Clowning with confidence

04/26/22 • 34 min

If you feel stuck and unfulfilled doing what you are doing and wondering how you can make a fresh new start; do listen to this fun and inspirational chat with my guest Rania Khoury.

She found the confidence to leave a successful corporate career after two decades, when she took a (values in action) VIA test and discovered that her true strength lay in her skill to be playful. Her love for learning and exploring new possibilities and challenges, helped her discover so much more about herself and led her to finding her true passion as a laughter wellness leader and a medical clown with the Red Noses NGO in Jordan.

Discussed in this episode:

Rania begins to make different choices as she gains more awareness about herself and what she values most (3:30)

Always wanting to improve herself, she changed her old school directive management style, through taking a life coaching certification and discovered a new passion (4:40)

Taking the' values in action' test VIA, was a key moment in discovering Rania's number one strength which was playfulness and humor (5:30)

Discovering laughter yoga (7:40)

The difference between laughter and being silly. We experiment laughing together (10:45)

Rania joins Red Noses to help people in need in Jordan by becoming a medical clown (15:20)

How corporate work focuses on the areas that need improvement instead of capitalizing on your strengths (22:10)

Swimming the Bosphorus sea in Turkey from the Asian side to the European side, broke another limiting belief (23:30)

How the glamour of uniforms swayed Rania initially towards a corporate career that seemed to portray confidence, only to find her true confidence grew wearing her uniform as a medical clown (28:40)

Three valuable tips that can help you create your own authentic path (32:30)

Connect with Rania:

https://www.instagram.com/raynia_r/

References:

https://www.rednoses.jo

https://laughteryoga.org

Let’s connect!

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If you feel stuck and unfulfilled doing what you are doing and wondering how you can make a fresh new start; do listen to this fun and inspirational chat with my guest Rania Khoury.

Discussed in this episode:

Rania begins to make different choices as she gains more awareness about herself and what she values most (3:30)

Always wanting to improve herself, she changed her old school directive management style, through taking a life coaching certification and discovered a new passion (4:40)

Taking the' values in action' test VIA, was a key moment in discovering Rania's number one strength which was playfulness and humor (5:30)

Discovering laughter yoga (7:40)

The difference between laughter and being silly. We experiment laughing together (10:45)

Rania joins Red Noses to help people in need in Jordan by becoming a medical clown (15:20)

How corporate work focuses on the areas that need improvement instead of capitalizing on your strengths (22:10)

Swimming the Bosphorus sea in Turkey from the Asian side to the European side, broke another limiting belief (23:30)

How the glamour of uniforms swayed Rania initially towards a corporate career that seemed to portray confidence, only to find her true confidence grew wearing her uniform as a medical clown (28:40)

Three valuable tips that can help you create your own authentic path (32:30)

Connect with Rania:

https://www.instagram.com/raynia_r/

References:

https://www.rednoses.jo

https://laughteryoga.org

Let’s connect!

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Previous Episode

Confidence through music

My guest is Suad Bushnaq, an incredible Jordanian-Canadian composer of Bosnian, Syrian, & Palestinian roots.

She speaks Arabic, English, French, Spanish, is fluent in both Western & Middle Eastern music & is active in both the film & concert world.

Her music, described by the BBC as 'reflective & touching', tackles themes of identity, loss, war, peace, & coexistence.

She has scored award-winning feature films & shorts that have screened at festivals around the world. The latest of which is the feature film SALMA's HOME which I am proud to have played the role of Lamia in. In this episode, we discuss some of the challenges and painful times that Suad faced in her life that changed her career path, as well as the beautiful moments that helped shape the woman she has become today. I hope you find her unshakeable confidence and passion about her work as inspiring as I did.

Discussed in this episode:

The beautiful discovery, that I was unknowingly an artistic influence early on in Suad's life before being part of the film (SALMA'S HOME) together (3:15)

The reason Suad was encouraged and supported by her parents to become a composer, who also instilled in her the confidence needed to follow her dreams (4:00)

How the sudden loss of Suad's mother changed her life path for ten years (6:15)

A degree in maths and teaching came naturally as Suad enjoyed the math and architecture in Johann Sebastian Bach's music (9:50)

The artist reawakens in Suad as the film industry starts to bubble in the Arab world (11:00)

Suad describes herself as a workaholic and composes soundtracks for forty films in just seven years (15:00)

Motherhood was another major shifting moment for Suad and how she found reading 'Bringing up Bebe' helped. (16:00)

'The borrowed dress' score was about losing family members as Suad grieved her own father and unborn child (24:30)

How Suad has an unshakeable confidence in her ability as a composer (29:15)

Connect with Suad:

https://www.suadbushnaq.com

https://www.instagram.com/musicbysuada/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/30k85HCLHOFmPzKQCC5uKZ

https://www.youtube.com/user/SuadBushnaq

Tickets for MAY 7th 2022 at Coventry Cathedral, UK

https://www.bpso.org.uk/coventry/

References:

Free PDF download of book, Bringing up Bebe

https://www.seecoalharbour.com/bringing-up-bebe/

McGill University

Malcolm Gladwell's book 'Outliers'

Johann Sebastian Bach

Let’s connect!

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Next Episode

Standing up to abuse with confidence

Warning: This episode discusses domestic abuse.

My guest Julie Randall juggled a successful career in sales, finance & management as an employee and then a self-employed business owner alongside bringing up three children. But she also survived several toxic relationships, which were physically and mentally abusive during her 30-year career.

Julie gives us an insight into how a strong, capable and intelligent woman like herself couldn't even see that what she was living with was actually domestic abuse. The toxic relationships were disguised as loving and kind at first but then developed into what sounds like living an intense psychological thriller movie for years on end. She was left feeling confused, depressed, suicidal and unable to trust herself to make decisions but eventually gained the confidence to secretly question what she was being told by her perpetrator, break the pattern and ask the police for help.

Her experiences led to a change in her career and she now works as a female leadership & empowerment coach/mentor. Helping women to let go of toxic relationships, move on after domestic abuse, overcome uncertainty, gain confidence, set boundaries, take back control and move forward empowered to live life on their terms.

Discussed in this episode:

How being in a toxic relationship isn't always something you can notice straight away (1:45)
Red flags get mixed up with the nice gestures that also happen which left Julie confused and blaming herself (3:34)
Julie's first experience of a toxic relationship started when she married at the age of nineteen after three years together (6:50)
She describes the systematic and constant manipulation she endured for eight years with a partner she had a business with (8:23)
How the information she shared was then used against her (10:45)
Why women tend to justify bad and abusive behavior (11:55)
Living in fear silently (13:00)
Noticing a pattern in the abuse was the first step towards Julie questioning it (17:35)
The danger of teaching little girls to always be nice and people please (21:45)
She didn't take instant action but started to plot her escape (24:00)
The turning point was when Julie's perpetrator threatened her friend (26:35)
Moving on without all the answers is possible. How Julie broke free in stages (27:00)
Finding out who she was again and deciding to help other women (30:00)
Julie's recent experience being called to jury service on a domestic abuse case (33:20)

Connect with Julie :

https://www.enlivened.co.uk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/julieprandall/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://www.facebook.com/EnlivenedWomen

Let’s connect !

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