“We like to illuminate our lives in many ways,” says Matt Mueller. He is illuminating neighborhoods and businesses with an Architectural LED lighting system for accent, holiday lighting, game day lighting, and security. Glo Lighting Minnesota brings Matt back home from Phoenix, where our second conversation starts.

Matt is an excellent example of dual innovation. He is redefining who he is while launching a new business. You will hear the freedom he feels from designing life on his terms out of his lessons.

“In order to become confident and capable adults, it helps enormously to have grown up with steady and predictable parents, writes Dr. Bessle van der Kolk in The Body Keeps The Score (2014). He expands his thoughts by adding, “parents who delighted in you, in your discoveries and explorations; parents (or caregivers) who helped you organize your comings and goings; and who served as role models for self-care and getting along with other people. Defects in any of these areas are likely to manifest themselves later in life. A child who has been ignored, for example, or chronically humiliated is likely to lack self-respect.”

In Matt’s case, he grew up in a home with steady and predictable parents, so when his world turned upside down after his marriage and network marketing venture imploded, he used the opportunity in Phoenix to restore his well-being. A sign of respecting oneself. He utilized new mentors to move from an intrapreneur, using the resources of Amway’s network marketing company to launching Glo Lighting. His vision is to build a 1^st class service organization that makes work easy, lucrative, and fun while treating everyone’s property as their own.

The primary differences between intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs are the risk one takes with their finances and organizing resources within a company. I use the most famous example of an intrapreneur, podcast guest mentor, Art Fry. He invented Post-it Notes® while working at 3M. You can find our podcast conversations and a definition of intrapreneurs in the Episode Resource section for this episode. Enjoy Matt’s explanation of his reimagined life. DOWNLOAD

Speaking of Restoring well-being after trauma, I feel compelled to say that we missed a massive opportunity as a nation to find ways to restore our well-being after the terrorist attacks twenty years ago (September 11, 2001). If we had focused on restoring our nation’s well-being first, we would have healed the world. Instead, we armored up with a revengeful mentality and rolled out policies and plans that nourished a fear-based mindset that demonized our Muslim brothers and sisters, armed the Taliban, and caused the world harm. We unleashed our superpower vengeance. We are still paying the price of messed-up priorities.

What we can do now is keep doing the work to heal our hearts and practice healthy relating, and implement our new learnings to create a world based on love and understanding instead of fear and hate. We need to focus on the light, maybe Matt’s light, where he has created space for dual innovation.

 A clarification. Jellyfish Lighting is the company Matt has a license to sell his LED Architectural lighting systems. There are licensed dealers in 20 markets. Minnesota is the 15^th state to offer this outdoor and commercial lighting system.

After listening, complete below, the Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring (C.A.L.M.) Activities.