Speak Your Mind Unapologetically Podcast

When someone criticizes you in front of other people, here's what you can say. ✔️ How to respond to overly critical comments. ✔️  When to respond immediately vs. wait. ✔️ How to leverage your anger to speak up. Links: Find Courage To Speak Your Mind In These 9 Episodes: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/048-find-courage-to-speak-your-mind-in-these-9-episodes 10 Real-life Incredible Examples of H...

What do you say when someone interupts you and cuts you off in conversation? What if after you tell them to stop interrupting they still continue? Here are 4 real life dialogues that will show you exactly what works and what doesn't work in practice. You'll also see how the other person responds in each situation and how they finally reach resolution. 👉🏼 Links Episode Top Daily Challenges Women...

People pleasing and passive leaders do not exist! Leaders need to speak up every day. Do they need to be caring? Yes. Listen to the team? Yes. Have empathy? Yes. But don't forget that assertive communication is also a must. Here are 4 reasons leaders need to speak up. 👉🏼 Links Episode How to handle frustrations as a leader: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-handle-frustrations-as-a-lead...

How do you go from minority, immigrant, underprivileged waste picker to senior executive VP at Johnson & Johnson? You get noticed! Samuel reveals all the secrets he used to stand out, get noticed, and make himself and his ideas more visible at work. And so can you! In this episode you'll discover: ✔️  His approach to selling and talking up his ideas at work. ✔️  What Samuel every time someone trie...

We will all experience our own lowest lows at work, in relationships, in our health, in our finances, as a student. Failure is guaranteed to happen, especially when you stretch yourself. The question is, how will you overcome it. In this story, you'll discover: ✔️How to enlist support through your lows ✔️How to communicate negative news to people without discouraging them ✔️How to pivot after you...

Managers and leaders will experience frustration at work. The question is, how do you handle those frustrations in the most productive way possible that makes you feel proud afterwards? In this episode you'll discover: ✔️ How to use frustrations to set you apart from others. ✔️ A mindset shift to help you choose to raise to the challenge. ✔️ Questions to help you prepare for frustrations in advanc...

Even with the best DE&I programs, minorities will still experience microaggressions, implicit bias, and fear of retaliation. That' why top-down DE&I programs are needed but not enough. A bottom-up DE&I aimed at giving the minorities the skills to advocate for themselves is also needed. Assertive communication is the best bottom-up approach to DE&I. Here's how. 👉🏼Links: Work with AssertiveWay: ht...

75% of people leave their managers, not their salary, says soft skills speaker, Scott Asai. Do you have the rights skills to excel as a manager? In this episode, you'll discover: ✔️ How managers are the x-factor in companies ✔️ What makes managers great ✔️ What soft skills differentiate managers Scott Asai is a professional speaker specializing in teaching soft skills. He focuses on improving comm...

How was your very first day as a manager? Was it a breeze or was it stressful? In this episode I share how I realized that I would need to be more assertive if I wanted to succeed as a manager. And why you need a boss or mentor that will push you to speak up outside of your comfort zone. 👉🏼 LINKS Episode Important Assertiveness Skills You Need At Your Job Level: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.c...

Rumination and overthinking a bad situation is not helpful to anyone. But it's also very hard to stop that negative thinking pattern! In this episode, you'll discover 4 powerful strategies to help you stop your ruminating, even if you haven't been able to control it in the past. 👉🏼 LINKS Episode 12 Questions To Know When To Ignore Criticism And Judgement: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/12-q...

People feel appreciated in different ways and crave different things from others. That why it is important to know your own appreciation language and that of your team and coworkers. In this episode you'll discover: ✔️ The 4 languages of appreciation – which one is yours ( take quiz ) ✔️ How to get appreciated in your preferred language ✔️ How to appreciate others in their language   👉🏼Links: Qu...

Bragging is often seen very negatively. But the reality is that bragging can be positive or negative, depending on how you choose to use it. In this episode, you'll discover:   ✔️How to have a bragging ritual and party ✔️7 Reasons you need to brag more ✔️3 "Bad Bragging" myths debunked 👉🏼LINKS Easy Self-Promotion: https://assertiveway.com/5-easy-ways-to-promote-your-work-more-organically/ Assert...

The world has been changing fast with the pandemic, rise of social issues, and increased uncertainty. And with it the workplace has also been changing at a much faster pace. In order to thrive in this new workplace of the future, it is important to understand how these changes and trends are going affect your workplace relationships and what you can do about it. This episode is the second of a ser...

"In 30 min my life changed"; "It was a brave request". Google researcher Ojuolape Junaid shares courageous moves and powerful conversations that led to an important career change, the pursuit of a big passion project, and that helped her initiate a hard conversation at work. In this episode, you'll discover: ✔️ How a 30-minute conversation can pivot your career to where you want. ✔️ How to use you...

Does being more assertive change your personality? In this episode, you'll discover: ✔️ Why assertiveness won't change your personality. ✔️ The 4 most common mistakes that people make when they don't know the language of assertiveness. ✔️ Similarities and 1 key difference between French and assertiveness languages. 👉🏼 Links Show notes: https://www.assertiveway.com/52 Free crash course on how to...

In this fun episode Maria Kauffman reveals her powerful stories as a woman in male-dominated workplaces: getting a massive salary increase, landing the job she wanted that had already been committed to another person, and saying no to her boss. Today, Maria helps women 'Handle Anything', ENJOY life, and have fun transforming from IMPOSTER to IMMUNE by building a strong personal brand. Find out: ✔️...

The wrong mindset is the first thing that holds us back from saying what we need or want to say! Here are the top speaking your mind MINDSET podcast episodes from Season 1 to help you gain more courage to speak up. ✔️ 12 Questions To Know When To Ignore Criticism and Judgment https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/12-questions-to-know-when-to-not-take-judgment-seriously   ✔️ Top Hack To Stop Worrying...

The world has been changing fast with the pandemic, rise of social issues, and increased uncertainty. And with it the workplace has also been changing at a much faster pace. In order to thrive in this new workplace of the future, it is important to understand how these changes and trends are going affect your workplace relationships and what you can do about it. This episode is the first of a seri...

Do you view yourself as "nice"? Do others describe you as "nice"? Do you always enjoy being "nice"? Have you ever stopped to think about what being nice actually means to you? In this episode, you'll discover: ✔️ 9 questions to find out of you have an internal conflict with being nice ✔️ 3 questions to discover what being nice really means to you ✔️ 14 alternatives to being nice that will make you...

In this episode, The expert on leadership for women Maria Kauffman interviews me about my path to assertiveness. Maria also shares how she learned and applied assertiveness too. In this episode, you'll discover:  ✔️ The exact script Maria used to tell her sister to not steal her clothes that worked like a charm ✔️ What to do when you find out a less competent male coworker earns more than you ✔️ C...

Many of the top career challenges people face can be solved through the right type of communication: getting a promotion, changing jobs, holding employees accountable, managing own professional brand, being heard and seen, being taken seriously by team members, losing good employees. The challenge is that people often feel like communicating what they want will come across as rude, unreasonable, o...

In this episode you'll find out exactly what assertive communication soft skills you need at your job level to succeed. ✔️  Individual contributor assertive skills needed ✔️  Line manager assertive skills needed ✔️  Mid manager assertive skills needed ✔️  Senior leader assertive skills needed   👉🏼 Get the full show notes here: https://assertiveway.com/important-assertiveness-skills-you-need-at-y...

Find out how to be assertive at work without being pushy, aggressive, rude, or a jerk in this introductory training. ✔️ What are doormat problems?  ✔️ How can assertiveness help you? ✔️ What does assertiveness mean? ✔️ When should you be assertive? ✔️ What is your communication type? ✔️ What is the assertive mindset? ✔️ How to adopt an assertive body language? ✔️ What are assertive expressions and...

The challenge for women is not only the man-centric more aggressive and competitive company cultures, but also the double-bind dilemma when women do take charge according to research done by Catalyst. Here are 6 key differences between how men and women communicate in the workplace that do not favor women in these men-centric work cultures, and tips on how to overcome them without losing your femi...

Speaking up doesn't only happen when someone is treating you poorly. Speaking up happens every time you speak with someone with a clear purpose. Here are 50 opportunities to speak up at work that will bring you closer to your dreams, to your desired lifestyle, and success. 👉🏼 Get the  full show notes here.  👉🏼 Get access to a  free crash course on how to be assertive without being rud e. 👉🏼...