In this episode of The BraveHearted Woman Podcast, I am joined by Kamini Wood, a certified life coach who focuses on helping high achievers heal their relationships and become resilient self-leaders.

Kamini shares her journey, growing up in a predominantly white town in Connecticut as a member of an Indian family, which shaped her into a people-pleaser and perfectionist. Her upbringing further reinforced these tendencies as a caretaker and high achiever. Kamini explains how she recognized these patterns in her children and underwent a self-transformation to address them.

Professionally, she realized her passion for helping others grow and evolve, leading her to become a life coach specializing in areas like overcoming perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and self-sabotage. Kamini emphasizes the importance of self-compassion, understanding underlying narratives behind behaviors, and taking values-based actions.

Kamini also discusses the significance of embracing her Indian heritage and how it enriched her identity, which she aims to pass on to her children. Tune to this week’s episode and discover how Kamini encourages women to ask themselves what they truly need and take steps towards living authentically!

Timestamps:

0:00 - Guest Intro

1:36 - Kamini’s journey growing up as a people pleaser and perfectionist

4:01 - The impact of perfectionism in one’s life

7:33 - How Kamini transitioned her career to being a life coach

9:48 - How Kamini balances her personal and professional life

12:27 - What is the truth about self-sabotage?

17:56 - Kamini’s POV about anxiety, trauma, and imposter syndrome.

20:18 - How to embrace uniqueness

22:46 - Kamini’s #1 tip to midlife women

Quotations:

"It’s not always about getting rid of things. It’s about how you learn to either live with it or find that relationship with those things." - Kamini Wood

"If we look at just the human race, yes, we're all human beings, but we all have a unique quality. There’s one message that I’d love for people to hear it’s, Hey, your uniqueness is actually the gift that this world needs." - Kamini Wood

"I think the one thing that I would say is that with self-sabotage, people will constantly say, I want to stop self-sabotaging if we want to stop something instead of just, we would have stopped it already if we could, right? So the idea, it's a shift. Okay. I'm noticing the self-sabotage isn't serving me. So if I got curious about the self-sabotage, what's behind it, right?" - Kamini Wood

Resources:

🎁 FREE GIFT Ignite Your Confidence and Soar With Self-esteem: https://www.braveheartedwoman.com/ignite_your_confidence_ebook

🌐Connect with Kamini at kaminiwood.com; Facebook and Instagram

📚 Get a copy of Dawn’s NEW book - The Making of a BraveHearted Woman: Courage, Confidence, and Vision in Midlife: