What is a Good Life? #68 - Keeping Your Heart Open with Amy Elizabeth Fox

What is a Good Life?

On the 68th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Amy Elizabeth Fox. Amy is one of the founders and CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership, a global transformational leadership firm. She has served as a leadership and culture change advisor to Fortune 500 companies. Amy is considered an expert in healing individual, family, and collective trauma and has been a pioneer in introducing trauma-informed development and psycho-spiritual principles into leadership programs. She is also on the faculty of the African Leadership Institute's Desmond Tutu Fellows program at Oxford.

In this glorious conversation, Amy shares with us her journey towards a life of inquiry, contemplation, healing, and a more mystical engagement with life. She talks of the deeper unity that exists between us all beyond the fractures on the surface, ways we can connect more deeply with ourselves and each other, and ultimately ways to keep our hearts open to all the suffering and beauty that exists in the world.

If you are not satisfied with the level of connection and intimacy in your life, this episode will give you so much to contemplate and reconsider regarding the societal norms we follow when relating to each other. Amy is a well of wisdom and this whole episode serves as an invitation to opening our hearts to the world and those around us.

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Running Order:

03:15 How does one keep one’s heart open?

06:45 The unity of life and lack of intimacy

09:25 The problems with formality and routinised communication

12:30 The invitation to intimacy

17:11 The yearning and various sources of intimacy

23:15 The art of subtlety, intimacy, and collaboration

26:45 Silence and pause in feeling what is said

31:45 We don’t need to problem solve each other’s pain

35:45 The mystical and contemplative path

40:19 Moving from frozen assumptions to emergence

45:10 Bringing Mental Health to the workplace

50:10 How do we keep our hearts open in times like these?

55:45 What is a good life for Amy?