The Significance of Staying Authentic in your Business with Erika Gerdes

Mar 18, 2021

Our guest today shares the true meaning and significance of authenticity for individuals in their professional and personal lives.

 

Episode Introduction: 

Erika Gerdes shares her journey of “graduating” from Google to finding her true professional purpose in life. Today, Erika is an authenticity coach who helps several other individuals with the “Art of Undoing”.

 

Episode Summary: 

Erika Gerdes brings us along for the happening journey of her life where she shares several personal details that shaped her into the person she is today. Jam-packed with value and full of fun (and emotional) anecdotes, this episode will have you hooked right from the beginning.

 

Main Takeaways:

• Our jobs don’t hold us from doing what we want to, our mindset does.
• Once you’re honest about your identity, who you are, who you want to be, and what’s holding you back, you can then open yourself up to new meaningful experiences in life.
• It is natural for you to be faced with limiting beliefs that you thought you had put behind you.
• We need to learn to accept our fears without letting it impact our journey.
• Shift your actions from a place or reaction to a place of intention.
• Confidence comes from action.
• Our bodies always give us a sign when there’s something wrong with it.
• Most times we just unconsciously repeat the behaviors that we believed to be necessary for our survival during our identity-forming years.
• Any time that you try to find your happiness other than inside yourself, you’re looking in the wrong place.
• Erika’s step by step guide to step into your most authentic self:

> Awareness - What is it that you’re not facing?

> Ask - What is the story you’re telling yourself?

> Accept - Give yourself space to process.

> Act - From a place of intention.

• The three pillars of trust are Authenticity, Empathy & Logic.

Fun Facts About Erika Gerdes:

• Erika’s favorite book is The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
• A book that really fascinates Erika is Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Find Erika Gerdes:

Website: https://erikagerdes.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ErikaGerdesIntl/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erika_gerdes/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikagerdes/

Get the visual experience, watch the videocast for the episode here: https://youtu.be/cIm9XdI_zxo

 

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