Shameless Leadership

How many times have you found your self admitting to indulging in a “guilty pleasure”? Can we all get over that? Please? Can we simply enjoy the things that bring us joy and happiness (like long showers, dark chocolate, alone time, cheese, and Real Housewives) without connecting them to guilt? Cause the truth is that you deserve all the chocolate (and cheese) in the world. You don’t even have to e...

Leslie Juvin-Acker is Chief Happiness Officer at Leslie Inc. where she coaches stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed senior managers, executives, and entrepreneurs from all over the world. Her message is happiness and she helps leaders find their State of Happiness with intuitive insight, practical advice, and simple solutions. In addition to her work coaching high achievers, Leslie is a psychic medi...

There are 4 essential steps you need to take in order to successfully hit any goal or resolution you may be going after this year: Settle in for the journey, rather than focusing on the outcome Create a roadmap and follow it Consistently show up imperfectly Practice affirmations that shift your self-image Some (all?) of these might be a little counterintuitive or go against the grain of what you’v...

Andrea Owen is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and choosing courage and confidence instead. She has helped thousands of women manage their inner-critic to create loving connections and live their most kick-ass life. She is the proud author of 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inn...

To kick of the New Year I am making a bit of an offering to you. I want to give you my 3 wishes for you in the New Year. I especially want you to be mindful of these wishes over the next month.    I think there is a lot of pressure to DO. IT. ALL. in January and I’m inviting you to NOT.    Instead I want you to consider how three little words might impact your actions for the entire year. These th...

Every year is filled with so many opportunities to learn, grow & expand in new directions that is hard to identify just a few life altering decisions of the year. But I know there are things I did this year to be more powerful in my everyday life. AND I’m ready to kick off 2018 with some new awareness around how I want to make powerful things happen in my life in the new year.  Learn more about yo...

I put together a list of our most downloaded episodes of 2017 and I couldn’t be more excited to share them with you. I know it can be hard to keep up with alllll the shows that come out in a year, so I thought this would be a great reference for those of you who might want to catch up on the best of the best that you may have missed in 2017.    These Shameless Moms (and one very Shameless Dad!) li...

Lisa Druxman is the Chief Founding Mom of FIT4MOM, the parent company to Fit4Baby, Stroller Strides and Body Back. With nearly 2,000 class locations nationwide, FIT4MOM is one of the fastest growing franchises in the country. Lisa is the author of the upcoming book, The Empowered Mama and the host of the Motivating Mom podcast. She has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America and more...

I got a message from a woman the other day, “Sara, I’m thinking about quitting.” I have a lot of thoughts around quitting. A lot of people will spew BS lines about “winners never quit”, or “pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.” Yuck. And totally untrue.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mary Shores is the internationally known author of Conscious Communications: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I’ve been studying and reading up about all sorts of things related to self identity, Imposter Syndrome, and how we see ourselves versus how others see us. It’s been fascinating and I’ve learned a lot. I did a little experiment last week and I was blown away by the results, so I had to share with you right away. I’m also inviting you to do the same experiment and I’m telling you exactly how to do...

Cortney McDermott is an award-winning writer, TEDx speaker, and strategist to Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurial leaders, and think tanks around the world. She writes for a number of international publications, including ‘She Owns It’ and ‘HuffPost’. Her debut book, “Change Starts Within You: Unlock the Confidence to Lead with Intuition” was selected for Inc.com’s “26 Favorite Books of High A...

I sat down to record this episode on December 1st and December was already kicking my butt. On the first day of the month. HOW?!? Even with the best planning and the best intentions and the best holiday cheer, December is a month that can catch up with you – quickly. Like within the first darn 24 hours of the whole month, apparently.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...

Jon Acuff is the New York Times-bestselling author of five books. His most recent book is FINISH. He's helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. Most recently he's spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at companies such as Microsoft, Nissan and Comedy Central. Featured regularly on national media, Jon has...

I’m not gonna lie. I’m in major hustle mode right now and that is not my favorite place to be. But sometimes it’s necessary. I’m not at my best when I’m hustling. I get frustrated and anxiety ridden and just downright cranky.    However, I’ve gotten better at checking myself over the years, so I’m actually able to manage myself at these times in my life without making myself or those around me too...

Whitney Nicely went from no investments (or strategies) to 19 houses, 19 apartment units and 7 chunks of land in less than three years all bringing monthly money to her bank account on auto pilot. She has traveled the United States speaking on stages, teaching her simple strategies, and meeting with other successful real estate investors- and still buying houses the way she teaches others. Learn m...

This episode is to give you power and might to make you do the things you want to do and need to do – BUT – you might be a little scared to do. I’m inviting you to take action, baby steps if necessary, to live a bigger, bolder, braver life. Here’s how… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Katie Anthony is a writer and mother of two boys, ages 3 and 5. She knows a lot about backhoe loaders, velociraptors, and rage. Her writing has appeared in BUST.com, Scary Mommy, Mamalode, and the PEPS Blog. She swears and blogs about parenthood, feminism, and scotch at KatyKatiKate.com.   I was introduced to Katie via one of my favorite podcasts, For Crying Out Loud. Co-hosts of FCOL, Lynette Car...

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Melanie Shankle is the New York Times bestselling author behind Nobody’s Cuter Than You, The Antelope in the Living Room, Sparkly Green Earrings and her newest book, Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life. She first shared her hilarious observations and loving wisdom on The Big Mama Blog, which helped define a new genre of blogging for women as it attracted a dev...

Here we GO! We are about to dive into the holiday season. Are you ready? I love the holidays and would be happy for them to last for months on end, but I know they can add stress and chaos for a lot of people. I want you to be conscientious about how you enter into your last 2 months of 2017 so you can actually enjoy with ease.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

n addition to being a Shameless Mom to Charlie (14) and Pepper (9), Nichole Nordeman is an award-winning singer-songwriter and acclaimed worship leader who just wrote her first book, Slow Down: Embracing the Everyday Moments of Motherhood. The book is based on Nichole’s song “Slow Down” that pulled the heartstrings of mothers everywhere—with 14 million views in five days and has exceeded 21 millio...

The truth about having it all. Let’s get real for a minute. There are a lot of non-truths out there about having it all. And most of the non-truths that exist in our head are there because we have made them up. We look at someone’s seemingly perfect Facebook life and determined that it is possible to be beautifully perfectly happy all. the. time. #nontruth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...

Maria Alcoke is host of the Engine Mom Podcast, a CrossFit-L1 trainer at CrossFit Cove in Columbia, Maryland and runs her own graphic and web development studio, MariaVida Creative.    After over 10 years in the creative field in both agency and education settings, she left the corporate world to pursue her own business right before she the birth of her daughter. Two years in to her motherhood and...

We have officially arrived at the Season of Plan B.    We are at the time of year where sh*t happens: You’re up all night with a sick kiddo and you miss your early morning workout.  Work chaos strikes and your healthy lunch plan is out the window.  The kids have a day off random day off school (snow day, teacher prep day, why the eff is there no school today day, etc) and your entire schedule is f...