How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)

When superheroes discover what their superpowers actually are, they wreak havoc and they make a mess and it's uncomfortable, and even Superman tries to get rid of his superpowers. It's hard to know what you're really great at. How does somebody Identify their superpowers, their strengths. Pull your superpowers out of your stories. From your past, your present, and then eventually figure out how to apply them and transpose them to your future. The person story. This is central to becoming a better leader. The most effective stories are the ones that we tell ourselves. They may or may not be true. Our brain doesn't know the difference. Once you can really understand that, you may as well leverage it to be that. Hero.

Today my guest is Donna Lishau. Donna is an executive coach, speaker, and bestselling author. She helps founders, CEOs, and executive teams level up their leadership skills and scale their impact while staying true to their mission. Their purpose and themselves. Donna has worked with leaders at companies like Google, Disney, Twitter, Microsoft, and Adobe. And she's also the author of the book The Leader's Journey, which is what we spend our time on.

In our conversation, we talk about why the story that we tell ourselves has so much impact on our success and failure. Why knowing your superpowers? And also your kryptonite is so important to your career and how to identify these two things. how to reframe your feelings of imposter syndrome and actually use it as an advantage. how to identify your life goals, even if you have no idea what they might be, plus a ton of examples from her coaching practice of people unlocking their career using her frameworks and how they went about doing this.

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