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The Real Resume: Why Your Hardest Chapters Are Your Greatest Qualification
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A note before you listen: this episode contains references to violence, grief, loss, and financial hardship. It is also one of the most honest conversations I've ever had on this show. If you're in a place where those topics feel heavy right now, come back to it when you're ready. It will be here.
Episode Summary:
Have you been treating your story like it is something to overcome? Like once you are far enough away from it, once you have enough credentials, enough money, enough distance, then you’ll finally be ready to build the life you actually want.
This episode is Ameera’s most personal to date. For the first time, she shares the full story behind The Designed Life losing her father at two, growing up as the daughter of immigrants, being bullied for every visible difference, learning business from a brother who went bankrupt and built again, navigating a terrifying episode, grief, a career pivot at 38, motherhood, burnout, and starting a new business at 50.
She makes the case that your hardest chapters are not liabilities. They're your lived experience, your real resume, and the evidence that you can do the hard thing in front of you because look at everything behind you. If you have been waiting until you feel ready, this episode will change how you define “ready.” Listen now. And then write your hindsight list.
Highlights:
[00:00] | This Episode Is DifferentWhy Ameera is telling her story now, and the friend who held the mirror.
[04:26] | The Three Women Listening Right Now The misaligned performer, the woman with the shelved plan, and the woman who was pushed.
[08:16] | The Inflection Point Is Structural AI, job displacement, and why the women who design now will lead what comes next.
[15:53] | What Business and Grief Taught Me Family business -success to bankruptcy, cold calling from a phone book, and a sister lost to cancer.
[17:02] | The Day I’ve Never Spoken About An Emergency call, and the moment that proved she wasn't helpless.
[24:12] | Your Story Is Not in the Way, It Is the Way The central reframe: your lived experience is your greatest qualification.
[27:37] | What Leading Your Next Chapter Actually Means Not burning it down, making the next right decision from strength instead of fear.
[33:22] | A Message to the Woman Who KnowsThe closing: you're more qualified than you think, and you don’t have to do it alone.
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Hi, welcome to The Designed Life. I'm Amira. Today's episode is a little different. I need to tell you that up front because I want you to know what you're walking into. This is not an episode where I'm going to teach you a framework or walk you through a practice. This is a conversation where I share with you who I am. Not the bio, not the credentials, the actual story, or at least a piece of it that I've never fully told. And here's why I'm telling it now. A few weeks ago, I was sitting with a dear friend, someone who has known me for many years, 20 plus years, and we were talking about life and career and family. And she asked about my business, about this season that I'm in of building and scaling a new business at the age of 51. And I got to be very real with her, as I always am. And I told her that I love what I do, but it's also really hard. That some days the weight of building something from scratch is heavy. And there are times where you just question yourself and you wonder, is it worth it? Is this something that I really want to create at this point in my life? And for me, the answer is always a resounding yes. But I can't lie and say the question doesn't pop into my head every now and then. And she said something that stopped and gave me pause. She said, Amira, if I were ever looking for a coach or a mentor or an advisor in a time of change, you're the first person that comes to mind. And I'm not saying that because you're my dear friend or because of your education, although all of your credentials are so impressive, but because of what you've walked through. And I don't think people know what you've been through. I don't think you've ever shared that openly, or that you fully recognize how astonishing and rare it really is. And I had to sit with that for a moment because she was holding the mirror up. And as someone who holds the mirror up for others and calls them higher, it's not always easy for me to take that medicine, to see myself through her eyes. I took that as an invitation to share some of my story with you today, to show you that the woman sitting across from you in these episodes, the one who is asking you to bet on yourself, to design your life, to trust the next chapter, that she's also done it again and again from a place of heartache and grief and loss that has been rebuilt into something beautiful and very fulfilling. I know you have a story too. I know you do. Maybe it's one that you haven't fully owned yet or recognized. Like I haven't recognized my own until my friend called it up for me. But that story of yours is actually your greatest qualification for the life that you're trying to build or that you're dreaming of building. So if you're listening and you have been dimming your story or your light, editing out the parts that are hard or perhaps even ugly, minimizing what you have survived because you were taught that talking about it is boastful and would turn people off, or that it may come across as self-pitying. I would love for you to consider this episode as an invitation to give yourself permission to appreciate your story, not as baggage, but as evidence of what you're capable of. Before I go any further, I'd love to ask you to reflect on this. What is the one thing in your story that you have never given yourself full credit for surviving? The thing that if you looked at it honestly, would make you think, my God, I can do hard things. I am strong and resilient. Let me share who I think is listening right now. I believe there's a woman listening who goes to work every day and feels like she's performing a version of herself that she doesn't really recognize anymore. Maybe she sits in meetings at a company in a job where the values no longer align with her values or her vision. Or she works for a leader who does not see her or appreciate her. Perhaps she delivers excellent work, but she watches people who deliver less get promoted faster. And maybe every Sunday night something in her stomach tightens a little bit and she dreads Monday morning because she's got to get up and do it all over again. This woman is succeeding on paper. She's showing up and doing her best work, but she's misaligned. And misalignment when it goes on for too long starts to feel like a slow erosion of your spirit, of who you actually are. Then there's another woman listening who already knows what she wants to do. She has the idea, she has the skill. Maybe she even has a business plan that she's sketched out for herself, or she's taken notes on her phone over time, but she's never shown it to anyone. The thing is, she has not moved. Because between the idea and the action, I can see her standing in a valley of fear. The fear of financial instability, of what people will think and say, the fear that maybe she's not qualified enough or doesn't have enough experience or she doesn't have the credentials. There's fear that she'll try and maybe fail. And then what would people say? And then there's a woman listening who has already been pushed. She didn't choose the inflection point. It chose her. A layoff came, a restructuring happened. A company decided her role was redundant, or she's navigating a loss. And now she's standing in a gap that she didn't ask for, she didn't prepare for, and she's trying to figure out what comes next while the ground feels shaky beneath her. I see and feel all three of you because I have been all three of you. I have been where you are standing right now. And here's what I want to say about this moment in particular, not just your personal moment that you're in right now, but the cultural moment that we are all standing in. We are living through the most significant disruption to the nature of work since the industrial revolution. And it's not coming, it's already here. Artificial intelligence is reshaping entire industries at a pace that no one, not the experts, not the CEOs, not the creators, not the futurists, can fully predict. The World Economic Forum's 2025 Future of Jobs report projects that 92 million jobs will be displaced globally by 2030, while 170 million new ones will be created. That sounds like a net positive, and it is, but there is a part that has not been put in the headlines. The jobs being lost and the jobs being created are not the same. They don't require the same skills, and they disproportionately affect women. A higher percentage of women in the United States currently work in roles that are at a high risk of automation. And I am not saying this to scare you. I am saying this to wake you up. Because it woke me up. If you have been sitting at your desk thinking, is this it? Is this my life? Is this my career? Is this my business? If you have been full, if you have been feeling the pull towards something more meaningful, more yours, more aligned with who you're becoming and what you wish to create in this world, the world is confirming what your body and spirit already knows. This inflection point is not just personal, it is structural. And the women who design their next chapter now, not react to it later, not wait it out, but design it with intention. Those are the women who will lead what comes next. So if something in you just thought she's talking about me, and then you also thought, but I'm not ready and I don't know what to do. Hold on to that feeling for a moment. You don't have to be ready. But today we're going to talk about that, how to separate the truth and the story we tell ourselves. Let's reflect for a moment on what is the move that you've been thinking about making? What's the design that you have been shelving for someday? I'd love for you to just name that for yourself. You don't have to share it with anyone else, but name it for yourself. I know for me, there have been times in my career where I thought, well, I really need to look for that new role. Or I should really go take that course that I've been thinking about. Or I should really start the business now, not wait for a better time. Or I should start the business now while I'm working full-time so that my income can fuel my business. Maybe it's starting a family, maybe it's starting a relationship, whatever you have been thinking about doing that you've been feeling called to do in your spirit, in your heart. It's a full-body yes for you, but you keep shelving it for someday. Just name that for yourself. Now, I want to for a moment go back to the beginning because I think you need to know where I came from before you can trust where I'm taking you in this conversation. Some of you know me, and you already know this from having heard me in previous episodes. My family are immigrants from South Africa, people of color, and we are part of the Muslim faith. My family left South Africa because of oppression, because the country they loved was no longer a place that would let them live in security. My parents had very little formal education. They ran a hair salon back home, so they were entrepreneurs. And they came to Canada with a dream of creating a better life, a life of safety and prosperity with good education for their children. My father, and this is something I carry with a lot of tenderness, my father was an entrepreneur in his blood. With in a year of arriving in Canada, he started a hardware store. He was not well, but nobody knew how sick he was. And I like to think that had he been given the chance to pursue that passion, that hardware store would have been something quite extraordinary. I was born two years after they immigrated. And when I was two and a half years old, my father died of cancer. He was in his early 40s and my mother was in her late 30s with four children, no business, no steady income, and no roadmap. I don't remember my father, but I remember the grief that his absence created. There was a feeling to it. It had a texture. It was in the air that we breathed. There was almost like a heaviness in our home for a long time. My mom got a job with the government, and that was in large thanks to her sister, my aunt. And that job was our saving grace. It put food on the table and a roof over our heads. And my mom worked hard. I remember spending a lot of my childhood hours between babysitters and at my grandmother's house while my mom was at work. I was in a French immersion school, a Catholic French immersion school, which for a young Muslim girl is a well out of context. And I was one of very few children of color. Thankfully, I had my cousin. We were one year apart, and she is like a sister to me, and I felt like we were joint at the hit at that time. And I'm so grateful for her. I remember being bullied. I was bullied for my name, the way I looked, the way I dressed, for my hair, for the fact that I had bushy eyebrows, for being different in every visible way. I learned very early on what it feels like to be on the outside of a room looking in and wishing that I could just be like all the other girls with blonde hair and blue eyes. And then there was entrepreneurship. My eldest brother started a business and I watched him. He had inherited a responsibility from my father before he died, which was take care of your family. You're the man of the house now. What a heavy thing to put on a young boy. And he carried it. He carried it throughout his whole life. He built businesses. He failed more than once. He went bankrupt and he built again. He never gave up. Eventually, we were promoting Tony Robbins. Tony was fairly new back then, building his name. And I was young and trying to learn everything, but also trying to experience my own sense of freedom. I was learning from the business what it takes to fill a room to sell an idea to cold call strangers from a phone book because there was no internet or social media or digital marketing. There was a newspaper ad, a billboard ad, the radio, and a prayer. I learned from mentorship. I was in rooms with Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Maya Angelou, studying what they were teaching, absorbing everything I could about human behavior and belief systems and what it takes to create a life for yourself. And I was also learning the hard lessons about a business and what happens when the money dries up, when an event doesn't sell, when sponsors don't come through, when bankruptcy is not hypothetical, but an actual number staring at you on the page. There were moments where the family income, saved for my mom's job, dropped to zero and we had to start again. I learned the tenacity it takes to create a life and business and career that sustains you, but that also brings you joy and fulfillment. I also learned what not to do. There were a lot of cautionary tales that I took with me. All of those have served me. And then in 2008, as our business was growing and starting to thrive, my sister was diagnosed with brain cancer. And she passed away a year and a half later. I was still fairly newly wed. I was working in the business, and within a year and a half of her diagnosis, she was gone. My niece was 16. My mother, our family was devastated. And I was trying to hold my marriage, my work, and my family together while the ground and my heart were falling away. I'm getting emotional. We never fully grieved that loss. I think grief has a way of going underground when there was no space for it. We just kept moving. We kept working. And I think what happened next was, in part, all of that unprocessed grief coming to a head because shortly after, there was a day I have never spoken about publicly. We were in our office in downtown Toronto. It was a big open loft space. It was very beautiful and a gorgeous space to come to work every day. And my two brothers were in their offices, and I was at my desk at the far end of the office. I think most of our staff had left for the day. It was the end of the day. And I was about three months pregnant with my daughter, and we were planning what was to be our most iconic event ever. And I remember my brother had taken on some investors to help make this event a reality. And one of the investors in particular was impatient to have his money back. And on that particular day, two young men walked through the front door. And I saw them walk in from afar, and they had hoodies on. And I knew the way your body knows before your mind can catch up. And my heart sank into my stomach. And it was before I knew what was what, they were in the office, they were in my brother's office, and I heard him yelling, and I heard the sound of him being hit and punched. My other brother ran quickly from his office to help. And I picked up the phone and called 911. When those two men realized both my brothers were fighting back, and I yelled across the office, the police are on their way. They ran. My brother had a gash on his head. The police came, they took a report, they took photos, and we reported that we felt we knew who had sent these two men as intimidation. I was pregnant. I was standing in an open office with no wall between me and violence and my brother being attacked and feeling helpless. And the thing I remember most is this. Though I wanted to freeze, I did not freeze. I called. My voice, in part, was one of the reasons they left. My other brother standing up and fighting back was one of the reasons they left. I did not know it at the time, but that moment taught me something that I've carried into every hard thing since. When the worst thing is happening in your life, you are not helpless. Your voice counts. It matters. Your instincts are there. You are not a bystander in your own story. I learned later through a therapist that I was working with that the body remembers. The body remembers, she told me. And if there's something in your body that still holds a memory that you have not spoken about, it is not a weakness. It is evidence that you survived. And surviving is what matters. A short time after that, I left the business. I was pregnant, having my first child at the age of 38. We were supporting my in-laws as well. And I needed steady ground for my daughter. I went into a nonprofit role in pediatric health care. I cut my maternity leave short by four months because a job offer had come and they needed me to start. I hired a nanny for a few months until my daughter was old enough to go to daycare. And I learned a completely new industry at 38 years old while figuring out how to be a mom for the first time. And underneath all of that, the new job, the new baby, a new identity, there was grief that I had never really allowed myself to feel. My father, my sister, that violent episode replayed in my head over and over again. The bankruptcy, the uncertainty, it was all in my body. My body remembered it and I didn't know it yet. So I worked, I climbed. I put all of my heart and soul into my job and into my family. And then I burnt out. I pushed so hard that my body stopped cooperating and I had to take months off work. And that burnout is where the designed life was born. I finally asked myself, what would I design if I started from scratch? And although I wasn't really starting from scratch because I had all this lived experience, what would I design for myself and for my family? So I took everything I had learned, decades in personal development, Tony Robbins methodologies, neuroscience, human behavior belief systems, and I married it with my work experience, my education, design thinking, and I built a framework for redesigning your life from the inside out, your identity first and the strategy second, because most of us focus solely on the strategy, but we don't realize that if we're not building from the inside out, the strategy will often not hold. So I was finally getting on my feet. I was excited to start building something and feeling healthier. I went back to work. I bought a new job that I was very excited about. And then in 2022, shortly after the pandemic, my eldest brother passed away from a heart attack. The same brother who had been hit in that office, the same brother who started the businesses over and over again, who taught me that you keep going even when the number is zero, even when the number is negative. So when I tell you I can sit with a woman who is navigating loss or financial instability or a career pivot or the start of a business or the end of a business, or the fear of starting over in the middle of her life, I am Not speaking to you from a textbook. I am speaking to you from that kitchen table with my mom where she paid the bills, a hospital room next to my sister, a loft in downtown Toronto, a maternity ward, a therapist's office, and my own business today. This is my resume, not the LinkedIn version, the real one. And here's the reframe that I really want you to hear. You have likely been treating your story like it is something to overcome, something to move past, something to scratch out and start again. Something that once you are far enough away from it, once you've got enough experience, enough money, that you'll start, that you'll design the thing that you truly want. But your story is not the thing that's in the way. Your story is the very thing that qualifies you. Every hard thing you've navigated, the loss, the reinvention, the job you despised, the businesses that failed, the relationships that ended, the burnout that may have flattened you for a while. Those are not liabilities. They are your lived experience. They are the evidence that you can do the hard thing in front of you because look at all the hard things behind you. And you're still here. Yet most of us never turn around and look. We just keep looking forward. We keep dragging the weight, never really saying, hey, how do I convert this to serve me, to fuel me? My friend gave me the greatest gift. She said to me, I don't think you fully recognize how astonishing your story is. And I think someone needs to say that to you too. So I'm saying it to you today. Look at what you've walked through, all of it, the successes, the hardships, the things you've navigated that most people have not even faced a fraction of. And then ask yourself: is the woman who survived all of that really not qualified to build what she is imagining? Waiting to choose yourself, it's not an option anymore. Not for the woman who knows change is coming, that change is here, not in this moment in our history. The job displacement, the job reinventions that are coming, it's not a threat. This disruption is not a threat. It is a signal. It is the world, the universe confirming what you already feel in your spirit, in your body, that something is shifting. And the woman who thrives in what comes next, they will not be the ones who wait for permission. They will be the ones who decided to lead their own chapter. Now that doesn't mean that you have to quit everything. It means you stop deferring yourself. It means you start owning your story, celebrating your capacity and making decisions from a place of strength instead of a place of fear. It means you recognize that the woman who has survived everything behind her is more than qualified to lead what is in front of her. So reflect on this for a moment. What if your entire story, every hard chapter, every loss, every new choice or reinvention was not something that happened to you, but rather something that happened for you to prepare you for exactly this moment in time. You get to lead your next chapter. You leading your own chapter means making the right decisions for you from a place of clarity and strength, not from a place of fear. Maybe the right decision is staying exactly where you are, but showing up differently. Maybe it's having the conversation you've been avoiding. Maybe it's starting something on the side while your day job pays the bills. Maybe it's investing in yourself for the first time in years, or maybe it's just asking for help. The cost of not making a conscious choice, the cost of letting someday be your strategy is real. That cost is real and it compounds quickly. Every day you do not own your strength, a piece of your self-trust erodes. A piece of that dream starts to dim. And I don't want you to let your dream dim away. Because when you defer, when you push the timeline away, you're literally giving the pen to someone else and letting them write a chapter that you're supposed to write, that you deserve to write. Every day you don't celebrate what you've already survived and created. You're carrying your story as a burden, as something that happened to you rather than something that happened for you to show you how strong you are. Every day you're waiting for the fear to disappear before you move. You teach yourself that fear is the authority. And you somehow need permission. And that's not you. That's not who you are, and it's not who you're meant to be. Fear doesn't disappear when you're ready. Fear only fades when you have already moved. Someone once said this and it stayed with me. Courage is not the absence of fear. It's the decision to move in spite of the fear, because the thing that you want, the thing that you desire, that life that you desire to create for you and your loved ones, that matters more than the fear. If you're scared, do it scared. I know this because I have moved scared every single time. I have never once had all the answers before I took a step. I don't think anyone has. Not when I left the family business pregnant with my daughter, not when I entered an entirely new industry at 38, not when I started this business after a burnout, a job loss, the loss of my brother, and a pandemic. At the age of 50, I did not wait until I was ready. I decided that it was now or never, that I had to do it now, that I was capable. And then I moved. So if you're sitting here thinking, but I don't even know what the next step is, Amira, that's okay. You don't need to see the whole staircase. You just need to decide that you are going to climb it one step at a time. And the steps reveal themselves. They light up to the woman who starts moving in confidence, who starts moving in self-belief, who starts moving in trust and faith. So here's what I'd love for you to do: write your hindsight list. Sit down this week and write out every hard thing you have navigated. Not the highlight wheel, not the pretty parts that we put on the internet, the survival wheel, the losses, the pivots, the hard things that have chiseled you. The moments you thought you couldn't get through, and then you did. Every single one of them. And then read it back to yourself out loud. Because here's what I've learned is a lot of our self-belief comes from looking back and actually seeing the evidence. And we don't do this oft enough. We're so busy doing, we're so busy running forward and chasing that we forget the proof is behind us. And when you see it written down in your handwriting, you notice and you recognize that wow, my God, I can do hard things. It just changes the way you walk into the room the next day. The second thing I invite you to do is to tell someone your story. Again, not the polished version, the real version, the one with the ugly parts and the parts that still hurt a little. And the parts that you're secretly proud of, but you were taught not to share them because it might seem too boastful and we don't want to be a show-off. Find one person you trust, a dear friend, a family member, and say, here's what I've actually walked through. And I just want to celebrate that with you because you keeping that story to yourself, it won't fuel you the same way. I don't want it to weigh you down anymore. I want it to be something that frees you. What really helped me to own my story is investing in myself and investing in the future that I wanted to create. Mentorship investments have been the greatest decisions I've ever made. Working with someone who has already navigated the waters I was entering, because you can't know what you don't know. And the idea that you should figure it out all alone is not courage, it's conditioning. We were taught, especially as women, that asking for help is a weakness, that we have to be strong. And it's not. It's the single most strategic investment that you can make in your own future. I would not be standing here today without the mentors who saw what I couldn't see in myself. Tony Robbins taught me how to think about human potential. My brother taught me resilience and tenacity. My therapist and mentors have taught me that the body remembers and the body can also heal. Every single one of them was a decision I made not to go it alone. And that is what I get to do now. That is what the design life is. It's the space where a woman, maybe you, are at an inflection point and you know you're meant for more, but you can't see the bridge. I get to help women like you design the next chapter with the experience that I have had to build that bridge more than once. So if you feel that pull, I invite you to connect with me, inquire about one-to-one mentorship, book a discovery call. Sign up for my Wealth by Design masterclass. This is an invitation to do the deeper work. And I would love to be in that conversation with you to design your next step. And before I leave you, I want to speak to one woman in particular. And I think you'll know who you are. You'll recognize yourself because you probably felt everything in this episode. Something probably landed for you so deeply that you may have teared up or paused to sit with it. And maybe you can feel the pull towards something that you want to create for yourself, or a conversation, or a decision, or just even a shift in how you're showing up in your life. But for some reason you've not moved yet because maybe there's a voice and maybe it sounds like your mother's or your old bosses, or maybe it's you at a younger age saying, No, not yet. You're not ready, you're not qualified yet, or who do you think you are? That's not for us. I want to tell you who I think you are. I think you're a woman who has walked through things that would have broken someone else. I think you're a woman with more tenacity, resilience, and wisdom than you have ever given yourself credit for. I think you're a woman who has been so busy doing everything that she's forgotten to celebrate how extraordinary she is. And I think the next chapter of your life, whatever it looks like, whatever shape it takes, deserves to be led and designed by you, not by your fear, not by someone else's expectations, but by a version of yourself that knows you're meant for more. You don't need to have it all figured out. You don't need to make some big dramatic move either. You just need to decide that you're going to lead what's next instead of letting it happen to you. And you don't need to do it alone. I built the design life from a job loss, burnout, the loss of loved ones, and a pandemic. And I did not build it alone. And you don't have to either. I am 51 years old. I've lost a father, a sister, and a brother. I've navigated family bankruptcy, violence, a career pivot, motherhood at 38 and 41, burnout, a job loss, and starting a new business at the age of 50. And I'm still here, building, creating, and showing up. Not because I'm extraordinary, because I refuse to let the hard chapters be the last chapter. And that's what I want for you. I want you to look back at your story, the real one, and see what I see. A woman has who has already proven she can do hard things, a woman whose lived experience is not a detriment, but it's actually her greatest qualification. A woman who does not need anyone else's permission to design her own life. The world is shifting. Industries are restructuring. AI is changing the game at a speed no one can predict. And you sitting here knowing that you are capable of more than what you are currently allowing yourself to experience. The time to lead your next chapter is not someday. It is this season, right now. And leading it does not mean you have to change everything. It means making the next right decision for you with your eyes wide open, your story fully owned, and your strength fully recognized. I promise you this on the other side of that decision, you will not find certainty. No one can ever promise you certainty, but you will find yourself. You will find your next level of strength and resilience and joy and fulfillment. So if you could send a message to the version of yourself who is in the hardest chapter, the one who is not sure she would make it through, what would you tell her now, being on the other side of that bridge? And what would your future self say to you today about the decision that you're about to make, about the chapter that you're about to design? Thank you so much for joining me today. This has been a deeply personal episode. I'm grateful to you for being here and for listening. I would love it if you would share this episode with a woman who needs to hear it, and if you would be so kind and generous as to leave a review. I would be genuinely grateful to hear from you and to connect with you. Until next time, design your most exquisite day.