1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 Please, Regina, tell me about your vision. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:04,800 My vision. 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,240 Thank you so much for asking me, Peyton. 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,160 I'm hoping I'm pronouncing your name correctly now. 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,400 Yes, so my vision is to inspire leaders 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,140 to lead themselves and others from the heart, 7 00:00:19,140 --> 00:00:22,280 and to be bold and find the courage to stand up 8 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,960 for what's right, because I think we need more of that 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,040 in the world. 10 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,360 So we need leaders that are in service of those they lead 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,040 and of values like freedom, which is my top, top, top value, 12 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,200 and values like co-creation, even when this means sometimes 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,240 swimming against the mainstream. 14 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,520 And I believe that living this vision will also 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,160 help them find greater meaning and fulfillment 16 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:49,240 through their leadership, whatever 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,000 their specific setting is. 18 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 So this is my vision, because everything I do 19 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,880 is in the service of freedom. 20 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,960 And so is my new podcast as well, 21 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,080 which is called Rise to Lead. 22 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,320 Where your vision came from. 23 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,760 What sparked this, this sense of freedom 24 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,040 and helping everybody else to become free? 25 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,000 Well, yes. 26 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,800 I was put into a leadership role at the age of 27 27 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,600 when I had no relevant background. 28 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,920 Somebody saw that potential in me. 29 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,920 And this basically catapulted me into the leadership realm. 30 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:28,920 In a way. 31 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:33,120 And later, I was also a business owner in Argentina and Brazil. 32 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,440 So the first time I was put into a leadership role, that 33 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,120 was at the Boston Consulting Group in Madrid. 34 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,560 I had just moved to Spain. 35 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:41,800 I just learned the language. 36 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,480 So that was really, really a surprise factor for me 37 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:45,560 at the time. 38 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,640 But then there was no more stopping me 39 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,640 in terms of thinking about leadership, figuring it all 40 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:54,280 out. 41 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,760 And of course, also learning some hard skills 42 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,800 that are related to leadership, as well as 43 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:07,360 some of the basic soft skills, such as communication. 44 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,680 But there was more to it. 45 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,680 And I have been doing a lot of thinking 46 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,480 ever since I started on this path 47 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,480 in my many different capacities now 48 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,600 also as a transformational leadership coach. 49 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:28,720 This also, of course, brought a lot of other leaders 50 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:29,880 toward me. 51 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,680 And I've been observing their leadership 52 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:37,240 and trying to figure out what makes the most sense 53 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,120 in the different settings. 54 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,560 So for example, if you're a team leader in corporate, 55 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:47,480 if you are a business owner, what 56 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,040 is the common denominator of what 57 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,080 I consider great leadership? 58 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:57,480 And that's also how my Rise to Lead podcast came to life. 59 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,080 What your goals are, where you're going with this. 60 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,200 What is the end goal? 61 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,880 Do you get to x amount of dollars, 62 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,800 or is there any sort of goal in the future that you see? 63 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,880 Well, first of all, content-wise, 64 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,840 I like to inspire people to make what I call a leader shift. 65 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,640 And what that means is that as you shift yourself first 66 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:22,520 and your leadership of self first, 67 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,880 you shift your life and your leadership of others. 68 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,960 And consequently, you also shift your impact, 69 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,160 you level it up, and hence the word leader shift. 70 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,720 And how that comes about is by the use 71 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,960 of the content of my frameworks. 72 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,160 I have given a lot of thought to those frameworks. 73 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,600 And one of them is more focused really 74 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,240 on that leadership of self. 75 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,440 It's called the Powerful Leadership Transformation. 76 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,120 All those frameworks are on my website. 77 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,280 There's a dedicated page for frameworks on there. 78 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:00,280 And then there's also the New Paradigm Leadership, 79 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,000 which I have put together so that leaders can find it 80 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,320 a bit easier to build more engaged and happier teams. 81 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,640 And that one has four elements. 82 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,920 And they are really, really crucial for any leader, 83 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,960 in my humble opinion. 84 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,280 The first is mind. 85 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:18,720 And it's, of course, about mindset. 86 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,320 Because your mindset impacts everything you do. 87 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,000 It impacts your vision and how big it can be. 88 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,400 We talked about vision earlier, right? 89 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:27,680 Determines. 90 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:33,520 Yeah, it determines what your mind can envision for yourself, 91 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,840 your team, your project, your company, whatever it is. 92 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:41,840 And your mindset determines your level of drive and enthusiasm, 93 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:45,240 the degree of perseverance, resilience 94 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:52,480 that you can showcase in the game of leadership. 95 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,640 And then, of course, the second component is message. 96 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,760 This is about all the different ways in which we communicate. 97 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,600 It's not just about words. 98 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,920 Because whether we speak or not, messages are always conveyed. 99 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,760 They're always transmitted. 100 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:13,000 Even silence has its own vocabulary, as I like to say. 101 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,760 And of course, yes, the right words matter. 102 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,800 That's also why I have added conversational intelligence 103 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,200 to my practice. 104 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,640 But it's not the only thing. 105 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,240 And I think what we talk too little about sometimes 106 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,160 in communication is energy, actually. 107 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,080 However, our energy flows into everything we think, we say, 108 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,400 and we do. 109 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,280 And it also is a factor in whether we get our message 110 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:42,840 across as leaders or not. 111 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:47,080 And then the third ties into communication 112 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,040 and into everything, really, again. 113 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,680 And it is trust. 114 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,240 Because trust is really the glue that bonds teams together. 115 00:05:54,240 --> 00:06:01,120 But trust is so critical in any relationship. 116 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,840 So in our careers, if we're not able to build trust, 117 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,320 then we will not be able to advance or to grow. 118 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,440 And if, as business owners, we cannot build trust 119 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,960 with our clients, our customers, then we will not sell anything. 120 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,600 So super important. 121 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,880 And then the fourth element is heart. 122 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:25,120 And that has multiple meanings, actually. 123 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,480 It stands, on the one hand, for the people in an organization, 124 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,840 because people are the heart of the organization 125 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:35,080 and should always be. 126 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,680 And they should be treated as such. 127 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,000 And on the other hand, it stands for what I call heart set. 128 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,520 So mindset and heart set. 129 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:46,920 Because we humans, first of all, we 130 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,920 connect with each other through our hearts, which we often just 131 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:52,400 don't think about. 132 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,720 We connect through that electromagnetic field 133 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,480 that our hearts emanate, which is actually 134 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,200 1,000 times stronger than the magnetic field of the head 135 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:03,480 brain. 136 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,160 So our hearts, also, and this is very important for leaders 137 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,480 and especially for bold leadership, 138 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,840 that's where we find courage. 139 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:12,400 Right? 140 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,920 And the heart is where we find answers 141 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,880 to our toughest questions, questions that sometimes we 142 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,560 cannot answer with pure logic. 143 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,960 Because when we connect with our heart, we find intuition. 144 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,120 We find compassion. 145 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,440 We find love, passion for the work we do 146 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,600 and for the people we work with. 147 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,840 So these are the four elements of it. 148 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:35,320 Thank you for being here today. 149 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,720 I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. 150 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,360 I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 151 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,560 as these episodes continue to move forward. 152 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,320 This is going to get more and more fun. 153 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,160 We'll have more and more engagement as well. 154 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,280 We'll invite people to participate in the show. 155 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,640 And thank you for giving us your time and attention. 156 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,360 Have an excellent time building out your vision 157 00:07:53,360 --> 00:08:10,960 and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.