Cindy Wigglesworth is best selling author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence. Her work has had an enormous impact on my own perspective of leadership. The need to develop wise and compassionate leaders is needed more than ever. This is one of the most important interviews for leadership I have done so far. A must listen for those aspiring to make a bigger difference.

We discuss:

• How the experience of divorce and raising a daughter was a profound stimulus for reflection and the impetus to explore better leadership

• Why ego-driven leadership and its poorest forms of narcissism and self absorption is exhausting to be around

• How leadership from the more expanded point of view the Higher Self attracts people willingly to follow you

• The work of advanced spiritual intelligence as a continual practice 

• The calling “to be a light onto the world” is within us all, and the work we do can be the candle that lights the way for others

• Why Cindy is grateful for President Trump as he has been a catalyst for Americans to examine the profound truth of how much racial divide is still systemic, and why there is still much racial and political healing to do in the USA

• How Obama created the conditions that brought Trump forward

• How we are all called to growth

• The lotus flower blooms in mud, just as we can bloom through the muck and mess of our own lives

• The role of a new thought Church to foster Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha

• Why you need to have your BS challenges (belief system, as well as the other B.S.)

• How emotional intelligence is the first thing to address as leaders: name the emotion, identify what triggered, and practice inserting a PAUSE between stimulus and response

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