Allison Holzer: ...how to use inspiration as my superpower
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Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Inspiration is the topic of this episode with our guest, Allison Holzer, who's spent years studying the science of inspiration to understand how it can be “summoned” through different actions. Allison is a consultant, entrepreneur and coach who is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of InspireCorps. Allison is also the co-author of the book, "Dare to Inspire: Sustain the Fire of Inspiration in Work and Life". https://inspirecorps.com/holzer/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. Think about how you feel when you feel inspired. It feels great, right? |
| 0:20.6 | Our guest on this episode, Alison |
| 0:22.3 | Holzer, has spent the past few years studying the science of inspiration to understand how it can be |
| 0:27.7 | summoned through different actions. Allison is a consultant, entrepreneur, and coach, |
| 0:32.1 | who is the co-founder of InspireCorps, and previously was director of coaching for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. |
| 0:40.2 | Allison is also the co-author of the new book, Dare to Inspire, Sustain the Fire of Inspiration in Work and Life. |
| 0:47.8 | Allison, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you. Happy to be here. |
| 0:52.0 | Tell us what inspiration is so that we can all kind of understand what we're talking about. |
| 0:58.3 | Sure. |
| 0:59.3 | You know, when we went out to interview all different leaders and people about inspiration, |
| 1:05.3 | what was interesting is when we asked people about a time that they felt inspired. |
| 1:09.9 | No one had a problem saying what those |
| 1:13.3 | times were when they were inspired. In other words, they didn't have a problem identifying it. |
| 1:17.8 | They knew it when they felt it. But then when we asked them, well, how do you define what it is? |
| 1:23.1 | People sort of had trouble with it. And so we set out to really create a definition of inspiration |
| 1:29.4 | based on our research that really clearly captures what the experience is like. And here's how |
| 1:35.9 | we define it. So inspiration, it's really the intersection of these two different experiences. So the |
| 1:42.1 | first is when you're inspired, you're open, you're open to new |
| 1:46.1 | possibilities, to new ideas. So there's this greater sense of possibility. Like, I can do more, |
| 1:53.3 | I have new ideas, I see more that's possible for me and others. And that's a great feeling, |
| 2:00.2 | but on its own, it's just possibility. |
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