Womenlines takes pleasure to share a real-life story of the celebrity author, 2x Amazon Best Selling Author, International Speaker, host of ZMTV & founder of the Sisterhood Mentorship Program and Step UP, Zai Miztiq who is enabling communities through disability despite her near-fatal road accident-

 April 2019 – It started from one fateful afternoon 14 years ago when a sleepy taxi driver rammed the cab she was returning home in into the back of a stationary military truck. Zaiton Majeed or Zai Miztiq as she is popularly known now was given little hope by the surgeons that operated on her. The accident could have cost her life and dangerously risked her to be paralyzed for life. She miraculously survived 3 weeks later but not without living for the rest of her life with 8 screws, 2 metal rods inside her and permanent back pain. She recorded her comeback journey in a semi autobiography-styled book titled ‘Turn Your Passion into Profit’ and is empowering women and youth all over the world with her Amazon Best-selling book ‘5 Things I Love About Being A Woman’.

 The first book which was released on 22nd April 2015, the exact date of the fateful accident, documents her determination to not only recover medically, psychologically and emotionally but also to bring the message of hope and success. In recent years, Zai has travelled across the globe to countries like Japan, Jordan and Morocco. The solo travels were both therapeutic and empowering as she embarked on self-discovery and along the way made a name for herself as a Henna artist. Driven by the calling to find her new purpose in life, the ‘Who am I’ travelogue exposed her to a new found mission – spending time to be in the service of youths and sisterhood.

Reflecting on how far she has come, Zai explained, “I felt like I have been given a second chance in life. And now that the world brings entirely new meaning, I am dedicating myself to inspiring others to live their dreams and leave a legacy. I help people turn their pain into power and turn their dreams into reality with confidence and clarity and Step Up! To be the strong, soulful, success they are destined to be. My dream is to help people believe that they can be whatever they want to be with faith and love.”

 Her books and mentorship program received very encouraging response locally and globally. When the trial version was made available the 100 copies were all sold within a week of release.

Now living her dream life as a 2x Amazon Best Selling Author, travelling trainer and speaking on International stages to share her Step Up! the message, she has moved to document her works in digital videos and are placing modules after modules on a learning platform to make available to the masses learning tools where she believes is her way of leaving her legacy.

“My time on Earth will expire, but the knowledge I have and learning tools and skills I have acquired, I can empower and enrich the world with forever.” – Zai Miztiq

 Zai who has been in business long before the accident believes her books can be an effective self-help material especially for women and youths. She also uses the book as a training tool in her self-improvements workshops and as a guide in her sisterhood mentoring. To-date, she is still pursuing Henna artworks and teaching Arabic calligraphy in her spare time. She now runs a social enterprise providing corporate training and reach-out service under Miztiq International, a company she incorporated in 2014.

 Zai’s vision is to empower, educate & enrich more lives as the ‘Oprah Winfrey of Asia’. She intends to spread her message of hope through her empowerment works and for the community to pursue a continuous lifelong learning journey.

Zai Miztiq

Founder, Miztiq International Pte Ltd

info@zaimiztiq.com

www.zaimiztiq.com

 It is a pleasure to welcome Senior Physiotherapist Shubhangi Gaikwad from the United Arab Emirates as an  Influencer for health and fitness at Womenlines panel. A Dedicated PT offering 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. Background includes work with pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients. In continuation of her previous month, article Shubhangi is sharing must take measures for Osteoporosis prevention –

As the continuation of my previous month article, here are some useful exercises for prevention of Osteoporosis

 Following are the guidelines:

• If you are beginner start with 10 repetition one set. Then gradually progress to 20 reps two sets.

• Do these exercises at least 5 days/week.

• Do consult your physician or physio before starting these exercises, if you have any musculoskeletal ailment.

 Other forms of saving exercises for osteoporosis are

• Aqua aerobics

• Walking outdoor

• Cycling

• Strength training

It’s very important to expose our self to sunlight and do weight-bearing exercises to prevent osteoporosis.

include these simple exercises in your routine and stay safe and have a healthier bone lifelong.

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

 Shubhangi Gaikwad, Shubhangigaikwad06@gmail.com,

Instagram- sgfitnessguide

As an online media partner Womenlines is delighted to share about an upcoming play on a compelling story by Rabindra Nath Tagore. Singapore Tagore Society brings to you play ‘Jeevit Ya Mrit’!!

A theatre play directed by a woman for a woman raising the question- Is the existence of the woman in our society is meaningful?

Aiming to promote excellence in women by highlighting what they are going through in society which needs attention from everybody, Director Dr Anuradha Kapur, Former Professor and Director at National School of Drama, will be showcasing the most radical interpretation of ‘Jeevit Ya Mrit’, that will give the audience a different reading of the story. By challenging established hierarchies and practices, Anuradha Kapur has influenced India’s theatre landscape in no small way.

National Award winner and an intense performer  Seema Biswas will enthral you by her acting skills playing the role of a widow Kadambari, who comes back from Dead. She will be performing the soliloquy to articulate the abandoned worlds of widows in India, even today who navigate different kinds of death all through their lives.

Charu Mehrotra

Let Excellence be your Brand!

Founder Womenlines

“The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled.”
Ric Charlesworth, Hockey

It is all about learning to be the best version of ourselves. Either we learn ourselves or we get a coach!

Time is the precious commodity in present times and when self-learning will consume much of your time why not get benefit from the experience of the experts. The requirement is you have to be coachable. She Sparks Rise and Shine with Puja and Leza are ready to trouble the comfortable and comfort the troubled by sharing their expert knowledge in the field of Personal Leadership and Personal Branding. This one day long, a power-packed immersive session in Singapore is purposed to enable women to strive for excellence, achieve excellence and let excellence be their brand.

Bootcamp Content

Personal Leadership:

2 Core Topics – Personal leadership

• Discover your element

1. Your strengths and gaps
2. Passion vision, the motivating factor
3. Craft, your purpose statement
4. Develop action strategies
5. Discover your own leadership style

Key takeaways: a greater understanding of self and creation of vision board

• Energise your environment

1. Communicate with impact to connect, being Assertive
2. Confidence building and learn tips for effective Decision making
3. Work-life integration: circle of perspective
4. Shift from Fear to Focus; identify your fears and learn how to overcome them
5. Building Interpersonal and Intrapersonal relationship
6. Understanding limiting and strengthening empowering beliefs 

1. Core Topics – Personal Branding

   • Clarity of business objectives and personal brand
   • Curation of content to meet the objective
   • The important and ‘how to’ gather the right and marketable social assets
   • Scheduling, analysing of posts & raising engagement
   • Connect, know how to tap on opportunities presented by existing online network
   • Building a community and sustaining engagement and long term friendships within the community.

Other highlights of the Bootcamp-

1)  Two Panel discussions from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, which delves on with  6 expert speakers from Corporate and Entrepreneurship field -‘How women can rise and shine’.

2) Each attendee gets a soft copy of participation certificate

3) Stress Management session by MS Suchi- Laughter Coach, Chair Asia Global Goodwill Ambassador who was awarded ‘Linkedin Top Voices’ award in 2018

Meet Your Trainers 

Puja Talesara
Leadership coach, Workplace wellness expert, Speaker, OD consultant, Podcaster, Global Goodwill Ambassador

Puja’s mission is to create communities of courageous, authentic leaders who inspire, encourage, give hope and in turn bring out the best in others. She believes everyone has the capacity to lead and it a choice one needs to make. She is humbled to be mentored by John Mattone (ex-coach of Steve Jobs) one of the leading and only authority in Intelligent leadership. Puja has curated and driven many initiatives successfully for the empowerment of women in her corporate tenure with Asian paints, UPL and other well known leading MNC and SME. Puja is being nominated 5 times as LinkedIn Wonder Women. She was recently awarded, Excellence in the millennial leadership space at an International Leadership Summit. She has also received recognition and accolades as the youngest leader, a rising star in various roles she led in a leadership capacity during her corporate tenure. She was the first Women member in the senior leadership role in a leading and conservative manufacturing organisation. She is often interviewed for the various podcast and blogs to share her views on Personal Leadership.

Leza Klenk 
Entrepreneur, CEO, Mentor, International Speaker, TEDx Speaker

Leza is currently CEO of a technological firm, SC Beauty Network Pte Ltd that scaled across 17 countries globally. She’s authored several books and appeared in multiple media newspapers & books. She often spoke at global conferences, universities and in 2014, lead an empowering women campaign with Singapore Committee of UN Women, as well as becoming the face to Shiseido in the same year. She was a marketing ambassador to an SSA Consulting Group. She is a sought after speaking having spoken about entrepreneurship, investment & trade equity financing, networking, the evolution of retail e-commerce etc at global & international conferences. At 28 she was acknowledged as Singapore Youngest Business Guru and her story told in a publication “The Lady Boss” available in book stores. In 2019, she recently bagged the award as Asia’s Best CEO. She is an active angel investor, having incubated, invested and exited in over twenty companies from various industries over the last 6 years.

Good News for Womenlines Subscribers. Special discounted price for all subscribers. Email contact@www.womenlines.com to get the registration code!!

Charu Mehrotra

Let Excellence be your brand!
Founder Womenlines

Welcome to ‘Success with Payal’ series at Womenlines!

Womenlines takes pleasure to introduce Payal Nanjiani, a US-based globally acclaimed inspirational speaker, leadership and success coach, as an Influencer for ‘Corporate Success Tips’ on Womenlines panel. Payal will be sharing exclusive content with Womenlines which can help women working in the corporate sector to develop leadership skills and success mindset. Payal will look forward to replying to queries from Womenlines readers too! Feel free to drop your questions in the comment section. This month read and listen from her about ‘How to ask for a raise in salary?

I still remember that dinner evening when a friend of mine looked very disturbed. On inquiring, she told me of her frustration that for the past seven years she hadn’t got any salary hike. No doubt that she had always mustered the courage to ask for one, but the reply was never a promising one. Many women in the workforce face the issue of asking for a salary raise. One mistake that most women make is to ask directly for a salary raise giving reasons like these:

1. I have worked in this company for more than six years
2. I work more than any other in my department.
3. My workload has increased.
4. The cost of living has increased.
5. My friends in another company are getting more than me in the same role.

Do you feel these reasons are good enough for the management to give you a salary raise? And let’s assume they provide it to you; would it be the right amount of increment? I often coach women on becoming a game-changing leader and one of the things I continuously mention to them is to talk about the value they bring to the table. Your boss thinks in terms of value and outcome. You’ve got to have an evident understanding of your worth, your expertise and what you bring to the table. You’ve got to clearly articulate what differentiates you from the rest. You must be able to show how you’ve been continuously enhancing your value in terms of knowledge, learning, and mindset. These are very imperative when speaking about a salary raise. So, the next time you want to ask for a salary raise, pause for a moment and ask yourself what value are you bringing in that can lead to a salary raise. Raise your value to such extent that it’s hard for anyone to reject you and your demands.

A full podcast episode on this topic is available on my podcast channel for women- iSucceed.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hz85EhpePjWNpVPEslVon

Google Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ijk5hsshyqa33g7zlgvvq3ooinq

Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/isucceed-inspirational-podcast-for-women/id1444522777

–Payal Nanjiani

Discover Incredible work done by Payal Nanjiani at  https://www.payalnanjiani.com/  

Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome contributor Julie Chatlani Belani who is an Entrepreneur and Transformational Coach / Speaker. In her article, Julie is sharing about how Full Moon Meditation can help you to shift your life towards a positive direction-

Julie Chatlani Belani has made a commitment to herself to conduct a Monthly Full Moon Meditation Session every Full Moon. As she says, “Her Life shifted miraculously from the step she took last year on February 19, 2018 (one of the full moons) when she looked up to the moon and shared every dream and desire that she felt could perhaps shift her life and how she felt about life at that stage.

What is our purpose? Why do we have all that inner turmoil???  For me …Letting go of the DESIRE to WIN & CULTIVATING the DESIRE to COMMUNICATE helped me break through everything and everyone that I felt at some point of time standing in my way…and that includes ME too! A lot of times we don’t even realise that by not communicating and or expressing our wants, needs, and desires we are standing in our own way!

If you don’t stand up for what you want, who will? If you don’t love yourself enough…why would you expect anyone else to love you the way you want them to. The way you love yourself shows others how they could love you and not only that it inspires others how to love themselves. You are not your name, your occupation, your title, or the number of awards you have won. You are eternally light & divine regardless of what you have done or failed to do…..regardless of what family you have lived in or what you have been labelled in.

In God’s intelligence, in the universe, in our highest self…..what ever name we want to give it…..whatever religion we are from…. we are all holy & have a purpose for being here.

Life to me is about finding that purpose, staying with that purpose and sharing your purpose with the world so your gifts can spread the wings of others too.

Know that there are no accidents. Find growth in all your life’s experiences….after all, life is the meaning you give to it…your reality is the meaning you give to it. Choose the meaning of your life wisely as that is going to declare your destiny.

You are a Divine Being…we all are! You are not reading this by chance as we all know that there are no accidents.

“You are a spiritual being having a human experience and NOT a human being having a spiritual experience”- Dr Wayne Dyer

On this Full Moon (18th of May from 19:30 to 21:30 pm @ ECP next to Campsite Area D, Singapore), Julie will be conducting more than just a guided meditation. She will be including processes, tools, and techniques that helped shift and shape who she is today.

Today she shares with passion and purpose her life journey to help people who find themselves stuck in life and lost as to why they are where they are and not where they want to be today.

Watch and listen to this video to find out why you should join her this full moon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v2_gzIvQJA&feature=share

Once you have decided to join her, please register on the link below-

https://bit.ly/2LfbfWb

As a gift to the universe and to her highest self, she chooses to conduct this Full Moon Meditation for FREE.

Womenlines is delighted to be online media partner to one-day boot camp for Personal Leadership and Personal Branding brought to you by SHE SPARKS with Leza Klenk and Puja Talesara.

Puja Talesara & Leza Klenk, both experienced entrepreneurs with a knack and passion in personal & corporate branding brings to you She sparks one-day immersive session. The two important components of boot camp are Personal Leadership and Personal Branding. This one day long, a power-packed immersive session is purposed to enable women to strive for excellence, achieve excellence and let excellence be their brand. The bedrock of the boot camp is “Success is knowing oneself being comfortable with thy self and leveraging self to create impact and influence”. Listen from Leza and Puja how Bootcamp can help you in Singapore in the video shared above!

Date- 26th May 2019

Venue- Cucina Restaurant, 12 Kallang Avenue,#02-10, Singapore 339511

Time-9:00am-6:00pm

Ticket Price- S$ 84.65

This Bootcamp aims at enabling women to create an impact and influence in all settings.

The methodology deployed is a blend of tools, role-plays, real-life insights and the key mantras to practise.

Core topics to be covered-

 Personal leadership

• Discover your element

1. Your strengths and gaps
2. Passion vision, the motivating factor
3. Craft, your purpose statement
4. Develop action strategies
5. Discover your own leadership style

• Energise your environment

1. Communicate with impact to connect, being Assertive
2. Confidence building and learn tips for effective Decision making
3. Work-life integration: circle of perspective
4. Shift from Fear to Focus; identify your fears and learn how to overcome them
5. Building Interpersonal and Intrapersonal relationship
6. Understanding limiting and strengthening empowering beliefs

 Personal Branding

• Clarity of business objectives and personal brand
• Curation of content to meet the objective
• The important and ‘how to’ gather the right and marketable social assets
• Scheduling, analysing of posts & raising engagement
• Connect, know how to tap on opportunities presented by existing online network
• Building a community and sustaining engagement and long term friendships within the community.

Case Study 1: Spendless Cosmetics Global

Case Study 2: The Baking Studio

Case Study 3: Spendless Creative Studio

Meet Your Trainers 

Puja Talesara-

Puja’s personal life experiences piqued her interest in coaching. She is humbled to be mentored by John Mattone (ex-coach of Steve Jobs) one of the leading and only authority in Intelligent leadership. Puja has curated and driven many initiatives successfully for the empowerment of women in her corporate tenure with Asian Paints, UPL and other well known leading MNC and SME. Her Coachees view her role as a Change agent who facilitates them to discover and be the ‘ Best version of Self’ that they can, will and must be to achieve the greatness in all space. Puja is being nominated 5 times as LinkedIn Wonder Women. She was recently awarded, Excellence in the Millennial Leadership space at an International Leadership Summit

Charu Mehrotra

Let Excellence be your brand!
Founder, Womenlines

Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Subah Jain as 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 will be sharing various tips and recipes by Subah Jain to lead a healthy life. This month Subah is sharing about interesting  Juice Cleanse recipes for Detoxification and Weight Loss-

Subah Jain Super Healthy recipes for a juice cleanse diet. Going on a liquid cleanse from time to time gives the body a break from digestion, and hence time to push out the toxins, and go into deep cleaning-

1) Ash Gourd Juice Simply take ash gourd (safed petha), peel off the skin, take out the seeds and drink

2) Glorious Greens Juice 1 large cucumber 3-4 celery stalks 1 cup spinach 4 lettuce leaves 2 apples Cut and prep all your ingredients and then simply juice everything up

3) Pink Power Juice 2 apples 1 medium carrot 1 small beetroot 3-4 celery stalks 1/2 a lemon Cut and prep all your ingredients and then simply juice everything up. Squeeze the lemon from the top

4) Clean Carrot Juice 4 carrots 1/2 cup pineapple 2 oranges Cut and prep all your ingredients and then simply juice everything up

As an online media partner, Womenlines takes pleasure to share about upcoming webinar series ‘Communicate to connect with Impact’  by Leadership Demystified Webinars (founded by Puja Talesara Bhandari, strengthened by Sandeep Mukhi, Snehal R Singh, Dr Vandittaa Dar) centred around Communication Skills, with the Global renowned Facilitators. Improve communication skills and achieve excellence.

Presenting our first facilitator in the series Gautam Gouthi, who has helped professionals across the globe to ace their communication and strengthen their relationships. Listen from Puja Talesara how this webinar can help you to equip self in building relationships and influence others. We all know Communication is vital to thrive, be it in professional or personal space. Skills to communicate with mindfulness can create wonders in your professional and personal life. Most of the time it is miscommunication which creates confusion and misinterpretation everywhere and so much time and energy is wasted. The webinar will help you to develop skills to use communication in your favour.

Register for this webinar to equip yourself with the right skills and mindset. The best part is you can attend this webinar online from anywhere across the world!!

E-mail contact@www.womenlines.com to know further details and register.
Date of the webinar -17th May at 8:00 pm IST

Let’s Communicate to connect with an impact!:))

Content Sponsor Edumilestones: It is an India, (Bangalore) based company. They provide a premium career assessment platform and career counselling certification courses named Certified Career Analyst (CCA) and Certified Counselor for International Studies (CCIS) to over 1400+ professionals across 80 locations in India and abroad for over 10 years. They are official members of APCDA and IAAP international organizations. Their team consists of qualified and experienced top experts from psychology, education, design and IT, investing in extensive research and development. This month author Aparna Abhishek Iyer is sharing must follow ways to work towards setting your career graph right, rather than depending on your employer. She is emphasizing that simple step for career choices for women can do wonders and the prime mover in your career is YOU only-

Women between in the age groups 27-35 claim to experience a sloppy career graph. Their workplaces do not seem to be challenging, nor do they facilitate a work-life balance. In certain cases, the organizations are to blame but, in most scenarios, women need to reiterate to themselves that the decision to take on the job role was two-way. What did these women fail to validate at their career start points? More so, even if they did validate their needs versus what the organization has to offer, what are the implications did they not expect to envisage? If you are in your mid-20s and resonate with whatever I have expressed so far, well, you will need to check these boxes before you enter your workplace tomorrow!

1. Is this your dream job? Do you wake up every day feeling the urge to get to your workplace?

This question seems clichéd and yet, rooted! As a career coach, I have come across many clients asking me what careers are best for them and most likely, they are not surprised by the results that come up in their career assessment. I believe that a dream job is the first thought that strikes your brain while you are contemplating career choices! If choosing a career was this effortless, why do most women choose the wrong careers? The conservative belief of mapping a whopping paycheck to success in career leads many young women to take misjudged decisions. Sadly, almost 90% of women who have chosen a career path that is not their passion, fail to even realize that they have compromised their careers. They succumb to the daily routine until their frustration peaks, after which they take up all means to change their careers in vain or eventually, even quit from their jobs.

Haven’t we all heard- “Better late than never”? Act now if you feel you have chosen a career that is not your dream. But, if you are someone who is following your passion, you may also appreciate the fact that you strive to be better at work every day and this not only benefits you as an individual but also the organization that you are working in. Also, if you are on the verge of choosing a career, ensure that this criterion is satisfied as choosing a wrong career affects not only you in the long run, but also cascades to hinder the growth of your organization and sometimes, even the harmony of your personal life.

2. Does a regular work day tap your potential entirely?

Every woman chooses her personal life over her profession at any certain point in her career. However, in anticipation of the phase that makes your career take a backseat, do not limit yourself from taking on challenges at work. You have been chosen by the organization over your male counterparts for your expertise in the domain and by restraining yourself from taking on uphill tasks, you will not be doing justice to the role offered to you. If you are a woman who is working in the Manufacturing Industry, you may diverge from my opinion. You may not be permitted to perform certain kinds of job roles owing to your gender. For whatever reason, do not let out your job roles to any of your colleagues, treasure them and aspire to ace them consistently. Most importantly, do not feel content with your daily tasks and break out of your comfort zone.

If you have been doing this consistently, you may note that there was never a point in your career graph that slowed your growth and even after being committed to the job for several years, every day at work seems as exciting and novel as your first day in the company!

3. Are you completely self-aware of your five-year career plan?

Women are great planners, aren’t they? They meticulously guide and nurture everyone who is closely associated –be it at the workplace or at home. What most women fail to prepare is their personal career plan. Regular work days at the workplace can be engulfing their mental and physical energies, but women nevertheless, do not extrapolate this success to career plans. As a result, the organization perceives such women as being directionless and do not assign challenging and demanding projects. In the long run, this results in a flat and sloppy career graph. In such cases, mentors, superiors and senior management can pitch in to help young and new women employees plan their careers set professional goals. Women, in addition, need to be self-aware and form plans for themselves, based on their annual appraisals and work duties. This initiative can benefit only women who are ambitious and self-driven. Hence, it is important for young women to develop this characteristic inherently.

The benefits can be perceived as two sides of a coin. For one, women feel secure of their careers, irrespective of any future commitments from their personal lives. Additionally, the organization can take pride in having loyal and focused women workforce.

4. What were your expectations from the job while you were absorbed in the company and Lastly, were you aware of the expectations held of you by the company?

This is the primary and foundational criterion that needs to be itemized by each woman who is about to enter the workforce. It can be fascinating to attend interviews and interact with executives from reputed companies, but there are cases where companies fail to set concrete goals for new employees. The failure to verify the alignment of your goals with that of the companies’ will only compound, resulting in loss of interest and frustration. I do not recommend being insistent, more than the required limit, but the least that a young employee can do is to set expectations from her new job role and substantiate them with the prospective manager.

The best method to define the expectations is to research about company’s growth profile, interact with existing employees about employees’ growth curve and ensure to align them with your career plan. Further, post assuming the role of a full-time employee, redefine your expectation after each annual appraisal in such a way that it challenges your roles in the job and also, coerces the company to create a more interesting profile for you.

Have you satisfied these criteria? An insight from Sheryl Sandberg’s TED Talk on “Why there are very few Women leaders?”: “Do not quit before you quit”. Do not give away what you have accumulated over many years of experience. Work towards setting your career graph right, rather than depending on your employer. A simple step in favour of your career graph does wonders. The prime mover in your career is YOU.

Author–

Aparna Abhishek Iyer is the Co-founder of Grassroot Education and performs the duties of a Career Coach, an IELTS Trainer and also conducts Entrepreneurship workshops for aspiring Business Owners.