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Five Ways to Be Fully Authentic

By Christine Carter — 2017

How do you stay true to yourself without letting others down? Here are tips to get started.

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Develop Authenticity: 20 Ways to Be a More Authentic Person

Being your authentic self can feel risky now in our screen-obsessed world. We’re just trying to fit in, be liked, and be accepted by other human beings.

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Tchiki Davis
2019
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The Authenticity Paradox

Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership. But as INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra argues, a simplistic understanding of what authenticity means can limit leaders’ growth and impact.

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Herminia Ibarra
2015
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The Authenticity Asset: An Interview with Entrepreneur Tonya Rapley

Tonya Rapley was born into a military family: the child of two career Air Force service members. But from a young age, she knew that rigid hierarchies weren’t for her.

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Emilie Aries
2017
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How Life Coach Marie Forleo Figured Out Her Life, and Empowers Others to Do the Same

Why Marie Forleo walked away from Wall Street to help people build lives they love.

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Nathan Chan
2019
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Showing Up as Yourself: Mike Prokopeak and 1440 Cofounder Scott Kriens on Leadership

Mike Prokopeak is vice president and editor in chief of Human Capital Media–publisher of Chief Learning Officer, Talent Economy, and Workforce magazines.

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1440 Multiversity
2019
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Parker Palmer Explains Why Inner Contemplation Is So Necessary

Necessity being the mother of invention, it struck me that contemplation didn’t depend on a particular practice.

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Maria Shriver
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Parker Palmer Is Living the Questions

“If on the day I die I can say, ‘To the best of my ability—cutting myself some slack for my human flaws and fallibilities—I was faithful to my gifts, to the world’s needs as I saw them,’ then I can take my final breath with a feeling of satisfaction that I showed up on earth with what I had...

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Nathan Scolaro
2017
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Listening in with . . . Caroline Myss

Myss has expanded her teaching into a rich and detailed study of archetypes, mysticism, and healing. Below, she talks frankly with Unity Magazine editor Katy Koontz about what it takes to live a congruent life and how that entails not only channeling grace but also giving it.

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Katy Koontz
2015
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Obama’s People and the African Americans: The Language of Othering

To the list of identities Black people in America have assumed or been asked to, we can now add, thanks to this presidential election season, “Obama’s people” and “the African Americans.”

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john a. powell
2016
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Authority of Being

A Question to Walk With: In conversation with a friend or loved one, describe one quality you were born with which no one gave you and no one can take away.

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Mark Nepo
2017
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