Tired of being a good girl? Kasia Urbaniak on how to unbind yourself - English | Episode 13

In this immensely engaging conversation, I’m talking with Kasia
Urbaniak, the founder and CEO of The Academy - A School of Power
for Women, and author of the book Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To
Power. Kasia brings a truly unique approach to her work, which is
teaching women the foundations of power and influence and is
supporting them to step into leadership positions in their
relationships, families, workplaces and wider communities.


Over the course of nearly 20 years, she has worked as
professional Dominatrix, practiced Taoist alchemy in one of the
oldest female-led monasteries in China and obtained dozens of
certifications in different disciplines, including Medical Qi
Gong and Systemic Constellations.


In this episode Kasia reveals some of the invisible but
significant ways that ‘good girl’ conditioning shows up in our
life, and how this can lead to so much of a woman’s energy going
into physical, emotional and energetic labor in a very
unconscious way. The result? Often exhaustion, frustration,
feeling unseen and unacknowledged and not having rightful time to
tend to passion projects and personal goals.


We discuss the meaning of power, and Kasia offers very
interesting insights into how woman can use their voice to
respond to power imbalance and recover their sovereignty and
decision making capacities. Along with many other fascinating and
exciting explorations, we also talk about the pitfalls of
aspiring to be selfless, and how being selfish in a way that
feels good actually better equips us to see the positive impacts
we desire.