
It's an Inside Job
Imagine responding to challenges with quiet strength and living with a clearer sense of direction. It's an Inside Job, hosted by Jason Birkevold Liem, guides you there. This podcast is for anyone who believes cultivating inner resources is the most powerful way to shape their outer reality. We explore practical approaches for fostering resilience, nurturing well-being, and embedding intentionality into your daily rhythm.
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After all, actual growth is an inside job!
It's an Inside Job
How to Reclaim Your Power & Find Strength. Interview with Dr. Ann Kaplan: Award-winning entrepreneur, author, and media personality
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Dr. Ann Kaplan is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, television host and former star of The Real Housewives of Toronto. Being corporate herself, she embodies the “unhousewife-housewife” – displaying her humorous antics and lack of tolerance for the intolerable weekly on SliceTv.
In her “real” life, Ann Kaplan is the Founder of iFinance Canada Inc., the parent company to Medicard, Petcard, Dentalcard, iFinance Tech, and iFinance Home Improvement – a North American consumer finance company – she has taken the Company from Start-up (1996) to one of the largest consumer finance Companies in Canada with loan applications exceeding $1B.
An award-winning businesswoman, author, and media personality, Dr. Kaplan has hosted television shows including Global’s NYtv, The Ultimate Makeover, and CosmedicTv. She holds a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration), Masters In Business (MBA), Master in Science (MSc) and a Corporate Governance Designation (CD.D).
In this episode, Ann and I explore the questions and issues around the following:
- How did your history shape for you?
- What was the hardest lesson you had to learn?
- How did you cope with trauma and move forward?
- Considering how far you've come in life, what advice would you give to your younger self?
- In the process of writing your book, how did it help you to process your thoughts and emotions?
- What advice or strategies could you share with us on how to deal with our own inner critic?
- How do you deal with uninvited change or uncertainty?
- We explored what means by living your purpose and her core values.
- What advice can you give work to working mothers who are struggling to balance it all?
REFERENCES:
How to Be Successful in Spite of Yourself
by Dr. Ann Kaplan
Paperback
Audiobook format
Kindle format
Dr. Kaplan's contact information:
Website: https://annkaplan.com/books/
Facebook: @AnnKaplan_OwnIt
LinkedIn: @AnnKaplan_OwnIt
Instagram: @AnnKaplan_OwnIt
Twitter: @AnnKaplan_OwnIt
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