Leadership starts from within. When you align with your purpose, you elevate not just yourself but those around you.
In this premier episode, I explore how intentional thoughts, inspired action, and courageous curiosity fuel transformational leadership. Dr. David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness shows how shifting from fear to connection unlocks potential, with courage as the turning point. True leadership isn’t about changing others—it’s about raising my own awareness to create a ripple effect. By aligning thoughts with purpose, I amplify my impact. Leadership is more than strategy; it’s about consciousness, connection, and showing up fully. I invite you to reflect on your purpose and how courageous curiosity shapes your leadership journey.
Key Takeaways:
How Purpose Shapes Leadership – Discover how clarity of purpose influences decisions, fosters confidence, and strengthens your leadership.
The Role of Intuition in Decision-Making – Learn how to recognize and trust your inner guidance to make aligned, impactful choices.
Why Courage Transforms Leadership – Explore how shifting from fear to courage changes your approach to challenges and unlocks new potential.
The Ripple Effect of Conscious Leadership – Understand how raising your own awareness naturally influences and uplifts those around you.
Aligning Thoughts with Impact – Uncover the connection between intentional thinking, personal growth, and the power to lead with purpose.
About Me:
Hi, I’m Mark Porteous; the Soul Connector.
My stand is for ALL people to recognize themselves as Divine Beings who have chosen the human experience for a reason and to live in alignment with that knowing, so they can THRIVE in their purpose of transforming lives.
I help mission driven entrepreneurs to make their Soul Connections so that they can impact and change the world, scale their businesses to six and seven figures, and enjoy thrilling Soul Success in every arena of their lives.
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Transcripts
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Hello. Welcome to Leading with purpose. I appreciate you for being here, and look forward to supporting you on your leadership journey. I acknowledge you for choosing to check out this show. Something attracted you to learn more about how purpose and consciousness create change. Showing up fully is the first step. It takes courage and commitment. Leadership takes many forms, in family, community and in business, it all starts with personal leadership. The mission of this show is to inspire meaningful change by showing up fully stepping into leadership and fostering a shift toward greater awareness and connection. It's important to begin with understanding the power of purpose and how being clear on your divine purpose is foundational for changing lives and elevating consciousness. Leading with purpose is a path toward higher consciousness. When you're clear on your purpose, you can use it as a filter for discernment on all the choices that you have to make. Simply ask yourself in any situation, does this serve my purpose? And then listen with an open heart and trust what you hear. Now, this may take some practice. I know for me, it took a lot of time to understand the difference between the voice in my head the voice in my heart. Some of the clues usually are about, Does this feel light and positive? That usually comes from the heart? If it feels contracting and negative, those are usually your ego, your thoughts. But once you can discern the two, and listen to your heart when you're able to follow that inner guidance and that inner intuition, saying yes to your divine purpose means no to saying 10,000 other things.
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So trusting your inner guidance can be really challenging again, especially at first, but it's a muscle that will serve you very well when exercised regularly, great leaders move beyond fear and ego by connecting to their purpose and then taking inspired action. So it's one thing to get that inner guidance and to know the right thing, but if you understand what the guidance is telling you, and then you don't do it, the voice gets the fainter and fainter and harder and harder to read and understand. So again, when you get that inspiration and that guidance, you want to make sure to follow through with inspired action. Dr David Hawkins, map of consciousness shows us how shifting from fear to connection can unlock greater potential in our lives. And if you're unfamiliar with Dr Hawkins work, it's right here. I highly recommend reading power versus force, the hidden detriments of human behavior that provides a framework for understanding how consciousness influences behavior and outcomes. Hawkins suggests that we strive toward higher states of consciousness, emphasizing the profound personal and social transformation that arise from living in alignment with truth, love and integrity. How does that feel to you? What could some of those profound personal and societal transformations be? Hawkins, map of consciousness is a scale from one to 1000 that quantifies human awareness and emotional states. It distinguishes lower levels like shame and fear, marked by negative, constructive energy, from higher levels like love and peace, which are expansive and empowering.
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The pivotal point is level 200 and that's the level of courage where consciousness shifts from a destructive mode to a constructive mode, which fosters personal growth and obviously a positive impact. Now that should be our minimal goal for humanity, at least 200 at least the level of courage. And I'm going to be talking a lot about my theme for 2025. Is courageous curiosity. So we'll talk a lot about curiosity in the episodes coming up. But really, 500 is the level of love, and ideally, we're aiming for love and above, right? Hawkins also explains that another benefit of elevating your consciousness is that it elevates the consciousness of humanity as a whole, and especially the people around you. So the people that you're spending the most time with, of course, you want to be around people that are also trying to elevate their consciousness, which elevates yours. So it has this compounding effect by you working on your consciousness. In fact, that's one of the major realizations that I've had in working with consciousness and having a vision and a mission to elevate human consciousness, is that elevating consciousness is an inside job. It's not. My job is to help elevate other people's consciousness. It's elevating my own elevates others. So this is even more reason to be intentional about our thoughts. Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, famous, declared, I think therefore I am reminding us of the undeniable power of our thoughts to shape our reality. We've all heard of the secret, the law of attraction, and there are different, varying thoughts, ideas, understandings around this. What we understand is that we elevate our consciousness through our ability to think, reflect and choose, remember, we're talking about taking action. That's the choice part of it. But what happens when we go beyond just thinking and truly align our thoughts with purpose?
Unknown:
Again, going back to being very intentional with our thoughts, that's where transformation begins. Elevation of consciousness starts with awareness, awareness of our thoughts, our beliefs, which are our thoughts in pattern, and our actions. You know, being really conscious of the actions that we're taking, that's how we elevate consciousness and Descartes his insights highlight the startling point of consciousness. The starting point is thought itself. But what if we look further, instead of just acknowledging that I think, therefore I am, what if we ask, What am I thinking, and how do those thoughts aligned with the purpose that I want to guide my life. Becoming aware of our thoughts and raising our consciousness can move us from fear to connection, which helps us lead with purpose in every aspect of life. I'm curious to learn what motivates you to elevate your consciousness. What is your why and what practices are you implementing now? Or do you aspire to integrate into your life? If you wouldn't mind, please share in the comments. I'd love to hear again what you're working with how this sits with you, what resonates, what doesn't, what might, what ahas. Might you have from what I just shared in our upcoming episodes, I'm going to share personal stories, insights from transformational leaders and practical steps to lead with purpose and intention.
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Enjoy the interviews with conscious leaders aligned with my vision, vision and values to provide more wisdom and resources supporting your leadership journey. In my very next episode, I will share highlights and challenges for my journey that will likely relate to you and that you can learn from please check it out and let me know what you think. I appreciate you for showing up for yourself and for those you love, keep shining your light.
