Quietly Visible

Stepping into a new arena and taking on bigger responsibilities, can bring on that negative self-talk, particularly if you have been prone to it all your life. If you want to take your leadership career to the next level, managing your mindset is essential and in this episode, I share some suggestions to help you do this.

This is the second in a series of episodes to help you get your next leadership promotion.

I often receive enquiries from women who are leaders who want to get promoted to the next level. If you're wanting to get a promotion, over the next few episodes, I’ll share some of the things that you can do to prepare and position yourself for it. This episode is about being intentional. When you live with intention, you become more mindful of the choices and decisions that you make. Being intentional about what you want to achieve, helps you to define your goals and the steps you need to take to make things happen.

The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is Break the Bias. It is a call for us individually and collectively to forge a gender equal world.

Listen to what they and some of the audience had to say.

International Women's Day was this week, the theme of which is Break the Bias. In this episode, I take that concept a step further. The corporate environment is very much favoured towards extroversion and it's often the case of she who shouts loudest gets the recognition, gets the reward, and gets ahead. The quieter ones often get overlooked. In this episode I talk about breaking the introvert bias.

For many introverted women leaders, negotiation may not be one of their strongest assets in the corporate environment.  Some may believe it involves confrontation.  

In this episode, I introduce Mark Herschberg who is the CTO of Averon, a cryptographer, university instructor, and champion ballroom dancer, chairs the IEEE standards committee on HTTPSi and serves on the board of TechieYouth.  Mark is also the author of 'The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success No One Taught You' - he reaffirms that negotiation is not confrontation and discusses how you can learn to reframe how you think about negotiation, particularly as you progress in your leadership career.

About Mark A Herschberg

Mark is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Educated at MIT, Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500s, and academia. He’s developed new software languages, online marketplaces, new authentication systems, and tracked criminals and terrorists on the dark web. Mark helped create the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, MIT’s “Career Success Accelerator”, where he’s taught for twenty years. Mark also serves on the boards of non-profits Techie Youth and Plant a Million Corals.

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A native of Massachusetts, Kathleen Ralls is an author, speaker, coach, and an award-winning educator.  As the Founder and Executive Director of Kathleen Ralls LLC, she works to empower other professional females to lead with their unique voices.  In this episode, Kathleen talks about her time in Ethiopia and how she realised that 'curiosity' seemed to be the mechanism which led women to use their voice in sport and life.  Her theory is that using our voice leads to empowerment.  She discusses how this can also be applied to the corporate world - particularly if you are an introverted woman.  

About Kathleen Ralls

A native of Massachusetts, Kathleen Ralls is an author, speaker, coach, and an award-winning educator. She was a high school history teacher and athletics coach for 15 years in various states, leading several field hockey, softball, and track and field teams to league and district championships. During the 2013-14 school year, Kathleen served as a Fulbright Roving Scholar of American Studies where she traveled to 50 ungdomsskoles in Norway to share her knowledge of U.S. culture. 

As a doctoral student, she conducted research on four continents focusing on the constructs of sport, gender, and voice empowerment. Kathleen has written articles for numerous newspapers and academic journals. 

Her first book entitled “Take Her Word for It: Sports Cultivate World-Class Leaders” will be published in May 2022. Serving as the Founder and Executive Director of Kathleen Ralls LLC, she works to empower other professional females to lead with their unique voices. Kathleen is a proud graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (BA, 2000) where she was a sports editor for The Daily Collegian. She also has degrees from American University (MAT, 2004), and the University of Massachusetts Lowell (PhD, 2020).

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Author and Clarity Career Coach, Ekua Cant, believes that you and I truly are the best advocate for ourselves.   In this episode she discusses her journey to becoming the best advocate for herself, and own No.1 cheerleader.  Her mission is to help and empower women to become their No.1 cheerleader, through the building of confidence, self-belief, and dispelling of negative internal chatter, and shrinking of their imposter syndrome.

About Ekua Cant

Ekua Cant, has been coaching since 2016.   She is no stranger to career change or transitions and is using her positive style to coach ambitious women to unlock their mindset, gain career clarity and create career success on their own terms. She is the author of a motivational self-help book called, Be Your No.1 Cheerleader, which uses the entrepreneurial journey to encourage active positive self-development. Ekua started her career as a personal assistant to a Director working in the UK Civil Service, and left as an IT Project Manager. Whilst working in the Civil Service she founded 2 startups, Layover Adventure and the Hackathon Queen. 

Ekua has led multi-million pound public sector digital transformations. She was also awarded a ticket to Barack Obama’s acceptance for the nomination to the Democratic party for her campaigning work for the civic voluntary organisation DCVote. She also completed the London Marathon in 2018. Ekua also, formerly ran DrinksBot, an on-demand drinks delivery service enabled by a Slack Chatbot. She’s met the Queen twice and is an advocate for Black Women in Tech and Co-Vice Chair of (TLA Black Women in Tech).

Through her own personal journey and experience, and work as a Clarity Coach, Ekua believes that everyone can become their No. 1 Cheerleader and learn to express themselves authentically with confidence.

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A difficult childhood due to family circumstances, meant that Maria Guimaraes grew up feeling different to her school friends, experiencing shyness and unable to speak up for herself and show her true value when she entered the corporate world.  Feeling invisible was her norm for many years.  Following a suicide attempt, through modalities such as life coaching, NLP and hypnotherapy, Maria was able to overcome her insecurities and gain confidence.  In this week's podcast, Maria, talks about aspects of her childhood and work experience, and how she she is now an 'ex invisible' woman having gone through a transformative journey. She now helps people to make peace with their past, overcame their fears and insecurities, to tap into their 'inner power' to become more visible and successful in their personal and working life.  

About Maria Guimaraes

Maria is an Empowerment Coach, NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy Practitioner and also a Reiki Practitioner. Her difficult childhood, suffering physical and mental violence, frequently hearing that “I shouldn’t exist”, and the grief of losing her support parent to disease, at a very young age made her grow and reach adult age with a total lack of confidence.

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This episode marks 1 year of the Quietly Visible Podcast, and 2 years since the publication of my book Quietly Visible: Leading With Influence and Impact as an Introverted Women. Join me as I celebrate and talk about why I do what I do, including my story behind it.