IntHERrupt

When work gears up in intensity, it’s important to get perspective. We all have responsibilities outside our jobs and it’s okay to take a step back when needed. In this episode of Int-HER-rupt, your host Linda Yates meets with Stacy Hess to discuss navigating our challenges outside of work. Listen in to hear how you can prioritize your loved ones AND yourself!

Responsibilities Outside of Work

• Hess’s family has become a priority for her. Helping and spending time with aging parents is a common responsibility that comes to many of us.

• Creating space to care for children, grandchildren, and pets can also be challenging but rewarding.

3 Tips for Balancing Our Out-of-Work Responsibilities

1. Pause. Find moments in your day when you can take a breath. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the things we have to do.

2. Prioritize. Be selective about what things you let derail your workday. 

3. Give yourself grace. Nobody is perfect. Be kind to yourself, and remember you’re doing the best you can!

Taking Care of Yourself

• Try visual cues! Set up reminders for yourself to prioritize your own wellness.

• Daily practices. Find something that feels right to you - reading, journaling, meditation - and make space to do it every day.

• Schedule time every workday to take a wellness break. Make it non-negotiable!

“If your environment is taking away from you who you know you are and it’s that out of alignment with what you need in your life, you really have to think about maybe it’s time to make a change. And I know that’s hard, but we have to put ourselves first.” – Stacy Hess

Resources

Stacy Hess on LinkedIn

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

In this energizing episode of the Int-HER-rupt podcast, our host Linda Yates connects with Radhika Shukla. Shukla has 21 years of experience in sales across many different industries leading high-performing teams. She doesn’t just talk the talk – she is the living embodiment of a growth mindset. Listen in for tons of great tips on how to cultivate resilience, passion, and determination!

What Is a Growth Mindset?

• The belief that your abilities and skills can be developed over time.
• Failure is viewed as an opportunity for self-development and growth.
• All things are possible, 100% accountability, and the time for action is now!
• If you believe you can’t change, you have what’s called a “fixed mindset.”

Tips for Creating a Growth Mindset

• Embrace challenges with an open mind. Focus on learning all you can in new situations and don’t dwell on self-doubt.
• Be open to feedback. Even brutal feedback can be a gift, as it gives you a chance to develop self-awareness.
• View failure as a learning opportunity. Failure is a moment in time, and teaches resilience. It’s okay to feel your feelings, but then bounce back!
• Cultivate a passion for learning. Find interesting ways to continue to improve yourself, even if it’s not “required”.
• Persevere. When things are difficult, keep trying. Progress takes time and patience.

How to Help Yourself on Tough Days

• Gratitude practice: Shukla journals about things she is grateful for.
• Physical activity to work it out. Shukla dances and does yoga!
• Give yourself space. It’s okay to not be okay.
• Surround yourself with good people.
• Mindfulness practice.

“Rejection means redirection… to something bigger and better.” – Radhika Shukla

Resources

Radhika Shukla on LinkedIn

Radhika Shukla on Instagram

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

In this episode of the Int-HER-rupt podcast, host Linda Yates has a conversation with Sabine Gedeon, the founder of She Leads Network and host of the podcast She Leads Now. Gedeon’s career journey and her years of experience helping others grow and develop have taught her what it takes to break through mental limits, find confidence, and orient your life around becoming who you want to be.

If You’ve Just Been Let Go

• “This is not your company.” Remember that you don’t own the organization. You own your career and you get to strategize about it.
• Choose your next role based on goals you have, not just matching your skillset and finding something “good enough”.
• When you orient yourself around your goals, you no longer need the organization to be a part of your identity. The organization gets the gift of you.

How to Turn Things Around

• Create a Brag Book. Think about your various accomplishments over the years. As you’re remembering the projects you’ve worked on and the impacts you have had, you transition yourself out of a victim mentality and into knowing who you are and what gifts you have to offer.
• Look at your Brag Book and look for the running themes. Are there items or motivations that seem to be recurring? Identify the passions and goals that show up for you and go into the market looking for jobs that bring your skills together with your goals.

When Should You Pivot?

• If you hear a little voice inside telling you it’s time to go, it’s time to go. A role might check a lot of boxes for you, but that doesn’t make it right.
• When you hold onto your role even after it is not serving you, you run the risk of losing touch with parts of yourself.
• Gedeon asks herself “Who am I?” at pivotal moments to assess whether the person she wants to be has the space to flourish in her life.

“The things that helped me push past the fear and tap into my ‘well of courage’ is I had to ask myself the question, ‘Who am I?’ I’ve had to ask this question many times in many different situations, and I challenge clients to do it as well. When you can sit back and you can really assess and ask yourself that question, and be honest and vulnerable with yourself, it forces you to say: ‘If this is who I am, let me look at my external. Let me look at the work that I’m doing, the relationships, the activity. Do they reflect back to me who it is I believe that I am at this stage in my life?’” – Sabine Gedeon

Resources

Sabine Gedeon on LinkedIn

SabineGedeon.com

https://sheleadsnetwork.com

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

Feeling exhausted or burned out? You might be suffering from decision fatigue. In this episode of the Int-HER-rupt podcast, your host Linda Yates sheds some light on this topic so that we can recognize our decision fatigue and make adjustments to the aspects of our lives that caused it. This leaves us happier, healthier, and more free to achieve our goals!

What Is Decision Fatigue?

• Feeling drained after having to make too many decisions, diverting your mental resources away from creativity and innovation
• Some common symptoms: procrastination, impulsivity, avoidance, indecisiveness

How to Avoid Decision Fatigue

• Streamline your choices by creating lists/writing them down
• Set yourself up for success by preparing things in advance
• Cut things out, trimming activities that drain you out of your schedule
• Delegate any workplace decisions you can, which shows your team how much you trust them
• Make big decisions in the morning when you’re fresh and have lots of energy
• Once you’ve made your decision, don’t second-guess yourself
• Work positive habits into your daily routine

If Your Staff Ask You to Make a Decision, Ask Yourself…

1. Does this decision need to be made by me?
2. Does it need to be decided right now?
3. If I don’t need to make this decision, who should?

“These three words are really helpful in decision fatigue, especially as a leader: delete, delay, delegate.” – Linda Yates

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

Whether you’re a senior member of your business looking for ways to offer support or an emerging leader yourself, you’ve probably recognized the importance of empowerment in leadership. In this episode of the Int-HER-rupt podcast, your host Linda Yates and guest Susan Owen Lauwers discuss some do’s and don’ts to help you on your journey to becoming a stronger, more balanced leader.

Recognizing an Emerging Leader

• Lauwers got to know her own leadership style. She is beginning to identify personality traits that have helped her as a leader and can sometimes recognize them in others.
• The people who have the most skills and knowledge are not necessarily the best managers – it comes down to interpersonal skills or natural qualities.

Why Nurture Emerging Leaders?

• It’s a business investment: if your leaders succeed, your business succeeds.
• Paying it forward is a life strategy. If you are a leader, someone has probably mentored you along the way, and supporting others helps you bring it full circle.

3 Tips for Empowering Leaders

1. Seek to understand. When offering support, showing that you hear and understand can help you motivate others and problem-solve.
2. It’s okay to not have all the answers. Even if you’re in a position of leadership, you aren’t going to always know everything. Part of good leadership is identifying your strengths and getting support for your weaknesses.
3. Be willing to grow. It’s great to support others but be willing to look at yourself and continue on an internal journey of reflection and growth.

“It’s a balancing act. You want to give folks an opportunity to challenge themselves and try new things, but you also don’t want to give folks too much too fast so that they feel like they’re drowning or they’re out of their league… Take a step back, let go of some things, give some things away, but stay nearby.” – Susan Owen Lauwers

Resources

Susan Owen Lauwers on LinkedIn

Millenia3.com

@millenia3 on Twitter and Instagram

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

Do you experience “chronic, unmanaged stress”? Then you might be suffering from burnout. In this episode of the Int-HER-Rupt podcast, your host Linda Yates and Ebony Joyce (the Career Clarity Coach) talk about how to recognize burnout, how to heal when you’re past the point of exhaustion, and even how to prevent burnout from occurring in the first place!

Signs You May Be Burned Out

• Your productivity is decreasing
• You feel stressed when you think about going in to work
• You’re disconnecting from other people at work

3 Tips for Getting Ahead of Burnout

• Set boundaries. Know what burns YOU out – for Ebony, decision fatigue is a big challenge. Meal prepping and wardrobe downsizing have limited the decisions she has to make while she’s at home recharging.
• Learn to say “no.” This can be challenging if you’re used to putting others before yourself, but if you develop a strong sense of self, it will get easier!
• Manage your time. Prioritize what you need to do and set aside time to relax when everything is done.

How to Heal Your Burnout

• Exercise, unplugging from your phone/computer, spending time in nature, and spending time with loved ones can all heal burnout.
• Get to the source of why the burnout is happening and figure out what kind of support you need. This may mean speaking to leadership at your work, and if they are not willing to work with you, it may be time to start looking for a new job.

“We live in a culture where being overworked and burned out has been glorified, to some extent. You don’t get a gold medal because you worked hard and overextended yourself.” – Ebony Joyce

Resources

Ebony Joyce on LinkedIn

Next Level Career Services

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

Strengths and weaknesses aren’t just the subjects of job interview questions! Each one of us has a wide range of things to offer the world, but we tend to want to hide or downplay our weaknesses and only display our strengths. In this episode of Int-HER-rupt, your host Linda Yates and guest Esther Powers get into a beautifully vulnerable conversation about how to overcome difficult moments, recognize who you really are, and cultivate true strength.

Why Should We Embrace Our Weaknesses?

• When you overcome denial, you have the opportunity to learn about who you are and “sharpen your sword” in those areas where you struggle.
• Accepting yourself and giving yourself grace teaches you how to give grace to others.
• Learning vulnerability and humility is the source of true strength. 

3 Tips on Not Being Overcome By Weakness

1. Stay grounded in reality.  Are you weak, or did you experience a moment of weakness? Don’t let a difficult time become your whole reality.
2. Find something to believe in. You can find strength and integrity in having faith – whether it’s faith in a higher power or faith in yourself and your vision.
3. Fake it till you make it. If you’re feeling insecure in a work situation, try to go along for the ride. You are where you’re supposed to be, and if you don’t have all the tools, you’ll pick them up along the way.

Resources

Esther Powers on LinkedIn

[email protected]

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

Do you get excited about on-the-job training? If so, you’re not alone! Learning new things can help you revolutionize the way you work, improving your performance at your job and in life. So why do so many people feel that the training they receive is boring, ineffective, or unhelpful? To answer this question, we are joined by Mirah Young. Young learned first-hand that effective training makes or breaks the learning process. Listen in to discover how she recognizes a great training program when she sees it!

Mirah’s Background

• Graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a degree in Mass Media Communication
• During college, she was an apprentice in grant administration, and found joy in learning new things and helping others understand those things

Why is Training So Important?

• Your employees are your best asset, and training shows them how invested their leadership is in them.
• Continuously supporting education and learning “keeps the knife sharp” and keeps you up to date with the constantly changing world.
• Even for team members who are familiar with their job, training can offer them new ways of doing things, which can lead to better efficiency and performance.
• Really great training can be invigorating and exciting for employees, as long as the training is highly engaging.

What to Look For In a Training Program

• Know who the trainer is. Find out their qualifications, skills, and whether they gel with your company culture.
• Identify the key takeaways you want from the training and find out how the trainer approaches those topics.
• Look into the methods used in the training you’re interested in to determine whether they’re going to be immersive, engaging, and well thought out.

“Innovation is, in a sense, transformation… Innovation is job enhancement in performance.” – Mirah Young

Resources

Mirah Young on LinkedIn

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

Whether you’re experiencing a major crisis or things just aren’t going your way, how you react to those situations is what defines you. Everyone wants to learn to show grace and poise under pressure, but we all know it’s not easy! In this episode, your host Linda Yates brings her expertise as an image coach to offer tips on how you can exude more poise as a leader.

3 Tips for Feeling More Poised in a Challenging Moment

1. Take a deep breath. Often, when we’re stressed, we stop breathing deeply and normally. Taking a deep breath is like hitting a reset button.
2. Smile. This can change how others perceive you, but also how you perceive the current moment.
3. Get curious. Start asking yourself - what situation have I found myself in? What are my emotions about it? How can I move forward?

Cultivating Inner Strength as a Leader

• Respect yourself, first and foremost. As Linda says, “You are the CEO of your life!” Respect your own time and set boundaries with others in a calm, diplomatic way to ensure you have the respect you deserve - because you DO deserve it!
• Show respect to those around you. It’s okay to be direct, but you must also show that you have the strength to control how you treat others. Ask yourself - is this how you would want to be treated?
• Define success for that moment. If you’re struggling to find a way through a crisis, take the time to stop and ask yourself what a successful resolution to this situation would be. 

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.

If you’ve ever felt intimidated, felt like you were “less-than”, had impostor syndrome, or asked yourself, “Who am I to say this?” … this conversation is for you. In this episode of the Int-HER-rupt podcast, your host Linda Yates and guest Kelly Snider have an engaging, compassionate discussion about intimidation and how we can approach it from multiple angles. Listen in to hear how you can find your strength, whether you’re facing big expectations, tough leaders, or challenging situations.

How Can You Overcome Feeling Intimidated?

1. Be curious. When we become curious about people or situations we don’t understand yet, we find connection points that break down insecurities.

2. Find commonalities. Once you’ve asked some questions, build on whatever common ground you discover.

3. Honor Someone Else’s Experience. If you don’t know as much as someone else, allow them to share their experience, and try to learn from it.

How Can Leaders Avoid Coming Off As Intimidating?

• If you’re a high achiever or an expert in your field, let people know you don’t think you’re perfect and that you make mistakes

• It’s okay to have high expectations, just take a lighthearted approach as well

• Some leaders use intimidation if they themselves are insecure, so they have to do their own internal work and can choose to open up. If you work with them, you may just have to accept that it’s not about you

“When we share our stories, we realize we’re not alone, we help other people know that there’s a path for getting through their difficulties in life, and we find community.” – Kelly Snider

Resources

Your Story Your Strength by Kelly Snider

Kelly Snider’s Website

Kelly Snider on LinkedIn

Kelly’s Podcast: Epic Exchanges

Epic Exchanges on Instagram

Check out the Int-HER-rupt Website at www.intherrupt.com! You can reach out to Linda and let her know how this episode relates to you. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode’s sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won’t miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.