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We are featuring award-winning speaker Aiko Bethea, the Founder of RARE Coaching & Consulting. In the episode, Aiko addresses the hard questions. How are you showing up for your team as a conscious leader? While creating a diverse team is great, Aiko discusses why creating a culture that amplifies and encourages diversity is even better. 

Meet Aiko Bethea:

Known as the Seeker of Justice, Aiko is a leader, builder, and connector. She successfully navigated leadership roles in government, philanthropic, nonprofit, and private sectors. In each sector, she created and served in inaugural roles to meet growing organizational needs.  

Aiko is an award-winning and highly sought-after equity consultant, executive coach,  and speaker. She is the founder of  RARE  Coaching  & Consulting, a consulting practice focused on coaching leaders and organizations to remove barriers to inclusion. Her practice integrates operations, leadership coaching, and education strategies that yield measurable outcomes.

Aiko is Sr. Director of the Daring Way™ and Dare to Lead™ communities of Brené  Brown  Education and Research Group. She oversees development and implementation of the overall strategy for the communities, as well as the specific diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategy and oversite of the global 1000+ member facilitator community.

Episode Highlights:

• (11:09) Accountability; 
• (14:47) Intention of the work; 
• (19:27) Performative authenticity and assimilation; 
• (26:28) Perfectionism and toxic productivity; 
• (48:04) Authentic Leadership;

Connect with Aiko:

Instagram: @rare_coach

LinkedIn: @AikoBethea

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)

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We are featuring the amazing Danielle Henry, the Senior PM / OD Consultant at Great Dane 921 LLC. We're taking on the topic of Cultural EQ, a topic that’s been dominating boardroom conversations in the workplace: emotional intelligence in ourselves and the people on our teams. Danielle doesn’t hold back as she tells us all about what we think we know, what we don’t, and how to bridge the gap between the two.

Meet Danielle Henry:

Danielle Antoinette Henry has a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry for-profit and nonprofit entities with a focus on social impact digital marketing, branding, web development, and operations. Currently, Danielle is a Senior Manager, Client Partnerships for Sarankco Creative Studio.

She is the Founder and CEO of Great Dane 921 Consulting, LLC, a consultancy firm focused on developing solutions that are based upon the foundation of empathetic understanding and the need for more compassion and transparency at work. She has conducted professional development training for nonprofits such as WestHab (NY), Youth Shelter Program of Westchester (NY), Junior League of Orange County, NY, and The Rooted Collaborative conferences centered on topics such as leadership development, cultural intelligence, DEI, effective communication strategies, team building, and conflict management and resolution. She has also conducted a diversity dialogue series for the town of Warwick, NY as a diversity facilitator for We the People Warwick.

Danielle is a third-year doctoral student in the Organization and Leadership Psychology program with a concentration in the Neuroscience of Leadership at William James College. She obtained her MPA in Public and Non-Profit Management and Policy with a specialization in General Finance from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and BA in American Politics from the College of Arts and Science at New York University. She holds a certificate in project leadership from the Cornell University – School of Engineering and is a Certified Scrum Master from the Scrum Alliance. She was a 2021-2022 Opportunity Hub (OHUB) South by Southwest student fellow. In addition, she is a Registered Parliamentarian under the National Association of Parliamentarians, and is an arbitrator for FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).

With public service in her heart, Danielle has been an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and is the Immediate Past President of the Westchester Alumnae Chapter serving Westchester County, NY. She is also the Past President and sustainer member of the Junior League of Orange County, NY. A born and bred New Yorker, in her spare time, you can find Danielle doing monthly cultural outings to museums, gardens, or immersive exhibits with her Fur, Floral, Culture, and Cocktails crew around NYC, doing Reiki as a certified Reiki Practitioner, roller skating at her local skating rink, or as a podcast co-host for the Empress High Council whose focus is on self-care and entrepreneurship. 

Episode Highlights:

• (6:42) It’s all in the Q; 
• (12:57) DEI has been lacking CQ; 
• (21:15) How do leaders weave in CQ?;
• (22:25) Organization Development Levels;
• (36:05) Steps toward CQ;

Connect with Danielle:

LinkedIn: @danielleahenry

Instagram: @greatdanedannie

Episode Resources:

• Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux (https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/)
• CQ Assessment, Cultural Intelligence Center David Livermore (https://culturalq.com)
• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)

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We are featuring the ever-empowering Jarius McNair Edens. Jarius is a Holistic Personal Growth & Leadership Trainer at The Kreative Lounge & Social Kollective. Kishshana and Jarius chat about what it means to lead with joy. As leaders, we have to know that if we can come to the table, to the meeting, to our team with that joy and internal insight of excitement about what we're doing, we can ultimately spread that out to everyone else. 

Jarius explains that when you do work that is deep, you have to lead with joy and it starts with personal growth. Think about what you are doing in your personal life to awaken joy within you because as a leader, who we are is what we bring.

Meet Jarius McNair Edens:

Jarius is best known for writing compelling stories and empowering women to do what feels good to them.

As a conscious thought leader and intuitive advisor, she is known for teaching, leading, and guiding women to their own desired level of contentment, confidence, and bliss. She is a former English teacher turned serial entrepreneur. In 2017, a successful collaborative workspace and community hub in Springfield, Il. After the opening of TKL, she explored other creative outlets such as writing and coaching. She enjoys things that bring her and others joy, and she wants to share joy with the world. Jarius does several things to cultivate bliss for herself---from hosting personal growth classes to doing Zumba in her living room. She hopes to help women cultivate this same joy in their own lives. She speaks to over 100 women (and a few good men) daily in her tribe. 

She currently resides in North Carolina.

Episode Highlights:

• (7:04) Talk to me about Zest;
• (8:08) Pathways to being a leader;
• (16:28) Do we want a kiddie pool or an olympic sized pool?;
• (21:08) Start with your own personal joy;
• (35:15) Encourage family centering;

Connect with Jarius:

LinkedIn: @jarius-edens

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)

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Kishshana and Mama J discuss our obsession with credentials and the importance of developing ​​a liberatory mindset so you can break out of the confining boxes you’ve put yourself in and unlock new levels of potential.

Mama J is on a quest for love and revolution, acknowledging and accepting the lifelong evolution of unbecoming. She talks about unlearning and how to transform pain into power and how we can do so collectively.

Meet Jillian "Mama J" Love:

Jillian “Mama J” Love (she/they) is in a pivot season—a both/and of embracing the dance of being the Founder & Designer of Lovelution Inc at 40 while also being ready to put their two decades of lived and professional experience to work for a values-aligned organization. 

Mama J models Justice & Joy with bite-sized and deliberate action every damn day by embodying the revolution to radically rest to sustain oneself.

Most mornings you’ll find me with a cup of coffee amidst the dance of parenting, a sink full of dishes, and figuring out what’s for breakfast with my 8-year-old daughter and partner.

Episode Highlights:

• (16:20) Unlearning in relationships; 
• (23:50) What does success mean; 
• (31:24) Radical Rest;
• (55:49) Questions for Mama J;

Connect with Mama J:

Instagram: @mamajlove1

LinkedIn: @mamajlove

Podcast: Beyond Allyship (https://bit.ly/beyondallyshippodcast)

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days"

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This episode features the always-inspiring Katrina Strohl, Psychological Safety Consultant and host of podcast Absolutely Not! Kishshana and Katrina discuss how a toxic work environment led Katrina to decide to take her own life and how that experience kickstarted their journey toward advocating for mental health and encouraging others to set personal boundaries at work and enforce their own psychological safety. Is your work making you ill? 

This conversation addresses what messages you are receiving in your work environment and knowing that your worth has nothing to do with your work. We need to learn how to observe the behavior, learn to label where necessary, and find the vocabulary to define the harm in our work environments.

Meet Katrina Strohl:

Katrina is best known for serving others through work with boundary strategy, mental health, suicide prevention, and veteran disability.

Katrina (she/they) is a Navy veteran who served as an Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM). Now, with over 10 years of Human Resources (HR) experience and a passion for psychological safety, Katrina continues to serve others. In 2018, Katrina decided to take her own life after internalizing the behavior of a toxic workplace. Since then she has become a huge advocate of mental health and works to reduce the stigma through their show, Absolutely Not! Absolutely Not! is the weekly live podcast dedicated to providing examples of setting personal boundaries at work and the vocabulary needed to name harm in those spaces.

Episode Highlights:

• (3:10) Learn more about Katrina;
• (3:37) Your worth has nothing to do with your work;
• (6:40) Observing and labeling the harm in a work environment;
• (15:58) Is work making you ill?;
• (18:50) How do I start setting boundaries at work;
• (29:21) Different ways to set boundaries;

Connect with Katrina:

Instagram: @k.m.strohl

LinkedIn: @katrina_strohl

Host of @absolutelynotwithk

Website: https://www.katrinastrohl.com

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)

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We are back for Season 3 of Let’s Take This Offline, the podcast for everyday leaders. Join me back in the studio for some of the best conversations with experts on leadership, management, wellness, DEI, and topics about how we live our lives, what matters to us and our families and about the work we do, and why we do it!

For those of you listening for the first time, Kishshana founded The Rooted Collaborative, a community and organization focused on black and brown women who are doing social good. This global community is about wellness and wellbeing, financial fortitude, personal and professional development, building real community, and leveling up women who are moving into the ranks of leadership. 

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)

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Kishshana zeros in on faux vulnerability versus real vulnerability and how that works for you as a leader. How do vulnerabilities from your life or previous work experiences carry over into your current work and your leadership? They show up in you being closed off, not allowing people and coworkers to get to know you, striving to achieve, and being extra hard on yourself and therefore on others. 

Have you asked yourself whether your faux vulnerability is preventing you from bringing a level of realness and openness to your leadership? And remember to pay attention to the fact that vulnerability goes two ways. How are you making space to be vulnerable? And how are you creating space for others to be vulnerable with you?

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

• (3:23) Summer well series powered by Bloomerang; 
• (4:26) Faux vulnerability versus real vulnerability;  
• (7:28) Examples of vulnerability;  
• (10:40) How to be vulnerable as a leader;  
• (12:44) Your leadership journey;  
• (14:01) Can I actually be vulnerable;  
• (15:30) Vulnerability goes two ways;

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang (Bloomerang.co)

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

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Kishshana points out that you all carry a leadership role in some aspect of your life whether in your career, in your faith-based organization, social organizations, or as a leader at home. She suggests contemplating what you need in a leadership roadmap for yourself, to set your leadership foundation, in order to figure out how to be a good leader. 

Have you dug into the foundation of who you are so you can create and grow your leadership roadmap? Are you fortified enough? Are you self-aware? Are you introspective? Can you take feedback? Where are you in that journey for yourself? Once you determine what is in your actual foundation you've got to learn how to build, how to sustain, and how to give social capital. How are you building relationships with your peers, with folks that you want to be in alignment with, who may not be your peers, and with folks who look up to you? And ultimately, who is on your support team, and are you leveraging that support in a way that is allowing you to prop up your wellness game plan, inviting goodness into your atmosphere, and releasing the things that are not good for you or your leadership?

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

(4:25) Each of us carry a leadership role;

(6:00) Think about your leadership foundation;

(7:42) Building relationships;

(12:47) Leveraging support tools for your wellness game plan;

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

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Kishshana continues with the Summer Well Series and in this episode, she checks in on your wellness and well-being and what that really means for you as a leader right now in your work and in your life. Her mission is to make sure that you are leading a life you love, that you have a career you love and that you are healthy AF! 

You must ask yourself and answer the question, “Are we well?” because leaders tend to spend their time focusing on everything else but themselves. How is stress showing up for you and are you paying attention to the signs or the clues?

It’s okay to name the places where you need help and to wonder what will happen if you say you’re not well. It's a real sign of leadership to know it, and then to be able to be conscious enough to redirect that energy, redirect that work, and reallocate those resources. 

As a leader, when you think about your own wellness there is a consciousness about how the things you do to activate or aggravate your practice of wellness implicates other people, your team members, your family members, your business, and yourself. When you think about answering the question, Are We Well?, you need to consider if you have an actual wellness game plan. When things feel like they are spiraling out of control do you have a game plan to turn to that helps get you back on track?  

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

• (1:04) You're invited to the 2022 Rooted Retreat; 
• (4:12) Focus of this episode is the question, “Are We Well?”;  
• (10:09) Navigating the question “Are We Well?”;  
• (11:07) What if I say “I am not well?”;  
• (14:47) Your wellness journey as a leader;  
• (15:29) Your wellness game plan; 

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang (Bloomerang.co)

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

Support the Show (buymeacoffee.com/managemintmadeeasy)

Coaching with Kishshana Palmer: https://www.kishshanapalmer.com/coaching

Kishshana talks about all things planning and pausing. She shares her experience with planning in her career and professional life as well as in her personal life. Are you getting caught up in the cycle of planning or are you putting off taking a pause?

Since Season 2, Kishshana has dug in to really learn about herself and understand what it is that she’s looking for, what she needs, and the voids that she’s felt in her life.

Here are four key things to be thinking about as you listen to this episode: “Is it time to pause?”, “Have I pressed the pause button too long so that I'm now on a break?”, “How do I plan for a pause?”, and then “How do I know when it's time to take an unplanned pause?”.

Kishshana gives you her three tips for how to navigate planning vs. pausing. First, sit in gratitude for the things that you have, that you’ve done, that you’ve accomplished, and most importantly, who you are. Second, think about planning it out loud. Speaking your plans out loud allows you to give voice to the things that are rumbling and bumbling around in your head and allows you that space to give yourself the energy to imagine a different possibility. Third, get a friend, a thought partner that’s there to walk alongside you as you put the planning and/or pausing into action.

As we think about our wellness and we think about well-being as it relates to the planning and pausing in our personal and professional lives, remember that we will grow where we are watered.

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

• (2:11) You're invited to the 2022 Rooted Retreat;
• (3:20) How many of us are planners?;
• (5:21) Do you feel like you're in planning mode?;
• (7:44) Slowing down enough to take a pause;
• (12:04) Too much planning in my planning;
• (13:00) Navigate planning versus pausing;

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang (Bloomerang.co)

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

Support the Show (buymeacoffee.com/managemintmadeeasy)