Ep. 12: Executive Coach, Former Monk, and Heart-Centered Writer, Don Johnson

Don Johnson graduated from college and lived as a monk in an ashram for ten years before a thirty-year career in the performance improvement industry as a leadership consultant and vice president of sales. He is a top writer on Medium.com, and has recently written a book with the working title "Be More Conscious: A Guide for Living, Learning, and Loving." He lives with his wife in a seacoast village in northeast Scotland.

Don Johnson Links:
Website: http://www.bemoreconscious.com/
Don's writings on Medium: https://donjohnsonwrites.medium.com/

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Chapters

• 0:00 The Person You Want to Be intro
• 0:38 Introducing Don Johnson
• 1:50 Verbal aikido
• 8:45 Childhood context ("That's NOT what I want to be")
• 11:56 "My mother was an artist"
• 17:21 "My intent in writing was to be honest"
• 19:24 Four core values
• 23:32 On college
• 29:29 "The people that seem to really love what they do, you remember"
• 31:33 The beginning of a spiritual journey
• 36:27 "I want to know more about this boy guru"
• 39:50 "When I was in it, I didn't think it was a cult"
• 46:27 "To live monastically for ten years, there's a lot you give up"
• 52:03 The abrupt stop
• 59:43 Back in the real world
• 1:03:37 First wife
• 1:07:09 Goals for parenthood
• 1:23:42 "Growing into the person that I wanted to be"