Best Work/Best Life From Kathy & Mo

So many of us are taught to believe we have to be perfect in everything we do. This creates a habit of self-criticism, correction and a down-right constant focus on what we aren’t doing well. We are graded, evaluated and told how to “win” all our lives. But it’s a crushing experience to live life racing after perfection.

Listen as Peter J. Reding shares a revolutionary feedback approach he developed in his Coach for Life and Inspired Learning model, based on an intensive focus on fulfilling and enriching the human spirit.  Peter advocates focusing on what’s working, spotlighting the amazing job people are doing, and highlighting all the ways we ARE hitting the mark. Learn how to give the kind of feedback that transforms people’s lives.

Most of us have in our hearts that dream that, when fulfilled, will make our lives richer and fuller, and will help our souls come alive. Our dreams can be fragile in their early days, and they need to be nurtured and protected with tender loving care. When you want to change something important in your life, or find a new way to expand, stretch, and do something bold and exciting, you need a certain kind of input and feedback - the kind that bolsters your dreams, shapes them powerfully, and keeps them from being crushed.

Kathy and Mo explore six simple steps to ensuring you get the positive, empowering support you need to make your dreams a reality.

Scared silly to speak in public? If so, you’re not alone - it's the #1 fear among adults. Tracy Goodwin, Founder of Captivate The Room and expert in voice technique, presentation and storytelling skills, shares powerful strategies and insights on how to step up to your full potential and your authentic spirit every time you speak. In this episode, Tracy shares insider tips from her years as a professional actor and in her vocal coaching work on how to bring your words to life, overcome your fears about your voice and speaking, and finally recognize what's holding you back from finding your most authoritative and powerful voice. She explains the true value being authentic and using your “real voice,” and offers other practical tips and tools that will help you master your speaking approach, and power up your engagement and connection with others.

Are you experiencing a crisis experience that has you overwhelmed, devastated, and confused as to how to move forward, wondering if you’ll ever recover? Mo and Kathy talk about the hardships and crises that have brought them to their knees, and the amazing info and insights they learned from these experiences. They also share empowering strategies, solutions and tips from their coaching work with thousands of women regarding what they’ve found to be the critical DOs and DON’Ts to follow during crisis periods --  the specific behaviors, mindsets and practices to embrace -- and those to let go of -- in order to heal, recover, find yourself, and craft a wonderful new “me” that will thrive and grow after crises and setback.

We all need momentum to fuel our ideas, projects and life. Shama Hyder, CEO of the Marketing Zen Group and author of the new book, MOMENTUM: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age, shares insider secrets on how creating consistency, trust and customer focus can turn an idea into a viable market mover. Named by Forbes as a 30-Under-30 mover and shaker in 2015, and “one of the top voices in marketing and social” by LinkedIn, Shama explains her 5 critical principles for propelling your marketing forward, and creating BIG momentum for your business, products and messages in a busy and crowded marketplace.

Avril McDonald, author of the Feel Brave Series of books (little stories about big feelings for 4-7 year olds) and founder of www.feelbrave.com, shares with us her immense and powerful vision of helping children around the world better cope with their fears and anxieties, and also help adults heal in their own journey of becoming brave, confident and excited to follow their passions and visions for doing something meaningful in the world.

So, you’re embroiled in a toxic work culture, a political nightmare, backstabbing colleagues who hurt you or a boss who’s incredibly tough on you. What do you do? Kathy and Mo share their deepest and most empowering tips and strategies (hard-earned from their own personal and corporate experiences) for effectively dealing with “politics” that crush you down in the workplace. From shifting your own energy, to visualizing a more positive outcome, to being able to identify when a culture is simply too “sick” to thrive in, and learning how to communicate very clearly and calmly what you need and want, you’ll learn important new behaviors that will help you evaluate what you’re facing, and navigate through it in an empowered way, to a happier, more fulfilling outcome.

Agapi Stassinopoulos, author and inspirational speaker share her secrets of life’s wins and losses and how she found each episode in life to reveal to her a new way to open and unbind her heart. Her Greek upbringing and seemingly magic mother brought a deep sense of enjoyment to her that she struggled to find herself until her unbound her heart.

D.B. Weinke -- sought-after LinkedIn speaker, trainer, consultant and expert -- shares her keen insights on overcoming the most common and damaging mistakes professionals make on LinkedIn. In this probing interview, D.B., a former Chief Marketing Officer and Fortune 500 executive turned LinkedIn authority, reveals insider tips, strategies and critical LinkedIn behaviors that will help you leverage the power of LinkedIn to connect with amazing new colleagues, find a great mentor, publish your writing, market yourself successfully, land great new opportunities, and spread your messages to impact thousands.

Founding President of Starbucks International, Howard Behar, shares critical leadership lessons and business insights stemming from powerful experiences of early childhood in his father’s Seattle market, to building Starbucks Coffee from 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. He shares his memories, insights and thoughts on what needs to change in so many of today’s leadership approaches, and touches on our current political environment, our deep need for truth and trust at work, and the misguided myth that people are “assets” to be owned.