Bring Your Best: Recent Episodes
Marie Schapp
A place to share what I have learned and how I have navigated the corporate environment as a woman, mom and friend. This is a place where I will bring up relevant topics and questions and share how I would approach or have approached the question. I will bring in people to share their experiences. I will focus mainly on woman in the workplace specifically those with families however they think of their family unit.
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This week I discuss a situation I was faced with when I sent my middle school daughter to her first overnight camp. One major soft skill I want to make sure she learns is resiliency and sticking up for herself. This can also move into the workplace.
Enjoy!
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This week we talk about disappointment at work or home. I tell a story about a current situation I am working thru at work. Hugh also shares with me a mug that I really need! "I will get over it but I need to be dramatic for a minute".
This is a reminder that we all have different ways of working thru disappointment and we have things that stay with us from past experiences that may affect the reaction we have.
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This week we discuss Personal Principles and how our different perspectives may influence a reaction. I tell a fun story about the Peloton and my hubby. I hope you enjoy this dive into the world of how our principles and perspectives show up depending on the situation.
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This week we dive into the idea of self advocacy at work! This is one of my most favorite topics and I bring it in every time I can!!!
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This episode is a solo one where I discuss how we made the decision to buy property and build a house in Texas. Short and sweet and will only take up 30 minutes of your day! Dream big, write it down and tell someone. Dreams are just that until you make the decision to act on them.
www.birdcanyonhomestead.com
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This week was a treat for me. I asked my good friend Alyssa to come and share ideas about Empowerment. We have spent a lot of time talking about empowerment over the years and she is very passionate about this topic. Take a listen and let me know how you would have handled the tomato dicing situation.
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The One Minute Manager: Blanchard, Kenneth and Spencer, Johnson: 8580001042862: Amazon.com: Books
Hugh and I dive into how we define leadership. But first we start with an amazing dad joke. In this episode we talked about how we define leadership in this new way of working. We discuss the topic of people leaving companies for new opportunities vs because of a leader (most common reason before the great resignation). And lastly, we discussed the idea of levels of leadership as written in Jim Collins "Good To Great"
Enjoy!
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Amazon.com: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't (Audible Audio Edition): Jim Collins, Jim Collins, HarperAudio: Audible Books & Originals
We are building a house...and I have a habit to go to the dark side when things are unexpected. I liken it to my internal toddler meltdown. Join me in my exploration of how to calm my meltdown and find the truth.
Biggest question is would the house plan fit. Enjoy!
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https://www.houseplans.com
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Once again, we check in with Hugh on how his new habit is forming. We also talk about evening habits and how we check in with our morning intention and celebrate how successful we were with our goals.
Hope you Enjoy!
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This week Hugh and I talk about Morning habits and how we get ready to start our day with intention each day. We also check in on Hugh's habit that we are tracking. He introduces a tool he found with Outlook and this may be a great tool to add to your ever busy schedule.
I hope you enjoy listening in on our version of starting each day at our Best.
This week we start our series on Habits. I have done lots of research on habits and how they are formed. One book I highly recommend is:
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business: Duhigg, Charles: 8601406381322: Amazon.com: Books
(I do not have any affiliation to this book or author!)
The premise of habit forming comes in a three-part series Cue, Routine, Reward. In this episode we start to talk about forming new habits and recognizing a habit you may want to adjust!
Next week we will discuss some daily morning habits I have formed, and I think may help you bring your best!
Hello, Bring Your Best Friends!
Welcome back. Hugh and I enjoyed much needed hiatus and are back with lots of great ideas for our bring your best podcast.
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This is the last of our series of end of year reflections. I spend some time discussing different options to create a vision board. I even challenged Hugh to share his vision board with us in the new year. There are many ways you can create a vision board so take a moment and listen.
Have a Happy and Healthy holiday and I look forward to Season 2 starting in January.
Here is another way I spend my time reviewing how my year went. I started this process about 5 years ago and have evolved the process. This is one of my favorite ways to think about how I want the next year to go. I shared with Hugh how my review is shared with my family and with my co-workers.
This is part 2 of the activities to do as a new year starts!
Hope you enjoy.
This week Hugh and talk about how to protect your time during the holiday season or anytime you have a lot of activities happening and need to be mindful about how you take on more things. For me this is really important as I think about holiday parties that perhaps did not happen over the last year and how busy weekends make a busy workweek ever more stressful.
This 3 part series really focuses on how I end my year and prepare to start a new year so join us and get ready to bring your best during the holidays!
Part 2....Let's talk about our version of effective communication. We talk about we think about effective communication. I describe two people who I felt were effective communicators for me and why. I also give advice on how to use this information for yourself or team members who are trying to find their communication style.
Take a moment and listen and let us know how we can be better communicators.
Please share and review if you found these episodes helpful or you want to discuss a topic let us know.
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This week we take a little departure from management and teams and talk about vacationing with pre teens. I had an experience while on vacation with my family and I wanted to share some insights on things I learned. This is a short one and I hope helps those out there who are starting to plan vacations.
Please share with anyone you think might benefit from my thoughts!
This week Hugh and I explore a topic around communication and how to support your team members who are in need of communication support. We talk about prepping team members to present and how to encourage their presentation confidence. This is a two part episode as we will dive into what does it mean to be a good communicator.
You also learn a fun fact about Canada 13th year of high school!
As always please like or comment and share with those you think might benefit from our conversations.
Welcome to lucky episode 13...Hugh and I quickly debate the number 13, some fun facts about the number 13 and then dive into what if you find yourself in either the wrong job or the company you are with downsizes.
This was an interesting episode to record as I have only had an experience with one of the two experiences. Hugh unfortunately has been in both spaces and gave really great feedback on how he navigated both.
Hope you enjoy !!!
What If you are in a situation where you have an employee who is in the "wrong job" or if you are in situation that you need to reduce your headcount. Hugh and I jump into two situations I had where I had an employee that was in the wrong job and needed to find a new path. I also had a situation where I had to downsize and needed to remove an employee that I had been leading and saw great potential. If you are in one of these situations or just enjoy our banter please take a listen. If you want to updated when a new podcast loads please subscribe and leave a review.
What does Basketball Foul Shots, Blonde Jokes and Cows have in common? Absolutely nothing except they are in this podcast. Take a little time and listen to Hugh and I discuss, in our first episode of the "what if" series, what if I work with someone I don't like. We had little challenge with some audio connections in the beginning so please keep listening thru the first 2-3 minutes, we are able to get the recording back on track and I think you will really like our discussion.
Disclosure I did say an adult word halfway thru the episode. I will do better as we continue our journey in podcasting.
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Today Hugh and I talk about Speaking with Impact, specifically as a woman. This topic came from a conversation I had with my book club after ready Playing Big by Tara Mohr. According to Tara, there are 10 themes that women do while presenting that can give the impression of lack of confidence or down play the impact. Hugh and I talk about different ways you can speak with impact while stay authentic to how you present your topics. I also showed off my editing skills. Can you figure out what fancy new trick I now have!
This week Hugh takes us down the path of what happens when we get too comfortable. When we start a new job, or meet a new person we tend to bring our most polished self into the relationship. Then over time we start to get more informal and test the boundaries. Hugh gives us the challenge of staying a little uncomfortable in our work or home life.
This week we discuss having a best friend at work and why or why not. I read a recent article posted by Gallup that discusses the idea of a best friend at work and why having a best friend makes you more likely to stay with a company and be more fulfilled. Spend some time with us as we explore the idea of a best friend and why we think it is important to have them.
As many of us are starting to go back into the office and others are choosing to stay home a bit longer Hugh and I dive into how to make this new model successful. We share some tips, some ideas on how we would work through some pitfalls and some funny stories along the way.
Enjoy the journey we take down the Hybrid Success Journey.
This episode I try my hand at chatting with my microphone without Hugh! I discuss going back to work in person, kiddos going back to school, and how to start to prepare for the transition. This will be a four part series. I promise you won't want to miss out on the fun ideas I bring up and the banter I have with myself.
And if you forget all things remember these three:
1. Back to School Vision Board
2. List of Kids changes
3. List of Adult changes
Hugh and I dive into how perspective has started to play a bigger part in the business culture. We discuss how our own perspective has been a hindrance or a help in making decisions or disagreeing with a business or home situation.
Enjoy this months version of Bring Out Your Dead, when I bring out two words I would like to eliminate from presentations. Take a listen to how pausing and preparing for preparations can help with confidence and buy in when you are influencing business partners. I also leave him speechless with a rather funny joke.
In this episode Hugh and I discuss the idea of living into our own value and understanding what we bring to work and home when we allow ourselves to be authentically free. We also might have thrown in a throw back to Mighty Python and a fun child hood story about the 3rd grade and friendship. Enjoy!
Hugh and I dive into Feedback, ideas on how to deliver, approaches that have worked and some fun stories about ways I epically failed my team when I first became a leader. There is also a really fun moment where I talk about Band-Aids and Envelopes.
This Episode is the kick off to my new podcast Bring Your Best. This episode is a little longer than most episodes as Hugh and I spent some time talking about the format, what to expect and learning how to use the equipment! You will get your first "dad joke", get to know Hugh and myself and hopefully be entertained by our stories. Please come back next week for our first topic deep dive...feedback.