Into The Wild 32. Distracted to Delighted: How to say NO without guilt with Melanie Sodka
Joining me today is Melanie Sodka, an award-winning speaker with an energizing and perspective shifting style from Niagara, Ontario. She has 15 years' experience as a business professor, executive coach, author and podcaster and created Capacity Creator Corp.
The aim of Capacity Creator Corp is to allow female entrepreneurs to understand and assess their capacity and if they are operating within it. Capacity relates to all aspects of life, from career to spirituality. Melanie's goal is to help her clients achieve life-changing transformations through understanding of their own capacity boundaries.
In This Episode, You Will Learn About:
- Learning to communicate your message without overwhelming your community
- Valuing your community: Why you need to listen more than you talk
- How burnout led to the creation of Capacity Creator
- Operating from self-awareness
- The physical toll burnout took on Melanie
- Being rewarded for overworking: Deprogramming yourself from expectations
- The Capacity Matrix: A self diagnostic tool for understanding your capacity
- How capacity impacts female entrepreneurs specifically
- Societal expectations of women and how they contribute to overwork
- Taking advantage of lockdown to assess your pace
- Living in a state of indulgence and creating frustration
- Learning how to say yes with discernment and no without guilt
- What do Lego and capacity have in common?
- The aspects of capacity: Career Health Intellectual Emotional Financial Fun
- Auditing your capacity and creating space where needed
- Why spirituality is so difficult to make space for
- The 3 core values of capacity: Passion, Energy, Fulfillment
- Moving through guilt to come from gratitude
- The pervasiveness of 'mum guilt' for female entrepreneurs
- Changing your language to focus on capacity
- Allowing space for creativity
- Recognizing the need to set parameters in work and life
Resources:
- Website: Capacity Creator
- Facebook: Capacity Creator
- Instagram: @melaniesodka
- TEDx talk: Burnout: How Addiction to Distraction is Eroding our Capacity
- Podcast: Capacity Podcast
Shout outs:
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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.
She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.
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