About this episode

Tina Tower interviews Cherie Canning about her journey into entrepreneurship and the principles of self-leadership.

Tina Tower welcomes leadership expert Cherie Canning (Luminate Leadership, Lead with Courage podcast) and shares how they first connected through social media and met in person at Christine Cochran's event. Cherie explains how her dad's coaching and her school leadership roles shaped her early view of leadership, then how being made redundant from Flight Centre during COVID pushed her into starting her own business despite never planning to be an entrepreneur. She describes her runway planning, building a workshop-and-speaking-centered business model, adding a podcast to build trust, and the mindset shift of pricing and selling "you." The conversation focuses on self-leadership, human-centered leadership as connection (within, with others, and with awe), sustainable success through planned breaks and intentional energy deposits, and Cherie's current goals of higher revenue/profit and more stage speaking, including her Ignite Women in Leadership conference on 13 November. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 00:49 Consistency on Social Media 02:00 Meet Cherie Canning 03:39 Early Leadership Roots 05:03 Redundancy to Reinvention 06:31 Taking the Entrepreneur Leap 11:16 Building Luminate…

People in this episode

Host: Tina Tower

Guest: Cherie Canning

Topics covered

• self-leadership
• human-centered leadership
• entrepreneurship
• sustainable success
• mindset shift
• workshop and speaking business model

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Luminate Leadership, Lead with Courage podcast, Flight Centre

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