Ep. 151: Hema Vyas - Passionate and Emotional Leadership

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FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPTMitch:
(00:05)
 Welcome back to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things
affecting the accounting and finance world. This is your host,
Mitch Roshong and today I'm happy to introduce our guest speaker
for episode 151, Hema Vyas. Hema is a renowned speaker on heart
wisdom, human consciousness, spirituality, health, and energy.
She works with individuals, corporates, startups, and diverse
global audiences to provide needle turning solutions for problems
of all kinds. In this episode, Hema speaks with Adam about the
significance of heart, passion and emotion. When it comes to
leadership and building high performance teams. Keep listening as
we head over to their conversation now.
 
 Adam: (00:52)
 Our initial discussions or, conversations back and forth. I
was seeing you have this term omnipreneur, and I, you know, for
many years there's been a celebration of the entrepreneurial
spirit and business. And I was looking in like the definition of
entrepreneur is a person who organizers or operates a business or
businesses taking a greater risk than normal or financial risks.
Cause they're usually going out there and starting their own
business. So I'd like to take a step. So where is it? Where does
Omnipreneurs fit into all that? And how does someone to get from
an entrepreneur to an omnipreneur?
 
 Hema: (01:26)
 I think an omnipreneur is what the world needs now. So, you
know, we have lots of businesses. We have lots of entrepreneurs
now, more than ever. We've got so many startups and people
wanting to run their own business and run with their own ideas
and taking the risk. As you said, you know, an entrepreneur who's
willing to take risk and, and put the money behind themselves.
And for me omnipreneurship is really about the next level where
you align those sort of business skills. You align the financial
and entrepreneurial skills together with health, wealth and
meaning. So it's not just about, you know, in terms of running a
successful business, it's about how we look after ourselves, how
we look after other people, not just the people we employ, but
also the people around us, the people, you know, when we're
putting out products, how we're taking into consideration, you
know, what's going to be for the benefit of the whole and also
the planet. So for me, it's really a holistic approach to
business, a holistic approach to life. And I believe that each of
us should be omnipreneurs in our own way, where we are not only
taking care of our own financial success, whether it's in a
corporation or whether it's in as an entrepreneur doing, not
running our own business, but also taking care of all aspects of
our lives, making sure that we have time for relationships,
family, making sure we have time to take care of ourselves and
those around us and doing it in a way that is sustainable to the
planet and the world that we live in.
 
 Adam: (03:11)
 So it's taking all of the things that an entrepreneur would
do, but adding in a holistic approach, it makes me think of terms
like sustainability and those things are becoming more and more
prevalent in business and being able to connect all those things
in a holistic manner, which is not the easiest thing to do,
especially when the bottom line is most important thing in any
business, right? Because you have to make money to stay in
business.
 
 Hema: (03:39)
 Absolutely so, you know, one of the things that we teach is
really how to be a tucked down business, where, you know, the
people at the top are taking care of more than just the bottom
line. They are taking care of people, making sure that they're
fulfilling the sense of purpose that they have a sense of
meaning. And they are also contributing to a sustainable business
as well as a sustainable growth of business because you know, a
lot of startups sort of growing exponentially and then don't have
the means to take care of the people. Other dues. There's a huge
turnover of staff because they're burning out and, and, and
that's not healthy for anybody. It's not healthy for the people.
It's not healthy for relationships, but it's also not healthy for
business every few years. If they have to keep training new
people or get new people involved in the vision and the goals you
want people to grow in a healthy way. So really teaching the
leaders how to lead in a way that takes care of, the people in
such a way that the bottom line gets fed or can make do.
 
 Adam: (04:49)
 That makes sense. I was reading that you say that you have
to put your heart into it. So what's the role of like heart in
leadership and in life, I guess, because we're trying to talk
about the holistic approach.
 
 Hema: (04:59)
 Yeah, absolutely. So a lot of the qualities that we teach I
would say are qualities of the heart. So, you know, we have the
cerebral intelligence, we have cognition, we have intellectual
ability. We also have the gut intelligence, which is a body's
intelligence, which is our instincts, you know, and that feeling,
that knowingness that we get, which is more from an instinct
place, that there's an instinct about something. And then there's
heart intelligence, which I would say is more of a wisdom. And
it's, you know, really tapping into that sense of wisdom that
allows us to have that holistic approach. It is being able to
come from our heart space to lead from our heart space, to make
sure that we are being really heart-centered so that we have all
the qualities, you know, that are heart centered sort of leader
would have in order to be able to take care of the people in
order to take of themselves. So heart has everything to do with
business as far as I'm concerned, because that is where we get
balanced. If we're not in balance, then whatever we're doing is
not going to have the desired effect. So that's what causes
extremism. And when we're too focused on one thing and not enough
on another, eventually the way the universe works, that it
creates his own balance. And that's what burnout is, is it, if
you're not giving enough time to people to really, really take
care of themselves and what's going to happen is they're going to
burn out. So what you think is good, pushing people, for example,
ultimately ends up not being good when we're centered in our
hearts. We know what that balance is because each individual is
different. So there's no sort of set of rules that says, well,
you know, you have to stop people working at five. Some people
might thrive working late into the evening. They might want to
come in later in the day. You know, there's that flexibility that
comes from not being so structured, not being, so
process-oriented not being so cerebral, not being seen to lecture
and not going well, this is what works, and this is how we have
to do it. But actually looking at the people that you're working
with, who you're working for, who's working for you and how to
get the best out of that situation so that there is genuine
expansion of the heart, which means that there's a, a sense of
flow. And there's a sense of balance, which is really where real
happiness lies, but also where prosperity lies. And if we want to
be successful in business, I think we have to be successful and
happy and heart centers qualities are those qualities that help
us to really relate in that.
 
 Adam: (07:48)
 Yeah. It's not something that you talk about often you
don't, you don't pick up the Harvard business review and see, you
know, things of the heart. but what you're saying ...