What if there was no such thing as good or bad?

What if there was no such thing as right or wrong?

What if there was only creation, maintenance, and destruction.

I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the

greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet

to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

Now before we get started, I want you to know my new book is out. It's called

the Buddha and the badass. Firstly thank you to all of you who supported my

first book, the quote of the extraordinary mind and made it become the number one

book in the world on Amazon Kindle.

And I cannot wait to get the Buddha and the badass onto your hands.

Now a lot of people are telling me they love the title and it's kind of mysterious.

What is this book about?

Well, here's how I put it.

And I'm grabbing it off my shelf right now. I have one of the early copies. I'm so excited.

So the Buddha is the spiritual master. The badass is the changemaker. You have both inside you. Once you awaken both these

archetypes, this transforms the way you work, the way you show up in the world, the way you

build your empire. So many of us we either go deep into spirituality or we go deep into work.

What if both of these can be unified? What if the great spiritual masters that they they were alive today, were the ones building companies that could change the world, were the ones who were crushing it at their jobs?

And what I put forth in this book is the idea that your spirituality can be brought to work.

And when you learn to use these elements of your soul, of your mind, of your spirit,

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