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The One About Resting + Resiliency with Komal Minhas
One of the top recommended guests ever for our podcast, Komal is here! Komal Minhas is a curator of powerful experiences and conversations. She is a host, interviewer, investor, and champion of women around the world. She is also a cancer survivor and a chronic illness advocate. What Komal is doing is leveraging her varied and difficult life experiences, along with her background as a business owner and journalist, to deeply connect with her guests and global audience through her talk show Lessons Learned. A recent career highlight for Komal was interviewing Michelle Obama in front of an audience of 8,000 for Michelle’s Canadian stadium tour. In 2016, Komal produced the documentary film, Dream, Girl, about inspiring and ambitious female entrepreneurs that premiered at the Obama White House and landed her on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100 list. Now, Komal is launching her resilience-building online program, The Next Right Step: Organize Your Mind and Life, where she will interview industry-leading experts and thought leaders and facilitate workshops helping you create a holistic blueprint for your next steps in life.
Follow Komal on IG @KomalMinhas, or visit her website www.komal.com for more.
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