Giovanni Dienstmann: Activating Your Aspirational Identity: Confidence from the Inside Out

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What would you attempt if you knew you couldn’t fail? Most of us didn’t grow up in a family that was unfailingly supportive. Instead, as life coach and author Giovanni Dienstmann explains, “We were conditioned to believe certain things about ourselves and about life that are just not helpful.” In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Giovanni about his new book, Wise Confidence, and how we can each create our own “aspirational identity”—the person you want to be, how you want to see yourself and the world, and how you want to operate.

Give a listen to their inspiring conversation about: mindful self-discipline; making sacrifices; self-doubt and arrogance—two traps of the ego; the five elements of wise confidence; the conviction of self-belief; the journey from a conditioned identity to an aspirational identity; goal-oriented spiritual lineages (and those that aren’t); living with purpose; recognizing the stories we tell ourselves as the first step in transcending our conditioning; practicing courage; finding your three “power words”; choosing the personal qualities you most want to develop; imposter syndrome; the ceiling fan metaphor; four core tools—mindset, witnessing, imagination, and embodiment; the “never zero” commitment, and how commitment differs from motivation; self-love and self-compassion; energizing your thoughts; living in a multilayered universe; knowing your “bigger why”; and much more.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. My name is Tammy Simon and I'm the founder of Sounds True and I want to welcome you to the Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edge.
0:11.5	I also want to take a moment to introduce you to Sounds True's new membership
0:16.1	community and digital platform. It's called Sounds True One. Sounds True One features original premium transformational docu series, community events, classes to start your day and relax in the evening. Special weekly live shows including a
0:36.8	video version of Insights at the Edge with an after-show community question and answer session with featured guests.
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0:47.0	Explore, come have fun with us and connect with others.
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0:54.3	Sounds True.com. I also want to take a moment and introduce you to the
0:59.1	sounds true foundation, our nonprofit that creates equitable access to transformational tools and
1:07.3	teachings. You can learn more at sounds true foundation.org and advance, thank you for your support.
1:17.7	In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:20.6	my guest is Giovanni Dintzman. Giovanni is a meditation teacher, a self-discipline coach,
1:29.7	and an author who focuses on the intersection between wisdom, peace, and personal
1:37.2	empowerment. Giovanni was born in Brazil. He started meditating when he was just 14 years old, and then he migrated to Australia
1:48.7	at the age of 28. He nearly became a monk at two different times in his life.
1:55.0	This is really interesting about Giovanni.
1:58.0	He has studied deeply in different spiritual traditions, including Zen, the non-dual path of Edvaita,
2:08.0	Vidanta, as well as the yoga tantra tradition that he's been focused on for the past decade and he's
2:15.7	taken the totality of that rich training and applied it to supporting people that he refers to as type A spiritual types of people,
2:29.0	people who want to fulfill their highest aspirations.
2:35.9	Giovanni is the author of a book called Practical Meditation,
2:41.1	another book, Mindful Self Discipline, and we'll be talking about what he means by
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