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Host Ryan Millar takes input from an audience member and gives some heartfelt and hopefully helpful advice and a bit of a pep talk. From a rowboat on a lake to a busy Roman street, each episode takes place somewhere different.
Why hey. How are you? Greetings, fellow earthling, and welcome to Remote Pep Talks. My name is Ryan Millar, and I am your, your host and guide and general, guy here on Remote Pep Talks. And if you don't know what this is about, it is essentially a moment, for you to sit with me and me to sit with you and and reflect on on thoughts and ideas, things that are happening.
Speaker 1:And as the title suggests, it takes place, somewhere remotely, so I'm not there next to you. And it's also a pep talk, so it has a positive spin to it. And this remote pep talk is a chance for me to talk a little bit about, a risk that I took recently and the implications it had, how it went, and, maybe there's some joy and inspiration for you to take from it. It has to do with me taking a trip to outer space recently. I'll tell you more about it in a moment.
Speaker 1:For now, let's go to space. Greetings, Earthling, people of Earth. Yes. This is your space commander, Ryan Millar. Welcome to interplanetary exploration.
Speaker 1:Now, all of that, of course, is not actually accurate. If you were wondering, I'm not really in space nor did I take a trip to space, but I did recently take a trip to Brussels, the heart of the European Union, and participate in a workshop for standards negotiators. And I was I was there as what was called a tutor to bring some communication activities and exercises to the group of 60 plus people from across Europe. And the reason we're in space right now is because I did something with them that I had never done before with any other group, but I had this, I had this idea. You see, I don't know anything about food standards, so I can't help them with the technical parts of their job.
Speaker 1:But I wanted to bring the work that I do with DashWell and the work I do on my own and try it in this context and see if I can help them with their negotiating skills. So I came up with a game, a game I called Space Race Quest. And on the morning of the second day, I gave all of these groups packages of paper. And these different pieces of paper had either the persona that they would have to adopt, whether they were the resource seeker or the explorer or the diplomat. And another set of papers had destinations on them, different made up planets, and some planets would appeal more to the diplomat and some more to the explorer, etcetera.
Speaker 1:And I also had papers that had roles for how they would negotiate together and different a few people had specific roles in these negotiations. And I got really excited making this game up and working with some, some AI input to help me design it so that all of the destinations would be more or less equally appealing and equally unappealing. And, all of these personas would, work together, and some could combine, and some could clash and and everything. And I put the game together, and I felt really good about it. But I realized that I actually had put myself on the not on the horns of a dilemma, not at a fork in the road, but at a a place where it was either going to sink or swim because I had a real cool ass exercise that could also flop enormously.
Speaker 1:And I think a little bit, that's kind of what I want to do with my work through through DashWell, through the workshops, through the coaching I do is, not deliver the same old presentations, not give people material they may encounter elsewhere, but really use my own creativity, my own ideas, and my own experiences to make something that really only I can give them. And the good news is, of course, in this and I would probably wouldn't be telling you about this if the game had indeed flopped, but it was great. There was lots of energy. People had a lot of fun. They really debated which planet they would go to and why, and they practiced listening, repeating back what they had heard, and evolving their own position to find a compromise that would work for everybody, you know, like good negotiators do.
Speaker 1:And for the rest of that day after that exercise, they got into more, realistic negotiating scenarios, but with the buoyant energy of having done this fun and fantastical and, you know, relevant activity, but one that also didn't really resemble their own work at all. So there was no stakes involved, but it was role play. And I think the lesson that I take from that and that I want to offer is that, you know, the the risky road, the doing something that maybe only you can offer, the thing that might, might succeed and might flop is often more rewarding and gives you more or certainly, it gave me more energy than doing something that I was like, this is right down the middle. This is guaranteed to go alright. It's a c plus all the way through.
Speaker 1:Because I think that, you know, this is quite a grandiose statement, but I think the world needs more, a plus options. It needs more interest, in in things where people are doing their best work, putting stuff out there that they care about, that they're challenged by. And again, not to make too much of this, goofy space race quest game, but this is definitely the kind of work that I want to be doing, that I like doing, and that I think is really my best stuff. And that's not a decision or realization that I could have come to by, cooking up something that's ultimately a little bit lukewarm. So as we continue our orbit of the solar system, our journey through the galaxy, I invite you to do the same, to find your own version of that, your own version of something, something goofy, something fun, something playful, but something challenging, something that has real risks and stakes to it, and bring that work on that and see what that brings you.
Speaker 1:And again, it may not work, but, you know, as they say in space travel, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Oh, hey, look out the port side window and wave hello to planet Earth as we pass. Alright. Alright. Alright.
Speaker 1:That was it. That was clean, easy, and yet galactically provocative or thereabouts. That's it. We are we are at the end of this remote pep talk. Thank you very much for listening.
Speaker 1:Thank you that to to you. That's you right there. Very much appreciate, you donating your ear holes, and I hope you get something from this. And I'd also like to thank, my man, Josh Boone, Josh, Bone forty for the music and the, the contributors from freesound.org who helped me with the science fiction soundscape. So that's Audio Popkin, Apollo Yavas, and Treble Booster.
Speaker 1:I think this was this was fun, you know, to make it kinda spacey, you know, to go on bang on theme on brand. And that's it. And, again, as I mentioned during this episode, I do a lot of work through my own company, DashWell Coaching and Training at dashwell.org. If you're interested in that or signing up for the mailing list, head over to that website and get yourself on the mailing list, I'll send you periodically interesting emails with, thoughtful content. And that's it.
Speaker 1:So, yeah. Until next time. Enjoy your your day and especially because it's happening here in this moment. Enjoy your right now.