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Passion Struck with John R. Miles

Amanda Slavin On How to Change Lives by Inspiring Change EP 54

Passion Struck with John R. Miles

John R. Miles

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7779 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Has anyone ever inspired you to change your life in a significant way that made you healthier, happier, or more fulfilled? Inspiration is powerful, but it isn’t easy. In this Passion Struck podcast, Amanda Slavin discusses the life-altering moment that changed her life and how to change lives by inspiring change in others. Like this? Please subscribe, and join me on my new platform for peak performance, life coaching, self-improvement, and personal growth: https://passionstruck.com/ Link for Amanda Slavin's Ted Talk featured in the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkYTz_lg3M How do you change lives by inspiring change? Thank you for Watching the Passion Struck podcast. In this episode, John R Miles and Amanda Slavin discuss her path from educator to author, speaker, and brand builder. We unpack why so many people are dissatisfied with their jobs and the cause of the low engagement we are seeing across all areas of the world. Amanda uses the Seventh Level Engagement Framework to discuss what is causing this disengagement and how she is changing lives today by inspiring change. We discuss the difference that positive inspiration can make in a person’s life and how motherhood has changed her perspectives on life and career.  She also discusses her friendship with the Zappos founder Tony Hsieh and the positive influence he made in her life. New Interviews with the World's GREATEST high achievers will be posted every Tuesday with a Momentum Friday inspirational message! How to Change Lives by Inspiring Change Show Notes
  • 0:00 Show Intro and Ted Talk
  • 5:01 The 3 P's to finding purpose
  • 13:33 What she learned from teaching Gen Zers
  • 17:35 How motherhood changed her outlook
  • 23:27 Why are so many disengaged?
  • 30:19 How do you get engagement back?
  • 35:57 Dealing with a hostile work environment
  • 40:00 Her experience with Tony Hsieh, the Zappos former CEO
  • 45:17 How do leaders become more engaged?
  • 49:36 Create your own seventh level statement
  • 54:50 Applying yourself to serve others
  • 58:38 What she eliminated to make her more productive
ENGAGE WITH AMANDA SLAVIN Amanda Slavin, a former Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, is chairperson and Co-founder of CatalystCreativ, an award-winning community events agency specializing in audience engagement. Using the Seventh Level Engagement Framework from her best-selling book, The Seventh Level, she has advised multiple startups including HubSpot, Kiddie Kredit, Speakfully, SEEN, MyVillage, Official, and many more as well as a strategic angel investor and venture partner (OzoneX). Links *catalystcreativ.com (Company Website) *the-seventhlevel.com (Company Website) *amandaslavin.com (Personal Website) https://www.instagram.com/ajslavin/ https://twitter.com/AJSlavin ENGAGE WITH JOHN R. MILES * Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnRMiles * Leave a comment, 5-star rating (please!) * Support me: https://johnrmiles.com * Twitter: https://twitter.com/Milesjohnr * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Johnrmiles.c0m​. * Medium: https://medium.com/@JohnRMiles​ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_r_miles JOHN R. MILES * https://johnrmiles.com/my-story/ * Guides: https://johnrmiles.com/blog/ * Coaching: https://passionstruck.com/coaching/ * Speaking: https://johnrmiles.com/speaking-business-transformation/ * Gear: https://www.zazzle.com/store/passion_struck PASSION STRUCK *Subscribe to Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-passion-struck-podcast/id1553279283 *Website: https://passionstruck.com/ *About: https://passionstruck.com/about-passionstruck-johnrmiles/ *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/passion_struck_podcast *LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/passionstruck *Blog: https://passionstruck.com/blog/  

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0:00.0

I thought I was Carrie Redshaw when I was 25 years old.

0:04.6

I was running around New York City.

0:06.4

I was essentially living the dream.

0:08.0

And to me, the dream was working 10 hour days,

0:11.2

seven days a week, going out every single night,

0:15.2

dating all of the wrong people.

0:17.1

I had tons of friends that barely even knew me.

0:20.7

To me, that's what life looked like to put myself first.

0:25.1

When in reality, I realized at 25,

0:27.7

you think you know everything at 25, by the way.

0:29.7

You know everything.

0:31.3

What I realized is that that's actually what it looked like

0:34.1

to put myself last.

0:36.7

And what that meant for me was that, you know,

0:38.9

by dating all of the wrong men,

0:40.4

this is Christian bail from American Psycho,

0:42.4

similar types of men, you know, by dating all of the wrong men,

0:46.0

by having this lifestyle that hurt my heart and my feet,

0:49.3

I was wearing six inch heels,

0:51.2

I actually realized that I was putting myself last.

0:55.0

And something to note, you know, this lifestyle wasn't always

0:57.8

who I was.

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