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152: Glowing in the Dark with Kristoffer 'KC' Carter

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This week’s episode is another one of my favorite formats, just two new (soul) friends shooting the breeze in what we’ve dubbed a “podcast tango” :) Given that we both have podcasts, we decided to just hit record and do this joint conversation, neither of us officially interviewing the other. I hope you enjoy this conversation jam with insta-BFF Kristoffer “KC” Carter (shout-out to our mutual mensch mentor Jonathan Fields who introduced us!), whose new podcast This Epic Life is one I know you’ll also love. We deepen our budding BFF-ship and discuss the BIG topics of life—including death, dips, permission to shine, business pivots, his yogic and meditation practices, and much more.

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More About Kristoffer Carter

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Kristoffer Carter (“KC”) is the Catalyst in Chief of This Epic Life, and the creator of the Full-Life Integration™ Framework. KC is a culture and meditation advisor for companies, and personal transformation coach for leaders. As a meditation teacher, KC has over 33,000 active students on Insight Timer. As a workplace culture consultant, he has designed, or is delivering conscious leadership programs for AT&T, Avery-Dennison, Good Life Project™, Litera Microsystems, and more. “His sweet-spot is in optimizing the employee experience to drive business objectives.” -Deb Josephs (Chief People Officer, IAC Applications). KC’s Mission + Values-centric programs have been featured in Business Insider, onstage at TEDx (“What if change was FUN?”) and Wisdom 2.0, and in countless conferences and podcast interviews.

 Topics We Cover

  • Spiritual values that underpin business

  • Giving powerful presence even to mentors where you’re insecure you don’t have anything to offer

  • "Uncertainty and change are a given. Playing change as a game makes everything possible.”

  • KC’s role as the host of This Epic Life podcast that explores three powerful permissions that give us access to our highest expression — permission to chill, permission to feel all the feels, permission to Glow in the Dark

  • Glowing in the light - completely unapologetic bravery to put your work out there in its fullest expression - be a light-worker

  • Ontological coaching, being versus posturing to stay safe

  • Embracing bliss, being willing to break through upper limits

  • Jenny’s experience at the Union Theological Seminary

  • Four questions to completion: we both work through them as related to our businesses

  • Both of our word of the year: abunDANCE (KC’s emphasis) 

  • The importance of celebration and receiving support

  • His practice and discovery of Kriya yoga

  • Make your office a sanctuary, your commute a joyride, and your ride home an exhale.

  • Make your body a temple and do your best with it. Make your clients your allies, and make your allies your family.

  • Accept no limiting BS stories, and distinguish them as such with LOVE, and patience.

  • Living by tremendous and magnificent filters

  • KC’s mantra is the anonymous quote: It always works out in the end, so if it’s not working out, it’s not the end.

Resources Mentioned

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