661: Shari Leid: Identity Through Adoption, Internment, Career & Cancer

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Former litigator Shari Leid currently operates An Imperfectly Perfect Life, LLC, a professional mindset coaching business serving clients who are in those tricky middle age years, helping them create the life of their dreams. She is the author of the Friendship Flow transformational book series, which includes The 50/50 Friendship Flow: Life Lessons From and For My Girlfriends and Make Your Mess Your Message - More Life Lessons From and For My Girlfriends. Shari’s life has been an incredible journey of identity shifting and identity shaping events that have led her to such a beautiful place of honoring who she is and how she wants to show up in the world and share her life with other women. Listen in to hear Shari share: Her story of being adopted from Seoul Korea in 1970 in the first wave of international adoptions by Japanese American parents who were interned during WWII Her parent’s memories of living and working in internment camps The impacts of her parent’s internment on her upbringing How she ended up growing her family by 2 children in less than one year How adopting her daughter brought her full circle in seeing her own adoption journey Her massive shift in identity when she left a career as a litigating attorney to become a stay at home mom - and the major struggle to maintain her sense of self The impact of her physical sense of self as she had double hip replacement from hip dysplasia and double mastectomy after a breast cancer diagnosis Links mentioned: Connect with Shari: animperfectlyperfectlife.com Shari on LinkedIn Shari on IG Shari on FB Shari on YouTube Shari on TikTok Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 661 with Sherry Lead.
0:05.9	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode,
0:09.0	can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 661.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:20.2	I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:23.6	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:29.7	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:35.1	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free
0:38.6	private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at
0:44.1	shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
0:53.8	Former litigator Sherry Lead currently operates an imperfectly perfect life a professional mindset
1:00.0	coaching business serving clients who are in those tricky middle age years helping them create
1:05.2	the life of their dreams she is the author of the friendship flow transformational book series
1:10.6	which includes the 50-50
1:12.3	friendship flow, life lessons from and for my girlfriends, and make your message more life
1:19.1	lessons from and for my girlfriends.
1:21.7	Oh my goodness.
1:22.5	We dug into so many things in this conversation.
1:25.1	I am so incredibly grateful for the work that Sherry's doing
1:27.9	for the way she shows up in the world, the way she connects with other women. Oh my gosh, the way
1:32.8	she transparently shares her stories and her journeys and just so many things. We could have
1:37.8	talked for hours. I know you're going to find her inspiring and uplifting and you're going to want
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