Finding Brave

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "We realized, as we were sitting around thinking in the aftermath of that first book, that we really think there is something here. When we started to dig into it, we started to see some of the data and we realized there is a gap worth writing about." - Claire Shipman "Claire and I have become confident women through the choices and the risks that we've taken and the hurdles we've overcome. We've kept going with things and mastered them, and that's how you do it. The vast majority of your confidence is in your hands, and it's what you choose to do right now." - Katty Kay We are at a pivotal cultural moment for women's leadership and representation—a time, for instance, when all eyes will be on the first-ever female and woman of color Vice President of the United States—and it's clear that role models matter. Today's Finding Brave guests are not only fantastic role models themselves for women of all ages, but they have written a new book called Living the Confidence Code: Real Girls. Real Stories. Real Confidence that highlights extraordinary girls who took risks and made a big impact. Their subjects sometimes doubted themselves, and even failed, but through it all discovered what matters most to them and found the confidence to accomplish their goals. Katty Kay and Claire Shipman (along with JillEllyn Riley), are the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code for Girls and The Confidence Code for Girls Journal. Katty and Claire, longtime friends, have been writing books together for over a decade. They've also co-written the New York Times bestsellers Womenomics and The Confidence Code. Katty Kay is the anchor of BBC World News America, based in Washington, D.C. She is also a frequent contributor to Meet the Press and Morning Joe, and a regular guest host for The Diane Rehm Show on NPR. In addition to her work on women's issues, Katty has covered the Clinton administration sex scandal; four presidential elections; and the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She was at the Pentagon just 20 minutes after a hijacked plane flew into the building on 9/11 and of her most vivid journalistic memories is of interviewing soldiers still visibly shaking from the attack. Claire Shipman is a journalist, author, and public speaker. Before turning to writing, Claire spent almost three decades as an award-winning television journalist. For the last 14 years Claire was a regular contributor to Good Morning America and other national broadcasts for ABC News. Before that she served as White House correspondent for NBC News where she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News and TODAY. I've been heavily influenced by Katty and Claire in my own work, and what they've done is given research and factual data to what so many of us have suspected about how confidence is curtailed and diminished, but also how it expands in the lives of girls and young women around the world, and why that matters. Their mission, along with the stories of those girls they feature, is deeply inspiring and motivating and is helping motivate a whole new generation of female leaders. To learn more about today's guests, visit: https://www.confidencecodegirls.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "As we learn to think the best of others, when we learn to become comfortable affirming them and when we become comfortable working for ways to serve them, then they respond and that connects us." - Mike Stallard Today's Finding Brave guest is someone who has played a pivotal role in the support of my coaching career, and he is one of the most kind and generous people I know - a true mentor and giver at heart, and a perfect person to explore the themes of today's show. In this episode, we look at ways to help people cope with the current environment where stress, loneliness, social isolation, and its harmful consequences are all on the rise, and he reveals how boosting human connection can not only be an antidote at home, but in the workplace as well. Michael Stallard is an author, keynote speaker, and workshop leader on how leaders create and maintain cultures of connection that help individuals, teams and organizations thrive for a sustained period of time. He is cofounder and president of Connection Culture Group, a leadership training and consulting firm. Michael's recent clients have included Costco, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Turner Construction, Qualcomm, U.S. Air Force, and Yale-New Haven Health. Texas Christian University founded the TCU Center for Connection Culture based on Michael's work. Michael is the primary author of Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work, now in its 2nd edition, and Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity. Connection Culture was recently named one of the "best of the best" books by getAbstract. Michael also recently launched a popular online course with LinkedIn Learning titled Creating a Connection Culture. In our conversation, shares his best tips and strategies for building and fostering connection, as a leader, manager, team member and individual contributor. If you are struggling with stress and loneliness, please know you're not alone. Feel free to reach out to both Mike and myself, and we'll provide you with some resources to help support you through these challenging, ever-changing times. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.connectionculture.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "What I realized is that everybody we're with is always trying to communicate something that they're not communicating with their words. Sometimes they don't have the words." - Mark Goulston At this particular point of time, many of us are experiencing some degree of trauma, but what really happens to a person's mind as they continue to function through trauma? Today's Finding Brave guest reveals how we can not just cope, but how we can heal and thrive in the face of the challenging situations that we are experiencing. Dr. Mark Goulston is a psychiatrist, former UCLA professor, former FBI and police hostage negotiation trainer and the bestselling author or co-author of eight books and with his just released book, Why Cope When You Can Heal? How Healthcare Heroes of Covid-19 Can Recover From PTSD, he introduces an approach called Surgical Empathy that he used for 25 years with suicidal patients and none of them died by suicide. He is also the host of My Wakeup Call, a wonderful podcast I had the honor of being a guest on, and of the weekly LinkedIn Live show, No Strings Attached. In this episode, Mark shares his insights into what is really going on in the minds of healthcare workers and first responders as they daily confront the horrific and terrifying situations to keep the rest of us safe. He reveals how they are "Finding Brave" within them, and what they are doing to stay strong through the pandemic and not become casualties of this war. But you don't have to be a healthcare worker or first responder to glean wisdom and support from Mark's empowering messages, as each and everyone one of us has experienced stress and trauma at some point in our lives. Learn more at: http://whycopewhenyoucanheal.com

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "For a long time women have been afraid to stand up for themselves, because they didn't think that anyone had their back. That's what is different about this younger generation, they are not afraid to assert their rights." - Joann Lublin Despite tremendous progress, working mothers still face numerous challenges at work and home, and these struggles have only been aggravated in this global pandemic. Today's Finding Brave guest reveals how executive moms today differ from the trailblazing Baby Boom generation in a number of ways, and yet they still face common challenges, which provide helpful lessons for the next generation of women with children. Joann S. Lublin is a longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and author of two books about female business leaders, Her latest, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life, hit the shelves February 16, 2021. Her first popular leadership book, Earning It: Hard-Won lessons from Trailblazing Women at the top of the Business World, offers insights from 52 high-level executive women about obstacles they overcame. ​ Joann is the former Management News Editor of The Wall Street Journal. She created its first career advice column, which she wrote until May 2020. Joann shared the Journal's 2003 Pulitzer Prize for stories about corporate scandals. In 2018, she won the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest accolade in business journalism. I deeply admire what Joann is doing in the world, and her work and latest book is full of important revelations and insights into what more must be done to make being a working mother (and parent) easier in 2021 and beyond. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.joannlublin.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "We're all pretty scared. We're all worried we're going to mess things up. We're all pretty nervous that we don't have all the answers, and I think that was the thing that I was very afraid to tell anybody, that I didn't know what I didn't know." - Alli Webb When successful entrepreneurs share their stories, it's often the highlights that are focused on. However, today's Finding Brave guest reveals the personal challenges that she's faced along her journey to "raise the bar" in every aspect of her life, and she tackles the conversations that people in leadership rarely have in public. Alli Webb is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of DryBar and Squeeze. Alli has been named one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company, featured on Fortune magazine's "40 Under 40" list, Marie Claire's "Most Fascinating Women," and covered in Inc. Magazine's "How I Did This" issue. Recently Inc. Magazine recognized her as one of "The 100 Women Building America's Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses." She has also been featured as a guest Shark on ABC's SharkTank and Alli just launched season two of her podcast Raising the Bar with executive coach and boyfriend Adrian Koehler, where they pull back the curtain on the things entrepreneurs really want to know. Alli is a relentlessly positive person who realizes that life isn't supposed to be just a "walk in the park." There are unavoidable struggles that will come along with the good times for everyone, and it's refreshing to hear someone as successful as Ali share her story so openly and honestly with others. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.instagram.com/alliwebb/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! "I think society and life wants to see that we're willing to do the work. Our dreams need encouragement, and that encouragement is the decisions that we make every single day." - Antonio Neves My conversation with last week's Finding Brave guest was such an impactful one that we decided to air the conclusion this week, as the second of a two-part miniseries on course-correcting your life, before a crash happens. Antonio Neves is the author of Stop Living on Autopilot: Take Responsibility for Your Life and Rediscover a Bolder, Happier You; host of The Best Thing podcast and internationally recognized speaker. A top success coach, Antonio regularly delivers keynotes and trainings at top organizations worldwide. An award-winning journalist, for over 10 years Antonio worked as a business correspondent, host, and producer with top television networks (NBC, PBS, BET, etc.). During his career he has spent hundreds of hours interviewing and profiling prominent CEOs, startup founders, politicians, entertainers, athletes, and beyond. In this episode Antonio talks more about the "uniforms" that we all wear in our daily lives, and the ways we can start stepping out of those and into our true selves while not allowing ourselves to be a victim. I am so grateful to Antonio for taking the time to return to the podcast to share his wisdom with us, and for being so honest, brave and transparent in the process. For more information about today's guest, visit: https://theantonioneves.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "You do everything that society told you to do, to be happy and live the 'American Dream', but then at some point you find yourself living on autopilot. You find yourself going through the motions, and I found myself living on cruise control." - Antonio Neves If the past year has taught us anything, it's that life presents unexpected challenges. Today's Finding Brave guest returns to the podcast to share his inspiring message, and how the perfect antidote to overcome life's challenging situations is to stop going through the motions, or as he calls it, to stop "living on autopilot." Antonio Neves is the author of Stop Living on Autopilot: Take Responsibility for Your Life and Rediscover a Bolder, Happier You; host of The Best Thing podcast and internationally recognized speaker. A top success coach, Antonio regularly delivers keynotes and trainings at top organizations worldwide. An award-winning journalist, for over 10 years Antonio worked as a business correspondent, host, and producer with top television networks (NBC, PBS, BET, etc.). During his career he has spent hundreds of hours interviewing and profiling prominent CEOs, startup founders, politicians, entertainers, athletes, and beyond. If you feel lost, stuck, and out of place in your own life, Antonio's latest book, and the messages he shares today will help you find your drive and take empowering action to stay bold for lasting happiness. This episode is Part 1 of a special two-part mini-series with Antonio, and we hope to see you back for Part 2 next week. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://theantonioneves.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "We're all working on something and we're all insecure about something. If you give yourself a negative confirmation bias, you're always going to find the negative in someone. Give yourself a positive confirmation bias and always look for the greatness in others, because if you see their greatness, what better thing is there to have than that?" - Robin Dreeke Building trust and rapport with others was absolutely essential in Robin's former FBI and counterintelligence work, and is critical for all of us to master for so many reasons, but it's also a struggle for many. Today's Finding Brave guest has developed powerful strategies for ensuring trust and building strong healthy relationships through great communication, and he shares his framework for doing so with us today. Robin Dreeke is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, facilitator, and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin has taken his life's work of recruiting spies and broken down the art of leadership, communication, and relationship building into Five Steps to TRUST and Six Signs of who you can TRUST. Since 2010, Robin has been working with large corporations as well as small companies in every aspect of their business. Whether it is supporting newly promoted leaders, executives, sales teams, or customer relations, Robin has crafted his People Formula for quick results and maximum success. In this episode, Robin reveals the magic that occurs when you discover the greatness in others instead of focusing on their insecurities, and new ways you can become a valuable resource for the people that you meet. I believe Robin's superpower is that he has taken so much time and effort to make sense of a reality that is not only helpful for himself, but for so many others, and it was a pleasure to learn from him today. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.peopleformula.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Rally behind the fact that [introverts] are not second-class citizens. Our path to success is just different, and when we embrace that and a system that is going to leverage our natural strengths, we can outperform in all these so-called extroverted arenas. They're all introverted ones in my mind." - Matthew Pollard Networking is often seen as a skill that only extroverts can master, but today's Finding Brave returning guest reveals not only how to network as an introvert, but what you can do to be truly amazing at it. His work proves that introversion doesn't make you a second-class citizen, and he provides the specific tools and a way to systemize the networking process for introverts that is game changing. Called "the real deal" by Forbes, Matthew Pollard is the bestselling author of The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone, Amazon's 8th Most-Sold Book of the Week and BookAuthority's #2 "Best Introvert Book of All Time." Now adding a new book to his series,The Introvert's Edge to Networking: Work the Room. Leverage Social Media. Develop Powerful Connections, Matthew is on a mission to confront the stigma that introverts can't be successful at business, sales, networking, speaking, or any other so-called "extroverted" arena, and shares the tactics and strategies that have worked for him, his clients, and students in overcoming imagined barriers to success as an introvert. I've known Matthew for years now, and what strikes me is how generous he is in sharing his knowledge and expertise with others. Whether you are an introvert, extrovert, or fall somewhere in between, I am 100% confident that something he discusses in this episode will help you to network and succeed. Further, even extroverts can learn so much from Matthew (I know I do)! To learn more about today's guest, visit: http://theintrovertsedge.com/networking

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "This older way, what we call this more conventional and confined way of being a man, it no longer works. It's proving to be unhealthy, and even dangerous in the workplace and beyond, in society." - Ed Frauenheim In the flatter, faster, fairness-focused world that's taking shape today, it's become clear that we need a new model for how men show up and lead in organizations. The traditional, "confined" masculinity steers men to be more rigid, cold and isolated in a work world that's now calling for flexibility, warmth and connection. Today's Finding Brave guest shares his messages and insights about how a new, liberating masculinity is emerging—and can be seen in some of today's leading business executives and sports leaders. It's a male ethos that enables men to break out of the emotional straightjacket many grew up with, to reckon with the privilege and power we have long benefitted from, and to succeed in new, inclusive ways. Ed Frauenheim is a writer and speaker who has focused on workplace, technology and culture matters for more than 25 years. His writing has been featured in Fortune, Inc. and USA Today. He has co-authored four books including the latest, Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection, co-written with Dr. Ed Adams, a past president of the American Psychological Association's division devoted to the treatment of men and boys. In their book, the two Eds tell the story of how we are evolving from a cramped, unhealthy, outdated masculinity to one that frees us all to build a better, more inclusive future. In this episode, Ed reveals the ways that we can all move from exclusive to inclusive success through the use of his innovative "5Cs" framework. This information can help us all level up to succeed and develop our inclusive spirit and habits. To lean more about today's guest, visit: https://www.reinventingmasculinity.com/