She Breaks The Mold

After a few business failures (we all have them!) and a run-in with burn-out, Natalie Colalillo realized something had to change in the way she ran her business, and her life. After getting what she calls "pretty cozy at rock bottom", she said to herself, "I need to surround myself with healthy, happy women!" And that was the beginning of what is now Happy Healthy Women - a collective of 19,000 women in 27 branches across Canada, and growing.

Natalie has dedicated her life to being happy, healthy, and to inspiring others to do the same WHILE achieving success. She helps people take their life, DESIGN it and LIVE it. Through the Happy Healthy Women Collective, she promotes healthy harmony as a way of life, rather than the “All work, no play” mentality that so many women are stuck with.

Hear more about how Natalie does this, her global vision for happier, healthier women and how you, too, can get involved in this episode.

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How I learned to stop worrying and love money - is all about why women need to get comfortable with the idea of being in business to make money. It doesn't make you a bad person to say that out loud, or to have that goal. It makes you a good business person. And how can you expect money to love you if you don't love it back, anyway?

I believe financially empowered women will change the world. Full stop. There is abundant evidence to prove this is true, and that we already have more financial power than we realize or act on.

This is truly my business "WHY". I love helping women recognize the power of their financial independence - how it helps them, their families and their communities. It's the most important work I do.

To hear more about how you can align your money beliefs with a new, stronger money story, along with a primer on my Sacred Money Archetypes® program, click play and listen!

For access to the Archetypes assessment I mention in this episode, email me at janet @ beambitiousforher.com and I'll send you a link. OR... DM me @_JanetWhalen_ on instagram and I'll provide a link for you there!

If you're a working woman, there's a pretty good chance your career was disrupted by something outside your control once or twice along the way. There's an even better chance one of those disruptions led you to start a business or seek self-employment.

This week's episode of the She Breaks The Mold podcast dives deeply into this issue as my brilliant friend Karen Schulman Dupuis - speaker, writer, designer, teacher, student, mentor, and "shift disturber" - joins me on the show.  Karen and I talk about research she's putting into the field this week to learn more about the still invisible trend of gendered agism in the workforce.

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If you're an entrepreneur or self-employed woman who was once employed by someone else, this episode is for you!

You might not even realize it, but you might be bringing old employee habits and mindsets to your work and they could be holding you back from achieving everything you dream of in your business.

Think about the last time you said out loud, "I'm really good at (insert skill or ability here)" or "I really wish I was better at (skill you think you suck at)". Whose voice is saying those words? I'll bet you anything it a hangover voice - the voice of an old boss or coworker - that convinced you of your value a long time ago.

The great news is, those voices are probably wrong about you in  your new job, your new reality. And you can learn to silence those voices and listen to new ones - your own or those of your satisfied customers! They are the only ones that matter in your new role as CEO/President/Boss of your business.

In this episode you'll learn FIVE ways to recognize old employee mindsets that are clanking around in your mind, and what to replace them with.

And, I have a FREE worksheet for you so you can start this work right away. Click below to get started once you've listened to this episode: https://www.beambitiousforher.com/SWOT

Please note: This is an episode for adult listeners, and there may be some adult language here and there. Please be aware before listening in an open space.

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In today’s episode, I’m talking about self-sabotage – or some of the ways you might be holding yourself back in your business.

We self-sabotage in all kinds of ways from hiding, to thinking too small, to waiting for permission or approval from someone else to proceed. But today I’m going to cover three of the ways I’m seeing a lot lately – or even that I’m experiencing myself.

My hope is, by the end of this episode, you’ll find a little bit more courage or bravery to take a look at the ways you might be holding yourself back in YOUR business. So if deep down you know this, or you know you’re capable of more but you’re telling yourself stories about why you can’t (or worse, shouldn’t) actually do it, this episode is for you.

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Welcome to my first solo episode! That's right - no guest today. I'll still be hosting interviews because I love meeting the amazing women I get the chance to meet - and love introducing them to you. But they'll be fewer this year as I try to align my podcast with my work, which is coaching women like you to find your CEO voice, build businesses that light you up, and giving you the support you need to be wildly successful!

Today I'm talking about why women should stop striving to be "nice" at work or in business. I think we're all aware of what happens when we're not - words like "bitch, aggressive, standoff-ish, too good for everyone else, too ambitious" get tossed around. But the same doesn't happen to men. They're not expected to be "sugar and spice and everything nice," are they?

But this quest to be nice is damaging us, our ability to stand up for our value, and our ability to show up as our whole selves at work. And I think we have to kick this goal to the curb in favour of a different one. Listen to hear why.

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You may already know Devon as a Co-Founder of Blo Blow Dry Bars - a franchise model business that transformed the salon industry by making beautiful blow outs accessible to women all over North America. Devon founded the company when she was just 20 years old with her mother, Judy Brooks.

What you might not know is that she's working on reimagining another industry as the Founder and CEO of Sphere - an app that makes the experience of personal coaching customized, convenient and totally approachable so you can focus on growing and transforming your life, career or business.

We talk about why everyone needs a coach (and earlier in our careers than you might think!), why continuing to grow is imperative for all of us, fear, courage and entrepreneurship. Don't miss this one!

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This is a fascinating story about how a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marines, Kate Germano, set out to improve the performance scores of the female recruits under her command. Using historical data, and implementing the advice and training improvement suggestions of her peers and even supervisors, she managed to bring the results of her recruits up to par with that of the men they would serve with - in under 9 short months. This, after 40+ years of women never coming close to qualifying equally with men.

Women who were previously shooting at the lowest qualifying rank (some failing to qualify at all) were suddenly shooting at the expert level - the highest qualifying level. Unit morale had improved, and her recruits were suffering fewer injuries. Her female recruits, for once in the Marines' history, were equally prepared to serve alongside their male counterparts.

Interesting enough as it's own story line, right? Well what happened next was fodder for the international media for weeks afterwards - the Marines relieved her of her duty. Yes, Kate Germano was fired for doing too good a job. For being, "too tough" on her recruits.

Too tough for the Marines? 

What Kate had uncovered was systematic gender bias supported by years of segregated training and lowered expectations around results for the female recruits.

 Listen to hear more! And please come back in January, 2019 for the start of Season 2.

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Julie Kratz is the founder of Pivot Point, a career and leadership coaching company that focuses on developing leaders using a gender equality lens.

Julie is a highly-acclaimed leadership trainer and coach who, after experiencing a few of her own career “pivot points,” developed a process for women leaders to build winning career game plans. She focuses her work on mid-career women because, in her words, 

This is the time where we tend to get held up in our careers. It's still the toughest life stage for many women as we may have young children, and are still responsible for much of the family, child care and household responsibilities.

Julie's approach to presenting workshops and content for employees is an interesting one. Her focus is definitely on supporting women in attaining leadership positions, but she does this by also engaging male employees and showing them how to recognize the unconscious bias they might have against women in leadership positions, but also offering to women that we have some responsibility in the relationship.

In helping men to see the effective role they can play as allies to women, rather than bystanders to their unequal treatment, we can create more collaborative teams that benefit from both male and female energy and the strengths both genders bring to the table. 

One day, while running her career coaching and consulting business, Angela Lussier realized she was tired of constantly filling her new client funnel and trading her hours for dollars. Deciding there had to be a better way to bring her valuable insights to more people, and make money while she slept, Angela took out her journal and asked herself three important questions. The answers to that self-inquiry helped her realize that public speaking was what she loved, what people asked her about most, and where she had been most successful. And she knew she had to build a business around helping women use their voices and develop their public speaking skills.

Her first step, an online course called "The Speaking School for Women", was a 6-week online program on building your brand as a speaker, building a signature talk, pricing, expectations and marketing. And when enthusiastic students completed the course, they started asking where they should practice their talks.

Her suggestion to try Toastmasters was met with less than enthusiastic response and that's when she hit on another need - women wanted a safe space where they could practice with other women who knew their challenges speaking up as women, and so she held her first event to help women speak up and use their voices. And that's where Speaker Sisterhood was born.