Mindful Leadership with Presidential Candidate - Tim Ryan
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
How do you become a more mindful leader? Whether you’re a student, parent or entrepreneur, how do you lead yourself and how do you lead others for a place of mindful connection and development?
Representative Tim Ryan recently announced his run for president and has a long history representing working-class families in Ohio. What you might not know about Tim is that in addition to his service as a Congressman, Tim is an advocate for mindfulness, meditation, and health and is the author of two books on mindfulness and healthy food.
Mindfulness and leadership are two of the most important words today. We’re living through fractured, disrupted times and calm thoughtful leaders will be essential in guiding communities back toward connectedness, imagination, and change. Unless we learn to reconnect with each other and work together, we will remain unable to solve the many problems facing us.
In this conversation, we discuss how mindfulness impacts our brains, and how adverse experiences impact the minds of younger generations coming up through our schools. We speak about how mindfulness has given the best leaders the strength to lead and maintain calm through challenging times and find the imagination to lead the country out of a challenge and towards change. Lastly, we talk about why social connectedness is so important in today’s fractured society and why the world needs you to take all the self-work you’ve been doing and start passing it on to your community.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:24.4 | Show me. |
| 0:30.4 | How do you become a more mindful leader? Mindfulness and leadership. Those are two of the most important words today. So how do you do it? Whether you're a student, you're a parent, you're an entrepreneur, you're somebody interested in a lead mental performance, how do you lead yourself and how do you lead |
| 0:45.7 | others from a place of mindful connection and development? That's what this episode is all about and I'm excited to have on this show a very special guest presidential candidate congressman Tim Ryan. |
| 1:00.0 | It's kind of interesting because when we met years ago, our mutual friend, Nick Ordner, was saying that, |
| 1:04.9 | you know, there's this congressman who wrote these books |
| 1:08.1 | on the real food revolution and mindfulness and mindful nation, meditation and and food people don't talk about that as much in politics no unfortunately not it's starting to happen more and more I do a lot of work with veterans around yoga and meditation, healthy food and we actually |
| 1:24.7 | had the secretary of the VA brought up without unprompted from me about how yoga is really |
| 1:30.8 | helping veterans heal and his counterpart the doctor was talking about how much |
| 1:35.6 | mindfulness has been helping these vets stay connected because they can get very isolated |
| 1:40.7 | and then that leads to the suicide. So to see this getting infused into our VA system at this level is really exciting. |
| 1:48.0 | When I was reading one of your books, Mindful Nation, talks about the power of meditation. Have you seen meditation possibly affect schools and children? |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, you see it in the schools now. There are mindfulness programs, there are breathing breathing programs there's David Lynch Foundation |
| 2:05.5 | has a quiet time program where they do transcendental meditation in the schools these |
| 2:10.1 | are all very helpful because what's happened to our kids. |
| 2:13.5 | There's so much trauma with our kids today. |
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