Women Emerging Podcast

My granddaughter Poppy is here, and it is the most beautiful moment to share with you. Poppy, who’s existence we discovered the week we were in Bellagio, experiencing our first ever WomenEmerging Expedition. As WomenEmerging grew bigger and bigger in the last 9 months, Poppy grew bigger and bigger inside her mother’s womb, beginning the journey of her womanhood, as the 101 women around her joined...

From understanding how to not highlight your weaknesses and dim your strengths, to the hands of experience of the myth that motherness and leadership bring when combined, to understanding how interlinked personal conversations are with the professional ones, Manisha Amin helps break the myths about leadership that stay under the shadows. She is fierce and determined in saying “If we don’t tell our...

A regular routine checkup gone terribly wrong, leaving a nerve wrecking scar of a Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in the life of Nina Pustilnik, had an impact on her beyond what we would think. While anger, sadness, and failure were the obvious outcomes, what was unanticipated was the revolutionary impact that Nina’s condition had on her leadership style. From someone who always shone the light on...

‘Winning or losing are the biggest impostors’ recollects Armine Afeyan, as she brings back our focus on the importance of process in leading, over getting stuck on the outcomes. In sharing her bicycle journey from Czechoslovakia to Amsterdam, she reflects on getting comfortable in the discomfort of new situations, being young and managing diverse teams, recruiting different mindset oriented people...

What it truly takes to break the pillars of religious morality, and be your authentic self has been the theme screaming through this special episode with the fierce speaker, tech innovator, podcast host and a dearly loved queer content creator Miriam Haart. From exploring the small pleasures of writing in the notebook versus laptop, to wearing the clothes that feel authentic to you instead of the...

“When teams believe in dreams, they are better teams. Because dreams make us better people.” says Juliana as she speaks about the art of saying no, leading creative teams efficiently, and what being a mother teaches you about being a better leader. How to prevent your dreams from drying up your soul or your relationships and how to pursue them in a more healthy way, Juliana covers it all in this w...

“Crime is not breaking the law, but rather a violent refusal to love, and be loved.” Rethinking crime with Melissa Kwee as she talks about how the right response to crime is to restore persons and communities to a place where one can love and be loved again. She recollects stories from a Restoration Prison in Brazil where people are not called prisoners but ‘Recuperators’ on their journey of findi...

Understanding the power of diversity in a team, understanding when to pass the mic to others to help them share their stories. And at the same time, recognising how to shush the self doubting noise in your own head and claim space to speak. This and a lot more, as Anne Onwusiri, @Blackgirlsruck, a podcast host herself, shares what leading a team of rugby players has taught her about life and leade...

Do you remember the first time in your life when you felt like a leader? In conversation with Lulu Raghavan, the brand evangelist and Vice President APAC, Landor and Fitch, one of the world’s largest design firms, as she remembers her school blazer and the first time she felt her leadership. Discussing the pros and cons of the Zoom life, letting people grow in your leadership instead of overshadow...

In today's episode, Dr. Stellah Wairimu Bosire shares with us 5 objects which marked her leadership trip. A chair, a tattoo in her inner arm, a photo of her mother, her glasses and her red colourful nails. An episode which if we all listen i am sure you will love Stellah's energy as much as we did.

“I am an imperfect rebel, and an imperfect leader, but one that’s willing to try again tomorrow.” says the notoriously humble guest for this week’s podcast Paula Alvarez, Founder of Pinball London. A successful producer, scriptwriter and a leader, working in the film and media business for over 30 years. A conversation that explores the topics of perfectionism, misogyny, being a rebellion, underst...

Humorous, painful, passionately insightful and shockingly honest - in one of the best conversations we’ve had on our Podcast - Uthara shares the five objects that changed her journey of leadership. An episode filled with learnings from over 3 decades of her life, Uthara looks back upon all the moments/tools/people who transformed her into the person she is today. The kind of leading that she bring...

A book in making. A map carving itself to assist you on your own journey of leading. This episode is a glimpse into the love hate relationship I’ve had with the process of writing this book. A book that marks the journey of 24 women from all over the world, who set out on an Expedition to find an approach to Leadership - and found instead a new verb - Leading. What will this book be about? Listen...

Has your womanhood made you feel like an outsider? How do you claim your power in a room full of dominating energies? In conversation with Uma Chatterjee, redefining power in its purest form.

How do you ground yourself, when the whole room is showering you with energy and looking up to you googly eyed, as their leader? In conversation with Sarah Henry, uncovering all the mistakes one can make when in the position of power over others energies, and how to avoid those terrible traps, for your own health, before anybody else’s.

How do you start seeing your team members, not as colleagues, but as energy? How to best uplift their energy? How to create a momentum such that even when you’re not around as a leader, the energy of the team keeps expanding? What to do when this spiral of energy goes in the exact opposite direction than desired? How to let go of those pulling down the energy, and toughest of all, how do you hold...

Liz makes the case for leading being about energy. Good and bad. Frustrating or empowering. Draining or generating.

Our last seven podcast episodes have focused on essence. What those of us on the expedition found when our exploring went internal before it went external. We came up with seven pieces of our essence, each one uncovered in the last seven episodes. Here Mona Sinha and I pull the episodes together and highlight the bits that will stick with each of us for ever.

Once you have tasted leadership at school “you can never weave that power out of me”. When 12 years old Isata achieved the impossible and lead a change to her school’s uniform life changed for her. Isata challenges leaders to think long and hard about their own education. Whether they been encouraged to question and whether they have got used to being questioned themselves, because if the answer t...

You have ancestors and you will be an ancestors. Hinemoa Elder encourages us to think through how your ancesters stories affect how you lead, after all “the you are living representation of your ancestors all the time” . She also suggests it’s a good idea to think through what you want your descendants will be saying about you as their ancestor one day.

Food plays a crucial role in motherness according to Melissa. Whose food, leadership and motherness was a big feature of the women emerging expedition for the 24 women who explored for over a year to find ‘an approach to leadership that resonates with women’ Here Melissa, also known as the ‘hugging CEO’ speaks about what women translate from motherness to leadership.

Trauma impacts your sense of self, your emotional regulation, your cognition, your behaviours, your body and your relationships. As Ayesha Mian says every single one of these will have a direct impact on your leadership. It can be your own trauma and no one escapes trauma, after all the greatest trauma as a child is the result of neglect. And it can be inherited trauma or secondary trauma.

The infinite game. Once you realise that it’s not about winning or loosing but about keeping on playing, then your leadership changes. Because collaboration becomes the only option. I spoke to Ana Luz Porzecanski about how nature has formed her essence as a leader for over twenty years. And as we spoke the expression infinite game became more and more compelling.

Here Katrina Webb puts Sarah Henry and I right , the expression she always goes back to is “your body is your barometer” . Katrina tells us that we need to listen to it. Because it is so often right! She says she meets too many leaders who are intellectual and spend too much time in their heads. Our bodies might just tell us to lie down quietly or run up a hill NOW - just at the right moment - bef...

The spiritual - or rather the sacred as Aparna Uppaluri says - has always been a deeply powerful resource to women. After all in a world where there is little else to rely on it is not a surprise. In this episode Aparna tells us why the sacred is part of her essence as a leader and how this shapes how she leads in her daily life