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Are You Being Honest with Yourself?

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Yesterday I spoke on a panel to some 450 women attending a leadership event put on by a large women organization with the theme of Reinventing Yourself. I had one goal in mind: To inspire at least one woman in the audience to take a leap of faith and trust into her own self and to stop seeking approval and guidance from the world around her. Oh and there was this one non-negotiable rule about everything that came out of my mouth on the panel: “Farnoosh, you gotta be 100% honest and transparent!”

Being honest with yourself is not so common as it turns out we are blatant liars. Just listen to that inner dialogue without filtering for once. [Read more…] about Are You Being Honest with Yourself?

Episode 71: How to Build Strong Relationships with Caring and Giving

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Welcome back to Episode #71 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is How to Build Strong Relationships with Caring and Giving, inspired mainly by all the amazing giving I’ve been receiving in the midst of all this recent frenzy and fury in my life. [Read more…] about Episode 71: How to Build Strong Relationships with Caring and Giving

Dealing with Success Envy: How to Shut Up the Inner Ego

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Suffering from Success Envy?

Do you watch others who are more successful than you and secretly envy them?
Do you find yourself daydreaming about another person’s life and wish you were them?
Do you see things and feel captivated by their aura, wondering why you were dealt such a bad hand of cards in life?

In other words, do you suffer the insufferable inner ego or have you shut it up already so you can get on with the business of your own life?

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Episode 70: How to Answer “So What Do You Do?” Question

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Welcome back to Episode #70 of The Daily Interaction podcast where the topic today is inspired by my most favorite aunt from Iran on one her visits to the US – listen to the show for the full story where we explore the sometimes-dreaded question: “So What Do You Do?”.

How do you answer the question when people ask you what you do? Do you say you “are” something or you “do” something? And do you go with the standard responses closest to your profession, or get creative and answer in a unique way that sticks out? [Read more…] about Episode 70: How to Answer “So What Do You Do?” Question

From Corporate to Self-Employed: How to Adjust to Being Your Own Boss

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Maybe You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss!

“You weren’t meant to have a boss!” wrote Paul Graham on his blog in 2008.

It’s a popular piece that taps into the psychology of whether we as human beings are meant to have bosses. It’s a wild article. He compares us to lions in Africa, then weaves in our attachment to junk food and the unnatural way we have to act in large companies and concludes with the crazy notion that perhaps some of us were simply not meant to have a boss!
[Read more…] about From Corporate to Self-Employed: How to Adjust to Being Your Own Boss

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