446: Abbi Wood: Finding Your Voice Outside of Your Family and Culture

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As a woman and person of color, Abbi Wood has heard more than her fair share of what to say and do in the world. At times a whisper, and at times a yell, she's used her voice to create what she calls a full and fulfilling life. Primarily, she works with biz owners to help them find their voice (or, as she calls it, uncover their biznality) so that marketing and talking about their business feels like a natural extension of themselves vs an out-of-body experience. I reached out to Abbi after hearing her speak at an event. She was there to speak about helping women find their voices in their businesses and brands. But what was so compelling about her talk was her own story about finding her own voice after being silenced by her family, pushed into an arranged marriage, and moving across the world to build a completely new and independent life. Listen in to hear Abbi share: Her experience being raised in Pakistani family in England Her experience feeling like she didn’t fit in anywhere - in her brown family or in her white world How her voice was quieted by her family and culture Her path into an arranged marriage How she ended up secretly on birth control while also in fertility treatment How she got out of her arranged marriage and found her voice How she helps women find their voices, embrace their stories and create their biznality Links mentioned: Connect with Abbi: Abbi Wood Abbi and Biznality on FB Thank you to our sponsor: Best Fiends: Download FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 446 with Abby Wood.
0:05.0	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to
0:08.8	shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 446.
0:17.1	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:19.2	I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:22.6	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:28.7	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.1	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free
0:37.6	private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over
0:42.7	at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
0:53.2	Hello, Mamas. Before we start today, I want to take a moment to honor the deep pain of our
0:58.4	shameless moms of color and especially our black shameless moms. While this pain is not new,
1:04.1	in fact, it has always been present. I know that emotions are extremely raw right now and even
1:08.7	suffocating at times. I'm hearing this from our black shameless moms.
1:12.8	Please know that the shameless mom community sees you and honors you.
1:16.8	And to my white shameless moms,
1:18.6	I want to invite you to sit with me for a moment of silence
1:21.6	to think carefully and critically about how you want to be a better ally.
1:25.4	I know many of you are very uncomfortable right now.
1:28.3	So am I. Our discomfort only points to our privilege because for so many of us, we have not
1:33.5	had to look closely at how we show up for black lives before. During the next 60 seconds, I invite
1:40.0	you to think about how you can show up as the person you want to be for your black brothers
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