Finding Brave

I'm very excited to share our "Editor's Summer Picks!" series for Finding Brave! Throughout the next six weeks, we'll be re-releasing 6 top shows that are the special favorites from our editor Matt Mawhinney and his awesome production team at PodAssist. "There has been a cycle of overuse of new information sources that we have to relearn in terms of how to interact in a healthy way, and positive p...

I'm very excited to share our "Editor's Summer Picks!" series for Finding Brave!   Throughout the next six weeks, we'll be re-releasing 6 top shows that are the special favorites from our editor Matt Mawhinney and his awesome production team at PodAssist. "We all live under patriarchy, which is a rigid dichotomy of gender roles. We all know what that dichotomy is. Traditionally men are supposed to...

Make no mistake about it. If you want ownership of any kind in the United States or any country on the hundreds of ideas you're creating, you must take the affirmative step to begin trademarking." - David Postolski As a small business owner or someone with intellectual property, you will find this Finding Brave episode extremely helpful, because our expert guest today shares vital information that...

"Be active on social, get intentional about your thought leadership, share your smarts, start teaching and stop selling, really. Start teaching and sharing and then you won't have to make cold calls ever again." - Stephen Woessner For many entrepreneurs, the process of selling their programs, products and services can be confusing, intimidating at times and very uncomfortable to do. Today's Findin...

"Really one person's story is hundreds of thousands of people's story. Your journey probably has some deep similarities to mine, that we've lost sight of who we are and what we're doing here, and why we're here, which is to be of service in a way that brings you joy and compensates you beautifully and makes you feel very alive." - Kathy Caprino After doing the work to "find brave" in my own life,...

"I know it's scary to make the move from corporate life into your own business and you feel like you don't know enough, but I'm going to ask you to really listen to yourself. You know a heck of a lot more than you think you do." - Kathy Caprino Are you ready to finally leave your corporate career and start your own venture? Or perhaps you have launched your business already and are facing importan...

"What we're calling narcissistic behavior is actually the behavior that comes out of massive insecurity, and guess what? If you have skin and you're a human, you have felt insecure at some point in time and then you've probably behaved in a way that was narcissistic, as a result of that insecurity." - Dov Baron Narcissism is damaging, and a topic that I talk and teach about often, but what exactly...

"What you're trying to do is find the gaps in your team, so that you can have somebody that complements you, because if you don't have that you're literally just going to be gritting your teeth trying to do stuff that you don't like to do anyway. Scaling is very difficult when you hate half of the time that you're working." - Jaime Masters Would you like to know how to make a million dollars doing...

"Instead of dismissing women's unique needs and wants as a product of cultural oppression, I really think we need to adjust the corporate structure to better meet the needs of women." - Marissa Orr With female-dominant strengths such as empathy and consensus-building being recognized as the future of business, the headlines forecast that women will dominate the future generations of corporate lead...

"I really want these women to get funding, so they can build businesses that are building the future and that we can break the cycle of what we've seen in technology and finance. Through these new technologies, we have that opportunity to break the cycle." - Nisa Amoils Despite some progress being made, there's no denying that today we do not have a level playing field in terms of access to fundin...

"You really do have to understand that if you look around and everybody looks and acts just like you, and nobody is asking any questions, you've got a problem with curiosity." - Diane Hamilton Curiosity can change absolutely every aspect of what we do, and today's Finding Brave guest reveals just how important curiosity is to improving engagement, innovation, productivity and more. Dr. Diane Hamil...

"By taking that first leadership step--that boss move-- the door then opened to identity expansion, to see myself as actually capable of garnering support and capable of commanding respect."  - Emilie Aries I've found in working with and training thousands of professional women around the world, that there can be what I call a "perfectionistic overfunctioning" tendency that exhausts and demoralize...

"Listen, kids are resilient, we all know that, but what happened to us when we grew up? We're a trainwreck and we're a dumpster fire by the time we become adults. You know we all intrinsically have resilience, but we lose it along the way somewhere." - Andrew Wittman Parenting can be extremely difficult, and today's amazing Finding Brave guest reveals the tools required to master resilience in par...

"I think this is the massive thing for introverts. You have to be congruent with what you're selling, so you can't just put a price tag out there and be ok with it. You need to have that validated, and there are ways to test that so it feels comfortable for you." - Matthew Pollard Introverts often feel that certain barriers exist making sales harder to do than their extroverted counterparts. Today...

"One of the biggest mistakes I made at Leverage was premature scaling. We grew too quickly, and we didn't have our internal processes and operations well dialed in. We didn't have our product perfected, so enjoy being small as long as possible and use that time to build a solid foundation." - Nick Sonnenberg When it comes to scaling your business, there comes a time when you will need help from ou...

"People are compelling not only because of credentials and accomplishments. They're compelling because they are likable. What makes you likeable? When you talk about what you're passionate about, when you talk about what you value, and you talk about what your mission on this Earth is." - William Arruda "Women, in particular, think self-promotion is a dirty word, but here's the funny thing. It's t...

"My fundamental truth behind The Thought Leader Formula, besides the solution to #MeToo, is that 90% of people have the ability to be a thought leader, we just have to understand how to follow that path." - Robin Farmanfarmaian Being a thought leader is building a business, and almost anyone can do it with the right mindset. To become a thought leader though, you need to know and hone your busines...

"A connector is someone who is people-focused in their approach to interactions, to life, to business and to everything. If we prioritize our relationships and our people, whether they are professional or personal, we will get the advantage, which simply means faster, easier and better." - Michelle Tillis Lederman The way we connect with others is so important, because connectors get results faste...

"Once you start focusing on using your strengths, once you know what those are, you have the ability to add a different value to the world and contribute in a way that you weren't contributing before when you were trying to partition yourself in a lot of different ways." - Scott Anthony Barlow On this episode of Finding Brave, our expert guest shares how we have a much better chance of attaining c...

"If you know what your best is, then you know your best colors and you know your style personality. You can take all of those and enhance yourself to be memorable, to be recognizable and to have an impact." - Audrey Beaulac Everywhere we turn we're bombarded by messages from people telling us what we "should" look like. However this Finding Brave expert guest shows us why style is so much more tha...

"There's cash to be made, but don't go in it just to make the money. You need to figure out why you're wanting to serve on a corporate board. I always say that our members are life learnings, because they have no desire to one day just retire and do full-time gardening." - Sheila Ronning Are you an executive woman who believes strongly that she has something important to offer an outside organizat...

"It was actually a friend of mine that pointed out the juxtaposition of these two independent wake-up calls that put it all together. The juxtaposition here that was so powerful was that in that moment, I realized I have to live my potential not for me only, but for the next generation." - Darren Virassammy Sometime in life it takes a wake-up call, or multiple ones, to help someone realize who it...

"So part of it is being really clear on what your goal is, and then think about who you need to help you get there, and then where do those people hang out?" - Judy Robinett A major challenge today for entrepreneurs with startups is the issue of funding. My guest on this episode of Finding Brave shares her deep expertise on what the funding ecosystem really looks like, how you can get funded faste...

"I began to realize I couldn't make a difference by myself, and that if I was going to make a difference, I had to shift the light off of me and onto the people. Leadership was not about me, leadership was about the people." - John C. Maxwell What makes someone a truly great leader, and is great leadership something that anybody can engage in? Today's inspiring Finding Brave expert guest answers t...

"Now that I'm older, I truly think about it differently. Every single rejection you get, I have learned, if you listen and observe carefully without all the defensiveness and the ego getting hysterical, it can unlock amazing doors for you." - Kathy Caprino Rejection, both from others and from inner selves, is a common issue faced by the many thousands of women I have heard from and worked with. Th...