How to Effectively Communicate Your Vision with Alice and Ed

Having a big idea or vision is great—but at some point, you’ve got to share it. Whether you're talking to future customers, hiring a team, or just explaining what you do, people need to get it. And it’s not just about what you say out loud or post online. A big part of it starts with knowing yourself—what you believe in, what you offer, and why it matters. So how do you figure all that out and actually get your message across? In this episode, I talk with Alice Marie Brink, and Ed Moehlenkamp about how to communicate your vision in a way that actually connects. We chat about the impact of social media, communication and leadership. Tune in, to learn more! --- Listen to the podcast here: How to Effectively Communicate Your Vision with Alice and Ed Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Any vision that you have, you’re going to need to communicate that vision outward somehow. There is just no getting around it. At some point, someone needs to know what you’re doing, whether it is people you hire to enact your vision and do the communication or the communication that you do directly yourself for your vision. And when it comes to communicating your vision outward, there’s actually an internal and an external component of it. The external component is what we often see because those are the words you say or the words you type or the images you put out there. However, there is some also internal work that you need to do in order to understand what you’re communicating, understand who you are, and understanding, in many cases, what your value proposition is, which is important for anyone to understand why they should be doing business with you regardless of what your idea is. To talk about both the internal and external components of this concept of communicating your vision outward, I would like to introduce to you Alice Brink and Ed Moehlenkamp with their Energy Interplay Initiative. --- Alice, Ed, welcome to the program. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to see you. Great to see you as well. And so just to orient us a little bit, we’ll start with you, Alice, as the internal component, which is the first component, and you work with mindset, energy, and mindfulness. That’s right. No matter where we go and what we do, we’re carrying this internal environment with us and so my work helps people get in touch with that, become aware of it, and then learn how to drive that energy, because, after all, it’s all energy. And so, through exercises and then practical application, I love the energy, I’ve been in energy work for almost three decades now, and so that’s shown me a lot of different outpicturings of that. And so one of those, now that I’m with Ed, we’re applying it to our presentation skills offering. So it’s all about what you’re bringing to this presentation internally that drives the energy and the connection of your presentation.Share on X Now, when it comes to energy work, how much of it is kind of overall what energy you bring to every single day interaction, whether you’re attending a networking event, meeting with one of your employees, or even just hanging out with your friends, versus the energy reset that you do in advance of the actual presentation that you’re about to give? This is funny you bring this up. So, in almost every one of my workshops and in my coaching interactions, we get to a point where I share this favorite quote of mine, and it is, “Don’t let the weeds grow on the path to the dear friend’s home.” And I believe it’s an old Chinese proverb of some kind, but the dear friend is you, and so getting familiar with that path that leads you inward and tamping down the weeds, if you will, through repeated trips there allows that connection to be more readily available and to be more authentic to you and more in alignment. So, especially now, we’re getting a lot of things thrown at us in the world right now that can really throw us off center and out of whack and out of our optimal state, and so the more familiar we are and the more we practice, it’s easier to get back to a more centered, more aligned, more coherent state. And so I was trained in HeartMath years ago and that practice teaches people how to get into coherence and so there’s tons and tons of science and research that backs up the fact that when we can make a choice, focus our attention, choose a very effective emotion that shifts our state, and in this case, the emotion is appreciation, when we train ourselves to go there, we actually set up a beautiful, cohesive wave pattern, if you will, between our heart and head and we become coherent and that allows us to have access to better thinking, more clear and aligned intention, and it’s just amazing. It’s amazing. We can get insights more easily and we’re more present, more present in our body, more present in the conversation, just more present in life generally. So can you give me a quick example of what a conversation with someone who is coherent sounds like versus what a conversation with someone who’s not in that coherent headspace sounds like? Yeah, sure. In general, it just sounds more connected. I’ve done this for so many years that even talking to you about it, I can feel myself getting more coherent so I can feel my heart is activating. I can feel that my thoughts are a little more clear. This was exciting getting started in the podcast and we had a little chat right before and we had to rearrange everything, but now I’m getting centered, I’m here, I’m here with you. So the words you might feel, you might hear are things like “I hear you. Can you tell me more about that?” More connected, more inviting the energy to flow back and forth, and that actually is the basis of the whole idea of energy interplay and that’s why I named the company that years ago. It was the interplay of the energy, not just the drama of, “Oh, we can tap into energy and energy is this woo-woo thing,” it’s more what’s happening between people and between the environment and people with the energy. So it’s a more connected feeling, language, attitude, all of it. A more connected state, if you will. And how much is so many people’s addiction to social media, websites, and just kind of pulling out their smartphone every minute they sense that they might have like 10 seconds of boredom impeding us from getting into a coherent state? I’m so glad you brought that up. So, yeah, guilty too. Guilty. Human being, very subject to it and Ed will talk about this more, I’m sure, but very subject to the stimulus of light and sound and something new and short attention span. What’s happening is we’re giving away our power. The two magic keys I talk about in my book about energy interplay, the two magic keys are attention and intention. We really could take this to the nth degree and really step into our power. I believe, as human beings, we have this innate and very unique ability to guide and drive our attention, and we can also choose, just like the example with HeartMath that I gave you with the appreciation feeling, we can choose our intention or our feeling. We can drive those like a laser beam and when we’re constantly getting frazzled and allowing little bits of our attention to be thrown here and thrown there, we are weakening not only our mental body but we’re also weakening our energetic body. We are giving our power away. And so to reign that back in, if we can just picture the light from the flashlight being focused into a laser, that’s the power we have with our attention and intention. We can pinpoint that and a laser light can cut through things. It’s much stronger when it’s focused. And so that’s, in general, what we train. And that’s very much in line with my initiative so if anyone wants any other help or advice as far as cutting down on screen time or being more intentional about it, please come to my website, www.lessscreentime.com, and I would love to talk to you about how to reclaim, because one of the big parts of that program is being intentional and we’re giving our power away to largely algorithms, in that matter, that are pretty much deciding where our attention goes. And so it sounds like the key is that we want to be in that better mind state when we’re giving a presentation. We want to give a presentation in a state where we can let the energy flow freely from ourselves to the audience, that free flow of energy, and we want to get to the point where we’re in that state whenever we’re talking to people and whenever we’re giving presentations. Right, right, to be very intentional. So, just one more point about that, and I’m so glad you mentioned the algorithms are driving our bus. It’s because we’re a slave to someone else’s agenda. We’re allowing our attention to be sapped like that. And so when we can get back in the driver’s seat and pull it together and realize, wait a minute, I am going to drive this attention bus, if you will, I’m going to be in control of that, then we step into the ultimate self-empowerment. And I think we’re stepping into, if you will, our higher purpose, which is to be connected on all fronts, mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical. So, I just think, it all brings it together. And then kind of using that power in the presentation arena, it clarified for Ed and I as we started working together that we really wanted to help people not only align energetically but align their message and align that interaction so that it’s not only more effective but also it’s more fun, it’s more energized, just more satisfying all around. And that’s a good transition over to Ed. So after someone gets spiritually aligned, connected in a better mental state, then you help people with the communication and leadership, the specifics that people need to do when we are communicating or presenting. ...