Cindy Scott is Canadian born and has spent half of her life living in Australia. She has a son who has been her greatest life achievement. She is very familiar with navigating challenges and managing change; the perfect training ground to empower and enable others.

She is an author, speaker, coach and creator, passionate about women’s empowerment, leadership, resilience, emotional intelligence and well-being.

She is a multi-passionate entrepreneur utilizing her unique blend of talents and experience to empower women to see their potential, navigate life’s major transitions and take proactive steps to living a vibrant, beautiful, purposeful life.

Cindy is the Founder and CEO of Evolving Women Co, a platform for women who are experiencing change and uncertainty and seeking sanctuary to take pause, to breathe {deeply}, skill-up and flourish.

A former corporate leader, human resources professional, leadership development consultant, facilitator and certified Executive Coach for some of Australia’s foremost leaders and companies and creator of her signature women’s leadership program, Strive; Real Women, Real Power. She holds a degree and post-grad in health science and human resource management and is a certified and seasoned coach.

Cindy is sitting down with The Corporate Escapists and sharing with us what the word EMPOWER means to her.

Thank you for joining us here at The Corporate Escapists. Please introduce yourself to our reader. They love to know about you, your passion, and how you came to find and follow your passion.

At the start of 2020, I was merrily traversing through life, running my business, planning my wedding and thinking my life couldn’t get much better. Just 6 weeks out from my wedding I went for a routine mammogram and ultrasound and discovered I had breast cancer for a second time. In that instant, my world pirouetted (females version of pivoting) and I came crumbling down. Simultaneously, COVID was taking centre stage around the globe which demanded we cancel our wedding as I headed into self-isolation in the lead up to chemotherapy.

Amidst 1.5 years of treatment for cancer, I wrote a book called the Healing Journal for women journeying with cancer, created an online course, developed a range of cancer gifts and host a podcast called ‘Rethinking Cancer’. Through my darkest days, I decided to create the tools and resources I wished I’d had when I was first diagnosed so I could activate the power of my mind to heal fully from cancer.

As an successful entrepreneur please share your view point if you believe that entrepreneurs are born or made?

I believe entrepreneurs are born. In order to succeed, one must have fire in the belly, a vision, thick skin, determination and a healthy relationship with risk. Not everyone is born with these traits nor a desire to do what it takes to succeed in business. Just the other day my son said to me… Mum, I have no desire to do what you do, to be in business. I’d rather work for someone else. To which I replied, that’s great to have such self-awareness at your age.

Nelson Mandela once quoted – ‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.’  What has been one fear you have overcome?