Legendary Leaders: For Female Business Leaders

Your challenge is to look within and ask yourself, does your language reflect inclusivity? I believe we work diligently to be inclusive.  I work hard to ensure that my son feels comfortable in the kitchen and doing house chores in the same way my daughters feel comfortable doing yard work and the like.  I focus on NOT saying things like “that’s what girls do” or “don’t be such a girl.”&n...

Let’s talk about your founder type.  There are various types of founders, and some are better than others at taking this amazing idea of impact and improvement for their customers and sharing that idea in such a way that everyone feels connected to it, owns it, and feels like they are a part of that impact when they work for you.  Other founders aren’t great at it but still find a way to...

Are you balancing work and life during the holidays? Are you balancing everything the way that you want it balanced, in order to look back and say, I spent the holidays the way that I wanted to spend them?  If you don’t have your time allocated correctly, you’re watching your family participate in the holiday events and you are left lurking and watching while you work. Here at Legend Leaders...

We’ve talked in the past about burnout.  Today I want to ask you, are you creating burnout due to self-sabotage? That’s probably not something you have thought about, at least not in those terms.  But I want you to expand your mind today. Think about this one for a second. There was an article in the Harvard Business Review about burnout and self-sabotage, written by Kandi Wiens.  I...

What words do you use when you are trying to solve a problem?  You see, words matter, as you know.  But the words you use matter when you are trying to solve a problem as well. I have observed people for many years, focused on trying to solve a problem, both in the corporate and private business world; as a supervisor and a coach.  Let me tell you, words matter. The people that cons...

Today I’m challenging you to encourage accountability. Did you cringe when you heard that word? Maybe you winced when you heard me say that word.  Accountability.  Ugh.  Accountability.  Such a loaded word that means so many things. Ultimately accountability is used in the corporate world to mean something more negative than it should.  Usually, when you say “accountabilit...

Today I’m challenging you to get rid of the PC BS.  Oh yes, I said it.  Get rid of the politically correct crap that holds us back from honest and real conversations with those we work with. You are in or from the corporate world.  I get it, I lived it too. There are certain rules you follow.  You speak up but you never speak too loudly.  You challenge but you don’t confro...

How do you build rapport quickly?  Well first, what in the heck is rapport? We have all heard the word, but do we know what the word actually means? Building rapport means you create a connection with someone.  A connection of understanding. So, how do you do that?  Many of us would say we have a rapport with the people we work with, or the vendors we have that support our business....

Today I’m diving into the concept of prioritizing tasks before connection.  No doubt when you saw the title of this episode you knew what I was talking about.  How do I know?  Because you know you do it. I know this because I do it from time to time even now, but I used to do it regularly when I worked in the corporate world.  It’s not intentional, it’s not like any of us say i...

As we continue to move through the holiday season, I am going to keep challenging you to be smart.  Don’t sacrifice service for deals. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of the season. Especially if this is your first season as an entrepreneur.  it’s all-new. It’s all exciting. You want to make the best business and you want to make the best impact on your target audience. You...

This is the very last episode of this mini-series where we have been looking at meeting the basic needs of your customer.  Today we are talking about the 6th fundamental human need of contribution. So, a quick recap, there are 6 basic human needs.  We all need these 6 fulfilled. If your product and your offer combined can meet these 6, or at least 3 of these 6, that process makes it...

Welcome to episode 5 of 6 discussing how you are meeting your customer’s needs, specifically the 6 basic needs we all have and must all be met on a regular basis or we simply do not feel fulfilled.  Today we are talking about the need for growth. We all have to grow. Humans are either growing or dying.  We have to grow, change, learn, etc. that’s life.  That’s why there is the news,...

Welcome to episode number 4 of 6 where we are discussing the idea of meeting the basic needs of your customer.  Today we are focused on the need of connection. Remember, there are 6 basic human needs, which we all have to have met.  We have talked about certainty, uncertainty or variety, significance, and now today we are going to talk about connection. We all need connection, specifical...

Welcome to episode number 3 of 6 in our series where I’m challenging you to focus on meeting the basic needs of your customer.  Today we are talking about the need for significance. Significance is feeling important.  Feeling valued.  Feel like you matter. We all have a need to feel significant in some capacity.  As a customer, you want to feel valued, right?  You don’t wa...

In this episode  2 in a series of 6  talking about delivering to the 6 basic human needs, we are tackling the second need of uncertainty. Quick high-level recap from yesterday’s episode: remember that there are 6 basic human needs.  We all have them. They are all the same.  We may have them prioritized differently vs. each other but we still have to meet all of these needs.&nbs...

Are you meeting the basic needs of your customer?  Today we are going to talk about the 6 basic needs and talk through the first of the 6, certainty. As I mentioned last week, I attended Tony Robbin’s” UPW–Unleash the Power Within.  I’m telling you, as an aside, it’s a life-changing experience.  Hands down.  If you have been thinking about it, do it.  Don’t hesitate....

During this holiday season, I’m challenging you to stay true to your sales framework. Right now, a lot of new business owners are observing other companies, seeing them have success with various holiday sales tactics,  knowing that people have a lot of cash right now, and so then they start trying to mimic what they are seeing. So first,  I don’t blame you for that. I mean, that’s a very...

Are you serving or surviving? I want you to step back and think about this for a second.  Listen to the words: are you serving, or surviving? Now, you are an overachiever, like me.  And when you think surviving you are probably like, “Heck no I don’t survive.  I thrive!  I take names.  I  kick butt.  I handle it!” I get it. But I want you to look at your business...

You know I read Harvard Business Review regularly.  I recently read an article by Dana Sumpter and Mona Zanhour called: 3 Ways Companies Can Retain Working Moms Right Now.  I’m calling this topic to ask for and establish flexibility. The article said that 865,000 working moms left the workforce in September of 2020 compared to 216,000 men.  WHAT!  That’s a huge shift!  Hug...

Today I want to challenge you to brief like a boss by finding your key supporter in the room. We are in our last weekend of November, we are going full-on into December, the month where everything in business is mixed with the holidays.  That means that everyone is going to be distracted; therefore, it’s critical to land your message the first time around in your day job so you won’t be spend...

Have you thought about the fact that procrastination actually only hurts you later?  Said differently, did you realize that procrastination is an action killer. This is another Donald Millar nugget that I had to share.  He essentially said, if you don’t want to do the action today, you aren’t going to want to do it later. So either doesn’t do it at all or go ahead and get it done and be...

At this point in the year, I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t remind you to invest in yourself.  Today is what has been deemed Black Friday from a retail perspective; the day that everything is massively on sale and everyone is out trying to find bargains and deals.  Now, this year looks a little different because we aren’t out shopping like maybe we did in the past. But we ar...

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US.  I hope that you are prepared to have a great day, no matter what you have on your agenda.  My question for you today is: what are you thankful for? You know, we could spend today feeling frustrated. Frustrated that we can’t be with our families.  Frustrated that we can’t do our traditional midnight shopping or Black Friday routine.&nbsp...

Today I want to focus on the perspective of you leaving the corporate world but not taking your team. In other words, when you leave, don’t take talent with you. It will be tempting to take them with you. You know they are high performers, you know that for whatever reason the company you all work for now isn’t the place to be.  But I’m cautioning you against taking people with you when you g...

Your challenge today is to realize that you may not be confused about an action you need to take, maybe you are trying to avoid the work altogether. I recently got caught up on a lot of the Donald Miller videos, his training videos he shares as part of StoryBrand.  I have to tell you, in case you don’t already know, I just totally dig this guy.  He’s on point when it comes to some of the...