The Feminine Edge

Amplifying and listening to your wise voice and inner intuitive counsel will expand your confidence and trust in your decision making helping you accelerate achieving your goals and bold vision. In this episode, we unpack distinct characteristics of your wise, intuitive voice, and key practices to help you listen to it. When you tune into you're wise self, you become more aligned and bolder to pursue your vision

How we talk to ourselves in our inner, private conversation influences our choices, actions, and the results we create. The inner critic voice aims to dim our light, keep us small and ultimately, safe from failure, humiliation, or from shining too brightly. Disparaging and judgemental, our inner critic can sidetrack us from going after our bold vision. In this 2-part podcast mini-series, you will learn to recognize and tame the inner critic voice and learn to tune into your wiser more powerful self.

Do your brilliant initiatives fade to black before they are ever launched?. We can wait to perfect our idea hoping to ensure that what we release will result in our envisioned success. Procrastinating and hesitating to launch are clues perfection is lurking in the shadows. In this episode, I throw down the gauntlet and challenge you to block the time in your calendar, commit to the next action, and take the next small step. Launch it, Get feedback, learn and revise it. As Seth Godin would say, ship it.

Are you feeling like the hinge holding everything together? Lately my clients are sharing with me they are working really hard to keep everything and everyone on track, shoring up emotional support, keeping kids, parents, partners cared for, masking up for the groceries all while keeping up with their critical goals and key promises.

Feeling pulled in many directions, fatigue, frustration, and feeling overextended can make you feel disconnected, ungrounded and distracted. This is costly to your wellbeing, relationship and fulfillment.

There are 5 specific activities I walk through to release the habit of over-extending: Reflect, Connect, Consider, and Choose and Commit

Your vitality is your power and it's critical we take care to nourish it through boundary setting, asking for what you need learning the practice of receiving and the foundation for moving from success to significance and is the critical skill that you need to bring an unforgettable presence and influence now and in the future.

Speaking up to share our ideas, expertise and opinions is critical for effective leadership and, it's important to convey our message with clarity. However, even more important to influential leadership is attentive listening. Listening with our full presence has a powerful impact on those we wish to influence. Listening validates the person speaking, whether it's your team member, staff, or clients. When we are fully engaged, present, and listening to what is said and, what isn't said, we not only convey how important the person speaking is to us, we also gain valuable insight into their perspective.

Jackie Porter is an award-winning financial planner who has been in the financial industry for the past 22 years serving thousands of families, established businesses, and professionals in the Greater Toronto Area. Her practice focuses on cash flow management and tax planning strategies.

Jackie is one of Canada's most recognized financial planners. Her advice and financial strategies have been featured in top financial publications such as Forum, Wealth Professional, Investment Executive, and The Globe & Mail. Many have benefited from her sound and actionable financial advice offered at business conferences, radio interviews, podcasts, and television programs such as CBC, Sun News, and BNN. Jackie has also been awarded winner of the Mackenzie Investments Award for 'Female Trailblazer of the Year' category in the 2019 Wealth Professionals awards.

Jackie co-authored "Single by Choice or Chance, the smart woman's guide to living longer better".

Raised by a single mom who passed away when Jackie was in her teens led Jackie to learn important lessons about becoming financially independent very early in her life. Since she had to become financially independent at such a young age she was hungry to learn the principles of real wealth and saw the profession as her golden opportunity.

In this episode, Jackie shares her journey on how she created a 7-figure net worth out of very humble beginnings. We dive into how money can trigger difficult emotions and feelings of shame, embarrassment when we feel out of control or uneducated about how to leverage money to work for us. Too often, our self-worth is entangled in our bank balance and limiting beliefs about money. Listen in as Jackie shares powerful insights and specific strategies you can start working on today to help you remove barriers holding you back from designing and owning the financial future you desire.

Much has been written about women lacking confidence, needing confidence, and why confidence is crucial for women to lead successfully. I don't disagree, confidence is a critical component of leadership and success.

Confidence is critical for women entrepreneurs and leaders, to take risks and actions to make your vision come to reality.

And I imagine that if you are listening to this, confidence is not your main concern. I'm guessing you are in a place today where you have developed and nurtured your confidence muscle by stepping into challenging and sometimes risky situations.

But what I do see as an important and often missing conversation for women leading is the foundational and essential skill of fostering self-trust. In fact, I see self-trust as closely related to feeling confident

When our trust in our self is wavering, it may be limiting your ability to take meaningful and impactful action. Self-trust is tuning into and listening to your inner GPS, honouring your wise, intuitive voice. It's relying on our capabilities, choices, and actions to take care of what we care about.

Tune into this episode where I share 4 distinctions of trust from the work of Charles Feltman and offer 9 strategies women leaders can practice to nurture, repair, and grow their self-trust.

Are you finding waiting to have all the information to make a decision is a luxury you can't afford? In this episode, we'll explore making decisions during complex times and distill down strategies to help you to breakdown the complexity and design the next steps.

We'll dive into seven key steps to help you untangle your decision-making approach and examine the best available information and to trust our wise self when making decisions in complex times.

As women leading in organizations, our own enterprise, and in our communities, managing our energy is crucial, especially right now. There are many important activities and people we care about who want and need our full attention. And it's easy to be distracted by the barrage of news updates, changing client and employee needs, family concerns, and our own wellbeing. In this episode, I share 7 strategies for keeping your energy up and your attention on the things that matter most.

Welcome to Insight Edge with Amy, I'm glad you've tuned in. In this first episode, I share why I've started my podcast and why it matters to me. In each episode, I'll be sharing strategies and insights to help women take decisive action and chart a powerful course for the future. I believe when women can fully own their unique genius, confidently speak up where they used to hold back, take decisive action and practice radical self-care, the world benefits. Tune in weekly for new insights, learnings, and interviews to help you lead with power, presence, and impact.