Finding Brave

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Don't just knee-jerk assume you have to get it all done yourself. Where is it appropriate for you to do it yourself, versus getting a super genius, professional specialist, versus just a pretty smart person that can live in any nation and learn it and do it?" - Pete Mockaitis Despite common misconceptions, it is possible for individuals to reclaim their precious time and stop doing everything in their business themselves, without it having to cost a great deal. But it takes courage to overcome the resistance of letting go of tasks, and today's Finding Brave guest explains how we can do it with strategic outsourcing. I'm so excited to be discussing this with him today, as overcoming our "perfectionistic overfunctioning" and trying to do everything ourselves and get an A+ in all of it (when in many cases would be better to delegate) is a key topic I address in my new book The Most Powerful You. Pete Mockaitis is an award-winning trainer and coach who helps professionals perform optimally at work. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Inc. and more. Pete has delivered 1-on-1 coaching to over 700 leaders hailing from world-class organizations (such as Google, FedEx, Amazon, Apple, Anheuser-Busch, and the United Nations), 50 countries, and every Ivy League university. He began his career at Bain & Company and currently hosts the How to be Awesome at Your Job podcast. The show has been downloaded over 13,000,000 times and consistently ranks as a top business show in Apple Podcasts. I got so much valuable information from this conversation with Pete, and what he shares can help you start scaling your business right now. It's time to stop the overwhelm and exhaustion and start receiving the support you need from others, and have more fun doing work you truly love! To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.awesomepros.co/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "It's not all about it necessarily being a white-collar or a blue-collar job, but if you can create the life that you wanted by doing what you want, you're head and shoulders above 99% of the other people on this planet, Most people just live week to week, while feeling out of control all of the time." - Ken Rusk I love to cover topics I feel aren't discussed enough in our world, and this episode is a great example of this. Today's Finding Brave guest reveals how blue-collar trades are a source of pride that can help you find your own version of happiness by pursuing your craft. The economy is in desperate need of skilled tradespeople, and those who are willing to work hard and apply themselves in a growth-oriented way can make a great deal of money on their own terms, pursuing their craft and developing their expertise while also enjoying a happy life in the process. Ken Rusk spent his younger years digging ditches and working in construction, never going to college. Instead, he made goals, planned and worked hard for thirty years. Now, Ken is a very successful entrepreneur with multiple businesses and revenue streams. He specializes in mentoring and has coached hundreds of young people in such areas as short, mid and long-term goal setting, life visualization, career paths and sound financial planning. He is passionate about helping people achieve their dreams, regardless of their educational background or past. Ken is also the author of the new book is Blue-Collar Cash: Love Your Work, Secure Your Future, and Find Happiness for Life. Ken believes that blue-collar work is the best kept financial secret of our time and explains how most of us let life happen to us instead of us happening to our lives. In fact, we are actually much more in control of our futures than many of us know or realize. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.kenrusk.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "I think that having times in your life where you never quite know what's going to happen, and getting through those times, builds a tremendous amount of grit, resilience, spontaneity and flexibility, and these are the things that I know make me partly successful today." - Mitch Shepard Are you experiencing burnout and overwhelm, and no matter what you do, you can't seem to overcome or shift it? Today's Finding Brave guest has powerful insights, strategies and tips for addressing your burnout and she is a true role model for aiming high, dreaming big, and being very brave around achieving meaningful goals in life and business. In this episode, she shares her inspiring story of taking a 12-month sabbatical across 5 continents and 23 countries with her husband and young children, including how she decided to embark on this experience, how they all pulled it off traveling for an entire year, the agreements they made beforehand as a family unit, how it changed her and her family, and how it helped her exponentially accelerate her confidence and business success. Mitch Shepard is an entrepreneur, mother, wife, passionate world traveler, and executive leader. As the CEO and Chief Truth-Teller at HUMiN Inc., Mitch has spent nearly 20 years coaching and training some of the world's top leaders across companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Intuit, Boeing, and more, and her specialties lie in leader & manager effectiveness and inclusion. Mitch is known for her straight-talk, candor, and realism in the way that she approaches business challenges. Mitch's story is a shining example of how we can grab the reins on our lives and take control of our own destiny. And as she explains, if she can engage in something like this that was so very meaningful and transformative, so can others. You don't have to be rich or have things perfectly planned out in order to make it happen, and it doesn't have to be something as big as traveling the world as she and her family did. The key question is: "What is the light at the end of your tunnel that you want to make brighter that you can start heading towards today?" To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.mitchshepard.com/ *Our apologies for some intermittent audio issues during the recording of this interview* To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.mitchshepard.com/

"The same problems are made in both internal communications and external communications. The problem is we don't sufficiently value our own stories, our own messages, our own people and what they believe. Therefore we don't think it is worthy of covering, and it absolutely is." - Justin Brady Communication is the #1 barrier that holds back any entity from greater exposure and success, and bad communication can absolutely interfere with your marketing, along with your employees' productivity. To learn more, I'm so excited to speak with today's Finding Brave guest, as he shares the ways that any individual or company, regardless of its size, can cultivate and amplify their stories in order to develop their brand. Justin Brady is an expert at cultivating and amplifying the compelling stories of his emerging tech clients, reaching millions. He also hosts his podcast The Justin Brady Show that focuses on business and work cultures, and features the best communicators in the world that have found ways to out-smart and out-create their competitors. This conversation with Justin is a fascinating study on what you should, and shouldn't, do to connect your message to journalists and other brand conduits. Along with sharing how to amplify your own message, he gives first-hand tips and insider strategies for building your listening and empathy skills, which will be invaluable regardless of what career you are pursuing. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://justinkbrady.com/cultivate-emerging-tech-pr-communications/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "If we know we have the ability to create a meaning around the sensations in our system and the things that happen, why don't we create meaning in our favor to allow ourselves to experience more happiness, joy, bliss, ease and grace?" - Samantha Skelly Do you know deep down that it's time to break free of the cycle of emotional eating from calorie restriction and bingeing to become who you were designed to be? Maybe you use food to numb your pain, and realize you need to start listening inward to your body's wisdom, in order to stop this practice? In today's conversation, our Finding Brave expert guest reveals the steps you can start taking right now to reconnect with your intuition, embrace your body, and heal your relationship with food. Samantha Skelly is a 7-figure entrepreneur, sought after international speaker, best-selling author, and wellness coaching expert. As a leading authority on disordered eating and body image issues, Samantha has made it her life's mission to empower women to overcome their struggles with food and body so they can live happy, authentic, and fulfilling lives. Samantha's mission was realized in 2014, when she founded Hungry for Happiness, a movement that helps people experience true transformation and happiness through trained certified coaches who utilize emotional and energetic coaching techniques. Hungry for Happiness has provided unique and accessible recovery resources to those suffering in silence. In 2018, Samantha launched her second company, Pause Breathwork, with a mission to unite humanity by helping people breathe, feel, and thrive. Her new book is Hungry for Happiness: Stop Emotional Eating and Start Loving Yourself was just released in September, 2020. Samantha's story is a powerful and uplifting one, and she not only provides wisdom and tactical strategies for conquering emotional eating, but her advice and techniques can apply to so many other areas of our lives. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.samanthaskelly.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "Most people get stopped by fear, and fear leads you to believe that where you are right now is a safe place and going forward is a risk. The truth is, you're always at risk when you're standing still. It's a risk of stagnating, but more importantly, a risk of missing out on your own destiny." - Susie Carder If you're in business you know that profit is key, which is why I'm so excited to share this conversation on the podcast. Today's Finding Brave guest is an expert at helping people generate revenue and maximize profit, and she is here to share how it is not hard to build a 7-figure business. In fact, she says that wealth is your birthright! There is a roadmap and system to achieve it though, and in this episode she reveals the steps to start you on the process of building and growing your own profitable business. Susie Carder started out as a low paid hairdresser trying to support her 2 little girls. But working for someone else became a challenge (to say the least). So she decided to do whatever it took to create her own business. After much blood sweat and tears (mixed with cheap mascara) she went on to create, not one, but two $10 Million companies! Susie's core genius is the ability to simplify complicated issues by creating simple, proven systems that are guaranteed to create dramatic growth for any company. She has helped over 100,000 entrepreneurs increase their revenues by more than 3000% and worked with top business moguls including John Assaraf, Lisa Nichols, Steve Harvey, Doug Carter, and Paul Mitchell. Her newest book (number 10), Power Your Profits: How to Take Your Business from $10,000 to $10,000,000 is a bulletproof start-to-finish plan for taking your business from startup mode to multimillion! As Susie reveals, during your entrepreneurial journey you must hold fear in one hand and courage in the other - and then jump. Along the way down miracles will happen in your business, and you will be on your way to becoming the most powerful you - while living your highest potential. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.susiecarder.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "It's hard, but make yourself step back, take a breath and do this as if you were having a conversation with a friend. The minute that someone starts thinking that they're performing to an audience and not sitting across the table from a friend, they start making mistakes." - Gabe Wicks Whether you're already a published author, or you're thinking of writing your first book, you are probably aware of the growing popularity of audiobooks. Maybe you've already decided to record your own audiobook, but you're not sure where to begin with the process. Today's Finding Brave guest reveals how audiobooks are rewarding to publish but hard work for both the narrator and studio, and there are numerous pitfalls and nuances that I wish I knew about before I recorded the audiobook for my new book The Most Powerful You (which I'm thrilled to share is in the Top 100 Bestsellers on Amazon's Women In Business audiobooks!). It's about so much more than just showing up and getting behind the microphone. Gabe Wicks is a Nashville-based producer for over twenty years, most of that within the book industry. He is the VP of Creative Services for HarperCollins Christian Publishing, which currently produces over 500 audiobooks annually. Gabe produced my audiobook and was a joy to work with! In this episode, Gabe reveals why an author should or should not read his or her own audiobook, the elements that make up a compelling audiobook, where he sees the audiobook world going in the near future, and perhaps most importantly, why you need to not be so hard on yourself during this experience. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.harpercollinschristian.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "When we choose to be neutral on things where people have deep emotional responses, then we are not creating that kind of connection and community that we want to have in our culture." - Laura Gallaher Improving organizational culture now is extremely critical for the future longevity of companies everywhere, because the struggles that workplaces worldwide are currently facing are numerous. Today's Finding Brave expert guest draws from her incredible experiences to share how we can all address these challenges, as well as how we can more fully recognize the unexpected positive changes to culture that are coming from the pandemic. Dr. Laura Gallaher has worked in the field of professional and personal development since 2005. An organizational psychologist, speaker, facilitator and executive coach, Laura is the founder and CEO of Gallaher Edge, which she started in 2013 and rebranded in 2018. Laura began her career at NASA after the Columbia exploded upon re-entry in 2003, where Laura and a team of organizational psychologists were hired to change the cultural influences that played a role in the accident. She worked there for eight years to positively influence culture, develop leadership capacity and improve organizational performance at Kennedy Space Center. After then working as a Talent Management Consultant at Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, she founded Gallaher Edge – a management consulting firm that creates transformational change in businesses through meaningful and impactful human experiences. Now is the time for everyone, not just leaders, to build strength, maturity, self-awareness and self-acceptance. Each one of us has the ability to operate with more grace and compassion for one another, which will increase humanity not only in our workplaces, but also in a world that needs this so badly right now. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://gallaheredge.com/

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! I'm excited to share our "Editor's Summer Top Pick" for Finding Brave! This episode is a special favorite of our wonderful editor Matt Mawhinney of PodAssist.com and shares vitally important information about the first of the 7 damaging power gaps that 98% of professional women are facing today that block them from reaching their highest and most thrilling potential. Today's episode explores Power Gap #1: Not Recognizing Your Special Talents, Abilities and Accomplishments and how to close this power gap for good. In this episode, I give an overview of all 7 of the power gaps that my book The Most Powerful You explores, and I focus on Gap #1 - THE most prevalent gap that I see in working with thousands of professional women in my coaching programs, courses, webinars and trainings. So many women struggle to recognize that they are indeed talented, to believe that they are actually "great" at what they do, and to see clearly how their talents and abilities truly matter in the workforce and in the world. It's essential to understand that it's not arrogant or selfish to recognize and appreciate that you have greatness inside of you, because when you leverage your talents and passions in a bigger, more confident way and in service to others, you are finally able to make the powerful difference that you were meant to, and experience the joy, reward and fulfillment that you long for in your work, business and career. "Know that you are amazing. Every individual on the planet is, and the world needs your talents and your abilities desperately. Can you trust and accept that fact, that you are special and you are unique, and now is the time to recognize that clearly?" - Kathy Caprino

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers! "I think you've got to see everything as an opportunity. You cannot spend a lot of time lamenting the fact that we're in this, because we are and you need to re-evaluate everything." - Nell Merlino Despite the challenges in our current environment, there has never been a better time for women to lead in business and to support one another. As we face these new obstacles, today's inspiring Finding Brave guest is continuing to help women leaders innovate and grow their businesses and not only survive, but thrive. Nell Merlino created Take Our Daughters to Work Day with the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1993, in which over 25 million people participated in the first two years. She then expanded her strategic communications consultancy to develop winning campaigns, strategies and events for dozens of clients including the YWCA, Amnesty International, Gay Men's Health Crisis, The Sierra Club, Calvert, The Sister Fund and the NGO Forum on Women in Beijing '95. In 2000, Nell launched Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence, the first online microlender in the world. This grew to encompass the Women Veterans Entrepreneur Corp and the Make Mine a Million $ Business program with founding sponsor American Express and champions including Hillary Clinton, Suze Orman, Nely Galan, Valerie Morris (CNN) and Janet Napolitano. Recently, Nell has revived the "Count me in" campaign to help female entrepreneurs in the wake of COVID-19, by offering $250,000 in grants, including four $25,000 grants and 15 $10,000 grants. In this episode, Nell reveals how women in business can access capital, and she gives her strategies and advice for growing and pivoting during this pandemic. Nell shares how everyone can pivot, and it just takes the will and willingness to do so. Countless new opportunities await the women in small business who accept this challenge, and move forward despite their fears and doubts. For more information about today's guest, visit: https://countmeinrevival.org/