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Sherry Welsh: The Trust Model

April 16, 2018 By Arminda

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I got so much out of my conversation with Sherry Welsh, author of Slowing Down: Unexpected Ways to Thrive as a Female Leader, and leadership coach.

Discussing Sherry’s Trust Model illuminated for me a powerful trifecta between integrity, transparency and communication, and seeing more clearly how loss of personal power is directly linked to lack of trust. Here are links to two additional conversations Sherry’s recorded to further illustrate How to Make the Trust Model Work for You and How to Build Trust in Your Relationships.

We referenced Byron Katie’s Judge Your Neighbor worksheets we both love using and you can access them for free, as well!

Thank you, Sherry, for the reminder that I am enough right now and I have everything I need to be powerful today.

Sherry Welsh Bio

Sherry started out with an education in Engineering. Although she didn’t quite know what to do with it, it gave her the technical background to begin a 25 year career in manufacturing. With the introductory job in Southampton, PA, the experience she gained in that first year landed her on the path of a 20-year career with Robert Bosch, GmbH. She moved through plants, corporate offices in Germany and the U.S. and ultimately landed in Michigan where she lived for 20 years prior to landing back home in Charleston, SC. When she left Bosch, she was one of the few women who were in the executive ranks. She was lured away from Bosch to another automotive supplier to be the head of the Global Sales organization responsible for $3 Billion in Sales. Although the future seemed bright there, the great recession of 2008 came along and knocked her out of the game… temporarily. As a single mom, unemployed in Detroit, Michigan, in one of the greatest recessions of all time, the future seemed bleak. It was in that time, Sherry was able to slow down, set up a consulting practice, and use the skills she had developed over the years as a leader. In that year of consultant work, Sherry discovered her love for coaching and mentoring. Another company came along, a British Cosmetic packaging company that invited her into a 2-year stint as a Global Sales leader. Sherry worked with colleagues around the world again and loved the team she was developing and leading in Paris, Amsterdam, Brazil, New York and Chicago, to name a few locations. Working with customers like Chanel, Christian Dior, and LÓreal was a dream! But due to the nature of the location, every week she was on an airplane, at a different hotel, in a different city. Despite her love for travel, this way of life, disconnected from others, while being a single mom, was exhausting. That’s when the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) popped up on the radar! It was exactly what Sherry loved most about working with the multicultural teams she had around the world… inspiring them and coaching them to be their best! Although she no longer belongs to any one corporation, as an independent professional coach, Sherry now works with clients around the world to help them discover and bring into all aspects of their life their innate leadership abilities. She continues to travel and co-parent her incredible son… but more relaxed, with more humor, and an open mind full of possibility.

Enjoy this episode of The All Arminda Show!

Filed Under: All Arminda Show, Radio Show, The All Arminda Show Tagged With: leadership, power, powerful woman, Sherry Welsh, trust, women in power

Decision Making

February 26, 2016 By Arminda

Do you believe your “decision maker” is broken?

When you don’t trust yourself to make decisions, you aren’t making any decisions because you’re not willing to make a choice for fear of risking making the wrong choice.

Full stop.

No decision is final and when you watch this video I’ll provide you with some different perspective on all the choices we get to make along the journey.

Filed Under: Ask Arminda Videos, Video Shows Tagged With: adventure, be in action, choices, decide, decisions, failure, fear, fear of failure, self trust, trust

Rear View Driving

December 7, 2015 By Arminda

Rear View Driving

Have you ever put your car in gear and then driven to your destination by looking in the rear view mirror?

How did that work out for you?

Seems ludicrous, doesn’t it? No one could do that and keep the car on the road, ensure the safety of themselves, any passengers, or the vehicle, let alone cover any significant distance and arrive at a desired destination.

We have a tendency to steer our lives, our jobs, our relationships, and our dreams by looking backwards at what we (and others) have done in the past.

That rear view steering can look like:

  • Not trusting ourselves to make better decisions
  • Being afraid to risk anything
  • Never speaking up for ourselves
  • Not applying for a different position
  • Feeling resigned with how things are
  • Staying in relationships that don’t serve us
  • Thinking good things happen to other people
  • Assuming you don’t deserve the assignment/project
  • Resenting management for overlooking you
  • Believing you’re just not loveable or worthy

Much like it’s absurd to drive a car looking behind you, it’s equally dangerous to navigate your life based on events from your past.

The only thing the past provides is the journey that brought you here. Because wherever you are is only ever now.

When you strap the seatbelt across your chest and secure it, what do you see through the vast wonderful windshield of your life?

Where would you like to go, irrespective of where you’ve been?

Start driving.

Filed Under: Blog, Weekly Wisdom, Writing Tagged With: driving, life choices, live your life, navigate life, steering, trust

Trust the Bus

August 17, 2015 By Arminda

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My friend Marielle introduced me to an experience I’ll never forget.

Together we boarded a repurposed school bus in a small country town late one Saturday night. No money was asked of our participation; this would be a free ride. The bus was completely packed with people AND there was a caravan of vehicles following behind because there wasn’t enough space for everyone who wanted a seat.

What transpired over the next two hours I could never have anticipated and I’m not sure I can — or want to try to — explain to you what happened.

Perhaps what I experienced is irrelevant.

And yet I never would have had the experience if I hadn’t gotten on the bus. Oversimplification? No.

We don’t have to know where the bus is heading to take the ride.

We don’t even have to know who else is on the bus.

My experience on the bus wasn’t identical (or probably even similar) to Marielle’s or to anyone else’s riding the bus. It was only my experience being created.

The adventure is made in the taking of it.

We can’t have an adventure we’re not willing to take.

You can’t create an adventure if you’re not along for the ride.

Be in action in your life.

Get on the bus.

Just go.

Trust the bus and test the experience.

p.s. — if you had a previous ride that didn’t create the experience you thought it would, don’t allow that non-existent past be the reason you never get on another bus to test a new adventure.

Filed Under: Blog, Happiness, Weekly Wisdom, Writing Tagged With: adventure, be in action, experience, live your life, test, trust

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