[NEW EPISODE] Evolutionary Business with Teresa de Grosbois

Business does not have to be mean and cut-throat, learn how to build a conscious business in challenging times!

This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Author, Speaker, Trainer, Teresa de Grosbois. 

Teresa is the #1 international bestselling author of “Mass Influence - the habits of the highly influential”, which has been on the bestseller lists in 7 countries over the past 6 years. A 4X international bestselling author, Teresa teaches marketing courses around the globe to business leaders and entrepreneurs on how to create massively successful word of mouth campaigns. 

Teresa is the founder and heads the international  Evolutionary Business Council, membership-based organization which empowers change-makers to create profitable, impactful businesses that have a lasting and transformational impact on the individuals that they serve.   

She’s also a Crypto Trader and co-lead the Conscious Crypto YouTube Channel to raise money to support her community where she lives in Costa Rica. 

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Show Notes

Segment 1

Sam starts off today's episode by addressing the recent violence that we've been seeing in the U.S. He mentions the issue surrounding regulations and laws which is that unfortunately they make it easier for access to weapons. He questions why people are acting out so much. He reads a section from his book Everyday Awakening called “When We Accept Uncomfortable Feelings as Gifts, We Find Liberation.” He talks about how we respond to uncomfortable feelings and puts out the question of how can we show up differently for them and stop making them wrong or bad? Sam welcomes Author, Speaker, Trainer, Teresa de Grosbois. Teresa is the founder and heads the international Evolutionary Business Council, membership-based organization which empowers change-makers to create profitable, impactful businesses that have a lasting and transformational impact on the individuals that they serve.

Segment 2

Teresa talks about what makes her want to be very influential. She says that other people would point it out to her about her ability to be a great influence. Teresa says that the EBC came about at what she says was an intervention. About 11 years ago, there was a big event in Canada about word of mouth marketing and business marketing. She had invited a lot of her colleagues to come and speak. She took everybody up to a condo. Teresa mentions talking to everybody and mentioning how she hopes to one day be influential enough to start an organization to help change the “agents of the world” to really get tuned in with their influence to create a bigger impact on others. Someone pointed out to her that she literally did a speech hours ago about noticing when you say “someday I will.” She was then told, what if that day is today? She talks about the EBC becoming about influence, profit, and impact. Sam and Teresa discuss keeping the organization evolving since 11 years ago when it comes to making profit, reaching people globally and what means of communication is used.

Segment 3

Teresa talks about personal challenges as being the person leading the organization. She mentions that one challenge is being a pleaser. She mentions having brilliant people in her team who love to suggest ideas. She says that the flip side is that they often don't feel heard unless their ideas are implemented. Teresa speaks about dealing with issues like having people feel valued or heard but at the same time, being honest if something can not be implemented. Teresa mentions that she and her team run it as a philanthropic organization as opposed to a non profit. She talks about learning through experience that profit is important to compensate yourself and others for their knowledge and work. Sam asks Teresa about how she has been able to attract amazing people into the organization. Teresa says that it's the members themselves that have attracted others. She says that you just have to have a few amazing people with you and there will be a domino effect. Teresa mentions things like Stedman Graham taking an interest in the organization or when she launched her book “Mass Influence - the habits of the highly influential”, as moments that have left her in awe when she thinks about them. She mentions them as miracles in her life because she never expected things to be this way but just kept following her interests and passions. They also discuss the ability we have to use logic, inner guidance and more when creating impact in business. There is much more than just looking at profit as the main thing to pay attention to.

Segment 4

Sam talks with Teresa about how she ended up living in Costa Rica. She lived in Calgary Alberta, Canada for 30 years. She jokes about how she got tired of winter. She took the time to think about what's next especially when her kids were moving on to college. She got the idea from close people in her life to do something in Costa Rica to build a community. The intention is to bring together leaders from all over the world. She says they have built a retreat center. Teresa also says that she has rebranded the EBC and they have brought in a new business partner, Susie Carter, a legend in the industry for taking businesses into the seven figures. Their next goal is to get up to the 1,200 members that she has always envisioned. If you think you are a potential member of the EBC, Teresa says to visit ebcouncil.com and sign up for their upcoming enrollment calls to learn more like finding a sponsor. She also says to visit vistamundo.info; it’s a writer’s retreat and about building a better community.

Transcript

00:00:38.670 --> 00:00:48.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon, my conscious co creators, welcome to another edition of the conscious consultant our awakening humanity.

00:00:48.420 --> 00:00:58.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I am very, very pleased that you are all here with me today i've got an amazing guest in store for you, not the guests who had been scheduled but.

00:00:58.860 --> 00:01:15.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you'll be quite happy that she's here with me today and I will introduce her in a moment, but first i'm gonna have my little section from my book, everyday awakening but before I get there, I just want to say something about the recent violence that we've been seeing.

00:01:16.110 --> 00:01:23.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and that's been so heightened and and you know made obvious through the media.

00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:47.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know i'm I am I have a libertarian nature bent by nature, you know, I believe that that people, you know that that we don't really like putting too many laws and restricting too much stuff it doesn't really fix things, however.

00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:53.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: When it comes to things like gun violence.

00:01:54.300 --> 00:02:11.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do we have to make it so easy for people to kill lots of people like is it such an awful thing to just have better background checks restrict access to automatic weapons.

00:02:11.970 --> 00:02:29.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I mean this to me, is just common sense, why do our own personal rights have to make it easy for people who are not so stable, to be able to go out there and kill lots of people it just does not make sense to me.

00:02:31.950 --> 00:02:43.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now look i've heard people say we'll look if someone really wants to kill a bunch of people, even if they don't have access to guns they'll they'll they'll get access to something else will find another way they'll drive a car they'll do this they'll do that.

00:02:43.710 --> 00:02:51.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Fine, but why do we have to make it easier that's my point and ultimately.

00:02:52.560 --> 00:03:06.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and and even if it's not mass violence even individual violence, you know just this past weekend in New York City on the subway someone was shot just going to a brunch to meet friends just randomly some some person.

00:03:06.990 --> 00:03:13.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Obviously mentally unstable to shot them and it still it brings to mind.

00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:18.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That we really need to look at the why.

00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:25.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Why are people acting out so much, why is there, so much violence.

00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:49.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: unhappy happy people do not go around killing people fulfilled satisfied people do not go around hurting other people, there is a profound a profound schism in our world from our hearts.

00:03:51.240 --> 00:04:00.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And that, ultimately, if we really want to change things for the better, if we really want to see a world that we feel safe in.

00:04:01.470 --> 00:04:18.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Not just ourselves, but our families and distant relatives and people we don't even know around the world, how are we going to end up stopping wars, how are we going to end up stopping this violence on an individual and a mass scale.

00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:35.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And ultimately, it comes down to healing pain and hurt and when we make that the priority in society, then we will see a profound shift.

00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:55.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not making lots of money not becoming wealthy successful fortune and fame being a movie star having lots of power, as long as those are the kinds of things that are driving people within society, we will always have this kind of violence.

00:04:57.660 --> 00:05:10.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But when we make people's happiness when we make their mental physical and emotional health a priority that's when we will see the shift.

00:05:12.660 --> 00:05:23.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I guess as part of that, I mean this is part of the reason why I wrote my book was to give people some tools to help them.

00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:40.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: In that way, and so this section today that I have from my book is entitled and it's a little bit of a long section when we accept uncomfortable feelings as gifts, we find liberation and to me that's very timely message.

00:05:40.980 --> 00:05:51.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We all try to avoid that those uncomfortable feelings we sometimes feel those feelings of sadness anger grief loneliness depression.

00:05:51.990 --> 00:06:04.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yet our desire to avoid them does not serve us for many reasons, mainly, it does not serve us because, whether or not we consciously feel them, they are there in our body.

00:06:04.980 --> 00:06:14.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: present in the nervous system and their presence means they are affecting us, regardless of whether we are aware of them or not.

00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:26.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The difference is that if we are present to them, we can release them much quicker, whereas if we deny their existence, they will linger.

00:06:26.730 --> 00:06:36.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: causing us to make decisions that might not be in our best interest, causing us to experience issues with our bodies or a mind.

00:06:37.170 --> 00:06:46.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being present to these feelings, is the only way to process them to keep them from turning into something physical to stop them from causing an illness.

00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:51.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And i'll add now or stop them from causing us to do something to other people.

00:06:52.170 --> 00:07:00.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The illness may show up as a physical or emotional issue what was once some sadness turns into full blown depression.

00:07:00.570 --> 00:07:14.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What was once some anger turns into a disease that eats up the body to be present to the feelings, is the first step towards wholeness for when we are present to how we feel we can no longer ignore it.

00:07:15.210 --> 00:07:29.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Then it is time to dig in deep where do these feelings come from how did they repeat in our lives When did we first experience it, what is the lesson in the beauty of it.

00:07:30.180 --> 00:07:40.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How has how have these feelings served us all these years, well, an uncomfortable feeling may seem like just a difficulty to overcome.

00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:53.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: All our uncomfortable feelings in some way have served us they protected us when we needed protection they were the expression of something that was inside of us that needed to come out.

00:07:54.390 --> 00:08:07.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If we stop judging these feelings and start accepting them as gifts, regardless of how comfortable or uncomfortable they may they may make us feel we find liberation in peace.

00:08:08.580 --> 00:08:17.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So what uncomfortable feelings come up for you when have you felt them before How have they served you in the past.

00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:21.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So this section.

00:08:22.650 --> 00:08:25.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I mean I don't even remember when I wrote it was a while ago.

00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:31.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But it was really sort of that less than that, when it came to me, I really wanted to share it that.

00:08:33.030 --> 00:08:39.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know, we we all, and believe me i'm the pot calling the kettle black I don't like feeling uncomfortable feelings as matter of fact.

00:08:40.140 --> 00:08:54.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I remember someone pointed out to me it is there a moni once it's like you have a problem with uncomfortable feelings and it's like yeah look nobody wants to feel angry upset depressed sad in pain, none of us want that.

00:08:56.280 --> 00:08:58.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So we all shy away from it.

00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:13.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it just what i've experienced and what i've learned over the years is that when they stop judging those feelings stop making them wrong stop making them something to avoid.

00:09:14.910 --> 00:09:24.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And just look at them as indicators of something going on something for me to look at have a gift in some way.

00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:37.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That, then, I don't have to carry them around anymore I don't have to hold on to them, I don't have to allow them in sort of an unconscious way to affect my actions.

00:09:39.870 --> 00:09:41.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So this is my.

00:09:43.590 --> 00:09:47.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I guess gift for everyone, this week, or this is, this is my.

00:09:48.690 --> 00:10:11.220 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: asked for this week is to look at where do you how do you respond to uncomfortable feelings, how does it affect you in your own life, how does it show up and how can we show up differently if we stop ignoring them if we stop making them bad and wrong.

00:10:12.570 --> 00:10:17.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And just making them something that we're feeling in the moment we're not always going to feel this way.

00:10:19.050 --> 00:10:28.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if it goes on for a long period of time, maybe it's time to seek help maybe it's time to seek professional help and find a therapist or a counselor some kind of coach or someone.

00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:42.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: To stop pushing them down to stop ignoring them to stop trying to lock them up in a little box and hide them away because that little box eventually is going to explode.

00:10:43.830 --> 00:10:47.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like what happened this just just this past weekend Texas so.

00:10:51.210 --> 00:11:02.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Okay i'm coming down off my soapbox so This again is from my book, everyday awakening which, I hope, if you have not yet that you will pick up sometime soon.

00:11:03.540 --> 00:11:10.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So now it is my extreme pleasure to welcome to the show returning guest.

00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:16.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: speaker author trainer and amazing human being to risa day grow blah.

00:11:17.370 --> 00:11:27.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Teresa is the number one international best selling author of mass influence the habits of the highly influential which has been on the bestseller lists.

00:11:27.690 --> 00:11:33.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: In seven countries over the past six years she's a four times international best selling author.

00:11:33.690 --> 00:11:42.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And she teaches marketing courses around the globe to business leaders and entrepreneurs and how to create massively successful word of mouth campaigns.

00:11:43.050 --> 00:11:51.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And, of course, how I know her, she is the founder and the head of the International Organization, the evolutionary business Council, we have a couple of.

00:11:52.650 --> 00:12:02.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Other ABC or evolutionary business Council members here on the station which is a members based organization that empowers change makers to create profitable impactful businesses.

00:12:03.180 --> 00:12:09.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That have a lasting and transformational impact on the individuals they serve she's also a crypto trader.

00:12:10.230 --> 00:12:26.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And co leads the conscious crypto YouTube channel to raise money to support her Community where she lives down in Costa Rica, I am honored and proud and so grateful to call her my friend, welcome to the conscious consultant our Teresa.

00:12:26.760 --> 00:12:32.730 Teresa de Grosbois: No it's great to be here, Sam I absolutely loved your dialogue at the beginning it was absolutely brilliant.

00:12:34.470 --> 00:12:49.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah I just you know, there are times when you just kind of have to speak out and uh you know it's funny I always use just a little section of my book to kind of kick off the show and somehow it always just seems so apropos for for what's going on at the time.

00:12:50.850 --> 00:12:59.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Unfortunately, my dialogue took up a lot of time we got to take our first break so actually let let's let's start kick things off when we come back from this break.

00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:17.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And we'll get into how you became such an expert on influence and and what sort of was the genesis for the evolutionary business Council and it's an organization I mentioned many times on my show it is the reason the main reason.

00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:28.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: My book became a number one bestseller in three categories here in the US, and so it definitely you and the organization have a very, very special place in my heart.

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00:16:02.100 --> 00:16:04.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the.

00:16:06.270 --> 00:16:25.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The we're speaking this hour with Teresa Jaguar founder and leader of the evolutionary business Council so Theresa you have quite a varied background you've done lots of things in your life, what kind of got you to focus on this idea of being influential.

00:16:26.070 --> 00:16:30.210 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah I love that there's actually a Ted talk with a name for it we're called multi potential lights.

00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.780 Teresa de Grosbois: You know people that just love mastering and learning new things.

00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:39.300 Teresa de Grosbois: You know the challenge with being a multi potential eight is you often don't know what you're good at.

00:16:39.630 --> 00:16:39.960 You know.

00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:51.690 Teresa de Grosbois: Like oh he's like I want to master this thing now, I want to master that thing now you know so it's funny in my early days I didn't actually realize that understanding influence was one of my superpowers.

00:16:52.050 --> 00:17:05.640 Teresa de Grosbois: You know and and I didn't see it, I had to have other people start pointing it out to me because to me it was just normal that you could put eight books on the bestseller list and only six months or a brother or three books on the bestseller list, I said that wrong.

00:17:07.290 --> 00:17:07.680 Teresa de Grosbois: But.

00:17:08.760 --> 00:17:18.840 Teresa de Grosbois: You know it's it's a fascinating thing it's kind of like fish don't know what water is often our friends have to tell us what we're exceptional at because it's all around us and it's just who we are.

00:17:20.190 --> 00:17:25.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah yeah yeah absolutely absolutely it's kind of when it.

00:17:26.490 --> 00:17:36.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: said to someone just the other day it's like when you're competent when you're a good competent then it's like you feel like you can do everything, but it doesn't mean you should do everything it's like focus on what you're really good at.

00:17:37.500 --> 00:17:44.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So, how did the evolutionary business Council come about what was sort of the genesis of it.

00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:47.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And how did it all get started.

00:17:47.790 --> 00:17:52.140 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah well i'd love to say it was this beautiful plan not.

00:17:53.670 --> 00:17:56.970 Teresa de Grosbois: Actually, it was it was born out of intervention, believe it or not.

00:17:57.210 --> 00:18:05.490 Teresa de Grosbois: You know I had I had done this, some big events in Calgary you know all about word of mouth marketing and business marketing and I invited a lot of my.

00:18:05.820 --> 00:18:10.410 Teresa de Grosbois: Close colleagues whose work I really admire in that realm to come and speak at the event.

00:18:11.310 --> 00:18:18.360 Teresa de Grosbois: And I thought it'd be really fun if, after the event, I sprang for a few condos up in the mountains and took everybody up to.

00:18:18.870 --> 00:18:29.250 Teresa de Grosbois: bat for the weekend and enjoy the Canadian Rockies you know, and so the night after the event ends we're all sitting up in the mountains, and you know, having a glass of wine or a cup of tea.

00:18:30.030 --> 00:18:39.120 Teresa de Grosbois: and out of my mouth pox someday when i'm influential enough i'd love to start an organization to really help the change agents of the world.

00:18:39.660 --> 00:18:48.390 Teresa de Grosbois: really get tuned in with their influence so they can become a lot more impactful and everybody in the room, just starts laughing no and i'm like what.

00:18:50.520 --> 00:18:53.160 Teresa de Grosbois: I just told you guys my dream and you're all laughing at me.

00:18:54.660 --> 00:18:57.600 Teresa de Grosbois: And I remember the moment Danielle Gutierrez who.

00:18:58.140 --> 00:19:12.360 Teresa de Grosbois: is one of the top Latino speakers in the world, he looks at me and says wait a minute to say you were just on stage five hours ago, talking about notice, when you say someday I will and telling people to look at whether some days actually today.

00:19:13.980 --> 00:19:20.130 Teresa de Grosbois: And then Jennifer half looks at me, and of course I adore her and she says so, when are you going to do that Teresa.

00:19:21.060 --> 00:19:35.820 Teresa de Grosbois: And that was actually the moment that the BBC was born and we spent the rest of the weekend, you know brain brainstorming and dreaming with the BBC could become and that group of people, I was sitting with became our first Advisory Board for the organization, so it was.

00:19:36.090 --> 00:19:38.160 Teresa de Grosbois: Pretty amazing what stemmed from there.

00:19:38.370 --> 00:19:41.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah yeah it's amazing how long ago was that.

00:19:41.940 --> 00:19:44.730 Teresa de Grosbois: That was no almost 11 years ago.

00:19:46.530 --> 00:19:49.590 Teresa de Grosbois: You shy of 11 years yeah so it's quite some time.

00:19:49.740 --> 00:20:06.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah yeah, and so what happened from there, like okay so you're sitting around you got now your Board of advisors you open your mouth and you're like oh God no I got no, I have to actually do something with it, how did things grow from there, what happened from that.

00:20:06.570 --> 00:20:12.330 Teresa de Grosbois: Well, you know we created the organization, we just created as part of my existing company and.

00:20:13.230 --> 00:20:19.470 Teresa de Grosbois: We started, you know reaching out to the thought leaders, the emerging thought leaders, the people that really wanted to create change in the world and.

00:20:20.040 --> 00:20:40.230 Teresa de Grosbois: We decided well what could be a really big juicy call for this right, so we decided let's create something that people can really put a stake in the ground and pull themselves toward right, so we decided what if what if we can help become the tipping point for a more conscious humanity.

00:20:40.380 --> 00:20:41.220 Teresa de Grosbois: What would that look like.

00:20:41.970 --> 00:20:55.950 Teresa de Grosbois: Right and and so Okay, I went back to communication theory which you know, most people are probably familiar with this right, if you get the early adopters are the innovators in the early adopters early adopters on board with any concept or principle.

00:20:56.340 --> 00:21:04.440 Teresa de Grosbois: Which is about the first 15% of any population eventually the rest will follow right that's tipping point very right and.

00:21:06.030 --> 00:21:17.490 Teresa de Grosbois: What if we did that, globally, I don't know if anybody's ever tried that you know what if we said we could reach 15% of the global population to bring more principles of consciousness.

00:21:18.120 --> 00:21:32.670 Teresa de Grosbois: So we looked at that we said well that's about 1.2 billion people how the heck do we reach 1.2 billion people, and then the answer became well if we helped 1200 emerging thought leaders each reach a million that's 1.2 billion people.

00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:35.490 Teresa de Grosbois: And so, our goal became.

00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:45.510 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, at that time, the goal was how to you know how do we reach the principles of consciousness to 1.2 billion people, by helping 1200 emerging thought leaders each reach a million.

00:21:45.930 --> 00:21:59.010 Teresa de Grosbois: Subsequently, we started to realize, we need to throw profit in there, because if people are just focused on influence their companies can cave in fact we were starting to experience that, in the BBC, we were just focused on influence.

00:21:59.730 --> 00:22:01.680 Teresa de Grosbois: And it wasn't powerful.

00:22:01.860 --> 00:22:07.740 Teresa de Grosbois: Like you know you know, we would do really well on influence and then all of a sudden were like oh wait a second we got to pay the bills, you know.

00:22:09.540 --> 00:22:24.780 Teresa de Grosbois: So we brought in the three pillars of the BBC we became about influence profit and impact and started focusing on impact so we've hence added to the goal to say, not only do we want you to reach a million and reach, but we want you to reach a million in profit.

00:22:25.620 --> 00:22:33.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right, because you need to have resources like if you're going to reach a lot of people, it takes infrastructure right you can't just you can't just do.

00:22:33.300 --> 00:22:49.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: A one person shop and reach a million people, you need teams, you need systems, you need you need all kinds of things to help you I mean, yes, you need influence and influence will get you kind of far but without the infrastructure you're just going to collapse aren't you.

00:22:50.160 --> 00:23:01.590 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah absolutely you know I learned that when the hard way the ABC worked so well out of the gate that it almost became a steamroller that started to crush the rest of my business I don't know how else to.

00:23:01.590 --> 00:23:09.930 Teresa de Grosbois: say there was so much energy in the ABC but it wasn't one of the profit centers in the business, so it started sucking the resources that are the profit centers.

00:23:10.320 --> 00:23:23.280 Teresa de Grosbois: So that's when I realized okay wait a minute here better go back to the drawing board, because you know influence might be your superpower, but holding influence without the financial resources to back it and support it and bolster it.

00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:31.830 Teresa de Grosbois: Is it's great, but it doesn't work nearly as effectively as when you have the two working in tandem, and then then impact is naturally follows.

00:23:32.100 --> 00:23:47.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Absolutely absolutely i'm just curious now, this was almost 11 years ago you were focused on creating a global organization Now this is long before the pandemic long before everybody knew about zoom but you did.

00:23:48.330 --> 00:23:56.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But what kinds of challenges like early challenges, did you have to overcome in creating a global organization at the time.

00:23:57.510 --> 00:24:00.450 Teresa de Grosbois: I don't even know if zoom was the thing when we started actually we were doing.

00:24:00.450 --> 00:24:06.540 Teresa de Grosbois: original calls on like instant tell a seminar or something like we were just lines and stuff and.

00:24:07.590 --> 00:24:15.960 Teresa de Grosbois: You know truthfully back then we didn't have the level of technology that supports us now, you know there's stuff we take for granted and everyday use now.

00:24:16.320 --> 00:24:28.050 Teresa de Grosbois: That we didn't even know about when we first opened the doors so, in fact, a lot of the people that you know, have been speakers and trainers and delivering online content for more than 15 years they're like whoa people have it's so easy now.

00:24:28.410 --> 00:24:43.380 Teresa de Grosbois: You know you don't have to build everything from the ground up there's so many plug and play systems out there, you can buy now so, but you know I i've generally found if you stand in an intention and don't worry about whether it might be a little messy.

00:24:44.010 --> 00:24:50.010 Teresa de Grosbois: Like just do it anyway, if it needs to be done, and if people are inspired by it and see the value in it.

00:24:50.520 --> 00:25:01.740 Teresa de Grosbois: People have high tolerance for mess, you know they will do, in fact, the cool thing about the evolutionary business Council is it's such an amazing group people, as you know, you know, whatever our current members of our advisory board Sam.

00:25:03.210 --> 00:25:08.790 Teresa de Grosbois: But there's such amazing individuals that there was no ball, I could drop or no failure, I could have that there.

00:25:08.790 --> 00:25:11.370 Teresa de Grosbois: wasn't a group of incredible people there to help.

00:25:11.730 --> 00:25:19.680 Teresa de Grosbois: figure out how to fix it and figure out how to pick the ball up again, you know so it's been a pretty miraculous journey, all the way through.

00:25:20.550 --> 00:25:30.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So so really it sounds like regardless of the challenge along the way you, you always had great people around you.

00:25:31.230 --> 00:25:45.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Who were able to say Okay, how do we figure this out, you know how do we move forward so that, even if it was kind of messy on the way they were so solution oriented that you just kept going and things just kept building.

00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:54.480 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah I think one of the best things you can do as a leader is surround yourself with brilliant people and then know you're not the smartest person in the room.

00:25:55.080 --> 00:25:56.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right right right.

00:25:56.700 --> 00:26:07.620 Teresa de Grosbois: When you do that it's amazing you know the the things you can achieve and the breakthrough, so you can have I love having a vision that you're driving toward but it's good to hold the vision of it loosely.

00:26:08.010 --> 00:26:17.730 Teresa de Grosbois: right as it's okay for things to evolve and improve along the way it's actually quite fascinating and it's thrilling to watch it all happen.

00:26:18.150 --> 00:26:24.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right cuz cuz that's the way life is right it's kind of organic I mean how many people like today.

00:26:25.020 --> 00:26:39.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: 2030 years ago like had any vision of what they're doing today, back then, very few I mean I I don't know, but like almost everyone, I know, whatever they studied in college they're probably working in a completely different field, I know I will not.

00:26:40.230 --> 00:26:49.200 Teresa de Grosbois: kind of different what was the university degree for honey those those things we learned way back early in our life tend to have a way of circling back and then.

00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.570 Teresa de Grosbois: Suddenly they become relevant again, you know so.

00:26:51.780 --> 00:26:59.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah absolutely I mean a lot of things that you know jobs that I had early on, when when I first got out of college, I was working for companies.

00:27:00.090 --> 00:27:09.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know, is doing different things and I, and I just thought that's just a job, paying the bills, but then years later, what I learned actually served me and having my own business so it's kind of.

00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:19.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: funny how life has a tendency to support us even before we know what it is that we're going to need the support in.

00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:20.790 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah very true.

00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:33.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful okay um all right, I want to talk about like what kind of personal challenge you had with the organization, but before we get there let's take our next break so when we come back.

00:27:33.630 --> 00:27:40.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let's dive in a little bit about what was some of the personal growth and some of the personal challenges that you had to deal with.

00:27:40.710 --> 00:27:55.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and sort of what how that this whole journey how it's taken to you, where you are today living down in Costa Rica and living a very different life than you lived you know, probably, you know 10 years ago right.

00:27:56.430 --> 00:27:56.760 yeah.

00:27:57.900 --> 00:28:12.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: awesome so everyone, please stay tuned you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity which speaking this hour with founder and best selling author Teresa de gras and we will be right back after these messages.

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00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:25.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and new welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity so Theresa that.

00:30:25.590 --> 00:30:31.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I mean i've been involved in the organization I don't even know how long now seven years, maybe a year, or something like that.

00:30:32.130 --> 00:30:45.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah it's been a while and i've seen a lot of growth and changes over the years and i'm just curious there were always challenges when you're the person kind of leading the way and sort of.

00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:53.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: at the head of an organization that's doing a lot of changes i'm curious what sort of personal challenges, did you have, over the years.

00:30:54.660 --> 00:30:58.800 Teresa de Grosbois: Well, I think my biggest one is you know i'm hardwired to be a pleaser you know.

00:30:59.280 --> 00:31:01.350 Teresa de Grosbois: And i'm running an organization of.

00:31:01.350 --> 00:31:09.780 Teresa de Grosbois: brilliant people who love to give suggestions, ideas and the flip side of that is, they often don't feel heard unless their ideas are implemented.

00:31:11.310 --> 00:31:26.070 Teresa de Grosbois: We actually have a list of ideas that have been generated maybe see that's pages long, and we, maybe have the capacity to implement about two to 3% of those ideas, in spite of all of the ideas being quite brilliant and amazing in terms of where the organization can go.

00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:31.920 Teresa de Grosbois: So you know i've had to do a lot of self work and a lot of internal work around my own inner dialogue.

00:31:32.520 --> 00:31:35.880 Teresa de Grosbois: And, and my growth around, how do I deal with these.

00:31:35.940 --> 00:31:42.780 Teresa de Grosbois: Issues of like having people feel valued and heard, but at the same time, letting them know so sorry we don't have the bandwidth for that.

00:31:42.780 --> 00:31:43.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: one.

00:31:43.710 --> 00:31:53.760 Teresa de Grosbois: we'd love to do that when I would in the future, you know and it's it's been an interesting journey as a leader figuring out how to walk that balance.

00:31:54.030 --> 00:32:00.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: mm hmm it's also you know it's a membership organization, although it's not a not for profit.

00:32:01.110 --> 00:32:12.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is kind of a very volunteer based organization like the Members volunteer for the different capacities for the board the advisory roles for working on events and things like that.

00:32:12.690 --> 00:32:27.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I imagine that, at times, it can be difficult to, especially with the level and quality of people that you work with to kind of motivate them to get involved with things on a voluntary basis.

00:32:28.410 --> 00:32:32.820 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah I mean like within the organization, it has its challenges that's for sure.

00:32:33.600 --> 00:32:49.050 Teresa de Grosbois: We run it as a philanthropic organization, as opposed to a not for profit, I used to run a charity and it quickly taught me that the level of boundaries and restrictions that are placed on charities and not for profit actually make it very difficult to succeed.

00:32:50.790 --> 00:33:07.860 Teresa de Grosbois: And then you know I learned the hard way, no, you really need to do have profit in the mix, because if you're also not rewarding yourself as a business owner if you're feeling like you always have to be a martyr for the organization, you know, a conscious world does not involve martyrdom.

00:33:08.250 --> 00:33:15.600 Teresa de Grosbois: Right and a conscious world has people who run organizations appropriately compensated, to make sure.

00:33:16.650 --> 00:33:28.290 Teresa de Grosbois: That everything's working effectively right and so that was another I really had to do a lot of my own inner work to say how do I, how do I walk this balance of being transparent, so that people know.

00:33:29.130 --> 00:33:32.580 Teresa de Grosbois: It is a philanthropic for profit and.

00:33:33.570 --> 00:33:45.960 Teresa de Grosbois: You know we're not gouging we're not making it crazy for people at the same time, the people that do run the show are compensating themselves and that's been an interesting journey coming to what's the correct languages and the correct way to do that as well.

00:33:47.850 --> 00:33:55.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know what I have personally met so many amazing people through the evolutionary business Council and actually.

00:33:55.980 --> 00:34:16.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Most of the people whose programs, I will go to these days are all people from the BBC like if they're not a member of the BBC i'm really not interested in the work they do and i'm just curious like how did you manage to attract so many really high level people I mean Jennifer Hoff.

00:34:17.610 --> 00:34:23.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know i've really gotten to know her i've gone through her program I consider a close friend I love her dearly.

00:34:24.060 --> 00:34:37.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Doria cordova who has been around in the personal development space for decades and Daniel good or as we mentioned before, and some of the other people like, how do you think you managed to sort of.

00:34:37.590 --> 00:34:46.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Not just attract them but but kept them involved in interested and willing to really serve the organization.

00:34:47.610 --> 00:34:54.420 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah well i'd love to take credit for that one but really it's the Members themselves that have attracted other amazing Members, you know.

00:34:55.020 --> 00:35:05.700 Teresa de Grosbois: One of my earliest mentors and understanding how the realm of influence works, used to say, the expression, if you push the rope in the middle and run like hell eventually the ends will follow.

00:35:06.270 --> 00:35:15.420 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, and it was sort of like this mental paradigm of you don't have to have everyone supporting you you just have to have a few amazing people.

00:35:15.750 --> 00:35:27.150 Teresa de Grosbois: And then they'll draw on more people and they'll draw in more people and then you've got you know even at a small scale, this sort of tipping point energy where more and more really cool people just want to come out and play with all the cool people.

00:35:27.660 --> 00:35:29.070 Teresa de Grosbois: Right and so.

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:36.990 Teresa de Grosbois: it's not so much, something I did personally as an intention, I created that other people helped in and stepped in and helped me with.

00:35:37.200 --> 00:35:41.880 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, and I think it's sort of like when you're throwing a big party.

00:35:42.900 --> 00:35:50.220 Teresa de Grosbois: At first, you might not actually know who's coming, but when you get those first few key people that everybody else wants to hang out with.

00:35:50.700 --> 00:36:02.880 Teresa de Grosbois: Then you know the party will be full and the party will be a success, and so that was the philosophy we took on the BBC, how do we get that core group of people that are just absolutely amazing and everybody wants to hang out with people like.

00:36:03.330 --> 00:36:18.150 Teresa de Grosbois: Dan Gutierrez like Jennifer like yourself who just runs this amazing radio station talk radio in New York, you know and and those people then become sort of the light that shines that draws everybody else in.

00:36:19.410 --> 00:36:19.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah.

00:36:21.270 --> 00:36:33.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What do you think was was maybe like the biggest surprise for you, through this journey through this 11 almost 11 year journey like what happened along the way, that just kind of.

00:36:33.540 --> 00:36:39.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I don't want to say blindsided you but, just like open your eyes and go oh my God I can't believe that just happened.

00:36:40.470 --> 00:36:43.260 Teresa de Grosbois: Actually it's pulling in some of the really big miracles that have.

00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:50.490 Teresa de Grosbois: happened like i'm like stedman Graham coming and playing with us and taking an interest in the organization that was.

00:36:50.490 --> 00:36:52.710 Teresa de Grosbois: Huge you know, like the mentorship and.

00:36:53.160 --> 00:37:00.420 Teresa de Grosbois: Guidance that we got from him that was amazing what happened when I launched my latest book mass influence that blew me away.

00:37:00.870 --> 00:37:08.070 Teresa de Grosbois: Like we put a pre sale page up and the hit the book hit number one in seven countries within an hour of the pre sale page going up.

00:37:08.610 --> 00:37:25.680 Teresa de Grosbois: And that was kind of like the gift the organization gave me back you know and so there's been a lot of things like that, where I just sit there and go oh like, how does the youngest kid have a huge family from the backwoods of northern on northern Ontario Northern Canada.

00:37:26.820 --> 00:37:28.650 Teresa de Grosbois: Like how do I end up here.

00:37:29.430 --> 00:37:30.150 Teresa de Grosbois: You know.

00:37:30.180 --> 00:37:37.710 Teresa de Grosbois: And it's it's amazing sometimes when you just surrender to the journey of life and surrender to an intention and then.

00:37:38.040 --> 00:37:44.640 Teresa de Grosbois: You know just start creating action around that and seeing where life takes you it's amazing some of the miracles that can come your way.

00:37:45.600 --> 00:37:55.860 Teresa de Grosbois: That your whoa that just happened wow you know and it's not actually something that you were really expecting are intending but it's just amazing you know.

00:37:56.460 --> 00:38:01.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: One of the things I often say is life has a much better imagination than I do.

00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:07.320 Teresa de Grosbois: Yes, yeah I love how Jennifer houses if you're doing a vision board or creating intention always right we're better.

00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:08.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or better yeah.

00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:15.840 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, because the EDC I couldn't have envisioned what it would become 12 years ago when I first started thinking about it.

00:38:16.530 --> 00:38:27.180 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, and I couldn't have dreamed this big you know I like, in fact, when I first stepped out from working in corporate and started working as a speaker trainer.

00:38:27.690 --> 00:38:36.300 Teresa de Grosbois: I couldn't have dreamed my life as incredible in an amazing as my life has become like the notion that i'd be living in Costa Rica and.

00:38:36.750 --> 00:38:43.410 Teresa de Grosbois: Helping to found an intentional Community down here and that i'd be running this bigger organization and speaking all over the world.

00:38:43.770 --> 00:38:53.400 Teresa de Grosbois: That was just like if somebody had told me that's who i'd be in 1520 years I would have laughed like are you give me a freakin break somebody else's life right.

00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:54.330 Teresa de Grosbois: Right.

00:38:54.570 --> 00:38:54.990 Teresa de Grosbois: But when you.

00:38:55.290 --> 00:39:12.000 Teresa de Grosbois: start to just surrender to what the universe has in store for you and, like open up to your own inner guidance and start living your life from a place of possibility, instead of a place of I need to know every step of the plan before actually move forward and start creating the plan.

00:39:13.020 --> 00:39:19.830 Teresa de Grosbois: it's pretty incredible what opens up from that realm you know it really is that is the miracle zone.

00:39:20.220 --> 00:39:30.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah absolutely absolutely yeah I if you told me that i'd be doing today what i'm doing you know 20 years ago I would have pending incredulous as well.

00:39:32.550 --> 00:39:34.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: He you know people.

00:39:36.330 --> 00:39:38.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: have to excuse me um.

00:39:39.750 --> 00:39:44.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know people don't often see the the correlation.

00:39:46.470 --> 00:39:47.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: With this.

00:39:48.330 --> 00:39:50.280 Teresa de Grosbois: Because I see I see.

00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:54.210 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah I don't see you know the.

00:39:54.300 --> 00:40:00.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: correlation between business and profit and doing something consciously and kind of having a spiritual practice.

00:40:00.870 --> 00:40:09.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and affecting people in a positive way, you know we have we kind of have this image of like well in order to be successful and make a lot of money, you have to step on people, you have to.

00:40:09.510 --> 00:40:27.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know grow, you know just just sell people, something that don't really need and do all this stuff but the reality is in business that you actually can be more profitable have more influence more impact if you do things in a very conscious sustainable thoughtful way right.

00:40:27.690 --> 00:40:41.280 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah absolutely I mean the world of business has changed radically in the last 30 years and I think the biggest changes like we know billionaires like Ray dalio who's you know, one of the top wealthiest men in the US.

00:40:41.790 --> 00:40:46.260 Teresa de Grosbois: Now talking on interviews about the importance of meditation to being a business leader.

00:40:46.590 --> 00:40:58.020 Teresa de Grosbois: Now isn't that fascinating right, so if you're only bringing your logical left brain to solving problems you're significantly living you're limiting yourself, whereas when you wake up to a higher consciousness.

00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:03.930 Teresa de Grosbois: Which is where you're using your whole brain your intuition your higher centers what we often talk about is your inner guidance.

00:41:04.020 --> 00:41:19.530 Teresa de Grosbois: Right, we are so much more genius at the level of intuition than we are at the level of left brain logic, not that left brain logic isn't informing our genius it's an important part of who we are, but when we limit ourselves to that.

00:41:20.220 --> 00:41:27.480 Teresa de Grosbois: Then we put ourselves in a little cage whereas when we open ourselves up to what's possible for human beings.

00:41:27.750 --> 00:41:30.510 Teresa de Grosbois: When we bring every part of our being to play.

00:41:30.990 --> 00:41:34.140 Teresa de Grosbois: Not just our left but, including our left brain logic.

00:41:34.350 --> 00:41:44.220 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, writing it all playing, and so I think that's been the biggest shift in business, like 30 years ago people would have said profit is the objective of business.

00:41:44.730 --> 00:41:50.490 Teresa de Grosbois: Right and then a lot of us conscious entrepreneurs started coming along and saying oh wait a minute that's not actually really true.

00:41:50.850 --> 00:42:00.150 Teresa de Grosbois: prophet is a measure of whether you're successful at business but it's not the reason you do business, the reason you do business is to serve people.

00:42:00.720 --> 00:42:10.830 Teresa de Grosbois: to serve humanity to serve a customer base, the objective is what what you're trying to do to change people's lives get them into a better behavior a new way of being.

00:42:11.250 --> 00:42:19.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Or you have some vision some passion that you need to bring into the world, and I remember Someone once said at a seminar I forget who.

00:42:20.190 --> 00:42:33.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That, if you look at the most successful people, the most successful kind of self made people none of them started their business or started the thing that really made them successful to make money.

00:42:33.900 --> 00:42:41.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Like they all started it because they had some vision, they had some idea, they had a passion that they had to get out there.

00:42:42.210 --> 00:42:50.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And, and because they were so passionate about it that's what made it so successful and they made so much money from it, but but they never started with the intention of.

00:42:51.180 --> 00:43:07.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Like Oh, this is, you know i'm doing this to be a billionaire you know, like like Richard Branson right he he didn't start the Virgin brand in order to become this like super wealthy person he just did it because it's what his desire was what was passionate as part.

00:43:08.520 --> 00:43:19.350 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah it's it's one of the great ironies of life right that, like our dreams, especially our dreams, to really do something significant in the world like our dreams, to really make a difference for other people's lives.

00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:29.970 Teresa de Grosbois: They are scarier to us than anyone else, because there are dreams, like her huge right because that's that's our dream that's our vision for our life and yet.

00:43:30.390 --> 00:43:39.360 Teresa de Grosbois: No one else will be better able to pull off your dreams than you because nobody else is going to be more passionate about it, nobody else is going to be as tenacious.

00:43:39.810 --> 00:43:54.390 Teresa de Grosbois: And when we talk to the top billionaires are the most successful people in the world, all of them have one common theme and the advice, they give they say, the road to success is paid with paved with failure right, so you want to be a billionaire learn how to fail quickly.

00:43:54.810 --> 00:44:01.470 Teresa de Grosbois: Right, so when you're doing something that you're deeply passionate about you're way more committed to it, your way more tenacious.

00:44:01.740 --> 00:44:09.750 Teresa de Grosbois: your ability to step past those failures is tenfold from someone who's doing something just because they think there's a paycheck at the end of the day.

00:44:10.470 --> 00:44:18.120 Teresa de Grosbois: And you know when you look at businesses that go bankrupt or go under they're not the businesses that are people that are really passionate about you know, like.

00:44:18.450 --> 00:44:29.400 Teresa de Grosbois: If I were not crazy passionate about the BBC I would have closed the doors on it three four times now already because we've gotten ourselves in trouble big time financially a few times, making really stupid decisions.

00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:33.510 Teresa de Grosbois: about how to do certain events or like then even again when covert hit like.

00:44:33.990 --> 00:44:41.670 Teresa de Grosbois: We had eight live events on the books when cove it hit and all of those hotels and facilities wanted us to be on the hook.

00:44:41.970 --> 00:44:54.870 Teresa de Grosbois: for paying for those facilities like to the tune of like a quarter million dollars that they all wanted us to pay out with events that weren't going forward, you know, like we had to bring in lawyers and six different states to help us negotiate through it all right.

00:44:55.080 --> 00:45:06.750 Teresa de Grosbois: So if it weren't something that those of us who lead it were super passionate and really believed in we would have declared bankruptcy half a dozen times already.

00:45:07.950 --> 00:45:12.150 Teresa de Grosbois: But when you have the perseverance to stick through it and really believe in something.

00:45:12.330 --> 00:45:22.260 Teresa de Grosbois: There is always a viable profitable successful impactful business model, on the other side if you can stick your way through this tough bits and the failures.

00:45:22.290 --> 00:45:27.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah yep same thing with the radio station, there were times when I thought about shutting it down when.

00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:38.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know there weren't that many hosts wasn't really making that money was costing me probably more than I was making but you know I just believed in it believed in the vision believed in what could what it could be.

00:45:38.520 --> 00:45:48.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And now it's doing better than ever before okay it's time for us to take our last break of the show when we come back i'd like to talk about how did you end up down in Costa Rica.

00:45:48.990 --> 00:46:03.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And, and what do you see in in the what's in the future for Teresa de gras and the evolutionary business Council and maybe I don't know if you maybe have a little something for our audience that you might want to let them know about so.

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00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:32.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity it just a quick shout out to loyal listener patty I see here on the Facebook live.

00:48:33.210 --> 00:48:47.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hopefully, loyal listeners William and sanai are out there also are listening to the recording afterwards so Theresa what's a good Canadian girl, like you, ending up in Costa Rica actually where were you where were you living right before you move down there.

00:48:47.730 --> 00:49:03.120 Teresa de Grosbois: I was live in Calgary I looked for 30 years Calgary Alberta I grew up I grew up in northern Ontario Canada, but after university I landed in in the oil and gas industry Canada live there for quite a while, just at the foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

00:49:04.380 --> 00:49:06.240 Teresa de Grosbois: And then I finally just got sick a winner.

00:49:07.560 --> 00:49:07.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Like.

00:49:07.980 --> 00:49:08.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Like a million bucks.

00:49:08.940 --> 00:49:10.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: winters like not.

00:49:11.670 --> 00:49:16.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Like like winter all year long not like New York City where winters like three, four or five months.

00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:20.400 Teresa de Grosbois: Eight months of nasty weather so.

00:49:20.820 --> 00:49:21.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What why Costa Rica.

00:49:23.310 --> 00:49:26.910 Teresa de Grosbois: You know that's a great question I wish I had a great answer um.

00:49:27.390 --> 00:49:35.970 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, there was there was probably a period there were you know, I was trying to look at what's next you know my kids are hitting university I now have way more freedom in my life.

00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:43.230 Teresa de Grosbois: we're actually talking about building a community in Calgary you know, like on the outskirts of Calgary buying a big piece of land and doing something and then.

00:49:43.830 --> 00:49:50.100 Teresa de Grosbois: As we were talking about that people kept coming at me saying you should really do this in Costa Rica, you should do something in Costa Rica, have you checked out Costa Rica.

00:49:50.730 --> 00:49:57.210 Teresa de Grosbois: And it wasn't like everybody was saying, you should go do some something somewhere in the south, they were literally all saying, Costa Rica.

00:49:57.720 --> 00:50:05.160 Teresa de Grosbois: And i'm one of those people that you know when I think when the universe starts beating you about the head with something you should pay attention.

00:50:05.670 --> 00:50:13.650 Teresa de Grosbois: And so Pam been my business partner and I came down here and just to explore and see you know what's possible and very quick quickly.

00:50:14.520 --> 00:50:26.040 Teresa de Grosbois: discovered the opportunity to work with a developer, to build a community, and it was you know something that just checked all the boxes, so we just leaned in and jumped in and move forward.

00:50:26.850 --> 00:50:30.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so what's the intention behind the intentional community.

00:50:31.890 --> 00:50:35.610 Teresa de Grosbois: it's really to bring together leaders from all over the world.

00:50:37.080 --> 00:50:48.090 Teresa de Grosbois: Just to live together and play together, you know so we've centered around a retreat Center we have a small retreat Center built here already, and, over time, we plan to build a much bigger retreat Center once the Community is a little bigger.

00:50:48.810 --> 00:50:56.760 Teresa de Grosbois: we're already hosting retreats and events, but it was really like born out of the the idea of like what if we could pick our neighbors.

00:50:56.790 --> 00:51:04.230 Teresa de Grosbois: Like people we hung out with were just the most amazing conversations of possibility and what's possible in the world and.

00:51:04.770 --> 00:51:13.290 Teresa de Grosbois: That we all just really lifted each other up and became this sort of safe space that when people need to recharge they can come down and visit and.

00:51:13.710 --> 00:51:22.020 Teresa de Grosbois: And just you know walking down the street meet incredible people that will just raise your vibration and help you get more tuned in and connected.

00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:34.560 Teresa de Grosbois: With what's really important in the world, and so it's been a really fun journey, you know at the moment we're still small but we're mighty we're we're just having a lot of fun creating and planting a food forest and.

00:51:35.790 --> 00:51:36.930 Teresa de Grosbois: Projects yeah.

00:51:36.990 --> 00:51:49.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful wonderful yeah I look forward to coming down they haven't made it down there yet, since since, since you started the Community but i'm definitely looking forward to coming down there and doing a retreat at the retreat Center um.

00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:57.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So where do you see things going from here what's next for the evolutionary business Council and Teresa de Beauvoir.

00:51:58.410 --> 00:52:02.730 Teresa de Grosbois: Well we've just rebranded the BBC In fact we brought in a whole new business partner.

00:52:02.730 --> 00:52:05.130 Teresa de Grosbois: susie Carter who i'm sure many people know.

00:52:05.460 --> 00:52:12.090 Teresa de Grosbois: You know she's legendary in the industry, for taking businesses to you know into the healthy seven figures.

00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:26.940 Teresa de Grosbois: But we brought her in because we realized, we needed to rebrand with profit is one of my pillars and profits, not what am I superpowers, I mean i'm solid with financial stuff but not from the standpoint of it's not one of my geniuses I can teach people influences my genius.

00:52:27.330 --> 00:52:30.090 Teresa de Grosbois: So we've been having a lot of fun with the rebrand.

00:52:31.170 --> 00:52:37.350 Teresa de Grosbois: Our next goal is to get up to the 1200 members that we've always envisioned so they were really deeply serving them.

00:52:37.500 --> 00:52:40.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And how many people just the BBC reach currently.

00:52:40.470 --> 00:52:43.080 Teresa de Grosbois: we're right now around 300 members so.

00:52:43.350 --> 00:52:45.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: No, no, no, but what's the influence.

00:52:45.120 --> 00:52:53.460 Teresa de Grosbois: Oh, the influence the collective reach of those Members is over half a billion people know so we're small but mighty you know.

00:52:54.060 --> 00:52:55.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Half a billion, and like.

00:52:55.260 --> 00:52:59.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Like close to 600,000 so you're close to halfway to that 1.2 billion goal.

00:53:00.270 --> 00:53:06.990 Teresa de Grosbois: yeah actually 600 million yeah so um so yeah we're actually halfway to the 1.2 billion, but.

00:53:08.370 --> 00:53:16.860 Teresa de Grosbois: it's just fascinating watching how we get there, you know the people that are in the organization keep drawing more people in this is really cool wonderful.

00:53:17.190 --> 00:53:29.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So so who who would you love to see come into like like who are some names of people let's even get specific like who some big influencers you'd love to draw into the organization.

00:53:29.610 --> 00:53:39.330 Teresa de Grosbois: You know I love it when big influencers do come in, like Doria cordova who runs one of the biggest businesses like we've got calling sprake and Janet attwood is a member of ABC.

00:53:39.900 --> 00:53:50.130 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, sometimes it's equally precious when someone who's just starting out on the realm of influence comes in and then all these heavy hitters start investing in them.

00:53:50.190 --> 00:53:52.590 Teresa de Grosbois: And their knowledge for their ideas.

00:53:52.650 --> 00:53:53.070 and

00:53:54.120 --> 00:53:57.330 Teresa de Grosbois: it's actually Both are equally magical to me.

00:53:57.570 --> 00:53:58.320 Teresa de Grosbois: You know.

00:53:59.340 --> 00:54:03.630 Teresa de Grosbois: it's it's kind of it's kind of special one, like the whole family's there.

00:54:03.870 --> 00:54:13.590 Teresa de Grosbois: You know what I mean like you know when you have a family gathering and like you have the 90 year old great grandmother in the corner who's telling stories of what it was like to live.

00:54:14.310 --> 00:54:30.870 Teresa de Grosbois: At five years ago and then you've got the baby in the corner who's just growing up, and you know it's a it's special in its diversity of experience levels and ranges like way more special in a daycare that would be all babies or an old hr.

00:54:31.530 --> 00:54:32.700 Teresa de Grosbois: Elderly right.

00:54:33.420 --> 00:54:41.580 Teresa de Grosbois: So it's kind of fascinating people ask me who's who's your favorite when you get more of and i'm like my favorite is to have more of all of it.

00:54:42.060 --> 00:54:53.340 Teresa de Grosbois: Because it's in the all of it that there is a real richness, that the BBC actually does become a lot like a family that really deeply supports each other and encourage each other on their path.

00:54:53.460 --> 00:55:03.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So somebody listening is thinking whoa am I a potential member for the BBC like How would someone self identify and go oh yeah This is something that I should check out.

00:55:03.660 --> 00:55:05.910 Teresa de Grosbois: If you think you might be you probably are.

00:55:07.050 --> 00:55:16.650 Teresa de Grosbois: So I would invite you to come to her website EB council.com and click the apply tab and sign up for one of our upcoming enrollment calls.

00:55:17.190 --> 00:55:30.090 Teresa de Grosbois: Because we explained on the enrollment calls how the organization works, how you join how you get involved you do need a sponsor we can help you find a sponsor if you need one, in fact, if you're listening to the radio show will probably get you sadly with wouldn't that be fun.

00:55:31.470 --> 00:55:43.350 Teresa de Grosbois: So yeah just come and check it out if if you feel like you might be drawn to that notice where your higher intuition is is taking you the universe doesn't make mistakes, you know.

00:55:43.890 --> 00:55:50.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: mm hmm absolutely absolutely so any special announcements anything you want to lc want to share with the audience.

00:55:51.060 --> 00:55:58.890 Teresa de Grosbois: Well, I the funnest thing i'm doing in the world, right now is down here at this demand and we're just setting up to do book writers Richard treats.

00:55:59.610 --> 00:56:02.760 Teresa de Grosbois: So i'm because i'm finding a lot of people coming at me one of the things.

00:56:03.180 --> 00:56:13.950 Teresa de Grosbois: Will I still do, but one of my earliest roots in business was teaching people how to become best selling authors, which I, one of the better track records on 100% track record and helping authors get on the bestseller list and.

00:56:15.090 --> 00:56:23.580 Teresa de Grosbois: So we decided well, that would be kind of fun if they could actually come down here in this special environment and write their book here in Costa Rica, just to unplug.

00:56:24.090 --> 00:56:32.400 Teresa de Grosbois: and get out to a really beautiful setting where they can actually be held, and I can do little workshops with them every morning to get them in the right mindset to write.

00:56:32.520 --> 00:56:44.460 Teresa de Grosbois: You know, so the last week of every month we're setting up to to do book treats down here, so if any of your listeners are inspired we're going to have the page for that up in about a week.

00:56:44.580 --> 00:56:52.080 Teresa de Grosbois: On vista mondo dot info so write it down and check back in a week and come join us and do you want to our book writers.

00:56:52.530 --> 00:56:54.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And that's vista Mundo va s.

00:56:54.570 --> 00:56:56.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: ta me.

00:56:56.670 --> 00:56:57.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yo yo.

00:56:57.750 --> 00:57:01.140 Teresa de Grosbois: The world in Spanish For those of you, I bless y'all.

00:57:03.900 --> 00:57:10.590 Teresa de Grosbois: it's a it's vista windows dot info if no, I said that wrong sorry.

00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:22.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, today, so thank you so so much I could interview you for hours and hours and hours and and I really I want to thank you for creating this organization, thank you for.

00:57:22.380 --> 00:57:33.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Keeping it going even when it wasn't easy and for all that you've done to put your your your money your energy your passion your spirit into it.

00:57:33.390 --> 00:57:52.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: i've personally gotten so much out of it if if you if anyone listening if you're at all potentially interested in joining the organization go to EB council.com and apply and check it out it's really I cannot say enough for it, so thank you.

00:57:52.980 --> 00:58:02.250 Teresa de Grosbois: Thank you some you know your contribution to the Organization has been massive so thank you and thank you for all you do for the world, I absolutely adore your show.

00:58:03.540 --> 00:58:04.470 Teresa de Grosbois: euless listeners.

00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:08.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And you're like my fourth time guest, I think.

00:58:10.110 --> 00:58:25.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Probably probably the guest who's come back the most and thank you, my loyal listeners for tuning in as you always do each week without you there is no show so everyone take care stay tuned of course 5pm today frank about health.

00:58:26.160 --> 00:58:31.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This week's guest is also a friend of mine, Catherine chadwick a wonderful woman who talks all about mental health.

00:58:32.100 --> 00:58:41.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So make sure you check that out with this co host to fill us Quinlan and tomorrow, of course, we have philanthropy and focus and always Friday wise content creates wealth and.

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