Sharpen Your Message and Amplify Your Impact! Part 1 With Dafna Gold Melchior.
Stories From Women Who Walk04/08/21 • 36 min
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk. You’ll recognize yourself in these true-life stories from women who are walking their lives while their lives walk them and the lasting difference these journeys have made. I’m your host, Diane Wyzga.
Today my guest Dafna Gold Melchior - podcaster, blogger and founder of Let's Clarify It! - who’s joining us from Jerusalem, Israel. Dafna is a Clarifier. As a clarifier Dafna teaches researchers and entrepreneurs (or “ResearchPreneurs” as she calls them) how to sharpen their message and communicate with clarity so they are prepared to clearly and concisely speak about the value of their work to high stakes audiences. What helps drive this mission? Dafna’s belief that “We're the happiest and most fulfilled when our work in the world is at the intersection where what we love meets our superpower.” For Dafna it means helping others toward crystal clear expression and collaboration. Welcome to the podcast, Dafna!
Minutes 36:00
00:00 to 1:56 Intro
1:37 to 6:20 Start From Where You Are
When we talked earlier you mentioned The Israel National Trail . I understand that the fellow who was inspired to create this national trail, Avraham Tamir, had himself hiked the Appalachian Trail on the East Coast of the US. If I met up with you there what’s the first thing I’d notice?
- Visiting Israel is a matter of when!
- In a very very small country we are very diverse, the scenery changes quickly and significantly
- You will meet a mosaic of people - a lot of diversity
And if we had some time to walk along together what might I get to know about you?
- Dafna loves hiking!
- Like the host, from a large family: 2nd of 7 children, close to siblings, close to parents, married into big family, and also has family of 4 children
- Family is core component of Dafna’s life
- Host is curious about the ways in which the culture which is influenced by family has further influenced Dafna’s life
- Dafna generationally had friends with/without career moms
- Knew from a young age that she wanted to be a professional and be a mom; but where’s the balance? Is a struggle
- Dafna’s original aspirations were different: expectations versus reality
Tell us more about that:
6:20 to 12:07 The Early Israeli Experience
- Moved from USA to Israel at age 7 and quite excited as a Jew and Zionist
- Dafna told family she would be an officer in IDF (Israeli Defense Forces); how did she know that early on? No idea!
- IDF military service is compulsory for men and women in Israel
- Dafna’s professional aspirations: a singer; special ed teacher; by High School had need to serve by connecting them with one another and communication so she could be Israel’s Ambassador to United Nations
- What did she mean? Being a proud representative, loved diversity, travel, meeting people
- Speaks French, literary Arabic, English and Hebrew
- Collaboration is a key theme in Dafna’s life
- Host suggests that the under-current of life: community, bringing people together, commonality and similarity is a river under her life from beginning
- Believes she always an inter-disciplinarian; what’s wrong with me? A little bit of this and that and also other things
- Dafna’s birthday parties looked like an affirmative action committee
- Host suggests that bringing people together who might be of interest to each other when someone (Dafna) brings them together and is still doing
12:07 to 16:40 Life Choice Gets Complicated: Professional Or....?
- Graduated high school, enrolled in Army, became an officer, married, went to university for political science
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs was attractive but family was much more so
- The price people pay depending on their professional choices
- Big decision: how to take partner and family into account
- Ever since then been trying to reconnect with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs job description without going away
- Her road was re-directed to more communications
- Host suggests that these are awarenesses and understandings we don’t come to easily or lightly
- Over 20 years sees the unfolding, the reflecting, the thru-line and happy with the journey
16:40 to 23:05 “Clarify the message to amplify the impact.”
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04/08/21 • 36 min
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