Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana

• 47. Susan Lieu: Intergenerational trauma, releasing outdated career goals and creating your own leadership identity

  Today I’m joined by a fellow student from my Harvard days, Susan Lieu – a management consultant turned author, playwright, and performer. She joins us to explore how unhealed intergenerational trauma shapes how we lead, the choices we make in our careers, and our ability to live a life that’s authentic to our values instead of focussed on survival and pleasing our families. We have a deeply vulnerable, soul-elevating conversation about how hard it is to go against the grain and follow your calling into the life that you were truly created for, even if it upsets people you love. Susan and I also discuss her critically acclaimed memoir, “The Manicurist’s Daughter,” and the wisdom she’s gained from writing about how her mother’s death during a tummy tuck changed her life and her family forever. Topics discussed:Intergenerational trauma, the cost of silence and protecting our families secretsOvercoming the fear of pivoting careers from corporate to the arts as an A-type high-achieving financially-driven Harvard graduateHow hard it is to find enoughness in your leadership and career journey, and as a parentHow Susan brought more fulfilment into her career by discovering her top 3 valuesThe role our careers play in our personal growth stories and the unfolding of our soul’s highest purpose Order Susan’s book “The Manicurist’s Daughter , follow her on LinkedIn and Instagram or visit her website. Themes: Trauma-healing, trusting your career path, leaders of colour, career fulfilment, self-worth, inner work--Sign up for the mailing list to hear when leadership support circles launch and get early access discounts to upcoming eventsBook a free 1x1 coaching discovery call or reach out for retreats, workshop facilitation, or 1x1 and group leadership coaching for your companyFind me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠

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• 46. The power of following your heart – and why it’s hard for us to do as leaders

  Many of us have been raised to believe that hard work, focus, practicality and responsibility are the keys to success. As a society we most celebrate the rags to riches stories that involve grit, resilience and hustle. But what often goes undiscussed is that these great inventors and business mavericks were often following their hearts – or the calls of their soul. The grit etc was in response to the scale of desire that thrummed within them for something different, more, exciting, wondrous, impossible, but oh so true to their soul’s purpose and heart’s desire.As leaders we so often struggle to harness the incredible power of our hearts’ desires in favour of ruling ourselves with our heads and following the proven method. The wild unknown path terrifies us, and thus its gift of newness, fulfilment, expansion and purpose alignment is lost to us. How do we learn to listen to, trust and follow our hearts in our career pathways and leadership approach and trust that we will be successful?Topics discussed:What is lost to us when we rule with our heads over our heartsOur reptilian brain’s need for security and guaranteed returns and why it leads us down the beaten path and away from our hopes and desires How to heal your relationship with desire, the unknown, your sense of duty and fear of loss to let your desires bring you successMy story of bringing strategy vs desire, mind vs heart, duty vs passion into harmony so that they work together for my highest good Themes: Mindset mastery; owning your desires, heart-centred leadership, mind vs heart-based decision-making, trusting the unknown, self-trust, career expansion --Sign up for the mailing list to hear when leadership support circles launch and get early access discounts to upcoming eventsBook a free 1x1 coaching discovery call or reach out for retreats, workshop facilitation, or 1x1 and group leadership coaching for your companyFind me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠

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• 45. From No to Yes: Overcoming the fear of change that keeps you stuck in your career and leadership

  Change is hard – even when it’s good for us. We often unconsciously resist it for months until it uses suffering to force our hand. Why do we resist it so much and what can we do to help ourselves to better accept the writing on the wall so that we can be decisive, accept a new paradigm, and return to being in flow and, ultimately, on the path of success and abundance?Today I use a live example from my own leadership and business journey that has challenged me to let go of the more popular and conventionally accepted approach to leadership growth that has brought me so much success to date and embrace my evolution into a more holistic mind-body-heart-soul approach that departs from convention but is more true to me. I struggled to accept how I was changing despite seeing the measurable client impact like new jobs, promotions, successful business launches.I hope my experience inspires you take the leap past anything stale in your career that it’s time to let go of.Topics discussed:The difficult journey of accepting that change was here and why our minds resist it so muchHow I helped my mind to accept this change and how you can do the same for yoursThe key mindset shift that I needed to make to accept this change and how you can explore what your limiting belief could beUsing your body’s wisdom to show you where you’re blockedThe imperative of operating from a regulated nervous system to help you handle the psychological stress of change  Themes: Mindset shift, career transitions, change, mind-body connection, leadership growth --Sign up for the mailing list to hear when leadership support circles launch and get early access discounts to upcoming eventsBook a free 1x1 coaching discovery call or reach out for retreats, workshop facilitation, or 1x1 and group leadership coaching for your companyFind me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠Sponsor an episode

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• 44. Does your career vision need an upgrade?

  How do you think about the vision for your career in an ever changing world?When you are constantly evolving, conditions are ever changing and your ability to take action on your goals is sometimes compromised by the limitations of circumstances in our lives, how often do you step back to reassess?Is your true expansive vision or your “rogue” limited vision (e.g., insecurity, fear, lack) running your career?If you have a vision for your career, do you also have a vision for your leadership style and experience?Do you even have a vision? Maybe you’ve just had your head down trying to learn, achieve financial security, make a name for yourself, get a good review, not lose your job, get promoted. But now that you’re feeling more secure and confident, you realise you haven’t had an explicit vision or purpose. Today I explore the nuances and complexities with creating and sustaining an empowering but adaptable vision that can motivate you but grow and change with you as you evolve and mature in your career and leadership journey.Topics discussed:I wonder what my late father’s vision was and how it needed to change from “revolutionary” to “nation builder” when Zimbabwe achieved independence while he was working abroadI invite you to think about whether your conscious vision or your rogue vision is running your life based on whether the direction you’ve been going in alights with what you actually want (a big one!)I explore the various changes and setbacks I’ve faced as I lived out my career and tested the feasibility, desirability, and applicability of my career vision until I finally found one that stuck (for now)I explore the importance of making your vision spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically coherent so that it’s humane, truly aligned with your purpose, and holistically meaningful --Sign up for the mailing list to hear when leadership support circles launch and get early access discounts to upcoming eventsBook a free 1x1 coaching discovery call or reach out for retreats, workshop facilitation, or 1x1 and group leadership coaching for your companyFind me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠

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• 43. Carice Anderson: Intelligence is not enough to advance at work – master the art of differentiating yourself

  Carice Anderson is the Global Head of People Manager Strategy at BlackRock. She is also an executive coach and author of “Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace”. As people of colour, so many of us spend the early part of our careers spinning our wheels because we believe that if we put our heads down, work hard, stay humble and build the right technical skills, we will succeed. But it’s never that simple. Carice joins us to discuss how important it is for us to know ourselves, and be deliberate about communicating and leveraging our strengths, while being deliberate about putting ourselves in the right environments that will support our competitive advantage to shine out.Topics discussed:·       Playing an active role in managing your career – at every stage of your leadership path·       Differentiating yourself despite prevailing stereotypes about black people in the workplace·       Making difficult trade-offs in your career – especially between your personal goals and professional ambitions·       Empowering yourself to change as you mature in your career and start wanting different things Learn more about Carice, visit her website follow her on Instagram and click here to find out more about her *now released* course based on her book “Intelligence Isn’t Enough”. Themes: Career progression, work-life balance, managing your career, black leaders, leaders of colour--Sign up for the mailing list to hear when leadership support circles launch and get early access discounts to upcoming eventsBook a free 1x1 coaching discovery call or reach out for retreats, workshop facilitation, or 1x1 and group leadership coaching for your companyFind me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠Sponsor an episode

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