Derek Weber

Reduce Stress by Tuning Into Your Body’s Cues

Health / 5 minutes of reading

Lost In the Eye of the Storm Not knowing what else to do, I just sit down on the kitchen floor, my back pressed against the cabinets, my head in my hands, the storm swirling around me, overwhelming my ability to do just about anything else. Waves crashing down on me again and again, my body vibrating, hands shaking, head and heart racing, my breath getting shorter and tighter, my mind an uncontrollable bouncy ball, …

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Navigating Uncharted Waters: A Captain’s Tale of Trust and Transformation

Leadership / 4 minutes of reading

As my friend and I jogged through the tree-lined streets of Barcelona, the warm Mediterranean sun on our faces, our conversation pierced deeply into our dreams, desires, and struggles. I shared my internal conflict about taking a sabbatical amid shifting company dynamics and uncertain economic conditions. My friend listened intently, then shared a personal story that completely reshaped my perspective on developing leaders. The Lessons of the Sea He loves to go sailing, but what …

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Embracing the Grind: How Adversity Shapes Stronger Leaders

Leadership / 7 minutes of reading

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” –Rumi The Unseen Strength in Adversity “You seem pretty put together for everything that’s going on” as I finished laying out to one of my entrepreneur friends, all of the challenges opportunities in the uncertainty we’re currently going through in both my marketing and real estate businesses. As the waiter came up to take our lunch order, I paused to fully absorb …

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Red Light Revelations: The Stoplight That Started My Surprising Health Journey

Health / 6 minutes of reading

The Wake Up Call I’m driving home, sitting at a stoplight. My eyelids are getting heavier, my blinks getting longer…and…longer…until finally, I’m out. Could’ve been 2 seconds or 2 minutes but as the sound of the horn behind me jolts me awake, although a little disoriented, I drive the rest of the way home without issue. And all because of what I had consumed. All because a few hours earlier, I had shredded cheese on …

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Walking into Clarity: How Getting Lost Helped Me Find Myself

Meaning / 5 minutes of reading

As John Maxwell once said, ‘Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.’ You might find as I did, the value and power of unlearning in order to relearn differently. I went into my sabbatical with the mindset and approach of “do the opposite of everything I would normally do.” Normal for me… Strategy: what’s the big goal that I’m trying to achieve? What are the objectives and priorities to focus on? What are the activities to …

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How My 3-Month Sabbatical Changed Everything – and What’s Next

Meaning / 3 minutes of reading

Perhaps, like me, you’ve had dreams that seemed almost too big to achieve. Dreams that, despite the odds, you’ve held onto. As I looked at my daughter with her head resting on my shoulder, the evening streets of Barcelona passing in the window behind her, two powerful realizations washed over me: “We are here. We actually made it happen.” “These are the moments. Today is tomorrow’s good ol’ days.” Earlier this summer, I fulfilled a …

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To Lead Your Team, First Lead Yourself

Leadership / 1 minute of reading

Your team’s performance directly reflects the energy you lead them with: Are you creating and elevating or destroying and depressing? In order to lead your team/family/community with energy, you must lead first with your own. The energy you lead with directly reflects “the work” you are doing on you; small daily choices determining if you are living a life of AND or one of OR: Work AND Family AND Self… Happy AND Fulfilled AND Productive… …

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Why I took a 3 Month Sabbatical

Meaning / 4 minutes of reading

Upon returning from my 20 year sabbatical, many people made a point to let me know this was the best email auto-responder they ever read, so sharing here for you to use in whatever way you would like, while also explaining the purpose of my sabbatical. <> I will be out of the office for 3 months until August 28th achieving a decade long, life-changing goal. If you want to know what/why, you can scroll …

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Perpetuating Virtuous Cycles

Meaning / 4 minutes of reading

The flood and strength of emotions I experienced giving away the first ever Empowergizing Leadership Scholarship caught me a little off guard.  One question I always ask potential employees in interviews is, “When you look back at your life, when was a time when you felt totally fulfilled, when you stopped, looked around and said, “yeah, this is awesome, life is good?”. If someone asked me this very question, that moment, this experience, would most …

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Are You Becoming a One-Dimensional Boring Human?

Leadership / 3 minutes of reading

On a recent Zoom call with a few of my favorite entrepreneurs from around the world, we talked through one person’s concern about everything in his life becoming about work, or at least seen through that filter, and his fear of becoming a one-dimensional, boring human (which I’ve also long suffered with)…by the way, if you couldn’t tell I have some AWESOMELY deep conversations with my friends. 🙂 I’ve noticed a similar paradox growing in …

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