101: We Empower! with Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg & guest Dr. Tanja Wielgoss101: We Empower! with Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg & guest Dr. Tanja Wielgoss
UK Health Radio Podcast
Conversation between Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg and Dr. Tanja Wielgoss about inner strength, leadership, women’s football and C‑level support systems. It touches on identity, gender roles, family life and treating career and growth as a long, adaptable journey.
52:31•23 May 2026
Shaping Your Own Path: Leadership, Women’s Football and Inner Strength
Episode Overview
- Spending real time understanding who you are and what you want is the strongest base for any major life or career change.
- Traditional ideas about public sector work and gender roles often hide a strong drive to improve society and create change.
- Professional women’s football shows how open feedback, watching your own mistakes and working as a team can radically raise performance.
- Top executives benefit from honest sparring partners, crisis support and holistic guidance that includes private life challenges.
- Thinking in terms of a 100‑year life encourages more flexible choices about family, work phases and what “having it all” can look like.
“"I think the real most important hack I can give is to really spend time in understanding what is you."”
Wielgoss shares how growing up with a single mother after her father died early gave her both "roots and wings" and a deep belief that "we have so much power in ourselves, every one of us." She talks about a formative year in the US where she tried out different versions of herself in seven host families, then came back knowing far better "what and whom I want to be." That emphasis on self-reflection will resonate with anyone rebuilding their identity after tough times or addiction.
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety and beyond? This conversation on *We Empower!* with Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès von Hattburg and guest Dr. Tanja Wielgoss shines a light on inner strength, leadership, and building a life that actually feels worth staying present for. Dr.
From top-tier consulting and running Berlin’s city cleaning service to leading Vattenfall’s heat business, co-founding the C‑level support company Stella Circle, and co-owning women’s football club FC Viktoria Berlin, she shows how careers can be re-shaped again and again. She argues that leaders need honest mirrors, emergency support in crises, and the courage to drop old role models – at work and at home. Football fans and recovery-minded listeners alike will appreciate how she links sport and leadership.
In professional women’s football, she says, progress comes from openly reviewing mistakes, accepting feedback, and relying on the team rather than trying to be the lone hero – skills many people in recovery are also building day by day. The episode also touches on gender equality, childcare as a key to real career choice, and the pressure of traditional expectations on both women and men.
If you’re asking yourself who you really want to be next, this conversation might nudge you to slow down, reflect, and actually back your own potential. What would change for you if you treated your life like a long game rather than a short sprint?
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