Your Career & You

Mentoring and coaching are workplace developmental relationships that help empower individuals and sustain individual and collective growth. They are also critical in building the leaders of tomorrow while strengthening the foundation of the present team and organization. Mentoring and coaching is a learning experience that goes both ways. For mentees, they gain a role model and a teacher to help them develop not only the skills but also the attitude and values of their workplace. For coaches and mentors, they are able to give back to their organizations while gaining experience and insights that prepare them to helm new roles and shoulder different sets of responsibilities.

You may believe that your life is capped when you reach a certain age. That as you grow older, your options are limited and there is not much for you to do in your personal and professional life, like changing careers or studying or pursuing a new venture. We at Women Talk Today simply do not believe these to be true! You have what it takes to do anything no matter what age you are!

Relationships matter in the workplace, and none more important perhaps than the one you have with your manager. We all have a manager, and most of our days at work involves working and engaging with them. This relationship has a very important influence in our lives – from our mood, disposition, and daily performance at work to our professional growth and long-term career plans and goals.

Overcoming Challenges and Obstacles For many of us, challenges are a daily part of our reality. As women, we face obstacles and difficult situations in our personal lives, relationships, professions, and careers – there is no escaping them. We can experience relationships failing and ending, families falling apart, failing at school, losing jobs and careers. At one point or another, we will reach these crossroads that will push us out of our comfort zones and threaten our foundations and sense of self. I want to tell you not to be afraid of change amidst challenges. It is what allows us to learn, to grow, and to discover more about ourselves and what we are capable of, when you Allow Yourself to Be Just You!

Who Influences You? It Takes A Village…This is the start of a well-known adage, an adage that underscores how we are shaped by the people around us. A big part of who we are – how we think, how we act, our values, our attitudes, our prejudices, our biases, and our belief systems – have been and are being shaped by the influences we have had. In these series listen to some of the invaluable tips I have learnt and heard from others on  how they have shaped their lives and who have influenced them. I am sharing some of the lessons on how You Can Be Just You.

Valentina a new joiner of the UAE life,  moved to Dubai  over two years ago.  She has  assisted clients in setting up new companies (startups) or to expand across countries.   She shares how she has navigated her way around her career and Dubai life!

Tannaz Hosseinpour, founder of Minutes on Growth Coaching, is a certified life coach, and CBT practitioner specializing in mindset & relationships with a strong academic background in dispute resolution law and family mediation. Her purpose is to help millennials cultivate spiritually empowering mindsets and relationships through 1 on 1 coaching, online courses, workshops, retreats and her self-improvement podcast Minutes on Growth. As an Entrepreneur, she is also the CEO and founder of TP Education Consultants, an educational consultancy firm based in Toronto, Tehran and Dubai, that helps students all around the world achieve their academic goals - She enjoys writing articles, mentoring students at her alma maters,  creating purposeful content for her social media platforms, volunteering, fund-raising for various organizations, and also selecting & reading books for her ladies only book club in Dubai. She recently published her first spiritual children’s book, Sam’s Adventures At The Park, available on all online platforms such as Amazon and Barnes&Noble.Click here to book a FREE 30 Minute Coaching ConsultationClick here to download the presentation slidesClick here to listen to the Minutes on Growth self-improvement podcastInstagram : @MinutesOnGrowth / Facebook: @MinutesOnGrowthWebsite: www.MinutesOnGrowth.comEmail: minutesongrowth@gmail.com

Getting the job you love is a very challenging task and sometimes we end up working without satisfying our great life ambitions. During this COVID time we disregard our dreams even more to guarantee our security and lifestyle we have. Listen to Irina as she shares exploring the concept that we are creators of our future and life.Irina Baca Espinoza, ADNOC Offshore Account Manager for Wireline; Author and co-author for more than 15 technical papers in O&G; Global formation testing reservoir trainer and answer product lead; She has worked in top service companies and operator, she has 4 post-graduate degrees including Heriot-Watt University and London Business School.

Javeria is a certified makeup artist & a chef, she completed her bachelors in applied psychology, did her post graduation in Human Resource Management and started her own women accessories brand in 2011.Now she is a Certified Transformational Coach  NLP practitioner & inspirational speaker she helps people discover their strengths, talents and motivations. She lives to inspire passionate men & women to dream big and create a confident happy life they really want.Like all of us, her life is filled with challenges. She has spinal muscular atrophy a life threatening condition which robs physical strength of a person to take up daily yet essential tasks like eating, walking and even breathing etc.Along with all the challenges, she lives independently in Dubai without any caretaker or her family she has will power to accomplish things and help others. She shares her experiences about how, being a girl she faces a lot of challenges with this condition in terms of personal & professional life.She doesn’t see achievements in materialistic things. After looking at life in a very different prespective, achievements to her are based on strength, belief and struggle. She grew up with this condition and the challenges she faced as a child. She doesnt know how to live life otherwise. She believes in “Be grateful for what you have. As they always say, nothing lasts for ever, so make the most out of it and let it resonate with the rest of the world, so they remember you when you are gone”.She believed that the most amazing thing her condition has done for her is showed where her passion lies. Hear more about Javeria and how she has navigated her career to become the person she is today.Contact @mindcoach_javariamalikLinktree

Shatha is a teacher that has a wealth experience of imparting to knowledge to young people over many years. However, after being made redundant she shares her story of what she has learnt and the failures she acknowledges and what she has learnt from them. Listen to her story and be inspired, informed and ignited!

Kavvita has worked as an HR professional for 15 years. She is a Certified Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist gaining accreditation from from the American Alliance of Hypnotist. She has completed many Fengshui, Healing, Meditation Life Coaching and Self Development workshops.She is married, and has lived and worked in the UAE for the past 15 years. During this time she noticed a pattern of some events happening in her life at regular intervals taking her back to the starting point of her life. Kavvita and her husband have always had good jobs, but it only lasted for a while and then again back to being redundant or looking for new jobs. In 2016 she lost a  stable job with an amazing company. She then took a totally different direction to her career path and studied the Art of Visualization.....the rest as they say is history, listen to her story of how she has navigated her way around her own career and what motivates her now to be a Life Coach - Healing with Meditation.Contact Kavvita http://powerurlife.com/kavvitanunase@gmail.com

ShoHair Store Founder Shola DupignyFrom undertaking extensive research into how to start a hair business especially tapping into her talent of styling, Shola is now the founder of ShoHair Wigs. She began her love of styling women's hair from a young age for family and friends. Her passion has now enabled her to widen her clientele from the UK to Dubai.ShoHair Store  prides themselves in providing high quality natural human hair, services and accessories. It is a new company that has just recently launched in Dubai however are open to serving and supplying to the rest of the world too.Contact Shola via her IG @shohairstore

Winnie Mirriam Foundation (WMF) was established and registered in Kenya as an NGO in 2019, although prior to this, the founders could reach out to and serve the needy through benevolent activities including payment of School fees to bright but needy students in High School and Tertiary Colleges, Supply of Sanitary towels to less privileged girls in Primary and High Schools through their own resources, mentorship and career guidance to students and graduates as well as job placements, acts that led to birth of WMF as an organization.These voluntary activities attracted more people to participate and the vision translated to the establishment of Winnie Mirriam Foundation (WMF) to enable them carry out the activities and even more in a legal, coordinated and professional manner so as to reach more beneficiaries.WMF is growing and providing support to vulnerable youths, orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), women, and less privileged youths in different parts of the country. These beneficiaries have been reached through various programs including education scholarships, education subsidies, provision of sanitary towels, SGBV Campaigns, students mentorship and career guidance, psychosocial support to pupils and students in all educational institutions, shelter, vocational training support, entrepreneurship training, initiation of businesses and income generating activities, and linkage to the job market through internships and attachments.The work of WMF is being made possible through resources mobilized from various institutional partners and donors, other charities, and individual donors who share in Winnie's dream vision.Contact Winnie https://wmfkenya.org/@Winniemirria@winniemirriamfoundation

Atiya Chaudhry-Green lives in the UK and has 37 years healthcare experience in clinical care, quality improvement, project and programme management. Throughout her career she has been an avid learner and undertaken many self, team, quality improvement and leadership courses and trainings. It was only when she completed and certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Coach over 20 years ago that she realised she had buried her uniqueness and authenticity through life experiences that had been shaped and programmed within her unconscious mind! She realised she wasn’t living into my true potential. This happens to all of us!Atiya was so passionate about the skills she had developed she trained and became certified to deliver NLP trainings. She added to her skills through becoming trained in visual and virtual strategy and facilitation. This opened up her creative portal big time which has led to her unique creative and powerful teaching/trainings and coaching methodology. She now has the honour to support others to do the same and tap into their uniqueness for greater impact in their lives!Atiya is an amazon international best-selling co-author of a book called “When Love Speaks” where she shares her story of being a child, how it limited her potential but led to her passion today to serve others to live in their ultimate potential.It got her thinking about how she could support children from age 6/7 years of age ( this is when the programming starts to set in), from being less programmed using the tools she had been trained in through NLP and share these through storytelling and developing communities of practice and training support for parents and teachers. Atiya is passionate about her work and wants to bring “Transformation through Tenderness” and support adults who are curious to understand how to minimise the programming and support unlocking the creativity of each child. When working with Atiya you also open up your own creative portal too!Atiya now works as an entrepreneur and is a specialist coach/trainer in powerful connection strategies to influence & impact growth and creativity and has a business called Super Smart Stories.Atiya trainings and coaching with parents and teachers has impacted children positively through powerful, effective and customised relationship building tools! She also offers bespoke creativity visual workshops to help unlock potential, increase confidence, boost motivation and increase resiliency skills.If you are curious and want to dive deeper - feel free to her visit website : www.supersmartstories.com 

Frances Mensah Williams CBEIn 2015 Frances’s acclaimed first novel From Pasta to Pigfoot was published by Jacaranda Books and selected by WH Smith Travel as one of the top 25 of its 100 Summer reads. Frances is also the author of the novel Imperfect Arrangements, published in 2020 and described by bestselling novelist Dorothy Koomson as ‘a brilliantly written novel’.Frances is a passionate advocate for skills and capacity building in Africa. She leads training and talent management projects and delivers management coaching to an international client base. In the UK, she has developed coaching and employment programmes to support the careers of Black and ethnic minority employees and create inclusive workplaces.Selected as one of the Top 20 Inspirational Women from the African Diaspora in Europe, Frances has received several commendations and awards for entrepreneurship and skills development in Africa and was presented with the 2017 Community Pioneer Award by the African Diaspora Awards.Frances was awarded a CBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List for services to the African community in the UK and in Africa.7 books later Frances shares her love for friends, life and writing. Hear about her latest new novel ' The Second Time We Met' hitting the top spot as the number one best selling book on Amazon!https://www.amazon.com/Second-Time-We-Met/dp/1542038863

What Is It Like Being a Teenager in Britain? British teenagers spend most of their time at school, in fact students in Britain can leave school at sixteen, take their first important exams GCSE's  or stay on to go onto 6th form college to undertake 'A' level qualifications. However, to understand just some of the challenges they face and how they navigate their way around career development is a crucial part in developing their confidence, motivation, self perception and ambition. Samantha Baah is currently a sixth form student on a career path that will take her to Cambodia having organized a gap year in 2024, to develop her skills in medicine. She has taken control of her life embarking on a path where she has faced some challenges, however, has pursued a route with the support of family, mentors and sheer self determination to live and enjoy each moment! Hear her story about the challenges and wise words of being a young person living in the UK and what that means for her. Please donate to Samantha's Kiltwalk to raise funds for a medical gap year in Cambodia with Project Trust. See link below https://dundee.thekiltwalk.co.uk/fundraising/DundeeKiltwalk2022-SamanthaBaah

Temitope Falade Aderibigbe is a Pharmacist, mother, wife and successful host of Mothers Haven Podcast  a place of rest where women can  find help, hope and a pathway to healing. A podcast for every woman and those who deeply care about them. Temi has successfully given a voice to women, supporting them and their families as childbirth can trigger many powerful emotions in both parents, ranging from excitement and delight to anxiety and depression. When signs of depression occur after birth, they can signal a very serious condition known as postpartum depression. During this podcast interview Temi shares her struggle with postpartum depression and how going through this galvanized her to become a beacon of hope, an eagle that soars over challenges to help other women recognize and deal with this debilitating mental depression. 

My Journey as a Professional Life Coach - Aisha AbdulqaderI started my journey as a professional life coach in 2019 and today I am blessed for serving others specially women to find their true identity, true essence, and accept themselves unconditionally to be their best version and become successful individuals. Because every human being deserves to live  the life that they truly wish and born for.  

Jasmine is a Co Active Life Coach and English language teacher from the UK. She studied Modern Languages (English and Spanish) at university.  She has been living abroad for over fifteen years and has lived and worked in Venezuela, The USA, England, Turkey, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia,  Saudi, and now The United Arab Emirates. Her diverse background and experience has enabled her to relate to all walks of life. Her passion is inspiring others to live their best life. She believes telling her stories can healing and give others the courage to live the life they truly deserve. She believes having grit and a sense of humor in life are key. Hear how she has taken control of her career and navigating her way to becoming a qualified Co-Active Coach.Contact Jasmine IG @withnavaLinktree

The Award-Winning Career Development Programme for the Woman of Today. Helping you Take Control of your Career and Life with Passion and Purpose to Achieve Outstanding Results!Considering a career change, starting a business or just getting back on life’s career track, don't know where to begin, or have the time to work on it? Take time out for yourself to complete the 6 step series of lessons and have that commitment to yourself to move forward and take control.Identify what you want from your career, and your lifeExplore all the different options available to you,  your coach and the group will give you shape to a new compelling ten year visionCreate an action plan to research and explore the possibilities available to youGain a Level 3 Certificate towards your continuous professional developmentClick the link to find out more and registerhttps://women-talk-today.teachable.com/Check out my website and get to know me so I can know you!https://helenmariatucker.com/