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[00:00:02.20] – Intro

Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkless values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO Podcast.

[00:00:26.10] – Gresham Harkless

Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I am CEO podcast, and I have a very special guest on the show today at lumari of Lumari dot com. Lamari, it's awesome to have you on the show.

[00:00:40.20] – Lumari

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here, Gresh. Thank you so much.

[00:00:43.89] – Gresham Harkless

No problem. Super excited to have you on. Before we jump in, I wanted to read a little bit more about Lymari so you can hear about all the awesome things that she's doing. And Lymari is an internationally acclaimed intuitive life coach and creation catalyst who has shown thousands of people how to awaken their greater soul purpose, create their bigger vision. As a visionary intuitive, Lymari guides her worldwide clients to greater fulfillment and success in their businesses and also in their lives. Lumeri works with conscious creatives, CEOs, leaders, and change agents who are visionaries in their chosen fields. She guides you to tap into the power of your brilliance and create aligned decisions, shifts, and changes so you can live your highest path of calling, your bigger vision, and make a difference in our world. Numeri, are you ready to speak to the I am CEO community?

[00:01:32.59] – Lumari

I am.

[00:01:33.90] – Gresham Harkless

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. So I'm ready to dive in and hear everything that you do, but I I wanna set this up right. So I wanna hear more about how you got started. Could you take us through your CEO story? We'll let you get started with all the awesome things you're working on.

[00:01:44.59] – Lumari

Oh, well, one of the things for me, I have always been intuitive. I have always been connected. I've always heard messages and conversations. It's been my whole life. So I didn't actually know I was intuitive and psychic and a channel until much later in life because I just that was how my my mind and my being worked. So I just assumed that nobody talked about that in, conversation, that they all kept it secret. Kinda like, you know, when you're a little kid and they say, oh, don't talk about that.

[00:02:17.19] – Gresham Harkless

Right? Right.

[00:02:18.19] – Lumari

And I thought, well, that's, you know, you just don't talk about that. Mhmm. Right? I didn't realize it was a gift. Mhmm. I didn't realize it was an inherited gift. I inherited it from my grandmother, but I didn't know any of that stuff until I was in college. And I started saying because I went to art school, I started talking with people about, oh, you know when you create and you spin the sculpture around in your head and you look at all the different angles of it and then you have the conversations with all the other artists, so, you know, and they're like, what? Like, okay. Right? And then my life had many changes in it, and I realized I had connected with a variety of different people. I originally was in Boston. Working with coaching different people in a kind of relaxed way. And one of the people I was coaching was a CEO of a big medical company.

And I'm just using my intuitive gifts, not thinking about it one way or another. And she had a real dilemma because it was a time when they were doing a lot of corporate takeovers in a sneaky way not in a compatible way, like they would just come in and buy everybody else's stock and you were gone. Mhmm. And she asked for a different coaching from me. And I'm like, okay. I don't know anything about this, but I can tell you these things. And it started off kind of in a friendship way, right, because we're coaching together. And I started telling her on how to be the right CEO for her board, what quality she needed to use for each person. And I would hear the different conversations about spirituality, but intuitively, the timing of this different lodge, how to diffuse people's fears, how to all of this stuff, which is not my innate knowledge, meaning I have no experience in big business like that, right?

[00:04:13.90] – Gresham Harkless

Mhmm.

[00:04:14.50] – Lumari

And I guided her through that and after three months, she knew that nobody was taking that business from her. Everybody on the board loved her again. And she took it to a whole other level. And she wrote me out a really big check.

[00:04:30.39] – Gresham Harkless

Thank you.

[00:04:32.50] – Lumari

And looked at me and said, you need to do this for your business because you just saved me, oh, about seventy-five million dollars. Mhmm. I'm like, oh. Okay.

[00:04:45.80] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. That that

[00:04:46.60] – Lumari

How it started.

[00:04:47.80] – Gresham Harkless

That makes so much sense. I definitely appreciate you because I think so many times we, you know, we sometimes see the signs of our gifts or things, and sometimes we don't walk into them. But there's nothing like a huge check-in reminder of saving seventy-five million dollars for the universe to say, hey. You need to be doing this, and for you to actually walk in through that.

[00:05:08.00] – Lumari

Yes. And that's part of the so we have a lot of different gifts that a lot of people don't, whatever reason, don't appreciate the totality of themselves. So they might be applauded like if we do it in a really mundane way, people might be applauded for being an athlete and nobody cares how brilliant they are as a poet or a singer or a CEO or a business expert because they just see them being an athlete and shining. And we're usually supported by one or two different gifts that we have. And the other ones, people don't pay as much attention to. And the whole of you is what wants to thrive.

[00:05:50.60] – Gresham Harkless

Mhmm.

[00:05:51.30] – Lumari

All those parts of you.

[00:05:53.00] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. And I imagine too that's, you know, I think a lot of what we do and who we are, we wanna be recognized, we wanna be appreciated. And as you said, you know, that we're a totality and the totality of who we are. I think, you know, you will want that recognition. You want that appreciation. So, it's great that you're able to kind of understand that about people and kinda tap into that. So, I know I touched on it a little bit when I read your bio. Could you take us through exactly how you help people, you know, of course, find that, but also excel and execute in in in their totality of who they are?

[00:06:24.50] – Lumari

Oh, thank you. Yes. So when I'm working with somebody, I am tuning into, yes, I'm tuning into their business and the goals and the dreams that they have of their business that they know of right now. I'm tuning into who they are as a person. So a lot of times, like we were just talking about, you may have gifts that you don't necessarily think apply to your business, but they do because that's the reason you're the CEO. It's not just that you can lead the whole company to x, y, and z. It's much more of who you are as a leader, who you are to guide the whole company, to keep the integrity, to keep all that energy going. That is really something. And so it's about who you are, the totality of you as a leader, as a person, as a visionary. So when I'm looking at you as the CEO, let's use you as the CEO, right? Then I'm looking at you as, okay, yes, it's your company.

How is your company going to shine? What are the next steps? What's your vision? What's an even bigger vision? Because a lot of times our vision is what is about capacity as opposed to what is going to fulfill a whole other level of vision. And then also when I'm working with the CEO, I'm looking at their staff. So I am looking at who on the board of directors that you're working with is on your side, who is confused, who needs help, who needs a little guidance, whether the timing of this new launch, whatever it may be, is good. So I've worked with people at Apple and HP and a lot of things looking at, okay, you've got a glitch that you don't know.

And that's because everybody wants to look so good to you that they're not telling you that there's a little thing here that's kind of because they don't wanna feel that they have failed you. So if that's the case, then the CEO that I'm talking to has to look at, okay, how is that person holding themselves so these people are afraid to disclose? And also how to change the timing if it really isn't going to work so that everybody is still comfortable. And I'm working while I'm working with you as the CEO, I'm also working on the vision for the company and your own personal vision because they're not the same. You have another life outside your business.

[00:08:44.89] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. Is that true? Yeah. It is it makes so much sense. What was coming to my mind was kinda like the holistic look at who we are as we talked about before as an individual. But I think also kinda that 03:60 view of the business and organization as well too. Because I think so many times we can lose sight of all those different parts and how they can fit in together and sometimes maybe not a whole other way fit in together, and how to be, you know, honest and open about that, but also the steps to take in order to, you know, get to where that vision or that goal is.

[00:09:18.70] – Lumari

Yes. Well, and when I work with, so I was talking more about, like, innovators. That's what I call those people. And so with creatives where I have actors and musicians and artists, they also have pressure in a different way. And sometimes the pressure isn't to really fulfill their next vision or change what they're doing, but everybody wants them to continue in a certain way. And so how do you have those things coincide where you're still connected to your business as an artist but your voice is not limited by the numbers that people are saying you need to fulfill?

[00:09:56.10] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. And that's insanely powerful because, you know, so many times you may not see for yourself exactly what vision or how high your altitude can be. But I think, as you said, you know, so so, Wells, a lot of times, externally, it might be other people seeing you in a certain box and not seeing how the different seeing the holistic part of who you are and what you're able to accomplish and the heights by which you're able to achieve as well.

[00:10:22.00] – Lumari

Yes. Exactly.

[00:10:23.29] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. It's great to kinda hear that. So, I wanted to ask you for what I call your secret sauce. And I don't know if you already touched on this, but do you feel the ability to kinda see that holistic 03:60 view is what you feel kinda sets you apart and makes you unique?

[00:10:37.29] – Lumari

It does. it is because I can see so with my gifts and also my own personality gifts as well, right, I can see the totality as well as see where you are right now and the steps that led you there. And so that is really important for my clients, but also for all of us to be able to look at and understand, okay, I'm here. All right. I want something bigger or I feel like there is something bigger even if I don't know what it is yet. And to also see the pathway. Because one of what's nice about my gifts is I can usually see the pathway that is most efficient, most beneficial, the most, serving that that helps you get where you need to go, where you want to go, where your vision takes you in a beneficial way.

[00:11:30.79] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. Awesome. I wanted to switch gears a little bit, and I wanted to ask you for what I call a CEO hack. So this could be like an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but what's something that makes you more effective and efficient?

[00:11:42.60] – Lumari

Oh, Oh, what I oh, I always tune in first. So now, other people will look at it like it is, what am I feeling? What is this is some people call it their gut instinct.

[00:11:54.00] – Gresham Harkless

Mhmm.

[00:11:54.39] – Lumari

Right? To me, that's basic. Right? So I tune in in many different ways to check how I'm being if I'm distracted. Right? I wanna check in and say, okay. What's distracting me? Let me move that away. Okay. Now I'm tuning into what is the best possible energy I can be in right now to move this forward.

[00:12:15.60] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah.

[00:12:15.89] – Lumari

Does that make sense?

[00:12:16.79] – Gresham Harkless

It makes so much sense. Absolutely love that. So I wanted to ask you now for what I call a CEO nugget. So this could be a word of wisdom or a piece of advice. It might be something you would tell somebody you're working with, or if you were to hop into a time machine, you might even tell your younger business self.

[00:12:31.70] – Lumari

One of the things that I love to do is say, what is the best possible place in this? And I use the word place. So it and so when you're looking at something, whether it's your vision, where you're going next, whether it's a quandary, like, I don't know what, because we like those two, right? It's like, what is the best possible place in this to shine? So now you can look at it. We can say play. Right? But you're opening up your vision in it.

[00:13:04.70] – Gresham Harkless

Exactly. So I wanted to ask you now my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of what it means to be a CEO. And we're hoping to have different quotes, unquote CEOs on the show. So, Lumeri, what does being a CEO mean to you?

[00:13:17.29] – Lumari

What it means to me is to be in a space of leadership and cooperation, to create the vision, and then have everything go beyond the original vision. So it's being in leadership, but it is in a collaborative way so that you get to listen to all of the other things that create and bring your bigger vision into reality, and then you can keep on going from there.

[00:13:46.00] – Gresham Harkless

Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. And I think too, I love that because you mentioned the things, all the other things to kinda collaborate with, in order to create that vision and how sometimes when we, I think, come from that, that place of collaborating, it takes what we sometimes have a have as a vision to an entirely different level because we're collaborating. We're creating something that's so much better than it would be if we were just doing it by ourselves.

[00:14:11.79] – Lumari

Yes. And the openness so it's it's when you have the right team, of course, because that's what we're talking about anyway, then everybody has the whole best interest at play. And so you imagine all of that genius coming together, and you might be the orchestra leader, but you're not playing all the instruments.

[00:14:32.89] – Intro

Right.

[00:14:33.79] – Lumari

Everybody in the band is contributing and you get to play, you get to play together, and sometimes it's this solo, and sometimes it's this solo, and you know, I'm like a big jazz freak. So sometimes it's riffing in the middle of it and you just let that trumpet go and then you bring them all together because you still need to know what song you're singing and playing. And that's the CEO to me.

[00:14:57.29] – Gresham Harkless

Yeah. Absolutely. And it's, you know, that true leadership that you spoke on. So I love that definition, and I appreciate that, and I appreciate your time even more. What I wanted to do is pass you the mic, so to speak, just to see if there's anything additional. You can let our readers and listeners know, and, of course, how best they can get a hold of you and find out about all the awesome things you're doing and working on.

[00:15:16.39] – Lumari

Oh, thank you so much. Well, you can get in touch with me at lumari dot com. That's l u m a r I. I just spelled my own name, dot com. And there are wonderful free gifts that you can get there. I love to work with people who have a vision and wanna bring it forward. And so my individual coaching with people is really your vision becomes the light that guides me to help you. And so it's being in sync with you, it's creating that harmony so that you can shine. And when you're shining, we all get to shine, and that's so important to me. So I love working with people who are ready to shine.

[00:15:59.39] – Gresham Harkless

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. And we will have those links and information in the show notes so that everybody can follow up with you. But I appreciate that reminder as well too. I think when you kinda walk in your path it'll shine as you said, not only does it help you to shine, but it gives permission and it reminds us all to shine as well. So I appreciate you reminding us of that and doing that in your life as well too. So appreciate you, Lamar. I hope you have a great rest of the day.

[00:16:23.10] – Outro

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