Episode 56: Unlock your potential - secrets to navigate career transitions

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In this empowering episode, Archita and Olivia discuss how to navigate career transitions with confidence and purpose. They share their personal experiences and offer valuable advice for making intentional choices that align with long-term goals. Despite facing challenges like layoffs and visa issues, Archita emphasizes staying focused on your goals.

Highlights include the importance of understanding your core purpose, embracing a growth mindset, and creating a roadmap for your career journey. They encourage listeners to be strategic when evaluating opportunities, create their own paths, and build a strong support network.

Tune in for an insightful conversation filled with actionable advice to help you approach change with clarity, purpose, and a sense of empowerment.

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Episode 55: Being bold and letting your feet do the talking

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Whether you are starting your career, transitioning to a new job, or aiming to redefine your experience in your current role, finding a sense of empowerment is key to unlocking your full potential. Martha Aviles, a marketing leader, shares strategies and insights on how to feel empowered in the workplace, in this episode of the Embracing Only Podcast.

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Episode 47: Embrace your fierceness

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In this episode we have not one, but three fierce queens, Fabia, Zanele and Mai who share how they have embraced their ‘onlyness’ and thrived in the different spaces they have occupied. We talk about mentorship, sponsorship, is 30 the new 40 and how we as women can do more to raise and lift other women up.

Key takeaways from this episode:

  • Make someone’s voice heard more when you are in the room or at a table they don’t have visibility to yet

  • When you identify your strengths and something you are good at, do not shy away from it

  • Everybody is driving impact in their own way, own time and we shouldn’t fall prey to the comparison game

  • There is value in achieving great things, but pacing yourself and truly having the time to reflect and understand your journey is important

Episode 46: Limitless Leadership - consciously driving change

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"In life, you genuinely can't control what others say, what others do." - Meghana Rao Pahlajani

Meghana a multifaceted sustainability professional in the development sector has driven conscious impact across coal, natural gas and solar from rural India to large power plants in the Midwest USA.

In this episode she shares her limitless leadership lessons navigating being 'an only' leading a coal plant, to breaking the bias on maternity leave in corporate India, navigating loss due to COVID and raising conscious consumers. She challenges us to rethink resilience as a badge of honor one must endure alone and instead embrace it as a team sport. She leaves us with an emphatic and tangible call to action to leave the world a better place than we found it.

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