Your Iconic Image : Turning Weaknesses into Strengths
Noa Ronen is your out of the box coach. She is also an author, vlogger, disruptor, and coffee lover.\xa0
She brings more than 20 years of experience in Change Management, Human Resources, Project Management, and coaching.\xa0
She encourages progressive and social business leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire.\xa0
Noa\u2019s personal relocation experience resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you rather than looking for others' differences to open your mind and heart to see people and situations differently. This is what Noa calls BEyond Leadership where your new way of being inspires and influences others. If you would like to go to BEyond: Leadership check her book: BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess.
I moved to the US from Israel\u2026and before the move, I worked in human resources, change management consulting and was in executive roles\u2026I knew it would take some time but I thought things would be easy and I would find a job and everything will be fine. \xa0
A big chunk of it was that speaking was my forte.\xa0I knew at a very early age that when I open my mouth and I speak, I can influence people.\xa0And suddenly when I open my mouth, people see that I\u2019m not from here.\xa0And they can see the gap in language skills and most important, in my head, I felt like my English was not good enough.
And that voice in my head\u2026.telling me I\u2019m not good enough and I\u2019ll never be able to close the gap?\xa0That was not helpful.
Most of us walk with that voice that we\u2019re not good enough\u2026.or why bother?\xa0And when we are\u2026aware less\u2026we keep self sabotaging ourselves without even knowing.
The saboteur voice, the inner critic.\xa0The role of that voice is to tell you stay where you are\u2026here you will not fail. \xa0
\u201cYet\u201d\u2026..
I went for a lot of little failures. \xa0
I failed trying to replicate the life I had in the US. \xa0
I was too much in my \u2018doing\u2019. \xa0
I started blogging.\xa0Blogging then was like podcasting today.\xa0It was for me playing and having fun.
I am going through grief.\xa0I had to let go of the Noa I had in Israel and find myself.
How come that woman that was always able to bring results cannot bring results?
That was the part that brought me to coaching. From reading my blog.
I still had that inner voice.
I went to Toastmasters
I started speaking and then people said \u2018Where is the book?\u2019 That was the first time I was able to conquer that voice and say I\u2019m done with you.\xa0I wrote the book in English\u2026so we are done!
Because of the way you speak\u2026when we need to listen to you\u2026we need to listen to you differently.\xa0And that\u2019s what makes it so special about you.
I represent different.\xa0I speak different.\xa0I always had a different voice.\xa0I was raised to have a different voice.
I believe the pivot started was I was able to deal and people were able to connect with me.
Sharing my experience and perspective brought connection.
The connection reminds us that we are resourceful and that\u2019s when things start to happen.
When we look at grief, we always look at it from the perspective of someone who passed away, but if we look at the emotional process\u2026the main experience we are having is who am I going to be without that person?\xa0How am I going to redefine myself without that person?
If you look at any transition in your life\u2026in all those situations, the questions are the same.\xa0How do I redefine myself in this new situation?
It\u2019s that ability to trust.
We have two energies.\xa0The doing energy and the being energy.\xa0The doing is the focus on action.\xa0The being is the thoughts, emotions, fears and hopes..
When we focus on the action\u2026.we make the process longer.\xa0We stay longer in that tunnel\u2026
When you learn to process, there is not a lot of action but you are doing that work\u2026
There are some weaknesses that maybe we don\u2019t need to pay attention to.
Those little holes don\u2019t make the boat sink. \xa0
Part of the burden we walk with is that we need to fix everything.\xa0And sometimes giving ourselves that permission to say \u201cno, this is okay\u201d\u2026I don\u2019t want to\u2026
Give ourselves the permission not to touch it at all or not to touch it now.
It can be \u2018yes, but not now.\u2019
There are some areas that we need to struggle with ourselves.
If I make other people miserable, I need to do that work.
Find the purpose behind.
When you own a value like authenticity\u2026I was not able to say I\u2019m going to show up as someone different just to make others feel that I need to look like them\u2026.it\u2019s part of my uniqueness and who I am.
Find peace.\xa0Have those open conversations with that part in us\u2026.what\u2019s the resistance about? What makes me not willing to have you as part of me?
Peace within comes from \u2018I\u2019m welcoming everything inside me.\u2019
Always questions the professionals, the smart people.\xa0If they something, always go and check it out.\xa0Just because they have the title, doesn\u2019t mean that they know everything. \xa0
We are not stuck with the problem.\xa0We are stuck with the solution.\xa0What if we can see a different solution?\xa0What would be possible?
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Website: https://www.noaronencoaching.com/
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Buy Noa's Book on Amazon:
BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess
Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be.
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Audio: Ariza Music Productions