Elite Achievement

In this episode of Elite Achievement, Kristin welcomes two accomplished and ambitious women, Lesle Griessel and Nicole Kalil. Leslie Griessel is the owner of LongView Leadership and is on a mission to joyfully inspire and empower people to achieve results on purpose. She is one of Kansas City’s 40 under 40. Nicole Kalil is a speaker, host of the This is Woman’s Work podcast and confidence sherpa. Nicole’s work centers around removing the roadblocks, biases, and challenges that trailblazing professional women face, so they can thrive as their authentic selves.

There are questions every ambitious woman has to answer. And there are a lot of challenges ambitious women have to overcome. It starts with ourselves. That little voice, sometimes as quiet as a whisper in your heart of talking to yourself. What is ambition? How can I make a big difference? How can I have a breakthrough in life? How can I get paid for doing things that I love to do? How do we make this equitable in our relationship? How to silence the noise? Does anyone get me? How can I honor my ambition? Lesle and Nicole answer these questions by sharing some examples from their experience and giving some recommendations for people to lean in and honor their ambition.

Episode Highlights

03:55 – Ambition wraps up a lot of phrases that are some sort of excitement about the future, a desire for growth, a desire for learning.

21:19 – The importance of communication when it comes to figuring out how to honor your ambition with a partner or spouse.

35:37 – One of the biggest barriers women face when honoring their ambition is their own internal confidence and learning to trust themselves.

41:15 – Recommendations to honor your ambition: take baby steps, set small goals in alignment with those baby steps, take risks to pursue your desires outside of your comfort zone and surround yourself with ambitious people.

46:29 – Have courageous conversations first and foremost with yourself, get into action, find a tribe, invest in yourself.

Resources

Honor Your Ambition Mastermind

Honor Your Ambition Instagram

Kristin Burke Instagram

Lesle Griesel Instagram

Nicole Kalil Instagram

On this episode Kristin talks to Arielle Jacobs-Bittoni, a Certified Financial Planner and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Arielle is a Chief Wealth Strategist at Refresh Investments LLC, a company she co-owns with her partner, Pamela Chen. 

Kristin and Arielle have a lot in common. They’ve both spent their careers in the financial industry, both of them are mothers, married, and they have a mutual friend from the industry who connected them. Therefore, they have a lot to talk about, especially when it comes to finances and goal achieving.

Listen to this insightful conversation and get your finances in order.

Episode Highlights

03:35 - RIA (Registered Investment Advisor) manages assets for individual and institutional investors. An RIA always puts the client’s interest ahead of his/her own.

11:00 - To be more committed in achieving financial goals, start by defining what’s the most important to you. It is a foundation to be in control of your financial life. Once you’ve identified your core values, you can start focusing on what your purposes are and prioritizing them; what would you be using your wealth for. Finally, specify what your financial goals are for each of those purposes.

16:00 - Trust is a major factor for getting “financially naked”. Each client should ask a series of questions when interviewing financial advisors.

18:30 - People thinking they have time to figure their finances is a big financial mistake. Time is one of, if not the most valuable resource that we have.

21:20 - Lesson from male-dominated industry - being different, or being the only woman in the group is not a bad thing. Women need to trust their gut, stay authentic, and stop apologizing.

Resources

Connect with Kristin

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To learn more and register for the Elite Achievement Goal Setting Series click here.

Connect with Arielle

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On this episode Kristin shares about her most meaningful goal for 2021, The Elite Achievement Goal Setting Series. She details the series and shares about the behind-the-scenes processes and roadblocks that almost kept her from launching the course. The series is dedicated to women who are in the first few years of owning their business. Kristin describes this series as: course meets workshop meets live coaching. Participants will learn how to go beyond goal setting and how to achieve their goals.

Episode Highlights

01:23 – Kristin’s first course, The Elite

Achievement Goal Setting Series, is officially launched!

11:05 – There is a big difference between the business owners that set

goals and the business owners that achieve the goals they set.

13:03 – There are roadblocks that can prevent us from achieving our

goals if we do not know how to recognize them and work through them.

13:55 – If you have focused time, you can get a tone accomplished in a

15 minute session.

23:58 – Fear does not go away, so we have to constantly learn how to

navigate fear to achieve our goals.

Resources

Connect with Kristin

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To learn more and register for the Elite Achievement Goal Setting Series

click here.

On this episode Kristin talks about what it is we really want from our careers and how to ensure we are living fulfilling lives, with Lauren Hornacek.

Lauren Hornacek is an empowerment expert who works with ambitious women who found success in their careers and yet are left feeling overwhelmed and unfulfilled. She coaches women who know something needs to change, but have no idea where to start. She shares about her personal journey and what she’s learned over the past several years. Lauren leads an intensive program called Finding Freedom, and she offers her Values Assessment Tool for a special price of $99 to the EA community.

Episode Highlights

10:05 – Why we are stuck - part of it is the way we are raised in our society. And we do not pause and ask ourselves: Is this what I want?

14:38 – Get clear on the why behind the stuff – who am I doing this for, and why.

20:48 – We can overcome fear, managing our thoughts and having the awareness when fear comes up. – Take one step. Do not worry about all the other steps. Just do the next thing.

24:00 – Warning signs that we are stuck - notice your habits: eating, sleeping, canceling plans with your friends.

25:30 – Do not be impulsive. Gain clarity on where you want to go. And if you do not know where you want to go, on how you want to feel.

31:14 – When you schedule time for yourself it empowers you to do it unapologetically.

Resources

Connect with Kristin

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Connect with Lauren Hornacek:

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LinkedIn

On this special episode Kristin and her team are taking the highlights from the interviews with five women who coach, inspire and empower others to launch businesses, grow their confidence, achieve the fitness goals, create and implement financial plans and advance their careers.

Jeannie Andresen holds a business coaching program Solopreneur School. Nicole Kalil teaches a course called: This is confidence. Bridget Joy is a CEO and President of Key Life Fitness and Training. Chantel Bonneau is a certified financial planner and author of the book Finding Your Financial Type. Lesle Griessel is trailblazer within her firm and teacher of leadership and growth strategies. They share about mindset, time and strategies needed to launch a business, but also about navigating fear and finding confidence.

Episode Highlights

03:40 – Talking about it is the first step - telling somebody “I’m really thinking about starting my own business”. It sounds so simple, but it’s crucial. Second step is to find somebody who’s done it already. It’s inspiration that you can do it too. Third part is outlining what it looks like.

26:40 – Choose it until you feel it; choose confidence over and over again until the feeling arises.

27:50 – You only have one body. Working out is not just so you can look a certain way, it’s for total health: for mind, body and soul. You can be a best version of yourself. You have to set an appointment and you have to make it a priority.

40:54 – Anything that is worthwhile, takes consistency and takes really good habit. The best habits that I think are important for a financial planner are: spending time to review, and make it foolproof. 

48:02 – Any form of a vision is a good form of a vision. The first thing is to find as much clarity as you can. The clearer that vision is, the better - even if it’s something short-term. 

Resources

Connect with Kristin:

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Connect with: Jeannie Andresen:

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Connect with Nicole Kalil:

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Women's Work Podcast

Connect with Bridget Joy:

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Connect with Chantel Bonneau:

Finding Your FINancial Type Book

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Connect with Lesle Griessel:

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On this episode Kristin talks about growing a business with Tu-Hien Le, Founder and CEO of BeauGen. Tu-Hien Le launched her business from her dining room and has grown it into a seven-figure e-commerce business in only five years. Tu-Hien attributes her success to consistency, focusing on progress, surrounding herself with like-minded people and eliminating stuff that does not move the needle.  

Episode Highlights

03:40 – There was a problem that could and needed to be solved. We had to invent the solution. And we ended up creating over 40 prototypes, testing different shapes, materials.

08:04 – Three years of being consistent, writing those emails, showing up, building this momentum, and all of a sudden it starts to keep going, attraction is happening, and people are seeing you, sale’s increasing. That’s when I started to build the team to support the demand that was coming in.

09:19 – I focus on progress (because perfection is the killer of progress), I do a lot of mindset work and I surround myself with people who are similar in thinking.

17:00 – My focus is the value that I can add to my clients and my customers.  It’s not about me, it’s about the value that I can add.

19:19 – If you do not have clarity on why you’re doing what you’re doing and who your customers are, the marketing, the sales, the scales do not really matter. 

34:15 – Mom Boss Method helps ambitious moms to grow business.

Resources

Connect with Kristin @meetkristinburke on Instagram and on her website kristinburke.com

Tu-Hien Le on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuhienle

Tu-Hien Le’s website:

https://www.beaugen.com/

Tu-Hien Le on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/tuhien.le/

On this episode Kristin welcomes Jeannie Andresen, an Entrepreneurship Coach. After nine years in the financial services industry, Jeannie transitioned companies right before the pandemic. When she lost her job, she found courage and leaned into her intuition and started the business that has always been on her heart. She attributes her success to always having an entrepreneurial mindset, even when she was an employee.

Episode Highlights

05:45 - I never made that decision with fear in mind, I made it with my best intentions in mind of getting uncomfortable by switching industries, growing an entirely new skill set.

07:32 – I said to myself: OK, I’m grateful that this had happened, I will figure out why; and it led me to starting a business much sooner than it would have if I had resisted and pushed it away.

13:05 – If you show up feeling as though things are in your control, with confidence, with this mindset that you are a business owner, all of a sudden you begin to make decisions with more confidence.

24:45 – We never know what is holding us back unless we talk about it.

26:45 – The plan and the mindset lead to everything else.

Resources

Connect with Kristin @meetkristinburke on Instagram and on her website kristinburke.com

Jeannie Andresen’s website:

https://www.jeannieandresen.com/

Jeannie Andresen on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannieand/

Jeannie Andresen on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/jeannieandresen_/

On this episode Kristin reflects on the past year and she shares about one of her goal achievement strategies: the quarterly review. People with a growth mindset work on their business and goals by reflecting and planning for the next quarter. There are some important questions you should ask yourself that will help you change your mindset and grow your business while doing your quarterly review. 

Episode Highlights

04:10 – The difference between goal setters and goal achievers is in their mindset. The achievers have a great deal of clarity and they work consistently, not perfectly, to achieve their goals.

07:03 – The quarterly review combines some of the elements from my weekly and monthly reviews, but it is an opportunity to pull out of your business and think strategically. Without a quarterly review, you run the risk of doing the same things over and over again.

09:45 – Some roadblocks that might get in the way of your review process

14:00 – Start your review session by reading your long-term vision.

14:55 – Ask yourself a series of questions

Resources

Connect with Kristin @meetkristinburke on Instagram and on her website kristinburke.com

On this episode Kristin talks about one of the most important skills with communication expert Meredith Kasheta. Meredith spent over 15 years in sales and strategic communications.

Meredith is an expert at telling stories, she is a published author, speaker and contributor to various magazines, industry papers, book compilations and conferences. Today, Meredith operates Meeting Meredith Creative, an agency that helps businesses grow their brand through website design, content and strategy.

Episode Highlights

03:50 – Communication is not just speaking one-on-one, but it’s really how we connect with other people – visually, verbally, nonverbally.

07:15 – A brand is a personality.

13:10 – With communication even though you may be more vulnerable in that moment, and you may have to work through things, you can actually resolve it, and it goes away.

18:57 – When you start to ask open-ended questions and give them space to communicate, you can understand that there are deeper problems they’ve been trying to solve.

32:00 – Practice thinking before you speak – when you give people space to talk and truly be heard, you can create a much deeper connection.

Resources

Connect with Kristin 

@meetkristinburke on Instagram and on her website kristinburke.com

Connect with Meredith

Meredith Kasheta’s website

Meredith Kasheta on Instagram

On this episode Kristin welcomes her friend and ambition partner Shannon Wiley and they talk about ambition and relationships. Shannon is a Chief Recruiting Officer at Northwestern Mutual in Atlanta and she participates in a National Women’s Leadership Program. 

Episode Highlights

5:00 – You’ve got to be willing to step out and meet a lot of people that you’re interested in learning from and friendships may come out of it.

9:50 – Choose three people you trust and ask them how they experience you - what to them is your authentic self.

13:15 – Women often do not take credit for the work that they do. And they do not talk about what they want to do, where they want to go.

16:50 – We are trying to connect today, to the future, with a vision.

19:45 – Find a sponsor not a mentor.

28:20 – Stay more focused on your vision and less focused on the comparison trap, because it is the thief of joy.

Resources

Connect with Kristin @meetkristinburke on Instagram and on her website kristinburke.com

Shannon Wiley on LinkedIn

Shannon Wiley on Instagram

Shannon Wiley’s email:

[email protected]