Female Inner Power

You’re invited to join something new. We need to talk about productivity:

💭 Choosing smaller dreams isn’t satisfactory

⛔ Lowering your standards isn’t an option

😫 Doing less doesn’t seem possible even though you keep trying

So what’s the answer?

There are still only 24 hours in a day.

I am hosting a training for the members of the Female Inner Power Club and decided to open it to non-members too. So YOU are invited to attend Productivity Redefined for free.

This is worth spending your time on.

Registration here: www.noominatan.com/productivity (There will be a replay if you cannot make it live).

What could be more important than exploring how you can spend your time better?

As Kareem Gayle-Fagan says, she came from ‘humble beginnings’ to become a Human Resources Executive for luxury retailers, developing a passion for cultivating a culture of inclusion and belonging, where all are empowered to thrive. 

Now working at Dior, Kareem has over 15 years of experience working with iconic brands on culture evolution, performance management, learning and development, and driving inclusion and talent management strategies.

A proud mother, Kareem is also a dedicated Board Advisor to Gyrl Wonder, where she empowers young women of colour through mentorship and guidance. Gyrl Wonder aims to empower the next generation of female leaders to be aggressive and steadfast in the pursuit of their dreams. 

In this episode she shares:

• Her personal story of how she went from being a quiet, compliant employee, with her head down, not speaking up or showing up, to finding her confidence and integrity and stepping into her unapologetically authentic power.
• Reframing how we see ourselves in relation to work/home life - and how to answer the question ‘what do you do?’
• How useful ‘Cultural fit’ is, and what organisations really need to be looking for when hiring, and the importance of community at work, mentorship, and people having your back.
• The importance of leaving the door open for those coming up behind you, doing good for its own sake and helping others with no strings attached.

And she tells the joyful story of her upbringing in Jamaica, with a matriarchal grandmother who believed in the importance of education, and parents who encouraged her to forge her own path in the world.

EPISODE LINKS

Kareem’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kareemggayle/ 

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

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Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/ 

Is your inner critic a familiar companion? 

If you’re finding yourself losing momentum, feeling stuck or disconnected from your intuition, your goals, and the impact you want to have, or your actions are feeling fruitless or not worthwhile…

In this episode, I offer three ideas to support you when your inner critic is making you hesitate.

1. Why it’s important to keep in mind that your life is already a masterpiece.
2. Why letting go of resistance - even to those things we don’t like or want - is the key to bringing in desired results.
3. Why we need to get okay with not seeing results instantly - and how to make this feel good to us.

As we step into September, don’t just grow another year older. Remember to keep developing and deepening your learning.

Keep going. Keep growing. Keep trusting yourself.

Listen now to help recalibrate yourself and tune back into your vision and the impact you want to have in the world.

EPISODE LINKS

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

Love the podcast? You can rate and review using this link: https://lovethepodcast.com/fip 

Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/ 

Sabine Flechet has spent over 15 years immersed in the world of venture capital, private equity, strategy consulting and investment banking. She is a ForPurpose and ForProfit investor and business angel, delivering social impact, sustainable governance, and financial returns.

She is a Co-Founding Partner at Masawa, the first Nurture Capital fund to invest in early-stage European founders catalysing mental health and wellness. Masawa's Nurture Capital approach minimises human capital risk by screening for and enhancing leadership effectiveness, founder and team wellbeing, and social impact, improving financial and social outcomes.

Sabine also advises the Purpose Foundation on new forms of venture capital investing and sustainable governance, including evergreen structures and steward-ownership frameworks. She is a fervent supporter of French-German cooperation, building bridges across the Rhine to scale European champions as the Vice-President of La French Tech Munich. She is also a Founding member of the INSEAD business angel club in Germany.

In this episode Sabine shares her experience and thoughts on:

• How women in male dominated industries often find themselves people pleasing, at the expense of their own inner power and career direction.

• The importance of giving ourselves permission to say no to what we don’t want, take a step back and look outside our current roles for inspiration on where to go next.

• How to leverage our networks and opportunities to build the careers that we want, and the huge benefits of talking to people, building relationships and helping others along the way.

• Mental health and wellness in entrepreneurship, and reducing human capital risk with a ‘nurture capital’ approach that supports people to confidently dare, scale up and innovate.

She also talks about a topic she is particularly passionate about: the importance of investing in things that matter, and building valid, profitable businesses that also support our planet and our society.

EPISODE LINKS

Sabine’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabine-flechet/ 

Masawa Fund: https://masawa.fund/ 

Purpose Foundation: https://purpose-economy.org/en/ 

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

Love the podcast? You can rate and review using this link: https://lovethepodcast.com/fip 

Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/ 

We are very aware these days that men get paid more, get more funding, and as a generalisation ask for so much more… assuming they will get it.

Growing up, us women don't get taught to ask for that much. Instead we are encouraged to be helpful.

We’re taught to be ‘good girls’.

To be grateful for what we’ve got.

To be careful what we ask for.

To be cautious and humble.

And when we do ask for something, we tend to ask for just a little bit more… to have something just a little bit better.

But this doesn’t help us change the system.

We women are extraordinary.

It’s time you ask for more.

To ask for what you really want.

To ask for what feels outrageously ‘unreasonable’!

In this episode, I talk about how you can figure out what you REALLY want, how to ask for it (and to have the confidence to negotiate) - and why women having more will make things better for everyone. 

EPISODE LINKS

Listen to Loui Törnqvist’s episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6JdWr0ZMH4BtGCKQaV9Twd?si=M4CZmX_BTBqeM89D9GAQbw 

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

Love the podcast? You can rate and review using this link: https://lovethepodcast.com/fip 

Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/ 

Loui Törnqvist is the Managing Director of Edition Wilhelm Hansen, the largest and oldest music publisher in the Nordics. She became the CEO aged just 26, and has run the company for 14 years. 

Now 42, she lives in outer Copenhagen with her husband, three children, dog and chickens. Her garden is her zen space. 

Loui is also the chairperson of the board of Koda, one of the biggest and most influential music companies in Denmark, with an annual turnover equivalent to £128 million. She is passionate about DEI and sustainability in leadership and life generally, and exploring the possibilities in alternative work/life balances. In addition to her other roles, she is also a trained psychotherapist, and created an organic skin care company in 2012.

In this episode Loui shares her experience and wisdom around:

• Her revelation about women’s lack of equality in real terms - and how she became more aware of feminist issues and the importance of Female Inner Power.
• Becoming a (somewhat reluctant) CEO at 26, making mistakes, and learning never to take power lightly, and how to make unpopular decisions without alienating employees.
• The importance of loyalty in business - and how to inspire it.
• Her board experiences, and what motivates her to work in this capacity

And she shares her insights into how and why she has challenged the norms and values of what it means to be a CEO – starting from the moment she realised she was pregnant, right after first being made Managing Director.

EPISODE LINKS

Loui’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisemarie 

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

Love the podcast? You can rate and review using this link: https://lovethepodcast.com/fip 

Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/ 

Dalia Weinreb is a registered dietitian who has been in clinical practice for 15 years. Living and working in Cambridge in the UK, Dalia is a mother of three children and deeply passionate about women's health through the life cycle. Her clinical interests span from gastrointestinal health and the gut microbiome, to autoimmune disease and hormonal health. 

In addition, Dalia is fascinated by how our relationship with food impacts the way we engage with life and all it has to offer. Dalia treats many women with disordered eating and feels very strongly about fighting for true recovery by their sides. 

Nutrition has only become more exciting for Dalia through the years, and she looks forward to many more years of having the privilege of helping people to feel better using nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

In this episode, Dalia reflects on:

• The moment she learned how important it is to model going to work, striving for her goals and helping other people for her daughter and sons 

• Teaching strength and boundaries (and being taught by our daughters!)

• Why we should be listening to our female intuition when it comes to our health

• The connection between nutrition and women’s health, hormones and energy (especially in perimenopause), and the biochemical causes behind stress, depression and anxiety

Dalia also shares a wealth of information and advice to help you understand your body and health better, grow your stress resilience, and support and advocate for your own wellbeing.

Listen to this episode: this is vital information for all women!

EPISODE LINKS

Find out more about Dalia and connect with her here https://www.dalianutrition.com/ 

Dalia mentions: https://www.glucosegoddess.com/ 

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

Love the podcast? You can rate and review using this link: https://lovethepodcast.com/fip 

Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/ 

Who gets to decide if you’re important?

This week I explore why knowing your own importance matters – and what happens when you don’t know how important you really are.

This episode is for you if you’ve ever wondered whether you’re ‘good enough’, been told you’re too much, been the ‘good girl’ who has looked to others for validation, outsourced your self worth, or ignored your own body, mind and needs.

Uplevelling your self importance has absolutely nothing to do with arrogance, comparison, superiority, or your ego. It’s not about taking yourself too seriously.

This is about…

How you show up 

How your body feels

How you think and feel

What you pay attention to

How you honour others

It’s time for you to dial up your level of self importance, trust yourself more, and discover more impact and joy.

This one matters.

EPISODE LINKS

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

Love the podcast? You can rate and review using this link: https://lovethepodcast.com/fip 

Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/ 

Hazel Beasley is a Board Member, Engineer and Consultant who works in an organisation that doesn't believe in traditional hierarchy and titles.

While having young children Hazel worked as a teacher but when she was ready to transition back into engineering she found it more tricky than she had imagined. Lots of people had unhelpful opinions and she also found herself experiencing unconscious bias in several ways.

After a number of jobs, Hazel is now thrilled to be working at the consulting firm Hatmil, a company that embraces Teal leadership and encourages employees to bring their whole selves to work. The Teal approach means there is traditional hierarchy and Hazel shares more about how this really works. 

Hazel is also the first elected female employee director on the Hatmill Operations Board.

In this conversation Hazel shares:

• Her valuable insights on dealing with sexism and unconscious bias in a male-dominated industry
• Relying on the power of silence and speaking up selectively in meetings
• The importance of appreciating and giving specific feedback to others
• The unique board structure at Hatmill, and how being an elected board member has given her a broad view of the company and allowed her to be more involved in business-wide conversations. 

Hazel also discusses Teal Leadership, an evolutionary concept that she believes is the future of organisational structures.

Hazel's story serves as an inspiration for those looking to make a career change and perhaps taking an unconventional path, and shows how powerful connecting with others and building genuine relationships can be. If you're feeling stuck in your career, Hazel’s story is a timely reminder that it's never too late to tread your own path, make a change and pursue your passions.

EPISODE LINKS

Hazel’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hazel-beasley-engineer/ 

If you want to learn more about Teal leadership and how Hatmill adapts Teal principles, listen to this interview Noomi did on her previous podcast in 2020 with Hatmill CEO Simon Dixon: https://noominatan.com/ep31/ 

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

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Emma Voss currently leads the global commercial offshore wind team at Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy. She is also a Board director of Statkraft UK Limited, a member of their ED&I steering committee and acts as mentor for junior women in her organisation. 

As a mother of two teenage girls, Emma is passionate about being a good role model and helping to shape a workplace where everyone can fulfil their potential.

In this conversation Emma shares her experiences and thoughts on…

• How women can get started finding and getting board positions
• What you can get out of being a board member
• How she found the self belief that allowed her to be confident in meetings
• Advocating for herself as a working mother

… and why being your authentic self and listening to the quietest people in the room are great strategies for success

EPISODE LINKS

Emma’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-voss-2a008340/ 

Women on Boards website: https://wbdirectors.co.uk/ 

To find out more about Noomi Melchior Natan, her coaching, Female Inner Power offers and more go to www.noominatan.com/everything

Love the podcast? You can rate and review using this link: https://lovethepodcast.com/fip 

Connect with Noomi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/noominatan/

And on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noomimelchiornatan/