Start living a life worthy of you now! by Veronique-Gautier
Ladies, I believe we are all designed to be leaders. Many of us have had that powerful experience and sense of accomplishment, but something almost inevitably seems to happen for most of us: our leadership gets muted along the way. Somehow, somewhere in the process of life, we tend to surrender our natural leadership and compromise it, cancelling our ability to create the impact we are here to make. The great news is that we can unmute this leadership, reaffirm an even stronger Identity, and pursue an even bigger Vision. If we choose to. It’s never too late to activate our authentic leadership and create a life worthy of us, and start living a life by our own design. This is a challenge I know all too well. For over 30 years, as a ValueCreator® Strategist, I have been passionate about creating powerful visions that transform businesses and people. I had the privilege of advising some of the largest companies in the world, leading their leaders through major moments of transformation. I got to collaborate with brilliant minds on designing and developing innovations meant to change the world. I was crystal clear and I was uncompromising in my vision. My focus and determination moved many mountains. That alone filled me up. Up until I fell for a fairytale, and the dream of a happy family. This is when it all got wobbly. My whole world started to shift, one compromise at a time. I put my baby first, my husband’s ambition before mine. All, of course, for the greatest good. Yet, slowly but surely, I lost track of me. On the other side of my divorce, I had lost my legendary vision and the clear sense of direction that had made me unstoppable and successful. My ability to create impact had shrunk. Everything in my life felt off. I knew there was so much more in me. But I could not unlock it. I
could not see what was next for me. I felt like a lioness in a cage, except this time, the cage was wide open. I was beating myself up so much for having drifted so far away from who I was that I got sick. During my dark night of the soul, just when I was about to give up, I dropped the Warrior identity, laid down the armor, and I surrendered. I stop fighting. And in that moment, everything shifted. I decided that it was not the way it was going to end, actually, it was not the end at all. It was the beginning of something new that this time, I will consciously create. I became a student again and looked for mentors, not for another course or class, but to show me a different way to do this thing called Life. I looked for women mentors who could help me bring all the pieces of me together because they had experienced the same pain, overcame it, and transcended it with courage and magnificence. I learned and applied a system of Transformation that gave me more than my ‘life back’; it allowed me access to a new, more elevated version of me as a woman, mother, leader, and businesswoman.
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