Kindness is not a weakness, especially not from a leadership perspective and especially not in our increasingly more disconnected world. Deborah invites you to lead by example and show more kindness, empathy and compassion - especially at work. Give public recognition for hard work and achievements and seek out opportunities to serve your community. It’s how we make the world a kinder, more human place.

Every 20 episodes or so, Deborah invites you to do a retrospective of what you have learned and to celebrate the changes you are making and the progress you have shown. During the past 20 episodes, we have covered some pretty BIG things and if you’ve downloaded your workbook from deborahhartung.com, you will have learned your personality type, identified your personal values and learned how to use the GROW coaching methodology to coach yourself and your colleagues. You’re doing great! Keep it up!

Nobody is sharing their failures and challenges on social media and this creates a false sense of ‘perfection’. Sharing your story with authentic vulnerability both inspires and empowers others and it helps you celebrate all you have overcome. Own your story and share it with others. Be proud of all you have overcome. You are amazing!

Integrity is one of the most important qualities that we as leaders can possess. In this episode, Deborah speaks about the importance of knowing your values and then actively living those - even if it makes you unpopular. Doing the right thing, being honest and trustworthy and being impeccable with your word, isn’t always easy, neither is taking the high road, especially not in our world of instant gratification. But it’s good for your soul and it’s great for your personal brand and your reputation as a a leader. Choose courage over comfort! Choose ‘right’ over ‘easy’.

Deborah explains how you can use the GROW coaching method to coach peers, friends and colleagues. You can even use the methodology to ‘coach’ yourself. Head on over to DeborahHartung.com and download the free mini transformation workbook on the GirlBossGuide Podcast page.

Learn to trust your sixth sense and align with your higher purpose, by trusting your intuition - that gut feeling that you get that something or someone is right for you or you should stay away from. To live a life aligned with your higher purpose, you need to connect with that inner voice that is your intuition. It’s never wrong!

If we want a different outcome in life, we need to start making different choices. In this episode, Deborah explains the importance of a ‘root cause analysis’ and asking ‘why’ when trying to understand how we landed up in a certain situation. Once we understand this better, we can examine the choices we made in getting to this point and we can then start working to make different choices that will get us a different result.

Women have a lot of pressure on them, especially during the holidays. The parties, the entertaining, the travel, the gifts and the dealing with people you can’t stand. Deborah shares her 4 top tips that she lives by, to get through the holidays like a Pro.

Deborah invites you to take stock of how we measure our success and asks whether we are truly living in integrity with our most authentic self and our values that we hold most dear. You can participate in the mini transformation exercise by downloading the free workbook on deborahhartung.com and completing the exercise relating to finding your own values.

Deborah explores the top 4 beliefs and behaviours that we have to challenge and change because these are holding us back. You can also read the article Deborah wrote for Women on Topp: 👇https://womenontopp.com/its-still-a-mans-world-for-as-long-as-women-allow-it/