Judy Hoberman is President of Selling in a Skirt International and a trainer, speaker, coach, and mentor. Thirty years of sales experience has given her knowledge, and humor, about how men and women sell. Listen as she enlightens you as to how both genders can support each other more productively and the incredible goals she has set for creating a space for women to thrive. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Walking on the Glass Floor.

Glass Floor

Judy decided in 2017 she was going to help one woman a day, and after being humbled by how many women accepted her help, and realizing how rarely women at large ask for that help, she decided to take things a step further. Judy wants women to break through the glass ceiling and stand on the glass floor when it comes to leadership roles—she doesn’t want you to just try it out, she wants you to stay there. Whether you’re in an executive position or a parental one, leading can be for life. She’s set out to donate proceeds from the book to further her aim of turning that glass ceiling into a glass floor.

Space to Walk Strongly

The space Judy is reserving for women on the glass floor is there to help foster confidence, and show that there is room for every woman to stand. Regardless of role or title, the space is there for them. Creating a safe and welcoming community is the key to bolstering that confidence, and Judy has placed her own vulnerability first to show the way (see her TEDX Talk for more details on that).

Confidence and Courage

Confidence for Judy revolves around sharing her passions with others without worrying about what others think about her definitions. She likes to stay focused on her space—which is all about women. So confidence for her is when she walks into a room and knows she’s the expert for her passion. The courage aspect? The courage part involves using that confidence to push yourself further by doing things that scare you. It’s standing up and owning your goals and doing things you haven’t done, no matter how crazy they may seem. The other side of courage is knowing that it’s okay to ask for help with your goals, too.

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Kristin Andre is a career changing corporate executive turned entrepreneur. She’s a writer, speaker, performance coach and a “tell it like it is” business strategist. Her wonderfully titled book, “Don’t Make Me Pull This Car Over: A Roadmap for the Working Mom” is sure to help you tap into your own strengths. And Kristin knows something about strength – as she holds a second degree black belt in taekwondo. Tune in and hear how Kristin can empower you.

Taekwondo

Kristin’s daughter started taking lessons and there was an offer that for a whole month, the moms could take lessons for free. You know, to get them out of the stands and involved. But she didn’t take these lessons alone—through this training she found her tribe with everyone at least obtaining their first degree black belt.

Course Correct

If you’re a kicker like Kristin, and that’s your main strategy, you still have to be able to course correct. When she went up against an opponent that was over 6 feet tall, kicking wasn’t going to get her very far. Being able to keep the same goal in mind, but change up your approach, is key not only in Taekwondo but business as well.

Taking Down Excuses

The first thing that tends to come out when you resist a course correction are the excuses. Kristen lets her clients brain dump out all their excuses, then make them go back and come up with all the reasons a new approach could work. Because if you want your goal bad enough, you will fix what you’re doing to get there. Having a cheerleader in your life – someone who can dust you off when you’ve been kicked and really calls you out on your excuses can be instrumental in your excess, because it shows they believe in you and your potential.

Some clients have the greatest excuses, too. Some will even say to their coaches, “You must be tired of hearing my excuses.” But the response to that is, well, aren’t you tired of them? You’re the one who has to live with them 24/7.

Kristin’s #1 Hashtag of 2017

“You are your only limit.” Keep that in mind. We are what gets in our own way. So once you dig down into yourself (don’t be afraid to reach out for help with this) there’s nothing stopping you from getting to where you want to go.

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In this episode of The Power House Podcast you’re getting a massive power punch with not one, but two incredible, heart-centered thought leaders as my guests on the show! David Dachinger and Tamara Green are the cofounders of Loving Meditations. David is an author and Grammy nominated composer while his wife, Tamara, is an author, speaker and trainer. Together they create multimedia programs that help cancer patients and caregivers reduce stress, anxiety, and discomfort through their cancer journey.

Loving Meditations Origin

David and Tamara had been working on YouTube, posting meditations to a channel that were sort of general. Then, after a haircut, David discovered he had a walnut sized mass on his neck. A handful of doctors and tests later, David was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. He got fast tracked on treatment, which was very aggressive and created a lot of side effects – some of which could result in hospitalization. In working to find a way to ease the process, David turned to mindfulness practices and meditation. After treatment and surgery, the oncologist told him he was looking great and seemed fantastic – what did he do that was different? Well, with a finger solidly pointed to meditation and mindfulness, Loving Meditations was born. 

Live Calm with Cancer and Beyond

In their book, David writes from his perspective of being a cancer patient with Tamara writing from the point of a caregiver. It’s an intimate story that takes you through each stage of their journey through the disease and beyond. Throughout the text are quick and easy mindful tips and meditations that they hope help others that are going through a major life challenge.

The companion app for the book cross references these meditations as well. It is being structured in a way that will find you the right practice for either sleep, stress relief, nausea and so forth. It pairs with the book in such a way that you can follow through day by day with the journey and stay in a place of positivity and mindfulness through your own journey.

The book comes out November 30th and will be on Amazon and Kindle – the easiest way to find it is to go to LiveCalmwithCancer.com and CalmCancerStress.com for the app (which is available on iOS and browsers).

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Clarence Caldwell here with a powerful knockout message on episode 11 of The Power House Podcast. Clarence was one of the speakers at the Leaders Empowered Strong Summit. Rising from homeless and poverty to become a senior executive, Clarence now shows other leaders how to become high performers in business and in life. Starting with at risk youth in juvenile halls, Clarence takes leaders to higher achievement tan success with the ultimate motive of having them give back to these struggling youth.

Turning Point: homelessness to power

Clarence describes his watershed moment like this: Have you ever been lying in bed, trying to sleep and you hear this noise? Perhaps a faucet is leaking or toilet is constantly running, and you just lay there and say, “I’m going to ignore this and it will go away.” But it doesn’t ago away. Then, after enough sleepless nights, you decide to get up and do something about it. Clarence had such thoughts when he came to the realization that he was not supposed to be homeless. He was not supposed to be sleeping in the back of his car every night.

Choice & Courage

Often time’s people are afraid to address their “leady faucets” or “running toilets” because they have fear or anxiety of that unknown space, of taking action. Clarence understands this and how to overcome it. He looks at life through a lens of 5 immutable laws of life – one being the law of courage. But before you get there you have to handle the first two; choice and commitment. While it doesn’t pull any punches, Clarence knows where we are in our life is a result of the choices we’ve made. You have to develop the skills to realize and own this truth before building up the courage to tackle those persistent driving issues in your life.

A key component to making the right choices is getting in touch with your emotional intelligence. If you can do that than any decision you make is made on that bedrock, giving you a vantage to see what direction you should be moving in.

Emotional Maturity

You may be asking yourself, “Well how do I find that emotional maturity and recognize it?” Emotions can be placed along a scale, with the highest frequency emotion being love and fear being the lowest. Being able to determine where you currently are on that scale of hundreds of emotions in-between is critical to figuring out your current baseline. And guess what, you aren’t always in the same spot. The key is to always be moving to a place of love. Say you’re in a good mood and someone cuts you off in traffic. Are you going to slide down to disappointment? Anger? Or are you going to make the choice to move your feelings in the other direction?

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John is a scientist looking at how to optimize human health on a molecular level. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Bates College and his Phd from Duke University. He worked at Proctor and Gamble developing new sunscreen technology and products that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. As if that wasn’t enough, Dr. Sottery has gone on to found 2 multimillion dollar companies over the last two decades, and in selling his latest, he has been able to focus on helping people transform their health using their own unique biochemistry.

Backstory

From an early age John was obsessed with understanding the world on a fundamental level. He was always taking things apart, even discovering how to make a master key that would unlock handfuls of locks after his bike was stolen. This interest in how things both work and go wrong led him to deepening his understanding of chemistry. On the health side, John lost his mother to cancer when she was 82. His dedication to helping her survive the first three bouts of cancer she survived is the catalyst that led him to sell his software company and retarget specifically at health.

Your Biochemical GPS

John’s issue with the health industry is the tendency for a “one size fits all” approach to individual’s health. Just think about how often people take Ibuprofen or Advil for pain. John wants to go up river and find the molecular source of that cause rather than just treating the final step. He works on treatment at the molecular level rather than the symptom level by doing broad ranges of blood tests to see exactly what an individual’s biochemistry is composed of. Since John understood his father’s biochemistry he was able to make a phone call to his doctors and help get him out of the hospital, when 24 hours before, his father was saying his final goodbye to him. You can have all the maps in the world, but unless you know where you stand among them you’ll have no idea where to go.

Utilize Your Voice

John gives some excellent heath advice for you to look into in this episode – cut out all the high fructose from processed foods you eat to get your metabolism back on track, balance Omega 6 and Omega 3 to help with inflammation, and make sure you are getting the proper levels of Vitamin D and Calcium. But his biggest take away for you is this: you’re in charge of your health. It’s your responsibility to put your money where your mouth is. Stop buying foods that causing your illnesses and speak up about them to companies and your local grocery stores. Ask your doctors questions and order tests yourself if you want to push deeper into your biochemistry and give your physicians more data to look at. You don’t have to be a victim of your own health – go out and own it!

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Betsy Davidson is a certified health and high performance coach – as founder of Master Your Thrive, Betsy defines her life as a series of events organized around the purpose of making a difference. You’ll hear her story about coming from a space of burnout and overwhelm, but also how she made choices to take care of herself and tap into her internal power. Come listen to how Betsy made that transformation to become a formative thought leader and a complete and total powerhouse.

Beginnings

Betsy’s story starts as a young girl with a dream to take care of and save the ocean. She got to live out several of her dream jobs doing everything from taking kids kayaking and snorkeling, supervising sleep overs at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, and even researching dolphins. However, during her decade in marine biology Betsy found herself becoming stir crazy every six months.

She wanted something different, some new change or challenge. What she realized is that every step she took toward her goals made her evermore burnt out. She realized that an internal transformation was needed rather than an external one like a new job or set of responsibilities.

Catalyst for Change

Betsy knew it was time to change after a decade of soul searching and realizing her burnout was affecting her health. She wasn’t getting as much done at work and her energy and passion had been drained. Getting that health back was non negotiable for her, and Betsy started researching to figure out how to get her health back on track.

But fixing her health was just the first part of Betsy’s transformation. In enrolling to be a health coach, she learned there were many more ways in which one needs to nourish themselves to become empowered. In other words: it doesn’t matter how much kale you eat, if you’re still depressed it’s not going to fix your life.

Personal development was the next step that gave Betsy the momentum, joy, and engagement to bring her life back up to speed.

Master your THRIVE

The framework for Master Your THRIVE came after diving into the personal development world. She recognized that at her jobs she was surrounded by other people who wanted to make an impact on the world, but they too were experiencing the same burnout. This led her to develop ways for people to go about making that change in a healthy, enjoyable, and fulfilling way. To give and live at your full potential.

THRIVE = Master your Time, Health, Relationships, Intentions, Voice, and Energy.

The first step on your path to mastering your thrive is owning responsibility. Each of these letters are yours. A lot of people treat time as this external thing that they have no control over. However, if they were to really sit down with a calendar and planner they could find some way to get more done in what time they have. Awareness, intention, and ownership are keys that will set you on the course to transform. All your professional heroes have the same amount of hours in a day as you. Focus on your intention, what you really want to do.

Betsy knows that everyone has an ultimate version of themselves, a self that performs at the highest level you can reach. I’m inviting you to take a moment and just stop. Think about what that highest version of yourself looks like. How would they react at work when a deadline is pushed up? At the grocery store or family gatherings. Take her advice and form that version of yourself in your mind, and act congruently with that version to help propel you forward.

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Juan Carolos Arzola is an international certified John Maxwell coach, teacher, trainer and speaker. As a high performance coach he has mentored some of the best in the industry around personal growth and achievement. He aims to help you find the best version yourself and create lasting, impactful change that will help shape the way the world thinks for generations to come.

Living with Intention

Juan shares on the show about a pivotal experience in his life that shaped the way he viewed his purpose. One day when he was coming home his neighbor tried to stop him to talk, but Juan didn’t really give her much attention and listen to her. Later that night his street was full of police and paramedics, and his neighbor had committed suicide. It affected him deeply and sent him on a path of being there for others so he wouldn’t make the same kind of mistake again. He searched for a way to live with more intention so he could be remembered for the good he was able to do for others – not amassing money and monetary wealth.

Pivotal Change

After the incident Juan spent a lot of time reflecting on why he hadn’t listened to his neighbor properly. He was able to discover some biases in the way he was thinking and how that limited his ability to help his neighbor. So, he resolved to do better. More hardship came as he was going through a divorce and had to reprioritize his life. In that struggle he came to realize that he thought success was good, only to discover that significance was better.

Success vs. Significance

Success is about me. I want money. I want power. I want this or that and I want it all for me. The big difference with significance is that it is for others. And once you truly understand significance success alone will never satisfy you again. He started challenging himself in terms of how many people could he help. How could he raise the bar in helping to spread joy and his knowledge in meaningful ways, so that when he got to the end of his life, he knew that he had tried everything. He knew that he had finished as well as he could and helped pass down these thoughts 1000 years through his children and family.

Growing Your Intention

Juan wants you to go deep into your intention. Find ways to use what you know to help others but also reach out in ways you aren’t familiar with. Learn and grow as your significance does as well. Make not just an impact, but a lasting impact. Develop something deep, not tools and tips on a superficial level so you can transform others at their core.

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Lisa Pezik is the Empowered EntreprenHER – she is a woman who has taken back control of her life. She is a published author, an ACE certified trainer in fitness and nutrition, a motivational speaker, a registered nurse and a mom and a wife. She’s here on the Power House to help you take the steps to stay on your own path and see how far self-care goes in affecting those around you.

Lisa’s Story

Lisa grew up in a small town where everyone knew what was going on in your lie. This placed high expectations on Lisa, as she was always being judged based on her performance. She thought she needed to be perfect and ended up putting unnecessary pressure on herself. After a while she became a total people pleaser – letting others tell her what to do from who to date to what career to be in. From the outside everything seemed fine. Lisa had a career, a great husband, but deep down she wasn’t fired up about her life path. She wasn’t happy with the skin that she was in and was around 100 pounds overweight, something that led her down the health and fitness path at first.

Beyond Fitness & Health

Lisa realized she couldn’t put her health last. She was giving to everyone else but herself. Through taking extra time to stay active and read she gained energy and confidence she hadn’t had before. She had been checking off all the boxes society told her to, and it took courage and commitment to change her path.

Challenge, Change, Consistency

A big shift in Lisa’s mindset came when she realized her son was being affected by her behavior. When you say negative things on the inside you project that outward. So having her son was almost a rebirth in her own life. Lisa encourages you to look at more than just yourself when on the cusp of a great change – think about everyone else that is going to benefit from you following through on your change. Let that motivate you to charge forward on your own path.

There wasn’t one event like a half marathon or getting a certification that made Lisa’s change complete. It was consistently waking up each morning and taking time for herself. Getting exercise, feeding her mind, and consciously trying to change. She had to go all in, because if she went half in she’d only get half the results.

It was important to let others know about her goals. Telling others held her accountable. This carried through to push her into a more consistent routine. Another non-negotiable for her was refusing to sweep her feelings under a rug anymore. Lisa came up with the motto feel it, deal it, and keep going. This helped Lisa put herself first and stay healthy both physically and mentally. All of this came together so Lisa could constantly give positivity no matter what kind of day she was having or how she was feeling.

The Next Level

Don’t just coast on autopilot through your life. Look and see how your decisions make you feel on a day to day basis. Then, look at the big picture. Where will you be in five years if you keep your health or relationships at a 4 out of 10? How much better off will you be down the road if you work on brining that 4 to a 6, then 6 to an 8? Think broadly about your changes and the people you’ll positively affect by slowly working on each facet of your life.

Shout Outs

I'd like to give a special thanks to the team that helps make the show the powerhouse it is! First I'd like to thank Tina for helping coach me through the podcast process - you can find her work over at Start Something. And then there's my editing team over at Audio Editing Solutions - if you need any audio work go drop them a line! 

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Chris Molenaar started from nothing. He was a young kid just out of high school and ran away from home. He didn’t have any employable skills. Chris was so shy he couldn’t talk to people. But now he is one of the most successful retail salesmen in town. While Chris has had to learn everything the hard way, he looks at his struggles as a blessing. Since he has pulled himself up from his bootstraps he can now help others more readily live into their vision.

You Cannot Lose

One of Chris’s personal mindsets that prepares him for success is this – I cannot lose. He knows this to a be a truth because he is either winning, or learning. And when you decide to look at the barriers in your life as opportunities to learn and grow, losing falls out of the equation. It’s easy to be envious of those with natural talent that haven’t had to overcome the same hurdles as you have, but Chris doesn’t want you to be. If those people don’t have open minds then there is a clear ceiling to what they can achieve. You need to be coachable, adaptable, and willing to admit that you don’t know everything in order to succeed.

Effort Up Front, Payoff Later

Chris looks at his life’s journey as a clear example of putting in a lot of effort up front for a payoff later. He knows that everyone has different talents and everyone learns differently. However, there are always going to be some facets of your life that require a lot of work at first before things start to fit into your vision for your life. Once success starts to come you need to reflect upon it as well. Checking for “leaks” in your success is critical. You don’t want to sacrifice all your free time and relationships for years on end just to gain monetary success. If you can’t live in the moment and keep holding out for the good years then those times in your life will just pass right on by.

Live Your Vision

While it’s impossible to rid yourself of every bias, identifying what you don’t know can help you determine what it is you want to do in your life. And as your learn and grow more, you can more easily identify the gaps in your knowledge. But once your vision is identified you need to find a way to live into that idea. It should be a feeling in your gut that says, “Yes. I am on the right path.” You don’t need to see the whole path at once, you just need to see the first step, and then take it.

Shout Outs

I'd like to give a special thanks to the team that helps make the show the powerhouse it is! First I'd like to thank Tina for helping coach me through the podcast process - you can find her work over at Start Something. And then there's my editing team over at Audio Editing Solutions - if you need any audio work go drop them a line! 

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Welcome to the fourth installment of the Power House Podcast! This episode features a legendary peak performance expert. A personal significance warrior committed to providing inspired answers for some of today’s toughest challenges. He’s been around the TV circuit, on podcasts, and help consulting and trainings with over 35 years of experience. So, what’s his goal? To help you grow professionally, personally, financially, and spiritually. He’s presented at over 2,000 live events – trust me, Scott knows how to work the stage. And speaking of stages, he’s shared one with Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and First Lady Laura Bush.

Moment of Change

Scott has been shifting away from traditional models of success and coming into his own as a significance expert. He looks at peaks and valleys in life and sees them as a part of a learning process – the process of finding out what is really meaningful to yourself. He’s had good and bad things happen in all seven areas of his life, and has come to accept that the whole range of experiences has made him a better person. A critical turning point for Scott was when he had a stroke in his cerebellum, and miraculously, managed to walk away unscathed. This left him yearning for something deeper than simple success. See, success is simply achieving a goal. Scott strives for significance – that deeper meaning behind the goals you are trying to achieve.

Ultimately Scotts goal for you is to help you live a legacy, not just leave one.

Finding Your Legacy

Have you wondered how to measure your progress on journey to success. Scott finds one of the most helpful questions you can ask yourself is are you looking for fame, or impact? Think about Mother Teresa. Was she looking for fame or impact? Her legacy isn’t a trove of treasure locked away somewhere, she actively lived it. And with that came impact first, and then fame. Your legacy should be what you live, not an accumulation of stuff you pass on when you die.

The 14 Inch Journey

One issue with discovering significance and how to cultivate it comes from not identifying who your trusted resources are. Are you surrounded by yes men and women who only tell you what you want to hear? That kind of community can embiggen one of the biggest barriers to taking the 14 Inch Journey from your head, to your heart. That barrier is your own ego. If fill yourself up with the idea that you’ve already made it, that you’re too awesome to self-reflect then you block yourself from discovering deeper significance. Dig deep into your heart space. Ask yourself what you would change about your life. When you answer truly you may discover the source of your greatest pain. Identifying that is a huge step in finding out how to truly change, and it comes down to the simple power of asking.

Shout Outs

I'd like to give a special thanks to the team that helps make the show the powerhouse it is! First I'd like to thank Tina for helping coach me through the podcast process - you can find her work over at Start Something. And then there's my editing team over at Audio Editing Solutions - if you need any audio work go drop them a line! 

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