One of the best feelings is when business flows and feels good, like you’re doing what you’re meant to be doing and it’s connected to your soul.

 

If you haven’t felt that before, it’s time! It could be your leadership style that’s holding you back or, more likely, that you’re subscribed to patriarchal beliefs about leadership. And it’s no wonder. We’ve been taught from birth that boys and girls, men and women are expected to show up differently. 

 

No more! The truth is that femininity and masculinity is a spectrum and we can show up any way that works for us. Not only that but we can all have the same qualities, no matter our gender. It’s often how we’re conditioned that determines how we show up.

 

This week on the podcast, Giada Carta of the Soulful Mentor, is sharing why we need to let go of the patriarchal narrative of leadership and start embracing our true characteristics and using them in business.

About Giada Carta:

Giada Carta is a business mentor on a mission to awaken revolutionary leaders all over the world. Her Soulful Mentoring® method uses archetypes to help high achieving women entrepreneurs forge their own rules to change the world through their best and most aligned work. Visit her website and follow her on Instagram. 

 

Links and Resources:

• Discover Your Leadership Archetype
• Your One Thing Quarterly Workshop

Time Stamps:

• [3:22] - About Giada
• [3:57] - We tend to handle biz looking outward 
• [4:25] - The only way to be successful is to start from the inside
• [6:11] - How we manage biz and people has a lot to do with how we lead
• [8:47] - Myths we have around leadership
• [12:02] - We try to develop the characteristics that we think leaders should have 
• [15:10] - The earlier we buy into this new leadership the better
• [17:59] - Qualities that are glorified in our culture
• [22:21] - Labels are part of the patriarchy
• [25:22] - How we question ourselves needs to be different for everyone
• [27:50] - Start working on the things you’re good at vs. what’s hard for you
• [31:04] - We’re trained to have external focus; we need to look internally
• [35:48] - You’re not compatible with everyone
• [37:05] - We waste a lot of time trying to make work relationships work because we
• [41:47] - Our comfort in the patriarchal viewpoint 
• [47:02] - Take your team members’ leadership styles too