001hi welcome my name is Nancy caner and I'm welcoming you to the first podcast on being a CDO of your own life it really is designed to give you a template and some experiences and it it can be interactive which I hope it will be please don't do it while you're driving your car I want you to be safe but I will ask you certain questions you can write some things down you can stop the video or the podcast if you want to um write you know to write something down so please use this as you choose to but my intention is always always always always to help you live your dreams and you might want to have an idea of what I mean by dreams they really are your purpose and your vision okay
002your purpose and your vision if you think about your purpose who you are is who you are and you have certain qualities and characteristics that you've had your whole life so those will stay somewhat the same not that you can't develop new capacities which is part of the work that I do to help people develop new capacities as they take on their businesses or they take on a corporate Endeavor that they're doing that they have a team of people and they want people to work together but you can always develop new capacities and actually your dreams require you to but there's a b basic General way that you operate and the whole idea of this podcast series is to help you clarify what your dreams are and move forward with them and what I'm taking
003a lot of the material from is a um work it is a workbook that is on Amazon called The Dream Factory it says Chief dream it says Dream Factory Community Chief dream officer training workbook and it also says cdio Circle workbook and it has my name Nancy caner so if you go on Amazon that's how you can find it and it just gives you an opportunity to create a dream creation plan and then you also have accountability sessions so that you can get accountability and support moving forward you can do it all by yourself or you could actually invite others to do it with you I find like when cdos work together it really empowers everybody so right now the podcast is based on let's have you be the CDI of your own life that
004you clar verify your dreams and to be a CDO let me give you a little background is that you need to be a Visionary an organizer a self- Transformer and a community leader and that's like the basics of it so we're actually going to work through those elements with you so you can actually tra create your own dream creation plan and then you can when you're done with that because we will keep going you'll also have some accountability sessions I'll also have some guests who I think are important speakers uh for giving you some Direction so we say Visionary organizer we're going to cover Visionary today so you've got me I'm the expert on that and then next time that we have the podcast we're also going to have uh somebody as a guest who
005has been through the Dream Factory she's got a wonderful business and she speaks on organizing her name is Ann Newberry so I hope you tune in for that podcast because she's back by demand people loved what she did and she really helps people clarify what they're doing doing um so let me tell you a little bit about me before we get started just so you know who you're listening to I used to have a cable show here at ashon cable for 15 years called Dream Factory community living your dreams I also had another one called the entrepreneurs connection I've been a business coach and consultant for 30 years so I've worked with all different kinds of businesses I tend to work with the business owner and also sometimes he'll put their teams together because they
006think it's important for what they're doing to be given to the people that they work with and that's really a mission that I have now I really want to work with teams of people I've done a lot of networking in my time um I used to be part of the Metro us chamber which I loved I was part of the um malbo chamber Blackstone Valley I did some programming there um but I've done a lot of programming I started women Focus programming in those three different chambers um I'm a speaker I'm a consultant so people tend to know of me I've done a lot of work in women Focus programming and the Dream Factory when I originally started was designed for women and we had communities in conquered Medway reading Brattleboro Vermont and Framingham and
007we did have a virtual one too so I've had a lot of people have gone through the dream factor and use a training that I'm going to be giving you in terms of moving their lives forward um one person in particular uh who when I started the virtual community said she she was in North Carolina so we did a virtual community because there were people all over who wanted to participate she says I can't do it I've got three kids no way Jose but after a while she decided she would do it she did the CDO training created her dream and started the virtual accountability sessions and within the second month she decided she wanted to go back to school and get a law degree which I thought for somebody who didn't have any time
008prior to that that's quite a big leap but she was really committed she went to law school and right now she is an assistant district attorney for North Carolina and because she wanted to help parents the reason she wanted to go to law school she wanted to help parents with special needs kids get the services that they need and that is one of her focuses in that capacity so I just want to tell you the what we're going to be going going through in this podcast helps a lot of people create their dreams it's also a great program for corporations I just did one for a large biotech company in Virginia and I got to work with the whole commercial team and that was so awesome and do follow-up coaching sessions so whether it's corporate
009whether it's individual whether it's small business owner what we're doing today is usually effective and I hope you share it with people because my intention why I'm doing this is I think think it's never too late to live your dreams and why wouldn't you okay the world wants what you are here to give and I think once you we work on this program you'll see how easy and simple it is you just need to do a little bit of focus and a little bit of work but I'm here to guide you and I've been doing this for 20 years so I'm a pretty good guide in terms of what we're going to be doing today so I'm just going to go through the workbook with you I think that's a great place to start and
010one of the things I do want to say and I did mention it before the way I got CDO like originally I asked somebody well what should I what should I say who should I say I'm training and they said well you know it sounds like you're training CEOs and the truth is I could use this program to train CEOs but because it's the it was the Dream Factory Community I decided why don't we say cdos Chief dream officers and that just kind of made sense to me you know it was something unique and it's a it's a it's a really powerful statement and I know there are times in my life where I've said to myself you know um you know something happened and you know kind of upset wasn't sure what to do
011and I reminded myself I was a CDO and that I needed to operate as somebody who's committed to taking on their life their work and their world and we say being a CDI is somebody who has a proactive approach so I kind of gathered myself and I decided it was time for me to be the CEO that I teaching everybody uh how to be so the CDO made a real difference and having that terminology was really helpful like you really accountable for something and I know like in that particular situation one of my members had lost her son to suicide and it was such an emotional time for a lot of people and I because I told myself be the CDO I ended up managing Communications between the different communities and really supported her and
012because of that a lot of people from The Dream Factory wanted to help her as well in a lot of different ways and she decided because she was a CDO she was a big part of the Dream Factory that she wanted to create a nonprofit in honor of her son Ben so she called it Ben speaks louder than words and I think now they just call it Ben speaks and it's amazing local organization she used to run my Midway Community but she took being part of the CDO training as a real touch Stone and guidance for her to take on the next steps of how she wanted to contribute to the world even in the face of a huge tragedy so into this day Ben speaks is here doing amazing work with families and kids
013so I highly recommend it um but I recommend that everybody take on your dreams no matter what your circumstances this too can work for you so please play along with me so I'm going to say a little bit more about being a CDO it's being being a person who has a dream a purpose and the vision and then works on making it come true if you were a CEO you'd be working on fulfilling the purpose and vision and goals of your company as a CDO you work in the same way but you're focused on your purpose your vision and your goals you are the one in charge and the leader of your life as and so and so that's Visionary organizer for for the third section it's on the sabot tour or being a self-
014Transformer so a CDO takes on a dream as a vehicle for personal growth and development dreams require you to change and learn in order to fulfill them a CDO focuses not on Survival but on developing his or own potential in order to make their ultimate contribution so there's always an element of defeating and disarming your private sabator and developing new capacities in that area so we're kind of building this uh a CD is a Visionary you have a purpose and a vision which is your dream an organizer and we're going to talk about cdio statements when we get to that uh which is really important it's an I am creating statement and then the third part is being a self- Transformer and disarming your private sabot and the first is being a commun the fourth
015is being a community leader so a community leader is generating a community of support around your dream you must promote your dream and get the support necessary for its fulfillment this will come from managers coaches colleagues clients or people who need what your dream will provide so people will guide you along the way but it it gets away from thinking you're all alone like being a CDO you're really connected to other people and that's why when I started the Dream Factory I called it the Dream Factory community community and they're all cdos who had dream creation plans who went to cdio circles and got support every month so it was a real conscious effort to identify dreams because sometimes people aren't clear what they are and I totally understand that so part of what we're
016going to be doing today is we're going to do an exercise where we do a guided visualization but I'm going to walk you through a few things before we get there the other thing you want to look at are like what are some of the characteristics of a CDO and I know I've when I because I've LED this for 20 years you know Vis Visionary positive passionate excited authentic curious creative confident open-minded determined EXC intelligent so courageous so there's a lot of them there and one of the things I do when I do the training is ask people to circle the ones like three that they feel they're really good at but also to maybe to Circle three that in terms of living a dream or going Beyond Where You Are how would you develop
017yourself what capacities are going to be necessary for the next phase of your life and we do more talking about that later on once people look at what their dream is but that's a great thing to do it's like what are the things you're good at and then what might be some capacities you want to develop within yourself so you can fulfill your dream all right so we're going to start with Visionary all right when you look at your dream you're looking at two things the dreams that you are which are your natural gifts your special qualities your values and the contributions you can make but then you're also thinking about the dreams that you have what do you see yourself accomplishing with these gifts qualities and values and contributions your success is dependent upon
018your natural gifts qualities values and your ability to utilize them in creating an envisioned future for yourself a the CDO takes on their life their work and their world and I love this quote because I I at one point I had a team that I work with I work with quality assurance team at uh Fidelity Investments and this quote I love it because it has Fidelity in the name many persons have a wrong idea of what constitute true happiness it's not attained through self-gratification but through Fidelity to a Worthy purpose and that is Helen Keller okay so let's look at this what is your vision and the the most difficult part for some people and you might not have that this you know this might not be an issue for you but it can be
019very difficult to get really clear what it where it is that you're going so the Visionary piece should help you get clear at this point in your life where do you want to go and what is your vision I know for myself I've had a lot of changes in my life and maybe that's why I'm here doing the podcast you know I came back to Ash to wacka TV barar Chism has been wonderful Paul's been fantastic you know they've always been a great community of support but I had taken a long break and I decided I do want to come back and have a platform where I can offer the work that I do because I do feel you know I'm getting later in life I do feel like this work is super super important
020I've had thousands of people go through the Dream Factory I've worked with corporate Executives with what we're doing today it really works for people so I hope you I hope you engage with me you can listen to this but you can also especially if you're not driving but you can also actually participate in this and I would love for you to do that so to be a Visionary you want to look at what gifts qualities and contributions that you have to offer the world like who are you what's special about you you know I know for me I've done strength finder so I know that I'm an activator a maximizer a futurist a communicator and a strategist so strength finders is a good way to find out what you're actually really good at you know
021it will tell you you'll do certain testing you know you can do the dis guess what I am I'm I'm I'm a oh what is it an influencer I'm an influencer and right below influencer I'm a director so I definitely have those veins going but beside that you know I think my gifts and qualities I'm a good speaker I love communication I think I really understand people really well and I have a huge commitment to to Leading people in a good direction so that they can fulfill their lives I would say the most outstanding quality that I have as I'm totally committed to making a difference and supporting people and being who they're meant to be and making the difference that they're out to make so for yourself I mean you can stop this you
022can and and take some time to write this but the first aspect of what we're doing in the cdio training is we're writing down what gifts qualities and contributions do have to offer the world so breathe that in you might even want to relax for a minute think about it think about the things that you've done like and what qualities did it take to do those things you know we're not not all the same we are completely not all the same we can play together we can love each other we can support each other but we are not the same so I want you to look at what is what's unique about you that you really feel good about the other thing I want you to look at traits do what traits do you value
023most who are you being like are you honest are you compassionate are you friendly are you funny you know know look to see are there things about you that make you stand out in the world are you intelligent are you smart there could be all kinds of things maybe you're re maybe you're real intellectual maybe you are a real stepbystep person and you're really great at organizing there could be a myriad of things but I want you to get in touch with that and also to what are you passionate about like what aspects of your life and work do you most enjoy joy and it could be maybe you're always thank God it's Friday you know I mean but you're the you you have so much fun you're great at darts you're the social butterfly
024it could be anything it doesn't have to be super serious give yourself credit for all aspects of life that you're looking at the other thing I do want to bring in right now before we do before we go too much further is I do say that being a CD and this is CDO training is about taking on your life your work and your world so those are three different things um but you bring those characteristics to all those elements of your life and you know I do a lot of work you know because I'm a business development and consultant I do a lot in the work area but what you do for work is definitely connected to who are you personally and also has a lot to do with like what do you contribute to
025in the world you know if you learn great skills you know in your work Environ it can also make you a great philanthropist you know three years ago I had three women in my dream Factory who had ovarian cancer and because of that I've been doing the pan Mass challeng which is a bathon that raises money for cancer research at Dana Farber you know as I just decided after 24 years doing other things I was on the stem cell cyclist for 16 years I just decided I was being a Visionary and I said I've got two women that are very close to me and I would like to do something for ovarian cancer so I I started team ovarian cancer they didn't have one at Dana far at at PN Mass challenge the PMC and
026I was shocked and so they said you need three people so I had the two women who were my members who had ovarian cancer join as virtual Riders and so then we had three people and that's how I started it and we've gone on in three years to raise over $400,000 for ovarian cancer research and we are able to sponsor a trial that's going on right now at Dana Farber because of the fundraising that we've done and we're in our fourth year we are still going we will always be going uh but I'm saying that the skills you learn they apply to your life it applies to your world it applies to your work if you're a good organizer you can bring it everywhere and I feel very grateful in the work that I that
027I can translate it to a philanthropic uh Endeavor like that and uh so I want you to think broadly deeply when you think about your dreams they can be life work or world or all three so I want you to be really really true to yourself really true to yourself and not think you have to make your mind focused in a particular way so here's the deal we're going to do a guided visualization and maybe you've done one of these before and maybe you haven't but the point behind this is to get out of your head and hopefully more in your body and your heart you know that there might be some guidance for you beyond what you've had before so I'm going to ask you to and don't do this if you're driving please
028um is to sit down and put your feet on the floor make sure you're grounded on the floor and I do want you to close your eyes and I just want you to start focusing on your breath and while you're focusing on your breath that allows you to get more centered more grounded so keep doing that and when you breathe in breathe into allow your belly to expand allow your chest to expand and at the top of your breath you want to hold it for a few seconds and then breathe it out and I want you to do that again and I want you to breathe in more deeply more deeply belly chest hold it for a few seconds and let it go and I want you to imagine that there is a grounding to
029the Earth like there's an energy coming up from the earth coming up through your feet and going up through your spine to Your Heart Center and it can be whatever color you choose but you're grounded to the Earth you're getting energy from the earth you're set on the earth and you are connected and the energy is coming up to your heart center right here um if you're if you're just listening you don't see where I'm saying but it's your heart center you know where that is and so you want to breathe deeply and you want to bring energy from up above like through your crown through your head down your spine to Your Heart Center and as you breathe allow there to be a light right at your heart center it can be whatever color
030you choose it could be pink it could be green but it could be a myriad of colors but allow it to expand like allow that energy to expand where it covers your whole body it goes out into the world you are an energetic magnet for what's perfect and great for you today and I want you to breathe a few more times allowing that energy to surround you and I want you to imagine it's a year from today day and you're waking up and you want to look around and see well what is it that you notice is it light is it dark are you there by yourself are you there alone is it what you're used to and we're thinking a year out from today imagine what it could look like and your first thought
031when you wake up is your your thought is like this is going to be a great day I'm kind of excited so you put your feet on the floor you go over to your closet and because of your site your excitement and your vision for what the day might look like you dress in a particular way you put on really wonderful clothes that fit what you're going to be doing and you can decide what those clothes are and when you see yourself in the mirror you look fantastic and you are ready and so you go to where you have your breakfast and you might be there alone you might be there by yourself but it's a nurturing experience you have good water you have healthy foods you're nurturing yourself because you're important you are on
032a you have a vision and you have a mission so you want to take care of yourself you're a chief dream officer and you're heading out for your day so when you're done with that you know maybe there's kids you have to drop off maybe there's things you have to do maybe you go to your office down the hall or it could be you get in your car and you drive to a client's house or to an office so you envision that for yourself and wherever that is you feel I am in the right place doing the right things and as you have your day roll out it's a wonderful experience of connecting with people feeling that you're on the right track creating things you're getting acknowledge for who you are you're appreciating other people
033and results are happening easily and seamlessly and you're very exciting that you get to be exactly who you're meant to be and as a day progresses you you finish up with work maybe there's a work meeting you have that night or maybe you're going out to dinner with friends or you're going home to the family and after that who knows what you do maybe you watch TV and relax maybe you put your kids to bed and it's such a connected great time with them and you know maybe you clean up maybe there's all kinds of things you could be doing but by the end of the day the end of the day when you are back in bed and you're laying down and you're rested and you're feeling good and you're comfortable and in your
034last breath before you fall asleep your last thought is what a perfect day so take a few more breaths and I'd love for you to write something down about what you noticed in your guided visualization in a perfect world with no restrictions if you could do be or have anything you wanted what would that look like so it's just enough another opportunity trust whatever comes there's no right or wrong answers and then the last question what is your dream which is your purpose and vision and I think that's a great opportunity to you know just kind of get solidified in what is happening for you and I think that's a good thing and you want to do some work on this you know maybe you want you know people do vision boards you want to
035look to see what you see out there you can look at magazines or you could draw your own drawings you could create like what is your vision and start playing with it like what's super super important to you and what allows you to keep moving forward in your life your work in your world so you have started the first step of being a Visionary and I'm just going to give you a preview of what you can work on till the next time we get together so from that we are going to go into organizing but to get organized we say you need a cdio statement which is an I am creating statement so you want to just jot that down I am creating and use that for your dream and be as graphic as you
036can about it like I'm creating an amazing life where I get to make my ultimate contribution that could be a cdio statement I'm creating the finances I need that enable me to move my life in the next Direction I am creating you know but keep them lofty and keep them inspiring you know the thing with the finances could be one of your goals but I'm creating amazing life where I get to take care of my whole family and treat them the way I've always wanted to treat them it could be something of that nature like have it be inspiring you know I'm creating a school where students are empowered to be all that they can be you know something of that nature that feels really inspiring to you so play around with some options on
037that end I think that would be a good idea but we will cover it next time that we're together and because that's a really important part because from that you put down goals and actions and we do some work on that but next time we get together I will have Ann Newberry with us and she'll be going over some of her tips she's like a specialist on moving so she knows everything about how to organize around from getting from here to there so she is a perfect consultant to work with and person who will allow you to get more organized and my intention as a CDO and teaching CDO training is you get more organized around your dream because the end result is we're going to go through all four quadrants is that you become
038a Powerhouse CDO and create the life of your dreams so thank you for tuning in today this is my first podcast I've said I'm going to do this for a while it's great to have a vision get organized around it and start the Fulfillment of it so thanks for participating with me and please come back next time because there's more fun to come and I want you to end up with your own dream creation plan thanks for tuning in I'm Nancy caner I'm a business coach and consultant but here today as your Chief dream officer thank you