What's The Big Idea: Aaron Rose - The Essential Link Between Personal Transformation and Social Justice

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“To create external results we must also focus on our internal identity.”

Today’s guest: Aaron Rose

His big idea: To create collective healing and social justice, we must aackowledgeour own identity and individual transformation.

Aaron Rose is a transformational coach for public figures, inclusive culture consultant, motivational speaker, energy worker, and human being committed to changing and enjoying the world at the same time. He is devoted to healing our crisis of separation and political polarization by designing radically inclusive community cultures, facilitating individual recovery from trauma and isolation, and empowering the next generation of changemakers to lead the way.

Aaron has facilitated cultural transformation across multiple industries, from wellness and spirituality to tech and finance, using a unique mix of restorative justice, neuroscience, metaphysics, and meditation. His clients have included McKinsey & Co, Columbia University, Greenpeace, T-Mobile, and more. As a transformational coach and energy worker, Aaron helps public figures transcend their fears of criticism and embrace their unique role in building a better world. Having experienced both violent discrimination and unfounded privilege on his journey as a transgender man, Aaron is a champion of a world where we are celebrated for our unique incarnations while also transcending the labels that keep us divided.

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Key insights Shared:

  • To create external results we need to focus on our internal identity.

  • The new model of change is understanding how we change the world, is what changes the world. 

  • Achieving collective healing is possible through personal development and social consciousness.

  • Activism requires an understanding of the metaphysical laws of the universe.

  • You can know how to use the right pronouns or not say the wrong word but If you’re still carrying subconscious programming that says your well being is mutually exclusive with someone that's different than you then you’re just reading words from a script. 

  • What’s happening inside of us, is what’s happening outside of us. 

  • Everything that's happening in front of us is a projection of what we imagine in our minds. 

  • We live in a world that's far more predictable then we’ve been lead to believe. 

  • Starting with imagining what if we could control everything we experience through our perspective? 

  • Key to using personal growth to inform social justice is the shift from victim to ownership. 

  • Facing the fear that there's no way to interact with someone different than they are without hurting someone. 

  • A core fear: we will be punished if we talk about race or sexuality. Instead understanding how to be a conscious steward of the conversation.

  • Adopting the goal of being excited to meet new people rather than immediate suspicion or fear. 

  • How to start a connection to bigger causes than the individual and tap into that deeper sense of purpose? 

    • What's been the worst pain of your life? What's the thing you’re obsessed with? 

  • Don't feel like you’re picking your cause for the rest of your life, allow yourself to be moved. 

  • If you don’t have an internal compass, you’ll live your lives being knocked back and forth from other people's opinions. 

  • If you’re showing up with an alignment with yourself, you’ll have more to contribute. 

  • Understanding how your struggle and story can be your service. 

  • Reclaiming an authentic voice starts with the ability to listen to yourself.

  • We’re in a moment of collective awakening, we’ve all put that call out to say “there's gotta be something better” 

  • The political and social chaos is a product of wanting something better. 

  • We’re in the rapid detox process right now. 

    • If we embrace this detox process, to love each other a little bit more, we will get through the change. 

  • The more positively and compassionately you can think about yourself, the sooner you can share that with the world.

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