Break Your Limitations & Exceed Your Expectations with Dion Johnson

Becoming Unapologetically Me with Helen Norbury

Becoming Unapologetically Me is the podcast for people who know there is more stuck inside them and they want to find a way to release it.

In this episode, host Helen Norbury speaks to the amazing Dion Johnson. She shares how she is a woman in a man’s world; a black woman in a white man’s world; a Christian in a secular world. And facially different in a beauty conscious world.

Dion was born with a pronounced facial disfigurement and spent a lot of time in hospital having corrective surgery. At the age of four she was gifted an artificial eye and dark glasses. Not to help her see - she is blind in her left eye - but to help her blend in, to look more "normal". To be apologetic for who she is.

At the age of 4 Dion learnt a powerful lesson; that if something is wrong with you, or broken, or different or flawed, you hide it, put it away, keep it out of sight.

That lesson followed her throughout her life until her forties when, through a random set of events, she found herself at rock bottom, with her hands in the air, crying out to God to tell her what the heck was going on.

Over the years Dion has come to see how masking and hiding those parts, as so many of us do in order to fit in and be acceptable in senior leadership, is not just energetically expensive and draining personally, it saps our power to lead and influence.

In this powerful episode, Helen and Dion discuss the importance of women rising above the challenges of senior leadership, to quit hiding and backing away from the work that we are being called to take on, and to truly show up as the initiators, innovators and influencers of the kind of change that really matters in our ailing world.

Key Takeaways

• The vulnerability and power of women in the delivery room parallels leadership and the board room. Authenticity carries great responsibility.
• There is no greater gift than to know yourself and to be yourself; and no greater joy than to stand in this truth.
• When we can recover from centuries of abuse, silencing, scrutiny and being treated as second-rate citizens, then women can rise up and connect to creating a change for the greater good.
• We need to work to address the misunderstanding of womanity - the elegance, potency, love and need for women to continue standing for the greater good. Let’s rewrite what a strong executive is to bring in womanity.
• We are the stewards of the feminine - that’s our superpower.
  

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