The Happy Executive Woman® Podcast

I‘ve always had a vivid imagination even in childhood. Being a daughter of older parents and the youngest in my family meant that there was a lot of alone time. My childhood is where I grew to love reading, listening to music, and business . I would get lost in my imagination traveling to the places I read about, seeing myself there, especially when things were chaotic or confusing. I could always...

As a woman on a mission with goals, dreams, and a long list of things that you want to get accomplished, you often sacrifice your happiness for the sake of others. And if you happen to be a Black woman you feel this need to put yourself last more often than not. What I want you to know is that  you deserve to be happy, no matter what your circumstances. No matter where you find yourself along...

Hello beautiful listeners. This week on the show, we have an incredible conversation with Alycia Huston.  Alycia Huston is a certified NeuroLeadership coach, consultant, and international speaker.  She honed her craft as a female biotech founder in San Diego, and after a decade of implementing growth strategies and leading a high-performance culture, sold the venture in 2014.  She n...

Today’s current job market climate has proven that people are no longer willing to put up with job abuse . The days of the employees sticking around no matter how they were being treated are long gone. I’m sure you have heard of the Great Exodus or the Great Resignation by now, and it does not appear to be slowing down. Maybe you are like one of the thousands of executives who are tired of always...

For the first podcast of 2022, I decided to come right out of the gate setting the groundwork for this year. My word for 2022 is visibility. This will be a year of transparency, honesty, and standing tall in my truth, while sharing my experiences and those of my clients so that you recognize that you are not alone, that other women you never would suspect have experienced trauma in their lives as...

It wasn’t until we began working from home full time that I realized just how stressful and overstimulating getting to work was for me and the joys of work-life balance. Working New York hours meant that during certain times of the year I will be leaving for work in the dark. This presented an additional set of angst to push through. The constant looking over my shoulder for safety reasons, not ju...

Have you ever found yourself wanting something that you thought didn't exist only to find something very close, but not exactly what you were looking for? What did you do? Well, that's exactly how I felt when it came to the mastermind groups or cohorts I've been a part of over the past 10 to 15 years. I wanted to be a part of a network of professional women that were vulnerable enough to share the...

Have you ever felt like just throwing in the towel? Like every time you take two steps forward, you end up falling 10 steps back? Or every time you think your head is finally above the water, you find yourself drowning again? If so,  you’re going to love this episode . I will share several personal stories and a few of my clients to demonstrate the power of not giving up. But before we head i...

It’s that time of year again. Staff evaluations, end-of-year reporting, fundraisers for your various organizations, board meetings, strategic planning, employee reviews, merit increases, bonuses, and a whole host of other holiday-related responsibilities. You’re right in the middle of it and are completely overwhelmed. I know you are. I’ve been there too. I am no longer willing to go through Decem...

Every executive loves it when they can trust their assistants to handle the day to day minutiae, stay four steps ahead of them, make decisions on their behalf, can pivot on a dime while keeping their cool, and in other ways, appear to get things done as if she had superpowers and wore an invisible cape to the office every day. If you’ve ever had an executive assistant like this, then you also unde...

At your level, you require an efficient and effective support system. Anyone can look nice on paper, present, and speak well during an interview, but it is the potential that they have to truly serve as your right hand that you want to identify before actually hiring them. In the last episode, I posed several introspective questions to help you identify whether you were really ready for an excepti...

As a woman in leadership, how many of the executive assistants have you hired that brought more to the table than you initially expected? Did they possess a natural ability to see things that you could not see, either because you were too focused on more strategic responsibilities or too busy making up for the lack of talent of prior EAs? How many of your EAs were willing to tell you no, or push b...

It’s that time of year that I began to hibernate and take a good look at the business mission, direction, vision, and team members. This includes independent contractors. I take a step back and take a serious look at what worked, what I need to start doing, and what I need to stop doing as I move into the new year. Maybe it’s time you took a good look at your executive assistant or your need to hi...

Sometimes as busy women, we spin our wheels trying to do so many things in such a small window of time that the bigger things that need our attention get missed. Ever had a to-do list a mile long and no clue what to do first? Up until recently, this was me. As a coach, do you try to help everybody instead of focusing your offers and messaging to the client base that you can do your best work with?...

I could not have asked for a better close to this month’s theme on menopause than with this month’s candid conversation guest, Kerry McKee. Kerry McKee, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and rites of passage guide who lives & works in the Santa Cruz mountains of northern California, the unceded lands of the Amah Mutsun people. Her medicine basket of psychological tools & creativity includes EMDR,...

Prepare to be surprised, shocked and ultimately more informed on these topics like never before. Download this episode right now. No, seriously, stop what you're doing and download the show notes. Follow the links and share, share, share this episode!  It's time to stop the cycle. It's time to end the miseducation. It's time to take back our power as women and for how we are perceived during...

So if you haven't listened to the first episode in the series, you will definitely want to pause this one and go back to Episode 15, which is my personal journey , and you want to listen to that one first. As a reminder, October is National Menopause Month, and I'm so, so excited about it ! Because of that, I'm dedicating four episodes this month specifically to this topic. This episode is a bit m...

Hello there, and welcome to National Menopause Month . October happens to be the month for several different things, and throughout the years I've celebrated the different things that meant something to me in my life. And so this year, menopause is right up there, so that is what I'm going to dedicate October's episodes to. So this first episode is going to be my personal story. This is my persona...

Join Personal Branding Strategist - Sahar Paz (she/her) and me as we share the realities of pushing yourself too hard, overachieving, being forced to take a break and face our truths, and how to overcome ALL of that to find your very own happiness. It's amazing how I continue to attract into my space truly unique women with such amazing stories. It is such a beautiful experience. Listen in as Saha...

Hello beautiful listeners. This is Coach Anita Charlot here, and you are listening to another episode that I call a special episode. And the reason why I call it a special episode is because I am sharing with you from my own personal circle of amazing, phenomenal executive women that I think you need to hear from . So this is less formal than my usual podcast where it's just me talking, and so you...

The older and more connected with the truth of who I am I get, the more it becomes crucial for me to be 100% clear on what works and what doesn’t work for me. Being a woman over 50 with a full-time job, a CEO of her own company, postmenopausal in the process of identifying health challenges, celebrating a cancer-free diagnosis, all while caring for a senior parent with dementia… Girl! This will te...

Hey, they're beautiful. You are in for a treat. This is a candid and casual conversation with my friend and business coach, Dr. Tracy Timberlake , lovingly known as Dr. TT. We're having a good time. You know, Dr. TT talks fast, I'm talking fast, feel free to slow it down or to speed it up if you want to. But we're having a great time talking about the reality of, you know, finding your happy, righ...

Hello again, beautiful!  By now, you realize that filling your time with “busy work” is no longer as satisfying as it used to be. If you listened to episodes 08 and 09, you are well aware of the need to make time in your schedule, but you may not know exactly how a high-achieving executive woman should do so.  If you did the work in Part 1 (episode 8), you’re almost there. If not, I woul...

Welcome back, beautiful! If you did your “ Relationship Energy Wheel ” homework from the last episode, you have a good idea of where your time is going and why you are often so exhausted. When I would do this exercise live with a room full of women at a conference or a retreat, it was always so amazing to see the look of surprise on their faces when they learned just how much of themselves they we...

Being a BOSS can be lonely at times ; the long hours, tight schedule, the demands of life all manage to get in the way of those things that we would like to do but just can’t find the time to do, especially as it relates to dating. That is what I would like to show you in this 4-part series: 1. Do You Even Have TIME to Date? 2.Why Taking Care of Your Mental Health is So Important as a High-Achievi...