Brave Transitions Podcast

➡️OVERVIEW Shannon Hughes is an experiential facilitator and communications coach with a practice called, Enlivened Studios. Leaders hire her to ignite their persona genius and energize their teams. She does this through improv-inspired teaching and story sharing. ✅ YOU'LL LEARN How to tap into your expressive, creative energy  How to say no and then yes and ... How to have a plan without knowing you have one  🎊  FUN FACT: Shannon did engage a career coach as one of the steps along her transition.  💡 MORE INFOS https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannondeanhughes/ Get tips on how to enliven any virtual meeting with improv techniques: https://www.enlivenedstudios.com/download

=> OVERVIEW Michael Bellmann is a musical theater composer and digital marketing manager at Stay Friends in Berlin who had left his steady corporate career for a year of self improvement in Berlin. He has got that spirit to go against the norm and live a life full of purpose, creativity and positive energy.  ✅ YOU'LL LEARN How to find balance between marketing and music How to find out 'something is wrong'  How to have this "difficult" discussion with colleagues, bosses, friends and family How a dating platform can help to find a job  🎊  FUN FACT: Michael has a neoclassical/electrochill band called Fred van Bell  💡 MORE INFOS https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bellmann-b9929b62 https://www.instagram.com/music.by.fredvanbell/

ABOUT Deeptha Umapathy is a joyful research and strategy consultant at Break Free from Plastic in Cambodia. She believes in keeping people at the center of her work. It shapes how she manages teams, clients and projects - people centered work. Deeptha is passionate about innovating and improving how data can be used to make decisions. She took a big leap in leaving a secure job in India to start a totally new career in design research, a field she was not formally trained in. ✅ YOU'LL LEARN Who do you need to surround yourself with in times of transition? How to find the people who see the world from your angle?  How to use joy as your guide.  How to make a transition into a new career without formal training in that field. How to negotiate with your employer that you need a sabbatical. 🎊  FUN FACT Deeptha is the sister of Nirupa whom we interview in episode #14, and they both have a very similar voice, so don't get confused. 💡 MORE INFOS linkedin.com/in/deeptha-chittoor-umapathy-b479b93 https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/

✅ YOU'LL LEARN How to move through fragile times when transitioning - still being in touch with old friends and finding new communities and tribes.  How to study tools and mindsets from books (Design your Life, Strive) AND real life in Nirupa's case traveling.  How timing - again - is key. Time comes to you.  How to build a financial bridge - for Nirupa it was two years of financial permission to travel, play around and experiment.  How to go against the conditioning of the wind/world, move through loneliness and find some like-minded people. And... how to integrate work and life on your own terms.   🎊  FUN FACT: Nirupa's great transition hack was to travel for 180 days with a planned budget directly after leaving corporate. She also created the highest ever-known number of Design Your Life Odyssey plans.  💡 MORE INFOS https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirupa-umapathy-b213454/ www.radicaleverything.com  www.salonsforlife.com

OVERVIEW R. Evon Benson-Idahosa, the founder and Executive Director of Pathfinders Justice Initiative, is a Nigerian native, a leading expert and thought leader on the subject of modern day slavery in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a trained English Barrister and American lawyer. When her passion and compassion called her to address gender-based violence and the sexual exploitation of women, she left her work as a partner in a New York defense law firm to became a full-time advocate. ✅ YOU'LL LEARN How to "let your life speak" and what it meant for Evon - turning in her resignation and becoming a full-time advocate for women How a sense of purpose, passion and savings really help when taking the big leap How it's still scary in the moment, never as scary in hinesight and still not easy to give up all the corporate luxuries How to integrate your roots into your future - for Evon this meant dedicating her work to women in Nigeria out of her home town New York 🎊  FUN FACT: Evon realised wearing a barrister wig at graduation already didn’t feel right. 💡 MORE INFOS https://www.linkedin.com/in/r-evon-benson-idahosa-esq-0ab95869/ http://pathfindersji.org/

➡️ OVERVIEW Dr Ruby Campbell is a the Managing Director and Global Executive Coach at ProVeritas Group - a coaching and consulting firm. She is also the author of "Scientists in Every Boardroom: Harnessing the Power of STEMM Leaders in an Irrational World", a UNSW Business School Adjunct Faculty, DEI and Climate Action Advocate. ✅ YOU'LL LEARN How rejection means redirection - Ruby wanted to integrate her family need's with her leadership career which was not possible back then and forced her to redirect How to find your tribe - which is so important when you start all over again How to un-learn old and re-learn new patterns of success - from honing perfection in the pharmaceutical industry (Haven't we also heard this from Marina's corporate story !?!) to setting learning goals How to uncover limiting beliefs - e.g. "you're not good enough", where they come from (your family's story) and how to lovingly let them go 🎊  FUN FACT: We did not know who Manfred Kets de Vries is, now we do , an INSEAD professor for organizational development and leadership (ketsdevries.com). Ruby and Cindy are both fellows of Harvard-affiliated Institute of Coaching. 💡 MORE INFOS https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrubycampbell/ proveritas.com.au  

➡️ OVERVIEW Helen Krug von Nidda is founder of With Helen - a boutique coaching, training and consulting practice for global women. Before becoming independent, she worked for the United Nations. Yet, the bravest transition she calls out on our Podcast, is leaving her job and home town Geneva, Switzerland, to live in NYC - the city of her dreams.  ✅ YOU'LL LEARN How a tunnel vision can help - knowing what you actually want to transition towards is key and was Helen's asset after she had a blissful moment at Times Square.  How to manifest your dream - Helen listened to Frank Sinatra's NYC love song every day, had a visual on her phone and committed to one action towards her dream every down.  How to follow your story - Helen hired a Coach early on, because she wanted someone Professional in her corner, a cheerleader to help her achieve her dream. And to be able to stop listening to others, telling her why her dream is not possible.  How to ask your network for support - Helen felt confident to ask her network, because she new exactly what she was looking for.    🎊  FUN FACT: Helen and Cindy met in NYC and (almost) had coffee with Seth Meyers.    💡 MORE INFOS https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkrugvonnidda/ www.with-helen.com     Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.

OVERVIEW ➡️ Kathy Davies is the Managing Director of Stanford's Life Design Lab and CEO of DYL Consulting, LLC. She helps people around the world to design the life they want. You might have heard of the #1 NYT Bestseller "Design Your Life". One of the authors was Kathy's former professor and helped her to transition from an Engineering career into teaching. The other brave transition she calls out (to which Peggy and Cindy very much relate) is becoming a mom.   YOU'LL LEARN ✅ How to integrate your past into your future - Kathy's alma mater gave her a new direction How a safety net can get you taking action - for Kathy it was a two year time frame to try out the new thing How being passionate is only the start to becoming really good at something And again ... side hustle and main gig ... ultimately swapping.    FUN FACT 🎊 Kathy is a recovering ultra runner...  Cindy and Kathy met at the DYL for Women Workshop in NYC in 2019 - highly recommended and now available as a virtual offering.    MORE INFOS 💡 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathyhdavies/ http://www.designyourlife.com/ https://designingyour.life/women/

It's Peggy and Cindy's personal summary of what they've learned from the Brave Transition Podcast. Happy new year, everyone.  Some reflective questions coming out of this? --> What was in your control in this crazy year 2020?  --> Which mistakes did you make and what did you learn? --> What do you want to look back on next year? Or even the end of life?

OVERVIEW ➡️ Marina is a social entrepreneur with an international career and impressive corporate background making it up to partner level with EY in Brazil. She is now based in Hongkong and combines her business skills with her passion to impact the world's to do list.    YOU'LL LEARN ✅ How an analytically-trained corporate mind can make the jump What role - again - finances play especially as a female breadwinner How to leverage your corporate skills and un-learn others in a new environment   FUN FACT 🎊 Peggy and I love Marina's motto - Connecting great people and business to do good. We're also inspired by her energy    MORE INFOS 💡   https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-monterosso/