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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Jerry Colonna: Open Heart, Strong Back

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Colonna is an investor, an entrepreneur, and the CEO of reboot.io, a coaching firm for executive-level businesspeople. He is the author of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Jerry about bringing our authentic selves and open hearts to the business world. Jerry describes the path that brought him from a troubled childhood to becoming a successful businessman, as well as the events that made him reconsider how he wanted to better the world. Tami and Jerry discuss how self-inquiry can help make you a better leader and why everyone needs to define "success" for themselves. Finally, they talk about bringing your full, vulnerable aliveness to the workplace and what it truly means to "grow up." (74 minutes)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.

0:04.0

My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.

0:08.0

And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.

0:12.0

The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to

0:26.8

transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.

0:39.3

The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities

0:46.9

in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.

0:54.0

If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,

0:58.0

please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.

1:07.0

Today my guest is Jerry Colonna. Jerry is the CEO and co-founder of

1:16.5

reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm whose coaches and facilitators are committed

1:25.1

to the notion that better humans make better leaders. For nearly 20 years

1:31.2

Jerry has used the knowledge he's gained as an investor, an executive,

1:36.2

and a board member for more than 100 organizations to help entrepreneurs and others lead

1:42.4

with humanity,

1:44.0

resilience, equanimity,

1:47.0

and a whole lot of art.

1:50.0

In this conversation with Jerry, I really felt his tremendous warmth and generosity and the vision

2:01.0

that he's offering that we can define success for ourselves and be true to that

2:08.5

in how we build organizations of aliveness, generosity, and kindness.

2:15.0

Here's my conversation with Jerry Colonna.

2:18.0

Jerry, in your book, reboot, you share a lot of your personal story in a very vulnerable and raw way and you talk about your family upbringing, one of many children with an alcoholic father and a mother who developed a mental

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