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Fearless KnowledgeEpisode 13: Emotionally Intelligent Business Leader (Part 3/3)This conversation with Ali is all about what it takes to be a business leader with a strong need (not desire) for a business model with emotional intelligence! It's also the first time that Ali talks to us about his very EQ saavy business, Mandeleo! His story of trials and triumphs has so much wisdom we can all learn from, whether we are business leaders or quite simply consumers of everyday business. In 2021, we are being urged to look at the businesses around us and to be mindful of their intentions, ideas, products, and delivery. It's about ti...
2021-04-1243 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 12: Leadership & Gender - Fearless Feminine or Fearless Masculine? [Part 2 of 3}Hi beautiful friends, this episode is the second in our three part leadership series and a controversial but important one about being female and being male and whether [emotionally intelligent] leadership is gendered? I won't say anymore and leave you to listening, sharing and commenting below! ;)Stay tuned and share this episode with all the men and women you love! Fearlessly yours, Tania & AliCopy rights: Fearless Knowledge 2021Music: UnknownSound Editor: Lukas Stainmaier
2021-03-0136 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 11: Understanding Leadership in 2021 [Part 1/3]So, already in January 2021, the world is buzzing with conversations on leadership. And it's ABOUT TIME! Because leadership is one of the most important topics of emotional intelligence! This episode is the first of 2021 but also the 1st part of a series to come on leadership, which also happens to be shared on the inauguration of US President, Joe Biden and days after the attack on the US Senate. Ali and I ask tough questions here as we explore becoming clear on what leadership truly means and why we may lack many "good leaders". We think 2021 is c...
2021-01-3146 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 10: Fearless Growth, 9 Steps to EgolessnessGrowth, true personal growth, is a big life long fear that connects to many of our other fears - the fear of abandonment, fear of failure, fear of success and more. But as you all know by now, Ali and I are big advocates of becoming *comfortable with our fears and understanding fear*. Fear after all is our most important emotion. It is there to protect us so we can survive – but like an over-protective parent, it can also sabotage our development by making us afraid of our true potential and growth. The ego, which I often synonymously call fe...
2020-11-2051 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 9: Fear of Joy?In this episode, Ali and I, who share the same birthday in October, talk about our fears of joy! While the being afraid of joy sounds counterintuitive and irrational, as you’ll see from our shared stories in childhood and beyond, the fear of joy and happiness is very much a real and profound thing. Are you also afraid or ashamed of truly feeling and receiving the kindness and joy around you, especially in the current sad climate of COVID? Is the fear of joy holding you back somehow from all that you can become? Are we afr...
2020-10-2543 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 8: Fear of Love: Fiction, Attachment, Reality"In this episode, I'll be sharing an interesting story on how I ran into Jason Silva, the popular American-Venezuelan modern philosopher and social media speaker on Amsterdam's streets! Our conversation on the fear of abandonment led me to ask whether the fear of love has become an epidemic in our modern Western societies? Or perhaps fearful love has reached a climax since the advent of marriage for love in the Victorian period? Maybe fearful love is what Jane Austen was actually talking about in the under layers of her characters, disguised as 'pride' and 'prejudice'. Lately, I've b...
2020-10-0245 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 7: "Aggressive Mediocrity""Aggressive Mediocrity"! What a term right? All credit goes to the political-legal-EI genius, Ali Khan, for this one as he sits in the hot seat of being my interviewee in this episode. This is a very real and raw conversation on what it means to live a life based on 'aggressively mediocre' values! And what does it have to do with being afraid? If we don't live a life of mainstream aggressive mediocrity, then what is the alternative? Fearlessly yours, Tania and Ali***This podcast series is inspired by Tania Khojasteh's tra...
2020-09-2750 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 6: The "Integrated Mind" [Empathy Movement, Part 2]This episode is part 2 of Ali and I's conversation on empathy during the current crises. We explore the range of our emotional reactions after a crisis has shocked millions into empathy, such as the tragic explosion in Beirut, Lebanon recently. Lebanon here stands symbolically for all the crises we face of course, one after the other. I also share a couple of intimate stories of my childhood, growing up in some explosions and warfare and the impact it has had on my career in emotional intelligence.Is it okay to feel fear and anger during tragedy? What...
2020-09-0638 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 5: The Empathy Movement [From London to Lebanon - Part 1]Empathy for me is synonymous with fearlessness! It is after all, the 3rd pillar of emotional intelligence, according to EI expert, Daniel Goleman. So, in this episode, Ali and I explore what empathy is, what kinds of empathy can exist, and why we are feeling moved to have compassion with even far away crises these days - from the explosions in Beirut to a global pandemic. This is a moment of calling for us, friends! We are invited during crises to fearlessly develop our empathy muscle and create an "Empathy Movement". An empathy movement might turn out to be t...
2020-08-1652 minFearless KnowledgeEpisode 4: Fearless Creating & ManifestingIn the early days of July 2020, Ali and I felt some funky low energy in the air - like some kind of invisible 'fluff' that was making people stuck. It felt as if this 'energy' was urging us to stop, to get inside of ourselves, and pay more attention to how we feel as we globally head out of COVID lockdown 1.0. What do we do or who do we become now that lockdown and its emotional turbulence are almost over? Do we return to being 'normal'? Is that even possible? This conversation between two friends looking for s...
2020-07-0541 min
Fearless KnowledgeEpisode 3: Permission to Feel, Fearlessly (COVID, BLM & Philosophy)In this super 'intersectional' conversation, Ali and I talk about 'fearing our feelings' and the urgent call to become fearless feelers during COVID and the crises of 2020! It's almost like we've been needing 'permission to feel'. I loved making this episode while slowly coming out of COVID lockdown in London, which frankly has also felt like an 'emotional lockdown'. We have all been deeply confronted with our emotions individually and and as a society. The fears of this pandemic and the racism events in the US and globally around Black Lives Matter movement have shaken our internal s...
2020-06-1443 min
Fearless KnowledgeEpisode 2: The Essence of Fear (From Wasps to 911)In episode 2, still during COVID-19 lockdown and recording online, Ali and I dive into an unrehearsed conversation about his recent meditation, where he returns to the day 911 happened while he was in his British boarding school, and how that day affected him as a Muslim-British young man. He bravely tells details of his meditation and shows us how to reflect and observe our fears. I am so grateful to Ali for trusting me and sharing his feelings so vulnerably, unexpectedly and fearlessly. Fear, I argue, is the unavoidable essence and central emotion to being human, and in 2020, we...
2020-05-2437 min
Fearless KnowledgeEpisode 1: Tania and Ali, who? Fear(less) is the Word.Hi everyone! Welcome to Fearless Knowledge. In this 1st episode, Ali Khan and I (Tania Khojasteh), begin our first conversation on intersectional topics on emotional and social intelligence. We have recorded this live and on Skype, in the height of pandemic fear and COVID lockdown in London! So, it will definitely have some 'charming' crackles and pops! We both share stories about who we are, why it's so timely that we begin to talk about FEAR and fearlessness in order to understand and engage with ourselves better as human beings. I also share why as an easily scared child I...
2020-05-0334 minFearless KnowledgeIntroducing Tania Khojasteh and Ali KhanIn this mini billboard episode, I share who I am and why my dear friend, Ali Khan, and I started this podcast series on emotional intelligence, with a timely lens on fear and fearlessness.
2020-04-3001 min