26. Nikki Barua: Convert your Barriers into Breakthroughs

from Ready For More · host Nikki Barua

Send us Fan MailIf you're looking for confidence and clarity on your career path, AND how to get hired in your dream orgnanisations, this is the episode for you.If you think you're different and no one is going to want you because of those differences, this episode is for you. Nikki Barua is co-founder of a company called Beyond Barriers which helps global organizations accelerate women in leadership by democratizing access to high-performance training and executive coaching. Nikki’s success has been featured in Forbes and Fortune magazine, and today we are going to have a chat about her own barriers and how she converted them into breakthroughs, so that we will distill concrete takeaways for all our listeners.In this brilliant episode, Nikki shares:- How she left India for the US on a one way ticket, with few hundred bucks in her pocket and a dream in her heart, sounds cliche, but this is exactly what happened! Nikki was keen on making it on her own. - How she got hired in a country where she was a minority immigrant, and her criteria for selecting the next move, where she shares a real example in her case- How we all have two jobs to do: our day job as well as our career, and how we need to manage both- How she started her company and podcast a couple of weeks before the pandemic hit the stop button on all her plans, and how she adapted, very successfully!- The process to converting her ideas and codified practices into a book, and her top tips for the aspiring authors out there!Whatever your gender, don't miss this episode, it's worth every minute!Connect with Nikki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenikkibarua/Nikki's beautiful post on LinkedIn about her father that I mentioned during the show here. The Beyond Barriers website: https://www.iambeyondbarriers.com/The podcast episode I referred to with Mallun Yen: click here. Enjoyed the show? Tell three of your closest friends!And please leave a great review on Apple Podcasts, as it would mean a lot to me and hopefully help others discover this resource for Job Seekers ! https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/how-i-got-hired/id1536817985 And finally, connect with me on LinkedIn, I'd love to hear from you: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/

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