Lessons in Life and Leadership from a Cooking School with Makenna Held
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, author, entrepreneur, & leadership coach, Makenna Held talks us through some of her most life changing experiences and lessons learned as well as a deeper look into how she went from working in a tech company to starting many businesses and becoming a leadership coach. Moreover, Makenna uncovers what she learned from being diagnosed with melanoma, how she changed the story of her life and then went on to buying the former summer home of Julia Child, from which she runs a cooking school in the South of France.
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| 0:00.0 | we can talk about all these things and hold all these things lightly and that ultimately they're all just things that happen to us. |
| 0:08.0 | They are not us. |
| 0:10.0 | And realizing that that like the cancer was not me but it was of me right and that the piece of flesh they took out of me was not me but it was a piece me, and the piece it kind of took the blip it created in my life. |
| 0:26.5 | This whole year that really was a terrible year |
| 0:31.6 | was also not of me. |
| 0:33.6 | It was just a piece of my fabric, so to speak. |
| 0:37.4 | And that ability to kind of back up and look at that from afar |
| 0:40.5 | really helped because being up close and staring at it in the face wasn't helping |
| 0:45.0 | anymore. It wasn't productive. It wasn't nourishing. It wasn't any of those things that coaches |
| 0:50.6 | tell you your life should look like. I didn't have a coach back then. I was just |
| 0:53.4 | that didn't feel good. I was just spending all this time being in the inertia of I had been sick and my life was derailed and I got |
| 1:01.1 | kind of bored with listening to that story. |
| 1:04.0 | And that made me step back and go, well, what story can I have instead? I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window |
| 1:17.2 | into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started |
| 1:21.2 | movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
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| 1:57.0 | McKenna, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. |
| 2:02.0 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
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