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In this episode you’ll learn:
- How curiosity can cure a desire for passion
- How conversation is a form of creativity
- How action can bring clarity
- How travel creates a unique sense of presence
Here’s what we talk about:
One of the many things I love about Jana Schuberth is that she challenges you to create a life that truly excites you. She’s somebody who has a deep passion for living fully alive and is someone who views the art of conversation as a creative endeavour: a craft to be mastered.
Multi-passionate, Jana is a successful, nomadic results coach. Having lead a previous life as a chartered accountant and as a world-champion dragon-boat racer, Jana, host and founder of the Alive in Berlin* event reveals, in this episode, how travel can bring a unique sense of presence and how passion can come from mastery.
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Growing up and creating a community
[0:01:42] Jana talks about how she recently returned from the place where she grew up in Germany.
[0:02:33] Describing her childhood, Jana reflects on how she grew up living around water and close to the Baltic sea coastline.
[0:03:30] ‘Overnighters’ and being outdoors. Spending lots of time with her family and in her community.
“Action brings clarity…” – Jana Schuberth
[0:04:25] For a long time, Jana would not see herself as a ‘traditional’ creative. Jana was encouraged to try many things including roller-skating, Latin and ballroom dancing.
[0:05:23] Jana was once a German world-champion at dragon-boat racing.
[0:05:48] Redefining what creativity means. Jana expresses her deep desire for learning.
[0:06:40] Jana talks about what she learned from her parents and why they believed it was important for Jana to learn a trade.
Do it and find out if you like it
[0:08:00] Passion won’t just show up. Jana talks about how action brings clarity.
[0:09:10] Jana suggests passion can come from mastery.
[0:09:40] Jana reflects on passion in the context of curiosity. Jana talks about Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert.
“You cannot be passionate about one thing all day, every day” – Jana Schuberth
[0:10:42] Jana talks about being multi-passionate. People often get frustrated and confused when they can’t make money from the passions that light them up.
[0:12:05] Rob asks Jana how creativity shows up in her life and what excites her everyday.
[0:12:27] Jana talks how her art is about asking good questions. She shares how she developed Alive in Berlin. The importance of being with her own thoughts and walking in the morning.
[0:13:55] Jana suggests that what lights you up every day might be different to what you do (creatively.)
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Sharing space and timeless travel
[0:14:24] Jana believes her strongest sense of creativity is not in writing or painting. Jana talks about having increased awareness and meaningful conversations with friends, plus the opportunity to travel.
[0:15:27] Jana reflects on how giving other people space provides meaning to her life.
[0:16:30] The two aspects of travel that inspire Jana.
[0:18:34] Jana describes how being in a new destination puts her in to a different state and provides a unique sense of presence.
Leadership, friends and feeling alive at home
[0:19:28] Talking about her affection for the U.K. Jana shares how her friends inspire her.
[0:21:23] Reflecting upon the challenges of becoming ‘a different kind of leader’ for the Alive in Berlin event, Jana talks about how she shared her vulnerabilities with the executive team.
[0:22:17] Jana shares the new projects she is currently working on and the challenges, and benefits, that have arrived with those. How coaching clients come to her because they expect change in contrast to enterprise environments which often resist change.
[0:24:22] Jana reveals what she is most grateful is for.
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