The CEO Sage

Sometimes it's hard to know what's possible for ourselves, right? I think having visual representations of things that evoke emotions in us can make our brains believe something exists in the world before it actually does exist. That's why having a vision board is so important. Not just for your business, but also for you! Find some pictures in a magazine and rip 'em out and place them where you can see them every day! Act as if that's what's gonna be in your life one day and just dream, dream, dream! And one day that dreaming will evoke reality!

What You'll Find in this Episode:

1. You can evoke things in your life by visualizing them. 2. Being older doesn't mean you can't dream.

Part of our experience as a human is to feel discomfort. We struggle and often ask ourselves, "Why me? Why is this happening? What am I doing?" But none of these unexpected moments are stop signs. They are opportunities to make empowering choices and find what's next for you.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. The magic of adversity can show you what you're capable of.
2. Sit quietly with yourself, a trusted advisor, or someone who loves you and find the part of you that you're having a hard time seeing right now.
3. Now it's your chance to do that thing you've always wanted to do.

Welcome to Season TWO of the Leadership is Feminine podcast: CEO Magic. Let me ask you something, Gorgeous: What makes some leaders more successful than others? Skills and tactics can only get someone so far and attributing it to "just luck" dismisses your own power and inner-knowing. What I have observed in my life and career as a leadership coach, is that influential women leaders have mastered certain currencies that others have not. The currency of discomfort. Belief. Self-understanding. In other words… CEO Magic. There's always magic there for you to explore, and that's exactly what we're going to do this season. Let's dive in, shall we? What you'll find in this episode:

1. An introduction to Season Two of the Leadership is Feminine podcast.
2. The women who have made a significant impact on me and my life.
3. Why I think it's harmful to attribute someone's success to "just luck."
4. The currencies that I believe magicians have mastered. (And how to tap into them yourself!)

I have some questions for you, Gorgeous. What if your growth, both personal and professional, is not dependent on your hustle? What if it's dependent on your rest? As a woman entrepreneur, the best thing that you can do for yourself and others is to RELAX. As you nurture and seek your own joy, fulfillment, and fun, it WILL spill into your business. In this episode, the season one finale of Leadership is Feminine, I'm teaching you how to re-invent your relationship with rest. What you'll find in this episode:

1. As a woman entrepreneur, it's important for you to CHOOSE rest. Consciously choose to believe that rest is equally (if not more) valuable to the performance, success, joy of your life and business.
2. It's not sustainable for your business to be dependent on your hustle.
3. You have to be, at some point, willing to relax. And willing to unwind yourself from everything. Give yourself permission.

I hear you, love. You're drowning in content. In quote tiles, free downloadables, and 'how-to' guides. You don't need more voices; you need an ear. But not your girlfriend's or your partner's-they can't give you answers or solutions, they can only offer you their opinions, however well-intentioned.

Take a look at your business and at yourself as the leader of your business. Where are your pockets of opportunity? Have discernment, where do you truly need development and advisement? Be intentional about which problems you want to solve in your business and then invest in them.

In this episode of Leadership is Feminine, I'm teaching you how to reinvent your relationship with time so you can prevent and reduce overwhelm as a woman entrepreneur.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. A story about a client who realized the value of hiring talent for her business, rather than wasting time, money, and energy on more courses and masterminds for herself. Along with my own list of trusted coaches and advisors.
2. The misconception that my premiere leadership coaching series, How to CEO, is just another online course, jam-packed with more content for you to consume, and not what it truly is: solving the problems that you're facing in your business faster by working with me and my team-like you have expert leadership coaches on retainer.
3. You don't have to be 'taught' everything. You don't have to consume so much content, You just have to have someone who can listen to you and show you your own wisdom.

We've all had our fair share of challenges in 2021, haven't we? But, as women leaders, one of the biggest challenges we constantly face is believing in ourselves, in a world that constantly tells us that we're too emotional, too touchy, that we don't have a mind for business.

But guess what, Gorgeous? I think your emotions are your SUPERPOWER. Let me tell you why.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. As women leaders, we're insidiously taught that we're too emotional. And isolation among women leaders only compounds the problem.
2. You feel emotions, but you aren't them.
3. You are allowed to feel an emotion, or 12, or 67, during your day.
4. Your emotions are your most powerful indicators of what you're telling yourself throughout the day.

What does it take to get a population of wounded warriors to rejoin the workforce? Beyond offering more benefits and higher pay, this opportunity requires us to re-examine the work environment that we're inviting them back into. It's going to be up to women to change and heal the world. And as a women entrepreneur, you know that change is what we're best at. We've already built businesses out of an archaic, patriarchal model. What if this is the time for us to revolutionize the world of work?

What you'll find in this episode:

1. During the height of quarantine, many people were functioning but not really living. What we're experiencing now is an increase of people leaving the workforce, or not returning to it, because they have a backlog of living they need to do.
2. Workers don't want to go back to the world that they were in before, but a lot of employers have not made any changes to how their businesses operate.
3. Great people always want to work for great leaders and always want to work for great companies.
4. We're relaunching and re-inventing. And as women, we can re-create environments for work in ways that we've never had before and in ways that can potentially heal a wounded world. Empower yourself by asking the question: what can you create that doesn't exist?

Register for the How to CEO program by visiting http://www.howtoceoregister.com

© 2021 Kris Plachy

I'm using a really hot topic in today's environment (getting vaccinated) to discuss values. Your values are a barometer. They are a compass, and they are driving your actions and your behaviors, whether you're paying attention or not. Let's pay attention and talk about it!

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Women are incredible collaborators, listeners, and communicators.
2. Some people are wanting to make this to-vaccinate or not-to-vaccinate thing a value-based issue.
3. It has nothing to do with values; here's why.
4. We are more aligned in values than we are giving ourselves credit for, and we're just choosing different actions and behaviors to express them.
5. Kris's Hawaiian hotel incident as an example of differing values.
6. Stop questioning people's values and start holding people accountable to clearly defined behaviors.
7. You get to have values that you honor, and you get to have expectations of behavior for people you invite into your world.

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Learn more about the How to CEO program here: https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

Do you have an opportunity to reinvent your life or your business or both? Today, I not only want to talk with you about what you want to reinvent in your life, but I also want to help you unearth things that you may not even know are re-inventable. Let's go!

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Reinventing or burning it to the ground?
2. Feminine leadership and the cycle of life.
3. Tethering to the future instead of the past.
4. Making a list – keep with love and keep out of fear.
5. Kris's reinventions.

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Learn more about the How to CEO program here: https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

Nearly every client I have is telling me she can't find anyone to hire right now. Whether you're trying to hire frontline service level personnel or more mid-level professional positions, there are specific challenges. I have solutions!

You have to get into the COVID candidate brain. You've got to understand who you are attracting so that you can align. We're going to talk about some truths that will change how you hire for the better, and, I think, more simply. Join me!

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. I'm going to host a masterclass on Tuesday, October 26th on what to do when you can't hire. Go to ceohiring.com.
2. There needs to be a change in the candidate attraction and hiring process in order for you to align with where we are today.
3. "Your willingness to solve a problem has everything to do with your willingness to make a decision."
4. Homework - what is it that you haven't fully committed to? What is the decision (that you haven't made yet) that your intuition tells you is the solution?

Please click the like button above and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you!

Learn more about the How to CEO program here: https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy