Folake Bee
No and welcome. My name is for like a. And this is usually the healing centre. But I've got some news for you. We are changing the name to the inner power game. And on this episode, I'm going to tell you all about it. So let me say this again Hello and welcome. My name is for like a b n. This is the inner power game, a series of podcasts for the free spirits solopreneurs heart centred entrepreneurs and changemakers live in the New Age world, we are learning and releasing echoes of what no longer serves us as we expand into new possibilities. On this week's episode, I'm going to be diving into everything in a power, everything personal power. And I'm going to be showing you why I think it's really important for us to make activating our personal power, like the foundation to our personal development, and give you some big tips on how we can do this. I personally feel this is like one of the keys to help us in how we manage stress, overwhelm at work, and also how we create a life that we actually desire. So I hope we really enjoy this episode, there's not going to be moments of reflection, this is a sports for myself and myself alone. And I think he would have wanted to do a special episode this week to let you know that we have a name change and to also explain the reasons behind why I decided to change the name of this podcast from the healing centre to in a pod game. So if you're a new listener, now perhaps maybe you've been listening to, you know, to the healing Centre for a while and you still do not know even who I am. I'm Folake Bee. and I'm the founder of inner power game. This was a brand that I started a few years back when I had this desire to help move more women, it was then particularly women in leadership, and women who were working in a male dominated environment to help them tap into like an inner resources that they have within them, that's going to help them thrive in those environments that they were working in. I started in a power game at a time where I was working in tech. And you know, I should know tech, it's a very male dominated environment is also in an environment where a lot of women work in very stressful I guess settings, or it's also an environment where a lot of women find that they cannot shine in their very own authentic, authentic way. You know, I spoke to many women while I was starting the inner game brand, and also even while I was working in that sector, just trying to identify what were the big, big main challenges that women were going through. And it always came back to this inability for them to, to feel like you know, perhaps maybe they were good enough in their jobs, there was always this thread of imposter syndrome that was always creeping up, or this idea that, you know, they had a glass ceiling that they couldn't break through. Or, you know, for some it was just the stressful conditions to which most of the weights could be linked back to that inability for them to just be truly themselves and having to feel like immediate to prove themselves in ways that were not authentic to their natural state of pain. Of course there are so many other reasons but This would like some of the big threat, like the big threat that I pulled out. And I started in a power game to give women a platform where they can tap into, you know, a place where they can like activate tools and resources, that's going to help them thrive in this environment. That's why I started in a power game. And of course, as you know, went through the years in a power game as developed and have fine tuned dates. Along the way, there. Now, it's not just the women in tech, that are benefiting from in a power game, but like women that are coaching others, women, mentors, women that are inspiring change in general, women that are in leadership capacity, you know, so the thread has grown in the context, as you know, as developed and as expanded. But at the base of it, at the foundation of it is back to this desire for us to activate within us our ability to use our own inner power. That thing, there's authentic CLI ours in this within us and use that to not just thrive, but to reach new height. So this is why I started in a power game. And it continues to be a brand that's really not just inspire me, but changes how I show up in life and how I also live my life. So when I started the healing centre podcast, the theme was so there. But intuitively, I just came up with a name. And I run with, you know, the name that came to me when I was looking to start the podcast. But in the last few weeks, as I'm looking for ways to make life easier into really integrates a little bit more how I'm doing live and how I'm doing work to integrate both so that everything flows so seamlessly, one of the desire that I had was to make the podcast and the brand fits together. So then the idea came, I'm going to change the name from the healing centre podcast, to the inner power game podcast. And then this way, everything just feels seamless. So if you've been listening to the healing centre, podcast, thank you, nothing is going to change, nothing is going to change, we're still going to be having like the most amazing guests, we're still going to be diving into topics that perhaps maybe other people who are not talking about, I'm still going to, you know, hopefully have this intention to be a platform that helps other people spread the word, like their message. So the is still the same, just that the labelling is changing to in a power game. So if you're coming on to this episode, maybe we've already changed it. If we haven't, this is just a heads up that we're going to be changing the brand in two in a power game. Now I'm just telling you this without even having planned it. So I hope that when I then go back into the systems and the processes that it works out, I am able to easily change this name to in a power game Fingers crossed. And if you don't see that then there must change to in a power game, then you know that behind the scenes perhaps maybe there was something stopping it, but I trust the process. So this is just me introducing you to the idea that this podcast is now going to be called he in a power game in alignment to the actual brand in a power game. I like that name. I love that name. It drives me. So why don't we then just talk about this inner power game? Like what is it and why I am so passionate about this topic. For me, I hear a lot of people talk about personal power. You know, this ability of us to influence and to inspire change by by being by just being who we are by tapping into to inner resources
Folake Bee
that is, within us. personal power. For me, it's about the state of mind that we hold the presence that we hold the helps us to inspire change in our environment in the people around us, in the people that, you know, we coach, the people that we mentor, the people that we lead. And, you know, when I was transitioning from my previous businesses, so I've, you know, I used to run a video production company, for those that don't know, no, I had a marketing agency. And also, I, you know, so I was gradually trans, transitioning from the video production company, into the marketing agency, and then into the tech consultancy. And now when I look at it, my intention was always to find ways for me to create a life where I was tired of having like, you know, having to have a like a team of like, I won points, we had a team of five people, I didn't want a team of five people, I didn't want to do the salaries, the the, all the paperwork, etc, etc, that that that's involved, I was searching for a way where I could create a business that was so simple, a business where it just required my own authentic energy. So as you can see, as I transition from like the video production company, to the marketing agency, to the tech consultancy, I can see a thread and an evolution in that work. But with a tech consultancy, even though I was the consultant going into tech agencies, even with that, I still felt some, you know, some restrictions in my creativity, I still desired something even a little bit more simpler. And then, you know, then coming into Hina power game where I am mentoring other women in leadership, and guiding other coaches or the mentors. For me, this was what I was desiring in this. I feel like if you're listening to this, and perhaps maybe you've been having this calling, or maybe you are already doing this, I think the things that propelled proposals the most in this way of working is this personal power, this power that we have to be able to inspire change. And that power lies within us, not externally. I always see, like, our personal power as an energy that we carry, is like our ability to be self aware of how we are not just how we are to be self aware of our environment, and the people that we are conversing, communicating with engaging ways. It's like this energetic way of being, where our self awareness is just so powerful. It's like if I have to take it a little bit further, for me personal power, is our ability to be authentic to our own values. And one of the things that I see time and time again, when I'm speaking to women in less than or even just the tech sector, but women in corporate for example, like the women, that I mentor that are in tech sectors in the corporate sectors or in careers, where you know, very high profile, the main stress for this woman usually comes with this thing of this authenticity, this struggle challenges that comes from the conflict between what you know they desire or how they desire to lead change, or how they want to create in the conflict with perhaps maybe the management to senior leadership, the structures of the organisation, the setup the systems, all those external factors. The stress usually comes from this from Yeah, this conflict with between this desire for them to be authentic to their own creativity, and the conflict with the external factors. So this is why for me this activation Have her own personal power. It's so important. For me, it's like the foundation is like what builds our ability to be able to thrive in any environment, not just you know, if we're working in the corporate sector or working in tech or working in the creative sector, or even like if we are, you know, running our own agencies, if we were running our own coaching business, if we ran our own training business, whatever it is, I feel like the base the foundation is this, this need to activate this personal power. Because activation of this personal power is what helps us to develop an ability to stay true to our values, when we're able to stay true to our own values, like our own core values, which is our own big Y. This is where peace and alignment and happiness comes from. So when I'm speaking to what I'm speaking to a client, and let's say, for example, like, I'll just pick a recent conversation with one of my women in leadership was really struggling in her in her current job. So she's a, she's a woman in leadership, she's a consultant in an organisation. So essentially, she has her own business. And she's very, very passionate about her business, she has very high standards for her business. Like she always, you know, she she loves to be seen as that woman that can bring, she received the end game is that is that harvest said, that can bring results that can bring that transformation, she has been doing it for years. So she values her brand, and what she brings to the table. And she loves and she loves, loves what she does. And the same person is come to a place where she's like, She's literally the word she used was she stressed, and she's not managing her anxiety, as well anymore. And then when we started talking about it, and she couldn't see a way out, or she could just see is like, a stress anxiety, and whether she should still continue doing this work. Even though she, she loves what she does, she loves her brand she loves, you know, what she brings to the table. And she has come to this point where she just can't see a way forward. And so we're like, just, you know, just diving into, like, you know, why she feels this way? What are what are the options, and why she feels like she can't really go forward. And I mean, I could see looking from outside the box that, you know, it's not really about the work, it's not really about she feels like the stress are coming from, as usual. This, this conflict between how the clients that she's working with, you know, how they're moving things forward, and particularly some of the, you know, close people that she works with in those organisations. So that is all she could see, she could not see a way forward because she feels like she's hates a break. Like there's nothing she can change in that organisation. And this is usually what happens when we are in that box. We always feel like there is no way forward, because we cannot change the situation. Or you know what, we can always always change how we feel about something, we can always always change our energy
Folake Bee
while we are in a situation and this is what changes that external circumstance. However, as human beings going through this human experience, sometimes we get very caught up in the human way of being where we stopped to see our own power. We start to see things in, you know, in the human senses with the eyes and the touch and the smell, and that is where it ends. And for me, this is why I'm so passionate about helping people reactivate this personal power. This You know, our state of mind, the energy that we hold, how we carry this energy, the helps us to know that our being, you know, our self awareness of ourselves and the people around us can change in that actually changes the external circumstance. This for me is magic. So, with my clients as we dive a little bit more into, like the little nuances of what is happening in our life, and, and we're able to then, like, change that energy in reactivates, the desire that she had to start her brand, and reactivate why she does what she does, and reactivates, the excitement, that would have been the foundation as to why she just, you know why she does what she does, you know, like to reactivate this, this energy. Basically, this excitement changes her energetic state. And as her energetic state changes. When she goes into this environment, that energetic state also changes the external environment. So I always feel I always say, it's like, for example, let's say, you know, you're walking around, and you've got like, red paint all over you. Yeah. And that red paint is that emotional states that you stepped into, you know, the stress, the anxiety that you're carrying, and you've been carrying it for months, and months, and months and months, and they continue to build up, and they change our aura, that change, you know, not just your state of being, they actually change what we call the aura, which is like the external energetic force, that, you know, that, that, that makes us our physical body. So see that as like this red paint that you've just poured all over you, and you cannot see this red paint. So you're just like walking around, and you've got this red paint around you. And then you go into your work environment, you sit down with this red paint, you touch your one, your keyboard, with this red paint, but you can't see it. And then you, you know, people come in, they come close to you, and all they can feel is this red paint, they can smell this red paint. And perhaps maybe even if they touch you, they touch this red paint, and then everything around you to start to turn into this red paint. This is how I always say it. And most of the time, what we need to do is to like realise this red paints, and almost try and cleanse ourselves from this red, you know, like, just cleanse it and bring ourselves back into this white balance. So there are certain energies that, you know, that, you know, energy is like everything is like there's positive, and there's negative like, and I'm not talking about good and bad, I'm just talking about the two sides of energy, the positive, the negative, the Yin, the Yang, there's always two sides of the equation. Okay, so we want to find ways to reactivate ourselves, where when we are carrying this red energy, we want to be able to find ways to almost retune our energy. So with my clients, it was like, you know, a really soft retuning of this energy into her into into her balance into the white balance. And as soon as that was done, and she goes back into the environment, slowly by slowly, she's noticing that the people around her and how they're treating her. They're changing, she didn't really have to do anything physically, for that to change, for the management to change for the systems to change, because we're constantly changing our own reality. And for me, this is why personal power, it's very important on this, you know, on this like journey of working with our own personal power, we activate this ability to be authentic to our own values, our own why, why we do what we do, and when we are able to retune to that why we create beautiful boundaries, which you might you know, I'm sure you've heard about you creating boundaries, or for me boundaries is not just physical boundaries. It's not just physical boundaries of like, this is what you know, this is a my boundaries. This is what I want this what I don't want for me when I'm working with clients is about the energetic boundaries that we create. And again, that goes back to that red You know, that red, like, if we're creating beautiful boundaries, we're creating this beautiful, white loving boundaries around us, which helps us to say, this is what can come into our energy. And this is what cannot come into our energy. And this is what I can give, or this is what I cannot give. So this personal power, it's so important, it's like, it is, it's, it is amazing. It is like, it's one of the first things I feel anybody leadership, coaching, mentoring. Anybody, like this is one of the areas that we really need to look into our ability to activate our own personal power, our ability to activate a state of being where we can inspire change lead others, just by being in that state. And you would hear me say time and time again, like, for me, simplicity in life, and making life easy, is so important. And that comes from my ability to hold a very powerful personal power. So talking about personal power, I think like, you know, the personal power and our ability to have a really like a really strong foundation in that comes from the inner power and inner power. So the way I see the difference between personal power, personal power is like the state of being how you are, like you being yourself, to inspire change, which comes from like your state of mind, the energy that you carry, your ability to be self aware, your ability to be authentic to your value, your ability to be congruent in how you live your life to say, Okay, I want to be able to run my own business. Yeah, I want to, I desire to have a six figure business. And this is how I want to have that six figure business or desire seven figure business, and this is how I want to do it, etc, etc. And for your actions to be incongruency. With those desires. Yeah, so and this is where I feel that many people don't achieve their goals, because it's like, they say, Well, my soul is really calling for this, I want to be a Lightworker, I want to help people change, I want to, I want to do this, I want to do that. But then when it comes to actually following through those desires, they're like one leg in and one leg out. So our personal power is the thing that's going to help us really be congruent in terms of the desire that we have, and the actions that's going to help us marry those two together. And in order to have it like, you know, yes, it's very easy to be talking about personal power and talk about the amazingness of it, or what's going to help us really hold very powerful personal power, it comes back to the inner power. And this is where I see the difference. personal power state of mind state of being in the power is like the force that helps you hold that personal power. And this is why I set up in a power game. Because I'm an energy worker, I'm an energy Alchemist. And I see everything in energy, like, you know, I literally, you know, put somebody in front of me. And it's like, I see their whole life history,
Folake Bee
I see the blocks, I just see it, I just see it, it's just the way I am. So for me, in a power is like the powerful force that you hold. That helps you step a little bit deeper into your own personal power. And there are so many ways that we can continue to activate our own inner power game, which is where we play my brand in a power game. There are so many ways and I say do more and more of this podcast, I want to actually start showing up a little bit more and perhaps maybe have less guests and I have you know, fuller slots to talk about things like this to talk about inner plane the inner power game. But for this episode, I want to leave you with two things I feel there's gonna really help you like really like play this big in a power game. And in a power game. Do you know what I love about in a power play in the in the power game, whether it's a work or in your business or you know for wealth or whatever it is you desire is that playing the inner power game shows us that things can be easy, like, you know, we've been taught that it has to be hard. We've been taught You've got to work hard for it, we've been taught that you got to work 24/7, etc, etc. And live that enslavement life like, but when we come to be playing this in a power game, we're gonna start to realise that actually, the way forward is ease the path of least resistance, this is the way forward, we're going to start to realise that most times when we feel stagnant, and things are not moving, yeah, is because we're trying too hard. We're trying to force things. And this is what I love most about playing this in a power game, it makes life exciting, it makes life much, much easier. And when things are easy, there is no glass ceiling. Like, no, there's no limit to our potential, which is our true true state, there is no limit our potential. And as So, we are like the spiritual beings, this is our true state. So the first thing, you know, that I would like to like, maybe, perhaps maybe invite you into with activating or stepping deeper into this inner power, and consequently, your personal power is looking for ways to activate a state of flow. So when we are working, and we are now nine to five, or 24, to seven for some people, and, you know, we're rushing about as mothers, and you know, we've got, like, so many things that we're juggling, most of us lose this state of flow. And when we're not in a state of flow, it always feels like we are swimming against the waves, even though we cannot see it. So the first thing I always advise my client to do is to find every opportunity to step into a state of flow. So I always hear people gone off, like, uh, you know, what, every time I'm in the shower, for example, that is where I get all the ideas, like when I'm in the shower, all those ideas that just download, you know, like, Oh, my God, like, I hear this a lot. And I always say to them, like, I feel personally, my belief is that one of the reasons why we get loads of ideas in the shower, is because in the shower, somehow we're stepping into a state of flow. Because the elements that water elements, for example, is like a powerful force. It's like a powerful feminine force. The feminine, which I'm going to talk about in another episode, is a feminine energy. And the feminine energy is like, the biggest state of flow, like feminine is flow. So when you're in the shower, first of all, you're connected to this elements of, you know, this element of water, there is a feminine energy that activates flow, that is one. And then when you step into the shower, it automatically brings you back into your body, you know, so you are in your body. And you're almost stepping into the stage where you are letting go of the physical, because you're in contact with this beautiful element. So automatically, you are going to be brought in into this state of flow. And in the state of flow is where we get all the creative choose. So you see, you see what's happening there. So like there's so many other ways that we can step into this state of flow. But I always feel that's a really beautiful, like, example to show you what it feels like to be in the state of flow where you just you come into your body, you you'd like you're brought back into your body in the shower, you fill the water on your body, you don't even have to think about it automatically. You just know the waters just gonna be like washing all over you evenly as you're washing your hair, or your washing your party is you just know that that's you know, that element is just flowing, flowing. So you feel your body you feel there's nothing else to do in that state, but being a shower and wash yourself, you know, and then all the ideas will start flowing. And there are so many things that we can do while we are in that state. But that's for another time when I talk to you about how you manifest like the most amazing things in your life in the most easiest way possible. So that's one of the big tip I want to give you'd like this, find ways to activate your state of flow. And you're going to find that amazing things happen, you know, when we're in that state, and, you know, when we're in that state as well, it's like ours feel is a state where you actually, you're building your this energy, this this energy that I talked about, that we carry, when we're activating our personal power. So that's so so, so important, like, activating our state of flow. Because also, when we are in that state, we are downloading things from a spiritual state. And for so many of us, we've stopped to notice our downloads. And this is where the second tip is coming into it. So this, our ability to tap back into how we download things. So one, exercise I always give to my clients, which, like, if I have a new client, they're just like, God, Oh, my God, for like, I can't do that is to step into this way of trusting where so I have some clients, for example, and a few of my clients, when they start, they tell me things like, you know, if they're going to do presentations, or they're going to big meetings, it will plan like, like No Man's, you know, like, don't plan plan, everything, their presentations will be like, like, don't over plan because I work with women who are what we call like high achieving women, you know, they'd like some, some of them like things to be perfect, perfect, you know, it's got to be perfect for like, it's got to be perfect, or it's not worth doing. So they will plan and plan. So then I invite them, you know, to step into this state of downloading. And this again, is it's, it's stepping into our feminine energy, where we're trusting that we know it, and we're trusting full information to come from a deeper depth. Like, come from a deeper place within us. I tell you another story. So when I started working in tech, and this was like the beginning of getting in getting back into tech. And also this was the time where when I lost like the business. So if you don't know, like, I lost my, my video production company when my relationship broke down. And I was like, I was like literally broke, broke, broke, like, so broke.
Folake Bee
Like, so broke. Anyways, that's another story. And one of the first jobs that I applied for was in tech. So I went back to tech, because I know tech very well. And I used to work for this. I think he was a CTO. And I absolutely loved this guy. Because one of the things that he used to do was so busy. And he would have this, like huge meetings, like, you know, he has to go to like really high profile meetings. And I'll put it all in his diary and, and then he would just like, come into the office. And I'm like, you know, you have that like high profile meeting, or you have that media interview, etc. And you're like, really have like, yeah, and he would just like he will just literally go, it could be a media interview, or very high profile meeting. And he wouldn't even plan that he wasn't planning to leave, just go and just talk his way through. Like, like that. And I was like in such like, I just respected that because no matter what he does, he will go in there. And he was to give a brilliant presentation. And then I realised as I worked with more senior leaders, and I could see differences between certain leaders, the ones that plan and the ones that just go in there is just their trust in their own ability to be able to say things, you know, the right things at the right time because they know themselves. And this is really what it comes down to our ability to trust ourselves that no matter the environment that we're putting through, that we're putting into, we are able to bring forward the information or the required knowledge that the people were there for Ross lead. And this is like, you know, it takes a while to be able to step into this into this ability to trust ourselves to just to download. Our ability to download is so, so, so important. It's so important because when we start to download, so, for example, like this podcast I'm doing right now, as being a free download, as come from a place where I trust that, I'm going to be able to sit here, and I'm going to be able to, like, bring forth what I am supposed to bring forth in this moment. And that is going to be perfect. For this present moment, it's going to be enough that I'm going to be enough for you in this present moment. And the more I do this download, the more I trust myself to be able to do this, the more I am blessed with, like knowledge, the arches, the like knowledge that are deeper. And what I'm trying to get through to you here is that with personal power, where you're gonna find with personal power, and activating this Inner Inner Power game, is that it's not about going wide, it's not about it's not about quantity, it becomes about quality, it becomes about going deeper, it becomes about like wisdom, it becomes about this energy that is so solid. And you know, you're not running about like a yo yo trying to do this and do that, it becomes about just doing one thing that creates in such beautiful ways. So the first thing was about, like stepping into flow, finding ways to activate your flow. And the second is about, like, trusting in your ability to start to download from the depths of your soul, like start to download from, you know, a spiritual state, which is our true state. And for me, this is where, like, the magic starts to happen. And I am so excited that, you know, I'm changing the name of this podcast in a power game, so that it falls in alignment with my true context, which is, you know, always helping people step back into this, this soul expansion, which is our true states, where power lies, where, where knowledge lies, where all the resources that we need for anything lies, we never have to look outside of ourselves anymore. We know that it's all within us. We know that anything that we do, you know, the power comes from the energy that we carry, this personal power, our ability to be grounded in order to feel grounded, so that we can be authentic to our own values so that we can stay congruent to our our own, our, you know, our own desire, so that we can choose with discernment, what is good for us or what is not good for us and know that we are good enough at any given point. So I'm just I'm happy that you're riding this journey with me. I feel like the you know, this podcast has just gone a whole level. The first few episodes was about like, you know, testing the waters. I don't even have the right equipment to be honest with you. But now, you know, we've upgraded the equipment and let's see what the next few episodes bring for us. As usual, I hope you've enjoyed this and if you have any questions, you know where to find me. I shall see you on the next episode of
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