🎬 Today’s Guest Piera Gelardi was the former Co-Founder and Creative Director of Refinery 29 - a media company focused to inspire women and diversify their image in the media industry. 💡Today she will teach you practices on how you can be more self-compassionate, how that will impact your success in a positive way, how you can use play and creativity to solve challenges and how to better find your authentic self. 💛 If you’d subscribe to Growth Essentials you’d help tremendously in order for me to get more amazing people on this show! I’d be more than grateful for your support! Topics: 00:00 - Intro 01:21 - Growing up 05:08 - Productivity & Pressure 07:48 - How to not feel guilty 9:51 - Success & Self Compassion 14:13 - Her toughest moment 15:35 - How creativity can help us to get unstuck 18:26 - How to introduce play into your life 25:27 - How to build confidence 26:36 - How to build creativity 27:06 - How to explore your authenticity 36:39 - Her Craziest Pinch Me Moment 38:03 - Her Favourite Play Activity 39:05 - Something she wished to know earlier in life 39:35 - Her next steps Piera: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pieraluisa/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3BBacaY Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/r5jJLhLfmXw Follow for more: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3EVaPOD Linkedin: http://bit.ly/3XnD3ZD --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/growthessentials/message