The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Niti Nadarajah, gender and racial equity advocate, coach and mentor Ep 43.
Welcome to The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show. Each week, I interview amazing people, who share their inspiring stories of resilience. Enjoy our dive deep into educational and amazing insights as I explore the stories of my special guests, learning how they have overcome adversity in their lives.
In each session, together we can learn actionable tools that can help us elevate our mindset, seeing our setbacks as an opportunity to grow to the next stage of our lives. No matter what we are going through, we can overcome it, and discover what we are made of.
To Bend Like Bamboo is to be flexible in our mindset, and when we can transform our ‘story’ we can also change our minds about what can be possible in our minds, bodies, and lives.
Introducing Niti Nadarajah.
Discovering your inner compass & vulnerability.
Niti Nadarajah is a coach, freelance general counsel and DEI consultant and keynote speaker based in Melbourne with a passion for authentic and inclusive leadership.
She advocates for a range of issues including gender and racial equity, and through her business, Coaching by Niti, helps to empower women who are feeling stuck in their careers to get unstuck by connecting them to their inner compass.
She was recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice (Gender Equity) in 2022 and advises various companies and charities as an expert & Mentor.
Niti is also a certified Master NLP practitioner, Coach and Gender Equality Expert with Grace Papers, DEI practitioner on the NASA Astrophysics IDEA practitioner database, legal adviser to, and consultant with, The Creative Co-operative, an angel investor at Nobody Studios, a founding member and DEI Ambassador at Human Leaders, a Mentor at Future Women (recently awarded Mentor of the Year), a Peer Support Companion at The Pink Elephants Support Network and Community Partner for White Ribbon (Australia) and mum to two.
Learn more about Niti’s story, and his business in the podcast and live video on YouTube below.
Niti Nadarajah.
Niti’s definition of resilience when she was young was all about persisting, making it through everything, and not letting things affect her. Niti developed an ‘allergy’ to vulnerability. She believed that it was a weakness to show how she was feeling, and her emotional side.
Growing up with an Indian background and community, talking about mental health was not a thing, like it is in Australia. Niti has feared judgement, and has held back expressing herself as a result.
When Niti was 2w1 years old, her grandfather who lived with her and the family, passed away. I was told that I had to be strong for my dad and family, so I cried when no was was watching, and held it together externally. I armoured myself externally, and suppressed the inner turmoil in the inside and an inner conflict brewed within me.
I experienced two pregnancy losses, and I became more aware of how this was affecting my stress levels and my health. Now I try to face the things I have to overcome in my life, but I also make ‘truce’ with them to create more harmony in my mind and my body. One day, a colleague of mine asked if I was ok, mentioning that I did not appear to be myself. I know in that moment, I could choose to suppress how I really felt, or I could open and be honest. Choosing to be honest and expressing what I was going through, was so powerful for me, it helped me to release the inner pressure and I became more open and vulnerable within myself, and with others.
Now I see vulnerability as a strength, and it allows me to heal helping other women to express themselves in my volunteer role with Pink elephant Foundation, and various other roles I have in the community. This gives my work more meaning and purpose.
Discovering your inner compass, is the way to vulnerability, and it is a journey of self discovery that has opened up my inner world, how I show up in my life and the experiences I attract.
These are important questions that I ask myself:
What am I running from? My attempt to be able to feel like I belong, especially as an Indian woman living in Australia.
What guides me? To feel loved, connection and purpose.
What do I am for? To discover who I am and expressing that.
What do I value? Giving back.
When you find yourself looking for the answers you seek externally, look within.
Niti’s tips:
Incrementally get to know yourself better, make time, slow down, destress & reflect.
Find your people - coach / therapist that can help you to see what it is not in your awareness.
Don’t rush it, the magic happens in the in-between moments.
Learn more about Niti’s amazing story, and her business in the podcast and live video on YouTube below.
You can also listen to the interview on the Bend Like Bamboo Resilience podcast
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