1.What is your definition of women empowerment?

Women’s empowerment refers to our autonomy to represent our interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on our own authority or power to do something.

It is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling our life and claiming women’s rights. It includes the spirit of the principles of equality, liberty, safety, justice, integrity and freedom.

2.What motivated you to get involved in being inspirational for change?

I am motivated to be a leader who stands for inspired change to assist my clients into a vortex of mindfulness, balance, positivity, happiness and peace. We teach what our path has been and for me learning how to be visible, comfortable and confident in my skin, was a large part of my journey. In getting to the other side of my wound I found that being visible, teaching and inspiring are where I was meant to be residing in my career.

Many people have great stories, messages and desires to share with the world. I help them how through coaching to give birth to and write their book, through taking their books to bestseller, and getting them booked on media for big interview results.

I offer a great quote on this ~

“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect.” ~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

3.What are some key characteristics of an empowered person?

• They cross barriers
• They find new goals and challenges
• They honor their own values
• They have a voice and will speak up for themselves and others
• The feel trust
• They feel valuable
• Can make decisions from inner strength
• Uncovers and heals fears and wounds
• Mindfully releases unhealthy patterns
• Willing to learn and grow
• Makes their own rules
• Lives by their inner compass
• Chooses empowering relationships
• Empowers other women and men
• Has integrity
• Feels worthy
• Is transparent about foibles and being a work in progress

4.What can leaders or individuals interested in advocacy do to facilitate empowerment?

Leaders or individuals can advocate empowerment using these six points:

• Empowerment is about power, and is both psychological and social.
• Empowerment is in service of goals that are intrinsically meaningful.
• Empowerment is a process.
• Empowerment resonates with values of justice.
• Empowerment take consistent self-determination.
• Empowerment is about focusing on people’s strengths rather than their deficits.

5.What advice would you give to those who want to give up due to a lack of empowered feeling, thinking and action? (e.g. What is an important first step)

Try this exercise:

• Write down all the experiences in your life that you have overcome (there is nothing too small).
• Write down who you have become from them.
• Write down what you have learned from them.
• Write down who you can help with these experiences.

So, the questions become: Why are you here? What are your talents? Gifts? Experiences? What makes you light up with passion and fire inside?

Once we realize our true potential and who we are, and we reframe what failure really means (it is actually a good thing), we can step out and go after what we want anew.

It is time to fully live, to step into our strengths and use our empowered, unique gifts that we have to offer this world. Step up and create a life you wake up excited for! No one truly wins when you play small.

Start being candid about what you are going through. Engage with others, you will open a dialogue many will be grateful for. Some will want to talk about theirdisempowerment too. Some will be able to help you. Some will uplift.

Diffuse and allow yourself to be authentic so you can get back to empowering yourself by being real. We ALL need to do this. Take off the mask and ask for what you desire and need. The choice is yours. And that is the beauty of it.