perfection

Today's guest is Pia Stanchina. I saw a post she'd made on Instagram that was so admirably vulnerable that I just had to DM her and invite her onto the podcast. Pia is so inspiring, and I know you'll walk away from this podcast with a new feeling of acceptance for who you are.

Pia has successfully transitioned careers multiple times and now works primarily as a life and business coach for women who want to create a life, business, and career that they truly love. She has looked after fashion, beauty and luxury clients at Google, co-founded a Rocket Internet beauty subscription start-up, and trained at Central Saint Martins in fashion design. Nowadays, she is a self-partnered single mom, motivational speaker on innovation and reinvention, self-compassion activist and a gluten- & dairy-free foodie.

Listen as we discuss:

• How an Instagram post Pia made - while at her worst, rather than her best - inspired me to reach out to her
• Life pulling the rug from underneath you when all seems to be going well
• Her battle with coronavirus, financial difficulties, and self-compassion
• The realization that she was living as a performance: finding "excuses to be here"
• Why do we push ourselves so hard?
• Life as broken down into chapters with distinct themes
• A change around the stigma of discussing mental health since COVID-19
• Why perfection cannot possibly have only one definition
• Growing up multiracial and never feeling a connection to a home
• An amazing exercise she does with her daughter to build confidence
• What it's like to be a woman and feel flawed, and why finding yourself is the key
• Menstrual cycles and how they show life and growth is not linear, but cyclical

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