Episode 12

Reshma’s Journey
Being a Rebel, a Love for Football Growing Up, Finding a Sense of Belonging & Her Passion for Working with Leaders

with Reshma Karia

Reshma Karia, headshot

Episode 12

Reshma’s Journey
Being a Rebel, a Love for Football Growing Up, Finding a Sense of Belonging and Her Passion for Working with Leaders

with Reshma Karia

Reshma Karia, headshot

Welcome to another episode of the Journey Podcast!

In today’s episode, I’m having a conversation with Reshma Karia, a Leadership and Executive coach and mental health employment advisor. Reshma brings a background in mental health, mindfulness and therapeutic approaches to her coaching.

Reshma is actually my coach and she works with Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic colleagues in the organisation I work in, and I have been working with her for over 6 months now. So in this episode, the role has been reversed and I enjoyed asking her lots of questions!

In this episode, she shares the story of being a rebel growing up, her love for football, trying to find a sense of belonging.

Her story is truly inspiring and I hope you enjoy our conversation!

Highlights of the episode:

  • Born to Indian parents and refugees from Uganda to UK
  • Being a middle child
  • Having a dual cultural identity and trying to find a place
  • Being a rebel as a child
  • Fighting for opportunities to play football as a young girl
  • Studying Banking at University
  • Passion for working with people
  • Working as a Mental Health Employment Advisor
  • Her ‘why’ behind her passion for coaching leaders and future leaders


Reshma’s bio:

Reshma Karia is a Leadership and Executive coach and mental health employment advisor, bringing a background in mental health, mindfulness and therapeutic approaches to her coaching.

Connect with Reshma on LinkedIn

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Thank you for listening!

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Risa Kawamoto (she/her)

Risa Kawamoto (she/her)

 

Hi, I’m Risa! I’m a Career & Confidence Coach, Yoga Teacher and the host of the Journey Podcast.

I help and guide introverts who want to feel more confident, get recognised for their hard work and secure their next promotion or new role, using the powerful tools of somatic (body-focused) practices, transformational coaching and Yogic wisdom.