The Boss Yourself First Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Today we're introducing our topic for Season 2. This season we're exploring constraint. While freedom and constraint may seem like opposing forces, we're going to spend the next couple of months exploring the way self-leaders can leverage constraint to increase creativity and innovation. We'll learn to use the power of constraint to free up and even accelerate...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friends, I've had so many questions around our Covid Christmas Celebration, that I'm taking this bonus episode to address a couple of them. You'll get some mindset and motivations support around holiday gift giving and dealing with the emotional ups and downs of celebrating Christmas in a pandemic. Stay tuned all the way to the end to learn one of my favorite te...

Send us Fan Mail Struggling about how to celebrate in a pandemic? This bonus episode is exploring the obstacles to and strategies for planning a Covid Christmas  (or the holiday of your choice) celebration. We lean on core values to manage our holiday mindset and focus our planning. Listen and get help for the holidays! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Want help creating a safe and celebratory Christmas? This episode finishes our exploration of Covid Christmas Core Values and gets your creativity flowing with practical and fun ideas for a great celebration, even during a pandemic. Be sure to get the resources from  at bossyourselffirst.com on the podcast page for this episode. Happy Holidays, friends! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of our season on emotional agility, we're talking about the emotionally agile team. Learn why emotional agility is crucial for success in the workplace. Also, ideas for how to build emotional agility with your team.  Listen in for these important to ways to cap off the season and apply the principles and practices of emotional agility.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail As we wind down the first season, on today's episode we're working on aligning our behaviors with our values through the power of habit. Learn how to adopt new habits and  the Golden Rule of Habit Change. Conserve energy and reduce the disparity between how we want to show up and how we actually live, all factors that support emotional agility. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Are you struggling with all of the changes 2020 has brought? Sabine walks us through a powerful four-step process to improve our emotional agility when dealing with change. Plus, this episode is packed with practical approaches to increase self-leadership and embrace personal transformation.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today we tap into our human superpower of holding mixed emotions. That may sound to you like more of a weakness, but we're taking the Boss Yourself First Emotional Framework, that I use myself and with my clients, to leverage that ability into an agility superpower. Difficult emotions are plentiful - the events of 2020 alone have shown that. Anxiety, fear, and stress are not...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we're talking with Brenda Abdilla about building our emotional agility when dealing with stress. Brenda shares from her new book Outsmarting Crazytown: A Business Novel About how Derailed Professionals Can Get Back On Track  and opens up about how her personal journey helped develop her self-leadership skills.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today we're exploring another approach to gaining emotional literacy - The Thinkers First Approach. It's not that feelers don't think or thinkers don't feel but for some of us, it is easier to approach circumstances with detached logic first. So we're talking about how those, who first lean toward logic, can access that emotional data. Then we're leve...

Send us Fan Mail Has 2020 challenged your emotional agility and/or made you take a hard look at diversity in your workplace? Executive Coach and Consultant Jennell Jones shares her experiences and insights on how to build your emotional agility, diversity and self-leadership. There is so much practical application in this episode, you won't want to miss out!  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, we dig deep to discover the messages emotions deliver.  Yes, emotions enrich our lives, painting the human experience with both joy and sadness, but emotions also provide feedback on our values and what is important to us. Understanding the messages emotions deliver is the next step to leveraging that data to choose thoughts and actions that keep us mo...

Send us Fan Mail How do you like to show up in a heated moment? Explosively out-of-control or clear-thinking and decisive? In this episode, we add another layer to our emotional literacy with the language we use and the labels we create. With this understanding, we can calm our triggered brains to create space between stimulus and response -  to choose our actions and show up in a way that aligns...

Send us Fan Mail Today we start the skill building aspect of Emotional Agility by improving our Emotional Literacy. Emotional Literacy means we can read our own emotions, understand how they effect us physically and have the language to express our understanding. Be sure to grab the episode principle and practice to apply what you learn today. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today we finish laying the foundation for our work to increase our Emotional Agility. These last two principles are the last step before our season long work of becoming more skilled at processing emotions so that we can remain on purpose through times of uncertainty both at work and at life. Self-leadership in the area of emotional agility helps to maintain balance, flexibility a...

Send us Fan Mail Have you been feeling a bit bruised and battered by the events of the last few months? The only thing that is certain is uncertainty. That has never been more evident that in the year 2020, and never before have we needed to be nimble in processing our emotions and thoughts to adjust to the constant ripples (and sometimes title waves) this uncertainty generates. Together we will b...