WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk with Elaine Lou Cartas

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WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk with Elaine Lou Cartas episodes

October 08142: How to have difficult conversations & ask for a promotion (Replay talk for Kroger)
Hear my keynote talk for Kroger with 80+ store and assistant store managers of Ralphs and Food4Less. We talk about how to have difficult conversations including:
Why your brain goes into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn during difficult conversations
The one word to use I use to stop an overbearing colleague
How to ask for a promotion
Resources:
Eisenhower Decision Matrix for time management: https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/
Zones of Regulation, the emotional regulation tool I learned from my therapist: https://zonesofregulation.com
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
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1 hr 18 min
October 01141: How to Build a side Business, while Working full time with Autoimmunity with Amber Ivey
Don’t want to leave your job, but want to have a side business? It can be done and my client, Amber Ivey and I have a candid conversation about this. We talk about:
How to build a 9-5, then 5-9 routine while honoring her ADHD brain and her body's limits with MS
How to use AI in your life: A simple framework for deciding which tasks you keep, which ones AI helps with, and which ones you hand off completely.
Why tired doesn't mean successful: We talk about eldest daughters, generational burnout, and what happened when Amber finally looked at the numbers she was sure she'd missed. I made her build a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet had receipts.
Resources Mentioned
www.aidigitales.com
www.aidigicards.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberivey/
https://www.ambermivey.com/
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
Follow the Podcast on Apple
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Follow Elaine on Instagram: @elainelou_
Connect with Elaine on LinkedIn: Elaine Lou Cartas
Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
1 hr 3 min
August 27140: Imposter Syndrome, Burnout & Being a Child of Immigrants
I’m stuck on a boat with a therapist and HR leaders and we coach each other on:
How to have difficult conversations
How to scale a small business sustainably
Work-life balance
How to find a job in this economy
The challenges of being a child of immigrants
Resources Mentioned
Therapist: Jennifer Oh
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
Follow the Podcast on Apple
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Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
1 hr 20 min
August 20139: Stop Performing, Start Closing: Follow-Up Over Followers
Main Points
In this episode, I break down the exact live pitch I just gave to 100+ minority small business owners, the one that's helped me beat last year's revenue and grow profit margins by 23%, all without being social media dependent.
My real breakdown on how I get sales, and how it’s not dependent on social media
How I don’t have to perform and post all the time on social media and consistent sales
The AI prompt I use before every conference to walk in already knowing who I need to talk to
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
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Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
18 min
July 30138: My 9-Year Business Anniversary: What I Quit to Go From Chaos to Calm
Main Points
It’s my 9 Year Business Anniversary and I’m sharing:
How I surpassed last year's revenue in cash flow already, and increased my profit margins by 24%
How I quit copying everyone else's business model and turned my business from chaos into calm and peace
How quitting alcohol, Muay Thai group class, and hustle culture helped me get there
Resources Mentioned
My bookkeepers: Evolved Finance
Uchechi Kalu, CFP
Feend Media
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Atomic Habits
Autoimmunity & The Good Girl
psychologytoday.com
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
Follow the Podcast on Apple
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Follow Elaine on Instagram: @elainelou_
Connect with Elaine on LinkedIn: Elaine Lou Cartas
Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
40 min
July 16137: Difficult Conversations & Self-Defense: In the Boardroom and on the Streets
Main Points
Self-care is more than just getting a massage, mani/pedi, it’s listening to those whispers of what you need to change in your life.
This is a replay of my talk from the Women Leading Travel Forum in New Orleans with top female leaders from travel and hospitality, where I was leading a leadership workshop on how to handle difficult conversations at work; plus a live self-defense demo I brought onto the main stage. Whether it’s in the board room or in the real world, it’s the same strategy.
In this episode:
The exact script for dealing with a narcissist at work: The neuroscience behind your trauma response, and the 1 calm question that makes them short-circuit.
How to manage up and down without burning out: Why "my team is overwhelmed" doesn't land, and the script that actually gets you heard.
My raise/promotion homework, plus a live self-defense demo
Resources Mentioned
Women Leading Travel
Autoimmunity and the Good Girls by Sara Hirsh Bordo
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
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Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
1 hr 10 min
July 02136: Should You Blowup Your Career in Midlife? And Other Questions Women Ask Themselves with Meredith Herrera
Main Points
It seems like every millennial I’m talking to is going through a mid-life crisis. My former client turned friend and fellow coach, Meredith Herrera, and I talka bout:
Why your 20% might already be everyone else's 100%, and why it’s OK not to give your 100%
The difference between burnout & outgrowing something
What her dad said when she told him she was "unemployed" on purpose
The question I've now stolen for my own coaching sessions: "What are you pretending not to know that you know?"
Our AIM screennames, you’ll be shocked what mine is
Resources Mentioned
Connect with Meredith: mherreraconsulting.com
Meredith’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith-herrera-30652010/
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
Follow the Podcast on Apple
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Follow Elaine on Instagram: @elainelou_
Connect with Elaine on LinkedIn: Elaine Lou Cartas
Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
1 hr 13 min
May 21135: Workplace Trauma: What To Do When You're Stuck with Maya Borgueta, PsyD
Main Points
Common themes I’m hearing from clients include burnout and microagressions. In this podcast episode, I connect with Dr. Maya Borgueta where we get into:
What trauma actually is, and what it’s not
The workplace trauma trends we’re seeing now from blurred boundaries to layoffs and what to do about it
Why microaggressions is traumatic
The signs you might be carrying workplace trauma without realizing it
Resources Mentioned
https://www.psychologytoday.com/
stelanovapsych.com
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
Follow the Podcast on Apple
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Follow Elaine on Instagram: @elainelou_
Connect with Elaine on LinkedIn: Elaine Lou Cartas
Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
50 min
April 30134: Executive Influence at the Queen Mary: Using Conscious Conversations® to Lead, Communicate & Get What You Want
I did a talk on emotional influence and how to get raises and start a business at the Queen Mary in Long Beach. It was for a women’s retreat with Humansave, a nonprofit that helps survivors of human trafficking. In this episode we talk about:
Why your nervous system is your biggest leadership asset (or liability)
The one document that gets you the raise, and why you should talk to your boss before you demand a raise
How to stop over-explaining and start leading with authority
My follow-up formula on how I raised $11 million as a former fundraiser
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
Follow the Podcast on Apple
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Follow Elaine on Instagram: @elainelou_
Connect with Elaine on LinkedIn: Elaine Lou Cartas
Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
Check out Humansave
1 hr 1 min
April 16133: Balancing It All As a Woman: Leadership, Anxiety & Self-Advocacy with Amazon
As a female leader, unfortunately, you aren’t alone when it comes to leadership, anxiety and self-advocacy.
This is part 2 of my keynote recording from SoCal Amazon Women’s Conference. But this time, I’m joined by 3 other incredible women of color operations leaders from Amazon who rose through the ranks quickly. In this episode, we get into:
What it looks like to lead a team of 100+ while holding it together
Why playing it safe is keeping you stuck
How your empathy and emotion are strengths, not liabilities
The importance of understanding seasons at your work
Managing anxiety at work (We talked therapy & I shared the 2 therapeutic methods that actually helped me)
How to advocate for yourself without feeling like you're bragging
Where We Can Connect:
Schedule a Business & Career Review call with me to see if it’s a good fit to work together: elainelou.com/call
Check out our 300+ reviews on Google | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website
Follow the Podcast on Apple
Follow the Podcast on Spotify
Follow Elaine on Instagram: @elainelou_
Connect with Elaine on LinkedIn: Elaine Lou Cartas
Check out our other podcasts for Women of Color
1 hr 3 min

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