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The Feminine Edge
Hosted by Amy Vodarek · EN
Taking a stand to chart a bold course for change takes courage, grit, and a bit of unreasonable optimism, and women are leading the way. This show guides women to harness their ambition to pursue their potential and lead themselves and others to create a fulfilling life and future. Each episode reveals what it takes to go after your vision, dance with feelings of not being good enough, have courageous conversations and take care of yourself and your relationships. Solo shows and interviews do not away from the mud pits of leading change. Guests interviews with visionary women who are on the changemaker path; colleagues and women I admire and learn from offer key strategies to influence change, lead with conviction and shift from success to significance and meaning.
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Undesign to Redesign: Leading Change in Healthcare with Chenny Xia
Dec 22, 202200:45:54Summary readyChenny Xia is an award-winning entrepreneur, designer, technologist, and CEO of Gotcare. After working within the healthcare industry and at multiple innovation consultancies for over a decade, Chenny realised that there needed to be changes made within the healthcare system to better support its workers. This lead to her co-founding Gotcare, a health tech company that is transforming in-home healthcare across Canada. "In order for us to help unburden people from the weight of the system, we need to change a part of the system and be very strategic about how we're intervening." Chenny and her team are passionate about creating a more equitable healthcare system, and are dedicated to making that change one step at a time. Gotcare focuses on people first, providing personalised care to people they serve and livable wages to their care providers. Chenny invites us to examine the broader challenge we face as a society: our relationship with care and caregiving. Specifically, as a society, we don't value care work the same way we value revenue-generating work. We explore the shifts in caregiving, the impact of moving from relationship-based care model to a very transactional-based care model and the questions we can ask to bring care and relationship back into focus. In order to achieve her massive goals, Chenny breaks them down into smaller pieces. She speaks about the importance of believing in the core of what you do, how care plays a crucial part in bringing people together for change, turning past trauma into strength, and the importance of authentic leadership. To learn more about Gotcare, visit www.gotcare.ca. If you're ready to expand your influence and impact in 2023, visit Coach with Amy to learn more about our programs for women leaders and founders.
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Cultivating a Mindset of Growth with Laura Valvasori
Dec 15, 202200:44:40Tap to summarizeLaura Valvasori is a Marketing Foundations Strategist & Mentor for Entrepreneurs and the Owner of Good to Grow Marketing. Leaving her corporate job to pursue self-employment, Laura discovered the shift from employee to entrepreneur is as much a personal growth move as a professional one. In her debut book, Good to Grow, Laura empowers new and seasoned entrepreneurs to cultivate the right mindset and habits to thrive and build a successful business and life they love. She touches on subjects such as the power of intention and how setting your intention can alter your entire work experience. Laura shares the importance of mindset, the power of intention, and how setting your intention can alter your entire work experience. We explore how entrepreneurs can approach challenges such as imposter syndrome, overworking and pushing through when we are depleted, and strategies that support vitality and energy. Join us as Laura explains how developing your mindset is just as important as developing your business. To learn more about working with Laura, visit: www.goodtogrowmarketing.ca To learn more about the book Good to Grow: www.goodtogrowbook.ca
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Interview with Eleanor Beaton. Vision, ambition and a new business model for growth.
Dec 8, 202200:57:19Tap to summarizeYour vision is revealed to you, step by step, insight by insight and thread by thread. Eleanor Beaton shares her magnetic and clear vision for advancing gender equity by helping women entrepreneurs grow thriving businesses. Her vision guides everything she and her team at Safi Media do. She believes women entrepreneurs are the key to advancing global gender equity and a sustainable, healthy planet. As a woman founder and leader, learning to believe in yourself and your envisioned future is an evolving process. Aligning your ambition with commitment, actions and practice, your vision is revealed to you, step by step, insight by insight and thread by thread. Eleanor believes that creating, nurturing, growing and evolving your business is the epitome of the feminine in action. "Ambition is the tug of my soul inviting me to pursue something so that it can manifest more of who it is." Team Safi's mission to double the number of women entrepreneurs who scale past $1M in revenue by 2030 is palpable. So why a million in revenue? Eleanor explains that less than 2% of women-owned businesses cross the million-dollar mark. When a woman's business reaches this revenue milestone, she can build a team, provide employment for others, leverage her impact and build a legacy. At the heart of Eleanor's commitment to advance women entrepreneurs to scale past a million in revenue is the necessary shift in how we think about think business growth. Growth and generating wealth through sustainability rather than through depletion allow us to have vitality and sustainability without depleting critical resources. Safi Media helps women scale their businesses by creating a JEWEL business, women growing through assets versus hustle. The JEWEL business model offers us more time to consider, be intentional, and have time for deep thinking and discernment. Learn more about Eleanor Beaton and Safi Media: Check out the Power & Presence & Position Podcast: Follow and engage with Eleanor on Instagram
Transcribe →Mistakes: Manage the moment and mine the learning
Sep 23, 202200:56:23Tap to summarizeMistakes. If you work long enough, you'll likely make one at some point, especially if you put yourself in positions requiring rapid learning and increasing authority and responsibility. Mistakes usually catch you by surprise, just when you think you've got things humming. Often it's unexpected and realizing you've made a mistake can be crushing. This is a pivotal moment to hold steady to manage the moment effectively. Whether leading in the workplace or your own company, you've got to collect your wits to focus on immediate recovery and then lead the followthrough; not only minimize damage to your company, department and reputation but also mine the learning for valuable insights from the mistake. Mining the learning from mistakes takes courage. To stay with it and not just fix the error but look for opportunities to improve systems, processes and your own skill set. It takes guts to seek input from your team, clients or colleagues, especially those impacted by your error and listen to understand their perspectives. By taking the initiative to go beyond what has to be done and commit to finding a better way forward, you not only expand your capabilities, you add more value to your team and the people you serve.
Transcribe →Complacency is your enemy to growth
Jul 23, 202200:29:46Tap to summarizeComplacency is your enemy! One of the things that can slow down your effectiveness as a leader and in your results is complacency. You got to where you are by becoming an expert in your field, moving into leadership roles or carving out your own path as a business owner. But being an expert will only tak you so far and can derail your ambitions. If you become complacent as a leader, relying too much on your expertise, you will lose enthusiasm and risk the results you want. I walk you through several clues that you may be relying on your expertise and missing opportunities to accelerate your influence, growth, and questions to help you shift from complacency to mastery.
Transcribe →The Power of Effective Delegation
Jun 2, 202200:35:32Tap to summarizeIf you're anything like me, I imagine you've got a lot going on. Projects, hiring team members, putting out fires, keeping the day-to-day on track, and trying to lift your head and keep your team and initiatives on track. You're longing to have more space and energy for yourself and the things that matter. And to do this, you know you need to hand off responsitibity to others on your team. But delegating isn't like handing the baton in the relay. People and projects are complex, and to delegate well, we need to hone some new skills. Learning the skill of effective delegation takes some upfront investment from you. And it's an investment that will pay off exponentially, allowing you to focus on thinking strategically, using your strengths and developing your team's strengths. Avoiding putting in the time to learn to delegate well, your team will be underutilized and frustrated by the lack of opportunity to learn and take on new responsibilities. Learning delegate effectively, you'll want to focus on these Outcome Clarity- essential to know what you want the outcome is of the project or task you're delegating to be. If you don't know what the result is, you can't expect someone else to know either Define and Assess: the skill and capabilities needed to do what you want to be done. Determine the Decision: Decide the authority the person you delegate to will need. Set up the Conversation with the person you've identified as the best person to delegate to and ensure you have uninterrupted time to talk it through. Check-in on Their Capacity: Ask them if they have the time, energy, and bandwidth to meet your quality expectations and timeframe. STAY INVESTED in the person's success to deliver a great outcome Follow up Afterwards- have a conversation, see how it went for the person you delegated to, and provide feedback from your perspective. Delegating is how you develop your team to make and fulfill more complex commitments together. You'll limit overwhelm and free up time to focus on high-value activities, so you can accelerate your results. Let's connect on LinkedIn. Let me know you you listen to The Feminine Edge podcast. Ready to dive in and work with me? Let's talk, apply here. Subscribe and join my community of brilliant women reimagining systems, improving health and changing the game in healthcare. If you love the show, I'd love you to share it with a friend or colleague. Reviews on Apple Podcasts also help other women like you find the show.
Transcribe →From Bootstrapping to Sale: Interview with Mabels Labels Cofounder Julie Cole
Apr 8, 202200:30:39Tap to summarizeJulie Cole is a recovered lawyer, mom of six and co-founder of Mabel's Labels. She helped her company bring their product to a worldwide market, gain media recognition and win countless entrepreneur awards. Mabels Labels early beginnings were humble, starting as many women do bootstrapping and working late hours while the kids are asleep. Julie shares what it takes to start, the messy middle and the learning that comes from growing a business with partners to reach a point to be able sell it. Even if you're not thinking of selling your business, the sage advice from Julie paints a picture of possibilities and will you accelerate your company's growth. Some of the insights we cover are: Know your WHY and create a service or product to fill a gap. Develop and take care of your personal brand. Put yourself out there. Tap into your strengths and keep learning. Hire people and contractors to do the work that's not your unique gift or talent. Learn to leave your ego at the door. Julie's upcoming book, Like a Mother coming out in May 2022. Follow Julie, subscribe to her blog and youtube channel and learn more about Mabels Labels: https://mabelslabels.ca/en_CA/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/8WSvFi2YdAg
Transcribe →Is your relationship with time helping or hindering your success?
Mar 10, 202200:31:55Tap to summarizeSo, what is your relationship with time like? Time and the perception of time are elements of just about every part of our day. It comes up in most of my coaching conversations, and most often, it's about a lack of time, urgency or feeling that time is running our day. Your days are full of service delivery, taking care of your team, clients and all the details of running a business. Finding the time to work on the strategic growth initiatives you know will add value to your clients, team, and business can feel elusive. We can get caught riding on hope for more time to suddenly appear or soothe ourselves in a story that "one-day" time will open up for the things we really want to work on. Rather than remaining caught in feeling powerless, I'm inviting you to reimagine your relationship with time and learn how to create the time we want for our wildly important projects and to take care of the things that matter to us.
Transcribe →Advancing More Women to the C-Suite with Stacy Mayer
Feb 24, 202200:46:23Tap to summarizeHow do we learn to advance our businesses and leadership by leveraging our feminine strengths? Executive Coach and Promotion Strategist, Stacy Mayer, shares how she's integrated her feminine strengths in growing her business and serving her clients. Stacy is passionate about bringing more diversity to senior leadership roles. Her mission is to double the number of women promoted to the c-suite each year worldwide. We discuss the significant internal and external barriers women encounter when advancing their careers. Stacy offers women several key tactics from her recent book Promotions Made Easy: A step by step guide to the Executive Suite, including 15-minute ally meetings, being intentional with our choice of words and owning our accomplishments You can learn more great insights by checking out her podcast Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer. To purchase her book and learn more about her programs visit: https://www.stacymayer.com/ https://www.stacymayer.com/book/
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Elevating Senior Fitness with Emily Johnson, Founder StrongerU Senior Fitness
Feb 3, 202200:38:07Tap to summarizeA passion for elevating senior fitness and breaking down outdated ageism narratives prompted Emily Johnson to make the leap and leave her corporate job to start her own business. Emily is the Founder and Creative Director of StrongerU Senior Fitness and on a mission to innovate and elevate senior fitness globally. Like many women entrepreneurs, Emily's business started as a passion project while still working in her corporate job. When the pandemic hit, watching declining well-being for so many seniors was prompt to decide to leave her job and launch her company. StrongerU Senior fitness is filling a gap by empowering recreation, fitness, wellness professionals, and senior-serving organizations to provide high-quality fitness experience unique virtual training models. Their unique fitness instructor programs provide the foundation for a holistic experience while changing the narrative about ageing and fitness. Learning to run your own company is a steep learning curve. Emily shares her top learning insights and strategies for successfully turning your passion project into an impact-driven, thriving global business. Learn more about StrongerU Senior Fitness: https://www.strongeruseniorfitness.com/
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