By Raven Waterman
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The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.
In this week's episode, we sat down with Lee Chaix Mcdonough, founder of Coach With Clarity: a training and education company for life and business coaches. Lee is the author of ACT on Your Business and the Coach With Clarity podcast host. Lee shares her personal experience with career changes and discovering coaching and how she uses her knowledge to help other helping professionals make that switch. We discuss Lee's 3 M's in business success: meaning, mindset, and mindfulness. Lee shares how she has incorporated the core principles of acceptance and commitment into a powerful approach.
In this episode, you hear how the 3 M's support business leaders:
When things get challenging being a leader, it's essential to think about what is important to you. Starting within and being transparent with yourself is the first step in clarifying your leadership identity and vision. When we marry your talents, skills, values, and purpose, that's where the magic happens. If you're ready to focus on developing and building your leadership skills, visit here to learn more about leadership coaching and working with Raven Waterman.
There's a lot to love about being a leader. Whether you are stepping up to a leadership role or taking the plunge into being an entrepreneur and running a business, you may be experiencing a mix of nerves and excitement. But then the real work begins, and you may wonder, "why am I doing this to myself." Being a leader is not for the faint of heart. We tackled some common leadership challenges of burnout and compassion fatigue in our past few episodes, but leadership can be gratifying.
While leadership can be challenging, it can also provide opportunities to do what you feel passionate about and grow. In this episode, Raven shares some of the highlights of being a business owner and leader. She's discussing how passion, creativity, and even hard work have kept her motivated and inspired.
Sometimes working and putting others first can spread you thin. As helping professionals and caregivers, you can begin to feel like you can’t see the impact of your work, and your professional environment is taking a toll on your emotional availability to others. You can present as disconnected because you are emotionally saturated and overwhelmed.
In this episode, we discuss compassion fatigue and acknowledgment of how you function as a professional to serve others and take some time for yourself. Raven discusses her own experience as a business owner and the consciousness of prioritizing change in her work habits and seeking support.
What we discuss in this episode:
Check-in with yourself! What do you need? What support would help me get through this? Figuring things out on your own is not always good as a leader. Recognizing when you need help can allow you to be a support for others that can also experience compassion fatigue/burnout by helping manage workload and having a proactive conversation with the team about how they engage in self-care. To learn more about leadership development and other resources, visit our website.
Let’s discuss burnout and how to combat it before it takes a long-lasting toll. We all have different thresholds of how much we can manage before we are overwhelmed, and feelings of exhaustion arise; sometimes, we are already in that space before we realize it. As a professional, you may carry responsibilities and lose a sense of purpose in your work. That space can signal that you are experiencing burnout.
In this episode, we’re discussing a shared experience, burnout, that many can encounter in their personal and work life as things build up. When reaching burnout, what you experience in different career fields can contribute to depletion in motivation over an extended amount of time and the internalization of others’ issues. While it is essential to show up as a professional, it is also vital to show up for yourself as a person when needed.
We are breaking down:
When imagining burnout, do you see yourself or other people? Is it time for a change? Sometimes we need to understand ourselves as a machine, and we need to pay attention to what helps us run efficiently, even if that means shutting these down for some time before going into overload.
You do not have to figure it out alone. Visit us here and set up a discovery call to learn more about how coaching might help you combat burnout and thrive in your career.
Our guest Martha Ramos joins us to share the challenges and triumphs she has experienced in her life as a Latina in the corporate. She also shares what led her to develop the C.E.O method and how it helps women embrace their power. Martha is a self-described "Dominican- American, former corporate ladder climber turned entrepreneur and cheerleader of women to be, do, and have whatever the hell they want! She is also the host of the Audacious As F*ck Podcast. To learn more about Martha, visit here.
Check out the Leadership Success Path Course here if you're ready to step into your professional brand. The videos, activities, and workbook will give you tools to clarify your skills, talents, goals, values, and mission and control how you show up and how others see you as a leader. The course will help you develop your leadership presence, build confidence, and progress in your career.
If you've ever felt like your career was moving along with the tide, you're not alone. You may be making progress in your career or business goals but still not feeling like you're in the driver's seat. When people focus on their career path and build their leadership brand, they can take control and be proactive in achieving the success they want.
Raven talks about the leadership journey and a common challenge she sees when working with senior and executive leaders in this episode. Even business owners can struggle with defining themselves as leaders and not just their role in providing a service. Developing leadership and a leadership mindset is not a linear process, and there are always new insights and ways to grow and learn, no matter your leadership level. In this episode, we focus on the seeking phase and how that is a place of opportunity and growth.
What you'll learn in this episode:
Working with an executive leadership coach can help leaders navigate their leadership journey and help them create a clear set of goals, identify critical steps they need to take, and then put that into action.
Contact us here if you want to get support in assessing what phase of your journey you are in and want to learn more about working with Raven one-on-one or the leadership branding program.
Career and business transitions can lead to feelings of loneliness. Changes in your role may mean losing your peer group or colleagues you used to have easy access to check in with, vent to, or share a coffee. Promotions are not the only thing that impacts the way people connect at work. With more people working remotely and the increase of people leaving their jobs to start their businesses, finding ways to connect and network in your industry may be more critical than ever. But not all connections are created equal. Having the right network can improve how people feel about their careers, provide growth opportunities, and provide a space for needed support.
Our guest Lisa Kuzman BA LISW, joins the show to share her experience of becoming an entrepreneur, what’s impacted her network, and how she’s approaching finding connections now. Lisa has a background in Social Work; she is a Leadership Coach, trauma-sensitive educator, peer consultation advocate, and host of her podcast, Serving it HOT. Lisa and Raven explore the complex experience of being social workers who shifted to business owners. They delve into what it’s been like to try and develop meaningful connections as they network and discuss what it’s taught them about how they connect with others.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Resources shared in this episode:
It may be lonelier at the top whether you are leading an organization or running your own business, but it doesn’t have to be. Learning how to build support networks can be an essential part of professional success. To learn more about how executive leadership coaching can help you approach professional networking, set up a discovery call with Raven.
Elsa W. Smith is the founder and principal of the Law Offices of Elsa W Smith LLC. She focuses her practice on wills and estate planning and counsels individuals, families, and business owners to create wills trusts, powers of attorney, and advanced directives. Elsa has over 20 years of experience as an attorney, and she's a native Spanish speaker of Afro Cuban descent.
Elsa shares some vital information about who needs an estate plan, when is the right time to create one, and why it's so essential for women to have one to protect their assets.
If you're ready to focus on creating your plan but don't know where to start, download a copy of Jumpstart Your Estate Plan in 7 Easy Steps here. Visit here to learn more about professional coaching and work with Raven Waterman.
Goals, goals, goals, goals. We have goals for days! But when is it too much? When is it time to shelve the goals? Is it ever okay to NOT be working on something and just sit down? You may be getting overwhelmed by your "achievement" mindset and it’s actually working against you!
Having goals generally can be and is a good thing. They can give you structure and purpose and really keep you motivated so that you don’t feel stagnant.
But if you are struggling with actually making progress with their goal of feeling like you are working backward that could be a sign of goal fatigue. So in this episode, Raven is talking about wanted to talk about what goal fatigue is, how to recognize it and how to break the cycle.
If you’re finding yourself feeling uninspired, discouraged, or lacking momentum it may be time to reconsider your approach to setting goals in order to get moving in the direction you want to go in. To learn more about the host Raven Waterman visit here.
As a general rule, you have probably been encouraged to leave your personal experiences out of the workplace. Certainly, all the best parts of yourselves like your skills, talents, and work ethic are welcome. But leave your trauma, fears, and biases at home. On the surface maybe that sounds right but is it reasonable and does it really happen?
The answer may be Yes and No.
In this episode, Raven is diving into the concept of compartmentalizing and the pros and cons. While it’s reasonable and even ideal to expect people to show and be the best version of themselves in the workplace it’s not realistic and it may not even be the key to success in the workplace. So what’s realistic to ask of ourselves then?
Instead of compartmentalizing, focus on becoming self-aware of both your positive qualities like your skillset but also your trauma and fears. Focus on being present, building self-awareness, tapping into your strengths, and working through areas of emotional struggle so that you can be intentional about how you show up each day.
The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.