I’m very honored to have wonderful actress, best selling author and coach Tina Lifford as my guest in today’s episode. Tina is known for the more than 100 characters she’s played on TV and in movies over the course of 36 years, including her current role playing Aunt Vi in the Oprah Winfrey networks series “Queen Sugar.” But this is not so much what we are talking about today. Rather, Tina is going deep about her long, soul-touching inner journey to her true Self. She is sharing pivotal moments when she experienced stage fright as a school girl in 6th grade and how she turned that into her biggest learning chance ever since.

“These moments, when you are feeling disconnected from yourself, are important moments to pay attention to”, she says. And: “When we realize, that our issues are a microcosm of a much bigger social issue, then shame and secrecy are unnecessary and unhelpful”. We are also talking about her amazing book “The Little Book of Big Lies”, in which Tina created a program for inner fitness that gives us tools to fight self-doubt and to stop telling ourselves lies about who we really are. No wonder Forbes’ appointed it the best Personal Development Book for 2021. Please enjoy listening to what matters most to Tina in life, something, as I find, we can learn a great deal from for ourselves. We’re proud to have you as our guest on Before It’s Too Late!

In today’s episode, Social Sciences Professor and Change Management Entrepreneur Heiko Roehl is sharing with us a pivotal moment when he caused a car crash by hitting a dear on the German Autobahn. After landing his car upside down, he says, “I’ve noticed how much I live under the illusion of control”. We are discussing how the pandemic, likewise, is a global pivotal moment that fosters honesty about who we really are – and how we can use this honesty for us as individuals, organizations and societies to change to the better. In that context, we are hearing Heiko share his ideas for personal growth.

I was impressed by his honesty, with which he describes how he is constantly trying to grow free from social expectations, why he is changing his job every 5 years (“otherwise you start to believe your own bulshit”), and that going where the fear is has always been his motto.

You will also be hearing about what Heiko considers to be his legacy….something I think is very important….but listen for yourself. We are proud to have you as our guest on Before It’s Too Late!

In this first episode, let's learn from Harvard graduate and former Goldman Sachs partner Lisa Shalett how to create meaning from unwanted transitions in life. As a truly accomplished career woman she is sharing her story about the pivotal moment when she chose to leave her hugely successful life after her father fell from a ladder and died.

Most profoundly, Lisa is talking about how she has been reevaluating her life, created new values and worked backwards from non-negotiables like being home for dinner every night. You'll hear about what matters most to her after her transformation: the luxury of being spontaneously available, the ability of consciously using her time pro-actively and intentionally instead of reactively, and, maybe most importantly, how she has become her own source of confidence. "It is interesting to see what happens when you create time and space in your life", she says. She sees everything that happens as an experiment she can learn from.

You will also hear about her legacy that she wants to leave behind.....

Lisa is the founder of Extraordinary Women on Boards, a community of hundreds of women directors on boards, focussing on increasing board diversity - and that's also how I met her. We're proud to have you as our first guest at Before It's Too Late!

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What makes up a fulfilling life? What's stopping us from living our best life, a life with meaning? I'm your host, Christiane zu Salm, media executive turned hospice worker. Every two weeks and starting on March 5, I speak with and learn from courageous people from diverse backgrounds about what really matters and explore what we can do differently to make our own lives more fulfilling - before it's too late!