August 22, 2023 • 56 mins
As the CEO of TRANSFORM YOUR PERFORMANCE, Regina Huber drives bold, value-driven, and heart-centered leadership of self and others. Her eclectic experience on five continents started in Germany and includes leadership positions at The Boston Consulting Group as well as ownership of businesses in Argentina, Brazil, and the U.S. This experience shaped her into a multicultural Transformational Leadership Coach, International Inspirational Speaker, and Author of Speak up, Stand out and Shine. She also co-authored three other books and wrote numerous articles for magazines in the U.S. and Africa, where she has been featured by multiple media outlets. In 2021/22, she hosted her own TV show titled What’s Your Spark?
Regina is a Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ)® Enhanced Skills Practitioner. She created three signature coaching frameworks: Powerful Leadership Transformation (PLT)™ , New-Paradigm Leadership (NPL)™ and Get Your Dream Salary™.
She has a passion for travel and dance.
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Regina is a Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ)® Enhanced Skills Practitioner. She created three signature coaching frameworks: Powerful Leadership Transformation (PLT)™ , New-Paradigm Leadership (NPL)™ and Get Your Dream Salary™.
She has a passion for travel and dance.
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Hey you welcome time be Focus Radio. We are here once again, and
today we have another showline note fory'all. We have our special guests for
today is Reginia Hooper. She servesas the CEO of Transform Your Performance and
leading with both value driven and heartcenterre approaches to leadership for both herself and
others. She is gonna tell hertell us a little bit about her background
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story, and we're gonna learn alittle bit about her, but you can
go visit her website is Transform yourPerformance dot com. Once again, Reginia,
and thank you for your time.How you doing. Thank you so
much for having me on Shimaya.It's a pleasure to be here with you
today, and I'm really really lookingforward to this conversation. So yes,
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here i am. And today's topic, outside of getting your background story is
from freaking out freaking amazing. Sobefore we dive into that topic, kind
of tell the audience a little bitabout your So how you became the CEO
Transformed Your Performance. Yes, it'ssort of a long story, but I'm
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going to keep it short, dish. I grew up on a farm in
a small village in Germany, andI'm actually currently in Leo, France.
And you know, I've just traveleda lot in a nutshell, right,
So I my business is based inNew York City. I lived in Argentina
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twice, in Brazil twice. Ilived in Spain for seven years. I
lived on the west coast of theUS, on the East coast in New
York City, also a little bitin Miami, Miami Beach, and so
on and so forth. So Itraveled a lot, also on the African
continent in the last few years.I've always been out and about. And
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I think what really brought me tothis Toruith coaching and speaking business was insatiable
curiosity in a way, because Ijust had a lot of really amazing experiences
and also some not so pleasant ones. Of course, because I've always been
taking big risks in my life.You could say, and this is how
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eventually about about let me now calculatedabout ten years ago or so I started
working on the current business, andever since then I've find it. Of
course, I have created new frameworksand new approaches, a very unique coaching
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approach as well, based on allmy eclectic experience that I have had the
pleasure and sometimes the pain to growth, to grow through. And that's why
you said, you know, fromfreaking out of freaking amazing. I've certainly
been and situations in my life whereI felt like freaking out or where I
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was freaking out indeed, but Ialso believe that there's always a way to
get back to freaking amazing services.This is how I live my life these
days, you know, with thatknowledge and just knowing that we can always
bounce back, and that as longas we are able to see our so
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called adversities as opportunities for growth,we can. We have a choice,
and we have options to make thebest of them. Yeah, I like
that We're gonna have to dive intothe freaking now part of that portion of
your life because I feel like everythingyet you do like eat eating, like
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say every single little thing because itprobably take you two hours to say.
But you're also a writer of SpeakUp, stand Out, and Shine And
you also have addition projects of beinga co author for three other books,
contribute to articles magazines in both theUnited States in Africa. So with all
those amazing accomplishments plus the ones wehaven't mentioned, let's go back to the
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freaking out period. Take us backto the period of life when you were
hitting adversity and kind of tell usthat story. Yeah, absolutely, and
there are several stories for sure.So you know, I just left through
a very challenging situation right now,which I'm not talking too much about yet
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because I'm sort of still you know, figuring out a few little bits and
pieces, and so that's going tobe another surprise chapter at some point.
But also because you mentioned the book, I just wanted to quickly say that
the term from freaking out of freakingamazing really came about when I was writing
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the book, because the book isabout how to go from speaking anxiety to
positive excitement when it comes to speakingin any challenging business situation. Doesn't always
have to be from a stage oron a podcast or as a you know,
a famous public speaker. We speakin business situations all the time,
whether it's in a meeting of negotiations, etc. So what I really wanted
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people to be able to do alsoin that setting was to go from freaking
out to freaking amazing with the toolsin the book. So I just wanted
to quickly mention that because a lotof people really freak out when they hear
public speaking and they get really nervousin their butterflies go too crazy in their
stomach. So it has sort ofmany meanings for me. But to go
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back to your question. Actually,while there were several, you know,
very very serious situations in my life, as I said before, I lived
in Argentina twice. I lived inBrazil twice. The first times of each
work in sort of employee situations.The first time in Brazil for sure,
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and so hollow, and then inArgentina it wasn't. It was it was
an external consultant situation. But lateron I owned my businesses there and that
is of course always a whole otherchallenge. And so in Argentina, for
example, I built and ran abetter breakfast and I had an investor's visa
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for that. I had certain youknow, it came a certain stipulations and
requirements. So for example, Ihad to open a business and employ at
least one person within a year,which in itself was was challenging because it
was a brick and mortar business.I had to build out a house.
I had to first of all findit and buy it, et cetera.
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But I got it to work.It was challenging, but it worked,
right, the business was open.But then the other problem with that was
that they don't actually give you thelicense with at that time, and it's
a generally known problem, but Ididn't, of course know it before the
whole process started. And I laterfound out that everybody was just paying the
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city officials off and I just reallydidn't want to do that, and eventually
they also showed up at my doorand I just refused to pay them off,
and I wanted to do everything correctly. And I actually won a lawsuit
against the City of Buenos Aires becausejust because I wanted to stay in integrity
and stand up for myself rather thanyou know, falling into this corruption scheme.
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And that's how I won because Iwas sort of lucky, if there's
such a thing, because the judge, who was a woman that is super
important, but she was she saidwhen she heard corruption, she said,
told me more right, And that'swhat I did to a certain extent,
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and that's how how I didn't haveto to pay that fine that they wanted
to impose on me because I didn'tpay them off, and you know,
nobody paid for my expenses at atime. But it was still a big
victory for me apart from not havingto pay that that fine. And then
later and there was another even muchbigger story, you know that that one
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was sort of smag and then comparedto the next one, but it was
you. I was quite serious whenI was in the wh I was in
the midst of it because I feltvery I didn't feel intimidated, but I
felt a little bit invaded, ifthat makes sense. You know, when
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people attack you for something that isnot really that you haven't done right,
that's just very I feel very vulnerablein that sense when that happens. So
but anyway, so the second storywas once I was sort of a little
bit just tired of having a betterbreakfast because I had to spend so much
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time home for that. Although Idid enjoy the interaction with clients, but
I also loved dancing at the timeand and Argentina. Of course, it
was mostly tango and then I alsobut I also did some other dances,
different Brazilian dances, cup here andzook and all of that, And so
eventually I decided to move to Brazil, where I'd lived before, but in
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a different city. So this timeit was too Realsionniro and I really loved
that city. She might. It'sa beautiful place I've had ever been,
No, I have it. It'sa really amazing place to travel to.
There is a lot of crime,but you know, if you know how
to move and if you get someguidance, it's it's fine. Right.
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So anyway, I really loved thatcity, and it's to meet a place
without equal and it's so unique inso many ways. It has the ocean,
the rainforest right in the city,and I really fell in love with
it the first time I ever visitedit. It could say even you know,
many years before I moved there.And although the first time I went
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to religion Era, I witnessed theshooting right away, right but I totally
enjoyed the climate, the tropical vegetation, the dancing and especially to somebody gear
dancing. And I was dreaming aboutthat new project and this new business.
I was trying to figure out whatto do next, and I did figure
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it out, but I partnered upwith somebody that was not such a great
idea, and so this time thingsjust didn't go that well. You know.
Once again, I did something similaras in Argentine. I took a
huge risk. I put all mymoney, all my savings that I got
back from that business in Argentine.I put it all into a business because
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also I wouldn't have gotten credit therelike alone, you know, I had
to pay cash. So so anyway, so these are all my savings of
all my previous in work life basically, and again it was a brick and
mortar business. So A partnered upwith somebody this time, and sadly that
guy who I thought was my friendturn out to be much the opposite and
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turn out to be fraudy land andthat eventually you ended up costing me and
my business in which I had investedquite a lot of time again, lots
of effort, lots of love reallyyou know, energy, and I lost
a bunch of money because I hadto resell everything after some time. It
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just was not without his name,it was no longer it wouldn't have had
the right traction, so to speak. I was also paying for this trademark
and whatnot, although he was onlya partner in one part of the business.
But it was so heavily impacted bythat that it just wasn't sustainable.
The the costs were too high.So I had to make a very very
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difficult decision to close that business downand sell everything at a loss and whatnot.
And you know, at first,when you when you realize what's really
happening, you don't want to seeit, right, You just want to
escape the situation at first, whenit's a really difficult situation and show you've
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also sometimes been in really tough onesright in my I mean a lot of
people who can't say they had somestorms, right, I know nobody,
right, everybody has had something,and then for everybody it looks different.
But so I had to just reallypull myself together and clean up the mass.
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As painful as it was to gothrough those individual stages of this experience
and selling the house again and youknow, everything in it that I had
prought together, it was so muchthat vacation. Also because I did have
a limited budget, right, soit all takes a bit longer. I
had bought a lot online, usedwhatnot. But but you know, it
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was just really painful, and ittook me a long while to recognize the
blessing and this experience and to reallysee the lesson in it. But I
was gladly also because I had reallygreat friends who had studied holistic modalities which
I had studied at the same timewith them, so I could help myself
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eventually, but also they helped meas well. So eventually I was able
to step out of this victim mode, which is never helping anybody. So
people constantly complain about the situation.You know, we just need to remember
that that does not help us atall, even if we blame others,
it's just not helping us. SoI really wanted to step out of this
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poor me mode and and and itwasn't a process from one day to the
next, I have to admit that, right, But over time I was
able to really step into a moreempowering mindset and and then get stuff done
and find a way. And ittook a while, but it was just
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very cumbersome because I don't I don'tknow if some of your listeners know that,
but you know, and I don'tknow how it is now, so
I don't want to talk about now. But back then I found out and
a lot of people told me thatthat closing a business was actually almost harder
than opening a business, and andand the city of Reality or ero sometimes
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and I you know, I paidthis accounting person the CPA. He helped
me. I paid it twice becauseit was not so it was just like
not a very enjoyable process, tosay the least. And it was I
was close to freaking out several timesto but eventually then I decided that well,
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I wanted to stay half had likehalftime they half time maybe in New
York City, because I eventually alsolost my investors visa also again she might
you know, I guess why becauseI didn't pay the people in the immigration
office off. So they kept losingone piece after the other of my documentation.
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And that was a phone like thoseyellow pages phone books in the past,
like a phone book sick of documentation, which costs a lot of money
too. But so they were justlosing that over time, and it was
just it was just a really,really tough process. And eventually I said,
look, I just don't want toplay this game anymore. I did
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not want to pay them off.And I in a way you could say
I lost, but I guess Ijust moved on, you know. And
speaking of that once again, listen, I refocus where we talking to our
guests Virginia Huber. What time periodwas it like after that situation got resolved.
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Did you in the midst of thatfinding way going to New York or
was there after that when you finda way going New or what was your
next opportunity? Yeah, so Isaid, look, I think I need
to go somewhere else and start fromscratch, because I wouldn't you know that
they wouldn't reno my investors vision.What is another place that really attracts me
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at this time? And I said, okay, New York. You know,
I had been to New York onshort trips, but I had never
really spent that much time there.So I so I went there for a
shorter trip and to just really figureit out a little bit. I put
everything in storage for us because Iwasn't ready to move yet. You know,
I really loved that city. Ilove the dancing mirror, I loved
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my activities, my friends, andI had thought that I would stay there,
maybe for the rest of my life, although I don't say that anymore
now whatever, because I just knowmyself too well that you know, I
don't I might just not. IfI say now where I am now,
I say for the rest of mylife, that might not be true either,
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And that's okay, But anyway,So I went to New York,
and then, as I said,I wasn't ready to really move everything,
so I put everything in storage,and a lot of things were actually stolen
in storage too, but there's awhole other stories. Then I went through
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a whole, a whole detachment processbecause I left about thirty five boxes of
books behind and six different languages,and I loved my books. Every time
I moved, I would usually unpackmy books first, together with my mattress
because I needed to sleep on something. It would always be like my mattress
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and my books, right, Butyeah, so this time they didn't come
with me. But you know,it was only after like a half year
or even more that I figured outthat the visa was no longer coming through
and it wasn't going to be renewed. So then I just unless I paid
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them, right, and I justreally didn't want to do that. So
so that's when I decided that Iwould move. And I was still cleaning
up mess to call it something,because it just takes so long to get
all the paperwork resolved, you know. So I was traveling back and forth,
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first of all because of the visasituation, but also because of the
business paperwork. It wasn't just donein a week. I wouldn't have been
able to do that, meaning thatmy energy was a bit dispersed at first,
because of course I had to bein several places with my mind at
the same time. But I startedbuilding this business. I started networking,
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building a network. I didn't havea network in New York City, right,
so I had to really pull myselftogether. My confidence had been really
really badly affected, my self esteemhad been affected, and sometimes say it
was Belowsier or the times. Ihad to really rebuild it from scratch,
and I had to go out networkand meet people and talk about a potential
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business that I didn't have a clearidea of yet. But I had to
start talking about it because that's howit works, right, That's how we're
getting clearly ourselves about what we reallywant to do, who we want to
support, by meeting people, byyou know, writing things down, by
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learning how a coaching business even works. Because I had very different businesses in
the past, so I had toalso get coaching, invest in myself as
well, and all these different thingsat the same time. So of course,
without that pree that that previous chapter, so to speak. It could
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have been faster, that slowed medown a little bit in the beginning,
but but it was it was processingand progressing, and and it was you
know, it's okay, it's aprocess, I believe, and I started
speaking. I started doing some ofmy own events to gain practice and to
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even also just talk in English moreagain, because I had been speaking Spanish
and Portuguese for seven years for themost part, and to just really get
back into uh, into into myselfand say, okay, you know what,
I can do this. I justbecause something didn't work out as I
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expected it to work out, andI was disappointed by somebody or I had
to you know, I'm not sayingthis and in a sense of blaming,
but that's how I felt right sothat that didn't have to be the end.
It could be a new beginning.And then I try to figure out
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how I could pull all this differenteclectic experience together into something meaningful and actually
help others go through challenging situations ina in a in their own way,
but based on what all the allthe experience and expertise that I had gained
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from my experiences in a way rightalso through my studies but very much through
my experiences, on my learnings,and that's how I created this very my
very unique and holistic coaching a coach. I call it transformational leadership coaching,
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but of course other people could callit the same two and it's still different
approach we all have as coaches.We we have our different ways of coaching
and different people who feel attracted toour approach through who we are, right
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yeah, yeah, And speaking ofthat now, we're going from freaking out
to freaking amazing. Amazing you asthe CEO, transform your your prep,
your prep excuse me, performance performance. I want to say preference, transform
your performance. I mean, wehave a little idea, the motivation behind
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it, but at what moment didit become reality for you that this is
a new business for you to tackle. Well. As you can probably also
see from the name, performance hasmany many meanings, right You can you
can say, okay, it's workperformance, it's it's a it's a state
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performance, it's your yours. Idon't know your performance as in sports or
whatever it is, right, Soit really is valid for all those situations.
But of course I mostly nowadays workwith people to help them in their
professional arena. Also always though notforgetting about the rest of their lives,
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right, because we sometimes look atwhat we call areas of our lives is
if they were separate entities. Butthat's not really true. It's it's a
holistic phenomenon, and that's why Ibelieve as holistic approach is the appropriate way
to create significant change. But ofcourse it also looks different for everybody.
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And for some people the main thingright now is just to get a promotion
or a raise or both, rightAnd for some other people it's it's to
reduce their stress levels or to somehowfind a new job, or get prepared
for job interviews, whatever it is. So I'm mostly right now work with
employees and with leaders in organizations,but also organizations really of all sizes.
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I work also with business owners.It's just been the in more recent years,
I have had more clients in thecorporate world and especially also in financial
services, just because you know,I spent most of the time in New
York and networking and so on.But I also have had the pleasure to
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work with very very different people.Like in other work, the verse has
becomes has gotten such a weird connotationnowadays with all the political agenda behind it.
But I think it's safe to saythat I have very organically attracted very
different people with different backgrounds. Ialso currently, for example, work with
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a client in Botswana, you know, and it's it's just been so enriching
for me as well in that sense, and also because I've of course traveled
a little bit more in Africa inthe last few years. But to get
back to your question, well,you know, it was sort of again,
it was a process. In thebeginning, I actually was thinking I
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wanted to work mostly with performing artists, so in the beginning, the performance
came from that angle. And thenas I was networking more turned out that
a lot of women turned toward meand said, we need what you have,
what you have to offer us.So it started working with more women.
And at first it was mostly entrepreneurialwomen, and then I just met
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more and more employees, and thisis how it gradually sort of drifted toward
more employees and eventually really also leadersat all levels. And I really love
value driven working with value driven leaders, with hard driven leaders, with leaders
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who are not afraid to stand upfor what's right. Hence the word bold,
because it's become harder and harder forleaders nowadays they don't swim with the
mainstream narrative for example, then youknow they're very easily ousted and just not
accept it. And it's I thinkit's it's just really important to stand our
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men or our women and to toreally stand up for what's right and and
and and speak up for it aswell. And that's why I just love
to work with with with leaders ingeneral who who want to create more humane
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workplaces. I talk a lot abouthumanizing the workplace, right, I've written
about it. I've done webinars withtwo partners in Africa about this topic,
and it's it's it's also about thisnew consciousness. I've written about that as
well, the new consciousness of love, compassion and co creation that I think
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we need to bring more into thebusiness world. But of course, you
know, different people come with differentrequests and needs. So for some people
we talked, we work mostly onupgrading their leadership skills, on upgrading something
that is called conversational intelligence and usbuilding and all these different valuable aspects of
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leadership. And for others, it'sthey want to step up to the next
level and to reach their next goal. In their careers, so I like
to really adapt my client's needs.I do. I don't do just like
pre design packages. I just youknow, I have a very customized way
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of working with my clients after definingand analyzing what their needs are and whether
it's even a good fit for usto work together. And then of course
I also do trainings. I dospeaking engagements, both are virtually and in
person. Lately it's been more virtual, but I definitely want to go back
to more in person speaking as well, because it's just a lot of fun
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too. To also, you know, to also interact with the audience directly,
and you to stay let's just keepit real. I mean, you
just I don't know when you everget to take a break. Because you
also hostedly your own television show,and that was What's Your Spark? Tell
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us a little bit about that,because as if you're not busy already,
He found time to do that aswell. Well. I yeah, it
was called What's Your Spark? Itwas for When When Women. It was
also on Roku TV, and Iactually decided to not do that anymore exactly
for that reason. She might havebecause it was just getting a bit much,
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because it was a weekly show,and there was no option to make
it monthly or bi weekly, andit's just a lot of time. It
goes into it right. It wasa lot of fun at the same time,
What's Your Spark was We we covereda lot of different topics. It's
really about people, for people tofind what their unique brilliances and to be
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able to know own and show it. And I'm with it. So I
also shared practical tools, like onethat just comes to mind real quickly is
how to how to write an effectivevision. Some other times, I had
some guests on that I interviewed abouttopics that were relevant to to my overarching
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theme. I talked a lot.I had a whole series about freedom and
what that means to people, becauseI'm a very freedom loving person and I
like to say sometimes everything I dois in the service of freedom. And
I like to always give whatever myclients come for, and the first you
know, when they when they callme to work with me, I always
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also like to give them a pieceof freedom, whatever that looks like for
everybody, and whether they notice thator not, so you know that these
are all really great things. Iwas also it was so fun. I
was reminded of this the other daybecause of contact from a Cameroon reached out
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on LinkedIn and then I was ona on a she invited me to be
on a radio show there and thenshe also got me in a TV show.
There was a total surprise, Tom. I was so fun though.
It was one of the last daysof my stay in Cameroon and I literally
had two clean outfits left and onethat was you know, could have been
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TV fit or less. So theycalled me in the morning to come on
the medi show also on the onthe on the twelve o'clock you know known
show. It was a bit bilingualshow, French and English. And I
would I just I just said,okay, what am I gonna go?
Let me get a taxi right,what clean clothes do I have? And
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I had to be there of course, like two hours before they gonna make
the Whatnot or Now and a halfand they made me dance on TV.
It was just a lot of fun. I had a wonderful moderator. I
hadn't met her before actually because shewas all so the MC for the for
the conference so that I had cohosted. There was two other ladies,
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but you know, I was.It was just so much fun. And
sometimes you just have to take theopportunity, even if it seems like you're
not prepared, you know, andthen sometimes it's the best thing. Yeah,
it sounds like you just sounds likeyou just take these moments and just
go right. Yeah, obviously you'reprepared to do it because the person that
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invited you for that, you knowshow would never ask you to be on
there. I think you'd be agood fit. So for you to always
be in a situation, I almostfeel like it goes back to the title
show, from freaking out to freakingamazing, Like you have these moments where
it's like it could be chaos,but then you just go with it and
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then becomes this amazing experience, rightexactly. I mean I was at that
hotel. I had no cell phonethat was working there, so there was
one phone at the reception and thehotel owner knocks on my doors a small
hotel and YONDI camera root so knockson my door and says, hey,
you gotta come to the phone.The TV is on the phone, and
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I run over right and and thenthey say, well, I'm just the
messenger here. The guy on thephone said but you expected here at you
know, in about it was inabout two hours or so, so I
had like literally just figure everything outand and then I was in a huge
traffic jam. Was literally cors bumpinginto our taxis from behind. It was
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a crazy traffic morning in Yondi.But we made it on time, and
I was sort of there at thefirst moment, you know, freaking out
a little bit, Oh I'm goingto do we have clothes still, you
know, and whatnot and ands andthen we always figure it out somehow.
And then it was in fact freakingamazing to be on that show, just
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because of the fun with your experiencebeing in all these different places, I
mean here in national and not justin one country, in many countries,
different cultures. Everything. Is therea coming thread that you found as you
met new people in different places,and so what is that coming thread that
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seems to work, Well, it'sI believe what it is to be open.
You know, when you when youtravel a lot that opens our minds.
Right now we travel, we arehorizon opens. It sort of becomes
easier to understand other people. Wedon't only apart from our own little world,
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because we see that there are manydifferent worlds and many different ways of
living. And most of the timethe way I traveled was by myself or
you know, yes, in Cameroon, I had some people waiting. There
is for example, in u Banda, went there, I had some people
waiting, but that hasn't always beenthe case, and they are not always
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there. And I would, youknow, and Rwanda, I would take
a a motorbike taxi and these andthe drivers they usually did not speak French
or English. So you somehow,you know, I get to know people
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in a different way and to understandpeople in a different way and where they're
coming from as you as you thinkabout those interactions and why do they eat
this and not that, and whydo they dance in this way not that?
So I love dance, right,So I watched the different dances and
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I had never I've seen a lotof different African dances before, but I
had never in my life seen Rwandaand dance the way I saw it there
and got to experience it. Iwas invited to this, to this wedding,
and it was like so amazing.I mean, you know, it
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was a completely no experience and withevery no experience, whether it's talking whether
it's you know, how people approachyou in the street, or how how
they react to you, or howthey behave and certain at certain events,
or how they work, how theydance, and what their cultural expression is.
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There's always this reflection going on inmy mind about okay, where is
this coming from? Okay, well, why do they use these words?
And you know, even language itself. That's why I love learning languages.
Some languages they don't have translation orsome words and some languages don't have direct
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translations because we think differently. AndI believe that when you go out and
are open and listen and watch andobserve, then you can always connect with
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people. I think that's the thethreat, the common thread. Once again,
it makes sense. Sorry, no, you're good, Yeah, it
makes sense. Once again, listen, we focus very we're talking to her
guests, Regina Huber, and youcan go to her website, transform your
Performance dot com and learn more abouther company and name what she does with
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her clients. Real quick, aswe kind of wind down, tell us
a little bit about your business andyour mission statement. And it kind of
feels like it's just been throughout thiswhole interview because of your stories in this
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mission statement, but kind of sharewith audience a little bit more about your
business. Yes, so I dotransformational leadership coaching. I work. I
usually work with a lot of women, but not only also work with men
and help them reach their next careergoal and or become better leaders. And
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that always also includes better leaders ofself, because I believe that any type
of leadership starts with self leadership.And we can only be authentically authentic leaders
and sustainably effective leaders if we reallyknow how to lead ourselves in the first
place. So that's my understanding themost important leadership trade or skill that we
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need as leaders. I am alwaysavailable for speaking engagements, whether it's for
a virtual session. I just recentlydid one for a large financial firm for
the Women's Network. We had overone hundred and fifty five people on,
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but it could also be a trainingfor a small group. Of course,
I do workshops, et cetera,all customized work right and then I have
of course also more like signature worklike for for example, for a company
event. I have several different topicson my website as well, and that's
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about it. I do have aYouTube channel as well and a LinkedIn newsletter
that people can subscribe to where theycan receive free resources and Yes and the
book Speak Up, Standout and Shineis an Amazon for anybody who feels like
they can use some tools to preparementally, physically and energetically for speaking situations
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such as speaking on podcasts, onradio shows, on TV from a stage,
or you know, in a jobinterview or in a negotiation or whatever
it is for everybody. We allhave those situations. And you come across
as a very positive person and hearinglike all the different stories of moments of
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you know, the unknown, youknow, the storm comes and like,
okay, I'm figuring out, butthen it turns to you know, freaking
amazing. Did you always keep thatin your your back of your mind as
far as staying positive and upbeat?Like did you get that from your parents
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or you have a person that you'reclose to that kind of taught you that?
Or was that just will you beinglike your whole life? I think
I wasn't always that positive person necessarily, you know, but I do believe
that. I well, I hearthat a lot, actually, and that
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actually makes me smile a lot,because you know, it's not that I'm
always happy, of course, youknow, a freaking amazing life. I'll
also actually have a website, asmall website with that name, freaking amazing
life, the freaking with an apostropheand you know, not without the g
at the end, just for somea new a new product and project that
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I'm doing. But I believe thata freaking amazing life doesn't mean that life
is always perfect. It doesn't meanthat we no longer have challenges. It
just means that we have learned toto confront those challenges order just really you
know, no longer react so automaticallyas as as if we were an autopilot,
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but really respond more consciously. AndI and do you know what,
in my I know so much aboutwhat is really going on in the world
in the background. If I onlyfocused on that or every day then it
and I didn't have a positive spirit, then I probably, you know,
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I would be depressed all day long. But that doesn't help anybody. It
doesn't help me, It doesn't helphumanity. And I believe that you know,
if if, if, if,if we just make somebody smile every
day. I know it sounds likea cliche, but it does create a
wave, you know, And itstarts with ourselves. So if I get
up in the morning and I donot feel good, and I don't always
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feel great when I wake up,I can tell you that. But I
have my routines, I have mytools that I have created. I have
my ways to get to a betterplace when I don't feel great right and
I also have always I will alwaysmake the time. Talking to what you
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mentioned earlier, I'm obviously, yeah, I'm busy, but I will always
make the time for dancing. Forexample, I actually went out late last
night dancing because there was there wasonly that late opportunity for me, because
you know, there are no classesright now in terms of like I like
to do really intense African dance classesand things like that. So I've done
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a few yoga classes since I've beenhere, but I haven't really had that.
So I said, okay, Ijust go. I'm gonna go Kizomba
and Simba dancing at night, andI took my I even went there by
bike because it's it's it's pretty warmingright now, so I took the bike
there and I came back. ButI really need this, you know,
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even if it's late, sometimes it'sfine, it's fine. We don't always
have to live up to other people'srules, right, And if to me
that means if I did not havemeetings this morning at seven, and I
need to sleep in a little bitbecause I need to recover and be fresh
for the rest of the day formy clients who I meet with later in
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the day, then I will dothat. Because who dictates my life,
I believe it should be me.I should have that freedom. And I
don't you know, I don't goout late dancing every night. I'm just
it's really just an example. ButI sometimes I need to adapt my needs
to the requirements of the work Ido. But I always will also make
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space for me and for what Ineed, because otherwise it's really really easy
for us to get burned out orto you know, just not stay healthy
and and get a more negative flight. Right, long answer to a short
question, No, it's funny,it's fine. It kind of goes back
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to what you mentioned earlier about experienceall different cultures and you know, people
you mentioned openness, that's an approachto have. And I heard someone say
to me before this in conversation,you know, an open parachute works better
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than a close one. And Ithink that's a good way to look at
that because even when, like yousaid, things happening where you just adjust
to it, you know, youhave time for your self care and time
for you and uh. Speaking toother women who are CEOs and business professionals,
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what would you say generally to themfor them to continue to just you
know, remain joyful for what they'recalling us whoever it is that they're serving
for, you know, or thegifts and talents that they're using the serve.
What would you say generally to womenwho are leaders in their business to
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stay motivated like yourself. Yeah,not just women, did really everybody,
you know, It's just really abouttake your take chances. Sometimes it's okay
to take risks, and it's okayif not everything works out as expected.
Because no, yes, I tooka lot of risks and some did not
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work out as I wanted them towork out, for sure. But I
had a lot of really freaking amazingmoments in my life when I took risks
and I lived experiences that not alot of people have lived. Like I've
seen parts of Johannesburg that not evenmy local friends have been too. I
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have seen, you know, I'vedone a lot of things that very few
people have done, and it's notalways climbing high mountains for everybody. Again,
it's different, right, So Ithink, just really look at what
life has to offer to you.They're always endless options and opportunities, even
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if it doesn't look like it atthe moment. So if you love to
travel and you don't have a lotof money, well, I sometimes did
not pay rent in New York whileI traveled, and I traveled sep I
traveled. I've spent less less moneytraveling than being home. Sometimes it's just
an example, right, Well,you make it look easy. Yeah,
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I know it's not easy. Butwhen people go to your website transforming your
Performance dot com, they can seeit is how busy we are. If
we went through every detail where youdo, we probably be on the show
for three more hours. But whenyou look at the opportunity you have right
now with your platform, it lookslike it's safe to say you're in the
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stage of really paying it forward topeople, you know, helping them learn
from the lessons that you've already learnedfrom. Cow important is it for someone
like yourself to be in position nowto really add that value for those who
are kind of fresh, they're inthe stage or freaking out, but they're
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not yet in that stage of freakingamazing. Well, you know what,
I'm always here for people. Iput out a lot of free content,
right so if somebody isn't ready tosign up for a paid program, they
can get tons of value online forme and other people as well on YouTube,
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on you know other channels maybe oron LinkedIn as well, and or
sign up for my mailing list.Right now, I'm I'm figuring out a
little bit of a tech issue withthat too. So it's not always perfect,
as I said, you know,but but it's but I think you
should be working again anyways. Soso there's there's a there's a ton of
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free stuff out there. I've I'vewritten so many articles. You know,
they are usually unpaid as we alsoput a lot of work and effort into
into just putting stuff out there,and it's not well, yes, it
is for promotional purposes as well,but it's also to support people who might
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not be ready to sign up fora coaching program or who might be long
budget. Right now, I've alsodone a few a few programs for example
with a team of young people inRwanda where they we didn't exchange, they
offered me accommodation and exchange because itdidn't have the budget as a group,
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right, but they actually we dida lot of mindset work and sort of
miraculously, on the last day ofthe workshop, additional budget showed up for
them, which was not for me, but for them for their project,
and say and then and and theyand they made it. You know,
they created something really awesome. Soyou know, it depends on the situation.
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It's a I've done free speaking,I've done paid speaking, but it's
just about not taking advantage of peoplein terms of you know, when you
hear that a speaker also speaks forfree, well there's a reason for that,
and there's a place for that.But not everything can be free,
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because we also need to pay ourbills, right, Yeah, yeah,
and that's that's true. And man, I can probably go another rap behold
with that about I'll leave it there, because yeah, you really have a
lot of value. And that's reallygreat for a show like this, because
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the whole premise of the show isnot just help people find their purpose,
but help those who are struggling withtheir purpose because sometimes your purpose it starts
growing, but the individual has togrow too, because if you, you
know, let your dream kind ofjust benefit yourself, then it's not really
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a real dream. Because a realdream it benefits others and it carries a
lot of weight. And you knowwhat they say, success brants do every
day, So you got to getused to the freaking out you know,
portions of life because it's gonna happen. It's not if it's gonna happen,
it's just when it's gonna happen.But you master dream those different phases by
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making life freaking amazing, man,That's that's what's about. And you also
have confidence because being able to goto all those different places to live starting
uh, you know, those differentbusinesses, speaking different languages, you know,
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experiencing different cultures. You have toalso be sure of yourself. And
I promise is the last question,real quick? What is your secret sauce
to believe in yourself so that wayyou grow with your confidence? What is
my secret sauceful to constantly constantly upgrademy leadership of myself? I believe you
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know, it's really too and andit doesn't always have to be hard work.
It's just like the continuity and thecontinuity in finding a way every single
day even when it's not so easy, right, because we all have those
(53:13):
moments when it we have either setbackor when it's just not so easy.
But really having first of all,having my tools. You know, there
are many different tools that we canfind online and in other people's work as
well, but having a few toolsthat are always available, and then also
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just to look back and see,okay, I've achieved everything that you know,
I've been in so many situations whereI thought this cannot be resolved,
and there's always a way. There'salways a way. And sometimes what I
also do is I look at asituation from above as if I was looking
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at the situation from the perspective ofa hummingbird, and I ask myself,
is this situation really as serious asit feels right now? And what can
I do to feel better about this? What's the worst thing that can even
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happen? And that alone, alreadyis usually my my hook out of the
you know, that pulls me outof the water. There's many things I
could say to this, but Ihope this is helpful and and and make
sense to people. Listening, andI also want to say something else in
my well, you know you alsodo this, right you You offer a
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lot of value. You're investing yourtime, your money, your resources,
your you know, your efforts.I know a lot goes into this.
I definitely do so I appreciate thatso very much, and I appreciate you.
Appreciate that and thank you as wellwell. And man, I'm glad
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I push for those few questions becausethat illustration of honey hummingbird was perfect.
So once again, listen tell mefolks the radio talking to our guests,
Reginia Hooper. You can go toher website, Transform your Performance dot com.
You can also check out her booksshe has listed that you can a
(55:23):
little more about information on speak Up, stand out and shine speak powerfully in
any situation. Once say, onceagain, thanks for your time. It's
been awesome. Thank you so muchfor having me and for asking me wonderful
questions that you know, I thinkcame together into a very beautiful conversation.
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Thank you, and thank you toeverybody listening. I appreciate you all.
Hey you welcome time be Focus Radio. We are here once again, and
today we have another showline note fory'all. We have our special guests for
today is Reginia Hooper. She servesas the CEO of Transform Your Performance and
leading with both value driven and heartcenterre approaches to leadership for both herself and
others. She is gonna tell hertell us a little bit about her background
(00:25):
story, and we're gonna learn alittle bit about her, but you can
go visit her website is Transform yourPerformance dot com. Once again, Reginia,
and thank you for your time.How you doing. Thank you so
much for having me on Shimaya.It's a pleasure to be here with you
today, and I'm really really lookingforward to this conversation. So yes,
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here i am. And today's topic, outside of getting your background story is
from freaking out freaking amazing. Sobefore we dive into that topic, kind
of tell the audience a little bitabout your So how you became the CEO
Transformed Your Performance. Yes, it'ssort of a long story, but I'm
(01:07):
going to keep it short, dish. I grew up on a farm in
a small village in Germany, andI'm actually currently in Leo, France.
And you know, I've just traveleda lot in a nutshell, right,
So I my business is based inNew York City. I lived in Argentina
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twice, in Brazil twice. Ilived in Spain for seven years. I
lived on the west coast of theUS, on the East coast in New
York City, also a little bitin Miami, Miami Beach, and so
on and so forth. So Itraveled a lot, also on the African
continent in the last few years.I've always been out and about. And
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I think what really brought me tothis Toruith coaching and speaking business was insatiable
curiosity in a way, because Ijust had a lot of really amazing experiences
and also some not so pleasant ones. Of course, because I've always been
taking big risks in my life.You could say, and this is how
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eventually about about let me now calculatedabout ten years ago or so I started
working on the current business, andever since then I've find it. Of
course, I have created new frameworksand new approaches, a very unique coaching
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approach as well, based on allmy eclectic experience that I have had the
pleasure and sometimes the pain to growth, to grow through. And that's why
you said, you know, fromfreaking out of freaking amazing. I've certainly
been and situations in my life whereI felt like freaking out or where I
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was freaking out indeed, but Ialso believe that there's always a way to
get back to freaking amazing services.This is how I live my life these
days, you know, with thatknowledge and just knowing that we can always
bounce back, and that as longas we are able to see our so
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called adversities as opportunities for growth,we can. We have a choice,
and we have options to make thebest of them. Yeah, I like
that We're gonna have to dive intothe freaking now part of that portion of
your life because I feel like everythingyet you do like eat eating, like
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say every single little thing because itprobably take you two hours to say.
But you're also a writer of SpeakUp, stand Out, and Shine And
you also have addition projects of beinga co author for three other books,
contribute to articles magazines in both theUnited States in Africa. So with all
those amazing accomplishments plus the ones wehaven't mentioned, let's go back to the
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freaking out period. Take us backto the period of life when you were
hitting adversity and kind of tell usthat story. Yeah, absolutely, and
there are several stories for sure.So you know, I just left through
a very challenging situation right now,which I'm not talking too much about yet
(04:34):
because I'm sort of still you know, figuring out a few little bits and
pieces, and so that's going tobe another surprise chapter at some point.
But also because you mentioned the book, I just wanted to quickly say that
the term from freaking out of freakingamazing really came about when I was writing
(04:54):
the book, because the book isabout how to go from speaking anxiety to
positive excitement when it comes to speakingin any challenging business situation. Doesn't always
have to be from a stage oron a podcast or as a you know,
a famous public speaker. We speakin business situations all the time,
whether it's in a meeting of negotiations, etc. So what I really wanted
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people to be able to do alsoin that setting was to go from freaking
out to freaking amazing with the toolsin the book. So I just wanted
to quickly mention that because a lotof people really freak out when they hear
public speaking and they get really nervousin their butterflies go too crazy in their
stomach. So it has sort ofmany meanings for me. But to go
(05:39):
back to your question. Actually,while there were several, you know,
very very serious situations in my life, as I said before, I lived
in Argentina twice. I lived inBrazil twice. The first times of each
work in sort of employee situations.The first time in Brazil for sure,
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and so hollow, and then inArgentina it wasn't. It was it was
an external consultant situation. But lateron I owned my businesses there and that
is of course always a whole otherchallenge. And so in Argentina, for
example, I built and ran abetter breakfast and I had an investor's visa
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for that. I had certain youknow, it came a certain stipulations and
requirements. So for example, Ihad to open a business and employ at
least one person within a year,which in itself was was challenging because it
was a brick and mortar business.I had to build out a house.
I had to first of all findit and buy it, et cetera.
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But I got it to work.It was challenging, but it worked,
right, the business was open.But then the other problem with that was
that they don't actually give you thelicense with at that time, and it's
a generally known problem, but Ididn't, of course know it before the
whole process started. And I laterfound out that everybody was just paying the
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city officials off and I just reallydidn't want to do that, and eventually
they also showed up at my doorand I just refused to pay them off,
and I wanted to do everything correctly. And I actually won a lawsuit
against the City of Buenos Aires becausejust because I wanted to stay in integrity
and stand up for myself rather thanyou know, falling into this corruption scheme.
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And that's how I won because Iwas sort of lucky, if there's
such a thing, because the judge, who was a woman that is super
important, but she was she saidwhen she heard corruption, she said,
told me more right, And that'swhat I did to a certain extent,
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and that's how how I didn't haveto to pay that fine that they wanted
to impose on me because I didn'tpay them off, and you know,
nobody paid for my expenses at atime. But it was still a big
victory for me apart from not havingto pay that that fine. And then
later and there was another even muchbigger story, you know that that one
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was sort of smag and then comparedto the next one, but it was
you. I was quite serious whenI was in the wh I was in
the midst of it because I feltvery I didn't feel intimidated, but I
felt a little bit invaded, ifthat makes sense. You know, when
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people attack you for something that isnot really that you haven't done right,
that's just very I feel very vulnerablein that sense when that happens. So
but anyway, so the second storywas once I was sort of a little
bit just tired of having a betterbreakfast because I had to spend so much
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time home for that. Although Idid enjoy the interaction with clients, but
I also loved dancing at the timeand and Argentina. Of course, it
was mostly tango and then I alsobut I also did some other dances,
different Brazilian dances, cup here andzook and all of that, And so
eventually I decided to move to Brazil, where I'd lived before, but in
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a different city. So this timeit was too Realsionniro and I really loved
that city. She might. It'sa beautiful place I've had ever been,
No, I have it. It'sa really amazing place to travel to.
There is a lot of crime,but you know, if you know how
to move and if you get someguidance, it's it's fine. Right.
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So anyway, I really loved thatcity, and it's to meet a place
without equal and it's so unique inso many ways. It has the ocean,
the rainforest right in the city,and I really fell in love with
it the first time I ever visitedit. It could say even you know,
many years before I moved there.And although the first time I went
(10:07):
to religion Era, I witnessed theshooting right away, right but I totally
enjoyed the climate, the tropical vegetation, the dancing and especially to somebody gear
dancing. And I was dreaming aboutthat new project and this new business.
I was trying to figure out whatto do next, and I did figure
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it out, but I partnered upwith somebody that was not such a great
idea, and so this time thingsjust didn't go that well. You know.
Once again, I did something similaras in Argentine. I took a
huge risk. I put all mymoney, all my savings that I got
back from that business in Argentine.I put it all into a business because
(10:50):
also I wouldn't have gotten credit therelike alone, you know, I had
to pay cash. So so anyway, so these are all my savings of
all my previous in work life basically, and again it was a brick and
mortar business. So A partnered upwith somebody this time, and sadly that
guy who I thought was my friendturn out to be much the opposite and
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turn out to be fraudy land andthat eventually you ended up costing me and
my business in which I had investedquite a lot of time again, lots
of effort, lots of love reallyyou know, energy, and I lost
a bunch of money because I hadto resell everything after some time. It
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just was not without his name,it was no longer it wouldn't have had
the right traction, so to speak. I was also paying for this trademark
and whatnot, although he was onlya partner in one part of the business.
But it was so heavily impacted bythat that it just wasn't sustainable.
The the costs were too high.So I had to make a very very
(12:03):
difficult decision to close that business downand sell everything at a loss and whatnot.
And you know, at first,when you when you realize what's really
happening, you don't want to seeit, right, You just want to
escape the situation at first, whenit's a really difficult situation and show you've
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also sometimes been in really tough onesright in my I mean a lot of
people who can't say they had somestorms, right, I know nobody,
right, everybody has had something,and then for everybody it looks different.
But so I had to just reallypull myself together and clean up the mass.
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As painful as it was to gothrough those individual stages of this experience
and selling the house again and youknow, everything in it that I had
prought together, it was so muchthat vacation. Also because I did have
a limited budget, right, soit all takes a bit longer. I
had bought a lot online, usedwhatnot. But but you know, it
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was just really painful, and ittook me a long while to recognize the
blessing and this experience and to reallysee the lesson in it. But I
was gladly also because I had reallygreat friends who had studied holistic modalities which
I had studied at the same timewith them, so I could help myself
(13:33):
eventually, but also they helped meas well. So eventually I was able
to step out of this victim mode, which is never helping anybody. So
people constantly complain about the situation.You know, we just need to remember
that that does not help us atall, even if we blame others,
it's just not helping us. SoI really wanted to step out of this
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poor me mode and and and itwasn't a process from one day to the
next, I have to admit that, right, But over time I was
able to really step into a moreempowering mindset and and then get stuff done
and find a way. And ittook a while, but it was just
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very cumbersome because I don't I don'tknow if some of your listeners know that,
but you know, and I don'tknow how it is now, so
I don't want to talk about now. But back then I found out and
a lot of people told me thatthat closing a business was actually almost harder
than opening a business, and andand the city of Reality or ero sometimes
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and I you know, I paidthis accounting person the CPA. He helped
me. I paid it twice becauseit was not so it was just like
not a very enjoyable process, tosay the least. And it was I
was close to freaking out several timesto but eventually then I decided that well,
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I wanted to stay half had likehalftime they half time maybe in New
York City, because I eventually alsolost my investors visa also again she might
you know, I guess why becauseI didn't pay the people in the immigration
office off. So they kept losingone piece after the other of my documentation.
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And that was a phone like thoseyellow pages phone books in the past,
like a phone book sick of documentation, which costs a lot of money
too. But so they were justlosing that over time, and it was
just it was just a really,really tough process. And eventually I said,
look, I just don't want toplay this game anymore. I did
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not want to pay them off.And I in a way you could say
I lost, but I guess Ijust moved on, you know. And
speaking of that once again, listen, I refocus where we talking to our
guests Virginia Huber. What time periodwas it like after that situation got resolved.
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Did you in the midst of thatfinding way going to New York or
was there after that when you finda way going New or what was your
next opportunity? Yeah, so Isaid, look, I think I need
to go somewhere else and start fromscratch, because I wouldn't you know that
they wouldn't reno my investors vision.What is another place that really attracts me
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at this time? And I said, okay, New York. You know,
I had been to New York onshort trips, but I had never
really spent that much time there.So I so I went there for a
shorter trip and to just really figureit out a little bit. I put
everything in storage for us because Iwasn't ready to move yet. You know,
I really loved that city. Ilove the dancing mirror, I loved
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my activities, my friends, andI had thought that I would stay there,
maybe for the rest of my life, although I don't say that anymore
now whatever, because I just knowmyself too well that you know, I
don't I might just not. IfI say now where I am now,
I say for the rest of mylife, that might not be true either,
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And that's okay, But anyway,So I went to New York,
and then, as I said,I wasn't ready to really move everything,
so I put everything in storage,and a lot of things were actually stolen
in storage too, but there's awhole other stories. Then I went through
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a whole, a whole detachment processbecause I left about thirty five boxes of
books behind and six different languages,and I loved my books. Every time
I moved, I would usually unpackmy books first, together with my mattress
because I needed to sleep on something. It would always be like my mattress
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and my books, right, Butyeah, so this time they didn't come
with me. But you know,it was only after like a half year
or even more that I figured outthat the visa was no longer coming through
and it wasn't going to be renewed. So then I just unless I paid
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them, right, and I justreally didn't want to do that. So
so that's when I decided that Iwould move. And I was still cleaning
up mess to call it something,because it just takes so long to get
all the paperwork resolved, you know. So I was traveling back and forth,
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first of all because of the visasituation, but also because of the
business paperwork. It wasn't just donein a week. I wouldn't have been
able to do that, meaning thatmy energy was a bit dispersed at first,
because of course I had to bein several places with my mind at
the same time. But I startedbuilding this business. I started networking,
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building a network. I didn't havea network in New York City, right,
so I had to really pull myselftogether. My confidence had been really
really badly affected, my self esteemhad been affected, and sometimes say it
was Belowsier or the times. Ihad to really rebuild it from scratch,
and I had to go out networkand meet people and talk about a potential
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business that I didn't have a clearidea of yet. But I had to
start talking about it because that's howit works, right, That's how we're
getting clearly ourselves about what we reallywant to do, who we want to
support, by meeting people, byyou know, writing things down, by
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learning how a coaching business even works. Because I had very different businesses in
the past, so I had toalso get coaching, invest in myself as
well, and all these different thingsat the same time. So of course,
without that pree that that previous chapter, so to speak. It could
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have been faster, that slowed medown a little bit in the beginning,
but but it was it was processingand progressing, and and it was you
know, it's okay, it's aprocess, I believe, and I started
speaking. I started doing some ofmy own events to gain practice and to
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even also just talk in English moreagain, because I had been speaking Spanish
and Portuguese for seven years for themost part, and to just really get
back into uh, into into myselfand say, okay, you know what,
I can do this. I justbecause something didn't work out as I
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expected it to work out, andI was disappointed by somebody or I had
to you know, I'm not sayingthis and in a sense of blaming,
but that's how I felt right sothat that didn't have to be the end.
It could be a new beginning.And then I try to figure out
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how I could pull all this differenteclectic experience together into something meaningful and actually
help others go through challenging situations ina in a in their own way,
but based on what all the allthe experience and expertise that I had gained
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from my experiences in a way rightalso through my studies but very much through
my experiences, on my learnings,and that's how I created this very my
very unique and holistic coaching a coach. I call it transformational leadership coaching,
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but of course other people could callit the same two and it's still different
approach we all have as coaches.We we have our different ways of coaching
and different people who feel attracted toour approach through who we are, right
(22:25):
yeah, yeah, And speaking ofthat now, we're going from freaking out
to freaking amazing. Amazing you asthe CEO, transform your your prep,
your prep excuse me, performance performance. I want to say preference, transform
your performance. I mean, wehave a little idea, the motivation behind
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it, but at what moment didit become reality for you that this is
a new business for you to tackle. Well. As you can probably also
see from the name, performance hasmany many meanings, right You can you
can say, okay, it's workperformance, it's it's a it's a state
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performance, it's your yours. Idon't know your performance as in sports or
whatever it is, right, Soit really is valid for all those situations.
But of course I mostly nowadays workwith people to help them in their
professional arena. Also always though notforgetting about the rest of their lives,
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right, because we sometimes look atwhat we call areas of our lives is
if they were separate entities. Butthat's not really true. It's it's a
holistic phenomenon, and that's why Ibelieve as holistic approach is the appropriate way
to create significant change. But ofcourse it also looks different for everybody.
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And for some people the main thingright now is just to get a promotion
or a raise or both, rightAnd for some other people it's it's to
reduce their stress levels or to somehowfind a new job, or get prepared
for job interviews, whatever it is. So I'm mostly right now work with
employees and with leaders in organizations,but also organizations really of all sizes.
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I work also with business owners.It's just been the in more recent years,
I have had more clients in thecorporate world and especially also in financial
services, just because you know,I spent most of the time in New
York and networking and so on.But I also have had the pleasure to
(24:56):
work with very very different people.Like in other work, the verse has
becomes has gotten such a weird connotationnowadays with all the political agenda behind it.
But I think it's safe to saythat I have very organically attracted very
different people with different backgrounds. Ialso currently, for example, work with
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a client in Botswana, you know, and it's it's just been so enriching
for me as well in that sense, and also because I've of course traveled
a little bit more in Africa inthe last few years. But to get
back to your question, well,you know, it was sort of again,
it was a process. In thebeginning, I actually was thinking I
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wanted to work mostly with performing artists, so in the beginning, the performance
came from that angle. And thenas I was networking more turned out that
a lot of women turned toward meand said, we need what you have,
what you have to offer us.So it started working with more women.
And at first it was mostly entrepreneurialwomen, and then I just met
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more and more employees, and thisis how it gradually sort of drifted toward
more employees and eventually really also leadersat all levels. And I really love
value driven working with value driven leaders, with hard driven leaders, with leaders
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who are not afraid to stand upfor what's right. Hence the word bold,
because it's become harder and harder forleaders nowadays they don't swim with the
mainstream narrative for example, then youknow they're very easily ousted and just not
accept it. And it's I thinkit's it's just really important to stand our
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men or our women and to toreally stand up for what's right and and
and and speak up for it aswell. And that's why I just love
to work with with with leaders ingeneral who who want to create more humane
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workplaces. I talk a lot abouthumanizing the workplace, right, I've written
about it. I've done webinars withtwo partners in Africa about this topic,
and it's it's it's also about thisnew consciousness. I've written about that as
well, the new consciousness of love, compassion and co creation that I think
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we need to bring more into thebusiness world. But of course, you
know, different people come with differentrequests and needs. So for some people
we talked, we work mostly onupgrading their leadership skills, on upgrading something
that is called conversational intelligence and usbuilding and all these different valuable aspects of
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leadership. And for others, it'sthey want to step up to the next
level and to reach their next goal. In their careers, so I like
to really adapt my client's needs.I do. I don't do just like
pre design packages. I just youknow, I have a very customized way
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of working with my clients after definingand analyzing what their needs are and whether
it's even a good fit for usto work together. And then of course
I also do trainings. I dospeaking engagements, both are virtually and in
person. Lately it's been more virtual, but I definitely want to go back
to more in person speaking as well, because it's just a lot of fun
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too. To also, you know, to also interact with the audience directly,
and you to stay let's just keepit real. I mean, you
just I don't know when you everget to take a break. Because you
also hostedly your own television show,and that was What's Your Spark? Tell
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us a little bit about that,because as if you're not busy already,
He found time to do that aswell. Well. I yeah, it
was called What's Your Spark? Itwas for When When Women. It was
also on Roku TV, and Iactually decided to not do that anymore exactly
for that reason. She might havebecause it was just getting a bit much,
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because it was a weekly show,and there was no option to make
it monthly or bi weekly, andit's just a lot of time. It
goes into it right. It wasa lot of fun at the same time,
What's Your Spark was We we covereda lot of different topics. It's
really about people, for people tofind what their unique brilliances and to be
(29:56):
able to know own and show it. And I'm with it. So I
also shared practical tools, like onethat just comes to mind real quickly is
how to how to write an effectivevision. Some other times, I had
some guests on that I interviewed abouttopics that were relevant to to my overarching
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theme. I talked a lot.I had a whole series about freedom and
what that means to people, becauseI'm a very freedom loving person and I
like to say sometimes everything I dois in the service of freedom. And
I like to always give whatever myclients come for, and the first you
know, when they when they callme to work with me, I always
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also like to give them a pieceof freedom, whatever that looks like for
everybody, and whether they notice thator not, so you know that these
are all really great things. Iwas also it was so fun. I
was reminded of this the other daybecause of contact from a Cameroon reached out
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on LinkedIn and then I was ona on a she invited me to be
on a radio show there and thenshe also got me in a TV show.
There was a total surprise, Tom. I was so fun though.
It was one of the last daysof my stay in Cameroon and I literally
had two clean outfits left and onethat was you know, could have been
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TV fit or less. So theycalled me in the morning to come on
the medi show also on the onthe on the twelve o'clock you know known
show. It was a bit bilingualshow, French and English. And I
would I just I just said,okay, what am I gonna go?
Let me get a taxi right,what clean clothes do I have? And
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I had to be there of course, like two hours before they gonna make
the Whatnot or Now and a halfand they made me dance on TV.
It was just a lot of fun. I had a wonderful moderator. I
hadn't met her before actually because shewas all so the MC for the for
the conference so that I had cohosted. There was two other ladies,
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but you know, I was.It was just so much fun. And
sometimes you just have to take theopportunity, even if it seems like you're
not prepared, you know, andthen sometimes it's the best thing. Yeah,
it sounds like you just sounds likeyou just take these moments and just
go right. Yeah, obviously you'reprepared to do it because the person that
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invited you for that, you knowshow would never ask you to be on
there. I think you'd be agood fit. So for you to always
be in a situation, I almostfeel like it goes back to the title
show, from freaking out to freakingamazing, Like you have these moments where
it's like it could be chaos,but then you just go with it and
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then becomes this amazing experience, rightexactly. I mean I was at that
hotel. I had no cell phonethat was working there, so there was
one phone at the reception and thehotel owner knocks on my doors a small
hotel and YONDI camera root so knockson my door and says, hey,
you gotta come to the phone.The TV is on the phone, and
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I run over right and and thenthey say, well, I'm just the
messenger here. The guy on thephone said but you expected here at you
know, in about it was inabout two hours or so, so I
had like literally just figure everything outand and then I was in a huge
traffic jam. Was literally cors bumpinginto our taxis from behind. It was
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a crazy traffic morning in Yondi.But we made it on time, and
I was sort of there at thefirst moment, you know, freaking out
a little bit, Oh I'm goingto do we have clothes still, you
know, and whatnot and ands andthen we always figure it out somehow.
And then it was in fact freakingamazing to be on that show, just
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because of the fun with your experiencebeing in all these different places, I
mean here in national and not justin one country, in many countries,
different cultures. Everything. Is therea coming thread that you found as you
met new people in different places,and so what is that coming thread that
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seems to work, Well, it'sI believe what it is to be open.
You know, when you when youtravel a lot that opens our minds.
Right now we travel, we arehorizon opens. It sort of becomes
easier to understand other people. Wedon't only apart from our own little world,
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because we see that there are manydifferent worlds and many different ways of
living. And most of the timethe way I traveled was by myself or
you know, yes, in Cameroon, I had some people waiting. There
is for example, in u Banda, went there, I had some people
waiting, but that hasn't always beenthe case, and they are not always
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there. And I would, youknow, and Rwanda, I would take
a a motorbike taxi and these andthe drivers they usually did not speak French
or English. So you somehow,you know, I get to know people
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in a different way and to understandpeople in a different way and where they're
coming from as you as you thinkabout those interactions and why do they eat
this and not that, and whydo they dance in this way not that?
So I love dance, right,So I watched the different dances and
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I had never I've seen a lotof different African dances before, but I
had never in my life seen Rwandaand dance the way I saw it there
and got to experience it. Iwas invited to this, to this wedding,
and it was like so amazing.I mean, you know, it
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was a completely no experience and withevery no experience, whether it's talking whether
it's you know, how people approachyou in the street, or how how
they react to you, or howthey behave and certain at certain events,
or how they work, how theydance, and what their cultural expression is.
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There's always this reflection going on inmy mind about okay, where is
this coming from? Okay, well, why do they use these words?
And you know, even language itself. That's why I love learning languages.
Some languages they don't have translation orsome words and some languages don't have direct
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translations because we think differently. AndI believe that when you go out and
are open and listen and watch andobserve, then you can always connect with
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people. I think that's the thethreat, the common thread. Once again,
it makes sense. Sorry, no, you're good, Yeah, it
makes sense. Once again, listen, we focus very we're talking to her
guests, Regina Huber, and youcan go to her website, transform your
Performance dot com and learn more abouther company and name what she does with
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her clients. Real quick, aswe kind of wind down, tell us
a little bit about your business andyour mission statement. And it kind of
feels like it's just been throughout thiswhole interview because of your stories in this
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mission statement, but kind of sharewith audience a little bit more about your
business. Yes, so I dotransformational leadership coaching. I work. I
usually work with a lot of women, but not only also work with men
and help them reach their next careergoal and or become better leaders. And
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that always also includes better leaders ofself, because I believe that any type
of leadership starts with self leadership.And we can only be authentically authentic leaders
and sustainably effective leaders if we reallyknow how to lead ourselves in the first
place. So that's my understanding themost important leadership trade or skill that we
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need as leaders. I am alwaysavailable for speaking engagements, whether it's for
a virtual session. I just recentlydid one for a large financial firm for
the Women's Network. We had overone hundred and fifty five people on,
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but it could also be a trainingfor a small group. Of course,
I do workshops, et cetera,all customized work right and then I have
of course also more like signature worklike for for example, for a company
event. I have several different topicson my website as well, and that's
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about it. I do have aYouTube channel as well and a LinkedIn newsletter
that people can subscribe to where theycan receive free resources and Yes and the
book Speak Up, Standout and Shineis an Amazon for anybody who feels like
they can use some tools to preparementally, physically and energetically for speaking situations
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such as speaking on podcasts, onradio shows, on TV from a stage,
or you know, in a jobinterview or in a negotiation or whatever
it is for everybody. We allhave those situations. And you come across
as a very positive person and hearinglike all the different stories of moments of
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you know, the unknown, youknow, the storm comes and like,
okay, I'm figuring out, butthen it turns to you know, freaking
amazing. Did you always keep thatin your your back of your mind as
far as staying positive and upbeat?Like did you get that from your parents
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or you have a person that you'reclose to that kind of taught you that?
Or was that just will you beinglike your whole life? I think
I wasn't always that positive person necessarily, you know, but I do believe
that. I well, I hearthat a lot, actually, and that
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actually makes me smile a lot,because you know, it's not that I'm
always happy, of course, youknow, a freaking amazing life. I'll
also actually have a website, asmall website with that name, freaking amazing
life, the freaking with an apostropheand you know, not without the g
at the end, just for somea new a new product and project that
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I'm doing. But I believe thata freaking amazing life doesn't mean that life
is always perfect. It doesn't meanthat we no longer have challenges. It
just means that we have learned toto confront those challenges order just really you
know, no longer react so automaticallyas as as if we were an autopilot,
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but really respond more consciously. AndI and do you know what,
in my I know so much aboutwhat is really going on in the world
in the background. If I onlyfocused on that or every day then it
and I didn't have a positive spirit, then I probably, you know,
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I would be depressed all day long. But that doesn't help anybody. It
doesn't help me, It doesn't helphumanity. And I believe that you know,
if if, if, if,if we just make somebody smile every
day. I know it sounds likea cliche, but it does create a
wave, you know, And itstarts with ourselves. So if I get
up in the morning and I donot feel good, and I don't always
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feel great when I wake up,I can tell you that. But I
have my routines, I have mytools that I have created. I have
my ways to get to a betterplace when I don't feel great right and
I also have always I will alwaysmake the time. Talking to what you
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mentioned earlier, I'm obviously, yeah, I'm busy, but I will always
make the time for dancing. Forexample, I actually went out late last
night dancing because there was there wasonly that late opportunity for me, because
you know, there are no classesright now in terms of like I like
to do really intense African dance classesand things like that. So I've done
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a few yoga classes since I've beenhere, but I haven't really had that.
So I said, okay, Ijust go. I'm gonna go Kizomba
and Simba dancing at night, andI took my I even went there by
bike because it's it's it's pretty warmingright now, so I took the bike
there and I came back. ButI really need this, you know,
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even if it's late, sometimes it'sfine, it's fine. We don't always
have to live up to other people'srules, right, And if to me
that means if I did not havemeetings this morning at seven, and I
need to sleep in a little bitbecause I need to recover and be fresh
for the rest of the day formy clients who I meet with later in
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the day, then I will dothat. Because who dictates my life,
I believe it should be me.I should have that freedom. And I
don't you know, I don't goout late dancing every night. I'm just
it's really just an example. ButI sometimes I need to adapt my needs
to the requirements of the work Ido. But I always will also make
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space for me and for what Ineed, because otherwise it's really really easy
for us to get burned out orto you know, just not stay healthy
and and get a more negative flight. Right, long answer to a short
question, No, it's funny,it's fine. It kind of goes back
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to what you mentioned earlier about experienceall different cultures and you know, people
you mentioned openness, that's an approachto have. And I heard someone say
to me before this in conversation,you know, an open parachute works better
(45:29):
than a close one. And Ithink that's a good way to look at
that because even when, like yousaid, things happening where you just adjust
to it, you know, youhave time for your self care and time
for you and uh. Speaking toother women who are CEOs and business professionals,
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what would you say generally to themfor them to continue to just you
know, remain joyful for what they'recalling us whoever it is that they're serving
for, you know, or thegifts and talents that they're using the serve.
What would you say generally to womenwho are leaders in their business to
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stay motivated like yourself. Yeah,not just women, did really everybody,
you know, It's just really abouttake your take chances. Sometimes it's okay
to take risks, and it's okayif not everything works out as expected.
Because no, yes, I tooka lot of risks and some did not
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work out as I wanted them towork out, for sure. But I
had a lot of really freaking amazingmoments in my life when I took risks
and I lived experiences that not alot of people have lived. Like I've
seen parts of Johannesburg that not evenmy local friends have been too. I
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have seen, you know, I'vedone a lot of things that very few
people have done, and it's notalways climbing high mountains for everybody. Again,
it's different, right, So Ithink, just really look at what
life has to offer to you.They're always endless options and opportunities, even
(47:27):
if it doesn't look like it atthe moment. So if you love to
travel and you don't have a lotof money, well, I sometimes did
not pay rent in New York whileI traveled, and I traveled sep I
traveled. I've spent less less moneytraveling than being home. Sometimes it's just
an example, right, Well,you make it look easy. Yeah,
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I know it's not easy. Butwhen people go to your website transforming your
Performance dot com, they can seeit is how busy we are. If
we went through every detail where youdo, we probably be on the show
for three more hours. But whenyou look at the opportunity you have right
now with your platform, it lookslike it's safe to say you're in the
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stage of really paying it forward topeople, you know, helping them learn
from the lessons that you've already learnedfrom. Cow important is it for someone
like yourself to be in position nowto really add that value for those who
are kind of fresh, they're inthe stage or freaking out, but they're
(48:36):
not yet in that stage of freakingamazing. Well, you know what,
I'm always here for people. Iput out a lot of free content,
right so if somebody isn't ready tosign up for a paid program, they
can get tons of value online forme and other people as well on YouTube,
(49:00):
on you know other channels maybe oron LinkedIn as well, and or
sign up for my mailing list.Right now, I'm I'm figuring out a
little bit of a tech issue withthat too. So it's not always perfect,
as I said, you know,but but it's but I think you
should be working again anyways. Soso there's there's a there's a ton of
(49:23):
free stuff out there. I've I'vewritten so many articles. You know,
they are usually unpaid as we alsoput a lot of work and effort into
into just putting stuff out there,and it's not well, yes, it
is for promotional purposes as well,but it's also to support people who might
(49:44):
not be ready to sign up fora coaching program or who might be long
budget. Right now, I've alsodone a few a few programs for example
with a team of young people inRwanda where they we didn't exchange, they
offered me accommodation and exchange because itdidn't have the budget as a group,
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right, but they actually we dida lot of mindset work and sort of
miraculously, on the last day ofthe workshop, additional budget showed up for
them, which was not for me, but for them for their project,
and say and then and and theyand they made it. You know,
they created something really awesome. Soyou know, it depends on the situation.
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It's a I've done free speaking,I've done paid speaking, but it's
just about not taking advantage of peoplein terms of you know, when you
hear that a speaker also speaks forfree, well there's a reason for that,
and there's a place for that.But not everything can be free,
(50:52):
because we also need to pay ourbills, right, Yeah, yeah,
and that's that's true. And man, I can probably go another rap behold
with that about I'll leave it there, because yeah, you really have a
lot of value. And that's reallygreat for a show like this, because
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the whole premise of the show isnot just help people find their purpose,
but help those who are struggling withtheir purpose because sometimes your purpose it starts
growing, but the individual has togrow too, because if you, you
know, let your dream kind ofjust benefit yourself, then it's not really
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a real dream. Because a realdream it benefits others and it carries a
lot of weight. And you knowwhat they say, success brants do every
day, So you got to getused to the freaking out you know,
portions of life because it's gonna happen. It's not if it's gonna happen,
it's just when it's gonna happen.But you master dream those different phases by
(52:01):
making life freaking amazing, man,That's that's what's about. And you also
have confidence because being able to goto all those different places to live starting
uh, you know, those differentbusinesses, speaking different languages, you know,
(52:22):
experiencing different cultures. You have toalso be sure of yourself. And
I promise is the last question,real quick? What is your secret sauce
to believe in yourself so that wayyou grow with your confidence? What is
my secret sauceful to constantly constantly upgrademy leadership of myself? I believe you
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know, it's really too and andit doesn't always have to be hard work.
It's just like the continuity and thecontinuity in finding a way every single
day even when it's not so easy, right, because we all have those
(53:13):
moments when it we have either setbackor when it's just not so easy.
But really having first of all,having my tools. You know, there
are many different tools that we canfind online and in other people's work as
well, but having a few toolsthat are always available, and then also
(53:34):
just to look back and see,okay, I've achieved everything that you know,
I've been in so many situations whereI thought this cannot be resolved,
and there's always a way. There'salways a way. And sometimes what I
also do is I look at asituation from above as if I was looking
(53:54):
at the situation from the perspective ofa hummingbird, and I ask myself,
is this situation really as serious asit feels right now? And what can
I do to feel better about this? What's the worst thing that can even
(54:15):
happen? And that alone, alreadyis usually my my hook out of the
you know, that pulls me outof the water. There's many things I
could say to this, but Ihope this is helpful and and and make
sense to people. Listening, andI also want to say something else in
my well, you know you alsodo this, right you You offer a
(54:38):
lot of value. You're investing yourtime, your money, your resources,
your you know, your efforts.I know a lot goes into this.
I definitely do so I appreciate thatso very much, and I appreciate you.
Appreciate that and thank you as wellwell. And man, I'm glad
(55:00):
I push for those few questions becausethat illustration of honey hummingbird was perfect.
So once again, listen tell mefolks the radio talking to our guests,
Reginia Hooper. You can go toher website, Transform your Performance dot com.
You can also check out her booksshe has listed that you can a
(55:23):
little more about information on speak Up, stand out and shine speak powerfully in
any situation. Once say, onceagain, thanks for your time. It's
been awesome. Thank you so muchfor having me and for asking me wonderful
questions that you know, I thinkcame together into a very beautiful conversation.
(55:46):
Thank you, and thank you toeverybody listening. I appreciate you all.
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