Zaheen Nanji knows about building resilience. She has gone from having a debilitating stutter to speaking on the TEDx Stage and positively impacting thousands of lives. But like most success stories, her journey to becoming a speaker and resilience expert and coach has not been easy. This is a story that involves many challenges, setbacks, and disappointment along the way. And in this episode Zaheen shares the surprising truth about how she finally managed to beat her stutter and overcome her fear of speaking by taking on an unexpected challenge, as well as the most pivotal moment in her life and business that tested her own resilience to its limits.
Highlights
Challenges
My speech impediment. I stuttered and when someone stutters they have a really hard time forming an opinion or they just avoid taking risks when it comes to speaking.
I think the biggest challenge is understanding that change happens. You have to take the initiative, the business is not going to come to me. We have to have a system in place.
When I started my speaking business I just thought that clients would come to me because I had a website, but that’s not true, you have to make those cold calls, you have to send those emails and let them know what you do.
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Words of wisdom
On making change
You have a choice you can stay where you are or you can take some action and move forwards.
On getting started and succeeding
Have a strong why, why are you doing what you’re doing?
Look at your supportive network or other people in the industry that you’re in and see what they’re doing because you may not be doing something that could be helping you now.
