Women In The Penthouse
Women In The Penthouse is a transformative podcast hosted by Serena Wang, aiming to redefine the "penthouse life" as a mindset of resilience, courage, and inner strength.
It celebrates stories of women navigating pivotal life transitions, focusing on personal growth, empowerment, and mindfulness. With each episode, listeners are invited into a sisterhood that provides authentic inspiration and support for embracing fearless, limitless, and ageless living.
About the Host:
Serena Wang is a global business leader, an entrepreneur, speaker, and coach who has helped women worldwide break free from societal constraints and rediscover their purpose. With her own journey as a foundation, Serena combines her expertise in business, personal growth, and cross-cultural experiences to inspire others.
Women In The Penthouse
Episode 8: How Your 7-Year-Old Self Shapes Every Choice in Leadership, Love, and Life | Anna Kalbasko
What if your 7-year-old self was still shaping your choices every day — in love, fear, parenting, friendship, and even the way you lead your team? 👧
In this powerful episode, I sit down with Anna Kalbasko — therapist, meditation teacher, and conscious leadership coach — whose Inner Child Healing work transforms hidden wounds into fearless power. From architecture to Thai monasteries to guiding women into emotional resilience, Anna’s journey shows us how to stop abandoning ourselves — and start living, leading, and loving without apology.
🔥We dive into:
→ What Inner Child Work really means and why it matters for fearless leadership
→ How childhood patterns like micromanagement, fear of visibility, and over-responsibility shape us
→ The 3A’s Technique: Acknowledge, Allow, Act
→ Why your 40s and beyond are the perfect season for reinvention
00:00 Intro
04:51 From Architecture to Inner Awareness
06:11 Growing Up With a Stutter → Finding Her Voice
15:44 The Power of Showing Up Imperfectly
22:16 Meditation on a Thai Island: Unlocking Inner Safety
25:56 Designing Your Inner World
28:30 Fearlessness, Redefined
33:38 Two Questions to Stay Fearless
36:50 What Inner Child Work Really Means
44:50 Pandora’s Box: How Deep It Goes
47:08 Childhood Roots of Leadership Patterns — Micromanagement, Fear of Visibility
Over-Responsibility
1:04:53 The 3A’s Technique for Inner Child Healing
1:10:33 Two Daily Questions That Change Everything
1:17:22 Reclaiming Playfulness
1:20:40 Inner Child, True Self & Soul
1:24:11 Breaking Free From Cultural Beliefs
1:30:35 Women’s Leadership & People-Pleasing
1:36:02 Ageless Healing: The Wisdom Age Brings
1:42:39 Ageless Role Models
1:47:51 A Letter to My Future Self
1:51:45 Three Lessons for My 20-Year-Old Self
1:53:55 The Penthouse Rule
Connect with Anna
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna_being_aware
Website: https://www.being-aware.co.uk/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-kalbasko?
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/anna_being_aware
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Email: hello@womeninthepenthouse
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@womeninthepenthouse
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