Episode Number: 10
Publish Date: July 4, 2023
Host: Arjuna George
Guest: Mike Cameron
Brief Description:
🔥Mike Cameron is a 2x Tedx Speaker, author and executive coach specializing in men's health and emotional fitness for men.
In 2015 Mike's wife was murdered, and since then, Mike has been on a path of inner peace, resilience building and sharing his wisdom with the world.
As a sales and leadership authority, Mike has studied the impact that emotion has on human behaviour for over 2 decades. After tragedy struck in 2015, Mike sold his award-winning, multi-million dollar business and turned his expertise to teach men to be better leaders with self and others.
He is an ultramarathoner who loves nothing more than running hundred-mile races for 30+ hours through the mountains.
Key Nuggets
• 🔥We do not need to struggle alone
• 🔥Use S.O.A.R
• 🔥The power of the PAUSE
Resources and Links Mentioned in this Episode:
🔗Mike Cameron - www.mikecameron.ca
🔗Becoming a Better Man - Mike Cameron https://mikecameron.ca/shop/
🔗This is Day One - Drew Dudley https://www.amazon.ca/This-Day-One-Practical-Leadership/dp/0316522996/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=this+is+day+one&qid=1688525527&sr=8-1
🔗How emotions are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett https://www.amazon.ca/How-Emotions-Are-Made-Secret/dp/B071F6KSGX/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=how+emotions+are+made+by+lisa+feldman+barrett&qid=1688525565&sprefix=how+em%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1
Recommendations:
📖 Book - Burnt Around the Edges – A Guide to Mastering Stress and Surviving Burnout, Arjuna George
Connect with Mike - www.mikecameron.ca
IG @mikecameron.ca
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axiommike/
Connect with the Host:
Arjuna George – Fire Chief (ret)
Owner of Silver Arrow Coaching and Consulting, Beneath the Helmet Show, and author of Burnt Around the Edges.
www.silverarrowco.com
www.burntaroundtheedges.com
www.beneaththehelmet.ca
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A LETTER TO RACHEL
Ram Dass wrote a letter some years ago to a family who had lost their young daughter, Rachel. Although he wrote it to these two parents specifically, everything in this letter applies to anyone who has lost a child.
Dear Steve and Anita,
Rachel finished her work on earth, and left the stage in a manner that leaves those of us left behind with a cry of agony in our hearts, as the fragile thread of our faith is dealt with so violently. Is anyone strong enough to stay conscious through such teaching as you are receiving? Probably very few. And even they would only have a whisper of equanimity and peace amidst the screaming trumpets of their rage, grief, horror and desolation.
I can't assuage your pain with any words, nor should I.
For your pain is Rachel's legacy to you. Not that she or I would inflict such pain by choice, but there it is. And it must burn its purifying way to completion. For something in you dies when you bear the unbearable, and it is only in that dark night of the soul that you are prepared to see as God sees, and to love as God loves.
Now is the time to let your grief find expression. No false strength. Now is the time to sit quietly and speak to Rachel, and thank her for being with you these few years, and encourage her to go on with whatever her work is, knowing that you will grow in compassion and wisdom from this experience. In my heart, I know that you and she will meet again and again, and recognize the many ways in which you have known each other. And when you meet you will know, in a flash, what now it is not given to you to know: Why this had to be the way it was.
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts – if we can keep them open to God – will find their own intuitive way. Rachel came through you to do her work on earth, which includes her manner of death. Now her soul is free, and the love that you can share with her is invulnerable to the winds of changing time and space.
In that deep love,
include me.
In love,
Ram Dass
