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Sep 2021
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Starting with Acceptance with Cynthia Fo...

Lauren Paton
About this episode

This week my guest is Cynthia Fortlage. Cynthia is a Gender Identity Coach and is speaking with me about her experience of seeing the world through both sets of gendered eyes, how she educates people on first finding acceptance of one another before needing to understand, and how her experience of the world changed after she underwent her own transition.

About Cynthia
Ms Fortlage is an international award-winning LGBT+ executive, entrepreneur, and board leader. For the past 30 years, she was an information technology executive in Canada. She has held various board roles throughout her career including past President of the Board for Rainbow Resource Center, the oldest continually running LGBT2SQ+ centre in Canada. She was the national board chair for a feminist organization Women’s March Canada and led its merger with Women’s March Global. In 2016 Ms Fortlage came to terms with a 46-year denial of her gender identity. In 2017 she started CAF Services as a Gender Identity Coach for Women & 2SLGBTQIA+ persons. Helping Individuals, Families and Corporations address gender diversity Issues using #AcceptancewithoutUnderstanding™. She is well-spoken having presented at over 250 events in 21 countries.

Website: Https://www.cynthiafortlage.com
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cfortlage/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acceptancewithoutunderstanding
Speakerhub: https://speakerhub.com/speaker/cynthia-fortlage

About me:
I'm the founder of Unleashed Coaching + Reprogramming where I helps female leaders in male-dominated environments liberate themselves from limitations, rewrite their subconscious programming and tap into their potential. I spent my previous career working in high-level strategic roles, at small but impactful tech startups through to global corporations like Amazon and Disney. Now I use my transformative blend of strategy and spirituality delivered through 1:1 or group clarity coaching, energy psychology, emotional healing and NLP, to help female leaders access the intricate layers of the subconscious mind so that they find the power to not only reach their goals, but surpass them.
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