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Connie-Lee Bennet trains people to be authentic leaders. With her 7 steps process to authenticity, she aims to empower humans to change the world. "We're talking about authenticity in terms of connecting people to love", she says. Imagine a world where our businesses were created from that authentic space of who we are rather than what other people outside of us have told us to do. https://youtu.be/2Fi_WWCHPOA Watch the full conversation between storytellers Connie-Lee Bennett and Albert Bonet. I enjoyed this conversation so much. It helped me learn about authenticity, and how people let our traumas from the past dim our true self behind a layer of conditioning. There is no right and there is no wrong. There are only actions that are in alignment with your truth and actions that are out of alignment with your truth. It's about me being that spirit with you in this moment, no matter what I'm wearing, no matter what you think of me. Because your thoughts of me are just seen from your filter. You can find Connie-Lee Bennett on her website and on Instagram. READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT: ALBERT: So here I am, in Paris, meeting this wonderful wonderful leader, Connie-Lee Bennett. Thank you so much, Connie-Lee, for accepting my invitation to record his interview.CONNIE-LEE: It's my honour, really. Thank you very much for inviting me.ALBERT: And rather than introducing you, I'm going to just ask the question that you always ask everybody. Who are you?CONNIE-LEE: You know, when I first started with that, "who are you?" question, I never realised that whenever people interviewed me, they were gonna ask me the same thing. So you gotta be careful what you put out there. Thank you for asking that question, because it's different who I am and what I do. So who I am really is somebody who's passionate about impacting the world in connecting or impacting the world so that people can connect with the authentic leader that they are. Because I believe everyone is an authentic leader. And what I do, how I do that is I have many different hats, like many leaders around the world, I think. I'm the CEO of Meraki CLB group. We have online academy. We do coaching. We do authentic leadership training. We do workshops. Annual events. Also have Meraki charity, which really looks at empowering women to start authentic businesses. And I am of course an international public speaker and the Director of Global Woman Club here in France. I'm an author, TV show host, radio host and all round impact all over the world.ALBERT: Wonderful. So I have many, many, many questions to ask you.CONNIE-LEE: I'm gonna sit back. I'm gonna sit back wayALBERT: We're going to be here for 5 hours. Can we have some drinks here?CONNIE-LEE: Like glass of wine . An authentic leader likes her wine.ALBERT: Exactly. So the thing that most called my attention about you is this authentic leadership training. You train people to be authentic. That is so cool because I'm learning about authentic storytelling. So how do you do that?CONNIE-LEE: Great question.ALBERT: I'm sorry. I have a feeling this answer is going to go on for, like twenty minutes.CONNIE-LEE: So I'll give you the two minute answer. Great. Well, let's look at the definition of, an authentic leader. To me, an authentic leader is someone, like Tony Robbins says, "the only way we feel fulfilled is through growth and contribution". So I was really inspired by that on it became the cornerstone of my training. So my training is in two parts. One is about growing, growing into who you are. Really looking at peeling off those layers because we've put those layers on to protect ourselves. So we've kind of put those layers on, you know about "in order to be accepted, I need to be more intelligent, I need to be more beautiful, I need to have this car, I need to have this, I need to earn that money".So it's really looking at identifying all those places where you are not connected with who you authentically are,...