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Ep68: How to Get Time Back as a Coach or Creator: The 5 Tools I Use Every Day Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® Coaches and creators who are grinding away often wonder whether an easier path to the work exists. The right tools can help a coach or creator get time back without trading away quality of life. Business advisor Shelly Rood shares the five tools she uses every day to do...

Ep67: How to Respond to "You're So Busy" (And What to Ask Instead) | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® Someone tells you "you're so busy," and it lands like an attack, like you can't manage your own schedule. This episode shows how to respond to "you're so busy" without guilt, and what to ask instead when the phrase is on the tip of your tongue. Episode Description "You're so bus...

Ep66: Your Big Moment Runs on Private Work | Drag Racing Lessons | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® Your big moment runs on private work: the months of effort nobody sees while you wonder why you keep showing up. At the inaugural Dodge NHRA Great Lakes Nationals , a record-breaking day of drag racing proved it. Episode Description A rainout washed away Shelly Rood's anniversary...

Ep65: Show Up Anyway: What to Do When You Feel Like You Don't Belong Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® Mitze Alexander's first supervisor told her women didn't belong in the military. She had no barracks, no female support, and no one to tell, and she knows what it's like to feel like you don't belong somewhere you know you're supposed to be. She stayed anyway, and built a twenty...

Ep64: How to Become a Lived Authority Without Anyone's Permission | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® Episode Description How does someone become a lived authority without anyone else's permission? Right now, someone with real judgment, earned the hard way, is waiting for a stranger to say it's allowed before they act on it. In this solo teaching episode, Shelly Rood explains why...

Ep63: Michigan's Defense Leadership, From Two Different Chairs | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® Michigan's defense leadership doesn't come from one seat. This week you'll hear host Shelly Rood interview two entirely different chairs, and uncover what holds both of them up when nobody's checking the work anymore. This episode is dedicated to Julie Fathbruckner , a founding memb...

Ep62. "The Leadership Job That Never Clocks Out" with Guest Brigadier General Daniel J. Kramer II, Assistant Adjutant General, Michigan Air National Guard The meeting won't end. The phone buzzes through dinner. And somewhere along the way, you started believing that if you were doing this right, you'd have this balanced by now. The more responsibility a leader carries, the more the job follows the...

Ep61: Selfridge's $2 Billion Build-Out: The Judgment Call No Committee Could Overrule | Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self® with host Shelly Rood Vicky Rowinski's team got told no twice on the F-35. Her read on the numbers never changed anyway, and neither did the outcome for Selfridge. A few times a year, Shelly Rood checks in with Vicky Rowinski , head of economic development for...

Episode 60 - "How to Write a Personal Manifesto That Holds Steady When Life Won't " Hardcore and At Ease - powered by Others Over Self®, Hosted by Shelly Rood You can't conquer a season that refuses to end, but you can write a personal manifesto that holds steady when life won't. This episode teaches you exactly how. Some seasons don't have a finish line. You can grit your teeth, keep your head do...

Episode 59 - "What Advancement Demands of the Person Leading It," with guest Stacey Eeman Sound familiar? You're pushing your whole team forward in manufacturing, aerospace, or any high-pressure industry, and somewhere along the way you've quietly decided one of them is never going to catch up. On this episode of Hardcore and At Ease, host Shelly Rood sits down with Stacey Eeman , Director, Indust...

Ep58, Friendship and Leadership Are Not the Same Thing You can lead a team through anything. Run a program with a hundred moving parts. So why does female friendship keep being the terrain you get wrong? Episode Description Leadership and friendship are not the same skill, and for most of her adult life, host Shelly Rood confused the two. In this solo episode, she names two women veteran friendshi...

Episode 57: "Doing Everything Right Doesn't Always Feel Like Winning" You built the life you wanted, and you still feel like you can't win. Our guest is holding three real, hard-won ambitions at once, and still learning to feel like herself inside all three at the same time. That's not failure. That's what ambition looks like when nobody's handed you a map for it. On this episode of Hardcore and A...

Episode 56: "Don't Put Me in a Box" (One Year of Proof the Plan Works) Someone put you in a box today. Maybe you did it to yourself, calling it a marketing problem or a confidence problem, when the truth was something else entirely. Episode Description: This is the One Year on Air episode, and instead of a highlight reel, Host Shelly Rood gets specific about the two places she got boxed in this ye...

EP55: Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water You've built your whole identity around what you accomplish, and it worked, until the day it didn't. This week, host Shelly Rood sits down a fellow Veteran - a retired Navy SEAL - who says the strongest people he's ever known are the first ones to ask for help, and who's still working out what it costs when you don't. Andy Stumpf s...

Episode 54: "Don't Be Boring, Here's the Fix: Storytelling 101" Ever watched someone's eyes glaze over the second you started talking? You're not imagining it. And it's fixable. Episode Description This year, two interviews landed on Shelly's calendar that felt like a dream to book. Both guests are good people living lives of real service. Both conversations still fell flat, and not because of who...

Episode 53: "What Strong Looks Like After the Hard Stuff" Strong is not the absence of hard stuff. It is what you build on the other side of it. This episode shows you what that looks like in practice. The leaders who perform at the highest level have usually been through the most. The question nobody asks out loud is how do you stay yourself through all of it — still sharp, still clear, still in...

FISDAP Study Guide: Paramedic Exam Prep Answers (Bonus Episode) What you're getting: This episode is a straight resource drop. We're going audio on the Fisdap Medical Study Guide—all the questions, all the answers, organized by medical topic so you can listen, study, and prepare without staring at a blank outline wondering where to start. The problem this solves: If you're studying for paramedic c...

Episode 52: "The Eight Relationships Every Ambitious Leader Needs" Hook: What if the people around you are the real difference between a career that's fine and a career that's legendary? Not your resume. Not your wins. The people who see your potential before you do. What You'll Discover In this episode, Shelly goes deep into Chapter 8 of Creator Capitalist by the Category Pirates to break down re...

Episode 51 - Kevin Barnhill: "When You've Gone Over the Edge (And How to Come Back)" You know exactly what you're doing—cutting people off mid-sentence, getting short, getting harsh—and you can't seem to stop. The people closest to you have noticed the shift. The question isn't whether you've drifted. It's whether you can actually come back. EPISODE DESCRIPTION You spend eight years in a high-pres...

Episode 50: "Why Women Veterans Keep Getting Misread: What 242 Just Told Us" You show up. You read the room. You fill what needs filling before anyone asks. And somehow you still leave feeling like nobody quite got you. That is not a character flaw. It is an unmapped pattern. And 242 women veterans just gave us the map. This episode brings you the results from 242 women veterans who completed the...

Episode 49: "When Opposite People Become Your Greatest Asset" You know that person at work who makes decisions the opposite way you do? Who needs things from people that you don't want to give? What if the problem isn't them at all—what if you actually need exactly what they bring? EPISODE DESCRIPTION Two women veterans with completely opposite operating systems spent years on separate paths in th...

Episode 48: "Building a Category Instead of Writing a Book: The Strategic Decisions That Shape It" The Book: The Wilderness and the Wildflower: Naming the Language of Women Veterans You're building something that matters. But you're torn between sending it and making it excellent. What if the difference between those two isn't what you think it is? This episode isn't about publishing a book—it's a...

Episode 47 — Adam Castillo: "Double Middle Fingers and a Homecoming" Hardcore and At Ease | Mission Ambition, LLC You gave everything to a country that claimed to want you back. So what do you do when it doesn't make room for you? You build something they can't take back. And then you come home. Adam Castillo came home from Afghanistan ready to work. Corporate America hung the banners. Hire a hero...

Episode 46: "Built for a Different Body: How to Claim the Skills Nobody Documented" Hardcore and At Ease | Powered by Others Over Self® You did the work. You figured it out. Everyone celebrated the result and nobody asked how you got there. If that sounds familiar, this episode is going to hit somewhere specific. In this solo episode, Shelly Rood breaks down what happens when you perform a standar...

Episode 45 — Angie Lommen: "How to Prove Your Value So Others Carve Out a Place for You" You have been putting in the work. Doing more than was asked. Saying yes before you had all the answers. And somehow nobody seems to notice until they can't afford to lose you. In this conversation, a 26-year defense industry leader pulls back the curtain on what it looks like to build a career by proving valu...