The Still Space Podcast

Global management consulting company McKinsey and Company just released a study on how women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rates we’ve ever seen—and at higher rates than men in leadership. It’s been called The Great Breakup. We need to stop the hemorrhage and know how to engage women. Women need to position themselves for what other women ARE getting in healthy cultures. For every woman at the director level who gets promoted to the next level, two women directors are choosing to leave their company. Forty-three percent of women leaders are burned out, compared with only 31 percent of men at their level. Learn tips on how to retain women leaders and how to manage and position yourself for opportunity. Get Mary Lee’s free career and mindfulness tools at www.MaryLeeGannon.com.

Life call us to start over every day in many ways. Yet we forget that and see starting over as something to dread. We attach stories to the art of starting over that hold us back from launching out of the gate with excitement whereby we passively inch out of the gate in fear. This episode shows you how to empower yourself to approach any challenge with the strengths you already have. It becomes a natural process.

The need to be right is at the root of most arguments, conflicts and wars. It’s a product of the ego needing validation. People who are difficult are also needy. If you work or live with someone who is difficult, they’re likely more amenable when they can trust you – when they know you have their back or at least respect them. Trust is key. In this episode you learn how to trust yourself and be comfortable in your own skin so you don’t have to keep convincing yourself of your worth by attention seeking and needing to be right. Get Mary Lee’s free career plan at www.MaryLeeGannon.com

This episode is where Mary Lee was interviewed on Frank Aziz's Podcast where she shares her personal story of going from being a homeless single mom on welfare to CEO. She shares how she addressed her own shortcomings during that time and how that helps her serve her clients today. Learn more at www.maryleegannon.com

Do you ever look out at the world and wonder why with so much beauty there is so much tension? Why at work there is a sound mission yet there are personal agendas, bureaucracy, posturing and cynicism. Why at home and with friends there is love yet there are interpersonal struggles. Why with your free time there are interests but there never seems to be enough time to get to them. In this episode we talk about how when we slow to a standstill we can actually canvas the landscape to notice not only what we need but more importantly what we want. And how important it is for us to have a special place. Get free career tools at www.MaryLeeGannon.com

Have you ever been blamed for something you didn't do. Or have you ever blamed yourself for something and can't stop that nagging feeling? If we can’t process our own negative thoughts and feelings we get stuck. We lashout, withdraw or some other default behavior that doesn't serve us rather than turn in and face the uncomfortable feeling we don’t want to feel. Blaming and complaining are symptoms of unresolved hurt. This gives us a short term addictive high yet the nagging feeling and the sneaky thoughts associated with the discomfort prevail. In this podcast episode we explore how to deal with the blame we feel from others and our own blame as well. We then dive into self-care. Do you see self-care as after-care? Do you wait until the let-down, crisis, or doubt sets in and then try to play catch-up to snap you out of feeling inadequate. Do you think there is something wrong with you because this pattern keeps happening to you? Learn new ways of practicing self-care so you can manage your chaotic emotions and don’t lose our self-control. Get free tools at www.MaryLeeGannon.com

Regret and Forgiveness go hand in hand. In this episode we explore how regret is the sadness and disappointment we feel after something has happened that we think we could have managed differently for a better outcome. Regret can be enlightening. We can learn from mistakes. Regret, however, can become debilitating when we obsess over our role in the situation with guilt, sorrow and shame. We seek to atone but it isn’t possible, making us even more restless and unhappy. Forgiveness is a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness or not. Get Mary Lee’s free tools at www.MaryLeeGannon.com

If you manage people, your team needs you to be human and show signs of humanity. If you might be doing any of these seven behaviors, you are doing them to yourself far worse. Yes. Start with how you treat yourself - the sneaky thoughts you tell yourself about how you need to just work harder, how you don’t have time to connect, how you judge yourself, how you don’t expect anyone to support you so why would anyone else need your support. What if you could stop shaking the snow globe of chaotic thoughts and let everything settle? What if working harder wasn’t your signature strength? What if your value proposition was to instinctively see the truth of a situation without confirmation bias, anticipate needs, craft strategy and execute with the ability to shift in a moment without regret? What if you stopped judging yourself and others and allowed openness to emerge and clarity to drive you? What if you had practices that kept you on track to have what you want so sustainability of confidence, connection and calm were a mainstay? We get into all of this on this episode.

This journey of life mastery wouldn’t be complete without examining the suffering uncertainty brings us. We try to transcend the turbulence of not knowing what the future holds and it only make us feel worse. Turning away from the pain of uncertainty makes it worse. Grasping for certainty makes it worse too. In this episode I share the humility of uncertainty and how it helped me find love. Get Mary Lee’s free career plan at www.MaryLeeGannon.com 

The holidays are full of joy, love, wonder and fun…for some. For others they can be full of stress, difficult family members, disappointment and sadness. And for most of us it is a mixture of both. In this episode you learn how to plan and set healthy boundaries around a holiday season and New Year so that you can be fulfilled, relieved and satisfied with clarity and a sound strategy for the year ahead. Get more free tools at www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email Mary Lee at [email protected]