Today’s guest has discovered the secret to tapping into your authentic self and turning it into a superpower at work and in life. She has spent the last 14 years traveling the globe, training senior execs and teams from Fortune 100 companies like Google, Pepsico, Uber, and Disney. She's turned technologists into creative forces, bankers into storytellers, and has brought a serious dose of badass-ness to boardrooms everywhere. She is a former TV host turned trainer, speaker, and Swagger coach. She’s the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of “Swagger Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want.”

Please join me in welcoming Leslie Ehm.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is about anyone in service of growing other humans. It’s the intention to help others grow.”
• how she learned to be a leader by realizing that she did not have leadership skills and using her deficits as her inspiration.
• her experience growing up and remembering it as a difficult time.
• her journey to find a platform to communicate with others.
• how growing up with entrepreneurial parents gave her the freedom and security to build her own business.
• how living in the UK for many years and returning home to Canada made her feel about her network.
• her belief that people are already everything they need to be to be successful.
• the untruths associated with building a business.
• her experience taking a chance with a new business partner and she began losing her swagger.
• the evolution of her Combustion virtual training company. her dream for the Swagger Revolution.

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