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Are You Hiding?

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Are You Hiding? on She's Got Moxie with Joy Chudacoff

Are you hiding from your own greatness? I know I’m still working on reaching my peak of greatness and I encourage you to do the same. I want to help women ALIGN and Find Joy Every Day and a big part of that mission is stepping out from behind our own “shadows” to recognize and align with our greatness.

In this episode, I share how my call to greatness has changed with time and how I chose to answer that call. I also talk about ways (and questions) to help you identify the deeper “calling” in your life.

Listen in to learn how to reach your next level of greatness, tips for identifying your call to greatness, and ways to align with your calling.

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Are you hiding behind your shadow?” – Joy Chudacoff

Show Notes:

  • Are you hiding behind your next level of GREATNESS?
  • What’s HOLDING you back?
  • EXCUSES and how to move beyond those
  • The ESSENTIAL Question to Ask NOW (minute 10:51)
  • How to get the ANSWER to the ESSENTIAL Question
  • CLUES to look for when you are Answering “Your CALL”

Are you hiding behind your greatness?” – Joy Chudacoff

Kimberly DeShields-Spencer – Founder & CEO of Behind Her Brand

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Today we’re talking about building a brand with Kimberly DeShields-Spencer, the founder and CEO of four companies: UImpact, Sow.Reap.Harvest, Behind Her Brand, and the UImpact Publishing Group. Kimberly is also a best-selling author, philanthropist, podcast host, and mother.

In this episode, she and I talk about the steps she took to launch a magazine in the middle of the pandemic. We also talk about her mission to inject personality and authenticity into the brands she works with, as she shares that so many women are putting on “masks” every day when they show up to work.

Listen in to learn what a brand really is, why you need one, and which warning signs to look out for if your brand is in decline.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

They are still using yesterday's solutions for today's issues.” – Kimberly DeShields-Spencer

Show Notes:

  • WARNING signs that your brand is taking a Nose Dive
  • Dealing with the reality of “CANCEL “ Culture
  • What a “BRAND” really is
  • Why you NEED a brand
  • QUICK TIPS to determine if your Brand is working
  • HOW to BUILD a Consistent Brand that gets results
  • And much, much, more

Your brand comes down to your voice and how you choose to communicate that.” – Kimberly DeShields-Spencer

Connect with Kimberly DeShields-Spencer:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Behind Her Brand

You can be successful and still have trials.” – Kimberly DeShields-Spencer

Trish Healy – The Mission of Wonder

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When today’s guest Trish Healy read Celia’s (the 12-year-old daughter she and her husband were fostering at the time) wish list and saw she most wanted a sleepover party, it was a life-changing moment. WonderTent Parties was born and now five years later, the business has expanded from sleepovers to events and experiences for both children and adults.

In this episode, Trish shares her struggle to acknowledge that she didn’t need to wear all the hats in her new business and how referrals hugely benefited her business growth in the early days. We discuss marketing tips for growing your new business and explain who you should listen to the most in business.

Listen to this episode to learn how to best reach your target audience as a new business, ways to incorporate philanthropy into your business model, and some of Trish’s favorite tips for managing bad days at work.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

People wanted to stay home but they still wanted to have an experience.” – Trish Healy

Show Notes:

  • The beautiful, inspiring story of WonderTent Parties
  • WHO you should Lean in & LISTEN to in Business
  • PURE GOLD: Advice for what to do on the really TOUGH Days
  • Learn about KIDSAVE, an incredible non-profit committed to helping Foster Youth find Forever Homes
  • Tips on reaching your TARGET audience
  • Incorporating philanthropy into your business model
  • Her TRUCK DRIVING Moment
  • The worst startup advice Trish hears

The biggest challenge has been juggling everything.” – Trish Healy

Connect with Trish Healy:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Wondertent Parties

The challenges that come will come not because of your gender, so eliminate that as a reason.” – Trish Healy

 

Hormones & Health with Dr. Anna

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Welcome to an important conversation on Finding Joy in our health and, more specifically becoming besties with your hormones. Today my guest Dr. Anna dials it all in for us. Dr. Anna is a pharmacist, an expert in gerontology, and a faculty member at USC.

Hormones can challenge us at any age, so in this episode, Dr. Anna and I discuss why they matter so much. We also talk about the alarming increase in rates of autoimmune disease among women and the importance of three factors when combatting the symptoms and side effects of menopause and perimenopause: stillness, movement, and nutrition.

Listen in to learn why our hormones are so important to our overall health, how our gut health is related to our hormones, and which natural remedies Dr. Anna recommends.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

We underestimate what we can do in a year, but we overestimate what we can do in a day.” – Dr. Anna

Show Notes:

  • WHY making best friends with your hormones is essential
  • Estrogen & Progesterone ABCs (she breaks it down for us)
  • Night Sweat, Sleepless nights, and what we can do to help
  • Ways to HOLISTICALLY feel better during Menopause
  • The Magic of MAGNESIUM
  • Natural Remedies for MENOPAUSAL symptoms
  • THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Natural & Synthetic Progesterone
  • The “TRUTH” Phase (this had me ROFL)
  • Why everyone needs to stop SHAMING self-care for women
  • Dr. Anna’s experience with Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
  • The Top WELLNESS Tips right now for WOMEN

You just have to start.” – Dr. Anna

Connect with Dr. Anna:

LinkedIn | Facebook | YouTube | NutraFemmeRX

We have to be aligned, not only in our businesses but in our health.” – Joy Chudacoff

Courtney Feider – Unpacking the Power of Enneagram

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Courtney Feider on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffHave you heard of Enneagram? I had not until recently and today’s guest, Courtney Feider, is here to talk about how key this is for entrepreneurs and leaders. Courtney is an executive coach and the co-founder of Wild Enneagram Love and its WEL Method. In this episode, she shares the theory and assessment of enneagrams and how they can work for individuals and even couples. She also opens up about her big turning point when an unfortunate carjacking led her to a career in coaching.

Listen in as Courtney discusses what she relishes about her most difficult days as an entrepreneur, her favorite outlets, and the reason why she spends so much time outdoors.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

I know for a fact that I've gotten in my own way over the years.” – Courtney Feider

Show Notes:

  • How a CARJACKING led Courtney to coaching
  • What is Enneagram anyway? (There are 9 Types)
  • How AWARENESS is key to decision-making
  • Why knowing your Enneagram NUMBER can help the growth of your business & leadership skills
  • Courtney shares what “my” number MEANS
  • Courtney’s biggest challenge as an Entrepreneur
  • How Courtney handles her toughest days
  • Why you need BOTH Expanders & Containers in your business
  • And much, much more

We wanted to really make emotional intelligence tangible.” – Courtney Feider

Connect with Courtney Feider:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Courtney Feider| Wild Enneagram Love

It set me on a course of clearing away what didn't matter and getting very specific about how I was going to show up in my own work by first showing up as myself.” – Courtney Feider

 

Finding Joy Every Day – Why It’s An Essential Key to Your Success

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In today’s episode, I share one of my recent Instagram Live sessions on Finding Joy. We’re still wandering around the earth in this “new normal” so it’s essential that, together, we find easy rituals to unearth our daily dose of JOY. This episode is all about where and how to find joy every single day, discovering what you are deeply aligned with, and the three steps that I use to stay aligned.

Listen in to find out why you should recommit to finding joy every day, why failing to do so will cost you clients and team members, and what joyful leadership looks like.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

What is it we want to model for our children?” – Joy Chudacoff

Show Notes:

  • The ONE thing that CAN move mountains in your life
  • How to Find Joy Every Day
  • What the “lack of JOY” in your life is COSTING you
  • Joyful LEADERSHIP – do you have it?
  • 3 Steps to ALIGN your life for what UNIQUELY Matters to you
  • Why AWARENESS is a daily commitment
  • Daily Rituals that Protect You
  • Easy TIPS in just 15 MINUTES that you can use NOW for Daily Renewal
  • The VARIANT you need to be avoiding (besides COVID)
  • Your most VALUABLE ASSET
  • The FACTS about where 95% of your “HAPPY VIBES” live and what you can easily do to feed them
  • And much, much, more

Finding joy is as essential as having a marketing plan.” – Joy Chudacoff

Renee Fraser – Founder & CEO of Fraser Communications and Advocate for Women on Boards

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Today’s guest Renee Fraser is the CEO of Fraser Communications and host of The Deciders radio show and podcast. Fraser Communications is an ad agency with clients including Lexus, Hyundai, USC, East West Bank. As the CEO of the leading woman-owned and woman-led agency in Southern California, Renee is a dedicated advocate for women in leadership and force for good who is active on the 20/20 Women on Boards in Los Angeles initiative.

Renee is a pioneer and tireless advocate for getting more women on boards. In this episode, she and I talk about the event that made her start her own advertising and marketing company 23 years ago and how she prioritizes family. She also shares advice for women in corporate who are thinking about leaving their jobs and why women struggle with the juggle.

Listen in to Renee and I talk about why it pays to make friends with everyone, how women are making a difference sitting on boards, and how it’s changing the world.

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Most of the perspective that has been shared has been from white men.” – Renee Fraser

Show Notes:

  • From Zero dollars to 35M all while raising three daughters
  • The Wake-Up Call at her daughter's 3rd Birthday
  • Excellent (No Cost) Tips to Generate Consistent Referrals
  • Coping Skills for moving through the really tough days
  • A 65M business loss and how she pulled through
  • Sage wisdom on building a business while raising a family
  • The question she asked her ‘twenty-something’ daughters and the SILENCE while she waited for the answer
  • The Importance of the dinner table (besides eating dinner)
  • The statistics on what happens to a company when they have women on their boards

I decided I wasn't going to focus on video games, beer, or motorcycles.” – Renee Fraser

Connect with Renee Fraser:

LinkedIn | The Deciders | Blog | Fraser Communications

I wanted to do well by doing good.” – Renee Fraser

Jen Cox – The Tie-Dye Ninja & Founder/CEO of Momma Osa

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Today’s guest Jennifer Cox has been dubbed the Tie-Dye “Ninja” and Denim Wash Specialist. She spent a highly successful 20-year career in corporate America as a Wash Specialist for Abercrombie & Fitch, Mossimo Supply at Target, and other private label denim brands. She’s made & designed clothing for everyone from Nordstroms to Macy’s, Target, and Walmart.

Jen accomplished all of this as a single mother of two sons before being laid off in early 2020. In this episode, she and I discuss the guts it took for her to bet on herself in a big way. She shares her journey into entrepreneurship during the pandemic. Jen is the Founder & CEO of Momma Osa, a company that creates tie-dye kits for Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom’s, Lands’ End, and more. Her kits have been featured on Good Morning America. She shares what led her to cash out her 401k to buy 40,000 masks and the worst advice she was given when she started out on her own.

Listen in as Jen and I talk about the early steps to starting your own business, our favorite growth strategies for entrepreneurs, and why she doesn’t believe entrepreneurs have to focus on one project at a time.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

You just have to start. It doesn't have to be pretty.” – Jen Cox

Show Notes:

  • The Brilliant (BALLSY) move she made the day Gov. Newsom declared California to go into a Safer At Home State
  • Simple tips on the FIRST STEP to take with a new Business Idea
  • How she got STARTED (it all took place between Christmas & New Year’s)
  • How she pulls through the really TOUGH DAYS – the ones where the wind has been knocked out of your Entrepreneurial sails) This was a REAL, RAW Transparent share
  • Details on a DECISION she made that many of her close friends didn’t agree with (she followed her intuition and it paid big dividends)
  • GROWTH strategies for entrepreneurs
  • What she ALWAYS BETS On
  • And so much more!

I trusted my gut and talked to every single person I knew about the idea that I had.” – Jen Cox

Connect with Jen Cox:

Etsy | Momma Coxie & Co. Instagram | Facebook | Momma Osa

There's so many people out there that want to help you grow your business. You just have to find the right combination of people to help you do that.” – Jen Cox

Sandra Sucher – Growing Businesses Through the Power of Trust

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Sandra Sucher on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffI found today’s guest, Sandra Sucher, through a book recommendation in the Wall Street Journal. A professor at Harvard Business School, Sandra has a fantastic story about how she became the co-author of her new book, The Power of Trust. In this episode, she opens up about how a trip to Japan to write one book on layoffs led her to write another very different sort of book. She and I talk about the hidden value of trust in a business and why it can’t be used as a reputation management tool. She also discusses why trust matters so much more in service-based businesses and why the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain is a great role model for businesses that are building trust with their clientele.

Listen in to find out why motives are so important when building trust and how trust affects your bottom line and increases profit margins.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

Trust is a willingness to be vulnerable to the actions and intentions of others.” – Sandra Sucher

Show Notes:

  • The Definition of what TRUST really is
  • The 4 Elements to BUILDING Trust
  • Trust & Competency – how they are related
  • Why Trust is more DIFFICULT in a Service Based Business
  • The Ritz-Carlton’s THREE STEPS of Service – GENIUS
  • How Trust Directly Affects your BOTTOM Line – PROFITS!

Trust is a moral idea not just an instrumental relationship.” – Sandra Sucher

Connect with Sandra Sucher:

  Twitter | LinkedIn | Harvard | Sandra Sucher

If I had known that you could be in business and be a good person at the same time, that would have reassured me.” – Sandra Sucher

JJ Ramberg – From MSNBC to GoodPods, JJ Ramberg’s Entrepreneurial Journey

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Today’s guest on She’s Got Moxie is an entrepreneur, public speaker, podcast host, and former anchor at MSNBC’s Your Business show. For 12 years, JJ Ramberg interviewed small business owners to find out what worked as they grew their businesses before entering into the entrepreneurial arena herself. Most recently, she co-founded Goodpods, a new social podcast app connecting friends with exciting audio content.

She and I sat down to talk about her favorite interviews from her time at MSNBC and the hurdles she had to surpass when she started her entrepreneurial journey. She also opens up about her motivation to launch the online platforms Goodshop Give and DogDog.org which incorporate an added philanthropic component into their basic search functions.

In this episode, JJ shares her tips for how to move through the tough days as an entrepreneur, the worst entrepreneurial advice she has heard, and why, above all, she continues to rely on her friends.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

I really love the smaller stories.” – JJ Ramberg

Show Notes:

  • How filling in as a Reporter for CNN landed her a 12-year anchor position at MSNBC
  • The LIGHTBULB moment for her Goodpods idea
  • Why Goodpods is committed to “raising all voices”
  • Her GO-TO solution for the really tough (fetal position) days
  • Her SOLUTION that’s helping Dogs in need (Visit DOGDOG.org)
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It's going to be hard sometimes.” – JJ Ramberg

Connect with JJ Ramberg:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | JJ Ramberg

I love talking to strangers.” – JJ Ramberg

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