FlowPreneur™ Unshakeable Leadership

How do you make sense of the success you’re achieving?  

Was it good timing? Luck? And that unclarity probably leaves uncertainty about next steps. 

By clarifying your leadership framework, you can unlock a leadership style that underpins how you want to be seen and heard as a leader. 

As an executive coach, Christina Holloway has over 20 years of experience coaching senior leaders on finding meaningful careers, as well as mentoring business owners and start-ups as their companies grow and thrive.  

Her unique approach to leadership development has landed her speaking opportunities at The University of Chicago and Yale University’s Women in Management Forum. Through her giving program, a percentage of profit each year goes towards helping women escape domestic violence. 

In this episode, Christina highlights successful leaders' inadequacy assumptions about themselves despite their evident success. She shares how she helps these emerging leaders find value in how they were able to do it by spending quite a bit of time dealing with the mindset and making sure that they know there's value in their presence.

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Find out the three actionable tips to help you assert your leadership 
• Learn how to find the leadership style that allows you to show your authenticity and uncover your true voice to step up to your leadership role 
• Learn about the mistakes that young and successful leaders commit to keep moving forward and keep finding opportunities for you to show up to be an empowered leader 

“Ask yourself, who am I as a leader? Who am I as a young or new person showing up to a new role? And how do I want to be seen?”  

- Christina Holloway

Topics Covered:

01:30 - Christina’s unique approach to leadership 

02:20 - Doing a lot of work with the mindset of emerging young and successful leaders 

04:18 - Making sure young leaders know there is value in their presence 

05:55 - The imposter syndrome among young leaders of today 

06:36 - Clients making the mistakes of too many assumptions 

08:16 - Three actionable tips to help young, successful leaders assert their leadership 

11:15 - Download your free resource, ‘Building a Profitable Brand’. Click here: https://christinaholloway.com/profitable-brand-ebook/ 

11:57 - How can I see measurable results? 

Key Takeaways:

“What I found is that it's been quite important to help people who are emerging leaders, and these are younger people really just trying to learn to navigate the leadership framework.” 

“The imposter syndrome is quite what I'm finding to be the biggest challenge for young, successful leaders these days. And I deal also with introverts.” 

“The biggest mistakes clients are making before they work with me has a lot to do with assumptions.” 

“There isn't just one way to be a leader, there isn't just one way to show up in your authority. There are a number of different ways you can show up.” 

“Ask yourself exactly what am I doing and take a really deep mindful exploration into why am I in this job? Why did I agree to do this?” 

“Who can I work with who supports me? Because what we want is to be reflective of people around us who say, 'I hired you for this reason, I brought you on board.' We need a little bit of confirmation-validation for why we're there.” 

Resources:

• Download your free resource, ‘Building a Profitable Brand’. Click here: https://christinaholloway.com/profitable-brand-ebook/ 
• The Eight Archetypes of Leadership by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries 

Connect with Christina Holloway:

• Website: https://christinaholloway.com 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christina.m.holloway/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christinamholloway 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/originalCMH 
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christinaholloway 

What is so important about the clarity of purpose? 

It’s all about meeting a person’s need for personal growth and development as well as the opportunity to contribute to something bigger than yourself. Bottom line, it’s a direct route to happiness and joy. 

Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, author, keynote speaker, and podcast host with expertise in executive leadership, personal branding, change management, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement. He is the author of 200+blogs, contributor to Forbes, and is a graduate of the Thunderbird School of Global Management MBA. 

In this episode, Michael shares how to live at your best on a day-to-day basis by focusing on your top five personal core values. This is how you become the authentic leader the world needs you to be.  

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Learn how to uncover your life’s purpose to grow and develop yourself and add value to other people’s lives 
• Find out how your clarity of purpose gives other people the opportunity to authentically express themselves in meaningful ways 
• Discover about the essential ways of becoming an authentic and emotionally intelligent leader who knows how to align and empowers people to achieve a common goal 

“By being authentic, we're showing what our purpose is to others. I think we give people that opportunity to express themselves in a more authentic, deeply meaningful way.”  

- Michael Seaver 

Topics Covered: 

01:57 - Defining your life’s purpose 

03:12 - Uncovering that purpose within us 

03:41 - What are the top two core human needs? 

04:25 - An internal work that leads to external benefits 

05:45 - Walking into our authentic power is not an overnight success 

07:04 - The trap they fall into when leaders don’t have clarity of life’s purpose 

10:02 - What triggers the shift to showing up authentic 

10:57 - Actionable tips to help you uncover clarity of purpose 

12:15 - How to resolve values conflicts 

13:22 - For your FREE tools to help you find clarity of purpose, download a four-page PDF called ‘Choose Your Boss, not your Job’ and an eBook called ‘Authenticity is the Way’. Click here: https://michaelsseaver.com/free-tools/ 

14:34 - As a teenager or in your early to mid-20s, what recurring challenge were you confronted by?  

16:17 - The need to build emotional resilience to overcome the challenge 

17:36 - Be the person you needed when you were younger 

Key Takeaways: 

“I think there's kind of that intuitive knowing that people are going to gravitate to others who make them feel safe, who make them feel like it's okay to take a calculated risk or who make them feel, it's okay to show up as themselves and really express themselves of their opinion in some sort of way.” 

“Leaders who don't know their life's purpose, they don't know how to say no. And so, they become really poor at time management that they over-commit to things that aren't necessarily right for them.”  

“In the 21st-century work world, the command and control kind of leadership style is passe. It’s about aligning and empowering people these days.”  

Resources Mentioned:  

• For your FREE tools to help you find clarity of purpose, download a four-page PDF called ‘Choose Your Boss, not your Job’ and an eBook called ‘Authenticity is the Way’. Click here: https://michaelsseaver.com/free-tools/ 

Connect with Michael Seaver: 

• Website: https://michaelsseaver.com 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelScottSeaver 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelsseaver/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsseaver/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelsseaver 

How do you pull yourself together when you’ve been hit with the most unfortunate circumstance you could ever imagine? It’s human nature to be transfixed by the problem. 

How about slowing down, so you can get faster? How about reframing your perspectives, so you find opportunities and not just challenges? 

Michael O'Brien is the Chief Shift Officer at Peloton Executive Coaching and helps leaders prevent bad moments from turning into a bad day. He has shared his personal transformational Last Bad Day story and leadership advice on the TEDx stage, with Fortune500 companies, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Real Simple, ABC, and NBC. 

In this episode, Michael shares what difference it makes when making a significant change in business and leadership and, most importantly, in the people who matter most to us, our family, and our closest friends. He believes that when we change one life, we make a change everywhere.

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Discover about a simple exercise to do away with stress and use the time to shift perspectives to find opportunity beyond the problem  
• Learn how to live a life in alignment where authenticity and consistency rule your life 
• Learn the power of seeing a problem as happening for you and not to you

"When we feel that we're stressed, when we feel that our self-narrative or chatter isn't as healthy as it could be, I recommend to people - pause, breathe and reflect. Slow it down for a minute or two."

- Michael O'Brien

Topics Covered:

01:27 - Why the name Chief Shift Officer? 

03:13 - How to fully show up as your true self in every aspect of life 

05:11 - How authenticity means consistency 

06:57 - What have his clients done wrong before consulting with him? 

08:37 - Getting results which are impacting not just business success but one’s personal life 

10:57 - Shifting perspectives in the way we look at a problem 

13:10 - Get your FREE ‘A Better Life Workbook.’ Click here: https://www.michaelobrienshift.com/ 

14:25 - The need to pause, breathe, and reflect 

Key Takeaways:

“What I'm trying to do is help leaders show up fully as themselves in every aspect of their life. And when they do that, they send a powerful ripple to the people on their teams. And as a result, they show up in the way that they can show up. And when we all show up with the type of potential we have, I believe we create better change that the world desperately needs right now.”  

“I think there's a line there that is important to honor when we think about work and life. It’s that consistency to say, 'Hey, you know what, the person I meet, in-person or online or in the conference room is that same person. That consistency, when there's alignment, things are less stressed.”  

“I get hired because I'm going to help them get better at leadership, better at business, help their company make more money, return on shareholder investment, all that jazz. But the stuff that fires me up is that when they're better at home with the people that truly matter in their lives, not to say that their corporate colleagues don't matter.” 

“When we think about those people who are going to be with us for our whole lives, we're talking about our family and our closest friends. When they show up better for them, I know we've made an incredible difference.” 

Resources:

• Get your free ‘A Better Life Workbook.’ Click here: https://www.michaelobrienshift.com/ 

Connect with Michael O’Brien:

• Website: https://www.michaelobrienshift.com/ 
• LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/michaelobrienpelotoncoaching 
• Instagram:  www.instragram.com/michaelobrienshift 
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/michaelspeloton 
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/roadieob 

Tired of do-it-yourself strategies and tactics that don't move a needle in your business performance? Despite the effort you’ve taken to fit the puzzle pieces, there’s little progress? 

When you’re not crystal clear about what you want your business to do for you and your consumers, this happens. Only when there’s alignment that your business will be in a state of flow and continually grow. 

Stephanie Hayes works with experienced entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses but aren't sure what's next. She helps them create a business model that works for them and plan to get to their next level of growth to do the work they want to do and become more profitable. Stephanie has been working with entrepreneurs and small businesses for over 20 years. She has built a number of her businesses. She launched her business strategy and coaching practice in 2015 so she can dedicate her focus to helping entrepreneurs align their businesses with their deepest goals. Stephanie understands that business owners are looking for direct, actionable help and works with her clients to become self-sufficient as well as establish the foundation for continued growth. 

In this episode, Stephanie shares how today's leaders face challenges in the alignment of their business model to their pillars of passion. Before you can even begin acting on your strategies and tactics, make sure you are putting your business in the direction where everything flows, so your business grows.

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Discover the four pillars of passion that will help you attain alignment in all the puzzle pieces and drive forward your business 
• Find out why DIY strategies don't help move up your business to where it should go 
• Learn how to be very clear about what your business wants to do for you and for your customers to help you drive decisions for your business to go forward

"The phase of business that you're in is really important to understanding where you should prioritize your activities."  

- Stephanie Hayes

Topics Covered:

01:42 - What do leaders need to put in place before piling up tactics to their days 

02:36 - The four pillars of passion that help assess entrepreneurs on 

04:08 - Why the need to align your passion around who you are and your goal 

06:31 - What a Frankenstein business looks like 

07:43 - Why piecing things together in isolation and doing DIY is not a good idea for your business to move forward 

09:32 - An actionable tip for business owners to get themselves aligned: Know yourself better and go back to those four pillars. 

11:32 - What does your business need to do for you? 

13:52 - Finding meaning in what you're doing 

14:14 - FREE 30-minute strategy call with Stephanie, click here: http://www.stephaniehayes.biz/flowpreneur 

15:02 - What stage of the business are you at and how well do you know the stage of business that you're at right now 

15:48 - The different business phases that indicate where you're at in your business 

18:22 - An interesting key point from Stephanie that we can all derive inspiration from

Key Takeaways:

"The biggest challenge for leaders, I would say, number one is getting alignment in their business and this is sort of the place that they need to start before they start piling tactics on to their days." 

Resources:

• Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call with Stephanie, click here: http://www.stephaniehayes.biz/flowpreneur 

Connect with Stephanie Hayes:

• Website: https://www.stephaniehayes.biz/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniehayescoach/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephaniehayes 
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/stephaniehayescoach/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniedhayes/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniehayes.biz/ 

In the process of navigating the uncertainty of this time, leaders tend to beat themselves up. Inclination towards perfectionism gets heightened, exerting further pressure on themselves and those they lead.

Self-awareness is the key to reducing that.

As a business coach & speaker, Keren Eldad is a trusted advisor to industry-leading executives and superstar entrepreneurs who regularly set records at the top of their fields. Since 2016, powerhouses have sought her out to help them make additional breakthroughs in the profitable growth of their business while revitalizing their energy and defining the meaning of their entire lives.

Over the last three years, Keren has worked with top organizations including J.P. Morgan, Christian Dior/LVMH, Van Cleef & Arpels, Waypoint Helicopter Leasing, Beyond Capital, YPO–and more.

In this episode, Keren Eldad points out how the challenges of this time make leaders even more prone to analysis-paralysis, more demanding of themselves and their people, and indecisive. Seeing the ramifications of this, she underscores the need for leaders to go easy on themselves first, to then become the proactive, innovative, and focused leader they are meant to be?

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Discover about The Overachiever Method to help you create a productive, powerful, innovative, and ever charging leadership
• Learn what mistakes leaders commit to help you know the big difference between high standards and perfectionism to live your authentic life
• Find out helpful tips you can do right now to be graceful as possible towards yourself even with your go-getter tendencies

“As you go through any degree of change, you have to learn how to be easy on yourself.” 

- Keren Eldad

Topics Covered:

03:14 - Who is a perfect client? 

03:30 - The challenge leaders face in navigating the uncertainty in their lives  

04:58 - The symptoms of the problem that is coming in by way of perfectionism 

06:59 - The mistakes leaders commit that prevent them from having an authentic and truly happy life 

09:22 - The three actionable tips you can do right now to help you move out of where you get stuck right now 

10:48 - Learn to be graceful with yourself 

12:27 - Book resource: Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. By Brene Brown 

13:46 - What’s really in it for me in approaching personal development? 

15:47 - A message she would like to tell her over-achiever self

Key Takeaways:

“Many leaders will find themselves more analysis-paralysis prone than ever, more indecisive than ever, more unforgiving than ever, perhaps, invulnerable than ever. And these are the main challenges that I helped them face, both in terms of their systems, but also in terms of their goals, which is really to make it to the other side of a tricky period.” 

“The most important thing is to recognize that you don't know what you don't know. And that's very, very hard for people to become self-aware of.” 

“There's a big difference between high standards and perfectionism. High standards still allow us to move. They don't make us beat up on ourselves. They hold people up to high standards, but they don't beat up other people.” 

“Perfectionism is really the creation of a form of paralysis, and it hurts. It physically feels like tightness, it feels like anxiety. It feels like sleeplessness.” 

Resources:

• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. By Brene Brown 

Connect with Keren Eldad:

• Website: https://www.kereneldad.com 
• Facebook: facebook.com/livewithenthusiasm 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keren-eldad-5232033/ 

To achieve a productive and profitable workplace, leaders need people-decoding skills to disentangle the stress, anxiety, and workplace conflicts.   

Marie Gervais believes that a happy workplace lies at the heart of this. Her mission is to build workplace capacity characterized by real communications that acknowledge people for who they are.  

Using the S.W.E.L. model of safety, wellness, encouragement, and learning, Marie focuses on building confidence and intercultural communication. Through both online courses and web coaching, Marie helps two levels of managers build their people skills and see visible results. She helps:  

• Front and middle managers increase their confidence and skill range.  
• Executive Managers reduce stress, increase their sense of purpose, and manage with empathy.  

Marie is also a podcaster with a podcast called ‘Culture and Leadership Connections.’ 

In this episode, Marie shares insights on how to understand culture, race, religion, ethnicity, and language. She also underlines the unconscious biases leaders have within decision-making.  Recognizing and adjusting these make for a happier, more productive, and more profitable workplace.

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Learn about the self-awareness package that helps you become a more collaborative leader 
• Find out how unconscious bias negatively impacts decision making  
• Discover the power of naming an emotion and its positive impact on making effective decisions

“Start paying attention to the fact that you have feelings. So, notice an emotion and then name it yourself.” 

 - Marie Gervais

Topics Covered:

01:56 - What are ‘people decoding skills’? 

04:06 - Why ‘people decoding skills’ are essential? 

04:38 - The biggest challenge that she keeps running across with her clients 

05:49 - Of emotional intelligence, emotional resiliency, emotional resets, and emotional awareness 

09:08 - One actionable tip to help leaders in their decision-making: Start paying attention to the fact that you have feelings. So, notice an emotion and then name it yourself. 

12:08 - What comes next after being free when naming your emotion 

13:23 - Get your FREE one-month Emotional Insider Membership. Click here: https://www.shiftworkplace.co/emotionalinsider 

15:25 - Why does it matter for leaders to acknowledge their own emotions? 

17:18 - Why do we make decisions based on our authentic selves?

Key Takeaways:

“The keys to a decoding process typically have something to do with communication, understanding different personality types, and different cultural conflict styles.” 

“What I find as the biggest challenge is people do not recognize the role their own emotions play in their decision making.” 

“To learn to be self-aware, recognizing, and naming and understanding your emotions is really critical.” 

“Being aware of your own emotions helps you to start to see other people for who they are instead of putting them into a box.” 

Resources:

• Get your FREE one-month Emotional Insider Membership, click here: https://www.shiftworkplace.co/emotionalinsider 
• Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston

Connect with Marie Gervais:

• Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leaderstraining/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShiftWorkPlace 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiftWorkPlace 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marie_shift_think 
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/amariegervais/ 
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKNoMIug6Bs53LoLAiBI_cg 
• Podcast: https://shiftworkplace.com/podcast/

With the many intricacies of running a business, it’s easy for leaders to feel overwhelmed.  

What often compounds this, is following systems that have worked for others, hoping they will also work for them. 

Success is about individualising… identifying and discarding what’s not working – for you. The art is knowing what to keep, what to discard, what to delegate. 

With over 25 years of leadership, management, and entrepreneurial experience, Nicole BZ literally puts her money where her mouth is. As a business expert and success strategist Nicole has started, advised or lead 38 organizations (their two current companies are a Financial Consulting Firm, and a property and real estate management company). She has invested 1000s hours into coaching owner and executive level business owners. She is so committed to growing the small business ecosystem, that she volunteers with the Small Business Administration as a business mentor.  

In this episode, Nicole shares how business leaders of today are so stressed and overworked without having a clear vision of their path to success. They rely on their skills and capabilities, not seeking for help, repeating the same problems and not making progress.

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Find out how to turn problems into opportunities  
• Learn how to apply a system to trailblaze your company’s success 
• Discover a key management tool that helps create consistency in your cash flow

“When we discover that all we can see as one of two options, we know we need to take a step back from the situation.”  

- Nicole BZ

Topics Covered:

01:28 - What are these ‘two sides of the same coin’ that leaders of today have a fear of? 

02:41 - Unblocking that particular perception of a leader’s success 

03:29 - What businesses does she work with? 

04:18 - Taking a look at Nicole’s process that she uses to work with leaders 

05:41 - Actionable tip to help business owners get unstuck: When you're finding yourself struggling because you feel as if you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, take a step back. 

06:49 - Other actionable tips you can do when you are in a binary situation 

08:22 - The power of synergy 

08:51 - Creating something better together - internally and externally 

09:59 - The whole point of Nicole’s job 

10:10 - Get your FREE leadership and change management workbook, click here:  https://www.nicolebz.com/free-resources 

11:26 - What is the one thing you can do in this moment, to make everything else easier or potentially unnecessary? 

12:25 - Her suggested activity for self-reflection and self-review 

13:08 - Nicole’s one insightful comment to help you as a leader

Key Takeaways:

“Most of the business owners that I'm working with are at capacity, their businesses are thriving, but struggling to be able to serve the level of customers, clients, sales, that not only they need to keep growing, but they need to grow too to hit their big targets.”  

“I always say the business strategy is simple, it's the execution of it where we really get to learn where we are challenged.” 

“When we stop actually taking the steps necessary to implement, measure, track and improve those systems, that's where we learn what's holding us back. And sometimes it can be a mindset, sometimes it's very much based on experience, sometimes it's skills development and resources.” 

Resources:

• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller 

Connect with Nicole BZ:

• Website: https://nicolebz.com/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NBZCoaching/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nbzcoaching/ 
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/NBZcoaching/ 
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbzcoaching 

These challenging times demands so much more from leaders. It has become increasingly crucial to close the gaps and acknowledge every individual’s contribution. 

In seeing and recognizing the value each one brings, collaboration becomes a practical path that ensures an organization’s growth.    

Kelly Meerbott is a passionate advocate, ally and activist for diversity, equity and inclusion. 

In 2009, at the height of the recession, Kelly found herself caught up in a round of 30,000 layoffs-a defining moment in her career. As Kelly explored what was next, she hired a coach who subsequently changed her life. The support and guidance of the personal coach helped her realize her passion for helping others and desire to make it a career. More importantly, she recognized how impactful and life-changing a great coach can be. This is what inspires and motivates her to share her talents to make a difference in the world. 

In this episode, Kelly shares how, at one point, she wasn’t included, and felt like she didn’t belong. That’s why she’s standing up for what she advocates for, - helping leaders to step up in their leadership game where diversity, equity, and inclusion strongly matter.  

In her words, it’s about getting out from your head and dropping to your heart and soul to open up conversations and to just listen. A great solution is best achieved when there is a participatory atmosphere where everyone feels they belong and they matter.

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Learn how to get past the fear of mistakes and just show up as a true leader 
• Discover what a soul line versus a goal line of leadership is about to make you a truly empowered leader 
• Find out the compounding power of appreciation in ways that impacts your people’s morale and shoots up your profit in magnitude you would never imagine

“The best thing you can do right now as a leader is open the conversation. You don't have to come up with these long, complicated plans. You don't have to do that. Just start the conversation and listen. And that's it.”  

- Kelly Meerbott

Topics Covered:

02:19 - What makes her a staunch advocate of diversity and equity inclusion? 

04:19 - Why is there gold in mistakes? 

06:58 - What you should know about ‘false evidence appearing real’  

09:50 - Actionable tip to foster the spirit of inclusion: Listen, ask questions, get feedback, and take action. 

12:31 - The soul line versus the goal line 

16:54 - Get your FREE anti-racist resource list. Click here: www.kellymeerbott.com/resources/ 

18:00 - Why out of everything Kelly could have done with her life, why be a coach, especially now when it's a challenge to be an entrepreneur? 

20:23 - What it entails to be an empowered leader

Key Takeaways:

“I was so unclear for so long that when it hits you, it hits you like a ton of bricks.” 

“When all of that George Floyd murder went down, it just reaffirmed the fragility of human life. I thought, there's no time like the present to tell you who I am and what I stand for.” 

“I think there's gold in mistakes. If you look for the lessons and the blessings, and you have people around you that are willing to honor your apologies when you make those mistakes, and you made those mistakes, you apologize for them, and then they lift you up and help you heal from it.”    

Resources:

• Get your FREE anti-racist resource list. Click here: www.kellymeerbott.com/resources/ 

Connect with Kelly Meerbott:

• Website: https://kellymeerbott.com/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Youloudandclear/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyameerbott/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellymeerbott/ 
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/kmeerbott/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/KellyAMeerbott/ 

There is a surprisingly close parallel between music and leadership. For an ensemble (team) to deliver a great performance, every member must be skilled, aligned, and follow their score… and the conductor 

The same for teams in organizations. To reach a common goal everyone has to have strong communication, collaboration, and accountability. 

In this episode, Stephen underscores the parallels within his two passions: music and leadership development highlighting the steps to deep listening, being fully present, and achieving what matters most.  

Stephen Kohler is Audira’s Founder & CEO. He brings a passion for growing people along with 25 years of extensive corporate experience within organizations ranging from startup to Fortune 100, across multiple industries.  

His credentials include an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, a BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University, and is a Certified Professional Coach (PCC, CPCC) and balanced Scorecard Professional (BSP). His passions include spending time with his wife, two children, and two dogs. He is a life-long musician, avid BBQ enthusiast, and loves traveling the world.

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Discover the three leadership challenge areas for leaders to focus on, to create a greater impact within the organization 
• Re-approach leadership communication, collaboration, and accountability in an insightful, creative, and unique way. 
• Find out the three steps of listening to help you identify what's missing and needed to generate action within the organization

“Practice the three levels of listening, really getting present with not only yourself but those around you in the space. After you practice that listening, identify what's missing or needed, and then act and create action with intended impact.”  

- Stephen Kohler

Topics Covered:

01:46 - A musician’s unique approach to leadership training, coaching, and development 

03:28 - The parallelism of musicianship and leadership in critical areas of communication, collaboration, and accountability 

06:07 - Areas of challenges that many of his clients tend to fall into at some point in their careers 

08:05 - Getting a clear understanding of the mistake of assumptions that leaders usually commit 

09:31 - Actionable tips that you can apply now: The three steps of listening 

12:09 - Free resource to help leaders in all situations: audiralabs.com 

12:58 - Imagine yourself in your final hours on the planet or perhaps at your retirement party, and you're looking back, what would you like that impact of your life to have been, what would you like your legacy to be? 

14:27 - A beautiful quote to live by: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

Key Takeaways:

“A lot of organizations struggle with accountability and learning what that looks like. And that's no different where we can use the lens of music, for example, if you're playing in an ensemble, we all have to play our part.”  

“The first challenge that I help leaders with is really become more self-aware, in terms of really helping them clarify what their personal leadership mission-vision values are, and then also become just aware of what their impact on others is.” 

Connect with Stephen Kohler:

• Website: https://audiralabs.com/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/audiralabs/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kohlerstephen/ 
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Cz99_OMLkZsqcOnN5FBeg 

On average, we get interrupted every 11 minutes on a normal workday, but that it takes us 23 minutes to refocus afterwards? That means productivity is slammed recovering from distractions. 

Imagine the productivity boost if we could manage these distractions.  

Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach who helps people do more and stress less through coaching, workshops, and online courses. Her pragmatic, yet fun, approach helps people easily integrate practical, realistic strategies into their lives so that they can do more of what they want and less of what they don't. Alexis has taught thousands of individuals to take control of their time, their to-do lists and their overwhelm. Her clients include Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, Upwork, and more. 

In this episode, Alexis shares about the challenges leaders face in terms of managing schedules and priorities where emails, Slack, and other apps take much of your time and focus. Overwhelm prevents leaders from fully connecting in the present moment and doing more. Alexis helps you recover your time, lift your enthusiasm, and refocus on what really matters. 

What you will learn from this episode: 

• Find out the challenge leaders face today in the digital world and know what their mistakes are to become fully productive  
• Find out this simple system that effectively saves you time and reduces overwhelm 
• Learn about simple but practical tips to find mental space to connect more fully to people that matter to you  

“As you continue to build that new sort of neural pathway in your brain, that becomes the more automatic route instead of the old way that you're doing things.”  

- Alexis Haselberger 

Topics Covered: 

01:37 - Facing the challenge of letting the day happen to you 

02:25 - What made her clients come to her for help 

03:34 - Some mistakes her clients commit before finally seeking out her help 

06:19 - Taking advantage of the one-touch rule to lessen message and task overwhelm 

09:53 - Where do people fail in pursuit of making a lasting and impactful change in habits 

11:34 - Get your FREE downloadable Guide to Minimize Distractions. Click here: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/reduce-distraction 

12:33 - If I need to just get started today if I feel like my life is incredibly overwhelming right now, and I can't do coaching, what should I do?  

13:43 - One suggestion to help you become more productive and effective at work and in your family life 

Key Takeaways: 

“One of the big mistakes we make is we download an app or read a book and we expect that to be the silver bullet. And then when it doesn't work out, and just the way that it's supposed to, we feel like we failed” 

“Have a single trusted system for your tasks. What happens when we have these things in all the places is that we can't prioritize like, we are just grasping at things like does this look good? Should we do this? We can't properly plan either because we don't know the full breadth of everything.” 

“Figure out where all your stuff is coming from, where all your tasks, your projects, etc., and spend an hour or two putting it all in one place, right so that we can actually look at it linearly because humans can't multitask.” 

Resources Mentioned: 

• Get your FREE downloadable Guide to Minimize Distractions. Click here: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/reduce-distraction 
• Online Courses: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/online-courses 

Connect with Alexis Haselberger: 

• Website: https://www.alexishaselberger.com/ 
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9iAkCALqr3FsKfYOqjb3Q 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/do.more.stress.less/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/domorestressless/