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Dr. Dave:

Welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast. I'm Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host. We're continuing the series Resiliently You to discover what makes people resilient to build resilient organizations and sense belonging and healing. My guest today is Lorienne Nseka, Corporate Private Attorney at Scaled Agile Inc. So hey Lorienne, welcome and let's just get started with an elevator pitch and talk about your superpower a bit.

Lorienne:

My name is Lorienne Nseka, most people call me Lo. I'm a Corporate Attorney at Scaled Agile. I specialize in privacy and copyright law for SAI. We handle a wide range of contractual, or I handle a wide range of contractual transactions for them. SAI is a business agility consulting service provider and we help companies to become more confident in responding to the ever-changing economic market to scale their transformation while sustaining outcomes. And most importantly, we help companies empower their employees.

I think being a lawyer is a superpower in itself. Our job is to think critically and we're taught to question everything, cross examine everyone, people you're dating, your family, your friends, and we're taught discipline with how law school is structured and how hard it is. So we gain the ability to break down any problem, examine it, and put it all back together again. And that's not something that everyone could do.

And my personal power is my drive and my determination. I'm an extremely motivated individual. When I commit to something, I'm set and I'm determined to succeed. And my motivation enhances my capability of thinking, it helps me generate ideas and I'm always thinking and trying to find new creative ways to reach my goals. So, given my life journey, which is a subject for another podcast, I would not be where I am today without my superpower of motivation and drive.

Dr. Dave:

So how do you define resilient people?

Lorienne:

Resilient people. I'm going to start this off with a story. My father was born in a small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His mom was blind his whole life and both of his parents died at a very young age, or when my dad was at a very young age. So he grew up as a poor orphan in a third world country. And before my dad retired, he just retired last year, he was a aerospace expert consultant for all of Central Africa. He's helped his siblings move his family to America. He's brought, obviously me and my whole siblings here. He's helped my mom move her whole family to the US, and that's a big deal for people that are from a third world country.

My dad's very, he's a successful man, but his most proud accomplishment is the fact that he takes care of orphans, helping them see that there's hope and that bad things do happen to us in this world, but there is people out there that care and if you keep pushing for your goals, you will accomplish great things. And I say all this to say that I define resilient people as people who are able to adapt and do better than the traumatizing situation that they've been through. And not only that, but they have the capability of reaching back and helping people in the same or similar situations to realize that they too could make it.