Gina Murdock: Lead With Love, Live Your Dharma and Stay Real
16: Lead With Love, Live Your Dharma and Stay Real – Gina Murdock
Gina Murdock of Lead with Love is on a mission to shift culture from fear to love inside and out. Sounds big… and she truly is up to big things. Lead with Love is a global gathering and training for heart-centered leaders featuring yoga, meditation, time in nature, spiritual psychology and experiential workshops, music + movement and a renewed focus on social impact and business as a force for good.
Gina is a writer, yoga and meditation teacher, inspirational speaker, advisor to businesses making an impact and founder of Lead with Love non-profit and events. I went to Lead with Love summit in Aspen in 2017, and the experience blew me away. Not only the level of organization and the speakers (Marianne Williamson!), but also the community of people who’re into yoga, consciousness, leadership and making an impact (all at the same time). I needed to know more about the woman behind it. So I ended up going on the Lead with Love retreat in Bali to explore my own leadership through the prism of wellness, spirituality and ritual.
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Topics we discuss in this episode are:
- The personal spiritual quest that led Gina to start Lead With Love and the lessons she’s learned from running a non-profit
- The daily practices that help her develop her own leadership
- What leading from the heart looks like
- How to live your dharma
- What self-worth has to do with leadership
- How she used to struggle with making living as a yoga teacher
- Why you don’t always have to quit your day job to make an impact in the world
- Being an activist without anger or shame
- How dealing with fertility challenges helped her connect to peace and a sense of purpose
- How being of service and showing up can open all doors
- How to become a speaker at Lead with Love Summit
- Why technology and social media are energetically neutral
- Making empowered choices around how we use social media
Mentioned in this episode:
- Lead with Love Summit in Aspen
- Shakti Leadership podcast episode with Nilima Bhat
- David Brooks – “The Moral Bucket List” article in The New York Times
- Byron Katie’s The Work
- Somatic Experiencing
- Spiritual Psychology program at University of Santa Monica
- Soul Of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources
Listen next:
- 136 Cedric Bertelli: Somatic Healing and Emotional Resolution
- 110 Aaron Rose: Intentional Frequency Exchange Online & Shadow Work On Instagram
Connect with Gina Murdock:
- Lead with Love Summit in Aspen October 25-28 (use code KSENIA to get $100 off your pass)
- @ileadwithlove
- @ginamurdockaspen
About Gina Murdock:
Gina Murdock is a writer, yoga and meditation teacher, inspirational speaker and community organizer focused on shifting culture from fear to love inside and out. She is founder of the Aspen Yoga Society, The Aspen City of Wellbeing, Lead with Love, The Love Ninjas and the Mind, Body, Spirit Rx content brand. All of her endeavors are intended to help people thrive and find joy and freedom in mind, body and spirit. She’s created a series of events at the The Aspen Institute hosting speakers and events to raise consciousness and honor “The Aspen Idea”. Murdock has a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica with a special emphasis on consciousness, health, and healing. Gina is a certified Chopra yoga and meditation teacher as well as a certified Bikram and Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher and retreat guide who teaches internationally. Gina is also a published author and inspirational public speaker known for humor, enthusiasm, authenticity and vulnerability.
Gina is passionate about optimal wellbeing of the planet and people, heart-centered leadership and spirituality. She is a founding member of Dr. Deepak Chopra’s Self Directed Biological Transformation Initiative and has willingly submitted her body to science to prove the effectiveness of mind/body practices! Gina is an active board member of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), The Center for Living Peace, The Aspen Brain Institute as well as an advisor to The Chopra Foundation and CTZNWELL. Gina is an International Editor at Origin Magazine, a contributor to Mantra Yoga and Health Magazine, and an ambassador for the mobile well-being platform Jiyo. Gina lives by these mantras: “Let the beauty you love, be what you do.” (Rumi); “Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi); and “WOOO-HOOO!” (Gina)
