➡️OVERVIEW

Shannon Hughes is an experiential facilitator and communications coach with a practice called, Enlivened Studios. Leaders hire her to ignite their persona genius and energize their teams. She does this through improv-inspired teaching and story sharing.

✅ YOU'LL LEARN

How to tap into your expressive, creative energy 

How to say no and then yes and ...

How to have a plan without knowing you have one 

🎊  FUN FACT:

Shannon did engage a career coach as one of the steps along her transition. 

💡 MORE INFOS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannondeanhughes/

Get tips on how to enliven any virtual meeting with improv techniques:

https://www.enlivenedstudios.com/download

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Michael Bellmann is a musical theater composer and digital marketing manager at Stay Friends in Berlin who had left his steady corporate career for a year of self improvement in Berlin. He has got that spirit to go against the norm and live a life full of purpose, creativity and positive energy. 

✅ YOU'LL LEARN

How to find balance between marketing and music

How to find out 'something is wrong' 

How to have this "difficult" discussion with colleagues, bosses, friends and family

How a dating platform can help to find a job 

🎊  FUN FACT:

Michael has a neoclassical/electrochill band called Fred van Bell 

💡 MORE INFOS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bellmann-b9929b62

https://www.instagram.com/music.by.fredvanbell/

ABOUT

Deeptha Umapathy is a joyful research and strategy consultant at Break Free from Plastic in Cambodia. She believes in keeping people at the center of her work. It shapes how she manages teams, clients and projects - people centered work.

Deeptha is passionate about innovating and improving how data can be used to make decisions. She took a big leap in leaving a secure job in India to start a totally new career in design research, a field she was not formally trained in.

✅ YOU'LL LEARN

Who do you need to surround yourself with in times of transition? How to find the people who see the world from your angle? 

How to use joy as your guide. 

How to make a transition into a new career without formal training in that field.

How to negotiate with your employer that you need a sabbatical.

🎊  FUN FACT

Deeptha is the sister of Nirupa whom we interview in episode #14, and they both have a very similar voice, so don't get confused.

💡 MORE INFOS

linkedin.com/in/deeptha-chittoor-umapathy-b479b93

https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/

✅ YOU'LL LEARN

How to move through fragile times when transitioning - still being in touch with old friends and finding new communities and tribes. 

How to study tools and mindsets from books (Design your Life, Strive) AND real life in Nirupa's case traveling. 

How timing - again - is key. Time comes to you. 

How to build a financial bridge - for Nirupa it was two years of financial permission to travel, play around and experiment. 

How to go against the conditioning of the wind/world, move through loneliness and find some like-minded people.

And... how to integrate work and life on your own terms.  

🎊  FUN FACT:

Nirupa's great transition hack was to travel for 180 days with a planned budget directly after leaving corporate. She also created the highest ever-known number of Design Your Life Odyssey plans. 

💡 MORE INFOS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirupa-umapathy-b213454/

www.radicaleverything.com 

www.salonsforlife.com

OVERVIEW

R. Evon Benson-Idahosa, the founder and Executive Director of Pathfinders Justice Initiative, is a Nigerian native, a leading expert and thought leader on the subject of modern day slavery in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a trained English Barrister and American lawyer. When her passion and compassion called her to address gender-based violence and the sexual exploitation of women, she left her work as a partner in a New York defense law firm to became a full-time advocate.

✅ YOU'LL LEARN

How to "let your life speak" and what it meant for Evon - turning in her resignation and becoming a full-time advocate for women

How a sense of purpose, passion and savings really help when taking the big leap

How it's still scary in the moment, never as scary in hinesight and still not easy to give up all the corporate luxuries

How to integrate your roots into your future - for Evon this meant dedicating her work to women in Nigeria out of her home town New York

🎊  FUN FACT:

Evon realised wearing a barrister wig at graduation already didn’t feel right.

💡 MORE INFOS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/r-evon-benson-idahosa-esq-0ab95869/

http://pathfindersji.org/

➡️ OVERVIEW

Dr Ruby Campbell is a the Managing Director and Global Executive Coach at ProVeritas Group - a coaching and consulting firm. She is also the author of "Scientists in Every Boardroom: Harnessing the Power of STEMM Leaders in an Irrational World", a UNSW Business School Adjunct Faculty, DEI and Climate Action Advocate.

✅ YOU'LL LEARN

How rejection means redirection - Ruby wanted to integrate her family need's with her leadership career which was not possible back then and forced her to redirect

How to find your tribe - which is so important when you start all over again

How to un-learn old and re-learn new patterns of success - from honing perfection in the pharmaceutical industry (Haven't we also heard this from Marina's corporate story !?!) to setting learning goals

How to uncover limiting beliefs - e.g. "you're not good enough", where they come from (your family's story) and how to lovingly let them go

🎊  FUN FACT:

We did not know who Manfred Kets de Vries is, now we do , an INSEAD professor for organizational development and leadership (ketsdevries.com).

Ruby and Cindy are both fellows of Harvard-affiliated Institute of Coaching.

💡 MORE INFOS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrubycampbell/

proveritas.com.au