Episode 34
Womanhood Wonderland - Remastered | LAYC34
Alice in Wonderland isn’t the only one having trouble fitting into her circumstances and environment frequently.
As a woman, evolving, transforming, and growing to fit the part for my next stage of life, business idea, personal reinvention or relationship change, I think I could write a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s story and title it “Womanhood Wonderland”.
My story isn’t finished so I hope you’ll stay in touch to see how I turn out!
I’d like to hear your stories about the adventures you’ve had as you embraced transformation!
About the Host:
Isabel Banerjee
Your Next Business Strategist and Transformation Catalyst
Dynamic, a self-made entrepreneur who overcame obstacles with an unrelenting positive nature, a farm girl work ethic, and a conscious choice to thrive rather than survive, Isabel Alexander Banerjee cultivated an award-winning, $10 million+ global chemical business and grew it from dining room table to international boardrooms.
Isabel’s strengths include the ability to initiate & nurture strategic relationships, a love of lifelong learning and talents for helping others maximize their potential. An inspiring speaker within both industry and community, she is a driving force behind those with the courage to follow her example of thriving against the odds.
With 50+ years of business experience across diverse industries, Isabel is respected as an advisor, a coach, a mentor, and a role model. She believes in sharing collective wisdom and empowering others to economic independence.
Founder of the Lift As You Climb Movement (www.facebook.com/groups/liftasyouclimbmovement)
and
Chief Encore Officer, The Encore Catalyst (www.theencorecatalyst.com) – an accelerator for feminine wisdom, influence, and impact.
also
Author & Speaker ‘Who Am I Now? – Feminine Wisdom Unmasked Uncensored’ (www.IsabelBanerjee.com)
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/isabelalexanderbanerjee/
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Transcript
Welcome back my friends.
Speaker:So happy to have you here to help me celebrate the end of summer 2021.
Speaker:We are just about at the end of the month of August, and to welcome in September...
Speaker:A new season on the calendar, and a new season in our
Speaker:lives, as evolutionary women.
Speaker:We're also here today to celebrate and commemorate...
Speaker:National Women's Equality Day in the United States.
Speaker:Today is the day, officially...
Speaker:The political boys said...
Speaker:Okay...
Speaker:You're right.
Speaker:We'd be better off...
Speaker:If you all had a say in the laws that govern this country,
Speaker:and laws that govern your life.
Speaker:Disturbing for me is to think...
Speaker:Oh my gosh, it's only just about a hundred years ago, that
Speaker:women had the right to vote.
Speaker:So what does that mean?
Speaker:What does it mean the right to vote?...
Speaker:It means a great deal for many people...
Speaker:I'm certainly not a political commentator, but for me...
Speaker:Equality means economic autonomy.
Speaker:Economic autonomy that women everywhere in the world should have.
Speaker:Because it makes sense.
Speaker:It has been proven, that as women...
Speaker:When we have the power to be economically autonomous...
Speaker:Good things happen not only within our own families, but in our communities...
Speaker:And that radiates out and ripples through countries and continents.
Speaker:It connects women and people around the world, in a better productive way.
Speaker:So let's recognize that it's a responsibility and a privilege to vote.
Speaker:And celebrate together.
Speaker:To continue our celebration...
Speaker:We're going to offer to you today, a remastered, rejuvenated
Speaker:version of episode 4...
Speaker:Womanhood Wonderland.
Speaker:I hope you enjoy.
Speaker:I'll be back with our regular program starting in September.
Speaker:Hello again, everyone!
Speaker:Today, I'd like the opportunity to talk with you about a place that you may
Speaker:have visited, or if you're like me...
Speaker:I seem to frequent this location a lot...
Speaker:Coming back again and again...
Speaker:To revisit the very interesting environment of Womanhood Wonderland.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:It's not just Alice that went to Wonderland.
Speaker:I do it regularly....
Speaker:If the truth be told, I bet you, you do as well.
Speaker:It's the interesting thing about our life as evolutionary women, women who continue
Speaker:to evolve and transform and grow...
Speaker:And find ourselves faced with making choices to do, to be, to change things up.
Speaker:That the landscape, the environment that we are in each time we make a decision
Speaker:to expand our life and our experience...
Speaker:Is a wild and wonderful place.
Speaker:And at some times, it's a weary place...
Speaker:And other times it's a scary place.
Speaker:Womanhood Wonderland.
Speaker:I think back to Lewis Carroll's story with Alice in Wonderland and
Speaker:really how much I can relate to her as a character and her experiences.
Speaker:Always throughout my life, I felt like I was falling...
Speaker:Free, falling into some thing, that was adventurous and scary and unknown.
Speaker:So very frequently and still to this very day...
Speaker:That I am not fitting in quite right where I am at the moment.
Speaker:I'm always being challenged to either shrink or grow, or I'm expanding
Speaker:to exceed the space that I am in.
Speaker:That's part of this magic of Womanhood Wonderland that we do.
Speaker:We morph and change, and alter, all of the time.
Speaker:If we choose.
Speaker:Or if we don't choose, then we could sit around like that toadstool and just...
Speaker:Smoke those hookah pipes.
Speaker:But...
Speaker:Really, I feel that the adventure as fearful as it is...
Speaker:Is a far a better option for me anyway...
Speaker:Than living a life of safety, contraction, and wondering...
Speaker:What if?...
Speaker:I had done that?...
Speaker:Or tried that?...
Speaker:Most recently, I have just gone through a brand new experience,
Speaker:yet again, in my life...
Speaker:When you thought I couldn't figure out something new to try or, to become.
Speaker:After all, I am the author of Who Am I Now?...
Speaker:So that I...
Speaker:I live up to my book title.
Speaker:Not to disappoint...
Speaker:Recently my new experience was...
Speaker:Learning the online world and terminology, and technology, and lingo of the
Speaker:online summit, or the summit launch.
Speaker:Which is a method for reaching more customers with your product or service...
Speaker:By creating these large summits with speakers...
Speaker:Could be a couple, could be thousands.
Speaker:And having them come together with their expertise to speak on your platform.
Speaker:Well, you know, it all sounds in concept, pretty straightforward.
Speaker:Just follow the instructions.
Speaker:But what I have found is that there's a lot that you only
Speaker:find out by living through it.
Speaker:Not everything is sequential in process.
Speaker:And not everything is going to perform the way it's supposed to.
Speaker:For example...
Speaker:Just this morning, I was supposed to get an automated sequence of emails
Speaker:going out to the people on my list...
Speaker:To let them know that I was going to be hosting a free
Speaker:Retreat and Mastermind Series.
Speaker:And I was letting my people know...
Speaker:Wanting to share a little bit about what that might mean for them...
Speaker:And to invite them to register, get the zoom link, and show
Speaker:up and participate live...
Speaker:As live as we can today on zoom, or watch the replay later.
Speaker:Well guess what Alice happened...
Speaker:This very day, when all of that automation was supposed to take place...
Speaker:My service provider had a major technical failure...
Speaker:And all of those automations, at least for many clients, did
Speaker:not happen as they should have.
Speaker:And in fact, there's still a whole spaghetti mess going on behind the scenes.
Speaker:Frankly, I just thought...
Speaker:What can I do?
Speaker:What can I do about this?...
Speaker:Except say it's part of the learning process.
Speaker:I will be adding to my vault of tacit knowledge and wisdom.
Speaker:What do you do when technology fails you?
Speaker:How do you...
Speaker:Go to plan B, C, D, or E?...
Speaker:And carry on, with a smile, and with confidence...
Speaker:That you're still giving value in the world.
Speaker:Just not quite at the time or in the way that you anticipated.
Speaker:My friend, Jackie Ulmer says life is 50/50...
Speaker:That things aren't always happening TO you...
Speaker:Often you can look at the other side of the looking glass...
Speaker:Dear Alice...
Speaker:And say, Hmm...
Speaker:Maybe this is happening FOR me.
Speaker:So I'm trying very hard to hold on to that positive side, and look at
Speaker:the reflection that will come from this experience that I will now know.
Speaker:Oh yeah....
Speaker:Well, first of all, it doesn't work Isabel...
Speaker:To always do things at the last minute.
Speaker:As much as you are a spontaneous lover of life...
Speaker:And that you are the quintessential quickstart entrepreneur...
Speaker:Having your system and process set up with a little more slack in the
Speaker:timeline, is an advisable idea.
Speaker:Yes dear Alice...
Speaker:Much like the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland...
Speaker:The truth be known this morning I was saying some really bad words about
Speaker:people out there in the URL land...
Speaker:And wanted to go...
Speaker:Off with their heads!
Speaker:Because they were not letting me get what I needed to get done in
Speaker:the manner that I wanted to do it.
Speaker:So what's a girl to do if she doesn't have a rabbit around with the pocket watch...
Speaker:To keep track of the time that is elapsing while the retreat
Speaker:that I had planned to host...
Speaker:Tomorrow morning...
Speaker:On a global scale...
Speaker:May now have to be rescheduled...
Speaker:or I'll just go ahead with the adventure in my own little imagination in my
Speaker:rabbit hole and things will turn out the way that they were meant to be...
Speaker:After all...
Speaker:We never really do know the end of the story...
Speaker:Until we get to that last page.
Speaker:Even more reassuring for me, is knowing now...
Speaker:After living this long in my crazy world...
Speaker:That I get to write a new chapter...
Speaker:Every time I want to.
Speaker:If this first Retreat was much different than I expected...
Speaker:It's okay...
Speaker:I'm going to call that my practice retreat, and I get to do a second, and
Speaker:a third, and a fourth, and a 1001th...
Speaker:If I choose to do so.
Speaker:What I can do within my control, is show up for this retreat, with all
Speaker:of the intention that I first had...
Speaker:And that is to share as a much of my wisdom and value as I can to my audience.
Speaker:And really.
Speaker:that's all we really can ask of ourselves.
Speaker:Isn't it?
Speaker:I know it's difficult, as an entrepreneur, as a woman, as a femmepreneur...
Speaker:We want to be perfect.
Speaker:We want everything to work out correctly.
Speaker:But I recently heard a suggestion from another colleague of mine,
Speaker:an accountability partner in a class that I'm taking...
Speaker:That it's far better for us to exchange the word perfect for the word excellent,
Speaker:in our attempt to learn new things.
Speaker:And so that's what I'm going to do...
Speaker:This isn't going to be perfect.
Speaker:I'm sure.
Speaker:But, it will be excellent to the extent that I deliver enthusiastically,
Speaker:and stay committed to the original purpose of the event...
Speaker:And that was to help women entrepreneurs understand truly
Speaker:why most of us underpay ourselves.
Speaker:What's the motive behind that?
Speaker:What's the mindset?
Speaker:Then to share the strategies and the tools that I have learned, as an
Speaker:entrepreneur for many, many decades.
Speaker:I'll make sure that I include the information here with the podcast, on...
Speaker:Well really...
Speaker:What happened with that Retreat and where you might find the recording...
Speaker:So that you can see how Alice did after the tea party...
Speaker:The recording.
Speaker:For now, I wish you great adventures, and know that...
Speaker:You're not the only one that's feeling kind of mad...
Speaker:When you are trying to accomplish something new.
Speaker:Do it anyway.
Speaker:Do it with fear...
Speaker:And do it with a sense of humor.
Speaker:There will be a happy ending, I promise you.
