{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Ffe716639-90e1-4346-a316-d3cb473525d2","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Business doesn't have to be a battle, so put down the armour","description":"How do we put down our armour of self-sufficiency and competence?\r\n\nWhile it protects us from challenges and shields us from criticism, it also cuts us off from deep connection and essential support.\r\n\nWe think that we need the armour to \u201chold ourselves together\u201d because if we \u201clet go\u201d, we might not be able to pull ourselves together again.\r\n\nHolding it all in affects our ability to be creative, make healthy business decisions, and have lives which spring from our core values.\r\n\nHolding it all in is a form of unkindness to ourselves because we\u2019re not allowing ourselves to show weakness. We\u2019re telling ourselves that weakness is bad.\r\n\nHolding it all in means we don\u2019t really get to see what\u2019s inside.\r\n\nWe cut ourselves off from our sense of inner knowing, and from really knowing others.\r\n\nWe are social animals that have evolved to survive as a group. Not as individuals.\r\n\nBut in the modern world of the hyper-successful founders and all-knowing influencers we\u2019ve forgotten this.\r\n\nWe\u2019ve forgotten how to be really happy because we\u2019re too busy striving.\r\n\nTo experience real happiness we need to experience all three directions of kindness: giving to others, giving to ourselves, and receiving.\r\n\nWhich means from time to time we need to put our armour down.\r\n\nOn this episode of the podcast, we\u2019re joined by Anya Pearse, an http://letthelovein.com/ (intuitive advisor), Head of Positive Psychology at https://www.museumofhappiness.org/ (The Museum of Happiness), and Fellow of the Positive Psychology Guild.\r\n\nShe has reframed her 15 years of disability through chronic illness into a spiritual path, combining a researcher\u2019s curiosity, a poet\u2019s turn of phrase, and a comic\u2019s sense of timing to explore and share positive psychology and self-compassion with others.\r\n\nAt the Happy Startup School we believe that community is foundational to helping creative entrepreneurs thrive in this modern money-driven world.\r\n\nWe\u2019re not built of the same stuff as the unicorn driving silicon valley founders or the hard nosed CEOs of the corporate world.\r\n\nWe crave connection and we thrive on mutual support.\r\n\nIn our conversation we explore how kindness and compassion are essential to our way of doing and being in business.\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/18f1cb30-cd67-4b49-b71a-88e7d573fb4f/1433674-1584371228235-7785bff6d491b.jpg"}