The Feminine Edge

If you are frequently in a position to be a disrupter and changemaker, essentially a leader or entrepreneur, you've likely honed your skills in managing uncertainty. In fact, you may even intentionally create uncertainty to grow, learn and create new services or offerings. However, in this episode, we look at navigating the disruptions we didn't intend to create or even see coming, the ones that knock us off our game and interrupt the flow of our work and life. These can be hard moments, and the creative and proactive approach that we have cultivated as a leader can be difficult to access just when we need them. However, there are small steps we can take to reestablish our ground, bring awareness to our circle of influence, shift perspective and regain our power to choose our next move.

Learn to read the world and determine how to align your unique strengths, values, and care to blend with the marketplace. If you are listening in and you haven't checked out episodes 36, 37, and 38 then go back, listen and do the work if not now, then after this episode. They all fit together.

If you have been along the ride with me on the reimagining your career series then you have renewed clarity on your care, your strengths, values, and unique capabilities, and you've reflected on the future, you want to create. Now you want to move from your imagined future to the real world trends and marketplace. Let's do this together.

Your vision for your future is the north star for guiding your approach to the next evolution for your career. In this third session of my four-part series on Reimagining Your Career, I share a process to think expansively and to begin to refine what you want next in your career. Your career is an expression of how you take care of your future and the things your care about; whether you do this working inside an organization, running your business or through other board or volunteer avenues is Visioning is energy, and it's also somewhat abstract. Defining your career vision may be unfamiliar or feel like navel-gazing or a waste of time. Figuring out your next career path requires a destination. Your vision is your north star, and through a series of career visioning questions, this episode will help you get started defining it. You might be tempted to skip doing this work. Please don't skip it. If you think you don't have time, consider this idea. A great way to keep a woman from unleashing her potential and ambition in the world is to have her believe she has more important tasks to do and that she doesn't' have the means, time or ability to imagine her own future. . DREAM. Imagine. Make the time. Your future is worth it.

In the first episode of this series, we established that your career reflects your care and how your actions speak to how you care for what matters to you.

Redesigning your career is a growth move, and it begins with owning your value and creating a foundation. Taking stock to assess and acknowledge the skills, experiences, strengths, and perspectives you have acquired to date empowers you to own your value.

We establish our ground from which to grow by evaluating and highlighting our unique gifts and abilities. With this foundation, we are positioned to look outwards and define what strengths we want to leverage to shape our future.

I walk you through 5 questions, practice and the next step you can start today to begin creating the foundation for your future.

I refer to two books in this episode:

Taking Control of Your Career by Gail Donner and Mary Wheeler

http://www.donnerwheeler.com/index.php-id=2.html

And Pivot: The Only Move that Matter is Your Next One by Jenny Blake.

https://tinyurl.com/9849mu6w

You've checked the boxes and become an expert in your field, You excel in what you deliver and your career reflects a series of progressive moves and wins. Yet, you are increasingly ambivalent about what's next, caught between expectations and the external drivers of success and a longing for something more. In this four-part series, I will share how to redesign and revitalize your next career evolution. In part one, I share an alternative perspective and interpretation for your career and critical questions and practices to get you started.

Do you give more credibility to your story of not-good-enough than to your ambitions for your future? In this episode, I reveal the touchstone experience which illuminated how pervasive feelings of insufficiency can be and how it can stronghold us into playing small. I share 7 key questions and strategies to stop giving your energy to your inner oppressor so you can focus on your ambitions and unleash your brilliance.

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June Tavenor, RN, is passionate about disrupting the status quo in healthcare and the founder of Catalyst Health Solutions in Newfoundland and Labrador. June's clear mission to drive positive change by offering effective and efficient home care solutions has been a driving force in building her company. She shares the critical role relationships play, even with competitors, in scaling her business. We explore the advantages of being small in a big system and her trend predictions for the future of healthcare.

Have you ever had a defining moment set a fire under you to take action to make a difference? Connie Clerici the founder and now Executive Chair of the Board at Closing the Gap Healthcare, shares her conviction to make a difference was the driver behind her decision to create her own healthcare company. Today the company employs over 2000 professionals and has a thirty-year track record of providing excellence in service delivery. But it didn't start there. Connie worked for years without an income, taking on every aspect of the business. Connie shares the importance of living your values and the critical business skills you must have to navigate challenges as a female founder and clinician in the world of health care. Connie is passionate about entrepreneurship and has created the Connie Clerici Nurse Entrepreneur Award to help foster nurse innovation and entrepreneurship in support of advancing patient care in Ontario.

Closing the Gap Healthcare https://www.closingthegap.ca/

Connie Clerici Nurse Entrepreneur Award: https://www.rnfoo.org/about/what-s-new-at-rnfoo.html

As a business owner and coach for female leaders and founders, I've gained valuable insights into the critical factors you need to sustain your ambition and passion. In several podcast interviews, you will hear the passion these women have for their work. But what fuels their fire? Alignment. It's the catalyst driving unwavering conviction in your vision, the force behind bold action, risks tolerance and challenging barriers. Listen in as I share how to create and nurture the powerful force of alignment.

What does it take to build a thriving, innovative and fun business partnership? In this episode, Gail Donner and Mary Wheeler, partners in donnerwheeler Consultants bring their entrepreneurial joy and fire to our conversation. Tune in to hear how taking a chance to pursue an opportunity turned into a 30-year business venture that is still going strong. They share the critical insights to their success including the importance of nurturing your network, being purpose-driven and knowing your niche.