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Shameless Leadership

Welcome to Shameless Leadership! This show is for women, transgender people, non-binary folks, and allies who are committed to advancing their leadership and the leadership of those around them. In this space, we believe everyone deserves to feel seen, heard, valued, and supported. Our mission is to help you foster these feelings within your own circles of influence to build trust, psychological safety, and a culture of belonging.
In each episode, we dive into essential topics impacting women in leadership – everything from shutting down your inner critic and imposter syndrome to overcoming perfectionism to using your voice in new ways to advocate for yourself, your ideas, and other folks carrying marginalized identities. You’ll hear practical tips, effective strategies, and inspiring stories that will not only enhance your leadership skills but also broaden your perspective to become a more confident, thoughtful, and empathetic leader.
Our stories come from people carrying identities who are often underrepresented, underestimated, and excluded. By sharing their experiences, we aim to provide you with invaluable lessons that will transform your leadership journey. We are thrilled to have you join this community of Shameless Leaders who are actively creating a world where everyone, regardless of gender, can intentionally lead through a more curious, compassionate, and inclusive lens.

Latest Episodes:

842: How to Face Your Future with Ease and Confidence Jan 22, 2024

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Looking forward can be exciting. It can also be very scary. It’s easy to put off our future lives because the uncertainty can feel too great, the stakes too high.

As I’ve been working with clients and teams over the last few years, it has been so thrilling to see how we can shift what we see as possible when we take some intentional time to look back and find evidence of what we are capable in order to harness that capability moving forward.

As the world has flipped itself upside down over and over again in my last 20+ years as an entrepreneur, I have had the opportunity to experience some deep lows followed by very high highs. Over the last few years, I have found myself better able to sit in sticky moments and look toward an uncertain future with ease and even excitement.

This is because I’ve had to spend a lot of time collecting past evidence as proof that:

I can figure out really complicated things.
I’m good at adapting to changing times (even if I hate it).
My creativity allows me to be nimble and agile.
My intuition is strong and is usually right on the money.

These are all things that I long thought I sucked at. But when I started forcing myself to look back before making moves forward, I was able to see my track record. I was able to see all this proof that I was actually good at things I had been telling myself I was horrible at. Recognizing this has given me a tremendous amount of power over my decision-making and action-taking in recent years.

In this episode, I walk you through a few ways you can use your past successes and failures to collect the right evidence to help you make bold moves with ease and confidence moving forward.

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841: Dr. Catherine McCarthy, Dr. Heather Tedesco, and Jennifer Weaver: Raising a Kid Who Can Jan 17, 2024

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Dr. Catherine McCarthy, Dr. Heather Tedesco, and Jennifer Weaver are all mental health professionals who jointly co-authored RAISING A KID WHO CAN, a simple but comprehensive how-to parenting manual designed for the post-pandemic world. They were able to recognize that most parents' depleted attention and energy is in constant conflict with their desire to be guided by the most current, evidence-based information and best how-to strategies when it comes to their kids and mental health.

What I love about this book is that it’s organized for easy skimming and designed to be useful at any stage in a child’s life. The book devotes one short, impactful chapter per principle, including Resilience, Attention and Self-Control, Psychological Flexibility, Self-Motivation, Compassion, and Gratitude. The result is a new approach to a parenting guide that takes a holistic approach to nurturing a child’s development and helps parents get right to the information they need right when they need it most.

Listen in to hear Catherine, Heather, and Jennifer share:

Their invitation to parents to embrace and stay in this "The Age of Adaptability" without feeling chronically overwhelmed
The beauty of "the Age of Adaptability" for our kids
How to use a Validation Sandwich to help you or your child in a moment of struggle or unpredictability
How they formatted their book to be a guide you could immediately put to use without having to do heavy reading
The significance of knowing the WHAT, the WHY, and the HOW in how you parent in specific situations
The 10 Essentials of Raising a Kid Who Can
How to manage some of the paradoxes of parenting that often make us feel like we are getting it wrong
The problem with trying to “fix” your child’s feelings

Links mentioned:

Learn more: Raisingakidwhocan.com
Get the Book: Raising a Kid Who Can
Connect with Heather: www.drtedesco.com
Connect with Jennifer: https://weaverandassociates.net
Book: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Raising A Kid Who Can on IG

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840: Questions to Ask Yourself as You Expand Your Visibility in 2024 Jan 15, 2024

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As I’ve kicked off the year with my business consulting clients and corporate clients, the topic of expanding visibility keeps coming up. It’s an important topic for anyone entering a new year!

As you think about what you want to make happen for yourself as a mother, an employee, a team member, a community member, a business owner, a partner, or a friend, how do you want to expand upon who you are now in order to get your needs met, have your voice heard, share your gifts and ideas, and have an impact in the spaces you inhabit over the next 12 months?

It’s a big question, isn’t it?! Don’t worry, I got you.

In this episode, I talk through 4 questions to ask yourself as you consider how you want to grow this year. Then, we talk through the actual steps to take to make this happen.

As I’ve been working with clients over the last two weeks, I’ve seen them light up as they have considered what is possible and started to put together action steps to move toward possibility. The overwhelm and uncertainty of a new year can be a lot. Taking some time to reflect on you can make a huge difference in terms of feeling ready, confident, and competent.

You got this. Promise.

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839: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor: Drunkish… A Story of Loving and Leaving Alcohol Jan 10, 2024

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Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is a past guest of the SMA, one of my very favorite podcasters, my beloved pandemic memoir writing teacher, and author of Drunkish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol - coming out January 16th

In addition to all these roles, Stephanie is a TV personality, and cohost of the popular podcast For Crying Out Loud. She co-created and hosted the late-night comedy parenting show Parental Discretion with Stefanie Wilder-Taylor for NickMom on Nickelodeon. Her books include Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay; Naptime Is the New Happy Hour; It’s Not Me, It’s You; I’m Kind of a Big Deal; and Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic. She’s appeared on Good Morning America, 20/20, The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Phil, Larry King Live, and Today. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, her three delightful teenagers, and her dog, Penelope.

Listen in to hear Stefanie share:

How she rationalized her addiction for decades
Her slow burn to full-blown problematic drinking
Her lowest moment of driving her children while drunk
How she had to shift her identity from an author who writes about “mom drinking” to writing about being a sober mom
How she managed her diagnosed anxiety after getting off alcohol and Xanax
How she was outed after 10 days of sobriety by the New York Times

Links mentioned:

Connect with Stefanie: Stefaniewildertaylor.com
Book: Drunkish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol
Stefanie on IG
@fcolpodcast across all platforms

We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor

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838: What Moms Need Most in 2024 Jan 08, 2024

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As you welcome in a new year, perhaps you’re giving some consideration to changes you want to make. I want to invite you to be gentle with yourself as you enter this year. Sometimes we try to make so many changes to kick off a year that we are almost immediately too overwhelmed to follow through on any of them for the long haul.

I always encourage moms to give themselves the entire month of January and even into February to settle into the new year, set goals, and start taking action steps. Your last 6 weeks have likely been a chaotic explosion of fun, festivities, fatigue, drama, confusion, and feeling not so grounded. Give yourself a minute to reground yourself for the new year.

As you walk gently through this process of grounding yourself and growing some intentional roots for 2024, think about what YOU really want and need most right now. Collectively, we all need more help, more support, more validation, more connection, more resources, more open and authentic communication, and more opportunities and time for personal growth beyond motherhood. But, what do YOU specifically need most?

In this episode, I will talk you through what moms need most right now so that you may have some verbiage to express your needs to others as well as see how you might be able to show up for the other mothers around you. If we can all be more transparent about what we need, we can more openly acknowledge and take responsibility for the fact that we belong to each other and we truly need each other.

I got you and I know you got me. That truth can bring comfort to us all. I am so excited to do 2024 with you!

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837: Kat Vellos: Secrets to Attracting Better Friendships in 2024 Jan 03, 2024

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A new year is always a good time to reflect on the state of your current relationships. As I considered which past guests could bring the most value to you as you kick off 2024, I immediately thought of Kat Vellos, who specializes in helping people develop meaningful friendships in adulthood. Sometimes it can feel like a dirty little secret in adulthood, “I don’t have many friends.” So, we keep it to ourselves. This Best Of conversation is an invitation to openly and proudly pursue the friendships you have long been craving in 2024.

Kat Vellos is a trusted expert on the power of cultivating healthy teams and meaningful friendships in adulthood. Formerly a UX designer at Slack, Pandora, and multiple startups, her work today focuses on helping people design belonging into their lives and workplaces. She is the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, TED Talks, Forbes, Real Simple, Communication Arts, SF Design Week, Lesbians Who Tech, and many more.

Listen in to hear Kat share:

The difference between meeting people and actually making friends
The 4 reasons it gets harder to make friends as we age
The specific challenges for moms in making friends
How our relationships evolve (for better or worse) as our various identities evolve
The significance of reciprocity in healthy adult friendships
The important role of curiosity in friendship
How to maintain strong friendships even when you’re on separate life paths
Steps to take to invest in a new friendship
Specific steps we can take to invest in the relationships we want to grow and preserve

Links mentioned:

Connect with Kat: weshouldgettogether.com
Get Kat’s Book: We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
Kat on IG
Kat on Twitter

We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor

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836: Aubrey Gordon: Reconsidering Your Relationship With Your Body in 2024 Jan 01, 2024

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When I was considering which episodes of the SMA I wanted to bring back for you this week, I went to see what my most downloaded episodes of the last couple of years have been. This interview with Aubrey Gordon was my most downloaded episode of this year. I think (and hope!) this is because you are all huge Aubrey fans AND I hope this episode's popularity is a reflection of this community’s openness and eagerness to have conversations around bodies, size, anti-fat bias, and fat activism. Sizeism, the discrimination toward a person or group of people based on their size or weight, remains the only socially acceptable form of discrimination and oppression - and it’s rampant. Since this interview, Aubrey has gone on to release her very own documentary, Your Fat Friend, which has received an abundance of awards and critical acclaim, packing theaters at film festivals and selling out theater after theater across the US and various other countries. As you consider your relationship within your body as you enter 2024, I invite you to listen and learn from Aubrey. She may be able to bring you peace and ease with your current body that you have never found before.

Aubrey Gordon writes under the pseudonym of “Your Fat Friend,” illuminating the experiences of fat people and urging greater compassion for people of all sizes. She is the author of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat and her newest book, You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People. Her work has reached millions of readers and has been translated into 19 languages. She is co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, a top-rated podcast since its launch in 2021, and a columnist with SELF magazine. Her work has also been featured in Health magazine, Vox, and Gay Mag, among others. She lives in the Northwest, where she works as a writer and organizer.

Listen in to hear Aubrey share:

What it was like for her to go from an anonymous online writer to a fully public figure
How the success of the Maintenance Phase has impacted her work
How women are conditioned to externally process and speak about their bodies and food constantly and how this is harmful in a myriad of ways
The importance of understanding thin privilege and recognizing if you benefit from thin privilege
Scripts and language for parents to talk to kids about bodies and fatness in a neutral way
How to talk to your kids about healthy eating without subscribing to your own internalized messages from diet culture

Links mentioned:

Connect with her at yourfatfriend.com and aubreygordon.net/
Book: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Book: You Just Need to Lose Weight - And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
Podcast: Maintenance Phase
Aubrey on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @yrfatfriend

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835: Casey Davidson: Women, Alcohol, Anxiety (and Dry January!) Dec 27, 2023

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Are you rethinking your relationship with alcohol as you approach 2024? Casey McGuire Davidson has been a guest on the SMA multiple times and she is my go-to referral partner when it comes to connecting women who are sober curious to sober coaches and communities. I chose Casey for this Best Of episode because I see so many women reevaluating their relationships with alcohol and I want you to make sure you don’t have to go it alone.

If you want to participate in Dry January with a fabulous group of women or are sober-curious and want to know what all the hype is about, you’ll want to go grab Casey’s Sobriety Kit (linked in the SN) so you can join her Dry January community!

Casey is a leader in the modern sober curious movement of women who are gray-area drinkers going alcohol-free. An ex-red wine girl turned Life and Sobriety Coach, Casey is passionate about helping women change their relationship with alcohol. She specializes in working with busy women with full calendars and overflowing to-do lists, who are doing all the things and then coming home and drinking to forget about all the things. Casey has helped thousands of women turn the decision to stop drinking from their worst-case scenario to the best decision of their lives.

Casey is the creator of The Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking and The Sobriety Starter Kit, and the host of The Hello Someday Podcast for sober curious women and gray area drinkers, ranked in the top 1% of all global podcasts.

Listen in to hear Casey share:

Where the concept of Dry January comes from
What it means and looks like to be sober curious
The science of alcohol and dopamine on our bodies and how it impacts our mindset, outlook, positivity, and joy in life
How alcohol use contributes to our stress levels and overall anxiety
Steps to manage dopamine if you’re choosing not to drink
The significance of the non-alcohol (NA) industry on the alcohol industry
Why alcohol works as an “Easy Button” AND is also a very maladaptive coping mechanism

Links mentioned:

Get Casey’s Sobriety Starter Kit and join her Dry January community: https://www.thesobrietystarterkit.com/
Connect with Casey: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/
Get Casey’s Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking - 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/30-day-sober-guide/
Casey’s Podcast: The Hello Someday Podcast: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/podcast/
Casey on Facebook
Casey on Instagram

We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor

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834: Dr. Tanmeet Sethi: Joy Is Your Birthright in 2024 Dec 25, 2023

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Tanmeet Sethi is one of my favorite people I met in 2023. We immediately hit it off and found the sweetest friendship that feels like we have known each other forever. I have had the opportunity to listen to my dear friend Tanmeet talk about joy as a form of resistance multiple times this year. Every time my capacity for joy - especially in hard seasons - expands exponentially. I chose this episode to share as a Best Of episode as an invitation to you. I invite you to let joy in the new year- as your birthright and as a form of resistance. This interview will guide you on how to do that.

Tanmeet Sethi, MD, is the author of Joy Is My Justice: Reclaim What Is Yours. She is also a board-certified Integrative Family Medicine physician who has spent the last 25 years on the frontlines locally and globally practicing primary care and trauma work with the most marginalized communities. As a mother, she has received the impossible news that her youngest son has a fatal degenerative disease. She weaves together the expertise of both acquired knowledge with lived experience and translates them accessibly through the blend of ancient spiritual traditions and modern neuroscience. She is trained in Psychedelic Medicine, Integrative and Functional Medicine, and is a clinical researcher of psilocybin at the University of Washington.

Listen in to hear Tanmeet share:

How she came to embrace joy as an act of resistance and self-identify as a Joy Activist
How she has navigated mothering her son, Zubin, who was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative disease at age 3
The expansiveness of joy vs the narrow path of suffering
The important difference between happiness and joy
What her joy practice looks like when every day she sees there is something new to lose as her son’s condition worsens
How to fight against whitewashed wellness (“looking on the bright side” or “finding the silver lining" and how this dampens our power)
How to show up for people in your life who are going through grief - and things to avoid saying
The role of our nervous system in joy
How can we all step into joy activism and make your joy revolution your own

Links mentioned:

Connect with Tanmeet: www.tanmeetsethimd.com
Tanmeet’s Book: Joy Is My Justice
Tanmeet on IG
Tanmeet on FB

We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor

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833: Chantal Donnelly: How Moms Can Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World Dec 20, 2023

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Chantal is a mom, physical therapist, and author of SETTLED: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World. She is also the founder of the wellness company Body Insight Inc. She holds degrees in psychology and kinesiology from Occidental College and a master’s in physical therapy from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Los Angeles. Chantal is certified in Pilates, a practitioner of the Safe and Sound Protocol, and writer, producer, and star of the exercise and rehabilitation videos Strong Knees and Pain-Free at Work. Chantal helps people find relief from stress using a body-focused approach. She believes that stress fluency can make the world a better place.

Listen in to hear Chantal share:

Her stress quadrant model and how we exist on the stress matrix at all times
Why people internalize stress as a sign of weakness - and the cultural paradox of hustle culture + showing stress being a sign of weakness
How mothers internalize stress and need to manage stress differently than people who aren’t moms
The importance of normalizing the stress that mothers carry and understanding how stress impacts the ability to be patient and empathetic
How rushing and “hurry up-ing” creates dysregulation between our brains and bodies
How moms and dads experience stress differently and how same-sex parents experience stress differently
Counterintuitive, super simple, super quick (30 seconds) tools for self-regulation

Links mentioned:

Book: SETTLED: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World
Connect with Chantal: https://www.bodyinsight.com/
Chantal on IG
Chantal on FB
Resources and articles from Chantal: https://www.bodyinsight.com/press-articles

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