Women In Action- by Ela Zdrojewska & Stasia Lewicka

Some days you buy cucumbers, other days you win clients.

Both types of a day belong to entrepreneurial life so how about we stop beating ourselves up for being messy, tired and less motivated every now and then?

Join our honest and messy conversation about the myth of always performing, having bad days and finding motivation. You can listen to it on your way to a grocery store for those cucumbers. Or ice cream… Whatever you need at the moment.

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business trainer and mentor teaching women to navigate the complex seas of running their on business with confidence and the right management tools.

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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

There are probably some voices in your head, that appear before every important decision or step. And will try to convince you not to do it.

It is very important that you realise, those voices don’t know the whole truth about you. They might seem to be your friends, but they have their own agenda.

In this epise we take a closer look at our relationships with inner critics and impostor syndrome. And why it is important to set some boudaries in this relationship.

Tune in and join another honest conversation about entrepreneurship, emotions and business.

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business, mentor teaching women to navigate the complex seas of running their on business with confidence and the right management tools.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

This podcast started as an attempt to deliver quality and value in a flood of meaningless content.

And while we do that, we still haven’t really talked about value: what it is, how it is created, and how it is understood. We are convinced that when we build businesses based on value — both the values that drive us internally and the value we create for others — we can build something truly amazing.

In this episode, we explore the meaning of value and how we recognize true value as opposed to empty satisfaction.

Join us for another honest and authentic conversation about business and emotions. By women, for women.

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business, mentor teaching women to navigate the complex seas of running their on business with confidence and the right management tools.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

Ok, we have to admit, recordingof this episode was fun. Even if the topic is not.

Feeling constatnt pressure to do things a certain way, to achieve success on certain level, to meet expectations that are not others is something many of us face, Too often.

While we laugh pressure to its face, we also hope you can confront the toughts and ideas that create pressure for you with a bit more ease. And learn to let them go.

You can start with listening to this episode of our podcast!

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business, mentor teaching women to navigate the complex seas of running their on business with confidence and the right management tools.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

We wanted to talk about finding the priorities, since the idea of doing or avoiding the things that really matter was still behind us from previous episode. And Ela has brought some good tools for that.

And then when it came to fitting them into practical guidance, our conlusions turned out to be quite surprising…

And yes, there is something about drinking your coffee actually or another beverage of choice.

We also talk about some serious things, like one famous book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Franklin Covey (https://www.franklincovey.com/books/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people/) and a good old Eisenhower Matrix. We share some experience with both and invite you to test them for yourself!

Enjoy the episode!

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business navigator, teaching women to navigate the complex seas of running their on business with confidence and the right management tools.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

We are so excited to share this conversation with you and we hope you will find it inspiring! Because we need more Women In Action!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

What is so important, that you have been avoiding it for long, long time?

Yes, read that again. And then be honest about that.

We have been. We faced the fact that we often avoid priorities. And in this conversation we try to understand why…

Maybe you have been telling yourself how important this idea is for you, but you do all the things not to start it?

Or maybe you dream of a career leap, but somehow it is never the right time? How there are always other things that seem to be more important than that priority?

Look, we have been there too. No need to feel ashamed or alone with that. Just join our conversation in this episode and see if there is something that can be done about it. And understanding is one big step.

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business navigator, teaching women to navigate the complex seas of running their on business with confidence.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

We are so excited to share this conversation with you and we hope you will find it inspiring! Because we need more Women In Action!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

It is easy to believe that things come easy, businesses run smoothly and success is meant for you! Instantly.

So when the doubt comes… it feels weird. Are we allowed to feel like this? Is it normal that things don’t run well? What are we doing wrong? What have we done to deserve that?

In this episode we discuss the less pleasant feelings and expreriences we also inevitably face. How does that make us feel, how do we deal with that?

And here a small spoiler alert, there is no glitter, sparkles and champagne in that dealing included. And to find out what is- headphones on and tune in to our last conversation!

Photo by Anastasiia Rozumna on Unsplash

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business navigator, teaching women to navigate the complex seas of running their on business with confidence.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

We are so excited to share this conversation with you and we hope you will find it inspiring! Because we need more Women In Action!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

In this episode we confront hope and try to understand if this is something helpful.

Where has hope brought you? And was it just hope or maybe something else?

When things get hard or complex in life, we like using hope as a rescue. Something to hold onto. We say it dies the least. And the situations that have no reasonable solution we describe as hopeless.

But is hope really so helpful? What can you trully build based on hope only?

Join our conversation and let us know how you feel about hope and where has it brought you!

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is a business navigatorassionate about bringing knowledge about effective management to women and help them build better, long lasting businesses.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

We are so excited to share this conversation with you and we hope you will find it inspiring! Because we need more Women In Action!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

Welcome back after our winter break!

How did you go through the last 2–3 months? Did you manage to slow down a bit and take the winter seriously? Maybe you also found a book by Katherine May — Wintering — and were able to take some rest?

If you haven’t yet, read it — even in the spring:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52623750-wintering

Or maybe you have been figuring things out, frustrated and lost, angry that there are no easy solutions? In this case, let us remind you that our lives usually happen in a complex domain, and there are no roads waiting for us there. We must build them as we go. This concept comes from the Cynefin Framework, which organizes the world into four domains: simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic. You can learn more about it here — and by listening to our podcast: Cynefin Framework – Wikipedia.

Wherever you were this winter, we hope you also had some opportunities to let things be, let them happen, and create some space between them and you. Because our lives are complex enough without taking in all that happens around us and trying to make it work for us. Just like the winter — it always comes. And you always have a choice whether you are going to fight it and pretend it is spring, or you will let it be.

In any case, we are also ready for the spring to come! Enjoy this episode, and until next time!

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

Ela is a coach and she helps women to navigate through challenges of personal and professional life with a lot of compassion and understanding.

You can find and follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ela_zdrojewska

https://www.facebook.com/ela.zdrojewska.5

Stasia is an educator and a product manager passionate about bringing knowledge about effective management to women and help them build better, long lasting businesses.

Follow and subscribe for her newsletter:

We are so excited to share this conversation with you and we hope you will find it inspiring! Becase we need more Women In Action!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com

If you feel stressed about drawing conclusions from the past year — we get it. We’re not big fans of this forced, slightly artificial wave of “year-end reflection” either.

But we are fans of learning from your own experience. And it doesn’t have to be limited to last year — it can be last week, last month, or even the last decade.

It’s never too late for your own reflections, and you certainly don’t need to wait for a special moment like the end of the year.

Just make sure you can actually use what you discover.

Also — we highly recommend ice cream and rollercoasters. :)

We are Ela and Stasia and together we are Women In Action!

We are so excited to share this conversation with you and we hope you will find it inspiring! Becase we need more Women In Action!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit womeninaction.substack.com