Sihame El Kaouakibi
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330 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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But I just know that's why I chose this high-performing woman. I am, I was, and I am a high-performing woman and just feel I can relate more to different layers. When we talk about relationships, when we talk about your position as a daughter, as a sister, as a friend, as a lover, as whatever.
The first female board member as the first female whatever, we are confronted always with the same judgments, with the same difficulties, complexities. And that's so nice that you don't need to put all your energy in explaining all these things. And someone can just relate and you can just put in the work together. That's what you want. You want to put in the work.
You don't only want to overcome it. You want to learn.
to live with difficulties and to accept actually the different the curveballs and the challenges that that life throws at you and so i think it's more that it's more like really coupled with cultural yeah culture and gender or maybe for others religion and sexual orientation i think these are all these different layers so that's why the supportive community
with all these different kind of women, it's so important because there they can really share experiences, gain insights, support each other. It helps combat isolation and it really brings a sense of belonging that mostly something they miss in even very in their inner circle with friends or maybe at home even. So that's why it's great to have that kind of sense of belonging and find it somewhere.
But it's not linked to a country or something because also for me, I was born here, but I'm
moroccan but in morocco i'm belgian so in the world i'm just see him moroccan belgian woman that today has women leaders os and is an impact consultant and i thrive in actually these situations where we have challenges and people want impacts and we can just work together collaborate and inspire common goals and do things together that's that's i think not
Country or geography, but really like just the environment, like you said, it's more hybrids. And I love that. I love that.
Actually, what I deal with is life challenges. Like I have hit rock bottom and I had to uncover something. my values, my beliefs. I had to accept the situation I was in, that I couldn't go back. So it's really about life.
It can be medical, it can be health, it can be divorce, it can be grief, it can be indeed problems with your child, it can be problems just with yourself, just lack of self-belief, lack of confidence because all this cross-cultural context did to you and how you cope with it. And maybe it's coping mechanism in the wrong way, maybe it's burning you out, etc.
So for me, the great thing is that we all face life challenges and that... I just love and I'm good at reframing these challenges to possibilities to pivot, to grow and to lead you to fulfillment and success in life and career without burnout. Learn how, for example, to set boundaries, not seeing it as of your people pleaser, not seeing it as something selfish or mean.
And the cultural context, the cross-cultural context is a surplus. The fact that We also, all these different layers, experience all these different layers. That's why I can be a better match for someone or the person I can coach, high-performing woman, can be a better match for me. We just, we can relate.
Like the persona I work with or I love to work with are these women are amazing already. They don't need someone to grow or help nurture some kind of talent or something because they are talented and they already achieve so many things. But sometimes you go through moments of self-doubt, fear of failure. even success and still lack motivation. Okay.
And when you're high performing in a golden cage, you just want to stick to your comfort zone. And it's these women that I love to work with, help them recognize this challenge as a first step to overcome and overcome these challenges and moving forward with this, getting back this confidence and self belief and determination and letting them know that like these challenges
They are totally concurrable, okay? Maybe you don't see it for the moment because you were always high-performing, successful, and something happened to you, and you're now confused and overwhelmed. It's about gaining that clarity and direction again, about repurposing. And I think with some tools, solid guidance, a great support system, with Human Leaders OS...
I can really help women to navigate from the place where they are to who they are becoming. So you need to learn or you need to try to avoid burnout. You need to learn how to release stress. You need to learn how to relieve pressure. You need to learn how to relieve guilt. When not working, for example, okay, start enjoying these little playful moments in life.
And then when we have this, when we have this personal part of life and relationships, et cetera, I love to work with this woman to, of course, a successful career and can be a new job, a new title. Mostly I love to work with founders because I'm an entrepreneur myself and I know what it is to take a project from zero to a hundred. And so I just love to work.
So I have this woman, I cannot say for what institutions she works in New York because it's one of the most known institutions. She's a high level director there and she wants to pivot. She's tired of the environment. She actually moved from the other part of the world to New York to have this position. And then after a year, she says, this is not my environment. I cannot drive here.
This is too much bureaucracy. And I'm more entrepreneur. I was always a VC, et cetera. And now she contacted me and she asked, okay, can you help navigate actually the closure of this chapter so I can, I don't burn up bridges. I can, no, just... lived in a friendly manner and I don't know how to communicate. My culture is different. So can you help me there?
Because with my private political experience, I can. That's one thing. And on the other hand, I have time. I have some savings. I can take six months to build my new business, but I don't know what it will be. Can you help me? I love to do that.
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