The Lisa Pezik Show

Every one of us wants security. We don’t want to encounter danger or sudden trials that would disrupt our routine or career path. Yet, we often forget that we can’t control everything in this world. Yes, we are safe, but we may also be stuck. Does hiding aspects in our lives make us fulfilled? Join your host, Lisa Pezik, as she sits down for a conversation with Michelle McGlade about hiding our brilliance, body, and beliefs to fit society’s norms and run away from our real emotions. Michelle is a bestselling author, podcast creator, speaker, and owner of The Modern Leaders Maven. She believes success is an inside-out game, and leadership of self is the key to building teams and unlocking your next level of growth. She got an intuitive hit that people are hiding—their opinions, bodies, beliefs, genius—and it sent her on a research path. On this podcast, we dive into what we hide, why we hide it, and what steps to take to step into your next level of growth and business.

Are you limiting yourself and your business with the decisions you’re making? Have you ever considered whether the business decisions you’re making are from your soul or mind? That’s what we discuss in this episode with guest Jennifer Urezzio. Jennifer is the Founder of Soul Language, a paradigm that puts tangibility to our soul as a conscious connection that you can choose to enable better business and personal success decisions. She joins host Lisa Pezik to discuss how you can consciously connect with your soul and make choices that amplify and align with your purpose.

Falling in love with selling takes you a step closer to success. When you do, you are able to give the energy and flow to communicate well with clients and prospects. Lisa Pezik is with Connie Whitman to talk about nurturing sales, just like how you nurture your babies. Connie is the CEO of Whitman & Associates for more than 20 years, helping ambitious business owners, leaders, and sales teams build powerhouse organizations. She is known for her energetic, passionate, heart-centered, and enthusiastic sales, teaching, and coaching approach. In this episode, Connie discusses three responses of every sales call regardless of the outcome, how lack of preparation and procrastination kills sales, and how to trust your gut. She also elaborates on ways to build long-term relationships with clients.

To have a lean business is to have a clear vision of what you want to do and who you want to serve. Most small businesses struggle to find what is most important for their company. This is why Crista Grasso, the creator of the Lean Out Method, is here to help you with that. Crista is known as the Business Optimizer. She helps businesses identify the most important things to focus on for maximum value and profits. Join your host, Lisa Pezik, and her guest, Crista Grasso, as they talk about how to lean out your business. Also, learn about her triumph with breast cancer, why clarity is key to success, deciding between what's good and better, and the three pillars to lean out, remove waste, and increase quality and value.

Today’s hustle culture often puts sleep at the bottom of priorities. That thought is wrong, because if you want better physical health and a better financial standing, you will need better sleep. Lisa Pezik is joined by returning guest, life and sleep coach Janet Whalen. Janet talks about why she added better sleep to her coaching repertoire and her list of priorities. She also discusses the origins of insomnia and why she decided to improve her sleep. If you want to make a change to your sleep habit, this episode is for you.

If you've ever felt like you and your partner are not on the same wavelength, yet you have to make some important business and life decisions together, you need to pay attention to this! Lisa Pezik goes deep into the need of creating a shared purpose in marriage with Joli Hamilton, a relationship coach, public speaker, and author of Project Relationship. Learn how to balance the power in a relationship, how build a strong foundation with your spouse, and how important it is that everyone is comfortable when having sex. Come and sit down with Lisa and Joli to understand how women can create sustainable, soul-nourishing relationships without sacrificing their career dreams.

They discuss:

• How to get off the cultural escalator for how marriage is supposed to look and how to get set up for success from the start (or how to get you there now.)
• Why resentment is the killer of growth and how to avoid it.
• How to have the best conversation when it comes to decision making with the HALT method.
• Understanding the brake and gas pedals in sex and how to be conscious of the language around sex and the impact it has in a marriage.

Some people are just wired differently from others. Many are much more sensitive and intuitive than the norm. These highly sensitive people have at least as much potential for entrepreneurship as everyone else, but their talent is often overshadowed by the fact that much of the world just isn’t designed for them. How can highly sensitive people step out of the shadow of their gift and really shine in the world of entrepreneurship? Heather Dominick, the founder of Business Miracles, explains the answer beautifully in this conversation with Lisa Pezik. A highly sensitive entrepreneur in her own right, Heather knows how to recognize signs of a highly sensitive and intuitive person and help them use their unique attributes to achieve success. Join in and learn to overcome fears and develop leadership skills to excel in business and life by doing things differently.

Entrepreneurs must step up to the additional responsibility of financial management, or else success will be elusive to them. Hiring accountants is definitely a huge help, but the final say will always fall to the business owner. Lisa Pezik is joined by Parker Stevenson, co-owner and the Chief Business Officer at Evolved Finance, who shares the right recipe for a money-making mindset that relies on data when making decisions. He explains the power of profit and loss statements in a company's future, particularly with expenditures and employee screenings. Parker also discusses how entrepreneurs must properly handle business scaling and the most important money metrics to be monitored at all times.

Since the early 90's, Dr. Ganz Ferrance has been helping individuals, couples, families, and corporations beat burnout, reduce stress, improve their relationships, and enjoy more success. As a Registered Psychologist, his approach is different. Instead of the stigma around mental health, Dr. Ganz prefers to call it your psychological well-being and asks, "How good can we get it?"

This insightful, energetic, and grounded conversation around self-care talked about:

1. Understanding the deficiency model vs. the optimization approach, to know that you're not broken and you don't need to be fixed, and to look at your life from a place of joy and wholeness to get whatever you want.
2. How to strive for PEP (Perpetuating Evolving Perfection) to bring more joy into your everyday.
3. The basis for his book, The Me Factor, that was lab tested in his own life to make his self-care the priority, because if you go down, your business goes down.
4. To start taking responsibility for your own self-care and know that you need a system, an emergency plan, and support in everyday life and you can put yourself first.
5. To look at boundaries as double-walled fences with gates and give yourself time to say yes or no to your inner circle.

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Voice acting and announcing is a unique and promising industry, but what should you do to set your foot on the door? Lili Wexu, voice-over talent and creator of Get Clever About e-books, will show you the ropes and give you an edge in the voice talent industry. She was the voice of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the video game Assassin's Creed, as well as the Canadian Air Canada, Via Rail, Health Canada, Uber, and the Brick. In this episode, she talks about how you can stay true to YOUR character no matter what role you play, the do's and don'ts of voice preservation and the 5-step warm-up, and the tech setup you need to get the best sound quality at home. Your voice is a powerful asset in business. Use it and find yourself thrive!