81. Emotions, Mother-Daughter Relationships & Feminine Leadership with Genoveva La Placa

About this episode

The episode explores the role of emotional intelligence in leadership and relationships, featuring a conversation with Genoveva La Placa on feminine leadership and the impact of mother-daughter patterns.

Emotional intelligence shapes far more than we realize, from how we lead in business to how we relate to the people closest to us. In this episode, Samantha sits down with speaker, executive coach, and CoLab founder Genoveva La Placa to explore the deeper role emotions play in leadership, relationships, and self-awareness. Genoveva shares her journey from CFO of a half-billion-dollar hedge fund to becoming a speaker who helps women understand emotions as messengers instead of problems to fix. Their conversation explores the connection between emotions and the body, why many women are conditioned to suppress what they feel, and how becoming more aware of our emotional landscape can change the way we make decisions in business and life. They also touch on feminine leadership, intuition, and the powerful influence of mother-daughter patterns that can quietly shape how we show up in the world. This episode invites you to rethink emotions... not as something to control or fix, but as something that may have something important to say. In this episode: Why emotional intelligence is one of the strongest predictors of leadership success The connection between emotions, the body, and…

People in this episode

Host: Samantha Fackler

Guest: Genoveva La Placa

Topics covered

• emotional intelligence
• leadership
• mother-daughter relationships
• feminine leadership
• self-awareness
• decision-making

Keywords

• emotional intelligence
• leadership success
• feminine leadership
• self-worth
• decision-making
• mother-daughter patterns
• emotions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CoLab

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