Are you ready to ditch your fears about your future? In this episode, you’ll learn how to transform your thinking to move you from a place of self-doubt to self-confidence when it comes to your future and success. We’ll dig into the concept of futurist thinking and discuss how you can cultivate this skill to transform your life, become more growth-oriented, and stop playing it safe!
What’s In This Episode:
What is Futurist Thinking
How to think like a Futurist
How to embrace change
How affirmations work
Why affirmations are important
Do you know how to use negative feedback as fuel for success? Here's the truth: Having negative thoughts is normal, and you're bound to get some hate mail now and then. But instead of feeding into all that negativity, why not own it? In this episode, we'll talk about how to turn negative thoughts around, plus my tips for using negative feedback as fuel for success!
What’s In This Episode:
How to use negative feedback as fuel for success
Types of thinking
What is a negative thought loop?
How to break out of a negative thought loop
Changing negative thoughts
Are you willing to have hard conversations? Those deep, uncomfortable discussions are SO important. You have to make a conscious effort to engage in these conversations with everybody in your life but especially your loved ones. That’s why I brought John back on the show to talk about our experiences with personal growth and how to strengthen your relationships by getting to the root cause of your core arguments. You’ll learn how to clearly ask for what you want, plus our tips for uncovering the truth from the lies that we tell ourselves.
What’s In This Episode:
What is personal growth
Why personal growth is important
How to uncover your core arguments
Tips to help you build better relationships
What if I told you that what you think doesn’t matter? It’s true. Here’s the thing: what you think isn’t nearly as important as HOW you think. Understanding your thoughts and where they come from is crucial. In this episode, you’ll learn the importance of actively engaging with people whose opinions differ from your own and how we can change the world by creating more understanding and less division.
What’s In This Episode:
What is a habit loop
How to clearly define your opinions
How to hold space for people who think differently
Who is it you want to be? Here's the thing: It's time to step into your truest self and understand and acknowledge your own beliefs and opinions. The changes you want to see in our world can and will not happen until you do. In this episode, we'll explore how to meaningfully engage with those around us so that we can build bridges and create the harmony we all desperately need. It's time to stop dismissing one another and start opening up more seats at the table, and it starts right here with you and me.
What’s In This Episode:
What a conscious conversation is
Why you need to step into your authentic self and embrace your own beliefs and opinions
How to engage with people whose opinions differ from yours (and why it's necessary)
The big opportunity for growth that we are all faced with and how to embrace it
Why is it SO difficult to step into ourselves authentically and to see ourselves, our goals, and our visions as worthy? We’re digging into the importance of communication this week and how learning more about your communication style and preferences (and those of others!) is critical to achieving your goals and earning the success you want. I also discuss the importance of standing in the seat of your own power AND share two momentum builders to get you started!
What’s In This Episode:
Why people hesitate to communicate
The importance of speaking your mind
How to build confidence as a leader
How to tap into your leadership voice
What lessons can you learn from your past? Better yet, how can your past help you shape a brighter, more successful future? This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Mary Marantz, a Yale Law School graduate, podcast host of The Mary Marantz Show, speaker, and author of the book Dirt. During our chat, we focus on Mary's unique background as a girl growing up in rural West Virginia, and how her family and its history inspired Mary to rise to the top and claim success on her own terms. We explore Mary's approach to dealing with Imposter Syndrome and her advice for leaning into your vulnerability as a way to inspire and connect with others.
What’s In This Episode:
How to use your past to shape a more successful future
Leaning into your vulnerability to inspire and connect with others
How to overcome Imposter Syndrome
Mary’s advice for embracing a positive mindset
Why is it such a challenge to view ourselves as experts? I see this happening with so many brilliant women that I look up to, that I recognize as experts, and I know this is something many of us experience. We women all seem to readily struggle with accepting the accolade of being an expert in our respective fields. In this episode, I'm talking about what happens when we hesitate to call ourselves experts, and how we can learn to step up and embrace that title for ourselves once and for all!
What's In This Episode:
What really happens when you hesitate to call yourself an expert
Why you have to allow your light to shine brightly
How to step up as the expert in your field and own that status
Momentum builders to help you step into your expertise
How confident do you feel about going after whatever it is that you want in life? Hesitation will completely hinder you from living the life you dream about. That’s why I am so passionate about today’s episode because when you stop hesitating and get the confidence to chase your dreams, it is truly life-changing. You have to stop believing that you don’t deserve the promotion because you don’t check off every single box. In this episode, I am talking about the “confidence gap”, overcoming the unwritten rules that many women fall victim to in the workplace, and sharing a few momentum builders to help you overcome your hesitations.
What’s In This Episode:
What is the confidence gap
How the confidence gap affects you
How to give yourself permission to get what you want
How to overcome hesitation
Since this season has been all about strategies for success, I knew that I had to have on Greg McKeown for a conversation. Greg is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism, and founder of McKeown Inc., a company with a mission of teaching Essentialism. In this episode, we talk about what it really means to be an essentialist and the steps you can take to find out what’s truly essential for you. He shares advice for actively pursuing the things that serve you and renegotiating what doesn’t!
What’s In This Episode:
What it means to become an essentialist
Greg’s advice about the success trap that many people fall into
Discovering what doesn’t matter or serve you anymore
The importance of actively renegotiating in your life
In this episode, I am taking a deep dive into the centuries-old concept of Pareto's Principle. First, I explore some misconceptions that people have about Pareto's Principle (so you can avoid making the same mistakes!). After that, we dig into how you can look at it in a brand new way by learning how to use it as a model to design your own ratio for success based on what productivity looks and feels like to you.
What's In This Episode:
What is the 80/20 rule
How the 80/20 rule is misleading
What is the Trivial Many
How to create your own ratio of success
Having strong systems in place is key to running and scaling a highly profitable and successful business, as much as it’s key to keeping things running smoothly at home. In this episode, I’m not talking about doing more. I’m talking about accomplishing more through systems. We’ll dive into what it means to be a systems-thinker, plus why you have to design systems that are unique to you, your lifestyle, and your definition of success. We’ll also discuss how systems-thinking can help you get to the heart of any problem to finally solve it.
What’s In This Episode:
Freeing up more space for yourself to dive fully into the projects you enjoy
How a slight change in your thinking process will make implementing systems easier
What it means to be a systems-thinker in the world today, and how to go about it
Two things you can do to start implementing systems-thinking right away
How does a 'success addiction' sound? It seems that a lot of us are addicted to the relentless pursuit of success to our own detriment: We do anything and everything we can to get a dopamine hit that comes from checking things off our to-do list, yet we never get much closer to experiencing success on a genuine level. In this episode, I'm talking about the importance of living a life that feels to you personally and professionally. You'll also learn about defining what success looks like for you and how to do it so you can jump off the hamster wheel of success and start pursuing a life you truly want right away.
What's In This Episode:
The big issue when it comes to success
Redefining what success looks like for you
How to find success in your family, emotional, and intellectual life
Did you know that we all have a hidden superpower? We all can craft our own stories and make the world a better place, and that’s by demonstrating kindness toward ourselves and others. In this episode, I chat with Adrienne Bankert, the author of Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You with Anyone. In this episode, she discusses how you are writing your own story and how it’s up to you to author it. She explains what kindness means to her, how kindness has opened doors for her, and how being kind brings out your most authentic, best self.
What’s In This Episode:
Adrienne’s experience of finding the woman she wanted to become
How she learned to be okay with changing the world one person at a time
Why being kind will bring out your most authentic, best self
What Adrienne does to recognize and practice kindness in the world
What is it like to work with someone you’re already close to and have a personal relationship with? After several years of working with my husband John, you could say that I know a thing or two about working alongside someone you have a personal relationship with. For the first time ever, I brought him on the podcast to talk about our experience of running a company together. We talk about what it’s like to have a relationship outside of work and still go to work happy. You’ll hear our tips for making it work, our favorite things about working together, and how it all came about.
What’s In This Episode:
How working along with your spouse (or friend/family member) is just like any other relationship
A conversation they had that changed the trajectory of their lives
Our tips for making it work as business partners
The best things about working together
Cultivating a healthy, strong culture for your team takes intentional work. However, doing this work will pay off tenfold as it will facilitate that environment of success that you want. We’re all vastly unique, and it’s that diversity that beautifully brings together different ideas, perspectives, and opinions on how to achieve your shared goals. But what do you do when tension arises? In this episode, I explored how you can embrace conflict more effectively and with more confidence (while teaching your team to do the same!).
What’s In This Episode:
Reframing the way you think about conflicts among your team
Digging into differences in a healthier, more productive way
How to teach your team to embrace conflict
2 tools to help cultivate that collaborative, motivated team environment you want
As a leader, you can create a strong team that works together to achieve your group’s goals, vision, and North Star. Teams are critical for reaching success, and as humans, we’re designed to work in groups. Our brains are literally wired for it! By seeking out effective people to join and grow your team, you’ll live each day fired up about the people you get to work with (not have to work with!). In this episode, I’m sharing 3 tips for growing a strong team, and why you shouldn’t fall for resume propaganda. We’ll also explore a few momentum-builders to get you started!
What’s In This Episode:
Making sure your team knows and understands the boundaries
The importance of being effective (rather than efficient)
3 tips for creating a strong team
Momentum-builders you can start implementing right away
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Welcome to the Intentional Advantage podcast! You might be wondering why I've decided to make a few changes around here. In this episode, I'll be explaining those changes to you and my reasoning behind them. You'll hear what it means to have an Intentional Advantage, plus what's to come on this season as we embrace strategies for success to help you confidently step into leadership purposefully, intentionally, and mindfully.
What’s In This Episode:
Why I decided to make a shift with the podcast
Revisiting my North Star to make sure I’m aligned
My new purpose statement
What it means to have the Intentional Advantage
Unplug from your job and do it often. There's this misconception in the workforce that busier is better, and it's simply not true. In this episode, I'm exploring why it's critical for you to regularly unplug from work. I talk about the importance of taking breaks, vacations, and time away from your job, plus how doing so can produce better, higher-quality work in less time. I also share a few momentum builders to help you unplug from work mode.
What's In This Episode:
Symptoms of burnout and how to prevent it
How to carve out space in your day to take breaks
Focusing on being happy, healthy, and productive instead of busy
Tuning out of work mode regularly for a renewed sense of energy, motivation, and creativity
Are the messages you’re putting out really embodying what you stand for as a business? At my company, one of the ideas that we’ve really been digging into while working to express our core values has been the “traditional workweek.” In this episode, I am diving into how the standard Monday through Friday, 9-5, came about. I touch on the benefits of reducing your working hours and explore some of the drawbacks you might expect from spending less time working. If you’ve been rethinking what you’ve been told about productivity and the 40-hour workweek, you’ll want to hear this episode!
What’s In This Episode:
Shifting how you look at the 40-hour workweek
The benefits that come from reducing the hours you work
Potential drawbacks in reducing your workweek
Stepping into leadership with confidence takes courage. That's what Pat Flynn exemplified when he was laid off during the 2008 financial crisis. He quickly decided to make a move into entrepreneurship and hasn't looked back since. In this episode, he and I talk about how he's stepped into leadership within his business. He shares how he knew when to add people to his team and the importance of letting team members step up in their roles. We also discuss using Enneagram tests for insight on your team in the workplace (and at home!) and why you need to learn to fail.
What's In This Episode:
Why you need to ask for help earlier than you might think
Pat's advice on knowing when to hire people onto your team
Two driving keywords for life and business
Why you need to learn to fail
Let's be honest, meetings can drive everyone crazy. But the truth is, meetings are an essential part of the workplace. Knowing how to effectively run a meeting with your team can be a game changer for you as a leader. In this episode, I touch on why there's so much animosity toward meetings. I share why meetings are crucial for growth and why you need to look at what outcomes you want from them before diving in. If you're going to start creating more effective meetings for your team, you'll definitely want to hear the tips I share in this episode on infusing fun into the grand scheme of things while working on cutting down the time you and your team spend having them.
What's In This Episode:
Understanding the frustrations behind meetings
The importance of collaborating with others and allowing for different ideas, opinions, and voices to be heard
Examining the outcomes that you want to come from meetings
Creating an environment that's conducive for your business (and team members) to flourish
As a business owner or leader, you're responsible for cultivating motivation within your team. That's why I wanted to bring on two of my very own team members to dive into this topic. I was joined by two of my team members to talk about what we do to create a work culture we love, how we work together toward our shared vision, and what we do to build momentum every week. You'll hear how they make sure to stay on track, plus a few of their ideas of what you can do as a leader to move your business forward. You'll also learn some of the ways we work as a team to achieve our goals, and why team-building and celebrating your wins together is essential!
What's In This Episode:
What my team does for the inkWELL Press and Tanya Dalton brand
Ideas on sharing your vision as a leader and working toward a common goal with your team
How to create momentum and action plans
What to do to build momentum each week and stay accountable
My team's ideas for what people can do to move forward in business
Life doesn’t operate on a fixed timeline. It works in its own unique way. For a lot of us, 2020 has been a whirlwind of emotions. We’ve all had to do some shifting, evolving, and adjusting for our goals. As I’ve had meetings with other women in the business world--each of us in different industries, with different belief systems, religions and races--we’ve had some great conversations around COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter movement. One of my good friends Myoshia, shared some excellent points that I wanted to share with you in today’s episode. I will discuss three steps to committing to change and why you should allow yourself and others to evolve. I’ve appreciated this time of being able to learn, grow, and change alongside my community, and I’m excited for you to listen to this episode.
What’s In This Episode:
There's so much power in Community. A strong, supportive community can drive like-minded women up and forward. In this episode, I am chatting with Kristy Wallace, CEO of Ellevate Network. During our conversation, Kristy and I talk about why she set out on a mission to create a supportive community for women. Kristy also shares why now is the time for women to step up as leaders, and her tips on finding an excellent mentor to guide you on your journey toward your goals.
What's In This Episode:
Why it was important for Kristy to create a network specifically for women
Advice on finding a good mentor
How recent shifts in business will affect women in the workplace
Why now is a great time for women to step into leadership