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Leading with a Common Dream - Victoria Lai - The Impactful Leadership Show - Episode # 025

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Today’s guest started making ice cream in her apartment kitchen in 2009 and continued making it while working as a presidential appointee to the Department of Homeland Security. Victoria Lai is a lawyer turned entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Ice Cream Jubilee. You’ll hear about connecting with the people you work with through common ground, how everyone can become a leader, and the way that real change happens. 

 

Takeaways:

  • As a leader, you need to find the common ground between yourself and the people you are working with to make sure that you have a common goal and a common dream that you’re working together to achieve.
  • You don’t have to have employees or a large public following to be a leader. Everyone can be a leader both to others and themselves.
  • Challenge yourself to meet people where they are and question your own way of thinking. Try reading opposing positions, learning about painful issues, and trying to understand the roots of these problems.
  • It’s important to talk with other people in a very understanding and open-minded way about these issues. You don’t need to solve everything right away, but the conversation itself is extremely important to have as a leader. 
  • You will fail in some of your endeavors, so it’s really important that you are ready to get back up and try again. This is how you will improve who you are to become the best leader you can be.
  • The only way to truly move forward is to talk about hard things with others. 
  • Your dreams are achievable but you have to do the work, become an expert, and continue improving yourself. You also need to tell everybody about your dream, saying it aloud will help you manifest it and build allies. 

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    Quote of the Show:

    • “The better that you can communicate and empathize with other people, the better you can achieve that common vision” - Victoria Lai

     

    Links:

    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-lai-18a9a2/  
  • Company website: www.icecreamjubilee.com  

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    Shout Outs:

    • Four & Twenty Blackbirds - Bakery in Brooklyn, NY

     

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