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How do you know when you’re following your true passion… and when you’re just walking the path others have set for you? My guest Maria Stanfield has cracked the code.
Maria is a speaker, bestselling author, and executive coach who is committed to empowering people with the tools to thrive in business and in life. Through her nonprofit My Sister’s Closet and her executive coaching practice My Sister CEO, she offers support and resources to women seeking professional success. Her organization The Future Face of Law promotes diversity in the legal industry.
In this conversation, we explore Maria’s experience with imposter syndrome and the inspiring vision that led her to become a values-based serial entrepreneur on a mission to make a difference!
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Guest bio: Maria Stanfield is an Empowerment Speaker, Certified Executive Coach, and a bestselling author with a heart of service. She is the founder of My Sister’s Closet, My Sister CEO, and The Future Face of Law, an organization built to bridge the diversity gap in the law industry. She is the author of From the Front Desk to the Corner Office.
Timestamps:
01:36 Intro
03:50 Meet Maria Stanfield
06:34 Modeling industry
08:10 Rollercoasters & adrenaline
11:34 Imposter syndrome & dream job
16:48 Ego or impact
23:13 Founding My Sister’s Closet
25:20 Riding in the impact lane
27:41 Vision boards
30:31 Think and Grow Rich
34:57 Staying in the process
37:46 Shifting to The Future Face of Law
43:06 Maria’s vision & promoting belonging
47:23 Final thoughts
Links:
Maria Stanfield
https://mysisterceo.com
https://www.futurefaceoflaw.com
Shift Out Loud #2: Everything is Negotiable with Dr. Meg Myers Morgan
Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice by Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill
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Eryn O’Brien has a passion for implementing programs that unlock people’s full potential. Over the course of her career, she’s created big impact for companies such as American Express and Bristol Myers Squibb, and is now Vice President of Global Talent and Inclusion for Eastman Chemical Company.
When Eryn felt the need to boldly shift out loud in 2022, she didn’t seek out a new job. Instead, she took a journey of 8000 miles and discovered a wild new way to play bigger — one that taught her so much more about the world we live in.
Tune in to hear our candid discussion about the challenges of navigating new terrain and the game-changing lessons we can learn from surprising pivots.
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Guest bio: Eryn O’Brien is the VP of Global Talent and Inclusion for Eastman Chemical Company and leads a team of talent acquisition, talent management, organizational effectiveness, and inclusion and diversity professionals. She is a founding member of Acres of Hope - Uganda which provides financial, health, and educational support to orphans, on the Board of the United Way of Greater Kingsport, and Vice-Chair of their Human Resources Committee.
Timestamps:
01:42 Intro
02:45 Meet Eryn O’Brien
04:11 Unexpected shift to new role
07:34 Resiliency & trusting the process
10:06 Why Eryn loves her job
12:10 Bringing out the best in people
14:15 Pandemic shift
16:24 Driving interactions
19:54 Internship overview
27:14 Animal stories
34:42 Internship extension
37:37 GVI & sustainability
41:37 What’s next
Links:
Global Vision International
https://www.gviusa.com
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Since leaving the corporate world, Jennifer Bennett has brought her cross-functional leadership experience in Fortune 500 companies to academia. She’s taught subjects including negotiation and enterprise risk management as an adjunct professor, and now serves as Chief of Staff and Lead of the Transformation Management Office of The University of Tulsa.
In this episode, we dig into the magic that happens when leaders create a culture where stakeholder opinions are truly acknowledged, why it’s crucial to construct relationship maps for your business partnerships, and how teaching others has helped her reflect on her own performance throughout her career.
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Guest bio: Jennifer Bennett is the Chief of Staff and leads the Transformation Management Office of The University of Tulsa. She has extensive experience delivering aspirational and sustainable business results through Strategy Development and Implementation, Innovation and Transformation Leadership, Change Management and Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Service Delivery, and Operations Management.
Timestamps:
01:37 Intro
02:30 Meet Jennifer Bennett
04:40 Shifting from corporate to academia
06:21 Collaboration during change
09:12 When leaders neglect stakeholders
10:55 Creating relationship maps
14:15 Negotiating with empathy
16:54 Emotional negotiation story
18:50 Understanding perspective & motivation
21:37 Fight v. negotiation story
24:03 Preparing for negotiation
27:22 “Letting the mud settle”
28:45 Think bigger
30:33 Adjunct professor experience
33:37 Work-life balance
39:10 Looking back
45:54 What’s next
Links:
Jennifer Bennett
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-bennett-8292116
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
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This is a special episode of Shift Out Loud, because my guest is someone who has inspired me to think and play bigger throughout my life — and has done the same for countless women around the world.
To say that Cindy Bristow has been a game-changer for the sport of softball would be an understatement. Among other career accomplishments, she’s coached multiple college teams and served as the President of the National Softball Coaches Association, Director of National Teams and Coaching Development for USA Softball, and Director of Development for the International Softball Federation, the world governing body for the sport. She’s played for the Santa Ana Lionettes, serves as a color analyst for ESPN's college softball coverage, and has written books and produced videos teaching others how to excel at the sport that she loves.
Cindy has been a trailblazer for her sport, carving her own professional path and reshaping how softball is coached and played worldwide. In this conversation, we dig into a few of the amazing shifts and stories she’s experienced throughout her historic career — you won’t want to miss it!
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Guest bio: Cindy Bristow has been involved in virtually every facet of softball throughout her 30+ year career, as a player, coach, leader, and educator. She’s been inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame and travels the world to help increase the level of coaching and play on a global level.
Timestamps:
01:28 Intro
03:09 Meet Cindy Bristow
04:41 Goal-setting
07:03 The ASA shift
08:42 Public speaking story
14:06 Speaking & teaching tips
16:30 World Series story
19:04 The Olympic shift
23:03 Mother & travel stories
30:53 Monetizing as a creative & shifting as a novice
36:42 Regrets & superpowers
40:57 Modern athletes
49:29 What’s next
52:04 Looking back
Links:
Cindy Bristow
https://www.softballexcellence.com
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Interested in working with me or having me speak at your event? Find more information at https://tracyspears.com
Want tools and insights that will help you play bigger in your life, at work, and in your community? Visit my resource library: https://tracyspears.com/blog
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Over her 30-year career as an executive VP in the entertainment industry, Dana Arnett has delivered over 6000 television shows to audiences around the world — but these days, she is focused on creating a different kind of impact.
Motivated by the psychological effects of discrimination in the industry, she has since retired from entertainment and founded Wicked Bionic, a marketing and advertising agency built around promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, both internally and externally.
Dana is passionate about creating positive change through inclusive marketing, advocacy, and supporting women-owned businesses. Tune in to learn about the differences between multiculturalism and cross-culturalism, the link between non-inclusive workplace cultures and quiet quitting, and why true advocacy involves turning over the mic.
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Guest bio: Dana Arnett encourages the diverse team at her Wicked Bionic marketing and advertising agency to push beyond conventional ways to reach into communities by seeking to fundamentally understand cultural nuances and the minds and hearts of consumers. She graduated from Cornell University's Diversity and Inclusion Certification program and serves on the board of Fulfillment Fund, a 40-year non-profit in Southern California.
Timestamps:
01:50 Intro
03:29 Meet Dana Arnett
06:26 Leaving entertainment
11:13 Tips for transitioning to entrepreneurship
14:44 When to start hiring
16:27 Los Angeles Public Library story
18:50 Advocacy & standing up
20:12 Inclusive marketing
22:12 “Hand me the mic”
24:13 Diversity & emotion
26:52 Gilligan’s Island
29:59 Multicultural & cross-cultural
31:42 Corporations & equity
36:01 What’s next
43:07 WEBENC
Links:
Dana Arnett
https://wickedbionic.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcarnett
WEBENC
http://wbenc.com
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Husband-and-wife team David and Cassie Bizzaro are no strangers to shifting out loud. Their journey has included moving from Tulsa to New York (and back again), taking a professional leap of faith, and strolling down Sesame Street (yes, that one!).
After 15 years of experience in higher education marketing and communications, Cassie is crushing it in her role as Director of Communications at the NYU Stern School of Business, while puppeteer and funny man David currently stars alongside Michelle Obama in Netflix’s delightful Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant — an educational children’s show that mixes puppetry with cooking.
Tune in for a candid, often hilarious, and occasionally poignant conversation about dating reluctantly, auditioning for roles as a POC, faking it till you make it, being haunted by an entertainment legend, and dealing with intimate personal loss during a time of intense uncertainty.
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Guest bio: Cassie Bizzaro is a film graduate from the University of Oklahoma and the Director of Communications at the NYU Stern School of Business. She loves good emails, organizing, and kind people with big dreams. David is a first-generation American Latinx actor and Emmy-Award-winning puppeteer who has worked for culture-defining companies such as The Muppets, Sesame Street, The Jim Henson Company, SYFY, and The Flaming Lips. They live in Tulsa with their cats and their son, Benny.
Timestamps:
01:36 Intro
03:21 Meet Cassie & David Bizzaro
05:27 Dating without “dating”
12:21 The NYC shift
17:36 Pandemic experience
20:40 Miscarriage & medical insights
28:06 Coming back to Tulsa
33:40 The puppeteering shift
41:51 The Muppet shift
51:11 Immersing yourself in possibility
52:41 The post-Emmy shifts
1:01:12 Michelle Obama & the show
1:07:51 Big moments & making connections
1:11:27 Next big shifts & good emails
Links:
Cassie & David Bizzaro
https://cassandrabizzaro.substack.com
Instagram: @davidbizzaro, @cassandrabizzaro
Tulsa Remote
https://tulsaremote.com
Discover your tactical leadership toolkit: https://www.exceptionalleaderslab.com
Interested in working with me or having me speak at your event? More information at https://tracyspears.com
Want tools and insights that will help you play bigger in your life, at work, and in your community? Visit: https://tracyspears.com/blog
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The last time that author, artist, radio host, and business leader Pam McKissick appeared on Shift Out Loud, the audience response was overwhelming. Both women and men reached out to let me know how much they enjoyed her fascinating insights.
And I hear you!
The co-author of Grab It Back! Equality, Money, Power & Sex is back for another thought-provoking and inspiring discussion about gender politics, social conditioning, and the keys to enhancing female leadership.
Tune in to hear our in-depth conversation about why so many men have difficulty perceiving the injustice around them, how to counter the QAnon threat, and the two facts that shape Pam’s opinion of Liz Cheney — and if you missed it the first time around, check out Episode #3 for Pam’s debut appearance on the podcast (link below!).
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Guest bio: Pam McKissick is a seasoned businesswoman, marketing executive, and radio host, known for her charismatic personality and uncanny ability to transform traditional thinking and chart new paths toward personal and professional growth.
She resides with her partner, Cheryl Gregory, on an 80-acre horse ranch in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They co-own BossMaresArt.com and are co-authors of Grab It Back! Equality, Money, Power & Sex.
Timestamps:
01:22 Meet Pam McKissick
02:31 Gender energy imbalance
04:49 Standing up & social conditioning
08:55 What we can do better
12:10 Perceiving the issue
15:55 Liz Cheney revisited
19:48 What makes a great politician?
23:05 Leadership & integrity
27:43 Mentors & inspirations
30:22 Networking
37:48 Colleague & mobster story
43:04 Theater
Links:
Pam McKissick
https://bossmaresart.com
https://www.amazon.ca/Grab-Back-Equality-Money-Power/dp/1948232308
Shift Out Loud Ep 3 | Grab Power Back with Pam McKissick
Documentarian Cindy Abel
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Have you thought about what your life will look like after you retire? During her career in the Physician Enterprise world, Sara Larch was known as a skillful leader. As the second woman in 75 years to become Board Chair of a large trade association, she co-founded a women leaders’ forum to prepare other women to follow in her footsteps.
Although Sara is now retired, that hasn’t slowed her down one bit. She continues to learn, grow, and shift, through joining boards, earning new certifications, and working with the Osher Lifelong Learning program to teach a course on creating a joyful life. Sara has not only created incredible shifts for herself through both her career and her retirement — she’s also helped to inspire some of my own shifts.
Listen to learn how retirement has changed the way that Sara thinks about playing bigger, the importance of truly listening to that little voice that says “why not?”, and the possibilities that can open up when you learn how to let go and let things happen.
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Sara Larch brings 35+ years of consulting and real-world industry experience in large physician groups in Integrated Delivery Systems and Academic Medical Centers and eight years at Deloitte Consulting as a Managing Director and National Leader of the Physician Enterprise practice. She has C-suite experience as COO of the University of Maryland’s 900-physician organization and as VP of Inova Health System, leading teams of physicians and other leaders to define the optimized operating model.
Timestamps:
01:37 Intro
03:00 Meet Sara Larch
04:31 What “playing bigger” means to Sara
06:32 Lifetime Achievement Award
08:56 “Only one seat at the table”
10:21 Political activism
11:58 Modern, balanced leadership
14:57 Acting from the middle
17:21 St. Croix & back again
25:16 Osher Lifelong Learning
29:30 Choosing your moment
31:50 Gender differences
37:09 Joy class
44:34 Taking inventory & choosing joy
48:21 The COVID catch-up
52:22 Learning how to let go
Links:
Sara Larch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralarch2020
Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes
https://www.osherfoundation.org
Discover your tactical leadership toolkit: https://www.exceptionalleaderslab.com
Interested in working with me or having me speak at your event? Find more information at https://tracyspears.com
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Not all shifts are created equal! Shifting with intention requires you to be strategic about what you truly want in your life — even if it takes you off the beaten path.
In this episode of Shift Out Loud, I sit down with executive coach Rick Hust, an old friend who happens to be one of my biggest inspirations. After a successful 32-year career developing high-performance sales team, Rick left his job as a sales executive and launched his executive coaching firm. Now, he helps people discover their true potential and uncover their most joyful path through leadership development, top performance strategies, coaching, and Biblical counseling.
Our conversation addresses the importance of prioritizing happiness when choosing your professional path, why the traditional career ladder is an increasingly outdated concept, and how Rick bucked expectations and decided to play big through following his passion.
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Guest bio: Rick Hust is a former sales executive who specialized in developing high-performing sales teams. He left the corporate world after 32 years and now uses his talents in his executive coaching firm. Rick’s true passion is to help shepherd people through the truths of the Bible in such a way that they can live a better life, excel in their endeavors, have a godly influence on their family and friends, and have an impact on their community and the world.
Timestamps:
01:37 Intro
02:50 Meet Rick Hust
05:21 The first shift
09:18 Rick’s vision & Mercedes story
13:28 Sight v. vision
14:51 The Mother’s Day shift
18:16 Lillian Russell
22:11 32 years of success
25:36 Follow your joy
28:25 What brings Rick joy
31:00 Vacation of a lifetime
31:52 Shift to Christianity
Links:
Rick Hust
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickhust
https://www.facebook.com/worry2worship
Discover your tactical leadership toolkit: https://www.exceptionalleaderslab.com
Interested in working with me or having me speak at your event? Find more information at https://tracyspears.com
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When you truly understand the incredible impact of shifting out loud, you want to encourage everyone around you to think and play bigger. Marissa Levin takes it to the next level—she’s made it her Lifetime Legacy Mission to empower 1 billion people to live their most joyful lives!
Marissa’s entrepreneurial journey began in 1995 when she launched a strategic communications and education firm as a solopreneur with a $35,000 contract and grew it to approximately $13 million in revenue. Since then, she’s become an award-winning trailblazer in leadership consulting through her Successful Culture, Successful Culture International, and Marissa International consultancies.
In this episode, we dive deep into the spiritual side of shifting into your purpose, how to trust in the process of your own transformation, and how Marissa manifested the sale of her company through a dream.
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Marissa Levin is an entrepreneur, speaker, mindset expert, and globally recognized growth strategist. Through her consultancy Marissa International, she equips individuals and leaders with all that they need to realize their highest potential. She is the best-selling author of Built to SCALE: How Top Companies Create Breakthrough Growth Through Exceptional Advisory Boards.
Timestamps:
03:19 Meet Marissa Levin
05:33 Pandemic & consciousness
07:57 Marissa’s big shift
11:01 Listen to your body
14:01 Manifestating, releasing & trusting
20:02 Overcoming fear & coming up for air
22:08 How to get started
27:02 Operationalizing manifestation
31:02 Permission to think big
36:11 Self Worth Rebirth
43:31 Self-focused v self-centered
45:59 Joyful shifts
Links:
Marissa Levin
https://marissainternational.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marissalevin1
Twitter: @marissalevin
Instagram: @marissalevin_official
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Would-Without-Your-Story/dp/1401921795
https://www.miguelruiz.com/the-four-agreements
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