Ms. Communication: Career & Beyond: Recent Episodes

Crista Benavidez

The show that shares insights and tips for 100% authentic communication for anyone tired of feeling unheard, being perceived as a b*tch or a jerk, stressing about words, and ineffectively dealing communication challenges.

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In this week's episode, Crista share tips on how to effectively communicate with people you might deem "cranky."

Key takeaways:

  • Self-check! How are you showing up to an interaction? Important questions to ask yourself BEFORE communicating to increase your chances of having successful outcome.
  • Maintain your cool by knowing what to say when someone is yelling and or using profanity.
  • What is your goal for the interaction?  Do you want to resolve the situation or "fix" the other person?  Learn how having a clear goal will improve your results with less stress.

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Marissa Nordstrom, MA, is the founder of the holistic career counseling firm Your Career Concierge and is based in Corrales, NM, on the ancestral homelands of the Tiguex (teh-wesh) Pueblo people. She uses her background in communications, project management, and entrepreneurship, as well as intuitive abilities, to help you articulate your career vision, own your brand, clarify messaging, and frame a professional life based on your priorities. Marissa is an introvert who has overcome many life challenges and knows what it is like to feel stuck. She works best with people who are seeking to live more authentically, use their life for good, and ready to invest in their own transformation. Her business is centered on the values of social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

  • Marissa shares helpful insights on how she listens to her clients and asks specific questions to help guide them toward clarity of their career goals. [1:15]
  • Additionally, learn how she helps her clients listen to themselves to gain confidence and see themselves as the "hero in their own story." [13:08]
  • How does silence serve the purpose of providing wisdom? Marissa explains. [22:14]

Learn more at www.yourcareerconcierge.com.
Contact Marissa: clarity@yourcareerconcierge.com or 505-692-2692

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  • mscommunicationbook.com

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Dr. Barbra Portzline helps business owners close the gap between where their business is and their vision for it.  

Her personal mission is to help businesses owners innovate so they can make more of an impact in our world… and, at the same time…..fall in love with the work they do. 

Using a combination of deep organizational development experience and her intuitive gifts, her work supports a cross-discipline, integrated approach to strategy, which is like no other.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS:

  • Learning to trust your inner voice and stop letting others' voices misguide you [1:14]
  • Ego vs intuition: differentiate between the two for more effective decision-making [10:20]
  • The role of confidence in business growth: how to embrace and love yourself for greater fulfillment personally and professionally [22:00]
  • Tips to start using your intuition: learn about the importance of mercy and grace when starting on your own path toward taking action

For more information about Dr. Barbra Portzline and her work:
www.OrganizationalRebel.com

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  • mscommunicationbook.com

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In today's episode, Crista shares her comments about the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas and questions why, yet AGAIN, something so horrific is allowed to happen. She speaks her mind in a raw and emotion message with the hope that something like this will be prevented from happening again.

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  • mscommunicationbook.com

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Kitt Cowles is an Authenticity and Manifestation Coach with a mission to help
women rediscover their own self-worth and dreams. She helps "well-
seasoned" women shake up their mindset, break patterns of stagnation, and
move past that "stuck" feeling so that they can find happiness again. Part
mentor/teacher and part BFF with a dash of awkward and sass thrown in to
keep things real, Kitt brings her uniquely authentic style to show you how to
rekindle the passion within yourself and create lasting changes so that you
can manifest what you want most out of this one precious life we've been
given.

Your Intuitive Voice--We've all experienced that feeling of just "knowing" something to be true without having any real proof...that's intuition! What else is it and what does it mean to listen to our intuitive voice? Perhaps an even more important question is how do we strengthen it?

Your Authentic Self--We as women often spend many years being all things to all people, but what about ourselves? How do we rediscover our authentic self and why is it so important that we do?

Manifest Your Dreams--You've heard about the Law of Attraction from "The Secret," yet what exactly is it? Can you really turn your dreams into reality?

The Power of Journaling--Want to accelerate your personal growth while strengthening your intuition, authenticity, and manifestation muscles? Journaling is the answer!

Kitt guides you through the answers to these questions and so much more!

Products, services, specials, etc. for show listeners:

~Manifesting freebie and Affirmations for the Empowered Woman subliminal audio file freebie (both available on my website)
~Dig Deep, Grow Strong - A 30 Day Journaling Workbook (e-book available on my website)
~Workshops on Intuition, Authenticity, and Manifestation (get on my mailing list to be alerted when they are offered)
~8 week 1:1 coaching (normally $997; podcast special of $888 through end of May)

Contact Kitt: kitt@wrongturnatalbuquerque.com
Kitt's website: https://wrongturnatalbuquerque.com/

Contact Crista & Share your comments and questions:

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  • ChispasPerformanceSolutions.com
  • twitter.com/cristabenavidez
  • mscommunicationbook.com