Tina Tower welcomes leadership expert Cherie Canning (Luminate Leadership, Lead with Courage podcast) and shares how they first connected through social media and met in person at Christine Cochran's event.

Cherie explains how her dad's coaching and her school leadership roles shaped her early view of leadership, then how being made redundant from Flight Centre during COVID pushed her into starting her own business despite never planning to be an entrepreneur. She describes her runway planning, building a workshop-and-speaking-centered business model, adding a podcast to build trust, and the mindset shift of pricing and selling "you."

The conversation focuses on self-leadership, human-centered leadership as connection (within, with others, and with awe), sustainable success through planned breaks and intentional energy deposits, and Cherie's current goals of higher revenue/profit and more stage speaking, including her Ignite Women in Leadership conference on 13 November.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

00:49 Consistency on Social Media

02:00 Meet Cherie Canning

03:39 Early Leadership Roots

05:03 Redundancy to Reinvention

06:31 Taking the Entrepreneur Leap

11:16 Building Luminate Model

13:50 Self Leadership Without Boss

18:13 Human Centered Leadership

21:48 Can Leadership Be Learned

22:42 Nature vs Nurture Skills

24:16 Rewiring People Pleasing

25:59 Two Wolves Mindset

28:25 Sustainable Success Systems

32:43 Building Personal Brand

37:23 Social Media Boundaries

39:12 Defining Success Season

41:12 Ignite Conference Details

43:15 Closing Thanks

Get the Free DEFINE AND ALIGN Values online course from Cherie >> https://www.luminateleadership.com.au/online-courses