The Joy to Lead Podcast: Recent Episodes
Kaylan Thompson
Welcome to the Joy to Lead Podcast, hosted by Kaylan Thompson. This is a podcast for entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders who want to cultivate joyful, natural and confident leadership, lead teams of purpose and impact, and rise up a legacy of leaders in their wake. Every week we meet with business leaders to bring you life-giving strategies and encouragement to help you grow your team, scale your business, and step into the leadership role you were created for.
As leaders and business owners - and, well, humans - most of us will experience burnout at some point in our lives and careers. Leadership burnout is increasingly common, and entrepreneur burnout is coming in a close second.
In this episode I'm talking with Amber Zaricor of the Fill Your Cup Conference. We explore the importance and practicalities of filling your cup as a leader, how to heal from burnout, and ways to encourage your team to fill their cup.
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/amber-zaricor-leader-burnout-fill-your-cup
Don't Lead Alone!
Through the Joy to Lead® Academy you can equip yourself for leading a team with our courses on leadership, team management, and recruitment and onboarding.
In the Joy to Lead® Community, you can immerse yourself in a supportive, welcoming and bolstering community of leaders. In this membership community we have live coaching sessions every month, regular co-working and book discussions, and drop exclusive mini-courses and guides. This is the place to be if you’re craving a pillar of stability, support and encouragement from other leaders who are walking this crazy leadership journey alongside you. We hope to see you there!
One year ago today I was preparing for my first maternity leave as a business owner. As an entrepreneur, I had no idea what to expect from creating my own maternity leave and there really weren't any resources available for how to prepare for a maternity leave as an entrepreneur. There still isn’t.
So, in today’s episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast I’m pulling back the curtain on my 5-month, 5-phase maternity leave, focusing specifically on how I prepared and structured the maternity leave as an entrepreneur and how you can do the same.
Find shownotes and links at https://joytolead.com/maternity-leave-for-small-business-owners/
Don't Lead Alone!
Through the Joy to Lead® Academy you can equip yourself for leading a team with our courses on leadership, team management, and recruitment and onboarding.
In the Joy to Lead® Community, you can immerse yourself in a supportive, welcoming and bolstering community of leaders. In this membership community we have live coaching sessions every month, regular co-working and book discussions, and drop exclusive mini-courses and guides. This is the place to be if you’re craving a pillar of stability, support and encouragement from other leaders who are walking this crazy leadership journey alongside you. We hope to see you there!
What we believe becomes how we act, and our actions shape our reality. Therefore, in a way, what you believe to be true inevitably becomes true. This is why our inner critic is such a powerful voice, and why affirmations can be transformational for us as leaders.
In today’s episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast, we’re pulling back the curtain on affirmations and positive self talk and belief. We lead from the inside out!
Find shownotes and links at www.joytolead.com/affirmations
Don't Lead Alone!
Through the Joy to Lead® Academy you can equip yourself for leading a team with our courses on leadership, team management, and recruitment and onboarding.
In the Joy to Lead® Community, you can immerse yourself in a supportive, welcoming and bolstering community of leaders. In this membership community we have live coaching sessions every month, regular co-working and book discussions, and drop exclusive mini-courses and guides. This is the place to be if you’re craving a pillar of stability, support and encouragement from other leaders who are walking this crazy leadership journey alongside you. We hope to see you there!
How often do you as a leader feel like you’re “winging it?” You’d never admit that to your team, of course, but there’s an underlying worry saying, “if only they knew. They’re going to realize it soon enough.” Without a leadership development plan, this is likely your norm.
Shownotes and links can be found at joytolead.com/leadership-development-plan
Don't Lead Alone!
Through the Joy to Lead® Academy you can equip yourself for leading a team with our courses on leadership, team management, and recruitment and onboarding.
In the Joy to Lead® Community, you can immerse yourself in a supportive, welcoming and bolstering community of leaders. In this membership community we have live coaching sessions every month, regular co-working and book discussions, and drop exclusive mini-courses and guides. This is the place to be if you’re craving a pillar of stability, support and encouragement from other leaders who are walking this crazy leadership journey alongside you. We hope to see you there!
We all want to be a better leader, but it's hard to picture what it's like to experience our leadership - right? We try to communicate better, to have more team meetings, to ask our team members how they are doing, but at the end of the day we're left wondering if it's even enough.
Today on the Joy to Lead® Podcast we're diving into the ways your team members wish you were stepping up in your leadership - things they wouldn't say to your face (or, things they don't have the words for).
Full shownotes and links can be found at www.joytolead.com/be-a-better-leader
Don't Lead Alone!
Through the Joy to Lead® Academy you can equip yourself for leading a team with our courses on leadership, team management, and recruitment and onboarding.
In the Joy to Lead® Community, you can immerse yourself in a supportive, welcoming and bolstering community of leaders. In this membership community we have live coaching sessions every month, regular co-working and book discussions, and drop exclusive mini-courses and guides. This is the place to be if you’re craving a pillar of stability, support and encouragement from other leaders who are walking this crazy leadership journey alongside you. We hope to see you there!
Following a difficult postpartum season, I went on an unintentional but amazing social media sabbatical. That social media sabbatical lasted about 9 months and helped me heal from anxiety and overwhelm in my life.
Taking a social media sabbatical was one of the best decisions I've made as a business owner, mom, partner, and human being. It's also something I'm going to be repeating regularly.
On today's podcast I'm going to share some of the things that made this social media sabbatical so effective, as well as my major takeaways and learning experiences.
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/social-media-sabbatical
Don't Lead Alone!
Through the Joy to Lead® Academy you can equip yourself for leading a team with our courses on leadership, team management, and recruitment and onboarding.
In the Joy to Lead® Community, you can immerse yourself in a supportive, welcoming and bolstering community of leaders. In this membership community we have live coaching sessions every month, regular co-working and book discussions, and drop exclusive mini-courses and guides. This is the place to be if you’re craving a pillar of stability, support and encouragement from other leaders who are walking this crazy leadership journey alongside you. We hope to see you there!
If you’re like me, you love a good personality test. Give me the enneagram, the DiSC, the Kolbe, StrengthsFinders, Myers Briggs any day, and that list can go on and on. But, I’ve spoken before about the detriments weaving in a personality test too early in your hiring process can have.
So today on the podcast we are deep diving into all things personality tests, specifically:
- the trouble they can wreck in your hiring process,
- when they should and shouldn’t be used,
- how you can best utilize them to benefit your team,
- and a stronger way to explore personality in the hiring and onboarding processes.
Full shownotes and links can be found at www.joytolead.com/personality-tests
Join the Joy to Lead® Community! We bring together women entrepreneurs building teams from the ground up to grow in wisdom, leadership, and team management through community, coaching, and educational resources so that we can take our businesses to new heights and help our team members reach their fullest potential - collectively and individually.
With this new and simple but effective morning routine, I'm able to add over 15 hours of focused work to my week. As a work-at-home mom, this is revolutionary to me. Here's how I did it!
Shownotes and links can be found at: www.joytolead.com/morning-routine
The journey to making your first hire as a small business owner doesn’t have to be complicated, but it should be pursued with strategy, intention and time.
In this guide to hiring your first team member, we will cover everything you need to do to prepare for making your first hire for your small or online business, including:
- Structuring your internal business operations,
- Structuring your team atmosphere and experience,
- And, structuring your hiring process.
Shownotes, links and resources can be found at www.joytolead.com/make-your-first-hire
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This week I am pulling back the curtain on the reality of my maternity leave, deeply discussing the concept of Joy vs. Fear, and talking about how we can ground ourselves in joy as leaders. I'm also sharing about the shifts I have made with the Joy to Lead® experience and what you can expect from the brand going forward.
Full shownotes and links can be found at joytolead.com/joy
Get on the waitlist for the Joy to Lead® Community at joytolead.com/community today!
To keep productivity high, relationships strong, and employees genuinely happy, you have to have a strategy that develops and nurtures a positive team culture. Becky Brunner is the team culture strategist who will create a plan that strengthens your team’s culture and allows you to lead a team of motivated, connected, and happy employees without having awkward “feelings talks” and confrontational meetings.
Full shownotes at joytolead.com/becky-brunner
Find Becky at Choose Happy Assisting!
Download her free guide, 30 Days to Connect with Your Online Team!
You may have heard it said that leaders are readers, and I would take it one step further to say readers make the best leaders. Today on the Joy to Lead® Podcast we're exploring why this is true and how you can adopt an identity of reader, too!
View the shownotes here: www.joytolead.com/readers-are-leaders
Read Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson
What if you set up a no-firing policy for your team? I'm exploring this concept from the book Chief Joy Officer by Richard Sheridan.
View full shownotes here: https://joytolead.com/no-firing-policy-for-your-team/
Read Chief Joy Officer with us in 2022 inside the Leadership Academy!
What are your non-scale victories? In today's episode of the Joy to Lead® Podcast, we're exploring new ways to measure and track our victories aside from pressured metrics like revenue and team size.
View shownotes here: https://joytolead.com/measuring-non-scale-victories-in-leadership/
Today my dear client-turned-friend Abbie Smith of Paragraph Branding House is stopping by to share her journey from solopreneurship to CEO of her business.
We chat all about:
- Her experience in hiring an intern last summer and how that compares to her first strategic hiring experience coming up
- How she's shifted her mindset from hobbyist to CEO of her business
- How she's discovering and standing in her own unique style of leadership!
Full shownotes at www.joytolead.com/abbie-smith
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Ali Cranmer is a body & business integrator, and today she's joining us to share her secret weapon for avoiding burning out and using our unique energy cycles to master time management - cycle syncing!
Cycle syncing is using your menstrual cycle to discover your energetic rhythms and then aligning your actions with those rhythms. It helps us to identify our moods, feelings, and energy levels which ultimately helps us to plan and sort of predict the future instead of just waking up and being the subject to whatever energy is playing out in us that day.
The typical work energy cycle of the day is based upon masculine energies, a 24-hour testosterone cycle - but women’s energy cycles are so much different. We operate on a balance of inward and outward energy.
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/ali-cranmer
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
As business owners, CEOs and the visionaries of our companies, it’s important for us to identify our own growth roles as we make hires and build our teams. Often, for many of us this means we’re able to step into a more lucrative and visible role as the face of our company.
In doing so, speaking is one of the number one ways to accelerate our company’s growth, widen the net we cast for our visibility, and radiate the impact our business has on the world.
Jessica shares her deep and powerful message of how she overcome intense and turbulent personal challenges and she answers all the questions I could ever ask about how to discover our own message and share it with the world.
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/jessica-rasdall
POWERFUL QUOTES FROM JESSICA RASDALL
“When we start to shift our focus on the difference we’re making and less on how it’s being received, it becomes so much easier.”
“The only story that matters is the one your audience needs to hear. If we don’t start with the question of ‘what do they need from me,’ you’re going to tell the wrong story.”
“Most of the frustration from speaking is not because your presentation isn’t great. It’s because you’re not leveraging it the way your business needs you to leverage it.”
“You feel like you’re talking to everybody, but from the stage you only need to talk to one person. When you can focus on the one person you’re meant to impact, it’s so much more impactful.”
“If you’ve ever sat in the audience and thought, ‘I’m meant to be up there,’ you probably should!”
Connect with Jessica Rasdall
Listen to the Speak to Scale Podcast
Meet Jessica on her website
Learn about Jessica’s Speaking Strategy Academy
Download your free Speak to Scale Roadmap: Your blueprint for scaling your business from the stage
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
This episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast is a powerful one, thanks to my guest Linda Taliaferro. Linda is a career advisor who helps professionals to get unstuck, strengthen key interpersonal relationship skills, and establish executive presence so they can get a seat at the table.
Somewhere around her mid-career stage, she realized that even though she didn’t want to play the corporate politics game, she needed to understand it to thrive. And so she did. She found the right people to align with to ask questions and be a champion for her. She discovered that building relationships and having the “secret sauce” is what gets people to the top.
Shownotes are at: https://www.joytolead.com/linda-taliaferro
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Ever submitted a job posting then watched with a waning spirit as unqualified applicants came pouring in? Today I'm talking with business coach Nicole Jackson Miller all about how to construct a job posting that attracts high-caliber applicants, create hiring questions that get you the best information you need to make a decision, and keep top-talent engaged and turn-over low.
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/nicole-jackson-miller
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
No one can do this leadership thing alone. The best part is - you don't have to have all the answers or know everything. What you need is a strong and supportive community whose support you can rely on and trust. Madison Anaya of the Fearless Chase Podcast shares all her community cultivating wisdom, tips and strategies in today's episode.
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/madison-anaya
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Today on the show we have Taneshia, the woman behind CEO for Women, a business on a mission to help more women start businesses built on purpose and faith.
Grab your notes because we're talking all about purposeful, intentional and sustainable growth by uncovering our purpose first and foremost (even as multi-passionate human beings!) - we're diving into the tactics and mindset shifts you need to lead your business for the long haul. It's a good one!
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/taneshia-yerby
We're all leaders - no matter if we're leading teams, a company, in our communities or churches - and the key to awakening your leadership is standing confidently in your strengths and passions. In this episode, Ashton Long Smith of the Awakening Membership shares her leadership journey, advice for uncovering and leading from your strengths, and cultivating confidence as a leader.
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/ashton-smith
I'm learning to start my mornings in a new, massively productive way...
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Instead of always asking, "what do I need to do today?" first thing, I am now asking myself, "What should I NOT do today?"
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See, effective executives (or, knowledge workers - aka, YOU) should be in a constant pursuit of efficiency. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
However, there are a few never-ending antagonists to your efficiency. They are:
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👉 The fact your time never feels like it belongs to you (from your clients to your team - you're always struggling with fighting for your own time)
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👉You're still forced to work in the operations of your biz
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👉 No matter what, you're still wholly INSIDE your biz, and you have to fight for a birds-eye view
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To DAILY win this never-ending struggle, you should show up each day by first answering these questions and evaluating your time mercilessly:
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❌ What should I NOT DO TODAY?
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❌ What should I never do again?
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❌ What should I (simplify first, then) release to my team?
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If you don't show up in this way, your list will continue to expand, expand, expand and you'll be functioning as a very inefficient CEO.
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Eliminate ruthlessly, simplify mercilessly, and release/delegate immediately.🔥
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Don't worry, your to-do list will fill back up fast - you can repeat tomorrow 🤗
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Today’s episode is all about team development. I’ll be going over the 4 stages of team development that are essential in getting your team to grow.
Your team is growing through a series of strategic phases. It’s up to you as a leader to analyze how you can help your team grow and be aware of where you are in the growth process.
Full shownotes are at: https://joytolead.com/4-stages-of-team-development/
Connect With Me!
As always please connect with me on Instagram, and DM your thoughts on today’s episode. I would love to hear your feedback and to answer any additional questions you guys may have!
There are still spots available to be apart of the leadership academy. It’s an amazing community and I would love to meet you and have you be a part of it.
Have you ever felt the need to hide or apologize for your desire to take the lead? In this episode we're highlighting the lies traditional team structures have conditioned us to believe and how entrepreneurs are changing the leadership game. If you're ready to reframe what you know about organizational leadership, let's dive in!
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
For episode shownotes, visit https://joytolead.com/entrepreneurial-leadership/
Today Kristen Edwards, leadership and enneagram consultant, will share how you can use the enneagram in your team building process, to deepen your awareness of your leadership style, to impact and influence the way you show up as a leader and to increase the way you nurture your team.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, we will be breaking down the final 60 days of a 90 day onboarding process for hiring new team members.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, we will begin breaking down the 90 day onboarding process by covering what should be done during the first 30 days of onboarding a new team member.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast we are covering some of the most common mistakes made when onboarding a new team member and how to remedy them quickly and set your new hires up for success.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Have you ever been through the hiring process and were disappointed in the candidates due to them applying for the wrong position or being unqualified? Or maybe you are just starting the hiring process. Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, I am helping you create a job posting so you will actually attract your dream team.
Full shownotes here!
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Sharing all the reasons why we need to stop hiring for “Culture Fit”, how it is actually hindering your current work environment and what we need to focus on instead.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Have you ever sat down to write out the job description for your next hire but your mind just goes BLANK? We’ve all been there, which is why today on the Joy to Lead Podcast we're talking about mapping out a job description for your next hire.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
When working a 9-5, you have a clear view of what’s needed to get promoted. You know what the next “rung on the ladder” looks like, and you’ve got it in your sites. But as an entrepreneur, do you know what’s needed to get a promotion in your business? What does your growth plan look like?
Today on the Joy to Lead podcast, we’re walking through the questions that I ask my Leadership Academy members and hiring clients as we plan their promotions.
Full Shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Have you ever just felt… stuck? In business, in growth, in life? Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, designer and mindset coach Cassie Gudmundson shares how our limiting beliefs may be holding us back in ways we might not realize.
In this episode, Cassie shares how to fully show up and scale our businesses with aligned action and momentum as we chat all things mindset mastery, unlocking those pesky limiting beliefs, and digging into what next level growth means at its core.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Today on the Joy to Lead podcast, we will be creating a systematic hiring process and timeline so that you can not only take everyone through the same process, but also can make sure you are hiring the right person AND are able to keep your sanity! We will not only break down the major components of the hiring process but I will also give you an overview of the steps you should plan to take and how to proactively plan for the hiring process.
Full Shownotes Here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Something that I unfortunately see occurring way too often and a real struggle that I think all of us will experience at one point is hiring the wrong person. Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, I’m going to walk you through some do’s and don’ts of hiring so that when the time comes to grow your team, you can be confident that you are hiring the right person for your business and avoiding the wrong one.
Full shownotes here!
Grab your free Hiring Planner here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
If you’ve ever felt out of place, like you struggle to relate to the typically entrepreneurial journey, this week’s podcast episode was recorded just for you. Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast we are speaking with Caroline Sumlin who is flipping the narrative around motherhood and business by showing us how business and motherhood can work together symbiotically, rather than pushing against each other.
Full Shownotes here!
Grab your free Hiring Planner here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
One of the riskiest endeavors you can make as an entrepreneur is hiring a new team member. You may find yourself asking yourself questions like: Who should you hire? What should you hire for? But the biggest of all is ARE you READY to hire? Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, I will walk you through the signs that will help you determine if you're REALLY ready for your first strategic hire.
Full shownotes here!
Ready for Your Next Steps?
Expand your leadership and build your dream team. Join the Joy to Lead Leadership Academy today!
View upcoming community workshops and live trainings to build, lead and grow your dream teams!
Hiring a new team member can be a risky endeavor. As an entrepreneur, you may have experienced or seen the financial difficulty that can come with making the wrong hires. In today’s episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast, we’re talking about how to build your team the right way and ensure your business’s growth, profitability and sustainability.
Full shownotes here!
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Ever felt in over your head when it comes to financial management in your business, especially as you invest in a team? In this episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast, CFO and financial strategist Andrea Jensen teaches us how to proactively control our finances, structure our financial management to nurture company growth, and set up and manage financial systems to best serve our companies and growing teams.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Did you know we only consciously use about 5% of our brains? Crazy right!? Today on the Joy to Lead Podcast, we will be diving into how we can unlock our subconscious leadership so we can gain more control over our actions, behaviors and thought patterns to help our teams thrive.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
You are unique and different than the leader standing next to you. Because of that, your leadership style can not be completely defined by a test or list of all the different leadership styles. Tune into this week's episode of the Joy to Lead podcast as I help you begin to seek out and understand your unique leadership style so you can become the leader that you intentionally want to be.Full shownotes here! Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
I think we can all agree that the past year was a hard time that made it a struggle to find the joy in our day to day lives at times. Well today we are speaking with Abbie Mirata, a JOY coach, who is going to not only break down what joy is but also teach us how to cultivate more joy intentionally and exercise our joy diligently each day.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
When's the last time you dreamed for dreaming's sake? Or are you someone who struggles with dreaming? If so, today we are going to talk about the importance of dreaming as leaders and how it can move us forward. I don’t want you to take any notes today but rather just be open and ready to begin to dream again.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
More and more, people are hooked on taking personality tests and learning more about why we do what we do. Today I want to teach you how to take a step back from personality tests so that you can reflect on discovering your strengths through our own lens and use personality tests to supplement your findings instead of dictating your leadership journey.Full shownotes here! Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you will learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Has anyone ever asked you what does success look like to you and you struggled to define it? Maybe you currently know what success you want for your life but are unsure of the steps to take or currently feel unaligned with it. Today we are sitting down with Abby Smith of Paragraph Branding House. She will be diving into what you can do every single day to align your actions so that you can create the success that you want in your life.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
As leaders, we’re called to never-ending journeys of self-discovery and awareness – and journaling prompts are great tools for us to use in that process! In the Leadership Academy we’ve been diving into several journaling prompts to help us dig deeper into our leadership styles this year, and I’d love to share them with you today!
As you go through these prompts, take a moment and stop in between each to pause and reflect before moving forward.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Have you ever experienced a team meeting that felt like a total waste of time? Meetings should give us BACK time and create more of it, not function as a time suck. So today we’re going to do some sorting out, and I want you to take note, because we’re covering the 5 types of meetings EVERY leader needs to prioritize. Not every meeting has to be a waste of time, so let’s save time by hosting the right kind of meetings.
Full shownotes here!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Ever feel like your business financials are a messy, overrun closet you’re afraid to open? Is tax planning and audit preparation after thoughts that give you nightmares? If so, today’s episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast is for you!
Today we’re sitting down with Tatiana Tsoir, author and visionary accountant helping business owners become the boss of their bottom line. She’s also the author of her upcoming book Dream Bold, Start Smart - Be your own boss & make money doing what you love. And today we’re chatting about tax planning as you grow your team, hidden tax deductions you may be missing out on, and how to audit-proof your business as you grow!
Shownotes at: www.joytolead.com/tatiana-tsoir
Ready to Step Into Your Leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
In today's podcast episode we are going to talk about what vision truly is and how we can install vision within our teams and within ourselves. As leaders,understanding our vision is essential. When we understand our vision, it becomes a part of us. It's a part of who we are and it reflects on the way we live. By weaving it into your team's community it will become a part of their identity as well. That's when vision is the strongest and that's when vision is fulfilling its purpose.
Full shownotes at www.joytolead.com/find-your-vision
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
Have you ever felt stuck in your stage of growth in business? Have you ever felt like the bottleneck, but just couldn't pin point where and how exactly you could break through to the next level?
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In today's episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast, I'm talking with Director of Operations Catherine Calmes!
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Catherine is an operations and team management extraordinaire, and today she's breaking down the FIVE phases of growth all CEO's journey through - and how we can actively move through them!
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From solopreneur to team leader to fully self-sufficient company, Catherine breaks it all down step-by-step in this actionable convo. She's stellar!
Full Shownotes at www.joytolead.com/catherine-calmes
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
Ready to Step Into Your Leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
In today's episode I share some insight on where I see leadership and organizational heading in the post-2020 world. There are 7 main predictions and action steps that I see for the new world post-2020! Change is scary but it will bring about growth and knowledge. This year has been tough, but we are all coming out of it as better and stronger leaders.
Shownotes: www.joytolead.com/7-leadership-predictions
Ready to Step Into Your Leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
Clarity + Risk x Vision = Team Growth. This formula is the key to furthering your team's development. In today's episode I'll be breaking down each component of this formula. By following these tips, you will get so much closer to cultivating the team or your dreams.
Full shownotes: www.joytolead.com/clarity-risk-vision-team-growth
Your Next StepsAs always I would love to connect with you guys and provide any further insight I can on this topic! Click here to add me on Instagram and free feel to DM me your thoughts on this weeks episode.
I'm also offering a free coworking session to anyone that is interested! We meet once a month for an hour and it's an amazing community where we discuss anything and everything about leadership business growth and team development. I love putting faces to community members and talking with you all! You can join by clicking here, I would love for you to be a part of it.
And for those of you that want to deepen your leadership and understand your leadership styles and strengths join the Leadership Academy today! It's for you if you want to hire in the next or if you are managing a small time of contractors or employees who are looking to you for leadership and inspiration. There are so many people in this community from different industries and areas who are coming together to learn and share their experiences with everyone. I'd love for you to be a part of it and there is a spot with your name on it!
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
Today’s episode is all about team development. I’ll be going over the 4 stages of team development that are essential in getting your team to grow.
Your team is growing through a series of strategic phases. It’s up to you as a leader to analyze how you can help your team grow and be aware of where you are in the growth process.
Full shownotes are at: https://joytolead.com/4-stages-of-team-development/
Connect With Me!
As always please connect with me on Instagram, and DM your thoughts on today’s episode. I would love to hear your feedback and to answer any additional questions you guys may have!
There are still spots available to be apart of the leadership academy. It’s an amazing community and I would love to meet you and have you be a part of it.
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
In today's episode I tackle the 5 reasons leaders need community. A community is important within the workplace for employees, but it's also important for leaders. You need to be able to relate to other leaders and people in the same position of authority or leadership.
Full shownotes: https://joytolead.com/5-reasons-leaders-need-community/
Your Next Steps!Don’t rest until you find that community for yourself! And if you want to join us at The Academy, there is always a spot open for you there.
As always guys, please connect and DM me on Instagram about your thoughts on today’s episode or if you guys just want to have a chat im always all ears!
In this week's episode I'm sharing the top nine things I learned from hiring an intern this year. My ultimate goal bringing on an intern was to increase podcast traffic and listenership. I brought her on in September and came to it with open hands and made sure to remember this role is about THEM!
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/intern
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
www.joytolead.com/academy
Today's episode is a special one because I got to have a conversation about building an agency while planning for maternity leave with the amazing Jenny Suneson, founder and CEO of Savvy Podcast Agency.
Jenny grew her team to five team members over the course of her pregnancy in 2019 and early 2020, scaling quickly and making several tough decisions along the way.
Today she's sharing exactly how she prepared for a maternity leave WHILE growing her agency, and the lessons she learned along the way.
Full shownotes: www.joytolead.com/jenny-suneson
Take Your Next Step!
Now is the time to discover your leadership style! Join the Joy to Lead Leadership Academy and learn how to hire, train, and support current and future team members!
Control is not the ability to manipulate external factors - it's the ability to make decisions that are in alignment with who you are and who you want to be. No one and nothing can take that away from you.
What do you need to do and say to attract high-caliber applicants? How do you structure and navigate the hiring process? What do you do once they've said, "Yes"?!
Today I'm sharing the audio from a recent virtual presentation I gave for the Uplevel Your Biz Summit.
Full shownotes at www.joytolead.com/uplevel-summit
Firing a team member is never easy, but sometimes it's the right thing to do for you, your business, and your hire performing team members.
Full shownotes are here!
Firing - How to Let a Team Member Go
Take Your Next Step!
Now is the time to discover your leadership style! Join the Joy to Lead Leadership Academy and learn how to hire, train, and support current and future team members!
What is wisdom, and how do we move with it as leaders?
Wisdom is important because it frees us to move on a higher playing field than others. Wisdom gives us direction when we’re somewhere we’ve never been.
We can follow hand-me-down strategies with intellect and ease, but it takes wisdom to move beyond where you are to where you want to be in the best way that YOU can.
Your Next Steps!
Step into your leadership as a coach for your team members and learn how to hire, lead and inspire your dream team by joining the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy!
A great leader is a great coach, and in today’s episode on the Joy to Lead® Podcast we’re diving into how to coach your team for better performance.
We dive into coaching foundations and principles and how to use the GROW model to guide coaching communication and increase team performance.
Full shownotes here
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Routines help us free up our mental capacity, but whyyy is it so dang hard to stick to them? Today I'm sharing the literal steps I took to construct my morning, afternoon and evening routines.
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Today we're talking about something I see far too often - a mindset block that keeps us from leading our dream team no matter what stage of business we're in.
Whether you're leading a small team of contractors, a single virtual assistant or a larger team of employees - or somewhere in between - you can develop aspects of your dream team right where you are by shifting from an outsourcing, delegating mindset to a confident leadership mindset!
Full shownotes here
Connect with Erin Alexander and Alexander Design Co.
Ready to step into your leadership?
Want to learn how to bridge the gap and make your first hire within the year? Let’s prepare your leadership and understand how to hire, train and lead your dream team.
We want to welcome YOU in to the Joy to Lead® Leadership Academy. In the Academy, you can learn to:
- Know who, when and how to hire next
- Coach other humans in their own growth – all while using your strengths⠀⠀
- Discover how YOU inspire, motivate, delegate and LEAD others as well as yourself
Join us today – we’d love to have you alongside us in this community!
Your team member houses an infinite amount of power they aren't bringing to the surface - are you barely scratching the surface?
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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Your strengths are tools. Have you been comparing yourself to someone else? Someone else's journey to your own? I think it's about time we look down at our own feet and learn how to climb our own way up.
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/leadership-lies
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Stop the cycle of pride, hustle and shame and enter into wholehearted living and leadership.
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There is a misconception in today's society that says leaders always lead from the front. They are at the top and everyone else is following them. This is far from the truth and in reality, a leader's role is interchangeable as someone who leads from the font, behind, and beside.
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/lead-from-the-front
Defining your unique leadership style
What’s amazing about leadership is, it is not defined one way. You are already a leader and you can thrive at any of these three positions, they are interchangeable.
We as people are evolving everyday, and it’s the same with the way you lead! One thing will always remain constant, and that is your core values. Your unique voice and personal strengths will continue to change.
When you know your values, strengths, and voice, and how to tap into, listen, and cultivate them, then you will be able to lead in any season.
There is a voice inside all of you that motivates you and draws you forward and outward. Listen to that voice and let it lead you so that YOUR leadership doesn’t stay hidden.
Every human being on this planet is meant to be a leader, don’t ever disqualify yourself!
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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What happens when you start to feel like you aren't doing enough, or you aren't being the best leader you can be?
In this episode we are going in deep and talking about how to hone in your strengths and leadership skills in order to be able to lead anyone, anytime, anywhere. You made it this far and learning how to be able to lean on your leadership will change the game for you as a CEO.
Full Shownotes: www.joytolead.com/how-to-lead
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Did you know… what you focus on in others affects HOW you interact with them? It affects the expectations you set, your tone, your conversation, and so much more. This is why it’s so important to be a strengths-focused leader.
As Tom Rath wrote in Strengths-Based Leadership, “If you focus on people’s weaknesses, they lose confidence. At a very basic level, it is hard for us to build self-confidence when we are focused on our weaknesses instead of our strengths.”
In today’s episode I’m sharing a workshop on strengths based leadership I gave my Leadership Academy.
We’re beginning sign ups for the next cohort, so head to www.joytolead.com/academy to learn more!
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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Get ready, because we're going all Beyonce on your dreams today.
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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If you've ever struggled with unmet expectations, sub-par performance, or lack of self-responsibility and initiative in your team members - this episode is for YOU.
You may have a team of great people, but somehow you notice all the results still ride on you. How do you get your team to step up?
The problem? You've built a team around yourself, and they're following your lead. Are you leading them to depend on you, or are you facilitating self-responsibility and outcome autonomy?
Full shownotes here
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t gather your people and ask them to provide wood, prepare tools and assign tasks. Call them together and raise in their minds the longing for the endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm trying a new weekly series - Five for Friday! Five thoughts in under five minutes on a Friday! Tune in weekly for these short, powerful, motivational and inspirational bonus episodes.
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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In today’s episode I dive into my experience during my first ever self-guided business retreat that I went on with my business bestie, Emelie Sanders of Unpopd.
I’ll discuss what helped me squelch overwhelm heading into the retreat as well as steps you can take to create your own successful getaway!
Full shownotes: www.joytolead.com/business-retreat
WHAT ELSE DO WE TALK ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE?
I also provide some tips for you guys when planning your own business retreats. and what to ask yourself when planning out your goals.
It’s important to start with questions you need clarity on when establishing your retreat agenda, so you can achieve the maximum amount of clarity and relief after the retreat!
- Asking yourselves important questions like:
- What direction do I want my business going in?
- How can I simplify my current business plan?
- How do I plan everything out?
Starting by answering these questions will allow you to get a clear understanding of the next steps it takes to achieve the success you desire!
TELL ME ABOUT YOUR RETREAT!
Head over to Instagram and tell me all about your next retreat. I’m excited to hear your goals, what you’re planning and where you’re going!
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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What is JOY?
I haven't mastered it, but I want to share what I am learning because here's the truth - for the first time in my life I am experiencing a season of burnout and even depression. It's scary to say that out loud, but I want to break any stigma around it and lead from a place of honesty.
Being burnt-out or struggling mentally, emotionally, spiritually - it doesn't remove you from leadership. It will try and tell you so, but its a lie. Because here's the thing - all leaders are human, all followers are human, and the best way to lead humans is to be a human.
I'm not saying that you need to invite your team and community to your therapy sessions, but I am saying that you can be real, like I'm being real right now. And that your highest leadership lies in your humanity, you being human, and pursuing the future alongside your team. Your highest leadership lies in you not being perfect, but being yourself and asking your team to do the same.
Its ironic that I should name my brand Joy to Lead, when the thing I struggle with most in my life is joy. Subconsciously, I think maybe I knew that was the point.
I believe that our purpose lies in our untapped super powers, and that they'll feel like weakness until we learn how to use it.
Here's what I'm learning about joy:
- You can be joyful even when you're sad
- You feel it when you're in your strengths
- You can practice it
- You have to be diligent, gritty, and determined that you want it
- It's hope, and I think hope is a decision. Even in despair, you can choose to hope. Often, I pray for God to honor my trying
- You have to look for it to see it
If you've ever struggled with joy, with confidence, with leading others from a deep understanding of who you are, I want to invite you to be a part of the next Leadership Academy cohort. We're kicking off January 2021, but I'm opening up pre-sale spots at an early bird rate starting now. We'll dive deep into your leadership style - we'll actually spend a whole month on it - we'll learn how you can uniquely lead and build a team, and we'll create a plan for you to grow yourself, your team and your abilities through group coaching, 1:1 coaching and an intimate community. The best part is - you'll get lifetime access to the trainings, the community, and lifetime access to group co-working sessions and book discussions. We begin Jan 2021, but there are limited spots. You can reserve yours now and commit to your growth next year with a supportive, understanding, nurturing and challenging community.
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
In today's episode I'm getting super vulnerable and sharing my experience on the leadership team of a company that closed its doors. I share about my work background, my leadership philosophy, and what I've seen happen when vision and leadership are out of balance in the workplace.
My story - I help entrepreneurs successfully step into their CEO role, understand their leadership style, and build their dream team so they scale their dream company.
I graduated with a degree in creative writing which may have seemed like a facepalm decision in the moment but trained me to observe human beings.
And I did that - as I tried to figure out what the heck I’m doing with the degree I went into and out of several jobs - from radio to news to a couple marketing agencies.
And I’ve seen businesses struggle on all fronts and I saw it came down to two things - vision and leadership in equal measures. I’ve seen what happens when those two are out of balance.
When vision supersedes leadership you have a team that gets highly motivated but lacks action which leads to high turnover and loss of money. When you have great leadership but the CEO doesn’t have vision, you have great team relationships but you get nothing done.
www.joytolead.com/vision-leadership
Helpful Resources
Book a 1:1 Leadership Strategy Session with Kaylan
Download your free Hiring Planner
Access my Hiring Course & Template Bundle
Through this conversation, Elizabeth shares how she made the shift from a service-based business model to a product-based business.
- How she niched down over time
- How she weighed her options between productizing or going the agency model route
- How she evaluated her market's needs to shift her business model
- How she utilized her team to help her make the shift
Full shownotes >> www.joytolead.com/elizabeth-mccravy
What else do we talk about on the show?
- Balancing being an intuitive creative business owner while leaning on strategy
- The largest steps she's taken to scale in her business so far. The most profitable decisions and shifts she's made
- How she's overcome self-doubt and impostor syndrome as a young entrepreneur
- What kind of mindset she had heading into entrepreneurship versus the mindset she's had to curate to scale her business as the CEO of her company
- Hiring mistakes she made in building her team
Resources mentioned in this episode
Launching Your Website In 5 Days, A Sales Page That Converts, And Website Confidence
Your Guide to Hiring Your First Team Member with Kaylan Thompson
Traction
Built to Sell
Traffic Secrets
Connect with Elizabeth McCravy
Listen to the Breakthrough Brand Podcast
Connect with Elizabeth McCravy on Instagram
Helpful ResourcesFor more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Download the first chapter of my upcoming book, Your Leadership Story
We talk about hiring a lot here on the Joy to Lead Podcast, but something many of us may find we're ill-prepared for is firing.
What do you do when you decide it's time to let a team member go, and how do you navigate having that conversation?
In today's episode we cover how to know it's time to let a team member go, the 6 steps to take in having that conversation:
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Be up front and direct about why you're meeting. "I called this meeting because I have decided..."
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Be clear about why (but not too lengthy) - share 2-3 major, clear reasons why you made the decision
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Thank them, specifically, for things they did do well for you/what you appreciate about them
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"Do you have any questions before I discuss offboarding?"
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Share the steps they can expect to take from here - what will you be sending them, what do they no longer have access to, etc.?
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Reiterate how you are grateful for their time/how they specifically served the company, then end the conversation
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/firing
Helpful Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
I’m so excited to share this conversation with Trades of Hope founder, wife, mama, and serial entrepreneur Chelsie Antos.
She has been an incredible source of inspiration to me for years as I navigate entrepreneurship and mamahood, and I know this conversation will inspire and motivate you as well.
CHELSIE’S JOURNEY IN SERIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Chelsie and her husband are two entrepreneurs in a pod, loving to create things together! Recently, they had two little girls and felt passionate about making time and space for intentional offline living.
As entrepreneurs, Chelsie said, we live and share a lot of our life online and it’s easy to get sucked in, become obsessed, and lose the ability to log off intentionally.
After hearing a statistic that said the average kid today gets outside less than a prison inmate, Chelsie and her husband began The Outside Fam, a movement calling entrepreneurs and families to the outdoors.
But, this wasn’t Chelsie’s first stint in entrepreneurship! Chelsie helped co-found Trades of Hope, a multi-million dollar company empowering women globally.
WHAT DOES BALANCE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP LOOK LIKE?
It’s hard, she said, “Anything in life worth doing is hard. My mom always said, ‘If anything in life is worth doing it’s going to be hard, you just have to expect it and you gotta be okay with it.'”
They began the movement #takebacktheweekend, encouraging followers to completely log off social media for two days out of every week.
As entrepreneurs it’s hard to disconnect, easy to keep trying to get ahead. “So, there has to be a time,” she said. “Where we have to choose to not get ahead, to not try and reconnect with the online world.”
She loves the online world, she said, but “there’s a way to do it responsibly, and we’re going to take this time for our family.”
WHAT ELSE DO WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE?
- How balance has benefited her entrepreneurial life
- How structure and free-spiritedness serve each other to create a full, joyful life
- How Chelsie founded a multi-million dollar company at the age of 17
- How she balances her achievement-driven nature with her desire to mother
- How she’s seen herself grow as a leader in entrepreneurship and motherhood
- The identity shift she’s had to make through entrepreneurship as she’s stepped out of her multi-million dollar company
- The habits, intentions and practices she’s developed over time that has contributed to her success
CONNECT WITH CHELSIE ANTOS & THE OUTSIDE FAM!
Trades of Hope
The Outside Fam
Connect with Chelsie on Instagram!
Participate in #TakeBacktheWeekend!
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Are you a parent or caregiver? Here are four things parenthood is teaching me that is ALSO helping me build a better company ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
👉 Concentrate your efforts, don't marginalize them. When we try and do everything perfect, we become mediocre in all areas.
👉 Routine protects the flow we need to thrive. I've learned that structure, routine and process don't have to detail my every move, but can protect my time so I can find creative, joyful and energetic flow that I need to thrive as a mom and business owner.
👉 You don’t need to pay tons of money to know how. I’m a big believer that when you LEARN business principles, you can function off of intuition because you’ve internalized the knowledge.
👉 Ask for help before you need it. The keyword is BEFORE. Before, before, before. Not after you're overwhelmed, overworked and stressed.
Full shownotes at: www.joytolead.com/parenthood
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
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Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Jordan Gill of Systems Saved Me is on the podcast this week and I'm celebrating Lorelei Gilmore style (all the coffee and telling every person I meet).
Jordan was able to grow her business and double her team in the midst of a pandemic, and today she's sharing it all with us.
Today we dive into how she has grown, developed, and managed her team so that she can step into the CEO function of her business. She's also sharing how she has set her hiring system up to go beyond growth and into scaling.
We also cover:
- The importance of managing expectations, and how Jordan has learned to do so for her team
- How Jordan leverages personality assessments and peer-led interviews through her hiring processes
- The process of how Jordan has duplicated herself and her expertise so that she's not constantly trading time for money
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
I’m excited to say - I am hiring a Marketing Intern! Applications are open, and I’ll be accepting applications through July.
I’ll be sharing more about the process as I go, but before I do, it’s important for us to talk about scaling, how I determined it was time to take this step, and how I identified the position I’m bringing on.
First, A Note About Scaling 👉 As I’ve mentioned before, scaling is simply making the most impact with the resources you have available to you - time, money and knowledge.
Scaling is not making 6-figures, running intricate ad funnels, or growing a massive team.
Scaling does not equal growth (i.e. doing more to gain more, incurring costs and growing revenue at equal rates). Scaling is increasing revenue at an increasingly faster rate than incurring costs.
Hiring is a tool that helps us do just that - if we use it wisely and to a defined end. The costly mistakes come when we hire just to get ourselves out of the weeds so we can breathe (don’t hire in desperation - hire proactively!)
I’ve been planning to hire since I opened my doors. Turning this business into a company with vision owned and carried by a purpose-driven team is my dream, and I'm sure it's yours, too!
I knew it was FINALLY time to get this process rolling once I solidified my scalable framework, Dream to Team, and created a business structure I could build my team upon.
I’ve had consistent 4-figure months that have allowed me to hit my own income goals - but I now see and feel that my role needs to shift to a more lucrative one in order to break through (i.e. time spent on more discovery calls and podcasts, not in Canva designing IG graphics)
So, I mapped out my scalable process and structure (something I help each of my clients through in Dream to Team) and highlighted the first opportunity to bring on a team member - a marketing intern!
I’ve mapped out their growth plan as I continue to expand and build out my team over the coming years. This role will grow into Content Manager, then Marketing Director over time!
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Stephanie Ann Bagley is on the show today, and I’m so excited and honored to share this bright light of a CEO with you today!
In today’s podcast, Stephanie and I dive into the joy of entrepreneurship, and how to be vulnerable in business – infusing your personality into what you do without losing your sense of self. GOLD!
This episode is for you if you go through those seasons of feeling stuck in your business – grinding day in and day out, but struggling to see the needle even budge.
Stephanie’s tips and golden bits of wisdom will light a fire of clarity and inspiration in you, helping you break out of that cycle so you can finally get where you KNOW you’re destined to be.
Full shownotes here!
Resources mentioned in this episode
The E-Myth Book
How the World Sees You by Sally Hogshead
Launch by Jeff Walker
You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
The Go Getter by Peter Kyne
The Amy Porterfield Podcast
The School of Greatness Podcast
The Ed Mylett Podcast
CONNECT WITH STEPHANIE ANN BAGLEY
Stephanie’s website
The Dream Maker’s Podcast
Check out Stephanie’s photography
Connect with Stephanie on Instagram
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
The problem with entrepreneurship... No one tells us how to build a company. How to grow a team. How to BE CEO.
Ever heard of the phrase “small potatoes?” This is a phrase I started using to describe my own mindset several months ago. Now, I’m playing big potatoes (trust me, it’s catchy). Too many of us are playing small potatoes and don’t even know it. And it’s because we aren’t functioning as true CEOs.
I use the term CEO a ton, and I know its an overused and almost cliche term in our online space these days, so let’s chat about what it ACTUALLY MEANS:
As CEO, your responsibility is to ensure the sustainable growth of your organization.
The problem with being an entrepreneur is that we’re winging it - piecemealing growth with different courses and podcasts and the occasional book.
The problem with entrepreneurship is that we’ve coddled ourselves into thinking we’re building empires but REALLY… we’re just building a new 9-5 for ourselves.
I want you to disrupt that trajectory for yourself and begin learning how to structure an organization from the ground up. I want you to think, act and lead like a CEO.
I want you to prepare your leadership now for the team that’s coming - and coming quickly. Because when you get the building blocks in order, growth comes. And when growth comes, so does your team.
Full shownotes at www.joytolead.com/being-ceo
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Today's guest is a role model of mine in joy, leadership, faith and business - Mignon Francois, the owner and Director of Joy at the Cupcake Collection.
We talk all about her journey through the tough parts of life and how she went from $5 to her name to owning a multi-million dollar business.
Mignon is the epitome of joy and wisdom, and I know her story will bless you in massive ways!
What all do we talk about?
- Mignon shares her story going from $5 to her name to a multi-million dollar business
- How she finds joy in everything - both the highs and lows of life
- Her definition of JOY
- Mignon breaks down her Follow Your Spirit business strategy
Powerful Quotables from Mignon Francois
"God doesn't just ask one person to do a thing. He doesn't need us to do anything, but He desires us to be in communion and collaboration with His creation."
"What is it you want to leave in the world? I wanted to leave joy."
"I've learned over time as I have experienced life, you will live out the meaning of your name or the adversary set up against it. I shudder to know that the enemy set up a weapon against me to make me feel not beautiful when God said I was beautiful."
"'God, you said all things work together for the good of them who love you.' All things all the time. I hang on to the thought that it's not over until I win."
Resources mentioned in this episode
Called to Create by Jordan Raynor
Business Boutique by Christy Wright
More shownotes at www.joytolead.com/mignon-francois
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Today leadership burnout educator and coach Dr. Kim Hires shares about her journey through leadership burnout. We talk about how to prevent burnout by hiring a community, not simply a team - guys, it's GOLD!
Crashing head-first into Leadership Burnout was the wake-up call Dr. Kim needed to take a step back and realign her passion, purpose, resources and performance.
Full shownotes at www.joytolead.com/kim-hires
What else do we talk about in this episode?
- Creating check and balance system to prevent burnout
- A simple exercise you can do today to begin preventing burnout
- Creating quarterly commitments to self-care and treating ourselves
- Curating a community in your hires and team members
- The difference between a community and a team
- How Covid-19 is changing the business landscape and the calling of leadership
Powerful Quotables from Dr. Kim Hires
"Here's the thing about leaders. We're the students who do the hard work, and if we just plow through, well, decades of plowing through got to me. Stop. Look up. How'd you get here? Check in with yourself."
"You have a lot of leaders running around on empty. There's no productivity in that. That's the secret a lot of leaders hide behind."
"Self care isn't selfish, it's what you need. If you don't take care of you, it doesn't matter what you can produce."
"If you're not someone I'd want in my home, I'm not going to hire you. Create a place where you have people creating the same goal, internally and altruisitcally."
"If one person leaves a team, the dynamics shift and everything runs the risk of falling apart, but in a community every person contributes to the legacy of whatever it is collectively you're working on."
Connect with Dr. Kim Hires
Visit Dr. Kim Hires' website to learn more about her work
Check out Dr. Kim's book, the Leadership Manifesto
Check out Dr. Kim's book, the Plan to Grow workbook
Follow Dr. Kim Hires on Instagram
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Dondrea Owens stops by the Joy to Lead Podcast to chat all about preparing our finances for hiring and to quell any fears we have with practical and actionable finance strategy advice.
Dondrea Owens is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Through her business, The Creative's CFO, she and her team empower creatives and small business owners through accurate bookkeeping and profit-boosting strategies to know their numbers, then watch them grow.
What else do we talk about in this episode?
- The hidden costs of hiring that we may not be accounting for
- The various hiring avenues we can take to bring on support
- Should we hire a contractor or an employee?
- How to manage and prepare for taxes when hiring
- How do we keep our finances healthy as we scale?
- Hiring an accountant vs. a CFO - which one is best for us?
Resources mentioned in this episode
Gusto
Intuit Payroll
The Psychology of Winning
Connect with Dondrea Owens
Download your free Spending Plan for Creatives
Connect with Dondrea on Instagram
Visit her website, the Creative's CFO
More shownotes at www.joytolead.com/dondrea-owens
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
I'm learning to start my mornings in a new, massively productive way...
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Instead of always asking, "what do I need to do today?" first thing, I am now asking myself, "What should I NOT do today?"
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See, effective executives (or, knowledge workers - aka, YOU) should be in a constant pursuit of efficiency. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
However, there are a few never-ending antagonists to your efficiency. They are:
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👉 The fact your time never feels like it belongs to you (from your clients to your team - you're always struggling with fighting for your own time)
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👉You're still forced to work in the operations of your biz
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👉 No matter what, you're still wholly INSIDE your biz, and you have to fight for a birds-eye view
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To DAILY win this never-ending struggle, you should show up each day by first answering these questions and evaluating your time mercilessly:
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❌ What should I NOT DO TODAY?
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❌ What should I never do again?
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❌ What should I (simplify first, then) release to my team?
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If you don't show up in this way, your list will continue to expand, expand, expand and you'll be functioning as a very inefficient CEO.
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Eliminate ruthlessly, simplify mercilessly, and release/delegate immediately.🔥
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Don't worry, your to-do list will fill back up fast - you can repeat tomorrow 🤗
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
Allegra Brantly, founder of Factora Wealth, joins us on the show to dive head first into how entrepreneurs can start pursuing financial health and wellness.
And, she shares everything she knows about how entrepreneurs can start preparing for their retirement, start investing, and start planning for their future wealth.
We also dive into:
- Finding a money mentor and an accountability system
- First steps to learning about the financial sphere
- How entrepreneurs can start preparing for their retirement by investing and starting a retirement account
- How to make your money work for you and build more money in return
- Steps to begin pursuing financial freedom and wealth
- The difference between assets and liabilities
- How to step out of scarcity mindset
- How to shift your identity belief system to an abundance mindset
- All the books and learning resources Allegra recommends
- A mindset shifting exercise each one of us can do right now to step into an abundance mindset
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
Betterment
Ellevest
Learn more about the Joyful Leader Group Coaching Program
Connect with Allegra Brantly
Learn more about Factora Wealth here
Apply for Factora’s next Wealth Circle
Listen to the Coffee & Coin Podcast
Follow Factora Wealth on Instagram
Further shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/allegra-brantly
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
What steps do you take when you find yourself in a season of serious transition, or, if you need to make a pivot in business? HOW do you actually do that, and how do you lead your team without losing their trust and confidence in you along the way?
In this episode, you'll learn:
How to observe, orient, decide and take action to transition or pivot
How to invite your team into the process and inspire them to take action
How to receive feedback on your plan
How to ENACT the plan efficiently and effectively
And, how to check-in and ensure the plan's effectiveness
The book mentioned in this episode is The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs by Amy Wilkinson
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Today's podcast guest is a dear friend of mine, Jennifer Edewaard. She believes we're strongest when we embrace and stand in our imperfections with whole hearts, and we dove into the concept of imperfection and confidence.
The key to all of that? Jennifer says it's simple - our imperfection! Jennifer doesn't pretend to have it all figured out. But, she prays we'll leave encouraged and equipped to step boldly forward, grounded in grace and glory - the only perfection that actually exists.
Full shownotes at www.joytolead.com/jennifer-edewaard
What do we talk about in this episode?
We dive deeper into the concept of leading from our imperfections as women, as business owners and as mothers.
We also talk about:
- How Jennifer restructures her priorities and routines so she can show up fully herself as a leader
- How embracing our imperfections make us better leaders
- The hierarchical evolution of teams in this season
- Starting a church and tapping into imperfections as well as strengths
- Praying for our team members and those who are following our lead
- Integrating your faith into your business and team leadership
Resources mentioned in this episode
Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
You Are the Girl for the Job by Jess Connolly
Connect with Jennifer Edewaard
Follow Jennifer Edewaard on Instagram
Find encouragement and wisdom on Jennifer's website
Find your next favorite thing in Jennifer's shop!
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Get out your notebooks because I'm going textbook-deep into what a leadership style is, how to discover your style, and how to grow toward your desired leadership style state!
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Today’s episode is GOLD. I had the honor of sitting down with an insta-crush of mine, Dani Coke of So Happy Social and Oh Happy Dani to talk all about what it means to be an ally and to love our neighbors well.
She owns So Happy Social, a creative studio that specializes in social media marketing for positive brands doing meaningful work.
She is passionate about social justice and uses her platform and her god-gifted talents to educate others on diversity and inclusion.
We cover all this and more:
- Dani Coke shares 5 steps we can take to address systemic racism and social injustices in our own backyard
- Dani shares some encouragement for when we need the stamina to keep going and pressing forward toward issues
- How to select the causes you want to personally support
Shownotes and links to Dani's artwork are at www.joytolead.com/dani-coke
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
In today's episode we're going deep on how to set goals for ourselves as leaders - how do we want to challenge ourselves to deepen our personal and leadership wellbeing this year, and how do we bring that to life?
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
Erin Haworth of Work With Process shares with us all about streamlining and systematizing our processes so we can set our hires and future team up for resounding success!
We dive into:
Onboarding systematically
Onboarding with quality and success
Creating an onboarding plan specific to the strengths of your new hire
Structuring onboarding check-ins
Questions to ask when conducting employee evaluations
Thriving through the transition from solopreneur to team leader
Standout Quote from Erin!
“You have to not only trust your hiring decision, you have to give yourself time to start to build that trust. It’s going to be a process. You’re not going to be able to hand everything over on Day 1 and say, ‘Go for it.’ Not only are you trying to build a relationship with this new person, you’re also training yourself to be comfortable with trusting someone with something that is so important to you.”
Shownotes and links are at www.joytolead.com/erin-haworth
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
One of the biggest fears I help each and every client first overcome is the fear of trusting others in their business.
So, how do you initiate a culture of trust? Culture is built on relationships, which are built on conversations. To create a culture of trust, you must establish a rapport of trust with your team.
Here are the 5 steps to creating trust through your conversations and building a culture of trust - one conversation at a time!
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/culture
Read Conversational Intelligence by Judith Glaser - https://amzn.to/3ba2W75
Helpful Links and Resources
For more information on the Leadership Academy, visit www.joytolead.com/academy!
To learn more about the Dream to Team Hiring Course & Template Bundle, click here!
Need 1:1 Hiring Support and Strategy? Click Here!
CRASH COURSE in how to be the CEO your business needs you to be.
Ready to step up?
In today's Joy to Lead Podcast episode, I'm breaking down some biz fundamentals (so bring your notebook and fuzzy pen) and we're getting nitty gritty - CEO style
This isn't a "listen while you do the dishes" episode - you've been forewarned.
There is SO MUCH TALK about "being CEO" and having "CEO days," but there is a major gap in what it ACTUALLY looks like to BE a CEO
In this episode I'm breaking down:
Why the role even exists
What a CEO's actual to-do list looks like
Exactly what a CEO is responsible for
How to be your own lovin' CEO
Time's a-wastin, so let's get to it. Jump into the link in bio to crash course with me!
Shownotes at www.joytolead.com/your-ceo-role
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Don't be a boss people hate - do these 5 things to be a leader people love to follow!
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Today I’m interviewing someone I’ve been following for years now, Ashlyn Carter, and I'm really excited to share our conversation with you today.
I talk with Ashlyn all about how she's built her copywriting agency, how she's trained her team, how she structures her workdays and routines now that she's a CEO and a mom, and so much more!
If you're new to Ashlyn Carter, she's a conversion copywriter who has worked with several creatives we all know and love like Jenna Kutcher, Julie Soloman, Hilary Rushford, Lara Casey, and more. She is a wise business owner and truly inspiring creative!
We talk about how Ashlyn:
- Built her agency of copywriters and trained writers up under her
- Structured onboarding for her agency team members
- Recommends communicating about your team with your clients when building an agency model
- Encourages a spirit of entrepreneurship in her team members
- Encourages her team to solve problems and innovate in her business
- And, of course, soooo much more! Honestly, it's all GOLD.
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/ashlyn-carter
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My friend and client Kristen Achziger and I dive into her leadership journey - how she went from stuck, burnt-out, overwhelmed and discouraged to completely transformed and unleashed leader and trailblazer.
We talk about joy, breakthrough, identifying our core values to uncover our hidden strengths - and how to break through the status quo to create our own version of success.
Shownotes at www.joytolead.com/kristen-achziger-2
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Elise Hodge, copywriter + founder of She Is Light, shares how she stays true to her vision by clinging to purpose + building a community around her message!
Shownotes at www.joytolead.com/elise-hodge
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Today my dear client-turned-friend Abbie Smith of Paragraph Branding House is stopping by to share her journey from solopreneurship to CEO of her business.
We chat all about:
- Her experience in hiring an intern last summer and how that compares to her first strategic hiring experience coming up
- How she's shifted her mindset from hobbyist to CEO of her business
- How she's discovering and standing in her own unique style of leadership!
Full shownotes at www.joytolead.com/abbie-smith
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Ali Cranmer is a body & business integrator, and today she's joining us to share her secret weapon for avoiding burning out and using our unique energy cycles to master time management - cycle syncing!
Cycle syncing is using your menstrual cycle to discover your energetic rhythms and then aligning your actions with those rhythms. It helps us to identify our moods, feelings, and energy levels which ultimately helps us to plan and sort of predict the future instead of just waking up and being the subject to whatever energy is playing out in us that day.
The typical work energy cycle of the day is based upon masculine energies, a 24-hour testosterone cycle - but women’s energy cycles are so much different. We operate on a balance of inward and outward energy.
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/ali-cranmer
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My dear friend and client Hannah Murphy, productivity strategist and wise leader, get together to chat about innovation and leading our teams with wisdom, confidence and grace through times of uncertainty.
We also talk about selling & growing your business, making tough business and team decisions, and more!
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As business owners, CEOs and the visionaries of our companies, it’s important for us to identify our own growth roles as we make hires and build our teams. Often, for many of us this means we’re able to step into a more lucrative and visible role as the face of our company.
In doing so, speaking is one of the number one ways to accelerate our company’s growth, widen the net we cast for our visibility, and radiate the impact our business has on the world.
Jessica shares her deep and powerful message of how she overcome intense and turbulent personal challenges and she answers all the questions I could ever ask about how to discover our own message and share it with the world.
Full shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/jessica-rasdall
POWERFUL QUOTES FROM JESSICA RASDALL
“When we start to shift our focus on the difference we’re making and less on how it’s being received, it becomes so much easier.”
“The only story that matters is the one your audience needs to hear. If we don’t start with the question of ‘what do they need from me,’ you’re going to tell the wrong story.”
“Most of the frustration from speaking is not because your presentation isn’t great. It’s because you’re not leveraging it the way your business needs you to leverage it.”
“You feel like you’re talking to everybody, but from the stage you only need to talk to one person. When you can focus on the one person you’re meant to impact, it’s so much more impactful.”
“If you’ve ever sat in the audience and thought, ‘I’m meant to be up there,’ you probably should!”
Connect with Jessica Rasdall
Listen to the Speak to Scale Podcast
Meet Jessica on her website
Learn about Jessica’s Speaking Strategy Academy
Download your free Speak to Scale Roadmap: Your blueprint for scaling your business from the stage
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In order to survive times of uncertainty and disruption to our natural growth pattern in business we must utilize our team to innovate a new path forward. How do you lead and pursue growth when you literally don't have the answers? The answer is simple - innovate - and here's how.
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/innovation
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Sales and business coach Natasha Hemmingway shares her three pillars of successful sales conversations to help you energize your lead generation.
We also talk about why sales scripts aren’t helping you, and why you need to narrow in on a few lanes to focus your lead generation efforts on.
Shownotes are at joytolead.com/natasha-hemmingway!
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In today's solo show I'm talking about visualizing success - what it looks and FEELS like - for your life, business and team, and why doing so matters!
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This episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast is a powerful one, thanks to my guest Linda Taliaferro. Linda is a career advisor who helps professionals to get unstuck, strengthen key interpersonal relationship skills, and establish executive presence so they can get a seat at the table.
Somewhere around her mid-career stage, she realized that even though she didn’t want to play the corporate politics game, she needed to understand it to thrive. And so she did. She found the right people to align with to ask questions and be a champion for her. She discovered that building relationships and having the “secret sauce” is what gets people to the top.
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/linda-taliaferro
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How to support your team through chaotic, unnerving world events...
Yes, address the #coronavirus with your team. Don't pretend it doesn't exist - there is no business as usual in this season. And your leadership DOES matter and have a positive impact.
Here are several ways to support your team through this season and in others!
Full shownotes are at http://joytolead.com/crisis-leadership
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Ever submitted a job posting then watched with a waning spirit as unqualified applicants came pouring in? Today I'm talking with business coach Nicole Jackson Miller all about how to construct a job posting that attracts high-caliber applicants, create hiring questions that get you the best information you need to make a decision, and keep top-talent engaged and turn-over low.
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/nicole-jackson-miller
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As many of us entrepreneurs do, Amanda felt isolated in the beginning stages of her business because no one seemed to “understand her crazy.” You know, when no one else seems to get your vision or share your yearning for something more out of life? She felt a shift in her spirit to be more and do more in the world in her late twenties, while all her friends were feeling content. So Amanda sought out to find other likeminded women.
She never dreamed that this would be the beginning of SOWBO! She started a group on Meetup that met once a month at the local Whole Foods. Though she originally planned to discuss different topics such as marketing and finance, each week’s discussion led to sharing business dreams and visions. The group went with the flow and allowed the meeting to turn into an inspiring mastermind!
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/amanda-lairsey
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No one can do this leadership thing alone. The best part is - you don't have to have all the answers or know everything. What you need is a strong and supportive community whose support you can rely on and trust. Madison Anaya of the Fearless Chase Podcast shares all her community cultivating wisdom, tips and strategies in today's episode.
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/madison-anaya
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I know the fear that comes with the financial responsibility of making a hiring decision. Once you say "yes" to providing opportunity to someone, you're also saying "yes" to KEEP providing that opportunity while continue growing. Today I'm unpacking this concept and sharing some motivation in this solo show!
Shownotes are at www.joytolead.com/podcast
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In this episode of the Joy to Lead Podcast, I chat with Katie Scott of More With Money, who shares with us some valuable financial planning advice. She’s in the business of helping entrepreneurs build their business to live the life of their dreams and change their financial legacies. That’s a mission we can all relate to, and I know you’re going to love this episode.
Katie shares with us the financial formula she uses, how to set a budget, and what steps you can take now to begin stretching yourself to that goal. Listen to the episode for all the details and hear why Katie says the key to financial success is staying intentional.
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/katie-scott
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Today we're talking about how to trust somebody else in your business. This is the biggest hurdle that all my client's face when they are about to make their first hire or their next hire.
How can you open the door to somebody else and allow them to come in? This is huge. How do you find people that you can actually trust and let go of the reins a little bit? Get out your notebook - we're diving in!
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/trust
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Today on the show we have Taneshia, the woman behind CEO for Women, a business on a mission to help more women start businesses built on purpose and faith.
Grab your notes because we're talking all about purposeful, intentional and sustainable growth by uncovering our purpose first and foremost (even as multi-passionate human beings!) - we're diving into the tactics and mindset shifts you need to lead your business for the long haul. It's a good one!
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/taneshia-yerby
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We're all leaders - no matter if we're leading teams, a company, in our communities or churches - and the key to awakening your leadership is standing confidently in your strengths and passions. In this episode, Ashton Long Smith of the Awakening Membership shares her leadership journey, advice for uncovering and leading from your strengths, and cultivating confidence as a leader.
Shownotes can be found at www.joytolead.com/ashton-smith
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In today's bonus episode I'm getting super vulnerable about how the Joyful Leader program almost didn't come to life - I succumbed to the fear of the challenge, let the impostor complex feed me lies, and shied away from my responsibilities ahead. Listen if you need a good kick in the pants to breakthrough to a new level of your growth.
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Those overnight successes you see on Instagram aren't really overnight successes. And truth be told, overnight success isn't really sustainable. Today Abby Herman is sharing how she's grown her business for almost a decade through slow, intentional and sustainable growth.
Show notes can be found at www.joytolead.com/abby-herman
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Hiring is only half of the equation - the real work begins once you've actually HIRED. Today we're covering three keys to building a small but mighty team that is engaged, motivated and inspired to do needle-moving work.
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Hiring and leading a team is daunting, especially as a young business. In today's episode, Hannah Murphy of With Hannah Murphy is sharing her experience in hiring, managing and leading a small and efficient team all in under two years of business. She shares several communications, managing and team building tips that have helped her succeed in leading a small team.
Access full transcript and shownotes at www.joytolead.com/hannah-murphy
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People who knew me at the start of my first leadership role comment, "You've changed and grown so much since then!" I hear it a lot - and I know it's true! When I first started leading, I was so focused on and worried about being everything to everyone in every situation. I wanted to be perfect. Newsflash - I failed. Here's how I found my strengths, how I discovered JOY in leadership, and the exact exercises I did to help get myself there.
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Have you ever felt the need to hide or apologize for your desire to take the lead? In this episode we're highlighting the lies traditional team structures have conditioned us to believe and how entrepreneurs are changing the leadership game. If you're ready to reframe what you know about organizational leadership, let's dive in!
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Today on the show we have the incredible Kristen Achziger, humanized sales copywriter and strategist focused on bringing ethical sales back into marketing. Kristen is uniquely gifted in helping others unearth what makes them different and their brands stand-out unique - she calls it their Rebel Streak. Today we're talking about how each of us can identify our own purpose and define what our own leadership looks like so we can lead impactful teams on our own terms.
You can find the shownotes and interview transcription over at www.joytolead.com/kristen-achziger
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In today's episode I'm sharing four critical hiring mistakes I made and have seen so many other entrepreneurs make when growing their team. Tune in to learn how to avoid these mistakes and prepare to lead a successful hiring process.
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Welcome to the Joy to Lead Podcast, hosted by Kaylan Thompson, team-building & leadership coach for entrepreneurs! You're joining a community of impact-focused leaders discovering and stepping into their fullest potential and leaving a legacy of leadership in their wake.