Get REAL with Jodee Bock

10/07/2024

If you are interested in elevating and practicing your listening skills as well as your thought leadership, please be my guest today in the Enlightened Leadership Lab.

We meet virtually from 4-5 central.

If you'd like to ponder the important questions like "What is my important work in the world?" and "How might I elevate my own leadership skills whether I have a title or not?" then this is the place for you.

Send me a DM and I'll get you the link.

Hope to see you this afternoon!

10/02/2024

ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING.

Two concepts that really do work best when people work together on a project they are invited to, not forced to, take part in.

And what better subject matter to ponder than the power of our own thought?

No matter what your title, position, or tenure within an organization or on your own, you are invited to join a 12-week virtual study of the book "Mind Power Into the 21st Century" facilitated by James Spooner and me.

Wednesdays from 11-12 central, we will take a deep dive into the chapters of John Kehoe's book: Consciousness, Visualization, Affirmations, Subconscious, Dreams, Self-Image, Creativity and more.

This mastermind study is $299 which includes the book.

We'll plan to start next Wednesday, October 9, so if you're interested in joining us, don't delay. Send me a DM and I'll get your book out to you.

09/18/2024

Today's WONDER/PONDER:

One of the best ways to prove the concepts of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is to look for evidence to prove that whatever you are looking for you will find.

If you are conscious (open, curious, committed to learning), you will notice that you find what you are looking for.

If you are unconscious (closed, defensive, committed to being right), you will find things that reinforce your unconsciousness. And you probably wouldn't have any desire to change that anyway.

People will show their cards by the way they BE about things.

You can BE attached to being right (even when you're inaccurate) or you can BE happy, but you can't BE both. The difference is the commitment lens through which you are seeing things.

Sometimes, if you are committed to being happy, you will decide to give up being RIGHT, even if you are accurate.

(In this context, RIGHT and ACCURATE aren't necessarily the same thing.)

It's the COMMITMENT to being right or the COMMITMENT to learning that will make all the difference.

Look around. What are you noticing?

09/12/2024

Fargo area folks:

Want to hang out with me and some cool people focusing on how we want to experience 2025?

Join me for our conscious Goal-Getting Workshop.

November 1 from 1-4 at my office in Fargo.

Get your ticket here. Space is limited!

https://goalgettingworkshop.eventbrite.com

09/05/2024

If you are curious about "woo-woo" topics like energy, vibration, and frequency, you'll be interested to learn about the science behind that woo.

Today's guest on the Circle Up & Get REAL podcast is Jessie Torres, a Tony Robbins-certified Peak Performance Coach who has dedicated nearly 20 years to guiding thousands of high-achievers from around the globe toward realizing their fullest potential.

Listen in to this short preview.

You can hear the entire episode wherever you get your podcasts or from this link: https://circleupgetreal.libsyn.com/getting-real-about-fierce-grace-with-jessie-torres

The YouTube interview is here: https://youtu.be/eXtmG-rW6xo?si=uaw4YeiwO0ptKdiV

Jessie Torres is a visionary Peak Performance Coach who has dedicated nearly 20 years to guiding thousands of high-achievers from around the globe toward rea...

08/29/2024

I just had a great conversation with a dear friend about referrals and building business through relationships.

So I have a question for you:

Who do you know who is interested in people development, either personally or for an organization, in 2025?

I'd love an invitation to anyone who you think might want to chat!

I'd love to help with leadership, communication and culture on the corporate side, and critical thinking and self-awareness on the personal side.

I love doing keynotes, or facilitating dialogues that lead to desired results.

Who do you know ... or is it you?

08/02/2024

Instead of obsessing about how things around you and outside of you have changed over the past few years, take a look at how you have changed from the inside out.

Have you grown? Learned? Expanded? Mastered a skill?

Does your mindset support and enhance or stifle and restrict you?

To what are you more committed: to what you've been or what you can become?

You'll know by what you focus your time and attention on.

05/31/2024

Starting Tuesday from 3-5 central for 6 weeks.

We're gonna get REAL.

Who's in?

Send me a DM if you want more info.

This will change your life. No doubt.

05/21/2024

WHAT WOULD CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE IF YOU REALLY KNEW YOURSELF?

Join me for six Mondays starting June 3 from 11-1 central and let's find out together.

For more information go to www.getrealcircle.com.

05/09/2024

Today's WONDER/PONDER ...

If we get better at what we practice over and over, then it would stand to reason that if we are practicing and talking about what we DO DESIRE, we would get better at manifesting that.

I've heard so many people say they don't even know what they actually DO desire because they've gotten so good at focusing on what won't or can't or doesn't show up. They've almost given up on trying.

I know that feeling. I lived there for FAR too long.

It's a simple (but not easy) shift to go from the identity of WANTER or WISHER or HOPER to RECEIVER.

If we don't shift, we will be stuck in victim thinking. We'll be right about how the "wrong" stuff keeps showing up. We'll get better at complaining and being upset.

Get really honest and ask yourself: "How is what I'm currently doing working to get me out of the rut?"

When I started to borrow other peoples' belief in me, even before I knew exactly what I wanted, that shift started to happen. The clouds parted a little, and I began to believe that maybe I could actually dream about what I desired.

The possibilities took over for the probabilities in my life and the sun came out.

Want to get together and talk about possibilities?

If you live in the Fargo-Moorhead area, join Nicole Ellis and me next Thursday, May 16 at 5:30 at Brewhalla. No agenda, just open space for dreaming and possibility conversation.

Want more info? Comment here and we'll send you the invite.

05/08/2024

Thank you, Bold Journey, for this article that just launched today!

We recently connected with Jodee Bock and have shared our conversation below. Jodee, so great

05/03/2024

THIS MORNING'S WONDER/PONDER:

On NPR's Ted Radio Hour on NPR this morning, Loretta Ross was sharing her perspective on the distinction between a CALL-OUT culture and a CALL-IN culture.

That's it! It's that simple! Although we have so many more ways to actually CONNECT with each other than ever before, we've gotten so good at CANCELLING because it appears that's what we've been practicing.

I've seen recent examples of cancel culture in my own community this week and so many others from various places in America alone.

Here's what I took away from Loretta's interview today:

If we truly desire a healed culture, we first need to heal ourselves. We need to shift from HATE to LOVE. We would do well to build a culture that invites people in instead of pushing them out.

She gave GREAT examples of how to do this, provided we who are going first have healed our own hate and unconscious behaviors.

When people CALL others OUT, it's from their own fear of not belonging. They CALL others OUT so they will feel better about themselves.

Most of the time if we observe that behavior, we stay silent so we don't become the next target for someone's hate. After all, if you make a mistake in public, chances are there will be someone who wants to cancel you. That "gotcha bomb" is just there waiting to be detonated by someone who's coming from hate and fear.

There is another way for healed people to demonstrate LOVE instead. Loretta said it's CALLING people IN. It's basically a CALL OUT done with LOVE. One way to do that (only if you, truly, have healed your own anger and hate) is to look at the person in the eyes and say "That's interesting. Tell me more." INVITE instead of FIGHT.

I'm reminded of a poem my mom taught me when I was little. I used it for my Disrupt HR talk several years ago. I'll share it here.

If you are truly committed to getting beyond cancel culture, and you have checked yourself to make sure you're not acting out of your own fear, let's have a dialogue. I'm looking for others who are waking up to their own possibility of being a Conscious Leader.

Loretta said that when a group of people who think differently get together and work toward a common goal, that's a movement. When a group of people are following a leader who tells them to all think alike, that's a cult.

What's missing in the world right now is grace and radical forgiveness. That doesn't mean you agree. It just means you realize that the human in front of you is as complex as you are and you are willing to CALL them IN instead of CALLING them OUT.

What are you WONDERING/PONDERING today?

Here's my Disrupt HR talk from 2018: "Love or Fear? The Choice is Yours." Listen for the Edwin Markham poem at the end.

https://youtu.be/C1ZZ-KcII_w