Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

All of us have dreams. Some dream of pursuing their dream career or profession while others dream of making a great name for themselves in business. Whichever dream you might have, one thing is for certain: You have to invest in yourself and trust me when I say your future self will thank you if you start now.

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Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• Imagine your dreams and goals to be like a small baby. In order for babies to grow healthy and strong, you have to give them all the time and commitment just like your dreams.
• It's natural for women in our society to put other people in front of us but now it's time to focus on you.
• You won't be able to grow your dreams if you don't invest on them or feed it scraps.
• You have to improve your belief and commitment to your dreams so you can improve your belief and commitment to yourself.
• Put your money where your mouth is. Invest in your dreams.
• Do not give up on goals when they get hard. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
• Don't make excuses to put your dreams on hold.
• Successful companies burn through loads of cash when they're growing. You yourself can't grow without spending money.
• Investing in yourself first is a powerful mindset so invest in you.
• Investing on something is not the same as doing work to generate the results. You can't spend your way out of a problem.

My Challenge To You!

Take your dreams and goals seriously. Commit to investing in yourself and in those goals to make them a reality. Get access to the right kind of people who possess the right kind of skills and influences. Give yourself permission to invest in yourself.

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According to research, over half of today's workforce is made up of women professionals, but far less have achieved their goals of landing a top position within their company. Statistics show that by mid-career, these powerful women with leadership potential lose their desire to reach the top midway in their careers.

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ELEANOR BEATON PODCAST EPISODE 14 Click Here For The 7 Critical Career Competencies

In this episode, I am going to share with you the top three career derailers that are the most common reasons for great, aspiring women to lose their desire and confidence in landing that top spot.

1. Broaden Your Career Focus

Women tend to specialize in specific roles within their company. Specializing in a particular field can all too often limit your chances for successfully landing a top position or becoming the company's next CEO. Ladies, if you want to become an influential woman leader, you need to learn and appreciate how your organization works as a whole, and to do that, you need to start making lateral moves into unknown territory.

Until you learn how your company works as an entity, you won't be able to lead it.

1. Become a 'People Person' – Learn How to Work with People You Don't Like

Being a "people person" does not mean that everyone has to like you – or that you have to like everyone. It means that you have successfully mastered the art of communicating and working with people whose personalities may conflict with your own. Mastering this skill is an incredibly important attribute to have when you are trying to land a top seat in your company or organization.

After all, you don't think Sheryl Sandberg likes everyone she ever worked with at Facebook and Google, do you? Of course not, but by learning how to build solid working relationships with people, it enabled her to become a top women leader.

1. Take Smart Risks

Being a CEO often involves taking smart risks. If you want to be a CEO of your company, you need to learn how to get out of your comfort zone and make the decision to take a smart risk. Ask for tough assignments, even if they are only short-term projects. Raise your hand at the next meeting and allow your voice and opinions to be heard. Volunteer new ideas to your boss and ask for new and different roles in the company. Some new positions may require you to accept a demotion, but that's okay! It will only help your career in the long-run.

There are too many women in the workforce playing it safe at work. If you want to be CEO, you cannot be one of them. Get the courage to speak up, take risks, and lead your career YOUR way.

Only you have control over the direction of your career. It's time to get the courage you need to take action and be the Fierce Feminine Leader we all know you can be!

If you'd like to learn more about the top 7 career competencies for women CEOs, feel free to click the link below and enter your email address, so we know where to send the checklist on the critical skill sets women need to obtain the top spot in their company.

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Until next time…

Stay Fierce!

My guest today is a quintessential powerhouse female business leader in the finance and trading industry, Aine O'Flynn. Aine is the Global Head of Equity Products for our amazing sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal. She is responsible for the global research, sales, trading, and derivatives for the company. Aine has a unique and interesting background. Following the birth of her second child, she decided to take a 2-and-a-half-year break from her career to focus on her children. When she decided to return to work, she made it her mission to make a strong comeback, hit the ground running, and build the powerful career she dreamed of.

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She joins me today to share the story of how she moved from being a technical expert in her business and into the world of sales. She also shares how she found well-connected, influential sponsors inside her organization and how she cultivated those relationships.

"When you come back, you have to be all in." – Aine O'Flynn

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The most significant turning point that has helped shaped her as a leader
• The importance of taking risks in your career
• How to handle customer questions that you may not know the answer to
• How to secure powerful sponsors
• How to make a powerful career comeback after taking a sabbatical
• The biggest challenges and opportunities in her career
• How to advocate for yourself and lead authentically

Aine O'Flynn's Top 5 Success Tips:

1. Work hard
2. Advocate for yourself
3. Take risks
4. Don't be afraid to fail
5. Be honest

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D.

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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.

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!

Do you dream of writing a book? Becoming a published author is a great way to step into your power and position yourself as an expert in your field. My guest today is Joanna Penn, an international professional speaker, published author, and an award-winning entrepreneur who has published over 20 fiction and non-fiction books, selling over half a million copies worldwide. She has been named as a new York Times and USA Today bestselling author and voted by The Guardian newspaper as one of the Top 100 Creative Professionals in 2013. Additionally, Joanna runs a small press company with her husband.

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Joanna joins me today to share how she pivoted her career from working in the corporate world in an industry she no longer enjoyed to becoming a published author. She shares her secrets for selling over 500,000 books on Amazon, how she combined her passion for business with her passion for writing, and she provides practical tips for leveraging the power of Amazon to launch your career as an author.

"The most important thing as a full-time creative is creating." – Joanna Penn

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The "author entrepreneur" business model
• Time management strategies and tips
• Why the platform to sell your book is critical to the success of your journey as a creative entrepreneur
• Creating a scalable business as an author
• How to market and sell your books worldwide
• How the business model for selling courses differs from selling books
• Tips for marketing your books
• How marketing non-fiction books differs from marketing fiction books
• Contract tips for working with publishers

Joanna Penn's Top 4 Success Factors:

1. Defining success and writing affirmations
2. Taking action
3. Constantly learning
4. Being consistent

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Amazon's Create Space
• Kobo
• iBooks
• ACX
• Draft 2 Digital
• Publish Drive
• Success Principles by Jack Canfield
• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Connect with Joanna Penn:

• The Creative Penn
• The Creative Penn Blueprint
• The Creative Penn Podcast
• F. Penn
• How to Market a Book by Joanna Penn

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!

We all know that feedback is vitally important to our growth as entrepreneurs. Without feedback, how would we know what areas of our business and the way we lead our teams need to be improved upon? Sometimes, though, feedback can be hard to accept. Sometimes, well-intentioned people in our lives give us feedback that may not be helpful in advancing us toward the next level of success we want to achieve in our lives, businesses, or careers.

On today's episode, I'm sharing 5 powerful tips on getting the candid feedback you need to advance in your business and career. I'm also sharing a few key strategies that I use to help me decipher whether a piece of feedback that I receive is truly feedback or merely a statement of judgement as well as how I handle the judgmental "haters" that provide unconstructive feedback.

"Attitude, moodiness, and defensiveness are the surest ways to have people stop bringing you feedback and begin writing you off."

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The relationship between gender bias and the lack of feedback among female professionals
• Getting used to receiving and asking for blunt, harsh feedback
• How to identify and handle unconstructive criticism

3 Ways to Handle Unconstructive Criticism:

1. Remember Oprah's phrase: "People will support you until you exceed their expectations of you."
2. Allow yourself to get angry. It's okay to rant and vent a little!
3. Identify if there is a lesson you can take from the feedback. If so, take the lesson. If not, discard the feedback and move on.

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Episode 181 The $1.5 Billion Woman Cindy Whitehead on Being Unapologetically Pink

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!

Cindy Whitehead is a powerhouse serial entrepreneur, speaker, and a highly-regarded women's health advocate. She has been called a "tireless force of nature" by Fortune and over the last 10 years, she has successfully sold two businesses for over $1.5 billion U.S. dollars. Her success story has been featured in The New York Times, The Associated Press, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and Bloomberg.

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In 2016, she founded The Pink Ceiling, a venture capital and consulting enterprise for women. Today, Cindy joins me to share her insight on why it's so important for women to get advice and listen to candid mentors that not only encourage us, but will also share things we may not want to hear.

"You always have to be unapologetic in your mission." – Cindy Whitehead

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• What drove her to start her first business
• Finding the right investors to scale your business
• What inspired her to transition her focus on male sexual health to female sexual health
• Society's "value judgement" on sexual health for women
• The moment of validation that pushed her to dispute the FDA
• The biggest lesson she has learned in building and scaling two successful businesses
• The Pinkubator's mission
• Common success factors and capacity gaps among female entrepreneurs
• The importance of giving and receiving direct feedback
• The celebration of entrepreneurship and the issue with the absence of candor
• How she ensures she receives candid feedback
• Cultivating your own "unusual creativity" to fuel innovation

Mentioned in This Episode:

• A Curious Mind book by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman

Connect with Cindy Whitehead:

• The Pink Ceiling
• [email protected]
• Cindy Whitehead on Twitter
• Cindy Whitehead on Instagram

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!

Rosetta Thurman is the founder of Happy Black Woman, a 500,000-woman strong tribe where she teaches women – particularly black women – how to step into their power, feel empowered, and live their best lives through personal development and entrepreneurship. In as little as 7 years, she quit her job as the executive director of a non-profit organization, start a successful blog, build her massive tribe, and create a 7-figure business.

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Today, Rosetta takes us behind the scenes on how she built her massive tribe. She explains how she learned how to protect her time and exert her boundaries while consistently staying in pursuit of her goals, dreams, and aspirations. She shares why she feels staying true to herself and her authenticity as a black woman has helped her connect and inspire so many women around the world, leading them on their successful journey to creating and building the life they deserve.

"Nobody has a right to disrupt your energy. It's a choice you make." – Rosetta Thurman

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• How she built her tribe by staying authentic and true to herself
• The commitment she made to allow herself quiet time to reflect
• The balancing act between serving the world without neglecting yourself
• Her journey of releasing her limiting beliefs
• How being motivated by her own desires instead of other people's fears have helped her open new doors of opportunity
• How she uses her Manifestation Journal as an affirmation technique to achieving her goals
• The most common limiting belief shared among women
• How releasing limiting beliefs and stepping into your power can impact your mindset and help you achieve your goals

Connect with Rosetta Thurman:

• Happy Black Woman

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!

Every day, we hear from women with incredible dreams. Dreams of achieving big things, big goals. Dreams of making an impact and connecting with thousands of people. The dream of doing more and making an impact on the world around you is a huge endeavor!

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But what does it really take to achieve these big goals? What does it take to become the CEO of your company or to grow your business and become a speaker? What does it take to become one of the top 4-percent of powerhouse women leaders?

Last week, I was honored to share the stage with several powerhouse speakers, including Hillary Clinton and Rosario Dawson, at the Professional Business Women Association of California's annual conference to talk about how the top 4-percent of women think. Today, I want to share with you some of the insight I have learned throughout my career of what it really takes to achieve the big goals in your professional career.

"The scope of your goals are in direct proportion to your willingness to do what is required to reach those goals."

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The missing piece of the equation preventing you from achieving your big goals and dreams.
• Determining your willingness to achieve your goals.
• The qualities that the top 4-percent of women leaders have that allow them to achieve their goals.

4 Qualities of the Top 4% of Women Leaders:

1. Intentional
2. Commitment
3. Willing to do the work
4. Willing to make sacrifices

My Challenge to You:

• Think about the goal that you say you want.
• Ask yourself if you would still want that goal if it took three times as long to achieve it
• Ask yourself if you would still want it if it took three times the sacrifice to achieve it.

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.

Powerful women leaders understand that the single most important thing they can do to up level their careers, businesses and lives is to focus on getting RESULTS. In this episode, Eleanor Beaton shows you one powerful concept you can use each day to radically improve your RESULTS.

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As 2016 comes to a close, many fierce feminine leaders are starting to envision and plan what they want to accomplish in the upcoming year. Developing a strategy and action plan each year is a critical step to propelling your business forward, maintaining your already achieved momentum, and clearing a path so you can find your seat at the big tables.

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Today, I want to share with you the types of people you should avoid in 2017. These are people who will inevitably derail your strategy to success, make you feel undervalued, self-conscious, and inhibit your performance.

For every hour you spend with a crazy-maker, you are going to spend about 5 to 10 hours paying for it.

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• Women who execute well and get stuff done are more successful because they manage their state of mind well.
• Your 'state' – or state of mind – is how you feel, manage, and react to how you are feeling from one moment to the next.
• Limiting your exposure to negative people – the crazy-makers – will help improve your 'state'.

5 Common Crazy-Maker Categories to Edit Out of Your Life in 2017:

1. The 'Red Alert' People – Those people who are always afraid, always see pitfalls, dangers or threats and want you to be afraid, too.
2. The "Undermining' People – Those who are jealous or feel threatened by what you are doing. The people who make you feel self-conscious about yourself or your work. These people will curb your creativity, effectiveness, and your ability to get things done.
3. The "Constructive Feedback" People – People who give you 'constructive feedback' when you didn't ask for it – even when they don't know what they are talking about or their feedback isn't helpful.
4. The "It Should Have Happened Yesterday" People – Those who lack the patience or don't realize that it takes time to execute things properly.
5. The "Stuck in a Rut" People – The people who have their own problems, but refuse to do their own work to make a change. Those people who talk about the same issues and problems repeatedly without taking action.

My Challenge To You:

Surround yourself with people that have a different opinion than you, but do not to spend too much time with the crazy-makers that will bring you down and derail your progress and success.

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 your 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