In this episode, Laura Dewey delves into the often-overlooked practice of acknowledging your personal growth. She begins by defining what it means to truly recognize and honor your progress in life. Laura explores the reasons why many of us tend to shy away from acknowledging our growth, touching on common fears and societal influences that can hold us back. She highlights the profound benefits that come from embracing your journey, including increased self-esteem, motivation, and a deeper sense of fulfillment.

Through a collection of compelling stories, Laura paints a vivid picture of what it looks like to honor your growth and contrasts it with the stagnation and dissatisfaction that can arise when you don't. She offers practical ways to start acknowledging your progress today, providing listeners with actionable steps to integrate this empowering practice into their daily lives.

To wrap up, Laura proposes an experiment designed to help you actively recognize and celebrate your growth, encouraging a mindset of continuous improvement and self-compassion.

Tune in to discover how acknowledging your growth can transform your life and propel you toward your greatest potential.

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Welcome to the Self Leadership LAB! Join host, Laura Dewey, as she delves into the critical topic of burnout. Why did she choose this topic? It's not only important but also prevalent in today's news and especially impactful in healthcare, an industry she works closely with.

Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. Burnout can lead to feelings of cynicism, detachment, and ineffectiveness in your job and take a toll on your personal life.

In  this episode, Laura covers the definition of burnout and the high cost it takes on individuals and organizations. Through personal stories, she'll illustrate the challenges of burnout and discuss barriers to overcoming it. It soon becomes clear that self-leadership can be used to overcome burnout.

You’ll be left with a simple action you can take to improve your situation and an experiment to do to sharpen your skills.

Join us in the Self Leadership LAB as we navigate the path to a healthier, more sustainable work life.

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Life is unpredictable, and it's easy to feel out of control with multiple priorities, responsibilities, unforeseen circumstances, and unwanted change. But there is a way to regain that sense of control. Join host Laura Dewey as she shares the secret to feeling in control of your life and career: self-leadership.

Self-leadership involves controlling the things you can, allowing you to navigate life's ups and downs with ease and grace rather than stress and struggle. It enables you to accomplish more, faster, and feel good doing it, with benefits that are truly too numerous to count.

In this episode, Laura covers:

• What self-leadership is
• The benefits of being a skilled self-leader
• The consequences of not being one
• What can hinder your path to effective self-leadership
• Your experiment

Discover the power within you and what's possible for your life and career. Don't miss this critical episode!

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Success requires growth and growth can feel hard, even painful. There is another way.

Join host, Laura Dewey, as she shares 3 steps to make growing and changing feel good, even fun. These 3 steps are the foundation of The Self Leadership LAB.

BE Highly Self-Aware: Harvard Business Review says, “There is one quality that trumps all, evident in virtually every great entrepreneur, manager, and leader. That quality is self-awareness.”  In order to grow, we need to know where we are and where we want to go. That’s self-awareness.

LEARN Cool New Skills: There are a whole lot of things no one taught us in school, especially when it comes to navigating our complex inner worlds, not to mention navigating the complexity of human interactions and relationships. Having the right tool for the job is critical for self-leaders. The Self Leadership LAB Podcast is all about tools.  

DO Experiments and Build Habits: An experimental approach makes learning and growing much less threatening and fun. Laura shares 5 reasons that using this strategy creates meaningful, sustainable change.

Listen to learn a whole new way to grow!

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If success feels elusive to you, today’s episode will help. Your host, Laura Dewey, delves into the crucial concept of readiness and its profound impact on your journey towards personal growth and success.

Sharing relatable, real life stories, she explores the difference between being ready and not ready when we set out to embrace change in our lives. When we're truly ready, whether it's embarking on a new career path, pursuing a passion, or making a lifestyle change, the transition tends to be smoother and the results more sustainable. However, when we attempt to force change without genuine readiness, it often leads to setbacks and challenges, ultimately jeopardizing our chances of long-term success. 

Tune in as we uncover the benefits and barriers to readiness and how prioritizing this issue can pave the way for lasting transformation and fulfillment in all aspects of life and work. Join us in The Self Leadership LAB as we unlock the secrets to mastering the art of readiness and unlocking your full potential for success.

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Join host, Laura Dewey, to delve into the profound impact your presence and energy have on the people around you.

Laura reminds you that, as a self-leader, you have a choice in how you show up. Listeners will discover the benefits of checking their presence more often, such as improved relationships, enhanced communication, and increased influence. This show also highlights the potential negative consequences of neglecting to check one's presence, including strained relationships, misunderstandings, stress and drama.

Listen to learn what can get in the way of your showing up the way you want and leave with one concrete strategy to overcome these obstacles. As always, Laura leaves her listeners with an intriguing experiment designed to help listeners experience the power and affect of their presence firsthand. 

Join Laura Dewey for “Your Presence Matters” and learn how to harness the transformative power of your presence to create a more meaningful impact in your personal and professional life.

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Human relationships are the cornerstone of our lives, offering support, love, and companionship. They provide a sense of belonging and purpose, enriching our experiences and shaping our identity. However, nurturing these connections comes with its challenges. Misunderstandings, conflicts, and differing expectations can strain even the strongest bonds. Finding a balance between individual needs and the dynamics of a relationship requires effort, empathy, and open communication. Despite the hurdles, the rewards of meaningful relationships far outweigh the challenges, making the journey worthwhile.

In this episode, host Laura Dewey explores the delicate balance within relationships. Ever feel like things are a bit off? She discusses how saying yes to the right things, even when it's hard, can nurture healthier, more harmonious connections.

She delves into five aspects of this concept:

1. Defines a term she coined: relationship maintenance
2. How it can be helpful to your relationship
3. An important caveat
4. When not to use the concept in your relationship
5. When to us it
6. What gets in the way
7. Your experiment

Tune in for a meaningful relationship strategy to help you foster more balanced, stronger relationships. Put it in your self-leadership tool kit.

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In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to feel like life is passing us by. We often find ourselves going through the motions, lacking the energy or motivation to truly engage with our lives.

But what if there was a way to break free from this cycle? What if you could wake up each day feeling truly alive, with a deep sense of purpose and connection to the world around you?

Listen today as host Laura Dewey offers a path to rediscovering the joy and vitality that comes from living life to the fullest. Join her on this journey of self-discovery and transformation, and start living a life that truly lights you up.

Topics discussed within the show: 

1. A basic definition of aliveness.
2. An important self-awareness question for the listener.
3. Examples of what it might be like to feel less than alive and on the flip side - what it may be like to feel alive!
4. Barriers to aliveness.
5. One strategy to get you started feeling more alive.
6. An invitation to something that can help you a great deal in this arena.
7. Your Aliveness related experiment

Tune in to Discover the Joy of Being Fully Alive: Embrace a Life of Vitality, Purpose, and Connection!

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Direct communication is a way of conveying clear messages or instructions in order to lessen the possibility that the message can be misunderstood by the listener. This sounds like a great thing on its face.

The reality, however, is that direct communication is much more complex and fraught with challenges for both the communicator and the listener.

Join host Laura Dewey as she explores this important topic, breaking down the following aspects:

1. The definition of direct communication
2. Why it is so complex
3. The gift of direct communication as the sender and the receiver
4. The difficulty of direct communication as the sender and the receiver
5. How you can be more successful if you identify as a direct communicator
6. How you can be more successful if you work with or know a direct communication

This podcast is for you if you wish to be a more skilled communicator and get better results in your life and work. Becoming a masterful communicator is one skill that can enhance every aspect of your life. Every aspect. This show will enhance your ability to communicate masterfully.

Laura's Website: HERE

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On the heels of Episode 1 of Season 2, host Laura Dewey goes deeper and in more detail about the concept of receiving whispers from your Soul. She answer important questions like:

1. What do these messages sound like?
2. How do you hear whispers of your Soul and distinguish them from regular thinking?
3. How do you actually answer the call of your Soul?
4. What happens when you don't answer the call?
5. What does it take to answer the whispers of your Soul?

As always, she brings these questions and concepts to life using examples and relatable personal stories. 

Listen to learn how to access your deeper wisdom. The wisdom that always has your best interest at heart.

Laura's Website: https://www.lauradewey.com

Donations Accepted: The Self Leadership LAB Podcast is a labor of love, providing life changing skills to anyone who needs them. Please consider donating any amount HERE to keep this information flowing accessibly and free. 

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