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Mari Anne Snow is a remote work/distributed team leadership expert with over 20 years of experience helping organizations operationalize work processes that maximize productivity within remote /distributed teams. Her two companies Sophaya and the Remote Nation Institute (RNI) provide operational support and specialized professional development training for employers with dispersed, remote, or hybrid teams and flexible workplace programs.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Leadership Principle:    Work with a plan, but with an eye on the future.

Habits: 

1. Daily reflection
2. Sense of humor
3. Flexibility and agility

Green Flags:

1. Can you stay curious?  You can’t know everything. If you’re going to make it, accept your own skillset and bring it to the table. Confidence even though you don’t know everything.
2. Are you open to learning?

Advice:   

1. Don’t get overwhelmed by all the things you need to learn
2. There are more universal themes than we care to admit. 
3. Adopt a global perspective - everyone is a friend you haven't met

Where to find Mari Anne:

LinkedIn: Mari Anne Snow
Website:  Sophaya
Website:  The Remote Nation Institute
Website:  Remote Nation

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Trust is integral to any relationship, but it’s most important when it comes to relating to yourself. 

In this episode, I share my three steps to developing a healthy trust in who you are created to be.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Trust: the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.

Synonyms: confidence, belief, faith, freedom from suspicion/doubt

Three steps for developing self-trust:

1. Think Critically,
2. Create Imaginatively, in order to 
3. Lead Effectively. 

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Kara Nicole Bitar holds a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law and practiced high-stakes corporate litigation at one of the largest law firms in the Southeast.  Kara now combines the dedication and commitment that it took to become a successful attorney, real-life training in what it takes to succeed at high-levels, and extensive research, experience and training in how to optimize our lives, to help individuals excel in their professional and creative endeavors, be energized and excited about life, and experience their full potential.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Leadership principle:  Empowerment.  Honoring the ‘knowing’ that others have within themselves and the ability to do something with it.

Habits: 

1. Yoga
2. Living in the way you are structured to thrive.

Green Flags:

1. Look for the thoughts that feel bad - find the untruth within them
2. Look for the thoughts that feel good - find the truth within them

Advice:   

1. Make YOU  #1 priority
2. If you think you don’t have time, re-evaluate - you’re missing out.

Where to find Kara:
Website:  Kara Nicole Bitar
Instagram: @karanicolebitar
Facebook:  Kara Nicole Bitar
Linkedin:  Kara Nicole Bitar

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Are you leading, or do you just want followers?  It’s time to uplevel your leadership, and I’ve got a good idea how.

Topics discussed in this episode:

The Mindset Shift:

Being followed:

• Protect ideas for fear someone will take credit
• There’s only one right way to do things
• Lack of delegation:  easier to do it myself
• Unwilling to help others do more 

Leading others:

• Sharing your ideas
• How things are done is more important than by who
• Celebrating your team
• Encouraging growth in others

Look towards yourself for answers:

PRESENT:  Do these things come naturally for you?

1. Generosity
2. Openness
3. Kindness

ENERGETIC:

1. How focused are you on the success of others?
2. How free do you share joy?
3. Are you encouraging positive change?

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Elisa Zhang, owner/principal of $450M in holdings across 3000+ apartment units, has remained fully involved in the multifamily investing world throughout the pandemic and has never stopped finding deals that will benefit her investors. After successfully building a path to financial independence for herself in less than 10 years and transitioning out of her full time IT career she made it her mission to help motivated nine-to-fivers do the same. Elisa is deeply passionate about teaching those who want to quit their jobs how to do so using the power and infinite opportunity of real estate investing through her course offerings at EZ FI University and on her podcast, 10,000 Roads to Financial Independence. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

Leadership principle:  Lead by example.  Be willing to do the work.

Habits: 

1. Morning intentional planning 5-10 minutes of journaling
2. Miracle morning meditation
3. Plan your day - clear your morning before 10am
4. Write down 3 wins of the day at the end of each day

Green Flags:

1. If you’ve contemplated it at all, research it to see if you want to do it.

Advice:   

1. Start with self-assessment to see where you really are.
2. Always invest in education.
3. Know what you want.

Where to find Elisa:
Website: EZ FI University
LinkedIn: Elisa Zhang
Instagram: @elisazhang_fi
Facebook: EZ FI University
Podcast:  10,000 Roads To Financial Independence
YouTube:  Elisa Zhang  EZ Financial Independence University

Books she recommends:

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• The Miracle Morning
• The Gap and The Gain:  The High Achievers’ Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success
• Who, Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork 
• The Go Giver
• The ABC’s of Buying Rental Property

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Are you living your life by someone else’s standards of success?  Last week’s conversation with Amber Fuhriman got me thinking about whether or not I had a good definition of success for myself. It turns out, I do - but that wasn’t always the case. It’s time for some real talk about how I got there, and some advice on how you can get there too.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Redefining success applies in at least four main areas:

1. Work or Career
2. Health & Wellness
3. Personal Growth
4. Spiritual Growth

You can define success in those areas by being honest with yourself about these three things:

1. Knowing Yourself
2. Knowing What You Want To Do
3. Knowing How You Want To Do It

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A practicing defense and immigration lawyer, Amber is also a Success Architect along with being a NLP practitioner.  She works with “serial accomplishers” like her former self to help them gain clarity of what they actually want, define what their best life looks like and help them get out of their comfort zone to achieve their dreams.  Amber believes that pushing yourself out of your comfort zone physically helps challenge your mental limitations of what you can accomplish professionally.  She uses her experiences with loss, grief, academic and professional success, and physical challenges to help her clients get out of their own way and achieve their highest level of success. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

Leadership principle:  Design your life and have the courage to live it

Habits: 

1. Complete Life Wheel Planner - What does success mean?

Green Flags:

1. Stand in front of the mirror and give yourself the advice you’d give others.
2. Listen to your intuition and ask questions.

Advice:   

1. Be honest with yourself and ask what YOU really want.
2. Find success for yourself in every action you take.

FREE Life Wheel Planner

Where to find Amber:
Website: More Than Corporate
LinkedIn: Amber Fuhrima
Instagram: @amberraefuhriman
Facebook Page: Amber Fuhriman
Podcast:  More Than Corporate

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How many times have you been discouraged by poor leadership - above you, around you, in your organization or community? On tv? It affects the culture of the organization (no matter the size) and impacts the motivation of the entire team. When it affects YOU, personally, impacting your ability to do your work well, with joy, a sense of satisfaction or at least not hate it, the issue looms larger than life. The question is, what can you DO about it? Cultivate RESILIENCE. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, or toughness, and involves three things. 

• Character - I build this up by doing what I say I'll do, even if it's hard.
• Consistency - I do small things aligned with my "why" that make big changes possible.
• Focus - knowing where I'm headed reduces my distractions, so I keep my eye on the prize.

You can begin right now. 

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Rhonda Delaney is an amazing gardener.  When she realized a very real correlation between how she cared for her garden and how she invested in and cared for her people, she rose to a top leadership position in her company. Taking the time to understand each person well and encouraging open critical thinking, resulted in better solutions.  Then her position was eliminated, and The People Gardener was born.  Rhonda’s passion for creating a garden that is cohesive and inviting while still having pops of spectacular color has translated beautifully to creating and building teams in the workplace.  

Topics discussed in this episode:

How a life changing event can help you find your purpose and see all the joy it can bring you.

Leadership Principles:

1. Be Interested
2. Leaders Grow First
3. Tend your team like your garden

Habits:

1. Ask a lot of questions

Green Flags:

1. Care about those around you
2. Remember what people say and demonstrate that through actions.

Advice:   

1. Look outward - Process things internally but then turn outward.
2. Identify people at a crossroads - and how you can help
3. Share more

Where to find Rhonda:
Instagram: @thepeoplegardener
Facebook Page: Rhonda Delaney
Website:  The People Gardener
Course:  Leaders Grow First
Freebie:  BEinterested Workbook

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If you never slow down enough to look around at where you are, or how far you’ve come, you don’t have the information you need to move forward effectively. Rhythms of Reflection is a tool that provides a variety of options for you to develop your own process of personal growth. In essence, it’s about understanding what is, what you want, what’s possible, and devising a plan to get there. A plan that ebbs and flows with the rhythms of your life and work.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Understanding rhythms and creating a regular practice in each of these areas 

• Reflecting:  Gathering information
• Evaluating:  Take the information and determine what I might need to do or not do about it
• Calibrating:  Creating your own standard and gauging your progress

Tools to create your standard:  Remember it’s ok to start with somebody else’s system and make it your own.

• Planner
• Core Values
• Vision Board
• S.M.A.R.T Goal Planning Worksheet
• Mind Map

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