In this episode we dive into Sonia Sheechoria's journey from a career professional to a small business owner and a career coach. Learn about how the negative advice of a professor that she looked up to weighed on her and slowed her down. Once she learned to listen to her gut, everything changed.

Sonia Sheechoria, MLCE, CFRE is a community engagement and fundraising professional with 8 years experience in the nonprofit and public sector. With an Undergrad in Human Resources Management and having navigated a successful career from Assistant, Coordinator, Officer, Manager and Director, Sonia now works as a Career Coach to support others in leveling up their career. 

Meet Shallima Maharaj, Reporter and Anchor for Global News who shares her career and personal journey through doubt and challenges as she travelled across Canada exploring her potential.

Shallima Maharaj is an award-winning journalist with Global Toronto. She joined the team in 2017, after reporting extensively throughout western Canada.

She has provided comprehensive pandemic news coverage over the past two years on equitable vaccine distribution, urgent calls for paid sick leave, combatting misinformation, and hospitals pushed to the brink by mounting COVID-19 cases.

Shallima has covered a diverse range of stories across the country.

She has been a key part of live federal and provincial election coverage, and other major news events.

On the What Are You Driven By podcast, we are ultimately seeking to understand how we can identify what our purpose is / what we are driven by, and improve the quality of our lives by prioritizing purpose and growth. On the WAYDB podcast, we explore different topics related to motivation, to personal development, and what it takes to live a fulfilling life and a life of purpose.

Drew K. Curry is a goal-setting strategist that's obsessed with helping ambitious women of faith plan, prepare and execute their abundant life. Drew says, "Understanding my definition of abundance and identifying what was keeping me stuck with a "scarcity mindset" has given me the opportunity to educate over 1,500 students & coach dozens of professional women. I am on a mission to help more women of faith experience the abundant life by teaching them how to gain more clarity and establish a clear vision."

Connect With Her:

Instagram: @drew_khriston

website: www.drewkhriston.com

email: drewkcurry@gmail.com

Hazel is the founder of Big Girl Interrupted (BGI). Hazel is a life and vision board coach who also has over 25 years in the education and the social service sector. 

Hazel is dedicated to inspiring women to uncover what is interrupting their life’s. Hazel and her team empower women to disrupt the patterns that have impaired their ability to achieve and grow. They help women to learn to stand in their power, by discovering who they are.

Hazel’s own experiences with interruptions in her life is why she created BGI, 

because she herself has had many different interruptions in her life such as, learning to be a mother at 16 years old, learning to develop a healthy relationship with money, and living with a non-visible disability. Hazel understands firsthand how difficult it can be to get back on track after experiencing an interruption in her life. 

Hazel helps you understand and create the vision you want to see, live and achieve for yourself with the tool of a vision board to help you create your roadmap to success. 

Instagram: @biggirlinterrupted

Tik Tok:@biggirlinterrupted

Twitter: Biggirl2018

Linkedin: biggirlinterrupted

Email: info@biggirlinterrupted.ca 

In this episode we talk about what it means to take risks in order to pursue your goals and dreams in addition to the challenges that you might face along the way.

Jesse Read is the Founder of Dropout Entertainment, a creative hub for music artists in Canada. Dropout Entertainment offers videography, photography, writing, editing, design and merchandising to artists of all sizes across Canada. Whether you’re a budding artist gearing up to release your first single or a multi-platinum sensation seeking cutting-edge content, we’ve got you covered across the artistic spectrum. https://dropoutentertainment.ca/

A deep conversation about leadership with a military veteran, mother and coach, Delisa Abraham.

In this episode we talk about how discouraging failure can be especially when it starts to pile up all at the same time. This episode is a reminder that failure can be valuable as long as we have gather the insights and learned the lessons that failure teaches us. We make failure valuable by being able to explain WHY a strategy did not work.

In this episode we look at 5 key traits of perfectionism to help you determine if you display any perfectionist tendencies. Perfectionists are overly critical, focus only on results, have a fear of failure, procrastinate and get defensive.

In this episode, we explore ways to build confidence. We talk about 3 things we should stop doing that are actually killing our confidence: over-apologizing, overuse of filler words, disrespecting your time. In order to build confidence we need to develop the right mindset and practice the activities that we are not confident at. Redefine yourself and take action. Confidence is practice and repetition.

In this episode we talk about what motivation means to us and reasons our January motivation dwindles throughout the year. As a bonus we spoke to high-performing business owners and members of the DRIVEN Community to find out what strategies they use to boost their motivation.

This episode discusses the how neuro-associations or our mental links between our experiences and our emotions guide our behaviour.

In this episode we discuss 15 of the 30 Major Causes of Failure from Napoleon Hill's classic novel Think and Grow Rich. We dive into many insights that could be preventing you from succeeding.

In this episode we discuss 15 of the 30 Major Causes of Failure from Napoleon Hill's classic novel Think and Grow Rich. We dive into many insights that could be preventing you from succeeding.

In this episode we take a practical look at motivation, discussing the differences between internal and external motivation and when they can be used to get the job done! Regardless of internal or external motivation, sometimes its commitment that we need to bridge the gap.

Most people don't achieve their goals because they focus more on the results than on the habits that get them to where they want to go. Does that sound like you? It's time to think about your habits and the future that they are creating.

Most people don't achieve their goals because they focus more on the results than on the habits that get them to where they want to go. Does that sound like you? It's time to think about your habits and the future that they are creating.

We all go through painful experiences in our lives, but do we truly understand how they impact us and the consequences of not dealing with those negative emotions? Do we truly realize what we can learn from those experiences and how they can give us purpose? Let's explore in this episode of the WAYDB podcast.

In this episode we introduce the WAYDB podcast and what we are aiming to accomplish. We quickly learn that for our wellbeing, happiness and fulfillment, it is essential to live a life of purpose and meaning. When we live according to what our purpose is, when we tap into what we are Driven By…, we feel valuable, adequately challenged and satisfied. So let's explore, What Are You Driven By?