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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Bienvenidos a Leaders in Quebran Tables Soy Jose Pereira. Yoy hablamos del vergadero liderasco frente los mayoretos estos lideres in cavern and tables pornow Media Television.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: Welcome to Leaders in Keber Antabeles. That true leadership is forged in comfort, is revealed in moments of crisis is clarity and reinvention.
Today we explore what it means to lead with awareness, resilience and purpose.
I'm your host, Jose Perela. I'm the host of Leaders in Cable and Tables. Today we were joined with Ras Patel. She's a media personality, she's a TV host, she has her own show, the Raz Patel Show.
She's an actress, she's a speaker and she's the creator of the Frozen to Fearless movement.
Russ brings a rare blend of strategic leadership and human insight with a career spanning over 25 years across corporate management, operational efficiencies, healthcare ownership, real estate investment and also media.
Her journey through paralysis and TIA and the rebuilding of her identity became the foundation of her work in emotional intelligence, resilience and modern leadership. Today she brings those lived experience into what she calls the Calm and leadership framework, a model designed to help leaders integrate clarity, awareness, lifestyle, discipline and momentum into how they lead and how they show up. So welcome to this event, Ras, thank you for being here.
[00:02:05] Speaker C: Thank you so much for having me, Jose. It's a pleasure to be here on your show.
[00:02:11] Speaker B: It's a pleasure to me having you here.
Let's start this, Russ, because you talk about your calm leadership, the Frozen to fearless.
So we're going to be talking about leadership, identity, challenged by crises, stillness as a catalyst for the clarity and redefine the leadership from the inside, from the out.
So let's start this with a very personal journey.
So take us back about your journey. Talk about your journey.
[00:02:43] Speaker C: So when I was just a senior in high school, a teenager, if I may, that's when I had a moment of understanding and clarification when I was paralyzed from waist down.
And by the time I learned how to walk, it was almost a year long.
And there are many challenges during that moment because when you're frozen in your body, you don't know how to function and you really don't know how to control anymore. The one the body that you used to have. That's when you have a road, a map where you decide which direction you want to lead from.
And at that early stage is when I think I had a bit of a clarity where I told myself I need to find a Voice. And I need to find a vision to rise.
And while the doctors had written me off from walking ever again, having kids ever again, I was able to regulate my body to listen to me and. And force through and start walking again.
So paralysis gained me the strength and a voice earlier than I should have ever needed one. Jose, when you're young and suddenly unable to move, with no comfort, no emotional support to fall back on, what do you do?
You learn quickly that no one is coming to save you except yourself.
That was my first awakening, that realizing that courage isn't given, Jose, it's built. You learn to speak up for your rights and your needs, because silence doesn't protect you.
And when I say silence is the silence of your body, the silence of your mind, the silence of never giving up and not listening to the external voices that have told you, you can't do this.
So I rose.
Yet it didn't stop there. Years later, in my adult journey, TIA arrived in the middle of heavy working, heavy lifting.
As you know, corporate is not an easy game to play in running my own business, consistently pushing, forging through again, and performing, that was my second awakening.
Both moments forced a stillness I never asked for. The paralysis again stopped my body.
The TIA stopped my life as I knew it. But what they really stopped was the version of me operating on autopilot. And that's important to understand.
High achievers, high performance, and completely when you're disconnected from your body, you really can't be a true leader. And that's when I realized, and I had that epiphany that you walk through. Clarity.
And that's the first principle.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: So you say that stillness gave you clarity. Correct. So what did the clarity reveal about your life, your leadership and your identity?
[00:06:07] Speaker C: It revealed everything I didn't want to see. The exhaustion, the emotional suppression, the way I was performing, transforming life instead of living it.
Clarity stripped away the noise and revealed what no longer was aligned with what I was tolerating and where I was abandoning myself.
Leadership begins right there, Jose. At the moment you stop lying to yourself.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: You know there is a power in the pause, taking a pause. Sometimes the leaders had the fear of slowing down.
Why do you believe clarity is the first leadership skills, not a strategy?
[00:06:47] Speaker C: Because clarity creates direction.
Strategy without clarity is chaos.
A leader without clarity reacts. A leader with clarity leads with intention.
Clarity isn't knowing everything, obviously. It's knowing with what. What no longer fits you and what you refuse to carry on to the next chapter of your life.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: You know, when you mentioned clarity, I always talk about that in. One of the most important traits in leadership is being calm and focused. And the calmness and the focus gives you clarity. And I always mention when you get clarity, you can begin to see the things that you can control and the things that you cannot control.
What do you think about that?
[00:07:39] Speaker C: It's all about the alignment of your body and about you. You hit the nail when it talks about control. Because the control starts from where? From your body, Correct?
[00:07:51] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: What you recommend to the leaders that are here in this show, what will be the most important thing they have to do when they're running a business?
[00:08:01] Speaker D: They feel that the things that are not going under control.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: What will be your recommendation?
[00:08:09] Speaker C: That one, you listen and take the first step through my calm principles. Right.
First listen to your discomfort.
Whenever you notice that you're discomforted in any aspects, you need to stop and think about what keeps you and gives you the clarity.
Next is the awareness.
What is not aligning to your body and to your mind?
Because we are always running on an empty pilot, right? We are running on fumes.
And when you're running on fumes, what do you do? Eventually your body stops, your mind stops.
So give yourself the opportunity to become more aware of your body and regulate it, control it the way it needs to be by listening to yourself. And then of course, we'll talk about the lifestyle, the lifestyle leadership. Because nothing can ever work for you if you're not taking a pause, Jose, and listening to your body, which is the third pillar of calmness, which is lifestyle leadership.
And my body knew long before I did that the headaches, the stress, the emotional fatigue, when you have the brain fog, when you have the irritability, the mood swings, I used to have it all when I was running on overload during my corporate world, during my businesses, which I still do. But I know how to regulate now. I know how to hit the pause button.
But before I ignored it all.
Because culturally what happens, Jose, we're taught to push through, perform and not complain. As a South Asian, that's what I was taught growing up, you need to be quiet, you do not need to overspeak. And you need to just do and perform.
And that, that just stopped. That gave me that a bit of a confusion because I said, okay, here, as a South Asian, I am supposed to be performing non stop without listening to my body because I'm supposed to be silent. And being an American, what do American cultures give you to keep pushing yourself, push beyond the limits, work beyond the nine to five.
And if you have those Two aspects you're eventually going to collide because you're not going to listen to your body.
So awareness saved me because once I listened, everything shifted.
So awareness is not soft, it's not strategic. It's the difference between collapsing and course correcting. And that led me to give myself a better alignment on leadership.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: Okay, that's great. When we return, we're going to talk about the awareness because how it became a leadership intelligence that change everything in your life. Ras. Stay tuned. We're going to be continue talking about the awareness.
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Let's continue with this talking about the awareness.
In this segment, Russ, we're going to talk about awareness as a prevention, not as a reaction. We're going to talk about how ignore emotion and physical signage that you mentioned.
We're going to talk about cultural conditions and leadership breakdowns.
So you said awareness saved me before the medicine did. What does that mean to you in your leadership journey?
[00:12:42] Speaker C: Yeah. So as I was mentioning earlier, when you are not listening to your body and you constantly over perform it and over stress, you are actually doing your body a disservice. And that's when you break down.
When I say medicine over medicine. Awareness saved me.
My body knew long before I did that all these symptoms, I was ignoring it. And once I became more aware that something was not right or misaligned, that's when I woke up and I said stop. And that only happened when I had the biggest, biggest hurdle with tia.
It was the biggest scare in my life. More than the paralysis. Just because I knew if I don't take care of my body now, it can become a full blown stress and there's no help after that.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Wow.
What emotional or physical signal did you ignore before that crisis? And what would be the recommendation that you will give to to the leaders that are here in this program?
[00:13:59] Speaker C: Sure. See, because high performance normalized dysfunction. Right. We think burnout is ambition that we can keep going on.
We think silence is strength. We think exhaustion means we're doing enough for ourselves.
Leaders don't miss the science because they don't exist. They miss them because they're too busy outrunning them. They're running on empty.
And that's what you need to understand and read those signals. How to stop yourself, how to stop the dysfunctioning and the dysregulation of your body.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: You know, Russ, when you're talking this, I'm thinking that one of the things that I always talk is you have to have a perfect balance between your business success and your personal fulfillment. And let me tell you, I learned that in the hard way because the people that know me through this program and that I was a hostage during years and I remember the first year that I was in solitary confinement by myself that had time to reflect my life, I found that I have abandoned my family.
But so focus in the climbing the corporate ladder. And this is exactly what normally the leader do.
And you said here in this culture, American culture, you know, you are pushing and pushing and always no, nine to five, you're 20 to 420, you know, so.
So you never stop. You would really believe that you're unstoppable. What would be your recommendation to those leaders that are going through that?
[00:15:40] Speaker C: That you have to find a sense of balance. And the balance starts with your lifestyle improvement, Jose. Because in order for us to work with the culture that we're in, the American culture that we're in, along with, I mean, I'm a South Asian, you have the same type of background where we come, where we're more passive, but yet we perform and we give our top best. That dueling conflict is always going to arise. And whether you are here for fourth generation American or not, you need to say, something is not working for my body, right? And once you listen to it and you stop and reflect on it, that's when you say, oh, this is hurting my body.
This is not how I need to take care of my body.
And you give yourself that strength, that power to give the support you need. And how did. What is lifestyle? When we talk about lifestyle is actually the awareness and not of giving yourself the care that you need. Whether it's sleeping on time, eating on time, going exercise, walking, just grab being grounded, that itself is helpful. Talking to people, just socializing, these are the aspects of lifestyle. When we talk that helps us. Because when we work over a 9 to 5 job, we don't have time to give ourselves or, or our family or our spouse or our social arena. And no matter what, the best way to help ourselves in terms of the mental support is talking to people and giving your body the rest that it needs.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: You know, now you're talking about this. I'm Thinking on two things, the family and that spirituality.
What is the place the family and your spiritual world has to do with this?
[00:17:49] Speaker C: So let's go back to when my nervous system failed me not once but twice, right?
When I had my paralysis, then I had my tia.
That's when I understood that leadership isn't cognitive, it's biological. So when we talk about family, what are we doing, Jose, if we can't take care of our own self, we are actually opening doors to allow others, our children, our spouse to see our behavior. When we have upset mood, irritability, mood swings, and we're not giving the care that we need, we'll have, God forbid, heart conditions, trauma, all these things are unfair to our family and you are not doing justice to them.
So it's the people around you that you need to also take care of. By first taking care of yourself, and then when you can take care of your lifestyle, your decision making, your creativity, your patience, your communication, they all become aligned with your nervous system and you become regulated. And when you become regulated, you're giving justice and support to your family.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: That is a consequence. What about the spirituality?
[00:19:15] Speaker C: So when we talk about spirituality, what is it at the end day? It's how you find peace within yourself, right? So when we talk about peace within yourself, we're actually in tune. We have provided regulatory of our body, of our functioning body. And that is what we mean by spiritual. I'm not talking about religion, I'm talking about how to find that moment of calmness, the moment of peace within ourselves. And the only way to do is to create the lifestyle that works for you. Whether it's picking up a book, whether it's writing, whether it's journaling, whether it's talking to each other on the show so others can hear and get empowered. Those are all forms of spirituality. And it only can come and derive if we are in tune with ourselves, not just our cognitive again, but with our nervous system.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: You know, you mentioned something that really true because.
And by the way, here in the US the networking is a big deal, but the people don't connect from that profound sense of being human being. So you see sometimes the network only as a tool to find business.
And you can become even friends of many people. By the way, today I have very good friends that have met through networking events and we have done a good friendship. And now we have deeply connection. And that deeply connection even can, can drive to a business. Why? Why not? Why not? So you are friends and, and you're doing business. So this is Great. So you also mentioned about the cultural condition and you mentioned that you come from a culture where, where there are some behavior that are cultural. Tell me a little bit about that.
[00:21:10] Speaker C: So obviously as a South Asian, when we are. So when I was growing up, right it I was taught to be silent and suppress what I thought and what I felt. Right. And at that early stage you are never allowed to voice or express what your feelings are and what your pain is.
And the only time I was able to break through, which is kind of an oxymoron if you think about it, is after my paralysis, I told myself, never again will I allow anyone, anyone. It's kind of like how you were held captive, right Jose? And then you freed yourself. It's a sort of a freedom for me when I was able to walk again and say I found my voice, I will never. And I was going, my life was so short lived I could have died.
That's when I realized I need to take care of myself and I need to live happily and I need to find a voice to express myself of what is right and wrong for me.
So culturally it's one thing to take in the morals and codes and ethics of what is right and wrong, but when if something doesn't seem aligned to your values, 9 out of 10 it's not right and you need to reshift.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: You know, you have the same cultural thing with me as a Latin American because in Latin America talking about trauma is a taboo in men. A man saying that they're having trauma and that you're going to visit a therapist, they're going to look you like this guy is crazy.
So yeah, coming to the end of this segment because now we want to explore why health and the nervous system may be the most overlooked leadership skill strategy today. Stay tuned.
We're going to continue talking with Ras Patel from the Ras Patel show.
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This segment we're going to talk about your nervous system. Is your leadership engine lower third health regulation sustainable leadership.
So in this segment we're going to try to talk about burnout overstimulation leadership so common in today world health as a performance of the foundation regulation versus hustle culture.
So leading organization in the corporate and the health care space. Russ, when did you realize your physical health and your nervous system were actually driving your leadership?
[00:24:50] Speaker C: Definitely my body. As I mentioned earlier that it Fell twice during paralysis. And in the tia, that's when it was awakening for me, was during the tia, when my body fell, it froze, and I just couldn't move. And after I sprained my ankle just because I wasn't able to move functionally. And then all of a sudden, I went under major depression.
And with that major depression, I was more immobile. I don't know whether it's because I just couldn't move or is because I chose not to move.
I gained over 60 pounds. I know it's quite shocking, but I did.
And I think it's more so because I gave up.
And when you give up on your body, you've given up on your life as you know it.
And so when you give up on your body, you have indirectly given up on your ability to think clearly.
And I failed until after two months of realizing. And then thanks to my dog, my service dog, I realized, okay, I need to do something about this. And that's when I started focusing on improving my nutrition, and I took on.
So that's why I have my nutrition license as well. Not because I wanted to create a career shift. It was more from aligning myself into what lifestyle is and how I need to live and improve myself in order to think better, live better, and just overall feel better. Right? And that's why I speak a lot on that when I think of leadership. And when we think about leadership, it's not really cognitive first. It's your biological. It's your body.
And so when we think about the biological sense, it's where a dysregulated leader creates a dysregulated culture. Right? A regular leader becomes the stabilizing force that you need to be in your room, wherever you are, whether in your family or whether in your boardroom.
So what do we mean about the nervous system, as you asked, is how you think, how you feel, how you react, how you make decisions, how calm or overwhelmed you are, how safely you show up in relationships with your children and your spouse and your parents, and how confidently you lead.
Right? It's the communication network inside your body, the system that consistently scans your environment and decides, am I safe right now or am I in danger?
Is that how you're speaking to yourself? Consistently?
And so your body, remember, responds first and your mind responds afterwards. If you can figure that out, your lifestyle would be in balance.
So if your nervous system feels safe and regulated, what do you do? You experience calmness, right? You can think clearly, you can be more creative, you can be more strategic. You can Be more emotionally stable.
You can have a better communication around with people.
You can have confidence with yourself.
You have the problem solving ability. You will be just in alignment with your true self. But if your nervous system feels overwhelmed, what happens?
Like me, I had the brain fog. The irritability, the anxiety, the panic attacks, the choice of not wanting to care for the world or for myself, the overreacting, reactive attitude towards my family, just shutting down, the impulsive decision making, the burnout, the disconnection. These all means your body is not in alignment, Jose. And then you are choosing a lifestyle that's not mirroring for a true leadership.
This is why healing, leadership, relationships and creativity all begins with the same foundation, a regulated nervous system.
So it's not about being strong enough. It's about whether your internal wiring feels supported, safe and balanced.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: Russ, Hearing you, where the people can contact you, where the people can find you.
[00:29:48] Speaker C: They can Find me on YouTube, the Raz Patel show. They can just google that.
And of course you can find me on Insta, Instagram, which is Raz Patel official, or on LinkedIn, which I tend to be on. And just search by Raz Patel and you'll be able to find me. And those are all safe options. Or you can email me. I'm always free to read emails and respond, which is the razpatelshowmail.com so. But those are all easy ways and I'm always available to help and support anyone that needs the support.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: By the way, you interviewed Ms. Universe, correct?
I did, I did talk a little bit about that.
[00:30:36] Speaker C: Well, given all the leadership qualities that I've provided, being in tune, having the confidence, the, you know, being in tune with my clarity, awareness, it gave me the opportunity to just be myself, Jose. And when I was myself, and I am myself now, I just go with the flow. I'm able to perform better, right? And so being with Miss Universe, it was fun just talking to some other buddy of mine, a sweet lady, and we were just a bunch of ladies talking, enjoying, chatting. But overall, it was a great experience. Just because I spent one week with them over here in D.C. and it was a privilege just because I got to see the other side of them. They're just like any one of us, just being humble and wanting to do better for the world and at the same time wanting to elevate their country that they're representing, which we all are trying to do is make a place better for all of ourselves and to eat and for each other. And that's what I noticed. And if you have the Opportunity to see the episode.
You see, we just had fun, you know, just chatting. And that's what my show is all about, just chatting, enjoy. Like we're old pals, you know, Raz,
[00:32:02] Speaker D: now you're talking about that the people are humble. I always mention that during my captivity, you know, I was not with normal prisoner, we were with the political prisoners, Venezuela, all of these guys that I used to see in the tv because there were journalists, there were politicians, there were ministers, they were generals, you know, a lot of high stakes people.
And when you know this person, they are going to the same thing that you're going. And they are simple people, people, normal people.
And even we were in those dark moments, we had time to have jokes and try to have fun is incredible. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:32:46] Speaker C: So Jose, when we talk about, as you mentioned, you have, you were trying to joke, you're trying to have fun, but what is that telling you? You want to be regulated. You want to have that simplicity, that lifestyle balance of being happy wherever you are. That happiness is a key, right, Jose? And just to feel like, okay, this is normal for you, even though it's a dysfunctioning environment you are in, you're trying to yourself safe.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's so true.
And another thing that you talk about is about the burnout. I have heard you have mentioned several times when you as a leader have burnout, you become reactive. Sometimes you're overstimulated and so there's. What is what we miss in how we approach performance and success? What will be the recommendation for the leader that you can give?
[00:33:45] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a good question.
See, because we're leading always in a survival mode, right? Whether whatever, in the boardroom or outside or we're over performing and so forth, we're overstimulated, under, slept, over, committed.
So what is that saying?
Stop yourself, listen to your body, right? When you burnt out, you're not burnt out because you're overworked. You burnt out because you're not listening to your body and you're not choosing to help your body.
So most leaders are again, not weak, they're just not. And they're just depleting their body.
That's it. So stop. Give the body what it needs. You can't perform or you. I guess my famous line is you cannot pour from a nervous system that is running on fumes.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that's so true.
Okay, in our final segment we're going to talk about reinvention and how the momentum is built one intentional step at a time. So stay tuned because this has been a wonderful conversation with my friend Ras Patel from the Ras Patel Show. She has been navigating how the thing in life drives her about what she's talking today.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: Stay tuned for the less segmentable.
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[00:35:43] Speaker B: Stay with us on Leaders in Quebrantables, exclusively in NOW Media tv, where leadership meets resilience and purpose. I'm here with my friend Raz Patel from the Ras Patel show and we're going to be talking about reinvention. Reinvention is a process, not as an event.
Micro momentum versus brute force, courage and adaptability across industry.
By the way, I love that term adaptability. I always talk about it.
You rebuild your life and live in inches, not in miles.
What did a micro momentum teach you that? The strength alone that you can.
[00:36:29] Speaker C: Yeah, that's beautiful, Jose.
See, when we talk about micro momentum, we're talking about the micro steps. Most of us, what do we do when we are leaders or when we want to achieve something? We want to start form miles ahead because we're thinking that we're already there and that's what creates that downfall.
So when we talk about micro momentum, it's actually starting and lowering your bar.
And that's not a bad thing, because when you're lowering your bar, you're actually creating a baseline for yourself.
And what that strength doesn't rebuild your life. When you talk about micro momentum, it's consistency, Right?
When you are, when you talk about that one at a time, you have openness and the clarity and the awareness to say, huh, I'm at this baseline right here.
What do I need to build a framework around me from where I am, and what are my strengths and what are my weaknesses that lead me to the next micro step 10 steps ahead? So when I talk about that is work with the inches at a time.
But be true to yourself because you should honor your body and your mind in order to get to the next step.
As long as you're in alignment and as long as you're able to think about the next step in your journey in leadership or whatever it may be, that way you'll be successful.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: You know, I always mention to do baby steps. That's important.
[00:38:21] Speaker C: Exactly. It's the baby steps. But see, the baby steps. What?
And I'll keep circling back. It's not forced by the mind.
That's where we always confuse ourselves. It's not Here it's the mind body connection giving you the whole body transformation. That connection that it's your body, how does it feel, how it's reacting and how it's thinking. If you are in alignment from that angle, nothing will stop you, Jose.
But even getting to the next step, it has to be in connection.
[00:39:02] Speaker B: You know, you reinvented yourself across corporate health care, entrepreneurship, real estate and media. You have done a lot. By the way, what does reinvention teach a leader about? Courage and adaptability. By the way, I love that word adaptability. I believe that adaptability is one of the most important, important trails in a leader. Those leaders that have the capacity to be adapted are going to be the ones that are going to succeed. So give me your thoughts.
[00:39:33] Speaker C: Sure. That reinvention isn't the beginning.
So anything I've done is never starting from the beginning because I've always added a layer.
It's just a return once in a while, a checkpoint to where you were making sure you're in alignment and, and then going back to where you want to be. So checkpoint, go back that way. You, whenever you're reinventing yourself, whenever you're improving yourself, whenever you're shifting your career or improving your career, that's what helps with the adaptability and got buried under all those responsibilities, the cultures or expectation.
It honestly demands honesty to yourself. If you're honest to yourself, Jose, nothing will stop you. You cannot evolve into the leader you want to be while you clinging to the identity that once kept you safe.
When you're safe through fear, through trauma, through the safety net, oh, you know, I can go back to my drinking days or I can go back to my overindulgence of eating just because, you know, I don't care.
You're in a safe zone because that's what your body used to know. Whenever you feel like, oh my God, this is, this is unsafe. This is not sounding right. Not. But that's just your body mind connecting, saying, hey, I rechecked my moment with the micromanage micro step. I'm okay. But now I can keep reinventing myself that momentum to get myself elevated to the next step. As long as I am honest to myself and I am able to elevate.
[00:41:23] Speaker B: You know, Raj, you are saying something
[00:41:26] Speaker D: that for me here is key, that is be honest with yourself. And not only that, that person have the capacity to reinvent themselves. You know, that has to do with your purpose. Because this is something that I always talk with the leaders that I have coaching.
My first question to them is, are you walking in your purpose, what you're doing is really what you want to do. And some of them have gone, oh,
[00:41:57] Speaker B: I never thought about that.
[00:41:59] Speaker D: Because maybe you're doing a business because money or whatever, but it's not your passion.
And you can discover that that's not your passion. I have a friend by the way, that she is neuroscience expert and she always tell me that if you want to know what is your passion, what is your purpose, look what the kids are playing with their kids, what they're doing with their kids, because that is what they really want to do. So what do you think about that? Walking in your purpose?
[00:42:32] Speaker C: Yeah, I think I resonate with what you're saying. In order to be in with your purpose, your, your alignment, you and I are on the same page. Remember that concept of lowering the bar, lower the bar. You're starting with your baseline of who you are, what are your moral codes, what are your values? That is what your purpose is. And from that purpose you will get to the next step. Because sometimes we're fooling ourselves into becoming who we are or identity that is not aligning to it.
So when we are choosing who we really are, we'll find a clear purpose for ourselves.
So I 100% agree with you.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: That's so true. And about the adaptability, because one of the things that I also talk about is those leaders that have the capacity to be adaptive, that have the not only them, their teams, because a leader that is adaptive and transmit that to their employees and the organization is adaptive are those that are going to survive in this world because today world is crazy, the changes are all over.
So those leaders that can be reinventing themselves and adapting are going to be the leader that really are going to success. What do you think about that?
[00:43:58] Speaker C: Absolutely. If you can keep shifting, readjusting and going with the momentum, hence the momentum, you will always be in alignment.
You know, people say, oh my God, it's a crazy world. This is this. But you know what, if you look in the 50s or the 20s or the 40s, there is always some kind of challenge. There was always some type of hurdles or setbacks that we had.
But it's how do you keep yourself in a alignment so you can figure out the choices you can make during this moment. The only reason we feel misaligned is because we're not stopping, we're not pausing and we're not thinking straight about what to do next, given the fact that are we in alignment with our body in our connection? So, yeah, adaptability and adjusting and being open, all these are important tools for yourself in, I guess you can say the crazy world that we live in. But that crazy world has always been there with one way or the other. Some it has. I mean, I'm in the healthcare world. I've seen all kinds of people walk into my life and it to them it's always been a crazy world just because of the turmoils that they've gone through.
So what exactly is crazy world for someone?
Someone might actually be having a great time right now.
Yeah, that's 10, 20 years ago, 30 years ago I didn't have a great time. So what exactly is the crazy world? It's all based upon the identity and the focus you are in.
So we need to just of course, remember as I said, if you align your moral codes and your values and your ethics, as long as those are in alignment with your identity, you find your purpose. You'll be able to adapt to the changing environment that you're living in.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
Russ, your calm leadership framework is powerful and grounded in a real experience. Where can people learn more about your work, your show or connect with you?
[00:46:18] Speaker C: I think I mentioned earlier that you can just go to my Instagram raz patelofficial or email or my LinkedIn or YouTube and these are the different ways that you can reach out to me and I am more than helpful to invite you on my show or if you want to invite me for the speaker speaking or red carpets and events and so forth, you can definitely reach out to my booking agent, marinprmail.com and he will definitely set you up with me in terms of any opportunities that you want me to cover for. So I'm always there for you.
[00:47:00] Speaker B: Yeah. By the way, we have the same agent, Bruce Marin. Wonderful guy.
Russ. Thank you for your honestly sentient for your deed, your leadership and to everybody watching this leadership is not about never breaking. It's about learning how to rise with clarity, awareness and intention.
I'm Jose Pereira. I'm your host of Leaders in Quero Antables on NOW Media tv. Until the next time.
