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Spotlight your TRUE self#96 How to show up as your true authentic self... and what coconuts and peaches have to do with that.Whenever the spotlight is on us – whether you are speaking on a stage, holding a presentation, pitching your business ideas or in a job interview – it can be challenging to authentic and to fully be ourselves. We think we should “sound professional”, should not exclude or hurt anyone, should not be too emotional, and as a result we generalize formulations, sugar-coat problems and hold ourselves back to say what we really think.In this episode I will share with you funny analogy – yes, with fruits ;) – so that you...2025-05-1722 minSpotlight your TRUE self#95 I will lose my jobThis is my reality right now. My manager position that I have had since January 2024 will be discontinued from 1st June 2025 onwards due to cost-cutting measures in my company and a decision to reduce the number of team leaders. In this episode I want to share with you the background around my personal information, because I believe that this is very insightful as well to understandWhat politics and dynamics are ongoing in big Corporate companiesThat you cannot rely on a permanent contract or even your outstanding performanceWhat you should do (pro-actively) to be harmed the...2025-05-0336 minSpotlight your TRUE self#94 What the data tells us about the Finnish labour market – Interview with Vaida Kavaliukaite-KaijanmäkiIs the employment situation for immigrants in Finland really as bad as we think?What does the statistics tell us?And how can we use this data to initiate improvements both for international job seekers and Finnish companies to hire more diverse work force?In this super-interesting episode I am interviewing Vaida Kavaliukaite-Kaijanmäki, who is a labour-market analyst, event coordinator and project manager with the vision to solve Finland’s labour market. We are covering, inter alia,Why unemployment figures can be misleadingWhat we know about salary developments of immigrants in Fin...2025-04-1949 minSpotlight your TRUE self#93 “I have crossed 5 borders illegally to come to Finland” – Interview with Kingsley IfyKingsley grew up in Nigeria and just turned 18, when his parents died at a car accident. Suddenly he had the full responsibility for his four younger sisters, the youngest just being 7 years old.It was clear that they will end up in poverty and without any future if he doesn’t find a way to take care of their financials. His only choice: getting to Europe, no matter what.In this podcast interview, Kingsely is sharing the story of his impressive journey how he made it from Nigeria over Lebanon, Syria, Turkey to Europe (Greece) – ille...2025-04-0543 minSpotlight your TRUE self#92 Do I need to spend money to have a successful career?We have all knowledge available for free nowadays. You just need to pull your smartphone out of the pocket and use Google or ChatGPT to find information. And in plus of that we have access to free education from schools and universities.So why should you pay a coach? What additional knowledge should a coach provide you that you don’t have available already and why should you spend money on this?This might shock you now, but until during the last 5 years I have spend over 20’000 EUR for coaching services and private educations, like semi...2025-03-2231 minSpotlight your TRUE self#91 You are not the only one who is strugglingYes, the job market is extremely tough right now. There are hundreds of applicants for one open position and more and more headlines that companies are laying of people. Yle News has recently shared that the unemployment rate in Finland has increased to almost 10% and that the country is facing an economic depression:https://yle.fi/a/74-20145914To stay resilient and not get lost in your struggles, it is important to distinguish between• Things that you cannot influence• Things that you CAN influenceWith this episode I would like...2025-03-0826 min
The FLT PodcastMichaela Kettner - Getting Inside the Head of a Hiring ManagerThis month Finnish Leadership is Getting Inside the Head of a Hiring Manager
This episode we sit down with international leader and podcaster and personal brand expert Michaela Kettner. We ask the questions: does the best idea win? Who gets promoted? What’s the manager on the other side of the hiring desk thinking? And why do so many of us, play “the numbers game” when choosing a career? With an international perspective and outside in look at Finland, Michaela’s answers may be surprising.
We learn from Michaela's experiences of moving from Germany to Finland...2025-03-0448 minSpotlight your TRUE self#90 Is the imposter syndrome jeopardizing your career?Are you playing small in your job applications or at your workplace? Do you catch yourself thinking “I’m not qualified” or “I should not call myself an expert”? That voice in your head could be the so called ‘Imposter Syndrome’ and it might be the very thing sabotaging your chances of landing your next career opportunity!In this episode, we tackle the hidden barriers that the imposter syndrome creates for you, especially when you are a job seeker. If you are ready to work on your mindset (rather than just blaming external factors why you are not su...2025-02-2226 minSpotlight your TRUE self#89 5 reasons why job applications get rejectedIs that you? You are writing hundreds of job applications, but you always get rejected. You never make it to the job interview. And you have no clue what should be wrong with your CV or cover letter.
In this episode you will learn about the most common five reasons why a hiring manager or recruiter rejects a job application. And only making one of these five mistakes can lead to a rejection.
So please check the CV and cover letter you are creating for a job against the following:
Your skills are not...2025-02-0826 minSpotlight your TRUE self#88 Why you should NOT use ChatGPT for your job applicationsYou see a job ad, you want to be smart and quick, you feed ChatGPT with it to create a cover letter and think you have a good text to apply for this position.
I tell you as a hiring manager: It is very obvious when a job application was created with AI. And you immediately disqualify yourself with something like this.
Your job application is a representation for the work that the company can expect from you if they hire you. So, if you are
Only looking for a quick solution
Are too...2025-01-2521 minSpotlight your TRUE self#87 It can cost you your career to not have THIS skillIt doesn’t matter what you know. It doesn’t matter what you say or do. It only matters how you make other people feel.
And having the ability to imagine what other people think or feel (to make them feel good) is called:
Empathy.
Empathetic people have a “service-mindset” towards their co-workers. They think about others. They share information. They communicate pro-actively.
This will lead to things getting done. This will lead to efficient processes and better results. This will lead to a good atmosphere and team spirit.
Because...2025-01-1123 minSpotlight your TRUE self#86 Are you satisfied with what you reached in 2024?If you look back on 2024 – how do you feel about it? What experiences have you made? Which decisions have you made? What people have you met? And did you achieve the targets you have set for yourself?
I looked back on my own year 2024 and realized that I have fulfilled all the following targets that I had set for myself at the beginning of the year:
Becoming a good manager for my team
Renew my website (www.michaela-kettner.coach if you want to take a look)
Nourishing friendships and connections with like-minded people
Founding a meet-up fo...2024-12-2830 minSpotlight your TRUE self#85 What you should reply to the question “What are your weaknesses” in a job interview“What are your weaknesses?” or “Tell us about your biggest weakness!” – are you afraid to be asked this question in your job interview? Because you are so insecure what do respond to that?
Recruiters or hiring managers actually like it a lot to ask this question and there is a good reason for it, that I will explain you in this episode. And in addition, you will learn what are the four steps to give a really good answer when you are asked “What are your weaknesses?”. In short, these steps are:
Do your homework...2024-12-1430 minSpotlight your TRUE self#84 Nervous about the job interview? – 3 tips to succeed!Do you have a job interview upcoming – but you are afraid that you will miss this unique chance to land the job, because you are so nervous that this might jeopardize that you present yourself well there?
A hiring manager is inviting you for the interview also to test how it is to talk with you. So yes, if you are mumbling and stuttering, because you are so nervous, that will not give a very good impression.
But here are three tips to decrease your nervousness and make your job interview a success:
1) Ge...2024-11-3034 minSpotlight your TRUE self#83 You can’t afford it to be average when applying for a jobYes, the job market is tough and when >100 of candidates apply for one position only about 10-15% of them get shortlisted to the first round of job interviews.
How do you get among this small share of people with your job application? How should your CV and cover letter look like to attract enough attention to the recruiter or hiring manager so that he/she really feels a desire to get to know you better?
In this episode I am explaining the following steps to you to create a high-quality non-average application:
Do your...2024-11-1726 minSpotlight your TRUE self#82 Searching a job is like datingHave you ever dated someone that ended up in a relationship? I hope we all have! – And hey, this means that you know also how to land a job. Because searching for a job is like dating!
Many people who are desperately searching work have the feeling that the whole recruitment process is a big mysterious black box full of tricky technical challenges to overcome so that the own job application gets considered.
What is often forgotten: the hiring manager who has a position open in his team and wants to hire a new talent is...2024-11-0219 minSpotlight your TRUE self#81 Burn-out and depression have many faces – Interview with Tomi Kaukinen (part II)“All my life I had been chasing success, but here I was – with 38 – and had no idea when I will ever work again.”
This episode is the second part of the interview with Tomi Kaukinen, a Finnish start-up entrepreneur who shares in a very open and personal way how he experienced a burn-out in 2017, after his company successfully expanded from Finland over Spain to Asia.
In 2018 he started talking about this dark period of his life in public – when burn-out and depression in the working world were still a taboo topic.
Nowadays he shares bot...2024-10-1938 minSpotlight your TRUE self#80 About quitting school, investment banking and founding a start-up – Interview with Tomi Kaukinen (part I)From a cleaner to an elite scholar, from investment banking to the colorful start-up world, from Finland over Spain to Asia. And finally into a burn-out.
I had the honor to interview Tomi Kaukinen, who is a successful serial entrepreneur and one of the most-wanted keynote speakers in the Finnish business sector.
Graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics, he quit is well-paid job in an investment bank after 6 years to found his own business. He has managed to build up a start-up that connected him with nobody less than the famous Spanish football club...2024-10-1240 minSpotlight your TRUE self#79 “Networking is not finding an event and showing up” – Interview with Joppe Quaedvlieg (part II)Networking is not to get 100 business cards on an event.
Networking is not to connect with people randomly on LinkedIn.
Networking also does not mean to pitch something to potential clients.
Networking means knowing yourself well enough so that you can share with the world what you have to offer. It means to share our story in a vulnerable way. And synergies will grow out of that.
So how do you achieve that? How do you not just connect with people who share your interests but then also follow up with...2024-09-2826 minSpotlight your TRUE self#78 Networking is a skill and why ‘growing my network’ is the wrong intention – Interview with Joppe Quaedvlieg (part I)Everyone knows that networking is important to find your next job and to build up your career. But most of the people don’t know how networking works in a good way.
Why do you want to network? What is your intention to grow your network and connect with certain people?
This podcast episode is the first part of me interviewing Joppe Quaedvlieg (or during the first minutes he is more interview me 😊) and we are clarifying
What you have to do to create connections that are really beneficial for you?
Which questions do you h...2024-09-2129 minSpotlight your TRUE self#77 The easiest method to let something goIt is important to recognize the point in time when you have to let something go. That can be a job position that you were hoping to get but you were rejected last minute, or you were dating someone which did not work out in the end. In both situations, you have invested a lot of time and energy – and now your mind stays busy with thinking about what went wrong or what you could have done better?
The problem is: As long as your mind is busy with this old stuff, you don’t have space in y...2024-09-0721 minSpotlight your TRUE self#76 Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and how you can nevertheless apply for a job with success - interview with Markus Gerstler from TeamtailorAre you afraid that your job application is not considered, because the company you are applying for is using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
Do you fear this is a big black box, and finally your application gets rejected by an algorithm based on weird criteria while a human recruiter never took a look at it?
After you have shared many concerns like this with me, I have investigated this topic and found a great expert to share insights about ATS, especially combined with AI: In this podcast episode I am interviewing Markus Gerstler from...2024-08-2435 minSpotlight your TRUE self#75 Recruiting insights: What a hiring manager likes and what not – part IIWhat is your biggest challenge at the moment in your job search? Are you writing hundreds of applications but never make it to a job interview?
This podcast episode is the second part of the recording of the webinar ‘Recruiting Insights’ that I have given in June 2024 to share my insights as a hiring manager from a recruitment process I have done myself. There are many common mistakes that people make when applying for a job, that distract me as the hiring manager from shortlisting them.
In this episode you will learn about the concrete Do’s...2024-07-1338 minSpotlight your TRUE self#74 Recruiting insights: What a hiring manager likes and what not – part IWhat is your biggest challenge at the moment in your job search? Are you writing hundreds of applications but never make it to a job interview?
This podcast episode is the recording of the webinar ‘Recruiting Insights’ that I have given in June 2024 to share my insights as a hiring manager from a recruitment process I have done myself. There are many common mistakes that people make when applying for a job, that distract me as the hiring manager from shortlisting them.
Hear in the first part of the webinar recording
What your job sear...2024-07-0636 min
Time to Shine Podcast : Public speaking | Communication skills | Storytelling207. Michaela Kettner: Self-Present Yourself with ConfidenceMichaela Kettner is a coach and a public speaker. When she started her career, Michaela was a very shy person, who studied physics and struggled with many insecurities. During the pandemic she educated herself further in psychology, communication, public speaking and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which has not only helped her to overcome many of her […]2024-07-0140 min
Time to Shine Podcast : Public speaking | Communication skills | Storytelling199. Shailvi Wakhlu: Speaking on Self-AdvocacyMichaela Kettner is a coach and a public speaker. When she started her career, Michaela was a very shy person, who studied physics and struggled with many insecurities. During the pandemic she educated herself further in psychology, communication, public speaking and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which has not only helped her to overcome many of her […]2024-07-0140 minSpotlight your TRUE self#73 How to deal with disappointmentsHave you had high expectations after a job interview – but then were not chosen?
Were you sure, you will get the promotion at work – but that went to another colleague?
Have you had high expectations when participating in a competition – but it didn’t go as planned?
Experiencing these disappointments don’t feel great. But they are part of life and the goal is not to avoid them – but to manage them!
First, it is important to understand that being disappointed always means that expectations have not been fulfilled. So, how to deal with...2024-06-2227 minSpotlight your TRUE self#72 Program your mind towards successAre you stuck in a phase of feeling unsuccessful? Everything you are trying is not going to work? You are failing all the time?
The problem is, “energy flows where attention goes” (Tony Robbins). That means: the more you are focussing on you being unsuccessful, the more unsuccessful moments it will create.
To shift that: Regularly create little moments of success in your life. If this is not possible in your job at the moment, search for other possibilities, for example in your free-time related to a hobby you have.
How to do that? Listen to two personal examples that I am...2024-06-0823 minSpotlight your TRUE self#71 Don’t ask for reference if …… the person you are approaching has never worked with you and has nothing to refer to!
I have experienced myself, that people reach out on LinkedIn asking me for reference for jobs, although I have never met them before.
Even if the job market is tough, it is not a good practice to search for and rely on references from other people, while neglecting putting effort on your own job applications.
Basically, a good reference from someone (if that person knows you and has worked with you) is “the cherry on the cake” – but gues...2024-05-2520 minSpotlight your TRUE self#70 Why knowing your values is essential for your careerHow do you make decisions for your professional life and your next career step? Do you always feel quite insecure and rely on the opinion of others?
Or do you have this strong inner guidance – because you know clearly what your personal values are that drive your decisions?
Are you aware about your own values?
Your personal values can be 3-6 out of the following examples: freedom, independence, respect, responsibility, integrity, honesty, loyalty, empathy, wealth, stability, safety, curiosity, knowledge, well-being, family, creativity, joy, success, trust, truth, compassion, modesty, openness, discipline, …
My own...2024-05-1127 minSpotlight your TRUE self#69 How to deal with envy and jealousy and why they are importantYes, sometimes we are envious of someone, because he/she has something that we do not have. We have grown up hearing that it is bad to be envious and jealous. So, whenever we feel envy and jealousy, we push this feeling aside, or even judge ourselves for it.
What makes you envious? Seeing other people who have
A happy relationship? A family? Kids?
A good job? A higher position? A higher salary?
Material things like a bigger house, a car or jewellery?
A different lifestyle?
What I want you to understand: Being envious of...2024-04-2721 minSpotlight your TRUE self#68 Triggers at the workplace – How to recognize and manage themWhat is a trigger? What is triggering you emotionally – something that somebody says or does that makes you angry, aggressive, sad or even panicking? At your workplace, in your family, in your network of friends or even just by walking around in the city?
What can you do when you recognize that you got triggered and you are close to overreact or have done already?
First: be proud of yourself that you are already reflecting your own behaviour in such a way! How many people get triggered and just let out their aggressiveness without questioning it...2024-04-1327 minSpotlight your TRUE self#67 Job search, networking, recruitment – 3 common mistakes that prevent you from landing a jobAre you desperately looking for a job? You write applications, you reach out to companies, you network and try to get in contact with recruiters and hiring managers – without success?
I am now a hiring manager myself, and I have observed that many people make at least one out of these three mistakes:
They are downgrading their own competences
They are not able to keep their energy up in the right moment
They are not empathetic enough when handing in their application
From the perspective of a hiring manager, these three mistakes would DISTRACT me fr...2024-03-3026 minSpotlight your TRUE self#66 Public speaking requires practice - Interview with Lauri Lehmusvirta (part II)What if you do something stupid in front of others? What if that happens while you are on a stage – in the full spotlight?
Do you have this limiting belief as well “Don’t do anything stupid – what should the others think?!” In this episode you will realize: We all have that.
This episode is the second part of the interview with Lauri Lehmusvirta, my fellow member in the Toastmasters club ‘Stadi Talkers’, where we regularly practice speaking and leadership skills.
Lauri is active in public speaking since 2016 and has been a member of Toastmaster...2024-03-1632 minSpotlight your TRUE self#65 How to become a public speaker in the Toastmasters International organization - Interview with Lauri Lehmusvirta (part I)Public speaking – does that sound scary to you or like something you always wanted to try out? Going in front of an audience and give a speech or presentation?
Have you ever heard about the Toastmasters International organization?
Toastmasters International is an organization for public speaking and leadership. Thousands of Toastmasters club exist world-wide where people gather together regularly to practice giving speeches, moderating, evaluating and improvisation.
I am myself a member of the English-speaking Toastmasters club ‘Stadi Talkers’ in Helsinki and have interviewed my fellow club member Lauri Lehmusvirta, who has already over 7 years of experience in public speaking. Lauri...2024-03-0926 minSpotlight your TRUE self#64 "Give a presentation that is helpful, not good!" -Interview with Jacqueline Farrington (part II)How to prepare for presenting yourself in a job interview?
In a meeting at work how to avoid ‘death by PowerPoint’?
And what are common struggles of CEOs and leaders when communicating with their employees?
Listen to the second part of the inspiring interview with Jacqueline Farrington! She is a TEDx Senior Speaker coach and nowadays also coach for CEOs and senior leaders for big clients such as Amazon and Microsoft to train them in a better authentic communication.
She says, giving a presentation is a performance! It requires 100% commitment and mental engagement from you to serve your audience. And she...2024-02-2429 minSpotlight your TRUE self#63 "You get confident by training your brain to fail"-Interview with Jacqueline Farrington (part I)Listen to an inspiring interview with a true expert in communication and public speaking! Jacqueline Farrington is a TEDx Senior Speaker coach and nowadays also coach for CEOs and senior leaders for big clients such as Amazon and Microsoft to train them in a better authentic communication.
Very recently, she has published her book “The non-obvious guide to better presentations – How to present like a pro: virtually or in person” (https://www.nonobviousguides.com/betterpresentations/)
In the first part of this interview, we are discussing what you can do to be more authentic and build up self-confidence to be yourself when g...2024-02-1722 minSpotlight your TRUE self#62 Your life won’t change if you don’t change your lifeYou don’t follow your New Year’s resolutions anymore?
Is it now too late for changing something in 2024? – NO!!!
It is never too late to define targets for you, no matter if you define them later in February, in spring or in summer!
It is the most important that you realize that you have to change something - in your behaviour or in your mindset – so that something in your life can change! Because as Albert Einstein said: “It is the definition of being insane, to do the same things aga...2024-02-0327 minSpotlight your TRUE self#61 Can you learn empathy? And why good leadership is not possible without - Interview with Joppe Quaedvlieg (part II)What is empathy? How do you know that you are acting in an empathetic way and what can you do to become more empathetic?
In the second part of the interview with Joppe Quaedvlieg, we are linking his concept of Descriptive Communication to the important topic empathy – and both agree that this is what divides bad leaders and good leaders. We are discussing concrete situations at work and what are the worst mistakes that managers can make in their communication and behaviour.
Hear in this episode, that there are no tricks to become more empathetic ou...2024-01-2025 minSpotlight your TRUE self#60 What do you want? And how to find that out via ‘Descriptive Communication’ – Interview with Joppe Quaedvlieg (part I)Joppe Quaedvlieg, originally from the Netherlands, has many years experience of supporting foreigners in Finland as a career coach, helping them to find a job. The success of his support is grounded on communicating with his coachees in an empathetic and conscious way – and finding a good answer to the question ‘What do you really want?’.
Instead of responding in general, shallow platitudes, Joppe has found a way to make people feeling comfortable to talk about their wishes and career ambitions in an honest, detailed and authentic way – and that’s what Descriptive Communication means.
Why it is...2024-01-1333 minSpotlight your TRUE self#59 How to level up your conversations with the help of NLPDo you every-day life conversations feel exhausting? Are you sick of the fast, shallow small-talk? However, you also struggle to create deep, honest and fulfilling discussions with your friends, colleagues – or even strangers on a networking event?
Imagine, you would always know how to keep a conversation going – instead of experiencing an embarrassing pause, this moment of silence that feels like forever! Even if someone would attack you verbally!
How? You just need to know some small basics from NLP!
NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which was developed in the 1970s. It is an o...2023-12-3033 minSpotlight your TRUE self#58 Lose your fear to speak in public with three simple tips… that you can directly apply in your everyday life!
What makes us so afraid to speak in front of others? Studies even have shown that more people are afraid of public speaking than are afraid of dying!
For many years, I was very shy and always super nervous when I had to speak in front of others. Both my body and my voice were shivering, I was sweating like hell and was just worried that anyone can think badly about what I am saying or how I look like. It was a fear of being rejected.
Nowadays I enjoy doing pu...2023-12-1625 minSpotlight your TRUE self#57 Unlocking your true potential by understanding your Human Design (Interview with Katharina, part II)+++ Free webinar how NLP improves your conversations on 7.12.2023 at 18.00 Helsinki time
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Why are you here? What is your purpose in this world? Was there a blueprint for your soul from the moment of your birth?
It is getting spiritual! This episode is the second part of the interview with Katharina, who has migrated to Bali to live her dream life and nowadays works as a Human Design reader and mentor. We are talking about, how...2023-12-0233 minSpotlight your TRUE self#56 Break free and create your dream life (Interview with Katharina, part I)+++ Free webinar how NLP improves your conversations on 7.12.2023 at 18.00 Helsinki time
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Do you have the feeling “I have to change my life!”?
Have you ever thought about quitting your 9-to-5 job, moving to a tropical place, starting your own business and living in your own flow?
Katharina Poetzl did exactly that! Within two years, she quit her office job in Germany, sold her apartment, moved to Bali and became a Human Design reader and...2023-11-2528 minSpotlight your TRUE self#55 Describing yourself and understanding your personality: A guide through personality tests from Myers-Briggs to Astrology“I am different than the others. I don’t fit in.” – Yes, that might be true. But there is nothing wrong with you! You just have a personality type that is different from the people around you.
Understanding your own personality is crucial for accepting yourself and building up a healthy self-esteem. And seeing your personality described in written words will bring you a lot of ‘Aha!’ moments and insights that you can use in a job interview – but also in dating 😊.
In this episode I introduce to you five personality tests and tools, that are all available...2023-11-1129 minSpotlight your TRUE self#54 The 1st step to better communication: Active listening techniques from NLPNLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming is used by psychologists, therapists and coaches - while also politicians are blamed to use it to manipulate their audience!
Since May 2022 I am a certified NLP practitioner myself and this education has made a huge impact how I communicate with people around me.
In this episode we create the fundament for a better communication: active listening. You will learn two important tools for better listening – backtesting and paraphrasing – that you can immediately apply in your every-day life.
The podcast ‘Spotlight your TRUE self’ is based on...2023-10-2822 minSpotlight your TRUE self#53 Emotions from a scientific and psychological perspectiveTalking about our own emotions makes us authentic and breaks the barrier to build up connections with other people.
You can understand an “emotion” as “energy in motion”. Physically, it is a neuronal reaction in our brain which then spreads over the body – and this process takes only 60-90 seconds. Why are we then stuck for hours in negative feelings like sadness, anger or frustration?
In this episode you learn how to break out of a circle of negative thoughts and emotions!
The podcast ‘Spotlight your TRUE self’ is based on three pillars:
1) Self...2023-10-1419 minSpotlight your TRUE self#52 Self-awareness, self-esteem, self-confidenceDo you often have the feeling that your self-esteem is on a low level? Are you not confident to show yourself, to speak up and to demonstrate your skills and talents?
In this episode you learn, how you can increase your self-esteem and self-confidence by a simple but powerful exercise – based on self-awareness!
The podcast ‘Spotlight your TRUE self’ is based on three pillars:
1) Self-confidence and self-esteem
2) Managing your emotions
3) Concrete communication techniques based on NLP
And in each episode, you will hear about one of them.
2023-09-3020 minSpotlight your TRUE self#51 What it needs to be your authentic self“If others would just see who I really am and what I am able to do, they would value me so much more!” – Do you know these thoughts?
Do you have the feeling that you are too shy and you keep hiding your true self – your true characteristics, your true emotions, your strengths and weaknesses, your values and your biggest talents?!
What do you need to show your authentic self with all your characteristics and talents?
Because you can learn it!
You can learn step-by-step to develop the courage to show your aut...2023-09-1619 minSpotlight your TRUE self#50 – Self analysis: Improve and learn from your mistakes*** If you are listening on Spotify, please answer the short survey! - Thank you!***
“How can I get better in the things that I do? How do I know what to improve?”
You always have the chance to give feedback to yourself! Self-reflection means that after doing a task, hosting a meeting, giving a presentation, or recording a podcast 😉, you can always analyse yourself: what was good, what was bad, what can be improved, what were mistakes that you can learn from.
In this episode you learn how to self-analyse yoursel...2023-05-0619 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#49 – How to talk confidently about your struggles with your period – Interview with Carmen Lorenzana“Sorry, I have my menstruation. I cannot attend this business meeting – I want to rest!”
Have you ever said that at work to your boss? Have you heard it from others? Would you be judged as unprofessional, too sensitive and weak? Do
you even judge yourself when you have your period?
In this podcast episode, I talk with Carmen Lorenzana who became a menstrual educator and fertility coach after she suffered from an irregular cycle and was diagnosed with PCOS. I have never talked to a person who knows so much about the female cycle! It is...2023-04-2233 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#48– Important insights from a job recruiter – Interview with Marina Ponomareva (Part II)When you apply to a job – wouldn’t it be cool to know what the recruiter thinks about your application?
In this episode you have exactly this possibility! Marina Ponomareva shares her valuable knowledge, insights and experiences from working as a recruiter. She will answer the questions
Where can you find the best open positions?
What does a recruiter focus most on in a CV?
What is more important – the CV or the cover letter?
Can you disqualify yourself from the beginning if you have too high salary wishes?
And much more!
Additionally, Marina shares...2023-04-0836 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#47– “I have changed my career path every 2-3 years” – Interview with Marina Ponomareva (Part I)Would you consider yourself as a “job hopper”? What does it mean to change your job every 2-3 years because your employments are based on fixed term contracts?
Marina Ponomareva loves exactly this challenge. Originally from Russia, she has studied in the Netherlands and came to Finland as a junior professional. She has followed an impressive – and very diversified – career path, working in IT, as a project manager at the Nordic Investment Bank (our common employer), leading the program ‘Entry Point’ for international talents in Espoo and now finally found her passion in working as a recruiter.
In the...2023-03-2522 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#46 – “You don’t need to be 100% perfect in your English” – Joint episode with Sam from Email ENGWe all use English in our every day life. But how confident are you really to express all of your thoughts, knowledge and emotions in English? And what can you do to get better?
This episode is a joint record that I made together with Samantha Houston, who is originally from the UK and lives in Helsinki for two years and works as an English language teacher and presentation coach.
In this episode you learn:
What you can do if you feel limited in expressing yourself in English
How English is used in a...2023-03-1144 minSpotlight your TRUE self#45 – Are you self-confident or do you just have a big ego?“Great people make other people great, small people keep other people small.”
And this is not referring to the body size 😉. There is a difference between being really self-confident and having a big ego. Are you able to award and recognize other people in a sincere and empathetic way or are you trying to push them down and make them feel guilty.
In this episode you learn:
What true self-confidence is and how it develops
How the ego develops and what a huge ego tells about the self-confidence of a person
How you can recogni...2023-02-2523 minSpotlight your TRUE self#44 – Growth mindset: You decide yourself to become succesfulDo you have this feeling that there is more in this life for you?
And are you just dreaming about possible successes or do you really start going for it? Do you just want to avoid painful moments in the case that you will fail or are you brave to take a risk when there is a chance to win?
In this podcast episode you learn what it means to have a growth mindset. I am sharing with you a personal story, where I had the choice to either
a) Avoid a painful and...2023-02-1118 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#43 – “Becoming an entrepreneur in Finland is relatively easy” – Interview with Chiara from MonVes“When I was employed, I felt like I was sacrificing my freedom. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur.”
With this mindset – plus the fact that she is highly allergic to any conventional jewelry – Chiara decided to create jewelry herself and to found her own brand. Together with her business partner she developed ‘MonVes’. This brand stands for beautiful hand-made earrings, necklaces and bracelets, which are made of materials which are suitable for everyone. The jewelries flash you back to your last summer holiday, they are beautifully inspired by places from all over the world and you can find the...2023-01-2839 minSpotlight your TRUE self#42 – The Master List – more than a to-do list!Do you know what happens on the 15th January every year?
If you have set for yourself a great target for 2023 on New Year’s Day - do you belong to the 5% of people who are still following it?
How big are your targets and dreams for this year? “If your target does not make you a little bit scared, it is not the right target” one of my mentors once said to me.
But having a great target can be overwhelming, your head gets dizzy if you think about all these many, many t...2023-01-1418 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#41 – Celebrate yourself at the end of the yearDo you allow yourself to celebrate yourself?
Or are you right now facing a stressful pre-Christmas time with still too many to-do’s on your list, like baking cookies, buying presents and decorating your flat?
What if you take a couple of minutes time for yourself – and instead of thinking about what is coming next, you look back on what has happened this year?!
What have been your big and small successes? What are you proud of? And yes, you can allow yourself to be proud!
Learn in this episode why it w...2022-12-1714 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#40 – “I needed to find something that makes me happy and gives me peace” - Interview with Lady Sanchez (PopJoy)Imagine you come from Spain to Finland, you graduate here, start working for a start-up, every couple of months you are promoted and finally you have a leading role.
But then you face the downside of this great career: huge responsibility, too high workload, you work 12 hours every day, you cannot sleep anymore and you could cry every day because your body cannot handle the stress. Would you quit your job?
It was so impressive to talk with Lady Sanchez about her story:
How she faced exactly this situation – and how she reset her li...2022-12-0341 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#39 – "Do your research and approach the people who make the decision!" – Interview with Camilla Lumi Koivu“Staying in Vietnam, I would have lived with my parents until getting married, and then I would have lived with the family of my husband.” – But if you want more in life, if you have a continuous drive for learning and developing your skills, you use the chance to study in Finland.
This is what Camilla Lumi Koivu did and during the last 8 years she has made an impressive career and now works as a senior marketing specialist in a big Finnish company.
It was fantastic to reflect with her on her journey and impressive to hea...2022-11-1935 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#38 - "Discovering that drawing can be my job was so liberating!" - Interview with Inês (Seni Illustrations)What do you do when you move from Portugal to Helsinki and just two weeks later the pandemic starts? When you run out of work in your remote job? – You get creative! This is what Inês did: She discovered again her passion for drawing – especially birds – and built up her own business ‘Seni Illustrations’ as an illustrator and graphic designer.
Today she runs her business successfully by selling her creations as prints, postcards and pins in her own online shop and by serving business clients like cafés and restaurants with creative chalk works.
It was inspi...2022-11-0540 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#37 - "If you want something to happen in Finland, you need to work for it" - Interview with Ana LopezBorn in Mexico, worked as a psychologist in South America, lived in an Indian ashram, learned meditation in Thailand – what makes a woman with such a background moving to Finland?
In this episode Ana Lopez shares with me her great story what brought her to Helsinki and how she has successfully built up her own business as a yoga teacher and life coach. In this lively interview we are talking about:
What makes Finland so different from the other 12 countries she lived in before
What challenges she faced when starting her business
How you can easily mi...2022-10-2237 minSpotlight your TRUE self#36 – Define, feel and reach your goalsYou already have the job that you ever wanted?
You speak Finnish fluently?
No?
Are you wavering around the question what you really want to reach in life? Are you not able to keep up the motivation to work on your skills, because you don’t have a clear target? – But having a target is what keeps us going! It makes us getting up in the morning with energy, it makes us going the extra-mile on our way to success, no matter if we are students, currently unemployed, part of a team or managing our own...2022-10-0833 minSpotlight your TRUE self#35 – How to have good conversations and keep them going, even when it gets challengingImagine you go to a party or networking event, you don’t know anyone and you are really afraid of starting to talk to strangers, because after a couple of sentences of small talk, it happens what we all don’t like: This long embarrassing pause, because you don’t know what to say.
Imagine you have to start a challenging discussion with your colleague or manager and you get confronted with a strange comment or even a verbal attach. And there is it again: This long embarrassing pause, because you don’t know what to say.
Wh...2022-09-2422 minSpotlight your TRUE self#34 – I am annoying!“This person does not like me”, “I am not as good as the others” – How many of you have these thoughts as well?
Do you know that when you are afraid that other people might think negatively about you?
The good news is: This is not the reality. The fear that you might annoy other people, that you are not good enough or that they don’t like you is a creation of your own mind. This is what we call a ‘limiting dogma’. It is a thought that has anchored in our brain based on a previous ex...2022-09-1019 minSpotlight your TRUE self#33 – I never look good on photos and videos!I never like the way how I look when I have the webcam on and I would never ever make a post on Social Media where my face is straight in front of the camera!!
Those could have been my words two years ago. Does that sound familiar to you? Do you also walk around with this “hopefully nobody sees me”-attitude? Merely not attracting too much attention…
Nowadays I have fun to give speeches, to publish videos of those and to do photo shootings for my website and the new title picture of my podcas...2022-08-2719 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#32 - Summer special: The 3 phases of visibility (part II)When was the last time that you have cried in front of someone else? Or admitted how much you are struggling and that you need help? Sounds quite challenging, right? At least for me it was. I have thought a lot, whether I should record such an episode, but I had figured out during the last months that this is my next level of getting visible: To not just be an outgoing person with a super-positive attitude, but also allow myself to show weakness. And with this I have identified who are the amazing people in my life who...2022-07-2419 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#31 - Summer special: The 3 phases of visibility (part I)Do you know people who are really inconspicuous, who are easily overlooked and seem to be invisible for others? Do you feel like such a person yourself? Do you have problems to express yourself and to build up connections to other people, because nobody recognizes you and nobody seems to remember you after a meeting at work, after a business event or after a party? The bad news is: Nobody will see what a great person you are, if you don’t dare to show it. The good news is: You can learn how to do that!
I...2022-07-1717 min
Spotlight your TRUE self#30 – Communication is the bridge to reach your targetsDid you know that 15% of people are afraid of dying, while 80% of people are afraid to speak in front of others? However, overcoming this fear will build your bridge between the targets that you set in your own mind and their realization in the real world. Because speaking in out loud what you would like to have not only creates a commitment to yourself, but also attracts the right people to support you on your way!
With this 30th episode this podcast will take a break. To stay in touch, I would also be happy to connect...2022-04-2417 minSpotlight your TRUE self#29 – Seven secrets for a successful presentationDo you often have to watch very, very boring presentations at work? Presentations held as 50 slides of Powerpoint with black text on white screen which are flipped through unenthusiastically – and where you wonder, if not even the presenter has a passion for his/her topic, how should you develop the motivation listening to this?
And are you afraid that other people would think the same about your next presentation that you have to give at work? Are you afraid, that even if you prepare really good content, you will be so nervous that you will not remember al...2022-04-1721 minSpotlight your TRUE self#28 – The art of giving feedbackWould you like to have more feedback in your daily work life? And how often are you asked for feedback yourself? Do you feel comfortable giving feedback? Or do you always feel insecure, because you neither want to embarrass your colleague or your manager nor trigger an aggressive discussion when you feel you actually want to criticize something?
Learn in this episode to what extent the reaction of another person on your feedback has (or has not) something to do with you and what template you can use to give direct and constructive feedback without the risk...2022-04-1016 minSpotlight your TRUE self#27 – Love it, change it or leave it – how you know if you should quit your jobDo you love your job?
If not – what would you like to be changed? And do you belong to those people who do the first step to actively change circumstances which are in their area of control?
But if you feel you are caught in a work environment in which you don’t feel well, you don’t like it at all and there is absolutely nothing you can change about it, although you have already tried – do you want to complain about that until your retirement? Or is it time to make a decision and leav...2022-04-0316 minSpotlight your TRUE self#26 – Three tips how to make quick and good decisionsDo you know that when you have to make a decision, but you just can’t decide?! You think about your options again and again, back and forth, you try to handle the list of advantages and disadvantages in you head and you ask for advice from other people – and in the most cases you are still not wiser.
But we have to make decisions – in our every-day life, when we decide what to pick from the menu in a restaurant, or from time to time about the really important topics like our jobs, our relationships and the en...2022-03-2718 minSpotlight your TRUE self#25 – “There is nothing more powerful than being yourself!” - Interview with HR Business Partner Veronica GordonI had the great pleasure to interview my former colleague and HR Business Partner Veronica Gordon. Originally from Argentina, she came to Finland in 2011 to work for Nokia and after the company declined, she faced the challenge to find an English-speaking job here in Helsinki.
Listen in this interview, how she mastered her career here in Finland with her outstanding sunny spirit and open attitude. During her long experience in HR, Veronica has also the perspective of a recruiter and shares her best tips and valuable insights for other foreigners who are applying for jobs in Finland.2022-03-2032 minSpotlight your TRUE self#24 – What is your WHY? Or: Why I am doing what I am doingWhy are you doing your job? Why do you want to work in a certain position? In a certain business sector? Or for a certain company?
Small children always ask “Why?” again and again. Do you still have this curiosity – especially for yourself? Can you get to the core of your motivation for your next target and your big dream? Because knowing your “Why” is what will make it really happen!
If you have a clear "Why" behind your target, this is when your eyes start to shine when you talk about it. This is when you have a...2022-03-1317 minSpotlight your TRUE self#23 – How to manage a personal crisis (unemployment, lockdown, etc.)When I have recorded this episode two weeks ago, I did it based on the motivation to create hope for my listeners suffering from unemployment or from any other personal crisis caused by the pandemic or the covid-19 virus. I have gone through some dark moments during the last Christmas time and the beginning of 2022 myself, and I had the feeling that I want to share, how I have managed a mentally challenging time for myself.
I would have never thought that two weeks later, at the point in time when I had planned to publish this...2022-03-0616 minSpotlight your TRUE self#22 – Your feedback to the last episodes and why recruiters would not like my cover letters“I wonder that Finnish recruiters have liked it.” That was one reaction on my published cover letters. I had shared the e-book (available here https://www.michaela-kettner.coach/ebook) on social media and it was discussed a lot. First of all – thank you for all your feedback! And also recruiters and hiring managers expressed their opinions and this statement was a really interesting one.
What do we learn from that? The feedback from recruiters, who have seen my four published cover letters, wondered that I got invited to the job interviews. To them, the cover letters did not fi...2022-02-2720 minSpotlight your TRUE self#21 – How to integrate into the team and company? (step 6/6)The last step to settle down in your dream job is actually not a step – it is a journey. Because having a work environment where you feel really well, having a team in which you enjoy working and being a successful and recognized expert for your topic is nothing that you create with one single step. You are investing in this on a daily basis.
Learn in this episode how you can keep up the motivation to turn your new job into your dream job in the next weeks, months and years! So that you wake up ev...2022-02-2020 minSpotlight your TRUE self#20 – How to manage the first workday? (step 5/6)A first working day in a new job is always a little adventure itself. Will your expectations be fulfilled? Will your new colleagues be nice? Will you like your working environment? Will you enjoy your first workday or will it be a system-overload? And can you provide the best first impression of yourself?
No matter if you look forward to your first workday or if you are very nervous about it – learn in this episode how you can be best prepared, how you can stay open-minded for new experiences, and enjoy the story of the most embarrassing mo...2022-02-1319 minSpotlight your TRUE self#19 – How to negotiate the offer? (step 4/6)Let’s talk about a topic, that can feel uncomfortable: How do you negotiate the contract and the salary for your new job? This episode is also interesting for you, if you take the new year as the chance to re-negotiate your salary!
To solve this and to make sure that you get out with something satisfying, you need – first – full clarity what you want to have, and second how you argue for this.
Learn in this episode how you convince your employer to create for you the working conditions and salary level that turns your n...2022-02-0621 minSpotlight your TRUE self#18 – How to master the job interview (step 3/6)Imagine, you have sent a well-written application to the vacancy of your dream job and you are impatiently waiting for a response. You are checking your inbox every hour – and finally you receive the invitation for the job interview!
And after celebrating this successful moment, you start to wonder how you will master this next challenge. What questions will you have to answer? Will they like you? Are you really good enough to get this job?
There is no-one who would not be nervous before and during a job interview, but the trick is to be...2022-01-3023 minSpotlight your TRUE self#17 – How to write a job application that stands out (step 2/6)When you apply for a job the most important part of the written application is the cover letter! Therefore, you should focus on quality instead of quantity – that means:
Choose only a few vacancies to apply for and invest time and effort to write a cover letter that stands-out, that highlights your skills and personality and contains the right arguments why YOU bring value to the company.
Writing cover letters was always my strength and I got invited to almost all job interviews for vacancies I had ever applied for.
Have you ever wo...2022-01-2319 minSpotlight your TRUE self#16 – How to find the right vacancies? (step 1/6)Are you in the starting blocks to find your dream job this year? Where and how are you searching for it? Do you know exactly what you want to do and how you want to work?
Learn in this episode what is important to find and select the right vacancies for yourself!
And the better you know for yourself what you want – the more specifically you can select where to apply for!
This episode is the 1st step of the series ‘6 steps to your dream job’.
Do you wanna push your self-c...2022-01-1621 minSpotlight your TRUE self#15 – 6 steps to your dream jobImagine, it is Sunday evening and you are already looking forward to get back to work on Monday morning! Imagine, you wake up every work day with a smile, because you are looking forward to what you will be doing today together with your great colleagues! Don’t you want to have a job that you love and work in an environment in which you feel comfortable and absolutely valued? – Yes?!? – So, how do you get there?
This episode is the introduction to a series of six episodes, in which I describe the six steps that have worked...2022-01-0916 minSpotlight your TRUE self#14 – What are your targets for 2022?If 2022 is like a white empty sheet of paper on which you can write and draw all your dreams, targets and visions – how would it look like?
Would you now finally like to get the job and the position that you deserve? Do you feel like you are hiding somewhere and nobody really sees your competence – but this now finally has to change?! Do you want to present yourself and your work in a way that makes everyone else think – ‘Hell yes, what she does is amazing!’?!
In this episode I share why support by others is...2022-01-0217 minSpotlight your TRUE self#13 - Are you a good listener?No matter if you want to have a stress-free gathering with your family on Christmas or want to improve the communication with your colleagues at work: Being a good listener is the key! Listening is what is guiding a conversation. But often, we all forget to really listen to someone else and only seek for the fastest way to express our own opinion.
Learn in this episode:
· What active listening really means
· How you can practice to be a better listener
· Why listening (and not just talking) also improves your own visibility
...2021-12-1921 minSpotlight your TRUE self#12 - You are the sum of your closest peopleAs a woman in the late 20’s or early 30’s you can target to move abroad, take the next step in your career or even start your own business. If you have family members and friends with a very traditional mindset, you will hear things like “Sounds great – but when do you actually plan to get married and have kids???”
Does that hinder you to realize the vision that you have for yourself? Do you adjust to the picture of the others? Or do you follow your dreams, but feel bad, because this is not what is expected f...2021-12-1218 minSpotlight your TRUE self#11 - Follow your dreams!What is your biggest dream? What is the target that you are really burning for? Do you allow yourself to dream big?
Having a dream and speaking it out loud, nevertheless, does not mean that it will realize immediately. It can be a long way to get where you want to be, which requires many small steps. But the way is worth going, if you know what your dream is, if you know what you would like to reach! Stick to it! Fight for it! We should all have dreams!
In this episode, you will...2021-12-0520 minSpotlight your TRUE self#10 Bonus - 62 positive affirmationsWhy not feeding your brain with some positive and encouraging thoughts about yourself? I have recorded over 60 powerful affirmations for you, that you can listen to whenever you are in a bad mood and need something to quickly cheer up yourself.
Try it out, what effect it has on your mood when you are listening something like this!
Do you wanna push your self-confidence and get more visible to push your career to the next level? – Check out my “Spotlight yourself” Coaching & Mentoring programme on my website
https://www.michaela-kettner.coach
I woul...2021-11-2808 minSpotlight your TRUE self#10 - The power of thoughtsDo you know what is the number one reason for most of our civilization diseases? – Stress.
And do you feel relaxed when you are watching the recent news over hours and reading all the terrible headlines? – Most likely not.
We live in challenging times and I don’t say that it is not important to know what is going on ‘outside’ regarding the next corona wave or even a new lockdown. But do you just notice the newest announcements or do you completely loose yourself in reading all the detailed catastrophic stories? And how does this impac...2021-11-2819 minSpotlight your TRUE self#9 – What do you value most about Finnish people?A couple of weeks ago, one of my Finnish colleagues asked me exactly this question. I thought about it and concluded that there is a lot, what I value about Finnish people. Especially their silence! I know that this is what drives many people crazy when they come to Finland from more ‘temperamental’ cultures, but listen in this episode, why I see it as a big advantage that my Finnish friends and colleagues are less talkative.
If you are a Finn and feel very much valued by this episode, I would be happy, if you would give me a...2021-11-2118 minSpotlight your TRUE self#8 - Others reflect you back what you send outDo you have a bad day? Do you feel like everything around you goes wrong, the whole world seems to hate you – and vice versa?
In contrast, do you know that, when you are energetic and extremely passionate about something – and suddenly everyone around you shares your enthusiasm and positive vibes?
This is exactly the experience that I have made when, in May 2019, I found the job that I had dreamed off here in Finland and I want to share this story with you in my new podcast episode “Others reflect you back what you send o...2021-11-1419 minSpotlight your TRUE self#7 – Applying to a Finnish vacancy: You can only win if you try!Imagine you are looking for a job as a foreigner in Finland - and you find a job offer that is only published in Finnish! Do you think ‘This is not for me’, if you are not fluent in Finnish and keep continuing your job search in other companies which provide job offers in English?
But what if except of the language you would be a perfect fit for this position? Well, my very first contact to a Finnish company was exactly about this issue. Hear in this episode how I managed a full recruitment process when knowing almost no Finn...2021-11-0724 minSpotlight your TRUE self#6 - My way to Finland (part 2/2)Do you live the exciting life of an expat? Have you lived abroad on a temporary or permanent basis? Or are you dreaming of moving to a country, that fascinates you?
Well, moving abroad always brings a lot of challenges and a lot of ups and downs. For me, after I had made the decision to move to Finland in the beginning of 2019, it even turned out to be a true roller-coaster of emotions and experiences. At one point in time, I ended up in a quite desperate situation and almost gave up my dream of living...2021-10-3126 minSpotlight your TRUE self#5 – My way to Finland (part 1/2)Do you make plans for your life? Do you know where you want to be in 2 years, in 5 years or in 10 years?
When I was in my mid-twenties, my answer to this would have been a clear Yes! And guess what?! - Moving to Finland was definitely NOT part of the plan. Five years ago, I had never ever been to Finland nor Northern Europe, neither did I had plans to travel here in the near future.
There is nothing wrong with making plans, but have you ever made the experience that everything came very...2021-10-2425 minSpotlight your TRUE self#4 - The trick for being seen (that no-one tells you)“If you are not interested, you can’t be interesting” – the American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion icon Iris Apfel once has nailed it with this statement. This is one simple trick for getting more visible to others, that you can apply immediately at work, in your family, when meeting friends or even completely foreign people.
But being open-minded and showing honest interest towards others also requires a confidence and awareness about yourself.
Do you wanna push your self-confidence and get more visible to push your career to the next level? – Check out my “Spotlight yourself” Co...2021-10-1715 minSpotlight your TRUE self#3 - Take responsibility!Okay, this is real talk: Do you like it to feel as a victim? Do you expect other people to make a step towards you when you are struggling with certain circumstances? And who are these ‘others’ that should improve your situation? Your family? Your friends? Your boss? Politics?
Or do you decide to take responsibility yourself?
The word ‘responsibility’ contains the word ‘response’. Have you ever noticed that?
So, what is your response to a challenging situation? If you are aware that you have 100% responsibility for your life, then you decide if you want to...2021-10-1016 min