Finding Brave

"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...

"When we internalize these negative assumptions about ourselves as aging women, and start to believe them, we belittle ourselves. We diminish ourselves, we hold ourselves back, and we become invisible." - Bonnie Marcus There are many challenges that people over 50 face in today's society, but women of this age can especially feel diminished and dismissed in the workplace. Today's guest shines a li...

"Generally speaking, I think it's at one level no different for men and women. If you're in a comfortable place, sometimes it's hard to be willing to become uncomfortable, but if you want to do great things, it's going to take doing that through life." - Jean Case When setting out to investigate the core qualities of great entrepreneurs and changemakers, today's Finding Brave guest discovered trai...

"I'm grateful for those hard challenges, because I probably wouldn't have been brave enough to have thought big without them. If my life had been good, and perfect, and wonderful, and there was nothing that I needed to alter, then I wouldn't have done any of the things that I am so happy to have had the chance to accomplish." - Ann Louden If you're a listener of this podcast, there's a good chance...

"There's no reason for you to work 18 hours a day. You can work 5 and still create a great company, still change the world and still be able to grow yourself in the process and live a great life." - Ajit Nawalkha Do you ever feel that you need to sacrifice your life, and experience extreme burnout in the process, all just to have success as an entrepreneur? If so you're not alone, but today's gues...

"What I'm seeing here is this absolutely amazing paradox. We live in a world of men's power, where just by the virtue of birth, half of us have certain privileges, but at the same time, the ways that we have traditionally defined men's lives comes with a huge cost." - Michael Kaufman At work and home, the gender equality revolution is critical for the advancement of women. However, today's Finding...

"We've made a social contract to come into this organization, however, contracts can be broken. Whichever direction it gets broken, we have to take the responsibility and either take care of ourselves and get out of it, or help fix it. There's really very little in between, and we're not supposed to see how much crap we can take." - Andrea Goeglein Asking for help, especially in the workplace, oft...

"You just have to believe that there's a higher version of you that you can tap into and that can access higher-level wisdom, insight, solutions, strategies, people and connections. If you believe it, and if you believe it strongly, it's amazing what happens in your life." - Kathy Caprino Most of us know from experience that New Year's resolutions and the huge, hairy goals we dream up for our live...

"When you're getting together with family, friends, your parents, and with your siblings, don't keep using the stories from the past as an excuse to feel what you feel today." - Kathy Caprino You may think that pain and conflict with family and friends during the busy holiday season is unavoidable, but on today's episode of Finding Brave I'm giving you 5 practical and doable strategies that will h...

"If you're not feeling so positive and you go engage in a simple positive habit, and then you feel better, you're reminding your brain that your behaviors matter." - Michelle Gielan One of my favorite topics is how to speak bravely, and today's Finding Brave guest is someone who can back up the importance of doing this with strong research. What she shares today reveals how our language shapes and...

"You have to think about pitching as a two-way dialogue. It's not, 'let me sell myself.' It's not, 'let me announce what's great about me' to the world. It's a two-way dialogue and you have to be thinking just as hard about that journalist on the other end of your email as about you and what you have to say." - Mark Fortier In this episode of Finding Brave, my special guest will reveal not only ho...

"You know when you go to a dinner party and you end up chatting to that one person that you didn't expect to, and you have that really rich conversation that takes you into all sorts of interesting spaces? That's the voice that I want to have for our authors." - Lou Johnson Have you ever thought about writing a book, but you weren't sure of how to approach a publisher after it was written? In toda...

"You are like a thumbprint. You are absolutely unique. Now you have to understand how and leverage it and be strong enough to be powerful." - Kathy Caprino In this episode, I share key findings from my in-depth research with thousands of professional women around the world about the 7 most damaging power gaps that keep people from thriving and succeeding in both life and work. Here, I outline how...

"Look at your individual industry and role and see where you are in danger of being automated, and how you can upscale or rescale so that you are adding unique human value to that position." - Alexandra Levit You've undoubtedly noticed that technological change and advancements in the workforce are happening faster than ever before. Are you concerned about how to lead and thrive in the organizatio...

"To awaken your Joy of Genius, start with a commitment that's just giving yourself permission to discover more of what your genius is. Out of that commitment comes a whole new wealth of ideas that will come forth." - Gay Hendricks Today's Finding Brave episode is all about how to address negative thinking once and for all, and also claim your true creativity and work and live from within your zone...

"I can't teach you any trick, any layer, or any tip about "Start questions with these words", et cetera, unless I share the fact that the outcome of your questions -- the responses to your questions -- are laid in the foundation of intention." - Chad Littlefield What if the key to building stronger connections with the people we work with started with asking powerful questions? Today's inspiring e...

"Why should somebody invest their money and their time in working with you, as opposed to someone else? There always has to be your own personal brand and your own personal strategy behind everything that you do, and it has to be consistent." - Sean Patrick Today's Finding Brave guest pulls back the curtain on what's keeping coaches, consultants and practitioners from generating greater financial...

"I think that organizations have been waking up for some time now to the fact that leadership isn't just transactional. It's not just about getting people to do something; it's really relational. Yet a lot of people in relationship roles inside organizations don't really have the training or the support to establish those dynamic, productive and empowering relationships." - Karen Kimsey-House "Lea...

"I think what we do need is something that gives us a degree of comfort in our lives, however we define that financially, and a degree of comfort in our lives timewise. A business is meant to serve us, not the other way around." - Mike Michalowicz If you're an entrepreneur working long hours and exhausting yourself to achieve the goals you've set for you and your business, this week's episode is f...

"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 psychology gives us some clues that say these are things that human beings have struggled with since the beginning of time. It's just that the medium has changed for us and we have to reapply what we already know to be our best selves and reach our potent...

"When you create an environment where you have a mixture of ages, just like a mixture of genders and a mixture of races, you create a better workplace and more effective teams." - Chip Conley In our increasingly accelerated world that venerates the young, many in mid-career sense that the ground is shifting beneath their feet, leaving them feeling invisible, undervalued, and threatened by the digi...