Minola Jac has written the most exceptional book “Everyday Inspiration for Change” (or “my baby doorstopper”!!) …
We chat about the book initially before diving into Minola’s incredible journey through her work and life.
Minola has a way of articulating moments that will stay with you for many weeks after hearing this conversation.
A journalist by trade and a change practitioner by choice…Minola has the beautifully messy offers throughout this conversation.
I can only hope you love this as much as I did.
Power Takeaways:
- Creating a book that didn’t start out as a book.
- Writing being a sanity practice and mindfulness practice.
- Minola’s journey with ‘Syngenta’ alongside her journey with writing.
- Doing change work as a practitioner at heart.
- An obsession with post its!!
- How her teams allow the space and grace for her to try out different approaches at Syngenta and how she loves her work.
- How journalism is still today her “most intense dream” in her life.
- A comment from her teacher aged 11 …”you could really make a life with writing”...
- How her grandfather reading newspapers inspired Minola to become a newspaper journalist.
- Minola’s studying experiences in America and Bucharest.
- “Once a journalist, always a journalist”...it builds such incredible life reflexes.
- When I need to process my reflex is to write an article up in my mind.
- Writing without adjectives…and how that affects our perception in every moment.
- Enjoy everything to the fullest!
- “Words are events…they do things…they change things …they transform both speaker and hearer…” (Ursula K LeGuin)
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