Conscious Life Podcast
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Sumi Krishnan
Paul Zelizer - Where to Focus Your Attention in 2020 - episode of Conscious Life podcast

Paul Zelizer - Where to Focus Your Attention in 2020

1 hour 1 minutes Posted Dec 11, 2019 at 7:50 pm.
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What brought you to where you are today - the start of Awarepreneurs
“Im wired to want depth”
Leslie university - Awareness Graduate program (1989 )
Learn about Paul getting into activism
the Buddha - 3 crown jewels of Buddhism
Learn how Paul overcomes fear
Do you wish that your approach would have happened earlier? (Awarepreneurs)
Having that empathy to know what it's like to be scared as an entrepreneur gives you an empathy connection you can count on
changing the idea of activism
Lives in a tiny home
Woke Culture - “FB activism”
“ my job on this planet -- from a spiritual perspective many teachers and many traditions have said ‘The single most valuable resource we have as human beings is our attention and what we give out attention to deeply matters. ’ For me in a modern economy the majority of adult humans spend the majority of their waking hours so the majority of their attention is about what we do for work. I love my daughter, I love my friends, I love being in nature and I spend more of my time working than any of those things. I work less than most Americans of my age and class. So it's the single highest concentration of adult human energy in a modern economy.”
“What I'm really looking for is liberation and a world we can pass down to our children and feel good about”
what it means to live a conscious life “pay attention to your values, know what they are. Don't wait until you are done, implement them in your life as you are getting clear on them”
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Paul Zelizer is one of the first business and marketing coaches to focus on the needs of conscious entrepreneurs and social impact businesses. Paul runs a global coaching practice supporting conscious entrepreneurs in growing their businesses to the next level while staying true to their deepest integrity. He also works with leaders to help them increase the transformational impact that they have in their organizations and in the world. He's also is the founder of Awarepreneurs, a dynamic podcast and community that looks at the intersection of conscious business, social impact and awareness practices.
Show Notes
-Grew up in Hudson valley NYC
Lives in Albuquerque NM
Core values
Adventure
Mutuality - invest my time with people who understand exchange - we talk about nacarcism a lot because of key leaders and I show up and invest my time where people understand give and take and back and forth and dont where there is a lot of self centered and egos
Kindness
“TIkkun” - Working to make the world a better place (tikkun olam “the great healing”)
Favorite book of the year - 2019 Essentialism -
Nonlinear - he had a very entitled upbringing
Felt very superficial and no room to be a complex person
Got lost in drugs and at 17 met someone who met a wise woman (friend of his mom) : “Paul you are wired for poignant experiences - this goes one of two ways you either live a lifetime of drama and addiction and probably die early or there are these things called awareness practices that help you cultivate a rich inner life and put that wiring to work in a good way and you learn how to be of deep service to others - there are many different ways to do that - I don't care which one you pick, but pick one, please. “
There is more to the tradition I came from - there is a tradition of progressive Judaism - grandmother organized busloads of women to get to the city to fight for women's rights
- Domestic Violence Training at 20
“Partially because of where I came from, I think it would be easy to have compassion for people who don't look like me - prepped me to be a more inclusive leader”
Book - Fit to Fat to Fit - Understand the connection from empathy to success
Values experiences and relationships over things
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