Allowed: Conscious Leadership and Personal Growth with Dr. Caneel Joyce Caneel Joyce

Beth Anstandig is back on the Allowed podcast!
As a lifelong cowgirl, writer, university faculty member, and licensed psychotherapist, Beth has 25 years of experience developing, implementing, and training people in Natural Leadership—a model she pioneered. Natural leadership helps people awaken their innate awareness so they can live and work with more authentic relationships and connections. 
Beth owns Take a Chance Ranch in Morgan Hill, CA providing leadership, culture, and well-being programs through The Circle Up Experience. Together with an ever-growing menagerie of animals, she’s trained thousands of leaders and teams from some of the most renowned corporations, universities, and nonprofits. 
Beth joins Caneel Joyce to discuss her brilliant new book The Human Herd and to share the incredible lessons leaders can learn from honing their natural leadership skills. 
Listen to learn why self-care is essential in building trust in teams, how learning about the different fields of awareness improves your leadership, and what being a part of a human herd really entails. During the episode, Caneel and Beth detail how you can strengthen the trust and relationships within your team through the principles of natural leadership. 

This episode of Allowed gets personal as Caneel recounts the moment she realized she was still repressing some of the most unique, authentic parts of herself. You will learn the difference between your identity and your essence and then discover how 360-degree reviews can help you professionally AND personally by revealing the innate gifts you already possess. 


Is there a part of you that never sees the light of day? Do you believe that you can’t be your true self?  Are you hiding your precious gifts from the world? 

You can break out of the mindsets that keep you from playing full out. Become the person you want to be by letting go, rediscovering your essence, and Allowing all of you to come out into the world.


Highlights
00:00 Intro
01:49 The difference between identity and essence 
07:15 The significance of uninhibited dancing
11:02 Why a 360-degree review helps develop personal branding
13:34 My shocking 360-degree review report results 
17:07 The importance of spontaneous creation
18:26 Why we repress our essence

Are your results not matching up to the level of change you want? 
Let’s figure out what you truly want and set you up for success to actually get it. 
You may want change, but are you willing to create it?
Sustainable and lasting change takes willingness. 
In this episode, you will discover how to boost your willingness through the Change Formula. 
Take the first step in boosting your willingness by learning about the importance of tapping into your creativity and crafting a powerful, motivating vision! You will then hear why getting comfortable with discomfort could be the missing component to making sustainable change in your life and leadership. Learn how you can get creative with how you support yourself through change and what support can do to make change easier. 
Throughout the episode you will also learn how listening to your Whole Body Yes can make each part of the Change Formula easier! 
Change doesn’t have to be hard. Once you tap into your will and choose to step into the Creator role in your life, you can create the changes you’ve been dreaming about.

Highlights
02:33 The Unarguable Check In
12:12 How to Get What You Want
15:00 What is the Change Formula?
18:48 The Change Formula: How to Create a Vision
26:17 The Change Formula: The Power of Discomfort
33:06 The Change Formula: Why Support Encourages Change
36:33 How to Guide Yourself Through Personal Growth: Follow Your Whole Body Yes
43:20 Are You Willing to Change?
46:08 Additional Conscious Leadership Resources

Find this episode's shownotes here!

You have them and you’re going to keep having them: emotions. You are allowed to feel your feelings all the way to completion. You are allowed to name and listen to your emotions in a productive and meaningful way. In this episode, master a simpler, more powerful vocabulary of familiar basic emotion words that break you out of drama and help you navigate through your emotional world. 

Discover the wisdom of the 5 core emotions and how their wisdom can inspire change and growth. You will then learn about how emotions manifest in your body and how to identify what you’re feeling without overanalyzing or stifling your feelings. 

Learn how the fact vs. story framework gives you the skills to consciously communicate your emotions. By the end of the episode, you will know how to shift away from the drama-based story language and into the language of facts in order to break out of draining emotional cycles and step into empowerment. 

Highlights 
13:03 - What does it mean to be unarguable? The Fact vs. Story Framework
16:57 - The 5 Core Emotions
20:50 - How Story Emotions Both Come From and Lead To Drama
27:47 - The Wisdom of the 5 Core Emotions
31:42 - How to Experience Your Emotions Consciously
36:08 - Allow Yourself to Feel Your Emotions
39:47 - The Part You Play in Your Emotions
44:52 - Are you very emotional and sensitive? You can use that emotional intelligence for your growth
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This week’s coaching session will help you end burnout, stop indecisiveness, reduce your feelings of overwhelm, and end the depletion of your creative energy. 
Do you tend to say yes when you really want to say no? Are you trapped in what feels like an unending burnout cycle? Do you find yourself breaking commitments? Or stuck in ones that now feel like burdensome obligations?
In less than an hour, learn how getting into the daily practice of creating clear agreements with yourself for the day is a beneficial exercise of self-care. Self-care habits, like integrity, Whole Body Yes, and boundaries, help you to own the leadership role in your life and set the foundation for your external leadership. 
Discover how to use your internal wisdom to guide your commitments, so you can stop breaking your agreements and start creating agreements that make you feel ALIVE. 
You can stop engaging in the friction of fighting life, including the life that is within you. You can stop swimming upstream when you don't want to. 
You may still be working hard, but it doesn’t have to feel hard. You may still be putting in a lot of effort and energy into keeping your agreements, but friction is absent. 
Learn how integrity is a place of great ease which you can live in and create from if you choose to. 

Highlights 

06:59 Self Care Is More Than Bubble Baths
08:09 How Your Integrity Serves Others
10:11 The Value of Self Care Habits
11:07 What is Integrity?
14:26 The Consequences of a Lack of Integrity
16:28 What is a Whole Body Yes?
25:19 What is a Clear Agreement?
33:11 How Living a Life of Integrity Reduces Burnout
36:10 Clear Agreements Journaling Exercise 
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This week’s coaching session is all about the transformative power of curiosity.  In less than an hour, learn what genuine curiosity is and how to use it to your benefit. 

When leaders get curious with true genuine curiosity they shift into a place of powerful responsibility. The way of the curious leader provides perks ranging from empowerment to productivity. You can improve your communication skills by learning how to ask mindful questions. 
Master how to use curiosity to craft creative solutions to lingering problems and see how your energy is freed up. Question your motivations and reevaluate your agreements to gain insight into what to prioritize in both your personal and professional life so you can live with more integrity. The opportunities for growth are limitless when you master curiosity. 
The curious leader takes 100% responsibility for their life without blame, shame, and guilt.  They give themselves the power, knowledge, and freedom to promote healthy and sustainable change.

Highlights 
 04:08 Responsibility is power. 
04:55 How radical responsibility combats drama
09:15 How did you help create your situation?
13:27 Curiosity can free you from generational patterns.
15:38 Curiosity helps you let go of the control story
17:54 Getting curious about challenges 
22:47 You are Allowed affirmation
26:51 Asking questions without an answer preference 
32:44 Curiosity facilitates clarity