Check out the Lighthouse!

Hey, I'm Justin.

And if you're watching this, chances are you have some interest in the Lighthouse.

I would love to show you around, give you a tour inside.

and before I do that, let me just answer four questions for you.

You'll see those four questions right here.

Who am I?

What is the Lighthouse?

Why should you consider joining?

And how does it all work?

So let's go through those questions really quick, one by one.

Who am I?

Well, I am Justin Brisso.

I'm the guy here in the middle.

And I have no affiliation with this building called the Lighthouse, but I stumbled across it.

It's actually an Airbnb in my hometown of Norfolk, Virginia.

And.

And I, thought it was pretty cool, so I snapped a pic.

you probably or you may know me from my Inc.com column, which you see here on the left.

I've been writing for INC for over a decade.

I'm inc's Emotional Intelligence columnist.

So I help people figure out how to leverage emotions to help them make better decisions, to get their emotions under control, to understand the role their emotions are playing in their decision making.

And that just makes you all around better.

I like to say emotional intelligence is almost everything.

And almost everything is emotional intelligence, because emotions really underpin every decision we make.

they influence how we think, how we act, and, they can cause us to say and do things that we later regret, but they don't have to, at least not always.

We can minimize those instances, and we can make sure that emotions are working for us instead of against us.

And that's the tagline of my book.

that's another way you may have discovered me.

EQ Applied the Real World Guide to Emotional Intelligence, which I published back in 2018, What is the Lighthouse?

Well, the Lighthouse is the community I established for emotionally intelligent leaders, coaches, and culture builders.

So the.

That can be.

You might be a team lead, trying to establish an emotionally intelligent culture on your team.

You might be a, manager.

You may be an executive, a senior vice president.

You may even be a business founder.

the key is you're trying to develop emotional intelligence in yourself and your team, and that takes a lot of hard work.

So the Lighthouse is here to support you.

And in those efforts in the Lighthouse, we're going to teach you how to try to continue building and leveraging your eq.

No matter how emotionally intelligent we are, we can continue to improve, we can continue to build on our strengths and, leverage those and to mitigate our weaknesses.

We're the Lighthouse is also where you get access to all my work.

So if you followed my work, if you've bought one of the courses before, maybe you wanted another one.

many members of the LightHouse had bought one or two courses before, and I wanted a way to give them access to all of my work moving forward.

you get access to anything I produce get direct access to me.

And as I always say, you practice emotional intelligence in the workplace, it makes you better at home for your friends and family.

You practice at home, it makes you better in the workplace, too.

So it's a way to give you that support to continue, getting that practice and continue strengthening your EQ muscles, so to speak.

the Lighthouse is also where you can get that continued support to reach your goals.

So, but I'm there in the Lighthouse.

It's where I spend most of my work time.

everybody needs a coach.

I'll be your coach.

I'll help you stay accountable to the goals that you're trying to reach and use and leverage emotional intelligence to help you reach those goals.

And But wait, there's more.

So just as we're doing all that to help you develop as a leader, it's also important that you are able to pass these lessons on to your team because we're talking about Things like being able to take feedback and deliver feedback in a healthy way.

These are two very, very different skills.

And we teach them in two very different ways.

How can you benefit from feedback that kind of makes your blood boil or makes you feel attacked when you get it?

How can you deliver feedback in a way that others don't feel that way when you're giving them that constructive feedback?

So that's just one example.

This is what we do in the Lighthouse.

Teaching you how to build psychological safety at work, how to build trust, how to run more emotionally intelligent meetings so that your people can be at their best.

How to make more emotionally intelligent decisions.

Again, you and them and And not just vague how to's, but specific frameworks that teach you how to do this step by step.

so why should you join a Lighthouse?

Well, I read this great quote recently, your tribe is your ceiling.

And you may have heard similar quotes before, but basically the message here is that you surround yourself with the right people and it's going to elevate you.

And you in turn can help elevate them too.

But the key is being in the right room with the right people.

And that's what I've tried to do with the Lighthouse is create my dream team of EQ enthusiasts.

So for example we have monthly workshops and Q&As.

Recently we had, who's the author of Tiny Experiments.

She's a neuroscientist, former Googler.

She started her own community and her own company, Ness Labs.

And so she came into the Lighthouse, shared some of her own frameworks and ideas, from Tiny experiments.

But now Lighthouse members were able to ask her questions directly about things they read from her book or things that she talked about in her presentation.

And that's really, access to people you may not have access to normally.

Then you have Peter Gregson there in the lower left hand corner.

he was the co Author of the course we offer from EQ Applied.

Get to know yourself, understand your personality and build self awareness.

He's a personality expert.

He came right in the lighthouse.

You could ask him direct questions.

You could learn directly from him.

Lower right hand corner.

We have another member of the Lighthouse, Kevin Body.

He spent decades in fire service and now he mentors fire service leaders, helping lieutenants become captains, helping captains become chiefs, and so on.

And a beautiful framework that he taught me Mission vision values.

Now, I'd heard of mission vision values before, but I didn't know exactly how it worked.

we developed a unique spin on it right here for the Lighthouse.

We give you practice on developing your own.

And so again, you're benefiting from that and then you can carry that to your team as well.

And you're not just learning from, the experts, but all of us in the Lighthouse, all experts in one way or another.

But we like to view ourselves as students.

We're not know it alls, we're learn it alls.

So we're learning from each other, we're elevating each other.

And it's really, the community, the tribe that's going to help you raise your ceiling.

Then we get to the tools and resources.

I'm going to show you these very specifically in just a few minutes.

We've talked about some of them already, but giving you very specific frameworks, giving you access to those interviews, Q&As to me and to fellow members, workshops, courses, DM access.

But just to give you a sneak peek of some of those, you'll have workbooks connected with online courses like the Rules of Emotional Intelligence and Get to Know Yourself we mentioned a minute ago.

And here are the worksheets that are part of those workbooks.

They're journaling prompts.

We explain exactly why those are so important, how they're going to help you to learn these skills and how they're going to help you to get better command of your emotions and to teach your people to do the same.

And then we go back to that idea of continuous support.

So, you may be the type of person that's extremely self disciplined.

You can go to the gym on your own and, and you're getting your exercises in and you're building muscle, you're building endurance.

But some of us need extra help, right?

a, personal trainer that's going to help you stick to your routine, that's going to help you stay accountable, and it's going to help point out blind spots, too, and what you may be missing, what you may be doing wrong in your exercises.

So that's what we offer in the Lighthouse.

I serve as your personal trainer, so to speak, your coach, but for emotional fitness and emotional intelligence.

If we need to meet, we do that.

And if you need continued coaching and support, we have that included in one of our plans as well.

So how does it all work?

Well, I think the best is if I can just take you on a tour.

So let's go inside the Lighthouse.

And here we are.

So, let's just start from the left and we'll work our way around just to show you what it looks like inside.

So I'm masquerading as my lovely wife and business partner, Dominika Bariso.

so here, this is the feed.

When you come in the lighthouse, this is what you'll see.

There's a nice little welcome video here.

and as you go down, you'll see everything in chronological order from what you missed.

Now, we have different members that have different levels of availability, so maybe you don't want to see everything that you've missed since, the last time you've been in here.

I love you to check the Lighthouse as often as possible.

you may check it daily, you may check it weekly.

Some are only in here once a month or so.

They only join for our special events.

So here's where you can go to specific categories and see what you missed.

If you want to see what announcements you've missed, you can go there.

And here you'll have special announcements.

Like, we have a live workshop, tomorrow when this video is being recorded.

and I put the worksheet here.

I'm trying to make things as easy as possible for you so that you can just jump into the workshop.

You have your, worksheet available right here.

You can download it, print it out, or go to your PDF if you prefer.

That, Upcoming events will show you what's on the calendar coming up.

we have this workshop tomorrow.

we have some other ones lined up over the next few months.

We've got some exciting people coming in.

and if you want to see a past event that you may have missed, well here you can see them all here and they will have links to recordings.

You can also find those recordings here and that gives you a chance.

If you can't make it live.

We encourage live attendance because then like we said, you can engage right with the community, but also with the presenters and the ones we're interviewing themselves.

But if you can't, you can always catch the recording.

Down here you'll see the community interaction.

So everything from introductions, taking a moment to introduce yourself and what you're currently doing, to an EQ thought for the day.

So something specific that you can work on many times will reference, things that we've learned already in the past, but see how to apply them in real life scenarios.

General discussion.

So these are points that different members are coming up with, they're learning in their everyday practice and sharing those lessons with us as well.

EQ for leaders.

So very specific lessons for leadership.

This was our most popular post to date.

19 comments on this discussion about a horsemanship training that that one of our members experienced and that we'll probably use as a basis for a future workshop.

Because there were just so many amazing lessons from this workshop that he learned and that really resonated with members of the Lighthouse.

And that was really as I think I've alluded to, an amazing surprise for me, was just how much community members learn from each other.

I started the Lighthouse first as a way to work more closely with me.

But I'm just learning so much from fellow members and seeing them learn from each other.

And that's really one of the great benefits of this community.

Help and feedback.

If you have something specific you're looking for, answers to either from myself or another member, wins and losses, you can share, something that went well or something that didn't go well.

Sometimes sharing that in the community can really get support that we're looking for.

Now let's jump down here to your Emotional Intelligence toolkit.

So here's where you get access again to all of my on demand courses.

So you have the, rules of Emotional Intelligence.

Each of these lessons are going to have a video, together with some prompts in your workbook and a worksheet to go along with that.

By the way, this course, the, Rules of Emotional Intelligence, this is our flagship course where you're learning 24 specific frameworks and how to make better decisions and how to manage, your emotions and emotional moments.

And then you'll see this course here, which we've already mentioned, get to Know Yourself.

It's based on the big five traits of personality, which you'll see all Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.

They make up the acronym ocean.

But again, we're not talking about theoreticals here, we're talking about practical.

So how do you use this knowledge about where you are in the spectrum of each of these traits, where your teammates are on the spectrum of each of these traits?

what are your needs?

How do you satisfy those needs?

How do you manage when those needs aren't being met?

And we keep coming back to these courses because as you have questions, as you apply what you're learning, and as I give specific advice, I can link back to specific lessons and help, you to remember what you've learned or to learn something new and see how you can apply that in your workplace.

Then we have all the books and workbooks.

this is a constantly growing library.

Again, going through a course.

It's difficult to go through all this at one time.

But I can help you find what you need when you need it so you can apply it your specific situation.

And then here's the training guide.

If you're a coach and you want to enhance your own, coaching packages, well, here's a way to do it.

We show you exactly how to use these tools to teach them to your clients.

And we even give you 10 licenses per year that you can share those on demand courses with your own clients.

And that helps you add a little bit of punch to your own coaching packages and give them additional tools that they can use as well.

One thing I forgot to mention is the member directory.

So here you have all the different ones that are serving here in the community with you and you can read their profiles.

Maybe you see a specific set of skills or someone that you want to network with.

here's your little notifications tab.

Because if you follow a post, for example, you can like it here, you can comment on it or you can just bookmark it.

So following the post will just give you any new notifications.

If anyone adds any comments to it.

Bookmarking it will help you to find it in the future.

then we have the search bar which allows you to go back and look for something that you may have missed.

So I remember there was an amazing Steve Jobs video, that showed an internal meeting at Next, the company that Steve Jobs left Apple or that he created when he left Apple.

So all you remember is Steve Jobs.

You put it in there, it helps you to find it.

And now you've got that video together with its lessons.

Pretty, continuation of a tradition Steve established at Apple early on.

Pretty amazing, inside look at how Steve Jobs ran its meetings.

I Recommend watching that when you get the chance All right, well, I hope that answered some of your questions and helped you to understand exactly what we're doing in the lighthouse.

If you're serious about developing your emotional intelligence and helping your team to develop theirs, to establish that more emotionally intelligent culture in your workplace and to take that.

Take those lessons at home, and work, then I encourage you to join our dream team of EQ enthusiasts.

And I hope to see you inside.