Ep 345: Distinguishing Breakthroughs for the Retreat
Release Date: 02/03/2025
Ep 362: Choice - Circumstances vs. Ontology
The Transformational Leader
An ontological leader can bring the being of a leader to whatever they are doing. One of the things that an ontological leader does is to perpetually be at choice for what is happening. What we mean by we are choice is that we are choosing what is going on, which allows us to be empowered by what we are up to. In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney dives into the profound concept of choice and its role in authentic leadership. He distinguishes between traditional, circumstantial thinking and a deeper ontological approach, where leadership is about who you are being, not...
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Ep 361: How I came to be here
The Transformational Leader
It is an exciting episode to get to know more about Adam Quiney. Today, he shared his story of how he came to be here, his journey through transformation and ontological work, and how he arrived at this point. Adam Quiney as a kid loves to read and the library represents freedom to him. He is very reliable in reading things that will make him better about things. This sets him off on a path early on of reading to create shifts. Listen and know more about his story of how he came to be here in this episode. Enjoy the show!
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Ep 360: Just Listen
The Transformational Leader
Just listen. Why is it important to listen? If you ever take on any recovery work, you'll notice a lot of what makes that so potent, which is simply that people listen. You share, they thank you for your share, they listen, and then they move on. In this episode, Adam Quiney narrated a scenario he witnessed when a person didn't get the opportunity to feel heard in any of this. What they've got was being told what to do over some time. Listen and know why just listening is very important and the difference it creates by just practicing the art of just listening. Enjoy the show!
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Ep 359: Regression Towards the Mean
The Transformational Leader
Humans are incredibly adaptive and tolerant. We are very reliable just like a frog who sits in hot boiling water slowly but surely dying. We can tolerate things and as we tolerate them more, they just slowly shift and become our baseline. It's not until there's an acute moment in our lives that people reach out and ask for support. This is related to the subject of the regression towards the mean, or a phenomenon that is studied extensively in skeptical communities and in scientific communities where it comes to the efficacy of anecdotal evidence, which is to say you take a remedy and...
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Mid-week Ep 138: Ral West
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a powerful live coaching conversation with Ral West. Ral , an accomplished entrepreneur from Alaska, has built several businesses and is now launching an exciting new mastermind. In this episode, Adam and Ral explore a surprising realization: sometimes, what looks like a gap in our growth or goals simply isn’t there. Rather than jumping in to offer advice or fill space, Adam models what it means to coach powerfully by reflecting the absence of a gap - and allowing that clarity to lead.
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Ep 358: Understanding Complaint
The Transformational Leader
Have you heard of people who complain about people complaining? Why do people complain? In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney distinguished the three categories of people in terms of complaining: The first group is those who don't care about things. Sometimes they complain, and sometimes they don't. The next category is those people who complain about stuff. The third category is those people who hate complaining and would never complain at all. Some may think the last two categories are a total opposite, but they are not. Listen as we dive...
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Ep 357: Transcending Boring People
The Transformational Leader
When you are presented with someone who is boring, the first thing that happens is that you want to stop talking and lose interest in them. You start to turn your attention elsewhere and move away. Therefore, one of the consequences of being boring is that it turns people off to them. You have to ask these questions: Why would someone choose to become boring? Why would someone want me to look past them? There are many reasons you can't think of, and in this episode, Adam Quiney dives into the ontology of being boring and how to transcend boring people. Listen and enjoy the show!
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Mid-week Ep 137: Mounica Veggelam & Brian Piper
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s mid-week episode, Adam Quiney hosts a Live Coaching and Feedback Demonstration with Mounica Veggelam and her client, Brian Piper.
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Ep 356: The Distinction of Stand
The Transformational Leader
What does it mean to stand? The stand is not a much-talked-about topic in leadership conversations. The art of standing is something that we learn not from a didactic or informational context, or just by knowing. It's more like about riding a bike. The way stand is best learned by having yourself stood for, and by getting to practice standing for people. By this, you get to see the internal experience in your own body and get the experience of someone loving you and holding you with compassion. Listen as Adam Quiney, in this episode of The Transformational Leader, talks about the...
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Mid-week Ep 136: Adam Quiney
The Transformational Leader
On this week’s mid-week episode, Adam Quiney discusses Theory vs. Practice.
info_outlineLive from a retreat location in Costa Rica, Adam Quiney talks about one of the things they do at the start of the retreat which is establishing breakthroughs.
In this episode, Adam revisits the concept of a breakthrough which is often a missed concept and poorly understood.
How do we make breakthroughs happen?
What most people think about breakthroughs is the things that they will get or the tangible results of it. We define our breakthroughs in terms of the outside world and our circumstances. This is not a very powerful way to define a breakthrough.
In ontological leadership, we work with breakthroughs in a different way. The specific definition of breakthrough is access to a new way of being.
Listen and learn more about breakthroughs, their misconceptions of them, and the kind of breakthrough we look forward to at a retreat. Enjoy the show!