Lead With Who You Are

In this week’s episode we have yet another wonderful guest bringing all her insanely valuable expertise to the table, Maria Ross, a Brand Strategist, Author, and TEDx speaker.  She is the owner of her brand consultancy, The Red Slice, where she advises entrepreneurs and fast-growth businesses on building irresistible brand stories and messaging to better connect with customers.  Maria joins Dia to...

On The Dia Bondi Show, we love to talk about polarities.  Our personal contradictions that we carry with us all the time where we can embrace our full set of selves. We can do more, be more and join more to accomplish more of what we want, while using all of us to do what matters the most to us. In this episode, join us in discussion about your polarities with Sarah Marshank, author of Being Selfi...

Get meta with Dia and Arthur as they look back at the first 20 episodes, giving a behind the scenes look at The Dia Bondi Show, past, present, and future!   Hear about Dia's recent trip to a podcasting conference, her new goal to become a great podcaster, the fact that Arthur doesn't actually know what he's doing, and multiple train breaks!   In this episode we take you a bit behind the scenes.  D...

Jane Finette, author of Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women and founder of The Coaching Fellowship joins us to discuss her new book.  This episode turns into much more of a pep talk to reinvigorate your feminism and to continue to charge on in the face of difficulties by bringing equity and equality to women worldwide unto the experience that you live everyday. Jane points to the fact that...

Hello!  Dia here, jumping into your feed to let you know about something new and cool.  Do you ever wonder, “I love this podcast, but where do I go from here?” We’ve got an answer for you. We’ve JUST launched our brand new website, DiaBondi.com Over there you’re going to find all kinds of things split between the two pathways that help YOU speak more powerfully to advance yourself and your busines...

Recently, Dia was invited to talk about all things asking with the Women’s group for a large company.  In this episode you’ll get to listen in.  We recorded the convo and flipped it right into an episode for you.  Dia talks all things about how to make our asks and how to stay connected to our goals as we pursue them. The conversation was so good that I knew I had to share it.  We talked about the...

In today’s episode we have an amazing guest, Carla Johnson, who gets our juices flowing when it comes to innovative ways to leverage the moments of today in order to get to your goals.  She just released her latest book, RE: THINK innovation.  Carla is a storyteller, speaker, and a prolific author- seriously, 10x author. Dia and Carla discuss the relation between ideas that you are coming up with...

Ask Dia episode!  Ever have an exec meeting go off the rails for one of your projects?  A caller asks about how to handle it when you're communicating a status and next steps for a critical projects and the convo goes awry and nothing you say helps.  Dia pulls out some of her communications mastery frameworks to help put the conversation in the right direction and help you gain back control.  List...

Kat Gordon. A force for belonging at work and in advertising, she’s contributed to transforming the advertising space and moving the needle on helping women gain decision-making roles in advertising.   Are you building a team or business? Do you want to bring out the best, most courageous, most creative ideas? Belonging is the unlocker.  This conversation will help you tackle belonging as a busine...

Is one of your goals to start a nonprofit? Or maybe you already have one?  One of the keys to a successful sustainable non-profit is consistent, significant fundraising. And one of the most powerful and under-leveraged assets for that is your board.  In the episode, Beth Sandefur, fundraising event’s pro will teach us how to get the most from your board when it comes to fundraising and how to help...

But what about the Backlash? It’s real.  And, grappling with it is a thing.  When we go to make the bold asks we need to make to reach our goals, sometimes there’s fallout.  In this episode with Shermin Kruse, attorney, Tactical Empathy Specialist, TedX Producer and thought leader we ask the question “What about the backlash?”   But we don’t just talk about the bad backlash.  We also talk about wh...

In this episode we respond to a caller question: “I don’t really have an ask right now, what tools do you have to identify and ask if you don’t currently have one?” Answer in this episode! Plus, I wear office slippers, Baby A got an AC unit and when you do one thing a day that is squarely in your zone of genius, you are untouchable.

You’re gonna love her. Lindsay Gordon is a career coach for analytically minded people Lindsay Gordon is a career coach for analytically minded people. At A Life Of Options, she helps you stop doing what they think is right and start doing what’s right for you. In this episode we discuss all things “what’s right for you” and how to achieve a life and career aligned with who you truly are.   Some o...

You never know who’s gonna impact you or who you’re gonna impact.  In this episode we talk with Maira Benjamin who changed the course of Dia’s projects with one comment over tea. She’s Sr. Director of Engineering at Change.org and a major champion for change.  Dia and Maira riff on the intersection of the arts engineering, Maira’s work making it possible for more black and brown folks to enter and...

While we don’t number our episodes, this one happens to be the 10th, was recorded with a live audience, AND it’s a Launch Party! In this episode, Dia shares the 3 Goal Types she sees in her work. Which one are you? Find out in this episode.  Arthur and his wife Kat will also debut their new song for their new band, Big Surprise. They play it live on the episode, and your ears will thank you--it’s...

We often know what we want, but getting there is the path less known. Today, Dava Guthmiller joins us to talk about the creative process. What IS the creative process? How do we move through that exploration time into an outcome with grace, grit, and acceptance of what our path shows us? Dava Guthmiller Dava Guthmiller is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Noise 13, a brand strategy and des...

Before you step into that critical ask and negotiation, you can prepare yourself by answering a few questions of your own. Answering these honestly and authentically will boost your confidence AND your courage when you step in and step up to the moment.   Below are the 5 questions you MUST answer before you head into your next big ask. They’re tactical, but they will inform your strategy. Especial...

Do you tend to stop what you are doing? Over critique yourself? Then scrap it all and just start over. Stop doing that by starting to say “yes” to yourself!  On stage, every word matters, but if we let every word matter so much that we stop and allow ourselves a “do-over” EVERY TIME--we end up never getting the momentum you need.  In this episode, we will talk all about this crazy cycle! Plus, we’...

When it's time to name and claim goals, you don't have to just stare at a blinking cursor. In this episode, Dia talks through a way to approach naming and claiming some brand new goals (big ones, little ones, live ones and work ones). She busts a myth about confidence and finds out what kind of contradiction Baby Arthur is and what he likes about it.  Call into the show with a prompt from this ver...

Shasta Nelson is a friendship expert and is here to share how to deepen friendships so we can reach our goals. She shares the 3 things that need to be present to build friendship and her definition of friendship. In this episode, you'll get the strategies you need to combat loneliness, guidance on where to get started when you want to deepen your friendships, and how you can feel more connected, s...

There are four questions Dia gets all the time 1) What if what I’m asking for is actually crazy? How do I know it’s not? 2) What do I do if I get a no? 3) How do I ask so that I don’t……? and 4) How do I just get the confidence I need? Sound familiar? Then join us for this short actionable episode that might unlock something for you as you head into your next negotiation.  Got a question you'd like...

It's a three-part answer to a one-part question. This week we get a caller question about how to ask her boss to work remotely so she can have the life she wants. But is that really the ask she needs to make? Dia gives her an answer she (and maybe you) can use when you go to make your next big move. Plus a rant about the difference between being busy and being engaged and a "hey chill" to corporat...

This is the story behind the Podcast. Dia went to Auctioneering School for fun and then BOOM! She's helping women ask for more and get it using the mental model and framework from her impact hobby- and that lead to the mission and this Podcast.  And, meet Arthur Leon Adams III (aka Baby Arthur).  Visit us at www.diabondi.com and watch the Ask Like an Auctioneer Sizzle Reel here.  Follow us on Inst...

What is acheivement? And what can we ask for to help us get there fast? In this first episode of The Dia Bondi Show Laura and Dia gig it up about achievements, goals, how we sometimes hate them. And Dia coughs up her secret super-fandom. Join us for some rapid-fire set up for what's to come in The Dia Bondi Show where we are helping women ask for more and get it. This is the first of The Dia Bondi...