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Ron Stotts – Leveraging Ancient Wisdom for Modern Business Challenges
Episode 2328th July 2025 • Becoming Preferred • Michael Vickers
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Welcome back to Becoming Preferred, the podcast dedicated to empowering business professionals and entrepreneurs to achieve their highest potential. Have you ever felt that true leadership extends beyond just strategies and spreadsheets? That there's a deeper, more profound dimension to unlocking peak performance and genuine impact? 

Today, our guest has dedicated decades to exploring exactly that. Dr. Ron Stotts is a three-time bestselling author, with a PhD in Psychology. Ron isn't just an academic; he's a transformational guide who has delved into ancient wisdom, cutting-edge neuroscience, and the very essence of human potential. He's supported thousands in navigating their toughest challenges and stepping into their greatness. Prepare to shift your perspective on what it truly means to lead, live, and become preferred. Join me now for my conversation with Ron Stotts.

Guest Bio:

Ron is a three times bestselling author with a PhD in psychology and a Dr. of Chiropractic. He’s explored the depths of ancient wisdom and the latest in psychological, neurological studies, and leadership as he guides entrepreneurs and executives into the highest levels of conscious leadership.

Ron spent the last five decades exploring the deepest caves and soaring heights of both personal and spiritual journeys. He is intimate with all aspects of the territory. As a transformational guide, he has supported thousands of others on their journey as they’ve moved through their most difficult challenges and developed their greatest potential.

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03:10 Recognizing that the answers were within myself

03:56 It was the worst best year of my life

07:47 T he biggest problem I see in leadership

09:25 One of my mentors, Buckminster Fuller

12:44 Meditation is always about a single pointed focus

14:10 That's the art of life, is to use breathing as your indicator

15:18 All I have to do is breathe and be curious, and that allows me to be present and conscious

20:12 My ego's only job is to make sure that I'm breathing, being curious and present

22:00 When you breathe, you feel, and so I don't want to feel, so I'm going to quit breathing

24:36 Are you willing to be yourself? And most people, hell no!

25:42 Their leadership is about really bringing out the best in others

25:57 Your level of consciousness determines how you see, experience, and react to everything in your life

28:18 Are there typically catalysts with the people you work with?

28:29 They have to be afraid enough, or excited enough

31:05 You have to have meaning in your life as a leader

33:20 Celebrate where you are

35:20 The lobster story is...

36:59 Breathe, just breathe

37:59 I call it the Stop Process

38:08 If you don't stop and heal your past...

38:54 Start with your biggest challenge

39:34 Quiet your mind enough so you can access big mind thinking

40:22 I live my life breathing and being curious and present

42:18 The website is ronstotts.com

Connect Socially:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ron-stotts-14143236/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrRonStotts 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNV6D59C3InwlZmpAOVls_g

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronstottsofficial

Email: ron@ronstotts.com

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