Womenlines loves to get empowering and informative content for all readers, viewers and followers from across the globe. Womenlines is delighted to welcome the organisation ‘Cancer Awakens’  as a sponsor for the content related to ‘How to prevent and thrive with Cancer’ under ‘Health’ segment. Enlightening content from Cancer Awakens is going to empower people with the right mindset and knowledge to prevent cancer and to thrive with it if one is diagnosed with it. In the interview with Womenlines, Vijay Bhat, founder of ‘Cancer Awakens’ has shared incredible tips on what to take care in life to keep cancer away!

Vijay Bhat, the founder of Cancer Awakens is himself a 17-yr colon cancer-thriver. Cancer Awakens wants people to awaken, heal, grow and thrive from cancer, instead of suffering like victims or dying on schedule. Their vision is “Many millions must survive; One million must thrive”. They will achieve this through online cancer-coaching, via 10,000 trained and certified cancer-coaches (SHERPAs).

Vijay Bhat calls himself a “Wanderer-Dabbler”, a “Seeker-Learner” and a “Thriver-Sherpa”.

His 1^st career (of 25 yrs) was in Advertising. His 2^nd career (of 13 yrs) was in Leadership Consulting & Coaching. In his swan-song, he is a start-up social entrepreneur in the field of Cancer Coaching.

Vijay is himself a 17-yr colon cancer-thriver and the co-author of ‘My Cancer Is Me – The Journey from Illness to Wholeness’. He is a sought-after keynote speaker on Cancer, Holistic Health, Stress Management and Leadership. Vijay has lived, worked and travelled all over the world. He and his wife Nilima are currently based in Mumbai, India. They have 2 grown-up kids – Shravan & Shambhavi- from whom there is so much to learn.

 

Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Ms Ketki Vinayachandra as an ‘Influencer of Health’ at Womenlines panel. Ketki is sharing articles and videos related to excellence in health through Naturopathy at Womenlines on first and last Thursdays of every month. The first series ‘Flab to Fab’ is a must watch as Ketki is sharing incredible tips to reduce weight. Ketki is a trained Naturopath and she is quite passionate about creating awareness about Naturopathy across the world. Listen to Ketki in this episode 6 of ‘FLAB TO FAB’-

How much exercise is enough and quick tips!!

Ms Ketki Vinayachandra, BscM (Hons), ND, AND, Dip Nut, ( Aust), NHAA Member Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist, Iridologist

“As a Naturopathic health practitioner, I strongly believe that we need to invest wisely in our health. The everyday choices we make in terms of our lifestyle and how we treat our body can either create healing or disease. While ageing is inevitable, diseases are not. Talk to me to customize a treatment plan for you today!

 Leadership can be defined as a skill of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. In a business scenario, this can mean directing workers and colleagues with a strategy to meet the company’s needs. How to be an authentic leader is a big question. Womenlines takes pleasure to share incredible insights about leadership from world’s top-ranked coach John Mattone –

• When it comes to leadership, many people feel that you’re either born with it or you’re not. But while some people might have a natural leadership proclivity, it is possible for anyone to cultivate their own innate ability to lead. Leadership, as I define it, is as simple as “being an example to others,” and this is something we can all develop.
• There are countless approaches to leadership development—books, tools, workshops, courses, philosophies—and all are valuable. But in my experiences, the leadership work that really tips the scales and leads to lasting change is the kind that focuses on what I call “the inner core.” If you want to be a better example to others, you need to develop your character, values, and mindset. Many people skip over this step at their own peril.
• One of the keys to Intelligent Leadership is making what I call “the vulnerability decision.” This is a choice that you, as a leader or aspiring leader, make to open yourself up to your colleagues, peers, or employees. Many consider vulnerability to be a weakness, but I’ve found that it’s actually a great source of strength.
• One of the most popular traits of modern leaders is the ability to “think big.” It’s a sexy term that many people throw around, but few know how to actually do it. I’ve found that the key to “thinking big” is to find a connection to your core purpose. You need to find out what it was that you were put on this earth to do to unlock your ability to think like a visionary.
• Many people who want to develop as leaders, do so because they want something for themselves—a promotion, a title, accolades, etc. But true leadership is based on a recognition that it really isn’t about you. It’s a compulsion to become a better human being for the sake of leading and inspiring those around you.

John C Maxwell defines leadership, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

 Yes, friends, Everybody is a leader, whether you are a CEO, a middle manager, a junior manager, a janitor, a factory worker, an entrepreneur, a teacher or a single parent. The one who walks the talk takes responsibility and can influence is a leader. Everybody can be a leader, but all cannot be effective leaders, as effective leaders have in the extra ingredients that not every leader possesses. So here is an incredible book with all the secret ingredients to be an authentic leader –

 The Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading Others and Leaving Your Legacy

By John Mattone

Visit www.intelligentleaderbook.com to buy your copy now!!

There is a special promotion where all book purchasers also receive free access to John’s Mattone Leadership Enneagram Inventory (MLEI), which is a tool he’s developed for people to determine their unique leadership style, strengths and developmental opportunities (a $110 value).  

 John Mattone who is widely considered the world’s top executive coach and is globally respected for his ability to ignite and strengthen a leader’s inner self and talents. Since 2017, he has been ranked by Global Gurus as one of the top three coaching authorities in the world, alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith.

John is the creator of the unique, powerful, and game-changing Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching program. Using this program over the past 20 years, John has personally coached more than 250 top business leaders, including 25 global CEOs, to help them become stronger, more effective, and vibrant leaders. John served as the executive coach to the late Steve Jobs, as well as to the former, legendary CEO of PepsiCo, Roger Enrico. In 2015, John’s leadership system was named one of the top three Advanced Leadership Development Programs in the world, alongside the work of John Maxwell and Tony Robbins. The author of nine books, John has written three bestsellers: Talent Leadership, Intelligent Leadership, and Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership and Corporate Reinvention.

 In the present era, companies are having difficulty finding and grooming the next generation to handle the demand of leading others in the fiercely competitive atmosphere and lightening fast pace of change that defines our era.

John Mattone has found a solution to this paradox through an approach that cuts right to the core of what holds leaders and aspiring leaders back from greatness. It’s what has made him the world’s top executive coach and drawn Fortune 500 CEOs—from the late Steve Jobs to PepsiCo’s Roger Enrico—to seek his counsel. Fortunately, Mattone’s secrets are no longer being shared exclusively in boardrooms and executive suites, but are now available to anyone who wants to unlock their leadership potential in his newest book, The Intelligent Leader. IT ALL STARTS ON THE INSIDE

While many approaches to leadership development focus on skills like creativity, strategic thinking, and decision-making, Mattone focuses on the subtle and hard to reach territory that lies below the surface. He calls this the “inner core” and has found that the strength of this deeper dimension of your self is what drives the “outer” capacities that so many are after.

Let Excellence be your brand!

Charu Mehrotra

Founder Womenlines

Womenlines is delighted to start a series ‘Go Green Campaign’ to create awareness among womenfolk to adopt conservation of the environment as a part of their lifestyle! As a start, you can watch this video, produced by the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR).

MEWR has designated 2019 as the Year Towards Zero Waste. They want to rally Singaporeans to treasure their resources and make it a habit to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. You can find out more about our Zero Waste Vision at www.towardszerowaste.sg

Facts-(credit https://www.towardszerowaste.sg/zero-waste-nation/)

1. In Singapore, waste disposed of has increased seven-fold over the past 40 years. About 7.7 million tonnes of waste was generated in 2017. This amount is enough to fill 15,000 Olympic-size swimming pools!
2. Every day, about 79% of our domestic waste generated will be incinerated at one of our four waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration plants. However, the more waste we incinerate, the higher our carbon footprint – this contributes to global warming and climate change.
3. Semakau Landfill is Singapore’s one and only landfill. It receives more than 2,000 tonnes of WTE incineration ash and non- incinerable waste daily. At our current rate of waste growth, Semakau Landfill will run out of space by 2035.

How will Singapore achieve  Zero Waste vision?

Singapore will adopt a circular economy approach to sustainable waste and resource management. Singapore will strive to close the waste loop, just like how they have closed the water loop by recycling water endlessly!

Womenlines wants to request the readers to have a look at the video to learn various ways to how they can contribute in Go Green Campaign!!

Let Excellence be your brand!

Charu Mehrotra

Founder Womenlines

Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Neha Dhingra Saraf, Head of Business Development APAC in Singapore, as a guest writer. She is sharing a very interesting article highlighting from her real-life experience that if you don’t allow emotions to take over the mind under challenging circumstances, things can really turn out to be ok –

Someone once told me that the minute you think of a backup plan, you admit that plan A is not going to work. We had an interesting long conversation where we agreed to disagree.

I was recently given an opportunity to deliver a presentation on social selling to a room full of forty senior executives from across the world. I was excited and prepared for the session.

Plan A

Present the beautiful deck and deliver a 1-hour session. Prepared for it well in advance and was confident that it will go well.

Twist

The night before the session I was told I only had 30 minutes and the presentation would start at 8:30 am, fairly significant changes to happen at short notice for an important senior leadership session. The more challenging part, however, was that I was asked to do something I had never done before – deliver a TED-talk style talk without slides!

Plan B

It was challenging to cover the same content in half the time but I had the whole night (with lots of coffee) to prepare. All that was need to be done was tweak the presentation, rehearse again, think of props to use in absence of slides and wake up super early after a long day and a long night. Sounds fun? Read on.

Dinner ended around 11 pm and by midnight I was halfway through BUT dozed off on my laptop soon after. Not being a morning person, woke up early to prepare (Thanks to my tired brain having the foresight to set an alarm for the next day). I said to myself – All is well, don’t panic. I rehearsed the whole thing and was clear on the action plan. Things still appeared to be somewhat under control.

Next morning from 7:30 – 8 am there was a team fitness session in the same room so I went to the venue well before that and noted my points on the whiteboards. There was another gentleman in the room who was supposed to present after me and hence I had to politely request him to not use the three boards that I put my notes on. We smiled and nodded at each other. After the session at 8 am, I rushed to my room, quickly took a shower and came back at 8:20.

Another twist

To my horror, all the whiteboards had been wiped clean!

With 5 minutes to the presentation and no visible talking points, I had two options – to be angry with the gentleman and panic OR relax, gather my thoughts and improvise.

Plan C

I chose the second option, took three deep breaths, downed two quick espresso shots and started at 8:30.

The session went well. I shared what happened with some of the colleagues over drinks later that night. Interestingly, the feedback was that they couldn’t spot any anxiety or nervousness during the session.

What to do when Murphy’s Law strikes?

Few things that helped me tackle the situation:

• Fortune favours the prepared mind – Being very familiar with the topic, had already delivered similar sessions over a hundred times ranging from 30 minutes to a whole day.
• Do it with passion or not at all – Being extremely passionate about social selling, the topic often comes up in conversations with colleagues, new hires, students and sometimes acquaintances. This helps provide diverse perspectives on the topic which actively promotes lateral thinking on the subject.
• Don’t let fear tell you that it is protecting you. Fear is a liar! – At 8:25, the worst thing I could have done to myself was panic and cloud my judgment with fear. Being given an opportunity to present to senior leadership at an offsite with a packed agenda, rescheduling was also not an option. At that moment, I had nothing to lose except facing the challenge head-on.

Getting back after being hit is a choice. It takes courage and perseverance to get back up.

Like what you read? Please feel free to share your experience in the comments section, like or share the post and reach out to me in case you have any feedback. Follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram.

Neha was born and raised in India and now calls Singapore home. She leads a team of business development professionals across the Asia Pacific at Oracle. Neha designs and delivers workshops, virtual training, webinars and initiatives to educate sales professionals and small businesses on how to use social tools to engage via various social channels. Intertwined in this activity, she loves to travel, make friends, drink wine and collect and upcycle glass bottles – normally empty!

 Senior Physiotherapist Shubhangi Gaikwad from the United Arab Emirates, an  Influencer for health and fitness at Womenlines panel is a dedicated Physical Trainer having 7 years of acute-chronic care experience; a history of “exemplary” ratings on performance reviews; solid credentials that include, BLS/Dry needling/Manual Therapy certifications /certified FMT and a master’s degree in physical therapy in Neurology. Shubhangi’s background includes work with pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients. This month Shubhangi is sharing incredible insight to motivate readers to adopt exercise routine at home as a daily activity-

One of the commonest excuses I always hear for not following regular exercise regime is that – I don’t get time to do my exercise.

Why is it so hard to take out time for yourself?

WHO recommended only 150 min of moderate aerobic activity per week to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It’s not hard to take out 20 -25 per day to be engaged in any form of physical activity.

One of the biggest reason why we get distracted from maintaining an exercise routine is we set unrealistic goals.

I highly believe no goal is unattainable but we fail in choosing the correct measures, the right regime and we ignore the fact that everybody body is different and respond differently.

Don’t do exercise only to see changes in the weighing machine. This is the wrong approach. See the tiniest changes you feel in your body when you do regular exercise.

The minutes when you are indulging in any kind of physical activity, that moment, you are living for yourself. Your mind is distracted away from all the stress & worries.

The energy you feel throughout the day, the confidence and positivity you gained through a workout cannot be measured by any scale. These are most precious add on of exercises.

The day you stop following the weighing machine and start enjoying the process of feeling the well-being, then you never come up with the problem of time management for adding a few minutes in your day for a workout.

No one can encourage you to adopt a healthier life more than yourself. Self-motivation is the strongest driving force for maintaining a healthier lifestyle.

So ladies, do exercise for fun not just to stand on weighing machine!! You are beautiful and exercise makes you gorgeous!!

Have any question on what and how to start your exercise routine do write to me and I’ll help you move.

If you have any query regarding any exercises, don’t hesitate to ask in the comment section. 

Shubhangi Gaikwad, Shubhangigaikwad06@gmail.com,

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Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Subah Jain, an Influencer for Food and Nutrition on Womenlines panel!

This dynamic young woman has already established herself as a sought-after wellness speaker and educator. Her YouTube channel, Satvic Movement. is quite popular and is delivering holistic, ageless and timeless knowledge of purifying the body and hence getting rid of all health problems without medicines. Subah wants to create awareness about how a plant-based diet can be helpful in getting rid of medicines and diseases!

Womenlines is sharing various tips and recipes by Subah Jain to lead a healthy life. This month sharing is about how to prepare healthy salads. This is the second part of the series-

Both salads are super easy, quick, and entirely vegan! The first is a Thai Papaya Salad and second is a Brocolli Bean Salad. The ingredients are all-natural and easily available in the market. The salad dressings add a creamy, flavourful touch to the salads.

To watch the first part of the series click-

https://www.womenlines.com/healthy-salads/

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