I think you are.

See, the style of leadership that will endure is one that we as moms know well. It is one that uses influence to help others develop into the best version of themselves. One that sets clear direction, provides hope, and leads to the flourishing of individuals, organizations and communities.

It's otherwise known as Servant Leadership.

To support your sustainability in this critical leadership space, in this episode, we'll cover two of the four primary needs of followers (according to Gallup's research): trust and stability.

You'll learn from our past guests:

1. How to build trust in times of uncertainty
2. Tips for making difficult conversations easier* so your team can develop a culture of psychological safety
3. How transparency and respect creates a sense of stability

*Learn more with your team in our Courage teambuilding event! https://www.strongertoserve.com/holidayteambuilding

Links referenced:

• Gallup's Four Needs of Followers
• The 10 Principles of Servant Leadership

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One of the  most difficult responsibilities of a leader, particularly in today's economy, is building and leading a team.  But if you've ever made a bad hiring decision, you know the headaches you can save via an effective recruiting and onboarding process.

Whether you’re a manager within a large organization or a business owner looking to grow your business, if you want to level up your recruiting, onboarding, leading ,and retaining of a team that can accelerate your goal achievement, this podcast is for you.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Tips for repeatable processes for recruiting, hiring, and onboarding
• How to build a team that reduces overwhelm and enables you to focus your time in your zone of genius
• Shelli's favorite interview question for assessing team fit
• How to inspire passion in your team

About Shelli
Shelli Warren is a team and leadership coach and the host of the BizChix sister podcast; Stacking Your Team. At BizChix Inc. she leverages her 26 years of experience leading technical teams to deliver multi-million dollar projects for billion-dollar brands at Procter & Gamble Inc. to now help small business owners to hire, fire, and inspire an incredible team of high performers. Shelli is also known for her teaching style, her passion to inspire more women leaders, and her ability to say the right thing in delicate situations. She lives in Canada where she coaches BizChix clients across the globe and spends her Flow Fridays with her daughter Danielle, and grand-baby Ellie.

Links Shared

• Stacking Your Team podcast
• Biz Chix Resources

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Our guest for this episode, Inez Ribustello, provides a unique perspective from an industry that we haven't yet talked about and she has an incredible story of passion, tragedy, and grit to share with us.

But in the end, you'll see the leadership lessons that she has to share are not just applicable in the food and beverage industry. They apply to any leadership experience in which you are engaged.

About Inez
Inez Ribustello got her start in the world of food and wine after moving to New York City from her home state of North Carolina. Her wine career took a huge leap forward when she became an Assistant Cellar Master at Windows on the World in One World Trade Center. In a very short time, she was promoted to Beverage Director.

After losing her job and her work family on 9/11, Inez chose to eventually move back to her hometown with her fiancé Stephen. Together they opened their own restaurant, wine bar and retail store called On the Square.

Inez' next big venture was Tarboro Brewing Company, a microbrewery that began operating in 2016. Almost a year later, she and her husband opened a satellite taproom in a neighboring town. Stephen and Inez have two children that they absolutely adore.

In September of 2021, Inez self-published her memoir Life After Windows, a book she wrote chronicling her journey from North Carolina to Manhattan.

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Are you a leader who cares about serving others, especially those who have served your country?

With our guest, Shelly Rood, we begin by talking about how to honor and work most effectively with those who sacrifice so much for us, those who serve in our armed forces.  Hint:  It goes way beyond (but doesn't take much more effort than) saying "thank you for your service."  

We talk about the different military cultures and the values that make former military members stellar employees.  If you lead someone who served you'll leave with new leadership insights.

 Our conversation then broadens to topics that are important for any leader:

• The value of staying curious
• How to walk the fine line of putting others needs first without slipping into dangerous self-sacrifice
• What real self-care is
• The power of peer support groups
• The value of grounding yourself in self-knowledge before jumping into giving mode
• The power of letting others give to you

 Trigger warning:  We do briefly discuss suicide statistics and abuse.  Please take care of yourself and come back to this episode at a different time if needed.

About Shelly
From being overseas and leading covert intelligence briefings to orchestrating security programs for nearly 4,000  soldiers, our guest Shelly Rood knows first hand what it means to protect and care for others. Through Others Over Self®, Shelly and her team are dedicated to serving others by providing training that connect people through shared life experiences and deepen interpersonal skills, all while celebrating our nation’s heroes.

Links Shared
Others over Self (MTL page)
Shelly's LinkedIn


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Yes, even if you hate running...you need to listen.

Our guest, Beth Baker, is the kind of person that can energize you and brighten your day just by listening to her. Her personality and her laugh are infectious.  

She has built a magnetic community and business around an activity that a good portion of our population hates to do…run.

 Beth is a certified running coach that knows how bad running sucks…until it doesn’t. After overcoming her own fear of running, she’s gone on to personally coach 2500 non-runners to run distances from 5k to marathons and get featured in Runner’s World Magazine. In addition to her passion for running, she loves tacos, beer, and hosting her podcast, Why We Run.

 But our conversation wasn't just about fun.  It was filled with a ton of insights that you can learn from, even if you still hate running.

 Learn:

• Why we're dispositioned to hate running (hint:  it may have to do with saber-toothed tigers) and how to get over it
• How running can teach us how to rely on others for help
• How running can improve team trust and productivity
• Why it's so important to surround yourself with people who have different strengths than you
• Why learning to fail is so important

Links Shared:
Beth's website: https://runningevolution.com
Team Building program: https://runningevolution.com/team-up
Email address: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/running.evolution
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningevolve
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-baker-396b149

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Do you realize what a rich leadership development program you're part of as a mom?  

In this episode, Carolyn Batyske, co-founder of Tiny Organics, shares the leadership lessons she's learned from being part of a blended family.

 From effective teaming, to dealing with imposter syndrome, to recognizing and utilizing everyone's diverse strengths, to the critical importance of effective communication, Carolyn shares the transformative leadership skills that have developed her into the successful leader and step-mom that she is today.

About Carolyn:
Carolyn has over a decade of experience as a supply chain and operations expert in the CPG industry. Formerly running operations at brands like FIJI Water and Beyond Meat, she is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Tiny Organics, an early childhood nutrition company focused on shaping baby and toddler palates to prefer vegetables. Tiny Organics has raised $14M in venture capital and serves customers nationwide. Carolyn has been recognized by Partnership for a Healthier America as a member of their Shaping Early Palates Council and is a founding partner of the Veggies Early and Often campaign. In 2022, she partnered with LinkedIn for their "Welcome Professional" campaign and was featured in their cross-platform content about the evolving definition of professionalism.

Additionally, Carolyn has a passion for mentoring entrepreneurs through her startup advisory company The Xavier Co. and serves as a mentor with Santander Bank’s Cultivate Small Business program, supporting women-, minority-, and immigrant-owned early-stage food businesses. Outside of her full-time role advising, operating, and managing a baby food company, Carolyn is a full-time co-parent to her 6-year-old stepson Miles. She is an advocate for building blended families (over 40% of families in the US) and has been featured in podcasts across the US for speaking on topics around what it takes to fight blended family stigma, ways to successfully co-parent, and more.
 
Links Shared
Tiny Organics
Carolyn's LinkedIn
Carolyn's Instagram

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The fact is that, especially in current times, leaders will not be successful unless they possess a good amount of emotional intelligence. When you're on a team with an emotionally intelligent leader, it has a positive effect not only on your well-being, but also on the team's performance.

Luckily, as parents, we have many opportunities to develop and practice emotional intelligence.

Our guest today, Christina Mattison, supports women leaders in a place where we don't typically think of emotional intelligence being developed, the military.  

 During our conversation, she shares her story, the benefits of heart-centered leadership, and the practices that you can start today to develop this critical leadership competency.

About Christina
Christina Mattison is a Heart-Centered Leadership Coach and 500-hour certified yoga teacher. Her experiences as an Air Force officer and military spouse led her to create the Strong and Resilient Woman community – a space for movement, mindfulness, and learning to do better for ourselves. Christina is also the creator of the Lead Your Life movement – a transformational wellness program for female leaders in the military.

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Christina's Instagram

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Teams cannot flourish and perform to their capability unless team members are confident.  But faking it until you make it will not work.  

Confidence must be cultivated.  Our guest, Kimberly Spencer, lays out practical steps for leaders to cultivate this confidence within their teams (and within themselves and their families).

About Kimberly
Kimberly Spencer is an award-winning high-performance, trauma-informed coach and trainer, Amazon best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and the founder of CrownYourself.com, helping visionary leaders transform their self-limiting stories, build their empire, stand out fearlessly, and make the income and the impact they deserve.
From her entrepreneurial beginnings at five selling bags of glitter-water to her neighbors, to becoming an award-winning screenwriter, certified Pilates instructor, Miss Congeniality, and six-time WEGO Health Activist Award nominee, Kimberly is proof that it's better to make your own mold than to conform to someone else's. She's also the former executive of a national e-commerce startup and was the owner of the private Pilates studio, Fitness with Kim in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been featured on Netflix, The CW, ESPN, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and NPR, and in Thrive Global, CNBC, and Forbes.

Links Shared

Crown Yourself
The Princess and the B Podcast

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As a leader, building a team culture is one of the easiest tasks out there…in fact, it happens whether you do anything or not.  By contrast, building a culture that helps your team to flourish and succeed is one of the most difficult tasks you'll face.  

 Our guest today, the very successful Gauri Manglik, has a unique perspective on building culture.  Not only does she lead a fast growing startup she cofounded, Instrumentl, but she also interacts with over 2000 nonprofits that her company serves.  In this conversation, she shares what she's learned from these experiences, including the importance of:

• Focusing on strengths
• Hiring the right people
• Operating from an abundance mindset instead of a scarcity mindset
• Providing development opportunities
• Concentrating your efforts so that you can demonstrate your success to potential funders
• Listening to those you serve to ensure your solutions are meeting a real need

About Gauri:
Gauri has dedicated her career to building intuitive and delightful user experiences. Seeing the opportunity to force multiply the nonprofit sector's ability to create impact through software led her to her work at Instrumentl. As CEO and a co-founder, she has led Instrumentl to serve over 2,000 nonprofits today, making it a favorite tool among grant seekers for bringing grant prospecting, tracking, and management to one place.

Before Instrumentl, Gauri was CEO and co-founder of Fondu, an online community for sharing bite-sized restaurant reviews. After Fondu was acquired by Airbnb, Gauri led their mobile and special projects teams.

Links Shared:

Instrumentl: Sign up for your free 14 day trial and use code MOMS50 to save $50 off of your first month or year of Instrumentl!

Gauri's LinkedIn

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Have you experienced the loss of hopes dreams or expectations recently?  Or do you lead someone who has?  Then you're leading through grief.

In our culture of toxic positivity, we try to ignore or "at least" these feelings away.  You're sad that you didn't get a promotion?  "At least you have a job." 

We may feel ill-equipped to support people through this grief, so we resort to platitudes like "I'm sorry for your loss."

This leads to disconnection and isolation, the exact opposite of what the griever needs.

Our guest today, International Best Selling Author, Speaker, Founder of The Compassion Code Academy™, and Trainer for The Grief Recovery Institute©, Laura Jack, demystifies leading through grief and provides simple, yet impactful ways that we can support those we lead.

About Laura:
As a Compassionate Communication & Leadership Coach, International Best Selling Author, Speaker, Founder of The Compassion Code Academy™, and Trainer for The Grief Recovery Institute©, Laura coaches heart-centered leaders reconnect with their purpose, give from overflow, and communicate from the heart without losing their authority, efficiency, or effectiveness. She provides in-depth training for those who want to create a culture of compassion and leave a legacy of love for future generations.

Links Shared:

Laura's website

The Compassion Code Academy

FREE gift: The Compassion Code Starter Guide

The Compassion Code: How to say the right thing when the wrong thing happens

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