Eva Martins: Leading Woman To The Land Of Empowerment

Eva Martins

Eva is the founder of the Global Women leadership Academy, a number 1 international and best-selling author, international speaker, executive leader in Fortune 500 Company, and a business owner with a mission to empower women to skyrocket their lives.

She started her career in a male-dominated corporate industry where she soon grasped that if you do not have power, you go nowhere. Eva understood that if you do not have a strong voice, you are not heard. That if you do not adopt a more masculine attitude you will be blocked from excelling. It took Eva more than 10 years of operating in many different leading roles to realize things needed to change.

She now dedicates her energy to empowering other women to step up in their lives through the Global Women Leadership Academy and has trained hundreds of women. Her mission is to drive gender equality at all levels of society and encouraging women to raise their voices and goals,

 that's why her Leadership Academy to empower women was created.

Welcome Eva and thank you for being my guest on Business Digest, we are delighted to have you and look forward to sharing your story with our audience.

Russ Turner – Eva can you start by telling us a bit about your background prior to where you are currently at?

Eva Martins – Coming from the corporate world where I have a successful career as a female senior leader in one of the Top Pharmaceutical Company, I started studying Pharmaceuticals, Chemistry, Quantum Physics until I came to understand the power of our brain, how it works, and how we can explore its full potential. While driving a successful career as a female leader in the Pharmaceutical Industry at the local and global scale, I pursued my quest in understanding how we can use our brain to work in our favour, exploit its full potential, and understand that our environment is simply a reflection of our inner world. I trained with the best experts, travelled around the world with Tony Robbins for 2 years, trained with Joe Dispenza, Mastering NLP with the founder John Grinder, and being a trainer, teacher, and coach of many other methodologies as well.

It equipped me to become a better leader, to create high-performing teams, and to allow them to flourish at their best and create a much bigger impact! I consider myself a change agent, sparking transformation and fulfilment in others. Today my mission is to continue my corporate career to better serve individuals, bring them back to life with a purpose and aspirations, and focus on female empowerment through the creation of the Global Women Leadership Academy. My dream is to inspire as many women as I can to play a bigger role in life, to allow them to express themselves freely, and take the lead of their life so they can live their full potential and manifest a global impact.

As you can probably tell one of my passions in life is ensuring that I am growing and improving every day. I love acquiring new skills as well as new capabilities.

You have encountered inequality being a woman in the corporate world, when did you realize this, what were your thoughts, and how did you change things?

I realized this early on as I started in a male-dominated industry. I was literally the only woman in the commercial. First I had to prove myself constantly, prove that I was not only a beautiful face but I also had a brain; prove that I had a voice; prove that I could also raise my voice if needed. It was not easy. I even had few senior leaders using their power to try to abuse me. Unfortunately, you soon understand that if you go against them publicly, your career is done as they are much stronger, influential - especially when you live in a men’s world.

I decided to ignore and pretend to not understand or sometimes having to be straight, put limits, and threaten with consequences. I might have appeared super self-confident and haughty, but it was my way to impose a certain distance to protect myself. Inside of me, I was definitely not that self-confident, I was living with constant anxiety, stress, and in alert mode. I made my way up the ladder by working on my mindset, on my leadership skills, understanding in which ways I was co-creating those behaviours in others.

As I gained more self-confidence, as I released many subconscious limiting beliefs such as “I am not good enough”, "I do not deserve anything", and "I'm not smart enough", I realized my ideas are all BS!…But as I trusted myself more, the environment was also showing it back to me. I became a better leader, being able to build strong and high-performing teams and support other women along the journey. I still meet today male leaders who think they know better about what’s best for us and I understand that it sometimes comes from a genuine intent to help. Yet, I would say that it's best to simply ask them what they would love to achieve than questioning their goals or setting false assumptions.

Not that long ago I had a senior leader told me that I should try to have a less risky job, a bit hidden, as I was single at that time with 2 kids to raise. It really shocked me. I strongly pushed back. I already had a dad in my life I did not need let alone in my corporate life! I realized that the more I was working on myself the more my life was changing for the better. Today, I invest a minimum of 10% of my income in personal growth.

Have you personally faced any struggles at work from this?

I did and not once, but many times. Seeing male peers being promoted because they had a stronger voice, seeing my career stop twice because of my pregnancy, having to raise my voice in meetings otherwise, I would not be heard, having colleagues telling me I could not be dressed feminine otherwise I would not be respected same ways…telling me I had to use a grey suit to be successful which I always refused. I had so many episodes that I could write a book. It brought a lot of frustration, anxiety but also determination to change the workplace and raise the respect for women, but also for any difference not only in gender, the difference in style, difference in terms of mindset.

I truly believe success comes from innovation and to be able to innovate, you need to be authentic and work in an environment where you feel safe to be yourself, and where you feel you can contribute to the bigger picture. After 20 years of corporate career, after many attempts to raise the number of women leaders, we are still not there. Like a couple, both parts need to collaborate and complement each other. Women also need to learn to play full out and not compromise, they need to raise their voices, know what they want and express it, learn to say no, and stop sacrificing for others but balance it in serving themselves, serving their dreams, go for their fulfilment.   

What 3 pieces of advice could you give to help some who might be in a similar situation?

First of all, understand that your environment is a reflection of your inner story and your inner unconscious thoughts. It is not about blaming yourself but taking full responsibility for your life and take the lead to upgrade it. Second, work on your mindset, find a methodology, a coach, and training that can allow you to uncover those limiting beliefs and past experiences that are hindering you from upgrading and empowering your beliefs and thoughts. If there is something that I learned is that life is meant to be lived in fulfilment and not in pain, and it does not need to take years. Personal transformation can happen in minutes, we just need to reach the root cause inside of our subconscious mind. Third, stop finding excuses, stop playing small, stop procrastinating, stop putting that on others, stop bullshitting yourself…life is too short to be in pain. Take a decision today that will change your tomorrow otherwise you will replicate the same patterns and stay in the same vicious circle.

If someone were to sign up for your course or training session what would they expect to cover and gain from them?

A) When women join STOP believing the B.S. 7 week program, it is designed to awaken the leader inside of you and transform your life from the inside. Know deeply who you are underneath the masks, the labels, the expectations from others, reconnect with your soul, with your big why in life, your life mission, and your purpose. We go deep into your subconscious mind to uncover your foundational limiting beliefs, past traumas, and change them in minutes. It can be that easy. Then we deep dive into the relationships in your life and your career, understand what is limiting you and transform those two big pillars of your life. And we finish by redesigning your new life blueprint.

We have seen amazing results, women deciding to reset their life, divorcing in a couple of weeks, changing countries, finding a new love, getting suddenly 3 job offers from nowhere, and increasing their business exponentially. Above all, they feel reconnected with themselves, with more self-love, self-confidence, knowing what they want, feeling complete, stronger, and living a life with more passion and fulfilment.

Do you offer any other services?

I recently founded the Global Women Leadership Academy to serve women in different stages:

The noBS level where we uncover the limiting beliefs, increase their self-confidence to take action through the STOP Believing the B.S. 7 week program; the Empower level where I give them constant support through mastermind and mentorship but also train them with new skills so they can empower themselves; the Unleash level where they'll have the chance to breakthrough in their lives, radiate their power and achieve the next level of their life. I personally coach them to navigate much faster and more confidently through their life transformation journey.

Wow ok, do you have any success stories from any of your clients that you could share with us?

So many and so inspiring ones…Maria was feeling stuck in her career and she suddenly attracted 3 job offers at the same time within just a couple of weeks. Linda was career-driven but sacrificing herself for the family. She was so much attached to the perfect family image that she did not see abusive dynamics around her. She suddenly opened her eyes from one week to the other, deciding to divorce, taking care of her kids, moved countries, and even got promoted. Jeanette attracted the money she needed to pay for the program in simply 2 weeks…I have so many testimonials, all of them so inspiring. That’s what gives me energy every day to pursue my mission.

What’s the best way for someone to contact you if they want to sign up for your mentoring or training courses?

The best way to contact me is to visit my official site for Stop Believing the B.S. 7 Week Coaching Program where it has a complete overview of the program and the top benefits you could get as you decide to finally take the big step of their life. You can also get in touch through my website www.evamartins.com , Facebook or Instagram. 

Well Eva it has been an absolute pleasure to meet such a strong-willed woman as yourself, I wish you all the continued success for the future from myself and the team here at Business Digest.

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Eva’s International #1 and Best Seller book  STOP Believing the B.S. 7 Steps to awaken your Feminine Superpowers



Eva Martins gives us a peek inside the life of an expert coach and corporate senior leader who is mentoring and empowering hundreds of women to take back control of their lives.