Finding Brave™ with Kathy Caprino: Recent Episodes

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts!

Please note: This is an updated re-release of Episode #197.

“What you want to understand is that before you leap you need to take action to address what is making you so miserable. If you don’t do that, you are going to wake up two years later in the new career and you’re going to be having the same problems.” – Kathy Caprino

I’m very excited to share this solo episode which is my “Editor’s Choice” for this week – one of the most downloaded episodes over the six years of producing this podcast. Today’s show shares important content and advice for professionals from all levels and industries who are ready to make an important career shift but want guidance on how to do it successfully, reducing risk and wasted time.

In this episode, I share what I’ve seen are the 5 biggest blunders career changers make, and I have to admit that I have made each one of these mistakes myself, which is why I can speak to how easily they can happen if we’re not aware of them and or we’re not making the right decisions and choices.

These blunders are costly, painful and take a tremendous toll on your self-esteem, confidence, and your hopes and visions for the future. And they can hurt your finances, personal relationships, mental and physical health and more.

But there is a way to avoid these career change mistakes, and it starts with remembering that you are an amazing individual with many important gifts, talents and capabilities to share and gaining clarity on exactly what those are.

The question is how to get on the path to leveraging these talents and abilities in new ways that authentically fit with who you really are, and what you want for your life, and for your family and your livelihood.

Listen in for a full look at how to avoid the 5 biggest career change blunders and stay to the end as I reveal the 5 essential steps to take when you want change of any kind, in your career and in any area of your life.

As always, thank you for listening, and please let me know if the information I share today helps you navigate these particularly challenging and ever-changing times we find ourselves in right now.

Highlights from this Episode:

• What is “The Pendulum Effect” that creates havoc in our careers, and examples of the ways that I and others have suffered from it [4:20]
• Why I believe that this is such a common mistake people make, and what to understand before you decide to make a career change [7:50]
• Why it’s essential to have sound financial transition plan in place before you pivot or change careers [10:50]
• How having a firm understanding of (and physically “trying on”) the actual work and tasks you’ll be engaged in in the new career will benefit you in the long run [12:30]
• Why doing functional tasks and work you enjoy is not enough to bring you career happiness and success if you can’t support the strategies, tactics and values of your company and work culture [15:10]
• Examples of times that I didn’t “dig deep enough” to understand what I really wanted and needed in my own career, and why I want you to avoid this costly blunder [16:46]
• How the trap of believing that success will be instant and automatic for you will be detrimental to you and your career journey [22:47]
• A powerful 5-step process to engage in if you wish to make any type of significant change in your career (and life) [27:27]

For More Information:

https://kathycaprino.com/ and https://kathycaprino.com/career-help

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathycaprino

https://www.facebook.com/ElliaCommunications

https://twitter.com/kathycaprino

https://www.instagram.com/kathycaprino/

Resources Mentioned:

Kathy’s Career Path Self-Assessment survey

AND COMING SOON! Kathy’s new Digital “Kathy AI” clone” – available through Delphi.ai!

Wish you had a digital AI career guide and mentor who could answer your career questions whenever you needed support, 24/7? I’ve got just the thing!

Stay tuned for the launch of Kathy’s new “Kathy AI” digital career coach platform via Delphi.ai where you can ask (in writing or via audio chat) your most burning career, professional growth and leadership questions and get immediate, on-the-spot tips and answers from Kathy’s AI knowledge hub. Kathy’s AI hub has been trained with over 2.5 million words from her 1,000+ articles, 2 books, many media interviews, over over 295 podcast episodes, webinars, interviews with over 300 experts and more. Stay tuned and I hope you find this new offering helpful!

READY TO JUMPSTART YOUR JOB SEARCH AND LAND YOUR IDEAL ROLE IN 2025?

Is your job search or interview process stalling (or about to start and you’re unsure where to begin)? Let’s get you on track!

Join my new, 3-session private career coaching program – Jumpstart Your Job Search Success. This program is designed to give you the clarity, confidence, and tools to move quickly toward landing a role you’ll truly love.

In these sessions, you’ll receive direct guidance to tackle the essential steps for a powerful job search, including:

1. Gaining clarity and confidence about your next chapter—and communicating that vision.
2. Mastering interview skills and answering challenging questions effectively.
3. Expanding your LinkedIn and real-world network to attract support from mentors and allies.
4. Building standout LinkedIn recommendations that showcase your strengths and contributions.
5. Strategically using LinkedIn to elevate your profile and stand out.
6. Connecting with top recruiters who can advance your search.
7. Evaluating potential job offers with insight.

Plus, I’ll guide you through 12 critical steps for a successful job search, setting you up to reach your goals in record time.

These 3 sessions will empower you with the clarity, courage, and strategies to succeed.

CLICK HERE to learn more and register today—spots go fast! Use code BRAVEPOD10 at checkout for 10% savings.

For extended support, explore my 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough program >> https://kathycaprino.com/careerbreakthru

QUOTES:

“Fix, strengthen, and change what is broken now, before you leave [your current position]. I promise you it will allow you to be a stronger, more energetic match to the better thing that you want.” [09:30]

“If you are not behind the strategies, tactics, and outcomes that your company is putting out, then you’re not going to be happy, even if you’re doing functional work that you like.” [15:43]

“You’ve got to dig deep to look at what you really want and need in your career. Will it make you the money you want, and will this full-time professional directly be what you want, or would it serve better as a hobby?” [20:21]

“What I see is that people are often not putting in the work. They’re giving up too quickly. You’re not going to have the success that you want if you just throw in the towel when it gets hard.” [24:04]

“Plan for a commitment to making a change, and don’t underestimate that it will take time, money, and energy.” [27:06]

“Get that empowered perspective before you try to move forward because if you’re coming from a place of disempowerment, the whole process isn’t going to go well.” [29:16]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please subscribe and leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Feeling frustrated with the results of quick fixes and short-term thinking? Ready to create a bold, lasting positive impact but feel trapped in outdated approaches and systems? This is the episode for you! Today, we’re joined by the visionary Seth Godin, a globally renowned entrepreneur, bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and marketing expert known for his game-changing ideas in business and leadership.

With 23 bestselling books translated into more than 30 languages, including breakthrough books like Unleashing the Ideavirus and This is Marketing and his latest release, This is Strategy, Seth pushes the boundaries of conventional wisdom, offering insights for thinking bigger, anticipating change, and creating real impact in an unpredictable world.

In his new book, Seth challenges readers to shift from reactive tactics to proactive strategy and provides a roadmap for navigating complexity and achieving long-term success. Join us as we unpack key concepts like the importance of empathy in business, the need to adapt to technological shifts, and how understanding invisible systems can unlock new opportunities.

With over a million subscribers to his daily blog, Seth continues to inspire change on a global scale. Be sure to tune in for a dynamic conversation packed with actionable advice on how to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape. You’ll leave ready to think strategically, act boldly, and make your mark!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• The critical difference between strategy and tactics in a world that pushes compliance. [05:51]
• Empathy as one of the four components of strategy and why it’s so important. [09:10]
• Why adaptability is key to success, particularly in industries disrupted by technology. [11:17]
• Your origin story and how transformation happens when you challenge old narratives. [16:18]
• How marketing has shifted from hype to building real connections and driving change. [19:11]
• The power of meeting with like-minded individuals to discuss strategy, not tactics. [21:10]
• Recognizing and navigating the systems that drive industries and consumer behavior. [25:42]
• Four threads of strategy: Systems, Games, Time, and Empathy. [28:55]
• Creating the necessary conditions today for a resilient system to be born tomorrow. [31:19]

For More Information:

Seth Godin

Seth’s Blog

Seth Godin Books

This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans

Seth Godin on LinkedIn

Seth Godin on Facebook

Seth Godin on X

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Read Kathy’s Forbes.com interview with Seth, ‘Seth Godin: What Is Strategy And Why We So Often Get It Wrong’

Find additional links, videos, and other bonus content related to Seth’s #1 bestselling book, This is Strategy, here!

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That help is here!

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You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for this year. I’d love to help you.

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What FREE career support?

Make sure to join me on my next FREE career coaching call in my monthly series “Ask Coach Kathy.” In this program, registrants are invited to come on a 45-minute LIVE Zoom call and share their most pressing career challenge or problem that they want help with, and I will give you my best advice right on the call, for free! No question is too large or too small, and it can be about any type of professional issue you’re having. I’d love to help you. It’s time to get some outside support and move forward forward fast.

Sign up at kathycaprino.com/ask-coach-kathy and I’ll see you on the next call.

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday (currently in the Top 200 Amazon “Women in Business” Bestsellers!

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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Quotes:

“We need to pause in this moment of change – and say, ‘Yeah, but what’s worth doing tomorrow?’ Not just repeating what we did yesterday and holding on for dear life. This is one version of bravery: to claim agency and responsibility.” — @ThisIsSethsBlog [0:07:40]

“Someone who doesn’t buy from you is doing exactly the right thing for them. – Our job is to create the conditions for them to decide that the right thing for them is to buy from you.” — @ThisIsSethsBlog [0:10:16]

“I like to help people tell a positive story and make positive change happen, [and marketing] was the place to do it.” — @ThisIsSethsBlog [0:20:24]

“When we see a system undergoing change, that is our opportunity to make a difference.” — @ThisIsSethsBlog [0:20:47]

“Being able to describe to people, ‘The change I seek to make is this, the people I’m seeking to change believe this, and these are exactly who they are;’ it either holds water or it doesn’t.” — @ThisIsSethsBlog [0:23:06]

“The goal is not, ‘How can I succeed tomorrow?’ It’s, ‘How do I – plant the right seeds in the right soil so that when I fertilize and water them over time, I’ll have a forest when I need it?’” — @ThisIsSethsBlog [0:30:37]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Does your resume tell the best and most compelling version of your professional accomplishments and story?Joining our show today is top-ranked Executive Resume Writer and Coach, Sarah Johnston, founder of the Briefcase Coach. Sarah is recognized as a LinkedIn “Top Voice” and named one of HR Weekly’s Top 100 Most Influential People in HR and her firm was rated “best” for experienced executives by Balance Careers. A former corporate recruiter and industry insider, Sarah is committed to empowering high-achieving professionals around the world in their job search.

During this candid, revealing conversation, Sarah shares her hard-earned wisdom on the biggest mistakes she sees people making when crafting their resumes, and what you can do instead.

Sarah also shares insights on how resume content should differ from our LinkedIn profiles and the most common resume and LinkedIn mistakes she’s encountered. We discuss why relying solely on keywords isn’t enough, how networking is evolving, how to effectively disclose gaps in our work experience, and the limitations (and also helpful aspects) of generative AI tools in resume writing.

Finally, Sarah shares how she strikes a key balance between personal and professional identities and sharing on a public platform.

Join us today to learn how to craft the most compelling narratives of your work and career journey and great new ways to uplevel your resume and LinkedIn profile today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Meet Sarah Johnston, Executive Resume Writer and Coach. [02:33]
• Making a distinction between resume content and a LinkedIn profile. [05:14]
• The two biggest resume mistakes that people make and how to counteract them. [10:06]
• Establishing whether or not to share your ‘dirty little secret’ when writing a resume. [17:44]
• How to approach keywords and leverage the power of networking. [21:26]
• Sarah’s thoughts on using AI tools to get a headstart on writing your resume. [30:16]
• Two of the biggest mistakes Sarah sees people making on LinkedIn. [34:42]
• Balancing personal and professional identities and when to communicate a stance. [38:40]
• Sarah’s closing advice: don’t skip the self-reflection piece of finding a job. [41:20]

For More Information:

Follow Sarah Johnston on LinkedIn.
Learn more about her services as the Briefcase Coach.

Follow Sarah on X.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Julie Robinett’s Book,How to Be a Power ConnectorGreenhouse applicant tracking software
Zoho Recruit talent acquisition solution

Example: Kate’s Latest Book, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms & Do Less Planner

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IS IT FINALLY TIME FOR A TRUE SHIFT IN YOUR CAREER AND LEADERSHIP? GET HANDS-ON HELP TODAY!

Do you feel ready and excited to make the essential changes you’ve been longing for in your career but need some empowering support to begin?

That help is here!

Join me as I coach and guide you through powerful, proven steps that unlock your fullest and happiest career potential. For a limited time, take advantage of my 10% discount for you, my amazing Finding Brave listeners.

Save 10% on both my top-rated one-on-one 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program AND my Most Powerful You video training course that will help you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that are blocking thousands of professionals from the success, reward, and impact they want and deserve.

You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for this year. I’d love to help you.

REGISTER NOW and use the 10% discount code BRAVEPOD10 to save 10% on these programs TODAY!

Links:

Career & Leadership Breakthrough 6-session Program

The Most Powerful You Self-Paced Video Training Program

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And Join Kathy’s FREE LIVE Monthly Career Advice Call – ASK COACH KATHY

Hi friends! I wanted to make sure to invite you to join me on my next FREE LIVE career coaching call in my monthly series “Ask Coach Kathy.” In this program, registrants are invited to come on a 45-minute LIVE Zoom call and share their most pressing career challenge or problem that they want help with, and I will give you my best advice right on the call, for free. No question is too large or too small, and it can be about any type of professional issue you’re having. I’d love to help you! It’s time to get some outside support and move forward forward fast.

Sign up atkathycaprino.com/ask-coach-kathy and I’ll see you on the next call.

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“The resume is very KPI (key performance indicator) and result-driven: we’re going to make sure that we highlight the impact that you’ve had on the business and the bottom line. I view the LinkedIn as two-fold: number one, it’s a story.” — @SarahDJohnston [0:05:23]

“When someone opens your LinkedIn profile to view you and read about you, they only see the first three lines. I want to do everything I can to make that reader click ‘See More’.” — @SarahDJohnston [0:06:03]

“Don’t lie on your resume, but also view the resume as a marketing document. You don’t have to put everything out there, but you have to make sure it’s honest.” — @SarahDJohnston [0:20:34]

“I make my money off of writing resumes, but I will say that a resume alone will not get you a job.” — @SarahDJohnston [0:27:56]

“What ChatGPT can’t do is unearth your value proposition, and that’s what a great resume writer does.” — @SarahDJohnston [0:31:24]

“The one takeaway that I would give to listeners today is to not skip the self-reflection phase of the job search.” — @SarahDJohnston [0:41:20]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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What if the secret to standing out and achieving unmatched success was about doing less, not more? Today, we’re joined by former corporate CEO turned professional pot-stirrer, Erin Hatzikostas, to explore how her 50% Rule can help you throw out half the playbook and start competing in a league of your own by embracing authenticity in bold and unexpected ways!

Erin is a global keynote speaker, author, co-host of the podcast, b Cause Work Doesn’t Have to Suck, and coach-consultant. With two books under her belt, including the recently released The 50% Rule, Erin shares what it truly means to be authentic and how it can become your strategic edge.

In this episode, she reveals the data-driven benefits of authenticity in the workplace, how something as simple as your out-of-office notification can spark authenticity, and why the 50% Rule is both an authenticity hack and the formula for transforming from underdog to unmatched success without working harder, doing more, or being better.

You’ll walk away with actionable insights on how to embrace your authentic self, strategically stand out in competitive environments, and apply The 50% Rule to foster innovation, build trust, and achieve success. This episode is packed with stories, tips, and a powerful framework for anyone looking to elevate their career or business. You won’t want to miss it!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Erin’s unique definition of authenticity (and why it isn’t all about you!) [04:04]
• What it takes to be an authentic leader and how it can be a strategic advantage. [06:35]
• Data-driven benefits of authenticity in the workplace, from employees to the C-suite. [11:03]
• The crucial distinction between being authentic and doing authentic. [20:45]
• A simple, actionable tip to help you expose who you are in the service of others. [27:12]
• Where the 50% Rule came from and why it’s so impactful in all areas of life. [29:26]
• How to toss out half the rulebook and begin competing in a league of your own. [33:41]
• The power of storytelling: the most underutilized authentic leadership strategy. [36:52]
• Ways that you can connect with Erin, read her books, and soak up her wisdom. [38:21]

For More Information:

b Authentic Inc.

Erin Hatzikostas on LinkedIn

Erin Hatzikostas on Instagram

Erin Hatzikostas on Facebook

Erin Hatzikostas on YouTube

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Watch Erin’s TEDx Talk, ‘Why You Don’t Have to Compromise For Your Career’

Get your copies of Erin’s books, The 50% Rule: Throw Out Half the Playbook to Start Competing in a League of Your Own and You Do You(ish): Unleash Your Authentic Superpowers to Get the Career You Deserve

Listen to her podcast, b Cause Work Doesn’t Have to Suck.

Kathy’s interview “How To Be the Most Power-Full You” on Erin’s podcast b Cause Work Doesn’t Have To Suck

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IS IT FINALLY TIME FOR A TRUE SHIFT IN YOUR CAREER AND LEADERSHIP?

Do you feel ready and excited to make the essential changes you’ve been longing for in your career but need some empowering support to begin?

That help is here!

Join me as I coach and guide you through powerful, proven steps that unlock your fullest and happiest career potential. For a limited time, take advantage of my 10% discount for you, my amazing Finding Brave listeners.

Save 10% on both my top-rated one-on-one 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program AND my Most Powerful You video training course that will help you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that are blocking thousands of professionals from the success, reward, and impact they want and deserve.

You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for this year. I’d love to help you.

REGISTER NOW and use the 10% discount code BRAVEPOD10 to save 10% on these programs TODAY!

Career & Leadership Breakthrough 6-session Program
Build Your Confidence and Impact – 10 session Program

The Most Powerful You Self-Paced Video Training Program

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Authenticity is exposing who you are when people least expect it in the service of others.” — Erin Hatzikostas [0:05:40]

“I’m not saying that you walk in and completely reinvent yourself, but I can guarantee if you start to do little [authenticity experiments], not only will your boss – tolerate it, but they’ll actually be inspired by it.” — Erin Hatzikostas [0:19:54]

“If you had 10 hours to spend on either figuring out who you are or who you want to be, – spend nine of those on the latter.” — Erin Hatzikostas [0:23:42]

“What was just a self-help, get-over-your-crap tool turned into – the formula for going from underdog to unmatched without having to work harder, do more, and be better.” — Erin Hatzikostas [0:33:05]

“I want [people] not only to have success but to do it in a way where you’re – in [your] own league.” — Erin Hatzikostas [0:35:54]

“Storytelling is the most underutilized authenticity/authentic leadership strategy ever because people remember stories 22 times more than facts and figures.” — Erin Hatzikostas [0:37:50]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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If you could never work in your chosen career again, would you be relieved, or would you be disappointed?Dr. Tessa West is a Professor of Psychology at New York University, a leading expert on the science of social relationships, and a researcher focusing on how to improve communication between employees, bosses, and hiring professionals. She regularly contributes to the The Wall Street Journal among other noted publications. She is the author of two books, Jerks at Workwhich she talked about on her first visit to Finding Brave , and most recently, Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You which focuses on finding out and understanding the psychological source of your unhappiness at work and then taking a series of carefully orchestrated steps to find a career with long-term staying power.

During this rich conversation, Tessa shares key insights from Job Therapy. To kick off our discussion, we explore what it might look like to reframe your career by thinking of it as you would a romantic relationship or partnership. She shares how feeling that she was being a jerk to her coworkers sparked the concept of her first book before unpacking the five forms of job dissatisfaction and their true roots. We discuss the importance of understanding that we only see the surface of the lives of others (and make many erroneous judgments about what other people have that we don’t) and why identifying your own core transferrable skills is a superpower. In closing, she shares a powerful tip on truly getting to know yourself in meaningful and productive ways.

Tessa’s grounded perspective in research paired with acute self-awareness makes for deeply insightful listening and learning.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Reframing your career as a relationship to understand the complexity and journey of it. [05:34]
• How being a jerk to her coworkers sparked the concept for her book, Jerks at Work. [11:01]
• Three of the five most common forms of dissatisfaction and their source. [13:54]
• How a theory behind a happy marriage mirrors what it might look like to have a good career. [24:27]
• The importance of realizing that we are not aware of the day-to-day of other people’s lives. [27:40]
• Why a Crisis of Identity is the most common category that people fall into. [29:41]
• Identifying the core skills that can be transferred from one career to another. [33:30]
• What is really necessary to know yourself: try to be a scientific observer of your own experiences. [41:46]

For More Information:

Tessa West

Tessa West on X

Tessa West on Instagram

Tessa West on LinkedIn

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Eli Finkel’s book: The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages WorkTessa’s latest book: Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for YouTessa’s first book: Jerks at Work

Tessa’s first visit to the show: Episode 240

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I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new session of my 8-week coaching and training course The Most Powerful You starting October 3rd! In 8 powerhouse weeks together, I’ll train all about the content of my book The Most Powerful You helping professional women address what I’ve the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest and highest potential and success. This includes imposter syndrome that impacts 75% of executive women today.

The course offers a transformative set of materials and experiences including:

• 8 Weekly Zoom Coaching calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules
• A Step-by-by process for boosting your Career, Confidence and Impact
• Fantastic Additional Resources from over 30 of the nation’s top experts
• A Private Online Support Group for Members
• And more

There’s nothing on this market like this program and spots are very limited so sign up now at mostpowerfulyou.com. When you register by Sept. 25th as an early bird, you’ll save $300 and get 7 fantastic bonuses.

I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 100 organizations worldwide (including at a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward in thrilling ways.

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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Quotes:

“This approach to thinking about your relationship with your career and reframing [it] like a partner came out of teaching relationships at NYU.” — @TessaWestNYU [0:05:36]

“Are we actually trying too hard to find purpose? Should we maybe lower the bar a bit? Do we need to be so identified with our careers?” — @TessaWestNYU [0:18:27]

“Your goal posts change all the time. Write down what you think would make you feel like you’ve made it today and by tomorrow that answer’s going to be different.” — @TessaWestNYU [0:22:53]

“Often, we’re so high level with purpose that we aren’t focusing on the right things.” — @TessaWestNYU [0:27:56]

“Do you still feel like your old career defines who you are, and ask yourself, ‘How would you feel if you could never do this again?” — @TessaWestNYU [0:30:59]

“Try to be a scientific observer of your own experiences. I certainly didn’t see certain things about myself until I started collecting real data and graphing it out and looking for patterns.” — @TessaWestNYU [0:42:04]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Do you have a story that can change the world? Bobby Umar, a 5x TEDx Speaker and Inc Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker, believes you do. With over 20 years of experience delivering powerful keynotes across four continents, Bobby is a master at helping individuals unlock their potential through authentic connection and heart-based leadership.

Bobby is the founder of the Thought Leadership Branding Club, and his influence in the arenas of networking, social media, and personal branding is inspiring. Through his guidance, thousands of individuals have harnessed their true potential to achieve lasting impact in their professional and personal lives.

In this episode, Bobby shares the biggest obstacles people face when trying to land a TEDx talk and how we can best tackle this challenge. He outlines the key steps to securing a TEDx stage, emphasizing the importance of having the right topic, idea, title, and application. Bobby believes each of us has a unique story and experience with the potential to impact lives and change the world.

Tune in to discover how a TEDx talk can elevate your personal brand, build credibility, and grow your career. Bobby’s expert advice will empower you to take the steps necessary to become a recognized thought leader and leverage your story to generate exciting positive change. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to make your mark with a TEDx talk!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Why doing a TEDx talk is so important. [05:22]
• The biggest challenges of doing a TEDx talk. [06:39]
• Which of Bobby’s TEDx talks stands out the most to him and why. [10:04]
• Why anyone can do a TEDx talk: every single one of us has a story. [13:33]
• The three key pieces required for landing a TEDx talk. [16:30]
• Tips for connecting with a TEDx event that’s right for you. [19:33]
• The size of your following and the role it plays in landing a TEDx talk. [23:35]
• Bobby’s signature methodology for landing a TEDx talk and why it consistently works. [27:52]
• The biggest blunders Bobby has seen people make at their TEDx talks. [29:23]
• Two essential things that people who want to do a TEDx talk need to know. [33:36]

For More Information:

Bobby Umar
Bobby Umar on LinkedIn
Bobby Umar LinkedIn Company Page

Bobby Umar on TikTok

Bobby Umar on X

Bobby Umar on Facebook

Bobby Umar on Instagram

Bobby Umar on YouTube

Bobby Umar on Medium

Thought Leadership Branding Club

DYPB (Discover Your Personal Brand)

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

For a 6-month program that guarantees you land a TEDx Talk, join Bobby Umar’s TEDx Mastery Intensive
Take part in the Thought Leadership Branding Club Membership Community – become one of the first 100 Founding Members and lock in your special intro price forever
Don’t miss out on weekly audio rooms on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and monthly live streams on the 3rd Wednesday, all on LinkedIn
Watch Bobby Umar’s TEDx Talks: Could You Change a Person’s Life in 20 Seconds?, School-Learning to Fly, and The 5 Cs of Connection
Also check out Kathy Caprino’s TEDx Talk Time to Brave Up

Recommended TED talks we mentioned:Nancy Duarte – The Secret Structure of Great Talks
Shawn Achor – The Happy Secret To Better Work

Brene Brown – The Power of Vulnerability

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Join Kathy’s 8-week LIVE COURSE “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” THIS FALL

Hi everyone, it’s Kathy! I’m thrilled you’re here today because I have something truly exciting to share. My 8-week LIVE course, ‘The Most Powerful You,’ is now open for early bird enrollment!

The course kicks off October 3rd, and if you register by September 25th, you’ll save $300 and receive 7 exclusive bonuses.

This course is the perfect companion to my book, The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, and I can confidently say there’s nothing else like it out there that supports women’s transformational growth in this way. Over our 8 weeks together, I’ll personally guide you through critical steps to close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that hold women back from creating a fulfilling, impactful, and successful career.

What’s the ultimate outcome? By recognizing and closing these gaps, you’ll transform and elevate how you see yourself, and how you communicate, lead, work, and engage with others. This profound shift empowers you to finally overcome those lingering, difficult challenges so you can make the impact – with the fulfillment and success – you’ve always dreamed of.

Don’t miss out—Spots are limited so register today at mostpowerfulyou.com to claim your $300 savings and bonuses. I can’t wait to start this transformative journey with you on October 3rd. See you there!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“TEDx is the best way to have the most impact with the shortest amount of time spent on doing so.” — @raehanbobby [0:05:49]

“People who are speakers – or even people who are thought leaders, have a message for the world. We’re trying to serve the audience [and] serve the people that we know will resonate with what we’re talking about.” — @raehanbobby [0:15:21]

“Everything you have is an asset.” — @raehanbobby [0:23:49]

“Every single person that I’ve worked with on TEDx, and has followed my signature methodology, they’ve all landed the TEDx talk.” — @raehanbobby [0:28:00]

“A lot of people think of personal branding as a means to stand out, which is true, but the really big benefit of personal branding is clarity, purpose, and direction on who you are, who you serve, and the path to move forward.” — @raehanbobby [0:33:58]

“Own that story, share it with the world, and truly make an impact.” — @raehanbobby [0:35:07]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can watch Finding Brave guests on video as well as audio! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Modern life bombards us with stresses our bodies are not physically equipped (or evolved) to handle. It’s no wonder so many of us are overwhelmed and struggling. Luckily, there are effective strategies and tools to help manage and reduce stress. You just need to learn how to tap into them.

Here today to help us better navigate life’s stressors is Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, an internationally acclaimed speaker and resiliency expert. With over 18 years of experience in education and psychology, Dr. Robyne is renowned for her transformative approach to stress management and personal wellness. She is also the award-winning author of Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency and her new book, Stress Wisely: How to Be Well in an Unwell World.

In today’s conversation, you’ll hear Robyne share her expert insights as we delve into practical methods for building resilience and finding balance amidst the chaos. We discuss the five pillars of resilience, from belonging and acceptance to hope and humor, before unpacking the pivotal role of each in maintaining our well-being. Robyne also shares her powerful thoughts on self-compassion, why you can’t shame yourself into doing better, and how our historical ability to adapt continuously inspires her to feel hope for the future.

Tune in to discover how to break free from the stress cycle, build periods of rest into your routine, and harness emotional intelligence to create a healthier, happier life!

Key Highligts From This Episode:

• Defining resiliency and our innate ability to show up for those who depend on us. [05:32]
• Unpacking the power of hope and how it fits into resiliency. [08:28]
• Signs of toxic positivity and the self-awareness required to reach your goals. [13:17]
• Why we aren’t physically equipped for modern life and how to build in periods of rest. [15:52]
• Tuning into self-awareness and your body’s attempts to reregulate. [21:17]
• The five pillars of resilience: belonging, perspective, acceptance, hope, and humor. [23:47]
• How to acknowledge and address deep existential fears. [35:31]
• Where you can find Dr. Robyne and her latest book online. [39:04]

For More Information:

Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe

Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe on LinkedIn

Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe on X

Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe on Facebook

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Check out Dr. Robyne’s award-winning bookCalm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday ResiliencyDiscover life-changing lessons in her latest work Stress Wisely: How to Be Well in an Unwell World

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Take a 10% discount off of Kathy’s 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program and Most Powerful You video series!

IS IT FINALLY TIME FOR A TRUE SHIFT IN YOUR CAREER AND LEADERSHIP?

Do you feel ready and excited to make the essential changes you’ve been longing for in your career but need some empowering support to begin?

That help is here!

Join me as I coach and guide you through powerful, proven steps that unlock your fullest and happiest career potential. For a limited time, take advantage of my 10% discount for you, my amazing Finding Brave listeners.

Save 10% on both my top-rated one-on-one 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program AND my TheMost Powerful You video training course that will help you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that are blocking thousands of professionals from the success, reward, and impact they want and deserve.

You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for this year. I’d love to help you.

*REGISTER NOW and use the 10% discount code BRAVEPOD10 to save 10% on these programs TODAY!*

Career & Leadership Breakthrough 6-session Program

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WANT A HUGE BOOST IN SELF-CONFIDENCE AND POWER TO BRING ABOUT THE CAREER CHANGES YOU DREAM OF?

JOIN KATHY IN HER GROUNDBREAKING 8-WEEK CAREER COACHING GROWTH COURSE “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” STARTING OCTOBER 3RD, 2024!

Hi folks! I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new Fall 2024 session of my 8-week coaching and training course The Most Powerful You starting October 3rd! In 8 powerhouse weeks together, I’ll train all about the content of my book The Most Powerful You helping professional women address what I’ve seen are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest highest potential and success. This includes imposter syndrome that impacts 75% of executive women today.

The course offers:

• 8 Weekly Zoom Group Coaching calls with me
• 8 Confidence-Boosting Video Training Modules
• A Step-by-by process for boosting your Career, Confidence and Impact
• Fantastic Additional Resources from over 30 of the nation’s top experts
• A Private Online Support Group for Members
• 8 GREAT early-bird bonuses
• …And more

Spots are very limited so sign up now at mostpowerfulyou.com. And when you register as an early bird, you’ll save $300 and get 8 amazing bonuses.

I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 100 organizations and academic institutions worldwide (including at a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward fast. Hope to see you there!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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If you’re ready for better, more productive and easier podcast production help, definitely check out the great team that I use for every Finding Brave episode – We Edit Podcasts – and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you.

I’ve used them for over two years and I love them and I’m confident you will too. Just paste this link into your browser >> http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << for my special link for you. Book your free call today and wishing you a very happy and rewarding podcasting experience!

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Not everything happens for a reason. Some things are just awful. It’s what you do with the pieces afterward that’s really going to talk about the quality of your life.” — @dr_robynehd [0:09:47]

“Motivational quotes only work if you put in the work. Simply sticking those post-it notes on your mirror [isn’t] going to do anything unless you action it.” — @dr_robynehd [0:15:02]

“We are very much addicted to this stress-cycle behavior that I’m seeing in my work right now – we were meant to have a lot more ease.” — @dr_robynehd [0:17:16]

“Living the dream shouldn’t kill you. And it was burning me out.” — @dr_robynehd [0:19:40]

“You can’t hate yourself healthy. That’s probably the biggest misconception about all of this. We can’t shame ourselves into doing better. We can’t guilt ourselves into changing behavior.” — @dr_robynehd [0:23:01]

“Historically, as a species, we have been able to rally. We have grown, we’ve learned, we’ve evolved, we’ve adapted, and I am so hope-filled for the future for my children, [and] for my grandchildren.” — @dr_robynehd [0:36:17]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Do you ever get the sinking feeling that, no matter how hard you work or what you do, it’s never enough? Our culture is stuck in an old paradigm that views success as a destination rather than a journey, attainable by only the lucky few at the top. But what if there was another way?

For insight into her “new paradigm of success,” we are joined by Brooke Taylor, a Transformational Career Coach for women, former Marketing Lead at Google, and global expert in a phenomenon she has coined the Success Wound, which is the pain high-achievers experience when they mistake their success for self-worth.

In this episode, Brooke breaks down some of the most common misconceptions that high-achievers have about success and shares her game-changing methodology to create a powerfully aligned life on your own terms and transform your relationship with success forever.

Tuning in, you’ll learn about the five types of unfulfilled achievers, how your Success Wound might be driving your “success ideal,” and actionable steps you can take to begin to heal. If you’re ready to build a dream career (and an even better life), this episode is for you!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Defining the Success Wound and how it manifests differently in men and women. [04:57]
• What your success ideal might look like when it’s driven by your Success Wound. [11:16]
• Common misconceptions about success and the five “unfulfilled achiever” archetypes. [14:16]
• How to identify whether you’re operating from your wounding or your wholeness. [18:40]
• The sometimes unseen impact of paradoxical expectations of success for women. [23:25]
• Inherently patriarchal capitalistic cultural notions that inform our success ideals. [27:33]
• Why we need to shift our being, working, and thinking to heal the Success Wound. [28:52]
• What a state of aligned ambition looks like and why it’s so important. [32:09]

For More Information:

Brooke Taylor Coaching

Brooke Taylor on LinkedIn

Brooke Taylor on Instagram

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

To discover what 1% of female leaders know that you don’t, sign up for Brooke’s Finally Fulfilled Group Coaching Program!

Get proven steps to reclaim your fulfillment, self-worth, and career clarity with her Healing the Success Wound Mini-Course.

What type of unfulfilled achiever are you? Find out with this quiz.

Read ‘Successful Women Share Advice on How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome at Work’.

Check out the ‘Top Career Coaches For Women’, featuring Kathy and Brooke!

Understand what motivates you to take action with Kathy’s Dominant Action Style Quiz.

Watch ‘America Ferrera’s Iconic Barbie Speech’.

Get your copy of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace.

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IS IT FINALLY TIME FOR A TRUE SHIFT IN YOUR CAREER AND LEADERSHIP?

Do you feel ready and excited to make the essential changes you’ve been longing for in your career but need some empowering support to begin?

That help is here!

Join me as I coach and guide you through powerful, proven steps that unlock your fullest and happiest career potential. For a limited time, take advantage of my 10% discount for you, my amazing Finding Brave listeners.

Save 10% on both my top-rated one-on-one 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program AND my Most Powerful You video training course that will help you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that are blocking thousands of professionals from the success, reward, and impact they want and deserve.

You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for this year. I’d love to help you.

REGISTER NOW and use the 10% discount code BRAVEPOD10 to save 10% on these programs TODAY!

Career & Leadership Breakthrough 6-session Program

The Most Powerful You Self-Paced Video Training Program

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Need some great podcast production support? Check out We Edit Podcasts!

Hi, folks! Kathy here. So, are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level FAST?

JOIN “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” 8-WEEK COACHING AND TRAINING COURSE WITH KATHY STARTING MAY 10TH!

Hi folks! Kathy here…I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new session of my 8-week coaching and training course The Most Powerful You starting May 10th! In 8 powerhouse weeks together, I’ll train all about the content of my book The Most Powerful You helping professional women address what I’ve seen are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest highest potential and success. This includes imposter syndrome that impacts 75% of executive women today.

The course offers:

• 8 Weekly Zoom Coaching calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules
• A Step-by-by process for boosting your Career, Confidence and Impact
• Fantastic Additional Resources from over 30 of the nation’s top experts
• A Private Online Support Group for Members
• And more

Spots are very limited so sign up now at mostpowerfulyou.com. And when you register as an early bird, you’ll save $300 and get 8 amazing bonuses.

I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 50 organizations worldwide (including at a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward fast. Hope to see you there!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“We try to live up to this ideal of what a successful (fill in the blank) identity looks like. The gap between where we are, who we are, and our ability to live up to that ideal [is] the deficiency that creates the Success Wound.” — Brooke Taylor [0:10:00]

“We all logically know that our salary isn’t our worth and our job title won’t make us happy, but there’s still something inside of us that is trying to live up to the ‘success ideal’.” — Brooke Taylor [0:13:44]

“How we try to live up to [our] success ideal, we all have different strategies for that. We all have different ways that we attempt to work when we’re working from our wounding.” — Brooke Taylor [0:15:15]

“I don’t know what the answer is. I wish I did, but it starts with deconditioning, deprogramming, and unlearning cultural myths about success within us first so we don’t pass them on.” — Brooke Taylor [0:27:20]

“Once we [understand] what our Success Wound looks like and how it operates within our lives, we then want to say, ‘Okay. How do I go about healing this?’ It requires a shift in how we be, how we work, and how we think.” — Brooke Taylor [0:30:03]

“The essential question [to ask yourself] is: am I working from my wounding or – from my wholeness? Am I working from strategies I’m using to try to protect myself and live up to this unachievable ideal or – from a space of collaboration, creativity, and confidence?” — Brooke Taylor [0:32:24]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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One in five people is estimated to be neurodivergent, yet efforts to achieve large-scale neuroinclusion in the workplace have largely failed due to superficial “check-the-box” strategies. Cognitive scientist, author, board director, business leader, and neurodivergent employer Dr. Maureen Dunne knows from lived experience and extensive research that we can harness the power of neurodiverse talent to help organizations build thriving cultures. Her national bestselling book, The Neurodiversity Edge, introduces a transformative framework for addressing “the most important human resources opportunity of the 21st century.” As you’ll discover in today’s episode, creating a neuroinclusive workplace isn’t just the right thing to do; it can also be a massive competitive advantage.

Join us as Maureen highlights common misunderstandings about neuroinclusion and explains why we need to break free from society’s neurotypical script to embrace the strengths of brains that work differently. She also reveals how organizations can take a values-driven approach to build a culture of sustained authentic inclusion and leverage the enormous untapped talent pool defined by cognitive differences.

For actionable strategies that can transform your organization’s approach to inclusion and unlock the potential of neurodiverse talent, tune in today!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• An important definition of neurodiversity as a strengths-based framework. [05:25]
• Ways the average workplace excludes neurodivergent talent (and why it’s a pitfall). [06:42]
• Why “sustained authentic inclusion” is key for building a thriving workplace culture. [11:46]
• How Maureen’s own neurodivergent experiences inspired her to advocate for others. [14:40]
• Insight into the apparent rise of neurodivergent diagnoses in our society today. [21:20]
• What organizations need to do to correct biases against neurodivergent employees. [23:49]
• Updating the interview process to accommodate excellent neurodivergent candidates. [29:27]
• How openly neurodivergent leaders promote neurodiversity-friendly cultures. [33:59]
• Accessible tips for shattering stereotypes and creating more inclusive communities. [36:37]

For More Information:

Dr. Maureen Dunne

The Neurodiversity Edge

Dr. Maureen Dunne on LinkedIn

Dr. Maureen Dunne on Instagram

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Get your copy of Maureen’s book, The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization, or listen to it on Audible.

Take Kathy’s 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz to learn how you take action!

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IS IT FINALLY TIME FOR A TRUE SHIFT IN YOUR CAREER AND LEADERSHIP?

Do you feel ready and excited to make the essential changes you’ve been longing for in your career but need some empowering support to begin?

That help is here!

Join me as I coach and guide you through powerful, proven steps that unlock your fullest and happiest career potential. For a limited time, take advantage of my 10% discount for you, my amazing Finding Brave listeners.

Save 10% on both my top-rated one-on-one 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program AND my Most Powerful You video training course that will help you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that are blocking thousands of professionals from the success, reward, and impact they want and deserve.

You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for this year. I’d love to help you.

REGISTER NOW and use the 10% discount code BRAVEPOD10 to save 10% off these programs TODAY!

Career & Leadership Breakthrough 6-session Program

The Most Powerful You Self-Paced Video Training Program

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Need some great podcast production support? Check out We Edit Podcasts!

Are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Neurodiversity — is a strength-based concept – rather than a deficit-focused perspective. It’s an umbrella term that describes all the different and unique ways that people’s brains work.” — Dr. Maureen Dunne [0:05:37]

“There are advantages to us working together and including people that have different ways of seeing the world – The more these conversations get normalized in our culture, the more we’ll start seeing [a broader representation of neurodivergence], even in leadership.” — Dr. Maureen Dunne [0:10:21]

“Neurodiversity has always been there. It’s just that there’s more public awareness.” — Dr. Maureen Dunne [0:22:20]

“For companies to not only survive but to thrive, cognitive and experiential diversity is going to be the difference-maker.” — Dr. Maureen Dunne [0:25:20]

“If [neurodivergent leaders] are still thriving at their organization after disclosure, people notice that. That’s a signal that that’s a great organization to work for if you’re a neurodivergent person.” — Dr. Maureen Dunne [0:34:56]

“There’s not going to be one person who changes the world – We need everyone’s contributions – Everybody can play a role.” — Dr. Maureen Dunne [0:38:07]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Do you want to reconnect with yourself and fully reclaim your power? Intentionality might be the key. To guide you on this healing and transformative journey, we welcome Finnian Kelly, the founder of Intentionality Inc., a sought-after speaker and executive coach, a leading breathwork facilitator, and the author of Intentionality: A Groundbreaking Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation.

Known as the “Business Mystic,” Finnian helps world-changing leaders use his unique Intentionality methodology to achieve new levels of fulfillment, growth, and consciousness in their creative endeavors, relationships, and overall wellbeing.

Drawing from his experiences of creating and selling multimillion-dollar companies and overcoming personal upheavals, Finnian shares his step-by-step process for manifesting Intentionality into success. Join us as we explore the practice of recoding to invest in positive loops over negative ones, the role of choice in Finnian’s definition of intentionality, and the confronting yet liberating realization that we contribute to everything that happens in our lives.

And listen to the full episode for a powerful and transformative live coaching/healing experience that Finnian generously walked me through, that was truly groundbreaking for me.

As you’ll discover, intentionality is so much more than just a concept. It’s a profound shift in consciousness that will enable you to experience what life has to offer more fully.

Key Points From This Episode:

• A deep desire to experience life differently that led Finnian to this work. [04:43]
• The transformative potential of trauma and why we don’t necessarily need to break down to break through. [06:38]
• What intentionality means to Finnian and the role that choice and feelings play. [14:30]
• A compelling live coaching session with Kathy that illustrates the process of awareness, acceptance, recoding, action, and manifestation. [18:15]
• How uncovering a traumatic memory from Kathy’s young adult life revealed a powerful new insight into a key challenge she faces today. [35:17]
• An overview of the framework of Finnian’s book and how you can apply it in your life. [39:07]
• What it looks like in practice to take a feelings-first approach to living and leadership. [42:10]
• Where you can go to soak up Finnian’s wisdom (and even meet him in person!) [43:28]

For More Information:

Finnian Kelly

Cascada

Finnian Kelly on Instagram

Finnian Kelly on Facebook

Finnian Kelly on LinkedIn

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Secure your copy of Finnian’s book, Intentionality: A Groundbreaking Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation!

Kathy’s recommended read, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives.

Finnian’s recommended read, The Presence Process: A Journey into Present Moment Awareness.

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TIME FOR A TRUE SHIFT IN YOUR CAREER AND LEADERSHIP?

Is it finally time to make the change you’ve been longing for in your career but you just can’t figure out how to begin?

It’s time for help and time to invest in yourself, and finally understand—and shift—what hasn’t been working for you, from the job or field to the way you’re treated, the outcomes you’re supporting, the compensation you receive, the leadership impact you’re able to make, and more.

Join me as I coach and guide you through powerful, proven steps that unlock your fullest and happiest potential. For a limited time, take advantage of my 10% discount for you, my amazing Finding Brave listeners. Save 10% on both my one-on-one 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program and my Most Powerful You video training course that helps you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that are blocking you from the success and reward you deserve.

You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for. And do it now. I’d love to help you.

REGISTER NOW and use the 10% discount code BRAVEPOD10 to save 10% off these programs TODAY!

Career & Leadership Breakthrough 6-session Program

The Most Powerful You Self-Paced Video Training Program

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Need some great podcast production support? Check out We Edit Podcasts!

Are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“The first step of any transformation is awareness.” — Finnian Kelly [0:20:36]

“Sometimes, we need to use energy to go in, [unblock blocked energy], and release it. That’s something I call energy interventions.” — Finnian Kelly [0:32:41]

“Every single day, you have to connect and go, ‘What is it that I want to feel? How am I going to bring those actions into reality and make it happen?’ Because if I don’t, someone else is going to be coding my subconscious.” — Finnian Kelly [0:34:13]

“When you realize that you’ve contributed to everything that has happened in your life, that can be confronting because you go, ‘How could this happen?’ But if you fully accept that, it’s also the liberation moment because it means you can change anything you want in your life.” — Finnian Kelly [0:34:58]

“Everything is just a perspective. So why not choose the perspective that serves you? Why not choose the perspective that brings more peace, love, and joy?” — Finnian Kelly [0:37:07]

Longer Quotes:

“If you ask [someone what the most defining moments were] in their life, they’ll always talk about the hard times and the challenges – If we know that [there’s] going to be something in the future that you look back on and go, ‘Oh, this was actually the greatest growth opportunity of my life’ – then, in the present moment, when we start getting that sensation of ‘This is hard. This is happening to me,’ that should be a moment where we flip it and go, ‘Oh, wow. This is my moment. This is my growth opportunity.’ It may just change your experience of it.” — Finnian Kelly [0:08:50]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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How do you get people to buy what you’re selling? In this episode of Finding Brave, marketing consultant and behavioral expert Leslie Zane reveals why traditional persuasion tactics often fall short when growing a business, selling an idea, or building your personal brand.

Leslie is an award-winning marketer, TEDx speaker, the Founder and CEO of the behavioral science-based firm, Triggers Brand Consulting, and the author of the groundbreaking new book, The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Business and Persuasion.

Tuning in, you’ll learn to challenge conventional wisdom in business and brand building, rethink outdated rules that assume the conscious mind drives our decisions, and discover how to work with the hidden mind rather than against it. Leslie also uncovers the messages that create the most positive associations, explains why relying on existing customers is a trap, and discusses why emotional stories aren’t enough to drive long-term brand loyalty, plus so much more!

If you want to tap into the hidden brain where instinct prevails and create a powerful network of connections that drive people to buy your product, company, or vision, this episode is for you!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• What Leslie means when she says that human beings are unpersuadable. [03:29]
• How to drive growth faster by using new rules that work with the unconscious mind. [05:34]
• Techniques for tapping into the “hidden brain” and recruiting new customers. [11:31]
• Reasons that a purpose-oriented approach is too one-dimensional. [19:20]
• Different ways that marketing has had to adapt to an ever-evolving consumer base. [21:50]
• The Brand Connectome; why a brand is like a seed that grows in people’s minds. [24:24]
• Some of the most common marketing mistakes that businesses make. [30:50]
• What Growth Triggers are and how they can create positive brand associations. [37:08]

For More Information:

Leslie Zane

Triggers Brand Consulting

Leslie Zane on X

Leslie Zane on LinkedIn

Leslie Zane on Instagram

Leslie Zane on Facebook

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Order your copy of Leslie’s book, The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Business and Persuasion today, or listen to it on Audible here.

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TIME FOR A TRUE SHIFT IN YOUR CAREER AND LEADERSHIP?

Is it finally time to make the change you’ve been longing for in your career but you just can’t figure out how to begin?

It’s time for help and time to invest in yourself, and finally understand—and shift—what hasn’t been working for you, from the job or field to the way you’re treated, the outcomes you’re supporting, the compensation you receive, the leadership impact you’re able to make, and more.

Join me as I coach and guide you through powerful, proven steps that unlock your fullest and happiest potential. For a limited time, take advantage of my 10% discount for you, my amazing Finding Brave listeners. Save 10% on both my one-on-one 6-session Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program and my Most Powerful You video training course that helps you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps are are blocking you from the success and reward you deserve.

You can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. Now’s the time. Don’t wait! Build the career you’ve been longing for, and do it today. I’d love to help you.

REGISTER NOW and use the 10% discount code BRAVEPOD10 to save 10% off these programs TODAY!

Career & Leadership Breakthrough 6-session Program

The Most Powerful You Self-Paced Video Training Program

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Need some great podcast production support? Check out We Edit Podcasts!

Hi, folks! Kathy here. So, are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand and that’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“What I’ve learned is that you can’t persuade people to do anything. What you can do is take another route.” — @Leslie_Zane [0:04:50]

“There’s only two audiences that matter: the people you have and the people you don’t.” — @Leslie_Zane [0:14:48]

“It’s about connecting with your audience on the basis of shared memories, shared values, shared associations, and using those as an onramp for what you want to get across.” — @Leslie_Zane [0:23:27]

“The more connections that I have with a person, the stronger our relationship becomes. It’s the same thing with building brands.” — @Leslie_Zane [0:30:42]

“This is like a game of Monopoly. Whoever owns the most physical terrain in the brain wins. Brands have physicality. They have pathways, and you want your brand to have as many pathways as possible.” — @Leslie_Zane [0:39:32]

“The fantasy alone won’t do it, but if there’s enough pragmatic additional support for how you will [help your audience] get that fantasy, that’s a pretty darn good approach because we’re all aspirational creatures.” — @Leslie_Zane [0:43:15]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget—you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino.

And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is more than just a reflection of societal values; it’s a strategic necessity that fuels innovation, enhances talent retention, and ensures long-term business success in a competitive global market. Today’s guest, Sable Lomax, is a seasoned global DEI expert, consultant, speaker, and facilitator who joins us to share her experience in helping organizations across a wide range of sectors to supercharge their DEI initiatives.

With a rich background in facilitating DEI sessions for nonprofit, philanthropic, public multinational, and private companies, Sable partners with stakeholders to develop strategic plans, implement new learning and development programming, and design equitable initiatives that make a real impact.

In this episode, you’ll find out why DEI isn’t just the responsibility of HR professionals (even though many organizations and C-Suite leaders believe so) but a crucial element for building healthy, resilient organizations. Sable also highlights the importance of making DEI a priority, identifies common pitfalls in ineffective (and sometimes harmful) DEI initiatives, and provides actionable advice for fostering truly inclusive workplaces.

Tune in today to discover why prioritizing DEI is not just good ethics but also good business and gain invaluable insights to take your organization’s DEI efforts to the next level.

And don’t forget – You Can Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

You can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please subscribe and leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Strategic challenges that HR professionals are struggling with right now. [05:20]
• Common approaches to DEI and reasons DEI is often overlooked or undervalued. [06:59]
• Why successful solutions to DEI require time, resources, and multiple iterations. [16:34]
• The importance of playing to the strengths of internal DEI experts as well as bringing in external support when necessary. [19:50]
• Ways that ineffective DEI initiatives could actually be harming your organization. [23:04]
• Actionable, data-driven advice to help companies make DEI a priority. [25:17]
• The courage and vulnerability needed to build a healthy, thriving, company culture. [30:38]
• How purpose and self-care can keep you grounded as you work to create change. [36:24]

For More Information:

Sable Lomax

Sable Lomax on LinkedIn

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Are you ready to experience a true breakthrough to become the most confident, inspired, and impactful version of yourself – in your role, leadership, and career?

In 17 years of career and leadership coaching with thousands of people, I’ve observed and researched what I call the “7 most damaging power and confidence gaps” that negatively impact a staggering 98% of professional women, blocking them from reaching their highest and most rewarding career potential. My training helps women of all levels and fields recognize and close these gaps for good. The impact is remarkable, and I’ve seen that the training can shift everything about how you see yourself, how you operate in the world, and what you’re capable of creating and achieving.

If you’re ready for a more successful and fulfilling professional life, please visit mostpowerfulyou.com/videotraining and register today.

I’m honored that a division of the UN has sponsored it for members of its workplace, and many other companies have had me in to train this content live. If your organization offers expert training and tools dedicated to supporting women’s success, I hope you’ll ask for it in your place of work.

Thank you so much and here’s to all of us becoming the most positive, powerful, and impactful we can be!

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Need some great podcast production support? Check out We Edit Podcasts!

Hi, folks! Kathy here. So, are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“[DEI] is seen as separate from overall organizational [and] business goals. You have the organizational strategy – and then, off to the side, we have a three-year strategic plan, if we have [one] at all, for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Oftentimes, they don’t come together.” — Sable Lomax [0:06:18]

“Marketers are being asked to do more with less. Folks who are responsible for DEI are being asked to do even more with even less.” — Sable Lomax [0:15:21]

“You wouldn’t hire someone who’s never done anything in engineering, doesn’t have an engineering degree, never did an internship – to lead your engineering team. It just wouldn’t happen, so it shouldn’t happen in [the HR space] either.” — Sable Lomax [0:21:20]

“These issues are systemic. Let’s look at your [internal systems, the way you recruit, your policies, and your processes]. Let’s look at all of these things and let’s embed into those systems equity and inclusion across the different identity groups.” — Sable Lomax [0:30:01]

“For folks in the HR space who have tried to be bold and lean into courage and vulnerability – often, you’re met with resistance – because the system doesn’t want change. Reboot it, yes. But adjust and tweak how it flows and operates? No.” — Sable Lomax [0:35:24]

“Whatever your why is, know it, identity it, breathe it, remember it, so when you [experience] pushback, when you [find yourself] having to defend – equitable policies for recruiting and retention, your why keeps your spirit thumping, thriving, and going.” — Sable Lomax [0:37:04]

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Why is it so hard for many of us to ask the right questions and make the right choices? As the co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization, and today’s guest, Jeff Wetzler has leveraged his expertise in learning and human potential to develop a game-changing approach to smarter decisions, more creative solutions, and deeper relationships by asking different kinds of questions that unlock possibility and connection.

Through a five-step process, Jeff teaches how to ask the right questions to create personal and professional growth. He joins us today to talk about his new book, ASK: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life, and to share his personal journey to asking, learning, and connecting more deeply.

Tune in as we dive deep into the psychology of what prevents us from asking and sharing honestly, including shame and safety. Using curiosity as an entry point, we explore different contexts for asking questions before diving into the five practices behind Jeff’s Ask Approach. Delving even deeper, we explore a new definition of curiosity as an act of care.

We also unpack what happens when we lose our connection to compassion, how to remain rooted in non-judgment to create a safe space for others, engage in meaningful reflection and reconnection, and much more! Don’t miss this thought-provoking conversation with a guest who truly embodies his principles.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Childhood experiences that sparked the premise for Jeff’s book. [06:44]
• What asking the right questions does for our relationships. [09:05]
• Blockers that prevent us from sharing honestly with others. [11:38]
• Why curiosity is important across different contexts. [12:47]
• Five practices that underpin the ASK Approach. [14:26]
• The role of compassion and non-judgment behind Jeff’s principle of “making it safe.” [22:29]
• What it means to ask quality questions. [27:07]
• Reflection and reconnection as the final part of the framework. [31:00]
• Three channels that unpack what it really means to listen to learn. [33:37]
• Observing the action piece in order to learn. [35:12]

For More Information:

Jeff Wetzler on LinkedIn

Jeff Wetzler on Instagram

Jeff Wetzler on X

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Get your copy of Jeff’s latest book, ASK: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life.

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Are you making the most of your LinkedIn profile and presence to help you stand out and achieve your most thrilling career visions and goals?

Thanks for joining me today on Finding Brave! I’m very happy to share news about my new 2-session LinkedIn consulting program, expressly for folks who want to power up their LinkedIn profile and activity and take full advantage of all the amazing features and benefits that LinkedIn provides.

I’m very honored to be a “Top Voice” on LinkedIn with close to a million followers and subscribers, and I have to say that LinkedIn has been a true game-changer for me ever since I started publishing there regularly back in 2015.

With more than 1 billion users globally now, LinkedIn offers so many ways to move your professional endeavors forward. And it’s not just for job search either! It’s a powerful networking platform for anyone who wants to make a bigger impact doing meaningful work they love.

Join me in my uniquePower Up Your LinkedIn Profile and Presence Program to take the most essential steps on LinkedIn to present yourself at the highest level and make the most of all that LinkedIn has to offer!

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Hi, folks! Kathy here. So, are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize that it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

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In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Quotes:

“There’s really interesting research that shows that even in our most intimate relationships, we are not good at knowing what our partners are [thinking and feeling].” — @jeffreywetzler [0:12:54]

“The only thing [that] reliably lets us know what other people are thinking and feeling is to ask them.” —@jeffreywetzler [0:13:54]

“When we are curious about other people, we are really curious about the mystery of life as well.” — @jeffreywetzler [0:17:03]

“Curiosity is an act of care.” —@jeffreywetzler [0:18:59]

“Even if I am curious to learn from you, if you don’t feel safe telling me your truth, you’re not going to tell me and I’m not going to learn.” —@jeffreywetzler [0:22:33]

“There’s so much genius around us that we can tap into through [asking] quality questions.” — @jeffreywetzler [0:28:29]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Podcasts in Careers!

Please note: This is a special rerun of Episode 130.

“You are not your past. You are all of it, your past, present, and future. So do the work to release the shame, the humiliation, and the negative judgments you have about yourself. Release yourself.” – Kathy Caprino

Over the past several years on Finding Brave, I’ve offered some key information about what I’ve observed are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps along with key chapters from my latest book, The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss. Some time back, I offered a series of 7 podcasts dedicated to these gaps that negatively impact 98% of professional women today, and 90% of men, preventing them from reaching their highest potential, and their happiest, most rewarding success and fulfillment.

In this 7th installment of that series, I share the power gap that may be closest to my own heart and soul. I’m talking about how we unwittingly allow past trauma, pain and challenges that we’ve experienced to continue to shape and define us. And this unwanted pain and shame often brings to our lives unwanted experiences.

I have lived this in such a deep way (and continue to work on it – as you’ll hear in my upcoming interview, Episode #286 with Finnian Kelly – who helped me right on the show uncover a very painful trauma memory from when I was a teen, and connect that to some mindset (and behavioral) challenges I still have around money, work and safety.

I never fully recognized this Power Gap (of how our past continues to shape and define us unless we gain fuller awareness of the trauma and pain events/experiences and work committedly to overcome and release them) until I became a therapist and started doing the work on myself and with others to help us heal.

Unfortunately, life can hurt us badly sometimes and leave deep scars, and no one is immune. Every single one of us has experienced some form of pain, suffering, sadness, isolation, rejection, and trauma in our lifetimes. Many have experienced and witnessed things that alter how they see the world and operate within it. Sometimes, pain and hardship make us close down and stop trusting others.

Other times, it makes us turn our pain into rage and violence against the world. Yet some people, while crushed by their pain for a time, are able to find a way to become more of who they really are at their core – more loving, compassionate, hopeful, helpful, generous, insightful, brave, committed, and resilient and joy-filled — through all of it. And some are fortunate to know exactly how to turn their emotional challenges into new ways to be of service in the world so they can uplift others while expanding themselves.

I sincerely hope that my “The Most Powerful You” series (for content on the other 6 gaps, check out Episodes #124 through #129) is enlightening, and in conjunction with my book and video training program, can help you uncover any power and confidence gaps that may be holding you back at this very moment.

As always, thank you for listening and I would be so happy to hear your feedback on not just this episode, but the entire series and The Most Powerful You book.

Remember that tremendous success, joy, and reward aren’t just reserved for a handful of people, but everyone, including you. You are worthy of an amazing life and career, and it’s waiting for you.

If you’d like to know which, if any, of the Power Gaps you may be facing today, take my quick Power Gap quiz.

Highlights from this Episode:

• How trauma appears in our lives, and why it’s so damaging to hold onto [4:10]
• What trauma really is, and how every single one of us has experienced it [4:45]
• How becoming aware of your trauma will benefit all aspects of your life including your career [6:50]
• A powerful example of someone who has transformed her trauma into growth and a life of service to others [8:40]
• The impact and harm your childhood can continue to have in your life as you get older [17:00]
• Why insight into our trauma alone isn’t enough to overcome it and what is needed to move forward to healing [18:02]
• Examples of common workplace trauma that I often see in the people that I work with [18:20]
• What steps you can take to start getting on what I call “the brave healing path” [20:55]
• The specific questions to ask yourself as you embark on your own journey to awareness [33:30]

For More Information:

https://kathycaprino.com/

https://mostpowerfulyou.com/videotraining

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathycaprino

https://www.facebook.com/ElliaCommunications

https://twitter.com/kathycaprino

https://www.instagram.com/kathycaprino/

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Resources Mentioned Today:

The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss Official Website (with Trailer)

Order the book at https://kathycaprino.com/mostpowerfulyoubook to become the most powerful version of you and reach your highest, most thrilling potential.

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project

Sign Up For Kathy’s LinkedIn Newsletter, The Finding Brave Circleandher personal newsletter

Her Power Gaps Survey & Her TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up

Kathy’s FREE Career Path Self-Assessment Survey

Finding Brave podcast full series on The Most Powerful You – 7 Power and Confidence Gaps:Episode 124: Power Gap #1: Not Recognizing Your Special Talents and Abilities

Episode 125: Power Gap #2: Communicating from Fear Not Strength

Episode 126: Power Gap #3: Reluctance to Ask for What You Deserve

Episode 127: Power Gap #4: Isolating from Influential Support

Episode 128: Power Gap #5: Acquiescing Instead of Saying “Stop” To Mistreatment

Episode 129: Power Gap #6: Losing Sight of Your Most Thrilling Dream

Episode 130: Power Gap #7: Allowing The Past To Continue to Define You

Lynn Carroll (The Therapy Space)

Cheryl Hunter’s Appearance on Finding Brave & Her TEDx Talk, Wabi Sabi: The Magnificence of Imperfection

Fortier Public Relations

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

Kathy’s Forbes Blog with Chip Conley, How Midlife Professionals Can Leverage Their Age, Wisdom And Experience More Powerfully At Work

QUOTES:

“The very first thing I want you to understand is that you’re not silly, you’re not foolish and you’re not weak to be feeling what you feel. It’s often trauma.” [6:05]

“How you integrate what happens to you in your own identity is going to shape not just your personal life and relationships, but your professional life and your career success.” [6:59]

“There are traumatic events that happen in our life, absolutely, but once they happen there are steps you can take to grab back control of your life.” [12:20]

“It’s one thing to have insight, but it’s not enough. Insight doesn’t change your life. Brave action does.” [18:06]

“The problem with these “dirty little secrets” is that if you do not address them with your eyes wide open, they grow bigger and more destructive. They send you underground and they eat at you.” [24:54]

“Often the Universe is doing you a favor by kicking you out of a horrible job and a toxic ecosystem.” [30:20]

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During this episode, Dr. Judy Ho joins us to unpack key concepts from her newly published book, The New Rules of Attachment. Judy isa triple board-certified and licensed clinical and forensic neuropsychologist, a tenured associate professor at Pepperdine University, television and podcast host, and published author. Among her numerous professional pursuits, she conducts neuropsychological and psychodiagnostic evaluations, serves as an expert witness in legal cases, conducts clinical research, provides expert commentary to media, and is a sought-after public speaker.

Join us as we unpack the four attachment styles, and learn how they are formed and ways in which they influence the quality of our relationships and our lives. Judy also shares key key information about how we can begin to unravel the early experiences that have shaped our core beliefs and relational patterns today.

As Judy shares:
“If you don’t go into the past to understand why you formed these patterns in the first place, you’re just going to be continuing to be in the same cycle over and over again.”

We also explore powerful mindset and behavioral shifts to empower parents, and Judy shares helpful affirmations that anyone can implement to change their self-talk.

Join us for an instrumental and hopeful conversation filled with valuable insights to help you heal and grow, in your life, career and relationships.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Welcome and introduction to Dr. Judy Ho and the premise of her healing work. [02:33]
• What we learn from our first relational experiences and how they define our approach to relationships as an adult. [08:02]
• Misconceptions about attachment and how to approach healing as an adult. [11:41]
• Hallmarks of the four attachment styles and a practical strategy to work with them. [16:40]
• Negative repercussions of the beliefs associated with anxious and avoidant attachment styles. [21:47]
• How a disorganized attachment style forms and the implications for adult life. [27:15]
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• Affirmations to emulate the self-talk of a securely attached person. [31:00]
• How to approach parenting with mindfulness to support children to form a secure attachment approach. [30:10]

For More Information:

Dr. Judy Ho

Dr. Judy Ho on X

Dr. Judy Ho on LinkedIn
Dr. Judy Ho on Facebook

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Dr. Judy Ho’s Latest Book, The New Rules of Attachment

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Take a 25% discount off both my 6-session private Career & Leadership Breakthrough coaching program and my Most Powerful You video training program that helps you address and close the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that negatively impact a staggering 98% of professional women today, keeping them from reaching the success, reward and fulfillment they deserve.

And you can participate in both of these programs from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace.

Transform your career trajectory now and become the leader you dream to be. Go ahead – grab the 25% discount, and let’s work together to help you build a much brighter future. I can’t wait to be of help!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Quotes:

“If you don’t go into the past to understand why you formed these patterns in the first place, you’re just going to be continuing to be in the same cycle over and over again.” — @drjudyho [0:05:30]

“Attachment at its most basic level is that first emotional connection you have with the people who generally are responsible for taking care of you and meeting your needs on a consistent and regular basis.” — @drjudyho [0:08:00]

“The truth is, you can heal your attachment at any point of your life.” — @drjudyho [0:12:39]

“The securely attached person doesn’t just have the perfect life – that’s ridiculous! They have problems just like everyone else, but they tend to have a healthy and stable self-concept, and they’re more confident to navigate life’s challenges.” — @drjudyho [0:30:23]

“Really adhering to your highest values in parenting is the most important piece.” — @drjudyho [0:33:51]

“Your child does not expect you to have all the answers. What your child does want and desire [is] that you are in their experience with them.” — @drjudyho [0:34:19]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Today, we’re delighted to welcome back return guest, Austin Belcak, who joined us way back on episode five to talk about how to land a dream job at the salary you deserve, as well on episode 89 where he shared his insights on building an exceptional resume that gets real results. Through his personal experiences, Austin has developed a uniquely effective job search system that helped him go from being a new grad with a biology degree (and a job in healthcare) to landing interviews at multiple tech companies, including Microsoft, where he ended up working for over five years and was promoted multiple times.

Austin is the founder of Cultivated Culture, where he helps people secure jobs they’re passionate about, without relying on the need for traditional experience or online applications. The platform is a hugely valuable resource for job seekers and offers multiple free tools, including a resume builder and analyzer. He also hosts The Dream Job System Podcast where he shares bite-sized, highly actionable career advice. Additionally, Austin’s work has been featured in multiple publications including, Forbes, Business Insider, and Fast Co. Through his work he has helped thousands of job seekers earn roles at top companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon, without ever needing to apply online.

In today’s conversation with Austin, we delve into the subject of networking, why he’s found it to be infinitely more effective than traditional job-searching methods, and how he developed a jobs system that could help others just like him. We unpack why traditional approaches proved particularly ineffective for him, why he needed advice from people with first-hand experience, and how he went about reaching out to those individuals who could give him the insights he needed to succeed. Our conversation also examines some of the most common misconceptions when it comes to networking and what can be done to address them.

Austin’s parting message emphasizes the importance of investing in yourself and actively creating things that other people will find interesting, before breaking down exactly how this will help your networking journey in the long run. His story serves as a powerful reminder that following your intuition and finding a braver path, will often be far more effective than sticking to more traditional routes. Join us today to hear all of Austin’s eye-opening insights as we discuss the nuances of networking and finding the job you truly want!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Some background on today’s guest, Austin Belcak. [02:03]
• How Austin founded Cultivated Culture. [05:45]
• What made him reject traditional job search practices and try a different approach. [11:35]
• Key factors that helped him determine the job he was looking for and where he wanted to work. [15:36]
• How Austin found high-achieving individuals who would understand his experience, especially coming from a non-traditional background, and how he reached out for their input. [17:33]
• Common misunderstandings around networking and advice on how to address them. [19:55]
• Learning how to cultivate persistence when it comes to networking. [26:58]
• Why people are more ready to invest in people who are already investing in themselves; how to establish channels that create value and make it easier to network. [31:09]
• Where you can find Austin online. [35:16]

For More Information:

Austin Belcak on LinkedIn

Austin Belcak on X

Austin Belcak on Instagram

Cultivated Culture

Cultivated Culture Blog

Cultivated Culture Podcast

Cultivated Culture Tools

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Listen to Finding Brave Episode 5: How to Land a Dream Job at the Salary You Deserve with Austin Becak

Check out Finding Brave Episode 89: Building a Crazy Effective Resume that Gets Real Results with Austin Belcak

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While you might know me best as a podcast host and writer, a key focus in my work is career and leadership coaching and training for mid to high-level professional women around the globe. In my top-rated Career & Leadership Breakthrough 1:1 Program and The Most Powerful You video and live course, I help female executives and leaders experience what they want most, which includes more confidence, impact, recognition, advancement, financial reward, well-being, and fulfillment. And I also help them close their power gaps and make headway towards their most exciting visions for the future.

In the past 17 years, I’ve worked with over 20,000 women across 6 continents. Before that, I served as a therapist, and prior to that, I was a corporate VP managing multi-million-dollar budgets and global initiatives. I leverage all of that experience to help women build a new chapter of work to reach their highest and happiest potential in careers they love. For organizations looking for top-level career and leadership coaching to support the emerging and seasoned female leaders in your workforce, please feel free to contact me here.

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They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

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In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Quotes:

“[The traditional] process did not really work for me. I applied to over 300 places, I didn’t get any results. And so I had to find a different path to getting a job.” — @austinbelcak [0:09:01]

“Essentially, I took a very different approach to job searching. And that became the system that we teach our clients today. But a lot of it was rooted in networking. And a lot of it was rooted in relationships rather than applications.” — @austinbelcak [0:09:13]

“When we buy into the system that we’re told is the right way to go it can be really hard to keep going and going and going because you’re not doing it because you believe it’s the best way to do it. You’re doing it because other people have told you that it’s the best way to do it.” — @austinbelcak [0:13:31]

“All these people I was going to advice for, they wanted to help, [and] they were well-meaning, but they didn’t really get my situation.” — @austinbelcak [0:16:35]

“I went out, and I tried to find those people who had gotten those roles coming from a non-traditional background.” — @austinbelcak [0:17:33]

“If you want people to invest in you, start investing in yourself. Start building interesting things. And that’s going to be [the] magnet that attracts other folks.” — @austinbelcak [0:34:11]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Interviews can undoubtedly be daunting and intimidating, but they also present a thrilling sense of potential and promise. After all, one interview can change the course of your life. So, how do you bring your best self to an interview, regardless of which side of the table you find yourself on? Joining us today to share her keen insights on all things interviewing is Anna Papalia, CEO of Interviewology, and author of Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing.

Anna has a deep and abiding passion for the interviewing process, and has spent the better part of her career studying, researching, and teaching the key tenets of interviewing. She has consulted with multiple Fortune 100 companies, coached over 10,000 clients on how to master interviews, and taught at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. Anna is also a career influencer; with over 1.5 million followers on social media, she is using her platform to educate, inspire, and transform the lives of job seekers and hiring managers one post at a time.

We use today’s conversation with Anna to delve into the science of her Interviewology method, why conventional interviewing advice doesn’t work, and how deeper self-awareness can transform your approach to interviews. Learn about the four key interviewing styles and their variations, the critical do’s and don’ts of interviewing, the top mistakes that almost every hiring manager will make, and why practice is essential for becoming better at interviews.

Join us today to hear all of Anna’s remarkable insights on interviewing, and learn how you can show up as your best self, regardless of whether you’re applying for a job or searching for the perfect candidate.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Anna Papalia’s professional background; how she mastered the art of interviewing. [02:18]

• Why self-knowledge is a critical part of transforming how you interview. [11:02]

• The core principles of Anna’s thesis on interviewing, Interviewology. [13:09]

• An overview of the four interviewing styles and their variations. [22:03]

• Why we tend to hire people who are similar to us, the downsides of this, and why diversity is essential for creativity and innovation. [28:23]

• The role of self-knowledge and self-mastery in your journey of transformation. [31:42]

• Key Do’s and Don’ts for job seekers and hiring managers. [36:13]

• The one thing not to say in response to the question, “Why do you want to work here”. [39:31]

• A round of questions from Anna that uncovered Kathy’s interviewing style. [43:05]

• Anna’s parting message: why the real power comes from owning how you are. [45:16]

For More Information:

Anna Papalia on LinkedIn

Anna Papalia on Instagram

Anna Papalia on Facebook

Anna Papalia on YouTube

Anna Papalia on TikTok

Anna Papalia on X

Interviewology

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Check out Anna’s book Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing

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I can’t wait to see you on the first Zoom call on April 3rd.

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Hi, folks! Kathy here. So, are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

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Quotes:

“I never want anyone to feel like they have to pretend to be something they’re not to get the job or to do this thing. I want to encourage people to be more authentic in this process. That’s the whole thesis of my book.” — @AnnaPapalia [0:12:12]

“I think most people hire from a place of trying to find people that they’re comfortable with because they think it’s easier to manage someone who’s like them.” — @AnnaPapalia [0:28:38]

“If your goal in your company or department is to just keep the status quo and never rock the boat, [not] do anything creative or innovative, and [never] solve any problems, sure, go ahead and hire 10 more of you.” — @AnnaPapalia [0:30:01]

“I always tell hiring managers, ‘We don’t need another you. We have you.’” — @AnnaPapalia [0:30:14]

“Everyone gets better the more you practice. Truly. I have seen 1000s of clients. Everyone gets better, the more you do it.” — @AnnaPapalia [0:36:50]

“I want people to know that it’s okay to be themselves. I want people to know that the real power comes from owning who you are [and] never pretending to be something that you’re not.” — @AnnaPapalia [0:45:16]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Watching people and observing their behaviors is fascinating for many reasons. Yes, it’s fun, but it can also be very revealing. To learn more about what the behavior and communication of others can tell you about them, we are joined by renowned author, retired FBI agent, and keynote speaker, Robin Dreeke.

With a distinguished career that includes serving as the Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, Robin has honed his ability to navigate complex social dynamics and build unbreakable alliances based on trust. Recognizing the vital role trust plays in business success, he has dedicated himself to helping organizations cultivate trust, enhance communication, and foster strong relationships within their teams and with their clients.

Today, Robin returns to the show to discuss all things communication, particularly what people’s behavior reveals about what you can expect from them. Tuning in, you’ll learn about the power of asking ‘what?’ questions to find out why someone inspires you, how empathy can help you resolve conflict in your relationships, why human beings don’t typically thrive in abundance, what you can glean about a person by how they treat others, and so much more.

Drawing on his extensive experience in counterintelligence and behavioral analysis, Robin provides invaluable insights and actionable strategies that empower individuals and businesses to thrive. If you want to become a true resource and catalyst for the success and growth of others, you’ll find his tips powerful, including learning how to embrace active curiosity and key steps to inspire people to feel safe with you. Don’t miss this eye-opening discussion!

Key Highlight From This Episode:

• How self-awareness, transparency, honesty, and vulnerability counteract toxic shame. [06:29]

• Owning your role in any conflict by understanding how others perceive you and how your experiences and biases color your perception of others. [12:11]

• Insight into Robin’s belief that we are meant to walk the path of life together. [20:05]

• The deeply complex conditions that contribute to war and death in our society. [23:20]

• What someone’s behavior toward others tells you clearly about what to expect from them. [27:02]

• A powerful quote from Nelson Mandela and why books are the key to opening your mind. [31:04]

• How to shift the focus from yourself to others with Robin’s four keys to communication. [37:41]

• Actionable advice for holding yourself accountable in your relationships. [40:33]

• Closing with a profound question to ask yourself about your final hours on earth! [41:43]

For More Information:

Robin Dreeke

Forged by Trust Podcast

Self-Mastery Reading List: Robin Dreeke’s Books

Robin Dreeke on LinkedIn

Robin Dreeke on Instagram

Robin Dreeke on X

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Listen to Episode 160 with Robin Dreeke, ‘Former FBI Special Agent Shares 5 Key Steps to Building Trust and Rapport’.

Check out Kathy’s Valentine’s Day post about self-love on LinkedIn.

Get your copy of Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think by Tasha Eurich.

Read Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom to help you understand history (and how to change it).

Watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

Get these recommended reads by Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens and Homo Deus.

Become the authority in your own life with The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.

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The course is the companion to my top-selling book, The Most Powerful You, which teaches you all about what I’ve seen from working with thousands of professional women around the world are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that negatively impact 98% of women today, keeping them from building the successful, rewarding careers that long for and that they can thrive in.

Sure, we can be successful on the “outside” and make some great money, but I’m teaching you more in this course. I’m teaching you how to experience greater joy, fulfilment, reward, confidence, self-esteem and meaningful impact by becoming the true author of your life, taking the reins and grabbing control of the direction of your career and the ultimate outcomes you support. In the end, you’ll learn how to engage in deeply meaningful, fulfilling and successful career you love and are proud of.

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I can’t wait to see you on the first Zoom call on April 3rd.

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Hi, folks! Kathy here. So, are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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Quotes:

“Think about who it is you get excited about when they walk through the door – because you know it’s going to be a great conversation and then ask yourself, am I that person for someone else? Then, what behaviors make it so?” — @rdreeke [0:03:53]

“We all have our own experiences, confirmation biases – all the things that impact how we see the world through our context and perception affect how we interact with everyone. It affects how I see a relationship as balanced or unbalanced.” — @rdreeke [0:13:41]

“The companies that have thrived are not the ones that took it out on their employees by firing them. They’re the ones that everyone took a pay cut to stay together – because if you form a circle of safety where people feel trusted, that’s when you innovate.” — @rdreeke [0:22:47]

“When you’re assessing others and the people you’re letting into your life, look at how they treat others – Do they tip well, do they not tip well, do they take care of others, do they gossip about people? Those are the [behaviors] I’m always looking at.” — @rdreeke [0:29:27]

“Seek the thoughts and opinions of others instead of telling them all about yours – Speak in terms of their challenges, priorities, pain points, [and] friction points instead of yours – Be non-judgmentally curious.” — @rdreeke [0:38:45]

“If you had two hours left on this beautiful planet of ours – what do you do with [them]? I’ll answer for most people. I know what I would do. I would have the most beautiful conversation I could with the most beautiful people in my life.” — @rdreeke [0:41:47]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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As many of us are seeing and experiencing firsthand, we’re living in a time of divisive politics and widespread conflict. While these conditions present difficult challenges, it’s also an opportunity for growth if we can find the courage and strength to engage in a new way. This is the belief of today’s inspiring guest, William Ury, who has dedicated his life to transforming conflicts from destructive impulses into opportunities for collaboration and growth.

William is a renowned negotiator, anthropologist, and bestselling author whose insights and expertise have reshaped the way we approach conflict resolution. Among other top books he’s written, he is the co-author of  Getting to Yes, the world’s all-time bestselling book on negotiation with more than 15 million copies sold. William has served as a negotiator in many of the most challenging disputes of our time, having consulted for the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, as well as dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He is also the co-founder of Harvard’s distinguished Program on Negotiation, and has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts ranging from Kentucky wildcat coal mine strikes to family feuds, from US partisan battles to wars in the Middle East, Colombia, Korea, and Ukraine.

His highly-anticipated new book, Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict, draws on decades of experience to shed light on some of the toughest conflicts of our time and how we can find a way forward.

Today’s conversation takes us on a fascinating journey, from William’s first interest in negotiation and conflict resolution as a young child, to the central lessons he lays out in his books, to some of his most intense negotiating experiences with key figures, like Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. We learn about his Pathways to Possible method and how to transform seemingly impossible situations into creative and productive conversations before exploring the concept of self-mastery and engaging the third side in any conflict, and more.

Join us as we explore William’s journey and his invaluable insights on navigating both personal and geopolitical conflicts with courage, self-mastery and compassion. Tune in to see conflict in a new light, tap into your innate potential, and approach animosity with curiosity.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Get to know William Ury, how he developed his interest in negotiation, and the many books he’s written on the subject. [01:58]
• How to transform conflict and approach it collaboratively rather than destructively. [07:25]
• The state of conflict in the world today and the courageous leadership required to move us forward. [10:55]
• Key differences between geopolitical conflicts and interpersonal conflicts. [15:43]
• The Pathways to Possible method for negotiating and engaging in conflict. [18:46]
• Three kinds of potential we can unlock to transform seemingly impossible situations into creative and productive conversations. [20:25]
• William’s account of negotiating with Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, in very difficult circumstances. [23:52]
• The self-mastery and learning required to engage the third side in any conflict. [29:55]
• How William prepares for intense conflict (and why he doesn’t attempt to do it alone). [34:35]
• The joy that infuses William’s work, how to tap into the power of play, and the importance of taking a moment to relax before doing something difficult. [35:44]

For More Information:

William Ury

William Ury on LinkedIn

William Ury on Facebook

William Ury on X

William Ury on TED

Harvard’s Program on Negotiation

Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict

Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations

Getting to Yes with Yourself: How to Get What You Truly WantGetting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving InPath to Possible

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You are not alone. Hundreds of the professional women I’ve worked with have shared the exact same problem and have also admitted they just don’t believe in or fully trust their own capabilities.

I would love to help you with this! Join me on March 1st in a new FREE webinar that addresses these challenges head-on.

I’ll be teaching key strategies, solutions, and action steps that come from my own 40 years of high-level work, as well as serving as a Senior Forbes contributor and podcast host, and as an entrepreneur and a career and leadership coach for women around the world. I’ll also be sharing amazing tips from top experts who teach us how to rise and thrive in important work we love.

Join me on March 1st – there’s nothing to lose and a whole lot of strength to gain.

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Are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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JOIN “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” 8-WEEK COACHING AND TRAINING COURSE WITH KATHY STARTING APRIL 3RD!

Hi folks! Kathy here…I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new session of my 8-week coaching and training course The Most Powerful You starting April 3rd! In 8 powerhouse weeks together, I’ll train all about the content of my book The Most Powerful You and from 17 years of coaching thousands of professional women, helping them address what I’ve seen are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest highest potential and success. This includes overcoming imposter syndrome which impacts 75% of executive women today.

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I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 50 organizations worldwide (including at a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward fast to your most thrilling goals and visions. Hope to see you there!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“My motto is ‘meet animosity with curiosity.’” — @WilliamUryGTY [0:19:26]

“I’ve seen humans at their worst, but I’ve also seen humans at their best – and I’ve watched how, in seemingly impossible situations, people have risen to the challenge.” — @WilliamUryGTY [0:19:53]

“What I’ve tried to do in Possible is lay out what I see us doing, which is awakening our own human potential. It’s right here. It’s not some magic and it’s not even a magical person like myself showing up. It’s within us all the time.” — @WilliamUryGTY [0:20:06]

“The reason why [people find it so hard] to listen to others in difficult situations is they haven’t listened to themselves first. They haven’t understood and paid attention to their own emotions and thoughts.” — @WilliamUryGTY [0:23:34]

“Do not give advice to those who are not open to receiving it.” — @WilliamUryGTY [0:29:07]

“What we fail to realize is [that] there’s always a third side, which is the friends, the neighbors, the relatives, the co-workers, the colleagues, the community around us that’s affected by the conflict.” — @WilliamUryGTY [0:31:46]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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We are joined today by Hope Paterson, a global nomad, mother of two, education innovation specialist, and transformation coach. For two decades, Hope has been developing what she calls the Hope triangle: electrifying pathways for humans of all ages working at the intersection of education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

As a coach Hope is steadfast and supportive, walking alongside others as they move from old to new. She is also the founder of Hope Braintrust, a global think tank that hosts live events and collaborations. Her growing online network, the Hope Sparks Network, is a vibrant intergenerational community where people of all ages can connect to share their knowledge and experience.

In today’s conversation with Hope, we learn how to embrace more bravery in our lives before delving into the concept of finding intergenerational allies. She shares how she first learned to flex her bravery muscles as a young girl, how her many years as an entrepreneur helped her build a network of brilliant individuals from across the world, and why she was determined to be the hopeful glue that brought them together.

Hope also gives listeners her advice on how to put together and run an intergenerational advisory board, the type of individuals who are typically drawn to these communities, and why listening to your community members is essential. Join us today as we engage in a thought-provoking discussion on the power of global, intergenerational connections and the vital role these collectives play in growth, change, and transformation!

Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to today’s guest, Hope Paterson. [02:32]

• How Hope first found her bravery and the influence her parents had on her outlook. [05:18]

• Hope’s history as an entrepreneur and the concept of intergenerational communities. [16:46]

• How she established the Hope Braintrust. [18:29]

• What it means to create a non-corporate, loving space to explore what is possible. [21:28]

• Traits Hope typically sees in people drawn to intergenerational support communities. [23:33]

• The power of sharing experiences and knowledge in intergenerational communities. [27:50]

• How to put together and run your own intergenerational advisory board. [31:37]

• Hope’s parting words of advice and where to find her online. [36:44]

For More Information:

Hope Paterson

Hope Paterson on LinkedIn

Hope Paterson on Instagram

Hope Paterson on Facebook

Hope Paterson on X

Hope’s email

Hope Braintrust

Hope Sparks Network

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Check out Hope Braintrust Events to learn more about Hope’s events

Watch the Tony Robbins documentary I Am Not Your Guru

Find Judy Robinette’s book How to Be a Power Connector

Key Quotes:

“I was really fortunate to have a family and a culture around me that encouraged [making] brave choices. And so I started to flex what I call my bravery muscles.” — @Hopescott [0:06:35]

“I’m a huge believer in how much our belief in ourselves [and] our [beliefs] about the world gets forged in the first seven years of our lives.” — @Hopescott [0:09:50]

“I started to think ‘I’m sitting on a goldmine of amazing humans, who don’t know each other, [who] are from different cultures and different age groups, different generations. How can I be the bridge? How can I be the translator, the hopeful glue?’” — @Hopescott [0:18:29]

“I always start my events out saying ‘This is a non-corporate loving space for you to explore what’s possible.’” — @Hopescott [0:21:28]

“Speak to kind, gentle people to begin with, because it might be a bit awkward and clunky. And then you can move out to the bold connections that might be harder to reach.” — @Hopescott [0:33:29]

“By asking them, [and] by listening, I get to focus more on what they really want, and less on what I think they want.” — @Hopescott [0:36:14]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level FAST, building more power, confidence and impact?

JOIN “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” 8-WEEK COACHING AND TRAINING COURSE WITH KATHY – STARTS MAY 10TH!I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new session starting May 10th of my 8-week coaching and training course The Most Powerful You!

In 8 powerhouse weeks together and 8 weekly calls, I’ll train all about the content of my book The Most Powerful Youhelping professional women address what I’ve seen are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest highest potential and success. This includes imposter syndrome that impacts 75% of executive women today.

The course offers:

• 8 Weekly Zoom Coaching calls with me

• 8 Confidence-Boosting Video Training Modules

• A Step-by-by process for building a better career, with more power, influence and impact (and fulfillment)

• Fantastic Additional Strategies and Tips from over 30 of the nation’s top experts

• A Private Online Support Group for Members

• And more!

Spots are very limited for the Early Bird special so sign up now at mostpowerfulyou.com. And when you register as an early bird, you’ll save $300 and get 7 amazing bonuses including a FREE private consultation with me.

I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 50 organizations worldwide (including at a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward fast. Hope to see you there!

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Hi, folks! Kathy here. So, are you thinking of launching a new podcast or have you been at it a while and recognize it’s time for more or better production help to create the best podcast you can? I totally understand — I’ve been podcasting for over 6 years and know how challenging it can be. That’s why I’m very excited to share key info about the great product team I’m using called We Edit Podcasts. I’ve been working with them for well over a year, and I’ve been so happy with the results!

They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

If you’re ready for better production help, definitely check them out and take advantage of their FREE trial episode, allowing you to sample their process and quality to see if it’s a great fit for you. I’m confident you’ll love them. Just paste this link into your browser:

http://weeditpodcasts.com/findingbrave << that’s my special link for you. Book your free call! Happy podcasting!

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OTHER GREAT SPONSORSI’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Fatimah Gilliam is an author, lawyer, sought-after speaker, consultant, and founder of The Azara Group, a consulting firm that provides diversity and inclusion, leadership development, negotiation, and strategy consulting services to Fortune 500 corporations, senior executives leading billion-dollar businesses, and industry thought leaders.

Her groundbreaking book, Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You, is a practical manual of the unwritten rules that can help readers navigate today’s racially polarized world. In short, it’s a ‘how-to’ manual for white people to be less racially offensive; enabling them to develop stronger and more respectful cross-racial friendships and professional relationships with people of color.

Today, Fatimah joins us as “white America’s Black friend” to tell us what others won’t say to our faces nor share about perspectives of color on white behaviors, choices, and interactions. She shares deep, transformative insights from her book, which seeks to open the door to perspectives of color so white people can learn, make better choices, take different actions, and evolve with a diversifying society in the 21st century.

This conversation is an excellent source of well-informed and hard-hitting advice for those looking to move beyond performative allyship and live their non-racist values, rather than just talk about them. As we discuss, this is ideal for anyone who wants to bring the unconscious forward to consciousness, so they can take new actions every day that will directly and powerfully address and combat racism both in our own lives and behaviors, and in the world we live in. Tune in to learn more!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• What inspired Fatimah to write this book and what her intentions are for it. [04:31]

• Ways that being a light-skinned Black woman has impacted her view of racism. [07:57]

• Defining racism and why Fatimah chooses to focus on impact rather than intent. [09:53]

• The ‘how-to’ guide she offers and how Race Rules differs from other books on racism. [13:37]

• How racism is distinct from prejudice with the key ingredient being power. [18:42]

• Fatimah’s “Top 5” of 31 race rules and insight into her three-step Bedrock Race Rule. [20:15]

• Othering, marginalization, and how to ensure the language you use isn’t offensive and harmful. [28:00]

• Rules for discussing race for white people who see themselves as anti-racist allies. [33:59]

• Understanding the relationship between defensiveness and exceptionalism. [41:14]

• A favorite passage of Fatimah’s from Race Rules, where to get the book, parting advice, and more. [46:08]

For More Information:

Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You

The Azara Group

Fatimah Gilliam on LinkedIn

Fatimah Gilliam on Instagram

Fatimah Gilliam on X

Kathy’s Forbes.com interview with Fatimah:
Race Rules: Critical Information To Know That Your Black Friend Won’t Share

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JOIN THE 16-WEEK AMAZING CAREER PROJECT COURSE WITH KATHY STARTING FEBRUARY 1ST!

I’m very excited to share that we’ve opened the enrollment window of the Winter 2024 session of my 16-week Amazing Career Project course! This session — which starts February 1st – teaches professional women the 16 most essential steps to building a more rewarding, joyful, and successful career, with the respect and recognition you deserve.

Through the four months of the course, you’ll get:

– 16 jammed-packed instructional videos

– 16 weekly live group coaching calls with me

– 16 tailored homework assignments to move you forward fast

– An amazing online support network of members to help you

– My hand-picked collection of premier resources

– PLUS: Great lifetime discounts to my private coaching programs and events

AND: $1000 off the full price plus 7 great bonuses

Truly, it’s a fantastic investment in you and your career and there is nothing to lose and so much to gain.

Join me this Winter! Visit amazingcareerproject.com for more info and see you February 1st!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Quotes:

“Part of what I’m trying to [change] is the impact of people’s choices and behaviors and not the intent of their choices and behaviors. I want people to make better choices that positively impact communities and people of color.” — @fatimahgilliam [0:10:18]

“This is not about good and evil. It is about whether or not the impact of your choices harms people of color individually and collectively.” — @fatimahgilliam [0:11:05]

“With Race Rules, I’m trying to give people access to information so that they can live their values and not just talk about their values.” — @fatimahgilliam [0:18:10]

“What happens a lot of times when we’re talking about race is we move to all the other ‘isms’ and don’t focus on what is the hardest thing for American society to focus on: – having a conversation, evaluation, and analysis of race in peoples’ [personal and professional] lives.” — @fatimahgilliam [0:39:44]

“[All whites in America], even the person who is the most woke, liberal, and progressive, all of them are engaging in decisions in small [and] big ways that – have a harmful, racialized, negative impact on people of color.” — @fatimahgilliam [0:43:22]

“People can change collectively and individually. It has to start somewhere and I see Race Rules as my patriotic contribution to American society so that we can evolve.” — @fatimahgilliam [0:51:25]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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It’s been proven that playing competitive sports continues to contribute significantly to the success and leadership growth that women experience in later life and in their careers. Joining me to share her first-hand insights and key observations from her own career and from recent important research on this topic, is Lara Abrash, Chair of Deloitte US, the largest professional services organization in the United States.

Originally drawn in by Deloitte’s social impact contributions, Lara began her time with the company 30 years ago, having held various leadership positions including Chair and Chief Executive Officer at Deloitte and Touche LLP. Working alongside over 170,000 professionals, Lara leads the Board of Directors with a purpose-driven mission to see diversity and inclusion at every level.

To kick off the conversation, we dive into Deloitte’s pivotal study on the relationship between girls and women in competitive sports and leadership in the workplace later on in life. Lara shares her own experiences of playing softball, baseball, and tennis, revealing the essential skills she learned along the way.

Next, we delve into the power of sports to foster skills development that women often don’t have the opportunity to develop elsewhere. We also discuss whether or not there is a place for emotional vulnerability in the workplace, and what changes when leaders are honest about their experiences. Join us today to hear all this and more!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing Lara Abrash, and her 30-year background leading up to her role as Chair of Deloitte US. [02:21]

• Deloitte’s history supporting female leadership and men’s and women’s sports. [04:00]

• Surveying the relationship between girls and women in competitive sports and leadership in the workplace. [05:14]

• Lara’s early experiences playing competitive sports and how they shaped her. [07:56]

• How sports encourage players to develop self-mastery, confidence, and teamwork. [11:16]

• Why women often lack the necessary knowledge and skills to be recognized for their abilities. [17:49]

• The important role of human connection, vulnerability, empathy, and compassion. [21:57]

• How Deloitte fosters a sense of safety and belonging in the workplace. [25:29]

For More Information:

Lara Abrash on LinkedIn

Lara Abrash on X

Deloitte US

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Kathy’s Forbes.com interview with Lara Abrash – Deloitte’s New Survey Links Playing Sports to Career Success for Women

Deloitte’s Survey That Reveals the Link for Women Between Playing Sports and Career Success

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Ready to Start Getting the Respect and Recognition You Deserve?

JOIN THE 16-WEEK AMAZING CAREER PROJECT COURSE WITH KATHY STARTING FEBRUARY 1ST!

I’m very excited to share that we’ve opened the enrollment window of the Winter 2024 session of my 16-week Amazing Career Project course! This session — which starts February 1st – teaches professional women the 16 most essential steps to building a more rewarding, joyful and successful career, with the respect and recognition you deserve.

Through the four months of the course, you’ll get:

– 16 jammed-packed instructional videos

– 16 weekly live group coaching calls with me

– 16 tailored homework assignments to move you forward fast

– An amazing online support network of members to help you

– My hand-picked collection of premier resources

– PLUS: Great lifetime discounts to my private coaching programs and events

AND: $1000 off the full price plus 7 great bonuses

Truly, it’s a fantastic investment in you and your career and there is nothing to lose and so much to gain.

Join me this Winter! Visit amazingcareerproject.com for more info and see you February 1st!

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Order Kathy’s bookThe Most Powerful Youtoday!

In Australia and New Zealand,click here to order, elsewhere outside North America,click here, and in the UK,click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

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Quotes:

“I’m a big believer in integrating work and life and finding things that give you energy.” — @AbrashLara [0:09:13]

“When a woman has confidence that she can bring the knowledge, that she can do something, I see a different outcome.” — @AbrashLara [0:12:24]

“Teamwork is an equation for being a great leader.” — @AbrashLara [0:12:53]

“You need to be, not only doing great work, but you need to be promoting yourself.” — @AbrashLara [0:18:32]

“Be you, be vulnerable, but do it in a professional way.” — @AbrashLara [0:24:21]

“If you put the best interests of your organization first, you’ll make all the right decisions.” — @AbrashLara [0:24:32]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts!

Note: This is a special airing of a “holiday favorite selection” and is a repeat of our Finding Brave holiday episode #208.

“You just have to believe that there’s a higher version of you that you can tap into and that can access higher-level wisdom, insight, solutions, strategies, people, and connections. If you believe it, and if you believe it strongly, it’s amazing what happens in your life.” – Kathy Caprino

As we approach the end of another year, once again I’m happy to share this special “Holiday Selection,” featuring some of the top Finding Brave episodes that have previously aired, to help you enter 2024 with even more bravery, inspiration, and motivation to pursue and achieve your most important and meaningful goals.

Today, I’m excited to bring you an episode from late 2018, where I shared a helpful year-end strategy of reflection — the process of reflecting back on the past year in an in-depth, careful, and probing way, exploring all that you’ve learned and experienced, created, and also “failed” at. (Note: I don’t perceive “failure” the way many others do. I view it as a vital learning” opportunity — as an effective experience that, when viewed from a positive framework, helps us get much clearer on who we are, what we need to thrive, and what we really want in our lives.

This reflection process helps you connect in a powerful, deep way with your ultimate dreams and desires, and it highlights where you’ve been living “off course” – far away from what your most authentic self really wants.

In this episode, I explore what I’ve found to be six essential reflection questions that are perfect for this time of year, to help us take stock, expand our gratitude and appreciation for all that we are today, and set the wheels in motion for shifting our approach to how we operate, communicate, and engage with others and with our core challenges and power gaps. This reflection process hatches important new revelations, and sets the stage for a brand new future.

As always, be gentle and compassionate with yourself as you reflect, and remember that everything that’s happened can be used to bolster and uplift you, if you let it. At the end of the show, I sing a little song to welcome in the New Year, from my heart to yours. I hope you enjoy it!

I’d love to hear how your answering these six questions impacts you and what it reveals. And I welcome your suggestions for any future topics or interviewees that you’re interested in hearing from.

Please reach out to me by email, or on social media via LinkedIn, or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram and say hello and share your ideas!

I wish you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year and I’m looking forward to connecting with you and serving up fresh, new episodes of Finding Brave in 2024 that will move you forward to create life and work as you dream it to be.

Happy New Year!

Highlights from this Episode:

• The benefits of reflection and what it can help you achieve these next 12 months [5:27]
• What our lives are giving us, but we often miss [08:58]
• Why you need to celebrate all of your wins, no matter how small you may think they are [10:30]
• What I tell myself when things don’t seem to be working out for me and how we can reframe our experiences to benefit from them [14:31]
• Why focusing on desired “outcomes” can be more helpful and instructive than “goals” and how turning your “mess into a message” can give you great clarity on what to do next [15:13]
• Don’t agonize and overly attach to the specific “how’s” – just start moving forward any way you can [17:08]
• Visualization truly works – here’s an exercise that I do [19:24]
• What is your “higher self” and how you can receive help from it [22:29]
• What is one thing that is needed to overcome your resistance [26:37]
• The reasons that accountability is needed and where we can get it [28:05]
• The power gaps that keep people from thriving in their lives and in their work [29:30]
• How you can move past a traumatic event and finally let it go [34:48]
• My theme word for the year and an invitation for you to create one as well [35:26]
• A little song for you to welcome in the New Year [37:15]

For More Information:

kathy@kathycaprino.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathycaprino/

https://www.facebook.com/ElliaCommunications/

https://twitter.com/kathycaprino

https://instagram.com/kathycaprino

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Episode 50: How To Reduce Pain and Conflict With Family and Friends This Holiday

Amazing Career Project Module – The Lessons Life is Trying to Teach You and Why You’re Not Learning them

Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain

Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power and Purpose

Finding Brave Episode 46: 7 Damaging Power Gaps That Keep You From Thriving in Life and Work

Kathy’s Forbes post on How To Stop Staying ‘I’m Sorry’ When You’re Not (And Why You Need To)

Other episodes for the holiday season:

#186 with Joseph Grenny – How to Have Those Difficult But Crucial Conversations with Friends and Colleagues

#195 – with Dr. Fred Luskin – How to Forgive Someone When You Feel You Can’t

#271 – with David Jurasek – How to Recognize and Release the Damaging Shame You Hold

Other Resources For You:

CHECK OUT: Kathy’s digital 12-issue newsletter bundle “Your Path To Career Bliss”

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Many of the 12 featured issues are in perfect alignment with today’s episode, including How to Build More Confidence, Self-Esteem, and Power in Your Career Today.

I hope you’ll grab this newsletter bundle now for only $99. CLICK HERE to learn more and register.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, (video training version OR LIVE 8-week course) to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“Nothing is wasted — everything you’ve learned and everything you’ve experienced, even if you’ve fallen flat on your face, is useful. What we want to do is leverage everything we’ve been, done, and learned, and then build on that for the next chapter.” [5:53]

“You can’t just be grateful for the amazing stuff. It helps propel you forward when you can also be grateful for the difficult stuff.” [6:50]

“I am a fan of helping people realize they do have an idea of what they want. They absolutely do, but they just don’t recognize that as a valid idea.” [14:55]

“I get a lot of juice out of turning my mess into a message. Could you?” [16:32]

“Envision what would be a happier, more abundant, prosperous, successful, and joyful experience. See yourself with all your senses in it and I promise you that paves the way for it to come to pass.” [20:52]

“What habit can you build that’s going to help you get to where you want to go?” [28:28]

“If you isolate and you won’t ask for help, you’re never going to get it and you’re going to stay stuck.” [31:44]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

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I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations has sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

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How do we separate our work selves and our personal lives when technology and social media have made those lines blurrier than ever? Joining us today to unpack this topic and three key “future of work” trends is Elizabeth J. Sandler, founder and CEO of Echo Juliette, a forward-thinking company that works with executive teams on strategy and leadership development.

Elizabeth is a seasoned professional with 25 years of experience as a COO and Strategist in Investment Banking and Private Equity in the US and UK. In 2019 she left her corporate career to pursue her mission of making workplaces more successful and fulfilling for everyone. Her company Juliette Works advises organizations on investing in Key-Suite women — a fundamental component of any organization. Elizabeth also serves on the board of two public companies, two private equity funds, and two non-profits, and is a sought-after speaker at conferences, companies, and universities.

In today’s conversation, we hear from Elizabeth about three top-of-mind “future of work” trends, before discussing how a comprehensive understanding of these trends today can serve us in the long run. Tuning in you’ll learn about the transformative potential of AI in our work lives; how companies should be approaching social media; and the key things we need to understand about the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) landscape.

The introduction of technologies like generative AI has already had a huge impact on how we work, but this is only the beginning. How we choose to show up and implement these technologies will shape our work lives for years to come. To hear all of Elizabeth’s thought-provoking insights on the transformative impact these developments could have on the future of work, be sure to tune in today!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing today’s guest, Elizabeth J. Sandler, and the story of how she and Kathy connected and became friends. [02:06]
• Unpacking generative AI in the workplace as a “future of work” trend and the transformational impact it could have on our work lives. [09:55]
• The limitations of standard stock images, navigating inherent bias, and how businesses can use generative AI for consistent, creative, and specific branding. [12:13]
• How AI can be integrated with leading technologies to help humans in the workplace. [20:50]
• The expertise required to prompt generative AI in a way that will eliminate bias and ensure proper diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). [25:31]
• Breaking down the impact of social media as a “future of work” trend; the complexity of how we embody (and separate) our work and personal selves online. [28:33]
• Being open to understanding different perspectives at work, and why an alignment of values between yourself and your organization is so important. [35:32]
• Unpacking DEI as a “future of work” trend; the growing scope of DEI efforts and the challenge of managing it all. [45:11]
• Cultivating more empathy for the lived experiences of others. [49:49]
• Discover where you can go to find Elizabeth’s work and connect online. [26:23]

For More Information:

Echo Juliette

Elizabeth J. Sandler on LinkedIn

Elizabeth J. Sandler Linktree

Juliette Works

Juliette Works on Facebook

Juliette Works on Instagram

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Read Kathy’s article ‘The ‘Barbie’ Movie Missed the Mark for Me – Did It Work For You?’Check out the LinkedIn post and poll that connected Elizabeth and Kathy

Listen to Episode 270: Masculinity at a Key Crossroads with Ludo Gabriele

Visit Midjourney to use generative AI to create consistent branding imagery
Check out Adobe’s generative AI tools, Firefly and Sensei GenAI

Use DALL·E to create images from text

Discover how to use Pictory for video creation

Learn about Elizabeth’s Core Values

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Are you ready for a BIG positive shift in how you’re working and what you’re capable of achieving today in your career and leadership? Let’s work together and make that happen!

While you might know me best as a podcast host and writer, a key focus in my work is career and leadership coaching and training for mid to high-level professional women around the globe. In my top-rated Career & Leadership Breakthrough 1:1 Program and The Most Powerful You video and live course, I help female executives and leaders experience what they want most, which includes more confidence, impact, recognition, advancement, financial reward, well-being, and fulfillment. And I also help them close their power gaps and make headway towards their most exciting visions for the future.

In the past 16 years, I’ve worked with over 20,000 women across 6 continents. Before that, I served as a therapist, and prior to that, I was a corporate VP managing multi-million-dollar budgets and global initiatives. I leverage all of that experience to help women build a new chapter of work to reach their highest and happiest potential in careers they love. For organizations looking for top-level career and leadership coaching to support the emerging and seasoned female leaders in your workforce, please feel free to contact me here.

Check out Career & Leadership Breakthrough Coaching Program – Kathy Caprino and Most Powerful You training. I hope you’ll register now. I’d love to support you!

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They’re a full-service production agency and their services give me access to a wonderful team of seasoned audio engineers and editors who help create a polished, professional sound. And they work hard to ensure that my particular podcasting approach and style comes through in every episode. They also help me make sure my guests are reflected in the best possible light through the creation of terrific show notes, which is an important part of the show for me. Their process is easy and streamlined, and their responsiveness and customer service are terrific too.

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“For artificial intelligence, I think we need to start thinking about how is it impacting us as individual humans in our daily lives. And how is that going to trickle into our work life?” — Elizabeth Sandler [0:11:24]

“Now [with AI] I am able to generate art that is 100% in keeping with my brand and is quite specifically the message I’m trying to convey.” — Elizabeth Sandler [0:14:02]

“Those are ideal environments. Where we can really get into a place where employees can now bring their whole self to work, but in a way that enables their humanity and their vulnerabilities and not be judged for it.” — Elizabeth Sandler [0:31:38]

“I do think that employees need to rethink whether they’re working for organizations that support their values.” — Elizabeth Sandler [0:41:52]

“We’re still treating people [in such a way that] they’re still trying to adapt to what the common power norm is.” — Elizabeth Sandler [0:48:24]

“We really need to start looking at more individual humanity.” — Elizabeth Sandler [0:49:11]

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If there’s one person who is intimately familiar with what it means to be a woman making her way in a male-dominated field, it’s today’s guest, Manuela Nicolosi, an Italian international soccer referee, speaker, and entrepreneur.

Manuela is an undeniable trailblazer and has a series of barrier-breaking accomplishments to her name. Not only is she the first woman to referee a Men’s European Final (the Super Cup between Liverpool and Chelsea in 2019), but she is also the first Italian woman to referee the final of the Women’s World Cup.

In today’s conversation with Manuela, we talk about her journey as a soccer referee, her love of the game, and the challenges she’s faced while navigating a field dominated by men. We learn about the strict rules that governed Italian soccer when she was growing up, how this prevented women from becoming referees, and the change in regulation that took place when she was only 15, opening up new opportunities for women. Not only did this allow her to pursue her huge dream of making a name for herself in soccer, but it paved the way for her to inspire other young women to do the same through her work as a public speaker.

Tuning in you’ll learn about many of the skills you need to master as a top-level referee, such as being able to make quick decisions under pressure and remaining calm and balanced when players and fans are (sometimes aggressively and angrilly) challenging your decisions. We then go on to examine how these skills can translate to other leadership positions and why learning to accept your mistakes and take them in stride is such a game-changer. Today’s episode is deeply inspiring and a powerful reminder of what it means to follow your dreams, no matter the odds, so be sure to tune in!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Learing about our inspiring guest today: Manuela Nicolosi. [00:21]
• Her strong relationship with her father, their shared love of soccer, why he objected to her playing professionally, and how he came to support her dream of refereeing at a high level. [03:13]
• Italy’s outdated rule that only men could be referees, and the Federation’s decision to open up opportunities to women. [05:41]
• The tragic loss of her father when she was 16 years old and her desire to make her father proud through her work. [09:53]
• Manuela’s experience of being the only woman in a male-dominated field, the challenges she has had to overcome, and how her dedication helped her persevere. [13:56]
• What Manuela has learned about how to remain focused when she makes a mistake and what this can teach us about leadership. [19:24]
• The resistance and active opposition you face from players and why it’s important to remain calm and firm in your decisions. [23:27]
• The intense selection process to referee for the World Cup, what it was like for Manuela to referee the Finals, and the tremendous pressure she faced as a woman. [29:12]
• The crowd’s beautiful reaction to seeing the first ever group of women refereeing a World Cup final. [36:05]
• Find out about Manuela’s children’s book and what she has learned from her work as a speaker. [38:19]

For More Information:

Manuela Nicolosi on LinkedIn
Manuela Nicolosi on Instagram

The Magic in You – Soccer Dreams with Sophia

Book Manuela to Speak

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

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Quotes:

“I started playing [soccer] myself, but my dad said ‘It’s not something for girls. So I don’t want you to play soccer.’ He wanted me to do everything except soccer.” — [0:04:56]

“I was lucky because I [was] at the beginning. It was something new. People were supportive. Also in the local Federation, people were supportive. They helped me with many games. I always had someone coming with me and giving me advice.” — [0:11:49]

“I only had one goal, I was focused, I wanted to achieve always more and more and more.” — [0:15:11]

“When you referee you also need to learn [to say] ‘Okay, I made the mistake. I will think about that. I will analyze that later. But I need to continue running, continue be focused on the game because otherwise I will keep making errors.’” — [0:19:27]

“The crowd did a very beautiful thing. Normally when referees go out on the pitch, or are warming up before the game, they always whistle. [But] in this case, we went out and all of the stadium started clapping.” — [0:36:24]

“I think we girls are afraid of competition. They are not taught that it’s good to be competitive. It’s good!” — [0:41:19]

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Confidence is key as you step into being the most powerful and impactful (and happiest) version of you. This topic is something I feel compelled to talk about ​given my particular lens as a former corporate VP, then a marriage and family therapist (focused on systems and communication), a researcher, and in coaching and training thousands of executives and professionals across 6 continents these past 16 years.

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We’re so excited to bring you this special episode of Finding Brave which celebrates two big milestones that I am very proud of. Firstly, we’re celebrating 5 years of continuous publication of this show and, secondly, reaching over 500,000 downloads! And we’re thrilled to be ranked in the top 1.5% of over 3 million podcasts globally and to consistently list in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts all over the world.

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A great leader is able to resiliently and bravely handle core challenges and address key obstacles, all while building a work culture of belonging, safety and trust. And having leaders who demonstrate true empathy has become far more important to employees in today’s post-covid world.

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You can’t always choose the people you work with, but you can choose to pursue having the best possible working relationship with them. Joining us today is return guest Michael Bungay Stanier, author of the new book How to Work With Almost Anyone: Five Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships, to talk about the importance of working relationships and how to create ones that are safe, vital, and repairable.

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Anxiety in the workplace is far more common than many of us are willing to admit. And by refusing to normalize it we are making it even more difficult for people to navigate mental health issues and thrive at work.

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Today’s guest has a fascinating and important perspective on what it is to live authentically, or as she describes it, “flawesomely”. Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani is the co-founder of Mindvalley, one of the world’s most powerful life transformation platform with a following of 20 million and still growing. She is an entrepreneur, writer, international speaker, artist, philanthropist, and host of the podcast, Flawesome with Kristina.

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Today’s guest, Peter Shankman, is a prime example of what happens when you harness the positive aspects of ADHD (and other types of neurodiversity) for your personal benefit. When he was formally diagnosed in his mid-30s, Peter had already founded and sold two companies and realized that the traits that previously labeled him as “troublesome” were actually his greatest assets. Following the sale of his third company, Help a Reporter Out, Peter made it a priority to truly comprehend his “faster brain” and discover its full potential.

With his Faster Than Normal podcast and bestselling book of the same name, Peter has become a leading voice on ADHD, inspiring others to embrace their untapped potential. As a futurist at BluShark Digital and Price Benowitz LLP, Peter drives innovation to better serve clients. He continues to empower individuals to surpass society’s limitations through his various platforms.

In this episode, Peter joins us to discuss neurodiversity, his new children’s book The Boy with the Faster Brain, and his personal journey with ADHD. He opens up about his childhood struggles with being neurodiverse and the connection between ADHD, procrastination, and the subsequent feelings of shame and humiliation.

Tuning in today, you’ll hear Peter’s thoughts on society’s flawed and outdated norms as well as ways to create a neurodiverse-friendly environment as a company or a manager. You’ll also hear Peter’s transformative advice to parents, teachers, and authority figures and what he wants every child to know, about themselves and about the world around them. To find out how having a brain that is different can be your ultimate gift, tune in today!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• An introduction to Peter Shankman, his career, and his ADHD diagnosis. [02:07]
• Why he decided to write his new children’s book and what he experienced in his childhood. [04:02]
• ADHD as it relates to procrastination and the resulting shame. [08:29]
• Thoughts on why society’s norms are so often based on outdated ideas, beliefs and approaches and how that hurts us. [11:24]
• The value of diverting resources towards mental health in the workplace and how that positively impacts everyone. [13:43]
• How to become a neurodiverse-friendly company or boss. [16:56].
• Challenges that Peter has identified in the workplace in terms of accommodating the neurodiverse. [21:24]
• What Peter wants every child to understand. [24:09]
• Thoughts on whether or not neurodiverse women face more challenges than neurodiverse men. [25:26]
• What Peter wants parents, teachers, and authority figures to do differently. [26:04]

For More Information:

Peter Shankman

Peter Shankman on LinkedIn

Peter Shankman on Facebook

Peter Shankman on Instagram

Peter Shankman on Twitter

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Peter Shankman’s podcast: Faster Than Normal

Peter Shankman’s book: Faster Than Normal

Peter Shankman’s children’s book: The Boy with the Faster Brain

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If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Quotes:

“I didn’t want any kid to grow up today with the same shitty existence I had growing up.” — @petershankman [0:04:04]

“I had [people telling me] ’You could do so much better if you’d just apply yourself’ I’m like, ‘What the hell do you think I’m doing every day?’” — @petershankman [0:04:57]

“I wrote the book because I want kids to understand that they’re not broken and they’re gifted and they just need to understand how to use their brain in a different way.” — @petershankman [0:06:56]

“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion can not just be skin-deep. It’s wonderful that you’ve hired a certain amount of people of color, that’s great, but it’s not where it ends.” — @petershankman [0:17:01]

“Every single study out there shows that creativity is boosted by bringing in the neurodiverse and making it a neurodiverse-centric workplace.” — @petershankman [0:17:16]

“I want [kids] to know they’re not broken, I want them to know that the trouble they’re having right now is twofold; it’s because they haven’t learned to use their brain the way that works for them and the second reason is they’re not allowed to.” — @petershankman [0:24:09]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Humans are spiritual beings but unfortunately, because we are so influenced by external factors, many of us have become disconnected from our spiritual selves. This results in people making life and career choices that do not align with their core values or purpose, which is causing a great deal of suffering. Today’s inspiring guest, Joseph Holt, is on a mission to help people make work (and life) decisions that allow them to live their lives in a way that is true to their core values, ideals and beliefs.

Joe has held an amazingly diverse range of jobs throughout the course of his life, from gym teacher to Jesuit priest to stock broker to corporate attorney, to today where he is living out his calling as a professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business teaching spirituality, ethics, gender equity, and negotiations courses.

In this episode, Joe delves into the 7 Recommended Practices for Being Your Spiritual Best Self at Work that he has developed, which include:

• Set yourself up for spiritual success
• Determine whether you need to see your current work differently or do different work
• Be alert for opportunities to be your spiritual best self
• Choose your work (and life) friends wisely
• Be as committed to your spiritual well-being as you are to your physical well-being
• Monitor your spiritual progress (or regress!) with special attention to impact
• Listen most of all to the quiet inner voice that guides you at your best.

Joe shares that “Morality is the public face of your spirituality,” so tune in today to hear how you can strengthen the link between these two vitally important facets of your life and take new, enlivening steps to find long-lasting meaning and fulfillment in your work.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing Joseph (Joe) Holt, former Jesuit priest and current professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. [02:36]
• The most common regret that people have at the end of their lives and how you can avoid being one of those people. [05:33]
• Questions to ask yourself to set yourself up for spiritual success in the workplace. [15:12]
• The value of learning to be at peace with not knowing exactly what you want to do with your life. [18:42]
• Examples of how you can change your approach to your work to make it more meaningful to you. [21:18]
• How your workplace can provide you with opportunities to be the best version of yourself. [24:45]
• Why the people you surround yourself with are an influential part of your personal spiritual journey. [28:43]
• The transformative power of incorporating spiritual practices (however this speaks to you) into your daily life. [36:25]
• An exercise to strengthen the link between your morality (the way you conduct yourself in the world) and your spirituality (your belief system). [40:29]
• How to connect with your inner voice. [48:33]

For More Information:

Joseph Holt on LinkedIn

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Bronnie Ware’s book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

William Deresiewicz’s essay, Solitude and Leadership

Resources from Joe

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some news.

Right now, we’ve opened the enrollment window of my coach training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that will help you become far more effective in working with women.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught essential business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: How to effectively support clients – who are mid- to high-level professional women – to rise, thrive and leverage their amazing talents and experience, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Hope to work with you this Spring!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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Quotes:

“A lot of us are unduly influenced by outside messages, many of which are not helpful.” — Joe Holt [0:12:40]

“When it comes to choosing work, am I choosing the work that is going to most engage and fulfill me or the work that is going most to impress others? Am I choosing the work that is going to be richest in meaning for me or the work that is going to pay the most?” — Joe Holt [0:16:31]

“The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote a collection of letters to a young poet he was mentoring — and his advice was, ‘Be patient toward everything unresolved in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves.’” — Joe Holt [0:19:21]

“Questions are your friend, questions are an ally. They’re going to lead you to the place where you need to be.” — Joe Holt [0:20:02]

“The best friends we have in life encourage us to be our best selves.” — Joe Holt [0:28:43]

“When it comes to choosing what work you do or what friendships you’re in, have you planted yourself in a garden in which you can blossom to full growth?” — Joe Holt [0:32:17]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Taking responsibility for your emotions can take a lifetime to learn. But when you embrace the full spectrum of who you are, it allows you to connect with the world in new and profoundly meaningful ways. This is one of the many key lessons that today’s Finding Brave guest, Robb Holman is intent on sharing with the world.

Robb is a highly sought-after global keynote speaker, lover of life, and the author of three transformational leadership books, namely, Lead the Way, All In, and Move the Needle. He is often described as an eternal optimist, a characteristic that is evidenced throughout his teachings, and is passionate about serving leaders through encouragement, inspiration, and authenticity.

In our conversation, Robb provides a detailed breakdown of the concept of spiritual leadership and what we can do to cultivate it within ourselves. He unpacks how tapping into the spiritual aspect of who we are helps us connect to our higher selves and illustrates the many ways it can inspire us to do great things, both as leaders and as fellow human beings. Robb then goes on to provide five practical questions that listeners can ask themselves, at any phase of life, to help them uncover their purpose and foster spiritual leadership.

We also unpack the concept of transcending yourself to transform yourself, what we can learn from athletes when it comes to tapping into your flow state, and the power of embracing your unique identity. Join us for this inspiring conversation with Robb Holman, as he shares practical tools and insights to help you connect with your higher self and discover your purpose.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing today’s guest; author, leadership developer and trainer, keynote speaker, and lover of life, Robb Holman. [01:32]
• Robb shares the story of his abnormal tumor as a 21-year-old, his miraculous recovery, and how it changed his life. [05:16]
• Discover the key lessons Robb learned from this intense experience. [10:58]
• Why Robb encourages everyone to embrace the full spectrum of their emotions and vulnerabilities. [14:46]
• Insight into why we underestimate the power of choice and human will. [19:57]
• How Robb defines spirituality and leadership and what it means to tap into your highest self. [22:10]
• The concept of transcending yourself to transform yourself, what we can learn from reaching a flow state, and the power of embracing your unique identity. [26:34]
• Practical questions to ask yourself, at any season of life, to help you discover (or rediscover) what makes you unique. [30:30]
• Identifying your legacy and how to share your gift with the world. [42:35]
• Where you can find Robb online and connect. [50:53]

For More Information:

Robb Holman

Robb Holman on LinkedIn

Robb Holman on Facebook

Robb Holman on Instagram

Robb Holman on Twitter

Lead the Way: Inside Out Leadership™ Principles For Business Owners & Leaders

All In: How Impactful Teams Build Trust from the Inside Out

Move the Needle: How Inside Out Leaders Influence Organizational Culture

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

“An outlook better than optimism?”— Harvard Medical School (Harvard Health Publishing —July 2021) –

Mike Dooley’s lessons on his website, The Universe Talks

Check out The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael E. Gerber

Listen to Episode 129 of Finding Brave, Power Gap #6: Losing Sight of Your Most Thrilling Dream

The movie, The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington

Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level FAST?

JOIN “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” 8-WEEK COACHING AND TRAINING COURSE WITH KATHY STARTING MAY 10TH!I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new session of my 8-week coaching and training course, The Most Powerful You starting May 10th! In 8 powerhouse weeks together, I’ll train all about the content of my book The Most Powerful You, helping professional women address what I’ve seen are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest, highest potential and success. This includes imposter syndrome that impacts 75% of executive women today. When we finally do the right work to close our power and confidence gaps, the joy, fulfillment, passion and impact that we experience is often beyond our wildest dreams.

The course offers:

• 8 Weekly Zoom Coaching calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules
• A Step-by-by process for boosting your Career, Confidence and Impact
• Fantastic Additional Resources from over 30 of the nation’s top experts
• A Private Online Support Group for Members
• And more

Spots are very limited so sign up now at mostpowerfulyou.com. And when you register as an early bird, you’ll save $300 and get 8 amazing bonuses.

I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 50 organizations worldwide (including at a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward fast. Hope to see you there!

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some exciting news about supporting your coaching growth, success, and impact.

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my private (1:1) coaching training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into learning powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that teach the 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career that your clients need to know. And this training will help you become far more effective and impactful in supporting women to thrive today in their jobs, roles, and careers.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert, Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught critical business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for both new and more seasoned coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Join me this Winter!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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Quotes:

“It’s like my mind was trying to play catch up with what was happening in my heart. And in that moment, I started to come alive in the depth of my being in a way I’d never come alive before.” — @robbholman [0:11:11]

“It is so easy to just bypass how we really feel. I did it for years, in the name of gratitude. You just bypass how you really feel.” — @robbholman [0:21:12]

“I really find [that] in the deepest place of who we are, that’s the spiritual place.” — @robbholman [0:23:10]

“I think people are a little bit more intuitive than they may even realize.” — @robbholman [0:23:42]

“I want to know how I can tap into this deep place more often. I want to nurture it, I want to care for it. It’s like being a good steward of certain things.” — @robbholman [0:24:27]

“When we actually become more self-reflective, and be, not just okay, but learn to embrace the quiet times of self-reflection, meditation, and prayer, [that’s when] we start to learn, slowly but surely, how to absorb both joy and grief together.” — @robbholman [0:50:04]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Our understanding and definition of what excellent leadership is can vary greatly across continents, countries, and cultures. It is also influenced by individual characteristics such as age, gender, and heritage. And as newer generations enter, and progress, within the workforce, so too do their values and preferences. One of the most notable shifts currently taking place is how we value emotional intelligence (particularly in the workplace) and the growing recognition of its role in cultivating exceptional leadership. Joining us today on the show to help us unpack this nuanced topic is Luis Moreno, an expert in emotional intelligence and human-centered leadership with a special interest in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Luis has long been an advocate for the important role of emotional intelligence when it comes to leadership. His many years at various Fortune 500 companies exposed him to a range of leadership styles and taught him how to recognize the type of leaders that bring out the best in their employees. This inspired him to establish his platform LuisMorenoTCBPN (The Twin Cities Business Peer Network), where he is training a new generation of leaders to be more effective, more inclusive, and more human-centered in their thinking, behaviors and communication.

In our conversation, we discuss the concept of emotional intelligence, how it can help you become a great leader, and how Luis is seeing this play out in organizations around the world. He goes on to explore the notion of empathy, its role in the workplace, and why understanding and respecting someone’s perspective doesn’t necessarily mean you agree with them. Luis also breaks down the responsibility organizations have when it comes to investing in leadership training and how this will help them avoid key problem areas such as a lack of engagement from employees and a high turnover rate.

Today’s conversation will leave you with a new appreciation for what it means to be a thoughtful and conscientious leader. Tune in to hear all of Luis’s thought-provoking insights and observations on how the world is re-examining empathy, emotional intelligence, and leadership and why that re-examination is critical for the success of businesses, employees and work cultures today.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing Luis Moreno, his career trajectory, and what his work at multiple Fortune 500 hundred companies has taught him about leadership. [01:30]
• Understanding the complex conversation on being ‘liked’ versus ‘respected’ as a leader and the downsides that accompany the fear of not being liked. [06:27]
• The image companies project about themselves concerning issues like diversity, equity, and inclusion, versus the reality of what they’re actually implementing, and how this affects employees. [11:48]
• An overview of emotional intelligence, how it can make you a better leader, and why it results in superior decision-making and improved outcomes in the long term. [16:18]
• The younger generation’s expectations of leaders and why they require leaders to be transparent about their values. [19:21]
• Training people to understand the impact of their views and how emotional intelligence helps us connect with people who do not share our perspective. [26:55]
• How emotional intelligence can help you gain an understanding of why an employee or teammate is underperforming. [35:31]
• Recognizing how corporate environments often don’t allow minorities and people from marginalized communities to excel. [37:48]
• Learn where you can find Luis and his training online. [39:32]
• Luis’s parting message on emotional intelligence: the value of finding appreciation for someone else’s interests and how this can be applied to the workplace. [40:41]

For More Information:

LuisMorenoTCBPN

Luis Moreno on LinkedIn

Luis Moreno TCBPN on Twitter

Luis Moreno TCBPN on Instagram

Luis Moreno TCBPN on YouTube

The Twin Cities Business Peer Network on Facebook

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Read Kathy’s Forbes interview from 2018 with CEO Margaret Keane on Leading Through Challenges In The Financial Industry

Learn more about emotional intelligence from Happiness Expert Shawn Achor.

Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level FAST?

JOIN “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” 8-WEEK COACHING AND TRAINING COURSE WITH KATHY STARTING MAY 10TH!

Hi folks! Kathy here…I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new session of my 8-week coaching and training course The Most Powerful You starting May 10th! In 8 powerhouse weeks together, I’ll train and coach participants all about the content of my book The Most Powerful You helping professional women address what I’ve seen are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest highest potential and success. These power gaps contribute to and sustain imposter syndrome that impacts 75% of executive women today.

The course offers:

• 8 Weekly Zoom Coaching calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules
• A Step-by-by process for boosting your Career, Confidence, and Impact
• Fantastic Additional Resources from over 30 of the nation’s top experts
• A Private Online Support Group for Members
• And more

Spots are very limited so sign up now at mostpowerfulyou.com. And when you register as an early bird, you’ll save $300 and get 8 amazing bonuses.

I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 50 organizations worldwide (including at a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward fast. Hope to see you there!

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some exciting news about supporting your coaching growth, success, and impact.

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my private (1:1) coaching training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into learning powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that teach the 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career that your clients need to know. And this training will help you become far more effective and impactful in supporting women to thrive today in their jobs, roles, and careers.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught critical business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for both new and more seasoned coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Join me this Winter!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Liking [you] means I see in you something that I aspire to be. I connect with your values, I feel comfortable, I feel psychologically safe around you, I feel that you look out for me.” — @LuisMorenoTCBPN [0:08:22]

“More and more people are realizing the power of emotions. How emotions are going to help you, and how they can actually work against you if you don’t understand your emotions and how to manage them.” — @LuisMorenoTCBPN [0:17:19]

“I’m not going to teach you how to make other people think that you’re more empathetic. I can teach you how to be more empathetic.” — @LuisMorenoTCBPN [0:18:29]

“One of my motivations I had [for coming] into this work was that I [had] learned many years ago that people had a limited understanding of empathy.” — @LuisMorenoTCBPN [0:27:17]

“There is a difference between understanding and agreeing. When you understand something, you don’t necessarily agree with it.” — @LuisMorenoTCBPN [0:28:40]

“We need to open our minds to the notion that the way we see things may not be the way things actually are.” — @LuisMorenoTCBPN [0:35:01]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Becoming a published author can be a mysterious, daunting, and unclear path. It can also be a great entry point into a successful career in entrepreneurship, and here today to talk about how she helps authors on this journey is Sharon Woodhouse, the owner of Conspire Creative.

Sharon has worked in publishing for decades, and her work as a coach and consultant for authors sees her helping them build small businesses, find their true value offer, and set up sustainable futures doing what they love.

This conversation is packed with many exciting and eye-opening insights into a greatly under-discussed topic. Our guest shares some important reality checks for aspiring writers, the state of the publishing landscape right now, and busts some myths about the industry along the way.

We also explore the idea of meaning-making in the current economic and intellectual climate, along with monetizing intellectual property, and some amazing tips for authors to keep building and improving. Tune in now for a potentially life-changing conversation on your “finding brave” path to growth as an author and entrepreneur.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• A look at Sharon’s inspiring resume, career journey, and values. [01:36]
• Exploring the most significant challenge that authors face. [03:26]
• The life of a book and the evolution of an author’s relationship to their work. [05:52]
• Common myths about authorship. [09:43]
• Confronting the difficulties around outreach and building a following. [18:08]
• Dealing with external negativity and a lack of understanding. [23:38]
• Unpacking the concept of “defensive entrepreneurship” and monetizing intellectual property. [27:55]
• Systematization and building on your vision for a business. [35:24]
• Final words of encouragement from Sharon about the possibility of success. [37:16]
• Where to find and connect with Sharon and her business online. [37:47]

For More Information:

Conspire Creative

Sharon Woodhouse on LinkedIn

Sharon Woodhouse on Twitter

Conspire Creative on Facebook

A Profitable Author Life You Love Webinar

A Profitable Author Life You Love Facebook Group

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sharon’s Coaching Company, Conspire Creative, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook

Website for A Profitable Author Life You Love Webinar and its Facebook Group

Previous FInding Brave Podcast Guest, Octavia Goredema

The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael E. Gerber

Are You Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level FAST? JOIN “THE MOST POWERFUL YOU” 8-WEEK COACHING AND TRAINING COURSE WITH KATHY STARTING MAY 10TH!

Hi folks! Kathy here…I’m thrilled to share that I’m offering a new session of my 8-week coaching and training course The Most Powerful You starting May 10th! In 8 powerhouse weeks together, I’ll train all about the content of my book The Most Powerful You helping professional women address what I’ve seen are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that block women from achieving their most exciting goals, and happiest highest potential and success. This includes imposter syndrome that impacts 75% of executive women today.

The course offers:

• 8 Weekly Zoom Coaching calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules
• A Step-by-by process for boosting your Career, Confidence and Impact
• Fantastic Additional Resources from over 30 of the nation’s top experts
• A Private Online Support Group for Members
• And more…

Spots are very limited so sign up now at mostpowerfulyou.com. And when you register as an early bird, you’ll save $300 and get 8 amazing bonuses.

I’ve delivered aspects of this training to over 50 organizations worldwide (including for a division of the United Nations) and participants have called it transformative and life-changing. I’m confident this course will move you forward fast. Hope to see you there!

(And if you’re interested in exploring working with Kathy in a private, 1:1 career & leadership growth coaching program, CLICK HERE to learn more.)

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some exciting news about supporting your coaching growth, success, and impact.

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my private (1:1) coaching training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into learning powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that teach the 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career that your clients need to know. And this training will help you become far more effective and impactful in supporting women to thrive today in their jobs, roles, and careers.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught critical business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for both new and more seasoned coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Join me this Winter!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Writing a book and what motivates you to write a book are just so different from the bulk of what comes afterwards” — @SharonWoodhouse [0:04:01]

“You have this thing to say that you’re sharing with the world. What does it need? Where does it need to go?” — @SharonWoodhouse [0:07:12]

“Sometimes what you want from your book changes as you go, because you’ve put yourself into it, you’re expanding your horizons, you’re committing, and all of sudden new opportunities come along that you didn’t even think were possible.” — @SharonWoodhouse [0:08:20]

“Most authors want to make money from their books, but they are reluctant to admit it.” — @SharonWoodhouse [0:14:02]

“Everyone wants to make a living off what they are good at, and what they love, there is no shame in that.” — @SharonWoodhouse [0:14:11]

“Some people think you are self-employed because you can’t get a job!” — @SharonWoodhouse [0:26:31]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Our potential is often largely measured by our IQ, EQ, and qualifications, but our guest today argues the case for a different aspect of who we are and what we offer – experiential intelligence. Dr. Soren Kaplan is an award-winning author, having recently authored Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs. He is also an international keynote speaker and has led professional development programs for thousands of executives around the world, including Disney, NBCUniversal, PayPal, and many others.

Soren is the founder of three Silicon Valley startups, a columnist for Inc. magazine, an affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, and a former corporate executive. So, it’s safe to say he knows a thing or two about what truly drives effectiveness and success, as well as what to look for in a new recruit.

Soren believes that there is simply no way of separating the person from the profession, which is why it’s essential for us to harness the power of our personal experience in order to succeed. In this episode, he breaks down how a focus on experiential intelligence can transform the business world and provide wonderful and new opportunities to those deserving of them.

Tuning in, you’ll discover what experiential intelligence is, essentially, and its link to personality formation, as well as its practical applications. Soren shares his powerful training framework and intentions and provides steps to start decoding our mindsets and exploring our experiential intelligence. If you’re interested in finding out how best to harness the power of your personal experience (and why it’s so valuable to do so), this episode is for you!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing Dr. Soren Kaplan. [02:43]
• Experiential intelligence explained. [03:45]
• The link between personality formation and emotional intelligence. [07:00]
• How receptive leaders of different genders tend to be towards the notion of experiential intelligence. [10:41]
• Dr. Kaplan’s experiential intelligence training framework and intention. [12:25]
• The value of experiential intelligence and how to decode our mindsets. [17:54]
• Dr. Kaplan’s varied spiritual background and how it manifests in his work. [24:59]
• What holds people back from exploring their experiential intelligence. [28:43]
• Practical applications for experiential intelligence and the decreasing demand for vanity metrics. [30:02]
• How to access and harness the power of your personal experience. [35:33]

For More Information:

Soren Kaplan

Soren Kaplan on LinkedIn

Soren Kaplan on Twitter

Innovation Point

Experiential Intelligence

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Soren Kaplan’s book, Experiential Intelligence

Soren Kaplan Forbes Interview

Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level? Become The Most Powerful You!

In reading a great deal about leadership today, and interviewing top leadership experts, I’m recognizing a disappointing trend – that the general concept and understanding of leadership has often become so vague and watered down that most of it isn’t helpful at all, and it’s not suited to a majority of women who want to lead differently.

The Most Powerful You training goes deeper. It helps you recognize and understand more about yourself as a person and the leader you want to be, then take empowering, transformative actions to operate in your role in a way that takes your leadership and your career higher, making the impact you dream to. If you truly want to help your team, staff, and organization become “The Most Powerful We,” this is the right training for you.

Take this course individually or bring it to your workforce and teams today and experience what’s possible for you.

Click here for more information.

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some exciting news about supporting your coaching growth, success, and impact.

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my private (1:1) coaching training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into learning powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that teach the 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career that your clients need to know. And this training will help you become far more effective and impactful in supporting women to thrive today in their jobs, roles, and careers.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught critical business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for both new and more seasoned coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Join me this Winter!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s video training course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Experiential intelligence is the smarts, essentially, that we get from our life experience.” — @sorenkaplan [0:03:51]

“Experiential intelligence is overcoming some of the challenges that might have stuck with you but also recognizing that we all have strengths from the experiences that we have.” — @sorenkaplan [0:04:32]

“The same things that traumatized me actually gave me strengths. They also gave me things I had to overcome.” — @sorenkaplan [0:08:12]

“Whether we’re walking in the home office door or the office door, we are bringing our whole selves to work. [Thinking] that you can leave part of yourself somewhere else tells you a lot about what might be missing from that individual or that team itself.” — @sorenkaplan [0:17:27]

“It’s not that you have to wear your heart on your sleeve, it’s that you’re in touch with what’s in your heart and you let it out when you want to let it out and you don’t when you don’t. It’s about self-awareness.” — @sorenkaplan [0:20:58]

“Experiential intelligence, in combination with your intellect and your emotional intelligence, is really ripe to transform recruiting and talent into organizations.” — @sorenkaplan [0:30:10]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Being a sensitive person can often feel overwhelming, especially in today’s fast-paced, hyper-connected world. And these challenges are frequently compounded by the many misconceptions that people have about sensitivity as a trait. As a sensitive person himself, our guest today, Andre Sólo, is deeply familiar with these challenges and has spent the better part of his career dedicated to shedding light on what it truly means to be a highly sensitive person (HSP) and what we all need to understand better about sensitivity.

Through his work and new book, Andre is making profound contributions to those of us who identify as sensitive (even if we don’t know it yet). He is the co-founder of the website, Highly Sensitive Refuge, the world’s largest online community for sensitive people, and recently co-authored the extremely helpful book The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World. Andre is also a researcher and speaker and serves as Chief Make-It-Happen Officer of Introvert, Dear, a supportive community and resource for introverted and sensitive individuals alike.

Tuning in today, you’ll learn all about what it means to be a sensitive individual, including why HSPs tend to be creative, empathetic, and highly conscientious, and why it’s so easy for them to become overstimulated. Andre goes on to unpack some of the problematic messaging that society regularly gives to sensitive boys and girls, and how this can result in people suppressing and hiding their sensitivity, rather than embracing it as one of their greatest strengths. Our conversation also explores how sensitive children are impacted by their upbringing and environment, and why the best thing you can do as the parent of a sensitive child is to accept and encourage them just as they are.

Today’s episode is filled with fascinating insights into what it means to move through the world as a sensitive person and provides a helpful guide for what we can do to better understand and support sensitive individuals, allowing them to embrace and leverage their unique superpowers. As a highly sensitive person myself, I’m grateful to Andre for his groundbreaking work in this field.

To learn more about this deeply human trait, and how it can shape a person’s entire identity, be sure to tune in for our conversation with Andre Sólo!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Understanding the traits of a highly sensitive person (HSP), and the misconceptions that many people have about sensitive people. [02:45]
• What neuroscience teaches us about how sensitive people take in information in a much deeper way. [04:36]
• The correlations between being introverted and highly sensitive, the difference between these two traits, and what each of them measures. [08:54]
• Why being sensitive can help you be an excellent leader. [11:11]
• Some of the drawbacks of being a sensitive person, why sensitive people often experience strong emotions, and how they can further increase their emotional intelligence. [14:23]
• The three distinct ways that sensitivity can come across in individuals. [17:54]
• Learn about the ‘boost’ effect in sensitive people, why sensitive people are more affected by their environment, and how they can benefit from therapy, meditation and spiritual practices. [21:58]
• The stigma and discrimination that many sensitive people experience, the messaging that girls and boys receive about their sensitive traits, and how to parent a sensitive child. [28:20]
• Helpful tips on how to communicate with teachers about your sensitive child. [34:01]
• The revelatory distinction between empathy and compassion, the concept of emotional contagion, and how sensitive people often absorb the emotions of other people. [39:27]

For More Information:

Andre Sólo on LinkedIn

Andre Sólo on Twitter

Andre Sólo on Instagram

Andre Sólo on Facebook

Sensitive Refuge

Introvert, Dear

The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level? Become The Most Powerful You!

In reading a great deal about leadership today, and interviewing top leadership experts, I’m recognizing a disappointing trend – that the general concept and understanding of leadership has become so vague and watered down that most of it isn’t helpful at all, and it’s not suited to a majority of women who want to lead differently.

The Most Powerful You training goes deeper. It helps you recognize and understand more about yourself as a person and the leader you want to be, then take empowering, transformative actions to operate in your role in a way that takes your leadership and your career higher, making the impact you dream to. If you truly want to help your team, staff, and organization become “The Most Powerful We,” this is the right training for you.

Take this course individually or bring it to your workforce and teams today!

Click below for more information on:
8-week Most Powerful You course for women
Video training program for organizations, DEI&B programs and leadership development training

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting women? If so, I’ve got some news.

Right now, we’ve opened the enrollment window of my coach training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that will help you become far more effective in working with women.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught essential business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

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Quotes:

“Sensitive people are actually wired at a brain level to process all information more deeply. And that allows us to notice things that others miss, and to make connections and find new ideas that others might not make.” — @justandresolo [0:03:28]

“We’ve spoken to highly sensitive service members who credited their sensitivity as being one of their most important traits as a military service member. So it’s a very kind of flexible and valuable trait.” — @justandresolo [0:06:58]

“Sensitivity comes with many strengths, both physical and emotional, and in terms of creativity and intelligence. At the same time, your brain is putting all this extra work in. So there’s a cost to those gifts. And that cost is overstimulation.” — @justandresolo [0:07:22]

“Just as highly sensitive people get more out of therapy, I think they probably also get more out of spiritual practice. And I can say for myself, personally, that meditating is life-changing and transformative.” — @justandresolo [0:26:46]

“If you have a sensitive child, the biggest thing you can do is to accept and encourage them.” — @justandresolo [0:34:12]

“If you’re picking up the stress, the sadness, the anger, of all the people around you, especially if you’re feeling it very vividly yourself, that is exhausting, uncomfortable, distracting. And it sometimes feels impossible to turn off.” — @justandresolo [0:42:47]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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The concept of happiness as been explored in countless ways over the past years, yet it seems that modern society has been misguided when it comes to understanding the true drivers of happiness and well-being. For the past 20 years, Dr. Marc Schulz has been involved in a groundbreaking 80-year study of happiness – in fact, the world’s longest scientific study of happiness – and he joins us today to share his findings. The renewed focus he’s brought to the study is one that investigates relationships and their powerful effect on our overall well-being.

Marc is a practicing therapist with postdoctoral training in health and clinical psychology at Harvard Medical School and is the associate director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. He also acts as the Sue Kardas Ph.D. 1971 Chair in Psychology, directs the Data Science Program, and previously chaired the psychology department and Clinical Developmental Psychology Ph.D. program at Bryn Mawr College. His credentials extend to his authorship of the recently published book, The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness.

In this episode, Marc presents an overview of the study in question and breaks down modern society’s misconceptions about the drivers of happiness. We discover the initial intention of the study and the link it unearthed between loneliness and physical health problems. Marc explains the kinds of relationships essential for our well-being and provides an example demonstrating the remarkable impact of connection.

“The good life” encompasses more than just happiness, and today, we are encouraged to lean in and experience the full spectrum of life, for the sake of our overall well-being. Science is becoming increasingly able to explain the correlation between our emotional experiences and our physical health, so tune in to discover how best to optimize your experience and subsequently, your health.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing Marc Schulz, Ph.D., and today’s topic: how to attain the “good life”. [01:12]
• An overview of the 80-year study of happiness and Dr. Marc Schulz’s involvement in it. [02:54]
• The initial intention of the study. [07:55]
• Modern society’s greatest misconceptions about happiness and well-being. [09:18]
• The link between loneliness and physical health problems. [11:55]
• The full spectrum that the “good life” encompasses. [19:05]
• The impact of loneliness at work and the value of shared experience. [24:07]
• The role of science in explaining how our emotional experience impacts our physical health. [30:56]
• An example of a finding demonstrating the remarkable impact of connection. [33:41]

For More Information:

Marc Schulz

Marc Schulz on LinkedIn
The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Dr. Robert Waldinger’s TED Talk: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level? Become The Most Powerful You!

In reading a great deal about leadership today, and interviewing top leadership experts, I’m recognizing a disappointing trend – that the general concept and understanding of leadership has become so vague and watered down that most of it isn’t helpful at all, and it’s not suited to a majority of women who want to lead differently.

The Most Powerful You training goes deeper. It helps you recognize and understand more about yourself as a person and the leader you want to be, then take empowering, transformative actions to operate in your role in a way that takes your leadership and your career higher, making the impact you dream to. If you truly want to help your team, staff, and organization become “The Most Powerful We,” this is the right training for you.

Take this course individually or bring it to your workforce and teams today!

Click here for more information.

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some exciting news about supporting your coaching growth, success, and impact.

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my private (1:1) coaching training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into learning powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that teach the 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career that your clients need to know. And this training will help you become far more effective and impactful in supporting women to thrive today in their jobs, roles, and careers.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught critical business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for both new and more seasoned coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Join me this Winter!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“One of the perspectives [Bob Waldinger and I] brought when we joined the study was a renewed focus on the context of the individual lives including the relationships that we are immersed in.” — Marc Schulz, Ph.D. [0:07:00]

“It’s relationships that keep us healthy and happy through [our] lifespan. It’s not the things that we’re often led to believe. It’s not about money, success, [or] achievement.” — Marc Schulz, Ph.D. [0:09:33]

“The real driver of happiness and success in life is the quality of your relationships; your connections to others.” — Marc Schulz, Ph.D. [0:09:52]

“A sense of feeling lonely is corrosive to one’s health and well-being.” — Marc Schulz, Ph.D. [0:10:53]

“The good life isn’t only about happiness. It’s about leaning in and experiencing the joys and the sorrows of life.” — Marc Schulz, Ph.D. [0:21:17]

“You can’t really live unless you take some chances in life.” — Marc Schulz, Ph.D. [0:23:03]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Bringing nuance and depth to conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion is a challenging but essential step in making true progress towards building work cultures that work for all. Ludo Gabriele has dedicated his work and energy to this task and he is on Finding Brave today to explore some of the lesser-examined but essential aspects of the impact of patriarchal systems and the ways in which masculine norms have shaped leadership norms, and why that is damaging.

Ludo is currently the Senior Director of MARC Branding (Men Advocating Real Change) at Catalyst, which is a nonprofit organization focused on accelerating progress for women through workplace inclusion. He is also the founder of Woke Daddy, which he created as a means to share thoughts on fatherhood and masculinity.

This conversation with Ludo is jam-packed with powerful ideas and helpful ways to understand and implement them. Ludo unpacks why meaningful progress cannot be achieved without involving the majority group (and in corporations today, that typically means men), as well as how we can begin to create more inclusive cultures that transcend issues such as sexism and discrimination. One of the most powerful points Ludo makes is about the specific barriers that are in place today that prevent men from engaging in the necessary changes so many people (both women and men) wish to see.

Our guest highlights some of the most important questions that we need to ask and underlines the need for doing deep work to pave the way for real progress. He also explains exactly why better workplaces for women are better workplaces for everyone.

Tune in today for a huge dose of insight and inspiration from an individual deeply familiar with the brave work required to engage in truly successful leadership approaches and build a better and more equitable future for all.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Ludo spells out what masculine norms are and their impact on organizations. [04:46]
• The challenges for men to overcome or revise the negative impact of patriarchal systems. [15:15]
• Exploring the learning programs and conversations that Ludo hosts. [24:13]
• How sport functions as a means for men to connect in ways that are difficult otherwise. [31:28]
• The power of empathy; Ludo talks about intentionally developing our capacity. [35:05]
• Some of the first steps towards change, and the need for introspection. [39:55]
• Overcoming the fear of being wrong and or being challenged in the current cultural climate. [43:52]
• The role of courage in advocacy and allyship. [48:39]

For More Information:

Catalyst

MARC (Men Advocating Real Change)

Woke Daddy

Ludo Gabriel on Twitter

Luda Gabriel on LinkedIn

Woke Daddy on Facebook

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Kathy’s writing and video on “What is Feminism and Why Do So Many Men and Women Still Hate it” Kathy Forbes articleKathy’s Video

Gloria Steinem

Anthony Bourdain

The Handmaid’s Tale

Ready to Take Your Professional Life and Leadership to the Next Level? Become The Most Powerful You!

In reading a great deal about leadership today, and interviewing top leadership experts, I’m recognizing a disappointing trend – that the general concept and understanding of leadership has become so vague and watered down that most of it isn’t helpful at all, and it’s not suited to a majority of women who want to lead differently.

The Most Powerful You training goes deeper. It helps you recognize and understand more about yourself as a person and the leader you want to be, then take empowering, transformative actions to operate in your role in a way that takes your leadership and your career higher, making the impact you dream to. If you truly want to help your team, staff and organization become “The Most Powerful We,” this is the right training for you.

Take this course individually or bring it to your workforce and teams today!

Click here for more information.

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some exciting news about supporting your coaching growth, success, and impact.

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my private (1:1) coaching training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into learning powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that teach the 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career that your clients need to know. And this training will help you become far more effective and impactful in supporting women to thrive today in their jobs, roles, and careers.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught critical business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for both new and more seasoned coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Join me this Winter!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Masculine norms shape the way that a lot of organizations are still run, a lot of countries are still run, and a lot of institutions are still run. This is the result of socialization.” — @LudoGabriele [0:06:39]

“We are coming from a place where we are blindly reciting a script of masculinity, and for the first time we are questioning it.” — @LudoGabriele [0:10:13]

“The way the workplace is set up doesn’t necessarily work for men either.” — @LudoGabriele [0:13:42]

“We believe it’s men, women, and people of all gender identities working together in partnership to create qualitative culture change. We cannot achieve progress with only one group of people.” — @LudoGabriele [0:27:35]

“We tend to compare people’s experiences instead of honoring each of them individually.” — @LudoGabriele [0:30:23]

“Polarized conversation helps the status quo.” — @LudoGabriele [0:43:29]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Legacy leadership isn’t just a leadership style or a list of things to do, or showing up pretending you have all the answers. In today’s show, Gina Gomez shares her belief that truly impactful leaders don’t follow trends or pursue fame and fortune; instead, they build trust in the workplace, adhere to ethical practices, and live their legacy in the here and now.

Gina is a business advisor and strategist who has worked with leaders of multimillion-dollar companies and unions, including CBS/Viacom, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and the United Food & Commercial workers. She is also the founder of Gina Gomez and Associates, a female-led and minority-run company that hires and trains leaders and teams to perform at their best in ever-changing business environments.

For more than 20 years, Gina has helped industry leaders develop the skills they need to lead. With a proven track record ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the entertainment industry and the online business world, she teaches her clients how to create a profitable and sustainable business where everyone feels welcome, respected, and included.

In this episode, Gina defines what legacy leadership means to her and we discuss what it really takes to run a sustainable, impactful business. As you’ll learn, Gina believes that great leadership starts with integrity and identifying and adhering to your core values. Join us today to find out what actually makes a good leader versus what we often are told makes a good leader, why ethical leadership benefits everyone (including your bottom line), how to experience your true purpose, and so much more.

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Dispelling misconceptions about what great leadership looks like. [04:35]
• Why you’re going in the wrong direction if you’re looking for your career to fulfill you. [08:05]
• Why ‘integrity’ is the simplest possible definition of leadership for Gina. [09:35]
• How you only get part of the story if you just look at the numbers. [14:35]
• What the term ‘legacy leadership’ means to Gina and how we can create it. [15:23]
• Major mistakes that Gina sees business leaders frequently making. [20:30]
• What so many of us are taught good leadership is versus what actually makes a good leader! [23:02]
• The value of change management, strong communication, and relationship building. [27:10]
• Insight into Gina’s “accidental” career trajectory and the important role of curiosity. [32:38]

For More Information:

Gina Gomez and Associates

Gina Gomez on LinkedIn

Gina Gomez on Twitter

Gina Gomez on Instagram

Gina Gomez on Facebook

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Legacy Mastermind

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JOIN ME STARTING FEBRUARY 1ST FOR MY LIVE, 8-WEEK CAREER AND LEADERSHPI TRAINING PROGRAM THE MOST POWERFUL YOU!

I’m thrilled to be offering a new 8–week LIVE career and leadership coaching and training course all about how to become The Most Powerful and Confident You in your work, leadership and professional life. The ultimate outcome of this training to to help you overcome exactly what’s in the way now of reaching your highest potential and most thrilling success, goals and impact, in work you love and are proud of.

Based on my work with thousands of professional women worldwide in the past 10 years and drawing on the content from my latest book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Carer Bliss, the course walk members through exactly how to recognize and close the 7 most damaging Power And Confidence Gaps that keep millions of professionals from thriving and succeeding in meaningful work of significance that deeply matters to them. Participants will learn the critical steps to:

• Recognize and more fully leverage their great talents, accomplishments and achievements
• Speak up with confidence, not fear
• Ask for what they want and deserve, and get it
• Build a powerful and helpful support community that will open doors for them and help them thrive and advance
• Effectively challenge mistreatment and unfair behavior
• Reconnect to the thrilling dream they once had for their life and work – and get back on track to achieve that dream
• Heal and overcome challenges and pain from the past that are holding them back today

I’ve been delivering workshops and trainings on The Most Powerful You for over two years now to over 50 organizations and conferences (including an international division of the United Nations and other top global companies), and folks are saying it’s been truly transformative and life-changing for them. (See endorsements on The Most Powerful You page and my LinkedIn profile.)

To scale this training and offer it in a more expansive way, I’m thrilled to offer this live, 8-week coaching and training course starting February 1st that includes:

• 8 WEEKLY LIVE Zoom Group Coaching Calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules (total of 16 videos – 4 hours in total)
• A Step-by-Step Career and Confidence-Growth Training Curriculum
• More than 50 Additional Curated Resources for expanded learning.
• Private Online Facebook Support Group.
• AND you’ll receive lifetime access to all the training materials and a 20% discount on my private coaching and other programs.

Sign up now at https://mostpowerfulyou.com as an early bird and get 8 great bonuses and save $300 off the full price!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, ‘Time To Brave Up’ & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“A lot of [leaders] are looking for significance. We think that, when we have significance, it’s going to solve all of our problems. It’s not.” — @GinaGomezAssoc [0:07:30]

“For me, [leadership] is a single word, and it’s integrity.” — @GinaGomezAssoc [0:09:50]

“If you only look at the numbers, you’re only getting part of the story. You have to look at everything. How does your team perform? What are [your measurable outcomes]? And how does that translate into your goals and return on investment?” — @GinaGomezAssoc [0:15:06]

“Legacy is what we leave behind. It’s the imprint that we leave when we’re long gone. It’s the people that we affect through the work that we do that we never, ever know about.” — @GinaGomezAssoc [0:15:33]

“It’s one of the most significant pieces of leadership that gets taught the least, and most people do not know how to do it. When you’re in a situation like this—a pandemic or anything else—if you don’t know change management, you’re in serious trouble.” — @GinaGomezAssoc [0:27:34]

“As leaders, we are constantly looking to reinvent ourselves.” — @GinaGomezAssoc [0:36:36]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at youtube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Today’s guest believes that it’s very important to understand your worth and embrace your full potential, even when/if others don’t see it. Motivated by a desire to open doors of opportunity for others, Octavia Goredema became a career coach and went on to author the PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women.

Originally from England, Octavia now lives in Los Angeles, and in recognition of her work, she has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen, one of the UK’s highest civic honors.

In this episode, Octavia shares her fascinating story and explores essential career strategies for underrepresented women and others. You’ll hear what inspired her to write her book, why its message is so important to her personally, and what it means to truly know your worth even when it’s not reflected back to you.

Tuning in, you’ll hear more about why it’s so important to track your accomplishments, learn how snarky comments can actually propel you forward, why you should have a ‘bragalogue’ prepared for the right opportunities, and how the way in which you show up in the world and make people feel is a key part of your mission and value. To find out what you need to understand more deeply about the plight of underrepresented women and how to support women and all individuals in your sphere to thrive, tune in today!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing today’s guest, career coach, and author Octavia Goredema. [01:21]
• How Octavia came to be appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen [04:01]
• What inspired Octavia to write this book and why its message is so important to her and others. [07:40]
• How to determine your worth when it’s not reflected back at you. [11:49]
• Why it’s so important to track your accomplishments [15:20]
• Why you should have a ‘bragalogue’ prepared and why women are often resistant to this. [19:26]
• The importance of knowing what your non-negotiables are. [24:22]
• What listeners need to understand about the plight of underrepresented women. [26:11]
• Why it’s so important for companies to invest in diverse talent. [28:06]
• The importance of your circle and mentors, sponsors, or advocates. [32:13]

For More Information:

Octavia Goredema

Octavia Goredema on Twitter

Octavia Goredema on LinkedIn

Octavia Goredema on Instagram

Octavia Goredema on Pinterest

Octavia Goredema on TikTok

PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Octavia’s book: PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women

Octavia’s book on Audible: PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women

Kathy and Octavia in Elite Daily: Asking for a Raise Isn’t as Scary as It Seems, Thanks to These Expert Tips

Kathy and Octavia in CNN: Quiet quitting is the latest workplace trend, but it doesn’t mean what you think

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It, by Peggy Klaus

You can read the first chapter of Octavia’s book by joining my email community at octaviagoredema.com

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Join Kathy Caprino for her FREE Webinar January 13, 2023 at Noon EST – Close Your Confidence Gaps Now AND Build Your Best and Happiest Career

I’m so excited to share that I will be offering a FREE 90-minute webinar on January 13th at Noon EST all about how to Close Your Confidence Gaps Now and Build Your Best and Happiest Career, drawing on my latest book The Most Powerful You. I’ll be sharing key information, strategies and powerful action steps based on years of research and working with thousands of professionals, that have helped them transform their careers and work lives for greater success, impact and reward.

This is info you won’t hear elsewhere as it’s based on everything I’ve personally learned over 40 years of working, including serving as director and VP in my corporate life, to working as a marriage and family therapist, then 17 years of coaching and training over 20,000 professionals across 6 continents.

Here’s what I’ll cover:

• The two critical traits are missing today in the lives and careers of so many professionals that hold them back from success and happiness
• The 7 most damaging power gaps that negatively impact 98% of professional women and 90% of men
• The “antidotes” to these 7 power gaps – which I call the 7 Brave Pathways to Career Bliss
• We’ll also talk about how to leverage your natural talents in a deeper, easier way, and start understanding that you CAN pursue your true career passions while also having strong financial reward
• How to speak truth to power and gain the confidence, courage, self-trust and self-esteem you need to push past your inertia and fears to build a better, happier career with great meaning and reward, without the toxicity, stress and conflict you’re experiencing now.

Bring your career questions to the webinar. I’m happy to answer them! Sign up today at kathycaprino.com/buildyourconfidence2023

Let’s make this a different kind of year where you finally shift and heal beyond where you are today, to something much happier. See you there!

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ANNOUNCING THE MOST POWERFUL YOU LIVE 8-WEEK COACHING/TRAINING COURSE (starts February 1st!)

I’m thrilled to be offering a new 8–week LIVE training course with me all about The Most Powerful You content from my book, and how you can address and close the 7 most damaging Power And Confidence Gaps that keep us from thriving in our work. The course starts Wednesday, February 1st!

I’ve been delivering workshops and trainings on The Most Powerful You for over two years now in all sorts of ways for over 50 organizations (including an international division of the United Nations and other top global companies), and folks are saying it’s been truly transformative and life-changing for them.

To make sure everyone can have access to this very same training, I’m thrilled to offer you a live course that includes:

• 8 WEEKLY LIVE, 75-minute Zoom Group Coaching/Training Calls with Kathy
• 8 Video Training Modules (total of 16 videos – 4 hours in total)
• Step-by-Step Career and Confidence-Growth Training Curriculum
• Additional Curated Resources for expanded learning
• Private Online Facebook Support Group
• AND you’ll receive lifetime access to all the training materials and a 20% discount on my private coaching and other programs.

Enroll now as an Early Bird and save $300 off the full price and get 8 great bonuses!
CLICK HERE to learn more and register today! The course begins Feb 1st and spots go quickly!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

And if you’ve been enjoying the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon!

For more resources, check out…

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“What ultimately led me to become a coach was really about opening doors of opportunity for others.” — @OctaviaGoredema [0:05:48]

“Not everyone will see your worth but it’s really important for you to hang onto your worth and to understand your worth and to really embrace your potential.” — @OctaviaGoredema [0:09:19]

“You can’t control what the outcome might be when you use your voice but what you have to control is what you are reaching for, what you are pushing for, and what you know you want.” — @OctaviaGoredema [0:14:51]

“It’s only when you stop and reflect on the bigger picture that you can start to connect the dots and see the impact you’re making and also how you are growing.” — @OctaviaGoredema [0:15:47]

“It’s incredibly important to invest continually in the career advancement of the diverse talent that you’ve worked so hard to hire in the first place so you don’t lose that talent.” — @OctaviaGoredema [0:30:00]

“Be really intentional about telling people what you want to do next, what you’re looking for, and the type of support you’re looking for. It might not be the person you’re talking to who can help but they might know someone who can.” — @OctaviaGoredema [0:34:11]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Are you playing not to lose or are you playing to actually win and create what you deeply long to in life and in your work? As our guest today, Adrian Koehler explains in this episode, we are all capable of being powerful, confident, secure, and fearless leaders. But in order to do so, we have to be willing to embrace the fear and risk that comes with the unknown.

Adrian Koehler is a top leadership engagement expert and Founder and Senior Partner at the coaching firm Take New Ground. His approach is based on the idea that rather than aiming to reach a particular emotional state (“I want to be less scared,” for example), if we want to reach our fullest potential as leaders, we need to aim to be courageous instead (“I’m going to take the leap despite my fear”).

Drawing on his background in philanthropy, ministry, activism, and medicine, Adrian thrives in extreme environments and finds comfort in difficult conversations —in fact, his passion for human performance has taken him around the globe, serving people in times of crisis, transformation, and stalemates. Over the last decade, Adrian has trained and developed leaders at NIKE, Virgin Hyperloop One, Jeni’s Ice Cream, Herschel Supply Co., Oprah Winfrey Network, Gavin DeBecker & Associates, Siegel & Gale, UCLA and elsewhere. Adrian is also the co-host of two engaging podcasts: Raising The Bar with Drybar Founder Alli Webb and The Naked Leadership Podcast with Take New Ground Sr. Partner Dan Tocchini.

Being human means having insecurities, but what we do with those insecurities and how mentally approach them is up to us. If you are ready to stop denying what is possible for you and start taking greater responsibility for your actions so your visions can become reality, tune in today for a conversation that will inspire you to be real, powerful (and if this word makes you feel uncomfortable, you need to hear Adrian’s definition of it), and of course, brave!

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing today’s guest, leadership engagement expert, Adrian Koehler. [02:24]
• Four of our core human desires and what they signify. [04:41]
• The unpredictable nature of our emotions and why we shouldn’t aim towards a particular emotional state. [05:40]
• What it truly looks like to be courageous. [06:20]
• Adrian explains specifically what it takes to be a true leader. [10:04]
• A mantra that helped Adrian get through one of the darkest times of his life. [10:29]
• The link between power and vitality, and why truly powerful people desire for other people to be powerful too. [14:10]
• Adrian’s thoughts on why people are afraid of embracing the full extent of their power. [16:42]
• Exploring the concept of “hugging the cactus.” [20:04]
• The importance (and results) of taking personal responsibility for your circumstances and your actions. [25:54]

For More Information:

Take New Ground

Adrian Koehler Website

Adrian Koehler on LinkedIn

Adrian Koehler on Instagram

Adrian Koehler on YouTube

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Tune into Raising the Bar Podcast and The Naked Leadership Podcast to hear more from Adrian.

Learn more about The Revenant Process and enroll for the next course!

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Join me for my FREE Webinar January 13, 2023 at Noon EST – Close Your Confidence Gaps Now AND Build Your Best and Happiest Career

So excited to share that I will be offering a FREE 90-minute webinar on January 13th at Noon EST all about how to Close Your Confidence Gaps Now and Build Your Best and Happiest Career. I’ll be teaching powerful information, strategies and action steps based on years of research and coaching with thousands of professionals, and strategies from my latest book The Most Powerful You and drawing on recommendations from over 30 of the nation’s top experts whom I’ve interviewed – al about success, leadership growth, confidence, impact, personal development, communication, and more .

This is info you won’t hear elsewhere because it’s based on everything I’ve personally learned over 40 years of working, including serving as director and VP in my corporate life, to working as a marriage and family therapist, then 17 years of coaching and training over 20,000 professionals across 6 continents.

Here’s what I’ll cover in the FREE program:

• The two critical traits are missing today in the lives and careers of so many professionals that hold them back from success and happiness
• The 7 most damaging power gaps that negatively impact 98% of professional women and 90% of men
• The “antidotes” to these 7 power gaps – which I call the 7 Brave Pathways to Career Bliss
• We’ll also talk about how to leverage your natural talents in a deeper, easier way, and start understanding that you CAN pursue your true career passions while also having strong financial reward
• How to speak truth to power and gain the confidence, courage, self-trust and self-esteem you need to push past your inertia and fears to build a better, happier career with great meaning and reward, without the toxicity, stress and conflict you’re experiencing now.

Bring your career questions to the call. I’m happy to answer them. Sign up today at kathycaprino.com/buildyourconfidence2023

Let’s make this a different kind of year where you finally shift and heal beyond where you are today, to something much happier. See you there!

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ANNOUNCING THE MOST POWERFUL YOU LIVE COURSE (that starts February 1st)

I’m very excited to be offering a new 8–week LIVE training course with me all about The Most Powerful You content from my book, and how you can address and close the 7 most damaging Power And Confidence Gaps that keep us from thriving in our work. The course starts Wednesday, February 1st!

I’ve been delivering workshops and trainings on The Most Powerful You for over two years now in all sorts of ways for over 50 organizations (including an international division of the United Nations and other top global companies), and folks are saying it’s been truly transformative and life-changing for them.

To make sure everyone can have access to this very same training, I’m thrilled to offer you a live course that includes:

• 8 WEEKLY LIVE Zoom Group Coaching Calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules (total of 16 videos – 4 hours in total)
• Step-by-Step Career and Confidence-Growth Training Curriculum
• Additional Curated Resources for expanded learning.
• Private Online Facebook Support Group.
• AND you’ll receive lifetime access to all the training materials and a 20% discount on my private coaching and other programs.

Sign up at kathycaprino.com/signup to get my weekly newsletter and look out for more info and registration enrollment for the course. Enrollment opens in early January. Remember that spots go fast, so be sure you sign up early to claim your spot. I can’t wait to work with you!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“Any time we aim at [an emotional] state, we’re in trouble because we can’t really get handles on our feelings. They’re like jello.” — @adekoehler [0:06:10]

“I’m courageous when I don’t want to talk and I do. I’m courageous when I don’t want to ask for help and I do. I’m courageous when I don’t want to admit I’ve messed it up and I do.” — @adekoehler [0:06:40]

“If I’m going to lead, fear is going to be with me. Period.” — @adekoehler [0:08:04]

“Having the intuition, testing the intuition, and then taking appropriate action based on the future that I’ve committed to; that’s where the leadership happens. Leadership is a phenomenon that happens in action.” — @adekoehler [0:10:07]

“Power and vitality are inseparably linked.” — @adekoehler [0:14:11]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Grief is not all darkness and oftentimes, the greatest tragedies can ignite the most positive, powerful transformations in our lives.

Our guest, Kristine Carlson, knows what tragedy is. Happily married in her 40s with two young kids, she very suddenly lost the love of her life, Richard. What followed was heartache, sorrow, grief, anger, and then, later on and very surprisingly, true acceptance and joy. Through the process of grieving her husband and giving herself the space to feel emotions that she hadn’t felt in years, Kristine was awakened at a deep heart level.

Today, Kristine is a bestselling author, world-renowned speaker, and leading mindfulness expert who helps other people process traumatic experiences of their own. Grief comes in many forms and there is no specific timeline for grief, but wherever you are on your journey, this episode will undoubtedly inspire you and give you the courage to truly feel what you’re experiencing in life, and the peace of knowing that what you may feel as “brokenness” at this time can truly help you heal, even what feels like the darkest parts of yourself.

Here’s a comment that is at the heart of our episode today:

“The circumstances of life don’t break you; they reveal who you are.” – Kristine Carlson

Key Highlights From This Episode:

• Introducing today’s guest, bestselling author and world-renowned speaker, Kristine Carlson. [01:52]
• The transformation that Kristine went through after the sudden loss of her husband, Dr. Richard Carlson. [04:26]
• Kristine explains the difference between holding life and living life. [06:15]
• An example of one of the many people who Kristine has helped through the grieving process. [09:16]
• Profound lessons from Viktor Frankl’s transformational book Man’s Search for Meaning. [12:08]
• The spiritual philosophy that Kristine lives by. [14:48]
• Meaning and purpose that Kristine was able to find in the wake of Richard’s death. [15:40]
• Kristine shares how she processed Richard’s death. [17:10]
• Why Kristine and Kathy believe in signs rather than coincidences. [24:26]
• The choice that we all have when we go through a traumatic experience. [28:41]
• The importance of never judging someone else’s grief. [31:42]
• Examples of “messy” times in people’s lives. [32:32]
• A powerful quote from Kristine’s late husband. [33:21]
• How true acceptance can make you fall in love with your life. [34:21]

For More Information:

Kristine Carlson Website

Kristine Carlson on YouTube

Kristine Carlson on LinkedIn

Kristine Carlson on Facebook

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

To hear Kristine’s story in greater depth, read her book, Heartbroken Open and watch the movie that the book was based on, entitled Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Storyf.

Read the Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff series that Kristine co-authored with her late husband, Richard.

Viktor Frankl’s internationally bestselling and groundbreaking book, Man’s Search for Meaning

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ANNOUNCING THE MOST POWERFUL YOU LIVE COURSE (that starts February 1st!)

I’m very excited to be offering a new 8–week LIVE training course with me all about The Most Powerful You content from my book, and how you can address and close the 7 most damaging Power And Confidence Gaps that keep us from thriving in our work. The course starts Wednesday, February 1st!

I’ve been delivering workshops and trainings on The Most Powerful You for over two years now in all sorts of ways for over 50 organizations (including an international division of the United Nations and other top global companies), and folks are sharing that the training and material has been truly transformative and life-changing for them.

To make sure everyone can have access to this very same training, I’m thrilled to offer you a live course that includes:

• 8 WEEKLY LIVE Zoom Group Coaching Calls with me
• 8 Video Training Modules (total of 16 videos – 4 hours in total)
• Step-by-Step Career and Confidence-Growth Training Curriculum
• Additional Curated Resources for expanded learning.
• Private Online Facebook Support Group.
• AND you’ll receive lifetime access to all the training materials and a 20% discount on my private coaching and other programs.

Sign up at kathycaprino.com/signup to get my weekly newsletter and look out for more info and registration enrollment for the course. Enrollment opens in early January. Remember that spots go fast, so be sure you sign up early to claim your spot. I can’t wait to work with you!

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Calling all coaches!

Do you run a coaching or consulting business that focuses on supporting professional women? If so, I’ve got some exciting news about supporting your coaching growth, success, and impact.

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my private (1:1) coaching training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into learning powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that teach the 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career that your clients need to know. And this training will help you become far more effective and impactful in supporting women to thrive today in their jobs, roles, and careers.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught critical business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for both new and more seasoned coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit certification.amazingcareerproject.com and check out the details. Join me this Winter!

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Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

Amazon Music Offer

Quotes:

“[Life] is feeling everything.” — @Don’t_Sweat_ [0:07:55]

“You can become better for having gone through loss, or you can become bitter.” — @Don’t_Sweat_ [0:08:15]

“We have to find the reason for what happens in our lives and in that space of making meaning, everything appears to have its reason.” — @Don’t_Sweat_ [0:14:54]

“Grief isn’t all darkness. There is so much beauty and light because there is so much grace.” — @Don’t_Sweat_ [0:19:12]

“Sometimes being broken open means you get to be open to having greater joy.” — @Don’t_Sweat_ [0:35:03]

Watch our Finding Brave episodes on YouTube!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

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Although we have made strides in advancing the professional lives of women and minorities in the last several decades, there are still key areas where companies need to improve their employment practices.

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The festive season is upon us! And while this time of year is traditionally dedicated to friends, family, and celebrations, it is often accompanied by stress and looming deadlines.

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Are you feeling frustrated because you’ve been passed over for another big promotion? Do you want to develop the skills you need to excel in senior leadership positions? Well, you’re in luck! Alex D. Tremble literally wrote the book on Reaching Senior Leadership, and he’s here today to share 10 essential growth strategies to help you rise to the top.

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If you are feeling overwhelmed by marketing trends and the current social media landscape, then today’s episode is for you. Our guest, Andrew Gottlieb, is an expert in digital marketing and joins us to share his insights on essential marketing trends, along with what small businesses need to know and how best to capitalize on current trends in social media.

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So many “successful” working professionals have followed the traditional path, yet ultimately find themselves deeply unfulfilled in their jobs. Our guest today was one such example.

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From cubicles to open floor plans, from conference rooms to Slack channels and Zoom calls, the workplace has changed a great deal over the years.

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Believe it or not, everyone has a personal brand, whether you’ve taken the time to plan one or not. Today, you’ll hear from Dr. Cindy McGovern, the author of a new book on personal branding titled Sell Yourself: How to Create, Live and Sell a Powerful Personal Brand.

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Are you looking to find your motivation, prioritize your ideals, and create a flexible work-life lifestyle that allows you to enjoy expansive freedom? Today’s Finding Brave guest believes that you can do all of the above, no matter how busy or successful you are, using what he calls Anti-Time Management!

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “Now that I’m older, I truly think about it differently. Every single rejection you get, I have learned, if you listen and observe carefully without all the defensiveness and the ego getting hysterical, it can unlock amazing doors […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “The goal of the conversation is not to convince. It’s not to compel, and it’s not to control. It’s not to try to get the other person to think something different. As soon as we believe somebody is […]

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What brings you joy? What makes you feel energized? What makes you, you? Loving yourself starts with understanding yourself and learning to accept yourself for who you are, rather than fixating on who you think you “should” be. Self-love is one of the most powerful things that we, as human beings, can do to enhance […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “Whether you’re on an athletic team, a sales force, or a symphony orchestra, you better be honest about what you think about yourself. What you think about yourself and what you think about all the things that happen […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “You are like a thumbprint. You are absolutely unique. Now you have to understand how, and leverage it and be strong enough to be powerful.” – Kathy Caprino This Summer, I’m delighted to offer you our “Summer Pick” […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “Being in this type of life, in this career trajectory, we are faced with decisions. Whether it’s for branding, or for aspects of your career or professional life, it’s all about the choices that you make. Are you […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “When I screen a [small business] client prospect, I ask them this question – if their best clients couldn’t hire them and they had to hire one of their competitors, what would be the value that they would […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “With writing, somebody is holding up a mirror and you’re getting to look into the mirror and see yourself. When someone is vulnerable, they’re holding up that mirror and the light is bright, and I think you’re putting […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “It’s a miracle what happens when people are invited into a safe space and invited to speak their hearts and speak their minds. There’s no wrong way to do it, you just drop onto the page and you […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “You have a lot of knowledge and expertise, but if you continually doubt the strength of your opinions, or the importance of sharing your ideas, you are going to lose the ability to shape where your career is […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “I show them a work of art, something they have never seen before, and get them to tell me what they see. I then pull it together in a way that they can take that back to […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “You don’t have to be amazing. You don’t have to put on this face like everything is great, and make it sound like it’s easy. You just have to keep going. Crawling is fine, because eventually you’ll get […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “We have been told to [eat and exercise] a certain way and you do it right or not at all. It is that mindset that really derails people, and The Joy Choice is the antidote to that.” – […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “Oftentimes, we hear people saying that they’re inviting everyone and everyone can input their own opinion. That’s great, that’s a start, but that doesn’t actually necessarily mean belonging. When you invite them, what happens when they get there? […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “If you’re talking to the same people, you are going to get the same answer. If you’ve got the same people in the room, I guarantee you you’re going to get the same answer [about diversity].” – Fields […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “Sometimes it’s just best to let the product and the customer be together. Don’t get in the way and don’t misinterpret the signal. Let the customer tell you exactly how it is they want this experience to lay […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “If culture is the antidote, how do you define it? Where are you headed? Is there a ‘from-to’ that’s required both to embrace diversity and drive inclusion, and to thrive in this environment? I think finding ways to […]

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Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “I knew that if it was between becoming a movie star but staying that size, or just becoming a civilian who had a normal job and was healthy, I would have picked that in a second.” – Josh […]

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“There are a lot of gaps to be bridged, and the only way that starts is by getting yourself into a dynamic, personally, where you understand that you’re part of the fabric. Be responsible for how you show up because that’s where it starts.” – Jennifer Edwards

“When we walk into places where people are fighting so hard, but they’re not showing up correctly in the fight, what’s at stake for them? What are they not sharing here that I don’t know? When you know somebody’s personal story and their lived backgrounds, you cannot deny them their humanity.” – Katie McCleary

How you show up, including your energy, presence, listening, and language, shapes key outcomes in the situations you find yourself in each day. I’m excited to welcome two special guests to Finding Brave today, who both offer simple but transformative ways to communicate clearly with people of any level or background and navigate any emotion or situation. What they reveal will help you set the stage for more rewarding relationships, and vastly improved business results.

Jennifer Edwards and Katie McCleary are communication coaches and coauthors of the new book, Bridge the Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships From Challenging to Collaborative. Jennifer is a leadership advisor working with Fortune 500 companies and boards, optimizing performance and collaboration. Her clients are global companies from Microsoft to WeWork. She is a partner at Winning Streak Ventures, an early-stage VC fund investing in disruptive technology companies.

Katie is an entrepreneur and storyteller who trains leaders, creatives, and humanitarians to launch big ideas by leveraging their social and cultural capital. She is the founder of 916 Ink, a nonprofit that transforms vulnerable youth into confident authors. She hosts “The Drive” podcast on NPR’s CapRadio with the American Leadership Forum-MV in Sacramento.

Jennifer and Katie will be speaking at the Women Lead Change’s 2022 Advocates & Allies Series on March 24th, 2022, about The Curiosity Cure to Build More Equitable and Collaborative Relationships, and you can learn more at https://www.wlcglobal.org/solutions/advocates-allies.

By implementing the strategies they share in this episode, we can master our biological reactions and connect with others even amid pressure, anxiety and stress, and we can learn to manage the stress, biases, reactions, and judgments to build better relationships. By always leading with curiosity, we can all collaborate more effectively with those around us, as we become better leaders and connectors in our relationships.

Highlights from this Episode:

• Why Jennifer and Katie just knew that this was the book that they had to write together [4:26]
• The critical role that curiosity plays in our relationships, and the 4 different types of curiosity that exists [8:05]
• What approach you can take with getting curious about people who have different preferences and perspectives than you do [11:02]
• How showing up “clean and curious” about the other person can reset your biology and shift the encounter [14:17]
• What looking at our evolution as humans can tell us about systems, beliefs, and why breakdowns in communication are so common [19:47]
• The ways that our language tools are hindering us and holding us back from feeding our emotional needs as humans [20:41]
• What role spirituality plays in bridging our gaps in communication [22:48]
• How our words build our world, and what you can do to bring light and awareness to the people around you [26:57]
• What is the “drama triangle” and how can it teach us about ourselves and others [32:40]
• The power of choice, and our ability to always have the opportunity to see something from a different perspective [35:42]
• How you can start using a “personal board of directors” to help you gain perspective [37:25]
• A simple hack for changing your energy in order to show up better as a leader [39:49]

For More Information:

https://howtobridgethegap.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-michele-edwards/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-mccleary-a3a7339/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/bridgethegapbook/

https://twitter.com/bridgethegapbk

https://www.facebook.com/Bridgethegapcommunicationbook

https://www.instagram.com/bridgethegap_book/

Resources Mentioned:

THE AMAZING CAREER COACH CERTIFICATION TRAINING PROGRAM STARTS MARCH 22, 2022!

Do you run a coaching business that focuses on supporting women? If so, I’ve got some news!

Right now, we’re opening the enrollment of my coach training program called The Amazing Career Coach Certification, which is a 17-week, hands-on training program that certifies female coaches in my proprietary 16-step career growth model, which is perfect for coaches who want a deeper dive into powerful, proven coaching frameworks, concepts, and skills that will help you become far more effective in working with women.

And through the program, you’ll get access to a powerful Small Business Acceleration program called The Rapid Growth Academy, delivered by my friend and colleague, award-winning business growth expert Matthew Pollard.

Through Matthew’s program, you’ll be taught essential business and sales growth info that will help you grow your business success in the quickest way possible.

In my view, there’s nothing on the market like for coaches because it targets the two critical aspects of success: how you support your clients to thrive, and just as importantly, how to grow your own business to the next level.

For more information, visit https://certification.amazingcareerproject.com/ and check out the details.

And don’t miss the wonderful early bird bonuses which expire March 12th, including $2,000 off the full price!

The program starts March 22nd, and I’d love to work with you. See you there!

NEW!: Kathy’s digital monthly newsletter “Your Path To Career Bliss” – now only $9.99 a month!

Subscribe to my new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of key career, leadership and personal growth topics that are critical to understand well and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics and issues that are the most sought-after by my readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals I hear from each year.

March’s issue focuses on How To Grow as a Leader, Manager and Uplifter and shares eye-opening and transformative insights, research and strategies gleaned from my own coaching work with leaders across 6 continents, and from an inspiring array of top national experts I’ve interviewed who share their leadership expertise and knowledge.

If you want to be a better leader and manager, start with this Your Path To Career Bliss March issue, and learn from these essential tips and recommended action steps that will help you grow.

The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Other resources mentioned:

The Karpman Drama Triangle

Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families

Neanderthal (PBS)

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“One of the most important things that we talk a lot about is how conscious and present we are to how we show up in any given moment.” [6:03]

“The most important part of curiosity is our perceptual curiosity, and how we perceive things to be based off of our own lived experiences and biology.” [8:28]

“That’s what is going to change the world, whether it’s in the workplace or in the family. It’s our human suit and our brain telling us to care first, show up for one another, seek to understand, and be curious.” [18:46]

“Curiosity is not about asking questions, but that’s what everybody thinks it is.” [22:28]

“We are spiritual beings, and the most important thing we must remember as individuals is that we are woven together in a tapestry, and we have an obligation to support each other.” [23:53]

“All of us want to shift, and all of us have that spark inside of us that wants to show up better than we are. We’re just looking for a door to walk through.” [31:55]

“You need that coach. You need someone who will hold your feet to the fire and tell you what is up.” [39:02]

“If you are the leader, you are the channel. Your energy translates to everything.” [39:49]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

• • • • • *Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.7 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND OTHER UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS TO SUCCEED AND THRIVE IN YOUR WORKPLACE?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR LEADERS TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of women and other underrepresented groups in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that these groups face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, innovation, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most thrilling and rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff and ERGs to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“In the process of networking, you hone your story. You actually get a better idea of what you’re trying to convey, how people are reacting to it, and how you need to modify it over time to become even better at telling your story.” – Pat Hedley

Experts in the career, business and entrepreneurial space have said that your network is everything, but many people have a somewhat negative view of networking, viewing it as transactional, perhaps even unnecessary, and certainly burdensome. Today’s Finding Brave expert guest reframes networking as something that is essential, accessible, and life-affirming. She reveals why networking doesn’t have to be stressful, and it can (and should) be joyful, as well as help you learn, share, succeed, and connect in fulfilling ways with others.

Pat Hedley is an investor, advisor and the author of Meet 100 People: A How-to Guide to the Career and Life Edge Everyone’s Missing. Pat spent nearly 30 years at global growth investment firm General Atlantic and now invests privately. She has a special interest in supporting and advising female entrepreneurs.

Now more than ever, building connections and relationships is important for personal and professional success, which is why Pat’s conversation today is so timely. Whether you are already in the corporate world, embarking on a new career, or pursuing your entrepreneurial visions, the strategies Pat shares will encourage you to take empowered action and network with uplifting people who can help you achieve your highest goals, and will help you support others to rise as well.

Highlights from this Episode:

• What drove Pat to write a book about networking to help people navigate this important subject [4:11]
• How writing the book re-affirmed to her how important it is to always share with others about what you are doing [6:05]
• The very first things Pat does before meeting someone new [9:34]
• The ways that adding value for other people will cement and build your relationships with them [12:49]
• A reminder that you always have something to give to every single person you speak with [19:00]
• How networking and connecting with people directly impacts your ability to get funding for your business [20:19]
• The hardest part of networking, and what to do to easily overcome this obstacle [25:43]
• How investors vet new business ideas and the ways in which others can help you demonstrate the great potential of your idea [29:01]
• The role that personal responsibility plays in networking, and ultimately, your success [32:16]

For More Information:

https://meet100people.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pathedley/

https://www.instagram.com/meet100people/

https://www.facebook.com/Meet100people

https://twitter.com/patricialhedley

https://twitter.com/meet100people

Resources Mentioned:

FREE WEBINAR FOR PROFESSIONAL COACHES – MARCH 1st, 2022 at Noon ESTUPLEVEL YOUR COACHING BUSINESS THIS YEAR

If you are a coach or you’re running a coaching practice or business, I’m excited to share that I’m offering a FREE 90-minute webinar training March 1st at Noon EST on Uplevel Your Coaching Business This Year: Key Steps To Building More Success, Impact and Recognition As A Coach

In this training I’ll be sharing my top, hard-earned lessons and strategies from 16 years of running my own coaching business, on how to make a bigger impact with your clients, and steps to take to grow your own business success this year.

I’ll share straight, no-nonsense talk about what I’ve experienced and learned are:

• The 7 worst blunders coaches make and how to avoid them
• The most damaging myths coaches are taught about how to be successful that are dead wrong
• And the critical business, thought leadership, branding and other steps coaches need to take to build more financial and emotional reward in their work today.

I hope you’ll check it out at https://kathycaprino.com/uplevel2022. I’m confident it will be eye-opening and instrumental for you. I’m looking forward to seeing you there!

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

Join Kathy’s new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of key career, leadership or personal growth topics that are critical to understand well and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics and issues that are the most sought-after by Kathy’s readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals she hears from globally each year.

February’s issue shares vitally important information from my own coaching work with professionals and from a wide range of top national experts aimed at helping you succeed at a higher level in your work and career. This issue covers the topic “Is Your Communication Style Hurting You? How to Tell and Change It.” There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll register now and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Other resources mentioned:

Kathy’s Forbes Blog with Pat, Female Entrepreneurs: Keys To Achieving More Confidence, Success, And Funding Through Networking

Pat’s TEDx Talk, Meet 100 People

Her Medium Articles

Finding Brave Episode 60 with Judy Robinett

SurveyMonkey & Typeform

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“If someone had told me how important it was to focus on your network, I think I would have accelerated certain things in my life and career.” [4:33]

“I will guarantee you that 9 times out of 10, the other person will be happy to talk to you, because they’ve been there before. It’s for them to pay it forward and help you out, because that’s something that somebody else did for them.” [11:56]

“Life is all about learning, so approach other people with this spirit of humility, a desire to learn, a desire to share, and to be helpful.” [12:49]

“Are you the kind of entrepreneur that gathers smart people around you, that finds advisors that have expertise that you don’t have, and that you’re going to learn from? In essence, are you looking for teachers along the way?” [21:06]

“The hardest part [of networking] is making the outreach. It’s actually convincing yourself that you should do it.” [25:43]

“There are sources of capital for any level [of business]. It just depends on how much hustle and work you put into it to be able to access that funding.” [28:25]

“Finding the right people who can be the most helpful to you is probably one of the biggest challenges, and one of the most important challenges, that any entrepreneur can undertake.” [30:29]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.7 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND OTHER UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS TO SUCCEED AND THRIVE IN YOUR WORKPLACE?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR LEADERS TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR EMERGING FEMALE LEADERS IN YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of women and other underrepresented groups in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that these groups face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, innovation, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most thrilling and rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff and ERGs to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“People give up too quickly. They start a campaign and do SEO or paid ads, and if it doesn’t work out in the first month or two, or even three months, they stop. Again, you need to do something consistently for at least 6 months to a year in marketing online, and it gets better over time when you can fine tune it.” – Neil Patel

As an entrepreneur or owner of a business of any size, driving more traffic, sales, and leads is of the utmost importance. These are areas that I am always keen to learn more about, and today’s Finding Brave expert guest is just the person to teach us effective ways to build a brand, maximize exposure, and gain recognition for the products and services that we sell.

Digital marketing executive Neil Patel is the CMO of NP Digital, a marketing agency serving start-ups, small businesses and publicly traded companies. A New York Times bestselling author, Neil was named a top influencer on the web by The Wall Street Journal. Forbes has shared that he is one of the top 10 marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine has shared that has created one of the 100 most brilliant companies.

Neil was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 35 by the United Nations.

It is refreshing to hear someone with Neil’s know-how and experience reveal straight-talking, real-life strategies for how to grow our business success today. I hope you’ll try the helpful strategies he shares, and as always, let us know how they work for you!

Highlights from this Episode:

• The ways that digital marketing has changed over the past 5 years, and the key things small business owners need to understand about it right now [4:57]
• A basic overview of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the benefits that it offers business owners [6:25]
• What has to happen in order for you to rank high in Google searches [7:43]
• What to do if you’re still getting traffic on a topic that you are no longer focusing on [11:16]
• The first steps to take to start building a powerful brand that stands out from your competition [12:48]
• Neil’s advice for getting press and recognition for your brand and business [14:29]
• Why he is such a proponent of repurposing your content to distribute on multiple platforms [17:09]
• Neil’s take on the importance of engaging with your followers on social media [17:53]
• The way to vet an agency offering paid advertising services, plus what makes a great ad campaign [19:19]
• How long he feels it will take to get traction online for your business [20:45]
• The 3 biggest errors that Neil sees business owners making [23:57]
• What to consider if you are looking to outsource some of the tasks involved in the marketing process [27:16]
• How he was named a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama, and what you can do to be considered for the various top awards that exist [28:14]
• Neil’s top 3 tools for driving more traffic, sales, and leads [30:51]

For More Information:

https://neilpatel.com/

https://npdigital.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkpatel

https://www.instagram.com/neilpatel/

https://www.facebook.com/neilkpatel

Resources Mentioned:

FREE WEBINAR MARCH 1st, 2022UPLEVEL YOUR COACHING BUSINESS THIS YEAR

If you are a coach or you’re running a coaching practice or business, I’m excited to share that I’m offering a FREE 90-minute webinar training March 1st at Noon EST on Uplevel Your Coaching Business This Year: Key Steps To Building More Success, Impact and Recognition As A Coach

In this training I’ll be sharing my top, hard-earned lessons and strategies from 16 years of running my own coaching business, on how to make a bigger impact with your clients, and grow your success this year.

I’ll share straight, no-nonsense talk about what I’ve experienced and seen are:

• The 7 worst blunders coaches make and how to avoid them
• The most damaging myths coaches are taught about how to be successful that are dead wrong
• And the critical steps coaches need to take to build more financial and emotional reward in their work today.

I hope you’ll check it out at https://kathycaprino.com/uplevel2022. I’m confident it will be eye-opening and instrumental for you. I’m looking forward to seeing you there!

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

Join Kathy’s new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of key career, leadership or personal growth topics that are critical to understand well and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics and issues that are the most sought-after by Kathy’s readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals she hears from globally each year.

February’s issue shares vitally important information if you want to succeed at a higher level in your work and career. This issue covers the topic “Is Your Communication Style Hurting You? How to Tell and Change It.” There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll register now and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

___________________________________________________________

Other resources mentioned:

Neil’s Ubersuggest Tool

Neil’s books

His Video, How To Do SEO For a Tiny Site with No Backlinks

Neil’s YouTube channel

Help A Reporter (HARO)

Facebook Ad Library

Google Analytics, Google Search Console & Similarweb

.ORG Impact Awards & Mediapost

Fiverr & Upwork

Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“If you want to build a business and do well, you can’t just leverage SEO or paid advertising, you’ve got to leverage all forms of marketing. Go omnichannel, because it’s the only way to do well in the long run.” [5:57]

“To build a brand, give a ton of value, and don’t ask for anything in exchange.” [13:22]

“Nike is not Nike for no reason. If their shoes sucked and they’re uncomfortable [to wear], then no one would really care to wear them. If your product or service isn’t good or high in quality, your brand is not going to be as good.” [14:13]

“They’re called social networks because you’re supposed to engage [with followers]. So I think if you don’t want to engage, you’re only going to get so far.” [17:53]

“If you write content and you don’t push it, no one will see. So, make sure you just push it out to all the social platforms and share it.” [24:03]

“Search engines and a lot of platforms like sites that specialize. You want to show that you’re an expert in a niche, so just conquer one niche first before you expand into too many others.” [24:38]

“It’s a lot of work. If you aren’t willing to do the work, or pay people to do the work, then you’re not going to succeed because other people are.” [27:16]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND OTHER UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS TO SUCCEED AND THRIVE IN YOUR WORKPLACE?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR LEADERS TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR EMERGING FEMALE LEADERS IN YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of women and other underrepresented groups in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that these groups face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, innovation, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most thrilling and rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff and ERGs to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“The reason why I wrote so many one-woman shows over the years, and then I would always get films, is because it’s almost like dating. My mother used to say start dating a few guys and another guy will see you out at dinner, and that guy will then ask you out. Work begets work, but there were dry periods where I thought it was all over.” – Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I’ve interviewed a lot of amazing individuals on this podcast and for my Forbes blog, including Pulitzer Prize winners and top leaders from around the world in all kinds of fascinating industries, and today’s guest is no exception. Today’s Finding Brave guest has been thriving in the entertainment industry for many years now, and in this episode, she reveals the lessons that you can take from her life’s journey and apply to all areas of your life to great success.

For over thirty years, Siobhan Fallon Hogan has been one of the most iconic and recognizable working character actresses, appearing in blockbuster comedies (Men in Black) as frequently as independents (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville). Now, for the first time, Fallon Hogan is appearing in a lead role, starring as the tortured yet deeply relatable (and often funny) matriarch in the thriller, Rushed, which she wrote and produced.Fallon Hogan’s first role was in Golden Girls, and she has appeared in (or had featured roles in) Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Forrest Gump, and many more TV shows and films.

Her film Rushed features Fallon Hogan’s friends and family in her hometown of Rumson, New Jersey—and serves as a capstone to one of the most unsung careers in Hollywood. For decades, the talents of character actresses like Fallon Hogan have gone overlooked, which is in part why she decided to write and produce this female-directed (and casted and edited) film.

It is the story of Barbara O’Brien (Fallon Hogan), an Irish Catholic mother living in upstate New York who says her rosary daily, then swears profusely as she drives her kids to school. After her life is ruined when her son Jimmy, a college freshman, is involved in a fraternity hazing incident, Barbara resorts to extreme measures. Personally speaking, I found it riveting, relatable and a deeply moving film.

Siobhan is someone who has created her own luck through a lot of hard work and a continued, unwavering belief in herself and her talents and abilities, and it was such a pleasure to have her join me for a conversation on this podcast.

I’ve so enjoyed Siobhan’s work over the years, and loved her new movie Rushed. We would be thrilled if you’d check out Rushed and let us know how this powerful story resonates with you. It’s a story I believe that all mothers will relate to strongly, as well as those who’ve been through any kind of situation that forced you to do something you’ve never wanted to, and never dreamed you’d have to.

Highlights from this Episode:

• Where Siobhan believes her sense of humor, drive, and confidence come from [5:33]
• A look at her latest movie, Rushed, the way that she involved her friends and family in this project, and what makes the story it tells so relatable [16:46]
• Who this movie is for, and the real life stories of the mothers who lost children to hazing incidents [26:18]
• Siobhan’s thoughts on patriarchy and what really makes a good man [30:32]
• What most people don’t understand about the entertainment industry, and how she has been able to have a successful, active career in it for such a long time [32:50]
• Why Siobhan considers herself so lucky at this point in time [34:32]
• The way that she has created her own luck during her career, and how you can do the same [36:21]
• Why Siobhan says that you need to have humility to succeed in the entertainment industry [39:19]
• Her closing message about the magic of believing in yourself [44:20]

For More Information:

New Movie, Rushed: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rushed

https://www.instagram.com/siobhanfallonhogan/

https://www.instagram.com/shelterinsolitude/

https://twitter.com/siobhanFallonH1

https://twitter.com/rushedmovie

https://www.facebook.com/siobhanfallonhogan

Resources Mentioned:

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February’s issue is a great supplement to today’s episode, as it covers Is Your Communication Style Hurting You? How to Tell and Change It. There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll register now and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

___________________________________________________________

Other resources mentioned:

Kathy and Siobhan’s Forbes interview, Thriving In The Entertainment Field For 30+ Years-Keys To Artistic Success

Siobhan’s IMDB Profile

Episode 172: Healthy Masculinity and The Battle Against Man Box Culture, with Mark Greene

Episode 185: How To Create Good Luck, and Expand Your Opportunities and Influence, with Christian Busch

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“I believed what my parents told me, and they built such confidence in me. I just had this faith, not only in my parents, but in God, that I could do what I wanted to do.” [8:12]

“I just wrote all the characters [in Rushed] that I would like to play if someone would possibly think of casting me.” [13:38]

“Silent moments tell so much more than with someone who is able to talk [in a movie].” [24:19]

“I’m 60 years old and I feel like a kid again. Now I can do all these movies, not have to worry, and now I can create.” [34:32]

“You just treat people great and it all kind of comes around. You have to keep the good mojo flowing.” [35:36]

“I don’t believe I’m a somebody because I’m on TV and movies. Nurses and teachers are a lot more important than I am. I’m just pretending I’m somebody else for a living, and writing about it.” [40:29]

“Don’t let anyone tell you ‘no’, because you can do whatever you want and you can do it great[ly].” [44:20]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND OTHER UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS TO SUCCEED AND THRIVE IN YOUR WORKPLACE?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR LEADERS TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR EMERGING FEMALE LEADERS IN YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of women and other underrepresented groups in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that these groups face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, innovation, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most thrilling and rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff and ERGs to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“Confidence is an internal process. It’s all those decisions and all those conclusions you make. It has relatively little to do with what actually goes on in the world, and it has relatively everything to do with what goes on internally in this space between your ears.” – Dr. Nate Zinsser

I’m excited to be back for Part 2 in our Finding Brave mini-series on confidence, where my special guest reveals the action steps and mindset shifts needed to overcome obstacles that often get in the way of us building our self-confidence.

​​Dr. Nate Zinsser is an expert in the psychology of human performance who consults for individuals and organizations seeking a competitive edge. Nate’s latest book, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide for Unshakable Performance, hit shelves January 2022, and has been endorsed by two-time Super Bowl Champion and MVP Eli Manning, bestselling authors Jon Krakauer and Steven Pressfield, and US Olympic Bobsled Head Coach Mike Kohn.

Nate was a regular consultant to the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Giants for twelve seasons and has been a keynote speaker for General Electric, Facebook, McDonald’s, Staples, UBS, Major League Baseball, the NBA, and many more, as well as a consultant for the FBI Academy, the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, (mentoring four Olympic medalists), the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, and the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit.

Since 1992, he has directed a cutting-edge applied sport psychology program at the United States Military Academy’s Center for Enhanced Performance, personally conducting over seventeen thousand individual training sessions and seven hundred team training sessions for cadets seeking the mental edge for athletic, academic, and military performance.

He also helped launch the highly successful magazine Sports Illustrated for Kids and was presented with an American Library Association award for his 1991 children’s book Dear Dr. Psych: A Kid’s Guide to Handling Sports Problems.

I truly believe that the work that Nate is doing is necessary for our success and greater wellbeing, and now is the time to make the choice to embrace these methods, follow the principles, and see where they take us. I’ve already incorporated what Nate shared in this conversation into my own life and work, and I would love to hear how you use the tips and strategies he shares to build your own confidence and self-trust in yourself.

Highlights from this Episode:

• Something that will help create a great deal of energy as you build your confidence [3:01]
• Why it’s absolutely critical to be your own best friend [3:55]
• How you can use both logic and creative fantasy to begin creating your own reality [5:54]
• A reframe for failure and what you can do to protect your confidence from internally generated thoughts about yourself [10:02]
• The factors that separate top performers from the others, and the way that our beliefs will produce our behaviors, and not vice versa [12:26]
• How your work feeds your confidence, plus the one big thing that most people are missing with this [16:25]
• The importance of knowing and trusting yourself in this process [17:59]
• The way that Nate approaches his work with athletes in order to help raise their confidence and performance [24:24]
• Whether or not he ever personally lacks confidence [26:59]
• The biggest lessons that Nate learned by writing his latest book [29:31]

For More Information:

Nate’s Latest Book, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide for Unshakable Performance

https://natezinsser.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-zinsser-35349010/

https://twitter.com/DocZinsser

https://www.facebook.com/nathaniel.zinsser

Resources Mentioned:

I’m thrilled to share that the enrollment window for the Winter session of my 16-week Amazing Career Project course is open! This Winter session — which starts Monday, Feb 7th– teaches professional women how to take the 16 most essential steps to building a rewarding, joyful and successful career – and amazing career in fact — with the respect and recognition you deserve.

Through the four months of the course, you’ll get:

• 16 jammed-packed instructional videos on THE 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career you love
• 16 weekly live group coaching/training calls with me
• 16 tailored homework assignments to move you forward fast
• An powerfully helpfully online support network of current members and course graduates to help you
• My hand-picked collection of premier resources for additional learning and support
• PLUS: Great lifetime discounts to my private coaching programs and events

Truly, this is a fantastic investment in you and your career and there is nothing to lose and so much to gain.

I hope you’ll join me! Visit https://amazingcareerproject.com/ for more info and to register now.

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

Join Kathy’s new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of key career, leadership or personal growth topics that are critical to understand well and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics and issues that are the most sought-after by Kathy’s readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals she hears from globally each year.

February’s issue is a great supplement to today’s episode, as it covers Is Your Communication Style Hurting You? How to Tell and Change It. There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll register now and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

___________________________________________________________

Other resources mentioned:

Episode 212: (Part 1) How Confidence Is the Key, and How You Can Get It, Build It, and Keep It, with Dr. Nate Zinsser

Porcelain on Steel: Women of West Point’s Long Gray Line by Donna McAleer

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“We have been socialized to be our own harshest critic, exclusively. Be your own best friend, and be honest with yourself” [4:40]

“I really encourage a good mix of logic when you’re doing simple things but fantasy when you’re looking long-term, and try to combine them in your preparation for performance.” [8:58]

“If you got your butt handed to you, the first thing that you’ve got to do is decide that this disappointment or poor performance is not the definitive statement about who you are or what you can do.” [10:21]

“There are not a million things that separate the top from the bottom. It’s just one little thing that is done on a consistent basis. Let’s find out what you can be good at and let’s make sure that you’re applying that time after time, day after day, and moment after moment.” [12:26]

“We have to be very selective in what we choose to tell ourselves about ourselves. We’ve got to be careful about the kinds of conclusions that we are drawing from our experience.” [17:27]

“If I don’t think I’m the right person at the right time for that moment, then I’ve got no business being there [for the client].” [26:18]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND OTHER UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS TO SUCCEED AND THRIVE IN YOUR WORKPLACE?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR LEADERS TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR EMERGING FEMALE LEADERS IN YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of women and other underrepresented groups in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that these groups face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, innovation, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most thrilling and rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff and ERGs to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“Whether you’re on an athletic team, a sales force, or a symphony orchestra, you better be honest about what you think about yourself. What you think about yourself and what you think about all the things that happen day by day, that’s what constitutes your confidence.” – Dr. Nate Zinsser

Confidence is a character trait that has relatively little to do with what happens to you, but rather it’s a function of how you think. Today’s Finding Brave guest reveals how you can change your level of confidence, but first you must be aware of certain things. You absolutely can develop confidence for any situation that you care to, and our guest shares the ways that confident performers think differently from the average person in order to do this.

​​Dr. Nate Zinsser is an expert in the psychology of human performance who consults for individuals and organizations seeking a competitive edge. Nate’s latest book, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide for Unshakable Performance, hit shelves January 2022, and has been endorsed by two-time Super Bowl Champion and MVP Eli Manning, bestselling authors Jon Krakauer and Steven Pressfield, and US Olympic Bobsled Head Coach Mike Kohn.

Nate was a regular consultant to the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Giants for twelve seasons and has been a keynote speaker for General Electric, Facebook, McDonald’s, Staples, UBS, Major League Baseball, the NBA, and many more, as well as a consultant for the FBI Academy, the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, (mentoring four Olympic medalists), the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, and the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit.

Since 1992, he has directed a cutting-edge applied sport psychology program at the United States Military Academy’s Center for Enhanced Performance, personally conducting over seventeen thousand individual training sessions and seven hundred team training sessions for cadets seeking the mental edge for athletic, academic, and military performance.

He also helped launch the highly successful magazine Sports Illustrated for Kids and was presented with an American Library Association award for his 1991 children’s book Dear Dr. Psych: A Kid’s Guide to Handling Sports Problems.

I’m beyond excited to bring you the first installment of this special two-part mini-series with Nate on the subject of confidence, and I’ve loved learning from a master on this topic as it’s something that I teach about often in my courses and in my career and leadership coaching. This is an excellent opportunity to learn, grow, and stretch our understanding of confidence, and I’ll see you back here next week for the conclusion of this riveting conversation!

Highlights from this Episode:

• How Nate entered this field of work and the way that a school sports team from his youth helped him understand the concept of self-fulfilling prophecies [6:00]
• The impact that your thoughts will play on the overall level of confidence that you have in yourself [10:26]
• What Nate had to do at an early age to develop a strong belief in himself [13:22]
• The key factors that influence our own systems of beliefs and approach to growth, success and progress [14:23]
• The 7 deadly sins and limiting beliefs that hold us back and lower our confidence [16:50]
• Why being socialized to the norms of society is often a formula to be mediocre [20:35]

For More Information:

Nate’s Latest Book, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide for Unshakable Performance

https://natezinsser.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-zinsser-35349010/

https://twitter.com/DocZinsser

https://www.facebook.com/nathaniel.zinsser

Dr. Zinsser interviewed in Kathy’s Forbes.com blog “Career Bliss, discussing Developing a Confident Mind: Key Strategies for Experiencing Unshakable Success

Resources Mentioned:

I’m thrilled to share the opening of the enrollment window for the Winter session of my 16-week Amazing Career Project course! This session — which starts Monday, Feb 7th– teaches professional women how to take the 16 most essential steps to building a rewarding, joyful and successful career – and amazing career in fact — with the respect and recognition you deserve.

Through the four months of the course, you’ll get:

• 16 jammed-packed instructional videos on THE 16 most essential steps to building an amazing career you love
• 16 weekly live group coaching/training calls with me
• 16 tailored homework assignments to move you forward fast
• An powerfully helpfully online support network of current members and course graduates to help you
• My hand-picked collection of premier resources for additional learning and support
• PLUS: Great lifetime discounts to my private coaching programs and events

AND: Register as an early bird by January 30th and get 7 great bonuses (including a $500 early bird savings and a 75% discount off the foundational level of my new confidence- and self-esteem boosting course The Most Powerful You, and more!)

Truly, this is a fantastic investment in you and your career and there is nothing to lose and so much to gain.

I hope you’ll join me! Visit https://amazingcareerproject.com/ for more info and to register now.

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

Join Kathy’s new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of key career, leadership or personal growth topics that are essential to understand and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics that are the most sought-after by Kathy’s readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals she hears from globally each year.

January’s issue is a perfect companion to today’s episode, as it covers The Top Ten Things People Want Most But Struggle To Get (and How To Get What You Want). There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll join me now in this program and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

___________________________________________________________

Other resources mentioned:

Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

Audible Offer

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“At the conclusion of my junior year, our wrestling team had our first winning season in a long time, and in my senior year it had another winning season. I don’t think it was so much because we were all that physically gifted, but it was just as much a function of the fact that we did not buy into that negative self-fulfilling prophecy.” [9:20]

“I don’t recall moments in my earlier childhood where I received a series of messages that really encouraged me to believe in myself. I had to work at that.” [13:22]

“We’ve got to be honest about which [limiting belief] is hanging us up, and be willing to let it go to cultivate an alternative belief.” [21:40]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING WOMEN TO SUCCEED?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR HR LEADER TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR EMERGING FEMALE LEADERS IN YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most thrilling and rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff and ERGs to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“It doesn’t matter how old you are or what your experience is. You just have to have that little inner voice that says ‘I really want to do it’ and for a woman, ‘I think I can.’” – Wendy Pease

Have you ever wondered what would be needed for you to leave corporate and become a business owner? Today’s Finding Brave guest is an expert in this topic, and I’m very excited because it’s an area we have not yet talked about in over 200 episodes of the podcast. Today, she shares how you can own a business and think global right from the start, as well as how to communicate across cultures and languages to expand your business in the process.

Wendy MacKenzie Pease is the owner and president of Rapport International, a translation and interpretation services company specializing in marketing, legal, and medical/life sciences translation. Throughout her career, she has worked with hundreds of companies to help them communicate across more than 200 languages and cultures.

Wendy has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in Foreign Service & International Politics from Penn State. Her expertise in international relations grew from working in several international and global marketing roles and spending years living abroad.

Wendy is a frequent speaker, writer, blogger, trainer, advisor, master networker, and avid world traveler. She hosts the Global Marketing Show podcast, which features experts on opportunities and challenges in increasing multilingual lead gen and revenue.

If you think that you’re done with corporate life and you’re ready for a new adventure in business ownership, like both Wendy and I were, we’re here to tell you that you have some great options. Buying a business is something you absolutely can do, and Wendy can help you turn this dream into a reality for you.

Highlights from this Episode:

• Wendy’s personal story about leaving the corporate world [5:11]
• Her process for exploring buying a business versus starting one [9:32]
• Why buying a business can be a more attractive option that building one from ground up [11:26]
• How Wendy got into the translation business, and the lesson she learned about the importance of having a passion [12:30]
• The ways that women and men typically differ in their views on business ownership and scaling a business [15:56]
• The essential questions to ask, and what you need to know before buying a business [20:39]
• Some of the options you have to finance a business, and what her recommendations are when looking at potential banks to work with [27:03]
• Wendy’s tips for expanding your business and marketing internationally [32:03]
• What she considers to be the biggest benefit of expanding your reach to an international market [36:46]
• A look at her podcast, and what you can expect to hear by listening to it [39:12]

For More Information:

https://www.rapporttranslations.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendypease/

https://www.facebook.com/wendypease

https://www.instagram.com/wendy.pease/

https://twitter.com/RapportIntl

Resources Mentioned:

I’m thrilled to share the opening of the enrollment window for the Winter session of my 16-week Amazing Career Project course! This session — which starts Monday, Feb 7th– teaches professional women how to take the 16 most essential steps to building a rewarding, joyful and successful career – and amazing career in fact — with the respect and recognition you deserve.

Through the four months of the course, you’ll get:

• 16 jammed-packed instructional videos
• 16 weekly live group coaching calls with me
• 16 tailored homework assignments to move you forward fast
• An amazing online support network of members to help you
• My hand-picked collection of premier resources for additional help
• PLUS: Great lifetime discounts to my private coaching programs and events

AND: Register as an early bird by January 30th and get 7 great bonuses (including a $500 early bird savings and a 75% discount off the foundational level of my new confidence – and self-esteem boosting course The Most Powerful You, and more!)

Truly, this is a fantastic investment in you and your career and there is nothing to lose and so much to gain.

I hope you’ll join me! Visit https://amazingcareerproject.com/ for more info and to register now.

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

Join Kathy’s new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of key career, leadership or personal growth topics that are essential to understand and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics that are the most sought-after by Kathy’s readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals she hears from globally each year.

January’s issue is a perfect companion to today’s episode, as it covers The Top Ten Things People Want Most But Struggle To Get (and How To Get What You Want). There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll join me now in this program and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Other resources mentioned:

Wendy’s Book,The Language of Global Marketing: Translate Your Domestic Strategies into International Sales and Profits

Her Podcast & YouTube Channel

Episode 21: How To Deal With Sexual Harassment At Work, and Protect Yourself, with Tom Spiggle

Episode 138: How to Grow and Pivot Your Business During The Pandemic and Beyond, with Nell Merlino

Kathy’s Forbes Blog with Susan Sobbott, How Different Are Female And Male Entrepreneurs?

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Recommended book – Buying Your Own Business, by Russell Robb

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“I always had the intention of being a business owner, but I didn’t know what to start. I started daydreaming online, and I found this little translation company for sale.” [10:52]

“By just buying a business you have a much higher likelihood for success because most start-ups don’t last beyond two years.” [11:26]

“When you’re looking [at becoming a business owner], you can buy a business straight out or you can buy a franchise, but you’ve got to be passionate and interested in whatever you’re looking at.” [13:44]

“It’s really ironic to me that women do better [in business], but they’re less positive about saying they can do it.” [16:39]

“I really didn’t want to go back to corporate. I just had two bad experiences, I had young children, and I wanted to be in control of my life.” [17:29]

“If you take out a loan you’re using other people’s money. You can afford to get a bigger business and you’ve got a higher likelihood of success, particularly if you’re buying something that has assets.” [27:58]

“Get to know your banker. How do you get to know your banker? Find a community bank and then they get to know you.” [29:02]

“Companies who are global have higher revenues, on average about 20% higher. They have higher earnings, they pay higher salaries, they have higher valuations, and they’re more stable.” [36:48]

“I am so passionate about helping people communicate across languages. I really think it’s a more peaceful and prosperous world if we can speak clearly to each other.” [41:56]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING WOMEN TO SUCCEED?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR HR LEADER TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR EMERGING FEMALE LEADERS IN YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“Sit with the idea of what it would mean for you to take on a worthy goal, become the best version of yourself, and unlock your greatness by taking on the hard things. I’m asking not just for you, but I’m asking for me and my world, because it’s a chance for all of us to live a better life.” – Michael Bungay Stanier

With the new year upon us, what would it mean for you to find and set a worthy goal, something that is thrilling, important, and daunting at the same time? Today’s special Finding Brave guest reveals the 3 key components of a worthy goal, what it really means to commit to one, and why we don’t have to travel this path alone, because we can ask for support along the way.

Michael Bungay Stanier helps people be a force for change. He’s best known for his book The Coaching Habit, which has sold close to a million copies and has thousands of 5-star reviews online.

His latest book, How to Begin, helps people find the clarity and courage to take on a Worthy Goal and start something thrilling, important and daunting. He founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations move from advice-driven to curiosity-led.

They’ve trained hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like and their clients range from Microsoft to Gucci. He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he shares that his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian. Michael now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston. Balancing out these moments of success, he was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident,” was sued by one of his Law School professors for defamation, and his first published piece of writing was a Harlequin Romance-esque story involving a misdelivered letter called The Male Delivery.

I encourage you to read Michael’s latest (and very enlightening) book and let us know what lessons you glean from it. How has your energy been shifted, and what did you learn? Please feel free to reach out to Michael or me with your feedback and questions about what we discuss in this episode. Here’s to your joyful pursuit of your worthy goal!

Highlights from this Episode:

• The worthy goal that Michael has for his latest book [5:44]
• Why he is expecting a big shake-up for the coaching industry in the very near future [7:07]
• What Michael means when he says that we unlock our greatness by taking on the hard things [13:52]
• How his childhood influences have contributed to the way that he now sees the world [17:36]
• Some of the ways that Michael “zags” when others “zig” [20:03]
• His approach to coaching and helping others do the thing that really matters to them [21:33]
• Where true growth will happen, plus the 3 components that make a worthy goal [23:45]
• What you can expect to gain by reading Michael’s latest book [25:44]
• A powerful exercise that shows the importance of getting support from others while pursuing your goals [26:33]
• A reminder of why we always need to celebrate our victories, no matter how big or small they may be [32:01]

For More Information:

Michael’s Latest Book, How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters [With Bonuses]

https://www.mbs.works/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbungaystanier/

https://www.instagram.com/mbs_works/

https://twitter.com/mbs_works

https://www.facebook.com/mbs_works-113849977032317/

Resources Mentioned:

FREE WEBINAR: FAST TRACK TO CAREER JANUARY 19TH AT NOON EST

I’m excited to share that I’ll be giving a new, free career growth webinar on January 19th at Noon EST, called FAST TRACK TO CAREER BLISS: How YOU Can Design, Create & IMPLEMENT Your ULTIMATE Career This Year.

If you’re a professional wanting to change directions quickly and seamlessly to a better, happier career, or improve where you are today, and you want to do that the shortest amount of time possible, without costly mistakes, this training will be extremely valuable for you.

You’ll be taught a powerful, proven step-by-step process to boosting and transforming your career— even if you feel very stuck and confused about what you want next.

And you’ll learn what’s in the way of so many people’s career happiness and success that they don’t even know is impacting them.

There’s also a LIVE Q&A segment at the end where I’ll be taking career questions and giving live coaching help, right on the call.

So join me January 19th, Noon EST and register, even if you can’t make it live. All registrants will receive an email after the event with the video replay and training slides.

Visit https://kathycaprino.com/fasttrackwinter2022 and register now! I hope to see you there!

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

Join Kathy’s new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of one key career, leadership or personal growth topic that is essential to understand and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics that are the most sought-after by Kathy’s readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals she hears from globally each year.

January’s issue is a perfect companion to today’s episode, as it covers The Top Ten Things People Want Most But Struggle To Get (and How To Get What You Want). There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll join me now in this program and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

___________________________________________________________

Other resources mentioned:

All of His Michael’s Books

His Podcast & YouTube Channel

Michael’s Free Course, The Year of Living Brilliantly

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World by Jacqueline Novogratz

Sponsor Highlight

I’m thrilled that both Audible.com and Amazon Music are sponsors of Finding Brave! Take advantage of their great special offers and free trials today!

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“For me, there’s an essence of coaching which asks where you can stay curious a little bit longer. Can you rush to action and give advice a little more slowly? [6:10]

“Part of why people would hire you if you’re a coach is because you’ve seen stuff, done stuff, and know stuff. It’s kind of rude not to share what you think could be of best service to that client.” [8:11]

“I want people to be ambitious for themselves and for the world. I want them to be the best version of themselves, but I also want them to contribute to a better world.” [14:07]

“I’m wired in a way that I’ve always been self-confident, and I’ve always had a willingness to zag when other people zag.” [19:58]

“I’m just trying to get people started. I can’t take them to the end of the journey, because the journey will evolve and change, but can I get them across the threshold in taking the first steps.” [28:08]

“Ask yourself what minimum success looks like, but you’re also allowed to dream about what big success looks like as well.” [31:28]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Rnd a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING WOMEN TO SUCCEED?

IF SO, PLEASE ASK YOUR HR LEADER TO SPONSOR THE MOST POWERFUL YOU COURSE/TRAINING FOR EMERGING FEMALE LEADERS IN YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY!

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now being translated into Chinese, Arabic and Polish, and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“Feeling connection is the same whether I’m in front of an audience with a guitar, or behind a desk talking to someone about what they’ve done the last 40 years. As a corporate executive, you have to connect with people and then pick up that thread and pass it along to someone else.” – Tony Vlahos

As we have just celebrated the holidays and are beginning another chapter in a brand new year, once again I’ll be sharing my “Holiday Picks” selections, featuring some of the top Finding Brave episodes that have previously aired, to help you have even more bravery and motivation to pursue your most exciting goals in 2022.

Today we look back on a powerful episode from October 2019, where our guest revealed how your personal story and the difference that you can make with it is something that can set you apart from others. He also shared the way that storytelling your career can be your secret competitive advantage, and how stand-out brands and the compelling stories those brands communicate are deeply connected to each other. And he reveals the components of a riveting story that you can use to craft your story and growing your own brand today.

Tony Vlahos is the Chief Storyteller and Head of Brand and Partnerships (aka CMO) of ExecuNet, one of the most trusted brands in senior-level executive job search and a premier destination for high performers who want to stay on top of their game in the world of work, as leaders, and as a matter of wellbeing.

Since Tony joined the company in 2007, membership has grown exponentially, through meaningful marketing stories that capture attention, entertain, enlighten, and persuade all in the course of just a few minutes. The past several years the ExecuNet brand has also come to be known as the Storytelling Capital for Individual Executives seeking compelling ways to set themselves apart in the corporate world and achieve greater results in their careers and in business.

The impactful strategies that Tony presents here will change how you talk about yourself, and allow you to more fully embrace and value all of who you are, which will be the quickest path to your ultimate success.

Highlights from this Episode:

• What role having a creative soul has played in Tony’s career [4:30]
• What is storytelling as it relates to having a brand, and the ways that he and the team at ExecuNet help each of their clients do this [5:15]
• The essential components that make up a story, including what Tony means when he says “a story needs soul” [5:58]
• What he feels is getting in the way for men to tell a powerful, riveting story about themselves [10:50]
• Why it’s so tough to craft a story on your own, and how you can connect with others to help you in this process [18:25]
• What not to do when telling your story and the common mistakes Tony is seeing people making with theirs [27:29]
• Why it’s dangerous to make assumptions about what others know about you and your brand, just from reading your resume or LinkedIn profile [29:35]
• The formula for building an effective LinkedIn profile that truly conveys your story and brand, and what Tony means when he says that “positioning is about sacrifices” [30:34]

For More Information:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyvlahos/

https://www.execunet.com/

avlahos@execunet.com

Resources Mentioned:

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

Join Kathy’s new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss for an in-depth exploration each month of one key career, leadership or personal growth topic that is essential to understand and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics that are the most sought-after by Kathy’s readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals she hears from globally each year.

January’s issue is a perfect companion to today’s episode, as it covers The Top Ten Things People Want Most But Struggle To Get (and How To Get What You Want). There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll join me now in this program and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

___________________________________________________________

Other resources mentioned:

Episode 60: How to Crack the Funding Code for Your Startup, with Judy Robinett

Kathy on Network of Executive Women Leadership Summit

Kathy’s LinkedIn Webinar, Polish Your LinkedIn Profile For Success

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“I completely agree that you can’t tell a great story without a lot of soul.” [4:31]

“What’s your leadership story? How are you telling people about who you are and the difference you can make for them?” [6:30]

“The vulnerability of the human can make all the difference in the difference that you want to make.” [9:43]

“Having that shared experience between the storyteller and the listener is critical, otherwise you’re just telling it to yourself.” [10:53]

“Embrace it. Don’t be afraid to say that you did what you did. The best stories are credible, and if you really did it, there’s a way to deliver that message.” [27:39]

“They’ll hire you because they like you and they believe you can do the job, but you have to show up and be you on purpose. If you’re not doing that, they’re going to hire someone else.” [34:13]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

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Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now translated into Chinese and Arabic and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader Journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“You just have to believe that there’s a higher version of you that you can tap into and that can access higher-level wisdom, insight, solutions, strategies, people, and connections. If you believe it, and if you believe it strongly, it’s amazing what happens in your life.” – Kathy Caprino

As we approach the end of another year, once again I’ll be sharing my “Holiday Picks” selections, featuring some of the top Finding Brave episodes that have previously aired, to help you enter 2022 with even more bravery and motivation to pursue your goals.

Today, I’m excited to bring you an episode from late 2018, where I shared a helpful year-end strategy of reflection — the process of reflecting back on the past year in an in-depth, careful and probing way, exploring all that you’ve learned and experienced, created, and also “failed” at — as an effective step to get clearer clear on what you really want in your life.

This reflection process helps you connect in a powerful, juicy way with your ultimate dreams and desires, and it highlights where you’ve been living “off course” – far away from what your most authentic self really wants.

In this episode, I explore what I’ve found to be six essential reflection questions that are perfect for this time of year, to help us take stock, expand our gratitude and appreciation for all that we are today, and set the wheels in motion for shifting our approach to how we operate, communicate, and engage with others and with our core challenges and power gaps. This reflection process hatches important new revelations, and sets the stage for a brand new future.

As always, be gentle and compassionate with yourself as you reflect, and remember that everything that’s happened can be used to bolster and uplift you, if you let it.

At the end of the show, I sing a little song to welcome in the New Year, from my heart to yours.

I’d love to hear how your answers to these six questions impact you. And I welcome your suggestions for any future topics or interviewees that you’re interested in. Please reach out to me by email, or on social media via LinkedIn, or on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and say hello and share your ideas!

I wish you and your family very Happy Holidays and I’m looking forward to serving you fresh, new episodes of Finding Brave in 2022 that will move you forward to create life and work as you dream it to be.

Happy New Year!

Highlights from this Episode:

• The benefits of reflection and what it can help you achieve these next 12 months [2:45]
• What our lives are giving us, but we often miss [6:14]
• Why you need to celebrate all of your wins, no matter how small you may think they are [7:48]
• What I tell myself when things don’t seem to be working out for me and how we can reframe our experiences to benefit from them [11:40]
• Why we need to focus on so much more than just outcomes [12:30]
• Visualization truly works – here’s an exercise that I do [16:40]
• What is your “higher self” and how you can receive help from it [19:45]
• What is one thing that is needed to overcome your resistance [23:54]
• The reasons that accountability is needed and where we can get it [25:23]
• The power gaps that keep people from thriving in their lives and in their work [26:46]
• How you can move past a traumatic event and finally let it go [32:07]
• My theme word for the year and an invitation for you to create one as well [32:42]
• A little song for you to welcome in the New Year [34:46]

For More Information:

kathy@kathycaprino.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathycaprino/

https://www.facebook.com/ElliaCommunications/

https://twitter.com/kathycaprino

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Resources Mentioned:

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

I’m thrilled to share the publication of our new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss! Each month, this newsletter offers an in-depth exploration of one key career, leadership or personal growth topic that is essential to understand and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics that are the most sought-after by my readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals I hear from globally each year.

Every issue offers a selection of the MOST read articles that I’ve written on the key topic of the newsletter — from my Forbes column, LinkedIn platform and personal blogs — which have garnered over 35 million views and thousands of comments and requests for follow-up, hands-on support.

December’s issue is in perfect alignment with today’s episode and covers How to Build more Confidence, Self-Esteem, and Power in Your Career Today. There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll join me now in this program and get this issue delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Other resources mentioned:

Episode 50: How To Reduce Pain and Conflict With Family and Friends This Holiday

Amazing Career Project Module – The Lessons Life is Trying to Teach You and Why You’re Not Learning them

Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain

Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power and Purpose

46: 7 Damaging Power Gaps That Keep You From Thriving in Life and Work

Kathy’s Forbes post on How To Stop Staying ‘I’m Sorry’ When You’re Not (And Why You Need To)

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“Nothing is wasted — everything you’ve learned and everything you’ve experienced, even if you’ve fallen flat on your face, is useful. What we want to do is leverage everything we’ve been, done, and learned, and then build on that for the next chapter.” [4:09]

“You can’t just be grateful for the amazing stuff. It helps propel you forward when you can also be grateful for the difficult stuff.” [5:06]

“I am a fan of helping people realize they do have an idea of what they want. They absolutely do, but they just don’t recognize that as a valid idea.” [13:11]

“I get a lot of juice out of turning my mess into a message. Could you?” [14:48]

“Envision what would be a happier, more abundant, prosperous, successful and joyful experience. See yourself with all your senses in it and I promise you that paves the way for it to come to pass.” [20:18]

“What habit can you build that’s going to help you get to where you want to go?” [26:45]

“If you isolate and you won’t ask for help, you’re never going to get it and you’re going to stay stuck.” [30:02]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

FINALLY, PLEASE ASK YOUR ORGANIZATION TO BRING THE MOST POWERFUL YOU TRAINING TO YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now translated into Chinese and Arabic and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader Journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“Self-pity is when you exaggerate how bad your life is. When you start to get helpless, hopeless, and you think there’s no hope and life can never get better, you dig in your heels and stay stuck. So if you say you are going to work on not feeling sorry for yourself, instead say that you’re going to work on gratitude. That’s one really simple way to start changing your life and building mental muscle.” – Amy Morin

As we approach the end of another year, once again I’ll be sharing my “Holiday Picks” selections, featuring some of the top Finding Brave episodes that have previously aired, to help you enter 2022 with even more bravery and motivation to pursue your goals.

In today’s episode, I bring you one of our most popular episodes, which featured a conversation on what you can start doing right now to change the way you think, train your brain to work for you (not against you), and to build the mental strength that you need to reach your greatest potential.

Amy Morin is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and psychology lecturer at Northeastern University. She’s also an international bestselling author of four books, including 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do (translated into more than 40 languages), 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do, and 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do and her latest, 13 Things Strong Kids Do. The Guardian dubbed her “the self-help guru of the moment” and Forbes calls her a “thought leadership star.”

Her TEDx talk, The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong, is one of the most popular talks of all time with close to 20 million views. She is editor-in-chief of Very Well Mind and a regular contributor to Forbes, Business Insider, and Psychology Today, with articles on mental strength reaching more than 2 million readers every month.

Her advice for building mental strength has been featured by major media outlets, including Fox News, CNN, Oprah.com, Today, Good Morning America, Success, Business Insider, Time, and the Hallmark Channel.

In this episode Amy shares her framework for learning to control your emotions and take positive actions, which will result in you taking back your power. Amy is someone who is not only inspirational as a wonderful therapist, but as a writer and influencer in the way that she crafts her messages, which is why I’m so excited to bring you this conversation with her today.

Interestingly, we recorded this well before the global pandemic hit, but each insight that Amy shares can be used today, to help us cope and even thrive through these very trying times.

Highlights from this Episode:

• What led Amy to the work she does, and why she chooses to focus on what not to do in order to build mental strength [5:51]
• How to know what mental strength looks like, plus the ways that it differs from mental health [9:38]
• The real reason a lot of people stay in “victim mode” [13:03]
• Amy’s simple steps for building your mental muscles that anyone can do right now [16:08]
• How to consciously stop feeling pity for yourself, and why asking for help is absolutely essential in the journey to build mental strength [19:35]
• Why Amy feels that her message has resonated with so many people [26:53]
• One particularly unhealthy habit to start watching for [28:34]
• The ways that Amy’s life has changed since originally writing her blog post and books, and how she is now helping so many people by sharing her knowledge [30:31]

For More Information:

https://amymorinlcsw.com/

https://www.instagram.com/amymorinauthor/

https://www.facebook.com/AmyMorinAuthor

https://twitter.com/amymorinlcsw

Resources Mentioned:

NEW!: Kathy’s new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

I’m thrilled to share the publication of our new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss! Each month, this newsletter offers an in-depth exploration of one key career, leadership or personal growth topic that is essential to understand and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics that are the most sought-after by my readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals I hear from globally each year.

Every issue offers a selection of the MOST read articles that I’ve written on the key topic of the newsletter — from my Forbes column, LinkedIn platform and personal blogs — which have garnered over 35 million views and thousands of comments and requests for follow-up, hands-on support.

December’s issue is in perfect alignment with today’s episode and covers How to Build more Confidence, Self-Esteem, and Power in Your Career Today. There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll join me now in this program and get Issue #2 delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Other resources mentioned:

All of Amy’s Books

Her Viral Blog Post, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do & TEDx Talk, The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“When we talk about mentally strong people, we often look at Navy Seals or elite athletes, but what does it look like to be a strong woman?” [2:55]

“What’s the worst habit you have? What counter-productive thing are you doing? When we get rid of that, all of your hard work becomes much more effective. I saw it work, so then I applied it to my own life.” [6:42]

“It’s much easier to think you’re a victim of a cruel world and the cruel people in it rather than you have the power to change your life.” [14:20]

“I’m a huge fan of finding a community. If you want to be strong, you have to surround yourself with strong people.” [23:20]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

FINALLY, PLEASE ASK YOUR ORGANIZATION TO BRING THE MOST POWERFUL YOU TRAINING TO YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now translated into Chinese and Arabic and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader Journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you personally and for the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your leaders, supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

And as always, please feel free to join the course directly!

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“It’s about balance, isn’t it? We’ve got to be able to spend money on ourselves without feeling guilt, shame, or judgment, but we also have to understand that we need to be able to save for our future self too. It’s about getting the balance between the two.” – Catherine Morgan

Today’s Finding Brave features the second of our two-part series on building financial wellbeing into your life and work, and in this episode, our expert guest shares more on how our beliefs around money are formed, the differences in how men and women view money, where people in relationships often go wrong when talking about this subject, and so much more.

Catherine Morgan is a multi-award winning qualified Financial Planner and award-winning Certified Financial Coach, on a mission to reduce financial anxiety and increase financial empowerment and resilience for 1 million women around the world. Featured in Business Leader as one of the top 32 female entrepreneurs to look out for, she is host of the top 1% global podcast –‘In Her Financial Shoes’ – and founder of The Money Panel ®.

After almost losing her son at 5 weeks old to meningitis and spending years in “debt shame” cycles, she became determined to help women to release the guilt and shame they attach to money and change the financial services profession from one that is focused on products to a focus on behavioral change, which is transformational.

Catherine is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, The Woman I’m Becoming: Reflections to Empower the Females of Our Future and her latest book, It’s Not About the Money: 3 Steps to Become a Wealthy Woman, which was released in December 2021.

As Catherine reveals, like life, our relationship with money is an internal job first. If you fail to recognize (or ignore) the need to do the internal work — including serious introspection and evaluation — around your money situation, you won’t be able to generate the results that you truly desire.

We would love to hear your questions and feedback on both this episode and last week’s show, and we hope this information helps you move forward in leading a richer, more fulfilling and rewarding life.

Highlights from this Episode:

• More great tips from Catherine for creating a desires list [4:22]
• How your desires may actually be right in front of you right now, and examples from both of our lives of this happening [7:14]
• A common money block that our ego often contributes to [9:00]
• Why men and women often clash around the topic of money [12:58]
• A look at how our core beliefs around money are formed [16:53]
• An experience that Catherine had as a young child that contributed to money blocks she later needed to overcome [18:13]
• How the work she does contributes to the financial independence of women, in particular [20:07]
• The “secret” for creating more financial, and general, wellbeing in your life [23:38]

For More Information:

Latest book, It’s Not About the Money : 3 Steps to Become a Wealthy Woman

https://catherinemorgan.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-morgan/

https://twitter.com/themoneypanel

https://www.instagram.com/catherinemorganmoney/

https://www.facebook.com/themoneypanel/

Resources Mentioned:

NEW!: Kathy’s brand new digital newsletter subscription program “Your Path To Career Bliss”

I’m thrilled to share the publication of our new monthly newsletter Your Path To Career Bliss! Each month, this newsletter offers an in-depth exploration of one key career, leadership or personal growth topic that is essential to understand and master if you wish to build a happier, more successful and rewarding career or business. These are the topics that are the most sought-after by my readers, clients, course members and thousands of professionals I hear from globally each year.

Every issue offers a selection of the MOST read articles that I’ve written on the key topic of the newsletter — from my Forbes column, LinkedIn platform and personal blogs — which have garnered over 35 million views and thousands of comments and requests for follow-up, hands-on support.

December’s issue is in perfect alignment with today’s episode and covers How to Build more Confidence, Self-Esteem, and Power in Your Career Today. There are two affordable tiers of the program to choose from, depending on the level of hands-on help you want.

I hope you’ll join me now in this program and get Issue #2 delivered right to your inbox! The first issue of your subscription is FREE and you can cancel at any time. CLICK HERE to learn more and claim your FREE issue today.

Thank you and I can’t wait to help you on Your Path To Career Bliss.

Order Kathy’s book The Most Powerful You today!

In Australia and New Zealand, click here to order, elsewhere outside North America, click here, and in the UK, click here.

If you enjoy the book, we’d so appreciate your giving the book a positive rating and review on Amazon! And check out Kathy’s digital companion course The Most Powerful You, to help you close the 7 most damaging power gaps in the most effective way possible.

Submit your audio “Ask Kathy” questions here: https://findingbrave.org/ask-kathy

Kathy’s Power Gaps Survey, Support To Build Your LinkedIn Profile To Great Success & Other Free Resources

Kathy’s TEDx Talk, Time To Brave Up & Free Career Path Self-Assessment

Kathy’s Amazing Career Project video training course & 6 Dominant Action Styles Quiz

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Other resources mentioned:

Catherine’s Membership, The Money Circle

Her Facebook Group, The Money Panel ®.

Catherine’s Podcast, In Her Financial Shoes & YouTube Channel

The Initiative for Financial Wellbeing

Episode 205: Part 1: How To Build Financial Wellbeing Into the Heart of Your Life and Work, with Catherine Morgan

Kathy’s Forbes interview with Catherine, How To Experience Greater Financial Well-Being By Addressing Your Internal Blocks to Money

Bronnie Ware’s Appearance on Finding Brave

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“Often, when we really have to dig deep for our desires, those tend to be the most important ones.” [5:25]

“It’s not just about how much money we have, it’s about what we need that money for that’s going to mean we can feel aligned, not misaligned.” [7:18]

The way that we feel about money tends to be one of two things. It’s either driven by the need for love, or the need for security and status.” [9:40]

“The ego seeks validation because it wants to feel safe, and that’s your brain’s ultimate goal.” [12:37]

“We can’t change what’s happened. We can’t change our surroundings or what went on around us, particularly as children, but we can go back and change the perception.” [17:51]

“This is about creating independence for yourself, not codependence, especially for women.” [20:07]

“I’m making decisions that are right for me as an individual. We need to address financial goals separately before we do it in a relationship [with someone else].” [20:47]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

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FINALLY, PLEASE ASK YOUR ORGANIZATION TO BRING THE MOST POWERFUL YOU TRAINING TO YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now translated into Chinese and Arabic and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader Journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you and the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

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“How much money we have doesn’t make us a better or worse person, but the beliefs that we carry and the meaning that we attach to money is then what we attach to our sense of self.” – Catherine Morgan

Experiencing deep stress, anxiety and confusion around our financial situation is something so many millions of people are struggling with today, or have experienced in the past. With the holidays approaching, I believe it’s a perfect time to explore this topic further, to gain greater awareness of what we can do to expand our financial wellbeing now and in the months to come. Today’s Finding Brave guest shares why we are all deserving of wealth, and shares key mindset shifts and action steps to take to begin building more wealth and achieving true financial wellbeing.

Catherine Morgan is a multi-award winning qualified Financial Planner and award-winning Certified Financial Coach, on a mission to reduce financial anxiety and increase financial empowerment and resilience for 1 million women around the world. Featured in Business Leader as one of the top 32 female entrepreneurs to look out for, she is host of the top 1% global podcast –‘In Her Financial Shoes’ – and founder of The Money Panel ®.

After almost losing her son at 5 weeks old to meningitis and spending years in “debt shame” cycles, she became determined to help women to release the guilt and shame they attach to money and change the financial services profession from one that is focused on products to a focus on behavioral change, which is transformational.

Catherine is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, The Woman I’m Becoming: Reflections to Empower the Females of Our Future and her latest book, It’s Not About the Money: 3 Steps to Become a Wealthy Woman, which was released in December 2021.

This is such an important topic, and the conversation with Catherine touches on such critical aspects around money, that we decided to air the entirety of the episode in two parts. Please make sure to tune in next week to hear more on how you can strengthen your financial wellbeing as we head into a brand new year!

Highlights from this Episode:

• Why financial wellbeing is such a tricky concept to define for most people [6:04]
• A simple reframe for thinking about financial wellbeing, and a metaphor that can help put it into perspective [7:44]
• One of the biggest struggles that small business owners will have around money [11:40]
• A time that Catherine faced a struggle in her business, and the mindset shift she had to make to get past money blocks that she was facing [20:01]
• The difference between shame and guilt, and the very first question you can ask yourself to shift your emotions around money [26:24]
• Catherine’s tips for dealing with the opinions of others, plus why she’s such a big fan of “The Law of Subtraction” [30:48]
• How you can approach financial goal setting as you enter the new year [32:49]

For More Information:

Latest book, It’s Not About the Money : 3 Steps to Become a Wealthy Woman

https://catherinemorgan.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-morgan/

https://twitter.com/themoneypanel

https://www.instagram.com/catherinemorganmoney/

https://www.facebook.com/themoneypanel/

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Other resources mentioned:

Catherine’s interview with Kathy on Forbes.com – How To Experience Greater Financial Wellbeing By Addressing Your Internal Blocks to Money

Catherine’s Membership, The Money Circle

Her Facebook Group, The Money Panel ®.

Catherine’s Podcast, In Her Financial Shoes & YouTube Channel

The Initiative for Financial Wellbeing

The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment by Maria Nemeth

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QUOTES FROM TODAY’S SHOW:

“I think our biggest challenges that we have with money are that we attach our sense of self and our worthiness directly to money.” [6:52]

“[Financial] wellbeing is going back to separating our sense of self away from money.” [7:44]

“What would happen if you had more income and that extra income would enable you to help more people and create more income?” [20:45]

“The cycle I was stuck in was that I could make money, and I was quite a manifester, but I couldn’t keep hold of it because the meaning that I attached to keeping hold of it was [one of] greed.” [25:09]

“How can you leverage your time better? Time is the one asset that we can’t create more of.” [31:42]

“How much money is involved for you to create your desires? You’ll often find that the biggest desires we have in life don’t actually cost us anything.” [36:50]

Watch video versions of my interviews on Finding Brave!

Don’t forget – you can experience each Finding Brave interview episode in both audio and video formats! Check out new and recent episodes on my Youtube channel at YouTube.com/kathycaprino. And please leave us a comment and a thumbs up if you like the show!

Please share your positive ratings and reviews!If you enjoy the show, we’d be so very grateful for a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! These great ratings help us reach more and more people who are interested in boosting their careers, businesses, and their leadership, and keep in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts in the U.S. and around the world and in the top 1.5% of over 2.6 million podcasts! Thank you!

FINALLY, PLEASE ASK YOUR ORGANIZATION TO BRING THE MOST POWERFUL YOU TRAINING TO YOUR WORKFORCE TODAY

Is your organization committed to supporting the growth and success of both women and men in your workforce? If so, do they offer opportunities for powerful hands-on career growth and leadership training that addresses the real-world challenges that professional women face in the workplace and in their careers that are often different from what men typically face?

I’m so thrilled that recently, a division of the United Nations recently sponsored several memberships to The Most Powerful You course for their staff members and what a powerfully supportive move that is, to bring real-world effective career and leadership training to professionals in their work cultures, to help them thrive and succeed and the highest level possible in their work and projects.

Coaching so many professionals and leaders as I do each year, I see that leadership and career growth training programs today are so often NOT effective because they simply don’t go deep enough to address what really holds us back from thriving, believing in ourselves, recognizing our talents and abilities, communicating effectively, asking for what we need, saying “STOP!” to mistreatment, building a great support community, and making the true impact we long to.

I’d like to make this request of you today:

Please take a look at what I’m teaching in The Most Powerful You course, which is the digital companion course to my book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss, now translated into Chinese and Arabic and designated a top leadership book by the Leader to Leader Journal and among the TOP 5 books for productivity, confidence-building, addressing stress and burnout, helping new grads make a “dent in the Universe” and more by The Next Big Idea Club.

If you feel that this content — about 7 most damaging power gaps that prevent 98% of women and 90% of men from reaching their highest potential and most rewarding goals and how to close those gaps for good — would be helpful for you and the people at your organization, I hope you’ll ask your supervisors, HR leaders, DEI managers and Learning & Development staff to sponsor memberships of this course for you and other staff, so you can all thrive at the highest level in your roles and organizations.

Thank you so much and here’s to becoming The Most Powerful You!

OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS POST: Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

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