Have A Seat...Conversations With Women In The Workplace

Send us Fan Mail “I understand how hard it is to be confident as an HR professional, but it’s an incredible opportunity to be able to make an impact for an organization and employees.” Her name is Jen Trumm and she is here to empower women in HR to show up in their lives with greater confidence, authenticity, and purpose. If you are an HR professional who is struggling with finding meaning in your...

Send us Fan Mail “It was being an admin that gave me the courage to start my blog because look at all the stuff that I do and all the things that I have accomplished” So in case you jumped straight to this episode and missed listening to part 1 allow me do the honors again. Friends, it it my absolute pleasure to introduce you to the next voice in the administrative professional landscape, Team Sol...

Send us Fan Mail “You shouldn’t strive to be a computer, you should strive to be your best; the notion that anyone’s best isn’t enough is a shame because that is literally all we can do” Friends, it it my absolute pleasure to introduce you to the next voice in the administrative professional landscape, Team Solo Admin Blogger, Anieka Johnson. With over 10 years of administrative experience,  Aniek...

Send us Fan Mail Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.― Booker T. Washington If you're anything like me, you enter into your 1:1's excited and enthusiastic because today will be the day when we move that needle, when we sync with our boss and we get through that 1:1 agenda and conquer the world! And then we get back to our desks and wonder, what in the living heck just h...

Send us Fan Mail “What if you could change your life at work without having to change everything in your life?” Straight from the pages of Darcy’s book. Darcy Eikenberg is on a mission to help us change our lives at work without changing everything in our lives. She's the author of Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job which shows how to get more of what you want without...

Send us Fan Mail As a woman, as you’re trying to work on your emotional intelligence, how do you manage that? How do you check yourself and ask, what is a trigger point, a topic  or a person, that’s triggering me to make these emotions come up? Betsy Kauffman has observed and worked side by side with hundreds of leaders for the past 20 years and has seen just about every variation of how Leadershi...

Send us Fan Mail “The amount of energy your body has to deal with when faced with a trauma is comparable to a house when it’s not designed to face lightning” ​Carolin Hauser is an internationally recognized speaker and teacher on the subjects of spirituality, relationships, emotional healing, and Bonding-Based Lovemaking. She combines her knowledge about energetic healing and conscious co-creation...

Send us Fan Mail “Whatever is left over is what we leave for ourselves, so it’s shifting that perspective to start investing that time in yourself so that you can discover who you are” Bridget Belden is Founder and CEO of Magenta Consulting, a coaching organization providing world class tools to empower women to discover who they are beyond being a mom. Prior to her current venture, Bridget worked...

Send us Fan Mail Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.― Ben Okri Yes this is another quick chat about WFH/remote work. I know you may be tired of hearing me speak on and on about the joys of working remotely, and I get it. However this week, I wanted to divert the conversation a bit and talk about the social emotional aspect of remote work, and call out the "mean person" t...

Send us Fan Mail “With Sated Ventures I was able to take the love of the expedition and make food the connection because food will be that one piece that we all have in common, we may not speak the same language or have the same customs, but we all want to be... sated.” Hooray! What better way to kick off the lazy days of our northern hemisphere summer season than with an enjoyable episode about f...

Send us Fan Mail "No one, absolutely no one, has more agency in your career, your professional growth, your satisfaction or your contribution than you do. No one." Imposter Syndrome. Self Confidence. Self-doubt. Unfortunately for women in the workplace, these words have never before held so much meaning as they do today. That is why I was very much looking forward to this week's con...

Send us Fan Mail "Digital nomad life, even created in your home town, offers much to explore in the areas in which people live. How can doing new things, in your life and getting out of your comfort zone, actually lead to more internal comfort and learning?" Remote work looks and feels different for many, with no apparent hard and fast rules in place, which is why this conversation with...

Send us Fan Mail The next time you’re tasked with teaching someone something, remember: it’s only easy for you because you already know how to do it. ~ Seth Godin We see the signs everywhere and read the articles about the Great Reshuffling and with all this change we are bound to be tasked with helping to onboard a new employee or team member, either voluntarily or voluntold. In either case, I th...

Send us Fan Mail “It’s very gratifying to see that these books are helping to bridge the literacy gap and that the team is able to get books into the hands of children who don’t have any; they want to read, to experience being a kid, seeing that it’s really theirs, there’s nothing that can replace that.” In August of 2018, a community lost an incredible human being, Dr. Hindi Krinsky, at the young...

Send us Fan Mail " At some point you cannot physically do everything that is on your list, I had to delegate to trustworthy individuals because I couldn’t possibly do every single task myself; there just aren’t enough hours in the day" Kaleen Skersies is an Executive Assistant to the CEO at Esper. Kaleen specializes in the holistic support of C-Suite executives as they lead their teams....

Send us Fan Mail " It’s good to take a pause and really think about what is going on for me, how do I want it to be, why is it not going quite how I would want it to be, why am I having these feelings about this job that maybe in the past it was all kind of fine, but now has all these different things going on; start to ask ourselves, am I having fun at work and if not, how can I start to do...

Send us Fan Mail "Entertainment is a place where you can make other people feel and enjoy stuff when you’re doing it, you can make people laugh, cry, and make people feel the same emotions while in character, while still having fun" Meet Miss Emily Isabel , a 13-year-old actress, singer, and model. She currently is a part of the Unicorn Jazz TV Series w/Lisa Caprelli on Amazon Prime. Her...

Send us Fan Mail "There comes a point when you have to rise to the level of your talent"― Ryan Clark  This week's topic is centered around something I heard a few months ago during the 2022 Super Bowl week. Many of you are very vocal about how far you’ve come in your careers and how you’ve quite deservedly, risen to the top level of your career ladder. Great! So why is it that I am...

Send us Fan Mail “Everybody has that filter, ‘I work, you don’t, I have kids you don’t’ whatever it is, it’s important that we allow those moments to let people in; but it’s hard and you have to be vulnerable and put yourself out there but when it works and clicks you think, yes, this is how it’s supposed to be” We all have them. Those special friends we meet later in life who from the word go, yo...

Send us Fan Mail “I want to make sure that the people that I place and make matches for are going to be successful and are going to be happy and that it works for all involved” Owning a franchise is much easier than you think and this episode will show you the how and why! Since 2004, Diane Pleuss has matched hundreds of entrepreneurs with their perfect fit franchise opportunity, while successfull...

Send us Fan Mail “I avoid negative comments about age because it just brings you down; you need to be positive when starting your own business, you need mojo and momentum; the negativity stuff, I chose to not play into it and ignore it” She started her own 6 figure consulting business at 59 years old and recently married for the first time at 62! Yep, 62. Meet Project Management Consultant, Cather...

Send us Fan Mail Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.― Barbara Kingsolver Hello and welcome to part 2 of a listener submission Q & A! One of my listeners, Jamie, answered my call to action by submitting a question when I announced my new segment, Conversations About Podcasting. This week I answer the second of Jamie’s que...

Send us Fan Mail “My goal in any interview or in any conversation is to walk that person along the path with me, I never want to be so far ahead that it causes confusion” Meet Jen Mueller,  a 20 year sports broadcasting veteran who currently serves as the sideline radio reporter for the Seattle Seahawks. She is also an Emmy-winning producer and part of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast tea...

Send us Fan Mail “I never wanted another woman to feel alone, or to feel shame about her body or to go through experiences alone in the way I went through experiences; if I could just touch a few women’s lives, to me it was all worth it, I had to tell my story.” Karin Freeland did what many of us dream of doing, she ditched the 9-5 life to pursue her creative side. A recovering corporate workaholi...

Send us Fan Mail “Being kind and compassionate may not always be the easiest option, but it’s always the bravest choice” A well organized and highly motivated C-Suite Assistant who is CAP certified, Carissa Burgett provides creative  top level support to her Executives and Board members. As a compassionate Girl Scout Leader as well, Carissa teaches her troop about the power of what a strong commun...