By Carla Miller
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When I was sent a book called The Emotional Overdraft I instinctively knew that this was a topic that was going to resonate with me personally and you as listeners to this podcast.
An emotional overdraft is when you as a leader habitually overcome your employer’s challenges at the cost of our own physical and mental health. Sound familiar?
I am seeing this happening a LOT at the moment with the women within my Women Leading community so I was excited to dive into the topic with the book’s author Andy Brown.
We discussed:
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author and trainer. And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Influence & Impact:
Join the next cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Be Bolder
My Be Bolder 4 week confidence and assertiveness course will be running again in February. In it we cover:
⭐ Tackling imposter feelings and self-doubt
⭐ Mastering your mindset
⭐ Courageous conversations
⭐ Speaking up
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support and strategies you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
All for just £49/month
About Andy Brown:
Andy has over 30 years’ experience as an award-winning adviser and coach for people-based businesses. He’s also a podcast host and the author of Amazon #1 best seller, ‘The Emotional Overdraft: 10 simple changes for balancing business success and wellbeing’ a book for entrepreneurs, leaders and founders that articulates the often overlooked mental and physical costs of leadership
Links from Andy:
Buy the book in the UK
Complete the free Emotional Overdraft Self-Assessment
Connect with Andy
Follow Emotional Overdraft on Instagram
Get all the latest Emotional Overdraft articles
Do you worry about what other people think of you?
Perhaps it stops you contributing in meetings for fear of judgement from others.
Or keeps you awake replaying conversations in your head feeling like you said something wrong.
Or it means when you’ve got something challenging to say you water it down to the point where you’re barely making a point anymore.
If any of that sounds familiar then keep listening because in this short episode I’m going to give you some insights and strategies you can use to reduce those worries and allow you to perform at your best at work.
This is the third in a series of three podcasts this summer around mindset so if you’ve not already listened to episode 166 on overcommitting and episode 168 on people pleasing do bookmark those to listen to.
One of the most powerful things you can do is learn how to say no which is why I’ve created my free How To Say No challenge which will take you from saying yes and regretting it to feeling comfortable saying no in just 5 days. Head over to carlamillertraining.com/sayno to access that.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You get a short email containing a short video each day, taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days.
Access it at carlamillwertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
You may also find episode 32 Why we look to others for validation useful
Today’s guest Sue Musson has handled many a crisis in her career, including leading one of the largest NHS Trusts through the pandemic. In this episode she shares what she’s learnt about keeping calm in a crisis.
We discuss:
Sue’s overall philosophy for coping with a crisis
How to calm yourself down from the initial state of panic
How to keep your team calm in a crisis too
The importance of taking personal responsibility as a leader
What to do when you don’t know what the right decision is
The keys to successful communication when managing a crisis
Sue shares some great stories from her own leadership experience, as well as her 6 step crisis management framework from her book Firecracker Leadership.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
About Sue Musson:
Sue Musson achieved her first board-level leadership role at the age of twenty-seven. She is keen to share what she has learned to help other women build their confidence and impact.
For 30 years, Sue has led numerous organisations including her own successful businesses under the Firecracker brand. She recently completed her term as Chairman of Liverpool University Hospitals, one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, with 14,000 staff and a turnover of £1.2Bn. Sue led the trust through a merger, the pandemic and the opening of a new hospital by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Her experience of leadership spans the full gamut of highs and lows, which she recounts with honesty, insight and humour in her new book, Firecracker Leadership.
The book achieved number one bestseller status in three categories on Amazon and became a top ten bestseller in the USA. Firecracker Leadership is endorsed by the Mindvalley Book Club: “We are happy to endorse Firecracker Leadership (which) is a wonderfully written and structured book. It is packed with great ideas and quote-worthy wisdoms…It is a wonderful book that we are happy we got our hands on.”
Concepts from the book have been featured in publications like Forbes, European Business Review, Elite Business, She Can Code, HR News, Startups Magazine, Training Journal and The HRDirector.
Having served for fifteen years as a non-executive director and chair of five of the UK’s most significant healthcare organisations, Sue continues her public service by chairing panels to appoint UK judges in addition to running her own businesses.
Sue’s website - https://www.suemusson.com/
Sue on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-musson-a0119416
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Access it at carlamillertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
You can read more and sign up here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
Think you might be a people pleaser? Perhaps you’ve got poor boundaries with others, really want to be liked or need a lot of external validation to feel that you’re good enough to be in your role?
In this solo episode I’m going to share some of the signs that you’re a people pleaser, what it’s costing you and 4 practical strategies you can use to break free from your people pleasing patterns and start prioritising your own needs.
This is the second in a series of 3 podcasts this summer around mindset and setting boundaries and if you’ve not already listened to episode 166 on overcommitting.
One of the most powerful things you can do is learn how to say no which is why I’ve created my free How To Say No challenge which will take you from saying yes and regretting it to feeling comfortable saying no in just 5 days. Head over to carlamillertraining.com/sayno to access that.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You get a short email containing a short video each day, taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days.
Access it at carlamillwertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Managing an Overwhelmed Team
How and When to Coach Your Team
Reducing Drama in your Team
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
What is executive presence? Why does it matter? And what can we do to increase our executive presence?
These are the questions I explored in a fantastic chat with fellow women’s leadership coach Lucy Gernon in this week’s podcast episode.
We also discussed…
There is a lot of gold in this episode!
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
About Lucy Gernon:
Lucy Gernon is an Irish mom of 3, Multi Award-Winning Executive Coach, host of The 360 LeadHERship Podcast and acclaimed international speaker supporting women in senior leadership roles to accelerate their careers with confidence and develop as leaders without sacrificing work-life balance. She is sought out by Fortune 500 companies for her expertise in executive presence, confidence building, leadership, conflict management, healthy productivity, personal branding and more. Lucy is the Founder of 3SIXTY Leaders Club—the only positive psychology-infused membership focused on career advancement, leadership and work-life balance. Lucy is a certified positive psychology coach, holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Science, Diploma in Integrative Coaching, and had a 20-year career in leadership roles in American & British multinationals. Her corporate CV and business experience, combined with her extensive executive coaching and business experience gives her a unique perspective on the needs and ambitions of female leaders and how to get them there
Website: www.lucygernon.com
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-360-leadhership-podcast/id1596311791
Executive Presence Course: www.lucygernon.com/ep
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lucygernon
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lucygernon
HBR Article Exec Presence that Lucy refers to in this episode: https://hbr.org/2024/01/the-new-rules-of-executive-presence
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Access it at carlamillertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
Do you find yourself overpromising and creating unnecessary stress for yourself? Or putting in lots more effort than anyone expects, or needs you to? How about saying yes when you’ve got no capacity to get more work done or jumping into help when no-one has asked you to?
If any of those resonate it sounds like you may be overcommitting - constantly trying to show how much value you add, by going above and beyond when it isn’t needed.
In this episode I’m going to…
break down the ways we overcommit
explain why we overcommit
share the questions you can ask to help you dial back the overcommitting (and still do a great job!)
I also share a brilliant new free resource I’ve created for you – the How To Say No Challenge which you can sign up to at carlamillertraining.com/sayno
This is the first in a series of 3 podcasts this summer around mindset and setting boundaries and you can expect an episode on people pleasing and another one on worrying too much what people think of you. I’ve also recorded some great guest interviews such as exclusive presence and managing the menopause which we’ll be releasing in the coming months.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You get a short email containing a short video each day, taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days.
Access it at carlamillwertraining.com/sayno
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Managing an Overwhelmed Team
How and When to Coach Your Team
Reducing Drama in your Team
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
Many workplaces are dominated by short term thinking, intense pressure to produce immediate results and a focus on growth at all costs. Sound familiar? This short term focus often leads to poor decision making, poor long term performance and risks employee burnout.
In today’s episode my guest Cath Bishop makes a powerful case for implementing what she calls Long Win Thinking. Cath knows a bit about winning as a three time Olympian with a silver medal and a fascinating career in diplomacy within conflict zones!
We discuss:
Why workplaces benefit from focusing on the Long Win
How Cath’s mindset around winning shifted across her 3 Olympic Games and how she felt at the start line of her medal-winning Olympic race
What insights Cath has taken from her diplomatic experience into leadership coaching
How early in life we start thinking winning is important
Separating performance from results and winning
Cath’s 3 C model for implementing long win thinking in your team
I found this episode really timely as I reflect on the impact I want to make through my work and what success means to me. I hope it brings you some insights both personally and also as you think about how to create high performance in your team.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Managing an Overwhelmed Team
How and When to Coach Your Team
Reducing Drama in your Team
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
About Cath Bishop:
Cath Bishop is a triple Olympian, World Champion and Olympic silver medallist in rowing. In her career as a diplomat, she specialized in stabilization policy for conflict-affected parts of the world. She now works as a coach and consultant, advising on leadership, performance and culture across business, sport and education, and teaches on Executive Education programmes at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. She writes monthly articles for The Guardian on topics of culture in sport and co-hosts The Inside Out Culture
Podcast. She is a globally sought-after speaker.
Websites: www.cathbishop.com www.thelongwin.com
Instagram: cath_bishop
Inside Out Culture Podcast: https://insideoutculture.buzzsprout.com/
X: @thecathbishop
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/cath-bishop
Does just looking at your inbox create a rush of overwhelm? You’re not alone in that, the average person receives 121 work emails every single day!
In this episode, my guest, career and executive coach Fay Wallis shares 6 practical strategies you can use to reduce your email overwhelm. We discuss:
I also share an excerpt from my current favourite book, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman on why inbox zero isn’t actually going to bring us the peace of mind we think it will.
This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.
My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership bestie. I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
You might also enjoy…
And we mentioned Graham Allcott’s book, How to be a Productivity Ninja and his email Rev up for the Week - https://www.grahamallcott.com/
Women Leading:
Come and join over 40 women in Women Leading – my community to help you lead without overwhelm. It offers peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership and wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
About Fay Wallis:
Fay is a career and executive coach, with a background in HR who specialises in coaching HR & People professionals. She is the Founder of Bright Sky Career Coaching and has a 5 star rated podcast called HR Coffee Time, where you can hear free career advice and ideas every week.
Bright Sky Career Coaching: https://www.brightskycareercoaching.co.uk/
Fay’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faywallis/
HR Coffee Time podcast page: https://www.brightskycareercoaching.co.uk/hr-coffee-time-podcast/
If you’ve noticed unhelpful patterns of behaviours playing out in your team or if you’ve got a tense relationship with a colleague then this week’s episode can provide insight into what’s causing those patterns.
My guest, leadership coach and podcast host Rebekah Whitaker shares why we get pulled into the ‘drama triangle’ and what we can learn from Transactional Analysis to understand ourselves and our relationships with others better.
Transactional Analysis is new to me so it was really interesting to understand the ‘drama triangle’ and reflect on how it plays out in the workplace and the role we can play as leaders in creating more positive behaviours and relationships.
In this episode Rebekah provides an introduction to this concept and I’m delighted that she’s running a workshop within Women Leading this autumn to bring the next level of insights into how leaders can reduce drama within their teams.
This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.
My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership bestie. I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
Women Leading:
Come and join over 40 women in Women Leading – my community to help you lead without overwhelm. It offers peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership and wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Managing an Overwhelmed Team
How and When to Coach Your Team
Reducing Drama in your Team
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
About Rebekah Whitacker:
Through Quest for EST Rebekah is on a mission to change the way that we approach leadership development, equipping leaders with skills to support them from the start of their leadership journey. She is also the co-host of In Pursuit of the Better You, a podcast dedicated to helping you maximise your potential personally and professionally.
Rebekah’s website: www.quest4est.co.uk
Rebekah’s substack: https://quest4est.substack.com
Networking is an idea that makes some of us cringe. Others would love to network more but struggle to attend events due to workload and caring responsibilities. But what if networking didn’t have to be so uncomfortable and you could do it in a way that works for you?
That’s what Ellie Rich-Poole, career development coach and one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices for careers.
We cover…
Why networking is key to developing your career and accessing opportunities
How to build your network in a way that works for you
The power of making genuine connections rather than working the room
How to make yourself actually go to networking events
Making the most of networking opportunities
Creating a croissant not a bagel (you’ll have to listen to decipher that one)
This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.
My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership bestie. I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
Come and join over 40 women in Women Leading – my community to help you lead without overwhelm. It offers peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership and wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Managing an Overwhelmed Team
How and When to Coach Your Team
Reducing Drama in your Team
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
About Ellie
Ellie Rich-Poole is a Career Development Coach. She helps leaders find their perfect role and be brilliant in it, by playing to their strengths. She goes on the journey with them as a supporter and challenger to help them get to action and get results, particularly at times of transition.
She has over 25 years’ experience in HR, Recruitment and Head-hunting. She founded her business in 2016 to inspire and support others with their career development.
She enjoys leading group sessions and speaks on a range of career topics including ’12 ways to take control of your career’, ‘Learn to Love LinkedIn’ and ‘Stop hiding, start Networking.’
She supports a range of DEI focused organisations as an Interview Coach, a Mentor and a Career Accelerator programme lead. She is the Chief Ambassador for Girls Friendly Society (GFS) a charity working with girls in the UK’s least privileged areas. She is passionate about helping individuals achieve their potential.
Ellie is a Mental Health First Aider and has lived experience of pre and postnatal anxiety.
She understands the challenges of managing a career and a family.
Ellie has lived and worked in the UK, Germany, Chile and Singapore and enjoys
supporting globally minded individuals and organisations, and making new friends.
She has studied at both Durham and Oxford University, and is an International Coaching Federation PCC level Coach. She is a Strengths Profile and Insights Discovery Practitioner. LinkedIn named her a LinkedIn ‘Top Voice’ for Careers in 2022.
https://www.ellierichpoole.com/organisations/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellierichpoole/
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