Episode #50: Marie Reig Florensa – Lean Towards Love and Lead from the Heart

Heart-based leadership is an approach to solving problems, building relationships and creating flow that expert practitioner Marie Reig Florensa uses to transform individuals, teams and organisations. In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, Marie describes how, during 15 years as a producer on live television shows, she became adept at living in the moment and honed her intuition as she navigated the “big live opera” of broadcasting. Marie shares her journey of self discovery and how she came to recognise the intangible factors – aspirations, emotions, imaginations – that quietly drive our experiences and shape our lives. She also shares a precious technique that you can start using today to unlock your own ability to lead from the heart, follow your intuition and be at your best.  In this episode, we talk about: How we feed our imagination, and thus shape the world How to harness discomfort and drive yourself forward The real uniqueness of our own authenticity Turning to ancient indigenous cultures for insight into human nature How to follow your curiosity towards beautiful gifts Marie reflects on the transition from being a creative problem solver to becoming a facilitator of regenerative spaces, describing the principles that lie at the heart of her revolutionary work. To learn more about me, visit https://www.robbieswale.com/, and to learn more about Marie, visit https://mariereig.com/. For information about my wider work, my writing or to buy my books, visit www.robbieswale.com. Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg To support the Coach's Journey, visit www.patreon.com/thecoachsjourney and to join the Coach's Journey Community visit www.thecoachsjourney.com/community. Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in): - The Berlin School of Creative Leadership https://www.berlin-school.com/ - Berkley Executive Coaching Institute https://www.berkeleyeci.com/ - Guy Sengstock https://circlinginstitute.com/about/ - The HeartMath Institute https://www.heartmath.org/ - Presence-Based Coaching by Doug Silsbee https://presencebasedcoaching.com/ - The Four-Fold Way by Angeles Arrien https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/reviews/view/7721 - The ‘journal’ section of Marie’s website https://mariereig.com/learn-more-about-heart-based-leadership/ BIOGRAPHY FROM MARIE Marie Reig Florensa is a humanist, executive coach, and heart-based leadership expert exploring the crossroads of human values, leadership, and creativity. She is on a global discovery quest to better understand and communicate what it truly means to lead from the heart, beyond assumptions and stereotypes. Marie supports creative leaders, teams, and organisations to fast-track their leadership development, unlocking their "best self" – the self in alignment with their values and soul purpose for positive social impact. She does so by means of tailor-made playful and artistic strategies that unleash genuine human connection, ignite creative genius and awaken self-generative learning. Her heart-based creative leadership coaching methodology is supported by expert practitioners' work, contemporary academic and scientific research, and ancient cross-cultural indigenous and spiritual wisdom. Marie has more than 20 years of experience working in the creative industries, in mainstream and unconventional projects, teams, and organisations. Her mission is to catalyse human flourishing, demonstrating that every small gesture is a weapon of mass construction and that our lives are our most precious works of art.