Meet Samara Zelniker

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We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Samara Zelniker. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Samara below.

Samara, appreciate you joining us today. Parents can play a significant role in affecting how our lives and careers turn out – and so we think it’s important to look back and have conversations about what our parents did that affected us positive (or negatively) so that we can learn from the billions of experiences in each generation. What’s something you feel your parents did right that impacted you positively.

I think that my parents did a lot right in shaping me into the person that I am today. Specifically as it relates to career, my parents are entrepreneurs so my brother and I joke that growing up in our household was like receiving an MBA. What this created was an intrinsic belief that I could do anything that I set my mind to coupled with hard work. I hold that with me today as I have built a career in the coaching space and continuously push myself out of my comfort zone.

An example of this is when I started out my career (in the fashion industry) I thought that I would start working for my mother who is a titan in the fashion industry. To my surprise, when I shared with her that I wanted to start working in the industry, she sais ‘ok, go get a job!’. I ended up working for a competitor of hers and gaining invaluable experience in the world of fashion.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am passionate about building emotionally intelligent leaders through tools in mindfulness and neuroscience. After a decade of experience in the fashion industry, I realized that I was miserable and took a steep turn into the world of wellness.

I knew that I could be fulfilled by my life and career and help others do the same, I just didn’t know how. After an injury, a yoga teacher training and a ton of self-reflection, I left my job to start Mindfulness Matters and never looked back. Now, I work with high achieving women who want to create a shift in their lives and impact in the world.

I am an SIY certified teacher, the leadership and development program born at Google, and a certified coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. Teaching yoga will always be my first love. In addition to one-on-one coaching, I host quarterly day-long wellness retreats catering to busy professionals, while partnering with up and coming wellness brands. I also launched and run The Shift, a six-month program catered to high-performing women looking to align with a life and career they absolutely love. I have been featured as a leadership expert in Forbes, Business Insider, and The Coveteur, and have served as a panelist and speaker at several conferences and podcasts. I am a native of Montreal, Canada, and live in Los Angeles with my husband, son, and dog Frankie.

I am launching something exciting soon so follow along on @mindfulnessmatters IG to find out more!

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

Absolutely! I had to unlearn perfectionism and adopt the mantra that ‘done is better than perfect”. In the earlier days of putting out mindfulness courses, content and materials for clients, I worried about things needing to always be perfect or know the answers to all of their questions. I learnt humility and started to understand that what I put out did not need to look or be perfect in order to help my clients.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

Be authentic and show up consistently – your audience wants to feel as though you actually care and that they can relate to you or learn from you in some way or another.

Contact Info:

Website: https://www.mindfulnessmatters.ca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfulnessmatters/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samara-zelniker-80b18018/

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Meet Samara Zelniker

Meet Samara Zelniker

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As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

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