Tami Simon: Being a Spiritual Entrepreneur

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A magazine article about Sounds True founder Tami Simon referred to her as a “spiritual entrepreneur.” At first, Tami wasn’t sure about the label. Yet over time, she came to appreciate and embrace it. Today, the art of spiritual entrepreneurship is a central facet of Sounds True’s Inner MBA® program.

In this host-only episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami shares her thoughts and feelings about what it means to lead a company dedicated to the well-being of its employees as equally as it is to business success. For anyone looking to bridge their innermost values with how they make a living, Tami reveals seven principles of the spiritual entrepreneur, with insightful guidance on honoring the voice of the heart; leading with presence; why relationships need to come first; creating a culture of care, engagement, and well-being; alternating between high performance and good rest; how to embrace challenges as growth opportunities; claiming our personal agency and doing the work of “cleaning up”; business as a means to address real social needs; maintaining trust in the unfolding process; making a commitment to “lift each other up” in the way we do business; recognizing our interdependence; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special solo podcast episode of Insights at the Edge.
0:25.0	Welcome friends, thanks for being with me.
0:27.2	I'm going to talk about being a spiritual entrepreneur and I'm going to offer seven
0:33.3	orienting principles that are alive for me right now about spiritual entrepreneurship.
0:40.5	I haven't done very many of these solo episodes and I don't think I've done one for about
0:46.0	200 or so episodes back on Insights at the Edge so this is a special opportunity for me
0:53.3	to connect with you right from my heart. I'm recording this from a studio in British Columbia
1:01.4	on an island, Cortez Island and one of the things I'm very aware of is how as a human being
1:10.0	we are a connecting point between the inspiration of the sky with our feet very grounded on the earth
1:22.8	and how the energy of that groundedness comes up into our bodies and the inspiration from above
1:31.4	comes down through the top of our head and it all meets you guessed it in our very human heart
1:39.8	and then our heart has the opportunity to give voice to what we care the most about
1:46.6	and to flow out into action through our hands through what we make in the world and for those
1:54.0	who we reach out to and touch. So I'm speaking to you from my heart about spiritual entrepreneurship.
2:03.6	Why this topic? A few months ago an article came out and I was referred to as a spiritual entrepreneur
2:13.0	and I thought that's really curious. I'm not sure how I feel about that and in fact
2:19.0	I'm not sure I like it. My first reaction was that it sounded a little something like
2:24.8	oily and then I thought is it oily to be a spiritual entrepreneur? Am I oily? And my conclusion is
2:34.8	that in fact that is an archetype that I'm inhabiting and no I don't think I'm oily.
2:42.5	I'm happy to say. I will say that I believe in not keeping our light under a bushel so to speak.
2:54.1	Taking the bushel off and shining it brightly through our hearts and that means claiming and taking
3:03.0	up the space that we stand in and for those of us today who want to make an impact in our world
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