The Intentional Advantage

Why is it SO difficult to step into ourselves authentically and to see ourselves, our goals, and our visions as worthy? We're digging into the importance of communication this week and how learning more about your communication style and preferences (and those of others!) is critical to achieving your goals and earning the success you want. I also discuss the importance of standing in the seat of your own power AND share two momentum builders to get you started!

What's In This Episode:

Why people hesitate to communicate

The importance of speaking your mind

How to build confidence as a leader

How to tap into your leadership voice

What lessons can you learn from your past? Better yet, how can your past help you shape a brighter, more successful future? This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Mary Marantz, a Yale Law School graduate, podcast host of The Mary Marantz Show, speaker, and author of the book Dirt. During our chat, we focus on Mary's unique background as a girl growing up in rural West Virginia, and how her family and its history inspired Mary to rise to the top and claim success on her own terms. We explore Mary's approach to dealing with Imposter Syndrome and her advice for leaning into your vulnerability as a way to inspire and connect with others.

What's In This Episode:

How to use your past to shape a more successful future

Leaning into your vulnerability to inspire and connect with others

How to overcome Imposter Syndrome

Mary's advice for embracing a positive mindset

Why is it such a challenge to view ourselves as experts? I see this happening with so many brilliant women that I look up to, that I recognize as experts, and I know this is something many of us experience. We women all seem to readily struggle with accepting the accolade of being an expert in our respective fields. In this episode, I'm talking about what happens when we hesitate to call ourselves experts, and how we can learn to step up and embrace that title for ourselves once and for all!

What's In This Episode:

What really happens when you hesitate to call yourself an expert

Why you have to allow your light to shine brightly

How to step up as the expert in your field and own that status

Momentum builders to help you step into your expertise

How confident do you feel about going after whatever it is that you want in life? Hesitation will completely hinder you from living the life you dream about. That's why I am so passionate about today's episode because when you stop hesitating and get the confidence to chase your dreams, it is truly life-changing. You have to stop believing that you don't deserve the promotion because you don't check off every single box. In this episode, I am talking about the "confidence gap", overcoming the unwritten rules that many women fall victim to in the workplace, and sharing a few momentum builders to help you overcome your hesitations.

What's In This Episode:

What is the confidence gap

How the confidence gap affects you

How to give yourself permission to get what you want

How to overcome hesitation

Since this season has been all about strategies for success, I knew that I had to have on Greg McKeown for a conversation. Greg is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism, and founder of McKeown Inc., a company with a mission of teaching Essentialism. In this episode, we talk about what it really means to be an essentialist and the steps you can take to find out what's truly essential for you. He shares advice for actively pursuing the things that serve you and renegotiating what doesn't!

What's In This Episode:

What it means to become an essentialist

Greg's advice about the success trap that many people fall into

Discovering what doesn't matter or serve you anymore

The importance of actively renegotiating in your life

In this episode, I am taking a deep dive into the centuries-old concept of Pareto's Principle. First, I explore some misconceptions that people have about Pareto's Principle (so you can avoid making the same mistakes!). After that, we dig into how you can look at it in a brand new way by learning how to use it as a model to design your own ratio for success based on what productivity looks and feels like to you.

What's In This Episode:

What is the 80/20 rule

How the 80/20 rule is misleading

What is the Trivial Many

How to create your own ratio of success

Having strong systems in place is key to running and scaling a highly profitable and successful business, as much as it's key to keeping things running smoothly at home. In this episode, I'm not talking about doing more. I'm talking about accomplishing more through systems. We'll dive into what it means to be a systems-thinker, plus why you have to design systems that are unique to you, your lifestyle, and your definition of success. We'll also discuss how systems-thinking can help you get to the heart of any problem to finally solve it.

What's In This Episode:

Freeing up more space for yourself to dive fully into the projects you enjoy

How a slight change in your thinking process will make implementing systems easier

What it means to be a systems-thinker in the world today, and how to go about it

Two things you can do to start implementing systems-thinking right away

How does a 'success addiction' sound? It seems that a lot of us are addicted to the relentless pursuit of success to our own detriment: We do anything and everything we can to get a dopamine hit that comes from checking things off our to-do list, yet we never get much closer to experiencing success on a genuine level. In this episode, I'm talking about the importance of living a life that feels to you personally and professionally. You'll also learn about defining what success looks like for you and how to do it so you can jump off the hamster wheel of success and start pursuing a life you truly want right away.

What's In This Episode:

The big issue when it comes to success

Redefining what success looks like for you

How to find success in your family, emotional, and intellectual life

Did you know that we all have a hidden superpower? We all can craft our own stories and make the world a better place, and that's by demonstrating kindness toward ourselves and others. In this episode, I chat with Adrienne Bankert, the author of Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You with Anyone. In this episode, she discusses how you are writing your own story and how it's up to you to author it. She explains what kindness means to her, how kindness has opened doors for her, and how being kind brings out your most authentic, best self.

What's In This Episode:

Adrienne's experience of finding the woman she wanted to become

How she learned to be okay with changing the world one person at a time

Why being kind will bring out your most authentic, best self

What Adrienne does to recognize and practice kindness in the world

What is it like to work with someone you're already close to and have a personal relationship with? After several years of working with my husband John, you could say that I know a thing or two about working alongside someone you have a personal relationship with. For the first time ever, I brought him on the podcast to talk about our experience of running a company together. We talk about what it's like to have a relationship outside of work and still go to work happy. You'll hear our tips for making it work, our favorite things about working together, and how it all came about.

What's In This Episode:

How working along with your spouse (or friend/family member) is just like any other relationship

A conversation they had that changed the trajectory of their lives

Our tips for making it work as business partners

The best things about working together