Have you ever felt your spark dimming at work? That creeping realization that your workplace might be harming your mental health? Terence Nislow's powerful story might be exactly what you need to hear.

In this episode Terence shares with host Arthi that when he realized his prestigious job with amazing benefits was slowly changing who he was as a person, he faced a difficult truth many of us encounter but few discuss openly. Despite the 36 days of annual leave and impressive salary, he found himself unrecognizable – quieter, angrier, and losing his natural enthusiasm for life. The wake-up call came when a friend asked if someone had died because his personality had changed so dramatically.

What makes Terence's story particularly valuable is his methodical approach to escaping toxicity. Drawing on his Lean Six Sigma background, he created what he called the "Get Terry Back" project – complete with Gantt charts, milestones, and actionable steps that transformed an overwhelming situation into manageable progress. This strategic exit plan helped him overcome the golden handcuffs of excellent benefits and find his way to true workplace happiness.

Beyond sharing his personal journey, Terence offers practical wisdom for anyone feeling stuck in a similar situation. His advice spans from seeking trusted support and journaling to exploring options and creating structured exit strategies. Most importantly, he reminds us that "no job is worth your mental health" and "walking away from something toxic isn't a sign of failure – it's a sign of strength."

Terence and his wife now help others navigate similar challenges through their business, Your Project Mentor, offering practical tools and emotional support to those feeling trapped in toxic work environments. Their mission reflects a powerful truth: you deserve better, and with the right approach, positive change is absolutely possible.

Ready to reclaim your workplace happiness? Listen now, and discover how to create your own path forward when a job is draining your spirit.

About Terence Niselow:

Terence is a Henley MBA graduate, a seasoned operations and process improvement leader with deep expertise in Lean Six Sigma and has a passion for driving efficiency, quality, and business transformation. With a proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering measurable results across industries, Terence is currently applying his skills at Modulr as their Operations Director for Europe. 

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Host Arthi is joined by guest Monika Malan, who discusses how different perspectives can lead to personal progress. Monika vulnerably shares a tragedy she experienced at a young age, in the loss of her sibling unexpectedly, and the impact this had on her. It was only when a colleague provided her feedback that she realized the full extent of that impact. This led Monika to take action and learn valuable lessons, including prioritizing family and mental health.

Monika is an advocate for women and is very passionate about supporting women throughout all stages, from young schoolgirls to fierce female leaders. Monika encourages women to identify their values and strengths and to lead confidently without sacrificing their authenticity. Monika shares her exciting new adventure of creating a community for female leaders to support each other and grow together.

Some wise words from Monika : 

• “Women don't need to lead like men and to be successful.”
• "It's important to remember that you can't care for anyone else until you yourself are taken care of."
• "Work is work, but your family might not always be there."

Listen to the full episode for so many more insights and ideas offered by my excellent guest. 

About Monika Malan:

Monika is a passionate leadership coach dedicated to helping emerging female leaders develop authentic confidence and thrive in their careers. With over 18 years of experience in the corporate and IT sectors, Monika has transformed her own journey through resilience, emotional intelligence, and a commitment to personal growth. She believes that women can be powerful leaders while embracing their unique strengths and authenticity without needing to conform to traditional, often male-dominated, leadership styles.

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In this episode, Arthi is joined by Susi Astengo, Founder of CoachMatching. Susi gives us insight into her personal life and how key life changes necessitated her pivoting her career towards starting her own business. Sixteen years later, through navigating being a single mum (to a son she loves dearly and is so proud of), undergoing a major health situation, to new country dynamics to operate a business in,  Susi has built a highly-respected (and been accoladed for) Coaching and Leadership development practice and coaching platform.

Susi shares that throughout all the challenges her superpower has been to be able to reinvent the business through continuous improvement and keeping abreast of emerging trends, while maintaining high standards in coaching practice.

Susi shares key lessons about how she manages the balance of being in the business and working on the business.

Her 3 tips for all entrepreneurs: to know your target market, stay connected, & don't be afraid to fail. 

Some wise words from Susi:

• “just put one foot in front of the other, just do the next step”
• “if you start to worry about all the things that can go wrong, you probably wouldn't ever do anything”
• “we learn most from when we fail, not from when we're successful. So to know and to also to be prepared to see it as a cycle, and a bit like a roller coaster ride, there are going to be lots of highs, and then there'll be some lows, and actually, this too shall pass.”

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest!

About Susi Astengo:

Over 30 years’ experience with UK, South African & Multinational Companies from many sectors including Banking & Finance, FMCG, Telco’s, Production & Manufacturing, Retail, Education, Pharmaceutical, Oil & Gas and Fintech. Susi is a seasoned professional, with a proven ability to create simplicity from complexity & quickly understand key issues & work with her clients to identify the most appropriate & effective solutions. Susi is an effective communicator in both small or large groups and is able to modify the message to best suit the audience's needs. She is an energetic speaker, is adaptable, can react well in the moment and is able to blend humour & serious messages for maximum impact. Susi has chosen to focus on Coaching and Mentoring as a means for transformation at both an individual, team and organisational level and her vision is to democratize coaching.  In 2024 she was “highly commended woman in Tech” at the Africa Tech Awards. In 2016 she won the Business woman of the Year award in the established entrepreneur category. 

She is also a cancer survivor and the proud single mother of a 20 year old son, currently studying at Stellenbosch University.

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Welcome to SEASON 4!! It's great to be back and yes, we have returned this season in style with a fabulous guest to kick off!
In this first episode, Arthi is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Crosse to discuss enhancing our ability to work with expertise. 

Elizabeth shares her passion about lifelong learning & explains how she navigated through several learning and personal  challenges, and that some of her greatest learnings came from her own personal storm as she likes to refer to it. Dr Crosse details that she found this personal storm to be a major wake up call and decided to look inwards at how she was being more than what she was doing. It was this realisation that got her thinking that working with professionals is not only about what we know but rather who we are

Elizabeth explains the differences between professional (Horizontal growth) and personal growth (Vertical growth) and shares how her wish is to be a provocateur to have listeners consider different perspectives of growth. Elizabeth refers to horizontal growth as ”adding apps to our phone” where as vertical growth is more like “upgrading our system.”

Elizabeth shares the ability to work with expertise is all about how we're managing relationships while being able to bring our humanity. Thereafter the skills and knowledge  is what enables us to have the type of connections and relationships  to work with expertise.

Some wise words from Elizabeth Crosse:

“if I've learned something, I can then do something differently”

”we don't have to agree with each other to be able to move forward”

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by this wonderful guest.

About Elizabeth:
Elizabeth is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) who works as a coach, mentor & supervisor. Her practice focuses on continuous professional & personal development needed to enhance the quality of our work.  Her approach has evolved from over 30 years of involvement with the coaching profession & being a research practitioner deeply interested in how coaches develop expertise. 

Elizabeth has navigated dyslexia & dyspraxia to transition from an early career in education to becoming a senior HR professional specialising in people development before setting up her coaching-consultancy business. She became a fellow of the CIPD, a Master Credentialed Coach with the ICF (MCC) & completed a Diploma in Coaching Supervision. She achieved three Master’s degrees (Education, Counselling Psychology and Coaching & Mentoring) & a Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring. Her journey brought an appreciation of the integrity, intellectual rigour & compassion needed to underpin any learning relationship to grow as a person and develop as a professional. Her research on continuous professional development brought a recognition of the need for a holistic approach.  This is reflected in her own approach to development, which, in addition to engaging with supervision, research writing & acquiring new knowledge, also focuses on well-being.

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In episode 13 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member David McMurtry with a heart warming discussion about partnerships & marriage. David's greatest accomplishment in life is his marriage to his beautiful wife Allison.

He shares how he and his wife met, started dating shortly thereafter, married, and have been living happily  since then.  David believes his wife is the foundation for which all of their goals are possible & is a true partner in making a difference in their community. 

David has always had a passion & desire to work with children and highlights that since 80% to 90% of the hardwiring of the brain is completed by the age of 3, the earlier we can teach children about the world and how to interact skillfully therein, the better chance of success they have.

David shares how coming to South Africa and teaching underprivileged children was a life-altering experience that enabled him to find his purpose, fueled too by his partnership and shared mission with Allison.  

Some wise words from David:

• “education is one of the great levelers we have on earth across all countries, ethnicities, race. With education, you have power, you can make choices”
• “accept the person for who they are and don't expect them to change”
• “what makes happy kids is happy parents"

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by this wonderful guest.

 About David McMurtry:

David McMurtry’s mission is to elevate the Early Childhood Education (ECE) industry & improve access to quality ECE for all children through advocacy and legislation, in service of stronger communities and societies. In 2017, he and his wife opened a Goddard preschool, serving over 200 children (ages six weeks to six years old). They grew the organisation into one of the top 5% most successful Goddard schools in the country based on enrollment and revenue. In 2023, David and his wife were awarded out of over 650 Goddard schools the Humanitarian of the Year Award for their dedication to serving their community.

While he is proud of the success of his family business, what is far more important to David is the opportunity it has given him to positively impact the lives of students and their families. David discovered that to change the world through education, you have to start with the youngest learners. 

David is also a public speaker, coach, motivator, having trained tens of thousands across the country with the intention of empowering the adults that inspire our youth.

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In episode 12 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Gifford Pinchot III. Gifford was the obvious choice to discuss the topic " finding your mojo" because of the number of  times he has tried something, failed, pivoted, exited, yet still bounced back. Gifford  has had an extremely varied background through his different stages of life, from being a dairy farmer & blacksmith, to inventor, author, consultant, investor, academic & coach.

Gifford tells us how his  writing career started after a failed business venture where he was in debt to the bank and was struggling to put food on the table. He explains how he was lucky enough to have a mentor who believed in him and hired him to write correspondence courses in entrepreneurship all of which led to the writing of his first book, which became a bestseller. 

He also shares how desperation plays a role in  finding the courage and overcoming challenges in life. This led him to finding his mojo and passions. 

Some wise words from Gifford:

• “Find a purpose that is bigger than yourself”
• “Ask for the thing that which is easiest to give, which is advice.”

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by this inspirational guest.

 About Gifford Pinchot:

Gifford consults with & coaches leaders who are implementing innovation or innovation systems with a focus on sustainability & climate. He is passionate about supporting profitable innovations that address climate, the environment, health, and social issues.
He is the author  3 books including the bestseller "Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur".

Gifford is the President of Pinchot & Company, an online training company specializing in innovation, intrapreneurship, & environmental issues. He is the co-founder & President Emeritus of "The Bainbridge Graduate Institute,” which offered the world’s first MBA in Sustainable Business. 

Gifford has co-founded & been the CEO of five ventures, sold four, and continues to run the fifth. He pioneered organizational and financial systems for liberating the talent & energy of ordinary employees within large organizations. 

Gifford is currently coaching, consulting, and developing training for leaders who want to use innovation to address civilization’s major challenges.

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In episode 11 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Al Dea, one of the newest Tasha10 members. Arthi and Al discuss finding your voice and learning how to use it to speak up for yourself.

Al shares how early in his career he received a surprisingly less-than-positive performance review, even though he thought he was excelling. It was only after sharing his thoughts with a manager that he learned that while working hard and doing your job was important, it's equally necessary to speak up and advocate for yourself. It was this experience that taught Al the building blocks of standing out and  advocating for yourself to be seen as a leader and to be even more effective inside your organisation. 

Al elaborates on why it is so challenging for people to find their voice, one of the reasons being leaders who are not creating the space for people to feel secure and confident in sharing their voice. Al details how he started connection meetings with like-minded people which allowed him to meet colleagues but more importantly created an opportunity to be noticed and heard. 

Al explains how when you first start using your voice it may seem that no one is listening but he encourages us all to not be fixate on this and push through this challenge, focus on the journey, and overcome the fear.

Some wise words from Al:

• “I really only think that authenticity is the way and doing it in a way that is unique to you”
• “if you're going to think and catastrophize about what the worst thing that happens is you're also going to have to play out the scenario. Well, what if, what if it ends up being the best thing?”

 Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by this wonderful guest.

About Al Dea:

Al Dea is a talent & leadership development consultant, keynote speaker, and facilitator. He is passionate about helping develop and cultivate organizations where people can thrive, and developing a new generation of leaders in the workplace.

Al researches, writes, and speaks on leadership development, workplace trends, and company culture,  and his thinking and insights have been published in outlets such as Fast Company, Business Insider, The World Economic Forum, Inc and Time Magazine. 

Al is also the Host of The Edge of Work podcast, a podcast that helps leaders think differently about leading and growing organization’s in today’s world of work.

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In Season 3 episode 10, Arthi is joined by Susanne Mus, co-founder and CEO of Awareyess talking about developing support ecosystems. Susanne provides  brief insight into her childhood and tells us how the divorce of her parents and subsequently moving to a new neighbourhood was the start of who she became as an adult and the approach she has to life of not shying away from anything new or challenging even when it is out of her comfort zone.

Susanne beautifully shares with us one of the more pivotal moments or moments of urgency as she likes to call it. Susanne details the start of her self-awareness journey was when she received particular feedback from her work team at the time, who informed Susanne that she needed to behave differently and learn more about herself and the way others saw her.  This change allowed Susanne to create her own support ecosystem. It was through this experience that Susanne realised that she could depend on others and she was not alone. 

Susanne shares advice  she received about remaining in your discomfort and she encourages us all to learn to be comfortable when we are feeling uncomfortable. 

Lastly Susanne enlightens us on her dream that everyone gets the opportunity to have their own self-awareness journey. 

Some wise words from Susanne:

• “Taking action is necessary to achieve something.”
• “I don't need to be by myself anymore, and to do it on my own. It's more fun with others around me”
• “hang in your discomfort, and see what what happens”

 Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

 About Susanne Mus:

Susanne Mus is the co-founder & CEO of awareyess, a groundbreaking startup focused on enhancing workplace happiness through self-awareness and the power of personal growth. Leveraging their innovative software platform, awareyess empowers knowledge workers on their individual journeys of self-discovery, providing the necessary tools & support to foster continuous personal growth for all.

Hailing from the Netherlands, Susanne holds a master's degree in econometrics & operations research & a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Her professional journey includes valuable experiences in various roles, such as customer interaction manager, project lead, and head of product within prominent IT companies. Now, she is excited to leverage her accumulated expertise to drive her own business forward.

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In Season 3 episode 9, Arthi is joined by fellow Forbes Coaches Council member Lara Augusta, founder of Embracing Potentiality, talking about undoing complicated narratives. 

Lara opens  up about her family & childhood where experiences led her to create a  narrative in her mind of being an inconvenience and not belonging. This mindset stemmed from having to keep a massive family secret for her whole life and Lara goes into detail about how her family dynamic impacted her journey.

Lara has always had a natural curiosity  in learning & connecting with people from different countries & cultures, so it is no surprise that her world travels began at the tender age of 15 when she had convinced her father to allow her to attend schooling in the UK for a year. This was the first time that Lara was able to simply be herself and make her own choices. However the narrative remained the same in her thoughts.

Lara tells us how important it is to change the unproductive narrative that we carry with us and to have grace & patience with ourselves in undoing the narrative and allowing new choices to be made

Some wise words from Lara:

• “..surviving mode was not allowing me to thrive..
• “Choose yourself”
• “Honour the choices you have made”

 Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

 About Lara Augusta:

Lara is a coach, student and facilitator in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (D.E.I.), Core Energy Leadership Coaching, Energy Leadership Index (E.L.I.), Social-Emotional Learning and Positive Intelligence (PQ).  She does corporate work in a number of sectors, since pivoting away from International relations, industries that include biotechnology, insurance, sports, food, hospitality, and entertainment, the Olympics even. Having lived in many countries such as south Korea, China, Russia, Switzerland, UK, US and of course her native country Brazil, plus having travelled to more than 57 counties as well, Lara brings this varied experience into her work with individuals where she helps them deepen their understanding of self towards greater personal and professional levels of joy and satisfaction. She does this through using neuroscience and psychology practices, with some key techniques grounded in energy shifting too.

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On episode 8 of Season 3  Arthi is joined by Stefaan van Hooydonk, one of the newer members of the Tasha Ten and founder of the Global Curiosity Institute, based in Belgium, talking about launching your curiosity mindset.

Stefaan gives us insight into his family and his world travels which include living in China, Finland, Saudi Arabia, UK and Holland, as well as the different episodes of his career, from investment consultant to now researching curiosity in companies and working with leaders. He defines curiosity for us, and thereafter explains the various dimensions of curiosity: world, others, and self.

Stefaan shares that although people start off curious they quickly become comfortable and stop probing or being inquisitive. For him, working on a new project ensures he is always out of his comfort zone.

You will have to listen in to find out more about Stefaan’s key advice, outlined as: Measure, Awareness and Intentionality (M-A-I).

Some wise words from Stefaan:

●        “curiosity isn't one single thing”

●        “curiosity needs a good environment”

●        “is my rate of learning greater than the rate of change around me?

 Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

 About Stefaan van Hooydonk:

Stefaan van Hooydonk is founder of the Global Curiosity Institute and author of the bestselling book: The Workplace Curiosity Manifesto. Stefaan is deeply passionate about the  topic of curiosity, particularly in companies. He believes that curious individuals need curious environments to thrive and that especially in times of turmoil individuals and companies need to embrace intentional curiosity. With the help of a number of diagnostics he designed, he creates insights on what drives and what enables (or prevents) individuals and organisations to show up curiously. He consults global corporations and leadership teams towards building a stronger curiosity muscle. He is a regular speaker around the world on the power of curiosity to benefit professionals, leaders, teams, and organizations. Stefaan is the  author of the bestselling book: The Workplace Curiosity Manifesto.  Beyond all this Stefaan is a father of 4 and has started a permaculture foodforest!

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On Episode 7 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by Nobantu Mpotulo, a fellow South African and Tasha10 member. Nobantu is an extremely humble, patient and thoughtful person and this is evident in the quality of the coaching she provides in the space of Ubuntu coaching, where she coaches leaders and teams to, simply put, be better humans that lead with heart and backbone.

Nobantu gives us insight into her upbringing  where she explains that she was brought up by her aunt who took her in when she was just a baby, so that her mother could continue working. It is therefore no wonder that the spirit of Ubuntu was truly embedded in Nobantu from a young age. 

Nobantu explains how she has always been a protector and would stand up to bullies in the neighbourhood when she was a child. She still stands up against injustice with the aim to protect  and is a thrill seeker, pushing fear aside and challenges herself.

Nobantu has carried that spirit throughout her whole life and explains  the concept of Ubuntu: I am human because of the humanity of others. We then go deeper into how Nobantu is utilising her ubuntu coaching in leaderships and organisations. She says that from her experiences  there is a lot of fear in most leaders and this fear comes from failure and not achieving the desired business results. SHe believes a great leader is not only focused on the results but truly invested in the goodness of the people that they are leading. 

Later in the episode Nobantu provides insight into triggers from the body and outlines the importance of being mindful and developing your own body's intelligence. 

Some wise words from Nobantu:

• “curiosity skilled the cat…”
• “the body is the truth teller”
• “see through the eyes of your heart”

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

 About Nobantu Mpotulo:

Nobantu is an ICF MCC level coach and she has trained over 100 coaches globally  with her Ubuntu coach training programme. Nobantu has been able to humanise leadership through developing Ubuntu centred leadership programmes and Ubuntu Coaching. Her Ubuntu Coach Training Programme has trained more than 100 coaches globally and HR staff to be Ubuntu Coaches. Nobantu uses buddhist principles , along with all her other training and expertise in mindful, NLP, gestalt and enneagram, to augment her Ubuntu coaching philosophy. She developed the Ubuntu Coaching Mantra “See More, Hear More, Love More , Illuminate More, Be More and Do Less.” 

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On Episode 6 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by one of the newest Tasha Ten members, Matt Stone. Matt shares his perspectives on why the concept of win-lose is a fallacy. Matt shares this through his experiences as a family law attorney which led him to  understand that instead of  win-lose as the options we are familiar with in any situation,  in the long run it is typically either win-win or lose-lose. 

Witnessing disruptive separations that were often highly adversarial brought to the fore  many of Matt’s own unhealed matters around loss and separation, which began the process of healing and making some key decisions as a result, which Matt shares such as career change, advice seeking, and forging your own path over time.

Matt stresses the importance of intrapersonal self-awareness in order to assist ourselves and those around us towards a long term win-win for everyone and shares key insights on what internal and external self-awareness levers can be used.

Some wise words from Matt:

• “ if [you] continue in an activity that goes so against what [you] believe…eventually it is going to be a massive reckoning,  because you have to stay in a delusional state about yourself in order to cope for a while, in a situation where you're misaligned with who you really are”
• “Just because you can, doesn't mean you should”
• “we need a sustainable way of relating to each other if we're going to have a sustainable environment to live in”
• “Life is progress not perfection”

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

 About Matt Stone:

Matt is the CEO of BehavioralOS®, a global agency that provides leaders with a proven method developed by an MIT behavioural scientist for proliferating the two most important ingredients for any company’s success: trust and respect. Matt draws on broad experience over twenty-five years as a business development professional, entrepreneur, and former practising attorney. He brings a global perspective to all of his engagements, having spent over fifteen years of his life living in Europe and Asia. He is an irrepressible optimist who believes strongly that in the business of life: we all either win together, or we all lose together.

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On Episode 5 of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member Dr Siraya Kongsompong, also known as Kay. 
The duo have a beautiful conversation about developing your mindset and  the steps that one can take to make that shift happen. Kay explains how she is a lifelong learner and that being in a learner mindset can help one get out of the comfort zone and expand one's capabilities. 

Kay describes how self reflection is  the first easy step to take when changing mindset and details how resilience is a key factor in this transformation journey. 

She is  passionate about shifting mindsets and inspires people to learn about this transformation so that they can have a happier life of fulfilment and accomplishment,

Some wise words from Dr Siraya Kongsompong:

• “... start with, you know, the learner mindset or even the curiosity”
• “...there's no mistake, there's no failure, only learning”
• “...mindset or transformation is not the outside in”
• “we are equal in the mindset, the ability to see ourselves.”
• “leader is not the same as leadership.”

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by this wonderful guest.

 About Dr Siraya Kongsompong:

Dr Siraya Kongsompong, a fellow Tasha Ten member who is a senior consultant, trainer and award-winning executive coach based in Thailand. She helps business leaders craft changes in their organisations as transformational and inspirational leaders. One can tell Siraya is a people’s person, and believes in peoples potential to grow and develop, as long they are empowered properly. Siraya is a learner. She completed her undergrad, did her MBA, then went on to do her Phd and have over the years continued to boost her skillset in coaching and education, from prestigious bodies such as the ICF, where she is a PCC credentialled coach, to Gallups certified to Exec Education from Stanford university.

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On Episode 4  of Season 3, Arthi is joined by fellow Tasha Ten member, Jamelle Lindo where he outlines why self-awareness can be so transformative.

Jamelle shares beautiful insights into his upbringing and he tells us how despite growing up in a religious household he had so many unanswered questions. Jamelle explains how his own self awareness journey truly started, with a book recommendation  “A new earth" by Eckhart Tolle from a colleague. 

Jamelle shares how paying attention to our thoughts is an intricate ability that aids in our transformation towards better self-awareness.  He details key steps to help motivate us to continue our own self-awareness journey, which include daily meditation, journaling  and taking the time to get to know yourself. 

It is easy for us to be  inspired by Jamelle's patience as he waited 10 years before he had the opportunity to  implement his awareness and truly start sharing which transitioned his entrepreneurial journey of becoming an emotional intelligence coach.

Some wise words from Jamelle:

• “..How clearly do you see yourself and are you aware of how others see you?”
• “You are not your thoughts”
• “Take accountability for everything that is your experience”
• “...large majority of the things that I think are completely garbage, they are irrelevant, a lot of them are untrue, they have nothing to do with the reality…”
• “Meditation being a really core fundamental skill to enhance your own self awareness.”

Listen to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

 About Jamelle Lindo:

Jamelle Lindo is an emotional intelligence leadership coach, trainer, and speaker with over 11 years of diverse learning and development experience. He has worked with thousands of professionals across Canada to help them level-up through the practical application of emotional intelligence and mindfulness strategies. He is an official member of the Forbes Coaches Council, an invite-only organization for successful business coaches, and has published various thought leadership articles on Forbes.com. Jamelle is driven by his mission to empower leaders and professionals within organizations to realize their highest ideals, leading to healthy and diverse cultures, happy employees, and thriving businesses that make the world a better place.

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In Episode 3  of Season 3, Arthi is joined by  Bilal Sununu, a #TashaTen family member based in Saudi Arabia. Bilal is such a gentleman and a deep thinker, brimming with insights and ideas, and always open to sharing his wisdom and expertise.

Bilal was raised in Jordan, in the Arabian Gulf and  learned to program computers from his father, in 1982, which ultimately influenced his decision to join the computer science and engineering schools at a leading university in the Middle East. Bilal explains how he has combined his passion for technology and his business mind in order to establish multiple start ups, some of which were great successes, and others were, well, great learning experiences as Bilal says. Bilal's diverse experiences as a result of these waves of successes and extreme downtimes, taught him self-awareness and resilience in this “school of life”.

Bilal offers great insight into how his ecosystem and mindset helped him fight the battle and overcome the difficulties he has faced in his life.  

Some wise words from Bilal:

• “not everybody who gives you a comment, or a feedback is against you”
• “...you need to ensure that what people sees in you is not necessarily what happens within yourself…”
• “no person that can get out of a difficulty without the support direct or indirect of others.”

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 About Bilal Sununu:

Bilal is a business owner, investor, and coach who is known for his passion of creating positive change in businesses and lives through the implementation of technology. As one of the founding members of Microsoft’s operations in Saudi Arabia, and having been appointed General Manager in 2001, he was a part of over 100 technology project implementations. This gave Bilal a deep understanding of, and interest in, corporate DNA and the dynamics of how companies operate.

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In Episode 2 of Season 3, Arthi has a inspiring  conversation with guest Dr Nazan Artun about being a renaissance woman, a term give to her by the respected Dorie Clark, who is her mentor, and also Tasha Eurich, who we featured in the previous episode.

Nazan has a multitude of interests, experiences and expertise, leading her to being a musician, being a coach, being a former healthcare professional, and currently a medical affairs professional. Born, raised and having developed a well respected medical career in Turkey plus being a renowned songwriter and musician, Nazan’s life was thriving in her home country.   But after meeting her boyfriend, now husband, who is an incredible musician Nazan chose to move to Boston to ensure his musical career had the best opportunity for growth and success. However, what Nazan had not expected was that she would have to start from scratch, to build her credibility in this new market. But she did, and she has, and she continues to deepen into her passions in her new home country.

Nazan shares the importance of having great support structures to enables one’s passions to develop. And when you have multiple areas that you love, it comes with compromise, focus and discipline. 

Some wise words from Nazan:

• “passion is something I think just you need to give your ear to your heart to it and listen to it”
• “I believe that everyone has a big potential inside them. They just need to maybe receive some help, or create space, or find a way to reconnect with that power within them. And really prioritize it. Otherwise, we're all sleeping in this life. And it's just life is happening to us.”
• “mentors are so valuable, we'll learn a lot from them. But the mentors who  let us be without an ego or without emotional need, I think they also in return, they learn a lot.”

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About Dr Nazan Artun:

Nazan is a board-certified Leadership and Career Coach and Medical Affairs professional. She holds a doctoral degree in Biotechnology focusing on Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine. As a coach to bio-pharma and healthcare professionals, Nazan brings her wealth of expertise to help her client transform through gaining clarity, managing behavioural changes, and tapping into their creativity, and allow healing to happen through their creativity.

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Inspire Your Life podcast!
Host Arthi Rabikrisson kicks off the season with a spotlight series on the individuals that are part of the Tasha Ten.
In this first episode, Arthi has a motivating discussion with the #TashaTen creator Tasha Eurich about owning your journey. How poignant given it is International Women’s Day and there is a focus on equity. In a way, owing your journey is finding your equity, and knowing how to show it, demand it and use it for impact.

Tasha shares how her journey is actually based on her family background of being German immigrants to America, living the ‘American Dream’ by working hard and having strong family values. She has had a phenomenal entrepreneurial role model in her mum, watching this CEO work with some really big celebrity names, but embodying a deep service mindset. Thus Tasha was influenced by this and a key moment for her was on selecting her career at university and making the decision to go to across the country to a different school for a course in Organisational Psychology, was momentous in a number of ways. Instinct drove her towards this and Tasha shares an important tip around how to ignite your instinct again, in an emotion you may be surprised to know more: jealousy.

Tasha shares other pivot points and support in her ecosystem that led her to start her own business. And her passion to serve has brought her to where she is today, and will continue to lead her into a future of greater ownership of the journey, deeper self-awareness and meaningful impact.

Some wise words from Tasha:
“It is not a crime to make things simple for ourselves"
“there's nothing more valuable than a loving critic”

Listen to the full episode for so much more deep insights and practical tips offered by my star guest.

 About Dr Tasha Eurich
Tasha is an organizational psychologist and principal of the Eurich Group, a researcher, and New York Times bestselling author of the books Bankable Leadership and Insight. She is recognized as the world’s top communication and organizational culture thinker, #1 self-awareness and #1 Communication thinker in the world! Tasha uses science to help successful executives achieve dramatic personal and organizational change. She also contributes to Harvard Business Review, and her expertise has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, the BBC, NPR, and more.

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As we round out the year 2022 with Episode 18 Arthi invites guest Andrew Tallents to share his journey of designing his life so that it may inspire your own planning for 2023 and beyond. 

Having grown up in very modest circumstances, Andrew learned about putting in hard work in order to achieve success. At age 15 he took on the responsibility of the household, which brought out feelings of loyalty and duty, as well as resentment for missing out on childhood. As a result of this, behaviours played out for Andrew in his adult life where key relationships suffered because of the need to achieve. This went on for about 30 years until 6 years ago he was enlightened about coaching and what it could do for others. Due to Andrews natural disposition to assist and support others, this necessitated a shift for him to design his life away from doing, to being, and to, of course, enable others to do so too. 

Some wise words from Andrew:

• "Stop, and reflect, and just ask the question around who am I really being, right now”
• "to go from doing to being you need to create some space in your life and ask yourself what you would actually like your life to be like”
• “When we try to change but we cant, just be kind to ourselves”

Listen in to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

About Andrew Tallents:
Andrew is Managing Partner at the Tallents partnership, and has over twenty five years’ experience in delivering a wide range of human capital solutions to a variety of organisations. He established The Tallents Partnership in 2017 to support business leaders who are ambitious for themselves and their organisations. He believes that the most effective leaders are self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and have purpose in their lives 

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In Episode 17 of Season 2, Arthi and guest Dr Saba Hasanie explore the richness and beauty to be found in identity, even though it may be a difficult journey at times.

Saba lives in Singapore now but was born and grew up in Canada, into what she calls a confusing context because of being unclear on where she belonged. Born to a spiritual Pakistani mum and highly academic Indian father, in a Canada of 50 years ago where people of colour were few and far between, she had to quickly learn to try and find her identity between being of Indian heritage and of a more western context. There were boxes she couldn’t fit in to, not quite desi enough, not quite Canadian enough, with her peers (due to different language, food and background).

This confusion led to the creation of self-protective mechanisms to always take control of the context in her search for a sense of belonging and to be liked. It has been both a fulfilling and painful journey across transitions of identities. Saba’s key lessons are rooted in the idea of multiplicity and that we can and do identify across our multiple roles successfully by reminding ourselves we just need to be good enough and to be empathetic to ourselves as we navigate and transition across roles.

Some wise words from Saba:
 - "We do hold these multiple and often conflicting identities within us and that is also our beauty and charm that makes us what is uniquely us."

" We don't have to have answers, we just have to have the ability to be present with the whole spectrum of emotions that these transitions create.

"Identity is not steel, its not forged in fire, it does not have to be static, instead it is something that has movement to it."

Listen in to the full episode for so much more insights and ideas offered by my wonderful guest.

About Saba Hasanie:
Saba is the founder and Managing Director of OSC Leadership Performance. She is an executive coach, coach supervisor, practitioner-scholar and of course entrepreneur.  Her rich background of expertise  includes the areas of human resources, communications, management consulting. Saba's Doctorate in coaching psychology is centered around the biography of leadership, helping leaders take a more psychodynamic approach to development. 

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In episode 16 of Season 2, Arthi has an inspiring conversation with guest Sara Gilbert about living life to your own rules. 

Sara shares her fascination about wanting to know what makes someone take action. From a young age she challenged everything that came her way, including her parents beliefs. As a result, she never did “fit into the box”. And even though she tried, she knew she was actually losing more of herself in the process. Eventually, everything exploded in her life at once because she knew there was more and she needed to thrive. In a span of two years she let go of her marriage and job. She realised her recipe to make good decisions needed to take effect at that particular point, it was an accumulation over time of course, but in the end, she was able to use that updated recipe to create a life she loves living and thriving in, by defining it, finding an anchor and being curious.

 Some wise words from Sara:

- "There are 3 ways people go through life. They survive life, …there’s people who live life….and there are people who thrive life”

-"what I want to do, is actually what I am supposed to do”

- “Focus not on the lack thereof…instead feed the dream”

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About Sara Gilbert:
Sara is an Award-winning Business Strategist & Mindset Coach as well as a Keynote Speaker. In terms of her accolades, she is the recipient of the "Most Innovative Woman in Business Development Strategy" and the "Best International Business Consultant in Canada" at the Influential Businesswoman Awards. She is also one of a handful of Canadian coaches to feature on Forbes Coaches council which is how we met. Sara has a deep knowledge of the wealth management industry. She is also a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS).

Sara is a multi-passionate entrepreneur who is interested in everything related to business, consumer psychology and, more specifically, human behavior.

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In episode 15 of Season 2, Arthi has a lovely conversation with guest Sarah Clark where Sarah shares her own experience of being her own worst enemy when she took up a key leadership role as the Dean and Head of the University Library for La Salle University.

Sarah share a bit of her journey that brought her into the field of library science and building a career in this space, after realising that her initial foray into telecoms was not for her. She found her niche in connecting people with information and completed her Phd in Oaklahoma before grabbing the opportunity at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

Taking up the leadership role as Dean and university Librarian, she made every mistake that a newbie leader would and shares how she became her own worst enemy. By not knowing how to manage people effectively (delegating effectively, building trust and not micromanaging) while being in this particular leadership position, she started to alienate her colleagues. What unfolded was an intervention by her team and then a journey of personal development for Sarah that helped her feel and process her feelings, forgive herself, trust her leadership skills, and come together as a team to know what works best for the collective.

Some wise words from Sarah:

- "Leaders don’t need to be perfect to build a better world."

-"When you’re a leader, your intent is less important than your impact”

- “It is ok, and it is necessary to feel those feelings that you have about that situation at that time because if you don’t feel them, process them or shove them down in a box, they will just explode...”

Listen to the full episode to hear more and be inspired by my guest.

About Dr Sarah Clark:
Sarah is Dean & University Librarian at La Salle University, as well as the host of the Kind Leadership Challenge podcast. Sarah's PhD in higher ed Leadership, her experience coaching, consulting, and presenting to library leaders all over the world, and a career working in academic libraries from the front desk to the Dean’s office has taught her that leaders don't have to be perfect to build a better world. Sarah is on a mission to share a model of library leadership that strengthens staff wellness through growing humanely, managing effectively, and partnering collaboratively.

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In episode 14 of the Inspire your Life podcast, Arthi has an inspired conversation with guest Kim Neeson, about resilience and forgiveness.

Kim shares her story about having left the freelance court reporting firm she was employed at after having some really difficult run-ins with the new manager that was appointed, she opted to started her own firm.  One of her colleagues at the firm she had left opted to join her about a year later and a lucrative client opted to follow her to Kim's firm. Kim was handed a lawsuit that was attacking not only her firm but also in her personal capacity. What transpired was having to defend a lawsuit against a company that had significantly more resources than she did - 'David and Goliath' experience. 

As a fledgling business and a young mum, it was a period of extreme stress. Nevertheless the battle was won but some friendships were lost along the way.
Years later, and through her own self development, reflection and exploration of the power of forgiveness, Kim was able to forgive the owner and manager of the firm that sued her, and become friends again with the owner.

Kims' resilience and tenacity resulted in her reaching farther than she even though possible.

Wise words from  my wonderful guest, include: 

- "every little challenge that we get in life from childhood onwards starts building those roots into the ground, and as our tree keeps getting bigger and bigger…and they still sway in the wind no matter how big they get."

-"Be in the today and in the now and when adversity comes, know it will pass."

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About Kim Neeson:
Kim Neeson is an award-winning entrepreneur and business leader.  In 1996 she formed her company, Neesons, and grew it from a one-woman business to a multi-million dollar company over the course of two-plus decades in the legal services space. This business was acquired by the largest court reporting  company in the world in 2019 and in 2022 kim retired from that firm but now spearheads Kim Neeson Consultancy where she now puts her knowledge, mentorship and lived life experience to work for her clients.  

 Kim's areas of focus include gender equity coaching/consulting, co-creating with businesses their post-pandemic culture and team engagement in the Office 2.0, and walking alongside women leaders and entrepreneurs who are looking to re-energize, rebalance and re-engage their work/life realities 

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In episode 13 of the Inspire your Life podcast, Arthi has a connected and deep conversation with guest Becky Sharpe, about how one can become ones best version.

Becky shares insights into her experiences from her life's journey of openness, tolerance and understanding differences that allowed her to explore far more than what most others would. This meant that her journey of evolving towards her best version had a great foundation and she continues on this journey today.
Using the 8 facets of focus, she offers us a roadmap to achieve that.

These facets include: 

• Mindset
• Physical
• Relationship with nature
• Entourage or friendships
• Family
• Fiscal or money
• Community
• Timeline or relationship with finiteness or mortality

 Becky advocates for journalling to get into the mindset for prioritising your focus areas. 

Wise words from  my wonderful guest, include: 

- "Tolerance helps you find out that differences are fascinating"

- "Memories can serve you by teaching you a lesson."

- "If some word comes to you, peel the onion back and explore where the word comes from."

Listen to the full episode to hear more about the room of happiness, room of doom & gloom, the 3 words exercise with best self words and shadow or opposite words.

About Becky Sharpe:
Becky Sharpe’s passion is to help people grow.  She is currently the CEO and Owner of three businesses, International Scholarship and Tuition Services, Collegiate Sports Data and WatchGameFilm where her focus is on effective leadership and innovation through the lens of continuous growth. Becky takes a vision and makes it reality through strategically building effective organizations.

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In Episode 12 of Season 2 Arthi has a enlightening conversation with Dr Schafer about the power of reverse empowerment.
Dr Schafer, an astute and passionate oncologist, broke bones in her ankle in an on-campus fun activity. She experienced what it was like to switch roles of no longer just being a physician but now being cared for instead. During this time she found that her oncology patients, staff and family members were attentive and the ones who were lifting her spirits, offering her gifts and encouraging words and activities. It felt that the patients found a wonderful purpose in being able to offer comfort to her, as a victim, instead of themselves always being the victim of cancer and receiving sympathy. She realised this was a form of empowerment and coined the term "reverse empowerment" Dr Schafer offer that there needs to be some bravery  to be able to change the mindset we have around trauma affected individuals and ecosystems, to allow for their full expression to occur. She has developed the “ Organic Bravery”  mechanism to train our body and brain to act in a more stable manner with regulating emotions in difficult circumstances.

Dr Schafer shares some wonderful insights, lessons and tips around reverse empowerment and activating organic bravery. Be sure to listen to the podcast to hear more from my wonderful guest, including these wise words:
   -“It is very important that we give others the power and opportunity to express themselves”.
   - “We must be open to understanding that different perspective. By understanding that perspective there is a strengthened relationship”
   - “If you don’t take that risk, you may never be successful. Be mindful and let yourself explore.” 

About Dr Liudmila Schafer:
Dr. Schafer is a board-certified and award-winning medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal malignancies. She has gone from corporate America and academic institutions to business strategist, CEO, and founder of The Doctor Connect consultancy, specializing in National Impact Strategy (NIS). Dr. Schafer is now a member of the Forbes Coach Council, physician-entrepreneur, business coach, keynote speaker, TV host, has her own television show on abc15 and a podcast on major platforms in the world.

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In Episode 11 of Season 2 Arthi has a motivating discussion with Cheryl Czach about how powerful the YES Mindset is not only for ourselves but others too.
Cheryl started off with an unconventional career path, where for example, college was not in her path after graduating from high school. Instead she started working, got a part time job in an office as a receptionist and was offered the opportunity to train in accounting and join the accounts department. She said yes to it and that led to another opportunity, a little while later to be in the HR function, where she realised she loved it and wanted to grow her career there. Digging into this allowed her to study for Bachelors and MBA, in her 30s. She became VP of a tier 1 automotive firm and elevated her career into the senior exec level, overseeing many different functional areas that she knew nothing about but had a willingness to learn and try. None of these would have happened if she doubted her ability and that is the premise of the yes mindset, to be open to the potential opportunity, rather than stumble on the perceived challenge. She hares some of the practices and reflective questions to take on opportunities and reconnect with our instinct again.

 Some wise words shared by Cheryl:
  -“Yes is where the growth is.”
  - “If I’m scared, if it makes me feel nervous, then I am on the right path.”
  - “Take the opportunity, take the chance, go for growth.”

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About Cheryl Czach:
As a business leader, Cheryl Czach has been guiding professionals through their work and life journeys for over 20 years. Her passion for coaching employees, at all levels of the organization, to reach their personal and professional goals led her to start her coaching and consulting practice. She works with motivated, visionary leaders and professionals to fine-tune their leadership, improve organizational effectiveness, navigate their career and lead organizational change. Cheryl’s professional experience includes executive leadership in human resources, finance, operations, business development, talent management and entrepreneurship. Cheryl is a Forbes Coaches Council Member, publishing articles on career develop, leadership and organizational effectiveness. Cheryl’s greatest joy as a coach is supporting client’s in achieving career goals that once felt out of reach for them.

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In Episode 10 of Season 2 Arthi has an inspiring chat with Melissa Leich, helping us understand the importance of being able to embrace change skillfully.

Melissa’s multicultural upbringing and love for diversity started in childhood, resulting in her studying in the UK and being able to try out new experiences throughout Europe and Asia as a result. She has made some difficult decisions with transformational change results, from leaving her support structures to start afresh in a new country, to having to even help her friends and family understand how to make sense of the change she sought, thereby being able to assist her when needed. 

Melissa shares the growth mindset that one need to embrace to successfully navigate through change, along with her guidelines and practical advice to ensure everything we do is about learning and being able to help others to do so too.

 Some wise words shared by Melissa:
  -“we can choose how we react to something.”
  - “see change as a growth process and to have an open mind.”
  - “You can always move along, no matter what happens. It is important to break down into your steps. Don’t see the big problem but rather what are the 4 steps I need to take first.”

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About Melissa Leich:
Melissa is a certified professional coach and member of the International Coach Federation Austrian Chapter. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and a thought leader at Forbes Coaches Council. Her clients include those from large corporations, SME’s and startups. Melissa brings 20+ years of business development & business consulting background and experience to her executive coaching practice, helping leaders to grow, stretch their vision and push their boundaries. She grew up in Hamburg/Germany, lived in London/England, Singapore, Jakarta/Indonesia and commutes now between Vienna/Austria and Dubai/UAE. She is fluent in English and German and has first-hand experience of European, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures.

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In episode 9 of season 2, Arthi welcomes long-time friend, and human and environmental rights activist Yuri Ramkissoon to the show.

Yuri shares her context of growing up in an activist family, experiencing childhood and teenage-hood in the KZN South Industrial Basin, and bearing witness to the disregard and impunity from the private sector and government to remedy the pollution. 
A chance selection of environmental science as a filler subject in university ignited her passion in this space but the acknowledgement of this passion came full circle when she joined the  South African Human Rights Commission in 2008. 

Yuri shares practical tips on how to figure out where your passion lies, how to work through obstacles, how to nurture and evolve your passion, and so much more!
 
 Some wise words shared by Yuri:
 -“if you wake up in the morning with absolute dread about going to work, you are in the wrong field”.
 - “A passion doesn’t have to be static, it changes over time”.
 - “Don’t take constructive criticism badly, it is something you can learn from”

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About Yuri Ramkissoon
Yuri is a Senior Researcher at the South African Human Rights Commission heading the Economic and Social Rights (ESR) unit. Her activist work began when she was a teenager, growing up in the South Durban Industrial Basin, where communities live in tandem with major, polluting industries, and the link between environmental rights and human rights is clearly apparent. Yuri has a Master of Science in Environmental Science and a post-graduation diploma in Sustainable Development and Human Rights. In her work, she monitors a range of rights, such as healthcare, basic education, water and sanitation, and the cross-cutting impacts on gender, race and groups categorised as vulnerable in South Africa. Yuri has done much work in the field of economic and social rights but has a particular interest in the impact of private sector activities on the environment and other human rights. In addition to undertaking research on realising socio-economic rights in South Africa, Yuri has presented her research finding to the State, Parliament and myriad international organisations including the United Nations. 

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In this episode, Arthi has an interesting discussion with guest Alvina Peat about how one can go about taking control of ones career.

Alvina worked in mortgage finance for many years and the company underwent a re-organisation, leaving her with a decision to make: reapply for her role or take a leap of faith. Through a mindset shift, she took this juncture as an opportunity to reinvent herself in a way that she wanted to, and hence the start of her business. She didn’t have a business plan or clear goals defined, but she knew where her strengths lay and used that knowledge as the basis for starting her solopreneur journey. With support from her strong sister circle, she has been able to navigate her business to become established and known for the work she does in training and facilitation. From sharing about knowing your PROPS, to learning how to take care of business, to learning how desire, dare and deserve what you do ( you will need to listen in to learn about what these are), Alvina’s offers up a ton of practical and relatable  options to help you in your career journey.

Some wise words shared by Alvina:
-“The challenge was the opportunity”
- “Is there anything out there that is perfect?”
- “Perfectionism…can be a form of procrastination”

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About Alvina Peat:
Alvina is a solopreneur, communicator, coach, and masterful connector Alvina founded Williamspeat Associates in 2002 with the mission to help women, men, and teams experience success in the workplace. Alvina is also the creator of two exclusive initiatives for women. Her Empowerment Retreats and Resources (H.E.R.), dedicated to lifting women up from where they are to where they deserve and desire to be, and TCBWomen™, an influential network of solopreneurs who aspire to live a life of professional passion and purpose. Alvina is a philanthropist. She donates a portion of the proceeds from her programs, and her creative expertise to various organizations aligned with her mission to uplift women.

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In Episode 7 of Season 2 Arthi has an inspiring chat with founder Reena Khullar, who began her business in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic!
Reena wanted to try something new and she figured she could go back to a 8am-4pm job at some stage if she wanted to but for now the conditions were right: everyone was working from home, everyone was looking for new ways to manage this environment as the workforce was changing due to evolving roles. Reena decided to go for it, with a ‘nothing to lose’ mindset on this. What she didn’t realise was the impact she would have by writing about global leaders experiences.

Reena believes her agility  is what has garnered her success, along with the support of clients, colleagues and others in her stakeholder ecosystem. Showcasing ones authenticity brings about new business and support too and Reena also shares how this flows into a brand identity. When building relationships, this is a key factor in garnering support from clients as your brand and values matches similarly to the client also. For those who may be struggling with that misalignment Reena offers some advice around relooking at the job descriptions for the roles  filled by employees and updating these to be current.

In order to continue leading for success, Reena plans 3-6 months out, just as she advocates for her own clients to do the same and part of her strategy is to connect with more people, in person, because body language adds to the perspective too of what partners, collaborators and clients are undergoing and showing up as.

Some wise words from Reena:

• “Success is very very authentic…it is a very personal journey”
• “We don’t work for the organisation, we are a representative of the organisation…”
• “Covid has given us an opportunity to go in a  re-evaluate ourselves as a person and our relationships and where we want to be in our life”

Listen in for her key tips on how to continue leading for success, whether at startup stage or emerging from the pandemic.

About Reena Khullar:
Reena Khullar is the Founder and CEO of Agilis Executive Consulting, a management consulting firm that offers HR partnerships and executive coaching to organizations across the globe. Her background is an Executive HR Consultant specialising in leadership strategy and professional development, where she launched and led consulting firms that supported clients with their workforce planning, organizational design strategies, and HR programmes for growth. 

 Reena was nominated for an RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award through the WOI Women of Influence™ organization. She is a member of the Forbes coaches council and Harvard Business review Advisory council, writes for Entrepreneur Media and is a speaker with the Work Wellness Institute™ in Canada, talking about best practices in leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

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In Episode 6 of this season, Arthi has an insightful conversation with Leang about how we need to raise our self-awareness as solopreneur.

Leang shares how she was someone who always had to do things first in her family, being a role model to cousins and one of the eldest in her generation, she set the bar of what they could consider doing and achieving. It’s quite a responsibility to shoulder of course, and it is very typical of many Asian communities for this to happen. 

Leang had always had that entrepreneurial spirit and keen on #business, so after 15+ years in the #peoplemanagement and #talent space, she opted to give her own business a go by leveraging her experience and monetising it. 

Two things offered her security to embark on this journey: a long runway of capital to be able to sustain her lifestyle should things take longer than planned to work out, and confidence in her expertise, backed by experience, to be able to secure a good role again, should she need to return to corporate employment. 

From her initial focus area not being successful to being pleasantly surprised about how her new target market emerged, from lessons around self-awareness and creating a personal brand, to working with key support structures as needed to amplify her message and be unique and authentic in her business, Leang is journeying through it all and offer emerging solopreneurs and those of us in the trenches, some practical ideas of what to do, of ways to grow and own our awareness of what happens to us and our business. She advocates for us, from her own experience, to be open to change when needed and pay attention to opportunities when they present themselves so they aren’t missed.

 Some wise words from Leang:
 - "Being a solopreneur is the best way to get to know about you, because the buck always stops with you"
 - " Be open to what the market is telling you and listen to how you are responding"
 - "Give yourself that permission that you are a human being and that that was the best decision you could have made in that moment".
 
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About Leang Chung:
Leang Chung is the Founder & CEO of Pelora Stack. She helps underrepresented early-stage founders and mid-career woman prepare for their ‘first’. What do we mean by this? Examples are: The first time you scale your team….negotiating your salary and making a career change. Leang is able to offer these insights by leveraging her 15+ years of HR leadership, to help companies evolve from one business cycle to the next (from startup, to high growth, and to even turnaround). 

Leang is an active speaker and writer on topics such as Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Advancing Women in the Workplace, Networking as an Introvert, and Relationship Building as an Entrepreneur to name a few

She serves on different boards as chair, ambassador and mentor apart from running her own accelerator programme through her business too.

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In the 5th episode of Season 2, Arthi is joined by gest Dr Rosetta (Rose) Pillay, a woman who's journey to her purpose is filled with career changes and choices.

Rose shares context about her traditional upbringing and extremely humble background, with expectations around what her career should be. She boldly selected choices that were out of line of those expectations, and at times without her family's knowledge, purely because her innate sense of awareness guided her towards testing the alternatives that presented themselves to her. With each choice made, it opened up further decisions and pathways, some she rejected and others she took out of necessity, until she eventually reached what she calls the moment of finding her truth and her 'tribe', in the leadership and development space.

Rose shares a number of  ideas on how we can walk away from the familiar trajectory while still feeling happy with that updated decision, and not allowing self doubt to hinder us. She reminds us to be kind to ourselves even on those days when you don't have the energy or will to be strong. Just attempt again the next day.

Rose remains motivated by her purpose and is invigorated by the words of Nigerian artist Yemi Alade's song Africa as she embarks on her new project on this beautiful continent.

Some wise words from Rose:
- "Decisions made for comfort are great and so are decisions made to stretch us. Ultimately, everything belongs"
- " Comfort and discomfort have the potential to bring us happiness"
- "Feedback is a gift...and has the power to deliver powerful transformation".

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About Dr Rosetta Pillay
Dr Rosetta Pillay  is an ICF accredited coach, an impactful facilitator, an innovative thought leader, emerging author and a dynamic motivational speaker. Her work in the field of finance and exposure to the corporate world have given her a deep understanding of business practices. In addition, her study of Leadership Development and contribution to this domain has broadened her perspective on how to improve business performance. Rose believes that shaping learning and development journeys for individuals and team will translate into tangible, sustainable changes. 

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As we begin #womenhistorymonth in March 2022, Arthi speaks to guest Divya Parekh about the joy of impacting others.
Divya shares about her career inflection point as a result of watching her colleagues being laid off and how this catalysed her thinking about the impact this on her own esteem and health, and what she could do to ensure next time it was not her being retrenched.
After some reflection, and knowing her joy of working with people, she opted to undertake coaching certification and accreditation, and has not looked back.
She shares personal stories of being shunned, of working with clients to be more authentic and how all of this creates her personal joy and purpose, as a servant leader.

Some wise words from Divya:
- "Be prepared to fail"
- " Claim you stage, own it. It will be OK"
- "Being confident does not mean that you cannot be assertive".

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About Divya Parekh
Divya Parekh, a 10-time #1 bestselling author, business growth strategist, and motivational speaker,  who partners with high achieving business owners, experts on the rise, Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 leaders who are ready to play full out, experience the joy of impacting others, and expand their reach, business, and revenue. 

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In Episode 3 and as part of spotlighting the focus on Black History Month, Arthi is joined by guest Nadine Hack, to talk more about Humility and connectedness.
Nadine recounts her awareness of ubuntu (the African philosophy of 'I am because we are') as something that she came into the world into, and thereafter being drawn to other  people who imbued connectedness as the key to meaningful life, and who exuded humility in their power as changemakers. These global icons such as Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Shirley Chisholm - to name but a few - impacted her towards her purpose of coalition building and harnessing the power of connectedness through humility across the globe.

Key words of wisdom shared by Nadine include:
"I'm going to be about building coalitions about bringing people together about building bridges. Because that's what our world needs."
"it's a healthier way to live to be a voice of life, light and to amplify other people who are voices in light"
" Think, reflect, act - and Listen, Learn, Lead"

Listen in to hear deep stories, real ideas and feel inspired by the richness of Nadine's journey and ongoing support of connecting people for the greater good.

About Nadine Hack
Nadine was named Top 100 Thought Leader Trustworthy Business Behaviour often enough to earn Lifetime Achievement Trust Award. She advises business and nonprofit executives, heads of state, international leaders/organizations on clarifying goals and tackling obstacles to achieve them, with particular emphasis on global citizenship, entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership development.  She was the first woman Executive-in-Residence at IMD Business School, where she maintains an active affiliation to focus on responsible leadership, diversity, sustainability, human rights and other social issues for 21st century business. Prior Board Chair of Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, she’s served on executive committees as a board director of many other nonprofit and business boards.  She’s writing a book, The Power of Connectedness, with a foreword by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu. 

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On episode 2 of the second season of the Inspire Your Life podcast, Arthi explores the positive side of limiting beliefs, and how one can thrive beyond it, with guest Susan, who has had to overcome tremendous limiting beliefs imposed by others, at a young age, and became her burden to carry and fend off.

And fend off she did, despite being an introvert. She found the courage on a number of instances, which she shares with us in the episode, but the one that sticks out is the courage to reach beyond what was expected of her in terms of tertiary education options, and how she defied the judgements, created an ally, and eventually studied at a top 100 university in the world!

Some key words of wisdom shared by Susan include:
"We are allowing somebody else to limit our potential"
"Take a moment to step back and enjoy what you've achieved every day"
" If other people push back with microaggressions and triggers, recognize them. And it's all about them, not about you."

Listen in to hear the practical advice, real ideas and feel inspired by Susan's journey and optimism.

About Susan Heaton-Wright
Susan is a Global Virtual impact, communications and speaking expert for emerging leaders and the creator of the Superstar Communicator™ methodology. She is an international speaker; the MD of award winning music company, Viva Live Music, podcaster and a former prize winning international opera singer. Susan is regularly interviewed on BBC Radio Five Live; BBC2, local radios and international podcasts, like the Inspire Your Life podcast. She is a contributor to articles in Forbes, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, The Scotsman and trade publications. In 2020, she was named as an #ialso 100 top inspirational female entrepreneurs in UK.

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In this first episode of Season 2, Arthi explores more about #Ikigai, the Japanese philosophy of purpose, with guest Santa, who has been using this philosophy since being a graduate.

She shares a number of personal stories of her journey of finding herself without a job in the financial crisis, to cultural expectations of what she should do as a career, to being undervalued for her skill - yet she has been daring and courageous to put herself out there, despite being turned down, until the right opportunity materialised  leading her down the path to where she is today. Her ikigai continues to evolve.

Some key words of wisdom shared by Santa include:
"Structure gives us freedom"
"Finding your sweet spot gives you endurance without fatiguing you"
" Vulnerability is part of being strong"

Listen in to hear practical advice, real ideas and feel inspired by Santa's journey and optimism.

About Santa Meyer-Nandi
Santa is an environmental lawyer turned sustainability & well-being expert, based in Paris. She is the Co-Director and founder of the Think & Action Lab FindingSustainia, a UNESCO award-winning think tank known for its 30 day sustainability challenges, and is currently scaling up the FindingSustainia non-profit approach. She is a speaker, facilitator, writer and coach and speaks German, English, French and Bengali fluently, thus its extremely easy for her to undertake all these opportunities globally.

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In this final episode of Season 1, Arthi has a meaningful conversation with the inspiring Joyel Crawford about how we can not just move past burnout, but actually bounce forward from it.

Joyel shares how 2020 was the year she was looking forward to, from a business and professional perspective, with a number of key projects lined up, until the pandemic hit, causing cancellations and clients business to dry up. 

This caused anxiety and fear but also opportunity, thanks to her network, which helped her to keep the business afloat. But, it was work that was based on desperation, not inspiration as she says. And her anxiety didn’t cause her to question these new contracts enough, in terms of fit and purpose alignment to her. Burnout symptoms started to show, like migraines, eye strain and fatigue which she denied was happening to her, even though she had experienced these warning signs before.

It manifested as lack of clarity and focus on the work. And this was the big mistake, says Joyel, and it was actually focusing on herself that was needed. It took an intervention by her husband for her to realise she needed to do just that – focus on her. Boundaries was key to begin the journey of recovery.

Joyel has devised the RISE process and she shares that with all of us to implement, not just when burned out, but also as a healthy way to proactively beat stress and bounce forward.

Take a listen to the podcast to find out more about this, talismans and so much more!

About Joyel Crawford:
Joyel is a Certified Professional Career Coach, Certified Virtual Presenter, and Leadership Development Consultant at Crawford Leadership Strategies. 

Prior to her consulting career, Joyel supported professionals within all functional groups for 18 years at Verizon Wireless in the areas of Employee Relations, EEO/AA, Staffing, Professional Mentoring and Learning & Development Training.

She's facilitated leadership development courses and has been a keynote speaker and her career advice efatures regularly on  Forbes, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Huffington Post to name a few.

 Joyel also hosts a television show and podcast called “Career View Mirror'. She’s the co-author of the Amazon Best Selling book “Speaking My Truth” presented by Cheryl Wood where she shares her personal story of “How To RISE from the Ashes of Burnout.” 
She has also recently authored her first book "Show Your Ask" which is also on the bestseller lists.

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On this episode, Arthi has a meaningful conversation with Sahar Andrade about how growing up in 7 different countries as a child was laden with both negative and positive experiences.

On the positive side, she met people who were so diverse, that she became accepting and non-judgemental of who they were. Thus very open-minded as a child. 

On the negative side, it created a lack of real connection with people, aided by a heightened self-awareness of her weight. She shares a personal story of how at 10 years old, her excess weight caused her to not be permitted to participate in a dance show that she really wanted to. This incident shaped her life by creating her fear of being embarrassed, ridiculed, let down, not being liked, and of rejection. In her words “name the fear and I probably subscribed to it.” And this fear exacerbated the lack of connection with others. 

The fear settled inside her, and she wanted to become invisible to the world. Fearfulness controlled her life until 3rd year of medical school, where she had had enough of fear taking over her life and defining her path in life. During a summer break, with the support of her dad, she took a job at PanAm, as a first step towards doing something on her own, breaking the chain link of fear-based decision-making. This experience also bolstered her courage to go to the US after completing medical school, to live life on her own terms.

Being fearless is about having the courage to face fear in spite of fear, says Sahar. Sahar believes one must have a healthy boundary with fear to actually excel and not be complacent. She shares some ideas of how one can make fear a friend through negative visualisation, and reverse the equation. Positive narrative and gratitude makes us happy so make that the new habit!

“Embrace, claim, name and reinvent” says Sahar! Listen to the episode to find out what that means!

About Sahar Andrade:
Sahar is a Diversity, Global Leadership, and Personal Transformation Speaker and Consultant. She has lived, worked and been educated in 7 countries across 3 continents; and she speaks 5 languages. She holds a Double Bachelor of Medicine, and Surgery, with a Major in Psychiatry from Cairo University;

Sahar’s accolades are wide ranging, from being nominated for DEI awards to businessowoman to be watched, being a Ted and Sue Talk expert, an author, Adjunct professor at USC and just so much more.

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In this episode, Arthi has a purpose and value-based discussion with Michael Thiemann, who shares some of his personal journey where he reached a tipping point in a very successful corporate career and made the decision to live more purposefully based on his values. A positive impact from the financial crisis, would you believe!

Michaels shares his personal vision, which is inspiring and some of the personal development he has done, and offers others too, such as founders and senior executives, build their journey towards a values based vision - the north star as he mentions that we all need to find.

If you have been grappling with how to find your north star, or even how to underpin what you are doing, with your values, take a listen to Michael's tips and ideas. Life is too short and we want to be able to leave a lasting legacy of the positive impact we have made in the world.

Just do it today, says Michael. Here Here to that.

About Michael:
Michael is the founder of Strategy-Lab™, a strategy & business model consultancy, which has been helping large and medium-sized companies, start-ups and founders for over 30 years. in finding and implementing value-oriented growth strategies that are geared towards trends and market contexts and are based on human-centered business models. Michael has been a C-Suite executive for many years, and he has played interim manager role, is a strategy consultant,  a project manager, coach, international key note speaker and author.

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In this episode Arthi has an inspiring conversation with Sujata Gupta, the creative head and founder of fashion boutique Nandni Studio in India.
Sujata reached her 40's and realised that this 3rd phase of her life needed to be purposeful and meaningful to her, not based on others expectations.
Being a seasoned IT specialist in the corporate world,  it was a chance sighting of a billboard for a fashion design course at the leading school in India that catalysed Sujata into action.
From undertaking the fashion design course, to quitting her job and starting the fashion label with the simple intention of just pursuing creative interests, her business has grown, has had setbacks and continued to flourish thereafter. So too has Sujata grown personally.
Her advice: the dream is worth pursuing. It might fail, but rather to live, try and fail or win, than live but never know what could have been.
"Kal Ho Naa Ho" keeps Sujata inspired, and this conversation is sure to inspire you too.

More about Sujata Gupta:
A senior IT executive, an alumni of IIM Calcutta & NIT Kurukshetra, with 24 years of corporate exposure, Soojata quit the IT industry to follow her passion and dabble with garment design. After understanding the basics of the design process from Pearl Academy, she has launched her own label – Nandni. She has a keen interest in handwoven fabrics, handwork and subtle details which is well reflected in her work. Minimal and functional and the two best ways to describe her work.
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In this episode, Arthi has an eye-opening conversation with Harumi Gondo, about knowing the value of the business you conduct, and how to set those all important next step boundaries.
Harumi shares her personal business experiences of growing her NPO and business and how having a low pricing model hindered her success, until she became self-aware that this needed to change. With courageous conversations, she set and reinforced boundaries that have allowed her to thrive both personally and professionally. 
Harumi's share some wonderful analogies of the staircase and the open house, as ways for us to understand how we can grow beyond the present towards our vision. 
Take a listen to these wonderfully candid insights.

About Harumi Gondo:
Harumi has done a lot of work in the teaching space in academic and journalism spheres, before she founded an NPO in 2018 called TypeLAB, which trains and certifies Japanese mothers to understand and develop themselves to engage in satisfying relationships and careers. Her work centres around facilitating personality development through understanding  of Self.

Harumi also founded her for-profit group 2 years later, 16 Type, to run type trainings for companies and associations to build teamwork and culture centered around growth and psychological safety. Harumi believes this is her third and most likely final career.

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In this episode Arthi has a conversation with Dr Ryan Lahti about how one can deal with blame, uncertainty and risk.  In this VUCA environment, we face these threats regularly and often are ill equipped to handle them with success. Ryan shares his personal experience of dealing with  blame, uncertainty and risk in a client context and shares insights on how to navigate these as skillfully as possible - with finesse!
By learning and practicing how to 'finesse the grey', one can learn an effective way to cope that realises productive strategic outcomes personally and in business.
Ryan share his finesse framework as a useful guide, to save you listeners, time on figuring out what to do. He ends off the show encouraging us to adopt the idea of SiSu, a finnish term talking to "tenacity, perseverance and acting rationally in the face of adversity."

About Ryan:
Dr Ryan Lahti is the founder and managing principal of OrgLeader based in southern California. He is the author of a book called The Finesse Factor as well as a contributor to Forbes on leadership, talent management and organizational effectiveness issues.

Ryan serves midsize and Fortune 500 companies that are driven by science, tech, engineering and math (STEM businesses) and he particularly focuses on enabling the leadership of these companies to develop key capabilities so that they can optimise their organisations, 

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Arthi's guest on the show  is career coach Erin Urban. Erin shares how a poor performance review gave her much needed insight about why she was not moving ahead in her career towards the desired leadership role. This catalysed her to reflect and with the support of both her CEO and mentor, began a self-awareness journey that culminated in what she does today.

Erin offers ideas about why we may be held back in our careers, which can be based on fixed mindsets that may be in place, along with specific narratives, stories or mental models that we have created that shapes the way we experience and show up.

She offers great advice on how we can start to unravel these unproductive stories along with finding ways to celebrate both the wins and the setbacks, and elevate our career game plan by making small incremental changes.

About Erin:
Erin is a certified Executive Coach & Career Accelerator and helps emerging and evolving leaders remove career roadblocks, unlock their potential, and elevate their careers.  is an international speaker, behavioral scientist, and the host of the Career Coffee Chat Podcast. She is also the author of the bestselling book, Elevate Your Career: More Impact + More Income. Visit www.coacheurban.com to find out more.

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In this episode Arthi has a deep and impactful conversation with Christine Rose, about her experiences with gender violence in childhood and how that impacted her into teenage and adulthood.
She shares how with support and guidance, she was able to heal from the trauma and returned to her authentic self again. She has dedicated her life to service for others, be it via coaching or other initiatives, and she have thrived and become successful (and nationally celebrated!) because of the impact she has made.
Listen in to this powerhouse woman for some beautiful words of wisdom and empowerment about regaining control despite one's historical context, and finding the wins in failure too, so it also becomes a source of celebration.

Christine is an  ICF credentialed coach, was named Top Business Coach of 2019 and is listed in the 2020 Registry of Top 100 Business & Executive Coaches. She has co-Author and authored  International Bestselling books and is a strong advocate and leading the way when it comes  coaching and campaigning for gender equality, in her own practice as well as on international bodies such as U.N. Foundation’s #EqualEverywhere campaign .

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On this episode, Arthi has a deep conversation with Ali Dunn about the (internal) barriers that come into play once women become mothers, both on the personal and professional front. Because women play many roles in their personal and career lives, there is often guilt around time management and prioritisation between these two areas.
Ali shares her personal story of grappling with this and how she has been able to diminish these negative thoughts and push through to do what is now her purpose. 
So if you are curious about personal and professional growth beyond motherhood,  listen in for useful advice, lessons and practical ideas to get that started for you, or to help you keep persevering.

Ali Dunn is an ICF accredited Life and Leadership coach for professional women who want to live a more empowered  and meaningful life. She coaches women into greater possibilities both personally and professionally through 1:1 and group coaching. Whether it’s career changes, entrepreneurship, or leadership it begins with a solid foundation of learning to trust yourself and tap into your values so you can live a more meaningful and on purpose life.

Ali runs and participates in a number of initiatives. There’s a weekly coaching group called Cup of Clarity, on productivity and planning. There's also an entrepreneurial coaching group called Feel the Growth. She serves as a mentor coach at The HIvery in San Francisco and works with Women for Change, which in a non profit focused on making coaching accessible to women from diverse backgrounds.

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In this episode, Arthi talks with Claire Boscq-Scott, who shares how her realisation that her life was heading out of control, both personally and in her career, made her take the brave decision to take her power back, So, she quit her stressful job, moved to the island of Jersey, even got divorced and had to find her feet again. But it gave birth to her successful entrepreneurial journey. That was 12 years ago.
However Claire experienced a severe business setback due Covid-19 last year, where she lost all her clients in a matter of days. But she bounced back, through her self-awareness and personal development modalities she had invested in before, and also by asking for support when she needed in.

Claire shares a lot more about how she found her next chapter in terms of her business journey purpose within feng shui mixed with how to incorporate this with our work environment. She has risen stronger after the fall and shares her words of wisdom with all of us, with practical and useful advice to get your mindset into optimism and openness, for success.

Claire Boscq-Scott is an international award-winning Customer Experience Expert, the creator of The BizShui concept, a Keynote Speaker who has spoken in over 20 countries, an author of 3 books; with a No 1 Amazon Best Seller in 2020, she is an international media influencer.

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In this episode Arthi invites guest Jennifer Helene Popken to share more about her emotional health and how reaching that difficult place actually catalysed her towards a now successful career.

Jennifer shares her framework for success called emotional stamina which has the triad pillars of fitness, food and mindset. She shares how food and emotional health is linked and also advocates practical ideas on how we can bring back the fun in how we move. Being more mindful about how we treat our body will ultimately strengthen our emotional health and mental health that will catapult our personal and career success.

Jennifer is a coach and leads a myriad of online educational programs, in the form of training and business mentoring programmes, by developing innovative content strategies for work/life balance, performance, and optimal living. She also represents a variety of programs as a presenter and evangelist.

Jennifer is passionate about freedom, and her experience has shown her, that this is achieved through lifestyle practices. One of her personal mantras is  "Your daily practice is your strongest medicine," a great reminder that what we repeat, becomes what we imbibe and put out in the world too.

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Arthi is in conversation with Csaba Toth, a British/Hungarian entrepreneur, researcher and coach based in the UK. 
Csaba shares how through some of his business failures arose the opportunity to disrupt the common mindset, at a business, culture and self-awareness basis.
Listen to his key advice and learning from his journey to-date, to make your own disruptions possible and opportunities to be unlocked from setbacks and failures.

Csaba is the founder of ICQ Global, a people development organisation with over 100 licensed partners in 38 countries. ICQ, also known as cultural intelligence, is about leading and serving people in a way that they feel valued, understood and being able to turn our differences into synergy.
He is the developer of the multi award-winning Global DISC model and the best-selling author of the Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times hybrid book published with Marshall Goldsmith. 
Csaba has 15 years of experience in setting up start-ups, working with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, entrepreneurs and certifying over 60 coaches and consultants globally.

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In this birthday episode, Arthi shares some reflections from the past year. 
In a pandemic , there is a new normal in now in place, and even me-time and self care looks very different to pre-pandemic times.

Arthi shares how she had to adjust to a new home life, and had to have a new lens on her business too. From collaborators and partners she met along the way, she learned about investing in oneself for a longer term payoff, to the power of the virtual platform to reach so many more people than otherwise thought.

A key lesson is to be able to pivot one's business and use one's strengths to find a pathway to success. To also push oneself out of a comfort zone brings growth and eventually you become comfortable with that too - its new learnings which spur creativity and innovation,

Gratitude to all the supporters and listeners of the Inspire Your Life podcast. Your feedback has been fantastic and thank you for sharing your private moments. To know that these episodes resonate and Inspire you is the fulfilment of the goal of the Inspire Your Life podcast.

Arthi ends the episode with some inspiring words from "Invictus", so help give us courage in these trying times.

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In this episode Arthi speaks about the need to understand and fortify one's emotional resilience to cope with stress, anxiety, frustration, guilt, but also to be able to be truly empathetic, and offer kindness.

In a world where words and actions can be easily misunderstood or misrepresented, showing emotion can become a double-edged sword. Thus the perceived judgement by others is what leads most people down the path of finding some neutral ground of managing how they show emotion.
It is far from ideal and creates distance, weakens mental agility and stifles social supporting mechanisms.

Arthi outlines a 5 step process to relaunch and begin building your emotional resilience:
Awareness → Feel → Insight → Action/Will → Solidify.

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Arthi is joined by guest Neshica, who shares her personal story of resilience.
Having been in a near-fatal car accident, Neshica had to find the courage to overpower mental distress in order to recover.  Her sheer tenacity, along with support from loved ones, ensured that she recovered fully and is able to lead a normal life. However, her resilience was tested many times over the years and at each stage, she's taken away learnings and used them to strengthen her resolve, but also to make the concerted choice to always persevere no matter what.

Neshica is the founder and director of Coachfluence, a coaching and consulting services firm that launched in 2020 and her business focuses on individual and organizational performance improvement as well as growth solutions. Her belief in the power of the human mind and spirit that made her start Coachfluence. Into her business, Neshica brings not only the qualifications such as her B.Sc in Science Education, Masters in Coaching and Behavioural Change and the ICF ACC credential, she also has over 20 years of experience in business analysis, coaching and learning consulting from her corporate career within the telecommunications and financial services.

Neshica has published thought leadership pieces in the domain of coaching, and has been featured on radio talk shows and in prominent HR Magazines in South Africa. This is a multi-talented business woman, mum to two beautiful girls, wife and so much more.

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In this episode, Arthi is joined by Gretchen Ki Steidle, the founder and President of Global Grassroots, a US based NGO that operates a mindfulness-based social venture incubator and women's leadership program in post-conflict East Africa .

Gretchen gives us insights into her journey of self-discovery, from the young age of 9, knowing that her privilege needed to be used for the better of humankind and specifically women. Through her travels across the world, she transformed herself by turning away from a traditional path in terms of career, to leading a purposeful life as a social change agent, catalysing others to push boundaries and grow beyond their circumstance.

Gretchen helps us understand mindfulness and the intersection between mindfulness, leadership and social change. She also offers simple ways which we can become social change agents too.

About Gretchen:
She is also the founder of Circles for Conscious Change, which is a transformative education-based organization working with social entrepreneurs, non-profits, and corporations on the use of mindfulness as a design tool for social innovation. Gretchen believes that cultivating inner awareness and contributing to the common good are both necessary to advance the greatest level of positive social change.

From being an author, an emmy nominated documentary producer and an MBA graduate, to being a certified breathwork practitioner assisting women and children to heal from the trauma from war, disaster and gender-based violence ravages in countries such as Rwanda, Haiti, the US and Uganda, Gretchen’s experience is so multi-faceted. She is purposeful in her work and her insight into human nature, suffering and potential for excellence is undeniable. It’s no wonder she has been named on various lists for her remarkable work and is sought after globally for talks and workshops about mindfulness and social change.

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In this episode, Arthi is joined by Able Wanamakok who shares her experience of how she was able to set boundaries with those she loves, by being able to say no.
Able takes us back to her upbringing and childhood and how her family's expectation was the overriding factor that shaped her life at that stage. The realisation that she was depleted and actually didn't know herself and her true nature set her on a path of self-awareness and self-care and the ability to create new boundaries in her life that would allow her to be authentic. 

Able is the Founder of Find Your Voice Asia  which specialises in communication Coaching, she is also an International Presenter, TEDx Speaker, Speaker Trainer and Entrepreneur and so much more.

Born in Hong Kong, raised in small town US and now having made Thailand her home, Able is someone who adapts easily, whether its to the environment, language, clients needs – she is versatile and knowledgeable on so many aspects. I had the fortune to meet Able as a fellow panelist on the very crucial topic about Conquering Imposter Syndrome, at the Corporate Diva Virtual Summit on Women Leadership and Diversity, which was held in March this year. 

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In this episode Arthi is in conversation with guest Debbie Tam, who shares her insights into the dark side of perfectionism, the costs and impact it can have on one's life. More importantly though, through some deep introspections comes the realisation that things need to change, and Debbie highlights some of the key things she undertook to overcome the need for perfectionism, as well as lessons learned.

Debbie is a business owner who offers business performance consulting as well as coaching to leadership teams and individuals using both neuroscience and emotional intelligence methodologies.

Her ability to do this stems from her deep experience in the public & private sector in the areas of finance, operations, and leadership where she led teams to optimise processes and systems and also held senior leadership roles that built her agility and resilience.

Debbie holds an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley Business School and is a qualified accountant. Apart from her business, she is also a learning facilitator on the Getsmarter platform, on a course from MIT about Neuroscience in Business.

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In this episode, Arthi offers the idea that when a person is truly authentic, it is easy to put the masks aside and live a life that is purposeful and fulfilling.
Arthi offers 5 ways in which one can work towards being authentic, which include:

• Finding purpose
• Releasing from self-limiting beliefs
• Developing a growth mindset
• Being courageous to face your fears
• Speaking from your own space of experience, not in judgement of others

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In this punchy episode, Arthi turns the spotlight onto self-care and how important it is to be aware when you are actually derailing your wellbeing due to bad habits.
Why is it important to know? Because...
You feel (the breadth and depth of which is sometimes unfathomable).

You strive ambitiously (and win or lose).

You measure yourself against others (dangerous territory).

You criticise (passively mostly, underpinned by your web of personal experiences).

You self-deprecate (often out of fear or self-doubt).

You think (up to 60000 per day and at least 80% are negative and 95% are repeats from the previous day – what a lot of energy!).

You believe (and disbelieve).

Form habits that enhance the productive aspects from all of the above. Take a listen to this episode to hear more.

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Married at 41, a mother at 42 and widowed at 43. 
In this episode, Arthi invites her guest Aviva Baran-Rothschild, to share her journey on dealing with grief and trauma that caused her emotional health to suffer.
Being a single parent to her now 11 year old son, dealing with her own grief, and continuing to build her business,  Aviva has cultivated resilience into the DNA of who she is and in what she  does. Using her personally developed tools, such as energy optimisation, Aviva is enabling working mothers to find their balance again, no matter the challenges they face.

About Aviva:
Aviva is the Founder of Fields of Change, her business which offers coaching, design and facilitation to private clients and organisations. Her key focus areas are building leadership skills, emotional intelligence, resilience, and energy optimisation. She has been working in the field of people development for 32 years while academically she is a PCC credentialed coach with the ICF, has her Masters in Coaching an dbehavioursl change and continues to upskill here in areas she find interesting. In addition, she has been involved in many aspects of community development and volunteer work, here in South Africa, the UK, India, and Israel; doing transformation work, conservation, therapy, and teaching. 

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Arthi is in conversation with Dipika Trehan in this episode, the founder of the H.O.W Forum and Corporate Diva.
Her organisation works across the verticals of holistic employee wellbeing  &  women leadership development. Having stayed abroad for close to a decade, including my home country, South Africa, she understands the nuances of cross-cultural barriers along with prevalent well-being and leadership gaps. Corporate Diva, in particular, addresses the upskilling and support needs of the life cycle of women professionals, all the way from University classroom to Corporate Boardroom. This creates the space for these women to transform into LEADERS.

Dipika has a strong sense of independence, gained through her upbringing, but shaped but experiences with her health (her weight in particular) and her journeys with her family to different continents due to work circumstances. She candidly shares her inner dialogues and struggles, but also the transformational journey that enabled her to create her business, and find her purpose, which  is to help women realise self-love and assist in rising them up to be their best selves in their professional and personal settings.

 Dipika has a string of awards to her name, including being named by ET NOW as one of the 100 top global Diversity and Inclusion Leaders, honoured by the World Economic Forum as an Iconic woman,  top Woman CEO and top woman achievers and many more accolades. 

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In this episode, Arthi is in conversation with Helen Young-McLaughlin, founder of Helen Young Coaching and Consulting. 
Helen shares personal insights about how her intuition has driving her to succeed in priority areas in her life, being  family,  her quest to continuously learn and grow personally, and her career choices too. 
Helen brings over 18 years of experience into her business, from a breadth of consulting assignments to also the range of industries she has worked in or with. Her sweet spot is focusing her effort on transforming middle-managers into a company's most valuable asset. She shares how intuition and her model of coaching, unlocks middle-managers potential for themselves and their organisations.

By sharing her key lessons about following your intuition, to how to feel less stuck and being confident in your decisions as an entrepreneur, you will find some useful guidelines for a strong start to your 2021.

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In this episode, Arthi has an optimistic conversation with Naleni Govender, an Institutional Sales Specialist with many years of experience in the asset management industry, about how 2020 has been a catalyst for positive change amidst the chaos of the pandemic, rearranging the way of work/home/study schedules and much more.
Naleni offers some key learnings around sense of self and time efficiency to still get many things done, leave other things undone and also to change the narrative and one's agenda.

Take a listen and share your own learnings looking back on the year that was 2020.

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In this episode, Arthi is in conversation with Rachel Duffy,  who is passionate about her work with parents, families and leaders.

When Rachel became a parent to 3 children, she had to examine her own beliefs and conditionings and she saw how she was parenting from ego and not authentic connection. She shifted her focus, dove deep in learning about Conscious Parenting and obtained a coaching certification through Dr. Shefali's Conscious Parenting Coaching Institute. Rachel utilizes
this paradigm to focus on the parent, rather than the child, to create life lasting change in the parent-child relationship.

Rachel shares insights about her background, the tough but enlightening journey of self-awareness, how that is shaping her current reality both personally and in her business, while offering up some wonderful lessons and advice for our own pursuit of growth, development and enduring relationships with our kids. 
If you're a parent, this is one episode you do not want to miss!

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In this short yet punchy episode, Arthi discusses Imposter Syndrome, showcasing a personal example of how easily one can be made to feel that one doesn't belong, but how equally having an advocate for yourself can change the outcome of the situation.

Arthi offers 5 tips to help you discard that imposter feeling, which can be implemented immediately with just a little thought and a mindset shift.

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In this episode Arthi underscores the importance of revealing your personal brand, and how your personal brand is transformative ‘normal’ you. It allows you to bring that authenticity about yourself every single time to any occasion or situation you find yourself in.
This not only deepens networks and relationships, but can be a purveyor of further opportunities.
Arthi offers 5 ways in which you can start the journey to revealing your personal brand, starting with knowing your purpose.

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Arthi's special guest is Lucille Sikosana, who is a Business Development Manager at Old Mutual Investment Group in South Africa. Her passion for investments stems from wanting South Africans to better their lives by bettering their financial circumstances. Lucille has a degree in Economics, an honours in International Trade and Finance and holds the CFP designation. When Lucille isn’t talking money and investments she enjoys networking over good round of golf.

A range of topics are covered including:

• Being an African woman in the finance industry, some truths and revelations on navigating a career 
• How having a sponsor or coach who believes in you can boost your career path
• Money, it’s relevance and what your relationship with money should be. 
• Physical health and fitness, and being diagnosed with Lymphoma 3 years ago and how that has contributed to her personal learnings and growth.  
• Emotional resilience being vitally important when one is dealing with a health diagnosis as this
• the need for strong support systems around oneself and how Lucille has been anchored by the 3 F’s:  family, friends and faith.

You will be inspired by Lucille's wise words and practical advice.

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Arthi's guest on this episode is Amrit Ahuja, who is an industry veteran (+28 years) in the communications, PR and marketing space.  By way of background, Amrit specialized in technology firms (Facebook, Dell, Google, Uber, Xiamoi, Intel, AirBnB, Pintrest) brand building and reputation management for brands in India. She is currently an inhouse branding consultant at the Michael Susan Dell Foundation consulting their investee projects across startups and governments. She also consults to the Social Impact Finance NPO to build a voice on Impact Funding in India.
Amrit is passionate about women upliftment and empowerment, advocating for greater gender diversity on company boards as a result.
She shares her experiences on her unconventional career in many respects, shattering boundaries along the way. She also delves into how to build an outstanding personal brand both in person and digitally, considerations for transitioning across careers based on purpose as well as what life looks like at a 'slower' pace. A jam packed episode filled with insights and tangible ideas to inspire your growth and development.

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In this episode, Arthi speaks to Zelda Hibbert, about her health journey after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease 5 years ago. The ups an downs, figuring it all out, how her life changed  and what it meant for her career, personal life and relationships are some of the aspects covered in the conversation. Zelda also speaks about how Covid-19 was actually a blessing in her journey to healing and self love. Zelda further offers some key lessons and advice on how to get back on one's feet again and to keep a positive mindset always.

Zelda has both the insight and experience of the pressures, challenges, opportunities that leaders and team members are facing, with 27 years working experience in financial markets, investment banking, IT, media, education, consulting (both private and public sector) and not for profit (NGO’s).
She is a member of the International Coaching Federation ICF), Project Management
Institute (PMI), The International Coaches Register (ICR), the Association of MBA’s (AMBA)
and Scrum Alliance (CSPO). She is also a Patron of the Library of Professional
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In this episode, Arthi speaks with Mitali Chopra, a seasoned business leader, growth catalyst and leadership coach. She believes that the spelling of business is P.E.O.P.L.E and her work with leaders and entrepreneurs is to drive results and to help them develop to their potential.
Mitali shares some of her insights into how she has achieved a realistic but wonderful balance between her work and family commitments, with some key lessons, advice and takeaways that can be implemented in your own circumstances.
#FindYourPrerna #beBold #bebrave

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Share too, your own insights from your journey of striking that balance between work and family -  what has worked or hasn't. We can all learn from each other.

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In this episode, Arthi Rabikrisson speaks about the impact purpose has in one achieving not just one's life goals, but also being able to feel fulfilled, happy and content knowing that what you're doing is right for you.
What is a goal? By definition, it is an aim or purpose. Something that you desire to attain. More often than not, the goal is often vaguely defined and therein lies one of the issues. How does one aim for something if you’re not clear on what it is you want it for, or don’t know much about it?
Arthi's definition of purpose is, quite simply, the reason(s) and motivation(s) for why we do what we do, every day. 
Arthi offers 3 key steps that can help you define your purpose, and this may give you some insights to allow you to  align how you live your life with your purpose as its foundation.
#FindYourPrerna. Be bold. Be brave.

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In this episode, Arthi speaks about how the journey of self-awareness is easier than you think.
Most people start running for the hills, ducking deeper under the duvets or pretend to not hear anything when the term self-awareness is used. People often say they“don’t have time to be self-aware, there is too much else going on”, or “there is no point as there is no need, it’s of no benefit to me” or “it’s all about meditating, which is hard and also useless”.
Some valid excuses there. Arthi proposes that, perhaps, the root of these comments is the f-bomb we don’t like to freely admit – FEAR.
She offers some simple steps to become more self-aware, and maybe remove some of the fear or stigma about knowing yourself better.

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In this episode, we talk to a South African expat living in Tokyo, Manisha Ramlakhan,on her and her family's experience of:

•  moving to a foreign language country and, 
• giving us insight into the Japanese response to Covid-19, 
  • how it contrasts to South Africa, and 
  • living through the 1st and currently 2nd wave of the pandemic.

As we end off the show, Manisha offers words of advice to the listeners who are considering relocating to a foreign country during this extraordinary time.

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