365: The Starting Point for Mindfulness, with Michelle Maldonado
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Maldonado: Mindfulness
Michelle is Founder and CEO of Lucenscia, a human potential and business strategy firm dedicated to developing leaders and organizations with positive impact in the world. Michelle is a faculty member and Meta-Coach for Daniel Goleman’s inaugural Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification Program. Her work has been featured by the Human Capital Institute, the Mindful Leadership Summit, Leadership Excellence, and Chief Learning Officer.
Key Points
- Mindfulness is paying attention to what’s happening in the present moment — in the body, in the mind, in the external environment — with an attitude of curiosity and kindness.
- What are you thinking, and how is that impacting your interaction with the person before you?
- There is a different quality of experience when you’re paying attention to what’s happening.
- The easiest way to get started with mindfulness is to focus on your breathing.
Bonus Audio
Resources Mentioned
- Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification
- Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
- Lucenscia (Michelle’s firm)
- Flourish by Martin E. P. Seligman*
- In Group vs Out Group with David Eagleman *
Recommended Reading
- Unconscious Bias: Turning Discovery and Awareness Into Action and Impact
- Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership* by Janice Marturano
- Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness* by Chade-Meng Tan
- The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live — and How You Can Change Them* by Richard Davidson and Sharon Begley
- Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment — and Your Life* by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening* by Laurie Cameron
- Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward* by Joe Burton
Related Episodes
- Have Conversations That Matter, with Celeste Headlee (episode 344)
- Enhance Your Self-Awareness, with Daniel Goleman (episode 353)
- The Path of Humble Leadership, with Edgar Schein and Peter Schein (episode 363)
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| 0:00.0 | You've likely heard the term mindfulness, but what is it really? |
| 0:05.0 | What's the benefit of it to leaders? |
| 0:07.0 | And how do you actually become more mindful? |
| 0:10.0 | The starting point for answers to all those questions today. This is Coaching for Leaders episode 365. |
| 0:18.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:25.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:30.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your your host Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:34.5 | Leaders aren't born, they're made. |
| 0:36.9 | And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom |
| 0:40.5 | that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:44.0 | Certainly you've heard the term mindfulness. |
| 0:47.0 | You've probably even heard it a bit mentioned on this show in the last year or two. |
| 0:52.0 | It is one of those words that is becoming very popular, |
| 0:55.2 | maybe even a buzzword a bit. |
| 0:57.1 | It is extraordinarily helpful to leaders |
| 1:00.7 | who have developed a practice of mindfulness and yet it is also one of those |
| 1:05.1 | terms that is sometimes hard to get our minds around and to really recognize how we can |
| 1:12.2 | benefit from a practice of mindfulness. I am so glad to be able to |
| 1:16.9 | welcome today's guest who is going to help us to unpack this word a bit, to |
| 1:22.0 | understand it, to understand what are some of the things out there |
| 1:25.1 | that are maybe not true about mindfulness and most importantly how we can really benefit |
| 1:31.6 | from the practice of mindfulness. My guest today is Michelle Maldonado. |
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