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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Coming up next on Passion Struck.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I wasn't trying to get you to go in any direction at all. I just wanted to hear what your thoughts were.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
It's not the only art that we have lost, but it really gets down to this big area of work that I'm studying right now on the science of mattering, because I think we have really shifted so much in society from our lives and the connections that we had at one point throughout history to now this void that's been caused.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Every piece was designed with intention to remind you that you matter. Your presence matters.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And it's interesting because in the book, you have this statement, I'm going to read it. The nature of an untrained mind is one of distractions. Since the lives we lead are a manifestation of the quality of our mind, it's no wonder so many people feel their lives are out of control.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And you and I were talking before you came on about, I have this saying that I keep using because I think it adequately describes what's happening. I call it the disease of disconnection, which to me is one of the largest epidemics that is impacting humanity. How does what I just read fit into that disease of disconnection?
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
It makes sense. When I think of this disease, it surely impacts the relationships we have in others. But I think at the core of the disease is that people are losing connection to their very selves. We're like losing connection to our souls.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
because we're spending so much of our time thinking out of our body that we're not dedicating enough cycles to truly understanding ourself, our talents, why we were put here on earth, and most importantly, what's our contribution to help end human suffering?
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
meaning we we're constantly looking i think for external validation of ourselves and that comes through social media it comes through the gaming that people do it comes through the constant seeking for attention instead of really what is taught in buddhist teachings which is focus on mindfulness, focus on consciousness, focus on who we are as an individual and turning more inward.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And I think it's becoming a lost art for so many people.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I think that's a big element of it. I think we've just gotten so focused on the importance of individual. And I think a lot of the frameworks that are being put in place through technology are just reinforcing or highlighting the importance of the individual. But what we're lacking is connection. What we're lacking is community. What we're lacking is looking at
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
how we as an individual help others, serve others, because I think that's what we're called to do.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
now if you've missed last week's solo episode number 612 i really encourage you to go back and give it a listen it's called how to reframe your inner world when life feels like too much a guide to transforming your mental landscape when overwhelm sets in and on tuesday i had a profound conversation with joseph wynn author of don't believe everything you think where we explored how to break free from thought patterns that keep us trapped in suffering and self-doubt
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I agree. And part of the reason I went down this path is Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote the foreword for your book. And everyone I've had on the podcast who has interacted with His Holiness, which is now probably nine to 10 people on the show, all tell me that he has a really unique connection
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
way that he talks to them as an individual about their specific contribution to making the world better and how their small plays a bigger role in helping others and helping society. Have you found the same things as you have interacted with him?
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
That's really a beautiful quote, and it reminds me of the work of the late Emil Bruneau, who I highlight on this show a lot. Emil was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, if you're not familiar with them, and died from brain cancer way too young. But his work was really focused on dehumanization and how do we start seeing the other in conflicts
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
As part of ourselves, how do we see the commonality of all humanity so that we look beyond the differences and we look more to the commonalities in life and what draws us together as opposed to what is driving us apart, which to me, love, compassion, gratitude, all those things that you just brought up play directly into that.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
You and I were talking about a previous guest of mine, Rick Hansen, before you came on the show and Rick has founded the Global Compassion Coalition. I just wanted to bring that up because he is seeing that, especially in young males, this is becoming less and less something that people are looking at as a strength. And so he's trying to influence broader than that, but that is a core
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And today, we continue our month-long journey into mental health awareness, this time through a spiritual and narrative lens with someone who brings ancient wisdom in everyday life. Janet Edley is a writer, musician, and devoted student of Buddhist Dharma.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
group of individuals he is really trying to put his focus on because so many young males today are adrift. Do you see that through your work as well?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I guess that would be part of it. I guess the first thing would be, do you think compassion in itself is starting to become less of an art than it has historically been? And do you think it manifests itself more in males or females, certain ages or not?
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And I just wanted to point out that the Global Compassion Coalition isn't about just men. It's really trying to establish compassion and justice as the foundation for all societies. And
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
One of the things that they're doing that I'm trying to start myself is to create a compassion circle, which they'll instruct you how to do in your local community so that you can start taking action and in your own community, which is I think how action usually starts. And the more this is spread worldwide, the more it becomes a common practice instead of an outlier. I just where I was going is.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Through her How Life Works series, Janet masterfully translates the six perceptions of Master Shantideva into modern parables that teach us how to live with more intention, mindfulness, and compassion. Her newest book, How Joyous Effort Works, even features a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and explores how our actions
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Scott Galloway and others talk about young men being adrift today. And one of the core areas that he and others talk about is the lack of compassion and exemplifying these powerful type of people, but not as much focusing on some of the inherent values that are needed to balance some of the powerful with others. some of the other values that we need to survive in life. That's where I was going.
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Well, this is a global organization, so they're working throughout Africa. They're in Europe. They're in the United States. They provide you with a core structure on how to develop these compassion councils, how to bring these lessons out. So I'm at the beginning stages of the journey because I want to learn more about it and how they're trying to use this, as Malcolm Gladwell would say,
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to start influence a tipping point happening where this becomes more the norm instead of not being the norm in society?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Yeah, I remember I was interviewing Robin Sharma and he made this quote to me about what we're talking about. He said, you can either play on your phone or you can change the world. You can't do both.
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And I think what he's just saying is where you focus your attention. is where your actions will result. And he's right. Whether it's on that, whether it's on gaming, whether it's on addictions, all those things hold us back from really fulfilling what we're put on earth to do.
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when done joyfully and selflessly, can create ripple effects of transformation in the world around us. In today's conversation, we explore how ancient Buddhist principles help us navigate modern challenges, the balance between inner growth and life's external demands, practical ways to apply mindfulness, compassion, and equanimity daily, while focusing on the happiness of others can lead to
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Yes. It reminds me of a teacher I had on the show a couple of years ago. I'm not sure if you've ever heard of Don DePonte.
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Dandapani is a Hindu priest and he was a Hindu monk for I think a dozen years. And he wrote this book on the power of focus. And really it was the most profound lesson that he learned from his years of being a monk was that you can't be intentional about your actions unless you learn how to focus your mind on the right things. And I talk about this in my book from last year.
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where I cite him in this chapter. I call it living a pinball life. I use this analogy because I think so many of us today, we live out our days as if we're like the ball in the game of pinball. We're just bouncing off all the distractions, these 60,000 thoughts that we have throughout the day. And we let them play us instead of really being conscious and deliberate about
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how we control those thoughts. So instead of the game playing us, we learn how to play it. And to me, it's a great analogy for life. And the whole, one of the core focuses of this podcast is really on, I believe it's the intentional choices that we make.
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I call them micro choices that end up resulting in either a valley of despair that we find ourselves in or reaching peak states of fulfillment and self awareness and self transcendence. And those micro moments are, really determine our choices. So it's how do you start controlling your mind to control the micro choices that you make?
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
So they're leading you down the path that leads you to more fulfillment in your life and less ultimately regrets.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Yes.
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deep joy within ourselves, and so much more. Janet's work is a gentle but powerful reminder that the sacred often shows up in the small moments, and that a life well-lived is one that blends effort with wisdom and service with joy. Now, let's dive into this thoughtful and inspiring conversation with Janet Edley.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I think that's a great context for it. I'm glad you brought that up because that is a great way to think about it as well, which kind of takes the metaphor of the pinball and puts it into a framework that people can understand. So I'll have to think about combining that in the future. So thank you for that thought.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Absolutely. And I was going to go into Master Shantidava's teachings anyhow, so I'm glad you took us there. I really thought it was interesting how you started the book by examining his life from eight centuries ago and how he is amongst his peers and his peers look to him as being lazy, as not pulling his load. And so they create a test for him.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And I was hoping maybe you could pick up the story of what that test was and what has been written about how he handled that test.
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Thank you for choosing PassionStruck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life. Now, let that journey begin. I am so honored today to welcome Janet Edley to Passion Struck. Welcome, Janet.
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Well, isn't that like so many stories of famous teachers that you hear is they have cultivated this internally until the moment comes when they start to share it. And then when they do share it, it's shared with such profound knowledge. And what was so interesting about this story is that they tried to trick him.
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not only into what they thought was putting him into an uncomfortable situation, but forced to teach something that the planet had never heard of before. And then he does it so eloquently.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Bill Moyers?
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I have seen parts of it. I have not watched the whole thing. I've read this book probably 10 times, but I have to go back and do it because to me, looking at what he, this interview took place in the 80s, and it's so interesting to me how you see these common myths play out It's a different story, but basically the same story across so many different religions.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I'm listening to Yuval's new book, and he's talking about information and how information has evolved over centuries. And he goes into Joseph Campbell as well and the power of myths and how myths have been a cornerstone of storytelling and getting information disseminated for millennia. So there really is something to this.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
He did.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
There's a lot of commonality. And something that I took from Joseph Campbell's words was, to me, I came across that throughout history, there have been recurring patterns where people
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I love to start these episodes out by asking opening questions that really get the guest to share parts of them that the audience may never have heard about before. So one of those questions I like to ask is, what is the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
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stop going to church as much let's just say it in that common way and the way he was representing it was that the myths get old and they need refreshing and so new religions come about and they take hold because they spin the same stories in a way that relates to where people are in the modern lives that they live and so that's what happened from judaism to christianity etc.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And I'm not sure if it's true or not, but there sure seems to be some relevance to what he said. And I remember I had a really great teacher when I was studying the Bible, and he was a theologian, but he also had a PhD in history. To me, a lot of the things that are said, especially in the Old Testament, are so hard to understand.
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And he was able to really take those ancient words and he would represent them to, this is what it means in the 21st century. And that translation, I think, is missing for a lot of people.
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Well, no, this was just a pastor of a Methodist church I was taking this course on discipleship from. His name is Terry, Pastor Terry. But I couldn't have asked for a better teacher because you would read this and I would get really stuck in trying to interpret what they were saying all the way back when the Old Testament was written. And he...
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would have just these grand examples and it's been a decade since i plus since i took this course of what those lessons meant in today's world which made so much more sense when you were reading it but i wish more of the bibles would do that interpretation and unfortunately this bible where i took copious notes from all these courses
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to benefit someone else and you see that joy or you just are aware of how that benefit has been meaningful to somebody else that gets you i think serves that purpose that you were saying that people are missing welcome to passion struck hi i'm your host john r miles and on the show we decipher the secrets tips and guidance of the world's most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you
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that he had taught got destroyed in the floods that impacted us four or five months ago. So I lost that Bible that I had decades worth of notes written in.
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They are. But it is interesting how Yuval in this new book was really talking about When you think of Passover, you're really getting people to think about lessons from the past and to do it as a ritual every year. When you think about in Christianity, Easter and the Christmas season, you're really doing the same thing. You're revisiting old myths and doing it as a ritual.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
So it's really this interplay of ritual with information, with doing it on a consistent basis that ingrains these thoughts and lessons into people's minds.
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I think that could be part of it. I just think that there is a void right now where they are very impressionable and that right now they're a lost generation, so to speak, and that something needs to fill that void. And that void could be something very nefarious, or it could be something that is based on profound lessons that shape who they become is what I'm leaning into. Yeah.
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So even the six perfections which you're writing about are important things. The power of generosity, ethics, which Ryan Holiday talks about a ton, patience, effort, concentration, as we were talking about before, and wisdom. They all are key steps to a path of enlightenment. And they're just as relevant in the eighth century as they are today.
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But it's how do you, like you're trying to do through your book and your story that you're telling it through. It reminded me of Robin Sharma a little bit in the way you wrote it. You're really trying to bring these six perfections to a relevant state for people to absorb today.
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Is how I interpret what you're doing.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
His journey really illustrates the challenge of balancing spiritual growth with everyday demands.
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I think if you go back and you look at Abraham or Moses or people from the Old Testament, they probably had the same question about could they balance the two themselves, right?
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Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And I think it's one of the universal struggles that we have. And it's where do you put your priorities? That same pastor I talked about, Terry, he used the Eisenhower matrix in a way I've never heard it talk about in a congregation. He just said your effort and your focus and everything else really comes down to your calendar and your pocketbook.
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And it's really your prioritization matrix for where you're spending your time. So I did want to go into a couple more things about the book. One of the most downloaded articles I've ever written was on the importance of adult play. And I'm going to tie this into the book because you write joyous effort is like the wind that pushes you towards your goal.
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And to me, what this really emphasizes is the importance of combining effort with joy or combining effort with play. How does this differ from the traditional idea of hard work?
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Okay. And in your book, Troy learns about finding the right type of teacher. What qualities do you think someone today should look for in a mentor or guide, whether you're on a spiritual path or you're just looking for a life coach?
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Thank you for sharing that. For me, and I'll just apply it to my technology career, I remember as I was looking for mentors for my career, I would always be looking for people who had done roles two or three ahead of where I wanted to be with the goal that they could help me
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short circuit much of the suffering that comes along with having to learn things the hard way and help me think about the decision framework that I was using and how I was intentionally approaching my career to eventually get to where I wanted to go. But I think the same type of thought goes with any direction you want to take.
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And so you really want to pick someone who fits the ideals of who you're wanting to be in the future so that they can help you grow to be a mirror of that image, so to speak.
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striving to achieve yourself and i think in a spiritual situation you can observe that quality in the person and i guess in any other sort of mentorship it would be a parallel sort of analogy i was just driven crazy when you go into companies and they would assign you a mentor because i never wanted to be assigned a mentor i wanted to find a mentor who i wanted to live up to what i
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saw in them and how they projected themselves. A great example of this was when I was at Lowe's. One of my mentors was this guy, Steve Szilagyi, who at the time was senior vice president over distribution systems. He wasn't even in technology, but what I really loved about him was how he treated people as if they mattered.
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He would see him and the way he cared for people, the way he remembered them, the way he motivated them, the way he got people to do the impossible were just skill sets that I didn't have. So when I saw him embodying them, of course, I wanted to learn from him. And sometimes You know, people always say, well, how do you approach someone about being a mentor?
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Well, sometimes you don't even have to do it. It just comes naturally by putting yourself in their presence, that the more you're around them, the more you start learning. And then it gradually just turned into something where he would share more and more with me just because he saw I was becoming a disciple of what he was trying to accomplish.
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And so sometimes it doesn't have to be as formal as I think people need it to be.
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I'll just tell you a simple statement. I'll give you just a simple example from someone I really admire just by watching how intentional he was, and that is Burrow Sr. I got to meet him a few times over the years before he died, and when I met him, he was an older man, and he would still come into Perot Systems every single day. He didn't have a leadership role at that point.
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But what was so intriguing about it even then was he was constantly trying to learn. And so every single day he would come to the cafeteria. He was always dressed in a suit and he would pick a different random table to sit at. And when he was there in front of the people he was sitting in, it wasn't about Ross. He was there to learn as much as he could about
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the people who he was sitting with, and then he would share connection with them. And to me, it was just such a fascinating gift to see him give to others. And you could see how much it meant to him that he was receiving that connection back. And it was one of my favorite aspects of observing this great man who had so many accomplishments
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But when it came down to it, I think he knew that the most important one was the connection that we have with others.
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And Janet, if you could offer one piece of advice to someone who feels stuck or that they are missing that connection in their lives, what would it be?
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Well, how about we just go with, how about one piece of advice to someone who feels that they are missing connection in their lives?
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Well, Janet, it was such a joy having you on today, speaking of your book, Joy. And can you please tell the listeners or viewers where they can learn more about you and pick up this book as well as your other books?
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Well, thank you so much too, Janet. And thanks for being a listener of the show. I always love it when I have guests on who have listened to previous episodes. So I really appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. You too. That was such a calming, wise and meaningful dialogue with Janet Edley. Her ability to distill complex spiritual ideas into soul nourishing stories is truly rare. As Janet shared, the key to lasting fulfillment isn't in achieving more, but in how we show up for others, how we approach the ordinary with joy and how we align our energy with a higher purpose.
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Her message is one we all need right now. That joyous effort rooted in compassion and intention is not only possible, but transformative. So as we close, I want to leave you with a few reflection prompts from today's episode. How can you turn your daily routines into mindful acts of service? What does it mean for you to put joyful effort into your relationships, your work, and your healing?
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How might shifting your focus from self-gain, to other centeredness, create more peace in your life. If today's conversation resonated with you, please take a moment to rate and review Passion Struck on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your feedback helps us grow and bring these powerful messages to more people around the world.
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And coming up next on PassionStruck, I'm joined by Dr. Judith Joseph, one of the most trusted voices in psychiatry, to talk about her groundbreaking new book, High Functioning, and what it really means to heal the parts of ourselves no one else sees.
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Until then, live boldly, live with purpose, and as always, live life passion-struck.
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Well, thank you so much for sharing that. I have never had the privilege of going to see the Grateful Dead in concert. I've seen Phish in concert and that is quite a show, but my father is 86. He seemed to be 87 and he was visiting me recently. And he told me that he had purchased his first Grateful Dead album at the age of 86. And he says, this is some pretty good music.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
He always listens to things on a CD typically. So he gave me most of his record collection. So I don't think he uses the turntable that we had when I was growing up anymore. But it was just interesting to hear him saying, I'm just discovering Grateful Dead. And I said, you should listen to Fish then.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
I do not know, but they're all very good.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Well, I live here in the Tampa Bay area, and we actually have one of the best Grateful Dead cover band bands in the country. They're called Uncle John's Band. And every time they play, Deadheads come from all over the area, and they typically have 300, 400, 500 people who come to the breweries or other event places that I've seen. So still a huge following.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
You are the third or fourth person I've had on the podcast who went to Berklee College of Music, ironically. And one of them, Jeff Walker, I think was the chairman of the board of Berklee College of Music. Interestingly enough, I'm not sure if you're familiar with Jeff, but he has a great podcast called System Catalysts. And he started the contemplative science podcast.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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whole course at the University of Virginia and was its first president. So he is also very big into mindfulness, Buddhist practices, etc.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Well, I bring this up because your path to becoming an author is really unique because we're talking about Grateful Dead and you started as a musician, which is why I asked you about Berklee College of Music. How did this journey go from musician to studying Buddhist teachings and eventually to becoming a writer?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
Now, let's go out there and become Passion Struck. Welcome to Passion Struck episode 614, the podcast that ignites change from the inside out. I'm your host, John Miles, and I'm thrilled to be back with you. And I want to share a few quick updates. If you haven't heard yet, we officially launched the Passion Struck clothing line, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
That's great. It answered the next question I was going to ask you about the chance meeting with your publisher, but I want to go back to something you talked about, and that is how we used to write each other's stories. Because when I was at home this past year and I was going throughout my bedroom, I found this bag
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
where my parents had put together all these letters that I had wrote to them and that I had kept from my time when I was at the Naval Academy. And when I think about this art of writing people personal letters, there's really a joy to it, especially receiving those letters that has really created a void, I think, in today's modern society.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Janet Ettele on How Joyous Effort Transforms Our Lives | EP 614
And to me, this whole concept of writing a letter like that kind of ties into the title of your new book, How Joyous Effort Works. Because to me, when you were writing letters like that, it really was a joyous effort to put that into the world. What are your thoughts on that?