Everyday Leaders

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Melahni Ake is your host, with Everyday Leaders’ guests who equip developing leaders with better strategies to overcome everyday obstacles. Join us here to meet thought leaders and change agents making a bigger impact in our local and global communities.

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Monday Mar 15, 2021

Blindspots. How to Recognize them and How to Avoid Them with Everyday Leaders

Monday Mar 15, 2021

Kevin McCarthy Author of the bestselling book, BlindSpots – Why Good People Make Bad Choices, and holds the highest certification recognized globally by the speaking industry, the Certified Speaking Professional.

An award-winning sales professional, he built one of the largest Century 21 offices in America, then developed and sold a dot-com startup.

In 2004, his boss was arrested for the largest stock fraud in Washington State history. As a result, Kevin spent 33 months in federal prison for a crime he didn’t knowingly commit. There he studied Cognitive Psychology and recognized — then deeply researched — the blind spots that lead to his predicament.

Today Kevin and his team expose the invisible barriers that impact culture, operations, training, service and leadership.

Likky Lavji is known as the “Blind Spot Navigator.” As founder and president of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based, Dante Group, he’s an in-demand workshop leader and keynote speaker who’s passionate about helping leaders break through their personal, un-recognized barriers in order to unleash their full potential.

With over 25 years as a CEO of a top IT company, Likky’s extensive experience in executive leadership provides him with a unique perspective that enables him to understand the multi-layers of human behavior and how they impact an organization’s growth and productivity. He works with these leaders and business owners to help them find their blind spots and unleash the opportunities for greatness they have buried beneath them. Likky’s website is likkylavji.com/

If you want to learn more about your Blind Spot, Likky has created an Assessment that you can take at no cost. It closely identifies which of the eight personality and behavioral styles describe you the best. You can click on this link to take the assessment https://likkylavji.com/blind-spot-assessment/. He will also launch his book soon, stay tuned and follow him at his Social Media account.

What would you do to make a bigger impact in the world?

Melahni Qualls Ake Founder of Everyday Leaders and husband Joe Ake, Founder of Joe Ake Studios Productions Together they created Everyday Leaders 50in50 Podcast

Melahni is a passionate professional and personal development leadership coach, trainer and keynote speaker and has been certified through John Maxwell since March 2017. John's book the 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth have been the biggest influence in Melahni's personal growth journey and helped her to realize the power of her own story, the value of influence in the world and the steps to create a legacy in the world. She believes that everyone has a story to share and that by changing your beliefs you can change the world.

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Kevin McCarthy Author of the bestselling book, BlindSpots – Why Good People Make Bad Choices, and holds the highest certification recognized globally by the speaking industry, the Certified Speaking Professional.

Virginia Department of Veterans Services

Total Duration4 yrs 10 mos

TitleVirginia Transition Assistance Program Regional Coordinator - Central Region

Full-time

Dates EmployedJun 2018 – Present

Employment Duration3 yrs

LocationCentral Virginia

TitleVirginia Transition Assistant Program Regional Coordinator - Northern Region

Full-time

Dates EmployedAug 2016 – Jun 2018

Employment Duration1 yr 11 mos

LocationNorthern Virginia/Washington DC

Hire Vets Now Fellowship Program Candidate Coordinator

Dates EmployedJan 2019 – Present

Employment Duration2 yrs 5 mos

LocationRichmond, Virginia, United States

Tim Shurr is transforming the way leaders, sales professionals, and entrepreneurs communicate with themselves, their teammates, strategic partners, and customers.

Matthew Woodget CEO, Go Narrative

CEO, FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

I’m Karen Schaible. www.karenschaible.com

I’m a Retired Registered Nurse working at the Bariatric Clinic, Certified Psychology of Eating Coach and Certified Weight and Life Coach, and I was in the exact same place as you are now!

I struggled with my weight for over 30 years. The struggle felt like it would never end. I felt stuck, frustrated and disappointed that yet another year would go by and I my weight didn’t change.

Overall those years, I tried every diet I could get my hands on. I knew what to eat so then “why couldn’t I just eat what I was supposed to,” I lost and gained 50 pounds so many times only to gain it back every time and usually more than I lost.

Losing and gaining weight was exhausting and discouraging. Despite all of this I still thought about losing weight ALL THE TIME!

I did an excellent job of beating myself up for overeating and wishing “if only I had more willpower!”

I cancelled plans to go out with friends or go to parties because I felt so fat or didn’t think I could control what I would eat.

Trying on new clothes in stores was so painful, I would wind up devastated and in tears at times. I would ask myself, “What’s wrong with me?” “You’ll always be fat,” “You can’t lose the weight, so why bother anymore.”

I missed out on so much of my life worrying about how I looked and what other people would think about me.

The thing was I was a Registered Nurse, a mom of 3 beautiful children and yet I couldn’t succeed at losing weight, I felt like such a failure.

Through all of this, I was determined to figure it out. One day I decided to do something different than anything I had tried before, and that was the start of my losing 100 pounds permanently.

I put all my focus and energy into not only the food but finding a process that helped me to take off the weight as well as change the habits and limiting beliefs that had kept me stuck for too long.

Today, my life is more than I ever imagined it could be. I am so grateful for all the “failures” with dieting because it taught me so much.

I have learned how to lose weight without counting calories or excessive exercising. I exercise because I want to, not because I have to. I eat the foods I want when I want; there is no deprivation or restriction. Food and my weight no longer rule my life.

The answer came in understanding the reason WHY I struggled with food and my weight and committing to a new way of thinking and living. With this simple approach and the right tools, I have completely and permanently transformed my weight and my life.

I want to show you how to do the same thing.

You can create a life that is amazing in every way. If I can do it, you can too. I am not an exception or any more special than you; I have the REAL Solution that works.

I love helping women get to a place where they are eating healthy foods, taking care of themselves and discovering real freedom and peace around food and their bodies.

As your life and weight loss coach, I will give you a safe place where we work together through it all and believe it or not doing this, weight loss we will be pretty much be effortless. Working on all that has been holding you back is where the real key is.

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