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Children's Books written by Rachel:
Sugar Snaps
A Photographer's Night Before Christmas
The Night Before I Tri
Tri with Mom
Millie's Great Rescue
Adventures with an Au Pair

Other Books written by Rachel:
The Laundry List
Dirty Laundry; A Devotional for Women

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Book mentioned on the show: “The Road Back to You” 

Courses & Workshop: Mini Course Routine to Radiant 

2:00 Amy’s background, who she is — she owns her dream job as a life job

2:30 What is a life coach? What does it mean to Amy?

4:20 What does working with a life coach look like? 

6:00 Postpartum depression 

11:00 How Amy took that experience into her life going forward — how she could help women

13:30 What does Amy help women do when she works with them?

17:30 Key tips to turn around a negative mindset

“I am worthy” — repeat that mantra 

19:20 Oftentimes people aren’t even aware of the negative voice in their head

20:30 Amy’s talents and how she uses them to help others

21:45 Enneagram Personality Finder — Amy is a 2, The Helper. 

“The Road Back to You”  

Christine Paris

Find her on LinkedIn

Things mentioned on the show:
The Law of Attraction Planner
Executive speaking coach: Thor Holt
Christine’s Air BNB link! 

3:20 Christine’s background. Entrepreneur, corporate world — 27 years in the insurance industry, speaker, positions sitting on boards, mentor. 

4:10 How mentors made an impact in Christine’s career

5:20 Patience as a skillset. Things come full circle. Sometimes you just need to be patient, you have to understand that if you don’t get what you want today you might get it tomorrow. 

6:00 Have a voice at the table. Weigh in on things outside of your expertise. Ask questions. Grab the bull by the horns. Never hesitate to question EVERYTHING. Opportunities are everywhere, and If you aren’t asking the right questions those opportunities might not surface. 

6:50 Cultivate deliberate discomfort. Challenges make us stronger. It’s okay to be wrong. Recognize your “flat skillset”. Solicit feedback from peers, mentors, and bosses. Listen to what they have to say and gain an appreciation for different perspectives. Gain a coalition for people around you and their perspective. You have to ask for feedback. Don’t assume that you know what your strengths are. 

8:30 Public speaking. Hiring an executive speaking coach. Christine still speaks to that speaking coach — he still supports her and encourages her before each speaking event. Public speaking is a skillset that is essential to the corporate world. 

1. Recognize your flat sides
2. Solicit feedback
3. Stretch yourself — continuously look for opportunities to step outside your comfort zone

“Never turn down an opportunity to speak to a large audience”

Executive speaking coach: Thor Holt  https://www.thorholt.com

12:50 Women managing all of our roles. We must take a step back and reflect on what happened and where we want to go next. 

14:20 The three stages in a career. 

1st Act: When you know everything (but you really don’t) 

2nd Act: When you have little kids and your balancing everything. (Career, family, little kids). 

3rd Act: You know what you want, you know what you can do, and you’re giving back. The focus shifts to you.

“Get outside of your 4 walls…everything you do makes you more well rounded and adds value to your work”

18:20“You need a mentor and a sponsor and you need to know the difference between the two”

“The company is not brick and mortar and its not stock price. Its the people. Your ability to build relationships and maintain relationships will help you”

20:00 How to develop a relationship with a sponsor. Ask for the opportunity. “Women need to be more vocal about what they want.” If someone asks where you want to be in 5 years — tell them! 

Have the courage to have the right conversations with he right people

21:50 “If you aren’t surrounded by amazing people who inspire you, make a change…”

22:50 Getting the courage to ‘ask for it all’ — start small. Take the time to sit down with your boss and say “where are you going and how can help you get there?"

1:40 introducing Amanda 

3:30 What made Amanda stay in the military even though she never anticipated making it a career

4:40 Amanda’s first overseas deployment 

7:00 A life defining moment in Amanda’s life 

10:00 Asking WHY? Turning self pity around by focusing on some goals to find peace. 

11:30 Amanda’s 4 goals.

12:50 What Amanda took away from accomplishing her 4 goals and what it set her up for. 

13:45 Seizing the moment. 

“Today is the last day before tomorrow”

“Why put off for tomorrow what you could do today”

15:00 How life rewarded Amanda 

“You can’t control what opportunities you will be afforded”

17:30 What Amanda attributes to working through her grief

19:00 Ultra Running

“The power of positive thought” 

“You’re going to go through highs and lows, and you have to receive those lows and say I recognize you and your there, and let it go”

21:20 Getting through the “lows” — dealing with the chatter in your mind. If you find yourself having a pity party — recognize it and find a way to let it go. There is always a high on the other end. 

24:20 PTSD — everyone has different thresholds for stress. 
 “It’s not my job to judge whether one of my soldier has PTSD.” Surrounded herself with other strong people who live a similar high intensity lifestyle. 

26:20 Surround yourself with people who can serve as a voice of reason. 

27:20 Being a dual military couple and her perspective on that

30:00 Trying to plan a family as a dual military couple and a female in the military

32:30 If Amanda could do anything….

33:45 What Amanda is obsessed with

Rodan + Fields —  REVERSE, LashBoost (Ask Leah for more details on her website!)

Trekking poles (running poles)

Kendra

Published author of “Here Goes Nothing”, founder and manager of Grace & Peace blog. 

0:00 Kendra’s background, time in Guatemala, moving to Chicago, moving to Milwaukee, 

2:45 Publishing her book, “Here Goes Nothing” and managing her blog Grace & Peace. Writing her non-fiction book proposal. Proving your platform. Pursuing an agent. 

5:00 Hearing lot’s of “no’s”. Not a big enough platform/following. Getting advice from one agent who was willing to provide great advice. 

6:00 Creating a website, a business Facebook page, and upgrading her “look”. Finding out that the baby Kendra was carrying was not expected to live.

6:40 Writing to process the emotions of the pregnancy, sharing vulnerable truths, and watching her following grow. 

7:20 The story of her second daughter’s short life. 

“Whatever pretense of control I had was shattered”

9:40 Life is not in her control. The lessons Kendra learned from her daughter’s death

12:00 Working hard towards her passion— writing. Sharing her tips on writing and her mentor. 

14:15 Getting her book published and finding an agent.  

15:45 The process of writing a non-fiction book. It look Kendra about 2 years to get her book published.

1. Book proposal
2. Find an agent who wants to represent you 
3. Find a publishing company who wants to publish your book
4. Finish writing your book

18:00 The challenge of marketing your writing in a humble way. 

20:00 Kendra’s style of writing and how she manages her message and communication style 

24:00 How Kendra lives out loving her neighbor — just like she teaches in her book.

27:50 How Kendra advises we can all love our neighbor well, in impoverished areas or our next-door neighbors. 

30:30 Lamenting with our neighbors — connecting with our neighbor

“We are living in a time where everyone is just so lonely”

“If social media goes away tomorrow, what relationships will we have left?”

32:30 Being available to the people in your life

34:00 The “Baby-Buffer” — an introverts explanation of loving her neighbor and connecting with strangers. A great second is a food buffer!

38:00 What most people don’t know about Kendra that she is proud of. Kendra is very organized and tidy! She is a minimalist. 

The Road Back to You on the Enneagram. 

41:30 Advice for someone who wants to start a blog. You have to prioritize writing. If you don’t make it a priority everyday, you won’t do it.

“Make sure you are writing”  

“Just sit down and write.”

“Create space for writing”

How to reach Colleen:

• interoadvisory.com
• Inside.interoadvisory.com
• LinkedIn

Tools Colleen recommends:

iorad -- great for tutorial creation

Trello -- great for process flow and lists

Airtable   

Zoom -- great video conferencing app

Calm app— meditative app 

Notability app— great tool for taking notes 

Slack -- great tool for business to stay connected and avoid email

2:00 Introduction of Colleen, her professional history

4:00 Starting Intero Advisory, going out on her own. Staying focused on the business’s core

7:00 In:side training

9:00 making the in:side training successful. iorad tutorials 

11:30 Colleen’s experience and key learnings in launching her business.

13:40 “Centers of Influence” 

“Starting out — Be open to a lot of opportunities, even if they aren’t revenue generating opportunities”

15:30 Cultivating a relationship with someone who can be your center of influence.

17:20 Steps to build your network inside LinkedIn

1. Download your 1st degree connections
2. Initiate conversations with your network
3. Initiate conversations with people you aren’t connected with but should be 
4. Share valuable and relevant content 

19:20 Advice for women to be more active on LinkedIn “You just have to do it. Be Brave” “Be comfortable making mistakes” 

20:05 Women need to be brave in their LinkedIn profiles — Be Brave! Tell your story. “If you’ve done it, you’re not bragging”. Get away from the buzzwords. Be authentic to yourself.

21:30 The relationship between LinkedIn and Google you might not have known about. Would you want your next client to google you and see what you have on your profile?

22:45 Why CEO’s and companies should want their employees to have great LinkedIn profiles and employees who are active on LinkedIn. “Employees will have 10x more 1st degree connections than a company will have in company page followers. So the goal is that your employees will share their content to their network”

26:10 Your personal brand

28:20 Creating a positive culture at Intero Advisor. Allows her team to work remotely, foster a creative environment. Not a lot of rules but a high expectation for excellence.

30:30 Adding a new dimension to the Intero team. The importance of clear and direct communication. “If people translate, there is a really good chance they’ll translate incorrectly”

34:00 Colleen’s key learnings as the founder of Intero. 

1. Do the work. Get referrals because you deliver amazing work. Social influence doesn’t always convert to revenue. 
2. Find one platform to become an expert in and leverage it! It might be LinkedIn, or Instagram, Facebook…

“Do good work”. 

“Id rather have 5-10 good referrals than a social following. Plant the seeds by doing good work.”

39:00 Colleen as a mother and professional. Intero is now a family business. 

43:20 Colleen’s favorite products— what she’s obsessed with. 

• Calm app — meditative app 
• Notability app — great tool for taking notes 
• Trello 
• Slack