Featured Interview With pantea kalhor
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am the co-author of #1 bestselling book “Empowering Women to Succeed: Leap”, change specialist, Project manager and Agile Coach which have enabled me to apply and teach the concept of change management in real life. I was born in Iran, immigrated to Australia and then Canada. Recently I live in Toronto. I don’t have any pets.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
When I was 8 years old. I wrote an essay about Spring. My parents helped me to correct and rephrase my sentences and inspired me to write. One day, I was going to school and a rhythmic poem passed through my mind and I wrote my first poem called “book” in Farsi. Since then I write every day. I love words and I am addicted to writing.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love creative writes with new ideas like paulo coelho. I also respect luoise Hay and dr wayne dyer.
I love good books and it depends my mood and my need. Since my background in IT and in High school I studied Math and physics, I love math. I believe Math is a game of brain. I love problem solving concept. Life is a challenge and we can always find optimized and alternative solutions. So nonfiction in Technology and self help are my favorite. I also love good books about spirituality and self improvement. Good fiction books especially the real memoirs are interesting for me.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
While driving, I was assaulted at knife-point, and my car was stolen. This trauma, paired with the disruptions of moving first to Australia and then to Canada, compelled the me into a cycle of reflection at an early age, a fact I recognized when I responded via e-mail to a friend who was going through a difficult period in her life. My friends was inspired to take control of her life and she motivated me to reach out to others with the objective of improving their lives as well.
Rules of Change for the Better contains thirty rules for a happier and more fulfilling life. Within all of us are capabilities that we have never accessed or skills we have forgotten we possess. The key is to identify these capabilities and exploit them in order to reach our own full potentials. At each stop along my journey—experiencing childhood in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and then moving across the globe to Australia and around the world again to Canada—I internalized each of the challenges I faced and came to learn that we are all responsible for the changes we need in our own lives.
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