E1: FOREST FLOOR™ Values  

Mycelieum Network™ Episode One: FOREST FLOOR™ Values:

1. Adventure-Quest

2. Creativity

3. Contentment

4. Community

5. Contribution

6. Growth

7. Transcendence.

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E:1 Summary  

Matthew Flansburg discusses the significance of values in personal and professional contexts. They emphasize the role of values in planning and decision-making, and share personal stories and anecdotes to illustrate their points. Flansburg also discusses the importance of values in business, highlighting their role as a guiding light for decision-making and growth. He explores the connection between geometry and the number six, and reveals insights about the alignment of his company's values with the chakra system. Throughout the conversation, the speakers emphasize the importance of living by one's values and serving others, citing Galatians and personal anecdotes to illustrate their points. 

E:1 Timeline  

00:00 Grandfather’s life, including volunteer work and impact on Matthew’s life.

• Matthew reflects on his grandfather's life, struggles with summarizing it in one minute speech.
• Matthew Flansburg's grandfather, William, volunteered as the first accountant for MOPS and helped build a strong and sustainable national nonprofit.

05:55 Importance of values in personal and professional life.

• Matthew reflects on his grandfather's life and values during memorial service at Fort Logan, Colorado.
• Matthew reflects on the importance of values after losing his grandfather, the last of his mentors.
• Values are a part of planning and a way of being, influencing operations and manifestation.

12:53 Grandfather’s life, faith and death.

• Matthew reflects on his grandfather's life, including his birth in unusual weather and death on Pi Day.
• Matthew emphasizes the importance of living by the Spirit and serving others in love.
• Matthew's grandfather felt guilty about happiness based on another man's death.

19:17 The importance of caring for others and emulating the values of influential people in one’s life. 

• Matthew reflects on his grandfather's selflessness and the importance of caring for others. 
• Flansburg emphasizes the importance of prioritizing people over money.
• Matthew expresses gratitude to a mentor, dedicating an episode and his heart to them.

25:19 Values and their importance in business and life. 

• Matthew reflects on catching a rainbow trout on Father's Day 23 years after his father's death.
• Matthew values integrity, accountability, and other key concepts in business.
• Flansburg and a friend conducted an exercise to identify their top 20 business values.
• Matthew discusses the distillation of high-level concepts to 6 core values: love, contribution, growth, community, creativity, and adventure.

33:53 Using the Chakra System to understand company values. 

• Flansburg aims to balance six core values in his business using a hexagon model inspired by chakra mandalas and the projection of 3D space to 2D while retaining information. 
• The podcast's focus on perspectives through the lens of the chakra system reveals the importance of understanding others and consciousness itself.

41:56 Company values for Forest Floor, a mushroom-related business: adventure-quest, creativity, contentment, community, contribution, growth, and transcendence. 

FOREST FLOOR™ Values: 

FF Value 1: Adventure-Quest aligning to the Red Root Chakra.

FF Value 2: Creativity aligning to the Orange Sacral Chakra.

FF Value 3: Contentment aligning to the Yellow Solar Plexus Chakra.

FF Value 4: Community aligning to the Green Heart Chakra.

FF Value 5: Contribution aligning to the Blue Throat Chakra.

FF Value 6: Growth aligning to the Indigo or Deep Blue Third-Eye Chakra.

FF Value 7: Transcendence aligning to the Violet or White Crown Chakra.

Flansburg encourages listeners to share their thoughts and exercises to help refine the values, reinforcing their identity and purpose. 

E:1 Transcript  

0:02
This is the Forest Floor™, Mycelium Network™ Episode One. I'm your host, Matthew Flansburg. Today is June 11, 2024, I was just thinking about the timetable and how it's hard as we try to make things work within a certain time frame. Sometimes the time frame was meant to be a certain way. And regardless of what you do, you end up following, or, you know, finding yourself in the in the in the circumstances where things unfold the way they're supposed to. I think that's where I'm at this morning. Well, I know that's where I'm at this morning. I am going to be giving a one minute speech at my grandfather's memorial service at Fort Logan today, and I woke up and of course, my first thought was, how the heck am I gonna summarize a man who lived 96 years on this planet in a minute or less. It's just an impossible task. I'm certainly not going to fill it with the words or statement I only have a minute that takes up seconds I. So I've definitely been a little choked up this morning. No stranger to speeches. When I was 12, I gave a speech with Jack Ancone in front of all of the junior high student council. I guess you'd call them student councils for each of the junior highs at a national conference. And I was 12, I think there's 3000 kids in that audience. So I don't, you know, I don't have any fear of speaking in front of people today. The only concern I have is what I can fill in one minute or less. That's the challenge. The good thing about starting your own podcast, though, is you're not limited to a minute.

3:12
To say that my grandfather had meaning in my life would to be understating the importance of him in my life. He took Over the position of father figure when my dad died in 97 and honestly, he did a great job as best he could from a distance, right? So meanwhile, we spoke on the phone quite often. I'd only get to see him once or twice a year since I was, you know, in my 20s. There's a many remarkable things about my grandfather, William Flansburg. I think the one that I objectively sticks out the most was his volunteer work. If you've heard of a group called MOPS Mothers of Preschoolers, then you know my grandfather's work. He and I'll go into this in detail, because I'll have to hear this story a few more times from other people, but he was the first accountant for MOPS. In fact, helped build their National Charter, donated all of his time and never charged him a penny. But built, helped build them into a strong at a strong business model, nonprofit business model that he helped. Them with their accounting and now their national, national event that's touched the lives of hundreds of 1000s. And so, from a point of inspiration, I've got the bar set a little high. Or you could say that I learned that it's possible to create a national chapter or a national group, a successful nonprofit that that has lasted for decades, and you'd never know my grandfather was involved, because that's the last thing he'd, he'd, he'd do is brag about anything that He's done. That's another rarity, right?

5:56
My grandfather was born November 9, 1927, he died on Pi Day, March 14, 2024, it's 35,191 days. How do you summarize 35,191 days into a minute. That's the challenge for the day. What's not the challenge is the purpose of this episode, and what I meant by our timetables controlling us. Today's episode is about values. Episode One is about values, why they're important, why they're important to us, why they're important to you, when you are engaging with getting to know someone or getting to know a group, right? What? What are the motivators? What are your values? And instead of having hidden values, we're gonna we're gonna bring those right out into the open and and tell you what motivates us. So I think the timing on this is divine, out of my control. I've had the outline for values, and then, you know, I found myself preparing for for the memorial service today. So Episode One, I'm dedicating to my grandfather who over the course of this podcast, it will be revealed as many facets, why I looked up to him and why it's important for me to internalize all of the lessons that he taught me be brave and better than myself, and to reflect those things on to others, even though sometimes I honestly don't feel like I'm capable or worthy of it.

8:41
But now that he's gone, and he's the last shining light, he's the last mentor, the oldest one too, my other three mentors, they're all gone. They died earlier. Two to cancer, one to a heart attack, and they were all young. So grandpa, this one's for you. So why are values important? Why? Why is this topic even coming up? What's what's the value? What's the importance of values? It's a great question. Can you run a business, or can. You run an operation without values 100% I believe there's a huge facet of values that is involved with planning, however, and I think in the absence of planning, the values are a fallback that can generate behavior in situations. If those values are followed, that could steer the course, keep the ship on track, keep keep everything going in the direction that it needs to go. So values are in my in in this lens, a part of planning, values can also be a way of being. And I think from that perspective, when your values become a way of being, maybe a way of existence, then you might be seeing a higher level of operation. So yes, there it's a planning aspect, but it's also a part of the engine, part of the gearing, part of the core fundamental operations of the business, the group, the organization, the entity, whatever it the whatever the group think, whatever the the goals are of the group together. This could be thought of as like operating systems, core, fundamental operating systems, operating in different modularities with different motivations as well different frequencies. And we'll get into the specifics on how you can analyze other companies, or when you're building your own or when you are participating with other people. And you want to start at the beginning. I think this is a good I think it's going to be a good episode for exploratory understanding of what values are, what they what they're good for, and how you can use them, leverage them to forge whatever it is that you're interested in forging in your own, in your own, your own manifestation, your own life.

12:53
Thank you for joining me. William Flansburg was born November 9, 1927 in Trinidad, Colorado, to unusual weather. November 8 was the hottest recorded day in November, almost in recorded history in Trinidad. Ironically enough, the weather data for November, 9 evening, there is none for the evening. So we have a 10 degree spike the day before grandfather was born. He died, March, 14, 2024, Pi Day, he lived 35,191 days, which included 96 trips around the sun, of which 75 of those 96 years was spent as a father, and 47 of those years was spent as a grandfather. So nearly three quarters, three quarters of his life was spent as a father and half as a grandfather. If you recall here in Colorado, Pi Day, March, 14, 2024, there was a huge storm, so grandfather came in with the heat, and he left with a big storm, and I wouldn't do him justice if I didn't speak about his faith and how he communicated to. That to me, he never tried to convert me to his belief system. He just lived in a way which was admirable, and he took me aside five years ago, and he said everything of value that he had learned, that he understood anything of value that he had come to understand he learned in Galatians. And lucky for us, Galatians is very short, but I'm not going to read it all. I am going to read and paraphrase what I believe he meant when he said that to me five years ago.

15:46
Life by the Spirit. You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free, but did not use your freedom to indulge in the world rather serve one another humbly in love for The entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command, love your neighbor as yourself.

16:17
Further the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, (long-suffering), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control against such things, there is no law.

16:42
15 years ago, almost to the day, my grandfather took me down a road near a bridge where in 1948 i Eight, a man named Roy Allen Shattuck died in a car accident, leaving a young wife and a five month old baby named Roger in and this event coincided to my grandfather's return from the Navy and the GI Bill, and that's where he reconnected with Mary, my grandmother and her baby, and began his relationship with the widow, eventually to marry her, adopt Roger, and then to go on and have two more beautiful kids with her. But the reason why my grandfather took me to that location was to express his guilt, I believe that his entire happiness was based upon The death of another man, and he felt really indebted or guilty about that his whole life, to which I never truly understood why he felt that way. But from my perspective, you know, he, he, he made the choice to care about my father and then me. So I say to him, there was no debt ever owed. What I received from him was ultimately the highest gift that he could have given me, and that was his attention and love I and I think in truth, he lived by the Spirit, and that's why Galatians is so important to. Am, and to me in understanding it so life by the Spirit. You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free, but do not use your freedom to indulge in the world, rather serve one another, humbly in love. And to my grandfather, I say this, there was no debt. And in fact, if anything, I owe the debt in that I understand the importance of caring about other people because you cared about someone that you didn't need to, that you weren't really obligated to, that you chose to. And to me, that goes deeper than blood, because I never met the man, Roy Shattuck, but I really knew Bill, William Flansburg, I think that's the most beautiful part of the story, and it's something that I have not it's so rare that It should be applauded and it should be remembered and it should be amplified. And that's, I think, in the core of everything that I've learned, and why the people I loved and why I respected them so much is because the ones that really stood out were the ones who cared about others and truly did something about it. I mean, those are the rarest of people, the ones who believe and then spend the rest of their lives doing, ironically enough, all of the people that I've truly looked up to money was never their their main focus. It was people I every single one of them, the most successful men I know, were focused on people, and I mean true success, positive deeply intentional change, and what what better way to honor them than to figure out what motivated them and emulate that. And before we transition into my values and the values of the company, the Forest Floor™ kind of group, I say this again to you. You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free, but do not use your freedom to indulge in the world rather serve one another humbly in love for the entire law is fulfilled In keeping this one command, love your neighbor as yourself. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control against such things there is no law.

23:40
I am forever grateful and thankful for you To have been most influential man in my life that I could talk to, that understood me, that cared for me and had my best interests in mind, and I'm deeply grateful that you were the guy that showed up so grandpa, thank you. I want to show you how much I love you by reflecting that on the quality focus and as you recall seriousness of my work, so to you, I dedicate this episode. And certainly a huge chunk of my heart was evolved because, you know, you had such a big heart yourself. So. You are definitely free at this point. I pray that you look after me and my family and I can continue the work that you started. Thank you.

25:27
Today is Father's Day, June, 2024, and exactly 23 years ago today, I caught a rainbow trout in Jefferson County stream. I it within miles of where I spread my dad's ashes years before, in some of the most beautiful territory in the world, wilderness area in the world. Again, my name is Matthew Flansburg, it's a roller coaster Episode One today, we're really focused on values, and it's a perfect day to circle back on what really matters. And I want to tell a brief story, and I'll elaborate this on the mycelium network blog, and get into the details of exactly what these these values are, how we derived them. But I want to give you an overview on this podcast of I kind of set the stage, so to speak, laying the groundwork on the importance of this stuff. But, but truly, this episode's months in the making.

26:47
23 years ago to the day my friends Peter and Daniel, Daniel being my current business partner, we're on a fishing trip outside Jefferson, Colorado. I three day adventure culminating in father's day 2021, or 2001 is 2024, so 23 years ago today, I caught a rainbow trout on father's day a little over, about a little under three years after almost four years, so three and a half years after he died. And today is Father's Day. And it's funny how these things kind of fall into place. But this episode on values just happens to fall right into place and right on time for this. Been working on this particular segment for months, really trying to dig in on what values are and why they're important. And I think I know, I know from the fact that values are a guiding light that help you direct your direction, especially in times of maybe chaos or uncertainty. And if you have values that you can fall back on and that define you. They can oftentimes be the reason why you reach the top of the mountain, and the difference between those who succeed and those who fail. And it's not to say that you can't have a successful product or a successful company or successful business without values. That's not true at all. There's a lot of companies that that are very successful in the world that are devoid of these things. But if we really want to look at making an impact or making a dent, as Jay would say, we need to think a little bit bigger and a little bit more potently, at the underlying drivers of our behavior and the really the meaning of why we are focused and moving in the direction that we are. And so you may not understand fully what a company is actually doing or what they are creating. However you can easily understand their values if they publish them. So, you know, values are an interesting array of concepts, right? And let's, let's dig into a couple of those right now.

29:43
So a quick Google search will yield a list of values, company, core values, stuff like that. So if you do a search, you'll find terms like integrity, accountability, diversity, innovation, collaboration, boldness, curiosity, adaptability, passion, courage, honesty, leadership, creativity, diversity, teamwork, trust, compassion, respect, humility, terms like that, and the initial challenge for me came from a friend of mine who I worked with 20 years ago. He challenged me. He said, Okay, what are your company values? And that's how we started on this journey.

30:34
So for us, you know, and I think if you're starting a business, do this exercise in parallel, but think about, or write down in like a journal, your top 20 kind of concepts, or your top 20 things that you value, or that you value in businesses, or that you wish to be a part of, or you wish people valued. And you know, I started doing that myself, and I made a this list. This is from the 11th of April of this year (2024), so right after the Eclipse. So I had love, people, growth, community, contribution, manifestation, creativity, courage, equality, acceptance, authenticity, adventure, humor, leadership, meaning, optimism, peace, freedom, cooperation, liberty, and for all the reasons that I could think of, those were the kind of high level concepts. And out of that, I distilled it down to six, and those six were love, contribution, growth, community, creativity and adventure. And so after about a month, we got it down to those final six. Love, contribution, growth, community, creativity and adventure. And I think those were really solid. And I was completely happy with all of those. I think that they encompassed the initial kind of grouping. And the reason that there are six is that the number six has been coming out of this project, like the number just keeps repeating itself in different facets. I'll go into more of that at a later time. But you know, there's six points in the main logo that you double that and you have 12 points right which also resembles a clock. Six Sides is the shadow of a perfect cube at the right angle. So you can actually understand the qualities of a cube. If you understand the distance between the cube and the shadow and the then the point of light behind it. Little bit of geometry, trig there, but with a a perfect hexagon, and knowing those distances, you can extrapolate the measurements of a cube, which is interesting to think that a two dimensional object can contain, ultimately, the information of three dimensions above it. And I would love to do an episode on higher dimensional physics. It has to do with exactly that the unfolding of other dimensions within a mathematical dimension above it, fascinating stuff. But for today, we're staying on on target with our values, and these six values represented sort of the six sides to a well balanced system. And let me explain a little bit more on that well balanced system.

34:10
All right, so I found my list the six sides to a well balanced hexagon. And I think this is more from a overall health perspective. But if we were to balance our physical well being, our work, financial well being, that's step two, mental well being three, social well being four, emotional being five, and meaningful, spiritual being six, those six sides, when those things are balanced, everything else seems to work well in the universe. And so our goal, my goal, was initially to kind of distill top six core company values and then kind of correlate those to a well balanced. Balanced textagon shape, where those are the six concepts, again, physical, work, financial, mental, social, emotional, and then meaning, meaning and spiritual. Those six facets were the, were the were the balance associated with the six sides. And I'll and I'll have diagrams on the blog portion of our website that elaborate on this further.

35:29
So I really initially thought that the exercise was kind of finished at that point, that I picked six great core values that those would serve us well. I shared them with my business partners. Shared them with other people. It was, it was fine, and we were just going to, you know, establish those and then move on to the next part of the business. And then I came across, and I love mandalas. I make them myself. I came across this, this guy on YouTube, and he broke down the chakra mandalas and did just a really fantastic job of this tutorial. And so I'm gonna also link and show those on the blog as well. This is really fun stuff. So he breaks down on how to make these chakras for the seven chakras in that system. And so I was thinking to myself, why don't we look at, look at my the company values that we started, why don't we look at those company values through the lens of the chakra system. And so just to catch you up on the chakra system, there's seven chakras. They have a mandala associated with them, also a color associated with them, and it typically depicted with somebody in like a cross legged lotus position, or something similar, meditating. And these seven chakras illuminate from the bottom, the root chakra, like that's at the base of of your being. Then it goes through the sacral to the solar plexus, such as the center of the center chest. Below the fourth chakra is just heart. Then the fifth chakra, throat, third eye chakra, which is between your forehead. and then the crown chakra above that. Now the colors root -> red, sacral-> orange, solar plexus -> yellow, heart-> green throat -> blue, third-eye -> indigo to deep blue, and crown -> violet or white. Those are also associated with this system.

37:47
So I kind of I wrote down our six, six topics: Love, Contentment, Contribution, Growth, Community, Creativity. Actually, there was one in there that, yeah, so I think one was added. So I'll get to this. So I started shuffling our R's in this system, and I found that we had two concepts that ended up in the Heart Chakra, Love and Community, and that I felt that was interesting. And then from our previous list, and some of these get kind of muddled up, but we had Growth, and growth seemed to align with the Third Eye chakra. So we have the Heart Chakra being covered by two of our concepts, Community and Love. And then we had Third Eye Chakra being covered by Growth. Root Chakra that aligned ended up aligning towards the venture, the adventure venture quest, the very base of what we're doing. And that's like survival in the animal kingdom, so to speak. So the adventure part of our system kind of melted into this more of concept of an Adventure Quest, something like when thought through the Root Chakra, like it's the base of what we're doing. And so sort of like an adventure, quest is the evolution, when looking at it, to the chakra system. Now the Sacral Chakra part, we found that that aligns with Creativity, and that was one of our six. And so if you want to validate this chat, GPT is pretty fun, or just read up on the concepts of these, of these chakras, and then find out a lot of these keywords kind of actually gravitate towards these things. And so yeah, again, the Throat Chakra that ended up being Contribution. And so contribution is kind of what what we we provide to the world. And. It's funny because the podcast is, is directly a voice, so a throat, it's, it's, it's kind of funny that that the contribution that we're trying to put together is exactly that. And so what did we learn out of this? Well, that we're missing one. We're missing we were from the lens of this, we were missing a very major concept, and that's something that aligned with the Crown Chakra. And so I felt like we were double down on the Heart Chakra, Love and Community, and that we were missing something in the in the in the Crown Chakra area. And so that got us as a team to, once again, go back to the drawing board.

40:47
So let's patch, let's patch this thing, this whole thing, together. So, you know, we started early April with the question, you know, what are your company values? We came up with a big list, distilled that down to six. Thought we were done with that iteration, and then decided that through the filtering it, through the lens of the chakra system it gave us, actually allowed us to dive deeper into our own psyche and our own, I think, our own values, and then just when we look at things from different lenses, and that's really kind of one of the major hyper focused, meta understandings you'll get with this podcast, is that perspectives of others Is that is such a fundamental key to consciousness itself, not just in product development, business development, and understanding other people, and it's fundamental into understanding the nature of consciousness itself. So let's wrap this up, this beautiful concept up. So through the Chakra System, we now have an organization. We have actually a organization, a hierarchy of our values, which I think is awesome. So let me start with the root chakra, the red chakra at the very base what we're doing, and this is we're going to summarize Forest Floor's, Company Values, right here.

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Company value number One, Root Chakra, color Red is Adventure Quest is what we're calling it. It's an Adventure. It's a Quest. Forest Floor™ at the base of what it is, at the very core, is a business that is, is is needing to do business by making money and employ people and have an engine behind it. So it is an adventure quest. When I talk about products and product teams, even if they're inside an organization, you'll notice that I will speak of them a lot of the times as pirate ships or their own kind of their own ship out in the water with its own hierarchy, its own system, its own its own values, its own, organization, and you'll find that the pirates were interesting, and they were they were more democratic than, say, the English royal navy, which were very structured and hierarchical in their nature, where orders were barked down from the top, whereas typically, pirate ships were democratically elected officials, being the pirate captains, and they all basically shared in what would be considered equal amounts of the payoff if they were to get their bounty or their pirate, whatever their goal was, right? So there was kind of a shared a shared gain and a shared cost in operating a pirate ship, as opposed to the English royal navy, where you were basically a servant on those ships. So back to what we're thinking about. So Forest Floor™, in its essence, is a, is it adventure? It's a quest. It's a it's a business, right? That's one of our values, is to have adventures, is to go on quests.

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The Second Value of Forest Floor alligns to the Orange Sacral Chakra. And this is huge for me personally. This is like a defining characteristic that I really look up to, and that's Creativity. So creativity approaching problems, create in a creative manner, right? Always trying to solve problems from different lenses, different perspectives, coming up with novel solutions in a situation where obvious solutions might be present. So I think that living, living in that world, that creativity always allows you to try to see things from a different perspective, other people's perspectives, again, kind of doubling down on perspective, but it is the creative lens is super important, moving on the yellow.

45:00
Solar Plexus Chakra, Contentment. Now, originally, this was gratitude, and they're very closely related, and this was an added value that I think makes sense from the correct lens of where we're coming from. So Contentment is being happy with what you have right here, right now, regardless of what it is that you have. It is being having gratitude and being grateful, but it's also a calming way of being that is different than just gratitude or gratefulness. It's more of a long term being than a state, if that makes any sense. So this is a value that I strive towards, and this is from my own kind of personal journey and evolution. Yeah, contentment is a value that I, I strive towards. And by, by thinking about it makes me realize the things that are important to me and re, re, how do you say? Reinforces exactly what I'm trying to obtain in the siphon. That's peace and calm. That's part of Contentment.

46:30
Moving up to the Heart Chakra, the Green Heart Chakra. So we mentioned earlier, a couple minutes ago in the podcast, so we had two that aligned to the Heart Chakra, Love and Community. Now I believe that love permeates every one of these in a certain way, because I love what I do. I love how we're doing it. I love engineering, I love design, I love I love things, and I love art and the things that we're kind of immersed ourselves with right now. So love kind of permeates all of it. So I think that a better, a better version of what we're going for is community. And so the Mycelium Network represents just that kind of the thoughts and writings around the podcast, but really trying to build a community from the center that starts with our friends and our our community, close community, then we build from there. Because just like mycelium, it kind of grows out from the center. And so we droped the word "Love", because we believe that that is what we always are doing. And it's kind of a, kind of one of the emotional tapestries we weave. However, I think community was the better description of what we're actually building with Forest Floor. So Forest Floor's fourth, Fourth Value is Community.

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The Fifth Value, Throat Chakra, Blue, is Contribution. And this is, this is such a great word, because Contribution for us, basically, is everything that we produce, whether that be, whether that be, whether that be a podcast, whether that be the shirts, whether that be our main product line. Contribution is what we are giving and what we are providing. It is the that is the core elemental manifestation piece. So this Fifth Value is our offering is is our voice in the form of physical things and in the form of our voice. It's really a kind of a lovely way that this, this fell into itself. So Contribution, Fifth Value.

48:49
Moving up, Third Eye Chakra. This is something my business partner, I talk about a lot. This is Indigo, or Deep Blue. And this concept, this, the capitalists love this. But deeper than that, everybody loves this one. If you really love the word, it's Growth. And that that, and there's so much to talk about with that word for what we're doing here at Forest Floor, because we, we're, you know, we're a mushroom related company, and mushrooms grow. But more importantly, I think, from all the lenses that my business partner I have looked at this Growth. One is really fascinating. It encompasses, if it is kind of the vision of the company. I mean, it works for everything the company itself, growing ourselves into better leaders, better members of the community, growing mushrooms, growing things, growing ourselves, growing, I mean just growth, growth, growth, mycelium, growth, everything for us, this is exactly a value that, like we would be missing this value if we didn't have this value. It doesn't make any sense for our company to exist without this and to have it be part of that. Third Eye, kind of visionary part of what we're doing. Gosh, what a great value to have. And so the Sixth Value is growth. I'm loving it. Super, super happy.

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Now here we're going up to the Seventh Crown Chakra, Violet or White. Okay, we didn't have a concept for this, which is so silly, and I'm so glad I did this episode, because now it all comes together like so we get, you know, the depth, the sadness, the connection, my love for my grandfather and my father, all this stuff. Why are we doing this company? First, Zero Chapter, you know, part one and part two was all about why we're doing the things that we're doing. So now we're getting into this. So the seventh value, Seventh Value, Forest Floor, is Transcendence. Transcendence. What I mean by that is just that, Transcendence. The ability for us to go above and beyond, breakthrough barriers, go beyond ourselves, evolve, transcend, not only in can mushrooms help us do that, but we can do that through for ourselves, through wonderful practices like prayer and meditation, exercise, all those things kind of align within this kind of this realm, but Transcendence being our Seventh Value, really just hyper resonated and opened up like this, yeah, moment where I'm like, yep, yep. We have to have that as well. It's up there with Growth. It's just, it's the next stage of Growth. It's that evolutionary jump, that quantum leap of Growth, right? So that concept, folks, is so much fun, and so all these things allow us now to publish, and I'll do this next couple of days, to publish these values in graphical format after months of evolution.

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Now we get to publish these seven values on our website. And guess what? They may evolve, they may change, they may adapt, which is great. And I would say this, the more the more facets that we look at, our our company values through, the more refined and better it's going to be. So if you have any exercises for me out there and in in the ether and you'd like to filter it through some other lens. Please bring it by, because I think this, the exercise itself, helps reinforce who we are, why we're doing what we're doing. Are we covering all of the ways that we in our own minds, are imagining ourselves, placing in and working with inside this new world? So I really appreciate your time. This has been a fantastic episode. It took a long time to string together, but it's important that we did it with the right content, and I finally feel like I got it. So thank you so much. My name is Matthew Flansburg. This is Forest Floor's, Mycelium Network Podcast. Thank you for dropping in on Episode One. Look forward to talking with you or however this kind of this works more in the future. Bye, bye.

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