Best of: The Conversations We’re Afraid to Have with Jerry Colonna

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In one of our most insightful interviews ever, we spoke with Jerry Colonna, the CEO of Reboot.IO about how to be resilient, find your sense of self, and how to deal with the “impostor syndrome.” Take a listen to see how to have a healthy relationship with your emotions and to figure out just what it takes to be a resilient person!

Jerry Colonna is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction

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0:00.0	The your an imposter mantra is a beautiful oft repeated phrase from one's inner critic
0:11.3	But there are a lot of other phrases that the inner critic uses. So it's kind of a subset of this self-loathing that goes on.
0:20.0	And I think you correctly linked it to the kind of merging of sense of self and
0:28.1	self-worth with work, but I would I would argue it's even deeper.
0:35.0	It's merging a sense of self and a sense of self worth
0:40.0	with almost anything that's extrinsic to this meat bag called me.
0:50.0	One of the more profound teachings from Buddhism is that it basically goes like this, you
0:57.7	are lovable, you are worthy, not because of anything that you have done, but simply because you exist.
1:08.0	And to my mind, that flies in the face of almost every Western philosophical tradition that I was ever raised with,
1:20.0	which was that salvation and everlasting peace, a kind of equanimity that I am okay.
1:31.6	I suffer and I'm okay. I'm in pain and I'm okay I'm happy and I'm okay I'm sad and I'm okay
1:38.3	that kind of equanimity is only available to us in the hereafter and only available to people who either have been
1:47.0	chosen preordained by God or someone lucky enough to have figured out what the right things to do are.
1:57.0	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the Unakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books and created insanely interesting art.
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