Bring Your Best

What does Basketball Foul Shots, Blonde Jokes and Cows have in common?   Absolutely nothing except they are in this podcast.  Take a little time and listen to Hugh and I discuss, in our first episode of the "what if" series, what if I work with someone I don't like.  We had little challenge with some audio connections in the beginning so please keep listening thru the first 2-3 minutes, we are able to get the recording back on track and I think you will really like our discussion.

Disclosure I did say an adult word halfway thru the episode.  I will do better as we continue our journey in podcasting. 

EPISODE  10!!!!!-
Today Hugh and I talk about Speaking with Impact, specifically as a woman.  This topic came from a conversation I had with my book club after ready Playing Big by Tara Mohr.  According to Tara, there are 10 themes that women do while presenting that can give the impression of lack of confidence or down play the impact.  Hugh and I talk about different ways you can speak with impact while stay authentic to how you present your topics.  I also showed off my editing skills.  Can you figure out what fancy new trick I now have!  

This week Hugh takes us down the path of what happens when we get too comfortable.  When we start a new job, or meet a new person we tend to bring our most polished self into the relationship.  Then over time we start to get more informal and test the boundaries.  Hugh gives us the challenge of staying a little uncomfortable in our work or home life.  

This week we discuss having a best friend at work and why or why not.  I read a recent article posted by Gallup that discusses the idea of a best friend at work and why having a best friend makes you more likely to stay with a company and be more fulfilled.  Spend some time with us as we explore the idea of a best friend and why we think it is important to have them.  

  

As many of us are starting to go back into the office and others are choosing to stay home a bit longer Hugh and I dive into how to make this new model successful.  We share some tips, some ideas on how we would work through some pitfalls and some funny stories along the way.  
Enjoy the journey we take down the Hybrid Success Journey. 

This episode I try my hand at chatting with my microphone without Hugh! I discuss going back to work in person, kiddos going back to school, and how to start to prepare for the transition.  This will be a four part series.  I promise you won't want to miss out on the fun ideas I bring up and the banter I have with myself.

And if you forget all things remember these three:
1.  Back to School Vision Board
2. List of Kids changes
3. List of Adult changes

Hugh and I dive into how perspective has started to play a bigger part in the business culture.  We discuss how our own perspective has been a hindrance or a help in making decisions or disagreeing with a business or home situation.  

 Enjoy this months version of Bring Out Your Dead, when I bring out two words I would like to eliminate from presentations.   Take a listen to how pausing and preparing for preparations can help with confidence and buy in when you are influencing business partners.   I also leave him speechless with a rather funny joke. 

In this episode Hugh and I discuss the idea of living into our own value and understanding what we bring to work and home when we allow ourselves to be authentically free.  We also might have thrown in a throw back to Mighty Python and a fun child hood story about the 3rd grade and friendship.  Enjoy!

Hugh and I dive into Feedback, ideas on how to deliver, approaches that have worked and some fun stories about ways I epically failed my team when I first became a leader.  There is also a really fun moment where I talk about Band-Aids and Envelopes.