What does success really mean?
In this solo episode of From a Woman to a Leader, I share my honest take on success, failure, and rejection, sparked by my conversation this week with founder Naama Nicotra.
We are trained to measure success by the outcome, the Money, the title, the company. But almost no one shows you the failure and rejection behind it.
I talk about why I told Naama she is already successful, what I tell my own kids about failing a test, the rejection folder I cannot stop thinking about, and the five to ten rejections that sit behind every talk I give as a speaker. If you have been measuring yourself only by where you are right now, this one is for you.
Chapters:
00:00 Success, failure, and rejection
00:40 What is success, really?
01:16 What 90% of entrepreneur autobiographies reveal
02:10 Why I told Naama she is already successful
03:30 What I tell my kids about failing
05:00 Naama’s rejection folder
06:20 Rejection is part of everyone’s story
06:50 My path to becoming an international speaker
08:00 The rejections you don’t see behind every talk
09:13 The thing I am still working on: asking for help
10:03 What I want you to take from this
11:27 An embarrassing story, and why there are two Naama episodes
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Questions this episode answers:
What does success really mean?
How do you handle rejection without giving up?
Is success about the outcome or the journey?
How do you reframe failure for yourself and your kids?
How do you become a conference speaker when you get rejected?
