Johann Berlin on Living a Fulfilling Life

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Please Support The Show with a Donation Johann Berlin has worked with some of the world's greatest leaders, Fortune 500 companies, has spoken at a Ted conference and is in the process of writing a book about what it means to live a fulfilling life. Have you ever found yourself hating your day job? Wishing you could do the thing you truly love? Not sure what would make you happy at work but you know what you're doing now isn't helping? In this episode, Johann shares really helpful and practical approaches that you can start applying today in order to bring more meaning and fulfillment into your daily life - both at work and otherwise. Johann Berlin is the CEO of TLEX U.S. Johann has grown TLEX nationwide and into leading institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining TLEX, Johann scaled boutique triple bottom line and social sector companies from concept to high-impact with a special focus on innovative and disruptive wellness, leadership, innovation initiatives with the project being mentioned in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and Wharton Journal. Johann has participated as a speaker/facilitator at TEDx London, Stanford Center for Compassion, Harvard Executive MBA Alumni Summit, Wharton School of Business, UC Berkeley’s Leadership Symposium, Yale School of Management, Impact Investor Sustainatopia Conference, GE HealthCare’s Health Ahead Summit Paris, and Dartmouth on Purpose. In This Interview, Johann Berlin and I Discuss... The Wolf Parable That what you put your attention on grows What love means in a corporate environment The difference between a question and a wonder Moving from desire to finding things that bring you contentment It's not always what you do but that you have meaningful relationships at work "Do service", doing things with honor, treating things as special How if you hate your job, you don't have the energy to do the things you love What you resist, persists Suppressing your thoughts How hating your job causes you to suffer His troubled youth The role that the kindness of other people has played in his life His three reflections on kindness: We choose who we are kind to No act is too small The starfish story Don't lose hope Choosing to show up in the moment If you honor the moment, you can choose to show up for it Living wisely with the changing, advancing age Johann Berlin Links Homepage Twitter Please Support The Show with a Donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I really live by this principle and believe that what you put your attention on grows.
0:12.3	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:17.5	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:24.5	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:30.5	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:37.2	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:43.7	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:49.6	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:09.7	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Johann Berlin, CEO of the T-Lex Institute,
1:16.0	North America. He creates resilience in business by strengthening the connection between individuals,
1:21.6	teams, and organizations to achieve a greater purpose. Johann's work has been mentioned in the
1:27.1	Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and Washington Post. He has spoken at TEDx London,
1:33.3	Stanford Center for Compassion, the Harvard Executive MBA Alumni Summit, Wharton School of Business,
1:39.3	and the Yale School of Management. This episode of The One You Feed is sponsored by Health IQ.
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2:10.3	And here's the episode with Johann Berlin.
2:15.2	Great to be out. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm very excited to have you on. Let's start
2:20.6	like we normally do with the parable where there's a grandfather who's talking with his grandson.
2:25.6	He says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always at battle. One is a good wolf,
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