Lynne Twist

So I began questioning some deeply ingrained beliefs about money.

And eventually that led me to exploring a book called The Soul of Money written by Lynn Twist.

It's actually not a new book.

It was written back in the early 2000s.

Because the truth is money had become such a big part of my identity and my scarcity mindset was driving me to invest more time and energy into something that I actually valued less than my family.

Getting the next award, impressing my management team, and I lived in that state of stress for almost two decades.

So in the Soul of Money book that I mentioned earlier by Lynn Twist, and by the way, I'm not getting any kind of kickback from her or that book.

I'm hoping to actually get her on my show at some point, but she's pretty big time, so we'll see.

But it is sort of this idea.

I don't know if any of you have read the book, The Soul of Money by Lynn Twist, where she says like sufficiency is a form of like.

abundance like it's a form of like feeling abundant like having more than enough where you have your needs met where you have enough flow where you can give to other people where you could share but it's not like this you know um there's no ethical billionaires, but it's also like, how much money do you actually need to feel free and to feel like you can do some, you can do things that you have dreamt of.

And I'm not quite there yet.

[gentle music] What if the most powerful form of leadership isn't about setting bigger goals, accumulating more, or standing out from everyone around you, but about making a commitment so meaningful that it changes who you become? In today's episode, Lynne Twist challenges some of our most deeply held assumptions about leadership, success, scarcity, and what it actually means to have enough.

You'll hear why true commitment is different from a goal, what leaders can learn from indigenous cultures about putting community ahead of self, and why Lynne believes genuine abundance doesn't come through the doorway of more, it comes through the doorway of enough.

Welcome back to The Mike Method, where every episode is designed to help you become a better leader than you were yesterday.

I'm your host, Mike Desjardins.

Today, I'm joined by Lynne Twist, co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance and founder of the Soul of Money Institute.

For decades, Lynne has devoted her life to some of the world's biggest challenges, from ending hunger and poverty to protecting the Amazon rainforest and transforming our relationship with money.

Along the way, she's worked alongside and learned from extraordinary people, including Buckminster Fuller, Mother Teresa, Jane Goodall, indigenous leaders throughout the Amazon, and people living through some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable.

So I'm gonna sit back here and just work real hard in a way that's wasting time, doesn't move the needle, and then blame them for me not having what I want." Whereas the other person, which would be me, goes, "All right.

I'm gonna build, I'm gonna grow, I'm gonna listen, I'm, and I'm gonna do things that put me in the space to create the revenue and income to do cool things in the world." I, I think I read a book years ago called "The Soul of Money" by Lynne Twist, and in it she talks about a lot of people they, this, they make a bunch of money.

A lot of folks go make a bunch of money, but s- few people understand the soul of what you can do with money.

And so her thing was, I, I had all the stuff.