Ep.13 When passion and purpose meet
“More often than not, you will find that your purpose is going to be way outside of your comfort zone”
What's at the intersection of what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for?
You're about to find out in this episode the power of discovering your Ikigai as I dive deep into the world of how we can find our purpose with Ben Koch, CEO of NuMinds Enrichment.
Ben Koch is an entrepreneur, educator, coach, healer, and mindfulness expert with 20 years of meditation experience. He is also the co-founder and CEO of NuMinds Enrichment, and through this business, he is driving the mission to Empower Teachers to deliver real inspired learning.
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Some key themes that Carole explores with Ben:
00:01:47: What goes beyond defining ourselves by what we do
00:03:00: The amazing story around how NuMinds Enrichment was born
00:10:47: What's working and what's not working in the traditional educational system
00:15:46: What is social and emotional learning and why it's important
00:18:36: Why it matters to find our purpose in life
00:21:07: The meaning of Ikigai
00:24:14: What stops people from finding and living their purpose
00:29:30: What mindfulness is and how it can help in business
00:38:27: The meaning of the word leadership for Ben
00:39:57: How to motivate your team members
00:42:01: What Ben looks for when hiring a new team member
00:44:53: How we can demystify meditation and make it accessible
00:55:33: The shift with COVID19 and alternative methods in maintaining health and wellbeing
01:01:32: A book that Ben recommends and why
01:05:19: The 30-day challenge that Ben would like to throw to our listeners
And so much more than that.
When passion and purpose meet
With Ben Koch | Co-Founder of NuMinds Enrichment
About the Ben Koch
I am a teacher, coach, entrepreneur, healer, and mindfulness expert on a mission to merge purpose work with mindfulness and other authentic practices to empower others to embody fulfilling, impactful, joyful versions of their lives.
I’m rooted in my own spiritual and self-development journey, with 25 years of meditation practice and study under my Tibetan teacher, and this is why mindfulness is the core of my coaching and training work. I’ve traveled across the world on spiritual pilgrimages and did many, many years of my own inner work before I even considered how I might empower others as a coach, teacher, and healer. But my own purpose work is what led me to an unflinching clarity as to why I’m on Planet Earth: I create transformational experiences and hold space for others to awaken their own inner powers and gifts.
About NuMinds Enrichment
As co-founder of NuMinds Enrichment, an education company based in Dallas, I've sought for ways to merge my role in the educational revolution with my passion for self-development, healing modalities, and practices that help one find and align with their deeper life purpose. As co-founder of Harmonic Hands, provider of a unique sound-healing modality from Japan, I’m evolving not only my own skills as a healer, but using my entrepreneurial vision to expand holistic, powerful modalities into the modern world.
I happily and skillfully straddle the pragmatic and the esoteric and bring both to bear as tools for the individual evolution and healing process. I hold a Master's degree in Gifted Education from Southern Methodist University and have certifications in reiki, mindfulness training, Kita Sound Healing, and am a certified Integrative Health Practitioner (IHP), an holistic approach which integrates Ayurveda, Functional Medicine, Naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine, and Eastern Philosophy. As a consultant for Proctor Gallagher Institute (PGI), I facilitate the Thinking Into Results program, a powerful and transformative journey based on the lifetime study and teachings of Bob Proctor (star of The Secret).
I bring an intuitive, open-hearted, and courageous approach to working with clients, whether in coaching, teaching, healing sessions, or workshops. If breakthroughs and progress were simple and automatic, they'd more often happen spontaneously while cycling through the limiting patterns that keep us stuck to the status quo. Positive evolution and transformation take courage, insight, and direction. That's where a coach, teacher, and healing guide can be invaluable.
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