A podcast discussion about how exposure to war and trauma creates internal conflict ('war inside') that affects personal behavior and spills over into business operations, causing inefficiency, system problems, and people-related issues; addressing inner trauma is presented as necessary before organizational fixes can work.
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Well, we realized that besides being around war from a very young age, we had a little bit of war inside as a as a leftover kind of consequence of being around it so much. And so, you know, the war inside, the inner conflict, the wanting two different opposing things, the trouble that comes with, you know, certain attitudes and beliefs and things that get stuck from the from the traumatic and painful experiences that had to be addressed. Because if, without addressing that, we would just be an amplifier of that, of those inner voices all around us. And usually, the chaos in our lives and our businesses are just an echo of what the war inside is going on. And so once we realized that, we said, you know what? We're not going to be able to untangle these efficiency and system issues in the business. And the people trouble.