PODCAST EPISODE № 25

The Power of Not Giving Up

by Anita Charlot

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Have you ever felt like just throwing in the towel? Like every time you take two steps forward, you end up falling 10 steps back? Or every time you think your head is finally above the water, you find yourself drowning again?

If so, you’re going to love this episode. I will share several personal stories and a few of my clients to demonstrate the power of not giving up.

But before we head into the episode, I’d like to take a moment to celebrate today’s episode as it is my 25th! I kept my promise to myself to deliver 25 consistent episodes.

I set the goal, and I stuck to it. This is huge!

So please join me in this episode as I share more about my journey, why it was so important to me that I did not give up, and my ‘why’ for wanting to help you in the areas of love, liberation and transformation.

See you inside the episode

What You Learn:

Why giving up should never be an option
How to overcome if you feel like throwing in the towel
Some personal experiences and stories to help motivate you to keep going
How to find community with other likeminded executive women in The Happy Executive Woman Mastermind Program

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Episode Transcript

Hey there beautiful.

I am so proud of myself. I set a goal and I stuck with it.

Let me just take a few moments of silence to celebrate accomplishing the professional goal. While everything happening around me dictated that I shouldn’t have been able to do so.

Amen!

All right, here we go. If you listen to previous episodes, then you know just how big this accomplishment is for me.

Let’s just recap for a moment. Here are a few of the things that I accomplished since May of this year:
I hired two new team members, an executive personal assistant and a web designer
I launched this podcast
I launched a brand new website
Had said executive personal assistant switched to focusing on working with a podcast only
Hired and fired a new executive personal assistant
Almost fired a Research Assistant
Found mom in assisted living facility due to a diagnosis of dementia and then had her moved in within two months
Survived a cancer scare
All while working a full time job
Coaching my son through his entrepreneurial pursuits
Managing my home
Participating in family events
Being there for my friends, my spouse, my clients
And squeezing in personal time for myself!

So how did I do this? Why did I do this? How is all of this possible?

If I said that this was easy, I’d be lying. If I told you that this wasn’t my first rodeo related to juggling family, work, and business responsibilities simultaneously, I’d also be lying. 
What I can tell you is that for some reason, I’ve always found a way to get things done. From being a single mom and climbing the corporate ladder, to finding love again after surviving and healing from the trauma of domestic violence, I never gave up.

I didn’t give up when my non-Black coworkers were excelling right before my eyes while I was the one doing the most work. Instead, I kept building and growing my skill set.

I didn’t give up when I felt too ashamed, embarrassed and heartbroken for being a victim of domestic violence. Instead, I continued to heal, learned to trust again, and married the man that was perfectly imperfect for me.

I didn’t give up when I wanted to do whatever I needed to do to make the pain go away, even if it meant leaving my son’s behind. Instead, I found the help I needed, started the healing journey, obtained my degree in metaphysics, and built a coaching business that would allow me to share my truth with other women to see that healing was possible for them.

I didn’t give up when I continue to experience gender and racial discrimination and sexual harassment in the military. Instead, I found my voice and began speaking up for myself and those under my command.

And I didn’t give up when I was faced with completing a monumental task that would have resulted in devastating reputational risk and years where the financial ramifications if not executed correctly for a previous employer. Instead, I pulled on all of my military and corporate experience, including leveraging relationships personal and professional to see this test to completion, even though the recognition would not come until years later.

The bottom line is I didn’t give up. And neither should you.

I’ve also had clients who face challenging situations and never thought they would make it through. While some of their situations may have been similar, each client is different. She brings different values, experiences, insecurities, fears, unconscious biases, and the light to the table. Helping them uncover their shadow side – that is the part of their personalities that they often do not give voice to – was instrumental in each one of them growing through their experiences. Having the right level of support made all of the difference.

Had these women been left to their own devices, they would have fallen back into old patterns of thought and old habits and would have continued to suffer. They would have lost jobs, team members, businesses, opportunities, friends and close family relationships, all because they were going at it alone and couldn’t figure out what to do.

But because my clients were intelligent women, women at the top of their game, they decided not to give up but to try new things, new ways of looking at their situation before throwing in the towel or walking away. In the end, some of them were able to grow through the problem and come out better for it, and others learned how to exit their particular situations with the loving support of a coach to help them navigate their way through.

My question for you, is there anything you are struggling with, that you could use support on? If so, I’d be happy to support you. Send me an email through my contact page, and let’s jump on a call. The sooner you call, the faster we can develop a plan so that you don’t have to feel like your only option is to give up.

Women in leadership positions often feel like they should be able to do it all, and if they can’t, they fear asking for help out of fear, misplaced insecurities or having their requests backfire on them.

If this sounds like you or another female leader, you know, I have a solution for that. Stay tuned for more information about The Happy Executive Woman Mastermind Program.

See you in the next episode.

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The Power of Not Giving Up

PODCAST EPISODE № 25

The Power of Not Giving Up

by Anita Charlot

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PODCAST EPISODE № 25

The Power of Not Giving Up

by Anita Charlot

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What You Learn:

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