Power is control over other people.

And empowered means that you're not looking for control of others.

You're just being you despite the consequences.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kisler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

The accumulation of power seems like a good idea at first.

Then we see how deeply insecure some billionaires and leaders of countries can be.

What if no amount of power could ever make you feel safe? What if it was just another thing

that could be taken away from you? And what if being empowered is the key to the only security

that truly sets you free? Joe, what makes this distinction so important? Yeah, the empowered overpower distinction.

I think there's a deep confusion in us as a people and internally between the two.

And that confusion is what creates the subjugation that we feel both in the relationship to ourselves and

the relationship with the outside world.

And to clarify that confusion, to actually see that we are always a choice, and that choice

is always empowered, whether we want to admit it or not, is a way to set us free

from that subjugation. So power is real. There are people who really do have power over us,

and there are situations in which we have limited control. So that must be partially responsible for our situation.

Yes and no.

The thing is that we're all interdependent.

Everything is interdependent.

It's like a gigantic machine, if you will, or a gigantic ecosystem.

And so who has the power?

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