Hello, everybody! This is Tonya Dawn Recla, your Super Power Expert, and I’m delighted to have with me today. Our guest today – she’s a blast. You all are really going to enjoy her energy and appreciate her. And I want to tell you a little bit about her and then I’ll bring her on because I was feeling this conversation is going to be a lot of fun. But we’re going to be talking today about The Role of Assessments in a Personal Development Plan. I know a lot of times we talk theory and philosophy and people want to know, “OK, how do you do it?” And so I really wanted to kind of let’s get like down and dirty with how do you do it in some practical application thing, all while staying in tune to that kind of high frequency stuff that we love to talk about here. But she’s the founder of Innovation Quotient. And she created it, she founded it, and this is, if you all know me for more than a day, you know I’m a little bit hesitant about most assessments because I think we’ve kind of evolved beyond a lot of them. But I was really intrigued with this one because it tackles like head on the concept of innovation. And so I really want you to pay attention to what she’s talking about, and how it entwines and there is a lot of power in starting from that kind of a base. And so she’s also a keynote speaker, cross-fit addict, but the really cool thing about her is she loves knee high socks. So that we’ll be able to talk a little bit about that. I think it kind of goes along with the cool-aid that they serve over at Crossfit. We’ll talk about that with her as well. She’s also the founder of Launch Street. And you know, a firecracker. So we’re going to bring Tamara. Tamara Kleinberg, onto the show. Please join me in welcoming her. Hello Tamara.
It is so great to be here, and you’re so right about the knee-high socks I think that exactly where it came from.
I have some in the hood of the resources, my drawers, that Supergirl ones with the capes on of and stuff. I remember distinctly my Crossfit days and the socks that went along with it, so I love it. Well welcome to the show. I’m so glad you joined us.
I am very excited to be here and to kind of dig in, and innovation and assessments, and how people can use it to get. I love how you said that tuning into your higher frequency.
Well I thank you. And that’s kind of what drives us over here. But you know without further ado we love to jump in right into the mix of things to say, what are your super powers?
So my superpower, is for myself and for other people, helping them be innovative, see things differently, come up with new ideas, tackle different challenges. There’s you know, there’s something kind of like, you know when you put your favorite nuts into a cereal and are like “oh, it’s just a little bit different this way”. There’s something when I join a group and get into a conversation that I can help people unlock that in themselves; which just feeds my soul and makes me happy, and they get to be more innovative in the process too.
I love it. And I love it when you use the word Innovation. I know it’s not a word that I really have utilized, but it encapsulates a lot of the same principles that we talk about. And so, you know we talk a lot about frequencies, and vibrations, and progress and evolution, and I think that part of the evolution we like talk about mutants too, some mutation and so on. But I feel like that the innovation piece is what drives a lot of that. And innovation and mutation and all of them, really rests on the willingness to kind of step back and go “I think this can be different”. Like I think that we can maybe improve it. I think we can maybe tie in some things differently. However people’s strengths are, the innovation piece is in my opinion kind of what fuels the creative aspect that allows for something new to unfold. Is that a fair assessment of that?
Micromoments add up to innovation.
Yeah. I mean I think we’re totally on the same page about what innovation is, and ultimately innovation is progress; whether that’s personal, professional, or you know, for yourself for those around you. I like to think of innovation as people each thinking differently about what’s right in front of them, to create differentiated value. And when I think of it that way, it’s more about us looking at the world, seeing the things in front of us whether that’s our challenges, our opportunities, the reality that we live in, and being able to adjust it and tweak it. So it’s not just about you know, that big blue skies idea or that thing the world has never seen. That’s the tip of the iceberg. And that’s great but it’s about all those little micro moments in our day that add up to innovation in our life, and then ultimately that leads to I think you know more fulfillment to more progress.
My mind went to like a million different directions.
Are you taking notes Tonya?
I’m taking notes, I’m gathering information like it’s flooding in, because the biggest key there for me is that micro moments piece. And I interviewed Sean Whalen recently who’s kind of a social media influencer, running for Congress, and he was talking about something similar. Again using different language, but it was about the idea of like you know, it’s a whole analogy of like eating the elephant you know, while a lot of people are sitting around trying to eat all the whole elephant, or figuring out how to do this, like just start taking some bites you know, and go this way, and go that way, maybe you find out you have to chew a little bit more, and then maybe have to eat those like, whatever the case may be, but it’s the little itty bitty what you call Micro Moments. And I think that in the personal development arena, is what holds people’s progress the most. It’s not, it’s not extreme enough. You know, it’s not big enough, and before you and I talked a little bit before the show about the podcast and stuff, and it’s like a lot of people get started podcast thinking immediately they’re going to have thousands of listeners, and have this amazing audience. And it’s it adds up for sure exponentially over time. But it’s the perseverance in doing the little things over and over and over again, with consistency that creates the progress.
A hundred percent. Do you remember that exercise we used to get in elementary school? And I’m going to botch it up but you’ll get the point. Where it says something like you know, “Tamara put a penny in the bank and let it sit. And when she graduated college, how much money did she have with two percent interest? Or something like that.” And your answer is like one million dollars. And you’re going, “how does a penny turn into a million dollars?” But I actually think of innovation in that same way, and if we continue to do all those little micro moments over time, we’re going to tap the power of compounding innovation. Just like compounding interest.
I love that. And it so funny, I was talking about that recently though with regard to parenting. Like, I look at it now like, Justine and I are absolutely reaping the benefits. You know, the exponential investment that we created early on, to where now you know our daughter is fairly autonomous at 7, but it was constant; in the beginning constant, conscious parenting in every moment. And what we’re finding now is the exponential impact of that phenomenal ROI on those efforts. But in the moment, you know, there were moments we’re like “Can we just not hear it right now in this moment?” and I’m like, “No! we’ve got to stick with it. Come on, one more year we’ve got this.” But we’re starting to see the fruits of that labor as well of that arena.
You know it’s so funny, just a couple of weeks ago, we were up in Telluride Colorado for vacation. I’ve got an eight year old and 12 year old both boys. And we went for a monster hike. I mean we’re talking nine miles, 12000 feet, two waterfalls. I mean, it was it was amazing. And my kids were rockstars. And I turned to my husband and I said, “You know what, all those painful years of those short hikes complaining, like trying to go a little further, and a little further has finally paid off.”
It’s exactly the same thing and that’s true of your own existence as well. And that’s why I like the topic of today’s show, around the Personal Development Plan. And it’s like you don’t just happen upon this stuff folks, like for sure there’s a lot of like “oh wow there I am.” But it’s a commitment. I tell people like it’s not a hobby, like this kind of existence is not something that you part-time. Like either you are committed to being fully and wholly who you are, and in the highest vibrational aspect of that, or you’re not. Like there’s really no middle ground. Not that you’re not going to slip up, but the commitment is consistent. And so there needs to be a strategy. Like again, we don’t have to get totally in our heads about it, and like everyday we have to wake up and do this, do this, and do this. But when I talk about the plan, I’m talking about the intentionality of it.
Innovation is Universal. How we innovate is unique to each of us.
I really like that, I mean I think you’re right; it is about the commitment and the consistency that we put. That we put forth, and you know you had said something I really love about wholly who you are, and that’s part of the reason why we created the innovation quotient edged; the assessment. So it just to give it context. It tells you your unique innovator archetype. So your natural innovation strengths, how you do it. But the reason we created it, and put it you know all these years of work and research into it is, because you know I got tired of people coming up to me and saying “Oh Tamara, like I love innovation.” That’s great. But I’m not the innovative one. You should talk to Tonya. She’s got the blue streak in her hair, and she works out of you know collaboration workspace, and you know where has funky glasses and pumas. But that’s a myth that only certain people are you know, ordained to be the innovative, and creative amongst us. And I wanted people to be able to take this assessment and go “Oh, OK yeah, I can totally see that, that’s me”. And “oh, I need to unlearn some things because that’s actually me being innovative. I have that power.” And what I hear from people after they take the assessment is, “Oh I didn’t realize I was innovative but when I see it in this context I get it. And now I’m going to do more of that.” And we we’re able to do that as you and I were talking offline a little bit too. Innovation is, it’s human nature, it’s what we’re built to do is to invent, and to progress, and to try new things, and create new things. But we have to give ourselves permission to tap that inside of us. And I really believe it’s all of our greatest superpowers, if we know how to do it, and if we give ourselves really permission to do it.
Well and I’m laughing to myself because I mean, you and I are absolutely soul sisters in this, because I had the exact same experience with the Super Power concept. And it was like you know, whether it’s innovation, or superpowers, or whatever, the feedback is identical. Is that people are like, and I’ve interviewed some amazing, people who’ve done some really cool stuff in the world and they’re like, “I never thought I had super powers.” And I’m like “Are you freaking kidding me?” Right, let me show you your superpowers. But it looks different on everybody, and so some of it is people like you and I really opening up this space to say “hey, we’re all going to do this differently.” But let’s not be so quick to abdicate that particular role or that particular this, because we’ve lauded somehow in our society this particular version of superpowers, or this version of innovation. Let’s instead say “hey, maybe we all do it.” And early on, people ask all the time you know, how we create people the kind of you know, sandpaper us to make sure that we have conviction around what we’re doing. And they were like “Well, isn’t that just semantics.?” Like, “Aren’t you just saying like that this natural trait that I have as a superpower?” I’m like, “Hell yeah, I am.” Like that’s exactly what I’m doing. And I’m going to normalize that conversation because I think it’s important for us to remember like, you know, and back to the assessment piece. You know I self-admittedly have some, you know, I think I’ve been through all of them, I’ve been diving into people’s psyches for decades, and it’s like you know, most of them in my opinion don’t keep up with innovation. You know, they don’t keep up with consciousness. But early on in my coaching I realized, and I got a clear message, I had to have something to feed people’s minds. Because their minds were really challenged with some of the stuff that was coming through for folks. And so, I went on this hunt for an assessment and I finally found a platform that I could build on, and evolve and innovate myself, because I didn’t find anything that could keep up and probably similar to you; like you had to design it. And so, we created the super power design, which helps people identify their predisposed superpowers. Like their aptitudes, and stuff, and so those are the skill sets. And then I like assessments like yours that really kind of outlay, OK what is the broad picture? What are the unique superpowers? And so, what I want to do is take a quick break here, and then when we come back let’s dive in. You know I guinea pig to the assessment so we can we can use me as an example and really help people understand some of what you’re talking about. So, we’ve been talking with Tamara Kleinberg at gotolaunchstreet.com about the Role of Assessments in a Personal Development Plan. Stick with us and we will be right back.
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