“You know it when you feel it. You know it when you hit upon it. You know it when your boundary has been crossed. You feel it, and your body tells you. When you dig into what that is about and why your body is being activated, and then you figure out how to articulate it, actually articulating your boundary can become a bridge to connection.” - Lisa Dempsey

Boundary setting is a topic that is often misunderstood, and even feared. Today’s Brave By Design guest reveals how a lack of boundaries will affect your professional life, and the reasons why boundaries always need to be kept top of mind in your personal and professional life. Done the right way, boundaries don’t need to be feared, but rather can serve as an effective tool for connecting with others.

For the best part of two decades, Lisa Dempsey worked as a Human Resources Executive with a variety of International Board and C-Suite leaders, helping them develop their global teams and deliver strategic change and transformation through the power of people.

Today, she is a courageous and compassionate leader who loves empowering people to discover their own strengths and awaken their own inner leader in order to live, love and lead out loud. Her passion is to amplify the strengths of others so they can consistently come from a place of greatness and live, love and lead out loud with purpose and courageous authenticity.

It wasn’t always this way for Lisa, as she’s hit a few bumps in the road along her journey. She can directly attribute a huge part of overcoming them to setting and maintaining clear and strong boundaries, which you’ll learn more about in this episode.

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What You’ll Hear In This Episode: 

• How Lisa embarked on her own boundary setting journey after experiencing burnout in her own life [1:57]
  
  
• What is behind the fear of setting boundaries as a woman in the workplace, and the way that this fear can be overcome [5:52]
  
  
• Why setting boundaries doesn’t have to be a harsh NO, and how it’s really about understanding and connection [8:42]
  
  
• What the modern day “disease of busy” looks like [13:42]
  
  
• Lisa’s tips for living a more balanced life - physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally [17:53]
  
  
• How to find acceptance and self-worth from within, and the impact this will have on all facets of your life [23:02]

Additional Links & Resources:

Leadership Labs Website, Facebook & LinkedIn  

Lisa’s LinkedIn

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