The Human Story Behind the Business & Brand - Avanthi Ilangantileke

Описание: This podcast partnership with Women Making it Work aligns with but slightly deviates from my The Human Behind the Career Brand podcast series. The Human Story Behind the Business and Brand delves into those poignant moments, experiences and life lessons that shaped these high-performing professional women into who they are today. It discusses their fates, flaws, feats, fears and all the other fabulous human elements that have driven them to perform so well in their professional lives.

My next guest for this podcast series is Avanthi Ilangantileke. One of the authors and storytellers in Women Making it Work’s Beyond the Business anthology, representing those women who shed the masks of others’ expectations, abusive relationships, and/or inherited limitations to discover who they were always meant to be beneath the conditioning.

Spurred on by her former 'good girl' background, Avanthi is on a personal mission to inspire and empower others to find their voice and inner courage, including via greater financial literacy.

Raised in a devout, respect-your-elders family and community in Sri Lanka, Avanthi was only 19-years-old when she moved to Australia for an arranged marriage. A victim of domestic abuse in that first marriage - without fully realising she was a victim - Avanthi continued to suppress her needs and feelings as she started a family and continued to climb the corporate ladder up to bank manager at the age of 28. It was in her 30s that her body and soul started to rebel, continually highlighting to Avanthi through physical and psychological reactions that her home life was less than ideal.

In this podcast Avanthi shares her arduous journey. From arriving in Australia in her late teens to be a good wife and a good daughter, through to her breaking free from the weight of those unrealistic marital expectations to become her own person. A financial advisor running her own business, who regularly practises yogic meditation, supports others in finding their own form of independence, and lives happily in her second marriage with Noel and her two children.