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Mike Watson is an artist, educator, adviser and convener of people and ideas.\\xa0He is a fashion designer and visual merchandiser. He teaches students about fashion design and fashion marketing at the Art Institute of Charlotte, a branch of Miami International University of Art & Design. He is the founder of Heartful Apparel, a fashion brand that supports reshaping lives for the better. Mike is also a leadership consultant.\\xa0He is the founder of Heart-Centric Leadership, a personal development consultancy that advises clients on leading from the heart.\\xa0He is the host of TEDx Charlotte, presenting \'ideas worth sharing.\' Mike earned an undergraduate degree in fashion-textile design from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a master\'s degree in fashion and consumer behavior from UNC Greensboro, and is a doctor of education candidate at Argosy University.

IN THIS EPISODE

Mike talks about what is at the center of all of what he does.

• He explains what he means by heart-centric and why it matters in our lives.
• He answers whether our emotions get in the way of insight.
• He discusses the difference between realizing ourselves and transcending ourselves.
• He shares how he achieves balance and the value he brings to time-tested wisdom.
• Mike defines what fashion is,\\xa0what makes something fashionable and what is driving change in fashion today.
• He talks about what fashion teaches us about how to live our lives and the core values that current fashion is expressing.
• He considers how fashion \'makes belief\' and how it shifts perceptions of reality.
• He discusses the connection he sees between fashion and leadership.
• Mike talks about the fashioning of identity and when he came into his own identity.
• He shares what began to happen in his life in his mid-thirties and the shift in his life that occurred.
• He discusses who he was as a teenager and how his professional life began.
• He reveals the choice he made that confused his family for many years and the most the most important career decision he made.
• Mike shares his purpose in life, why people need to fail, and the importance of \'forest-bathing\' in his life.
• He reveals what we would see if we could he where he creates and what his culminating work of art would be.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0

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After the conversation, host Mark Peres adds a personal word that begins this way, "When Mike Watson talks about heart-centric leadership, I think about what moral philosophers call the ethics of care..."

To learn more, visit On Life and Meaning\\xa0