Being Is the New Doing Podcast

C'est quoi un employé IA ? (Et pourquoi je refuse de dire « agent »)

I'm so sorry! I made a mistake and uploaded this podcast to the wrong publication. Anyway, I am grateful to everyone who has listened to this french episode so far, so I am going to leave it here. My apologies to all my English-speaking audience! Un agent IA, c’est un outil. Un employé IA, c’est une présence. Cet épisode, je le voulais court. 11 minutes. Le temps d’un café. Pour te raconter pourquoi je refuse de dire « agent » et pourquoi je dis « employé ». Un outil, on l’utilise. Une présence, on l’entraîne. Tu lui donnes du contexte. Tu lui donnes ta voix. Tu lui donnes tes décisions passées, tes lignes rouges, ta méthode, tes clients. Tu le briefes comme tu briefes une humaine qui débute chez toi. Et au bout de quelques semaines, on ne voit plus que ce n’est pas toi. Dans mon entreprise, j’ai cinq catégories d’employés IA. Les agents de flux. Les créateurs de contenu. Les passeurs. Les sentinelles. Les gardiens de mission. Tu vas découvrir ce que chacun fait dans mon entreprise. Et surtout, dans quel ordre les recruter quand toi tu commences. Chacune de ces recrues, elle peut être à 4 niveaux d’autonomie. Du freelance ponctuel au directeur qui tourne tout seul, en passant par l’employée interne et l’employée avec les clés. La règle : le but n’est jamais de monter jusqu’au 4. Le but est de choisir le bon niveau pour la bonne tâche. Et la chose que personne ne te raconte quand on te vend « automatise ta vie en 30 jours » : Pour entraîner un employé qui te ressemble, il faut savoir à quoi toi tu ressembles. C’est précisément pour ça que le 19 juin existe. Deux heures en Zoom. Une démo live d’un employé IA. Et surtout, on regarde par où toi tu commences. 🎯 Momentum du 19 juin · valeriedemont.ch/momentum [https://valeriedemont.ch/momentum] Et après ça, on pourra creuser ensemble cet été. Pour aujourd’hui, écoute l’épisode. 11 minutes pour comprendre ce qui change quand on passe d’agent à employé. Prends bien soin de tes good vibes, Valérie Get full access to The Awakened Entrepreneur at demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

The Most Underrated Skill in the AI Age

You know the kind. A migraine that arrives at four in the afternoon and feels like someone strapped a bag of sand to your forehead. Shoulders that creep up to your ears between two meetings and refuse to come back down. A knot in the stomach the morning of the launch. A jaw locked at three a.m. for no reason your brain can name. We have all had one. Probably this week. And what most of us do, with that signal, is reach for an ibuprofen. Or a coffee. Or a deeper breath we forget two minutes later. Last Friday, my client had a migraine. Not one of her usual ones. This one had weight on it. A lead helmet on her head. A bar across her eyes. Fog in her brain. Brief due. Three calls. Inbox that would not quit. She closed the laptop at four thirty. Saturday morning at seven, she called me. Clear. Light. Recalibrated. And she said something I have not stopped thinking about: I think my body did the work I was refusing to do, I’ve been recalibrated. I know that sentence. I have lived it. I still live it, occasionally, on the weeks where I miss the whisper. The shoulders climb. The jaw locks. The stomach turns at a meal I love. And every single time, when I trace it back, the same thing is true. Something I said yes to was not aligned. A collaboration that did not smell right. A direction I took because the logic was clean, even though the body was already saying no. Here is why this matters more than ever right now. In 2026, most of us are no longer working only with humans. We are collaborating with AI employees. With agents. With LLMs that produce a draft, a structure, a strategy in thirty seconds. And the question we have to ask, every single time, is not just is this good? The brain can answer that one. Pros and cons, sharp and fast. The real question is the one only the body can answer: Does this sound like me? Is this actually mine? Is this aligned for my company, for my voice, for the work I am here to do? You will feel it as a small expansion in the chest, or a small contraction in the gut. You will feel it before you can put words on it. And learning to hear that, early, before the migraine, before the contract you will regret, before the launch that drains you, that is the most underrated business skill of 2026. Not prompt engineering. Not productivity stacks. The body, in conversation with the work. It is a skill, in the real sense. Something to tame, to hear, to respect. Something that gets sharper with practice and dulls when ignored. In this episode, I share what my client said on Saturday morning, why this listening matters more than ever in the AI age, and one small invitation for your week ahead. 📚 Order Being Is the New Doing on Amazon → https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct [https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct] 🌿 Save the date: Tuesday June 23, 2026. I am opening Momentum, the English version. My first ever group offering in English. Two hours, once a month, for conscious entrepreneurs who want to keep training that listening in real time. DM me, or subscribe to be on the list when registration opens [https://valeriedemont.ch/en/momentum-circle/]. Take care of your good vibes, Valérie Get full access to The Awakened Entrepreneur at demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Your rituals stopped working? That's your upgrade talking.

She had a ritual. Every time she had to present in a room, on a big Zoom, she’d arrive early, always. Walk in. Breathe the space to feel it and align herself. Take a few long exhales before the noise. It worked for years, beautifully, reliably. Then last year, everything started fighting her. The train delayed or found no parking. Arriving on foot, sweaty, exactly on time, zero margin. The next meeting: a technical failure. Zoom wouldn’t load. She joined late. The important decisions had already been made. And so on. She told me: I’ve lost access to my inner guidance. I don’t know how to decide anymore. I looked at her and said: No my dear, you haven’t lost anything: your old system just doesn’t fit where you’re going. In this episode, we talk about what no one names: What happens when you outgrow your own operating system and what it feels like to live through that. Here’s what I see again and again with the entrepreneurs I work with closely. They’ve done the work, retreats, therapy, years of inner exploration. They have a very precise way of accessing their intuition: a specific time, a specific state, a specific sequence of things that opens the channel. It works… until it doesn’t. * Until the day the train is late. * Until the Zoom breaks. * Until life refuses to cooperate with their system. And the story they tell themselves is: I’ve lost it. I’ve regressed. I’ve disconnected. Or a more evolved version — because the people I work with are sophisticated — is: maybe I’m just not ready. Maybe I need more inner work before I can step into what’s next. Both versions say the same thing: the problem is me and I want to offer a completely different lens. You have enough fixings. You are perfect, as is life. Now it's time to step into your complete version of yourself! When I looked at what was actually happening with my client — I call her Clara — I saw something she couldn’t see from inside it. She didn’t lose access to her inner guidance, she was being supported 👉 The decisions got made in her favor, without her needing to fight for them. Life was showing her, repeatedly and insistently, that she didn’t need to control the conditions anymore. Her old system was built on a belief: I need to prepare. I need to arrive first. I need to set the scene. I need to perform rituals to access my intuition and channel it.That belief served her well. For a long time, it got her here. But she’s being called into a C-level role now — something significantly larger. The old system, which was based on controlling conditions, is absolutely not accurate for the new posture. I’ve been there too. In autumn 2022… I found myself sitting on the floor of my friend’s kitchen, crying, saying I couldn’t take it anymore. Nothing was moving. And she said, receiving it from her own guides: Valérie, you have to stop using your Excel spreadsheet. (I mean that literally. I had a spreadsheet for everything. A beautifully organized container for the illusion of control.) What she was pointing at: my system of mental planning had become a wall between me and my own intuition. I had to dismantle it — to get back to what I actually knew from the inside. And then rebuild from there. Inner governance first. Structure second. Tools third. Not the other way around. Especially these days, with AI reshaping the middle layer of every industry and the rules rewriting themselves in real time. The entrepreneurs who will move through this period well are the ones who don’t need the conditions to be ideal. Who are connected to their inner compass not as a Tuesday morning ritual, but as a way of operating — a permanent frequency. That’s a different thing from having practices. And getting there often requires an upgrade, or in some cases, a complete reinstall of the internal system. If you’ve been feeling cut off from your own guidance, if your rituals feel flat, if your decisions don’t feel like yours, before you conclude something is wrong with you, please change your point of view and ask a different question: What if my system is simply too small for where I’m going? Sometimes losing access to your old guidance means you’re at a threshold and the way through is to start learning the new one, not to fix the old system. And honestly? I’m so glad for you if you’re living that. Because we need you to upgrade for the new paradigm. Ready to learn your new operating system? My book Being Is the New Doing walks through the six-stage FLUIDE framework — each stage a layer of the operating system. It’s the same process I use with the entrepreneurs I mentor closely. 📖 Order on Amazon → https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct [https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct] Want to work through this directly, together? → valeriedemont.ch/en/product/powerweek [http://valeriedemont.ch/en/product/powerweek/]/ Get full access to The Awakened Entrepreneur at demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Your Business Won't Grow Beyond What You Can Hold Inside

Welcome to the After-Launch Party 🎉 The book is out, Being Is the New Doing is in the world. I wanted to celebrate that the way that feels most true to me with real conversations with people whose work I genuinely admire, and whose lives are — each in their own way — a living proof of what this book is about. So this is the After-Launch Party. Five lives. Five conversations [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/t/being-is-the-new-doing]. This is the last one — and it’s the most personal. Being Is the New Doing is structured around the acronym FLUIDE — six dimensions of an aligned life and business: Foundations, Liberation, Unicity, Intuition, Deployment, and Evolution. This conversation lives in the “E” — Evolution — as a lived experience of allowing what wants to emerge, rather than forcing what you think should happen. I invited Renee Spears Abundology [https://substack.com/profile/73139394-renee-spears-abundology] because she was there from the beginning. She heard me say “I think I’m going to write a book” before I’d written a word. She was there during the editing, the proofreading, the translation into English. She was the first person to have me on her podcast to talk about it and she knows the backstage in a way almost nobody else does. (I also visited her in Montana last summer for one of her amazing 1-1 spiritual business retreat, and that alone tells you everything about the quality of this friendship.) Renee is a spirit guide channeler, spiritual mentor, and the host of the Abundology podcast — 450 episodes, six years, two missed Sundays. She channels messages from people’s guides. She describes herself as a translator from the spirit world to English. And in this conversation, she channeled her own guides live, on air, in front of an audience. Which is not something I planned. It just happened. (As things tend to do when the energy is right.) The Awakened Entrepreneur is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free subscriber or paid subscriber and access to my Monthly Circle [00:05:47 — 00:07:16] The name Abundology came to Renee during an acupuncture session. The needle went into her third eye, and she received a complete download: the name of her company, the work she’d be doing, the direction of her life. She’d just sold the mortgage company she’d built over 20 years — started in her living room, grown into something real — and she had no idea what came next. Six months of puzzles, chocolate, pedicures, and waiting. The word wasn’t one she’d heard before. She went home and Googled it. It existed, vaguely, in some other context. She followed the guidance anyway. And the name, she says, really does fit — because abundance for her was never primarily about money. It was about joy, presence, beauty, the richness of a life fully inhabited. That’s why I invited her for the last conversation of this series. She doesn’t just talk about this. She lives inside it. The year income doubled by shifting to joy [00:11:32 — 00:12:18] About ten years into running her mortgage company, Renee was deeply unhappy. She had been focused on the numbers, the bottom line, the revenue targets. And she made a decision that, by conventional business logic, sounds almost irresponsible: she stopped looking at the numbers and shifted her entire focus to joy, to appreciation, to the quality of her relationships with her employees and clients, to the journey itself. The first year she did that, income doubled. She said this without drama, almost as a footnote, as if it confirms something so obvious it barely needs stating. Which, if you’ve read the book, it does. But I want to sit with it for a moment because it’s the kind of thing that sounds like a motivational poster until you actually live it and then it sounds like physics. The live channeling: what the guides said about AI [00:24:33 — 00:30:07] Somewhere in the middle of our conversation, I asked Renee to channel her guides live. She doesn’t usually do this for herself she normally works with other people’s guides. So she was curious too. The question I gave them: What do they have to say about AI, and how do we use this time well as entrepreneurs? What came through: “AI is an integral part of this collective consciousness shift. It’s going to free up energy and attention from the things that don’t need us as much — so we can redirect toward connection, authenticity, and knowing ourselves. Because that’s the work of this era, not the eight-hour business plan. Getting to know who we actually are, right now, in this new version of ourselves.” And then the part I want you to read twice: “We are not who we were six months ago, let alone five years ago. And so even if you did know who you were, this is a new version of you.” So the question isn’t just “who am I.” It’s: who am I becoming? And am I awake enough to meet that person? Pfiou! OMG! AI sucking our authenticity [00:29:52 — 00:30:13] Renee also said something she and I had talked about before (see the video below), and I want it here because it’s precise: AI risks sucking our authenticity. Not because it’s malicious, but because if you don’t know yourself well enough to evaluate what it gives you, you’ll use it to define you rather than serve you. This is the same point Stefanie made about the inner compass. [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/p/the-inner-compass-nobody-teaches?r=2t5zyu] The same point Iva made about design [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/p/when-you-stop-forcing-things-actually?r=2t5zyu]. The same thread running through all five conversations: the external world — AI, algorithms, other people’s opinions, financial forecasters telling you a company that doesn’t grow will die — can only disorient you if you don’t have a strong enough signal on the inside. The work isn’t resisting AI. The work is knowing yourself well enough to use it as a tool rather than let it become your voice. Peace starts within (not out there). [00:30:46 — 00:32:35] I pushed the guides on the practical question 🤷‍♀️ the one my entrepreneur mind needed to ask: How do you keep inner peace when you have a company to run, invoices to pay, salaries, taxes? If I spend time on myself, who’s paying the bills? The answer through Renee was clean: “That’s scarcity thinking dressed up as pragmatism. The shift isn’t about spending three hours a day in meditation instead of running your business. It’s about the quality of presence you bring to the marketing plan, to the client session, to the proposal. Are you doing it from “I got to get this done” or from peace and joy and abundance? Because those are two completely different energies. And they produce different results.” And then: “If you aren’t open to this shift, you’re going to get smacked upside the head with something not working to get you to shift.” She said it with a smile, the guides said it with precision. We’ve all seen this: * The sore knee that forced Renee to sit still and receive ideas she wouldn’t have had otherwise. * The meeting I’ve missed that turned into an afternoon in the sun. Everything happening for you, not to you, if you’re awake enough to read it that way. A company that doesn’t grow will die. But what is growth? 💥 Spoiler alert: that's not how it works in the new paradigm. [00:52:41 — 00:55:51] One of my clients sent me a voice note earlier that day. She’d been in a meeting with her financial forecaster, who told her: a company that doesn’t grow will die. I asked Renee — and the guides — what they thought. The answer: “That’s our old-fashioned idea of growth. Revenue up, headcount up, complexity up, overhead up. And when revenue went up in that model, for most of Renée’s friends who ran companies, happiness went down. Because more revenue often meant more everything — more work, more people to manage, more costs, more pressure. The number grew. What was left didn’t.” She asked the question I want to ask every entrepreneur I work with: What does success actually mean to you? Is it a company that doubles revenue every four years? Or is it: I make great income. I work with people I genuinely like. I have time for my life and my family. I leave work feeling like myself. If it’s the first one : how can you have a healthy business if the people inside it aren’t healthy? If the owner isn’t healthy? That’s not a company that’s thriving. That’s a number that’s growing while everything underneath it deteriorates. For the first time in history, we get to choose how we evolve [00:51:15 — 00:52:08] Renee quoted Barbara Marx Hubbard — something she’d heard in a talk years ago that has stayed with her. The idea: this is the first time in human history that we get to consciously choose how we evolve. Before, evolution was driven by necessity. We needed lungs. We needed to walk upright. We needed whatever the environment demanded. Now, it’s consciousness. We get to choose how we want our businesses to evolve. Our souls. Our societies. That’s a completely different position to be in. And the invitation, from the guides and from this conversation, is to approach what’s happening with wonder rather than fear. Not “what is this going to destroy” but “what wonderful thing is going to come from this.” Not reactive in the sense of scrambling. Reactive in the sense of open, receiving, present. So here’s what I’m leaving you with: If your business stopped growing tomorrow — in revenue, in headcount, in scope — but everything inside it became healthier, lighter, more joyful: would that be a failure? And if the answer makes you uncomfortable, what does that tell you about what you’re actually optimizing for? You can find Renée Spears and the Abundology podcast on all major platforms, and her work at abundology.com. A And please do me a favour: start next week with Renee's Energy of the Week here on Substack [https://substack.com/@abundology] or on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@TheAbundologyPodcast] (or your favorite podcast platform). Being Is the New Doing is available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct [https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct] Val The Awakened Entrepreneur is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free subscriber or paid subscriber and access to my Monthly Circle My most recent conversation with Renee: And the podcast she mentioned with the astrologer Deborah Norton (which, btw, is the best astrologer I’ve ever met!) <p> </p> Get full access to The Awakened Entrepreneur at <a href="https://demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe</a>

The Inner Compass Nobody Teaches You to Use

Welcome to the After-Launch Party 🎉 The book is out, Being Is the New Doing is in the world. I wanted to celebrate that the way that feels most true to me with real conversations with people whose work I genuinely admire, and whose lives are — each in their own way — a living proof of what this book is about. So this is the After-Launch Party. Five lives. Five conversations [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/t/being-is-the-new-doing]. Being Is the New Doing is built around the acronym FLUIDE — six dimensions of an aligned life and business: Foundations, Liberation, Unicity, Intuition, Deployment, and Evolution. This conversation touches the F - Foundations and L — Liberation — the process of freeing yourself from the conditioning, the autopilot, the inherited definitions of success that were never really yours to begin with. And what leadership looks like once that work is done. I invited Stefanie because she operates at the intersection that I find most interesting and most rare: woo, neuroscience, and practical everyday leadership. Not one or two of those. All three. She works with executives and entrepreneurs, and what she keeps finding is that the skills that actually matter for modern leadership — groundedness, boundaries, the ability to make a decision from the inside rather than from external pressure — are exactly the ones nobody teaches. Not in business school. Not in grad school. Not anywhere. And so here we are. The Awakened Entrepreneur is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free subscriber or paid subscriber and access to my Monthly Circle [00:01:00 — 00:05:08] Stefanie calls herself a modern leadership coach — reluctantly, because like me, she doesn’t love the word coach. (If you find a better one, she says, please let her know.) What she means by modern leadership is this: the lines between work, parenthood, and every other dimension of life have blurred irreversibly. And in that context, performing well, feeling at peace, and feeling fulfilled require a set of skills that simply aren’t on any curriculum. The most fundamental of those skills: knowing where you are in your own body at any given moment. For her, the signals are visceral and specific — a contraction in the solar plexus when something is off, a felt sense of wrongness when she’s about to say yes to something that doesn’t fit her actual priorities. She’s a self-described people pleaser. Her default under pressure is yes. And so the work, for her, has been building enough body awareness to catch that default before it lands — and choose differently. Energy is the currency. And boundaries, she says, are inseparable from it. Not as rules, but as information about what actually fits. The doing factory [00:11:21 — 00:12:39] Stefanie said something in passing that I want to give more space to: we are so in the habit of doing that being is something people don’t understand, let alone know how to practice. And while people think they’ve forgotten how, the truth is they haven’t. They’ve just had it trained out of them. From early childhood onward, the system rewards output. Good marks, university admission, job performance, KPIs. The entire architecture of modern professional life is designed to keep people at the average — predictable, measurable, comparable. What I call the Gaussian curve problem: everything pulls toward the middle, toward conformity, toward fitting. The individuals who sit at the edges of that curve — the ones with something genuinely different to offer — are precisely the ones the system is least equipped to hold. Stefanie’s son comes home from school and says he’s bored. She tells him: you’re not bored. For the first time today, you have autonomy. You get to direct yourself. And that’s actually a skill nobody teaches — children or adults. How to be with yourself, unstructured, without immediately filling the space. Multitasking puts fog on the inner compass [00:33:48 — 00:35:44] The image that stayed with me from this conversation: multitasking as fog on the inner compass. When you’re switching between tasks constantly, you don’t just lose focus — you lose access to your own signal. The body is still sending information, but you can’t hear it through the noise. Stefanie describes the inner compass as something that gets clouded from multiple directions at once: other people’s priorities, subconscious programming, an overfull calendar with no gaps. Even with awareness, even with intention, if you look at your day and there is no space — no being time, no time that belongs to you without an agenda — the compass gets obscured. Not broken. Obscured. The antidote isn’t two hours of meditation. It’s a 10-minute walk. Three minutes of breathing. The ability to sit somewhere without stimulation and let yourself land. That’s enough to restore access, she says, to the information that was already there. The career coach who fired her client [00:29:00 — 00:30:36] Around 40, Stefanie lost her job unexpectedly. She’d left a stable position to join a startup and was let go after eight weeks. In the aftermath, she hired a career coach who asked her all the foundational questions — what do you want, who are you, what matters to you — and Stefanie realized she didn’t have clear answers. The coach, gently, told her: I don’t think I can help you. I think you need a life coach. That moment — being effectively fired by your own coach for not knowing yourself — was the beginning. She found Michael Singer. She found Deepak Chopra. She spent time with herself for what felt like the first time. And in not having anything to do, she discovered being. Not as a concept. As the only option available. Now she tries to take people there without requiring the crash, she says. Before the illness, the divorce, the layoff. Can we do some of this work while you’re still standing, still functional, before the system forces the question on you? I recognized myself in this completely. My own tipping points were burnout and the loss of my father. Strange, we said to each other, that it takes something enormous to make us stop and look at the life we’re actually living. AI as the new autopilot [00:24:28 — 00:27:14] We went somewhere unexpected in this conversation: AI as a mirror for the inner compass problem. Stefanie made the point precisely — if you don’t tell AI what you’re after, it will tell you. It will generate, propose, structure, and if you don’t have enough inner groundedness to evaluate what comes back, you’ll take it for granted and act on it. I mentioned the Anthropic study published a few weeks ago showing that some users were delegating decisions to Claude and then using the AI as an excuse — “AI told me to do that.” She made the analogy immediately: it’s like a Tesla in full self-drive mode. When the car has an accident, you say it wasn’t me. But Tesla isn’t liable. And neither is the AI. The human is still the one responsible for the outcome. Her framing: lay all the tools on the table — AI, money, relationships, all of it. But there is only one person who can assemble them, prioritize them, deploy them, and oversee them. That person is you. And if you’ve outsourced your inner compass to an algorithm, you’ve given away the one thing no tool can replace. The test for your own clients [00:55:44 — 00:56:09] Stefanie shared her own version of client alignment as a qualifying filter. She tells potential clients: if you want to work with me, you need to be able to close your eyes and take a long, deep breath. If you can’t do that — or can’t imagine doing that with your team — I’m not the right person for you. I use something similar. Former corporate clients sometimes come back expecting the same relationship we had before. And I have to tell them honestly: I’m the same person, same energy, but today the work is different. If they want to work with me now, they have to be willing to go inside. If that feels too far, I’m genuinely not their person. And there’s nothing wrong with that. What Stefanie added is the nuance I find most interesting in corporate work: even when the leader wants to do this work, the team often doesn’t. Someone suggests a breathing exercise or an intuition workshop and immediately it’s “a bit woo-woo.” And so the work, often, is not just with the individual but with the permission structure around them. Getting an organization to take seriously the things that don’t fit on a KPI spreadsheet. Being sure enough to let people go [00:54:34 — 00:55:31] One of the last things Stefanie said that I want to leave here: when you’re sure of yourself and in alignment, you can say something that puts someone off — and not immediately backtrack to soften it. The old version of her would have rushed to explain, to qualify, to find the version of what she meant that wouldn’t upset anyone. Now: if it felt right to say, and it doesn’t vibe with you, that’s a filter. Not a failure. She’s rebuilding her website right now with this in mind. She doesn’t want to fake-sell herself. She doesn’t want to optimize for maximum inoffensiveness. She wants to be true to what she actually does, and trust that the people meant for her will recognize themselves in it. That’s it, really. That’s what this whole series has been about. Daniel rebuilt his land and his body by creating conditions rather than forcing outcomes. Kim listens for the voice that comes from the belly, not the throat. Iva stopped driving herself toward things and started following the pull. And Stefanie gets off autopilot — late, as most of us do, after something breaks — and begins, for the first time, to use the compass she already had. So here’s what I’m leaving you with: If you look at your day today — not as an ideal, as it actually is — where are the gaps? The unscheduled minutes, the transitions, the spaces between things? And what would it mean to use those not to task-switch, but to land? Follow Stefanie [https://substack.com/profile/333237763-stefanie] and her work on modern leadership Being Is the New Doing is available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct [https://a.co/d/08gxk9ct] The Awakened Entrepreneur is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free subscriber or paid subscriber and access to my Monthly Circle Get full access to The Awakened Entrepreneur at demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe [https://demontvalerie.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]