Speak Your Mind Unapologetically Podcast

Speaking your mind unapologetically starts with courage and leads to habit. The first step to make it happen for yourself is to commit. In this episode, I'll walk you through your commitment to owning your own voice.   Other Episodes You'll Like: How To Find Courage To Speak Up (Compilation):  https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-find-courage-to-speak-up-4-examples 4 Top Speaking Up Fears De...

It's important to take the time to celebrate your successes and achievements because it helps you be even more successful. In this episode, you'll discover 6 ways to celebrate your successes unapologetically.   Other Episodes You'll Like: 5 Easy Ways To Self-Promote Without Bragging:  https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/5-easy-ways-to-self-promote-without-bragging 7 Compelling Reasons You Need To...

Want to share joy with people that you care about? Bring joy and happiness to others by speaking your mind. In this episode you'll discover 17 easy and free ways to bring joy and happiness to others (that don't involve gifts).   Other Episodes You'll Like: Do You Make These Mistakes When You Praise People At Work?: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/do-you-make-these-mistakes-when-you-praise-peop...

If you travel by plane or like cookies, you'll appreciate this speaking up tale that illustrates there are many good ways you can speak your mind politely in a situation (as long as you speak up!)   Other Episodes You'll Like: You Don't Have To Change Your Personality To Start To Be More Assertive: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/048-you-dont-have-to-change-your-personality-to-start-to-be-more...

There are 4 main communication types which are: passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive. In this episode you'll discover the key differences between these 4 communication styles and how authority and closeness in your relationships can affect your communication style.   Other Episodes You'll Like: What Is Your Most Used Communication Style At Work?: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.c...

Listening skills are very important. However, if you mostly listen in a conversation, you can feel disengaged, disconnected, and limit your contribution. If you mostly speak you can make other people feel disconnected. What's the optimal balance? In this episode, you'll discover: how to: ✔️Recognize the factors that influence how much to speak vs listen. ✔️Identify key communication differences by...

How can you successfully share your ideas at work? More importantly, how can you make your ideas heard and gut buy in? In this episode, four VP / Director guests share their tips on: ✔️How to sell your ideas at work (with former Senior Executive VP at Johnson & Johnson Samuel Santos). ✔️How to get support for your ideas in meetings (with Director Diana Dreyer). ✔️How to share half-baked ideas in m...

How do you gracefully accept bad gifts, gifts that make you feel obligated to give back, or gifts you enjoy? When you don't accept gifts gracefully, you kill the joy the gift giver has in sharing the gift with you and you send the message "don't buy me gifts again."  In this episode you'll discover: ✔️Top mistakes people make when receiving gifts that cause gift givers to quit gift giving ✔️How to...

Most Americans feel stressed during the holidays, because of the pressures of gift exchanging, challenges of staying on diet, lack of time and money, unpleasant conversations. Could speaking your mind unapologetically be the solution to all that holiday stress? In this episode you'll discover how to: ✔️ Talk about stopping exchanging gifts with family and friends. ✔️ Easily decline eating too much...

Is conflict and confrontation bad? Should we try to avoid it? In this episode, you'll discover why we need to embrace conflict and confrontation, and: ✔️10 Conflict And Confrontation Myths Debunked MYTH 1 - Conflict & confrontation are bad. MYTH 2 - Conflict is caused by difficult, angry, trouble-making people. MYTH 3 - Conflict means there's a problem in the relationship. MYTH 4 - Time will fix p...

There are communication best practices to communicate effectively, but you can apply them with your unique personality. When you find your authentic communication personality, you'll feel more comfortable in your communication. In this episode, you'll discover: ✔️ How to use the 4 phases of experiential learning to find your communication personality.   Other Episodes You'll Like: You Don't Have T...

How can you find courage to speak up? In this episode you'll find out how these 4 people find the courage to speak up at work (there were previous guests on the podcast).   Other episodes to boost your courage to speak up ✔️12 Questions To Know When To Ignore Criticism and Judgment https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/12-questions-to-know-when-to-not-take-judgment-seriously   ✔️Top Hack To Stop Wor...

Different job levels such as individual contributor, entry level manager, mid manager, and executive, require different assertiveness skills. In this episode, you'll discover what those skills are.   Free Resources: Ask me your question for the next episode here:  https://www.speakpipe.com/speakyourmindquestion Sign up for 10 Day free Assertive And Liked Challenge:  https://assertiveway.aweb.page/...

Our attitude towards speaking up can make a huge difference in our work, career, and lives. In this episode, you'll discover what those key differences are so that you can see  the possibilities and envision the new life when you embrace speaking up.   Other Episodes You'll Like: 9 Ways To Help Others Save Face When You Speak Up:  https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/9-ways-to-help-others-save-face...

Empathy is wonderful but misunderstood. And because it is misunderstood, it is often misused, which can be very inneffective when it comes to speaking up.  In this episode, you'll discover:   ✔️3 Things People Get Wrong About Empathy And The Right Way To Think about Empathy When You Speak Up ✔️Top 5 Mistakes That Kind People Make With Empathy and What To Do Instead   Other Episodes You'll Like: Ho...

Can you serve yourself by serving others? Yes. If you're the kind of person that likes to serve other people's needs but find it hard to speak up for your own needs, you'll be delighted to know that you can use those skills of serving others for your own benefit if done in the right way. In this episode, Jay Sullivan, Partner, Exec|Comm who helps people improve their effectiveness at work and beyo...

How do you get people to want to support you and see you succeed at work? How do you shamelessly self-promote? In this episode, Vanitha Ponnarasi, Senior Director of Engineering at BuildASign.com, shares: ✔️ How to get sponsors and mentors to adopt you. ✔️ The secret ingredient that makes people really want to help when ask for help.  ✔️ How to be more decisive. ✔️ An important mindset shift to co...

Setting boundaries yourself is helpful. Setting boundaries with powerful allies is game-changing. But setting boundaries with many invasive coworkers can be daunting because you risk coming across as difficult and uncollaborative. That's where creating a joint strategic boundary with a powerful ally can help you. You'll have someone to back you up every time you get a pushback. In this episode you...

Would you rather be liked or respected? Many people focus on being liked at work at the expense of being respected. In this episode you'll discover: ✔️ What is the difference between being liked and being respected? ✔️ Why is it more important to be respected vs liked at work? ✔️ 7 Examples on what respect-driven and likability-driven behavior look like. ✔️ Can you be both liked and respected?   "...

How can you get promoted quicky at work? Most people don't get promoted as fast as they could because they get lost in the everyday work instead of taking strategic steps towards a promotion. In this episode, you'll get a plan to organize your career growth and promotion pursuits: ✔️ 5 key steps to getting promoted quickly. ✔️ 4 questions to ask your superiors to align on goals, priorities, and ex...

How do you create psychological safety for others? What are the skills of psychological safety? Today's guest, Stephan Wiedner studied how to measure and assess psychological safety and now has a company that helps develop psychological safety skills for the workplace (Zarango.com). In this episode Stephan shares: ✔️ The Google project that revealed what makes teams effective: the Aristotle Projec...

Work can be stressful. Speaking up can be stressful. Taking on big responsibilities can be stressful. How can you better cope with stress? In this episode you'll hear from four professionals (attorney, engineering director, Google UX professional, and impostor syndrome expert) who share: ✔️ 5 stress-coping tactics ✔️ How do you mentally shift away from work to avoid burnout ✔️ 5 best practices to...

This is a quick episode about what this show is about. One man changed my life. I was a young, introverted, people pleasing but studious, hardworking and collaborative person when I got my very first manager role. My team revolted, I got pushbacks, and I was scared to speak up and couldn't get anything done. My boss, Mario, never protected me or spoke up for me. But what Mario did changed my life...

How do you know when you should speak up assertively? Sometimes we don't speak up because we don't want to rock the boat. We rationalize why it's ok and we are too sensitive or reactive. We might think that's it's not a big deal and that it's not worth making matters worse, or feel guilty and at fault when someone tries to manipulate us. And sometimes we are so used to not speaking up that we don'...

Speak your mind unapologetically to dodge nosy questions Holidays are times for family gatherings which often come with personal life questions that make you feel ambushed or uncomfortable. How do you respond to personal nosy questions like "when will you get married?", "how much money do you make?", "when are you going to get a job?", "shouldn't you spend more time with your children?", "when wil...