Paint & Pipette: The Art & Science of Innovation

S3E13: Finding Your Inner Genius with Liz Tran and Aisha Dozie

Dec 18, 2023

58:57

Welcome to this very special edition of The Paint and Pipette Podcast, as we bring you a live coaching session hosted by the remarkable Liz Tran! Liz is a former venture capitalist and team-builder turned spiritual guru and startup coach. Her newest book, The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius, is all about how to connect with your innate intuition. In this episode, you’ll find out how Liz coped with changing the entire concept of her book just six weeks before it was published, the magic of the three S’s, and everything we can learn from Einstein’s process of generating new ideas. Then, we introduce the subject of Liz’s coaching session, Aisha Dozie, the Founder and CEO of Bossy Cosmetics, a beauty brand geared toward igniting confidence in ambitious working women through high-quality, beautifully packaged, cruelty-free cosmetics and topical content. Liz begins the session by asking Aisha a series of rapid-fire questions that help us understand Aisha’s professional background, what motivates her day-to-day, the differences between zones of genius and zones of excellence, and what Aisha can do to amplify her zone of genius on a daily basis. We end with a discussion about when you should and shouldn’t outsource your zone of excellence and why leaps of faith are all about being comfortable with discomfort. Tune in for all this and more!

Key Points From This Episode:

Liz’s account of changing her book’s entire concept just six weeks before publication.
Her experience of writing about deeply personal matters with vulnerability and transparency.
How to assess if you’re connected to your intuition: do you trust yourself?
The three S’s of spaciousness: silence, solitude, and stillness.
What we can learn from the way Einstein brought subconscious ideas to fruition.
Introducing the Founder and CEO of Bossy Cosmetics, Aisha Dozie.
Now for something different: Liz displays her craft in a live coaching session with Aisha!
A series of quick-fire questions to establish Aisha’s base.
Aisha’s professional background and what motivates her in her line of work.
How her role and the relationship with her clients have changed since she started Bossy.
The way she spends her time in any given work week.
Leaps of faith and being comfortable with discomfort.