing to commit to it over time.
0:40.0	We are opening up applications for our next learning leader circle.
0:44.1	We only do this once per year and think back to the great conversation I had with the legendary
0:50.7	Jim Collins episode 216. He said Ryan before you get too caught up in the why in the what you need to first be very intentional about your who
1:00.8	Who will be your friends who will be your mentor who will you help who will you choose to
1:06.4	surround yourself with that will be the single greatest determining factor in your
1:11.7	long-term success.
1:13.9	And I would ask you the same question,
1:16.8	who are you surrounding yourself with?
1:19.0	Do you want to be surrounded by growth-oriented leaders that are willing to push you.
1:24.8	We've added specific curriculum and elements so that by the end of the year you'll have
1:28.9	tangible outcomes to measure your growth and be a more effective leader both personally and
1:35.2	professionally. These groups are intentionally curated and kept small. Time and
1:40.8	again the thing that people say they love about these groups is the relationships they're able to build with one another in a short period of time.
1:48.5	If you'd like to apply go to learningleader circle.com that's learning leader circle.com. That's learning leader circle dot com to apply Welcome to the Learning Leader Show presented by Brixy and Meyer. I am Ryan Hawk.
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