Mick Unplugged - Breaking Barriers with Nada Lena Nasserdeen

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Starting point is 00:01:19 In this episode, my really good friend, Nautilina Nasardine, and I are going to talk through some strategies and you are going to learn from the best of the best. Natalina is simply the best. Buckle up and get ready. This is my good friend, Natalina Nassar. Natalina, how are you doing today, dear? Thank you so much. I'm so good. Thank you. And thank you for that intro. That was awesome. I appreciate you. Thank you. No, no, no. I am the one that appreciates you. Notalina, you know, on the show, I like to ask people what's your because, that thing that's deeper than your why, your true passion, the reason you keep doing what you do. So, Natalie,

Starting point is 00:02:00 today, what's your because? Why are you doing all these amazing things that you do? Honestly, Mick, I truly believe in elevating the human condition. I believe that that's why we were put on this planet. And in all of the experiences that I've had and jobs that I've had, I believe that the way to do that is to help people build the skills that help them elevate themselves. and their potential, and those are the soft skills, the skills that make up 80% of our success, then most of us never really learn that are a game changer when it comes to not only your professional life, but your personal life. And that is, that's deep rooted in me. I'm obsessed with helping people reach their potential, and this is how we do it. I love it. And I want to go right

Starting point is 00:02:46 there and unpack a lot of what you just talked about. So I know that there are people that are watching or listening right now, that when you said that, they raised their hand. They're like, that is me. And we know that Natalina is the guru of turning that self-doubt into powerful conviction and powerful self-master. So for the person that raised their hand, Natalina, that's like, yep, she described me. What are some things that they can do? What are some of the skills that they need to start developing right now? Well, I'll tell you this. So there's four major skills that we lead with here at our company, okay? And the first one is the most important, which is self-confidence. 83% of professionals, Mick, say their number one challenge is

Starting point is 00:03:33 self-confidence. Like, think about that for a second, 83%. So that means that only 17% of the workforce and the population actually believe in their ability and are willing to bet on themselves. And so if you're listening right now, and Mick, you might have been in this position too, think about the money, the opportunity, the things that you're leaving on the table because of a lack of self-confidence. Now, I always say that it's not your fault because we've been taught our entire life to build what I call micro-level confidence. And I talk about this in my book. I differentiate between micro and macro-confidence. We've been taught to build micro-level confidence. which is basically a confidence in skills, in things, in elements, right?

Starting point is 00:04:20 So everybody is confident in something. You might be confident in technology and coding and speaking and podcasting, but we all have something that we feel good at. But we're never really taught to build the macro level confidence, a.k.a. self-confidence, which is an unshakable, unwavering belief in yourself despite all the chaos and the downfall that's happening around you. And this is what we saw during COVID, for example. So many amazing people, they lost their jobs, they lost their businesses, they lost their

Starting point is 00:04:54 titles. The industry that they were in is no longer relevant because of AI. And they came to us and they said, who am I? What's my identity? What value do I bring to the world? I don't feel like I'm enough because the whole time they've created an identity based off of microconfidence versus true deep self-confidence. So I am writing this down.

Starting point is 00:05:18 So what's the difference between micro-confidence and then true self-confident? So micro-confidence is when you feel confident in a thing, like a skill, a technical skill, right? And everybody has that. So, Mick, what's one thing that you're like, I know I'm good at this and I'm confident in it? What would you say that is? Just give me one. Excel spreadsheets. I can do them like the back of my hand.

Starting point is 00:05:42 Okay, Excel spreadsheets. Now, let's say one day that Excel and spreadsheets completely goes away and that skill and that program and that platform is gone. Okay. Now, that confidence is no longer there because that thing that you're confident in no longer exists, right? So you can't exercise it. And so what happens is that people start to identify themselves by that level of confidence. But when it goes away or when it changes or when it changes or when it. it shifts, they no longer feel confident. And so what we really want to build is the macro

Starting point is 00:06:16 confidence, which is the self-confidence, which is an inner belief that you believe you can learn, which is an inner belief that you are enough simply because you exist, which is an inner belief that failure is research to success and you have to have both in your life. And unfortunately, not enough people have built that self-confidence. And so their belief about themselves, constantly goes up and down and it's contingent upon external validation and external things. And that's just not sustainable. So if I'm, again, if I'm listening, if I'm watching this, and again, Nitalina's head on, what's the one thing I can do right now to work on this confidence?

Starting point is 00:06:59 Like if you said, if you just did this one thing, I don't know that's very broad in general, but somebody's listening that I know needs to hear this right now. Yes. So there's a tool that we use. And if you're okay with it, Mick, I want to share. It's totally free. But I would say the first thing is go to riseofree.com and go to the free section and download the confidence quiz.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Okay. Now, the reason why I say that is because there's nine elements of self-confidence. And so the first step of building self-confidence is identifying which element you need support with. Because we don't need support with all areas. We might just have one or two that we say, this is what crushes my confidence. So, for example, I'll just list off a couple of them. I won't do all nine.

Starting point is 00:07:41 Trusting your intuition is a confidence crusher or a confidence elevator, right? It can go either way. So some people will say, like, I'm really good at trusting my intuition. If I feel something in my stomach, I always respect myself and I listen to it. Other people say, like, I tend to listen to other people. I hush that intuition. And then I do things that I know I shouldn't have done. And then, like, I feel bad about myself, right?

Starting point is 00:08:07 So you're going to score yourself in that. element. Another area is perfectionist mindset. So some people listening might say, oh, I really struggle with perfectionist mindset. And I've lost opportunity because of it. I lost clients because of it. I've been sitting on a book that I want to get out there for years because of it. And so that could be crushing their confidence. And other people might say, I don't have a problem with that. And so I would say the first thing is take the quiz and identify which out of the nine you struggle with because then that's what we're going to tackle and that's what we're going to work on. I can tell you right now, one of the biggest confidence crushers we see with

Starting point is 00:08:46 the majority of people is setting healthy boundaries. So many individuals have a hard time saying no and they're people pleasers. And so they do things and they say things that don't fit them because they want to be liked. And we see this in leaders across the board. We see this everywhere. And And so that's, that's one of the, I would say, most critical confidence elements that a lot of people struggle with. Notalina. I totally agree. I literally just had a meeting yesterday with someone. And we were talking about that same thing.

Starting point is 00:09:21 Yeah. Saying yes when you know that you should have said no or even entertaining conversations or ideas that you shouldn't have, usually get you in trouble. Yep. Right. And I had to break this down and remind someone that no. is a complete sentence. No can help you sleep better at night. We put ourselves in these situations. And I love that with the healthy boundaries. So what are some things that some folks can do to create those healthy boundaries? Okay. So the first thing is what we call the four Bs. Okay,

Starting point is 00:09:53 we call it the four Bs to reverse engineering. So the first thing is like what's the belief around the healthy boundaries? Okay, because we all have a belief around it. So it might be, well, I'm afraid if I say no, that I'm not going to get a promotion, right? Let's just as an example. Or I'm afraid if I say, no, people aren't going to like me. But whatever it is, you have to find what that belief is for you. It's a limiting belief. So identify the first B is the belief.

Starting point is 00:10:19 What's the limiting belief? The second step to that is the backstory. Where do that belief come from? Because all of us are comprised of thousands and thousands of beliefs, and most of them don't even belong to us. they were projected onto us by other people and then we thought we should take it on and now we put the jacket on

Starting point is 00:10:40 and we're like stuffing out of this jacket it doesn't fit us and so that second B is what's the backstory meaning where did that belief come from right and being able to trace it back the third B which is my favorite which is often overlooked is what's the behavior that's being caused because of the belief

Starting point is 00:10:58 because our beliefs dictate our behaviors right so is the behavior causing you to say yes to everything and so you're constantly burnt out you don't have the capacity for your family you don't even have the capacity for yourself is it creating you to constantly be stressed to be reactive all the time to be aggressive because you don't have time to think right so like what's the behavior and then the last be is how do we break the belief to shift the behavior and that last be the breaking is it's It depends on the person. This is where we coach them through

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Starting point is 00:12:29 bottle this up for you like that is your masterclass. That is freaking amazing. You know, again, I've been a huge follower of you for a very long time and I have my Nautilina quotes. I posted on my monitors and on my boards and everything. And one thing that I've heard you say a million times, no exaggeration, is that your career will only grow to the extent that you do, right? I would love for you to break that down for the viewers and listeners. Why the continuation of development and involvement is so important in your

Starting point is 00:13:04 career and in your personal life. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, well, the reality is this. Every industry is inundated. Every industry, right? As an entrepreneur, there's million people that do what you do that have a business that you have in the workspace. There's a million people that are in your industry that do what you do. And so the difference between those that are in the top 10% and those that are not in the top 10% is their ability to continue to pivot and exercise emotional intelligence in the process because your success, 80% of it is contingent upon your emotional and your social intelligence, not your technical skill. And so we've got to keep growing because the world is constantly growing, right? Industries are changing. Politics change, you know,

Starting point is 00:13:52 what's happening. The economy is changing. And so if you're not changing and pivoting, with society and with your environment, you're going to get left behind. But most people don't recognize and realize that emotional intelligence is the number one skill that's going to help you do that. Because emotional intelligence, it allows you the ability to adapt, to pivot, to have motivation, to have self-confidence, even when you don't know something, the confidence to learn something, exercising growth mindset. And probably most importantly, is building relationships and being able to

Starting point is 00:14:28 influence, right? So I always say, like, I used to be an executive, and Mick, I know you have expertise and experience in this too. You know, when I was an executive and I, you know, had a job opening and I needed to hire and I would get all of these resumes, they all said the same thing. They all had the same degree, right? I'm like, okay, these people all have the same degree. They all went to a four-year university. Their resumes all look pretty good. Okay, well, who am I going to hire? I'm going to hire the person that walks into the internet. interview that displays emotional intelligence, that knows how to communicate with influence, that has confidence, and that has the soft skills that so many of us don't take the time to

Starting point is 00:15:07 learn. I could talk about emotional intelligence all day, but you just dropped a stat that made me shake. 80% of your success is contingent on your social and emotional intelligence. That's right. Like, let's go deeper there. That is so, to hear it, it totally makes sense. Didn't even think about it. But it's so true.

Starting point is 00:15:31 80% of your success in the world has nothing to do with, can you complete an Excel spreadsheet? Especially today, I would almost say in the next 18 months, 90% of your success is going to be dependent on that because AI is taking over most of everything that. That is also human facing. You know, just last year, AI was behind the scenes and it could handle everything you don't need to do with human facing. but now AI is doing human-facing things too. Deeper, like, why do people need to truly embrace that piece of social emotion?

Starting point is 00:16:06 Yeah. Well, I'll flip the question. Why is it, I'm going to give you some stats. Why is it that 92% of the population never achieved their goals, even though they have goals? I just spoke on that today. Right? Why is it that $1.2 trillion, not billion, trillion dollars is wasted every year in American businesses because of poor communication.

Starting point is 00:16:33 Why is it that 95% of leaders think they're self-aware, but only 10% actually are? And so 78% of the workforce feels disengaged and not connected to their leaders. All of those things are equated to a lack of soft skills, a lack of ability to communicate, to build relationships. to influence, to empower, and to create change. And so if I were to ask somebody what their top challenges are right now in their life and their career, I guarantee you most of it is going to have to do with people. Like at the core of it, it's going to be related to people. It's not going to be, oh, I don't understand the algorithm or the technology and the coding.

Starting point is 00:17:20 It's probably going to be, gosh, I am working every day to do my job right. and Bobby Jane over here isn't pulling her way. And I'm frustrated because we're not getting the job done. And next week we have our meeting with our team leader. And I'm scared to be in that meeting because we're not hitting our goals. Absolutely. Can you tell we've heard these conversations before? Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:17:41 And that leads me great into where I wanted to go next because I'm a huge believer in culture. And I know that you are too. Yeah. To me, culture isn't what you say, right? Culture is what's shown culture is what is felt. And I know you've said a billion times that shifting toxic workplace culture should be top two priority for leaders, right? Because we all have a toxic culture. Whether you want to believe it or not, there's toxicity somewhere within what you're doing.

Starting point is 00:18:13 Yeah. How can people identify if they have a toxic culture? And then once they do identify, what can they do to start the shift? Yeah, that's a really good question. And I like the fact that you said that you have a toxic culture, whether you, I can see it or not, because a toxic culture isn't always like gossip. A toxic culture can be that nobody has accountability. And every year, you do a leadership retreat and you write your action plan down and you all have your goals. And then at the end of the year, year after year, you never really hit them.

Starting point is 00:18:44 Right. That's also toxicity in your culture, meaning that you don't have a culture of accountability and follow through. Okay. Right. So I would say, and this is a good point, is that you're mentioning is that your values, for example, and what your company stands for, it's not a poster on a wall. It's not a poster on a wall. It's the metrics and it's the feeling that your team has day in and day out and how they show up day in and day out. So I would say in order to identify if you have a toxic culture, first, let's do a little test. I love assessments, right? Because they tell you the truth. If you have a set of values in your company, I highly encourage you to assess your team and ask them, hey, what are our values? Let's see if they even know what the values are, right? A lot of times when we work with companies, I'll ask them, hey, do you know what your values are for your company?

Starting point is 00:19:37 Most of the time, they have no idea. Or they say, like, yeah, but we don't really use them. We don't really exercise them, right? Or they give you the generic integrity, trust, right? communication right and what does that mean right because everybody has a different definition of that so i would first say like assess your team around you know what the values are and are they on the same page with your vision and then the second thing i would do is just assess your team and do a climate check we always we call it a climate check versus a culture check so let's do a climate

Starting point is 00:20:12 check because again 95% of leaders think they're self-aware but only 10% actually are and so sometimes as leaders, we think everything's amazing. And then we assess our team anonymously and we come to find out that, oh, like, they're confused half the time. Their communication, they say, isn't being had even though I feel like I'm communicating great. And so I think it's scary. But being able to do an assessment, both from a value perspective and a climate check for your leaders, is going to give you all the answers that you need when it comes to your culture. And listen, I've been on the other side. Before I built my company, I was an executive for an education corporation.

Starting point is 00:20:54 I had 200 leaders under me when I was 27 years old. And I thought I was the most amazing leader ever. I was like, yeah, I'm hip. I'm 27. I'm the youngest executive. I have an open door policy. And nobody came in and talked to me. Nobody asked me questions.

Starting point is 00:21:09 Like, I wanted to coach them and nobody would, nobody would come to me. And then somebody said, well, you're kind of intimidating. And I said, no, that's your belief. No, that's not true. And then another team member said, well, you're kind of intimidating. And I said, no, I don't think that's true. And then the third person said, you're intimidating. So then I said, okay, three people have told me I'm intimidating.

Starting point is 00:21:39 I'm going to do an anonymous survey. I was the only executive that did it. Okay. And out of 200 people, 75% said I was intimidating, not relatable, and I looked bad all the time. At Desjardin, we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice. And we can talk your ear off about transferring your business when the time comes.

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Starting point is 00:23:11 punched in the throat, I was happy that I understood, what the challenge was. And now I was able to shift. And so I started doing things that made me more approachable, that made me more relatable. You know, I was really intentional about the colors that I wore. I was intentional about not using my phone when I was walking down the hallways. There's things that I did to just create a better, more nurturing environment so that they did walk through my door. And the next year, I did the assessment again anonymously for myself. No other executive did it, but I'm like, whatever, I'm going to do it. And my scores increase dramatically. So, Natalie, we're going to give a quick masterclass for every leader out there.

Starting point is 00:23:54 Because I tell people the number one thing that you can do as a leader, I don't care if you're a new leader or a tenure leader, is have a feedback loop assessment. Right. That's right. Because here's the thing. We are so unaware and have so many blind spots. That we never know that one moment that it's. the first or second time that someone is engaging with us, and then their perception becomes their reality. And because they're working with other team members, now they're telling four or five other people, hey, every time Natalina comes out here, she's on her phone. She doesn't

Starting point is 00:24:32 even make eye contact with them. She doesn't care about us. How important is it for leaders to have feedback loop assessments, 360 assessments or whatever, on them, not the other way around. And more importantly, not even for your clients, because I'm not saying

Starting point is 00:24:52 that client surveys aren't important. Yeah, they totally are. But your internal feedback assessment in that survey is critically the most important survey you could ever have because usually those are the people

Starting point is 00:25:04 that are doing the actual 9 to 5 work, but it's the actual job anymore. It is the most, critical thing you can do as a leader. And I will tell you if you're not doing it, I encourage you to ask yourself why. If you're hesitant to do it or you find resistance in doing it, again, go back to the four Bs, right? Why? What's the belief around it that you're not willing to do it? Because you've got to remember the great leadership, it's not about you. It's not about you. Right? And so when you're able to get the feedback and to provide that anonymous assessment about you, you are intentionally saying

Starting point is 00:25:43 like, I'm trying to be better, not for me, but for you, which indirectly is going to help me be better too. And a leader that doesn't do that, I think that subconsciously they know that they're probably doing things or not showing up in the best light and they're not ready to get that information back. And I'll tell you what it did for me. And I've been doing this for 12 years now. It makes my job as a leader, as a CEO, as a founder, so much easier because I can focus on what I need to deliver for my team. As senior leaders, for the senior leaders that are listening, for the entrepreneurs, the business owners that are listening or watching, you're thinking of a million things that you should or could be doing for your team. When you hear what they actually

Starting point is 00:26:30 need from you, it shrinks where you need to think. Like, literally, I can focus on, oh, I need to be more present. Oh, I need to celebrate small wins. Oh, I need to quit talking about my sales team so much in meetings and talk about operations and technology more because they want to be appreciated. Those little things go so far for your leadership strategy. And you bring up a really good point because sometimes people get crippled by like the what and the how. Like, okay, what do I do and how do it? And so when you do get feedback, you're able to hone in on specifically where you need to work. Just like the confidence what we talked about. You don't need to change everything. And it's not about perfection,

Starting point is 00:27:14 but it's just identifying the area where your team does need more. So I have a team of 20 right now with Rise for you. And I do a survey every year that my team does for me. And I'm able to see, and it's not perfect. You know, they go one through 10 on the different competencies. I'm able to see my team scores me pretty high when it comes to self-confidence, like being driven, motivation, being solution-oriented, coaching. Like, I have high scores. But the scores that aren't so high are empathy and active listening. So I'm like, oh, I got a seven on empathy and I got a seven on active listening and being present.

Starting point is 00:27:51 Okay, well, I'm not going to spend time working on my self-confidence or working on like the mentorship piece because they already feel really good about it. I'm going to spend time working on developing the empathy muscle continuously. It's always been a challenge for me. So to continue to work on the empathy muscle and the active listening piece. Absolutely. Not only I can talk to you for it, you know, you know that. But I want to talk about now and give you the floor because right now you have a book that is out, right?

Starting point is 00:28:28 recent I want to say you're newest right but let's talk about that one a little bit and then I know in the winter you have a second one coming out but let's talk about the one that's releasing now yes thank you so much so it's a part of our empowering and educational book series so at the company rise that for you as I mentioned there's the four major pillars that we focus on self-confidence emotional intelligence transformational leadership and influential communication. These are the four skills that we believe every person and company should double down on. So earlier this year, we released the self-confidence, the emotional intelligence book. It's an empowering educational book that has a ton of strategies. And we just released the

Starting point is 00:29:09 transformational leadership book. Now, the transformational leadership book is that next level of leadership that really dives into how do you move away from being a transactional leader to a leader that creates transformation in your team because so many leaders, I like to use Maslow's hierarchy as a analogy. So many leaders function at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy. At the bottom, which is just, do you feel safe and do you have resources, right? How many leaders do we know that just say, just checking in on you, do you feel good? Do you have everything you need? Is everything clear? Do you have the resources that you need to get the job done? But what we really want to do is be a transformational leader where we take our team all the way to the top of the pyramid to

Starting point is 00:29:51 self-actualization, which is more than just do you feel safe? It's how can I help you reach your potential? How do I help you become the best that you can be so that one day you can take my spot? And most leaders aren't exercising that. And so that book, Transformational Leadership is come. It's out. And then at the end of the year is the fourth pillar, which is influential communication that book will be launching all about the ability to influence every day we are communicating with our body with our words but the question is are you able to drive the receiver to take action and movement based off of your communication i love it and i'll make sure that we have links to all of that in the show notes and descriptions and obviously your website i'll make

Starting point is 00:30:38 sure that that people are going there before i get to my quick five before i get you out of here for the listener, the viewer, that's ready to rise up, right? They're like, not Alina has me fired up. I'm ready to roll. But they're afraid to invest in themselves. Because I believe that every critical step I've ever made in life, I've invested in myself. I didn't just bet on myself. I invested on myself. What's the message you have for them right now? I'll tell you this. The greatest athletes and performers in the world, they invest in in their development with coaches and trainers that can see things they can't see. Similarly to you, Mick, I have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars on my own growth

Starting point is 00:31:25 because you only know what you know, right? And again, in order to create change, you need to understand what needs changing. I'll go back to what I said. 92% of individuals do not accomplish their goals. If you had what it took to do it by yourself, you would have done it already. So being able to invest in yourself opens possibilities that help you reach your potential and every person needs it, including myself and including you. So I always say the greatest tragedy is wasted human potential. Do not let that be your story.

Starting point is 00:32:01 I love it. I love it. Natalina, I'm going to get you out of here on my quick five, my rapid fire. Five questions. Okay, right. Here we go. Ready? All right.

Starting point is 00:32:10 What's the daily routine that you don't miss for yourself? Something you have to do every day. I pray. Pray to God. Every day. Love it. Love it. Your favorite stage or city you've ever spoken in?

Starting point is 00:32:25 Dubai. I love speaking in Dubai and Las Vegas, right home of Las Vegas. Okay. Some stories. Some stories. All right. Before you go on stage or before you go on stage, Before you walk into a meeting, what's a power song for you that you just, you want to be playing as your theme song?

Starting point is 00:32:44 Like if not, if not Alina had a theme song, what would it be? I don't have so much of a theme song, but the theme that I play in my head is it's not about you. Like, every time I go on stage or I go into a meeting, I always remind myself, like, get rid of the ego. And it's just like, it's not about you. It's about serving. It's about adding value. Okay. You can have a cheat mill.

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Starting point is 00:33:18 Last one. What's one leader, pastor present, that inspires you endless? It's a really good question. I always talk about my parents. Now, my parents weren't leaders of big companies. They didn't have, like, the leadership title. but they were the greatest leaders I had in my life, also my parents, but they both passed away when I was younger,

Starting point is 00:33:44 and they left the best of them with my brothers and I. Most of who we are today is because of our parents. And my dad came to this country when he was 21 years old. He had $20 in his pocket, and he taught my brothers and I to turn sand into gold. And everything that my brothers and I have achieved, both personally and professionally we've done from the ground up because our parents passed before we were old enough to like really go out and do things on our own and because of what they taught us

Starting point is 00:34:17 my brothers are very very successful not just professionally but also as people they're great people and i would i would say that i'm proud to look at myself in the mirror as a woman every day because of them that is that is not alina where can people follow and find you Yeah, so the company is Rise Up for you. You can go to Riseup for you.com. You can also go to at Rise Up For You YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram is where we're at. And then I would love for you to connect with me personally at Neta, Lena Nassardine. Mick, I'm sure you'll put the name in the show notes.

Starting point is 00:34:50 And I'm very active on LinkedIn and Instagram. And I do my own social media. So if you shoot me a message on LinkedIn or Instagram, I will be the one to respond to you, not a bot. Look at that. Natalina, I appreciate you more than you know. I think we need to make this some type of quarterly segment that you and I do. I would love that. I would love it.

Starting point is 00:35:11 Yeah. We're going to make that happen then. Okay. We're going to make that happen. I appreciate you more than you know. Thank you for all that you do. Just truly appreciate the human being that you are. Thank you so much.

Starting point is 00:35:20 I appreciate you. Thank you, everyone. You got it. For all the viewers and listeners, remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it. You've been plugged into Mick Unplugged. Don't just listen. Take action.

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