Girl, Take the Lead!

This episode pulls together a couple themes we’ve had this month: change and making things easier. We dig into Mike Dooley’s book, Manifesting Change, It Couldn’t be Easier.   Here are 3 takeaways from today’s episode:   1.    Manifesting change can be easy – key is to know our end result and then moving in its general direction. 2.    And all you high achievers listening, avoid the "cursed h...

This is a Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite which is a short episode which may be a bit more about a topic we’ve covered like our episode today or a quick inspiration. This episode builds on Tara Mohr’s book, Playing Big, which we covered in our previous episode.   Here are 3 takeaways from today’s episode:   1.    As women transition from student mode to career they need the ability to improvise, cha...

This episode is for anyone that wants to speak up, create and lead and as Tara Mohr says it’s Playing Big, the title of her book which was named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks.   Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She is the creator and teacher of the global  Playing Big  leadership program for women, and of the  Playing Big Facilitators Training  for coaches,...

For the past couple episodes we’ve been looking at play and leadership what also comes to mind for me is that leadership needs to be easy And it just so happens that Susie Moore has a book on this very topic. So for our first book of 2024 we’ll be covering Let It Be Easy…almost sounds like a prayer, no?   A little about Susie Moore – she’s a life coach and advice columnist for some of the world’s...

In Ep 123 we put forward some questions that Brené Brown offered us that I had to research. She called it Wholehearted adult play. And I was really struck by this: Play? Do I play? Do I play enough? What is play anyway? I was kind of terrified I wasn’t fun or playing in my life!   So I found there’s an actual National Institute for Play (NIFP) which is a non-profit public benefit corporation dedic...

We all know the beginning of a new year can offer us all a reset button, a time to look back and be hopeful about going forward. We’ve done some episodes about this over the past 2 years and give a quick summary in this episode of what we learned from them. We’ve also introduced some new sources to help ground our conversation, including some generational statistics to help us see where we’re head...

The end of a year is always a good time to reflect back on the year and celebrate our accomplishments. This episode captures the amazing women leaders who stood out in 2023. A lot of the foundation for the episode came from a Forbes article I found (link below) and the inspiration from our Six Peas in a Pod group which is all about supporting each other in our podcasting and business. Links for th...

  In Ep 120, we asked the question as we look at the holidays as a time for giving, why not give to yourself? In that episode we spotlighted authors we’d talked with on the show. In today’s episode, I’ll give you my top 12 books everyone should have in their library. We researched these books which provided us some juicy stuff we hope you found interesting.   Books covered in the episode (links to...

As we look at the holidays as a time for giving, why not give to yourself? Over the past couple years we’ve had some fabulous authors and covered some of the top books on the market, all with the goal of learning more about ourselves.   Digging into books and researching important themes has been a key element of our podcast hoping to save you time and mine the books for the juicy stuff you’d find...

This episode puts several of our past episodes together and they feature Brene Brown, Terri Cole, Emily & Amelia Nagoski, Jay Shetty, Dr. Ilene Cohen, and my friends, Sheila, Toni & Cynde. We’ve got some real badasses in the house!! Let’s break the overdoing cycle!   Mentioned in the Episode:   Ep. 47 , Tis the Season for Overdoing: What Brene Brown and Cory Muscara Have to Say! Ep. 16 , P...

With Giving Tuesday around the corner, we wanted to spotlight some of organizations we’ve had on our podcast which you may want to consider for your giving. If you’re inclined to give to them, you’ll find all links to their donation pages below.   Mentioned in the Episode:  Ep. 7, Girl Scouts   Ep. 27, Lazarex Foundation   Ep. 68, Mothers’ Day Movement Ep. 31, Holly Springs/Fuquay-Varina & Ape...

With the holidays around the corner this episode with Yo is inspired by some of her learning about gratitude while podcasting. And whenever she wants to learn more about an emotion, she always goes to Brené Brown and her book, Atlas of the Heart. Brené wrote in that book that the expert on gratitude was Robert Emmons, a professor at UC Davis and one of the leading scholars in positive psychology m...

This is Part 2 of a 2 part series with our guest, Uri Talmor (Gen X) and Kiki Canny returned to join our discussion about Internal Family Systems (IFS) based on the book, No Bad Parts, by Richard Schwartz, PhD. As we noted in Part 1, Kiki had recommended the book and as we read it, we realized it would be great to have an expert on the subject and Uri was that expert. In Part 1, Uri, Kiki and I ta...

Uri Talmor (Gen X) joins Kiki (GenZ) and Yo (Boomer) to talk about Internal Family Systems (IFS). Uri has been a psychotherapist since 2004 and has been using Internal Family Systems or IFS since 2003 in his practice. The goal of IFS therapy is to help people identify and accept the different parts of themselves and heal the parts that are wounded. Kiki had recommended the book, No Bad Parts, by R...

Christie Garcia (Millennial), Ego Management Expert and seasoned Leadership Coach, joins Yo to discuss living a more fulfilled life through ego-management. Christie shares her process to her clients find their ego behaviors, how they’re triggered, and become more powerful from making choices. Together they talk about confidence, trust, and personal freedom. In past episodes we’ve talked about work...

Nicole Trick Steinbach (Millennial) joins Yo to talk about ego bravery. Nicole is the international bravery coach and she's the first to tell you bravery does not come easy to her. She is a former executive in technology and has worked in over 25 countries. Together they explored questions like: What is bravery? How can we connect with own bravery? How can we learn bravery? How are failures a...

Today’s episode is a short Sound Bite episode which builds on our previous 2 episodes about Daniel Pink’s book, The Power of Regret. In this episode we’ll go deeper into the techniques to help prevent regretful situations AND of the 7 he offers, the one that screamed at me was doing a failure resume. Listen in to Yo’s experience in doing one and take a look at the one she created using the link be...

Today’s episode is a short Sound Bite episode which builds on our previous episode about Daniel Pink’s book, The Power of Regret. In this episode we’ll go deeper into the steps for reckoning all regrets as well as how to optimize our regrets.   Mentioned in the Episode: Ep 110 Regrets  12 Steps Of Recovery   Related Episode: Ep 61 About Forgiveness How to reach Yo Canny:  Our website: www.girltake...

I first heard Daniel Pink on LinkedIn in a webinar and then got his book – What a title: The Power of Regret, right? And when I saw that Brené Brown had praise of the book on the back cover, I was in, and thought you’d like to hear about it, too. She said in her quote that regret was one of the best and toughest teachers in her life…and that it deepened her connection to herself and to others. And...

Today’s episode builds on our previous episode about the Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey book: 'Build the Life You Want' – The Art and Science of Getting Happier. The authors brought a ton of information about emotions that we didn’t have time to cover so today’s episode will go deeper into what they have to say. As I read the book, I broke up the emotional self-management sections into 6...

So the book by Arthur C Brooks and Oprah Winfrey, Build the Life You Want, The Art and Science of Getting Happier was an instant #1 on the NY Times Bestseller list when it was published Sept of this year. And I knew immediately we had to cover this on our podcast. Plus there’s been so much promotion about it, I wanted to see what the sizzle was all about.   You probably know Oprah and who she is b...

Today’s episode is a Sound Bite – which is a short episode which may be a bit more about a topic we’ve covered like our episode today or a quick inspiration – which is our hope for today. A few days ago I received an email from my friend, Rachel Brumberger, who is a fellow podcaster and has dedicated her life to healing and wellness. She is someone I admire greatly and often takes the lead to insp...

In today’s episode Yo builds on Ep 105 where we began our interview with executive and career-life coach, Randi Roberts. In that episode we talked a lot about how we can get in the driver’s seat for our own careers.  This episode will take things a bit further as we explore what keeps us from self-promotion, personal branding, and how confidence works. All elements we need to lead!!   Mentioned in...

Randi Roberts (Boomer), Executive and Career-Life Coach, joins Yo to discuss career fulfillment and enjoyment. They both want everyone to jump out of bed and want to go to work! They discuss reasons to be optimistic about younger generations becoming leaders, obstacles that can get in the way and practices, like gratitude, that can make the road smoother. They also talk about the leadership skills...

Today’s episode builds on our previous episode with Maria Morukian (Ep 103), recognized organizational development practitioner specializing in training, coaching, and facilitation with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and intercultural competence. This Sound Bite takes a look at some of the current trends I thought you might find interesting based on some research I found. We also i...