In this episode of The UNFLTRD Podcast I chat with my UNFLTRD guest Likky Lavji about how we can effectively navigate our blind spots.

In this episode, I sit down with Louise Reid and have a real heart-to-heart with a true UNFLTRD heart-centered leader who works with other women to help them rise and amplify their voices. 

Louise' values of family and freedom drive everything she does and enables her to align herself with clients who share her values so that she can show up wholeheartedly in service to others.

My next guest is Rachel Beck, one of the voices among the rising movement of women storytellers whose own story is rooted in a cross-cultural love story of adoption as an orphan born in a remote village in India. Adopted by white Jewish American parents, Rachel's path to womanhood and loss of motherhood, her encounters with racism, her courageous and vulnerable renaissance are captured in her story through a camera lens and words inspired by tragedy and triumph and there are shared today in this episode of The UNFLTRD Podcast.

We need to ensure we empower others to show up in their authentic best version of themselves. This is the message Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, a Black Muslim women, uses to inspire young girls to be the best on the basketball court.  

Bilqis dribbles down barriers because she is an empowering force who understands that we can start impacting those closest to us by "taking the responsibility back" within our own community to be the change we want to see.

What's it like to be Black in America today? What's it like to be a Black man in the United States? In this episode of The UNFLTRD Podcast, I unpack some of these challenges with Ronnell Richards, my UNFLTRD guest. He explains how he's always had to work harder, and in doing so, he doesn't negate the hard work of other Blacks before him.

It is a moving conversations and an incredible story of hard work, determination and identity.

Are you grateful? Do you realize how high emotional intelligence impacts gratitude? Do you care? I mean, do you really care--about others? 

Everything in life is a gift and gratitude is the appropriate response. 

Cultivating gratitude is important to our emotional intelligence because it increases emotional awareness and self-regulation. Expressing gratitude is not just good for us, it's good for others, something Kevin Monroe reminded me of on The UNFLTRD Podcast. 

🙏🏽When we show gratitude to others, we in turn increase our own sense of gratitude. 

🙏🏽We transform into more inspiring humans, better partners, stronger leaders. 

🙏🏽We learn to tame our monkey mind and expel the toxic thoughts and feelings that come from information overload. 

🙏🏽We reclaim our focus, manage our energy better, increase our well-being and decrease narcissistic behaviours 

🙏🏽 We nurture a positive outlook towards life, become more emotionally supportive of others, kind and compassionate 

Now that’s something to be grateful for!