
Turning Childhood Adversity into Your CEO Superpowers
About this episode
It can be difficult sometimes to recognize how our trauma in childhood affects us, but in today’s episode of The Being Human Podcast, we’re addressing how often our business decisions and lives overall are a response to something we faced in our early years.
Trauma manifests in different ways through adulthood, but regardless of what you went through, as you work through it, there are ways to recover your power from those situations.
You no longer have to be weighed down by your past experiences because in this we’re turning your adversity into success as a CEO.
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Take my FREE quiz to find out how well you know yourself and where to start using that to skyrocket your biz success: https://www.vasavikumar.com/takethequiz
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Connect with Vasavi on Instagram: @mynameisvasavi
Key moments to tune in for:
- [3:04] The reality of growing up and how it affects us now
- [10:46] Simple ways to recover your power from adversity
- [21:44] Finding a sense of meaning through hardship
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Vasavi Kumar leads the coaching industry with 10 years of experience and has helped thousands of women overcome major life obstacles to create new heights of success. Her work is known internationally from speaking engagements in India and across the USA. Vasavi is recognized for getting to the bottom of the intersection of self and business roadblocks and her methods teach clients how to master the art of getting what you want, by mastering their mind.
Vasavi holds dual Masters degrees in Special Education from Hofstra University and Social Work from Columbia University. She’s the host of the Being Human with Vasavi Podcast and Former Co-Host of Studio 512, a lifestyle and entertainment morning show in Austin, TX. She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, FOX, VH1, and was a regular on NBC’s Kansas City Live as the “Keepin’ It Real Guru.” She believes that when you cultivate a solid relationship with yourself, you can be, do, and create anything you want.
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