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Meet Lauren Collins Scott. Lauren and I sat down right at the start of her first career sabbatical in which she is creating necessary space to reflect and find her next. In today’s episode Lauren not only shares her career journey but also sprinkles in so much wisdom including:
How design thinking taught her skills to navigate ambiguityBuilding support systems around you to be effective in your roleSpeaking up when it mattersHow working as an expatriate in London deepened her empathy to the lived experiences of others and made her acutely aware of the importance of creating a sense of belonging for everyone.And so much moreMost recently, Lauren was the Global Chief Impact Officer for IDEO and prior to that she served as Chief of Staff in the CEO’s Office and Head of DEI where during the global pandemic she found herself not just stewarding collaboration across teams but operating as the tip of the spear in navigating unprecedented challenges.
Lauren is a Fellow of The Aspen Institute and holds an MBA from Wake Forest University.
Connect with Lauren on LinkedIn
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Meet Dr. Soodeh Farokhi, Chief Product Officer for NAKISA, a global leader in HR and Finance B2B software. Just listen to her impressive resume. Among her many accolades Soodeh has founded two successful startups including C2RO, an award winning AI Video Analytics platform. In 2018, Soodeh was named a finalist for the Young Quebec Entrepreneurs Provisional Award, and in 2020 she was a finalist for Canadian Women Entrepreneurs National Award. She is also the co-founder of the Women of MENA (Middle Eastern North Africa) in Tech community (Montreal Chapter), and an advisory committee member of the Women in Leadership Foundation in Canada. She serves as a business advisor and board member for several tech startups and organizations and is a public speaker at product/D&I/startup events. She has a PhD. in computer science from Vienna and an M.Sc., and a B.Sc. in SW Eng.
On today’s episode Soodeh shares her remarkable journey including:
Making the choice to become a citizen of the world and leave her home country of IranNavigating motherhood as the Founder and CTO of a growing tech startupPrioritizing what matters to her mostFinding investors and leaders who aligned with her values and prioritiesThis and so much moreI can’t wait for you to meet this remarkable woman.
Show Notes:
Follow or connect with Soodeh on LinkedInAmy K Musson podcast episodeNeed help uncovering what matters? You can purchase the 2024 Starter Pack. Looking for more hands on experience? Buy the Design Your Year Coaching 4-Pack. which includes the 2024 Starter Pack, 3 1-hour coaching sessions, and 1 Annual Review -
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It's Part 3 of Set Your 2024 Vision series in which we will walk setting goals and initiatives to help you achieve your definition of success.
On today's episode we will cover:
Myth of Self Control and how to make goal attainment easierFocusing on initiatives that are within your controlIf you are interested in additional support to set your vision for 2024 here are additional options:
Download the 2024 Starter Pack. Use code NEWYEAR24 through January for 50% offPurchase Design Your Year Coaching 4-Pack. which includes the 2024 Starter Pack, 3 1-hour coaching sessions, and 1 Annual ReviewListen to Emily Perron's full episode here
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It's Part 2 the Set Your 2024 Vision series in which we will walk through exercises and strategies to help you achieve your definition of success.
Today's episode is all about directional goals. Directional goals allows you to move towards your goal while gathering information that will help you continue to refine it over time. On today's episode we will cover how to:
Avoid escalation of commitment with our goalsGet started on our goals even if we can't see the entire pathway yetCreate your personal directional goalIf you are interested in additional support to set your vision for 2024 here are additional options:
Download the 2024 Starter Pack. Use code NEWYEAR24 through January for 50% offPurchase Design Your Year Coaching 4-Pack. which includes the 2024 Starter Pack, 3 1-hour coaching sessions, and 1 Annual Review -
Happy New Year Tiders!
It's that time of year where we turn the page on a new calendar year in the dead of winter. You are likely coming off putting energy into finishing out the last year strong at work while also managing the holidays and for some of you dealing with having the kiddos home for that week between Christmas and New Years. Somewhere amidst all of this we expect ourselves to create resolutions for the new year and put undue pressure on ourselves to have a plan January 1. Is it really that surprising that most resolutions fail?
That's why this year we are disrupting old patterns. Together we will walk through a series of exercises that help you tap into insights from 2023 and how to leverage those to set your vision for the coming year. And it's kicking off with today's episode where we focus on 2023 reflection. On this episode I'll share how to:
Capture key highlights and learnings from the last yearIdentify the themes or through-lines across your life in 2023Share these findings with othersAdd any catalyst events to your lifeline documentI look forward to jumpstarting the year with you.
p.s. If you are interested in additional support for the exercises here are additional options:
Download the 2024 Starter Pack. Use code NEWYEAR24 through January for 50% offPurchase Design Your Year Coaching 4-Pack. which includes the 2024 Starter Pack, 3 1-hour coaching sessions, and 1 Annual ReviewShow Notes:
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Tis' the season of corporate layoffs. Re-sharing one of the most downloaded podcasts in 2022 with an updated intro for 2023.
You just got fired. Now what?
No matter how it happened, being fired hurts. It feels personal. Whether you want it or not you are forced to make a change. But what if getting fired could be a catalyst? What if this could be the greatest thing to happen for you?
On today's episode we will explore:
This is a loss. What the stages of grief look like after a terminationImportance of sitting in your feelingsRecognizing when you are ready to begin ideating on your next chapterExercises to maximize learningsHow to leverage your insights and network to begin your new chapterExercise Resources:
Postmortem - Pages 4-6Design Your Career Starter Pack (includes QXR Template + Foundations Workbook (use code EOY2023 for 50% off)QXR TemplateBook a QXR 1:1 coaching sessionLinks Referenced in Podcast
When Job Titles Hurt Instead of Help YouToxic vs. Tough Work Environments: Knowing Whether to Stay or GoDr. Jennifer Rittenhouse: Imposterism and the Paths We ChooseHBR: When getting fired is good for your careerThe Power of Regret by Dan Pink -
Meet Ivana Robinson. Ivana began her career as a Risk Advisory Consultant for Deloitte where she quickly realized she had a propensity for the job. After several years on the predetermined career path Ivana sensed she was passively moving through her career rather than actively designing it. Sure she was great at the work and a path to partner was laid out before her. But was this really what she wanted?Then a trip to Antarctica would change everything. On today's episode we discuss:
Ivana reclaimed her careerCriteria Ivana uses to inform big decisionsTuning and trusting her intuitionIvana is a life and leadership coach who provides coaching programs and education to help professionals gain the confidence and clarity to rewrite the rulebook for their life—on their terms. She also is the Co-Founder of Reclaim: The Retreat. The retreat for women and femmes who want to reclaim their lives, happiness, and peace.
Show Notes:
Connect with Ivana on LiinkedInGet Your 2024 Starter Pack - Use code EOY23 to get 50% off -
🎶"It's the most busiest time of year"🎶
The final month of 2023 is upon us. For high achievers it is a landmine of "shoulds". With holiday celebrations, end of year parties, family obligations, social commitments, and looming deadlines it is easy to find yourself surviving until you can recover during your holiday break.
Today's episode is your permission and encouragement to honor what is best for you. We will talk through navigating the burnout FOMO and small ways to start setting yourself up for 2024.
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Meet Tamika Rush, SVP of AMB Sports and Entertainment, parent company to the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United, and Mercedes Benz Stadium. Tameka is one of the foremost leaders on corporate sponsorships in the NFL, her team was responsible for hosting one of the largest Covid-19 Vaccine locations in Atlanta,GA at Mercedes Benz Stadium, and under her tutelage the Falcon’s have risen to #1 in Voice of the Fan. On today's episode Tamika shares the tumultuous journey that ultimately led her to a full-time position at the Atlanta Falcons, including a decision that nearly cost her everything she had spent 7 years working towards. Later in the episode Tameka shares powerful leadership lessons learned through her prolific 17 year career with AMB Sports and Entertainment.
I can’t wait for you to meet this amazing woman. Enjoy!
Show Notes:
Connect/Follow Tameka on LinkedIn43% of Women are burned outAtomic HabitsFailing ForwardDopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of IndulgenceGetting More -
Meet Emily Perron, Emily holds masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and is a Productivity coach, helping creative entrepreneurs, freelancers, and individuals appreciate their unconventional career paths and tap into the power of their unique Zone of Genius
Throughout the first decade of her career Emily found herself on the burnout hamster wheel. Despite changing careers three times she continued finding herself excelling at work and still unfulfilled and exhausted. The root problem was not the career path but instead what inputs she used to define success.
Today’s episode is a special hybrid in which we get to hear Emily’s career journey and learn from her expertise as a productivity coach. We discuss:
The issue with existing goal frameworks for individualsThe danger of chasing what others define as successEmbracing the full power of an unconventional pathAnd so much moreI can't wait for you to meet this amazing woman. Enjoy!
Show Notes:
Connect with Emily on LinkedIn , follow her YouTube Channel - Work Your Way, and follow her on InstagramCurious about Emily's Productivity Coaching? Learn more hereThe Art of Work -
In 2022, women of color received just .8% of venture capital funding. Today’s guest is one of those .8%, raising $3M in 2022 in venture capital from strong investors including Serena William’s VC fund, Serena Ventures.
Barbara Jones-Brown has never been a stranger to defying the odds. When Barbara graduated from the University of Texas in 1998 she was one of only four black computer science graduates. She would go on to be the Lead Technical Developer at 360 Commerce which was later acquired by Oracle and served as the launch of Oracle’s retail division.
Bit by the entrepreneurial bug, post acquisition Barbara would launch a consulting business that would continue to grow and allow her to create job opportunities for marginalized groups. But Barbara had always known one day she would build her own product company. Then a seemingly serendipitous hackathon would birth the idea that would one day become Freeing Returns. Then in 2020, a global pandemic went from nearly destroying her successful consulting business to being the forced change that would accelerate the launch of Freeing Returns.
This is a powerful conversation in which we discuss Barbara’s journey, her strength in building high performing teams, and learning the importance of when to listen to advice and when to ignore.
I can’t wait for you to meet this amazing woman. Enjoy!
Show Notes:
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Have you ever questioned your ambition? Have you ever thought to yourself "I'm just not that ambitious anymore"? Did this usually happen during a time when your career was at a stand still? Or perhaps you weren't interested in growing in your chosen career?
On this episode, I am busting the belief that ambition is restricted to the 9-5 and breaking down how:
The definition of ambition has shifted over the last 60 yearsOur ambition takes different shapes throughout our careerThe absence of ambition may signal something deeprIf you are a high achieving, driven individual who has ever questioned your ambition you won't want to miss today's episode.
Show Notes:
Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of FulfillmentPsychological Context PrincipleBurunda Prince: Paving a Path For ChangePopulaceThink Again by Adam GrantEnd of History Illusion - Quoidbach, J., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2013). The end of history illusion. Science, 339(6115), 96–98.92 Studies - Roberts BW, Walton KE, Viechtbauer W. Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychol Bull. 2006 Jan;132(1):1-25. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.132.1.1. PMID: 16435954.Join the waitlist for Unstuck Yourself: The Process To Meaningful Career Change
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"No one told me I couldn't"
Meet Vishakha Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO of Aperture Data. With a genuine curiosity to understand things, a knack for developing strong relationships with mentors, and a growth mindset Vishakha has done something most founders never will. On today’s episode we will discuss core principles and strengths that have fueled her career and how she approaches the concept of balance as the CEO of a scaling startup and mother of two.
Vishakha holds a Masters in Computers Science from Carnegie Melon and a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
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Meet Heidi Watson, Chief Creative Officer and Fashion Director at Evereve, a contemporary fashion retailer with over 1 million customers, 100-plus stores from coast to coast, a booming e-commerce business, and a fast-growing subscription box service, Trendsend. While Heidi’s career has always been in retail there have been many crossroads in which she had to make a leap of faith. Leaning on her clarity of what was most important at that stage of life and tuning into her intuition Heidi focused on choices that moved her forward. Throughout her career Heidi has been on the forefront of major retail trends including launching women’s activewear at Marshall Fields and serving as a buyer for the newly created e-commerce team at Target. This conversation with Heidi is rich with wisdom on:
Leading high performing teamsBetting on yourselfMaking key decisions based on what is most important to youKnowing your value and communicating what you wantAnd so much moreI can’t wait for you to meet this amazing woman. Enjoy!
Show Notes:
Connect with Heidi on LinkedInEvereve -
Meet Kathryn Farrell, Founder of Scopa Health and praciticing Anesthesiologist Assistant. After getting rejected from every top medical school she applied to Kathryn had to figure out a backup plan and fast. Pivoting to anesthesiology she discovered she enjoyed the challenge of the coursework. Graduating with a masters in Health Services, Kathryn launched her career as an anesthesiology assistant and within 6 short months the excitement quickly dissipated. The flexibility of the work and the generous compensation (not to mention student loans) made it seem foolish to change. So for the next 10 years, Kathryn would scratch the itch for learning by tinkering with different careers including photography, developer, and she even designed, patented, and sold a baby carrier. Each time the experience of learning something new was exciting but she quickly learned it was not what she wanted. Kathryn resigned herself to sticking things out until at the height of the pandemic as an essential worker with a newborn at home she hit her lowest point. She knew it was time to commit to figuring out her future career.
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Connect with Kathryn on LinkedInLearn more about Kathryn's company Scopa HealthKathryn O’Day podcast -
Meet Aletha Burgess. Aletha is the Technology Director for Wells Fargo and former executive at Bank of America where she spent nearly 14 years of her impressive career. Grab your favorite beverage and a cozy blanket because today’s interview feels more like listening in on a conversation between friends. Over the next hour we will discuss:
How understanding her priorities drove Aletha’s career movesEarning promotions after her first two childrenRecognizing the situation you are in and making a decisionValuable leadership lessons from nearly 15+ years in people leadership like seeking to understand when people act in a way that surprises you and remembering that nothing great is achieved aloneThis and so much more. I can’t wait for you to meet Aletha. Enjoy!
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Meet Dr. Kelly Renner, the Program Chair of Psychology and Social Sciences at Franklin University where today she oversees 300+ students, faculty, and curriculum for over 30 sections and is an award winning professor.
Although today Dr. Renner is operating in her zone of genius there were many times along her journey where she felt lost. Despite identifying a deep love for psychology in HS where to apply that passion was often unclear. She would try her hand at sports psychology and mental health counseling only to run into insurmountable barriers that helped her realize these were not her paths. After nearly 15 years, Dr. Renner realized that all of those experiences prepared her for the role she was ultimately meant to do.
On today’s episode, Dr. Renner role models:
Power of saying yes - How being open led her from floundering to figuring it outFind the best next step - Although at times her career challenges did not make sense, each moment developed a skill set she now leverages as Program ChairMaking the time count wherever you areAnd so much moreDr. Renner holds a masters in counseling, PHd in Educational Psychology, and she is a certified professional counselor in the state of Ohio.
I can’t wait for you to meet this incredible woman.
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Between 2019 to 2021 there was a 28% increase in women starting companies resulting in women making up 49% of new companies founded in 2021. On the surface this appears to be a positive trend but if you dig a little deeper this world of startups is riddled with the same power dynamics and broken rungs that stifles women in established organizations.
Knowledge is power. In today's episode I will share data on the realities for success (and funding) for founders, surprising truths about who is starting these companies, and strategies to help you navigate a broken system.
Whether you are thinking about starting a company, are currently building your company, or are curious about the startup world this episode is a must listen.
Show Notes:
Growth in female founders starting companiesAverage Age of Entrepreneur77% of Founders use their personal money for capitalMcKinsey & Co Women in the Workplace studyWomen earning the same or more than their husbands88% of VC decision makers are men1 in 5 unicorns have women in executive leadershipWomen only getting 1.9% of funding75% of VC Backed Fintech companies fail.6% of companies take funding -
Meet Amy Vaughan, CEO of Together Digital, a company focused on educating and empowering women within digital to be their best selves professionally and personally. As the first generation American of immigrant parents, Amy was taught early on she was expected to exceed and take advantage of the American dream. She set out to become a doctor but quickly realized this was not her path. At a loss for what was next, she paused school and began working full-time where she got exposed to the world of graphic design and advertising and she knew this was what she was meant to do. Over the next 13 years she would achieve tremendous success in her field. Then one day Amy began to realize that at some point the incredible career she had built had become misaligned with who she was.
On today’s episode we discuss:
The importance of Seeking mentorship at times of big decisionsRealizing Money and Title do not equal happinessGetting Laid off at 8 months pregnantNumbing through work rather than deal with the knowing that advertising was no longer her pathThis and so much more. Enjoy!
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Connect or Follow Amy on LinkedInTogether Digital 2023 National ConferencePower Lounge PodcastThe Big Leap by Gay HendricksUntamed by Glennon Doyle -
Our lives contain a database of information that tell us what operating in our full potential looks like. The problem is that many of us don't take time to access this data. In today's episode, I talk about a framework I've created to help you do just that. I call it the QXR. This fall, my QXR Intensive kicks off so I wanted to take some time to share research that proves the power of capturing and reflecting upon our past experiences like we do in the QXR Intensive and how you can implement this habit into your life.
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