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How to Boost Your Leadership “Immune” System

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She's Got Moxie Show

We’ve heard a lot about keeping our immune system strong during this time period, but what about our “Leadership” immune system?

With the ‘Restart’ fast approaching, it’s an excellent time to explore how to boost your leadership. In this episode, I’ll share 5 simple and easy tips to help you start today.

 

 

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Look for people who want to go on the journey that you want to go on.” – Joy Chudacoff

Show Notes:

  • Women leaders never shy away from a crisis – Joy gives a short history lesson
  • Why NOW is the perfect time to LEAD
  • Interesting facts about your immune system that you can apply to your business
  • A simple but incredible tip that EVERYONE can do, but not everyone does
  • Can’t meditate? Joy shares a simple exercise for you to try
  • Why a thinking partner is essential at all times

Great leaders have always practiced stillness and solitude.”- Joy Chudacoff

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People are looking for leadership. People are looking for someone to illuminate the path, light the way, and lead them through this time.” – Joy Chudacoff

Nora Plesent – Creating a Market for Women in the Legal Field Seeking Creative and Flexible Career Options

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When my guest today, Nora Plesent, was getting ready to take her maternity leave with her first child, a co-worker in the law firm commented, “Wouldn’t it be great if there was just a temporary lawyer we could hire?” Nora saw a problem and went out to create a SOLUTION.

Nora, along with her co-founders went on to create Lexolution – a company that provides contract legal services to Law Firms. What started out in a basement in Scarsdale, New York, has turned into offices across the country including Lexolution New York, Washington D.C., Richmond, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Today, Nora gives a very authentic interview about the process of growing her business while maintaining quality service, the hardest years when she first moved to LA and what she did to get through it, and the KEY ingredient to guaranteed growth if you want to expand into new cities.

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We’ve done things slowly, in a sense, but we have grown. And we have done it in a way where we have really never had to worry about the management of the office itself.” – Nora Plesent

Show Notes:

  • How Nora turned a question from a co-worker into the focus of a company
  • The #1 ingredient you MUST Have when planning to expand to new cities
  • Why it has been difficult to manage QUALITY over QUANTITY
  • How Nora dealt with opening a brand-new market when she first moved to LA
  • Nora’s Best ADVICE for women on the entrepreneurial journey
  • How meditation has changed Nora’s life and her approach to business
  • Nora’s Brand-New Venture for women

We were all about quality, quality, quality. We had the boutique quality people out there and as other companies came into the market it was all about quantity.” – Nora Plesent

Connect with Nora Plesent:

Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Lexolution

When I started meditating, I almost couldn’t even sit for five minutes because my life had been about moving, shaking, creating, doing.” – Nora Plesent

Carley Knobloch – The Gadget Guru Obsessed With All Things Digital in Our Wired World

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Whether we like it or not, we live in a wired world full of notifications and an endless sea of “updates.”

It’s easy to get lost in the shuffle but my guest today, Carley Knobloch, teaches women how to design their technology to rise up and serve them.

Featured in Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens, and more, Carley writes about how to stay centered in a wired world and find the best technology to support your lifestyle.

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I think the key to keeping relationships healthy and not being over-reactive is just to calm yourself down and take a breath.” – Carley Knobloch

Show Notes:

  • Her Favorite ‘Smart’ Gadgets
  • How Carley became a GADGET GURU
  • Hiring people as a PRODUCTIVITY TIP
  • HOW she gained media attention quickly and attracted the likes of Dropbox and Evernote to name a few
  • Her BEST Action Steps
  • Her Superpower
  • A simple tip Carley uses to decrease stress throughout the day
  • And much, much more

I wish I had started differently. I wish I had known what I know now, which is that people really want to connect with a person. They really want to follow your life, to understand what you’re doing and listen to you – not the ‘we’, the ‘royal we’, the ‘company we’.” – Carley Knobloch

Connect with Carley Knobloch:

Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Carley K.

There is some stuff that stuck with me that really did get baked into my life, and one of them really is that we have control over our emotions and it starts with breath.” – Carley Knobloch

Amy Budden – From Hollywood Film Editor to Hypnotherapist and Meditation Teacher, How to Train the Brain to Achieve Success

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Known as the “proficient neurohacker”, Amy Budden helps her clients train their brain to change their mind and achieve success.

Leaving a successful career as a Hollywood Film Editor, Amy came into meditation and hypnotherapy after experiencing a “life quake”. Today Amy is founder and CEO of Connect the Mind and has a 3 month waiting list!

On today’s show, Amy talks about her big career change and how and why she started her business, why personal investments lead to business success, and she shares some amazing meditation exercises.

You’ll love today’s show!

 

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Meditation is a way to problem solve because really it’s a way of tapping into flow. So what happens neurologically is you basically upgrade your software.” – Amy Budden

Show Notes:

  • WHY meditation is becoming a game-changer in business today
  • A super easy tip to help you get started with you own meditation practice
  • HOW Amy grew her business to the point where she has a 3 month waiting list
  • Her Biggest Challenge
  • How to STAY IN YOUR OWN LANE and make your best personal investments
  • Her BEST productivity Tips
  • A GREAT decision-making exercise
  • How Amy PROMOTED her business when it first started
  • And much, much, more

When you meditate, you shrink the amygdala which is the fight or flight center of the brain, and you start to go to the prefrontal cortex and that’s the most elevated part of our brain. That’s creativity and problem solving.” – Amy Budden

Connect with Amy Budden:

Facebook | Instagram | Connect the Mind

When someone sees the vision as clearly as you do, it gives you the confidence to move forward. And of course, this is how you impact your clients.” – Amy Budden

5 Simple Tips to Help Smart Women Get Unstuck and Take Inspired Action

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Have you ever felt “stuck” when it comes to making decisions or stalled on a project that needs to move forward? It’s an unsettling feeling that can prevent you from realizing your big ideas, dreams and goals. I’m working on my first book for Smart Women and recently, I’ve been feeling stuck on the title so I can relate.

The good news is you have the gift of creativity and possibility thinking inside of you – we all do. These gifts have to be nurtured and coaxed a little- they don’t operate like a smart phone with an on or off switch!

I have five easy, guaranteed tips and tools to help you get the creative juices flowing. I use these regularly and encourage the women I work with to use them as well.

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Smart Women Have Rituals for Success

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Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to travel to multiple women’s conferences and speak to scores of women entrepreneurs about their Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals. Questions come up on a range of topics including how to start a business to taking an existing business to the next level of success. One question that seems to have a recurring theme right now is “How do I create a successful business while maintaining work/life balance?” Great question! And one that deserves an answer with some solid tips and solutions.

Let me begin by sharing with you that I don’t actually believe there is “work/life” balance. My belief is that women reflect on and declare their values that are personal to them and create a life to support those values. I place a high value on 3 areas in my life; self-care, family and supporting women to live the life they want – and deserve. Does it work perfectly? Of course not. Kids get sick, dishwasher breaks and laptops blow up! I will share that it does work 80% of the time because I’ve made a decision to be proactive using daily rituals to take care of myself, my family and my business.

Do you have rituals for success in your life and business? Here are 7 rituals I use to help me stay on course and honor what I value most:

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Smart Women Rest, Recharge & Renew

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Recently, I was speaking with a client who is approaching a milestone birthday. She shared with me that what she really wanted as a gift was to retreat for a few days alone without family or friends. She expressed her feelings of “guilt” because she wanted to be alone, and felt anxious about going on a retreat as she’s never really been alone for an extended period of time. This got me thinking about how Smart Women understand that it’s essential to rest, recharge and renew—alone.

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