This week I welcome Monique Helstrom, Consultant, Speaker, and former Chief of Simon Sinek. We dive into a great talk about how she went from the event planning space to helping people unlock their human potential and how she overcame challenges that came up along the way. Monique and I discuss how leaders can help make sure company values are communicated clearly, and that people are hired in a way that speaks to the overall spirit of where the company wants to go. Monique talks about how we can first recognize signs of burnout and the larger spiritual meaning behind it. She talks about how organizations need true diversity for innovation, and why it’s a good thing if not everyone thinks and feels the same at work.
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Timestamps
[3:31] Monique has a background in karate and kickboxing. How do those sports help her in her work today?
[8:32] Monique talks about coming from the event planning space, and how that helped her learn how to deal with many different types of people and personalities.
[8:48] When you are going to a new company, make sure that you’re going to a place where you value their values.
[10:25] Monique 100% believes that collaboration and innovation happen because of diversity. We have to have people that think differently, have different strengths, see the world in a different way, and tackle problems from a different avenue.
[11:45] It’s good to be weird! Weirdness is unique and interesting.
[12:26] How can people start diversifying their organization?
[17:06] Monique explains what being a “conscious business” means to her and what she sees as traits of individuals who are leading or part of a conscious organization.
[23:05] Does the younger generation lack a work ethic? No! Many times they just want to feel as though they are contributing to something meaningful and part of a bigger picture.
[27:09] To Monique, spirituality means a connection to something bigger than yourself and a connection to something more capable than yourself.
[34:48] Finding your passion doesn’t have to mean just finding one job that you like. You can find passion in the everyday part of your life. It can be in waking up, taking a shower, what you eat, etc.
[44:12] Find out what speaks to YOU personally in defining your spirituality and meditation. It can be journaling, a walk in nature, or something that’s uniquely yours.
