Emily Bennington - How to Create Miracles at Work

In this episode, Giovanna welcomes Emily Bennington to the show. Emily is a bestselling author and a student/teacher of contemplative practices for both secular and spiritual audiences. She has led training programs on mindfulness and composure for numerous Fortune 500 companies and has been featured by CNN, ABC, and Fox, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Marie Claire, and Cosmopolitan. Emily is the author of three books, including Miracles at Work: Turning Inner Guidance into Outer Influence. Emily is skilled at presenting complex mindfulness and spiritual topics with logical reasoning, professionalism, and inclusiveness. Emily's website was recently listed, by Forbes, as one of the 100 Best Websites for Women and her blog touches thousands of readers. Today’s guest is Emily Bennington Emily was fortunate to have a boss who became a mentor She learned so much from her as a mentor that they wrote the book, Effective Immediately They toured college campuses to talk about transitioning from school to career When Emily started dealing with management, she noticed people would come to her for help Life problems were always present in every person asking for help so Emily would bring in the spiritual aspect as part of her advice She wrote Miracles at Work: Turning Inner Guidance into Outer Influence Her book is about how we dismantle our thought system based on fear and on love Looking at another person and seeing through your differences unfolds the harmonious connections that you have Take your biases out to make your life more peaceful An Internal Miracle is the shift in perception in love A miracle is expression of love to you Giovanna used to compartmentalize spirituality to the point that she felt unfulfilled Like Giovanna, Emily was in the “God Closet” Mindfulness alone is secular Emily felt she was inauthentic teaching spiritual tools when she calls it secular mindfulness Our spiritual life creates a certain reaction to people and we don’t want to offend anyone The wrong is, we tend to conflate spirituality with religion – it’s not the same thing We use competition in our career that yields to what Emily calls, “Snow-Globe Thinking” A true spiritual practice is what clears out the snow Great leaders don’t have to crawl to the top – they’re carried there Magnitude is the idea of seeing yourself created by God and in a state of spiritual perfection Knowing magnitude creates confidence Emily shares an example of magnitude: Emily had a client who was preparing for a big job interview Her client approached the interview with a tremendous amount of nervousness, anger, and resentment Emily encouraged her client saying that if she doesn’t get the job, that it is NOT a reflection or measurement of her worth Her client had an internal shift in perception from fear to love and she got the job Emily has come to a place where she is far less apologetic in her practice of spirituality Giovanna is not fully out of her “God Closet” It was a disservice for Giovanna when she held back Giovanna has seen the transformations and the relationships that have healed “We’re dealing with a practice a lot of people don’t know about” What helped Emily in the course was creating a container Giovanna was introduced to the course from her mentor 15 years ago Giovanna resisted learning from the course The funny thing was, Giovanna kept attending the course and miracles study groups without opening the book She credits her spiritual mentor for recommending her to read the book, The Disappearance of the Universe It wasn’t until about 4 years ago when Giovanna opened the book The Jesus of the course is different from the Biblical Jesus The Biblical Jesus is in alignment with what the course says As Emily was writing her book, she was aware it could kill her speaking career on mindful leadership What’s interesting was Emily got more engagement after her book was written Emily is NOT a scholar of all religions, but all these things are pointing to LOVE