221. From Goo to Growth: Redefining Transformation

Rachel Burr, Gen X, author of Butterfly Goo:TheDown and Dirty Truth About Transformation, joins us to talk transformation.

Rachel is an executive coach, leadership consultant, and people expert. She says, "... leadership is challenging because people are challenging, and leaders are people. When we add the challenges of leading groups of other people, developing a workplace culture, and driving success, we increase the difficulty by tenfold, even a hundredfold. (Is there an infinite fold?) Let’s just say it’s complex.Leadership is not easy or for the faint of heart. Still, most leaders land themselves in their roles because they’re individual rockstars, not because they know how to lead people, and they need support to thrive. "

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

The beauty myth about transformation

Transformation can be fun

Purpose and transformation

Transformation defined

Fear and transformation

Social media and the goo

Cave analogy (Joseph Campbell)

Quotable Moments:

“If we make transformation more actionable, more achievable, then everyone can see their butterfly and not feel stuck.”

“We’ll never know what we’re truly capable of until we try.”

“You don’t find your path – you build it.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” (Sir Issac Newton)

“Safe and happy are not the same thing.”

“Sometimes we talk about the comfortable discomfort – the devil we know vs the devil we don’t.”

“Look for the intersection of what excites and scares you – there’s something there. Goo in that direction.”

“You don’t have to be ready for every kind of transformation.”

Three Episode Takeaways:

1. Most of us don’t have a linear path and setting an expectation that life should be like that, can setus up for denial of agency in our own life.

2. Transformation is personal to each of us. We get to define it for ourselves. It’s both empowering and terrifying we need to take ownership.

3. Fear is ever-present in our lives and a normal part of change. It wants to keep us small. And if we wait until we’re not afraid to do X then we can miss becoming more confident when we actually put those things into practice.

Episode Resource:

Butterfly Goo, The Down and Dirty Truth About Transformation

Available at https://amazon.com

More About Rachel:

Rachel has worked with leaders, organizations, and understanding human behavior for over 20 years. Shebelieves most (read as “none”) of us have unlocked our full potential. And when she says our full potential, she means the unique combination of strengths, talents, and passions that make each of us who we are. Leadership is not acookie cutter. When we embrace and develop our leadership from our authentic core, we step into our full power to create impact and achieve success for ourselves, our organizations, and the people we lead.

She works together with leaders to honestly examine what they bring to their role, including strengths, weaknesses, values, and everything in between. She helps them toconfront challenges they must overcome, and identify actions they will take to reach their goals.

She coaches individual executives and their teams, and facilitates team sessions and offsites to help leaders develop their leadership and build high-performing teams.

How to reach Rachel:

Rachel Burr rachel@catamentum.com

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Website:

Catamentum.com

Butterfly Goo Book:

https://www.butterflygoobook.net/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Catamantum/

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