Elizabeth Robinson, tell me about your vision.
My vision for my work, I guess we're talking about the career and entrepreneurial.
I know there's so much there to unpack. I know you and Steven, there's so much there. So feel
free to go broad or. Yeah. So I guess when I think back to originating vision and what
was speaking inside of my heart was helping human beings to self-regulate the stress response because
stress in and of itself is so ubiquitous in the culture. I always call it a thief.
It's a thief in the night and we have to be so, so careful to be aware of the ways
in which we're getting triggered and what we can do to self-regulate, which makes us more
optimal for better performance, for more impact, for helping others by mirroring and modeling
who you want to be, who you really are. That's another thing I really believe
is we can help turn people on to who they really are by teaching and practicing self-regulation
of the stress response. So that's part of the vision is helping people to wake up to that and
do our best in the audiences that we work with, which is very challenging audience.
Wow. I'm going to ask a twofold question on that and you can go down either path.
How did you get started would be the first option, but even more important,
not I should say more important. The other side of this question that has like really got me on
edge of my seat too is who are you guys helping self-regulate? You mentioned human beings,
that's worldwide. Is this a worldwide vision to help the entire world? And if you want to
tie that to how you got started or the path, feel free to.
Well, it's a great question because when we do our VUCA analysis or our SWOT analysis,
one of the issues that we have is that there isn't any place we can't go.
So that's an issue for a small business when you say, I mean, we could go everywhere with this
message and with this model. There isn't anyone we couldn't help with this, but you have to choose.
You have to zero in, you have to focus. And for a variety of reasons in 2003,
we turned toward the US military and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were starting, it was post
2001 and 9-11. And there were just many factors from my husband's background and education
to the people that we had doors opening with. And it just all led us in that direction. All
roads were leading to Rome in that case. And for me personally, I dug my heels in a bit because it
was a monstrous audience to go toward, just in size scope, we're at war actively and the country
is under great duress. So it really, over the years helped us. I mean, we became more resilient
as we were working to deliver resilience. And because we were swinging for the fences early on,
we were moments over our head and over our own capacity to deal with. So it was this like,
we're building the plane while we're flying it kind of mentality. And then your spirit, your soul,
your ability to do what you are teaching, to become the master of what you're teaching
is increasing as you're doing it. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's huge. It reminds me of
parenting and the first child. And as a parent, I was ready, I wanted that. And within a few weeks
and a few months, you just begin to worry like, man, I don't know if I have the strength for this.
And then you just develop the strength over time because resilience, it's kind of the same thing.
When we are practicing resilience or teaching it or sharing it, whether it's with an infant
or with an adult, you're exercising those muscles. So that's really wise. I've got to ask
one final question. And that's, is there a story behind your why? Why you chose self-regulation
and how you're helping people come about self-regulating?
I guess there's probably the collective and the personal. When Stephen and I, my husband,
first met in 2001 and we were asking each other, what do you think some of the biggest issues are
globally for humanity on earth at this time? And again, that's 2001. And we kept, we were
exploring all these different places because we were saying to ourselves, there isn't anything
we can't do and there isn't anywhere we can't go. We were young, we were in love, we were like,
what do you want to do? And so it came and we're still in love. And I have to say that. We kept
coming to stress that it was one of the most debilitating factors for, I don't care if you're
a child or you're a young parent, great example, or you're a climbing entrepreneur executive,
or you're aging or taking care of aging parents. It doesn't matter what career or what stage in life
you're in. Stress is ubiquitous. And I think we've never really learned how to
manage, regulate, or understand it unless we have really dedicated ourselves, unless you are a
meditation practitioner, you're a yogini, you are going to school to study psychology or counseling
or whatever, then people delve in. But most people don't have it. And so that was a big part of the
why is how can we have a great impact for a place or at a place where there's a great need.
Personally, I grew up in a perfectly beautiful dysfunctional home with all manner of stress and
trauma. And I mean, you know, infidelity and alcoholism and drug abuse and mental illness,
and all of the things. And when I finally did my ACE test, if you know, the adverse childhood
experiences test, you don't know what you got to take. It's so easy. It's 10 questions, I think,
10 questions and takes you five minutes to take it and ask you very key questions about your childhood.
Okay, and I scored, I think an eight out of 10 on the ACE score, which is quite high,
I should be on the streets at this time, rather than, you know, happily and lovely married and
having a home and a business and but I was really dedicated. I was very curious. And that's
the biggest why behind my story was that I was living at with some of the worst results
of stress and trauma and seeking dearly and desperately to resolve them. And so
that's what I meant by the why is collective and, and personal.
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