Lies Between Us, Roger’s podcast, episode #6

My rockstar business coach Sarah Young joins me for a vibrant conversation on: integrity, truth, judgments, assumptions, relentless striving, quality, blame, making the world’s problems our own, leadership, workplace culture, responsibility, accountability, showing up, social media, burnout, wanting more for others than they want for themselves, and the concept of ‘Happily Ever After’.

My number one personal value is truth and at the pinnacle of Sarah’s list is integrity. We discuss how integrity and truth weaves their way through every aspect of our lives. The challenges we face to maintain integrity and truth at home, at work, in our relationships, and online are endless.

How well we moderate or regulate our own judging, blaming, and assuming is entirely up to us. How well have we unearthed those core things most critical to us and are we effectively living our lives in those ways? Have we sorted out those core beliefs or is there individual work yet to be done? How can we remain true to ourselves and handle the social unrest while fostering solidarity to make our shared world a better place?

The work that we do, either for our employers or for ourselves is a challenging dynamic of communication, controls, integrity, truth, and more. Sarah’s extensive work with leaders and entrepreneurs makes for a great conversation while we discuss her concept of Divine Discontent and our collective thoughts on the mystical idea of burnout.

Bullying and the distribution of lies can have disastrous effects, as most of know. Sarah and I give service to these issues, both of which hit pretty close to home for me. Both of my two kids were bullied in high school and although they are both still alive today, there are lasting effects. My niece took her own life for other reasons, but the amount of pain inflicted into the family as a result of these emotional icebergs is immeasurable. For both young adults and less-than young adults, our navigability through life’s waters are seemingly filled with more lethal dangers than ever.                      

Lastly, we discuss the concepts of ‘true love’ and ‘happily ever after’. Are these myths? Are they possible and what might they look like? Sarah lays this question on me and after sharing my romantic heart with others for over forty years, I have a thing or three to say about it.    

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