WomenWILL: Women In Leadership Limelight Leadership: Women Leaders

Have you ever doubted your strength and ability to perform at your best? What was hindering you from operating and thriving?Nowadays, many people are giving themselves less value and worth as someone who can do better than the average. Often, we are not taking full authority to achieve their greatness.

Dr. Fern Kazlow is a New York licensed clinical psychotherapist, speaker, author, business, marketing, branding consultant/strategist, and mentor to high performers. She has been a leader in integrative, holistic approaches to business and mind-body health since the mid-1970s. In 1981, she founded Integrative Therapy and Integrative Action. She later opened one of the first holistic centers in New York City. Her center's growth was due to her unique approach to health, healing, and personal and business growth. This approach teaches individuals how to consciously create the life they want instead of being limited by what others – or they – currently see as possible. It ultimately evolved into what is today known as The Kazlow Method.

In this episode, Dr. Kazlow and Laura talk about the hidden power drivers of peak performers. Dr. Kazlow will impart her knowledge of expertise regarding peak performance, high performance, and peak potential and what it takes to unleash and master our full potential as individuals with a different line of intelligence.
"Knowing what peak performance looks like for you would be tied to knowing what success looks like for you in your particular industry or field."
Topics Covered:00:00 – Episode snippet + intro00:48 – Introduction: Welcoming today's guest, Dr. Fern Kazlow 01:13 – The Background of expertise: How did Dr. Kazlow end up working with peak performance?02:24 – The Difference between Peak performance, High performance, and Peak potential: What is peak performance? What does it mean?04:34 – What does peak performance look like for various individuals?13:08 – Understanding of perfectionism: How do you advise a person who struggles with perfectionism in pursuit of peak performance?18:28 – Inherent or Nurtured: Can someone learn to be a high-performance performer?24:23 – Who am I without my limitations? What could I have achieved?27:24 – Find the right person to help you be better: Can we get to peak performance without support from others?29:33 – The framework of the hidden power drivers of peak performance(33:59) Connection and disconnection: Learning how to reconnect(36:45) Resistance is at the core: How do we respond to change?41:38 – AWARENESS: How do you shift your state of mind by mastering the power drivers?46:21 – The two facets of being stuck: A need for self-awareness(46:50) – We're not stuck yet, but we're on the way there.(47:31) – We're stuck, but we recognize it differently 51:11 – Connect with Dr. Fern Kazlow52:13 – Closing words from Dr. Kazlow: Freedom with Connection is an incredible life-changing experience.

Key Takeaways:

"I believe that most limitations are movable, and we can achieve seemingly unachievable or impossible outcomes." – Dr. Fern Kazlow

"There aren't as many limitations as we think. Sometimes you might end up bumping into them, but many things we think of as limitations aren't."

Connect Dr. Fern Kazlow:Website: https://drkazlow.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrKazlow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdraasiyah/; https://www.instagram.com/thecreativewomanleader/Twitter: https://twitter.com/drfernkazlow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfernkazlow/

Connect with Laura Kuimba:Website: https://laurakuimba.com/Podcast: https://laurakuimba.com/podcast-guest-activating-women-leaders/#tve-jump-180b3c9042fFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraKuimbaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBmbiWm08l6GPMNQSqkfFgLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-kuimba/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurakuimba/Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurakuimba/

Do you feel like you’re not good enough for people, and/or you’re being a fraud, hiding your ‘real’ self as you ‘steal’ success in this world?

 

Research says that 70% of the world’s population deals with imposter syndrome at some point in their life, and it has stolen lots of confidence and will from people who’ve got great potential.

 

So in today’s episode, I bring you Dr. Aasiyah Ghazi, a woman who’s been through the same experience of doubting her own self and capabilities. Join us as we explore how we can become the leaders our world needs as we overcome the imposter phenomenon!

 

Dr. Aasiyah Ghazi is an Associate Faculty at the University of Arizona Global Campus, teaching leadership courses in the Bachelors of Arts in Business Leadership Program with the Forbes School of Business and Technology. Aside from teaching, Dr. Ghazi works at Pepperdine University with the Associates Dean’s Office as a Graduate Assistant for the Excellence and Innovation Program, as well as for the Center for Global Partnerships and Learning where she assists students with bad dissertation process, manages the Center’s podcast, and coordinates events that the Center hosts throughout the year.

 

In this episode, Dr. Ghazi and Laura talk about activating women leaders by overcoming imposter syndrome as Dr. Ghazi shares her own experience of the phenomenon while enumerating the components of the ASIA model she’s developed to overcome the syndrome.

 

Topics Covered:

00:00 – Episode snippet + intro

01:25 – Introduction: Welcoming today’s guest, Dr. Aasiyah Ghazi

03:30 – The Backstory: Why is the research about women leadership and imposter syndrome important to Dr. Aasiyah?

09:18 – This Ain’t Me: Defining what and how impostor syndrome looks and feels like

13:41 – Impostor Transference: With all the challenges women face these days, how does impostor syndrome arise?

25:54 – The Four Ways: Talking about the framework Dr. Aasiyah came up with to overcome impostor syndrome

1.  (27:34) Accomplish: The goal and the how

2.  (29:16) Support systems: People who can help

3.  (34:43) Investment: Invest in yourself

4.  (39:50) Acknowledgment: Celebrate and write

47:37 – This is Me: The advantages of women coming together to help each other bring their best self at work

55:41 – Time to Reflect: What does Dr. Aasiyah do in tough moments to refocus and deal with the feeling of being overwhelmed?

1:01:11 – A Big Help: The new habit/behavior that improved her life in the last few years

1:04:13 – Checkout the journal and books Dr. Aasiyah have co-authored

1:05:42 – The certificate on women leadership

 

 

Key Takeaways:

 

“We have everything on our fingertips, and it’s just a matter of us having to invest in ourselves to be able to do that.” – Dr. Aasiyah Ghazi

 

“Women need to come together to help each other out in being the leaders that we want to be in this world, that we want to be in our organizations, in our communities. When we have that support from each other, that’s really going to help us elevate ourselves in terms of being able to support one another.” – Dr. Aasiyah Ghazi

 

Connect Dr. Aasiyah Ghazi:

 Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/DrAasiyah

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/creativewomanleader

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdraasiyah/; https://www.instagram.com/thecreativewomanleader/

 

Connect with Laura Kuimba:

 Website: https://laurakuimba.com/

Podcast: https://laurakuimba.com/podcast-guest-activating-women-leaders/#tve-jump-180b3c9042f

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraKuimba

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBmbiWm08l6GPMNQSqkfFg

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-kuimba/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurakuimba/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurakuimba/

006. In this episode of WomenWILL with Dr. Kavita Pandit, we discuss: 

▪️the dopamine highs of chasing success 

▪️the 'good enough' approach 

▪️creating ‘momentum and moments’ 

▪️one key leadership skill that's easily taken for granted 

Dr. Kavita Pandit, Professor of Geosciences & Senior Advisor to the Provost at Georgia State University.

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005. Dr. Kavita Pandit is a Professor of Geosciences and senior advisor to the Provost at Georgia State University. A distinguished academic and university leader, she is also the former president of the American Association of Geographers and has received numerous disciplinary and university awards for her achievements and contributions. 

It's a big question - how do you define what you really want? One crucial key is separating your assumed obligations i.e. your "shoulds" from what gives you a true sense of contentment i.e. your "wants".  In part one of this conversation, Dr. Kavita shares about growing up as a young girl in India, moving to the US to chart her own path, the influence of role models and mentors in her life, and ultimately defining her destiny and legacy.  

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#004. Discover how watching her house burn while she was on a cruise in the middle of the ocean improved Sadie's ability to delegate, how she & her business partners exchanged vows on a beach in Hawaii, and why faith is her foundation for service, strategy and growth.

In this 'part 2' conversation with Sadie Hess, founder and CEO of CompassCares.com, she & Laura Kuimba discuss the philosophy of work-life integration (rather than balance), Sadie's spiritual breakthrough that helped her manage her business life, and how she unlocked the ability to share power and authority with her business partner. Learn why Sadie is more concerned with raising her kids to be good not just to be happy, and how you can take control of your life and overcome the feeling of being a victim to your schedule. 

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#003— Sadie Hess is the founder and CEO of Compass. At 23, her boss told her she couldn't run a business - and now she owns that very building. Driven to help people with disabilities pursue their dreams, direction & destiny, her company now has 8 office locations and over 600 employees across California. 

In part 1 of this conversation, Sadie shares her experiences of leadership, growth and self-discovery from her leadership philosophy, how she learned to navigate strong personalities and a surprising secret ingredient that nurtured her along the way. 

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