The Feminine Edge

We all have an innate desire to feel we are a contribution and to find meaning in the work we do. Founder and CEO of Mending the Chasm, Leena Sharma Seth offers valuable insights to help us learn to create bridges where racism and inequity exist. Cultivating the will and commitment to create a world where everyone can thrive calls on each of us to step up, take a risk and to listen deeply to each other to learn how we can move forward together. Her Inside Out Program helps leaders create an action plan to disrupt racism and build anti-racism capacity and create inclusive, vibrant cultures.

In this interview with Michelle Cooper, Executive Coach, and Healthy Workplace Culture Expert, we explore specific practices that foster hope, healing, and wellbeing during rapidly changing and uncertain times. Often the simple act of being present with another to listen, practicing gratitude, and focusing on contribution is the avenue to nurturing our soul and resiliency.

To shift from drifting to designing your future we need to be aware of the invisible barriers that can keep you from realizing your full potential and develop strategies to help us navigate them. In part three of this mini-series examining the often-invisible obstacles on your path to your success, I unpack the final 3 obstacles, mood, cultivating a learning mindset, and raising your standards to help you chart a bold course forward.

Invisible barriers are like tree roots, they trip us up, fling us to the ground as we are hiking towards what we want for our business, lives, and future. Unless we can see the root, we will continue to trip and struggle. In part two of this mini-series From Drift to Design, we explore the invisible barriers of missing promises and lackluster habits and define strategies to help you move powerfully and with momentum towards designing the future you want.

Are you feeling a sense of disconnect from your dreams and ambition? Circumstances and breakdowns can throw us off our game and into patterns and beliefs allow us to drift into the future. We all experience moments when life's challenges take us to our edge; we lose our way and sense of purpose.

From my lens as a coach, I see two ways to manage these moments: either by drift or design. In this mini-series From Drift to Design, I share 7 invisible barriers that can trip us up on our path to being designers of our future.

Facing, as I've come to learn over my years as a coach is the gateway for transformation to occur. Facing into and being with the paradox of emotions that change and challenge bring requires us to be with the discomfort rather than avoid it. During situations where we are facing the unknown, we need to hold steady and trust the discomfort. It's through being with the discomfort we can give space for new insights, courage, and possibility to emerge.

Are you thinking of launching a business? Amy's guest this week is Deb Boulanger, the CEO of The Great Do-Over, founder of The Launch Lab and host of the Life After Corporate podcast. Personal hurdles prompted Deb to leave a very successful, lucrative corporate career and use her business acumen to build her own successful company, We discuss navigating risk by validating your big idea and dealing with self-sabotage and perfectionism so you can own your value and create a profitable business you love.

Is your personal brand creating resonating with your ideal client? In this interview, personal brand expert and photographer Rita Zietsma reveals it all comes down to sharing your authentic self and aligning what you do to who you are. Your authentic personal brand and images create a visual story and connection with the people you want to serve. Learn to create an authentic visual brand by releasing society's artificial, external standards for beauty, dropping the comparison game and embracing your unique essence and personality.

Do you ever look at where you're heading and wish you were there already? When you have a bold vision we can feel we are not progressing fast enough and we should be further ahead. This feeling can be pervasive, eroding enthusiasm, and leaving you feeling frustrated. In this episode, I offer four key strategies; time for reflection, stop comparisonitis in its tracks, design smaller milestones, and create a win board.Implementing these four practices will help you see progress, feel energized, and forward momentum.

Saphia Khambalia, you may know her best as a journalist and national TV anchor for The Weather Network and for CBC news. A busy mom of 3 young children, she shares how she's navigating COVID, career, and family. Saphia offers powerful insights about how COVID has turned out to be her life class in reframing success, in intentionally seeking moments of happiness and going inward to for the answers. We dive into feelings of "comparisonitis" and letting go of external expectations to refine how we create success on our own terms.