[ScaleX Bite-Size] Monster And Maverick: How To Cohabit With Your Inner Monster

About this episode

The episode discusses how to cohabitate with your inner monster and the impact of limiting beliefs on scaling potential.

Your inner monster speaks to you daily. Claire Colvin tells her to go back to bed because she's not good enough. One moment everything she touches turns to gold, the next day she questions why they're paying her. Rhett Power reveals in Head of Mentals that it's not about eliminating your monster, it's about learning to cohabitate with it productively. Claire and Brendan discuss the monster and maverick concept, how limiting beliefs impede your scaling potential, and the flavour of not-enoughness we all share. Claire and Brendan discuss Rhett Power's Head of Mentals book about monster and maverick which speaks directly to Psyche first principle of scaling, whether you're secure enough in own mindset to invite others into your practice or monster so loud creating insecurity won't permit vulnerable in front of team, Claire's confession her monster says go back to bed you're not good enough you shouldn't be doing this, the reality it's not about getting rid of monster but learning to cohabitate with monster productively and healthily, how all leaders have some form of limiting beliefs some more sinister some lie deeper, flavour of not enoughness in some variety, and how those beliefs…

People in this episode

Host: Brendan McGurgan

Guest: Claire Colvin

Topics covered

• inner monster
• limiting beliefs
• scaling potential
• mindset
• leadership
• productivity

Keywords

• inner monster
• limiting beliefs
• scaling
• leadership
• mindset
• productivity
• vulnerability

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Head of Mentals, Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

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