The CEO Sage

In my definition, addiction is doing anything against your own will, knowing it's not good for you. After all, if you weren't addicted, you wouldn't do it. I believe people do things they know aren't healthy for them because it's a distraction from disquieting and distressing emotions.

Yet, in our society, being busy, hustling, going after it are applauded, encouraged, rewarded. Needing to work, wanting to work, those are accepted reasons to avoid all kinds of things. Therefore, I see a failure in our society to properly address this unhealthy addiction. But how do we know if we're addicted to work? And what should we do about it? Let's talk about this sensitive issue, love.

So for a lot of women who are opening up their laptop after the kids go to bed and saying, 'Oh, I've got to work': What are you not doing?... What do you have to confront in your life if you don't have work as an excuse?" – Kris Plachy

• Society's wrong rewards
• Business as a buffer
• Becoming a meddler
• Self-care solution
• Deep rest
• Be honest and evaluate

My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.

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The feminine CEO formula. What does it entail, exactly? How do you go from being kissed with an idea to having a thriving business with an incredible team? How do you transition from making so many decisions yourself to ascending into the next level of yourself where you're not as involved anymore? Such transformation takes time and intentionality.

I want to help you with this intentional process. Walk beside you as you take the time and make the time to grow and change. As with anything, it's always best to begin at the beginning so I decided to record this episode – a start here to become the CEO. Obviously, we cannot cover everything in one brief podcast but I want to offer my perspective regarding this road, both the positives as well as the pitfalls. It's super crazy fun and super terrifying, so let's go.

"What river do you want to be in? Do you wanna be in the one where you've got those frickin' paddles and you're working so hard to get there? Or do you want to try to figure out how to get into that river with the current that's gonna help you move?" – Kris Plachy

• Who your first hire should be
• Build clear framework
• More sales isn't the answer
• The endless nature of life
• You're the roadblock
• New you, moving forward
• Lies we believe
• Stop getting in your own way

My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.

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Being supported is a vital need but we struggle with seeking and accepting support. We know, intellectually, that leadership is an inside job yet we resist. The insights and changes that must take place in order for us to be more competent and confident women stay on a surface level.

Let's call it out: female entrepreneurs struggle with support. Whether through societal conditioning or other influences, we act as though we don't need help. Like we've got it all under control. The biggest issue with this fallacy is that it only harms us and holds us back. We can learn plenty of solid techniques and methods for success but those systems will only take us so far. If we cannot internalize insights and information, make them mean something to ourselves and our business, we will fall short of our potential. I don't want to see that happen to you so let's tackle it head on.

"You have to believe that you are worthy of being supported." – Kris Plachy

• Too dependent on self
• Believe support exists
• You're worthy of support
• An assignment executed with honesty
• Be willing and do the work
• Money factor

My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.

The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what's available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!

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With calling comes responsibility. In order to fully embrace your calling, you first must know what it is – not just generally, but specifically. Then you must be ready to fully embrace the responsibility that comes with that calling. Yet, in order to embrace responsibility, it's integral to identify the influences of your calling.

Who we are and who we're called to be is interwoven with threads of influence, whether they be threads of encouragement or discouragement, of vocalization or of silencing. Leadership training, philosophies, and so on, creating vision and purpose, are most often based on ideas that came from the minds of men. Which I'm not saying is a bad thing. But if you believe as I do, that women often speak a different language, and that there is a divine element behind your calling, that this is about the soul of your business, this all deserves investigation.

"A calling is serving a soul." – Kris Plachy

• "You Are a Goddess"
• Language of women
• Divine calling
• Soul of a business
• Changing your relationship with your business

Book: You Are a Goddess by Sophie Bashford

My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.

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What are you all in on? Does it show? What happens to you when you think about going all in on what matters to you most? What precious things… and, more importantly, what discomforts… come to mind?

That's really the crux of the whole thing, isn't it? Making the lasting behavior changes necessary to move through, to work in spite of, the discomforts. Love, let me give it to you straight: I've come to the place where I'm willing to be a hot mess, even in public, in front of others, for the sake of the thing I want most. Are you? Let's talk about it.

"Are you willing to forgo comfort to achieve the thing you say you want most?" – Kris Plachy

• Admitting the discomfort
• Willing to forgo, willing to be a mess
• Avoiding feelings
• Buffering behaviors
• Becoming the woman, not perfecting processes

The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.

My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.

The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what's available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!

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Firing people is extremely uncomfortable, to state the obvious. What may not be quite as obvious, however, is exactly why you're not firing them, why you should and why you should right now. Don't drag the same problems you've been having into another year.

To help you, I've gathered several thoughts I hope are enlightening, empowering and freeing. As I share, I want you to sit and really listen. Absorb the truth that you are not alone in this issue, that you must make firing "that" person happen, and that you can do it. Your business depends on it, your other team members depend on it, and you depend on it. If you don't, you'll continue to struggle, to lose sleep, and to stifle the growth of the business you've been kissed with. Let's not let that happen. Let's face this tough issue and deal with it.

"We don't hire people to save them." – Kris Plachy

• Why you have to fire them NOW
• We don't hire to save
• What else they're ruining
• Let us help you
• You can't change or force them
• How it will feel afterwards

My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.

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I do not believe that the strongest, loudest or most commanding are necessarily leaders. While there are some with great ideas or charisma, those qualities don't automatically equate with leadership. And in many cases, there are people who are influential, even powerful, but their motivations for leading aren't pure. What, then, is a true leader?

First and foremost, I believe women are born leaders. The idea that only men are true leaders is false. Secondly, and just as importantly, I believe it all boils down to leadership mindset. We must be willing to work hardest on ourselves. Dig deep into our own minds and deal with what we find there. Let's talk about it, love.

"The leader has to understand the wake she leaves behind." – Kris Plachy

• When you raise your hand
• Power to disrupt and build up
• Mindset, not position
• Time for new
• Discomfort is not a stop sign
• You must understand yourself
• Tend the asset

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This week I'm featuring my friend Tanya Dalton on the Leadership is Feminine Podcast and I'm so excited!

You see, Tanya is the yin to my yang.

She helps my crazy visionary brain settle down and find the simplicity of what I want to create.

She's able to do this so well, because she totally gets it. She is, after all, a very successful CEO of several companies she created and then sold!

So when Tanya decided to conduct a four week strategic planning circle this past November, I immediately registered. And of course it was brilliant, because she is brilliant! I was able to sort through my ideas and come up with some amazing plans for 2023. But not only did I come up with the plans, but I also put them on the calendar and really thought through all of the needs I have when it comes to achieving these big goals.

Well, Tanya and I just discussed that she's going to do it again and she's going to host the Strategic Planning Circle in January. I decided that I wanted to be able to provide access to this course to all of my clients.

So, she has agreed to provide all of my current clients a $500 discount, taking what is normally $2500 to $2000. The amount of value that she provides in these four weeks for $2000 is amazing. Tonya is such an accomplished wizard when it comes to productivity and efficiency, I feel like she's practically giving this away for free.

So, if you're a current client, we will be sending you a private link to use to register for Tanya's course. (Please watch your email for that link.) If you are not a current client, and you become a current client before December 23, 2022, we will also send you the link to register for her amazing event.

In the meantime, you can learn everything you want to learn about this awesome experience by going to tanyadalton.com/2023. On that page Tanya will explain to you what's included in this program and all of the deliverables you can expect.

I also invite you to tune in to the podcast this week to learn even more and to experience what Tonya's philosophy is and what it would be like to work with her. I know you won't be disappointed!

"By not planning, you are giving away your power." – Tanya Dalton

• Who's driving the bus?
• Creativity through planning
• Giving away your power
• The Decision Making Machine
• Flexibility through vision
• Up and out
• Business around life
• Kris's gift

Tanya Dalton is a best-selling author, speaker, and nationally recognized expert on purposeful productivity. She helps women step into intentional leadership in their professional and personal lives.

In addition to having her first book, The Joy of Missing Out, being named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the year by Fortune Magazine, Tanya's podcast, The Intentional Advantage has received millions of downloads from listeners around the world. She is also a featured expert on several networks including NBC and Fox and is a VIP contributor for Entrepreneur.com.

Tanya has been featured in some of the world's leading publications including Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, and Real Simple. She has been awarded the elite Enterprising Women Award and has been named the Female Entrepreneur to Watch for the state of North Carolina.

Tanya is also the founder of inkWELL Press Productivity Co., a multi-million dollar company providing tools that work as a catalyst in helping women do less while achieving maximum success.

Her highly anticipated second book, On Purpose: The Busy Woman's Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success, launched last fall through HarperCollins Publishing.

• Website: tanyadalton.com
• Podcast: The Intentional Advantage
• Contact: tanyadalton.com/contact
• Strategic Planning Circle: tanyadalton.com/2023

Kris's Gift: If you're a current client of Kris's, you'll be receiving a $500 discount via email from Kris for Tanya's 2023 Strategic Planning Circle!

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Operations managers (or similar) often go into the work field and do great work for a CEO with training in things like operations, business management, and similar. And yet, they lack training in how to lead, how to manage people, and how to make decisions in challenging situations. As CEOs, it's easy to overlook this integral component. What we think our management team ought to handle might be too narrowly focused or we might think they should intuitively know and effortlessly execute these parts of their job. But they don't.

That's why in this episode, I explore why CEOs should train up their management team. Bottom line, you can't do it all. Nor should you. That makes it critical to the building of your business. Without a management team who can lead effectively, your business growth will eventually stall. The solution is to invest in quality leadership training for your top people. It's an investment both in your business and in yourself.

"It doesn't do any good for you to have all this great leadership management and insight and practices and tools if you then don't have a right-hand who can do the same. Because the goal… is to get to the point where you're really not necessary in the business." – Kris Plachy

• The ecosystem
• Necessity of same training
• How you'll grow faster
• What if they don't stay?
• How we help you know
• Manager's point of view

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Straightforward advice on what to do to manage people is invaluable, especially since typical management discussions center around how hard it can be. But there actually are some ways to make managing people easier. The trick is to not over-complicate issues. And the trick to not over-complicating issues is to recognize the ways in which you might be doing just that.

In this episode, I share the four reasons managing people is actually easy and simple. I hope as you listen, you gain some practical insights and even learn a bit about yourself, including some thought patterns that aren't helping. I hope this advice, added to a few intentional tweaks to your approach, will guide you into alleviating your management problems. Now let's talk managing made simple.

"You have all these truths that you believe about the world that you've never really checked. And those truths, while they feel so important to you, they're not real... They're your thoughts. They're not the truth." – Kris Plachy

• Why we avoid hard things
• Management as math
• #1: Control isn't your job
• #2: Your emotional agency
• #3: It's an invitation
• #4: Invitation progress follow up

My How to CEO program begins in February – but if you get on the WAITLIST NOW, you'll get some amazing early registration offers. The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program. PLUS early registration includes work you can do right now, even before the program begins, AND you'll lock in the lower 2022 price for yourself! So don't delay! Get registered before prices increase in January.

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