10X Impact Conversations

Many companies strive to build a strong culture of happy, fulfilled employees. But how often are those culture-building efforts put into genuine practices that elevate the whole system? In today's episode we are joined by David Reed who shares his leadership journey on how to really consider each individual employee's needs and path to joy, in order to build a win-win culture.

David is the President of Equilibar, a privately held, people focused company that provides innovative fluid control technology. Equilibar places high priority on building a cohesive team that recognizes and mentors talent. David makes it a priority to not just talk a good game around culture and mentorship but actually operationalize that vision into daily life.

Laura and David discuss how to create joy at work among your employees, building a transparent, autonomous, and supportive culture, and how putting employees first ultimately contributes to profit and success.

In today's episode:

3:30- How to lead through trust

12:25- Leadership skills that put relationships and win-win first

21:00- The relationship between investing in a trusting culture while also providing autonomy

26:45- Designing roles around joy

36:00- David's biggest takeaways on leading a people focused company

About the 10X Impact Conversations Podcast

We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit us at 10xleadershiplab.com.

Conscious leadership is core to our work at 10X Leadership Lab. But what exactly is conscious leadership and how can you embody it through your work and life?

Conscious leadership is about self-awareness, self-evolution, and being more present to our potential and what we offer the world.

In today's podcast episode, Laura breaks down the meaning of conscious leadership, how to use self-awareness as a lens to approach leadership, and five conscious leadership skills you can use to awaken your potential and impact in the world.

In this episode we uncover five skills of conscious leadership:

5:20—Learning Agility- Cultivating a growth mindset

12:00—Outcomes and impact, vs. tasks and checklists- Realigning with what matters most.

15:30— Resourcefulness- Breaking through barriers to mobilize the big dream.

17:20—Taking personal responsibility- Owning your well-being, your mistakes, and your impact with vulnerability and authenticity.

21:50—Curiosity and willingness to experiment with a better way- Experimentation is the root of expertise.

If you want to learn more about conscious leadership and how it can mobilize your impact and self-evolution, we would love to hear from you! Reach out here.

About the 10X Impact Conversations Podcast

We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit us at 10xleadershiplab.com.

How do you navigate difficult conversations at work? Do you lean into them with curiosity or do you try to avoid any discomfort?

This week, we are welcoming Dr. Susan Clark Muntean back to the show. If you didn't catch last week's insightful podcast episode with Susan, Championing Gender Inclusivity in Business, we highly recommend adding it to your list!

In today's episode, we discuss how to approach and practice difficult conversations with your team, actionable tips to make them easier, and the positive outcomes and growth you can experience as a result.

In today's episode:

3:30- Difficult conversations and our external environment

7:00- Starting with curiosity and vulnerability

10:30- Tips and tools to make approaching difficult conversations easier

24:30- Creating win-win outcomes

About Dr. Susan Clark Muntean

Dr. Susan Clark Muntean teaches courses in Management, Organizational Behavior and Theory, Entrepreneurship, and Consulting. She holds a certificate in Social Entrepreneurship from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship ("USASBE") and is active in the Asheville entrepreneurial community as a mentor, public speaker, author and advisory board member.

Her new book, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Gender Perspective, is co-authored with Cambridge University Press. Dr. Clark Muntean has held both academic and professional positions in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including with the London School of Economics, IBM Consulting Group, Ernst & Young LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP.

About the 10X Impact Conversations Podcast

We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit us at 10xleadershiplab.com.

What can we do to create more gender inclusivity in the workplace? Especially in entrepreneurship, the gender gap for funding and support is staggering. Only 3% of all venture capital funding goes to female entrepreneurs. This means that 97% of all the dollars that go to startups that become high impact, highly successful companies are founded by men. What can we do to change that gap?

In this week's podcast episode, we are joined by Dr. Susan Clark Muntean. Susan teaches courses in Management, Organizational Behavior and Theory, Entrepreneurship, and Consulting. She holds a certificate in Social Entrepreneurship from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship ("USASBE") and is active in the Asheville entrepreneurial community as a mentor, public speaker, author and advisory board member.

Her new book, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Gender Perspective, is co-authored with Cambridge University Press. Dr. Clark Muntean has held both academic and professional positions in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including with the London School of Economics, IBM Consulting Group, Ernst & Young LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP.

Today, we discuss gender inclusivity in the workplace, the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and how leaders and gatekeepers can communicate and advocate for change within organizations.

In this episode:

8:30- What does research tell us about gender inclusivity in the entrepreneurial ecosystem?

15:00- How can men flip the narrative to help close the gender gap?

21:00- What can we do to help others become aware of their implicit biases?

25:45- How can women support other women in business and entrepreneurship?

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We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit us at 10xleadershiplab.com.

How can we create conditions at work that support happiness in our lives?

In this week's podcast episode, we welcome Dr. Tracy Brower to the show. Tracy is a PhD sociologist who is dedicating her career to empowering people to discover and claim fulfillment and happiness in all aspects of their lives. She is the author of The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life. Tracy is a contributor to Forbes.com and Fast Company and her work has been featured in TEDx, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune.com, and Inc. Magazine.

We discuss the role of work in our lives, how to choose and create joy in our work as part of a healthy life, and some ways in which leaders can build cultures where happiness thrives.

In Today's Episode:

7:00- The foundations of purpose and happiness

11:00- Discovering your best boundary to correlate with happiness

15:30- What are some of the misunderstandings we have as leaders around happiness at work?

29:30- The connection between happiness and business outcomes

34:00- How leaders can support conditions for happiness in their organization

About 10X Leadership Lab

We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, contact us here.

Studies have found that the happiest and most successful people are those who wake up every day to clear-cut, meaningful goals that provide purpose, and who use grit to accomplish those goals. So, what is the connection between goal setting and finding your purpose?

In this week's episode, we are thrilled to welcome author and executive coach, Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP. We share a candid conversation about the importance of women being authentic leaders and mentors through uplifting other women in their ideas, goals, and accomplishments. Plus, we discuss how to realize your purpose and happiness through accomplishing hard goals with good grit.

In this episode:

2:45- Get to know Caroline--how sharing personal stories inspire and educate others

9:00- The evidence behind women supporting women

22:30- How can leaders consciously amplify women's successes?

31:15- The link between happiness and goal setting

40:45- How good grit can be cultivated in our lives

About Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP

For three decades, Caroline has been a pioneer with her groundbreaking work in the areas of goal setting, grit, happiness and success. She is recognized as one of the world's leading positive psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one's life for maximum transformation, flourishing and growth. Caroline helps people identify, come up with a plan for, and persist in pursuing their toughest goals — leading to their success, happiness and flourishing, while inspiring those around them.

Achieving hard, meaningful goals is one of the most rewarding things we can do in both our personal and professional lives. Although she didn't have a word for it at the time, Caroline used "grit" and a resilient mindset to help overcome her personal battle with bulimia, which propelled her into the spotlight when her autobiography, My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988), became the first recovery memoir to offer hope to eating disorder sufferers who didn't know recovery was possible. Today, she helps others develop the traits they need to get to the finish line.

Angela Duckworth, winner of the 2013 MacArthur Genius grant for her research on grit, said of Caroline:

"I don't know anybody who has thought more than [Caroline] about

how to apply the scientific research on grit and achievement to our own lives!

Angela Duckworth

Caroline is the author of seven books, including the bestselling My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988), which was an Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild, and Positively Caroline (Cogent 2013), its sequel. Creating Your Best Life (Sterling 2009/2021), is the first mass market self-help book on the science of happiness and how it intersects with the science of accomplishing goals. It is popular in the mass market and is also used as a textbook in numerous coaching and Positive Psychology classes around the world. The "father of Positive Psychology," Martin Seligman, lauded Caroline's scholarship in his book Flourish, noting that she had "added a major missing piece to the world of coaching" because of her ground-breaking and evidence-based connection between Positive Psychology and success.

Her workbook, Your Happiest Life, is a four-week guide to help users learn how to set and accomplish goals in a step-by-step way through science-based activities and proven techniques. Getting Grit (Sounds True 2017) discusses why the character strength grit is so important to a flourishing life, who has it, and how to cultivate, amplify, and teach it. Her newest book, #I have your Back Success Groups (2021) is a how-to guide for women on how to create and benefit from a mastermind group. Live Happy Magazine named Creating Your Best Life one of the top 10 goal setting books ever published and Getting Grit one of the 10 books that would change your life in 2017. Caroline's books have been translated into German, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Italian. Caroline has been a chapter contributor to a number of books including Full Lives, Thriving Women, Thriving World and a French psychology textbook.

About 10X Leadership Lab

We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit 10xleadershiplab.com.

Humans are healthier and happier when they have a sense of purpose. Shouldn't that purpose be an integral part of your work?

On this week's podcast, we are delighted to welcome Bea Boccalandro, author of Do Good at Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing. As founder and president of the global purpose advisory firm, VeraWorks, Bea has two decades of experience helping businesses make customer interactions more human, products more inclusive, operations more environmentally sustainable, and marketing more charitable

In other words, making work more meaningful.

In today's conversation, we talk about why everyone should be empowered to discover their own individual purpose and integrate it into their work. We discuss how small acts of meaning create a ripple effect through the whole culture. Plus, we share practical ways leaders can encourage job-purposing throughout all levels and teams.

In this episode:

2:00- Creating purpose within your job

8:30- Building a purposeful culture from the bottom up

14:00- How small acts of meaning lead to sustainable shift

20:00- Making space for individual purpose and authenticity at work

35:00- Practical things leaders can do to encourage job purposing

Resources from today's episode:

"Why Your Values Belong at Work" by Bea Boccolandro

Learn more about Bea Boccalandro at www.beaboccalandro.com

We discuss the limbic brain in the beginning of today's episode. To discover more, be sure to listen to episode #114: The Leadership Skill of Storytelling

About 10X Leadership Lab

We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit us at 10xleadershiplab.com.

There is a new paradigm of business is emerging. Businesses are increasingly focusing on total impact, not just financial profit. They are working to add value not just to shareholders, but to all stakeholders. Many leaders recognize this shift and want to take action, but are unsure how to implement change within their organization. So, where can they start?

In todays episode, we are joined by organizational culture transformation expert and leadership coach, Tom Rausch. A passionate teacher and avid learner, Tom brings the ability to scale culture transformation across any size organization, from global multi-nationals to family run businesses and everything in-between. As Director of Consulting for Barrett Values Centre, he works towards his vision of a world where everyone thrives, doing work that matters.

The Barrett Values Centre helps companies build authentic, resilient cultures based on deeply-felt values that are shared across the entire team. At 10X Leadership Lab, we use the Barrett Values Assessment as our tool to measure and roadmap culture work with our clients. Tom has been an integral educator for our team on all things Barrett, and we are thrilled to have him on the show.

In today's conversation, we discuss the shift in focus to employee wellbeing, how to spot areas to improve within your culture, and the incredible opportunity leaders have to impact not only their company, but their entire value chain.

In this episode:

4:00- What is the new paradigm of business?

13:30- Why does Barrett use values as the metric for culture health?

18:00- How does the Barrett values system relate to employee engagement?

22:00- Using the Barrett Assessment to uncover blind spots in your culture.

28:30- The 4 areas of alignment that lead to Whole System Transformation

Find out more about Tom and the Barrett Values Centre at www.valuescentre.com.

If you want to be a part of the thriving culture movement, or need guidance completing the Barrett Values Assessment, we would love to speak with you! Reach out here.

About 10X Leadership Lab

We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit us at 10xleadershiplab.com.

Do you know the impact you have on those you lead? Conscious leadership is all about self-awareness, intentionality, and showing up with curiosity. Conscious leaders have the ability to understand their environment and realize what is possible based on their whole team to create a culture of "we" rather than a culture of "me."

In today's podcast episode, we talk about leading from a place of consciousness to create a rippling effect that allows your entire system to live and lead consciously. Plus, we discuss the characteristics and practices of conscious leaders, and the importance of managing stress in order to lead effectively.

Through leading consciously, your entire system improves on innovation, relationships, and profit. That is 10X Impact!

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In this episode:

7:00- The correlation between conscious leadership and measuring business outcomes

12:30- Defining conscious leadership

19:00- Building a culture of "we" over a culture of "me"

22:30- Characteristics of conscious leadership

30:00- Managing stress so you can lead well.

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We believe you matter, your work matters, and your business matters. The 10X Impact Conversations podcast is designed to help you thrive in life and work using science, coaching, and conscious practices you can integrate today. In each episode, our host Laura Jaurez discusses or interviews leaders and experts to uncover how people and organizations are making the world better through their own evolution, relationships, and work.

This podcast is a production of 10X Leadership Lab – a conscious executive coaching and consulting practice committed to making the world better by making business better. To learn more about how we can support you and your business, visit us at 10xleadershiplab.com.

Do you love Brené Brown's Dare to Lead™ work as much as we do? Or, have you heard of her work but want to know more about what it entails?

In today's podcast episode, we are delighted to welcome our own Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and 10X Leadership Lab Partner, Ashley Andersen. A leadership coach for nearly a decade, Ashley's coaching style combines deep inquiry, bold reflections, and compassionate accountability. She helps leaders show up courageously, grow with each experience, and create meaningful connections with their work and those around them.

Today, we dive into the meaning of courage and how it relates to Brene' Brown's research. Ashley guides us through what to expect in our 10-week Dare to Lead™ workshop that sets you on the path to becoming a courageous leader.

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In this episode:

5:00- The great responsibility and impact of a leader

9:30- Who is Brené Brown and why is her work is so important?

13:45- Courage is a learned skill set—we can all be courageous leaders

25:30- Discovering your vulnerability as a leader and turning it into conscious leadership

30:30- The leadership change that happens through the Dare to Lead™ program

Are you ready to become a courageous leader and Dare to Lead™ Trained?

In our 10-week Dare to Lead™ workshop, we'll walk you through how to rumble with vulnerability, lead from values, intentionally cultivate trust, and pick yourself up from falls and failures.

This experience is a highly interactive, fully remote course. You will join an intimate cohort of extraordinary leaders from diverse backgrounds, teams, and organizations, and meet weekly to build the skills necessary to evolve into a more courageous and conscious leader.

Our Spring cohort begins April 6th so be sure to sign up today!

Plus, as a thank you to our podcast listeners, use Code: 10XIMPACT for 10% off the program!