I can easily come up with 10 reasons why I am an unlikely leader. Join in as I take Mike Kabeya through this exercise I learned recently at a Mastermind to Millions conference in Phoenix, Arizona with Jay Fiset. The exercise is quite revealing. You can do the exercise. I adapted it for you. Download Podcast Episode
Through the Unlikely Leader To Unique Leader exercise, you can discover your uniqueness. I discover another dimension of Mike’s uniqueness as a leader and as a human being. The fear Mike discusses in his culture growing up is what many African immigrants need to overcome to become great leaders. This barrier could have stopped Mike but his curiosity about the spiritual world and religion helped him to release what no longer served him to become the unique leader he is today.
As usual, our mentoring conversation strings together and unearths colorful nuggets of information. Mike shares an example of how culture influences your approach to hierarchy in employment by describing an example from Malcolm Gladwell’s book titled Outlier.I start today’s show acknowledging one of the many contributors to my podcast program. Dr. Chad Boger of Boger Dental in Plymouth, Minnesota. Thank you for your generous monetary donation.
On a final note: Self-mastery involves looking at your family system, identifying the shame we internalize in our culture, and striving to heal our deep wounds where we tend to lose our perspective. To master oneself I have found curiosity very helpful. A curiosity to discover what freedom feels like in my soul. Because of the Daring Greatly and Rising Strong process I went through completing Brené Brown’s coursework, I have deepened my sense of belonging and cultivate love more deliberately. Most of us aren’t taught how to cultivate love and belonging, especially if you were raised in a family devoid of empathy and compassion for one another. The skills I have learned are integrated into the curriculum and process I take leaders through when they join my one-year WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LAB.
You become a unique leader by identifying and shaping
what made you an unlikely leader.
Mentoring Tips
Complete the Unlikely Leader To Unique Leader Exercise.
Unlikely Leader To A Unique Leader, Episode 94 Kabeya Media
Resources
- Mastermind To Millions Jay Fiset
- Napolean Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937) Think And Grow Rich
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (2011)
- Boger Dental
- March, 2017 (Man In The Mirror)with Earnest Valentino New MJ Documentary
Podcast Guest Mentor
Mike Kabeya Kazadi. Mike founded Kabeya Media in 2013 to bring his broad journalist talents, photography, audiography, and videography together under one umbrella. His creativity, insightful perspective, trained ear, and imaginative style captures special events and projects in a way that delight his clients.
Episode 94: Unlikely Leader To A Unique Leader
Author: Nancy A. Meyer, M.A.
Nancy A. Meyer, M.A., is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader, business and life mentor, podcaster, author, and certified mindfulness yoga and meditation integrator (she integrates those skill sets into everything). Nancy’s compassionate and collaborative approach reinforces resilience while maintaining accountable conversations supporting how you redefine your lead while redesigning your business. Nancy calls this “Dual Innovation Leadership.” Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in our country by providing emerging and existing business owners with mentoring in Dual Innovation Leadership. She has mentored thousands and is eager to work with you! Assert self-leadership and get started today! Clients say, “Nancy is a compelling, engaging, and ‘decipher the trees from the forest’ kind of mentor, speaker, and leader. A dedicated entrepreneurial leader and mentor who role models what she preaches. Her style and candor enrich the content she delivers and the results clients experience.” Nancy accepts people where they are while inspiring them to breakthrough into new dimensions: As an Entrepreneurial Leader (Innovator), As a Competent Business Owner (Practitioner) As a Mentor (Role Model) As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master! Start by subscribing to WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCAST. Join your peers and...
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