Intro

📍 Welcome to The Corvus Effect, where we take you behind the scenes to explore integrated self leadership and help ambitious family men build lasting legacies for themselves, their tribe, and their community. I'm Scott Raven, and together we'll discover how successful leaders master a delicate balance of career advancement, personal health, financial growth, and meaningful relationships. Get ready to soar.

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Introduction

And hello everybody. Welcome back to this episode of The Corvis Effect. I'm Scott and this is my TL DL summary with my conversation with Johnny Levy poet. CEO and author who helps people discover their true identity through what he calls the superpower quest. And it was a wonderful chat with Johnny.

Certainly I encourage you to go back and take a listen to the full episode if you're just listening to this too long and didn't listen because you didn't have the time, but. No worries. I got you back on this five-ish minute summary where we're really talking about breaking free from false expectations and embracing your authentic design so that you can build a legacy.

I. That starts with self understanding. And when we talk about the platform of corvus with self-leadership and one of those attributes being self-awareness, this certainly hits home for what we are trying to convey in this platform. So let's break it down a little bit in terms of some of the key elements of our chat.

Breaking Free from Limiting Identities

First off, really talk about breaking free from limiting identity. Definitions. How many times in life has somebody put a label on you and you're just shaking your head and saying, nah, that is not me. And Johnny certainly can relate to that in terms of the limiting definitions that can stifle our potential.

He's growing up in a tough area of Denver where dominance and violence were the currency. And he felt like he didn't measure up to be what was a real man in that environment because that's not what you were supposed to be. So his breakthrough came when he discovered that through an assessment that he took, that he was a otter.

And this assessment tied you to different styles of animals. And he thought given his environment, he was supposed to be a lion. But really he was more playful and inspirational and that was liberating because as he said, maybe it's not that something's wrong with me, I. But maybe I'm just built differently.

All of us are built differently and it's incumbent upon us to leverage our uniqueness to drive to our unique definition of legacy. So certainly take that away from my conversation with Johnny, and he carried that forward to the power of authentic expression.

The Power of Authentic Expression

And when talking about his poetry journey that his college professor challenged him to write something real.

He was be into sci-fi at the time, and all the things that he wrote about were sci-fi related, but he challenged him to take his life experiences, particularly that tough environment in Denver and be able to. Put it into words and then forcing him to read it aloud and cultivating such an emotional connection that it brought his teacher to tears.

He had this epiphany. Words can move. People and your words, your thoughts, your beliefs in what you bring to the table to cause true impact and legacy in your life can truly inspire people to greatness as well as for yourself. Do not shortchange yourself guys in terms of thinking that you have to. Push your views to the side because you need to embrace the collective thought.

That's not the point. The point is, go ahead, stand out, be the strong individual that you are, and see how you attract people to your point of view. It's gonna be wonderful. I know y'all can do it. I know Johnny believes that you can do it. And to aid in that.

Johnny's Superpower Quest Framework

We talked about the final part, which was his superpower Quest framework and really has five key steps.

Discover your superpower, steward your kryptonite, join forces, build your utility belt, and face your super villain as you're listening to this. And that last one, that super villain I. What is the name of that supervi for you? How would you describe, how would you picture, what are the powers that that supervi has that you need to overcome, and how are you going to fight the fight with your own superpowers in order to take this super villain?

Head on. That is what Johnny's framework would encourage you to do, and certainly I would encourage you to do as part of the Corus pathway because once you have that strong foundation of self over your supervi, you can then translate that superpower to your tribe, to your community. And multiply that impact in the manner that we see here.

Conclusion

So wonderful conversation with Johnny. Certainly encourage you to listen to the full episode. You can find it on the vus effect.com. You can also find it on Apple Podcast and Spotify. We encourage you to subscribe and share, leave us reviews. We love the feedback. And take this away. As a final takeaway, Johnny said, whatever success you're going to have.

Doesn't need to be at the expense of your connection to your community and to your family. So go out and pursue you, but also make sure you never forget where you're from and the love of those people closest to you. Until next time, take care.

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Outro

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