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Women Advance! | Episode #367 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your Life Count.
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I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international leadership expert and trusted
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advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make Your Life Count. I am so
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delighted that you joined me today. I have a very special guest on our
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show. Her name is Eberet. Acadie Eberet is an entrepreneur, leadership strategist,
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and a thought leader in leadership development, diversity and inclusion. She is
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also the founder of two businesses, Rise and Lead, and her second business
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is called Ataro Foods Now. Many people describe Everray as an inspiring role model
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and a pace center. Well, that's because she is passionate about helping women
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in business to elevate their leadership, to lead successful businesses, and to partner
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with industry leaders in order to increase the number of women who are represented in
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leadership positions. One of the many ways that Eberet helps women in business is
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through her company called Rise and Lead. Rise and Lead convenes and hosts inspiring
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leadership conferences and roundtables. She brings together diverse women in business and accomplish leaders
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from major global brands such as Aon Accenture, Coca Cola, Insight, Uber,
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MasterCard, we Transfer, Procter and Gamble, Pfizer, United Nations Ups,
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and many many more. Ebiray truly believes that leadership development is a tool
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that helps us embrace our full potential, which inspires others to embrace theirs.
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Now doesn't that sound like legacy living? I met eBay through a mutual friend
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ari all of us are mutually passionate about entrepreneurship and leadership. Woila instant connection.
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Ebray's highest calling is her absolute joy in lifting up and building up women
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leaders Today's topic is all about that lifting up women's leadership, a topic that
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is very close to my heart. As you know now, I can't think
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of a better person, a better leader, a better human being to address
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this topic than Eberey a Caterie. When she said yes to being on my
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podcast, I just knew that she would speak soulfully and passionately about her life
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and her work. Why, because that's who she is. She is simply
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on fire about God's call on her life. So I can't wait to host
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my friend and colleague, Eberey a Caterie. Now before I bring Everray in
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I just want to take a minute to connect the dots between today's topic on
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lifting up leaders and legacy living. Now, there are many many ways that
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lifting up leaders connects to legacy living. For now, let me just say
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that legacy living is a way of being and a way of living in the
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world. And you've heard me say this over and over again on this podcast.
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How you live is how you lead. Now, most importantly, legacy
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living and leadership is a way of serving so that we make the conscious choice
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to be the difference we want to see in the world. We make the
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conscious choice right here, right now, not in some distant future. Right
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we make that conscious choice day in and day out. Three sixty five,
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twenty four seven. Now, let me bring in my friend and colleague,
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Everey Acatarie. I'd want to welllcome you to my podcast beat if you could
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say your name for us, where you live, and how you started in
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this leadership world. Thank you so much for having me on this show.
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My name is a Beret Academy and I live in the Netherlands. I'm originally
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from Nigeria and I started an organization called Rise and Lead Women. The way
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I started is when I came to the Netherlands in twenty thirteen. I moved
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with my family and my husband because my husband was transferred to work in the
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Netherlands. And before then I had a business in Nigeria, a restaurant business
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that was growing very rapidly with you know, two branches and seven Souls outlets.
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So when I had to leave it behind as the good wife and moved
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with my husband to the Netherlands, and arriving here, I was kind of
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lost, almost depressed, trying to find what else to do. I wasn't
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sure of what I wanted to do, and in that situation I started.
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I had some time to reflect to even you know, re examine myself,
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to know who I am and what my values are and you know, what
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difference I'm supposed to make on this earth. And it was at that point
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I kept hearing that voice like teach what you know, teach what you know
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already. And that was how I started, you know, bringing women together
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to teach them a little bit about entrepreneurship and then also looking for a network
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that supports ambitious women who want to build companies. I couldn't find one,
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so I decided to start off Rise and lead women as you know, as
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an event, as an event to empower women to to just take up you
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know, rise like you know, raise their voices and start driving changes and
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start building, start leading their businesses. And that's how Rizon started. And
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now it's three years and that we are moving more towards leadership development for women
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to help them get the seats at the table and also partnering with different corporate
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organizations to drive changes towards gender diversity and inclusion. M Okay, well,
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thank you and the world needs your voice now more than ever ever. A
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So can you talk to us? You know, we talk about leadership a
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lot in this uh, in this world at least you know the work that
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I do. We talk about leadership a lot, and many of us have
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our own definitions about leadership, and so I'm curious, what does leadership mean
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to you? Thank you so much. That's a very beautiful question. As
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a matter of fact, I had a webinar recently talking about that topic.
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I see that when I speak to women in women in business, we talk
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about leadership a lot, and some people start thinking it's not for them.
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It all has to be when you get to a certain position at work,
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that's when you start talking about leadership. But then I started speaking to them
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about for me, what leadership means, and what leadership means to me.
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It's about driving changes. It's about taking up you know, the montle,
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taking up responsibilities, leading changes, using your voices to drive social changes.
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It's all about engaging, you know, with people, sharing our vision of
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a better world and inspiring them to come with us on this journey. So
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that's for me, it's that's what leadership means to me. And I believe
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that everybody can lead from where they are, and that people can also expand
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their capacity to lead, and when they do that, they're making space for
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other people to also start increasing their capacity to All right, and I love
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how you talk about leadership, you know, very globally at work for social
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change, and you also talk about leading from where you are. So can
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you say a little bit more about that, because a lot of people are,
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you know, just kind of scratch their about that what does that really
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mean? So let's start with you know, even when we talk about the
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world's definition of leadership, it's about who is in front, who is taking
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up the lead, who is taking up the mantle or the responsibility to move
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everybody towards a common goal. So when you are I use this example like
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if you are in an office environment and then they want you to They are
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looking for somebody to organize an event, for example, and nobody is raising
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their hands to do it, but you're gifted to do that. It's important
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for you to raise your hands, even though it's not part of your job
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description. And as soon as you raise your hands to do that, people
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will gather around you to support you. At that point, you are a
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leader. You are leading that initiative. And the more we take up so
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responsibilities, the more we grow our capacity to lead, the more we grow
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our leadership competencies, the more we become better leaders, and the more people
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start looking up to Earth, you know, for solutions to problems. That's
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how people live from where they are. You don't wait for somebody to appoint
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you of putting that position of leadership. You know your gifts, you know
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what you can do. You can start influencing people through your gifts, and
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that's why it's important to develop yourself as a leader. Yes, okay,
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thank you. I love this notion of you know, starting from where you
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are connected to your gifts and what you're passionate about. You know, everybody
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can do something right, and so why not raise your why not be the
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one to raise your hand and say, hey, start right? Yeah?
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Yeah, And sometimes it's because people don't know what they are good at.
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Yes, yeah, And that's probably a whole different conversation, right, different
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conversation. Yes, Yes, So every ray, can you talk a little
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bit about I know that your your organization, Rise and Leaders focused on women
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and women's leadership. Why do women need to enhance their leadership competency? Yeah.
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So when Rise and Leads started and we were just focusing on female entrepreneurship,
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then I remember my mentor she said, you know, every is going
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to take one hundred years to close the gender leadership gap. We can't focus
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only on entrepreneurs. We need to go into the workplaces and drive changes.
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So we started moving into diversity and inclusion space. And if you look at
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today, the number of women at the top leadership positions so low. You
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know from all the reports, from every report that you get, women are
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underrepresented in every part of the economy, in every institution. Meanwhile, there
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are so many reports that says that I think it was McKenzie. You know,
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in one of their leading reports of twenty nineteen, they mentioned that women,
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you know, get into the workforce, but as they start moving towards
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the leadership ladder, towards the executive position, they drop from fifty percent to
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twenty five percent, and as they start moving towards the CEO level they even
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go down to seven percent. Why is that? Now, As a leadership
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strategist, what I can think of is the fact that when you are at
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the entry level in a workplace, your leader in you know, the way
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you're working, you're focusing a lot on tactics, all those tactical job descriptions
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that you're given right but when you start moving into the executive positions, you're
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expected to embrace strategies like big vision driving a team. And then you're also
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expected to develop or to display such personal qualities that helps you to inspire people
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to move the organization forward, and for example, like negotiation skills, like
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people's skills, even like stakeholder management or stakeholder relationship management. And and the
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confidence level, you know, you have to stand up and speak up and
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have a very strong opinion. And then there was another report by your I
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can't remember his name, but he wrote an article on Have a Business Review
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saying that men seem to overthink themselves, you know, their competency level,
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but women women they found this report, I think I can find it.
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What is I think Chamaro Primus prem music. Yeah, you know. He
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was saying that there's a disparity in confidence level between men and women, right,
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and he said is the confidence gap because men show up as confident and
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because of that, everybody believes that they, you know, they are competence.
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But women tend to be more humble, which is very good quality of
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a leader because it's related to emotional intelligence. But people or the leader us
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who are judging us to promote us, don't see that as a great skill
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to make them promote you. So what am I saying all this background?
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What I'm trying to say is that my organization, Rise and Lead were on
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the mens to increase the representation of women in top leadership positions. And one
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of the ways we are going to achieve that is to help women understand develop
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themselves as leaders, start developing those competencies that positions them to take up leadership
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rules so that they won't be passed over while we also you know, advocate
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for organizations to look beyond those seemingly you know, competencies like confidence. They
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have to look beyond it and still promote women to build an equitable organization.
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But it's going to take a long time. So as women, we need
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to develop ourselves so that can take up more leadership responsibilities, so we can
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raise allur voices, so we can you know, get there so we can
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close the gender leadership gap. We all have a role to play here.
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Yes, yes, and you know, thank you for bringing in that Mackenzie
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uh study. I know that women's leadership does tend to drop off. And
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one of the things that I have recognized with regard to confidence is that men
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tend to overestimate themselves. I mean, and that's not a judgment. That's
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the report as well, that's what that's one of the reports. You know.
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Yeah, and that's not a judgment about man, it's just you know,
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a fact, and women tend to underestimate themselves, so they are looking
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to you know, have all everything together before they seat that next step,
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and men are saying, bring it on, you know, I'll build my
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wings as I as I right, Yes, what are some of the key
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steps every that women can take to find their leadership voice good. That's a
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very good question, and that's what our Right to Leadership program, that's you
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know what, is based on. So for a woman to even start thinking
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about raising their leadership voice, why do they need to raise their leadership voice
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in the first place. Number one, if you don't pick up, if
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you don't use your voice, people are going to bypass you. They will
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not know your competencies or what you're capable of doing, and then that promotion,
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they will give it to the other man beside you, who is like
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overrating his own competency. And for us to change that, women need to
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start by true self awareness, you know, like me. There are five
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steps women need to take first to build up themselves to be able to raise
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before they get ready to to uh to use their voice, and also to
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start developing other skills and other competencies. Number one is self awareness. It's
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about knowing who you are. What do you bring to the table, What
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are your gifts? What are your talents? You know? What are your
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values? You know? What do you have? What difference are you here
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to make at this time? And number two is about core values. Most
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times we tend to not know our core values. Yes, and you know,
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our core values is gonna help us take decisions regarding our careers. It's
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gonna it's going to help us be sure that we're you're working in the right
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environment, the place that will help us grow fast. And our core values,
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you know, we're going to have like principles that will help us,
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you know, craft our vision. So the next one is the vision.
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You know, what is our bold vision? You can become a top CEO
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if you don't start today to look into the future and see yourself becoming a
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CEO. M hm, you have to you have to have that bold vision
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first, you know, like, this is where I want to be.
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And because with your core values, you also understand your leadership style and also
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you start understanding only your your your your point of view, like this is
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what I believe in. This is you know, you're speaking of gradually right.
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And then you have this vision of where you want to be and you
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start walking from the end backwards to make sure that you can to that vision
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into reality, breaking it into goals into action steps. And at that point
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you already you will see some gaps. Okay, I want to be the
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CEO. What step do I need to take? What competence is? Do
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I need to possess? Who can I reach out to? So at that
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point you want to find your support team. You have to reach out and
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find mentors or make sure that you drive that change and make sure there's from
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a mentorship in your company. If there is no, you can find one
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for yourself. Get mentors, learn from them, ask them to introduce you,
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let them know your dreams, your desires. You see, you're beginning
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to speak up, so people already know what you're bringing to the table.
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You're telling them this is what I want to do because of this, these
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are my values. I can do this. And as soon as you get
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there then already the fifth step is that you now have a plan on your
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table, which is your personal growth plan. These are the things I want
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to be a sea or in five years. These are the courses I need
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to attend. These are the kind of mentor that I need. You know,
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these are the things the kind of jobs and need to take. These
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are the roles I need to occupy to help me get to that my desired
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destination. So at that point, you see it comes up naturally for you
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to start speaking up, start speaking up in meetings because you know what you
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want the already have a vision of where you're going to. At that point,
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it starts speaking up if people start recognizing you, noticing you, and
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then you start adding values. And it to be so easy at that point
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to give you some positions. You can no longer hide your voice. Yes,
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because you now know the values you bring. You have a strong opinion
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about everything, and you are tributing on every table you find yourself. That's
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how it stops. Well, thank you, and I love your five steps
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and I just want to make sure that our listeners get them. So I'm
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going to repeat them. Uh, and I'm going to stop at three because
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I want to make sure that I got four and five right. Okay,
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So I got for number one, self awareness, number two, your core
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values, number three a bold vision, and what was number four? Told
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him that vision into reality? What do you need to do? Okay?
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So breaking it down into your goals and action plans? Yes, yes,
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so turning the vision into reality. And then number five is to have your
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own plan, your personal growth plan. Is that exactly? Yes? Okay,
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yes, you know I love this. A mutual friend connected us Ari
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from Ambur, Michigan. And now, you know, as I talked you
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more, I really understand why. I mean you, I could be saying
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the same things coming out of you, you know, that are coming out
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of your mouth, So I just love it. Oh yeah, so you
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mentioned the word you're welcome. Thank you. You mentioned the word empowerment earlier
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ever, and I know that, you know, sometimes we talk about empowerment,
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uh, and particularly in the realm of women's leadership, sometimes we mean
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that, you know, uh, kind of as a stand in for the
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word leadership, empowerment, leadership one and the same, but not always.
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So I'm curious, what do you mean by empowerment? Yeah? Okay,
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So you know, right now in twoenty and twenty one, we don't even
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use that word anymore of empowerment. But when we started, that's what we
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felt that we're in empower women to provide them with tools, with resources,
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with networks to really you know, stand up speak of and getting seats at
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the table. But I think what we should be focusing more on is how
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are we providing those resources? Is it equitably shared? Are all women having
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the opportunity call opportunity to assess resources networks. And that's one of the things
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about Rise and Lead Women. It's one of the most diverse network you ever
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seen in Europe. Okay, so it's so diverse because you see people from
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different nationalities, from different races, and so there's this for us. It's
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about inclusion right now. It's about inclusion and providing the platform well women can
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actually empower themselves. So whatever empowerment means, so that women, if it
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is about you know, equipping getting funding for their business, learning business skills,
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or learning how to curly a leadership capacity, that's what it is.
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So whatever it is for that particular individual, it sounds like yes, exactly,
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yeah, And I love that you talk about you know, for twenty
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twenty one. You know, empowerment is not what we need. Love,
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So so let's talk a little bit about leveraging our leadership voice. You know.
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I love that you said that your mentor reminded you that it's going to
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take a long time to close the gender gap. I mean, that's you
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know, really that's transformational work. It's not just change, it's transformation.
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And so in the meantime, how do we leverage our leadership voice as women
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to ask for top leadership positions and to really take an active role in closing
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the gender gap. Well, there are different ways we can do that.
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One is for ourselves. One is also for using that voice to speak for
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other women who are still trying to develop their own voices. So, if
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you have the voice, like Michelle Obama said in one of our speeches,
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if you are on that table and you're not able to use your voice,
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you need to get out of that table. Let somebody else voice say there,
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that's what it is. So if you have that voice already, first
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advocate for yourself. If you know that you can fill up any role that
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can move your closer to the executive position, be bold and brave enough to
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ask for it. Don't wait for permission. Don't wait for any permission.
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You have a voice, use it, Advocate for yourself. Let them know
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what you're bringing to the table. I believe so much that women, as
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women, it's good to be humble, but it's also good to use our
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voices. We need to have a strong opinion. We need to share our
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ideas. We can't be hiding behind anybody. Share our ideas, let people
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go our point of view. That is very important. So when you start
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sharing ideas, you're saying something that matters, people are going to stop and
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listen. And so when there is any vacancy or position that requires somebody with
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such a strong voice, gees who they're going to call you yes, And
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it's one step. By the time you move to this and you climb to
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this level, you continue looking for another level, depending on your core values,
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depending on what you want for your life, because not everybody's going to
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be at that top leadership position and not going to force anybody because we have
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different values. Some people just love to suffort from the back. And then
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another way to use that voice is to start driving changes in your organization.
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Start using not just for women, also for women of color. It's important
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that women who already have the voice can start asking why don't we have women
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of color in our department because in me they don't apply for these jobs.
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Why don't we have black people in this company. Why don't we represent women
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from minority groups? What is the curiosity and the questioning that you start bringing
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changes to your organization, and then maybe you can also start mentoring other women,
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start encouraging and inspiring other women to rise and lead as well. Yeah,
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So that's that's the way to leverage your voice, leverage it to drive
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changes. Yes, thank you. So I just want to just a quick
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summary of that, because they're so much packed into that. You talked about
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advocating for yourself. You talked about stepping up and being bold to ask for
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those positions that you really want, that you know that are going to move
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you closer to that top leader leadership position. Don't wait and don't ask for
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permission. I love it. And you know, being about driving change in
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your organization, mentoring, and in particular, you know, reaching out to
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women of color, because not only is this about a gender gap, it's
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also about a color. It's also about you know, I'm kind of in
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this space. You know, the current language is bipoc right, you know,
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and I just that is a little bit disturbing to me because what we're
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talking about are you know, women are the majority in this world on planet
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Earth. We are the majority, and peoples of color are also of the
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majority. And so I actually think about this world that you're talking about as
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the global majority. Okay, and so when we start to reframe like how
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we think about ourselves, it actually kind of changes how we uh, you
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know, we see we see ourselves, and how we go about closing that
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gap. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, So so I just want to
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also ask you. I know you mentioned this a little bit at the top
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of our conversation, but could you say a little bit more about what inspired
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you to start rise and Lead. I mean, I know that you,
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you know, transition from Nigeria to the Netherlands, but there's also I'm guessing
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there some core value that you have, or some experience or some story that
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you have in your life that really, you know, that's like really the
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driver for you. And I could be making that up. So tell me,
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no, you're not, You're not making it up. You know,
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everything can be connected. There's always a dots connecting to your past. Okay,
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So my first job, you know, when I was working in a
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corporate organization. I lost my job when I was seven months pregnant, and
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I felt it was unfair. Okay, it was was so unfair because I
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was working so hard. But now I'm pregnant, you know, I couldn't
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believer as I used to. Of course they couldn't do it now because but
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then they could do it. And and I left that job went to start
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my own business and even became a food because I had a restaurant business that
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was employing fifty six people. So I was pregnant, you know, having
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babies and running this big company, Catrin Operations, and then they now these
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company to call me back to start managing their caterring. So I was pay
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back, you know, all the money I felt I lost. But then
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for me it was like, being pregnant is not a crime. It's not
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you're not sick, doesn't mean it can no longer deliver. Women are capable
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of much more, and so that has been at the back of my mind
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to how to inspire women that they can advocate and fight for themselves and fight
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for other women. And one of my core values is fairness and equity.
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I want everybody to have equal opportunity to get to to to maximize their potential
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in life, without any form of bias, without any form of you know,
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somebody stopping them from getting what they want. And so for me,
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my way of making sure that women have that equal opportunity is to use my
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voice to inspire them. So on my latein page, the only thing I
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do is inspiration kind of inspire women that you don't need any permission, just
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get up, just if you don't even need confidence to start to start it,
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can be afraid, but just do it. And all of those things
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we need to hear it and when they see me that I came from Niguria
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and within seventy years I've built a massive organization in a foreign company country.
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You know, no, I don't speak the language, and then I'm still
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able to network with a lot of the locals. I believe that my life,
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you know, like as a role model, is to inspire other women
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to do the same thing. And secondly, secondly, when I started,
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one of my one of my strongest motivation is this believe that if I can't
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I if you know, if we can be the change you want to see,
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we can be the change instead of complaining. So when I was looking
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for this, uh, I was going around looking for network organizations that support
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women and women who have companies who are employing people. I couldn't find,
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especially in the international community. I felt, you know, I can't start
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it. You know, I'm sure there are women out there who are also
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looking for this type of organization where they can they don't want to, nobody's
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going to join them for being ambitious. Okay, so that was really my
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driving force to even start. But then we, like I said, we
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have expanded from you know that empowering women think like bring women together. We
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have recognized we can use our power and our voice to drive changes, you
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know, diversity and inclusion, which is really and I remember what happened to
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miss years ago. I want to change that. We of doing anything,
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whether they are pregnant or they have babies, it doesn't matter. He can
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do it. Yes, yes, I love that, and thank you for
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that story. Uh. You know, there's usually a burning reason why we
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begin things, and so I really appreciate your candor and your openness and your
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vulnerability and sharing that. Uh you know, yeah, I mean you you
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are an inspiration every ay, and I love that you are talking about be
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an inspiration, be the change and use our power. We don't have to
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get power from any place else. We already have it, okay, and
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exactly have to be confident to start right, you just start do it anyway,
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do it, you know, I mean I said this all the time.
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We don't have to wait until your confidence. Just start. Yes,
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the more you start, the more you learn, you learn from your mistakes
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and sometimes when you look back, when I look back at some things I
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did surprise, come, oh my god, how did I do that?
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You know, because now I know better? Right, just do it?
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Just most times we feel people are going to judge of we feel we want
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to kind of cross all the teas and the dogs and the eyes. That's
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the problem. Yes, you know we we knnot judge ourselves. We hold
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ourselves back exactly and we let go of judging ourselves. We realize that notbody's
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been judging us, and even if they are judging us, and sowhat and
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question what is Yes? Yeah, well yeah, I love it. And
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I know that you have developed a platform for conferences and roundtables and you also
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have a leadership program, Rise to Leadership. Can you say a little bit
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about that for us? Yes, thank you, and I'm getting to have
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you in our next Rise and List summits. So, like I said,
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the summit the res and Lead started as a summit where we brought established leaders
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from corporate organizations to kind of network with emergent leaders so we can learn from
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their experiences and their stories. So we have this roundable discussion and we interview
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a lot of established leaders to kind of hear the backstory behind their rise.
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So based on my method of leadership development and also with all these top leaders
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that have been intervened and who are also part of my community, the Inclusive
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leaders Around Table, you know, which is where we bring corporate leaders together
39:16
to co create events with them, co create programs with them that would drive
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gender diversity and inclusion in their workplaces. So I felt we also have to
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develop I started developing this curriculum based on these five steps I share with you,
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and the first one is called right to Leadership. Program is all about
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helping supporting women to elevate their career to top leadership. And so we are
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helping women to kind of find their leadership style, UH, find their leadership
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voice, set in a board vision, understand who they are their self,
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how create greater self awareness about who they and then know the value they are
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bringing. And then we teach and also bring executives to mentor. We're bringing
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executive leaders from like from the MasterCard, from your peers, the vice president
40:17
there from Sales Force, and they're coming also alongside with me, and of
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course I'm inviting you officially as well, so we can help to create transformation
40:30
in our women so that at the end of nine weeks, they we suddenly
40:37
see themselves speaking up raising, using their voices, trying to drive changes.
40:44
Because we've seen a lot of testimonials in our platform since we started, you
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know, the kind of things people say that because of you, and I'll
40:52
have a voice because of you. I started this business because of you.
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So I've felt we should kind of package you as a program to support women
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to rise to leadership. And that's what it is. Excellent, excellent,
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Well congratulations And is this a public program or is it private by invitation?
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Uh? If I wanted to join and I am a listener, how might
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I get in contact with you? Okay, it's it's a paid program.
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And so we have like on our website, Rise and Lead it's still on
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the Rise and Lead Summit dot com slash institute. So once you click on
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that, I'll send you the link as well, Rise and Lead summits dot
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com slash institute. And so that's you see their ses page and see what
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you know you get. So, so we have five modules and we also
41:52
have four mentorship sections executives and you know, we meet every almost every week
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for nine weeks for one hour to one and a half hours, and so
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everything is on that website and then people can register to join us and also
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be able to network with women leaders in Europe. Yeah, excellent. Yes,
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it is so important, especially these days. You know, we are
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a global village. Yeah yeah, yes, yes, thank you so much.
42:30
Ray for your energy, for your focus, for your drive, your
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passion, and for your inspiration. Thank you for being a guest on my
42:38
podcast. And we will get the word out about your work. And that's
42:44
really what this is all about. Passing it on, not just keeping things
42:47
for ourselves, passing it on. That's it. We need to start amplifying
42:52
those voices. Yes, that's what we do. And thank you Gloria for
42:57
having me. I'm so happy to have met through our mutual friend Arie.
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Yes, I'll tell Aria about it. Thank you so much. I'll be
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scard of a conversation. Thank you. Likewise, likewise so inspiring, rock
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solid gold. Clearly, Eberet Akatie is a leader's leader. She makes a
43:22
difference in her own life and in the lives of so many others, in
43:28
her own family and throughout the world, in her work as an entrepreneur and
43:32
leadership strategists. In her work as a thought leader in leadership development and diversity
43:39
and inclusion, and in her work as a wife, mom, sister,
43:45
daughter, and community steward. Ebaret shared so many pearls of wisdom with us
43:52
today. You will want to listen to this podcast over and over to take
43:59
them all in. Now. To learn more about Ebret's work, you can
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connect with her through her website, and her site is called Rise and Lead
44:09
Women, Rise and Lead Women dot com. You can also connect with Ebray
44:16
via LinkedIn and Instagram. You can just type in at the AT symbol that
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little ad symbol Eberey acaterie, and that's spelled e b e R e A
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k A d I r I the AT symbol ebray akaterie. If you are
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just joining us, I'm doctor Gloria and this is Legacy living. Make your
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life count. If you want to make your life count, if you want
44:51
to be the change you seek, be sure to listen to my show again
44:55
and again, and be sure to tell somebody. You can find me right
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Now, before I close for today, I want to give a shout
45:19
out to all the women, men and our young people all around the world,
45:23
because you know what, we are the ones, We are the ones
45:30
we have been waiting for. What do I mean by that? What I
45:35
mean is, don't wait, don't wait for someone else to step up and
45:39
make things happen for you. In other words, you can be the one.
45:45
You can be the one to make things happen for yourself and for other
45:47
people. In fact, can I just tell you something, You are the
45:52
one. You are the one who can make a difference in your own life
45:57
so that you can inspire others to make a difference in their lives. Now,
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if you happen to miss any part of this week's episode or last weeks,
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you can simply download the recording and listen to it at your convenience.
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46:47
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47:20
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47:23
to find me there. Before I close today, I want to thank each
47:30
of you for tuning in for allowing me to share a bit about my journey
47:35
with what Legacy living is all about, not just living and learning, but
47:40
living and learning and serving so that you make a difference in your own life
47:47
and in the lives of other people. It's all about being on purpose every
47:52
single day. Three sixty five twenty four to seven. Legacy living is a
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powerful way to make your life count. Once again, thank you for joining
48:07
me today. I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, and this is
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Right here Talk Network Radio for another episode of Legacy Living. Make your
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Make the days in your life count. That's what legacy living is all about.
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Have a fabulous day and remember, make the days in your life count.
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God bless you. That's our show today. I'm your host, Doctor
49:09
Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join me again next time. Until then,
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don't just count the days in your life. Make the days in your
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life count. That's what legacy living is all about. Here's to you.
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Have a fantastic day and be sure to make it a yes kind of day.
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Remember to celebrate the music of your life. Make the days in your
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life count.