March 10, 2026 • 18 mins
Our host Darriel Roy interviews Leadership Coach & Career adviser, Yasar Ahmad.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello man, welcome, Thank you so much for watching.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This shows all about giving you insights, enjugating brands that
help you to live your best life and give you confidence.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
As always, I want to kick out your morning with.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Some motivational advice to help you to feel inspired and
energize to start your day today. I want to talk
about the importance of taking actions on your goals before
you feel ready. The reality is our brain will do
everything to block us from taking action on anything unfamiliar
in order to keep us safe and comfortable. Sometimes it
(00:32):
can convince us that taking action is too much trouble
and that we should stay where we are guaranteed to
be safe. But the reality is unless we break the
cycle of thinking and take action even before we feel ready,
then we continue to remain in the same place, hoping
that the right time will eventually come. But the right
time never comes around, and the longer we wait, the
(00:52):
more we convince ourselves to procrastinate until we feel ready.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Make your mission today.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
To decide to take action on something you've been percross,
not overthinking the outcome, just taking.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Action as seeing goes. Don't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Sometimes later it becomes never do it now next time?
On the show, we have a leadership coach and career advisor. You,
Sir Ahmed, You, sir, thank you so much for being
on the show today.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How are you doing amazing? Thank you so much for
having me.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You are one of the world's leading HR specialists in
the world. But before we get into all of your success,
let's take it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Back to the beginning. How did you become a leadership coach?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, that's a good question. I don't want to say
I fell into it, but I've spent the last seventeen
years working in the corporate environment, for the last fifteen
years in leadership positions. I've been watching brilliant people get
overlooked for so long, and I realized the problem wasn't
their talent, it was their visibility. So I made it
(01:54):
my mission to fix that. And I ended up first
coaching family members, friends, and then it just through referrals,
and the next thing you know, I'm coaching CEOs of
billion dollar companies and yeah, and then social media happened.
So it's been a bit for a wild ten months.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Absolutely, I know your videos go viral on social media.
I actually found you through social media, so congratulations and
all your work, and you help people get more confident
at work by using psychological tips. So tell us about
some of those tips and how psychology plays a part
in leadership.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, I think I focus a lot on behavioral science.
So behavioral science is a really good way of trying
to understand the human mind. And sometimes we are at
work thinking we're being rational, but actually a magdilla takes
over and we're the part of the brain that kind
of doesn't think rationally. And my whole philosophy is around
(02:58):
being in control of your self, being aware that you
are the dichotomy of control, as the Stoics call it,
which is like what can I control in the moment?
What can I control? And afterwards what can I control
you know, in the next five to ten minutes. And
by understanding that, you start to be a bit more
(03:21):
reflective around your communication and just how you present yourself.
So my leadership philosophy is very much around understanding instead
of trying to win a conversation, what would need to
be true for you to agree with me. So it's
(03:42):
a different approach.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Very nice, and you also help people get over imposter syndrome.
I feel like that's something that so many of us
deal with. I know I've dealt with that in my
career as well. So tell us some tips and tricks
to get over that, because it is something a lot
of people go through.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, imposter syndrome isn't Firstly, you have to accept that
imposter syndrome isn't a weakness. It's your brain's threat detection
system misfiring. So and once you understand that it's a
misrepresented view, you can rewire it using evidence based techniques
(04:18):
to turn self doubt into strategic self awareness. So, for example,
a lot of us will compare our weaknesses to other
people's strengths, and we're so consumed by being the main
character in our stories that we often forget that other
people don't see us the same way that we see ourselves.
(04:41):
And actually, our poster syndrome is not even something to
worry about because most people are not even thinking about us.
You make that mistake in front of two hundred people,
ninety nine point nine percent of people won't even realize
you made a mistake. You think that you can't lead
to someone most people don't even know that you have
that far, and so is that misfiring. You need to understand,
(05:03):
and I think reframing your brain to accept that's okay,
maybe just maybe I'm wrong here and this imposter syndrome
is just my natural biological threat detection system stopping me
from doing something but misunderstanding what it is. And I
think that that really helps people, and it's been very,
(05:28):
very successful in reframing my mind.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
At least absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And you also help people become more respected at work
because you know, especially starting off in the corporate world,
a lot of people become pushovers. So what advice would
you have for people to stand out and be more
respected with their colleagues and yeah, bosses, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I think we're well the most spart Respect isn't demanded,
it's architected, so through the language you use, the boundaries
you set, and this strategic presence you have physically before
you even walk into any room. And a lot of
respect comes from someone who's able to take time to respond.
(06:13):
If you are someone who is hasty or someone who
panics when responding, people take that and use that as
an advantage against you. What I find with respect is
being aware of your efforts, not necessarily outcomes, and being
relentless in your pursuit of self respect. One of the
(06:37):
biggest problems I've seen a lot of high performing executives
is that they often don't respect themselves enough. So when
their boss says to them, hey, go do this, they'll
go jump and do it. When their wife says to them, hey,
can you take out the trash, they'll take out the trash.
When their family members say, hey, can you drop us
(06:57):
to the app or they drop them to the airport.
But when they say hey, I've got this, or hey,
I need to make sure that this decision is mine,
they struggle. And that comes from a self respect I am.
I respect myself number one. I put my mask on first.
So if someone is trying to stop that, because you're
(07:19):
already in this state of self respect, you'll recognize it
immediately and you say, hey, actually, let's pause the conversation here.
One of the best things you can just do if
you're in a heated discussion is to say, Okay, I'm
gonna pause this or revisit later. What's someone going to
say to me, No, you have to speak Well, I'm
not ready to have this conversation, but you have to
(07:40):
have this conversation. We need to go through it. You
didn't you didn't do your job Propery, I understand that,
but clearly things are heated. I'd rather have this conversation
when we both can't. So there's lots of ways you
can do it.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I like that it starts with self right, when you
respect yourself, then other people respect you. It doesn't start
outwardly where people respect you and then you respect yourself right,
So it's it's all inwards, an inward.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Journey, and you've got to be, like I say, almost
ruthless in your respect to yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Absolutely, and y Sarr. What are some traits of a
high performer? What would you say they are interesting?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I was speaking. I was at an event yesterday with YouTube.
There was a dinner and there was a lot of
creators there and there's a lady called Grace Andrews. She
used to work with Stephen Bartlett at the Diary of
the CEO. She's quite popular right now, and she said
something that really stuck with me, and she said, consistency.
(08:42):
Consistency and consistency, that's what's going to make you successful
in the creator space. And I think there is a
part there that's true. Although high performers high performers don't
just work harder, right, They're not just consistent. They operate
with this kind of clarity on what moves the needle.
They make their results visible to the right people, and
(09:05):
they treat their reputation as a strategic asset. So I
think there is this innate ability to just be very resourceful.
There is having grit, just that kind of yeah, get
things done. They make their results also visible, and that's
(09:26):
one of the most successful traits is someone who can
actually display their successes to others so that they're known.
Because if people don't know you're doing a good job,
then how are you going to be successful?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Very true? Very true.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I like that you said grit too, because I think
that's such an important one. People don't understand the importance
of grit, because that's really what's going to get you
through tough times and to persevere.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, absolutely, I think there is. Grit isn't like grinding
through twenty four hours. It's not like a grind set mentality.
Grit is the ability to say, let me iterate, let
me do version one, and then I'll do version two,
and then version three, version four, version five. Grit is
(10:14):
the ability to look at a situation and say, Okay,
we failed, but that's content. That's not a failure, that's
content We've learned from that. What's the data saying, how
can we turn this in a win for us? A
win for us? And that, to me is what grit
really stands for. The ability to look at things and say, Okay, well,
(10:34):
this was part of the plan. We knew that there
was a possibility this couldn't go right, so we're just
going to keep on going.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Absolutely And you say, you have helped over one million
people get unstuck with the OVD LADS system, So tell
us about what it is and how you help people
get unstuck.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah. So a lot of people think that success comes
from performance, and so the OVED system is sim but powerful.
It's first, you own your experience. Number two, you validate
it in the eyes of decision makers, so make sure
that they can see your your experience, your successes, and
(11:13):
then you deploy it where it creates maximum impact. So
in the real world, what that actually means instead of
these fancy words I'm saying is if you look at
the most successful people in the world right now. There
was a study done by Harvey Coleman and he found
that ten percent of your success, once you get to
(11:34):
a certain level, let's say director level, managerial head level,
ten percent of your success is from your performance. That
means ninety percent doesn't come from how technically good you are. Actually,
what it means is thirty percent of that ninety percent
it comes from what people think of you, and the
other sixty percent is exposure. So are you in the
(11:58):
rooms or do people know off you? And so what
I've done is designed the system where not only can
you be successful, but you can also create the noise
around it so people the right people can see your work.
You can navigate the politics without your integrity being broken,
and you can also have frameworks to get your points
(12:22):
across in the corporate world, to allow yourself to be
visible to the decision makers. It's been really successful. I
think I might have to pay dinner at some.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Point, but yeah, yeah, absolutely you should. And you know
you've helped employees at Amazon Deloytte make better decisions and.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Become better leaders.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So tell us about that, and what can our viewers
do today to become a better leader.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, So, first, the leadership isn't a title, right, It's
a behavior. It's starting to solve problems. Nobody kind of
asked you to solve or communicate with extreme clarity. And
you know, every stakeholder should feel like their success depends
on having you in the room. That's like the ultimate
(13:10):
goal of a leader. But actually the core of a
leader is clarity. See, clarity is one of the most
important superpowers you need as a person to be successful.
One because if you're not clear in your communication, the
other person might misunderstand you. And the second is you
(13:30):
need to understand how to get clarity. If you're in
a room full of people saying lots of different things,
you need to be able to understand what is the
right and wrong thing that's happening, what is the current
support system that's required. And so for the viewers today,
if you want to be a better leader, I'd say
you should. It's almost like this parenting technique I use.
(13:53):
It's called a hug help hurd So if you're a parent,
you'll resonate with this. Do you hug the person, do
you kind of give them compliments, do you hear them out,
listen to them, or do you help them? And so
this technique it can also apply in leadership. Where you
(14:15):
can ask the three ws, what's going right, what's not
going right? What can I help you with? And those
are the very simple grass level level conversation you can have.
But beyond that, there's one other thing I would add,
which is that as a leader, you should have a
decision making methodology. Most leaders, even yourself, me, we all
(14:39):
make subconscious decisions when we're faced with options. And so
if you have a very simple decision making framework in
your day to day, you can be extremely successful but
also extremely efficient. And mine is very simple. I have
three questions that kind of architect my decisions. The first
(15:00):
is is what I'm about to say yes to going
to add more time or reduce time?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Is it automated? Is it more efficient? Is it less efficient?
Is it going to be long term gains? Short term gains?
Number two? Is it a decision I can reverse? Is
there two way? Do I have to live with this permanently?
Is this something I could change my mind in a year,
two months, three months? What is the repercussions if I
changed my mind? And then the third question I ask,
(15:29):
is is it human shaped? Does it make sense for me? Like, yes,
it's good, but it doesn't really make sense. Is it
ergonomic for me? And those are my decision making questions,
but everybody should have their own version of that. So
no matter what you're faced with, you always hold your
compass close to you and you can make the right decisions.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I think that's great advice. And you know, I created
my platform to inspire to have lived and.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
To really showcase that anything is possible if you have
a dream and determination. So what advice would you have
for anyone that is, you know, working hard, you know
their networking, they're doing all the right things, but they're
not seeing their dreams manifest.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What would you say to inspire and uplift them?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, I like what you said. That. See when you
need to stop measuring progress by outcomes because if you
do that, you're looking a short term and you need
to start measuring by actions because, like you said, someone
wants to manifest their dreams. Dreams don't manifest from wishing.
They manifest from systems, from action, from grit, and the
(16:34):
people who win are simply the ones who refuse to
quit before the compounding effect kicks in. And so essentially,
if you look at me as someone who posts on
social media, when I started, I said to myself, I'll
do a thousand videos before I quit, and so I
gave myself such a large number that I knew that
(16:56):
my laws of averages for a viral video would be
maybe one hundred fift videos. I think mister Beast said this,
He said, you'll post one hundred videos on YouTube before
you get any views. So in my head, I was like, okay, well,
one hundred videos, Okay, let me post a thousand and
so by the time I got to my ninety seventh
video that went viral and I got twenty million views
(17:18):
and everything snowboard from them. So I think just having
that grit, having that measurement of outcome, sorry, action versus outcome,
is very important.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I think a lot of people quit before you know
the results come in because they don't see, as you said,
they don't see the results in their reality, and then
they think it's done.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
But it takes a while, right, It's a it's like
a pliant. It takes a while to grow.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You don't see the results at first, but you know
that it's growing, right, So you have to put in
the work and persevere.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So I think that's great advice, and you're shark.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
For any of our viewers that want to be coached
by you and learn more about your work, We're.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Going to do so.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So you can find me on all the main social
media platforms across LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram, where I share
daily strategies to help you the network. You just need
to search for my name Yasaramed. But if you want coaching,
you can go to yasararmed dot com or my new platform,
which is all around behavioral science, AI and live coaching
(18:22):
is ovd lab dot com. And that's if you want
to go a bit deeper and maybe you're looking for
a quick change.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Amazing you share. Thank you so much for being on
the show today. Congratulations on your success. I think you're
doing a great job at helping people you know become
better leaders.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So amazing work. And thank you so much for being
on the show today.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
SA Dear Rosa is available on Rogu, Amazon, fireTV, iHeartRadio,
and Ammal Podcasts.
Hello man, welcome, Thank you so much for watching.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This shows all about giving you insights, enjugating brands that
help you to live your best life and give you confidence.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
As always, I want to kick out your morning with.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Some motivational advice to help you to feel inspired and
energize to start your day today. I want to talk
about the importance of taking actions on your goals before
you feel ready. The reality is our brain will do
everything to block us from taking action on anything unfamiliar
in order to keep us safe and comfortable. Sometimes it
(00:32):
can convince us that taking action is too much trouble
and that we should stay where we are guaranteed to
be safe. But the reality is unless we break the
cycle of thinking and take action even before we feel ready,
then we continue to remain in the same place, hoping
that the right time will eventually come. But the right
time never comes around, and the longer we wait, the
(00:52):
more we convince ourselves to procrastinate until we feel ready.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Make your mission today.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
To decide to take action on something you've been percross,
not overthinking the outcome, just taking.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Action as seeing goes. Don't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Sometimes later it becomes never do it now next time?
On the show, we have a leadership coach and career advisor. You,
Sir Ahmed, You, sir, thank you so much for being
on the show today.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How are you doing amazing? Thank you so much for
having me.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You are one of the world's leading HR specialists in
the world. But before we get into all of your success,
let's take it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Back to the beginning. How did you become a leadership coach?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, that's a good question. I don't want to say
I fell into it, but I've spent the last seventeen
years working in the corporate environment, for the last fifteen
years in leadership positions. I've been watching brilliant people get
overlooked for so long, and I realized the problem wasn't
their talent, it was their visibility. So I made it
(01:54):
my mission to fix that. And I ended up first
coaching family members, friends, and then it just through referrals,
and the next thing you know, I'm coaching CEOs of
billion dollar companies and yeah, and then social media happened.
So it's been a bit for a wild ten months.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Absolutely, I know your videos go viral on social media.
I actually found you through social media, so congratulations and
all your work, and you help people get more confident
at work by using psychological tips. So tell us about
some of those tips and how psychology plays a part
in leadership.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, I think I focus a lot on behavioral science.
So behavioral science is a really good way of trying
to understand the human mind. And sometimes we are at
work thinking we're being rational, but actually a magdilla takes
over and we're the part of the brain that kind
of doesn't think rationally. And my whole philosophy is around
(02:58):
being in control of your self, being aware that you
are the dichotomy of control, as the Stoics call it,
which is like what can I control in the moment?
What can I control? And afterwards what can I control
you know, in the next five to ten minutes. And
by understanding that, you start to be a bit more
(03:21):
reflective around your communication and just how you present yourself.
So my leadership philosophy is very much around understanding instead
of trying to win a conversation, what would need to
be true for you to agree with me. So it's
(03:42):
a different approach.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Very nice, and you also help people get over imposter syndrome.
I feel like that's something that so many of us
deal with. I know I've dealt with that in my
career as well. So tell us some tips and tricks
to get over that, because it is something a lot
of people go through.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, imposter syndrome isn't Firstly, you have to accept that
imposter syndrome isn't a weakness. It's your brain's threat detection
system misfiring. So and once you understand that it's a
misrepresented view, you can rewire it using evidence based techniques
(04:18):
to turn self doubt into strategic self awareness. So, for example,
a lot of us will compare our weaknesses to other
people's strengths, and we're so consumed by being the main
character in our stories that we often forget that other
people don't see us the same way that we see ourselves.
(04:41):
And actually, our poster syndrome is not even something to
worry about because most people are not even thinking about us.
You make that mistake in front of two hundred people,
ninety nine point nine percent of people won't even realize
you made a mistake. You think that you can't lead
to someone most people don't even know that you have
that far, and so is that misfiring. You need to understand,
(05:03):
and I think reframing your brain to accept that's okay,
maybe just maybe I'm wrong here and this imposter syndrome
is just my natural biological threat detection system stopping me
from doing something but misunderstanding what it is. And I
think that that really helps people, and it's been very,
(05:28):
very successful in reframing my mind.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
At least absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And you also help people become more respected at work
because you know, especially starting off in the corporate world,
a lot of people become pushovers. So what advice would
you have for people to stand out and be more
respected with their colleagues and yeah, bosses, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I think we're well the most spart Respect isn't demanded,
it's architected, so through the language you use, the boundaries
you set, and this strategic presence you have physically before
you even walk into any room. And a lot of
respect comes from someone who's able to take time to respond.
(06:13):
If you are someone who is hasty or someone who
panics when responding, people take that and use that as
an advantage against you. What I find with respect is
being aware of your efforts, not necessarily outcomes, and being
relentless in your pursuit of self respect. One of the
(06:37):
biggest problems I've seen a lot of high performing executives
is that they often don't respect themselves enough. So when
their boss says to them, hey, go do this, they'll
go jump and do it. When their wife says to them, hey,
can you take out the trash, they'll take out the trash.
When their family members say, hey, can you drop us
(06:57):
to the app or they drop them to the airport.
But when they say hey, I've got this, or hey,
I need to make sure that this decision is mine,
they struggle. And that comes from a self respect I am.
I respect myself number one. I put my mask on first.
So if someone is trying to stop that, because you're
(07:19):
already in this state of self respect, you'll recognize it
immediately and you say, hey, actually, let's pause the conversation here.
One of the best things you can just do if
you're in a heated discussion is to say, Okay, I'm
gonna pause this or revisit later. What's someone going to
say to me, No, you have to speak Well, I'm
not ready to have this conversation, but you have to
(07:40):
have this conversation. We need to go through it. You
didn't you didn't do your job Propery, I understand that,
but clearly things are heated. I'd rather have this conversation
when we both can't. So there's lots of ways you
can do it.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I like that it starts with self right, when you
respect yourself, then other people respect you. It doesn't start
outwardly where people respect you and then you respect yourself right,
So it's it's all inwards, an inward.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Journey, and you've got to be, like I say, almost
ruthless in your respect to yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Absolutely, and y Sarr. What are some traits of a
high performer? What would you say they are interesting?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I was speaking. I was at an event yesterday with YouTube.
There was a dinner and there was a lot of
creators there and there's a lady called Grace Andrews. She
used to work with Stephen Bartlett at the Diary of
the CEO. She's quite popular right now, and she said
something that really stuck with me, and she said, consistency.
(08:42):
Consistency and consistency, that's what's going to make you successful
in the creator space. And I think there is a
part there that's true. Although high performers high performers don't
just work harder, right, They're not just consistent. They operate
with this kind of clarity on what moves the needle.
They make their results visible to the right people, and
(09:05):
they treat their reputation as a strategic asset. So I
think there is this innate ability to just be very resourceful.
There is having grit, just that kind of yeah, get
things done. They make their results also visible, and that's
(09:26):
one of the most successful traits is someone who can
actually display their successes to others so that they're known.
Because if people don't know you're doing a good job,
then how are you going to be successful?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Very true? Very true.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I like that you said grit too, because I think
that's such an important one. People don't understand the importance
of grit, because that's really what's going to get you
through tough times and to persevere.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, absolutely, I think there is. Grit isn't like grinding
through twenty four hours. It's not like a grind set mentality.
Grit is the ability to say, let me iterate, let
me do version one, and then I'll do version two,
and then version three, version four, version five. Grit is
(10:14):
the ability to look at a situation and say, Okay,
we failed, but that's content. That's not a failure, that's
content We've learned from that. What's the data saying, how
can we turn this in a win for us? A
win for us? And that, to me is what grit
really stands for. The ability to look at things and say, Okay, well,
(10:34):
this was part of the plan. We knew that there
was a possibility this couldn't go right, so we're just
going to keep on going.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Absolutely And you say, you have helped over one million
people get unstuck with the OVD LADS system, So tell
us about what it is and how you help people
get unstuck.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah. So a lot of people think that success comes
from performance, and so the OVED system is sim but powerful.
It's first, you own your experience. Number two, you validate
it in the eyes of decision makers, so make sure
that they can see your your experience, your successes, and
(11:13):
then you deploy it where it creates maximum impact. So
in the real world, what that actually means instead of
these fancy words I'm saying is if you look at
the most successful people in the world right now. There
was a study done by Harvey Coleman and he found
that ten percent of your success, once you get to
(11:34):
a certain level, let's say director level, managerial head level,
ten percent of your success is from your performance. That
means ninety percent doesn't come from how technically good you are. Actually,
what it means is thirty percent of that ninety percent
it comes from what people think of you, and the
other sixty percent is exposure. So are you in the
(11:58):
rooms or do people know off you? And so what
I've done is designed the system where not only can
you be successful, but you can also create the noise
around it so people the right people can see your work.
You can navigate the politics without your integrity being broken,
and you can also have frameworks to get your points
(12:22):
across in the corporate world, to allow yourself to be
visible to the decision makers. It's been really successful. I
think I might have to pay dinner at some.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Point, but yeah, yeah, absolutely you should. And you know
you've helped employees at Amazon Deloytte make better decisions and.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Become better leaders.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So tell us about that, and what can our viewers
do today to become a better leader.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, So, first, the leadership isn't a title, right, It's
a behavior. It's starting to solve problems. Nobody kind of
asked you to solve or communicate with extreme clarity. And
you know, every stakeholder should feel like their success depends
on having you in the room. That's like the ultimate
(13:10):
goal of a leader. But actually the core of a
leader is clarity. See, clarity is one of the most
important superpowers you need as a person to be successful.
One because if you're not clear in your communication, the
other person might misunderstand you. And the second is you
(13:30):
need to understand how to get clarity. If you're in
a room full of people saying lots of different things,
you need to be able to understand what is the
right and wrong thing that's happening, what is the current
support system that's required. And so for the viewers today,
if you want to be a better leader, I'd say
you should. It's almost like this parenting technique I use.
(13:53):
It's called a hug help hurd So if you're a parent,
you'll resonate with this. Do you hug the person, do
you kind of give them compliments, do you hear them out,
listen to them, or do you help them? And so
this technique it can also apply in leadership. Where you
(14:15):
can ask the three ws, what's going right, what's not
going right? What can I help you with? And those
are the very simple grass level level conversation you can have.
But beyond that, there's one other thing I would add,
which is that as a leader, you should have a
decision making methodology. Most leaders, even yourself, me, we all
(14:39):
make subconscious decisions when we're faced with options. And so
if you have a very simple decision making framework in
your day to day, you can be extremely successful but
also extremely efficient. And mine is very simple. I have
three questions that kind of architect my decisions. The first
(15:00):
is is what I'm about to say yes to going
to add more time or reduce time?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Is it automated? Is it more efficient? Is it less efficient?
Is it going to be long term gains? Short term gains?
Number two? Is it a decision I can reverse? Is
there two way? Do I have to live with this permanently?
Is this something I could change my mind in a year,
two months, three months? What is the repercussions if I
changed my mind? And then the third question I ask,
(15:29):
is is it human shaped? Does it make sense for me? Like, yes,
it's good, but it doesn't really make sense. Is it
ergonomic for me? And those are my decision making questions,
but everybody should have their own version of that. So
no matter what you're faced with, you always hold your
compass close to you and you can make the right decisions.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I think that's great advice. And you know, I created
my platform to inspire to have lived and.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
To really showcase that anything is possible if you have
a dream and determination. So what advice would you have
for anyone that is, you know, working hard, you know
their networking, they're doing all the right things, but they're
not seeing their dreams manifest.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What would you say to inspire and uplift them?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, I like what you said. That. See when you
need to stop measuring progress by outcomes because if you
do that, you're looking a short term and you need
to start measuring by actions because, like you said, someone
wants to manifest their dreams. Dreams don't manifest from wishing.
They manifest from systems, from action, from grit, and the
(16:34):
people who win are simply the ones who refuse to
quit before the compounding effect kicks in. And so essentially,
if you look at me as someone who posts on
social media, when I started, I said to myself, I'll
do a thousand videos before I quit, and so I
gave myself such a large number that I knew that
(16:56):
my laws of averages for a viral video would be
maybe one hundred fift videos. I think mister Beast said this,
He said, you'll post one hundred videos on YouTube before
you get any views. So in my head, I was like, okay, well,
one hundred videos, Okay, let me post a thousand and
so by the time I got to my ninety seventh
video that went viral and I got twenty million views
(17:18):
and everything snowboard from them. So I think just having
that grit, having that measurement of outcome, sorry, action versus outcome,
is very important.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I think a lot of people quit before you know
the results come in because they don't see, as you said,
they don't see the results in their reality, and then
they think it's done.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
But it takes a while, right, It's a it's like
a pliant. It takes a while to grow.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You don't see the results at first, but you know
that it's growing, right, So you have to put in
the work and persevere.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So I think that's great advice, and you're shark.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
For any of our viewers that want to be coached
by you and learn more about your work, We're.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Going to do so.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So you can find me on all the main social
media platforms across LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram, where I share
daily strategies to help you the network. You just need
to search for my name Yasaramed. But if you want coaching,
you can go to yasararmed dot com or my new platform,
which is all around behavioral science, AI and live coaching
(18:22):
is ovd lab dot com. And that's if you want
to go a bit deeper and maybe you're looking for
a quick change.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Amazing you share. Thank you so much for being on
the show today. Congratulations on your success. I think you're
doing a great job at helping people you know become
better leaders.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So amazing work. And thank you so much for being
on the show today.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
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