Episode 8: Hidden Brilliance: A High-Achieving Introvert’s Guide to Self-Discovery, Leadership and Playing Big

In this episode, we dig into co-host Katie Rasoul’s newly published book! Our previous episode about Katie’s TEDx Talk, “Uncovering the High-Achieving Introvert” was a popular one and so we are digging into the book that expands on that same topic and experience.

Hidden Brilliance: A High-Achieving Introvert’s Guide to Self-Discovery, Leadership and Playing Big is a compelling story of how anyone can re-write their definition of success and regain the self-trust to make bold moves. Part personal experience, part lessons on how to improve the way we live and work; this book provides a blueprint for high-achievers to approach fear in a way that’s meaningful and helpful so they can unlock potential for total greatness. The book recently launched on April 3, 2018.

Themes explored in this week’s episode:

● Defining “High-Achieving Introvert” and how it differs from simply being one part or the other

● The internal “Board of Directors”, or your committee of inner critics, and the trash-talk they tend to give you

● Rewriting your definition of success to be something that is actually true for you

● Staying present in the moment versus focusing on fear of what “might” happen in the future

● Experimenting in bold moves – what stepping out of the comfort zone looks like

● Staying friends with your inner child – finding what brings you into flow

● Focusing on things that are a “hell yes” and doing less of everything else

● The process of writing your first book

Resources from this episode:

● Buy the book Hidden Brilliance: A High-Achieving Introvert’s Guide to Self-Discovery, Leadership, and Playing Big on Amazon in e-book, paperback, or hardcover

● If you are listening to this episode right when it comes out, you can go to Amazon RIGHT NOW and download the e-book for FREE (available through April 7)

● Watch Katie’s TEDx Talk, “Uncovering the High-Achieving Introvert”

● Download a free workbook on Redefining Success at Katie’s website, www.teamawesomecoaching.com on the “Book” tab  

We would love to hear from you! Have an idea for a podcast or a question you want us to address? Interested in additional support, resources and workshops. Here are all the ways you can interact with us!

● Tweet us! @tegantrovato and @TeamAwesomeMKE

● Email us: [email protected] and [email protected]

● Follow us on Facebook @BrightArrowCoaching @TeamAwesomeCoaching

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● Connect with us on LinkedIn: Tegan Trovato and Katie Rasoul

● Download free tools, sign up for our newsletters, events and workshops by visiting: www.BrightArrowCoaching.com and www.TeamAwesomeCoaching.com

Episode 7: Consciousness, with Guest Reverend Lola Wright Show

Welcome to the Life & Leadership Podcast, where we share ideas, real life stories, and inspiration for powerful people to level up. Tegan Trovato and Katie Rasoul are recovering HR executives and professional life & leadership coaches. In each episode, they'll help you tap into your personal power and take your life and career to the 'next level'. Tegan & Katie are committed to helping others discover their inner mission and rise to their highest potential. And they are working on it every day themselves. Are you ready to transform how you lead and live?

Have you ever felt a stirring in your soul? Have you suddenly found yourself unable to fit into the small box that is your life or the dream career you thought you always wanted? Are you feeling startled by what you are seeing on the news and wondering what all the recent events really mean for us and about us? This is your consciousness raising! If you aren’t quite sure what consciousness is, you will after this loving education from Reverend Lola Wright. Lola is a subject matter expert on consciousness. She is the Spiritual Director at Bodhi Spiritual Center, a preeminent mindfulness-based community organization in Chicago (who streams their talks and services live across the world). A wife, mom, coach, speaker, teacher and hip-hop enthusiast, Lola’s fresh and upcoming voice reminds us of our shared humanity.

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Personal branding is how we show up focused and ready to use our talents and gifts to serve the world. Our guest, Jessica Zweig, is a foremost expert on building and maintaining a purpose driven personal brand. This interview is authentic, deep and inspiring. Jessica didn’t hold back in answering our questions. In addition to speaking her Truth (capital ‘T’), she also explains what personal branding is, how your brand supports your leadership efforts and gives us 3 tips anyone can use to build their personal brand. As the CEO of The SimplyBe Agency, her biggest passion (and humble genius) is seeing the potential, the power, and the magnificence in other people. She firmly believes that the world does NOT need another app, gadget, widget, or fancy coffee drink. What we do need is more humanity, more unapologetic authenticity, and more people ‘showing up’ to their lives and businesses fully expressed. Before SimplyBe. began supporting the personal brands of dozens of esteemed clients in the leadership space, Jessica founded CheekyChicago.com, Chicago’s leading lifestyle magazine for women for seven years strong, reaching 100,000 readers locally and partnered with over 100 national brands as clients. She was named one of the Top Digital Marketers to Watch by INC. and a Top Entrepreneur to Follow on social media by the Chicago Tribune.

Theme explored in this week’s episode:

● What exactly IS personal branding and does everyone need one

● How, as a leader, you have a personal brand within your company’s brand

● How your personal brand, as a leader, impacts company culture

● How personal branding differs from public relations (PR)

● 3 tips that anyone can use to build their own personal brand

● Mistakes many people make when it comes to personal branding

● An overview of who is doing personal branding really well

● The toughest/most valuable lesson Jessica has learned as an entrepreneur

Resources:

● www.jessicazweig.com

● www.simplybeagency.com

● @jessicazweig on Instagram

● @jessica_zweig on Twitter

● @SimplyBeJessicaZweig on Facebook

● Jessica Zweig on LinkedIn

● Jessica’s Signature 1-Day LIVE Personal Branding workshop on March 9th! www.Simplybe-workshop.eventbrite.com

● SimplyBe Magic Masterminds

● https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/

● http://www.daniellelaporte.com/

We would love to hear from you! Have an idea for a podcast or a question you want us to address? Interested in additional support, resources and workshops. Here are all the ways you can interact with us!

● Tweet us! @tegantrovato and @TeamAwesomeMKE

● Email us: [email protected] and [email protected]

● Follow us on Facebook @BrightArrowCoaching @TeamAwesomeCoaching

● Follow us on Instagram @TeganTrovato @BrightArrowCoaching

● Connect with us on LinkedIn: Tegan Trovato and Katie Rasoul

● Download free tools, sign up for our newsletters, events and workshops by visiting: www.BrightArrowCoaching.com and www.TeamAwesomeCoaching.com

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We each have a unique set of personal values that color the way we view the world and our relationships. Many of us are walking around in the world unaware of which values we ascribe to as we haven’t sat down to identify them by name. While that is perfectly okay, getting clear on your core values makes your life (and arguably the lives of the people around you) easier and more enjoyable.

Regardless of what your top values are, coming to understand exactly which are most important to you helps you better navigate your career and personal life.  When we are out of alignment with our values we can feel it in our hearts, minds and bodies. When we are in alignment, we are happy, healthy and serving a higher purpose in the world.

Themes explored in this week’s episode:

• What exactly are personal values?
• Why knowing your values is important.
• Where do our values come from?
• Why it is important that leaders and people in career transition are in tune with their values.
• How to figure out your top five personal values.
• What it feels like when we are in alignment with our values.
• How to know when we are not in alignment with our personal values.
• Why Professional coaches often do values assessments with clients.
• The difference between company values and personal values.
• Why personal values alignment is important.

Resources:

• Email us to get a free copy of a Personal Values Assessment you can do on your own. Really, NO strings attached. We believe in the ripple effect this will create in the world.
• The first four people to email us get a complimentary coaching session to help them gain “next-level” clarity on what those values mean and how they are (and are not) being honored in their lives
• Email us at: [email protected] and [email protected]

Two Powerful Questions:

• Which of your values do you feel most in alignment with and how does that feel?
• Which of your values do you find yourself most out of alignment with right now, and how do you start to address that?

We would love to hear from you! Have an idea for a podcast or a question you want us to address?  Interested in additional support, resources and workshops. Here are all the ways you can interact with us!

• Tweet us! @tegantrovato and @TeamAwesomeMKE
• Email us: [email protected] and [email protected]
• Follow us on Facebook @BrightArrowCoaching @TeamAwesomeCoaching
• Follow us on Instagram @TeganTrovato @BrightArrowCoaching
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Tegan Trovato and Katie Rasoul
• Download free tools, sign up for our newsletters, events and workshops by visiting: www.BrightArrowCoaching.com and www.TeamAwesomeCoaching.com

In September 2017, podcast co-host Katie Rasoul shared her “idea worth spreading” in a TEDx Talk titled, “Uncovering the High-Achieving Introvert.” Co-host Tegan Trovato does a deep dive interview with Katie about the TEDx Talk, some of the stories and experience that shaped the talk, and how this can be applied for others in life, leadership, and the workplace.

Haven’t seen Katie’s TEDx Talk yet? View it here on YouTube

View the complete show notes here

The start of a new year can be a time of thoughtful reflection, happy planning and goal setting. Let’s think about what you want to do, not what you think you should do in the new year. Quit “shoulding” yourself already and notice we did not use the “R” word: resolutions! In our first podcast of 2018, we are happy to bring you our annual reflection and goal setting best practices as well as instructions for how to find your central word, symbol or theme of focus for the year. Wait until you hear how well these things have served us over the years. We know you’ll find something new to experiment as you kick off this new year. Cheers!

Themes explored in this week’s episode: ● What we’ve learned from 15 years of annual reflection and goal setting ● Personal stories of what some of our annual word selection were and how they have impacted our life trajectories ● Choosing one word, theme or symbol to focus on for the year helps you slice through the noise and attract what you want ● How to find one word, theme or symbol to focus on for the year ● A daily money gratitude exercise ● How to make plans but remain healthily detached from the outcome ● The value is as much in the process of planning as the actual plan

We would love to hear from you! Have an idea for a podcast or a question you want us to address? Interested in additional support, resources and workshops? Here are all the ways you can interact with us! ● Tweet us! @tegantrovato and @TeamAwesomeMKE ● Email us: [email protected] and [email protected] ● Follow us on Facebook: @BrightArrowCoaching @TeamAwesomeCoaching ● Follow us on Instagram: @TeganTrovato @BrightArrowCoaching ● Connect with us on LinkedIn: Tegan Trovato and Katie Rasoul ● Download free tools, sign up for our newsletters, events and workshops by visiting: www.BrightArrowCoaching.com and www.TeamAwesomeCoaching.com

The holidays can be a really tough time for people for a number of reasons. Typical complaints revolve around specific relatives or family dynamics, too much travel, financial stress, pressure from work to hit annual goals. With so many podcasts and blogs devoted to “surviving the holiday,” we want to challenge you to think about it differently. How might it feel to own your holidays instead of letting them own you? We will take you through an exercise that will help you have more of what you love this time of year and release what you loathe!

Themes explored in this week’s episode: • Why the holidays can be tough • Personal stories of holidays past and present • Shedding your holiday inheritance • Spending the holidays alone and how you may be robbing others of joy • Leaning into other people’s traditions • Addressing the joy sabotager of too many holiday activities • How to create new traditions • Exploring what you love about the holidays and how to have more of that • Identifying what you loathe about the holidays and how to release it • Two powerful questions to ponder on your own time

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We would love to hear from you! Have an idea for a podcast or a question you want us to address? Interested in additional support, resources and workshops. Here are all the ways you can interact with us! Tweet us! @tegantrovato and @TeamAwesomeMKE Email us: [email protected] and [email protected] Follow us on Facebook: @BrightArrowCoaching @TeamAwesomeCoaching Follow us on Instagram: @TeganTrovato @BrightArrowCoaching Connect with us on LinkedIn: Tegan Trovato and Katie Rasoul Download free tools, sign up for our newsletters, events and workshops by visiting: www.BrightArrowCoaching.com and www.TeamAwesomeCoaching.com

The Life and Leadership Podcast is finally here! Fellow coaches Tegan Trovato and Katie Rasoul are hosting what is going to be an epic podcast, and we hope you will listen in, like, subscribe, and share!

To help introduce ourselves as the hosts and let you know more about the podcast and what to expect, here is our first teaser episode! Look for our next episode to be out and available in iTunes and Google Play in the next few weeks.

Tegan Trovato is the Founder & CEO of Bright Arrow Coaching, and Katie is the Founder/Chief Awesome Officer of Team Awesome. Learn more about Tegan at www.brightarrowcoaching.com and Katie at www.teamawesomecoaching.com.