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September 7, 2025 • 30 mins

🔥 What do Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Simon Sinek… and a 2700-mile road trip through the South have in common?

They all sparked this episode of the Radical Responsibility Revolution Podcast—a deep (and cheeky) conversation about what it really means to lead when the world rewards conformity.

In this episode, Debbie Dobbins (aka the Queen of Magic, Barefoot Thought Leader, and unapologetic disruptor) takes you behind the scenes of a soul-stirring road trip that collided with historical truth, collective amnesia, and the numbing comfort of the status quo.

👀 You’ll discover: Why most people aren’t resisting oppression—they’re repeating it (with better marketing) What real leadership looks like in a world of virtue signaling and performance politics The Law of Diffusion of Innovation (Simon Sinek fans, listen up) and why your message isn’t for everyone—and that’s a good thing

How the courage of MLK, Bayard Rustin, Gandhi, and others offers a blueprint for bold feminine leadership today

Why radical responsibility is the antidote to outrage culture, and how to rise above the noise

👣 Plus, you’ll hear about: A harrowing drive through torrential rain that mirrored the spiritual storm Debbie has been moving through

The difference between spiritual bypassing and authentic soul-aligned courage Why this moment in history is asking more of you—not to fix it all, but to lead from your light 💥 It’s powerful, tender, provocative, and a reminder that playing small in a broken system helps no one.

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Here we share actionable insights, inviting you to turn inwards and design your life of purpose and abundance. 4 00:00:24,881.995464853 --> 00:00:40,721.995464853 Welcome to another episode of Radical Responsibility Revolution, and today I wanna talk about something that has been on my mind for decades, and that is the status quo. 5 00:00:41,321.995464853 --> 00:00:47,861.995464853 It's killing us in so many different ways, and so I wanna put it in the context of real leadership. 6 00:00:49,46.995464853 --> 00:00:56,936.995464853 And the evolution that you can't avoid if you are going to want to stay in status quo. 7 00:00:57,236.995464853 --> 00:01:00,926.995464853 I am your barefoot thought leader, your queen of magic. 8 00:01:00,926.995464853 --> 00:01:05,636.995464853 And when I feel like it, your gentle nudge out of the illusion. 9 00:01:06,56.995464853 --> 00:01:10,526.995464853 Of comfort and into your most empowered self. 10 00:01:10,526.995464853 --> 00:01:25,106.995464853 Yes, I am Debbie Dobbins, and today I'm coming in hot, fresh off of a cross country road trip and a soul stirring visit to so many different places, particularly in the south of our United States of America. 11 00:01:25,856.995464853 --> 00:01:30,256.995464853 And one place that really, Touched my heart was the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. 12 00:01:30,736.995464853 --> 00:01:35,326.995464853 And all of these experience have cracked something really wide open in me. 13 00:01:35,746.995464853 --> 00:01:37,416.995464853 And I wanna give you fair warning. 14 00:01:37,446.995464853 --> 00:01:44,556.99546485 This episode is part Sacred Sermon, part Leadership Masterclass, and part cheeky Truth bomb explosion. 15 00:01:44,586.99546485 --> 00:01:48,456.99546485 Because you know me, I don't hold a lot back, so get cozy. 16 00:01:48,456.99546485 --> 00:01:57,636.99546485 Grab your journal and prepare to feel a little uncomfortable in the best way possible because today we're talking about. 17 00:01:58,396.99546485 --> 00:02:13,236.99546485 leadership and radical freaking responsibility because I really, truly believe that if everybody accepted their own radical responsibility for life, this would be a different planet in this moment. 18 00:02:14,21.99546485 --> 00:02:21,521.99546485 a cool story about when I moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, and that's where I'm living right now. 19 00:02:21,521.99546485 --> 00:02:25,1.99546485 But it was the first time that I lived here years and years ago in the late nineties. 20 00:02:26,381.99546485 --> 00:02:36,431.99546485 And it felt like as a Southern California girl, that there was a sign, an invisible sign as you went into this city called Wichita Falls that said, this is how we've always done it. 21 00:02:36,641.99546485 --> 00:02:38,51.99546485 This is how we're gonna do it. 22 00:02:38,801.99546485 --> 00:02:43,301.99546485 And it reminds me of the world the way that I see it showing up these days. 23 00:02:43,571.99546485 --> 00:02:44,951.99546485 So I wanna talk about. 24 00:02:45,656.99546485 --> 00:03:05,486.99546485 What that experience has looked like just recently, how it's looked like over time and this road trip that I took, which has given me a different awakening because this is what's always so fabulous about life, is if you're open to shift and change and radical responsibility. 25 00:03:06,266.99546485 --> 00:03:20,246.99546485 Something magical happens, and so something magical happened with me as I drove across the country all by myself, thousands of miles of this beautiful place called America. 26 00:03:21,86.99546485 --> 00:03:32,231.99546485 I started to see things even more clearly than I have up until now, which being 70 years old, I think that's pretty remarkable that I still learn something new every day. 27 00:03:33,506.99546485 --> 00:03:48,116.99546485 When you start to see these things more clearly out the window of a car, but more in your own soul, life is so beautiful, and yet there is so much contradiction out there. 28 00:03:49,61.99546485 --> 00:03:56,861.99546485 So when I reached Memphis, I really wanted to go to this place called the Civil Rights Museum. 29 00:03:57,231.99546485 --> 00:04:01,41.99546485 if you've never been there, I highly recommend put that on your bucket list. 30 00:04:01,41.99546485 --> 00:04:07,551.99546485 Now, I'm gonna be quite honest, if you wanna look out my Facebook page, my personal Facebook page about the journey that I took. 31 00:04:08,406.99546485 --> 00:04:09,246.99546485 Across the country. 32 00:04:09,426.99546485 --> 00:04:10,746.99546485 I documented the whole thing. 33 00:04:11,176.99546485 --> 00:04:16,666.99546485 it was really interesting because this was not a place that I wanted to spend the night necessarily. 34 00:04:16,666.99546485 --> 00:04:28,306.99546485 Memphis actually has one of the highest crime rates in America, so it was that, but I was so intrigued by going to the actual site where Martin Luther King was shot. 35 00:04:29,41.99546485 --> 00:04:34,96.99546485 Standing in that very spot where he was, Dr. 36 00:04:34,96.99546485 --> 00:04:35,401.99546485 King was assassinated. 37 00:04:35,761.99546485 --> 00:04:46,651.99546485 I felt this deep cellular grief, but also an amazing activation of what is possible. 38 00:04:46,651.99546485 --> 00:04:49,106.99546485 Like it brings me to tears, thinking about. 39 00:04:50,446.99546485 --> 00:04:51,136.99546485 What Dr. 40 00:04:51,136.99546485 --> 00:05:06,416.99546485 King would be thinking about our world today, given the fact that he was such a nonviolent individual, because my lovely friends, we have lost the plot of the world that we live in now. 41 00:05:06,506.99546485 --> 00:05:14,816.99546485 It's so interesting that we've begun to, because of particularly social media, rewarding noise. 42 00:05:18,806.99546485 --> 00:05:22,466.99546485 Outrage over actual sacred action. 43 00:05:23,696.99546485 --> 00:05:35,36.99546485 We've begun to reward compliance over consciousness, and if you follow me at all, you know that consciousness is the ultimate. 44 00:05:35,996.99546485 --> 00:05:55,301.99546485 Energetic force that we all live in and consciousness is pure love consciousness, and you can call it God, the universe, whatever you wanna call it, but consciousness is pure love and it's our humanness that's getting so in the way, and especially with all of this social media. 45 00:05:56,106.99546485 --> 00:06:03,156.99546485 People are falling into traps that are taking and stripping them of their radical responsibility. 46 00:06:03,996.99546485 --> 00:06:13,206.99546485 And so this leadership that we're seeing today, it's not leadership, it's status quo, management wrapped in hashtags. 47 00:06:13,446.99546485 --> 00:06:21,461.99546485 And I'm not talking about the current, administration, I'm talking about the leadership of the resistance to it. 48 00:06:22,641.99546485 --> 00:06:38,391.99546485 Because truly what is happening is there is this desire to hold on for dear life to the status quo, and that my friends is death to everyone on so many levels. 49 00:06:39,381.99546485 --> 00:06:41,901.99546485 Leadership isn't loud. 50 00:06:43,521.99546485 --> 00:06:46,461.99546485 Leadership isn't loud, it's aligned. 51 00:06:47,421.99546485 --> 00:06:53,331.99546485 So let's talk about leadership for a second and what leadership actually is. 52 00:06:54,561.99546485 --> 00:06:56,901.99546485 leadership isn't being the loudest person in the room. 53 00:06:56,961.99546485 --> 00:07:05,541.99546485 And trust me when I say I'm usually the loudest person in the room, which is fascinating because I know I might come off as an extrovert, but I'm totally an introvert. 54 00:07:05,871.99546485 --> 00:07:07,251.99546485 And on the Myers-Brigg. 55 00:07:08,211.99546485 --> 00:07:08,901.99546485 Scale. 56 00:07:09,111.99546485 --> 00:07:12,441.99546485 An introvert is that person that wants to recharge by being alone. 57 00:07:12,441.99546485 --> 00:07:25,611.99546485 And believe me, I love my alone time, and it's not exactly the easiest thing for me to do is be in a large group of people, but I can, because I've practiced and built that muscle. 58 00:07:26,361.99546485 --> 00:07:28,581.99546485 But I do, I'm a loud person. 59 00:07:29,91.99546485 --> 00:07:36,516.99546485 I might've really been, dropped off by an Italian family because Italians have a reputation for being loud. 60 00:07:36,636.99546485 --> 00:07:43,446.99546485 And the fact is, is that because I'm loud doesn't mean that my leadership comes from that loudness. 61 00:07:43,446.99546485 --> 00:07:50,496.99546485 As a matter of fact, when I can be quiet and soft, people wanna lean in and listen. 62 00:07:51,396.99546485 --> 00:07:55,206.99546485 But leadership isn't about going viral on Instagram. 63 00:07:57,366.99546485 --> 00:08:06,36.99546485 Or any other social media platform, whether it's TikTok or Substack or LinkedIn. 64 00:08:06,516.99546485 --> 00:08:14,736.99546485 It's not about being viral on there because we've mistaken this idea of virality with leadership. 65 00:08:15,576.99546485 --> 00:08:25,926.99546485 We've mistaken this idea of influencers with leadership, and that is where the disconnect comes from because there's a lot of. 66 00:08:26,551.99546485 --> 00:08:28,461.99546485 leaders that are bullying. 67 00:08:28,611.99546485 --> 00:08:30,291.99546485 They're not agreeing with you. 68 00:08:30,921.99546485 --> 00:08:36,741.99546485 And when you really get down to the nuts and bolts of leadership, it's about alignment. 69 00:08:37,851.99546485 --> 00:08:44,391.99546485 It's being so anchored in love and vision that people feel you. 70 00:08:45,531.99546485 --> 00:08:49,41.99546485 Feel you before you even open your mouth. 71 00:08:49,671.99546485 --> 00:09:00,201.99546485 And this is the beauty of having this experience of going to the Civil Rights Museum because I was able to see Dr. 72 00:09:00,201.99546485 --> 00:09:07,261.99546485 King and Gandhi and fired Rustin, who was just such an. 73 00:09:08,766.99546485 --> 00:09:09,321.99546485 For Dr. 74 00:09:09,321.99546485 --> 00:09:30,541.99546485 King during the civil rights movement, that these were men who led with alignment of their vision, number one, but with nonviolence, with this unwavering vision, you can actually activate soul level truth, which is exactly what we are missing. 75 00:09:31,846.99546485 --> 00:09:33,766.99546485 change is absolutely fabulous. 76 00:09:33,946.99546485 --> 00:09:38,506.99546485 I'm just gonna start off by saying change is what we all need. 77 00:09:38,776.99546485 --> 00:09:45,226.99546485 Change allows us to evolve, change allows us to grow, and if you're not changing, you're dying. 78 00:09:45,946.99546485 --> 00:09:47,326.99546485 And so when I'm talking about. 79 00:09:48,31.99546485 --> 00:09:54,511.99546485 Bayard Rustin, I was so struck because honestly, I am not a, a scholar of the Civil Rights Movement. 80 00:09:54,511.99546485 --> 00:09:58,471.99546485 I was born and raised in Southern California, and, you know, we were pretty open. 81 00:09:58,471.99546485 --> 00:10:02,371.99546485 So I didn't experience any of that sort of prejudice until I moved to Texas. 82 00:10:02,821.99546485 --> 00:10:05,341.99546485 And it wasn't bad because they had come around. 83 00:10:05,341.99546485 --> 00:10:09,211.99546485 But I can't even imagine being in the south in the fifties and sixties. 84 00:10:09,246.99546485 --> 00:10:12,921.99546485 I, I, I don't even know, I'm sure I would've been, a civil rights marcher. 85 00:10:12,921.99546485 --> 00:10:13,791.99546485 the fact is, is that. 86 00:10:14,886.99546485 --> 00:10:19,986.99546485 Byard was a black gay Quaker in the 1950s. 87 00:10:21,366.99546485 --> 00:10:26,526.99546485 Let me tell you something, if he wasn't going upstream, that is, that was remarkable. 88 00:10:27,426.99546485 --> 00:10:34,86.99546485 And he was mentoring actually, Martin Luther King, and he helped him organize the March on Washington. 89 00:10:34,596.99546485 --> 00:10:36,576.99546485 But you don't hear his name very often. 90 00:10:36,846.99546485 --> 00:10:37,926.99546485 I don't believe. 91 00:10:37,926.99546485 --> 00:10:38,946.99546485 At least I haven't. 92 00:10:39,246.99546485 --> 00:10:43,826.99546485 I know that Obama gave shoutout when he was president. 93 00:10:43,826.99546485 --> 00:10:50,306.99546485 But here's the thing that was so striking because I'd already known that Martin Luther King was practicing nonviolence. 94 00:10:50,336.99546485 --> 00:10:53,786.99546485 I knew that Gandhi was practicing nonviolence because there is a. 95 00:10:54,491.99546485 --> 00:11:08,951.99546485 Season, it's called the season of nonviolence in the beginning of every year, and it's not got a lot of steam throughout the years, but I used to, participate in it and share in my tribe about the particular days because there's a thing that you do on every single day. 96 00:11:09,521.99546485 --> 00:11:10,631.99546485 But what he knew. 97 00:11:11,981.99546485 --> 00:11:16,751.99546485 Was that love was the organizing principle of the universe. 98 00:11:17,171.99546485 --> 00:11:28,1.99546485 So if we get back to that, just that little component, the love is organizing principle of the universe that we are all made of the same. 99 00:11:28,181.99546485 --> 00:11:28,961.99546485 Start us. 100 00:11:29,966.99546485 --> 00:11:33,656.99546485 He didn't need to scream it, he embodied it. 101 00:11:34,196.99546485 --> 00:11:51,656.99546485 And that's where we need to begin is to begin to embody that this is the essence of who we are, that when we look into the eyes of another human, instead of holding them as different than us. 102 00:11:52,331.99546485 --> 00:11:54,41.99546485 We look into their eyes and say, Namaste. 103 00:11:54,551.99546485 --> 00:12:00,941.99546485 The God in me sees the God in you, and that my friends is true radical responsibility. 104 00:12:01,721.99546485 --> 00:12:07,641.99546485 And so it's funny because I feel like I'm always the outcast, right? Because. 105 00:12:08,931.99546485 --> 00:12:24,86.99546485 I'm never doing anything according to the norm, and I absolutely literally abhor the status quo because if we're in the status quo, we're not moving forward, and that is one of the primary ingredients of being a good leader, is being a forward thinker. 106 00:12:25,656.99546485 --> 00:12:37,746.99546485 So, Simon Sinek did a great Ted Talk a number of years ago that I used to use all the time, but he talks about it in the context of the law of diffusion of innovation. 107 00:12:38,706.99546485 --> 00:12:46,731.99546485 So I wanna talk about that framework that explains why the world feels so resistant to change. 108 00:12:47,451.99546485 --> 00:13:00,171.99546485 Because we all understand, I think the concept of you don't like change because it's just, it feels uncomfortable, right? But that's the process that life is, life is change. 109 00:13:00,411.99546485 --> 00:13:01,221.99546485 That's it. 110 00:13:01,671.99546485 --> 00:13:10,191.99546485 It isn't about whether you resist it or not, it's just part of the overall criteria of being alive. 111 00:13:10,641.99546485 --> 00:13:13,131.99546485 And so this law of diffusion of innovation. 112 00:13:13,926.99546485 --> 00:13:23,736.99546485 As I said, go check out Simon Sinek's talk about it because it's really quite fabulous and he is talking about leadership, but also this law of diffusion of innovation. 113 00:13:24,246.99546485 --> 00:13:28,896.99546485 There's five categories of people, and I think if you just. 114 00:13:29,411.99546485 --> 00:13:42,981.99546485 Even begin to understand who you are, where you land in here, you're gonna get a better idea of who you are representing in this overall world of what's called change. 115 00:13:43,431.99546485 --> 00:13:46,851.99546485 So the first category are the innovators. 116 00:13:47,841.99546485 --> 00:13:50,276.99546485 That's only 2.5% 117 00:13:50,616.99546485 --> 00:13:51,591.99546485 of the population. 118 00:13:51,591.99546485 --> 00:13:56,301.99546485 This is a statistic, so if you are an innovator, you're in the minority. 119 00:13:58,831.99546485 --> 00:14:02,101.99546485 the innovators are the ones that are creating, it's the right brothers. 120 00:14:02,101.99546485 --> 00:14:03,991.99546485 It's the guys that have flown to the moon. 121 00:14:04,411.99546485 --> 00:14:08,11.99546485 It's the Donald Trumps of the world, literally, that are coming up with. 122 00:14:08,401.99546485 --> 00:14:21,931.99546485 Ideas that are so far out of the norm that yes, you feel a little uncomfortable, especially if you're one of these other categories, but as an innovator, brings an idea forward. 123 00:14:23,101.99546485 --> 00:14:27,871.99546485 There was so much resistance, and I'm sure there's still resistance out there to this idea of ai. 124 00:14:29,431.99546485 --> 00:14:33,91.99546485 So if you're an innovator with ai, I was like on board. 125 00:14:33,91.99546485 --> 00:14:36,331.99546485 I was at what the second category called early adopters. 126 00:14:36,721.99546485 --> 00:14:41,431.99546485 I didn't innovate ai, frankly, I didn't really understand it until I started to use it. 127 00:14:41,671.99546485 --> 00:14:46,821.99546485 But I was in the category of an early adopter, which is only 13.5% 128 00:14:46,821.99546485 --> 00:14:49,131.99546485 of the population are early adopters. 129 00:14:49,341.99546485 --> 00:14:50,931.99546485 So they see an innovation. 130 00:14:51,651.99546485 --> 00:15:02,481.99546485 They didn't necessarily create it, but they're like, oh my gosh, I have to be part of this because I can see the vision and the future. 131 00:15:02,721.99546485 --> 00:15:05,601.99546485 Just like Martin Luther King was an innovator. 132 00:15:06,861.99546485 --> 00:15:08,511.99546485 Gandhi was an innovator. 133 00:15:09,381.99546485 --> 00:15:33,741.99546485 Then other people came along and early adopted the idea of this non-violence, but this desire for a shift and a change, whether it be AI or civil rights or any other thing that you see out there that may scare you a little bit, This third category called the early majority, so once 16%, two point a half of the innovators, 13.5% 134 00:15:33,741.99546485 --> 00:15:34,701.99546485 are the early adopters. 135 00:15:35,991.99546485 --> 00:15:42,801.99546485 Once those people start to feel into whatever this new shift is, we get this early majority. 136 00:15:43,596.99546485 --> 00:15:53,706.99546485 34% of the people after 16% have said, yes, I think this is a good idea, will begin to shift into seeing the new vision. 137 00:15:54,246.99546485 --> 00:15:57,156.99546485 But it's really challenging thinking about that. 138 00:15:57,156.99546485 --> 00:15:57,456.99546485 There's gonna be. 139 00:15:58,731.99546485 --> 00:16:03,111.99546485 Whole lot of people that are still left behind, which is the late majority. 140 00:16:03,111.99546485 --> 00:16:06,171.99546485 That's category four, that's 34%. 141 00:16:06,711.99546485 --> 00:16:10,701.99546485 And then the last category is the laggers, which is the 16%. 142 00:16:10,701.99546485 --> 00:16:21,306.99546485 So all of this is where do you fall on that spectrum? Are you an early adopter of something that you've seen that's innovative? I mean, people are getting on board. 143 00:16:21,306.99546485 --> 00:16:29,76.99546485 The early majority of 34% is buying into AI like crazy, but the late majority is still reticent. 144 00:16:29,76.99546485 --> 00:16:35,166.99546485 And believe me, there are still the laggards out there of 16% of holding onto this idea of ai. 145 00:16:35,166.99546485 --> 00:16:40,446.9954649 But I wanna speak to it in terms of leadership status quo. 146 00:16:41,346.9954649 --> 00:16:47,106.9954649 And really begin to look at where are you resisting change. 147 00:16:47,766.9954649 --> 00:16:55,596.9954649 Because guess what? There is so many things that need to be changed in the world, especially in our country. 148 00:16:56,286.9954649 --> 00:17:00,941.9954649 And guess where I've always lived? The early adopter. 149 00:17:01,626.9954649 --> 00:17:14,706.9954649 And the innovator zone because I truly know that there is more available, this infinite potential and event, infinite possibility in the world. 150 00:17:15,486.9954649 --> 00:17:26,616.9954649 I was reading metaphysical books in the seventies when people thought I was nuts, and when I say metaphysical, I'm always talking about beyond the physical, whether it be quantum physics or spirituality. 151 00:17:27,186.9954649 --> 00:17:32,316.9954649 But metaphysics has now been basically scientifically supported. 152 00:17:32,556.9954649 --> 00:17:43,896.9954649 But it doesn't stop somebody that really knows that innovation and early adopting is the way that will bring us to the next stage of our own evolution. 153 00:17:44,196.9954649 --> 00:17:46,926.9954649 As a matter of fact, if you watch this channel at all or you. 154 00:17:47,91.9954649 --> 00:17:48,381.9954649 I read my book. 155 00:17:48,681.9954649 --> 00:17:54,716.9954649 I stopped paying federal income tax in my twenties because I didn't trust the government to be a good steward with my money. 156 00:17:55,131.9954649 --> 00:17:56,211.9954649 I don't know. 157 00:17:56,211.9954649 --> 00:18:06,951.9954649 There's, there are some people out there that do that, but that's not a big percentage of people because literally I was bucking the status quo, even back in the seventies. 158 00:18:07,191.9954649 --> 00:18:17,331.9954649 And I've been talking about sovereignty, consciousness, and self responsibility long before it became trendy. 159 00:18:17,901.9954649 --> 00:18:20,396.9954649 Because nowadays, I think even the gen. 160 00:18:21,546.9954649 --> 00:18:31,896.9954649 Zs are beginning to look at what is it mean for me to take responsibility for me, and maybe you are beginning to wake up to that as well. 161 00:18:32,466.9954649 --> 00:18:43,926.9954649 The problem is the world is run by the late majority and the laggards, I wanna say that again because that's what the problem is. 162 00:18:45,246.9954649 --> 00:18:55,566.9954649 The world is run by the late majority and the laggards, the ones who say, this is how we've always done it, and this is how we're gonna keep doing it. 163 00:18:56,166.9954649 --> 00:19:10,776.9954649 Does that sound familiar? How many times are you resisting holding onto protesting, doing your best to keep things the same? That is death to everything. 164 00:19:10,806.9954649 --> 00:19:12,456.9954649 That is death to life. 165 00:19:13,431.9954649 --> 00:19:26,841.9954649 So when I say that, welcome to Wichita Falls in the early two thousands because really was what I experienced, but now I see that it wasn't just Wichita Falls, it's the world. 166 00:19:27,801.9954649 --> 00:19:34,101.9954649 So I wanna share with you why the status quo is so dangerous. 167 00:19:34,971.9954649 --> 00:19:37,521.9954649 It's not just boring, really, it's deadly. 168 00:19:38,316.9954649 --> 00:19:42,486.9954649 Comfort breeds complacency. 169 00:19:43,686.9954649 --> 00:19:47,376.9954649 If you are comfortable, you are complacent. 170 00:19:47,856.9954649 --> 00:20:04,176.9954649 And I'm telling you, I find myself in the most uncomfortable positions on a constant basis because I'm always looking for change because my basic principles are love and consciousness, but the world itself, the doing this in the world. 171 00:20:05,91.9954649 --> 00:20:05,541.9954649 It's not. 172 00:20:05,591.9954649 --> 00:20:11,231.9954649 It breeds disconnection, and disconnection breeds control. 173 00:20:11,771.9954649 --> 00:20:18,911.9954649 This is what is the problem with complacency and disconnection and status quo. 174 00:20:19,571.9954649 --> 00:20:28,741.9954649 It is a a breeding ground for control and the status quo wants you to stay busy, but not intentional. 175 00:20:29,836.9954649 --> 00:20:32,776.9954649 Follow rules, but not question systems. 176 00:20:33,496.9954649 --> 00:20:36,226.9954649 Be productive, but not powerful. 177 00:20:36,736.9954649 --> 00:20:46,186.9954649 This is the thing that I've railed against for probably two years now, is this idea of productivity is about doing this and busyness. 178 00:20:46,666.9954649 --> 00:20:50,116.9954649 It's not about being internally powerful. 179 00:20:51,226.9954649 --> 00:20:53,776.9954649 We've been taught to outsource. 180 00:20:54,856.9954649 --> 00:20:56,176.9954649 Everything in our lives. 181 00:20:56,686.9954649 --> 00:20:57,976.9954649 Everything. 182 00:20:58,6.9954649 --> 00:21:01,726.9954649 And this is where radical responsibility comes in. 183 00:21:02,26.9954649 --> 00:21:09,826.9954649 If you're outsourcing your health to doctors, that they have the ultimate answer when they're being driven by. 184 00:21:10,211.9954649 --> 00:21:34,946.9954649 The drug community or you've outsourced your financial decisions to a, investment management firm so that you believe that Wall Street is the only creation of your retirement, or you've outsourced your leadership to bureaucrats and you're thinking, more importantly, you're thinking to the media. 185 00:21:36,191.9954649 --> 00:21:48,91.9954649 We've outsourced our whole lives to outside third parties, and we wonder why we're so anxious, why we're so unhappy, why we're always in fear. 186 00:21:48,91.9954649 --> 00:21:57,541.9954649 Because all of those energies are there to drive their own business models by your fear. 187 00:21:58,81.9954649 --> 00:22:00,571.9954649 That is not leadership. 188 00:22:01,396.9954649 --> 00:22:06,316.9954649 empowering you to make your own educated, knowledgeable decisions. 189 00:22:06,706.9954649 --> 00:22:07,636.9954649 That's leadership. 190 00:22:08,656.9954649 --> 00:22:11,656.9954649 The opposite of that is mental slavery. 191 00:22:12,76.9954649 --> 00:22:16,786.9954649 Literally a different type of slavery than I experienced at that Civil Rights Museum. 192 00:22:16,786.9954649 --> 00:22:18,496.9954649 But it's slavery, nonetheless. 193 00:22:18,856.9954649 --> 00:22:25,96.9954649 Mental slavery, dressed up in productivity tools and pretty infographics. 194 00:22:25,576.9954649 --> 00:22:36,526.9954649 That is what we are doing by outsourcing our lives to everything other than our own internal wisdom, and I am done with it. 195 00:22:37,366.9954649 --> 00:22:42,136.9954649 Because radical responsibility, I'm gonna tell you something, it ain't sexy. 196 00:22:43,96.9954649 --> 00:23:00,846.9954649 It's not, it doesn't get a lot of likes on Instagram, right? What gets likes, what gets viral is funny things, a good pet story or the fear, the fear mongering and the loudest person is actually getting the virality. 197 00:23:01,386.9954649 --> 00:23:04,716.9954649 But radical responsibility requires you. 198 00:23:05,451.9954649 --> 00:23:17,541.9954649 To own your own thoughts, really begin to become aware of how many thoughts you have every day that aren't yours, that were somebody else's, that were given to you, and you adopted them and you held onto them. 199 00:23:18,771.9954649 --> 00:23:23,601.9954649 Radical responsibility is owning your own energy. 200 00:23:24,336.9954649 --> 00:23:26,706.9954649 Owning your own outcomes. 201 00:23:27,456.9954649 --> 00:23:35,496.9954649 Stop blaming your past, your ex, your job, your parents, or your government. 202 00:23:36,96.9954649 --> 00:23:42,186.9954649 Nothing is responsible for your feelings except for you. 203 00:23:43,116.9954649 --> 00:23:47,941.9954649 Radical responsibility means saying, I don't agree with this narrative. 204 00:23:48,966.9954649 --> 00:23:51,996.9954649 I don't choose fear. 205 00:23:52,656.9954649 --> 00:23:56,76.9954649 I don't outsource my truth. 206 00:23:56,766.9954649 --> 00:24:01,566.9954649 the system will try to bully you back into the box. 207 00:24:01,596.9954649 --> 00:24:06,996.9954649 And we have seen that over the past decade of this thing called cancel culture. 208 00:24:07,416.9954649 --> 00:24:16,896.9954649 how radical is that to say that you are buying into being bullied by some system that says. 209 00:24:17,11.9954649 --> 00:24:20,791.9954649 Get back in the box and believe the way that I'm telling you to believe. 210 00:24:21,31.9954649 --> 00:24:24,391.9954649 That is the antithesis of radical responsibility. 211 00:24:25,561.9954649 --> 00:24:29,251.9954649 And then they're gonna bully you and they're gonna shame you and call you selfish. 212 00:24:30,126.9954649 --> 00:24:32,376.9954649 Irresponsible, privileged. 213 00:24:32,406.9954649 --> 00:24:33,186.9954649 Oh, I love that one. 214 00:24:33,246.9954649 --> 00:24:34,86.9954649 White privilege. 215 00:24:34,326.9954649 --> 00:24:37,866.9954649 You know what the fact of the matter is, is there is no victimhood. 216 00:24:38,226.9954649 --> 00:24:40,716.9954649 So that's where radical responsibility comes in. 217 00:24:40,926.9954649 --> 00:24:51,541.9954649 I'm a woman and I don't rely on the fact that I'm a victim because I'm a woman, and this is also so dangerous to our overall communities. 218 00:24:52,476.9954649 --> 00:24:54,366.9954649 Here's the plot twist. 219 00:24:54,786.9954649 --> 00:25:10,266.9954649 You're actually the safest person in the room when you're practicing radical responsibility because you're grounded in your own integrity and that my friends is unshakeable. 220 00:25:11,566.9954649 --> 00:25:14,176.9954649 change is uncomfortable. 221 00:25:14,256.9954649 --> 00:25:15,456.9954649 I remember a time when. 222 00:25:16,281.9954649 --> 00:25:25,581.9954649 Someone had cleaned out my garage in a beautiful house that I lived in California, and she wanted to move the trash can location, and I was like, oh no. 223 00:25:25,581.9954649 --> 00:25:25,761.9954649 Oh no. 224 00:25:26,691.9954649 --> 00:25:35,121.9954649 But the fact is, is that real evolution is always uncomfortable and we are evolving as a species. 225 00:25:36,366.9954649 --> 00:25:42,396.9954649 We are in a way that has never been seen before, and it is messy. 226 00:25:42,966.9954649 --> 00:25:55,746.9954649 It's fast, it's dizzying, but it's so, so, so necessary because we are either evolving or we're dying. 227 00:25:56,976.9954649 --> 00:25:58,596.9954649 There is no neutral ground. 228 00:25:58,656.9954649 --> 00:26:03,66.9954649 It's either you're moving forward and changing, or you're dying and staying still. 229 00:26:04,476.9954649 --> 00:26:11,946.9954649 We cannot clinging to old paradigms and expect new earth results. 230 00:26:12,696.9954649 --> 00:26:19,506.9954649 That whole idea that you can't keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result, that's insanity. 231 00:26:20,16.9954649 --> 00:26:26,376.9954649 You can't keep outsourcing your soul and wonder why you feel numb. 232 00:26:27,336.9954649 --> 00:26:33,6.9954649 You can't keep asking the government, the media, or even your coach to save you. 233 00:26:33,921.9954649 --> 00:26:41,31.9954649 Every good coach knows that you're leading their client to see their own idea and solution. 234 00:26:41,541.9954649 --> 00:26:44,211.9954649 Evolution doesn't happen in your comfort zone. 235 00:26:44,331.9954649 --> 00:26:46,941.9954649 Evolution doesn't happen in your comfort zone. 236 00:26:47,331.9954649 --> 00:26:48,261.9954649 It cannot. 237 00:26:48,951.9954649 --> 00:26:50,486.9954649 It's not about the change. 238 00:26:50,836.9954649 --> 00:26:54,86.9954649 It's about staying stuck in the status quo. 239 00:26:55,611.9954649 --> 00:27:05,481.9954649 Evolution happens in your clarity zone, in your consciousness zone, in your radical responsibility zone. 240 00:27:06,501.9954649 --> 00:27:12,51.9954649 So I don't know which category you are in based on what I just shared with you earlier. 241 00:27:12,51.9954649 --> 00:27:21,921.9954649 Are you an innovator, an early adopter? Are you and laggard? But I am here to call to the 1% of you that are ready. 242 00:27:22,266.9954649 --> 00:27:24,396.9954649 To change the world. 243 00:27:24,696.9954649 --> 00:27:26,346.9954649 Here's my call to you. 244 00:27:27,246.9954649 --> 00:27:50,646.9954649 If you are someone who's felt out of place your whole life, if you've always known that there's more, if you've been the weird one, the wild one, the whisperer, the wisdom keeper, congratulations because you are part of the dynamic 1% that is making a change in this world. 245 00:27:51,666.9954649 --> 00:28:00,936.9954649 Sweeping into that 16%, and I don't mean the 1%, the financial elite that was protested again 20 years ago or so. 246 00:28:01,566.9954649 --> 00:28:15,666.9954649 I'm talking about the conscious elite, the innovators, the edge walkers, the sacred disruptors, and now more than ever, we need you. 247 00:28:16,536.9954649 --> 00:28:18,906.9954649 We need you to speak up. 248 00:28:19,836.9954649 --> 00:28:38,16.9954649 In a nonviolent way to step forward, to stand tall, to lead, to love, and to live, not from your ego, not from fear, but from anchored divine responsibility. 249 00:28:39,981.9954649 --> 00:28:59,661.9954649 It is a big, big challenge, and I challenge all of you to decide where are you? Are you stuck in fear as the status quo, or are you ready to break out and to make a difference? What does this all mean? It means you have a choice. 250 00:29:00,471.9954649 --> 00:29:01,851.9954649 You can follow the masses. 251 00:29:03,771.9954649 --> 00:29:05,781.9954649 You can follow your knowing. 252 00:29:06,561.9954649 --> 00:29:14,841.9954649 You can clinging like nobody's business to the status quo, or you can become the status glow. 253 00:29:15,231.9954649 --> 00:29:21,681.9954649 That's what I'm looking for, is to be this glow that people say, wow, that is who I am too. 254 00:29:22,676.9954649 --> 00:29:24,561.9954649 You can outsource your truth. 255 00:29:25,341.9954649 --> 00:29:29,121.9954649 You can embody, embody your sovereignty. 256 00:29:29,661.9954649 --> 00:29:31,341.9954649 This is your moment. 257 00:29:32,151.9954649 --> 00:29:42,711.9954649 This is your revolution, and this is your invitation to evolve to something that we haven't even seen yet. 258 00:29:43,461.9954649 --> 00:29:50,121.9954649 We are on the precipice of new imagination, and if you need a space to be held in that. 259 00:29:51,621.9954649 --> 00:30:08,571.9954649 To be mirrored, mentored, and magnificently reminded of your power, come join me inside the inner billionaire Circle because we're just getting started making that radical responsibility revolution a reality. 260 00:30:09,171.9954649 --> 00:30:13,791.9954649 And so until next time, remember, you're not here to fit in. 261 00:30:14,211.9954649 --> 00:30:16,251.9954649 you are here to redefine everything.
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