Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and wellbeing. She helps women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing forward their ideas in work and in life. Tara is the creator of the Playing Big leadership programme for women, which now has more than 1000 graduates from around the world. Her book, Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message, named a best book of 2014 by Apple’s iBooks, shares her pioneering model from the acclaimed leadership programme for making the journey from playing small, being held back by fear and self-doubt, to playing big, taking bold action to pursue what you see as your callings.

A Coaches Training Institute-certified coach with an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in English literature from Yale, Tara takes a unique approach that blends inner work and practical skills training. Her work has been featured in the media from The New York Times to Harvard Business Review, and has captivated women from all walks of life including Maria Shriver, Jillian Michaels and Elizabeth Gilbert. Download her free 10 Rules for Brilliant Women Workbook here.

TARA'S FAVOURITE SITES

Makers - The Largest Video Collection of Women’s Stories online. I have cried many times watching these videos. Browse the collection and you’ll discover women you’ve never heard of before who become new sources of inspiration. You’ll also likely find some of your longtime heroes there, sharing new stories and lessons learned you haven’t heard from them before.

MarieForleo.com - Marie is a creative force and for me, a powerful example of a woman who is sharing her gifts with the world and is at home with her financial power. I think we all need to see more of those examples! Her weekly videos for entrepreneurs are dynamic, entertaining, and extremely practical and helpful.

Liz Gilbert’s Facebook page - If you aren’t over there yet, go visit! Liz shares beautiful, heartfelt, moving writing there very regularly, and is nurturing an authentic conversation with her readers.

Insights at the Edge Podcast - Host, Tami Simon is the founder and CEO of the pioneering spirituality publishing house Sounds True. She’s a thoughtful, super smart interviewer who goes into great depth in these one hour conversations with some of the world’s most forward thinking authors and teachers.

Oprah OCourses - Oprah.com now offers some wonderful on-demand personal growth courses with teachers such as Brene Brown and Arianna Huffington. What I love about these courses is they don’t just offer information – they also include all kinds of exercises to ensure you really learn and get to practise new ways of thinking and doing.

The Good Life Project by Jonathan Fields - This weekly podcast series with Jonathan Fields inspires me time and time again. Fields manages to discover the most fascinating entrepreneurs, artists, thinkers and activists and in his interviews, tracks their personal journeys and explores with them the question of what it truly means to live a good life.

24 June 2015