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Women Lead
Join Nadia Koski, a digital media industry leader and creator, in authentic and empowering - also occasionally hilarious - conversations on Women Lead.
Women Lead is a podcast dedicated to the important leadership topics, challenges, and achievements that professionals, particularly women, experience in the workplace. Through in-depth discussions with guests, Nadia explores what it takes to build your career, lead with empathy, and help the next generation of young leaders rise to take the reins in their industries.
Based in Florence Italy, Nadia Koski brings more than sixteen years of experience as a team leader and global content director at an international digital media and ad tech organization, as well as a background in fashion and artist management, publishing, and digital startups. The podcast explores unique insights from all voices in the global media space, in a refreshing format meant to inform, inspire, and make you laugh.
Women Lead
Unapologetic Holistic Leadership with Shazia Ginai
In this powerful episode of Women Lead, host Nadia Koski sits down with Shazia Ginai, Global VP of Consulting at Lumen Research and founder of Exhale Expand, to explore a career journey defined by courage, reinvention, and deep authenticity. Trained in science and shaped by lived experience, Shazia shares how she carved a path into global leadership while staying grounded in holistic wellbeing and purpose-driven growth.
Together, they unpack the realities of navigating toxic workplace cultures, the pivotal moments that pushed Shazia to define her work on her own terms, and how advocating for women’s health—especially endometriosis—became both a personal mission and a systemic call to action.
Shazia also opens up about the transformative power of yoga, breathwork, and nervous system regulation in leadership, and why building a supportive community of women has been essential to her resilience and confidence. Her mantra, “I am unapologetic about what I want,” becomes a throughline in this conversation, offering a roadmap for women who want to negotiate for more choice, freedom, autonomy, and balance in their careers.
Listeners will walk away with insights on how workplace culture shapes leadership, why self-trust and embodiment matter, and how to advocate for yourself and for others with clarity and courage.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How to recognize the impact of workplace culture on your personal and professional growth, and what authentic leadership can look like even in environments that don’t nurture it.
- Why holistic growth matters, and how practices like yoga, breathwork, and self-awareness can strengthen your leadership presence and decision-making.
- What it truly means to advocate—for yourself, for women’s health, and for your community—and how connection and support can empower you to be unapologetically confident.
This conversation is a reflection on self-trust, inner grounding, and the power of taking a breath—literally and figuratively.
Produced and Hosted by Nadia Koski
Engineered by Phil McDowell / YUNE
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