🎬 Today’s Guest Piera Gelardi was the former Co-Founder and Creative Director of Refinery 29 - a media company focused to inspire women and diversify their image in the media industry.

💡Today she will teach you practices on how you can be more self-compassionate, how that will impact your success in a positive way, how you can use play and creativity to solve challenges and how to better find your authentic self.

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Topics:

00:00 - Intro

01:21 - Growing up

05:08 - Productivity & Pressure

07:48 - How to not feel guilty

9:51 - Success & Self Compassion

14:13 - Her toughest moment

15:35 - How creativity can help us to get unstuck

18:26 - How to introduce play into your life

25:27 - How to build confidence

26:36 - How to build creativity

27:06 - How to explore your authenticity

36:39 - Her Craziest Pinch Me Moment

38:03 - Her Favourite Play Activity

39:05 - Something she wished to know earlier in life

39:35 - Her next steps

Piera:

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🎭  Hollywood Actress Kelly Rutherford, who most of you probably know from the show Gossip Girl as Lily van der Woodsen, is an incredible woman who holds so much compassion and kindness inside her.  

💡 She will let you in on how she became an actress, the influence of her childhood, and the experiences that shaped the woman she is today.  Together we will deep dive into the topics of authenticity, self-love, and rejection. 

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Topics: 

Intro 

Her wish to be independent 

The reason behind becoming an actress  

The influence of Gossip Girl  

Defining her own authenticity  

Her Childhood  

How to focus on the good things  

How to align with yourself  

How to go your own way  

Why you should question where you want to go  

The false belief of rejection  

How to become a better listener  

Unlearning Beliefs  

The role of love in life  

How to practice more self-love  

Her new chapter  

Quick Fire

Kelly:  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellyrutherford/

Whyzzer: https://www.whyzzer.com/

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🚀 Claudia is a former professional athlete, she followed a steep career journey and is now working as an executive coach, coaching the top leaders.

💡 Claudia will decode the biggest misconceptions around success. You will learn how you can manage your energy - not your time ;) and identify the different roles you have in your life, to become the best and most successful version of yourself.

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Topics:

00:00 - Intro

01:38 - Early Context

03:47 - The Impact of being a professional athlete

06:50 - The reason she quit

10:09 - The life after being a professional athlete

11:43 - The first time of reconsidering her definition of success

15:30 - The misconception of success

18:51 - How you can find out what success means to you

25:31 - Is it possible to be successful and not overwork yourself?

29:03 - The importance of scheduling downtime

32:49 - The role of gratitude in becoming successful

36:51 - How to use visualization to become successful

39:57 - The importance of taking action to become successful

41:13 - The correlation between confidence and success

43:37 - Would Claudia consider herself successful?

44:49 - Quick Fire

Claudia:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudialambrichs/

Website: https://www.claudialambrichs.com/

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To say Kim Scott had a crazy career journey would be an understatement. Kim went from studying arms control to building Google to becoming a CEO coach to companies like Twitter and then to writing the New York Times Bestseller Radical Candor. She has done it all and therefore has to share some important career advice that we should all listen to in our 20s. Kim is also an expert on building great relationships not just at work but also in her personal life.

If you want to step up your career and build better relationships, then this one is for you! Enjoy!

Topics:

From studying arms control to becoming a New York Times Bestselling Author

The influence of her grandma

The reason for joining Google

The reason why she wanted to become a leader

Advice to not get underpaid - your Batna

When to stick and when to quit

The idea of Radical Candor

How can we challenge someone directly

Why ‘Don’t take it personally’ doesn’t work

How to handle failure

How to become a better listener

Why it’s important to understand a person's past and future

How to take care of your most intimate relationships

Quick Fire

Kim:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimm4/

Radical Candor: https://www.radicalcandor.com/

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Say Hello to Chris for the second episode of Growth Essentials!!

Chris Ashenden, is the founder and CEO of Athletic Greens. He has had a crazy life journey and faced many ups and downs. Chris has managed to pull himself up every time and take ownership of his own life to create one he truly enjoys. Together we will dive deep into the key parts of happiness and how you can take ownership to create a life you love.

If you’d subscribe to Growth Essentials you’d help tremendously in order for me to get more amazing people on this show!

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Topics:

Intro

Upbringing & Early Beliefs

The importance of leaving your comfort zone

Being grateful for the lives we have

3 steps to pursue change

Learnings from being an athlete

Why his first business failed

Bouncing from job to job / becoming a policeman

Starting his real estate business

His Darkest Times & the start of Athletic Greens

His Why to build Athletic Greens

3 Steps to Happiness

How to make every day a win

Why ‘I’ll be happy when’ is BS

The importance of Ownership

What makes a good relationship?

Quick Fire Q’s

Chris:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisashenden/?hl=de

Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/en

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Say Hello to Amy for the first episode of Growth Essentials!!

Huge Thank you to you Amy for your support! <3

Amy Buechler is a studied psychologist, she worked at Y Combinator and founded her own coaching company. Within the past years, she has coached hundreds of different founding teams in very emotional and challenging situations. She will teach you how you can process your emotions, and better understand how you feel and what to do with those feelings.

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Topics:

Intro

Childhood & The impact of her early days

How she knew that Psychology was her thing

The feeling of wanting to work in tech

Joining Y Combinator

The Feeling of Just Right

What emotions communicate to us

4-Step model to process your emotions

How to stop feeling guilty for what you’re feeling

The problem of identity

How is our identity shaped?

How you can set values for yourself

Her Beliefs

How to deal with Resentment

How to have hard conversations

How to deal with a change in motivation

Quick Fire

Amy:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amybuechler/

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Welcome to the first season of Growth Essentials! :)

Growth Essentials is the place where we’ll sit down with the Psychologists, the Coaches, the Creatives, and the Entrepreneurs to decode how they have become the person they are today.   

Together we will deep dive into all the personal and professional questions that are going to enrich your life tremendously. 

Generation Z, this show is going to be for you!   

FOLLOW NOW to become the best version of yourself!

Thank you to all of our early supporters and guests:  

- New York Times Best-Selling Author of Radical Candor, Kim Scott 

- Hollywood Actress & Startup Investor, Kelly Rutherford 

- Founder & CEO of Athletic Greens, Chris Ashenden 

- Founder Coach & Ex Y Combinator, Amy Buechler 

- Psychologist & CEO of Likeminded, Kimberly Breuer 

- Executive Coach, Claudia Lambrichs Lindenbergh & many more to come…  

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