Episode 11: SiT in your SH!T with Nick Demos
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Episode Notes
NIck Demos is a Tony Award winning producer, award winning filmmaker and writer. He has been teaching yoga, pranayama (breath work), meditation and creativity for over a decade. And, he coaches soul- centered entrepreneurs on how to authentically utilize stories to leverage their personal brands. In this episode we took a deep dive on all things spiritual, including:
What isn’t spirituality?
Why Nick hates the term “woo woo”
The importance of beginner mind
Nick helps Eva with with her morning routine struggles
Nick’s origin story, including tap dancing in Montana and a panic attack in a Russian Bear costume
Nick’s experience winning a Tony Award, and how that highlighted for him what was missing in his life
The importance of listening to your intuition
The role trauma can play in empowering us to listen to our intuition
Sitting with our “dark friends” and embracing our own discomfort and shadow
How Nick embraces the haters
Nick, Kyley, and Eva share how their partners are their teachers
Nick’s work with soul-preneurs, to empower them to share their own stories from heart
Kyley’s experience taking Nick’s course, Real Stories that Sell, and how it was a literal answer to her prayers
Nick’s entrepreneurial journey working with spiritual business people and the role creativity plays
Scarcity mindset and fear around money, especially for artists
Lack mindset around creativity for entrepreneurs
The impact of Nick’s daily practice on growing his business
NIck’s experience traveling international amidst the COVID-19 outbreak
A guided breathwork exercises to ground us through this collective anxiety and fear we may be experiencing
“I’m growing and evolving as a person walking on this planet, and I want to evolve in a way that is organic and natural and in alignment with where I am and who I am right now. And so it’s about, for me, listening to my intuition. And listening to that voice that tis sometimes a little quiet and sometimes a little nagging. And I try to always listen to that. And yes, people thought I was absolutely insane…but I just felt like I needed to continue to evolve as an artist, a business person, as a spiritual being living on this planet.”
“We’re in this period where a lot of people are alone right now. Or they are surrounded by immediate family at all times. Which, again, magnifies everything. It magnifies all your stuff. Because it is uncomfortable…and we don’t like uncomfortable. Well, what if you just sit, just sit in it. And not only just sit in it, but welcome it. If you can welcome it, if you can allow it to become a part of you.”
“Creative artists don’t think of themselves as entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs don’t think of themselves as creative artists, and it’s actually all the same.”