How many of you have heard of that saying
listen to your inner voice? Can you show me?
How many of you?
Yeah, everyone's heard this saying
but keep your hand up if you know exactly how to access it.
Ohhhh.... what about communicate with it?
Oh, well that's ok because I was the same.
Years ago I had no idea how to access my intuition.
As Adam so kindly introduced,
My name is Caron Margarete but everyone just calls me Caz, and I'd invite you to do the same.
I am a Results Coach
And I'm also the founder of Your Inner Mentor [Results Coaching]
I enable my clients to transform their lives by
[ha] excuse me... transform their lives and their business
and their employees, by enabling them to access and communicate with their intuition.
As business owners, and top execs and actors, I hear, are in the room as well
why would it be important for you to develop your intuition?
What is it that you need to get from this experience?
The number one benefit
is that it enables you to develop your problem solving skills
but it also enables you to design a better future for yourself
but also for your business and its employees
Let me tell you a quick story.
So when I was growing up, we didn't use words like 'intuition' or 'insight'
that gut feeling, it wasn't known.
My father is a wonderful man, but he is logical and analytical
and he's very linear and he was quite strict
My mother on the other hand, well she was creative and imaginative and an artist
so you can imagine the juxtaposition I grew up in.
It was a [dis]balance in what I was doing.
a disparity that I couldn't make sense of
and I developed no confidence, low self-esteem.
And this opened the door to people, kids, to pick on me, to bully me.
I think everybody at some point has experienced people putting you down
making you feel less, but as a child it's hard.
When I was growing up in Australia there was a TV character called Fat Cat.
Essentially a big man in a big cat suit
and the show was called Fat Cat & Friends.
These kids, the ones that would pick on me and bully me, well, they saw a weakness and they took advantage.
"Fat Cat no friends," they would call. Not Fat Cat and friends.
Fat Cat NO friends.
Now as an eight year, nine year old, you can imagine the effect
You already don't like yourself, and yet, now you have no friends. Now you have no confidence.
On one particular hurtful day, I went home crying
and I told my, I told myself, I just want to talk to my mum
but my mum is a nurse and she was working night duty and she wasn't available. She was sleeping.
And I had nobody. And I went to my room and I was sobbing
and I ripped open a book and a pen and I just started scrawling
well, I did more than that. I actually swore a bit and I hated a few people, called people a few names.
But what I did was, I released.
The anger and the pain on to those pages
Later I told mum of that experience and she said, "you know, Cazzie, I'm so proud of you.
what you did was you connected with yourself
your diary, as I call it my journal,
that's your connection to who you really are
that's what you need to always listen to."
You know, unbeknownst to me at the time, and keep in mind I was, what? Nine years old.
I didn't know that what I had actually done was given myself a tool to access my intuition
and to communicate with my true self.
Let's have a look at what intuition is.
I think we all have our own meanings
My definition is that it is a natural instinctive ability
to understand something that is deep within us
it's intuitive, but it's not known in our conscious mind. It goes deeper than that.
When we look at psychology, we can look back at Freud and he called it the subconscious mind,
and Jung, he called it the collective unconscious.
In more modern terms though, and particularly in business, which is relevant to most of you in the room
I like the 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell.
It's called Blink... it's called, ah, Blink, the Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
In it, he likens intuition to
a super computer within us
quietly and quickly it processes information without our conscious mind being aware of it
and I guess that's similar to coding where the program's all zeros and ones
alongside this, is the idea that I have that we have three voices
The first voice, that which we speak
The second voice, that which we think.
But there is a third voice and it's that intuitive voice.
the one that guides us through our decisions and through our days.
That's the one I call, my Inner Mentor.
Your Inner Mentor.
And the role of your Inner Mentor really is to guide you through every single day
It's there to help you. It's there to answer your questions, enable you to make good decisions.
Force you to feel right from wrong
But most importantly, it's there to educate you and to inspire you to be the best versions of yourself.
How much would you love to know every single day that you're living from the best version of yourself? Show of hands.
Living every single day being the best that you can possibly be
There's a problem though,
There wasn't enough hands up in this room when I asked that question.
And that suggests to me that there's too many people that are feeling blocked and not connected with themselves
and I think that we need to remember that despite the wall, there's always a door. There's always an access.
There's always a way.
Blocks might look like, things your telling yourself, that you're not as successful as you want to be
You know, you're feeling overwhelmed by all these ideas. You want to be of service to the world, but you don't know how to do that.
Well, I'd like to challenge you because I think you do.
I think there's absolutely a way.
So, when I felt a block in myself a few years ago, I wanted to have a podcast. I loved podcasts.
But I wanted to be a host. Now, in my work as a Results Coach, I'm really really fortunate to meet amazing people. And, they're really inspiring people.
But what I found was that I kept saying, "you can't do it, you're not good enough, no one's going to listen to you."
But, here's the thing, I'd be a pretty crap Results Coach if I didn't push myself.
if I didn't challenge myself.
So, one of the tools, and I used quite a few, but one of the tools was my journal.
And I opened the page and I just simply wrote the question, 'What the ... F* is your problem?'
[Audience laughter]
And I'm quite serious, big letters. I just can't say that word, you know.
But, this process of asking ourselves that hard question must be followed through with the truth.
And through, quite a bit of work, I discovered I had a fear of success.
I was afraid. And I know what fear feels like. I'm sure everyone in this room has experienced fear. Am I right?
[Audience: "Yes"]
Yeah... but we can work through it.
What I did to challenge myself, to open that journal and to ask that question
meant that when I came off maternity leave in August of this year [2016] I got to work.
Despite that I told myself that I didn't have the money, and I didn't have a team and I couldn't afford them. I found a way.
And my team and I, I'm so pleased to say, launched our podcast [Your Third Voice], eight weeks ago.
[Audience applause] Thank you. There are six lives interviews
and I'm amazed to learn that even though we did no social media marketing per se and paid advertising
just through word of mouth, we've been able to get seven hundred downloads
off six interviews people, that is amazing!
So, I feel that this podcast educates and inspires my inner mentor
and I truly believe its there to educate and inspire yours too.
It's there to encourage you. To give you information that is positive and encouraging.
It's a tool you can use when you're not feeling like you're able to get what you need out of your day.
I invite you all to access yourselves, access your Inner Mentor.
But to know that there are outlets out there, that you can use all the time, to guide you
Now, I love working with clients who are professionals in their own right but they're also really motivated by learning
and being open-minded. They're encouraged by change, and they're not going to shy away from the hard work.
Other clients are working on stuff that they really believe on ... believe in, rather
And one of things that encourages me in the work that I do, is the belief that you need to access and communicate with your Inner Mentor
or you do risk cutting yourself off from creativity
your innovation, your ability to live your whole self.
I fundamentally believe that your Inner Mentor is always right
And it's crucial that you learn to work with your Inner Mentor, otherwise, all you do is work.
You know, that J. O. B. It's possible, through the work that I do, to have both.
Now, it could be that your lifestyle is such that you have to have a job, you have to get money
or you know you're in a place where you know you want to do more, but you can't.
Something's preventing you. But there is absolutely a way you can have both.
And it's about how you plan, what you focus on
And it's the accountability that Results Coaching brings to the building of your success every single day
Working with a Results Coach means that you actually have somebody that's got your back,
that's able to look at your business in a holistic way.
But the same goes when you work for a corporation
Some of my clients are corporates, and I work for the company
but for the employees, particularly if they're in transition.
Can you imagine working for a corporate and they're downsizing?
And you know that you're going to lose your job or be moved on to a different department?
The fear that happens. The insecurities.
I work with you to make sure that you feel comfortable, that you feel safe but that you have a plan
and that you can move forward with some confidence.
This slide [not shown], sums up really what it's all about because you really need to ask yourself
do you want to remain comfortable or are you prepared to work through those difficulties
and grow as people, in your businesses, in your lives
and then also, let the rest of your family's and your friends receive the reward of the better version of yourself
I invite you to come and have a chat to me, after the talk, after the session today
Ask me any questions you have.
I truly believe it's possible that you can access and communicate with your Inner Mentor every single day.
Before I leave you, I'd like to say, thank you. I'm so grateful.
[Audience applause] Thank you.
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