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Let's take a deep look into the Change Formula. The Change Formula is a groundbreaking method guiding you to create sustainable, lasting change. You have free will, and taking 100% responsibility for how you show up is key to this process. Resistance to change is real, but with the foundational knowledge of the Change Formula, it is possible to overcome obstacles holding you back.

Listen and learn how to push past your resistance and create the differences in your life you’ve been dreaming of. Throughout this episode, explore the 3 key elements of the Change Formula and why they are essential empowerment tools for change. You are allowed to achieve the change you’ve been wanting.

Time to step into being the creator of your own life.

Highlights

• 7:08 - What does resistance have to do with change and how can we overcome it?
• 11:46 - The role free will as conscious leaders plays in our own accountability for things happening in our lives and the change we are or are not making.
• 16:36 - Some of the main reasons why we will not be able to overcome resistance to change.
• 19:13 - How do you find the willingness to change? How do you use the change formula?
• 25:02 - What role does discomfort play in sustainable change?

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Drama is toxic, stifling, and contagious. Teams break down and creativity grinds to a halt when drama is involved. It is up to us, as leaders, to mitigate the drama and empower ourselves and our teams. This can be difficult without the right tools and mindsets to empower your leadership.

In this episode, enjoy the skill-building executive coaching series Caneel gifted a Fortune 500 client after an in-person leadership training session. You will learn 10 essential skills that will guide you in how to shift yourself out of drama - and for you managers of people – how to help your teams learn to end drama as well. 

After this episode, you will have experience with the concepts, mindsets, and practices of this important aspect of conscious leadership, and you will also have free tools and practical applications to bust drama in your professional and personal life. 

Highlights

4:51 - Skill 1: Prepare to Shift Out of Drama

7:43 - Skill 2: Locating Yourself

11:01 - Skill 3: Are You Willing to Shift?

16:50 - Skill 4: Learn How to Get Curious

20:37 - Skill 5: Be the Creator

22:48 - Skill 6: Be the Coach

26:01 - Skill 7: Be the Challenger

30:59 - Skill 8: How to Speak Unarguably

33:45 - Skill 9: Be the Resolution

36:54 - Skill 10: Accept the Drama

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Today's episode gets personal as Caneel shares her own internal struggles that almost made her decide to throw in the towel on her entire business. Her story sheds light on what most leaders have to deal with at some point in their journeys and she also shares how she overcame being "Below the Line" in the Drama Triangle.

Caneel re-established clear agreements with her family, her team, and most importantly, with herself, so she could come back into integrity and lead from presence by being "Above the Line" in how she operates her business and her life.

Learn how you can shift from broken agreements and Drama to living and leading with Empowerment and a commitment to your Whole Body Yes.
 
Highlights: 

•  3:53 - The importance of integrity in leadership, especially during hard times.
• 4:39 - Caneel's personal struggle with being below the line.  
• 6:58 - Caneel found herself stuck in the Drama Triangle.
• 11:37 - How Caneel shifted to be above the line after her internal crisis.

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Are you asking for what you really want? Or are you asking for what you think you can get? Dia Bondi is a coach, catalyst, and creator of Ask Like an Auctioneer. For the last 20 years, some of the highest-profile, most extraordinary world leaders, CEOs, philanthropists, visionaries, and innovators have considered Dia their secret weapon. Over thousands of coaching sessions, she’s been in their corner, behind the curtain, helping them tap into their power and move their businesses forward. Dia is on the show today to give exclusive tips about how we can jumpstart our dreams by asking for what we actually want. Dia gives us valuable keys from her project, Ask Like An Auctioneer, aimed at helping a million women ask for more and get it using the mental model, tools, and frameworks from the world of auctioneering. See show notes and get the free tools at AllowedPodcast.com.

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Leadership is perception. 

There is intrinsic value in finding out how you are perceived and received by people that view you from different perspectives - whether above you, beside you, or below you.

In this episode, learn about 360-degree reviews and other forms of leadership feedback. You will be introduced to a curiosity mindset as you explore the importance of listening to improve your leadership. Find out why feedback is an extremely important process for leaders to go through. 

Discover how to transform feedback into positive changes and personal growth. After this episode, you will have a deeper appreciation and understanding of feedback and its powerful role in growth and leadership, as well as its often underleveraged ability to accelerate a leader’s performance. 

Highlights: 

• 4:25 - Independence vs interdependence. Why listening is the most important thing leaders can do right now. 

• 9:12 - Why feedback is an important process for leaders to go through

• 14:56 - A 360-degree review is one of the most popular ways to get feedback. So what is a 360 review?

• 33:09 - Variations of feedback and warnings from Caneel – plus more feedback tools and methods.

• 40:48 - The difference between 360 feedback reviews and performance management and some problems that come up with 360s.
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You’re ready to make a change. You’ve tried the books and seminars, but you want something more. Investing in your growth is one of the most important investments you could ever make. 

This episode is your quick-start guide to coaching. 

Determine whether you need a coach and what type of coach would be best for you. Explore the power of coaching and how it can help your life and leadership. 

If you’re ready to take the next step in your personal growth or just looking to get started on your journey, this coaching breakdown will teach you the basics of coaching, its various forms, and the incredible ways it can enhance your self-awareness and personal growth. 

Highlights

6:03 - Question 1: Do I need a Coach?

12:56 - Coaches help raise self-awareness.

15:23 - Question 2: What is your goal? What do you want? What type of coach is best for me?

23:53 - Question 3: Do I need a coach or do I need a therapist?

28:40 - Question 4: Do I want one on one coaching or group coaching?

35:53 - Question 5: How do I find a coach for myself?

37:48 - Download the free How to Find a Coach E-Book with over 30 pages of guidance on whether or not coaching is right for you and how to navigate the world of coaching.

 

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Sometimes it just feels like we can’t live up to our team’s expectations, our company's needs, or even our own goals, all at the same time. Yet, it is up to leaders, HR, and other organizational development roles within companies to manage, maintain, and grow all of these key aspects. Without personal development of yourself and the individuals on your team, you may be left with unsatisfied and unfulfilled team members who aren’t consistently bringing their best selves to the plate. Without leadership development, you and your team might become stagnant, and unable to grow past a certain level of success. If you're not meeting company growth or economic goals, your organization will not survive in a competitive market.

How do the most successful leaders and HR people approach this overwhelming, high-wire balancing act? How can you, as a leader, manager, or HR person, support the growth of your team members as individuals, as well as maintain the consistent growth of your organization?

Brilliant business designer and TrueCar CPO, John Foster, is here to help guide us in this hugely important conversation. He shares insights on how HR can be fundamental in empowering the mindset shift within an organization to optimize growth and support each individual.

Discover how the concepts of facilitation, reciprocity, and empowerment can revolutionize your organization and promote the growth of your team while meeting overarching business goals.

You are allowed to commit to your team members’ development. You are allowed to commit to your company goals. And you are allowed to support the growth and success of both.

Highlights:

5:39 - Introduction to the topic of empowerment and reciprocity.

10:47 - You have to create space for others to grow and for them to fail.

16:24 - What is empowerment? There are people who are afraid and it takes work like this to help them grow.

27:14 - New behavior takes time. Bringing in support systems and assessment tools to help track the improvements and changes adequately.

30:22 - How can you allow a person to choose to give them a feeling of empowerment?

32:20 - The role fear has played in John's journey.

37:10 - Productive HR people create sustainable high performance and think about what are all the things that would be necessary to create that performance which include empathizing with humans and creating containers for that to allow creative human output.

39:17 -  Paternalistic HR disempowers teams within an organization. Reciprocity prevents HR from being paternalistic.

41:37 - Ways a team member can better engage with HR that empowers them and the organization

43:09 - What are the most empowering ways that we can invest in our employees?

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In a time when employee engagement is down, many leaders are re-envisioning the roles inclusivity, purpose, and personal growth play in the workplace. With the help of David Hassell and Shane Metcalf, co-founders of the industry-leading performance management software company, 15Five, we tackle the tough questions surrounding employee growth, fulfillment, and morale, as well as the responsibility all leaders have right now to address how their own growth journey and mindsets affect their teams. Learn what Best-Self Management is and how it could benefit your organization. Dive into what the future of organizational development and company culture looks like in a remote environment. When you commit to your Best-Self, you unlock your personal potential and the next level of your leadership.

Highlights:

2:17 - Meet David Hassell and Shane Metcalf of 15Five.

2:49 - What is 15Five?

7:34 - How discovering your Zone of Genius helps you to find your purpose.

11:45 - Shane Metcalf's own personal growth journey led him into best-self management.

18:20 - David Hassell's personal growth journey through finding his Zone of Genius, creating his best-self management methodology, and meeting his co-founder Shane Metcalf.

28:24 - How Shane and David met and created 15Five.

33:23 - What is Best-Self Management? It is about leaving a company as a better person and better performer than when you joined them.

37:51 - How engagement dictates company culture, employee health, and overall success. Engagement and performance are the biggest issues that a company needs to solve.

41:44 - How to develop your team as well as your own best self.

47:36 - What we can learn from remote work.

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Have you drifted away from conscious leadership without even realizing it?

At work, we sometimes react to something and immediately regret it. But, sometimes our reactivity is more drawn out to where we don't even realize we're doing it. It becomes a Below the Line pattern. There are a lot of different ways that this can look, and we are going to explore those today.

When you find yourself deeply immersed in these reactive behaviors you don't have access to the here and now and you can't be effective. In this episode, you will learn about reactive behaviors and discover how you can shift back into presence and get back to consciousness.

You are Allowed to be a full human being who sometimes gets reactive, and you're Allowed to learn how to shift back into presence and empowerment.


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The startup game is a roller coaster, and for many, it is one of the most difficult, frightening, stressful roller coasters in the world – it’s boot camp for the soul. As a founder, an executive, or a leader in a fast-growing company, you can feel alone in your struggles. We often hide them in an effort to appear like everything is going great. If you're feeling alone in your role in the world as a leader, you can find healing in connecting with the stories of others.

Hear about the journey of startup entrepreneurship and how to navigate the rollercoaster of the startup game in this special guest episode of Allowed. Throughout this episode, featuring the remarkable Terry Lee, of Mezcal Rosaluna and MeUndies, gain insight and information about the leader's journey and lessons that every conscious leader can learn from. He's a former CEO, he's a former COO, and he is human, just like you. Many of the lessons Terry learned along the way would not have come without a certain degree of heartbreak, pain, and struggle. The journey is ALWAYS here to teach us what our soul most wants to learn. Buckle up and come along for the ride as we dive into the wild rollercoaster of the startup game.

Highlights:

2:50 - Meet Terry Lee. Hear how Caneel and Terry Lee met and how he became an executive coaching client.

7:09 - Terry Lee speaks about how being involved in soccer throughout college and his commitment to that with a singular goal helped train him for his entrepreneurship journey.

10:21 - Terry discusses striving and the idea that nothing is ever enough. Hear why striving is not the same as success.

13:53 - Striving vs striding will determine your feeling of success. Terry Lee discusses the moment in his journey when he began to switch mentalities to a striding-focused growth mindset.

17:24 - Terry used the Change Formula unconsciously because he hit a certain level of discomfort in his business that forced him to make changes.

19:08 - Terry Lee discusses having grace for yourself and why grace is an impactful message for leaders.

22:03 - Caneel and Terry Lee discuss the Drama Triangle and how Terry was putting himself into a Villain role.

24:40 - Advice for current or aspiring COOs.

28:56 - The biggest difference between being COO and being the founder CEO.

33:28 - Advice for founders about how to build a team of champions.

37:00 - How to confront the dark nights of the soul.

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