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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:

652: Madeline Reeves: Strategizing, Negotiating and Advocating for Your Needs at Work May 23, 2022

Show notes

Madeline Reeves is the founder & CEO of Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy that supports ambitious humans in building branding, marketing, and business development strategies that allow them to make a meaningful impact in the world. Madeline is an outspoken force for promoting equity, collaboration, and community in business and she spends her time working with clients, creating content, hosting the Finding Fearless podcast, and leading her growing team.

I have had the pleasure of interviewing Madeline as well as being interviewed by her and I can tell you she is the real deal. She walks the walk and lives the values she has posted on her walls and on social media. It’s been awesome getting to know her as we’ve guested on each other’s podcasts!

Listen in to hear Madeline share:

Her story of having the rug pulled out from under her in her corporate career
How to assess the cost of staying in a position that’s not working for you
The power and significance of negotiating and advocating for yourself even if you don’t get what you want
How to assess if a company is aligned with your core values and if they are actively LIVING their core values vs just plastering them on a wall
How having to go back to work 2 weeks postpartum fuels her work around parental leave policies
How to start building a strategy and plan if you want to make a career change or start your own business

Links mentioned:

Connect with Madeline: www.fearlessfoundry.com
Madeline’s podcast: Finding Fearless
Madeline’s interviewing Sara on Finding Fearless
Madeline on IG
Fearless Foundry on IG

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
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651: Luvvie Ajayi Jones: Be a Troublemaker and Raise a Troublemaker May 18, 2022

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones is a two-time New York Times bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and podcast host who thrives at the intersection of humor, media, and justice. Her critically acclaimed books Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016) were instant bestsellers and established her as a literary force with a powerful pen. Her newest book Rising Troublemaker: A Manual for Teens is out NOW!

Luvvie is a proud disruptor who has been featured in NPR, Forbes, Inc, Fortune, Chicago Tribune, and more. She has disruptively graced the stages of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Nike and many more top brands. Her renowned TED talk "Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable" has over 8 million views, has been transcribed into 23 languages, and has placed her in the Top 1% of TED Talks of all time.

Born in Nigeria, bred in Chicago and comfortable everywhere, Luvvie enjoys laying

around in her plush robe, eating a warm bowl of jollof rice in her free time. Her love

language is shoes.

Listen in to hear Luvvie share:

The importance and urgency of showing up in this very moment in history
How to be a Troublemaker in ways that are authentic and true to who you are
Why you must become a Professional Troublemaker yourself in order to raise a Troublemaker
Why Troublemakers need to ask more questions
How to circle back on missed chances to speak up
The 4 types of Troublemaker
3 things three things Rising Troublemakers can do every day to own your dopeness
The domino effect of using your words to have impact

Links mentioned:

Connect with Luvvie: luvvie.org/
Book: Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual for Teens
Book: Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
Podcast: Professional Troublemaker
Luvvie’s Community: LuvvNation
Luvvie's Blog: https://awesomelyluvvie.com/
Luvvie on Social Media: @luvvie on all platforms

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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650: 3 Steps to Build Your Summer Bucket List May 16, 2022

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For a few years now I have walked you all through building Summer Bucket Lists. I love that a number of you have taken on this tradition with your families. It is such a fun and meaningful tradition.

When I told Vinnie I was going to record an episode on Summer Bucket Lists, he lit up. “Mom, it’s time to make ours!!” I asked him if he had any advice for all the Shameless Moms who are getting ready to make their Summer Bucket Lists and he told me, “You should put a lot of fun things on your list.”

So, FUN is the official #1 rule of Summer Bucket Lists.

In this episode I walk you through why Summer Bucket Lists are so special and meaningful as a family tradition. Then, I share a few (very loose) rules for building your Summer Bucket List. Lastly, I give you 3 steps/categories to use when creating your Summer Bucket Lists:

Old Traditions
New Adventures
Soul Nourishment (This one is just for you, mama. You’re welcome.)

After you listen to this episode, please create your Summer Bucket Lists and share them to inspire other mamas to make theirs. And make sure to tag me @shamelessmomacademy so I can see all the FUN you are planning this summer. (Don’t forget the FUN.)

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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649: Neill Williams: How to Flip Your Mindset Around Productivity May 11, 2022

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Neill Williams is a Master Certified Life and Productivity Coach, host of “The Unbusy Your Life” podcast, and creator of the Unbusy Entrepreneur Mastermind. Only after ditching her own belief that success was measured by the number of hours worked was Neill able to achieve true lifestyle freedom while juggling her roles as a mom, wife, Master Certified Coach, entrepreneur and employee. Now, she helps too busy high-achieving online entrepreneurs simplify their schedules to 30 hours or less for more time and lifestyle freedom.

Listen in to hear Neill share:

How she scaled her corporate job from 60 hours a week to 30 hours a week

Why she set a goal to quit working overtime hours after proudly being the employee with the most overtime hours for a long time

How to negotiate cutting work hours without cutting your salary

The two questions you should ask if you want to work fewer hours

The powerful difference between making a To Do List vs a Done List

How to shift your mindset around productivity and what you can get done in shorter time frames

Why she thinks “productivity” is an outdated concept that needs to be rethought

Why scheduling is a self care tool

How traditional jobs reinforce mom guilt and unnecessary busyness - and how the pandemic massively compounded this

How to catch yourself when you’re worrying about someone’s reactions to you

Links mentioned:

Connect with Neill: neillwilliams.com
Neill’s podcast: Unbusy Your Life
Neill on IG
Neill on FB

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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648: My 3 Mother's Day Gifts to You May 09, 2022

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I started dreaming up this episode last Sunday. The next day, the Supreme Court was outed on their plan to own our bodies. The next day, our family was hit with Covid.

By the time I sat down to record this, what I wanted to say shifted quite a bit. I was seeing this conversation through a totally different lens.

As you listen in, I want you to deeply understand how to honor yourself as well as how to keep showing up for the hard stuff - the stuff that is so critically important in our world right now. This episode gives you permission and guidance on how to do both.

In honor of Mother’s Day, let me confirm for you that you are an excellent mother. Full stop. And here are a few gifts I share with you, as you hold space for your excellence:

You don’t owe anyone anything
Your world can suck and be great simultaneously
The little ways you show up in the world are making a difference
BONUS - you gotta listen in for this one. (And it’s my favorite one!)

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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647: Leah Carey: Good Girls Talk About Sex May 04, 2022

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Leah Carey is a sex and intimacy coach and host of the podcast “Good Girls Talk About Sex.” She works with people eager to explore new avenues of their sexuality and fulfill their greatest desires, like: diving back into the dating pool after a long time away, having first-time queer experiences, investigating consensual non-monogamy, or learning how to communicate about kink.

This work was not an obvious life choice for Leah. Growing up with an abusive father, she learned to be a VERY “good girl.”

She got involved in a series of emotionally abusive relationships, always convinced that SHE was the problem – not pretty enough, smart enough, or sexually skilled enough. And because she wasn’t having pleasure during sex, so she was convinced she was broken.

At age 42, life threw Leah an opportunity to build a new story: with both parents gone and no siblings, she could put aside the family mythology of the “good girl.”

She began challenging her old beliefs about worthiness, attractiveness, and desirability. Watching her phenomenal growth, friends started seeking her out to help them do the same.

Today, Leah works with women JUST LIKE YOU to reflect their true sexual nature back to them, without the judgment, shame, or fear that can get in the way of seeing it for themselves.

Listen in to hear Leah share:

How growing up in an alcoholic and abusive household shaped her sexual identity
The challenge of healing trauma and overcoming sexual repression while her parents were still alive
The road trip that led her on her journey of sexual awakening
How her work with a sex worker was so healing and transformational
How going to a sex resort and not having any sex completely changed her relationship with her body for the better
Why connection and safety must trump sex even in trusted long term relationships
Why libido is likely not the issue holding back sex & intimacy in your life
Why moms are “touched out” and what to do about it
The current cultural shift in acceptance and normalization of sexual identities, practices and frameworks

Links mentioned:

Connect with Leah: LeahCarey.com
Leah’s podcast Good Girls Talk About Sex: GoodGirlsTalk.com
Leah on Instagram
Leah on Twitter
Leah on YouTube

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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646: 3 Things I Didn’t Know I Desperately Needed on Vacation May 02, 2022

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Last week we went on the spring break trip we had been planning for 4 years. We started planning this trip well before the pandemic hit and then had to cancel it and wait. And wait. And wait.

Over the last 2 years, we have done a decent job of taking time as a family to get away in ways that felt safe(ish). Things like road trips and camping trips. And these have all been great. But we were definitely missing bigger vacations and longer getaways to places further from home.

Last week, we spent a week on the tiny island of Isla Mujeres, just off the coast of Cancun, Mexico. It was the dreamiest trip (in spite of me completely throwing my back on Day 2.) The trip was dreamy because of its natural beauty - white sand beaches and the lightest turquoise water - but also because of how we managed the trip.

In this episode, I share 3 things that made this trip exactly the respite I didn’t know I desperately needed. I hope these 3 things inspire you to take a vacation this summer - in whatever way is accessible to you. I’m guessing you need a break - perhaps desperately so. You might not even realize how badly you need it. I certainly didn’t.

Listen in for some serious vacay inspo!

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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645: Amy Green Smith: How to Walk Through Hard Conversations Apr 27, 2022

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Amy Green Smith is a certified and credentialed life coach and hypnotherapist, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-worth.

With acute focus on helping people “find their voice”, she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert in Inspired Coach Magazine and on Fox 5 San Diego.

Amy and I were connected by our mutual friend - SHOUT OUT to Andrea Owen - who suspected we might hit it off. Well, we totally hit it off. I could have talked to Amy for days. Amy’s energy is infectious. The language in this episode matches the energy, so we have labeled this interview explicit. Hold on because you are in for a fantastic conversation.

Listen in to hear Amy share:

About her unexpected relationship with Eminem and cross stitch

The story of finding her voice and her confidence after growing up in an extremely conservative evangelical family

What happens if a person is emotionally flooded in a heated conversation

How to use a bridge statement in a hard conversation

How to use conversational consent in your conversation

Why “You are responsible for your intention, not your reception” in conversations, situations and relationships

Why people will not listen to other people if they don’t feel understood

What a boundary hangover looks and feels like

The defense mechanism of fawning that kept us safe when we were young, but has turned women into massive people pleasers

What happens when self-help goes wrong

Links mentioned:

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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644: Sarah Walton: How to Identify and Overcome High Functioning Co-Dependency Apr 25, 2022

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Sarah Walton is a business mentor who’s been featured on The Today Show, speaks at women's conferences all over the world, and has helped hundreds of women start and grow businesses they LOVE. Originally from Salt Lake City, Sarah spent her 15-year corporate career in New York City, navigating the male-dominated world of tech, managing a P&L worth hundreds of millions of dollars, working closely with Marianne Williamson, mentoring dozens of women, and balancing motherhood at the same time. She’s the voice behind the Game On Girlfriend Podcast, and she's known for her weekly "Sarah Uncut" TV show on YouTube and LIVE "Coffee With Coach" streaming video conversations on Monday mornings.

When Sarah and I first started talking about things we could talk about on the show, she casually mentioned “high functioning co-dependency” and I immediately stopped her and exclaimed, “THAT’S IT.” There is quite possibly nothing my audience needs more. And, full disclosure… I knew I would benefit from this conversation too - and I did!! For better or worse, if you’re a high functioning, overachiever, people pleaser kinda person, I think you’ll learn a lot about yourself in this episode.

Listen in to hear Sarah share:

Her Grocery Store story that began her season of being a high-functioning co-dependence daughter
Why women are so high functioning and how this leads us to codependency
What keeps us locked into high-functioning codependency habits
The one question to ask yourself if you think you’re trapped in codependent habits
The devastating role of self betrayal in codependency
Dig into my own examples of high functioning codependency - yikes……
Why we, as women, are so reluctant to self-promote ourselves and market our brilliance

Links mentioned:

Connect with Sarah: sarahwalton.com
Sarah Uncut on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahWalton1
Podcast: Game On Girlfriend
Book: The Gift of Failure
Sarah on IG
Sarah on FB

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com

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643: Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo: Overcoming the Societal Neglect of Moms in Their 4th Trimester Apr 20, 2022

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Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo the co-founder of Fourth Phase aftercare boxes that support women in their 4th Trimester after giving birth. She is a social entrepreneur and seasoned humanitarian with a strong commitment to advocating adequate and accessible health care for all under-resourced women, children, and families. Fifteen years prior, after her dad suffered a heart attack in Ghana, Nana founded African Health Now (AHN), a global public health organization, to provide information and access to primary and maternity health care to women, children, and families living across Sub-Saharan Africa. To date, her work with AHN has serviced over 30,000 people in Ghana and Nigeria who are in need of basic health services readily available in America.

Before AHN and entering the world of non-profit work, Nana had a successful career in media, working for women's titles such as Honey, Suede, Essence, and Seventeen. Over the years, she has been repeatedly recognized for her philanthropic efforts, garnering multiple global awards.

Nana speaks English and Twi, the latter a language native to Ghana. She and her husband are the proud parents of a beautiful, eight-year-old girl. When she’s not working on Fourth Phase, she is in DIY heaven making balloon garlands, resurfacing furniture, and watching HGTV.

I immediately hit it off with Nana and want to go do DIY HGTV projects with her now! This conversation is as real and raw as they come. If your entrance into motherhood was not the stuff Instagram photos are made of, you will be able to deeply relate to Nana.

Listen in to hear Nana share:

Her journey into motherhood that defied every Instagram photo she had ever seen
How her non profit in Ghana inspired her work in maternal health care globally
How “fourth trimester” got added to the dictionary and why this is so important
What the fourth trimester is in definition
The massive gap of care for moms in the year after they give birth
The missions of Fourth Phase as a social impact maternal wellness brand that helps moms heal, feel, be heard in their 4th trimester
How Black moms are treated differently during and after childbirth
How she courted her co-founder, Marcia Cole, and how they started Fourth Phase as a team

Links mentioned:

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