“That was it. That was the life-changing moment.”
Here’s a snippet from episode 6 of the third season of the Women in Transport podcast, in which Lead alumni Laura Tofts talks us through how she has felt the power of the programme in even the most unlikely of places.
Click below to hear Laura’s story, or you can also find the transcript below.
Transcript
Laura: I remember reading about Lead and it was a comment from someone who'd been in an earlier cohort and they said it was life-changing and I laughed. You go on leadership training, you read the blurb and you think, yeah, okay, whatever. It is, plain and simple.
You know, we talk about light-bulb moments. There was a moment for me that I’d like to share because it summed it up for me.
I had a coaching session that had come off the back of one of the exercises that we'd done for Lead. And I'd been rushing because I was going to get my hair done and I was sat in the hairdresser's chair and I'm just waiting on the hairdresser and I'm flicking through my phone. And it was a little meme that came up and it said, “You deserve to work somewhere that brings out the softness in you, not the survivor”.
And I cried, I remember sitting there feeling cold and emotional and crying in the hairdressers because yes, we do. And I realised that that was the thing that had changed in the mindset that I had. And that was the point, that Lead had got me to there. And then, you know, I get a visceral reaction even just talking about it.
That was it. That was the life-changing moment. That was the bit that I then realized why I was there and why I was doing it.
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