Tara Mohr – Callings and Communication- Podcast #279
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Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd welcome back Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big and expert on women’s leadership and well-being. Tara explains what a “calling” really means, and she shares how women can communicate more effectively in the workplace and at home. Tara’s book is now in paperback – you can read more about her at taramohr.com.
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Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being, helping women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing forward their ideas in work and in life. She is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks and now in paperback, where she shares her pioneering model for making the journey from playing small–being held back by fear and self-doubt–to playing big, taking bold action to pursue what you see as your callings. Tara is the creator of the Playing Big leadership program for women, which now has more than 1000 graduates from around the world, and creator of the global Playing Big Facilitators Training for coaches, therapists, leadership development professionals and other practitioners supporting women in their personal and professional growth. A Coaches Training Institute-certified coach with an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in English literature from Yale, Tara takes a unique approach that blends inner work and practical skills training. Her work has been featured on national media from the New York Times to Today Show to Harvard Business Review, and has captivated women from all walks of life including Maria Shriver, Jillian Michaels and Elizabeth Gilbert.
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| 0:00.0 | So Tara Sophia Moore is an expert on women's leadership and well-being. |
| 0:07.0 | She's the author of Playing Big, Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message, published by Penguin in October of 2014. |
| 0:13.0 | She's the creator of the acclaimed Playing Big Leadership Program for women, which now has more than a thousand graduates from around the world. |
| 0:25.1 | She lives in San Francisco and loves dance, art, and long walks with her beloved husband, |
| 0:27.5 | son and golden retriever. |
| 0:30.1 | Tara Moore, welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:32.4 | Oh, thanks so much for having me back. |
| 0:34.4 | It's always a pleasure to talk with you guys. |
| 0:36.3 | Yes, we are so excited to have you. And from what I understand, |
| 0:38.4 | playing big is in paperback now, right, Tara? Yeah, it just came out in paperback, which I'm so |
| 0:44.6 | excited about because it's easier for people to hold in their hands and move around life with |
| 0:51.1 | and it has a beautiful new cover that's different from the hard back. And then as an |
| 0:55.3 | author, the paperback launch is really fun in a different way because there's not that time |
| 1:01.8 | crunch rush of the book is first out. So you kind of can do things in a more mellow extended way and |
| 1:09.7 | talk to more niche groups about the book. So I'm really enjoying it. Oh, that's great. And this is |
| 1:15.6 | the second time we've had you on. I'm sure the first time was right after your book was released. And at the |
| 1:21.5 | time you were a new mom and now you have a son who's how old? Yeah, he's going to be two in February. |
| 1:29.3 | Wow. In fact, I was kind of chuckling when you read in the bio, he loves walks with her son because |
| 1:33.6 | when I wrote that, that meant him in the carrier, you know, on my chest. Right. When I wrote that in my |
| 1:39.9 | bio. And now a walk with him looks like, like my blood pressure is at like 250 because I'm |
| 1:47.7 | watching the driveways and the street and what kind of dog is approaching and he's like careening |
| 1:53.2 | all over the place. I think honestly, one of the hardest things about living in San Francisco |
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