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For many young people, arriving at a point where they want to embrace leading, the verb wholeheartedly, with open arms is often a challenge. In this episode, Meenakshi Arundhati, Editor and Production coordinator of the Women Emerging Podcast is looking back at has 9 clips from 9 episodes this year, that helped her grow into her own leading. It is an episode that attempts to stitch together the voices of women from varied life and leading experiences, as they share what has helped them lead, and learning to claim the verb leading, making is their own.

This episode is Meena’s farewell to her time at Women Emerging as she moves back to the studio to pursue her love for acting.

The following episodes are featured in order of appearance:

Find the bathroom with Chmba Ellen Chilemba
How to Release Energy with Valérie Lucq
How to Lead Disruptors with Veerle Simoens
How Trauma Shapes Leading with Chadia El Meouchi
How Energy Unblocks Leading with Puri Canals
How to Build a Fluid Team with Jeta Bejtullahu
How to Delegate with Katy Barrow-Grint
How to Reverse a Decision with Stefanie McCollum
Insights from the Pakistan expedition with Simi Kamal

About the Guests

Meenakshi Arundhati

Meenakshi Arundhati, Editor and Production coordinator of the Women Emerging Podcast.

About the Host

Julia Middleton

Julia Middleton is the host of the Women Emerging podcast and a best-selling author of “If that’s leading, I’m in” as well as two previous books: “Leading beyond Authority” and “Cultural Intelligence”. She is deeply committed to helping people from all backgrounds to find their own approach to leading.

In 2020, Julia launched Women Emerging and in 2022 she lead an expedition of 24 women to find ‘an approach to leading that resonates with women’. She now leads expeditions with women all over the world based on 4Es methodology, discovered in the first expedition.

Prior to that, Julia was founder and, for over thirty years, Chief Executive of Common Purpose, which grew to become one of the biggest leadership development organisations in the world.
Julia is also an Ambassador for the Aurora Prize based in Armenia, on the boards of Alfanar Venture Philanthropy in the Arab World and Equality Now, which operates globally, and on the Advisory Councils of Fundacao Dom Cabral in Brazil and Synapse in Pakistan.

Born in London and brought up in New York, Julia was educated at French Lycées and graduated from the London School of Economics. She is married, with five children and lots of grandchildren.