We spend a lot of our waking hours working. It would be a shame if we didn't enjoy that time. We tell ourselves that we don't have a choice. We have to follow the overscheduled calendar in front of us, it's part of the job. That is not true and in today's episode, I explain why taking control back over how you spend your time is the fastest way to boost your satisfaction and empowerment. You can start seeing benefits this week. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How we lose control of our calendar and become a taker of terms, both in how we manage our time and elsewhere
• Why other things will expand to fill in any free time in our calendar does exist
• Which calendar personality we have and the associated lurking culprit that created it 
• Real-life, relatable stories of how sacrificing all our time for work can backfire
• Why taking control of our time is a great first mini-transformation in working our careers and living our lives by design
• The unlock available to set our own vision and embrace our autonomy, because it's hard to love what you do and to love your life, if you don't love how you spend your days
• What it would feel like when glancing ahead in our calendar to have butterflies of excitement and anticipation of what is to come 

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Register for my free Masterclass: Take Back Your Calendar, to join live on September 30th or to receive the replay.
• Subscribe to my weekly email list to receive the calendar personality quiz and identify which culprit is responsible for stealing most of your time and energy.  

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 7 - Ruthless Prioritization
• Episode 8 - Conquer the Calendar
• Episode 12 - The Cause of Burnout
• Episode 36 - Multiply Time, Energy, Wealth, Health, & Success
• Episode 48 - Burnout vs Quiet Quitting and the Happy Middle-ground

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Maybe you've got a new sheriff in town who has made you her new mark. Maybe you were just offered your dream promotion but they low-balled your compensation and your new boss says it's out of his control. Before you hit the eject button on your role because of your manager, listen to this episode to make an educated and unemotional decision on your next move. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How our boss can become the scapegoat for our dissatisfaction with our work
• How to handle a micro-manager and the key distinction to know that you are better off to move on to another role
• How to find peace with the manager who makes decisions based on emotions or politics, whether it relates to strategies or their verdict on people and whether they should be terminated
• What to do when your manager is more concerned with following the unspoken rules and people-pleasing than making progress
• How to recognize and respond when your manager has made you their mark and is set on having you move on, one way or another
• When your manager is missing emotional intelligence and empathy, how to cope and when to leave
• The specific mindset and strategy that prevents your manager's behaviors, decisions, and actions from limiting your career prospects and satisfaction

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 5 - Mastering Relationships at Work
• Episode 17 - People Pleasing
• Episode 20 - Leading In Our Relationships
• Episode 30 - Managing Up

Let's Connect:

• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
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• Watch the behind the scenes look at my own career journey, the twists and turns, and what brought me to the brink before my own career turnaround. 
• Check out my clients' wins as evidence of what is possible for businesspeople everywhere. Choose which of their wins you will claim for your own. 
• Read or listen to my book explaining how to choose your mindset and actions to create the exact results you want, available in hardcopy, e-book, and audiobook.
• Read my blog for weekly articles to inform your career journey.

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Today we are discussing how to focus on wins, strengths, and benefits first, to calm our fight or flight stress response. Learn this simple yet powerful brain hack to start each day and use it before evaluating your performance in work and life. In this episode, I show you how to unlock more creativity and capacity for valuable innovation and growth. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• What it's like to start this new habit of celebrating wins first even if it may seem foreign to us
• The basic human need that we feed by celebrating wins, and how gratitude can help us shake performance anxiety
• The survival brain and the losing strategies it suggests when we slip into the fight or flight stress response
• The brain hack to shift yourself out of this stress response and survival mode for higher level thinking
• The top three situations where celebrating wins first will set you up for more success
• Practical steps for how to celebrate wins, channel gratitude, recognize sufficiency, and invite growth opportunities
• The impact of living in breakthrough and celebration on those around us and in our legacy

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Check out the wins celebrated by my clients here.

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 25 - Why Engage A Coach and When
• Episode 10 - Maximizing Every Opportunity
• Episode 4 - Embracing Continuous Improvement In Your Career
• Episode 40 - Consistency Makes The Difference In Your Practice
• Episode 21 - Harness The Power Of Your Mind

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• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
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As leaders, we are called to lead in both our professional and personal lives.  For two domains that tend to be pit against each other or that we feel we must compartmentalize, there are many parallels that we can recognize and use to our benefit.  Experiences and skills developed in our career can translate to the home, and vice versa.  In this episode, we explore these opportunities for better performance and satisfaction in the office and everywhere else.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How to create synergies in your leadership at the office and at home
• Why the current rhetoric about balancing work and life discourage us from finding the benefits of leading across domains
• The invisible work vortex that can strike at home and in the office plus the steps to halt or delegate it
• How to halt martyrdom by taking on more than one person's work
• Why micro-managing is a losing leadership style at work and at home
• The steps to set team members and household members up for success to thrive within the system at the office or at home
• Why investing in your team by providing training and coaching offers the best return on your effort and energy

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Book your free Work / Life Audit to take stock and articulate your vision for your career and life as a first step to making it real

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 5 - Mastering Relationships at Work
• Episode 20 - Leading In Our Relationships
• Episode 33 - Managing Horizontal Interpersonal Conflict
• Episode 39 - Executive Presence
• Episode 45 - Delegate to Empower

Let's Connect:

• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
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• Check out my clients' wins as evidence of what is possible for businesspeople everywhere. Choose which of their wins you will claim for your own. 
• Read or listen to my book

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If you are facing a crucible moment in your career that could pivot everything, this episode is for you. When we are at a milestone in our work that could catapult us forward, it's time to lock in. Success at these times certainly builds our self-efficacy, but there are hacks to help tip the scale towards success now even ahead of that opportunity presenting itself. In fact, these steps are sure to usher in the pivotal milestone sooner rather than later. 

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Book your free Work / Life Audit to take stock and articulate your vision for your career and life as a first step to making it real
• Instantly access your free download, 9 Steps To Build Self-Belief, to apply what was discussed in today's episode

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• The #1 ingredient necessary to take on that bold and audacious professional or personal goal
• How stepping in to your boss' role, elevating your health and wellness goals, and closing the deal of a career serve as examples of setting bold goals
• Specific mindsets to practice to increase your probability of success including your unchanging identity, embracing challenge, and recasting past adversity
• Next steps you can take to increase your probability of success including time limits on self-pity and fighting reality and filtering feedback
• How to be decisive even with fear and even when it's time to cut our losses
• The skill of how to find the opportunity for every external development to work in our favor
• How verbalizing your vision and taking small consistent action improves your probability of success

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 10 - Maximizing Every Opportunity
• Episode 29 - Outside Perspective
• Episode 34 - Follow Through 
• Episode 35 - Vision Casting For Your Business & Career 
• Episode 37 - Do The Uncomfortable Thing 

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• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
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The best way to set the stage for transformational improvement in your work and life is to pause to evaluate what is working well and what you would like to evolve. This audit will clarify the opportunities that can be seized to dramatically shift your day-to-day experience. In this episode, I tee up my work / life audit and share a special offer to do this together. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How to slow down from the hurry and rush of our days
• How to quiet the worry associated with repeating painful mistakes of the past or catastrophic developments in the future
• How to simplify from the busyness that tends to dominate our calendars and thinking
• A simple framework to gauge your career satisfaction, priorities, and time / energy allocation
• An exercise to brainstorm the future vision for your career that would promise peak satisfaction
• How to identify barriers holding you back from the Work / Life Experience that you seek and what you have tried to overcome them
• How phase 2 of this Work / Life Audit, available to you at the link immediately below, will help you develop a Work / Life Plan to achieve the vision you set during this episode

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Book your free Work / Life Audit now here.

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 35 - Vision Casting For Your Business & Career 
• Episode 42 - The Most Valuable Hour
• Episode 43 - How I Transformed My Work & Life
• Episode 44 - All It Takes Is A New Career Strategy

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• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
• Connect with me on social for daily inspiration:
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For More Information:

• Watch the behind the scenes look at my own career journey, the twists and turns, and what brought me to the brink before my own career turnaround. 
• Check out my clients' wins as evidence of what is possible for businesspeople everywhere. Choose which of their wins you will claim for your own. 
• Read or listen to my book explaining how to choose your mindset and actions to create the exact results you want, available in hardcopy, e-book, and audiobook.
• Read my blog for weekly articles to inform your career journey.

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If you have ever felt inspired to shift your career goals over time, you may notice how hard it is to adjust your expectations and your plan. As Type A planners, flexibility may not come naturally and indecision can creep in. In this episode, we will cover how to shift the vision for your career from one you may have aimed for over decades to a new frontier. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• What to do if you are feeling the pull to explore a different direction in your career
• How to get honest with ourselves about what we want by tuning in to our own intuition 
• Why reevaluating the career plan you may have established many years ago is valuable
• How status quo can feel like the safest strategy for survival but is actually the biggest risk
• Why there is no single "right" career vision or decision
• How putting words to your career vision can set things in motion for it to come to fruition
• Ways to gauge whether to pursue your shifting career vision or dismiss it as a fleeting idea

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 2 - Be the Captain of Your Fate
• Episode 15 - Glass Ceilings Shattered
• Episode 18 - Love Your Work Again
• Episode 26 - Set Your Career Strategy
• Episode 35 - Vision Casting For Your Business & Career 

Let's Connect:

• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
• Connect with me on social for daily inspiration:
• Follow me on LinkedIn
• Follow me on Instagram
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• Subscribe to me on YouTube

For More Information:

• Watch the behind the scenes look at my own career journey, the twists and turns, and what brought me to the brink before my own career turnaround. 
• Check out my clients' wins as evidence of what is possible for businesspeople everywhere. Choose which of their wins you will claim for your own. 
• Read or listen to my book explaining how to choose your mindset and actions to create the exact results you want, available in hardcopy, e-book, and audiobook.
• Read my blog for weekly articles to inform your career journey.

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This week I am streaming the audio from my debut vodcast episode, How to Increase The ROI On Your Work For More Impact In Less Hours (And Finally Stop Overworking). I am so excited to offer this unique opportunity directly to you in a brand new format with the visuals to help communicate this content. If you are interested in watching instead of listening, you can find the full vodcast episode at the first link in the show notes. Or listen on and see firsthand this first installment of how to increase your success and satisfaction in this special summer series. I have seven episodes lined up for you that will drop week after week. This gives you an opportunity to practice a new habit each week and build upon each of them as we go. This first episode is available now and to join me for the rest of the free series, register at the link to unlock instant access to episode #2, entitled - Prevent Burnout By Turning The Energy Faucet On And Off At Will (And Quit Overstressing). Check out this special episode today and I will see you inside the series.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Detecting when the costs outweigh the benefits when it comes to our work
• How to define and recognize overworking in your work style
• The unintended results that our overworking creates 
• The root cause for the habit of overworking that we can pull on like a single thread to unravel this unproductive routing
• The perspective shift that unlocks a cycle of higher ROI on your work
• Two specific habits that you can start today and practice all this week
• How to unlock dormant capacity and creativity to help you achieve your career goals

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Check out my private vodcast here for instant access to Episode #1 "Increase the ROI on your Work for More Impact in Less Hours (and Finally Stop Overworking), and register for access to Episode #2 "Prevent Burnout By Turning The Energy Faucet On and Off At Will (and Quit Overstressing)"

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 6 - Leaving Work At The Office
• Episode 12 - The Cause of Burnout
• Episode 31 - Sick of Being Busy and Tired
• Episode 36 - Multiply Time, Energy, Wealth, Health, & Success 
• Episode 48 - Burnout vs Quiet Quitting and the Happy Middle-Ground

Let's Connect:

• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
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If you have ever experienced burnout, you may be weary of returning to that mode. If you are in borderline burnout right now, you may be tempted to quiet-quit and pull back from work altogether. In today's episode, I will show you how to find the happy middle-ground of working well without the danger of burnout. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How to detect if you are experiencing burnout
• The real root cause behind burnout 
• Why we think the two options available are all-in or all-out in our work
• Why quiet quitting or full-out quitting can seem like the only cure for burnout and what to do instead
• The fourth factor in our health and well-being that is most overlooked
• Why quiet quitting won't bring us the satisfaction that we seek
• The two-prong approach that will keep burnout at bay for the rest of your career

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Check out my private vodcast here for instant access to Episode #1 "Increase the ROI on your Work for More Impact in Less Hours (and Finally Stop Overworking), and register for access to Episode #2 "Prevent Burnout By Turning The Energy Faucet On and Off At Will (and Quit Overstressing)"

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 12 - The Cause of Burnout
• Episode 14 - Work Trauma
• Episode 18 - Love Your Work Again
• Episode 31 - Sick of Being Busy and Tired
• Episode 43 - How I Transformed My Work & Life

Let's Connect:

• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
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• Watch the behind the scenes look at my own career journey, the twists and turns, and what brought me to the brink before my own career turnaround. 
• Check out my clients' wins as evidence of what is possible for businesspeople everywhere. Choose which of their wins you will claim for your own. 
• Read or listen to my book explaining how to choose your mindset and actions to create the exact results you want, available in hardcopy, e-book, and audiobook.
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As leaders, one of our key responsibilities is grooming and advancing our team members. We may be overly invested in our people, or be apt to hold them to sky-high standards. Use today's episode to objectively evaluate the talent on your team and get them promoted, if it's their time. Get the free download at the first link in the show notes to use my criteria to evaluate your own team member for promotion, and to articulate their readiness in a compelling way. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Check for unconscious bias as you decide whether to promote your team member now
• The serious consequences of premature promotion and why it's not in anyone's best interest
• How to have the conversation with your team member to let them know this is not their time for promotion
• The criteria most often referenced when evaluating talent for promotion to the next corporate title
• Unspoken criteria related to benchmarking, the organizational landscape, and level of autonomy
• Criteria that reflects the hidden landmines when being considered for promotion that most often lead to rejection
• How to use the same criteria to present a compelling case for promotion to relevant stakeholders

As Referenced In This Episode:

• Instantly access your free download, Promotion Criteria & Case Template, to apply what was discussed in today's episode.

Recommended Related Episodes:

• Episode 5 - Mastering Relationships at Work
• Episode 20 - Leading In Our Relationships
• Episode 24 - Secure Your Next Promotion
• Episode 28 - Managing Underperformers Up or Out

Let's Connect:

• Book your complimentary Career Strategy Session with me to chart your course from where you are now, to the career you want, and decide whether to engage my coaching support to get you there faster. 
• Join my email list for weekly content to help you on your journey to Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction and be the first to receive invitations to my live events. 
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• Check out my clients' wins as evidence of what is possible for businesspeople everywhere. Choose which of their wins you will claim for your own. 
• Read or listen to my book explaining how to choose your mindset and actions to crea

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