This week we talk to Tara Mohr about playing big
Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She helps women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing forward their ideas in work and in life. Tara is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks and now in paperback. In the book, she shares her pioneering model for making the journey from playing small–being held back by fear and self-doubt–to playing big, taking bold action to pursue what you see as your callings.
Tara is the creator of the Playing Big leadership program for women, which now has more than 1,000 graduates from around the world, and creator of the global Playing Big Facilitators Training for coaches, therapists, leadership development professionals and other practitioners supporting women in their personal and professional growth. A Coaches Training Institute-certified coach with an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in English literature from Yale,
Tara takes a unique approach that blends inner work and practical skills training. Her work has been featured on national media from theNew York Times to Today Show to Harvard Business Review, and has captivated women from all walks of life including Maria Shriver, Jillian Michaels and Elizabeth Gilbert.
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In This Interview, Tara Mohr and I Discuss:
The One You Feed parable
The immense flexibility we have in who we become
Feeding the good wolf in others
The Inner Mentor and the Inner Critic
The qualities of the Inner Critic
Why you shouldn't argue with the Inner Critic
How the Inner Critic also sounds like the voice of reason
Finding our Inner Mentor
Don't ask what you are ready for but instead ask what is life asking of me right now?
Imposter Syndrome
The Objection Rolodex
Making "The Leap"
The 6 criteria of the "The Leap"
How to keep change going
Giving up sugar
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