Drink Like a Lady Podcast

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join the Samita Lab Mastermind . Join 7 other women leaders in the core program that sits at the center of my business model. The Mastermind teaches you exactly how to build a powerful person brand and the mindset to support it. It culminates in a keynote in front of an audience at the end. I only enroll for this program once a year. The wait...

You have great ideas. You write about it. But how do you ensure the right people are reading it? This talk shares six tips In this workshop, you will learn Writing about the people you’d like to connect with (or the companies you’d like to work for). Proactively sharing articles you create. Using the “ladder strategy” for your content. Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join t...

David Burkus, keynote speaker, and organizational psychologist, and author of Leading from Anywhere shares his six tips for not only being a more effective leader of a virtual team, but how to be a key contributor to the overall company culture – even when that culture is reduced to Zoom meetings and DM chats. Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join the Samita Lab Mastermind ....

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join the Samita Lab Mastermind . Join 7 other women leaders in the core program that sits at the center of my business model. The Mastermind teaches you exactly how to build a powerful person brand and the mindset to support it. It culminates in a keynote in front of an audience at the end. I only enroll for this program once a year. The wait...

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join the Samita Lab Mastermind . Join 7 other women leaders in the core program that sits at the center of my business model. The Mastermind teaches you exactly how to build a powerful person brand and the mindset to support it. It culminates in a keynote in front of an audience at the end. I only enroll for this program once a year. The wait...

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join the Samita Lab Mastermind . Join 7 other women leaders in the core program that sits at the center of my business model. The Mastermind teaches you exactly how to build a powerful person brand and the mindset to support it. It culminates in a keynote in front of an audience at the end. I only enroll for this program once a year. The wait...

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join the Samita Lab Mastermind . Join 7 other women leaders in the core program that sits at the center of my business model. The Mastermind teaches you exactly how to build a powerful person brand and the mindset to support it. It culminates in a keynote in front of an audience at the end. I only enroll for this program once a year. The wait...

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you: Join the Samita Lab Mastermind . Join 7 other women leaders in the core program that sits at the center of my business model. The Mastermind teaches you exactly how to build a powerful person brand and the mindset to support it. It culminates in a keynote in front of an audience at the end. I only enroll for this program once a year. The wait...

In this talk, you will learn to: Be disciplined about your 'me' time. Learn to say 'no'. Buck convention. Go it alone. Try new things. Say 'yes' to new experiences. Embrace the lessons, rather than fight them. Be kind to yourself. If you make a mistake, move on take stock of your values so you can prioritize. I'm in conversation with author Alka Joshi, author of...

In Season 4 of the Drink Like a Lady Podcast, we have focused on how to kickstart the process if you need to lay out strategy. We also shared how that strategy worked at Spanx and Amazon. In this final episode of Season 4, we offer up SIGNS that you are, in fact, a strategic thinker. And steps you can take to make your strategic thinking skills BETTER. HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE A STRATEGIC THINKE...

In this episode, we share two lines of questioning you can use to become a more strategic thinker. We use Spanx as the case study to illustrate both schools of thought. PART I Look for solutions, not problems. When she wanted to find manufacturers to make her prototype of her shape wear, all she could find was men making hosiery. She, her mother, and her friends personally testing the garments. Th...

In EPISODE 8, we take a deep dive into Amazon’s business model. The company started out selling books. But that was a beta test for everything else it could sell online. We look at the company's strategy to sell everything else and how it keeps customers in its ecosystem. We leave you with questions you can ask yourself about your business. What can you do to become indispensable? WHERE AMAZO...

We take a look at companies with successful business models and companies who successfully pivoted their business models. We share questions you can ask yourself as a leader if you think you need to make a pivot too?  COMPANIES WITH SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MODELS  When they were founded, they didn’t have rivals.  Apple: Valuation in Trillions is 2.2 Founded in 1975. Function and design can co exist. A...

Let's talk about benchmarks. Better known as KPI's. These are the 10 or so metrics that will be used to track progress. We also talk about how to talk strategy to team members so they can execute on the HOW.  STEP 1 THE LANGUAGE FOR SHARING STRATEGY WITH OPERATIONS COMMUNICATE GOALS AND MEASURES to your team leaders and/or team members TURN STRATEGY INTO TARGETS. You want to set the goal...

How do you road test your strategy? How do you poke holes in it to see if it can stand up to the market forces? In this episode, we are going to share how to do a SWOT Analysis. 1. START BY ASKING ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. How do we create sustainable growth? How will we diversify our revenue streams? When I was in the wholesale business in fashion, it was always a challenge to not put all of your rev...

Let’s say you  are ready to think strategy, how do you get started? In this episode, we will talk about the steps to take and much of this is shaped by Kathie's time at the Wall Street Journal to build up the Lifestyle Brands division. THINK STRATEGY 1. To Get Started You Will Need to: Plan your team Create a Schedule Gather documents, data, and information for decision-making  2. Establish a...

 Currently, only 63% of individuals take the time to “strategize/plan” for the future of their organization or their team. In this episode, we will explore WHY we don’t strategically plan? What is strategic planning?  WHY DON'T WE STRATEGIZE? We have to look forward and not focus on the current situation. It takes imagination It is using a different set of skills that is based on the “belief”...

In Season 4, Episode 2 of the "Drink Like a Lady" podcast, we talk about how to improve your decision making skills as a female leader. The focus for Season 4 is "How to Think Strategically." Strategy and decision making are close cousins.  In Episode 2, Meghna Shah, Director at PwC and a member of my Women’s Leadership Academy,  leads teams and is client facing. She speaks fro...

It's Season 4 Episode 1 of the Drink Like a Lady podcast, designed to get you, as a female leader, a seat at the bar and a seat in the boardroom. This season, we are focused on HOW TO THINK STRATEGICALLY as a woman leader. I'm joined by guest host Deb Boulanger, The Great Do-Over Start with the end in mind - how does your initiative connect to the strategic goals of the organization? Wha...

American entrepreneur and author Jim Rohn said  "Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development." With the demands of family, work, kids, home schooling,  self-care and personal development gets siloed to the back burner. What if we flipped the paradigm? What if we worked harder on ourselves? So when we do show up for Immediate Family Extended family Work Sid...

As women leaders, we can't blame ourselves for the stories in our head. Some of those stories  have been whispered in our ear by our grandmothers, parents and reinforced by our community.  According to a recent study conducted by the United Nations, 50% of the world's population believes men make better leaders . In some countries, 70%  believe men deserve a job more than women do. Even...

Each week, business strategist Kathie (De Chirico) Stuart and I host the "Drink Like a Lady Podcast," designed to help women leaders get a seat at the bar--and a seat in the boardroom. In Season 3 Episode 9, we talk about the 6 tips to help women leaders get the best performance out of their teams as we transition back to the office. 1. Make space to lead. Make space for learning. 2. Be...

In Season 3  Episode 8, we talk about transitioning back to the office. Emotions are running high Some are still working from home. Some are back in the office. Some are resisting coming back to the office. Culture is difficult to maintain with a hybrid schedule. When so much change is in the air,  it's easy to lose your cool.  In this episode, we walk you through eight tips to keep a calm as...

In Season 3 Episode 7 of the The Drink Like a Lady Podcast, we talk about   7 tips to optimize stress for top performance. KNOW WHAT STRESS IS stress is a hormonal jolt of adrenaline and cortisol brought on by our nervous system to deal with actual or perceived threats. The calm that ensues after stress allows us to tap into our decision-making brain Chronic stress is the pathway to burnout.  Our...

In Season 3 of the The Drink Like a Lady Podcast, we are focusing on what we learned from the pandemic and where the growth opportunities are. This as the conversation turns to recovery. In Episode 6, we will be discussing the most inviting of leadership skills for the post-pandemic —creating PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY for employees. The benefits of creating psychological safety is agile teams and the a...