The Illumify Game Changer
The Illumify Game Changer podcast takes you on the leader’s journey. It’s hosted by Marianne Gobeil, Founder and CEO of Illumify Inc., an internationally award-winning expert on expressing high impact leadership who has over 25 years of experience working with C-suite executives and other leaders around the world. In this podcast, you accompany one person, Jonathan Hill, as he answers each of the 57 questions essential to illuminating a meaningful change and being able to ignite it. This is your front row seat to his journey from, in his own words, “not a leader” to a leader with a big vision. It’s for those committed to igniting meaningful change in their organizations, communities, and the world at large.
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In this episode, Jonathan is prompted to answer the question by listening to his inner wisdom. Within mere seconds, he answers with a powerful declaration of what could be different. The conversation then veers into community, how it’s unified and fragmented, and explores unison and truth. It’s another big conversation. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear Moose, our beloved English corg...
This next question proves challenging – so challenging that at one point Jonathan, the master wordsmith, is at a loss for words. And that’s ok because it reveals a lot about why resistance to change can come from deep within ourselves, even when we know something has to change. Fasten your seatbelt for this one as there are a few sharp curves in the road. But ...
This episode begins with Jonathan reflecting on why he hit resistance with the last question, delving into pride, nationalism and the power of emotion to sway. He considers the importance of focused attention and its relationship to meditation. Then he answers the next Illuminate question, diving deeper into what matters to him: the power of language, finding...
This episode goes right to the heart of it, exploring the connection between joy and igniting meaningful change. It’s interesting that Jonathan, a self-described non-believer, is so attuned to the soul.
00.55 Reference Cards: The difference between “I think”, “I believe”, and I know”
05:40 Illuminate Card 8
11:00 There’s joy in being with the crowd. It’s uplifting.
12:35 What does worship ...
How do you distill your life’s purpose into just 5 words? Even for the wordsmith, this proves challenging. But if you want to spend your life doing what is most meaningful to you, you have to know what that is. As this episode reveals, even when we give ourselves clues, it can still be difficult to piece it all together.
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This episode begins with Jonathan continuing to explore the meaning of home, all the while holding his ground on how to express his purpose. He then answers the very question that can determine whether or not he even needs to be a leader.
00:58– 1:00:30 Reflection: Jonathan shares his concept of nest, r...
Jonathan is about to hit pay dirt after all the digging he’s done to surface the change most meaningful to him. In mere minutes, he expresses what he now sees that could be that doesn’t yet exist. His vision of it becomes even more vivid and compelling as he reflects.
04:15 Final Answer
Having a vision of change is how leadership begins to emerge. It represents the difference between what is now and what could be. It takes effective leadership to bridge that gap and that can be quite daunting. Could seeing into the future help?
00:58 Illuminate Question 12
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When you see what could be that isn’t yet, as Jonathan now does, that can be a change in itself. You’re now in a different place, at a fork in the road. Where do you go from here? Do you stay on the path you know, the one that promises more of the same? Even when less than ideal, there may be some comfort in that. Or do you step off that well trodden path into...
In this episode, Jonathan surfaces what is essential to standing on that new ground and breaking with the past. He’s starting to see more of the big picture, and how to express it as a leader. In answering this next Illuminate question, he then reveals that his vision means we look at each other differently as we walk the city streets.
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This brief minisode from episode 16, The Leader’s Courage, unravels the intricate layers of courage, particularly in the realm of leadership. In this segment from our conversation, Jonathan delves into moving towards a vision to let go of anxiety and embrace action.
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Jonathan began his Illumify Game Changer experience protesting that he’s not a leader. And yet after a lot of what he calls “digging”, he has illuminated a vision of a change that could be meaningful not just to him but to countless others in Europe and beyond. Challenging the status quo is no small feat though. This final Illuminate question asks if he has wh...
Having completed all of the Illuminate questions and surfaced his vision of meaningful change, in this minisode from episode 17 Jonathan reflects candidly on how he has found his path through moments of despair. He shares the mantra that has guided his life so far: “There is no one secret to life here”.
Jonathan is at a crossroad in his leader’s journey. He’s completed all of the Illuminate questions and surfaced his vision of meaningful change. In this episode, he reveals how it feels to lose himself before finding his true path. As he embarks into the next phase of his leader’s journey, I explain what it means to “Amplify”, and then ask him what he’s bringi...
This minisode from episode 18 is one of our favorite moments from this conversation, as Marianne and Jonathan explore the metaphorical process of digging not just downwards to unearth the truth, but moving forward into new spaces of understanding. Tune in to learn about the growth and expansion of consciousness through the power of words.
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Surfacing what matters most to you that doesn’t yet exist takes a lot of self-inquiry. In answering all of the questions so far, Jonathan has delved deep with courage and tenacity. He has a vision, and now has to turn his focus away from himself onto those who can help him realize it. In this episode, he discovers some of what’s involved in leading them. Leade...
We are each on our own journey. We can travel the very same roads and yet see very different things from one another. And even when something draws our attention, we can choose to turn away or not. That’s what makes the leader’s journey different. There’s no turning away. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it if you know that changing it matters. In this episod...
Today’s minisode comes from episode 19, where Marianne and Jonathan explore the discovery of the need for significant change. Tune into this clip as we unpack what it means to work from new ground and its role in a vision… and that we don’t need to escape to another planet to stand on it.
In this brief minisode from Episode 20, Marianne shares how leadership emerges and what makes it credible. And Jonathan speaks to the power of the possible.
Listen to the full episode here: https://www.illumifyinstitute.com/podcast-the-illumify-game-changer/season1-20
There are lots of things in our lives that are important to us. But “important” is all relative. Something can be important to us right now but be easily replaced by something else tomorrow. Our willingness to keep it or protect it when it’s threatened is a measure of its importance to us. And that’s for things that exist already. When you instead have a visio...
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