Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

It goes without saying that confidence is key when it comes to being a fierce female entrepreneur. However, confidence does not come easily to everyone, so it needs to be learned and practiced. A lack of confidence can hold you back and make you feel stuck, but what you may not realize is that gaining confidence can be a fantastic growth strategy.

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In today's episode, I discuss the importance of building your confidence while growing your business and why not all forms of confidence will result in business success. I explain the three types of confidence you need to help you scale your business and tips on how you can build your confidence while growing your organization. I also explain the importance of being curious and asking for blunt feedback and why it's okay if your work-life and personal-life is unbalanced as you scale your business.

"Building confidence is absolutely critical for all women leaders, but it is completely non-negotiable for women entrepreneurs." - Eleanor Beaton

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Why confidence is the ultimate growth strategy for your business.
• The top 3 areas of confidence that you should focus on.
• How to ask for and receive blunt feedback.
• Who you should ask for feedback.
• Why you don't need to have all of the answers all the time.
• How curiosity can help you become successful.
• The problem with the concept of a work/life balance.
• How confidence can help you when work/life balance is not possible.

The 3 Types of Confidence Women Need for Business Growth:

1. Confidence to ask the right people for blunt feedback.
2. Confidence to admit you don't have all the answers.
3. Confidence to temporarily give up work/life balance.

Resources Mentioned:

• The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

• Episode 266: Daily Harvest Founder Rachel Drori on the Art of the $43Million Deal

Fierce Leadership Quotes:

• "If you are a woman and you own your own business, confidence is the ultimate growth strategy for you." - Eleanor Beaton

• "One of the most insidious forms of unconscious gender bias is the tendency for people to hold back on delivering tough feedback to women." - Eleanor Beaton

• "The best CEOs, the most high-growth women entrepreneurs that I know are deeply curious. They are on a mission. They are seekers." - Eleanor Beaton

Reserve Your Spot for Power Up: The New Rules of Growth for Women Entrepreneurs Webinar

Would you like to revitalize your sales and become a more confident leader? Join me on Thursday, July 26 for the powerful hour-long webinar, Power Up: The New Rules of Growth for Women Entrepreneurs. I will be diving into surprising but practical strategies that I have seen women entrepreneurs use to advance their business. You will learn about the difference in habits between women who are able to grow their businesses and women who are stuck in a cycle of underachievement.

Power up your professional growth by visiting EleanorBeaton.com/Growth to reserve your spot today!

Join the Exclusive Incubator Program!

Are you ready to build, leverage, and scale your business to the next level? Ready to maximize your leadership skills and grow your business to 7-figures and beyond? Join our Incubator Program - the 12-month high-octane program that blends leadership strategy, accountability, and business building support to help you propel your business to the next level and increase your earning power. Head over to EleanorBeaton.com to learn more about The Incubator Program and submit your application today!

Triple Down on Your Personal Brand

Are you ready to grow your business, increase your impact, and build a powerhouse personal brand? Learn how to build a powerhouse personal brand that can help you open new doors of opportunities for your business and career. Grab our free whitepaper: 7 Unconventional Strategies to Build Your Personal Brand. Head over to EleanorBeaton.com/Brand to grab your copy of this powerful whitepaper and begin your journey to impact the world!

Grab Your Ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop!

Are you ready to ramp up your leadership skills, have more confidence in your instincts, cope with criticism and lead with conviction? Are you ready to unleash your inner-CEO and authentically position yourself in a category of ONE? Join me in Toronto, Canada on November 2-4 for the Power. Presence. Position. Workshop - the 3-day workshop designed to help you up-level your power, presence, and position within your business or organization.

Grab your ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop today!

Dial Up Your Impact, Influence, and Income in 2018

Are you ready to take your leadership and influence to the next level in 2018? Join the Impact & Influence Leadership Lab for Women with Eleanor Beaton – the world's premier leadership training and implementation program designed specifically for female leaders! This is an 8-week mentoring program for professional, ambitious women in business who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level and truly step into their power. Visit the Leadership Lab for Women website to see all of the amazing content, tools, and services you will receive by registering today to claim your seat at the table!

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Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/discover.

As fierce feminine leaders and entrepreneurs wearing many hats and taking on a wide variety of personal and professional responsibilities, finding ways to improve our productivity and get the most accomplished in our daily lives can sometimes seem unattainable. In fact, there are literally thousands of books, tools, and apps available on the internet that are designed to help people become more productive and manage their time more effectively. However, the truth is, we truly do not have an accurate gauge of how we spend our time – and because of that – we often feel like we are less productive than we truly are.

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My guest today is Laura Vanderkam, an expert in time management and productivity. Laura is the author of several productivity and time management books, including I Know How She Does It: What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast and 168 Hours. Her work has been featured in dozens of publications including Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, and USA Today. She joins me today to share her insight and research regarding how many highly successful women manage their time, the myths about having a big career while raising a family, and why she believes tracking your time throughout the week – including the weekends – is the key to discovering how you can improve your productivity and time management skills.

"How we think we spend our time often has very little relation to how we actually spend our time." – Laura Vanderkam

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• What she discovered after tracking her time in 30-minute increments
• Why she tracks her time during the weekend as well as during the week
• The biggest net benefits of tracking her time each week
• The misconception that having a big career or working full-time will reduce the amount of time you spend with your children
• Surprising trends she discovered during her 1,001-hour research project
• Utilizing morning hours and structuring morning routines to work for you

Laura Vanderkam's Top 3 Success Tips:

1. Track your time for one week.
2. Really think about what you want to spend more time doing.
3. Think about how you use those "little bits of time."

Connect with Laura Vanderkam:

• Laura Vanderkam website

Love the show? Let us know!

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!

Kim Chernecki is a sales coach, trainer, and the Founder of Freedom Street Inc., a training and coaching company that helps small business owners land lucrative corporate contracts. For over 25 years, her company has helped countless entrepreneurs grow their businesses and land corporate clients. She has worked with many well-known brands and businesses throughout Corporate Canada and North America including BMO and Manulife Financial. Additionally, she is the creator of the Land Corporate Clients Fast Track program as well as the Founder of the Trailblazers forum.

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Kim joins me today to explain why many small business owners and entrepreneurs often avoid reaching out to corporate clients. She explains how to prepare to do business with big corporate entities, the importance of clarifying and articulating your unique value proposition, and the difference between a discovery meeting and a pitch. She also shares some of the biggest mistakes she sees many entrepreneurs make when engaging with corporate clients as well as tips on how to avoid them.

If you are professional and you have a system and an approach in place that adds value, and you think of it as being their trusted advisor, people will want you to call them because they have needs." - Kim Chernecki

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The biggest turning point in her professional career that led to the development of her company.
• Lessons she has learned throughout her entrepreneurial career.
• Why she is passionate about helping entrepreneurs land corporate clients.
• Why she believes many small business owners fail to pursue corporate clients.
• Overcoming fears of connecting with corporate clients.
• Mistakes many entrepreneurs make when approaching corporate clients.
• The importance of clarifying and articulating your value proposition.
• The importance of focusing on the quality of your communications with corporate entities.
• The difference between a "discovery meeting" and a pitch.
• Identifying the proper time to develop a proposal.
• What are discussion documents and how they can help add value to your conversations with corporate clients?
• The importance of quoting project prices instead of hourly rates in your proposals.
• The difference between speaking with decision-makers vs. gatekeepers.
• How to get past corporate gatekeepers.
• Tips for creating a strong proposal.

Resources Mentioned:

• Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success book by Ken Segall
• Episode 243: How to Network with Power Players with Katie Burke of HubSpot

Kim Chernecki's Top 3 Success Tips for Female Entrepreneurs:

1. Work within your sweet spot.
2. Be persistent.
3. Find a coach who has been where you want to go.

Fierce Leadership Quotes:

• "Have quality communications rather than quantity." - Kim Chernecki
• "The bottom line is, you don't want to give proposals to gatekeepers. You need to be in front of the people who are the stakeholders." - Kim Chernecki
• "You need to get creative in order to get referred." - Kim Chernecki

Connect with Kim Chernecki:

• Freedom Street Inc.
• Freedom Street Inc. Free Gift!

Join the Exclusive Incubator Program!

Are you ready to build, leverage, and scale your business to the next level? Ready to maximize your leadership skills and grow your business to 7-figures and beyond? Join our Incubator Program - the 12-month high-octane program that blends leadership strategy, accountability, and business building support to help you propel your business to the next level and increase your earning power. Head over to EleanorBeaton.com to learn more about The Incubator Program and submit your application today!

Triple Down on Your Personal Brand

Are you ready to grow your business, increase your impact, and build a powerhouse personal brand? Learn how to build a powerhouse personal brand that can help you open new doors of opportunities for your business and career. Grab our free whitepaper: 7 Unconventional Strategies to Build Your Personal Brand. Head over to EleanorBeaton.com/Brand to grab your copy of this powerful whitepaper and begin your journey to impact the world!

Grab Your Ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop!

Are you ready to ramp up your leadership skills, have more confidence in your instincts, cope with criticism and lead with conviction? Are you ready to unleash your inner-CEO and authentically position yourself in a category of ONE? Join me in Toronto, Canada on November 2-4 for the Power. Presence. Position. Workshop - the 3-day workshop designed to help you up-level your power, presence, and position within your business or organization.

Grab your ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop today!

Dial Up Your Impact, Influence, and Income in 2018

Are you ready to take your leadership and influence to the next level in 2018? Join the Impact & Influence Leadership Lab for Women with Eleanor Beaton – the world's premier leadership training and implementation program designed specifically for female leaders! This is a 8-week mentoring program for professional, ambitious women in business who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level and truly step into their power. Visit the Leadership Lab for Women website to see all of the amazing content, tools, and services you will receive by registering today to claim your seat at the table!

Love the show? Let us know!

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/discover.

Whether you realize it or not, business and sports have a lot in common. Playing a sport teaches you how to be a good team member and team leader, but it also teaches you the importance of being comfortable with having possession. Every player on a top performing, top ranking sports team is comfortable with possessing and controlling the ball because they know that one day they could be in a position to make the winning goal.

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So, what can we learn from these top performing athletes and teams that can help us become better team members and team leaders in our organizations? On today's episode, I'm explaining the importance of getting comfortable with "controlling the ball" in your business and organization and how it can help you become a better leader, speaker, and business owner.

"The best leaders are self-possessed."

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Lessons we can learn from sports athletes to help us become better leaders
• The importance of getting comfortable with possession
• Identifying "spotlight masters" and "spotlight amateurs"

My Challenge to You:

• Think about your career, your business, your life as a giant soccer field
• When you have the ball, take a deep breath, trust yourself, and trust your instincts to make the right decision

Love the show? Let us know!

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.

Dial Up Your Impact, Influence, and Income in 2017

Are you ready to take your leadership and influence to the next level in 2018? Join the Impact & Influence Leadership Lab for Women with Eleanor Beaton – the world's premier leadership training and implementation program designed specifically for female leaders! This is a 8-week mentoring program for professional, ambitious women in business who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level and truly step into their power. Visit the Leadership Lab for Women website to see all of the amazing content, tools, and services you will receive by registering today to claim your seat at the table!

5 Ways Ambitious Career Women Give Their Power Away at Work Free Training

Are you ready to realize where your power leaks are and how to plug them? Join us for the 90-minute Free Master Class: 5 Ways Ambitious Career Women Give Their Power Away at Work!

You will learn…

• 5 surprising power leaks that derail the careers of highly ambitious female leaders
• How to tell if a lack of self-awareness is holding you back from opportunity and threatening your reputation
• Why so many professional women struggle to transform from being a do-er to being a leader
• Why the failure to change could keep you overlooked and underpaid
• Proven strategies to boost your confidence and personal power - even in the most competitive work environments and cultures

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!

FFL276 Chris Cebollero

Chris Cebollero is an internationally recognized leadership expert, keynote speaker, and the Senior Partner at Cebollero & Associates, a consulting firm focused on helping individuals and organizations transform their leadership teams through leadership development, coaching, sales force training, and organizational process improvements. He is the bestselling author of the Ultimate Success: Strategic Leadership Excellence book as well as the Ultimate Leadership: 10 Rules for Success and a Forbes contributing author. Additionally, he is an official member of the Forbes Coaches Council as well as a member of the John Maxwell Team.

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Chris joins me today to discuss the value of being open to making mistakes as an organizational leader. He explains why making mistakes is critical for personal and professional development, how organizations can encourage a culture of making mistakes, and where to draw the line between encouraging a mistake-making culture and keeping your team accountable. He also explains why allowing your team to make mistakes and failures is important to your company's growth, creativity, and innovation and why leaders should be willing to embrace their mistakes and failures as well as share them with their workforce.

"We've got to wrap our head around the fact that mistakes are what helps us grow; failure is what helps us grow. We need that education to become the best that we can be." - Chris Cebollero

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The importance of learning from mistakes and failures.
• Drawing the line between accountability and building a culture that encourages making mistakes.
• How having a culture that encourages mistakes and failures inspires creativity and innovation.
• The importance of frequently communicating with your team - especially during a crisis.
• The importance of sharing your message with your team.
• Mistakes he has made throughout his career.
• The importance of personal and professional development for organizational leaders.
• The importance of a vision statement and why you need to share it with your workforce.
• How his experience as a leader in the U.S. Air Force impacted his leadership skills.
• How embracing and sharing your mistakes and failures with your team can impact your organization's culture.
• Leadership lessons he has learned as a First Responder.
• His definition of leadership.

Fierce Leadership Quotes:

• "Accountability and creating a culture of mistakes and failures are on two different spectrums." - Chris Cebollero
• "Success doesn't happen by chance. Your vision statement is your blueprint and framework to start your process of organizational success." - Chris Cebollero
• "Leadership is about action." - Chris Cebollero

Connect with Chris Cebollero:

• Cebollero & Associates
• The Ultimate Leadership Podcast
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter

Triple Down on Your Personal Brand

Are you ready to grow your business, increase your impact, and build a powerhouse personal brand? Learn how to build a powerhouse personal brand that can help you open new doors of opportunities for your business and career. Grab our free whitepaper: 7 Unconventional Strategies to Build Your Personal Brand. Head over to EleanorBeaton.com/Brand to grab your copy of this powerful whitepaper and begin your journey to impact the world!

Grab Your Ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop!

Are you ready to ramp up your leadership skills, have more confidence in your instincts, cope with criticism and lead with conviction? Are you ready to unleash your inner-CEO and authentically position yourself in a category of ONE? Join me in Toronto, Canada on November 2-4 for the Power. Presence. Position. Workshop - the 3-day workshop designed to help you up-level your power, presence, and position within your business or organization.

Grab your ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop today!

Dial Up Your Impact, Influence, and Income in 2018

Are you ready to take your leadership and influence to the next level in 2018? Join the Impact & Influence Leadership Lab for Women with Eleanor Beaton – the world's premier leadership training and implementation program designed specifically for female leaders! This is a 8-week mentoring program for professional, ambitious women in business who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level and truly step into their power. Visit the Leadership Lab for Women website to see all of the amazing content, tools, and services you will receive by registering today to claim your seat at the table!

Love the show? Let us know!

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/discover.

As your life, your business, and your career continue to evolve, it's common to need to make tweaks and changes within your personal and professional life to continue your journey to achieving success. Even small changes can have a significant impact on how you show up in the world.

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Today, I want to share with you one small tweak that I recently made in my personal life and how it has dramatically improved my business – and my life.

By taking ownership of my daily schedule, by making a small tweak, I've really been able to generate great results.

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• How small changes in your daily routine can improve how you show up in the world
• How outsourcing tasks and finding an accountability partner helps "free up" mental space so you can work more productively

My Challenge to You:

• Ask yourself: What small tweak can I make in my daily schedule that can generate big results?
• Ask yourself: What am I not allowing myself to consider because I think "this is the only way it works for me?"
• Be open and fluid. Explore opportunities. Try new things.

Love the show? Let us know!

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!

In an age where fame is celebrated for fame, many fierce feminine leaders hold themselves back from building a powerful personal brand. Some even believe that building a personal brand is little more than a vacuous, attention-seeking activity when, in reality, it is so much more than that.

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On today's episode, I'm sharing a replay of a recent personal branding training seminar called Rise Up: 7 Unconventional Strategies to Build Your Personal Brand. I explain what a personal brand is and why it's important for advancing your career or business as well as share actionable strategies you can use to start building your powerful personal brand. I also explain why you should view your personal brand as a reflection of your values and what you represent and why it should be considered an asset to your professional career.

"When you think about great leaders - in order for them to be great leaders, to be recognized as such - it's not just the impact that they have one-on-one. It's about what they represent and the impact they have at scale.' - Eleanor Beaton

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• How building a personal brand allows you to make a greater impact on your industry and humanity.
• How your personal brand relates to your values and what you represent.
• What is a personal brand?
• Why your personal brand should be considered an asset to your business and career.
• Why now is the time to build your personal brand
• Identifying the core reason you want to build a personal brand and what you want to achieve.
• The life cycle of opportunity.
• Getting clear on various obstacles you may face as you build your personal brand and how to overcome them.
• How your personal brand impacts your influence.
• The connection between leadership, influence, and your personal
• Overcoming the fear of playing big.
• Dealing with criticism and push back while creating impact and building a personal brand.
• How adopting a mission bigger than yourself helps you build a strong personal brand.
• How to identify a bigger, more meaningful mission to adopt.
• What it means to own the promise of your mission.
• The importance of sharing your bold, galvanizing point of view on topics you are passionate about.
• Overcoming the "people pleaser" mindset and getting comfortable with other people disagreeing with you.
• The difference between fear-based boundaries and intentional boundaries.
• The importance of mastering the art of public speaking.
• What "conviction' means and how to cultivate it.

Fierce Leadership Quotes:

• "When you have impact at scale, it means you can amplify the impact that you want to have for much less effort."
• "If your personal brand exists only for other people - you are missing the biggest part of the equation."
• "Your personal brand is about intentional contribution that reflects your values."

Triple Down on Your Personal Brand

Are you ready to grow your business, increase your impact, and build a powerhouse personal brand? Learn how to build a powerhouse personal brand that can help you open new doors of opportunities for your business and career. Grab our free whitepaper: 7 Unconventional Strategies to Build Your Personal Brand. Head over to EleanorBeaton.com/Brand to grab your copy of this powerful whitepaper and begin your journey to impact the world!

Grab Your Ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop!

Are you ready to ramp up your leadership skills, have more confidence in your instincts, cope with criticism and lead with conviction? Are you ready to unleash your inner-CEO and authentically position yourself in a category of ONE? Join me in Toronto, Canada on November 2-4 for the Power. Presence. Position. Workshop - the 3-day workshop designed to help you up-level your power, presence, and position within your business or organization.

Grab your ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop today!

Dial Up Your Impact, Influence, and Income in 2018

Are you ready to take your leadership and influence to the next level in 2018? Join the Impact & Influence Leadership Lab for Women with Eleanor Beaton – the world's premier leadership training and implementation program designed specifically for female leaders! This is a 8-week mentoring program for professional, ambitious women in business who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level and truly step into their power. Visit the Leadership Lab for Women website to see all of the amazing content, tools, and services you will receive by registering today to claim your seat at the table!

Love the show? Let us know!

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/discover.

Susan Richards is an entrepreneur, accountant, and the Co-Founder of two highly successful businesses - Numbercrunch, Inc., and Givopoly. Numbercrunch is a forward-thinking accounting support company focused on helping startups and small and mid-sized enterprises manage their business finances through Virtual CFO, accounting, and bookkeeping services.

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In 2012, she founded Givopoly, an online gift delivery marketplace in Ottawa, Canada that provides local customers and organizations with cost-effective, fun Employee Rewards and Recognition products. Susan has previously served on the boards of several organizations, including the CMA of Ontario, Equal Voice, and the Advisory Board for Algonquin College. Today, she is a proud volunteer on the Board of Directors for the Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards as well as an advisor at AmbiSHEOus.

Susan joins me today to share how she pursued her personal interests while working in an organization, the lessons she learned throughout her childhood about entrepreneurship, and how Numbercrunch and Givopoly initially began. She explains the difference between "growth mode" and "expansion mode" as it relates to building your business and how she finds balances her time, energy and creativity while juggling her career and personal life. She also explains why she believes it's critical for more women to have a seat at the boardroom tables and what we need to do to help women achieve this goal.

"There is absolutely an open mind to getting women on boards. What there isn't is a nudge." - Susan Richards

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• How her family and childhood experience encouraged her entrepreneurial spirit.
• The most powerful lessons she has learned about entrepreneurship.
• How she pursued her personal interests while working within an organization.
• The biggest insights and takeaways she has learned while working with startups.
• How Numbercrunch got started and how it has grown to achieve success.
• Lessons she has learned from transitioning from a CFO role to a CEO role.
• How Givopoly started.
• The difference between "growth mode" and "expansion mode."
• How she balances her time, energy, and creativity while juggling her career and personal life.
• Why she believes it's critical for women to have a seat on startup boards.
• What she believes businesses and organizations need to get more women on board seats.

Susan Richard's Top 3 Success Tips for Fierce Feminine Entrepreneurs:

1. Have a partner.
2. Give a lot of thought to your business model.
3. Serve a need - not a want.

Fierce Leadership Quotes:

• "Kill it at the job you're doing. Make yourself so valuable to that company that they will give you more and more trust. You can be the role you want to be in that organization." - Susan Richards
• "I came to the realization that if I'm going to do intense professional - I need to do intense personal. It all kind of balances against each other." - Susan Richards
• "There are great organizations now that are helping to train women and make them aware of large board positions, but in parallel to that, we can just tap each other on the shoulders and get us in the right room and make people aware." - Susan Richards

Triple Down on Your Personal Brand

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Lolly Daskal is the CEO of Lead From Within, a New York Times best-selling author, and one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world who has worked with executive leaders in hundreds of companies across 14 countries. Her proprietary leadership program has helped leaders enhance their performance to make meaningful impacts in their companies, their lives, and the world. She has been named one of the Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc.com, one of the 100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Event by Inc. Magazine, and The Huffington Post has named her as The Most Inspiring Woman of the World.

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Lolly joins me today to share her story and provide practical strategies on how fierce feminine leaders can explore their leadership gaps to step into their power and lead from within. She also shares ways for you to leverage your "impostor syndrome" to improve your leadership skills and describes her "leadership archetypes".

"Striving for perfection is striving to fail." - Lolly Daskal

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Why discipline and routines are important to her
• The relationship between being present and being disciplined
• How being disciplined can give you a sense of grounding and expansiveness
• Balancing the desire to learn, improve, and enhance with the idea that "I'm not broken."
• How biographies can be more impactful than self-help books
• Her definition of a great leader
• Overcoming challenges when a concept becomes a reality
• Her leadership archetypes
• What the "R.E.T.H.I.N.K. System" is and how it can help you become a better leader
• How to leverage your leadership gaps to become the best version of yourself
• The importance of identifying your personal message to the world - then living it

How to Leverage Your Impostor Syndrome:

1. Stop comparing yourself to others.
2. Ask yourself: "What did I do today that was better than yesterday? What will I do tomorrow that will be better than today?"
3. Understand the distinction between perfection and excellence.

Resources Mentioned:

• Man's Search for Meaning book by Viktor Frankl
• Personal History book by Katharine Graham
• The Profiles of Courage by John F. Kennedy
• New York Times: By the Book

Connect with Lolly Daskal:

• com
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

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A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.

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As highly ambitious women, striving to reach our goals, dreams, and meet the needs of our clients often leads us to striving for the near-impossible – perfection. Highly ambitious, professional women and female entrepreneurs often find themselves spending countless hours changing, tweaking, revising, and polishing our work – whether it's that next blog post or the next big course we want to launch – before we finally put it out into the world.

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This "perfection addiction" is a common issue for many new and experienced entrepreneurs as well as highly ambitious, successful professional women. Today, I want to share with you my 5 powerhouse strategies for coping with – and overcoming – the perfect addiction.

"Embrace the mantra that 'done' truly is better than 'perfect'."

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Overcoming the fear of "dropping the ball" when faced with the opportunity to scale and grow
• Reconciling growth and ambition with perfection

5 Powerful Strategies to Cope with Perfection Addiction:

1. Embrace constraints
2. Embrace public accountability
3. Release attachment to limiting relationships
4. Find bold, imperfect role models
5. Boss up, woman!

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Love the show? Let us know!

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month's drawing!

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!