The X Podcast

By Brenda RIgneyBusiness Entrepreneurship

The X Podcast episodes

December 05, 2022 Advancing the Pay Equity of Women with Jillian Climie and Sophie Warwick
This week's guests on The X Podcast are Jillian Climie and Sophie Warwick - Founders ofThe Thoughtful Co.
The Thoughtful Co. is a consultancy focused on advancing equity for women in the workplace. They advise women in compensation and contract negotiations, from junior roles to senior executives, and advise companies on retention, policy and governance, informed by research.
Note: "women" includes anyone who identifies as a woman.
Jillian spent her career advising and leading teams in executive compensation and corporate governance, both as a consultant, and in-house at two global retailers. Most recently at Lululemon, she led the global equity compensation and executive compensation programs.
Sophie has spent her career in structural engineering consulting where she designs multi-use and residential buildings, from early conception to project completion. In 2018, she Co-Founded Women in Consulting Engineering (WCE), a non-profit organization to support and empower women in engineering.
You can learn more about The Thoughtful Co at https://www.thethoughtfulco.net/
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40 min
November 27, 2022 How to be waaaaay more productive through these daily reflection tools
On this episode of The X Podcast, I am sharing a recorded LIVE session from Instagram, called Knowing Your Feelings, where I dive into how your thinking reflects on your feelings and manifests into your reality. Listen for my recommendations on how to manage your thoughts and feelings. The thoughts, feelings, and actions in your Aligned Model allow you to see how you’re creating your results. This is vital because it will show you how to think, feel, and act to achieve your next goal.
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36 min
November 22, 2022 How to negotiate 30-60% more salary in your next job interview with Sam Struan
You're going to want to take notes from this guest today. We have Sam Struan, Salary Negotiation Coach on The X Podcast.
Sam is a talent acquisition professional and executive career coach. He has a decade of experience working for executive search firms and leading internal talent acquisition teams for rapidly-growing global tech companies that have raised over $1bn in funding.In 2020, he led the team that recruited over 400 doctors, nurses, clinical operations, and business support staff in ~6 months to create the largest publicly-accessible digital healthcare service in BC. No small effort during a global pandemic.Now, he works as a recruiter, résumé writer and salary negotiation coach.
To learn more about Sam, check him out on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sstruan/
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28 min
November 14, 2022 How to stop spiralling in your doubt, self-pity and blame and start to releasing these beliefs to find greater joy in your life
This week on The X Podcast, I am talking about uncovering your limiting beliefs.
No matter what is happening in the world, you always get to choose your thoughts about it. If you're indulging in self-pity, blame, or any other limiting beliefs about yourself or others, it's not a good use of your brain.
In this episode, I share some fantastic approaches to bring awareness to your thoughts so you can love harder, set clear boundaries, unlock your money blocks, take massive action towards your goals and more.
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30 min
November 07, 2022 Building a community of inspired and connected women with Laura Van Der Veer
This week on The X Podcast is Laura Van Der Veer. Co-Founder of She Summits Forum
Laura also a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, a community builder and women-led business mentor. She simply loves nature and human connection!
She Summits Forum has mission is to elevate and empower 1 million women by 2025 and ignite the untapped potential within themselves. While their vision is for all self-identifying women to feel supported, confident, and empowered within themselves, their communities, and their workplaces so they can reach their own life summits.
When not empowering and engaging with incredible women you'll find Laura outside mushroom foraging, trail running, hiking with her dog Bo, and always taking photos.
To learn more about She Summits Forum, check out: https://www.shesummitsforum.com/
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29 min
November 01, 2022 MONEY, money, money: Releasing Your Money Blocks & Taking Massive Action With Your Goals
This week on The X Podcast I am sharing a replay of a LIVE masterclass I did on Releasing Your Money Blocks.
Considering we have two months remaining in 2022, this is a good time as any to start releasing your money blocks so you can begin to take massive action towards the goals you desire most in 2023.
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33 min
October 24, 2022 Holistic Advance Elder Care & Estate Planning with Christa Ovenell
Welcome to the X Podcast with Christa Ovenell, Founder of Death’s Apprentice Education and Planning.
Her company specializes in holistic advance care planning for individuals and forward-thinking companies.
She is a licensed funeral director and embalmer, as well as an end-of-life doula, community death educator and columnist on CBC Radio’s province-wide weekend morning show "North by Northwest”.
Christa takes a heart-centred, pragmatic approach to difficult topics, helping people get comfortable thinking about, talking about, and planning for life’s *only* certainty.
You can reach her on instagram or her website at deathsapprentice.ca
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35 min
October 18, 2022 Building Fearless Workplace Cultures By Design with Gustavo Razzetti
This week on The X Podcast we catch up with Gustavo Razzetti.
Gustavo is the CEO and founder of Fearless Culture, a culture design consultancy that helps teams do the best work of their lives. For more than 20 years, Gustavo has helped leaders from Fortune 500s, startups, nonprofits, and everything in between on every continent but Antarctica.Gustavo is also the creator of the Culture Design Canvas, a framework used by thousands of teams and organizations across the world to map, assess, and design their culture. In addition to his consulting work with clients, Gustavo regularly speaks with leaders and teams about culture change, teamwork, and hybrid workplaces. His coaching and tools have helped countless executives and teams develop work environments where people collaborate to accelerate individual and collective performance.
A prolific writer and author of four books, including his most recent "Remote, Not Distant," Gustavo’s insights have been featured in The New York Times, Psychology Today, Forbes, BBC, and Fortune, among others.
You can find Gustavo here: https://gustavorazzetti.com/
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29 min
October 12, 2022 5 Ways to Take Massive Action with the Life You Desire Most with Jess Robson
What an exciting treat to have Jess Robson, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Coach back on The X Podcast.
Jess and I got into a robust dialogue 5 Ways to Take Massive Action With the Life You Desire Most. If you're stuck on how to get your goals activated this is the podcast you'll want to dive into. I share all of my how-to's on taking massive action on your goals without overwhelm or burnout.
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1 hr 7 min
September 30, 2022 Get the goods on what to expect from The reTREAT
Get the goods on what to expect from The reTREAT happening November 8-10 at Bodega Ridge on Galiano Island.
We'll enchant you with stories of island life, island time, island energy and cold water plunges...among other random island-related things.
If you're keen to fine tune your self awareness into strategic skills to amplify your personal and/or professional life - plus get the benefit of resting and renewing in one of the coziest spaces this side of the Rockies

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29 min

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