Learn about the true time costs of our digital tools & digital trade-offs. Explore why the biggest gift is you.

Learn the true costs and benefits of all of these digital tools that we use. I call it digital trade-offs.

Are you getting just as much out of your screen time as you’re putting in? In the second segment, we talk about how sometimes the biggest gift, is you. And finally, we’re introducing a new segment called equity corner.

Because it’s time for white folks to start having honest conversations about race.

• Deep Work, Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
• Digital Trade-offs ebook
• Freedom distraction-free app
• Boomerang for Gmail
• The Racist Origins of “Being Grandfathered In”
• Grandfather clause

• Women Conquer Business
• Grab Free Resources at the Marketing Automation Station
• LinkedIn

I’m suggesting that the entire model for social media is meant to distract and to annoy and to make you check how many likes you have.

How much support are you getting from this digital community? Is it connecting you in any sort of meaningful way?

If you’re using social media for your business it’s important to know it’s pay to play. You’re renting space from social media landlords who rent space to large corporations who can pay a lot of money. It takes a special kind of magic to be going viral on social media anymore.

So the questions I have are:

• Is your digital life operating in a supportive model meaning is it supporting your goals
• Is it supporting your core key work?
• Or is your digital life operating in a servant model, meaning, are you serving the digital beast?

When we realize and recognize each other’s talents and treasures something extraordinary happens.

It’s also important to remember the gifts we have within ourselves.

That’s part of what makes us all a gift to one another is the ability to see a friend who’s struggling or to recognize the struggle within ourselves and pull ourselves back and help our friends excel and be the best that they can be because it makes us all greater. And sometimes it’s just seeing what a gift we are.

This week we’re introducing a new segment to the show called Equity Corner. What’s Equity Corner?

It’s intended to raise awareness around the issues of the day including words and phrases we might think twice before using.

It’s a look at not only current events, but also history, so we can consider the unintended consequences and harm our words cause, including whether it’s a history we want to repeat.

This week we look at the phrase “grandfathered in.”

Corporate psychologist and mindfulness expert Patricia Thompson, Ph.D., helps us bridge the gaps between leadership, work-life balance, and mindfulness. If you’ve ever questioned why ‘soft skills’ matter, you won’t wonder again after this interview.

Corporate psychologist and mindfulness expert Patricia Thompson, Ph.D., helps us bridge the gaps between leadership, work-life balance, and mindfulness.

If you’ve ever questioned why ‘soft skills’ matter, you won’t wonder again after this interview.

• Patricia Thompson, Ph.D., Silver Lining Psychology (leadership quiz)
• Executive Mindfulness Online Course (includes a link to the quiz)
• Patricia Thompson, Ph.D.’s book: The Consummate Leader: a Holistic Guide to Inspiring Growth in Others…and in Yourself: available on Kindle or paperback
• Google’s Project Aristotle
• Deep Work, Cal Newport

• Silver Lining Psychology
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram

• How to Be a Productive Leader with Sally Foley-Lewis
• Vulnerability and Imposter Syndrome with Allison Kinnear

Negative thoughts and images are so intrusive. They can take over our lives until we see nothing else. Learn how Jen turned her thoughts, experiences, and health around by taking one simple step.

Things we mention:

Jen's Idaho Vandals tennis shoes: https://lutistore.com/products/idaho-vandals-sneakers?variant=15894214049856

8-track tapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape

Captain and Tennille: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_%26_Tennille

How to Connect with Jen

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jensmcfarland

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jensmcfarland

Facebook: https://facebook.com/jensmcfarland

Instagram: https://instagram.com/thirdpaddle

We talk about the government shutdown, and real-life examples of how it's affecting people who work for the federal government - and people who don't. We also talk about how not having control over a basic thing like when you're going to get paid can cause catastrophizing and black and white thinking. Then we close out to talk about how we can get more compassionate politicians to help us avoid this mess in the first place.

Where Are All the Blue-Collar Candidates? http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/09/18/blue-collar-candidates

Want Congress to look more like the people it serves? https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/want-congress-to-look-more-like-the-people-it-serves-provide-member-housing-pay-staff-more/2018/11/23/13783ef6-ef4c-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html?utm_term=.d2444b30b382

Today, we talk body love with Lucia Pavone is an international speaker, instructor of the art of sensuality, with an emphasis on full body orgasm. Tired of feeling like you're too much or not enough? Learn why getting to know your body (and love the body you're in) is the key to happiness.

Connect with Lucia Pavone

• 5 Luscious Love Tips to Connect to Your Sensual Self: http://bit.ly/LusciousTipsGift
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lusciousluciapavone/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/life_luscious
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lusciousluciapavone/
• Website: http://www.lusciouslovelife.us/

People and Things We Mention

• Dr. Ruth Westheimer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Westheimer
• O.school: https://www.o.school/
• Clitoris Discovered in 1998: http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/cliteracy
• Gina Hatzis: http://ginahatzis.com/

About Lucia Pavone

Lucia Pavone is an international speaker, instructor of the art of sensuality, with an emphasis on full body orgasm. Lucia is a pleasure instigator. She supports those who identify as women to connect to their sensuality, love the body they are in and have a sex life worth bragging about.

Her journey of sexual emancipation began over 16 years ago when she took her first sensuality course. Quickly realizing the pursuit of pleasure was her calling, she became a dedicated researcher of communication, relationships and sensuality. Busting through the limitations put on a woman’s orgasm, she’s experienced over 6,000 hours of Deliberate Embodied Orgasm (full body, extended orgasm).

Lucia has been featured on the Ignite Intimacy podcast, Taboo Talk, Performers Creative Lab Podcast, and discoverHER radio, as well as been featured in medium.com and bustle.com. For the past 2 years, she’s hosted a weekly livestream on OSchool, a pleasure based sex education website, as seen in Forbes, Huffington Post, Glamour and recently went viral on NOW THIS.

Lucia believes that by experiencing the universe through sensual gratification, pleasurable communication, and a woman's orgasm, life has infinite possibilities.

*Jen McFarland is a business systems expert, podcaster, and blogger. She’s helped hundreds of businesses and thousands of podcast listeners make better business decisions. Jen’s passion is helping women-owned businesses get the growth tools they need to meet their 3-5 year business goals.

Are you starting a business? Confused about how to grow? Check out my favorite business growth tools https://www.jenmcfarland.com/picks/

Meet Jen Rozenbaum. We talk about what it means to be shamelessly feminine, and how overcoming fear comes down to putting things into perspective while practicing presence over perfection.

Today I interview Jen Rozenbaum. We talk about what it means to be shamelessly feminine, and how overcoming fear comes down to putting things into perspective while practicing presence over perfection.

Learn how she overcame cancer while running a business. We also discuss femininity and how everyone has their own definition.

• Shamelessly Feminine
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube

• Storytelling with Emmy-Nominated Producer Senta Scarborough

Liz gets her own podcast (and I'm her FIRST guest!!), Jen gets a new website with awesome business recommendations, and we talk about the next evolution. Are you ready?

Word of the Week podcast: https://anchor.fm/liz-zirk

New website: https://www.jenmcfarland.com

Jen's Picks: https://www.jenmcfarland.com/picks/

For the first 40 episodes, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about different trends, tactics, and methods for improving your business.

You might say we’ve worked together on your business.

This episode kicks off our women’s series. It’s an acknowledgment that we are complex human beings. And there are so many different ways we can be stuck.

We are not defined by our businesses; nor can we control outside forces. It’s also impossible to lead a siloed existence where our actions are governed by our business.

Basically, we’re not robots.

Today we talk about the importance of advocating for what you need. We talk about it through a progressive lens, but the message is clear that all women need a seat at the table regardless of race, politics or sexual orientation.

So sit back, relax, and kick off 2019 with a couple of blue girls from rural red states who talk about overcoming fear, imperfect advocacy, standing up for truth and equity, being vulnerable, and the importance of communication.

About Melissa Bird

As a writer, professor, life coach, and fiery public speaker, Dr. Melissa Bird creates the genesis for a new brand of leadership.

When she’s not building her public speaking Empire, she can be found reading trashy novels, drinking fine whiskey, playing mom to three delicious humans, and loving her punk rock scientist James Thomas Kelly.

Get her FREE handbook 5 Can't-Miss Steps to Finding Your Voice (https://birdgirlindustries.com/free-resources/) and learn how to awaken your inner revolutionary trailblazer and engage in the quest for justice.

You can also connect with Missy at https://birdgirlindustries.com and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @birdgirl1001

Fanning the Flames Online: https://birdgirlindustries.com/fanning-the-flames-online-social-justice-training/

Melania Trump defends red Christmas trees that have Twitter crying 'Handmaid's Tale': https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/11/26/white-house-christmas-handmaids-tale/2120935002/

We go behind-the-scenes of some of our favorite interviews, and Liz interviews Jen. Sit back and relax, learn about the Vandal Lounge, Booker, coffee roasting in Italy, and what it's like to work with Jen.

Episode #19: How to Release Yourself from Limitations with Brian Fowlie: https://jenmcfarland.com/how-to-release-yourself-from-limitations-with-brian-fowlie/

Episode #35: Vulnerability and Imposter Syndrome with Allison Kinnear: https://www.jenmcfarland.com/vulnerability-and-imposter-syndrome/

Episode #23: How to Be a Productive Leader with Sally Foley-Lewis: https://www.jenmcfarland.com/how-to-be-a-productive-leader-with-sally-foley-lewis/

Shiny object syndrome. It’s a thing. A thing you can avoid. How to stay on task with your plan, including resources and budgeting.

Shiny object syndrome (SOS). It’s a thing. A thing you can avoid. You know all those apps and tools you bought on Black Friday? Do you know how you’re going to use them? How to stay on task with your plan, including resources and budgeting.

* Sidebar: it's actually not magical. It's targeting based on search, but I digress. ... this episode is about pausing before buying that new thing you really don't need to solve your business problems. Learn more about focusing on top business priorities.

• Women Conquer Business
• Grab Free Resources at the Marketing Automation Station
• LinkedIn

• Why Your Entrepreneurial Spirit is Important
• How to Plan and Engage Effectively on Social Media
• Tips for Talking with Techies & How Gender Plays a Role