A very quick podcast to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and send a heartfelt message of thanks.

We reveal our favourite episodes of 2018.

We so appreciate your support and love hearing your feedback. We look forward to bigger and better things in 2019. :-)

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This is the follow up episode with Jenna O'Connell and Mariane Power from The Posify Group. 

For those of you who missed episode one of this interview (episode 51 of Miss Bossy Boots) we highly recommend you listen to that episode as well as this one.

Jenna and Mariane exist to help people connect with their meaning and purpose. They fundamentally believe that POSsibilities open IF and when you find and follow your whY.

We discussed the importance of finding your meaning and purpose and the role that this plays in supporting our mental health in episode one.

In this episode we talk the vital role that self-compassion plays in determining the status of our mental health. Jenna and Mariane provide us with some really simple and simply excellent solutions as to how we can practice more self-compassion towards ourselves.

The girls also provide us with some happiness hacks! We love those!!

Mariane and Jenna are such a delight to listen to. They are insightful, smart and honest about their personal journey's and have lots to share when it comes to the topic of uncovering your meaning and purpose.

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This episode we chat candidly with Jenna O'Connell and Mariane Power from The Posify Group who exist to connect people to their purpose. They fundamentally believe that POSsibilities open IF and when you find and follow your whY.

You may have heard us in a few previous episodes tackling the topic of our 'why's'. Stace is all over hers and Jane is still trying to identify one that resonates with her.

We talk about why it's so important to find and connect with your why and how we go about finding your why. 

We discuss the prevelance of depression and anxiety in our society today and whether this is something we tackle as a community or whether it's ultimately up to the individual to solve. 

Mariane and Jenna are such a delight to listen to. They are insightful, smart and honest about their personal journey's and have lots to share when it comes to the topic of uncovering your meaning and purpose.

In fact, we enjoyed this conversation so much, we actaully decided to publish two episodes on it. We hope you enjoy episode one of this very important topic of converastion.

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Yay - this is our 50th episode! 

'If you really want something you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse'
This quote from Jim Rohn inspired the topic of this momentous episode of Miss Bossy Boots.

We look at some of the things in our life that instead of just getting on with, we are finding excuses to not do.

Sometimes when our gut is trying to tell us something or we are not convinced that we should be doing something, we procrastinate. Is it because it's pushing us outside our comfort zone, is it because we don't believe in it? Why do we make excuses about getting some things done as opposed to others?

We have an a-ha moment when we realise that when we first started recording Miss Bossy Boots we were finding it hard to get our rhythm and a multitude of excuses slowed us down. We finally work out why!

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Who's afraid of bullies? Not us. Not anymore. 

In this episode, Stacey recounts how she nipped a recent case of bullying in the bud.

We both share stories of when we have been bullied in the past and how we handled that. And how it took us standing up to bullies to realise that actually; all bullies are, are cowards.

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As leaders, the thought of being vulnerable can be frightening. Imposter syndrome and wanting to maintain control can drive us to lead others to beleive that we are invincible.

Apparently though, it's much more healthy to be open and honest about your vulnerabilities. 

In this episode of Miss Bossy Boots we talk through our experiences with vulnerability.

Jane reveals that being vulnerable is one of the hardest things she finds to do - particularly as a working mother in the company of men. Luckily the Emotional Intelligence program she is doing is helping her understand more about the important role of vulnerability in forming lasting relationships.

In her year of 'working-on-her-leadership' skills, Stace is trying to work on demonstrating that she is an awesome Dance School Principal as well as a fellow human-being. She is transitioning from being 'Miss-Stacey-who-lives-and-breathes-dancing-under-all-circumstances', to 'Miss-Stacey-who-also-leaves-the-house-occasionally-with-baby-vomit-on-her-shoulder'!

Oh and if this topic is quite new to you - we highly recommend you check out Brene Brown's renowned TEDTalk on the matter. You can see that here: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

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In this episode we explore one of our favourite subjects; productivity. We do this with a fabulous Productivity Specialist; Sally Foley-Lewis.

Sally has some fantastic suggestions and insight into how as leaders we can foster effective productivity both at work and in our personal lives. 

Sally is someone who positively impact results, leadership and team performance. She’s presented to, coached and worked with 10,000+ managers and leaders from medium sized to global organisations in Germany, UAE, Asia and Australia. 

In this episode we tackle:

> The fundamental practices that leaders need to execute in order to encourage a productive team
> The potential pitfalls of micro-managing staff and are there strategies that we can follow to avoid doing this
> Why the answer to 'How are you' always 'Soooo busy'!? We dive right into the fact that everyone is so darn 'busy' these days! 
> Some of the communication strategies involved in creating productive teams
> The benefits that a business can experience when their leaders and teams are truly productive
> Productivity tools or software that Sally recommends to help leaders and their teams create productivity
> Decision fatigue and how this can lead to us being non-productive and bad decision making! 
> Sally's three biggest tips to achieve productivity

If you want to connect with Sally you can find her at sallyfoleylewis.com or connect with her via her LinkedIn Profile or Instagram: @sallyfl

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Emotional Intelligence is a HUGE topic that is gaining significant momentum. The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2020 that Emotional Intelligence skills will be mandatory in workplaces.

In this episode we talk with Susan Judd, an HR and Emotional Intelligence Specialist with a passion to build happy and engaged workplaces. 

Currently the Managing Director of HR Culture, Susan holds more than 20 years of experience in leading and managing people in a diverse range of organisations spanning financial services, manufacturing and distribution, retail and business to business sales. 

Susan loves to help create workplaces where people are motivated and inspired to do and be their best. To achieve this vision, she has been working with Genos International for the past six years to build her capabilities around deploying emotional intelligence in the workplace.

In this episode we cover:

> What Emotional Intelligence is and why it’s now emerging as such an important skill in business
> The six emotional intelligence leadership competencies
> The characteristics of someone who has a high level of emotional intelligence and the characteristics of someone that has low emotional intelligence?
> How much of emotional intelligence is natural versus something that is learned? 
> Who would benefit from increasing their skills in emotional intelligence?
> Some of the results we might see in the workplace if we start to improve our emotional intelligence?

It's such a fascinating topic!

For anyone who who would like further information about the Genos Emotional Intelligence run by Susan and her organisation HR Culture (this is the course that Jane has completed and highly recommends!), visit: hrculture.com.au or connect with Susan on LinkedIn: Susan Judd.

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Miss Bossy Boots has joined the big bad world of Insta! Finally. 

We deliberately left it as our second choice of promotional social channel for a few reasons (of which we touch on briefly in this episode).

There's no denying it - there is definitely pros and cons to social media both on a business and personal level.

Socially, social media channels such as Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat sometimes get a bad wrap for the negativite behaviour of a selected few (bullying, trolling etc.) that it can help to amplify.

That though, is a subject for another day. This episode we talk about the Pros that Instagram can foster.

Jane gets down and dirty with some granular insight into how certain age groups are using the Instagram platform - which is really important to know as a parent of teens OR as a Business Owner - hello Direct Messaging!

We talk about how we are using Instagram to promote our Miss Bossy Boots Podcast as well as how Jane's 11 year old daughter managed to build herself a thriving Instagram page connecting with well over 2,500 fellow LOL Doll followers. Organically! 

If you would like to join our Instagram tribe you can find us at @missbossybootspodcast

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With an insatiable thirst for knowledge and inspiration, Jane and Stace have always got their nose in a book or their ear in a podcast. We review our latest finds and favourites in this episode of Miss Bossy Boots.

Jane also throws LinkedIn into the mix of her favourite things as this social media channel provides so many fantastic business resources.

The podcasts and books we review can be found below:

Podcasts

NPR How I Built this with Guy Raz

Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations

Books

Leaders Eat Last Simon Sinek

Oversubscribed by Dan Priestley

We hope you enjoy this episode of Miss Bossy Boots.

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