Lessons Learned with Komal

Komal Minhas
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Lessons Learned with Komal is a place to explore life's greatest lessons. The ones we've learned, and those we are still in the process of learning. Episodes are a mix of interviews and personal reflections from Komal. Lessons Learned is a space for you to chew on life's lessons, big and small, and hear from the people we admire most in the world.

  1. 4d ago

    Listen If You're Scared Your Life Is Too Small | Audio Essay 03

    JOIN THE PLANNING SALONS: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/about READ THE ORIGINAL ESSAY: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.substack.com/ LET'S HANG OUT ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/komalminhas/ Welcome to this week's Lessons Learned: Audio Essay -- essays on ambition, reinvention, and building a life worthy of you, written and read by me, Komal Minhas! As the Fall sprint continues, I feel disconnected from the pace of the people on my feed. This is a personal 'winter' for me, lots of inner work, preparation for our next round of IVF, and a deliberate slowing down and 'shrinking' of life and work. Sometimes the season we're in is the one we truly need, and embracing that can help us lock into the gratitude of the life we've actually deliberately chosen. Let's dive into periods of regrouping, and what future comebacks are built from. Can't wait to hear what you think. YOUR WEEKLY PROMPT: In a personal winter: How could strengthening your little life help you show up better for your big life when it’s time to? What do you love about your little life? What could you appreciate more? In a personal summer: How can you better appreciate the big season you’re in? What support from your little life do you need right now to keep thriving? LET'S PLAN TOGETHER! Each month, paid members of my Lessons Learned community on Substack meet with me for a 75-minute facilitated journaling and planning salon. We reflect, write, and work through the same four planning prompts each month, and decide what deserves our time and action for the month ahead. Thanks for listening!

    Listen If You're Scared Your Life Is Too Small | Audio Essay 03

  2. Sep 13

    Surrender to What's Actually Working | Audio Essay 02

    JOIN THE PLANNING SALONS: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.subst... Welcome to this week's Lessons Learned: Audio Essay! Essays on ambition, reinvention, and building a life worthy of you, written and read by me, Komal Minhas! I've journaled by hand almost everyday of the last 18-months. I finish a journal every eight to nine weeks, and as I finished my most recent one, I ended up writing a letter of gratitude to the version of me who spent those weeks implementing the plans and habits to finally meet this version of me. I am calmer, stronger, more boundaried, physically healthier, better slept -- I built habits and took actions I had dreamed about, but wasn't convinced I'd actually get to again. But here I am. It didn't take some epic 'ah-ha', it just took good friends, self-trust, and a willingness to keep going day after day. In this audio essay, I explore why I've come to believe that planning is actually an act of self-love. YOUR WEEKLY PROMPT: What if planning isn't just about productivity, but about loving the journey of walking towards your future dream self? What would change if you approached it in this way? LET'S PLAN TOGETHER! Each month, paid members of my Lessons Learned community on Substack meet with me for a 75-minute facilitated journaling and planning salon. We reflect, write, and work through the same four planning prompts each month, and decide what deserves our time and action for the month ahead. Thanks for listening! READ THE ORIGINAL ESSAY: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.subst... LET'S HANG OUT ON IG: http://www.instagram.com/komalminhas

    Surrender to What's Actually Working | Audio Essay 02

  3. Sep 6

    How Do You Know When You’re Ready Again? | Audio Essay 01

    It's my first Audio Essay and podcast upload in SO LONG! HI AGAIN! After a season of caregiving and recovery, an unexpected sound in my backyard helped me reframe my ambition and how to approach life next. In this audio essay, I explore how not every quiet season needs us to rush through it. Sometimes the best lessons are in the slowest times. The only way what's next can emerge is if we give it the time it needs. A reflection prompt to take with you: What changes when you realize your ambition may be less about forcing yourself into a future you think you want, and more about creating the space and time to notice what's actually ready within you to emerge? This is part of Lessons Learned: Audio Essays. Audio essays on ambition, reinvention, resilience, and building a life you actually want. Written and read by me, Komal Minhas. I publish the written version of the essay over on Substack: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.subst... Join the Lessons Learned Community: Paid subscribers on Substack get access to monthly live 75-minute planning salons where I lead you through my planning process that helped me build a million dollar business, interview some of the biggest leaders of our generation, and recover from hard seasons in a community you'll love. I hope to see you there! Sign up here: https://lessonslearnedwithkomal.subst... Thanks for listening, and I'll see you in the next one!

    How Do You Know When You’re Ready Again? | Audio Essay 01

  4. 2021-06-08

    How to Take The Next Right Step in Life and Work

    [1:26] - Why we need intersectional personal development spaces and curriculums [5:46] - What helped me rise through difficulty, build confidence, and the life I wanted  [10:15] - Why we need systems in place to take care of our well-being and goals in life and work [21:15] - How you can spend 6 weeks with Komal building and advancing your resiliency, and a strong foundation and safety net in your life [28:27] - How your life can change after choosing to invest in yourself: The Next Right  Step Alumni share their transformative experiences Keep up with Komal at:  https://www.instagram.com/komalminhas   Catch up on weekly content related to each episode at: https://www.instagram.com/lessonslearned.co/   Find out all about Komal’s resilience building programs at: https://www.instagram.com/trainwithkomal/     Work with Komal, grow your resiliency, and build a strong foundation and safety net for your life that propels you forward at www.komal.com/tnrs    Lessons Learned is produced and hosted by Komal Minhas and by Renira Naidu with assistance from Daniela Ochoa   Creative Direction by Renira Naidu.    Content  by Daniela Ochoa   Video Production and Audio Editing by Maddie Foran.

  5. 2021-05-28

    How to Stop Doubting Success (+ Free Workshop!): Season 2, Episode 3

    Have you ever spent months doing ‘quiet work’ to prepare for a new season in life and work? Have you taken the time to implement habits, routines, systems and structures you would need to succeed as you work towards your goals ahead?  In this episode, Komal talks about what it’s like to come out of a season of quiet work and bet on yourself as you set out to achieve your goals.  1:51 – Questioning the goodness in our lives: Why do we do it? Why it’s equally as important for us to prepare for the goodness to come in our lives, as we tend to do for the “bad news” 3:33 – letting ourselves think about the potential of success: let yourself lean into the good when it shows up and believe in your success  4:28 – Hear all about Komal’s new free workshops Keep up with Komal at:  https://www.instagram.com/komalminhas Catch up on weekly content related to each episode at: https://www.instagram.com/lessonslearned.co/ Find out all about Komal’s resilience building programs at: https://www.instagram.com/trainwithkomal/ Join one of Komal’s three free workshops: “Rooted, Resilient and Inspired to Leap: The Six Keys to Unleashing Your Next Level Self and Unlocking Your Dream Life” at www.komal.com/workshop  Lessons Learned is produced and hosted by Komal Minhas and by Renira Naidu with assistance from Daniela Ochoa Creative Direction by Renira Naidu.  Content  by Daniela Ochoa Video Production and Audio Editing by Maddie Foran.

  6. 2021-05-20

    How To Redefine Your Relationship to Work and Success with Deepica Mutyala: The Next Right Step, Part 4

    [8:18] -  What does it mean to live life on your own terms? When you think of your own definition and relationship to "success", what does success look like to you? Komal and Deepica talk about how people can have different definitions of success, and how our own definition of success has changed throughout our lives and careers. [10:14] - When is it time to create a boundary with work? Komal shares what led her to draw a line in the sand when it came to her relationship to work and the expectations she had for herself, and how this experience completely transformed her life. [13:55] - Navigating our relationship to work and wellness:  Deepica shares about her wish to create space in her life to care for herself and continue to make the impact that she wants to make by having a sustainable relationship to work. [21:45] - What are some things that you have started doing to take care of yourself since the start of the pandemic that are now non-negotiables? Deepica and Komal talk about the small silver linings and moments of joy that they have found from this challenging time, and how being more mindful of these moments in our lives can help us find joy. [26:55] - How connecting to your "Why" can help you shift your relationship to work: Deepica shares about her "Why" for creating her brand LiveTinted, and the ways that her mission to fight colorism grounds her in her purpose every day and allows her to persevere. [30:04] - When we make decisions for ourselves because they feel right, we can unleash a domino effect: How showing up for your life as fully as you posssibly can, and as rooted in your identity and needs as possible can have a bigger impact that you can imagine.

    How To Redefine Your Relationship to Work and Success with Deepica Mutyala: The Next Right Step, Part 4

  7. 2021-05-14

    How to Embrace Your Rage with Valarie Kaur: The Next Right Step, Part 3

    Valarie Kaur is a civil rights attorney, Sikh activist, and author of “See No Stranger”. In this conversation, Komal talks to Valarie about the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, the concept of love as a verb that requires labour and care, and the ways that connecting to our ancestry and identity can help us amplify our impact and root into ourselves. Trigger warning: Mention of Sexual Assault. [4:16] -  Rooting into our identities to persevere in the fight for justice: Valarie shares with us the story of how she began to root into her identity and found the Warrior Woman within her after receiving advice from her Grandfather to not 'abandon her post' in her struggle and fight for justice. She shares advice on how you can also connect to the warrior within you to fight for justice.  [11:15] - How does one go about moving through and letting go of the identities that have been thrust upon them? Valarie shares how she has gone through the process of unlearning certain identities that have been thrust upon her, and how she has learned to root into the identities that she wants to be defined by moving forward.  [19:59] - How letting emotions come and go can make you resilient:Komal and Valarie talk about the bravery that it takes to show up with empathy and love in order to fight for change and justice in any space that we exist in.  [25:35] - The difference between reconciliation and forgiveness: Valarie shares her experience with forgiveness and reconciliation, and how forgiveness allowed her to heal herself. How learning to process one’s rage can connect us to the ability to fight for ourselves, and also love ourselves.  [29:28] - Why tuning into your rage can be divine: How we can harness the energy of rage to channel our creative work into the world in a safe container. “The aim of divine rage is not vengeance, but to reorder the world.” - Valarie Kaur [34:00] - How we can summon our ancestors to tune into our strength: Valarie shares how connecting to your ancestry can support you in showing up in the way that you are meant to in the world.  “To see no stranger is not just about seeing others as a part of you that you do not know, but it is seeing yourself in a world that wants to make you a stranger to yourself.” - Valarie Kaur

    How to Embrace Your Rage with Valarie Kaur: The Next Right Step, Part 3

  8. 2021-05-09

    Our Grief Deserves Our Care: Season 2, Episode 2

    Grief during a pandemic is complicated. Whether it is unpacking our grief around the loss of our friends, loved ones, or others, or the loss of parts of ourselves and our lives, our grief deserves our care and attention. In this short solo episode, Komal shares mores about the space she gave herself over the last two weeks as she encountered a depth of grief and vulnerability, and the process of lifting herself back up.

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Lessons Learned with Komal is a place to explore life's greatest lessons. The ones we've learned, and those we are still in the process of learning. Episodes are a mix of interviews and personal reflections from Komal. Lessons Learned is a space for you to chew on life's lessons, big and small, and hear from the people we admire most in the world.

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  • Creator
    Komal Minhas
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Komal Minhas Inc.
  • Show Website
    Lessons Learned with Komal

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