This episode is for you if you want some real gold and wisdom around navigating the light and dark in our human experience with the medicine of awareness and acceptance!
Show Notes
Rick has gone on many adventures following the magic that life lures him into. He has learnt leadership from the edges and the trenches and is passionate about how self-awareness can be a super power for modern day leaders. Through tragedies, both in and out of his control, he has come to a place of simplicity focussing on making the world a little better than what he found it. His journeys has taken him from building a nationwide multimillion dollar organisation in his twenties through to finding his peace deep in New Zealand’s native forest.
In this episode we explore:
- The journey of returning home to papatuuaanuku
- The balancing of masculine and feminine energy within
- The power of vulnerability to transform insecurity
- How ambition and narcissism are closely linked
- The importance of acceptance in the light and dark
- Why we need to get off the treadmill of light-seeking
- How to notice where you’re in the drama triangle
- How leadership is what you take responsibility for
- Where we create suffering in our lives and how to overcome it
- Acceptance and awareness as healing balms
- Navigating an open heart space through trauma
- How your darkness is also your light
Connect with Rick on Instagram via @riekertfrancois or https://www.consciouscollective.nz/
Listen to Maria’s episode here https://open.spotify.com/episode/1sW7uLASfRq2bQDeLVauLj?si=288efa97a9c245c7
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