Episode #32: Raising the Level of Leadership by Creating Safe & Sacred Communities with Maruxa Murphy

Maruxa Murphy is an award-winning community experience designer, strategist, entrepreneur, author and catalyst for change who has been transforming communities in person and online since 2000. She leads national and international initiatives with a deep understanding of the dynamics of how people connect and share information. Maruxa is further changing the game in community experience design while working in the travel, business, personal development, parenting, and coaching industries shifting how communities can be designed from “the inside out” to transform their industries from the core.

Her clients include Netflix’s “spiciest” show Sex, Love and Goop's stars Jaiya Ma and Ian Ferguson with the Erotic Blueprints (grew this community to 1M people on Mighty Networks), Kajabi (just starting to work with them as of last week), Uplift Millions brand, Spryte Loriano with Awakening Giants (an community owned conscious media network), multiple metaverses (alternate reality worlds) as well as creating and designing communities for brands revolutionizing their industries, like the Maui Resort community, the Women’s Prosperity Network, The Vision School,  The Traveling Diary and the conscious dancer mentorship experience with former Rockette dancer Gina Pero.

Maruxa specializes in bringing people together to create profitable enterprises that do good in the world—while empowering all individuals to live their fullest. Her work has been featured on Forbes, Reader’s Digest, Fox News, The Huffington Post, NBC, and The Austin-American Statesman as well as featured as one of 10 women-owned brands to be on the lookout for at the United Nations on Women’s Entrepreneur Day 2019.

In this episode, we chat about: 

• Maruxa's definition of “community”.
• What is community? What does it look like in the business form?
• What is audience building and how does it work?
• How do we create more opportunities for in-person relationships?
• Where does vulnerability fit in the energetics of online vs in person?
• The sacred four elements of a healthy community.
• The biggest challenges of leadership. 
• How to handle difficult dialogues from our clients in our communities. 
• The importance of being flexible and going with the flow with facilitating events.
• "You get to decide what you are available for and what you’re not."
• The importance of creating a sacred contract for each community.
• How to shift the level of consciousness and raise the level of leadership.
• "Everything needs to have a purpose [with your containers]. You must have a why for the gathering, even if it's around a specific topic, which means the dynamics of the container are going to change."
• "The only way for sustainable profitability is until leaders are willing to revolutionize not only themselves, but also the way in which they hold space for the people that they're serving."

Connect with Maruxa!

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maruxamurphy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maruxamurphy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaruxaMurphy/