Get Gutsy Podcast Transcript – Spiritual Leadership: The Way Forward

Spiritual leadership is the way forward.

I want to talk to you today about what it is and why it’s crucial for our future and your success.

Spiritual leadership is knowing how you need to be showing up in the world, so that you can do your best work.

It’s about knowing how we’re wired so we can operate at our highest level and fulfill our greatest potential.

I learned this the hard way through many years of being lost, of not taking care of myself, of not taking care of my body, of following somebody else’s path that I thought was the way and realizing that it doesn’t work for me.

Spiritual leadership is realizing someone else’s benchmark of success is completely different than yours and being really mindful to live your life and serve your people YOUR WAY.

You cannot ignore your own inner guidance system.

When you ignore the work that you’ve done around soul and spirit and knowing what matters to you and you just all of a sudden wake up one day and you’re like, “How the heck did I get here? This is not the direction I wanted to go in and I ignored myself again. I discounted my own inner wisdom.”

So spiritual leadership is creating sacred space to make decisions and zigging when everyone else seems to be zagging.

It is about you saying, “No, thank you,” when you’re being heavily encouraged to say yes and it’s about you kind of sitting in that, claiming it when your knees are shaking, when you say, “I don’t know how this is ever going to work out. Oh my God. Does this sound right? Who am I to do this work? Who am I to even say these words?”

One of my students came to me recently and said, “I have this thing that I do and I don’t quite know how to explain it and what to call it. So what do you think I should say Jenny?”

I asked her to tell me what she wants to say and has been saying. And she laid it all out. And it was beautiful. It made complete sense to me, and my coaching and insight for her was stand in that more fully. Be more confident around that message. It was really, really good.

I told her something that applies to you too:

“You’re ready. Your message and offering will take you into that next level but if you’re doubting your ability to even have permission to do your work, then that’s going to come across. You have got to be confident. Even when you’re scared. Especially when you’re scared.”

So spiritual leadership is about knowing what in fact you know.

It is about trusting the call of spirit and knowing also that you are not doing this on your own. This is a co-creative effort and if you are relying solely on your own strength to achieve this dream, to launch your course, to get that client, to write the book, to whatever it is, then you are going to burn out. You are doing yourself a grave disservice because this is a co-creative force.

So you’ve got to tap into the universe, to your faith system, to God, whatever that looks like for you. You’ve got to have a solid spiritual practice.

This is so crucial because I feel many people feel very lonely on their quest. And a lot of people are relying solely on their own strength. Then they turn to some unhealthy habits. We turn to our “isms” like workaholism, shopaholism, worryaholism, alcoholism, you name it – and the cycle just perpetuates.

Spiritual leadership is about realizing that you are co-creating and you do not and should not rely solely on your own strength to move your mission forward in the world.

Some people talk a lot about feminine leadership and masculine leadership. There is a different for sure, but we truly do need to incorporate both energies into our work.

As feminine leaders, we want to make sure that we’re not only utilizing these sacred tools like ritual, intuition and working with cycles and seasons, but that we also tap into tools that have been classically referred to as masculine tools, to get our work out into the world.

For instance, marketing might be looked at as a masculine tool because it’s very official and filled with technology and analytics and testing.

But I think of it simply as this: it’s the work, and the work is the way.  

So however you want the work to take shape for you, that is your work and you can call it feminine or masculine the point is: use these fantastic tools that are available to us.

They are mission-building tools. So notice everything that’s available to you and experiment. You don’t have to use everything because that makes you crazy.

So when you realize that something is available to you, ask yourself, “How can this advance my mission?”

That’s what it’s about. How can you help more people with this tool?

Could you use Facebook today and post an epic post?

Can you do a Facebook Live video?

Can you Periscope?

Can you get on the phone and call your people even though you don’t typically like phone calls anymore because no one talks on the phone? But hey, that’s a lost art. How can I place a call?

Can you create a beautiful nurture campaign for new email subscribers?

Can you create a podcast?

Can you make a sizzling offer?

And here’s the kicker. Be unattached to how it all shakes out.

We suffer when we attach to the outcome.

You know, when you think “It has to be this way, because this way means that it’s successful, because my friend had 20 people in her course, so I’ve got to have 20 in mine for it to be successful.”

But then you realize something epic: You really like having five because you go deep with those five and you have this beautiful experience together.

So why are you comparing? Comparison is the thief of joy. I want you to know that.

Do not compare. Instead, simply say: “I am going to give it my best effort. I’m going to run a giant experiment. I’m going to see what was effective and see what maybe wasn’t so effective and course correct.”

Know that sometimes it takes months or years for an action that you took, a seed you planted to ever pay off, to ever turn into something real on the material plane and I want you to get in the practice of simply planting more seeds.

Be unattached to it all. Surrender. Ask for help. Be kind to yourself. Always have that foundation of sacred self-care. When your plate is overflowing and you could work for 48 hours straight and still not be finished, go outside for a walk.

Go to the gym. Go to yoga. Make yourself a green smoothie. Call a friend. Do that – it runs counter to kind of like our conditioning and the wiring. But that will separate you from those who burn out, from those who don’t have the stamina to make it. You got to fulfill the mission. You got to fulfill the assignment.

It’s that important.

Because you are a spiritual business leader.

And you are here to heal the world.

Keep walking in faith towards your destiny.

This is Jenny Fenig sending you so much love, light and faith as you get gutsy. I’ll see you next time.

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