{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Lead the People","title":"#46: The Well-Traveled Leader with Chris Failla","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2376,"description":"Chris is a husband, father, people and idea person. He helps energize people and teams through reframing stress, uncovering strengths, and cultivating connection. He’s been to 50 countries, worked with leaders on every inhabited continent, and hopes to get to Antarctica someday!\nTop 3 Takeaways\n\nCreate space. Our organizations and relationships at work have the potential to be places we go for healing and reinforcement. Making this a reality requires a new leadership approach.\nBe present. When you’re holding space with another person, do the little things that let them know you’re fully present with them. Turn off the phones, face them, and be all about them in that moment.\nLearn to love again. We don’t use the “L” word often enough at work. When we care deeply about those around us, we don’t have to make it awkward. We need to find our own way to let our love shine through.\n\nFrom the Source\n“Essentially, it's this sense that all of us are longing for wholeness, right? All of us are longing for integration, and every interaction is an opportunity to move closer to that or move further from it.”\n“So what if we could use that to create and cultivate these healing spaces? And the workplace is ready for it. As humans, we’re ready for it. So I guess the question is, are our organizations ready for it?“\n“The more that we can be those people that see the value, that see the importance, the significance of the person right in front of us, that in and of itself is strengthening.”\n“We have these assumptions that people can compartmentalize so well. The reality is that it's incredibly draining to try to compartmentalize these things that we all carry this emotional weight, these griefs, on a small scale to a large scale and to act like that's not affecting our capacity or to try to disregard it and just go on with business as usual, that's not sustainable.“\n“So do we even notice the nuance and the contours of somebody's world? And that has to do with slowing down, right?...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/o852s7Ljq2fxvNhM2wAX6FEYs5tcnEvuQ7Pb0h1_KDE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hODhm/YzA1ZTg2MDllZThi/OTE2ZWQ4YmEyNWI0/MWRlMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}