DESIGN THE LIFE YOU LOVE BY AYSE BIRSEL > VIRTUAL TEA #101 WITH WHITNEY JOHNSON

Dear Designers of Life!

Last week was Design the Life You Love Virtual Tea #100.?

To celebrate, we caught our demons with the extraordinarily talented Jerusalem-born, New York-based artist Tamar Ettun. You can watch Tamar and our #100?here.

This week we start afresh.?

To get us started, I invited my dear friend Whitney Johnson to tea. Whitney is one of my all-time favorite authors and speakers. She is also my mentor.

We will have a conversation about her new book,?Smart Growth:?How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company.?

Whitney says, "The growth and learning journey comes in three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and Mastery.”

To introduce us to her Smart Growth process, Whitney will guide us in the drawing of S Curves. In an S Curve, The Launch Point is at the bottom where learning is slow and takes effort. As you develop new skills and gather experience, things accelerate and you enter The Sweet Spot of the curve. Then, as you get to the peak, the curve flattens and you reach Mastery. That is also when?you’re ready to jump off to a new S Curve.

Whitney suggests we listen to this episode of her podcast,?Why You Should Hire People Into Roles They're Not Qualified For (Yet),?to get warmed up. You can also skim the first chapter of her book.

I also recommend reading Whitney's HBR article,?Manage Your Organization as?a Portfolio of Learning?Curves,?where she explains the S Curve.?

Don't you think each time you Design the Life You Love, you go?through an S Curve??

I can't wait to explore Smart Growth with you and introduce you to the unparalleled Whitney Johnson.?

Come to our Virtual Tea #101!

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT.

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Thank you!

Ayse Birsel + Leah Caplan + Selin Miskavi

Inspiration:

After you’ve captured your demons, join?Ron Carucci?and me?to Design the Honest Life You Love, on?May 14, Saturday, 11AM-4PM ET.?

"What is most amazing about Ayse Birsel and Ron Carucci's Design the HONEST Life You Love program is not its extraordinary efficiency but the simple fact that it does what it claims to do – it will coax and cajole you to be more honest and transparent about the life you really want for yourself. It certainly did for me. Honestly.”?—Mark Reiter,?best-selling co-author?

Tickets?here.

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I love Tamar Ettun's work and hope you will too. You can now opt-in to receive a monthly text message from Lilit, Tamar’s empathic demon with drawings and somatic exercises, by texting SUMMON 833-575-1049.

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My friend and mentor Marshall Goldsmith started his daily calls with his 100 Coaches community at the beginning of COVID, saying if I can help one person, that's enough for me. That inspired me to do the same with my community and start the Virtual Teas. His new book,?The Earned Life,?is coming out on May 3rd. I love it and hope that you do as well. Please pre-order from Amazon!

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Last but not least, learn more about Whitney’s work?here.

Our Collaboration:

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