Super Power U: Mental Models and Tactical Skills To Activate Your Inner Superhero

Parent.  Psychotherapist.  Author.  Mother-Daughter Expert. Empath.   Parenting. The most essentially, vitally important role there is. Navigating the connection with our kids is hard because loving deeply and being loved are joyful and emotionally grounding...but also stifling and annoying...which is the essential challenge of the mother-daughter relationship. But we should be fooled; our kids want and need us to stay connected.  Sil Reynolds is Mothering-Daughtering expert and our conversation reveals strategies for staying connected in a digital world.   See SHOW NOTES   See the FULL TRANSCRIPTION of this show!

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Thought Leader.  Speaker.  Wise Woman.  Transformer of Women's voices.  Entrepreneur.  Dancer.  Mama. KC shares the profound story of her awakening to her calling, and the defining moment when the quest to liberate her own voice became about something much bigger...the liberation of every woman's voice on this planet.  She shares tactical skills including a simple and powerful technique for use with nerves, a process for finding your Diamond Insight-- the message that is unique to you and that the world needs to hear, and how to get speaking opportunities. KC and Lisa talk about healing attachment wounds, parenting, self-care and balance, and the importance in KC's life of creativity.  It's a richly, beautiful conversation.  SHOW NOTES

Mentions:

• KC Baker's Home on the Web
• WomanSpeak
• WomanSpeak International Festival
• GirlSpeak 
• Free four-part video series Speak Your Truth
• Christine Marie Mason, Featured in Super Power U Episode #1
• Taylor Milsal
• "Living An Exquisite Life in the Face of Death" 
• TedX and Ted
• Carista Luminare and her Counseling Practice

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This is an out-of-the-box show.  A Story...about the importance of Story.  And about the teenagers who spoke up at the March for our Lives earlier this month.  

Stories have the power to help us reflect on our past, to connect with others, to express and share and create resonate emotions.  Stories empower, engage and heal and help us to imagine and fight for our future.  Stories can help us on the path to shifting our identities.  And stories can move us to action. 

Finding our truth and taking a risk and showing up and getting on a platform--because as these kids have illustrated, is not only important and powerful-- is necessary!  Your story, no matter what it is matters.

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Today’s show, Champion Mindset with Elena Grinenko is a gold mine for dancers and competitors and performers of all styles.  It’s also for anyone who is in pursuit of Mastery and wants to understand and use the mental models of a Champion. Elena shares some surprising tips and insights.  You do not want to miss this one. 

For references and resources see Episode #16 Show Notes.

What You'll Discover In This Episode

• The story of Elena’s dance career starting at age 7
• What happened when she wanted to quit
• The crazy schedule of a serious teenage competitor
• How passion and the love of craft overrides the need for bread and beds
• What to do after great success
• Setting goals in the next chapter
• Elena's answers to questions from Pro-Am competitors:
  • How do you handle injury?
  • What are your diet recommendations?
  • What should a competitor do on the day-of?
  • What do you look for when judging?
• What Elena learned from other Great coaches
• Why sometimes you need to Do the Wrong Thing
• Advice for practicing alone and with a partner
• On Being a Mom!

Resources and Mentions:

• Elena Grinenko's home on the Web
• Dance Stars Festival on Facebook
• Dance Stars Festival online
• Victoria Lorient-Faibish's Facebook Page
• Pinaki Saha's Terrific Tuesdays
• Blake Boles Off-Trail Learning Podcast featuring Lisa on Micro-Schooling in the SF Bay Area
• Elizabeth Gilbert TedTalk on Elusive Creative Genius
• Technique of Latin Dancing by Walter Laird (affiliate link)
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (affiliate link)
• Tony Dovolani

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Today's solo show, The Power of "Pause" is for anyone committed to improving the way they present verbal information.  Communication skills are critical for anyone growing a business, building a brand, for performers and anyone wanting to have an impact in politics or education.  So if you ever get nervous in front of groups small or large, or if you need to speak from a podium with a script or extemporaneously, if you're a podcaster looking to upgrade your interviewing or solo show content there's something for you in this weeks' episode.   At the end of the show, Lisa made an extra special offer to a select few listeners.  She's reserved seven personalized coaching sessions to the first listeners to claim them.  Just head over to THIS PAGE to book your session.   What You'll Discover In This Episode

• Why "speak more slowly" is the wrong advice for fast talkers
• The low hanging fruit to improved speaking
• The 4 Reasons Pausing is so Powerful!
• How Punctuation informs Pacing
• A notation system to use with Scripts

Resources and Mentions:

• Social Media Marketing World
• Louie Luc's Online Business FM Podcast
• The Grandma Meme =>
• A Shout out to Lisa's dad and her early experience in "broadcasting"

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Christine Peterson and I talked about SO many different things.  I shouldn't be surprised since we're both such generalists with wide-ranging interests.  We cover her experience at MIT, her inclination towards making a difference in the world, space colonization and space tourism, nanotechnology and the longevity movement. If that's not enough, we celebrate the power of learning to give public talks, work-life balance, Christine's secret to improved sleep and her unusual approach to finding a life partner.  Wow!     You can read the SHOW NOTES or join us to discover:  

• How Christine's uses her Super Power and her framework for creating change in the world
• The 2 most powerful things you can to leverage your career in the early stages or at pivot point
• Why Balance is important and demanding a living wage is critical
• Christine's favorite Quantified Self sleep tool
• How to access Christine's Ebook on Finding a Life Partner 

This episode is Lisa's first minisode, the Motivating Power of your "WHY" and it starts with a brief review of S.M.A.R.T. goals.  Refresher? Check out Lisa's guest post for TechMama's on Tips For Family Goal Setting.    The Bad News is that achieving goals is difficult. Change is uncomfortable.  If you have a goal, you're going to have to work, get off the couch, turn off Facebook, say no to drinks after work or go to the gym when you'd rather have a snack.  I know!  Bummer!  So...   Gimme a Good Reason.  That's what we need to get past the discomfort. What's YOUR Reason? Maybe you think you already know, that it's obvious.   But Here's a Warning. Your WHY will be less effective if it's powered by shame or avoidance, or a "should". White-knuckling can work for a while but may not stick and negative language like reason's including "not" and "don't" generally fail too as Lisa mentioned in Super Power U Episode #4.   A Powerful WHY is inspiring or exciting, reflects where you're headed, where you want to go, the person you want to be and the life you want generates a feeling of adventure, pride, accomplishment, contribution, celebration, or inspiration and makes you feel good   Three messages about the Power of WHY from Tony Robbins RPM system, Simon Sinek's Power of Why and Rachel Hart's Compelling Reason.  One of them might resonate more with you.  Hint: They all highlight the WHY as a central power point.  Lisa's favorite is from Rachel:   "A compelling reason is exciting, it captures your attention, it makes you think, I want to do this, I want to go for it. When you have a compelling reason, you're like, okay, when do we start? A compelling reason compels you to action, that's why it's called a compelling reason."  - Rachel Hart   See Full Show Notes or Listen in to today's show to find out how to find your WHY and to hear a personal example from Lisa as she sets out to reincorporate her Goal of Intermittent Fasting (either a weekly 36-hour fast or a daily 18:6 fast) and follow along as she reviews how she uses the Knowing Your Why process to get excited about achieving that goal.

This week's episode features Kacy Qua who left school at age 13 to begin self-directed learning. After a New York City banking internship at 17, getting into an Ivy League school and earning an MBA, she joinedThe XPrize Foundation to help incent innovators to solve the world's biggest problems regardless of their resume qualifications. On top of all that, Kacy started an apprenticeship company and has recently completed a book called "Burn The Ladder: Essential Questions for a Purpose-Driven Career".  

Highlights

• 0:58 Leaving school at 13
• 5:57 "What isn't taught in school?"
• 10:14 The most valuable thing every person should know
• 12:24 The XPrize Foundation, Peter Diamandis
• 18:38 Qualifier; demonstrated skills and application
• 20:21 Kacy's Superpower; Reasoning through First Principles
• 21:04 Asking good questions; Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
• 26:07 Self-directed learning; Sugata Mitra and SOLE groups
• 29:47 Purpose; Ikigai; The Search for Self is social
• 32:49 Authentic connection as a competitive advantage;
• 40:37: Kacy's new book, "Burn The Ladder"
• 42:47 Family, relationships kids & the crumbling of binary perspectives

Resources and Resources:

Kacy Qua's Home on the Web

Kacy Qua on Medium including "Enough Complaining: Do Something" 

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Today's episode features a light-hearted chat with Dinelle Lucchesi about building communities and connection through authenticity and generosity.  Listen in for more tips for conversation starters, connection and building a tribe. 

Highlights:

• A mafia surname spells it out.
• Birthday parties
• The Power of Appreciating other people and Saying So!
• The Power of Authenticity
• Feminine Leadership and Women Building communities
• The development of Health Extension
• Various large and small local communities and can high-ticket, exclusive communities still create authentic connection even when they are so elite?
• The Power of making small group and individual connections
• The Power of connected and powerful network
• Depending on a friend network in difficult times
• City-based questions
• Social Media as a reflection of oneself
• What are good questions?  Using prescribed prompts for conversation
• Being Deep and being Light

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This episode we Take Stock of the learnings, the opportunity for growth and the themes that showed up in the first 10 Episodes!   Online SHOW NOTES!

• First Principles guiding the podcast are learning, activated Super Powers and staying true to the Self.
• What's worked
• Show's on which Lisa has made guest appearances
• Next month is Social Media Marketing World
• Themes:
  • Super Powers are difficult to identify in ourselves
  • our culture needs feminine leadership -modeled by women and men
  • Multi-poteniality as a Super Power
  • Self-awareness and yoga
  • Order and organization
  • Taking Action Matters
  • Deliberate Practice on Wikopedia and related books: Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (affliate) by Geoff Colvin[5] and Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.[8]
• What's Next:
  • The Sweet Spot between totally controlled and rough and authentic
  • Vulnerability
  • Transitions, Transformation and Saturn Return
  • Future Guests: Kacy Qua (X-Prize), Ankit Shah, founder of Tea with Strangers, Christine Peterson of Foresight Institute and KC Baker of WomanSpeak.
  • Information in the shownotes at the link "Review a Podcast"
  • A very cute video from Ira Glass featuring his 85 year old friend, Mary

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