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WOMEN SPECIAL
International Women's Day
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"Whatever you give a woman, she will
make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her
a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a
meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and
enlarges what is given to her." - Erick
S. Gray
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Mireille Toulekima
“For me womanhood is about women
being proud of being women and embracing their femininity with confidence and
boldness.They must be strong and get rid of low self-esteem and guilt and stop
minimizing themselves. I would like to tell all women to forget about
limitations and say yes to their life with the challenges it comes with, yes to
their dreams and yes to their potential. I ask women around the world to change
their mindset and open themselves up to the field of possibilities and bring
miracles in their life. They should never quit on themselves. Whatever it takes
they must go big and aim to achieve beyond their own reality and be awesome.
We were born to be real not
perfect. We are worthy and we deserve
the best. Our greatness should be celebrated. We should carry each other,
embrace sisterhood and appreciate other women and their experiences,” says Mireille Toulekima, founder and managing partner
of the oil and gas company MT Energy Resources located in Perth Australia
working on projects globally and mainly in Africa, philanthropist and an author
of a book entitled, “Local Content Key Enabler For Oil and Gas projects in
Emerging Markets.
Sarah Cordiner
Sarah Cordiner , only 18 days away from due date and still working full time
teaching, public speaking and consulting. She laughed and said,“This kid is gonna come out wearing a cape and she’ll be running
Main Training by the time she’s 5!” Sarah is an online coach and CEO of Main
Training, winner of influential 100 Awards 2015 and 2016, founder of Edupreneur
Awards. She recalls that when she started her own business venture in the UK at
the age of 19, she had $17 in her bank and no idea of business, her folks
ridiculed her. She was coming from a gypsy background where female
entrepreneurship and education was frowned upon.She also remembers the day when she had a presentation to
do in a boardroom full of men, the moment she entered the room, she noticed a
few of them exchanging looks and nudging each other with their elbows,
expecting it to be a laugh but it did not intimidate her instead she quite
enjoyed the challenge to demonstrate her credibility, capability, skills and
competency in her subject matter and so the next reaction she got was
jaw-dropping and awe. She liked the look of “we-didn’t expect-that!” She said
that this worked to her advantage and she could capture their attention. She
says it is important to change the way we react and keep a positive outlook and
everything will work out to our advantage.
“As somebody who has really
created for themselves a life that once seemed impossible, from nothing, I
would like to just remind that you have within you power to truly create
anything that you can possibly imagine, that you are the only limit to anything
that you can experience in your life, if you can find within yourself the
self-efficacy, the self-belief then stop limiting yourself and continuously
learn and educate yourself and speak to others about the dreams you have, and
yes, it is absolutely possible! Do not give up on that dream.
Take small steps along the way and you can have anything that you wish for.“
Sherry Davis
Sherry, a psychologist and NLP practitioner, is the
founder and principal coach at Inner Rhythm, a Melbourne based company. Her
mission is to help as many people as possible to develop personal leadership
skills. She has worked with a variety of people including small business
owners, international scholars (PhD and Masters students), people going to work
in mining, teenagers and their families and inmates in a maximum security
prison.
Sherry’s story is unique, and yet it isn’t. She doesn’t
view herself as special for overcoming her past. Her belief is that people are
resilient if they have the right tools. At the age of 3 she was taken by her
father from her mother. For the next 10 years she lived with her grandmother.
At the age of 13 her family reunited and Sherry’s life was thrown into chaos.
The stability she had known was gone and this started a journey of drugs,
alcohol, teenage pregnancy and so many risky behaviors that it’s a miracle she
lived. After becoming a mother at 17 years of age Sherry dedicated her life to
learning why we do what we do. What makes someone an alcoholic? An abuser? At
31 years of age she was left with 3 young children, a business that operated 12
hours a day, 7 days a week and a $300000 debt. This journey has seen her study
at University and obtain 3 degrees in 4 years, become a Reiki Master, NLP
trainer and allowed her to work closely with some of the greatest minds in the
world including Tony Robbins, Jon Demartini, John Assaraf, Jordan Belfort and
many others.
On International Women’s Day, Sherry says, “Embrace
all of who you are, like all of the female aspects of you and all that you’ve
inherited from your predecessors, mothers and grandmothers and just relax into
it. Don’t struggle against perceived ideals of how things should be and don’t
struggle against yourself. It’s okay if you want to nurture, it’s okay if you
want to be nurtured, It’s okay if you want to go to the board room, it’s okay
if you want to negotiate for more pay. You are okay just as you are, so just accept it and slowly move towards that.”
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