As Matt Poepsel and I dig in today…and a little about his book… Expand the Circle: Enlightened Leadership for the New World of Work…

When it comes to Leading YOURSELF, Matt says…

·     For many leaders, self-awareness is quite anemic

·     He also recommends the art of self-acceptance. Embrace your limitations to deepen your leadership

·     Becoming internally aware rather than externally helps you avoid being a ‘Pleaser’

On…Leading OTHERS Matt recommends…

·     Encourage creativity and strike a balance with feasibility

·     Senior leaders today must make top-down investments to promote employee wellness is no longer just an option…

·     A weak culture produces flimsy bonds; a strong one acquires best talent who wants to stay. And lead.

Matt Poepsel, PhD

Website: http://mattpoepsel.com

Matt in Action: http://mattpoepsel.com/speak

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Matt Poepsel, PhD is the author of Expand the Circle: Enlightened Leadership for Our New World of Work and host of the Lead the People podcast. He serves as Vice President & Godfather of Talent Optimization at The Predictive Index. He holds a PhD in Psychology, an MBA, and a Harvard Business School Certificate of Management Excellence.

Matt is a part-time faculty member at Boston College where he teaches in the areas of leadership, human resources, and business spirituality. He’s a coach to executive teams as well as a board member for the Cape Cod Human Resources Association (CCHRA). Matt is a US Marine, an Ironman triathlon finisher, and a student of Buddhist philosophy.

iVoice Communication, Inc. is a company dedicated to developing confident speakers, successful interpersonal communicators and healthy human connections through effective communication. We work with individuals and companies who understand the power of people. As people expand, business expands.

Deep breathing while recognizing and regulating stress is not a silver bullet but it's crucial in our overloaded business world. Consider the following 3 steps a few times a day to clear your mind and open your cognitive capacity:

1. Loosen up and stretch as you notice your stress level and how you're feeling (is stress low, medium or high?).

2. Turn your attention inward and focus on some deep breathing. When the mind wanders (it will), redirect attention inward (to build that mindful muscle).

3. Notice if you're feeling any differently after you increase your oxygen intake.

This can be done between meetings, before a stressful conversation/presentation, and occasionally throughout the workday. 'Small moments with lots of oxygen' is a great habit to build. 

This exercise does not take the place of medical advice. It's practical, will help you maintain energy, in addition to recognizing and regulating your stress.

It's my hope you listen to the audio a few times then do this on your own. And pay it forward.

If you or anyone you know has ever struggled with Imposer syndrome---you’re going to want to listen to Dr. Valerie Young who is featured today. 

Valerie Young…is uniquely qualified on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. She has a PhD, began studying it in the early 1980s and she, herself, has experienced it. So she’s well aware of what it it, how it feels and how it debilitates.  

On the podcast today you’ll hear her talk about:

• How Imposter Syndrome affects individual and how it affects the bottom line of business.
• If Imposter Syndrome is ‘just’ a female issue
• How prevalent it is in all industries - especially academia, the sciences, engineering, and health care.
• How we can better understand Imposter Syndrome AND unlearn it.

www.ImposterSyndrome.com

www.SLCWomen.com

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Know and OWN Your Worth, To Be a Leader

Today, some liberation!

The newer definition of liberation is, when you no longer feel like you must protect yourself…you trust yourself…you’re free to speak what’s true to you… you’re liberated.

Please enjoy… something we’ve been sharing and teaching for a long time.

How to Control Fear of Speaking or Imposter Syndrome.

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Today’s Guide is Industrial Organizational Psychologist and traveling psychologist Dr. Chris Sopa. Chris has impressive credentials…schooling and degrees AND she also has that deep life experience that is hers alone and hers to share.  Through some pretty huge challenges Chris has learned how to improve and perfect listening to her own Inspiring Voice…while extracting what we call the sweet lessons from life experiences.

I met Chris while she was on a 4 month journey … visiting many portions of the world, solo. When she returned to the states, she was hit hard. And ended up having to have some major back surgery…which went very wrong.  

Through it all…Chris endured and leaned, endured and learned and continues to. As Chris’s physical healing continues…you’ll hear a few things that she’s uncovered:

• The importance of being tuned in and mindful of your thoughts
• How to RETEACH people how to treat you
• Shifting your perspective to counter social expectations and conditioning
• How to set boundaries as opposed to protective walls 
• And what she sees as a healthy, more enlightened future for her, her family and for people everywhere

www.ChrisSopa.com 

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On the podcast today we get to hear from a couple of guys…Good Guys who wrote the book, Good Guys, How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace.  Brad Johnson and David Smith are very evolved men…both are highly educated, spent time in the military, and both have personal stories as to WHY they want to help women grow as leaders in the workplace.

I’ve spent much of my career helping women take full responsibility for their leadership journeys - so it was heartwarming and so refreshing to meet Brad and Dave who want to give women an assist. Today they’ll talk about:

• The tremendous business and personal benefits of doing this work

• How becoming better allies for women in the workplace can ignite and support your DEI initiative. 

• They’ll talk about some realities…like women who’ve had their ideas stolen…and they’ll also discuss how this is not a women’s issue…this is a leadership issue.

Plus Brad Johnson and David Smith introduce and explain some very cool and important phenonea… like…

• Exposure Therapy

• GQ (I’ll give you a hint on that one…it’s kinda a cousin to EQ…)

• Reluctant male syndrome

• And some solid steps you can take to get this started…and help women step into their roles as leader in the workplace. 

It’s all coming up…

To Contact Brad and David go to: WorkplaceAllies.com 

Contact us anytime at iVoiceCommunication.com 

Dr. Carole Robbin taught at Stanford University’s school of business for 17 years. She didn’t teach a business course, instead a super popular elective Interpersonal Dynamics. MBA students called it…Touchy Feely…because they learned the incredible value of human to human connection and the feelings that come along with generating them.

Dr. Carole Robbin spends most of her time these days working with leaders in Silicon Valley. That’s where she gets to continue this work…and share her gifts...like teaching us:

·      The importance of authenticity and disclosure

·      Learning the vocabulary of feelings and…

·      Remembering that ‘what you say isn’t always what people hear’

Dr. Carole Robbin is the author of Connect, Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and Colleagues.

www.connectandrelate.com

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Today's Guide is someone who’s so attuned to helping humans stay emotionally healthy, and connected, with themselves and others. Deborah Grayson Riegel is an instructor of Leadership Communication at Wharton Business School. She does similar work for Women in Leadership at Columbia Business School.

Deborah has authored several books including her latest, Go To Help. In my opinion, what makes her so special is her genuine authenticity and her courage and determination to speak candidly about mental illness and emotional well-being…topics we never before would speak about in business.

But we do now.

Deborah’s latest book is called Go to Help…as she helps people ask for, receive and provide help to those around them. 31 thought provoking strategies to offer, ask for and accept help.

What a touching, tender and at times funny account of a woman’s struggle for stature in a 4 foot 8½ inch tall body, Hear Ellen Frankel and her interview with Donna Rustigian Mac on Vital Women Radio and her journey to Mt. Everest!

Ellen today is a bereavement counselor and author. Her book, Beyond Measure, speaks to the heart of soul-breaking attempts to fit an arbitrary and elusive cultural ideal of physical perfection. Being short isn’t the problem, Ellen Frankel insists. Instead, the real difficulties lie in the social bias against short people.

Ellen shares the difficulties of living short in a world in which stereotypes are based on gender and size. She moves beyond her own experience into the political realm in revealing how pharmaceutical companies—with government backing—are expanding the market for human growth hormone treatment by reclassifying healthy short children as patients in “need” of such injections in hopes of making them taller.

She shares the dilemma of being subjected to simultaneous messages that her physical body should be bigger—that is, taller, but not wider—while her expansive spiritual body should be smaller. As a result of too much attention on the external rather than the internal workings of the soul, Ellen flirts with eating disorders and unhealthy relationships with powerful males in an attempt to compensate for her feelings of not “measuring up.” In the process, her real self slips farther away. The path out of her dilemma lies in the shadow of the tallest mountain on Earth. It is through a spiritual pilgrimage to Nepal that Ellen discovers her own strength and spirit, and that we are all dwarfed by Everest and beyond measure.

Celebrate the life of Diane Ladd who revels in celebrating others. Diane is being interviewed by Donna Rustigian Mac on Vital Women Radio as she accepts a lifetime achievement award!

Diane Ladd, actress/writer/director/author, is a winner of over 57 international awards including The British Academy Award, Golden Globe Award®, Independent Spirit Film Award and the Cannes’ Palme d’or Award. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards® and three Academy Awards® for the films Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose. In Rambling Rose, she and her daughter, Laura Dern, in tandem, made show business history as the first mother/daughter duo to earn nominations for the same film. The late Princess Diana chose this film as one of her all-time favorites and honored it with a London Royal Premier and a party in their honor.

Diane has authored the books SPIRALING THROUGH the SCHOOL of LIFE – A Mental Physical and Spiritual Discovery, (Find Your Miracles) endorsed by Marianne Williamson, Stephen King, Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Wayne Dwyer, among others. Winner of the 2014 Tennessee Williams Literary Award, she was honored at their festival in New Orleans for her newest book, A BAD AFTERNOON for a PIECE of CAKE; a collection of 10 short stories. Aside from seminars on acting; with a Masters in Esoteric Psychology and a certificate in Nutrition, she lectures across the nation on spiritual and health matters for the medical and lay community at large when time permits. A member of the National Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild, Ladd is President of the Art and Culture Taskforce, a 501(c) 3 that promotes culture and arts in schools across America. She is the proud grandmother of ten loving grandchildren.