Cate sits down with Neeta Bhushan, international speaker and author of the book Emotional Grit, to talk about emotional leadership. Neeta Bhushan has had a lot of transformation in her own life. After overcoming adversities that occurred early in her life, she built a million dollar cosmetic dentistry practice. She sold her practice to pursue her inner truth. She's now an advocate for emotional health and a leadership coach. Neeta's medical career was very much a masculine, "follow the rules" model. She didn't learn business, empathy or basic communication skills. Her business skills came from the emotional grit she developed through the adversities she had faced early in life. The biggest challenges for her was communication and how to lead as a female.

With a thriving practice, Neeta found herself burnt out and "emotionally dead." She realized she didn't know who she was. So she left her practice and her abusive marriage and went on a journey of self discovery. She found that when it comes to leadership, emotional resilience, or "grit," is key. In her book Emotional Grit, Neeta uses "GRIT" as an acronym: grow, reveal, innovate, and transform. In her work, Neeta teaches leaders tools to help them lead with authenticity, vulnerability, curiosity, and compassion.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• How the definition of "leadership" is evolving.
• Why emotional resiliency is the key to effective leadership.
• What you can do to help build your emotional resiliency.

Links Mentioned in Your Episode:

• Yoga Health Coaching
• Body Thrive
• Awake Living
• Living Ayurveda

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 - Neeta Bhushan has had a lot of transformation in her own life. After overcoming adversities that occurred early in her life, she built a million dollar cosmetic dentistry practice. She sold her practice to pursue her inner truth. She's now an advocate for emotional health and a leadership coach.
• 2:00 - Neeta's medical career was very much a masculine, "follow the rules" model. She didn't learn business, empathy or basic communication skills. Her business skills came from the emotional grit she developed through the adversities she had faced early in life. The biggest challenges for her was communication and how to lead as a female.
• 5:45 - With a thriving practice, Neeta found herself burnt out and "emotionally dead." She realized she didn't know who she was. So she left her practice and her abusive marriage and went on a journey of self discovery.
• 9:06 - When it comes to leadership, emotional resilience is key. The ten habits of Body Thrive help to build that emotional resilience, which is why members of Yoga Health Coaching, Living Ayurveda, and Awake Living start with the Body Thrive course. Resilience comes down to your ability to adapt to circumstances that are beyond your control and then to learn, innovate, and create action in the face of those circumstances. In Emotional Grit, Neeta uses "GRIT" as an acronym: grow, reveal, innovate, and transform. Transformation is the action we take.
• 14:40 - The idea that a leader has followers is a bit outdated. In today's world, leaders collaborate with those who are on the same mission. Fear-based leadership, the idea that we have to scare people into loyalty, and hierarchy are also outdated. In her "School of Grit TV,", Neeta unravels that by encouraging leaders, through stand up comedy, to laugh at themselves and not take themselves too seriously. At Yogahealer retreats, course members participate in improv exercises to help get them out of the boxes they put themselves in.
• 25:00 - In a world that is more and more global, we are all involved in the evolution of what leadership looks like. Neeta teaches her clients to do a daily "emotional resiliency check-in" in order to become more aware of how often they are experiencing different emotions and where the emotions are coming from. From an ayurvedic standpoint, reflection allows for digestion, it allows us to evolve, and it creates empathy for others.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• "We're all in this together. The whole planet is going through this evolution together where we're learning how to be much more emotionally evolved as leaders." --- Cate Stillman

Gues BIO:

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach.

Neeta left her million-dollar dentistry practice to pursue her inner truth; a journey which saw her spend over 15 years across 45 countries researching and immersing herself in the field human behaviour, as well as studying the works of classical philosophers and modern psychology.

Her pursuit of knowledge to understand human behaviour in order to create positive life transformation is sparked by her own life experience to overcome multiple extreme adversities, which includes being orphaned at a young age, surviving an abusive marriage of domestic violence, and facing homelessness.

Neeta's approach seamlessly blends the emotional grit she developed to overcome personal adversity with the understanding of human behavioural patterns. The power of her coaching and message has transformed the lives of thousands across the world and set the bar for a new form of emotional leadership.

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