In this episode of Over The Edge Podcast I speak with Nada Lena.

Nada is a women of multiple hats that believes in diversity and continuous growth. She is the founder of Rise Up For You as well as NLNproductions while maintaining the role of Producer for a non-profit organization called the Young Americans.

Amongst many cool things she is a singer, a performance coach, an educator, a leadership coach, a podcaster, and more.With over 16 years of teaching and mentoring, Nada has been honored to work with over 75,000 young women, adults, and youth worldwide. Through various forms of communication and language she has had the pleasure of uplifting and finding the true potential in individuals helping them maximize their strengths, talent, and inner confidence.Her clientele ranges from youth in incarceration centers, high school youth, successful educators and leaders, and day to day women who are searching for their niche and maximization in their life

Nada began her career as a performer with The Young Americans, singing and dancing. The Young Americans is a non-profit organization and performing group based in Southern California focused on using music to build self-confidence, teamwork and understanding in students and audiences around the world.  After discovering that she had a gift for helping others realize the potential in themselves, Nada transferred into director/educator role with the organization.  She went on to become a top executive with educational corporation while still maintaining her director role with The Young Americans. She has since resigned from her executive role and now coach’s women to be confident and empowered with her business and podcast Rise Up For You.

What is Rise Up For You? A company based around 6 elements- relationships, investing, self-worth, entrepreneurship, love and health. Nada teaches these six elements to clients and encourages them to empower themselves and reach their full potential in all areas. What she calls your perfect 10.

“Confidence in yourself is key to all the other aspects of yourself.”

“Find your level 10 in all areas of your life and strive for it every day.”

How Do You Rise Up For You and Develop Killer Self-Confidence?

 Steps to develop the confidence and clarity.

1. Consider the six elements of your life: relationships, investing, self-worth, entrepreneurship, love and health
2. Grade yourself on all 6 elements to determine where you are on a scale of 1-10 in each category.
3. Ask yourself- what does a 10 in each area look like for me personally?
4. Reflection: Keep asking yourself these questions as you improve in each area. Your level 10 should expand and grow bolder as you do. Keep working towards improvement

Get Over Self Doubt! How?  

Re-engineer your thought patterns – Ask yourself where are these thoughts coming from is?  Why are you doubting yourself? When you go onstage for example- why do you doubt yourself? Have others told you that you don’t speak well? Did you have a stutter? Ask yourself where the self-doubt comes from. Understanding the origins and how skewed the view really is will help you to overcome it.

Boost Your Self- Confidence on a Daily Basis

If you’re not feeling great about yourself, do things that make you feel great! Boost your confidence in this way.

Figure out what you’re great at so you do it more often and gain confidence from your positive performance

Stop the Negative Self-Talk With These 5 Steps

Don’t let negative thoughts sabotage you. Letting them drag you down for days at a time is what holds you back

1st- Stop and reflect (What am I good at? What am I doing well?)

2nd Say these things out loud

3rd Say them to yourself in front of the mirror

4th write them down if possible

5th For every doubt- counter it with 3 positive things about yourself

Nada’s Morning Routine

First, she is ok with not always being so rigid with morning routine but this is what she normally does:

5 minute journal- She writes down 3 affirmations, 3 goals for the day, what makes me happy

Coffee.

Meditates - Uses App Relax Melodies-

Gym after 30-60 minutes

Nada’s Other Positive Habits

    Plans Weeks out ahead of time

    Reviews Weekly Goals daily in her planner

    Builds consistency through routines

    She is over prepared and uses 5 planners to stay on task

Nada’s Top 3 Life and Business Lessons

1. Honesty without compassion is cruelty- practice constructive criticism, think of others feelings when offering criticism or instruction
2. Always keep your hands dirty- know all the aspects of the job and be involved in everything. Be in the trenches with employees
3. Always remember that it’s not about you: “It’s not about you and the minute that it stops being about you, it becomes about you.” Always put others first, always think how I can help the other person.

How does she define success?

 By the level of happiness you have, it’s not about the external factors.

“Success is you consistently going after your dream life” 

Nada’s Top Reads

The Miracle Morning- Hal Elrod, The Alchemist- Paulo Coehlo, currently reading the school of greatness Lewis Howes

Bonus: Nada shares her story of how she climbed Mount Fuji in a typhoon and barely made it out alive!

 What does it take to push you over the edge?

 Commitment

“It’s not if, it’s when. Stay committed even when it gets hard”

 Connect with Nada

Website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Periscope, Pinterest

Subscribe to the Rise Up For You Podcast- iTunes, Stitcher

And Remember

Be kind- think of others before thinking of yourself