You've Muted Your Hidden Talent
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How did Sairan’s childhood experience with money shape her view of wealth?
Imagine you grew up as one of seven children where money was always tight, but your mother made sure you never felt poor. She stretched every dollar. She passed clothes down the line, and she still took you on picnics to other cities and celebrated your birthdays with cake. You probably heard yourself asking at some point or another, what is my money actually for? Am I just adding zeros to a bank account? Or is it a tool to build something that truly matters? You've done everything right. You have a good job, a good degree, responsible choices you've made, but somewhere along the way you quietly muted a talent. Passion, a dream, because life got busy and the nine to five felt like enough. My guest today, Siren Akrawi, knows that feeling well.
She came to the US from Iraq twenty-nine years ago with an engineering degree and a drive to be independent. She built a career in engineering. She got her master's. She was deep in her doctoral program until one speaking opportunity changed everything and she discovered the world of coaching. Today she's a certified business strategist who helps professional women in midlife stop muting their hidden talents and start building the business they were always meant to build. She still kept her engineering job and she'll tell you exactly why. And her coaching style, she'll warn you up front you might hate her in the first session, but you will love her by the end. Listen in. Welcome to Making Change with Your Money, a podcast that highlights the stories and strategies of women who experienced a big life transition and overcame challenges as they redefined financial success for themselves.
Now here's your host, certified financial planner, Laura Roder. Welcome, Sayrun, to the Making Change with Your Money podcast. Thank you, Laura. Thank you for having me. Looking forward to our conversation, Mr. I will start with the question, Seyron, what was money like in your family growing up?
So the money was not there all the time because my father was working full time and my mom was stay home mom. She raised seven siblings. Imagine, yeah, seven. Four uh four girls and three three boys. So my mom never worked a day in her life because she got married very early. And from day one I know that the money is limited. It's not something that I ha I will have a wish list every period or I have a wishlist every end of the year. My mom was very wise on spending money and she was able, like we said, we stretch the dollar. She was stretching everything she can and I still remember she would say if that piece of cloth is still good, four of you have to wear it. Those pieces belong to my older sister.
If it's still in good shape, you are obligated to wear it during school time. So she was very wise spending money, but on the same time I still remember Uh my parents, especially uh my mom, she never make us feel that you know, or act that we are poor, we cannot enjoy life. We cannot go to a picnic, we cannot visit other cities, or we don't celebrate paradise with cake or with our friend. So she was able to still maintain those healthy activities in order for us to feel, you know, healthy and and part of the community and feeling alive.
Thank you. So it sounds like she was a good role model. She was, yeah. I'm I'm curious before we go on, how did that impact you? Did that make you feel more responsible to Earn what What impact did it have?
Yeah, I mean growing up seeing her not working, that was not something against her because this is back in nineteen fifty five when she married my dad and he was older than her, like ten, twelve years. So she decided to stay home and having all those kids, which is not normal now nowadays. I only have two. I don't know how I even handled two. Right. I mean, it's different world. It's more expensive. It's more deminding. Um, more competition. Uh the world is changing with technology and the things that used to be easy for you and me back then. It's very difficult to teach our kids to get used to it. What is teach me actually uh when I got married, I mean I I n I mean, with degree I never I never had that in my mind that I was stay home mom, even if my husband was a basketball player making million dollars.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Sairan’s childhood experience with money shape her view of wealth?
0:00–12:16
2
What motivated Sairan to move to the United States and pursue an engineering career?
12:16–24:13
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How did a speaking opportunity lead Sairan to discover business coaching?
24:13–34:16
4
Why does Sairan keep her engineering job while building a coaching business?
34:16–43:23
5
What is Sairan’s philosophy on using money as a tool versus a goal?
43:23–46:50