Deep, Provocative Success Strategies From the "Yoda of Silicon Valley" | Jerry Colonna
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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How getting your sh*t together can make you a better leader in your own personal orbit. It can maybe even change the world.
Jerry Colonna is a leading executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He is a co-founder and CEO of Reboot, the executive coaching and leadership development company, host of the Reboot Podcast, and author of Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong, and Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up.
In this episode we talk about:
- How to avoid the pitfalls of virtue signaling and self-righteousness
- The term, "reunion" and how it relates to the stories of our ancestors
- What he means by, "the longing to belong"
- How we can learn to "do our first works over"
- The difference between equality and equity
- And his framing of, "content and container" to help guide good leadership
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello my fellow suffering beings today we've got some deep and maybe for some of you |
| 0:25.3 | rather provocative success strategies from the man who's been called the Yoda of Silicon Valley |
| 0:31.9 | Jerry Colonna as a former venture capitalist turned |
| 0:34.4 | turned, practicing Buddhist, turned leading executive coach. |
| 0:38.6 | He's co-founder and CEO of an executive coaching firm |
| 0:40.9 | called Reboot, where I'm a longtime client. |
| 0:43.0 | Jerry's also a friend of mine and a repeat guest on this show. |
| 0:46.5 | He's out with a new book called Reunion, Leadership and The Longing to Belong. |
| 0:51.8 | To be super clear right from the jump, Jerry has a very broad belonging to belong. |
| 0:52.5 | To be super clear right from the jump, Jerry has a very broad view of leadership so you don't |
| 0:56.4 | have to be a boss to benefit from his advice, whatever professional role you play or even if you don't |
| 1:01.2 | work and are a parent or a volunteer wherever you're coming from you do have a sphere of influence and if you don't get your shit together |
| 1:09.6 | Jerry's argument is that you're going to pass your pathology, your ancient |
| 1:12.8 | traumas, your ancient story lines, along to everybody else in your orbit. |
| 1:17.4 | Jerry calls his process radical self-inquiry and has made a huge difference |
| 1:21.3 | for me. |
| 1:22.1 | One of his signature questions has long been, |
| 1:25.0 | and I love this, |
| 1:26.0 | although actually it's been painful to mull it, |
| 1:30.0 | but I love it anyway. |
| 1:31.0 | How are you complicit in the conditions you say you don't want? |
| 1:36.6 | It's really such a compelling question and it's not about victim blaming, it's about taking a |
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