Let's Get Real

Sharmin Banu is an executive leadership coach, speaker, and author of Mid-Career Momentum: Design Your Next Phase with Purpose and Joy. A former Microsoft engineering manager, she has spent the past 17 years helping leaders navigate career transitions, build resilience, and lead with greater purpose, confidence, and joy.Sharmin has coached leaders across Fortune 500 companies, startups, government, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations. She has served as the President of the ICF Washington State Chapter and currently serves in a leadership role with Braver Angels, where she helps foster respectful dialogue across political differences. Through her coaching, speaking, and writing, Sharmin is passionate about helping people grow as leaders while creating workplaces and communities where people can thrive.We get into what actually depletes people at the height of their careers, why hustle culture makes resilience harder, and the difference between chasing a title and chasing a vision that means something to you. Sharmin also walks through two frameworks from the book: the 3A model for navigating setbacks (acknowledge, analyze, act) and the 3C model for sustaining resilience (care, connect, create).If you're navigating a career transition, feeling stuck, or just trying to keep your own tank full while doing meaningful work, this one's for you.Mid-Career Momentum on AmazonSharmin's LinkedIn Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

A gifted Executive Coach and Facilitator, Jeaneen serves executives who are committed to realizing and achieving their deepest potential. She guides individual leaders and their teams to transform and grow from the inside out for the sake of thriving in all ways. Her work spans private coaching, offsite retreats and trainings for individuals and teams.Jeaneen’s areas of expertise include leadership for high potentials, executive development, communication, executive presence, conflict management and assimilation. Her industry experience includes Technology, Philanthropic Foundations, Financial Services, Public Utilities and Health Care.Jeaneen Schmidt Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit A World Appears by Michael Pollan Returning the Self to Nature by Jeanine Canty Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

Tina Meyers is a former environmental and social justice attorney turned coach and spiritual warrior.  She coaches high-performing women advocates and leaders, designs and leads feminine leadership programs for nonprofits, and is the founder of Women Advocates Rising and Warrior School. Tina and Nina explored what feminism means to each of them.  They also spoke candidly about what it would be like to live in a world where women were fully empowered to bring their full selves and where leadership was more balanced between the masculine and the feminine.  Nina even learned a new term, spiritual bypassing! Leading through Complexity Peer GroupWarrior School Tina's IGLet's Get Real on Instagram  Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

Anna is a leadership and embodied presence coach, facilitator, and coach educator. She has trained around 1,000 coaches globally and serves as a Faculty at the Co-Active Training Institute. She is the founder of Wholeness in You, where she works with leaders in transformation to develop an embodied leadership presence, so they can lead with clarity, creativity, and power without shutting down.  In this conversation, Nina and Anna explored how:  To Move from a Reactive to a Centered State — We all have a default "reactive" mode driven by old subconscious programming. Anna explains how to recognize when you're in it and how to shift back to your centered state, where your real leadership presence lives.Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Does — The vagus nerve and nervous system are constantly processing information your conscious mind hasn't registered yet. Anna breaks down why embodiment isn't a wellness trend — it's actually a better way to increase your self-awareness.Presence Can't Be Performed — Executive presence isn't about posture or polish. We make the case that authentic presence is energy, and people feel it whether you're trying to project it or not — which means the real work is internal.To learn more about Anna’s work, visit: www.wholenessinu.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annasumara/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wholenessinuNina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In