Kristina M. Holle is the author of "The Authentic You: Unleash Your Leadership Potential". She is a business leader that has had a career in Human Resources for over 20 years. She has worked in numerous companies and industries focusing her time on strategic and operational HR activities, centering on employee engagement, talent branding, and driving a culture of wellbeing. Nowadays, she's been very focused on helping people to discover their authentic selves. In this episode, we discuss what are the components of authenticity, how to be more authentic, and the shifts in culture that need to occur in organizations.

Highlights & Takeaways

• Authenticity starts with connecting yourself and doing the inner work of examining your past. Can you release the shame of your past stories and own a new narrative where you’re the hero of the story?
• Strategies to do inner work, such as meditation and journaling. Kristina shared an exercise of putting a timer for 5 minutes and just writing about how you’re feeling, without thinking about it or taking your pen off the paper.
• “Authenticity for me is being in a place of truth, love, and joy. So when we're standing in a place of authenticity, that means that you are living in your own personal truth.”
• “E-motion. Energy in motion. Your emotions are energy. If you block your emotions, they get stuck.”
• Kristina says that if you want to make a real impact: “Stop looking externally for all the answers. Take the time to reconnect with yourself. Take the time to know who you are. Accept all of it. Get to the point where you can accept all the parts, the parts that we perceive as broken, the parts that we don't think that are serving as well. I promise you, they are.”

Resources Mentioned

• Contact Kristina: Instagram | Twitter | Website
• The Authentic You

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