
#104 - The Power of Embracing Change with Danusia Malina-Derben
11/04/20 • 42 min
In this episode I interview the amazing Danusia Malina-Derbin who is a serial entrepreneur and consultant. She is a dynamic contributor on future C-level trends, cultivating women's leadership and debates about women's careers and family.
She is also a mother of 10 (including 6-year-old triplets).
What you will learn:
- How Danusia navigated her career after becoming a teenage mother
- Why she left her career as an academic to start her own consultancy business
- Decisions that Danusia made to enable her to fulfil her potential and raise her children
- The importance of disregarding the opinions of naysayers
- How to turn challenging times into opportunities
Links mentioned:
In this episode I interview the amazing Danusia Malina-Derbin who is a serial entrepreneur and consultant. She is a dynamic contributor on future C-level trends, cultivating women's leadership and debates about women's careers and family.
She is also a mother of 10 (including 6-year-old triplets).
What you will learn:
- How Danusia navigated her career after becoming a teenage mother
- Why she left her career as an academic to start her own consultancy business
- Decisions that Danusia made to enable her to fulfil her potential and raise her children
- The importance of disregarding the opinions of naysayers
- How to turn challenging times into opportunities
Links mentioned:
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#103 Staying In Your Current Role Could be Costing You More Than You Think
In this episode, I am talking about opportunity cost. The decision that you may be making about staying in your current role, could be costing you more than you think.
What you will learn:
- The average person spends 90,000 at work in their lifetime, so it is important to make that time count
- When you are saying yes to one thing, you are saying no to something else
- The power and importance of doing things differently, so that you can have the career that you really want.
- Why these uncertain times offer a good opportunity to reconsider your approach to your career goals.
THIS EPISODE IS BOUGHT TO YOU BY THE CAREER CLARITY ACADEMY
This episode was brought to you by my signature program, the Career Clarity Academy.
If you are looking for support with changing career direction, book a suitability call >> www.lightboxcoaching.com/academy
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#105 Why Brainstorming Potential Career Options Isn't Getting You Anywhere
In this episode I share why jumping in and brainstorming potential career options might not be the best thing that's going to get you to where you want to be, or give you the clarity that you need to move forward.
What you will learn from this episode:
- How to understand whether or not a role is the right fit for you
- Change your mindset to focus less on the external and more on the internal
- Why you need to slow down to speed up
- How to drill down into the core reasons why your current role no longer serves you
THIS EPISODE IS BOUGHT TO YOU BY THE CAREER CLARITY ACADEMY
This episode was brought to you by my signature program, the Career Clarity Academy.
If you are looking for support with changing career direction, book a suitability call >> www.lightboxcoaching.com/academy
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