How To START YOUR LIFE Over And Achieve ANYTHING You Want | Jonathan Fields EP 332

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1:13There is no such thing as disruption without possibility. Doesn't exist. Disruption and possibility are two sides of this exact same coin. So if there's a massive disruption, you may be reeling because you have personally been disrupted. An organization, an industry may be reeling because all the assumptions that they've built everything on have been shattered. But that moment, that level of upheaval, uncertainty and stakes cannot exist without equal and sometimes opposite possibility being birthed simultaneously. So the question becomes when we're talking about like an individual at work nobody saw well Can't say nobody saw the last couple of years coming what has happened has been profoundly disrupted in a way that like we've never imagined was possible And at the same time like we're moving through a lot of pain and and a lot of people had to figure out the blink of an eye Okay, so how do I get myself as okay as I can in the context of work?

2:10You know, there's a lot of other domains that they've had to do that in health and relationships they've kind of a lot of folks have figured it out but what's happened in the middle of all of this is if there's this level of disruption then you start asking the question where is the possibility because it has to exist it has to exist so i'll use me as an example right we've been in the podcast world for a long time together right for um the entirety of our show part of the the big differentiation was like Good Life Project will always be produced in the studio in person, like what you're doing, right?

2:48We want to raise the bar from the earliest day for production value. We said no to a lot of people I thought would be amazing to speak with because they weren't in New York. They weren't going to be in the studio and I wouldn't do anything remote. I could not conceive of being able to have the quality of conversations, the safety, intimacy, and trust, you know, in a virtual space. I was just like, I can't do it. And if I have to do that, like I'll do something else. so for six years we produce conversations in person in the studio in new york and then i wake up one day and i'm like oh that's over can't do that anymore yeah right you know and and in new york we were the very early thing so new york was devastated and completely shut down so immediately i'm reeling because i'm like are we done a central part of what i'm about and everything we produce and what we're known for is these in-person intimate things in the studio and i'm like But we can't do that.

3:39It's just not an option anymore. So then my brain goes into the next mode. Okay, so massive disruption. Didn't want it to happen. Still don't want it to happen. But I know also that you cannot have this level of disruption without a similar level of possibility. So where's the possibility? If I'm feeling like I'm the one that's being crushed right now, where's the possibility? And I said, all right, so let's start to test all the assumptions, right? A lot of my assumptions were really wrong. And now how can we actually completely redo our production process so that we can recreate the trust and safety and intimacy in the virtual space?

4:14How do we experiment with different platforms? How do we change the way that I go about creating things? And then we started to realize, okay, so we're up and running again, but doing everything virtually. And then I'm realizing I always believed you could never create safety and intimacy in a virtual space. But what I'm seeing is that everybody is in their home right now. So we don't have the cocoon effect. that I love, like, you know, where we're like in this, where we're casting a spell in the same space together. Right, yeah. But what we do have is the safety and trust of somebody being in their own home.

4:45And feeling comfortable in their own space. Right, which is different. Not in their office and not in the area. Right, so it's different, but at the same time, it made everything okay. And I realize we're having still, like, tremendous conversations. Then I widened the lens out, and I'm like, okay, so if my assumption has been we always have to be in New York because that's where everybody who I'm going to want to talk to. Similar reason to why you're in LA. Everyone's going to be in one of these two cities at some point. Well, if we're actually producing remotely and our team is distributed around the world, from the post-production side, on a personal level, what kind of freedom does that give us?

5:21Well, we've thought about living somewhere else. Right. Not staying in New York. So all of a sudden, we find ourselves in September of last year, after growing up outside New York, living in New York City for 30 years, pulling up our roots. You know, and literally, like, as I sit here with you right now, if you ask me where is home, I can tell you legally I'm a resident of Colorado or even living in Boulder, Colorado. Yeah. You know, like, we're pulled out entirely of New York, but we're also sort of, like, experimenting with different locations. You know, and I'm traveling around sometimes with my wife, who's also my business partner, so we're in life and work together.

5:58Sometimes with our daughter, you know, who's in and out of college. And so there's this kind of like magical possibility where when you start to actively look for it, that is all around you. But when you're so fiercely disrupted without seeing it coming, and there's a lot of pain that goes along with it, it sometimes takes a huge amount of energy to pull out of the feeling of trauma to get to a place where you can actually start to ask the question, what is true, what is not true, and where is the possibility?

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