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It's the Velvet's Edge podcast with Kelly Henderson.

Amina Altai is a leading holistic business and career coach who has worked with companies like Google, Deloitte, and Roku, and more.

She's here today to share her expertise on creating a new paradigm of

success and satisfaction with us. I'm so excited about this. Hi, Amina. Hi, thank you so much for

having me. So I was telling you before the podcast, as we wrap up 2024, I find that I'm always

looking back, kind of, you know, you're reevaluating. You don't always have time

to do that during the year. And so it seems like December is kind of the time where we look back

on the last year and go, what did I like? What didn't I like? And obviously like career and

business and all of that really comes into play here a lot. And I know a lot of us are also feeling tired at the end of the

year. There's the burnout. So I want to touch on all those topics. But if people are looking back

at their year and they're thinking, God, I really kind of messed that part up. I found it really

interesting in your work that you say fail fast and often. And that's actually a key to

a successful business life. So what do you mean by that? Fail fast and fail often. So I also

love to invite people into celebrations too because our brains evolved with the negativity bias. So it's

way easier for our brains to hyper focus on the negative than it is to find the positive. So we may

be arriving

at the end of the year and think, oh, well, I missed the mark there. But chances are you probably

did a lot of good too. So the first thing I always invite people to think about before they even

start to think about the next year is celebrating where you really brought it this year.

Because celebrations are so important. and it boosts mood and dopamine

and creativity and all the things. But so few of us actually start in the celebration space.

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