How I Got Hired
Hey there! Welcome to ‘How I Got Hired’: a show about ordinary people like you and me, and how they created extraordinary success in their career. We uncover how they got hired in those career defining roles, whether it's by companies, whether it's by their very first paid clients and we are all about fully practical strategies and tactics; who’s got time for fluff? Not us! So if that is what you are about, you are in the right place. My name is Sonal Bahl, International Career Strategist and Founder of SuperCharge and here I am, every single week to help you to supercharge your believability, networkability, marketability and hireability, so you have a career and life that you are proud of. Now go in and listen with an open heart and an open mind and believe really believe if they could do it, you can do it too. Now let’s get you supercharged! Reach out to us: www.SuperChargeYourself.com. (Podcast music credit: Teamwork by Scott Holmes, under Creative Commons license.)
How I Got Hired
98. Tova Leigh: She did WHAT?
My guest today is like no other. Truly, one of a kind.
Tova Leigh is a Writer, Performer and Content Creator with over 2 million followers on social media. But wait, she’s not like other writers and performers out there. She creates viral videos about feminism and women’s rights in a way that educates and entertains. I mean, Tova is seriously funny. And today to talk about Tova’s career, which started out as an Employment Attorney and then switched to the performing arts.
Tova has performed at one woman comedy shows around the world and is the author of the books: ‘F*cked at 40: Life Beyond Suburbia, Monogamy and Stretch Marks’ and ‘You Did What?’, a collection of funny and outrageous confessions from every day people from around the world, which was released in September 2021.
In this episode, we cover a LOT.
- How Tova started out as an Employment Attorney in Israel and how she ended up as a full-time performer on stage in the UK!
-How she has developed the 'resilience' muscle from constant rejections, past and present and how you can too
- How her web series got featured by Amazon and garnered global attention
- What it's really like parading on LinkedIn in your swimsuit and underwear to draw attention to the world's toxic obsession with a woman's weight.
...and so much more!
Follow Tova Leigh:
Her website, with links to her best-selling books: https://tovaleigh.com/
Social media:
https://www.instagram.com/tova_leigh/
https://www.instagram.com/theleighshavearrived/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tovaleigh/
https://www.tiktok.com/@tova_leigh
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