Episode 8: How Your 7-Year-Old Self Shapes Every Choice in Leadership, Love, and Life | Anna Kalbasko

What if your 7-year-old self was still shaping your choices every day — in love, fear, parenting, friendship, and even the way you lead your team? 👧In this powerful episode, I sit down with Anna Kalbasko — therapist, meditation teacher, and conscious leadership coach — whose Inner Child Healing work transforms hidden wounds into fearless power. From architecture to Thai monasteries to guiding women into emotional resilience, Anna’s journey shows us how to stop abandoning ourselves — and start living, leading, and loving without apology.🔥We dive into:→ What Inner Child Work really means and why it matters for fearless leadership→ How childhood patterns like micromanagement, fear of visibility, and over-responsibility shape us→ The 3A’s Technique: Acknowledge, Allow, Act→ Why your 40s and beyond are the perfect season for reinvention00:00 Intro04:51 From Architecture to Inner Awareness06:11 Growing Up With a Stutter → Finding Her Voice15:44 The Power of Showing Up Imperfectly22:16 Meditation on a Thai Island: Unlocking Inner Safety25:56 Designing Your Inner World28:30 Fearlessness, Redefined33:38 Two Questions to Stay Fearless36:50 What Inner Child Work Really Means44:50 Pandora’s Box: How Deep It Goes47:08 Childhood Roots of Leadership Patterns — Micromanagement, Fear of VisibilityOver-Responsibility1:04:53 The 3A’s Technique for Inner Child Healing1:10:33 Two Daily Questions That Change Everything1:17:22 Reclaiming Playfulness1:20:40 Inner Child, True Self & Soul1:24:11 Breaking Free From Cultural Beliefs1:30:35 Women’s Leadership & People-Pleasing1:36:02 Ageless Healing: The Wisdom Age Brings1:42:39 Ageless Role Models1:47:51 A Letter to My Future Self1:51:45 Three Lessons for My 20-Year-Old Self1:53:55 The Penthouse RuleConnect with AnnaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna_being_awareWebsite: https://www.being-aware.co.uk/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-kalbasko?Linktree: https://linktr.ee/anna_being_awareConnect with Women in the Penthouse:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninthepenthouse/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@womeninthepenthouseLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-the-penthouse/Email: hello@womeninthepenthouse YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@womeninthepenthouse 🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube + all major platforms.