Episode 16: Erana Severne-Takataka

Erana Severne-Takataka has a calling on her life for leadership like no-one I've ever met. She believes that leaders create more leaders, and this episode dives into the mindsets, attitudes and beliefs for living a purpose driven life she loves making a massive impact on the world around her. What I loved most about this episode was Erana's acceptance of the duality in life and how she navigates emotions and uncertainty with radical self-belief and determination to make a positive contribution to the world.  

Erana is currently Operations Manager and Project Lead at the Wise Group, where she brings her visionary perspective to three transformational community projects. She was recently featured in ‘Womankind’: a book profiling 50 women making a difference in Aotearoa. Through Covid-19, Erana was a key player in the strategy to distribute over 457,000 meals to families in need over nine weeks. At the same time, Erana also co-led the development of a local initiative called ‘Here to help u’, which has revolutionised how people access social and wellbeing support. In just over a year and through the combined efforts of partners, providers and volunteers; almost 9,000 people have received the full support they needed, and ‘Here to help u’ is now growing into other areas and regions. Previously Erana worked at the DHB, developing successful projects to support Māori workforce development and healthy homes. The healthy homes project Erana led, significantly reduced avoidable child hospital admissions.

The whakatauki she lives by?

Koi te mata punenga, maiangi the mata pūihoiho
Imagine the invisible | Realise the potential | Defy the impossible

We dive into:

• The healing journey from miscarriage 
• How to handle difficult things head on
• How service creates moments of authentic living
• How to reframe life experiences to empower yourself  
• Mental freedom through embracing your strengths 
• Finding the light in yourself
• The new paradigm of leadership
• The three keys to great self-leadership
• Finding confidence and self-belief in uncertainty 
• Beliefs and narratives that create greatness
• The importance of zooming out from stressful situations 
• The importance of creating space for others to fall
• How to reframe mistakes
• Balancing over balance
• Honouring your own needs and the needs of those close to you
• How to reframe mistakes
• The importance of acting with good intention and being tika

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This is the final episode of the first season of this podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in, and I can't wait to bring more audible juice through in 2022 to support you to brighten up your life from the inside out.