Transformation and Reinvention with Arlene Dickinson
At Home with Linda & Drew Scott
Drew Scott
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’ve been fans of today’s guest for a long, long time! Arlene Dickinson is a fellow Canadian, philanthropist, entrepreneur, mom, best-selling author and widely known for her role as a Dragon (yes, a dragon!) on the award-winning television series Dragons’ Den.
Arlene joins us to chat about her transformation story - what led her to reinvent herself.
She shares her own experience with anxiety, how her perception of it shifted and how her children helped her through it.
She talks about her passion in supporting communities especially in the areas of food access and equity.
Connect with Arlene:
Listen to her podcast, Reinvention
https://arlenedickinson.com/podcast/
Read her book about Reinvention
https://arlenedickinson.com/books/
In Reinvention, Dickinson shares this blueprint for locating your sense of purpose, realistically evaluating your strengths, assessing opportunities outside your comfort zone, and charting a bold new path. Whether you have a big career dream to achieve, or you need to rebuild after a personal setback, this step-by-step plan for reinvention will help you change your own life—for the better.
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| 0:00.0 | That moment I always talked about this, that my dad gave me a hand up instead of a hand out. |
| 0:04.4 | He instill confidence in me that I needed to go and reinvent myself as somebody who was a victim, |
| 0:10.7 | somebody who was in charge. |
| 0:12.1 | And that was the start of my, that was my very first reinvention. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to At Home with Linda and Drew Scott. |
| 0:20.6 | This is a show where we're chatting with artists, experts, dreamers, and doers about what makes us feel most at home. Your yellow sweater makes me feel most at home. And me wearing your sweaters makes me feel at home. And what else makes me feel at home? My sweater matches your blanket. I know. We did this purposefully. |
| 0:38.6 | Be aware if you have kids. |
| 0:41.5 | This episode may have a bit of body language. |
| 0:45.1 | And there may be a swear word or two, but nothing too big. |
| 0:47.3 | This is at home. |
| 0:53.5 | You look lovely in that sweat. |
| 0:57.7 | I was going to say at the beginning, Hello Yellow. |
| 0:59.8 | You call me Hello Yellow. |
| 1:02.8 | All right, right. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm ready. |
| 1:05.2 | We've already started. |
| 1:06.1 | Oh, have we? |
| 1:06.5 | Okay. |
| 1:08.3 | So much happening in this week. |
| 1:10.5 | And by that, I mean, man, I have had some killer indigestion |
| 1:13.7 | And it's not going away |
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