Succeeding at Life Marjorie Wharton

The world of business is experiencing a powerful shift towards a more empathetic and emotionally intelligent approach to leadership. CEOs are increasingly recognizing the importance of supporting their employees' well-being and emotional needs, and many are learning to embrace their own vulnerability in the process.

While this may be new territory for some male leaders, it is nothing new for the many women who have been leading with empathy and emotional intelligence for years. In fact, research has shown that women executives are significantly more likely to consistently demonstrate emotional self-awareness and empathy than their male counterparts.

This shift towards a more empathetic and emotionally intelligent approach to leadership is a positive development for organizations and their employees alike. By prioritizing emotional well-being and empathy, leaders can create a more supportive and inclusive workplace culture that fosters growth, productivity, and innovation.

So whether you're a CEO or a team leader at any level of your organization, remember that embracing your own vulnerability and supporting your employees' well-being and emotional needs is a key factor in achieving success and building a thriving, fulfilling workplace.

Our guest on this episode is Adiasha Richards-Thornhill.  She is a proud Trinidadian. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and the owner of Growth and Transitions Counseling located in Queens NY.

Her career spans a decade, and she is passionate about therapy that is deep, and aimed at healing the wounds beneath the surface. She works primarily with women to help them work through their trauma, heal from past wounds, and grow the skills needed to move out of surviving and into a life of full living.

She states "Everyone is talking about doing the work, finding inner peace, posting positive quotes, but What the Hell is that? How do you do the work?"

She is not just a therapist but also the Director of her private practice which has a team of licensed therapists that serve a wide demographic of people. She supervises interns, coaches aspiring clinicians, speaks at engagements and creates workshops.

Being from the Caribbean, she is also passionate about connecting with the community, reducing stigma and increasing the understanding and practice of mental wellness in the Caribbean community.

In this episode Adiasha discusses her motivation for choosing her field, some of the lessons she learnt along the way and her hope for how mental wellness issues are viewed especially in the Caribbean.

Our guest in this episode is Donna Every. Donna is the author of three inspirational books "What Do You Have in Your House? Surviving in Times of Financial Crisis", "The Promise Keeper" and "Arise and Shine" as well as an entrepreneurship book "The ABCs of Entrepreneurship - Tessa Takes the Challenge". Her articles have been published in numerous online newsletters and business websites. She was featured on the cover of Personal Excellence magazine for her article "Beating the Economy" based on her first book.

While her background is in business and finance, she discovered a love for writing a few years ago and enjoys the challenge of creating page turning books combining business and romance and now history and romance.

She has written eight novels "The Merger Mogul", "The High Road" , the page turning historical romance, "The Price of Freedom", her sweet rock star romance, "What Now?", "Free in the City", the exciting sequel to "The Price of Freedom", the third book in the Acreage Series "Free At Last", "Vaucluse" her new venture into fictionalized history and now her fourth book in The Acreage Series "Return to The Acreage".

Donna talks about her journey to becoming and author, the challenges that women in leadership sometimes face and her plans to for broadening what she is offering to the public.

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Julie Turney is a heart centric and people-focused HR Professional with over 15 years of experience in the field. She is the brainchild of HR@Heart Consulting Inc. a coaching firm she created after her second bout of HR burnout to help HR professionals to build their resilience agility while providing a safe place to recharge.

She is also the Lead Organizer of DisruptHR Caribbean for Barbados, Jamaica & Trinidad. She is the Host of the HR Sound Off Podcast Show and author of the book “Confessions of an HR Pro: Stories of Defeat and Triumph.”

She describes herself as being on a mission to connect with every member of the #HRCommunity and she is determined to clear up the many misconceptions that people have about the HR profession.

In this episode Julie talks about what it took for her to make the transition from being burnt out to being empowered and fulfilled. She offers some great advice and lessons from her journey.

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Christal P. Austin, Pg. Dip., BSc. is a trusted public relations advisor with over 18 years of experience in the tourism, finance, agriculture and international development sectors.  She is presently employed as a Senior Public Affairs Officer - Media Relations in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs.

An avid creative, she won the Richard Stoute Teen Talent contest in 2001, copped the UNESCO award for prose during NIFCA 2004 and is the self-published author of the poetic anthology, Lyrical Lava - Igniting the Fire Within (2005).  She was top scorer in the Honey Jam all-female artiste showcase in 2011 and a semi-finalist in the NCF's Sweet Soca Competition in 2013.  2021 marked her 22nd year as a singer on the local hotel circuit.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Sector Management (Honours) from the University of the West Indies (UWI), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Merit) from the University of Surrey and is currently pursuing a Master of Philosophy in Governance and Public Policy at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies of the UWI.

This episode looks at the way that we see our talents and the value we place on what we can contribute to our organizations and the world around us. It draws on a blog post in Showcasing the Success Journey and suggests steps that you can take to shift the way you see your own capabilities.