WIL Talk (Women in Leadership Talk)

Are you still searching for what might make your life more fulfilling? Maybe you’ve made it and are feeling good about your accomplishments but there is something still missing. Or maybe you are curious about how you connect your work to your value system. 

 Our conversation with Bessi Graham whose philosophy is very much about both/and thinking, shares with us how to avoid living with someone else’s idea of success. How to become a positive agent of change in the world!! She covers how to align your values with your business strategies and the importance of removing frustrations and pressure so you can be from a place of flow and fulfillment which enables you to tap into the fullness of who you are. 

Bessi talks about this quote “ We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender”. I love her take on how to do more good and still make money by aligning and being integrity.

Bessi has years of experience working with business owners, governments, and large funding bodies from the grassroots of sitting in the dirt working with business owners in the Pacific Islands to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, she brings an unparalleled perspective on what makes change happen.

 To see how you show up as a leader please take our free leadership quiz at wilempowerd.com

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What will you of tomorrow, thank you for doing today. Noomi Natan joins us for a wonderful conversation about why making the most of your potential is worth it, by having no regrets and unleashing your full inner power. 

Noomi is a certified Euro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Adult Training and Development, and Family and Organizational Constellation Coach. Her work is about helping you move from playing small to having an impact every day. Looking at life 10 years out and asking yourself “What or How do I want to be remembered and did I play to my full potential”? 

What does your leadership say about you? What areas could you use support to play to your full potential? Take our free leadership quiz at wilempowered.com to find out.

If you are interested to learn more about your own leadership strengths and gaps, take our free Leadership quiz and let us know what you discover about yourself. 

https://www.wilempowered.com/quiz/

Veronica Farmer joins us for a conversation about #leadership and leading with #vulnerability, #authenticity and intentionality. She shares some of her learnings as she navigates a variety of roles throughout her career, which include the impact she has on innovation, #communications, and leadership. From being mentored to paying it forward to our next generation of leaders. 

Veronica’s story is about seeing possibilities and when we fail, fail fast!! Learn from it, own it, and move forward. Sometimes we have to remove the emotional charge in order to see the total picture. 

If you are interested to learn more about your own leadership strengths and gaps, take our free Leadership quiz and let us know what you discover about yourself. 

https://www.wilempowered.com/quiz/

Are you a highly sensitive leader or do you know someone who might be? Join us as we discuss with Heather Dominick, founder of A Course in Business Miracles and author of  “Different: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution” as she shares what it’s like to be a highly sensitive leader and being able to share those gifts to create more impact in the world. She shares with us some of the strengths of those that are Highly Sensitive, such as having stronger intuition, empathy, and creativity, and what might be the shadow side of being Highly Sensitive, such as overwhelm, over-responsibility, and over-protection.

Heather also helps us understand how someone whose HS’s nervous system is wired completely differently and only 20% of the population is a highly sensitive individual which means there is a lot of work to do with the remaining 80% to educate on being more sensitive. Heather offers a free quiz to better understand if you might be “somewhat”, “super” or “super-uber” HS, https://www.businessmiracles.com/hse-quiz/free/. 

If you or someone you know might be Highly Sensitive please share this podcast so that they can have more insight into turning this into a strength.

Are you the leader you desire to be? Take our quiz to see. https://www.wilempowered.com/quiz/

Thanks to our sponsor Factor, for sponsoring this episode of the WIL Talk Podcast!! Head on over to Factor Meals.com/wiltalk50 and use the code wiltalk50 to get 50% off your first meal kit box. 

How is AI opening up the world of Financial Services? And what impact will robots have on our lives in the very near future?

Heather Altepeter, CEO and founder of the National Merchants Association join us to explore some of these questions and so much more. NMA has achieved remarkable success - securing a spot on the INC. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies for 3 years consecutively, achieving a nearly $1B evaluation and securing partnerships that afford exclusive access to innovative payment solutions. Heather is known as the go-to strategist, a progressive leader, and a voice of significance in the payments industry.  She has pioneered a new era in bankcards by demonstrating “High-Risk Done Right” is both possible and attainable. 

 Heather shares with us what is coming down the pipeline, and how we might navigate some of those biases with tech and robots. How her creation of Lola was inspired and is impacting the way we do business and it will continue to evolve. How the data that comes out is only as good as the data that goes in so we need to get curious and ask those all-important questions. That taking the human out of the picture is not the objective or the answer. 

 Interested in learning more about your own leadership? Take out the free leadership quiz and let us know what you discover about yourself as a leader. 

https://www.wilempowered.com/quiz/

We are living in extraordinary times with greater possibilities and even more uncertainty - Adeline Tiah accomplished Chief Marketing Officier with experience across banks, telcos, and startups and author of “ Reinvent 4.0 - The Keys to Unlock Success and Trie in Uncertainty” shares with us why we need to embrace a permanent reinvention mindset. And reinvention is not a destination but a journey of many version upgrades…just like a mobile app. 

 She shares the 8 elements of Reinvent and why staying agile and antifragile in the face of disruption is so critical, why we need to future-proof our next generation by instilling skills such as agility, connections, and the importance of self-disruption. To push yourself out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable to stretch to your true potential. 

 What are you doing to get uncomfortable? How will self-disruption change the way you see yourself? 

 Want to learn more about your leadership? Take our free leadership quiz at https://www.wilempowered.com/quiz/

We cannot create a #conscious world without conscious individuals. Marika Messager joins us for a deep dive into why #ConsciousLeadership is more important than ever. Marika is a #visionary, teacher and researcher of consciousness while elevating individuals, businesses, and the global community into a new #paradigm of positive and purposeful impact. In this episode, you will gain insight into the power dynamics taking place in the world of business, why we need to make changes that have a significant impact, the importance of #femininity, and so much more.  Why toxic leadership no longer works and the ripple effect to the business, individuals, and the end users. Taking a mirror test is key to understanding self and the role each of us plays in showing up more authentically, and emotionally intelligent and enabling us to be even more spiritually intelligent. Consciousness is not only important in business as the overall impact touches all aspects of our lives. 

 I would love to hear your thoughts on how conscious your organization is and what impact it might make to bring more conscious leadership to those you lead. 

Join our conversation with Brandy Mabra as she talks about owning your CEO status. She shares her beautiful story of how she was forced to take breaks and own her status while still thriving. Many of us women take on professional careers, home, and family while keeping it all going which has a cost to us if we are not paying attention to the signs. It is easy to get caught up in life and lose sight of your own #selfcare and take the time to refuel so that you can own your CEO status. She also shares the importance of finding what work you love. Brandy also talks about #legacy and our #imprint on the world. 

Interested in learning about male allyship? Or maybe the benefits of diversity in business? Please tune in to our conversation with Michael Tremblay, CEO of Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards. Mike has an extensive background in sales, marketing, operations, and general management experience across Canada, the United States and Latin America, where he has built teams focusing on equality and diversity. In this conversation, we discuss the importance of shaping a better future, how we need to look at the long term, and why it just makes good business sense to have a diverse team. Mike and his team work diligently to bring focus to ensuring a diverse board and management team while ensuring they serve a much broader community. Loved this conversation and the tips for why being uncomfortable is required for impacting change. 

Are you curious to learn more about blockchain and Artificial Intelligence? Dr. Elena Mechik shares with us what blockchain actually is in terms we can understand, what is happening with Chatgpt, her journey through a Brazil rainforest and how that experience has forever changed her life and the way she does business. Plus what it is like being a mother of a newborn, leading a tech company, and using her superpowers to make it all work. 

I so enjoyed this conversation and her attitude of feeling the fear and doing it anyway. So many amazing insights and such an incredible impact on the way we interact with our world. Each of us can make a difference if we just look at how and what we are doing.