2070 – The Eight Pillars of Infinite Leadership with Elements 4 Success’ Kylee Leota

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1:05With us right now, it's Kylie Liotta. Kylie, you are the founder of Elements for Success. You're also the chief vision officer. Your website is elements4success.com.au. Kylie, it's great to have you. Thanks so much for having me, Josh. I love connecting with my U.S. friends. Yes. All right. Well, from down under, please do explain what it is that you do. What is Elements for Success? And what are the elements for success? Well, Earl Nightingale had this phenomenal quote that said, success is the progressive, ongoing realization of a worthy goal or ideal. And I think that's the perfect definition of success because it's so personal.

1:50What success looks like for you might look different for me. And I think people get stuck in an image of what it should be versus what it could be based on your own story. And I think there's lots of different elements that make that up. And my model of infinite leadership looks at eight pillars that we look at in terms of defining how to move through that to create the success that you want in your life. And I just think that what we have to forget is it's not a one size fits all model. And we can read all of this information. There's so much knowledge and information out there, but you have to bespoke it to what you need in your own personal journey.

2:24And my goal in life is to empower people and inspire them to help them get to the next level in their own success journey, whether that be personally or professionally. Yeah, yeah. Well, what, you know, around that, like, what are some of those common things that you observe, you know, in the life or the mind, I should say, of the leaders that you get to work with currently? So one of the things that people are struggling with, and I think this is, I think this was happening before COVID, but I noticed it more, everyone was in hustle mode during COVID, right? People were in survival mode and just trying to grasp its rules.

3:00but we've kind of gone we call the post-covid world the new normal or whatever it is but people have kind of defaulted back into an unconscious existing rather than a conscious living kind of model so we're just going through the motions we're doing we're going with you know wake up go to work rinse repeat all these kind of things and so we forget that a lot of our things are about conscious choices that we make whether you're a leadership of a large organization or a partner having a conversation at home we're just sort of going through the motions and again we've got to be more mindful of what that looks like and some of that starts like the first pillar in infinite is identity who am I right now and where do I want to be in this next journey and what are the attributes that that requires for me to move through that and is that in alignment with who I want to be the other one at the at the end of infinite is e for ecosystem who are the people around you in your journey around are they the right people in my ecosystem right now that are going to get me on that success journey because what you know what got you here what got you there and that's true of people as well we can have amazing people in our lives but some of them are energy drainers and some of them are energy givers and some of them are really supportive Tasha Yurik talks about this concept of the loving critic people that want what's best for you but are also going to have the conversations with you you know they're not going to be the unloving critic, the people that tear you down all the time.

4:25And they're not going to be the uncritical lover, the person who will say, oh my gosh, Josh, you're so amazing. And you're like completely stuffed up today. And they're like, oh, it doesn't, you're completely amazing. You know, the loving critic is going to pull you out, have those loving, supportive conversations and support you on that journey to get to the next level. And I think sometimes we forget that people support us to the level of their own comfort versus what we need to go to. So I think that's tricky sometimes. Tell me more about that. What did that last little bit mean there? Let's unpack that, as they say.

4:56Okay. So Josh, you've got this new idea coming out and you've got this new vision for this new concept you want to create. But you operate in your particular suburb. I live in Brisbane, Australia, and I've got, you're like, oh, okay, that's so great, Kylie. We both live in Brisbane and I've got a business, you've got a business, I'm so supportive overview and then I come to you and go Josh you know what I want to go global I believe what I've got is I can take this to the next level and everyone starts to go and my you know you go are you sure are you sure like why don't you just focus on Brisbane or why don't you focus on this because for them that's the level of their comfort that they're happy with oh god um and and you know I worked in a government job for a long time before I went into the entrepreneurial journey and I did it in COVID as a single mom of three kids and guess what people were scared scared for me but scared in terms of they didn't know that well because they'd never had the courage to choose that so they were supportive of oh look I love you Kylie and I care for you but I'm not sure so they support you to the level of their comfort versus maybe what you need and so it's about making sure that you're surrounding yourself with people that are going to be mindful of where you're going and give you the right sort of steer, help you steer in the right direction.

6:14But I'm not going to be scared by the fact that you want to dream big. And if you're an entrepreneur, usually that's how you think. And that can be scary for people. Yeah. So Kylie, how do, and obviously, you know, again, this is the difference between asking a friend for their input or advice and working with someone that, you know, look, they're a professional coach. And also too, like, you know, someone that has had the history and experience of working with a lot of seven, eight figure business leaders, for example, it is just going to have context that other people don't. And I would add likely a pretty unique context.

6:57You know, I think about like, when we think about like where wisdom comes from, most of it comes from mistakes and experiences and, you know, living a life well lived right and but that is so valuable uh if someone is willing to sit at the feet of that person that's already walked it's like you know having a conversation like if you want to hike Everest well you're probably going to want to learn from some other Everest hikers I would imagine or at least a professional Sherpa who has worked with all of the hikers right yeah and I think that's so true and when I went into my business journey I knew coaching was important like you You know, you have to model the walk, your talk, right?

7:37So as a coach, I needed a coach. But within three months, I was actually out earning her. And so one of the things that, you know, is really, really important is you have to look at where do you want to go? So if you want to be seven, eight figures, look for somebody who's doing that and then find that person along the way. Because sometimes we can play small because you're looking around, okay, I'm in my first foray into the world and I'm just going to get to the person that's here. But like I said, I'm pretty enthusiastic and passionate about my work. within a few months I'm having this coaching conversation she's like oh you know Kylie just want to let you know that I earned the same revenue as you this month and I'm like great that's so wonderful not sure how that's helping me but okay um and so you know you you've got to have and you've got to aspire big right there's a in Māori in New Zealand uh the First Nations people are Māori people and they have proverb they call it fakatokis and they talk about you know uh aim for the stars and if you miss you'll at least hit a lofty mountain and i think we underestimate what we can do sometimes within a year but we sorry we overestimate we can do in a year but we underestimate what we can do in a little bit more period of time and i think we play small marianne williamson says you're playing small does not serve the world so what happens if you aspire to hit that you know those stars if you hit the top of the mountain you're still going to be further than if you played small in the world and go i'm just going to get to the first you know the first uh pillar of that you know the mountain yeah um so kylie what does it look like when you work with your clients like how do you work together like where do you start what's the journey typically like so that was a lot of big questions tell me about the history of the world while you're at it yeah oh look uh in 16 minutes um i think one of the things that i i think it's a very bespoke journey and I think going back to um that infinite is that there's lots of different things that make that in and sometimes we've got to understand where people were we've also got to understand where people think they want to go and then we've got to help them remove those barriers for themselves you know I was asked recently you know what's your biggest challenge in business and I'm like myself you know I'm my biggest my own biggest challenge my headset and coaching is the same thing most people the biggest challenge that they've got is their own thinking in terms of what they think is true or not true and you know whether you think you can or you can't you're usually right so how do we you know remove those barriers and those limitations that we place on ourselves to get to where we want to go and help people craft that journey up that thinks that you know many of us think we have to do it ourselves and even though we logically know that we don't and we can't we still have a bit of a narrative in there so helping people give people giving people permission to give themselves permission to be able to pivot and navigate and, you know, work in their zone of genius versus work in their zone of frustration.

10:27That's how we get that leverage. And then it's a snowball effect from there. Yeah. Your website is elementsforsuccess.com.au. And I know that you also share good content around social media. Like, what are you kind of most proud of, or I don't know if there's any key content or resources or anything that you've made available that you think is helpful for someone that might be listening to us, even maybe before they directly engage with you? Yeah. So I've got a short guide about what it means to be an infinite leader. And the way that I think of infinite leadership is it's an ongoing evolution.

11:08And when I work with people, people are tired of going, oh, something else to learn or something else to do or something to do that but the minute we recognize that it's an ongoing evolution of journey we actually remove some of the resentment because I'm just on my on my evolution and then like infinite is ongoing so when we recognize that there's infinite learning we also recognize that there's infinite possibilities and infinite opportunities I've actually got my infinite leadership book coming out in December this year I've got some short guides that you can find on my website I've also got links to all the podcasts that I've been on where I share different tidbits around what it means to be an infinite leader.

11:43So there's lots of different things that people can access prior to, you know, having a chat with me around what that would look like to see if it's a good fit for them. But I encourage people to sit there and remind themselves that, you know, we need a really strong reflective practice. We need to keep moving that needle forward. And equally, it's okay to accept where you are now. Like I'm really good as I am, but that doesn't mean I should stop, keep trying to move forward. And having a really good reflective practice and a model around how to do that because our default principle is we do that from a negativity concept of, I'm not enough, so I need to do more, but we need to look at what's working really well and how can I do more?

12:24Because that will give me the growth and the exponentiality in terms of where we want to go in the future. Yeah. Okay. So elementsforsuccess.com.au, you mentioned the guide. And if someone wants to reach out and connect with you, what would you recommend they do? Yep. So LinkedIn, Kylie, K-Y-L-E-E, thanks mom, L-E-O-T-A, any of the social medias, Elements for Success on Insta and Facebook, but just hit me up on my website, elementsforsuccess.com.au, put a notification, we can jump on a call and we can see, whilst I have different packages, it's about bespoking it to your needs in your point in time.

13:04And I have clients that have moved through the journey that where they were when they first met me to where they are now, they require different things. So we just bespoke it along the way, in terms of meeting your needs to get you to the next growth. And you know, coaching is hard. It's not for the faint hearted. People that think this is an easy journey. It's not. But it's definitely worth it. And you've got to be in the top, you know, 10 % of people because most people are too confronted by doing the hard work in this particular space. So you're going to put you in an own elite level of itself, if you get the right coach to support you on the right journey.

13:38So That's one of the biggest things. I know that from experience because that was my experience also. Kylie Leota, again, you are the founder of Elements for Success, the website elementsforsuccess.com.au. Kylie, thank you so much for the conversation. Thank you for getting up so early with me as well. Thank you so much for having me. I love it. I enjoy the energy. Thanks so much for what you do, Josh, for your audience.

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