Episode 38: Looking back on "If Not Now, When?" with Karen Haller
04/15/22 • 18 min
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Have you ever wanted to give up? To throw in the towel? To concede defeat? Have you ever been so tired of trying to explain yourself and the change you want to make, that you just want to walk away and leave it to someone else? There are always moments in leading change where giving up feels easier than going on. Moments where the resistance is real and you just want to say, I’m done. In this week’s episode we look back at my conversation with Karen Haller, global expert in behavioural design and colour psychology. As we look back at how Karen persisted for 8 years, against all advice to throw in the towel, we also learn how she turned around her absolute terror of speaking in public to become an international keynote speaker. There are seven powerful lessons we can learn from Karen’s story, to help us keep going too. If you’re ready to walk the road less travelled and build your resilience, hone your determination and deepen your commitment to your calling, take a listen now.
ABOUT YOUR HOST: SUE REVELL
Sue is on a mission to STOP women playing small so that they can create the legacy they want to leave in the world. With over 30 years coaching and leadership experience, Sue loves nothing more than disrupting the unhelpful thinking that often holds women back, so that they can think, dream and BE bigger in leading the change they want to see. Coaching internationally, Sue’s clients are primarily world-changing women who want to lead with confidence, increase their impact and live a life that matters.
RESOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: Are You a Mission Magnet? by Sue Revell
Episode 5: Who Do You Think You Are? with Julie Owen Moylan
Episode 21: It’s Not About You! with Suzanne Dibble
Free Guide: Being Unstoppable by Sue Revell
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SEASON THREE IS SPONSORED BY PRACTICE SOLUTIONS. Practice Solutions is a leading values-based consultancy supporting teams, organisations and leaders to meet the challenges of delivering care and support in the 21st Century. For over 20 years, we have been supporting organisations to confidently lead, manage, sustain and improve services that ensure the well-being of their teams and the communities they support. We offer a range of expertise from leadership, organisational development & transformational change, to digital and creative services, communication and engagement. For more information check out our podcast or get in touch via our website or social media platforms:
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Have you ever wanted to give up? To throw in the towel? To concede defeat? Have you ever been so tired of trying to explain yourself and the change you want to make, that you just want to walk away and leave it to someone else? There are always moments in leading change where giving up feels easier than going on. Moments where the resistance is real and you just want to say, I’m done. In this week’s episode we look back at my conversation with Karen Haller, global expert in behavioural design and colour psychology. As we look back at how Karen persisted for 8 years, against all advice to throw in the towel, we also learn how she turned around her absolute terror of speaking in public to become an international keynote speaker. There are seven powerful lessons we can learn from Karen’s story, to help us keep going too. If you’re ready to walk the road less travelled and build your resilience, hone your determination and deepen your commitment to your calling, take a listen now.
ABOUT YOUR HOST: SUE REVELL
Sue is on a mission to STOP women playing small so that they can create the legacy they want to leave in the world. With over 30 years coaching and leadership experience, Sue loves nothing more than disrupting the unhelpful thinking that often holds women back, so that they can think, dream and BE bigger in leading the change they want to see. Coaching internationally, Sue’s clients are primarily world-changing women who want to lead with confidence, increase their impact and live a life that matters.
RESOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: Are You a Mission Magnet? by Sue Revell
Episode 5: Who Do You Think You Are? with Julie Owen Moylan
Episode 21: It’s Not About You! with Suzanne Dibble
Free Guide: Being Unstoppable by Sue Revell
TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM SUE:
Sign up for regular updates: Mission Mojo Sign-Up
Join the Women on a Mission Community: Facebook Group
Connect with Sue at: suerevell.com | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram
SEASON THREE IS SPONSORED BY PRACTICE SOLUTIONS. Practice Solutions is a leading values-based consultancy supporting teams, organisations and leaders to meet the challenges of delivering care and support in the 21st Century. For over 20 years, we have been supporting organisations to confidently lead, manage, sustain and improve services that ensure the well-being of their teams and the communities they support. We offer a range of expertise from leadership, organisational development & transformational change, to digital and creative services, communication and engagement. For more information check out our podcast or get in touch via our website or social media platforms:
Podcast: Joining The Dots with Practice Solutions
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/practice-solutions
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pracsolutions
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pracsolutions YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/practicesolutions
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Episode 37: If Not Now, When? with Karen Haller
Putting your head above the parapet isn’t an easy to thing to do. Especially if, despite your very best efforts, you’re not getting any traction. Imagine trying to start your new career, in a subject area that no-one really understands, and then a global recession hits. Many of us would have given up. Even her chosen mentors told her it was time to give in and get a job. But instead of giving up, Karen Haller dug in even deeper. It was more than just following her heart, Karen committed to doing the deep, personal, inner work that enabled her to keep going.
Such was the strength of her personal belief in her mission, that she spent eight years allowing herself to fall forward. Doing the inner work that enabled her to find the resilience and determination to keep believing when no-one else believed what she knew to be true.
Every knock back pushed Karen to do more and be better.
Every heckle pushed her to hone her message more distinctly.
Every tear made her push harder through frustration.
Every no helped her find her inner YES!
Karen Haller went on to become the leading global expert in the field of Behavioural Design & Colour Psychology with a book translated into 14 languages (so far!). In this week’s episode she shares how she went from sheer terror of public speaking to now being an internationally renowned keynote speaker. Her story is an inspiration to anyone who has ever been tempted to walk away, inviting us instead to walk the road less travelled and do the deep inner work that builds resilience, determination and commitment in answering our calling.
ABOUT MY GUEST: KAREN HALLER
Based in the UK (originally from Sydney, Australia) Karen Haller FRSA, is the leading global expert in the field of Behavioural Design & Colour Psychology. She helps businesses & design professionals to use colour and design to improve well-being, support mental health and create positive change in the world.
Karen consults and collaborates with companies looking for innovative solutions to social problems who seek new ways of improving the human experience in balance with nature. Her clients have included Rockfon, Samsung, Dove, M&S, Salt of the Earth, Huawei and Fiat.
She has also helped hundreds of design professionals around the world to deepen their knowledge of colour through her sought-after colour and design psychology courses.
Karen is the bestselling author of The Little Book of Colour, translated to date in 14 languages and a contributing author for the Colour Design Theories and Applications as well as being an in-demand media commentator and international speaker.
Her mission is to raise awareness of how colour can transform our lives, allowing us to connect back to our authentic self, where did that as a person a brand or the spaces where we live and work.
In her free time, Karen enjoys adventure travels, exploring new cultures and being in nature.
Karen can be contacted via her websites:
Consulting https://karenhaller.com/
Little Book of Colour https://thelittlebookofcolour.com/
Or on Social Media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karen_haller_colour/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarenHallerColourAndDesign
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenhaller/
ABOUT YOUR HOST: SUE REVELL
Sue is on a mission to STOP women playing small so that they can create the legacy they want to leave in the world. With over 30 years coaching and leadership experience, Sue loves nothing more than disrupting the unhelpful thinking that often holds women back, so that they can think, dream and BE bigger in leading the change they want to see. Coaching internationally, Sue’s clients are primarily world-changing women who want to lead with confidence, increase their impact and live a life that matters.
TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM SUE:
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Join the Women on a Mission Community: Facebook Group
Click the following links to connect with Sue at: Her website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram
SEASON THREE IS SPONSORED BY PRACTICE SOLUTIONS. Practice Solutions is a leading values-based consultancy supporting teams, organisations and leaders to meet the challenges of delivering care and...
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Episode 39: Done With Hiding! with Monique DeBose
How do you come out of hiding when you’ve spent a lifetime playing small so that other people don’t feel uncomfortable in your presence? How do you learn to own and love every part of who you are, even those parts that are hidden in shadow, buried deep inside? And how do you create the level of self-acceptance needed to feel both safe and free within yourself, as well as with others? Monique DeBose is a transformational entertainer, an award-winning jazz singer and playwright, a diversity consultant and a leadership coach with a Masters degree in Spiritual Psychology. For the past 20 years, she's been on a mission to help women integrate all the parts of themselves. To turn their fears and insecurities into their strength. To express themselves fully. To choose MORE for their lives. For Monique the answers lie in allowing herself to experience the constant dance between those human feelings of resistance and fear & her spiritual journey to self-acceptance and safety deep within. We hear how, in her own inner work and in her work with clients, she uses her music, art and creativity to bypass the ‘tricky mind’ and get to the deep innate wisdom stored in our bodies throughout our many life experiences. Most of all, we learn how and why Monique stopped protecting others, at her own expense, and stepped fully into her own glorious power, lighting the way for others to follow and integrate all the parts of themselves too. MORE ABOUT MY GUEST: MONIQUE DEBOSE Monique DeBose is an award-winning singer, songwriter and spiritual coach. A leading vocal improvisationalist (having studied under Rhiannon and Joey Blake of the renowned Bobby McFerrin Voicestra), Monique has toured and entertained audiences throughout the world, performed at TEDx and spoken as part of the United Nation’s SDG Action Zones event, with the mission of helping people to transition beyond seeing in “black” and “white” so they can begin to live life in full colour. Monique can be contacted via her website: https://www.moniquedebosemusic.com/
Or on Social Media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammoniquedebose/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iammoniquedebose
ABOUT YOUR HOST: SUE REVELL
Sue is on a mission to STOP women playing small so that they can create the legacy they want to leave in the world. With over 30 years coaching and leadership experience, Sue loves nothing more than disrupting the unhelpful thinking that often holds women back, so that they can think, dream and BE bigger in leading the change they want to see. Coaching internationally, Sue’s clients are primarily world-changing women who want to lead with confidence, increase their impact and live a life that matters.
TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM SUE:
Sign up for regular updates: Mission Mojo Sign-Up
Join the Women on a Mission Community: Facebook Group
Connect with Sue at: suerevell.com | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram
SEASON THREE IS SPONSORED BY PRACTICE SOLUTIONS. Practice Solutions is a leading values-based consultancy supporting teams, organisations and leaders to meet the challenges of delivering care and support in the 21st Century. For over 20 years, we have been supporting organisations to confidently lead, manage, sustain and improve services that ensure the well-being of their teams and the communities they support. We offer a range of expertise from leadership, organisational development & transformational change, to digital and creative services, communication and engagement. For more information check out our podcast or get in touch via our website or social media platforms:
Podcast: Joining The Dots with Practice Solutions
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/practice-solutions
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pracsolutions
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pracsolutions YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/practicesolutions
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