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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:

642: 3 Simple Steps to Loving What You Already Have Apr 18, 2022

Show notes

We all have days and seasons where we look around and think things like:

“Why is it so easy for everyone else?”

“If only I had what she has!”

“Why can’t I catch any breaks right now?!”

We look into other people’s apparently bright & lucious lives and feel twinges of envy, if not downright jealousy.

It happens to me, too. Trust me.

All of my childhood and youth I was surrounded by kids and families that had a lot more than me (materially, at least) and I spent so much time dreaming about what it must be like to live such a plentiful life.

What I’ve learned over the years is that everyone has more than me and no one has more than me. It all depends on how I want to look at my life on any given day.

In this episode, I walk you through 3 simple steps to loving what you already have so you can stop finding yourself in those moments of compare & despair and start finding moments of abundance, joy and MAGIC at every turn.

Sponsor info and promo codes:

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/
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641: Cara Harvey: How to Be More Productive & Present and Prevent Burnout Apr 13, 2022

Show notes

Cara is a Shameless Mom and Stepmom of 3. She works as a productivity coach and her mission is to help busy moms take massive action on their goals and 3x their productivity without overwhelm or burnout. . She does this via her blog, her wildly popular podcast - The Purpose Driven Mom Show, virtual community groups, and e-courses that help women learn to prioritize their lives!

Cara came on the show to talk about some of the most common struggles for moms: productivity, being present and preventing burnout. She has great tips on building micropriorities in order to stay in momentum and prevent losing motivation in your life.

Listen in to hear Cara share:

Why she left her teaching career and what inspired her current career
Her journey from building a 6 figure business to having to visit the food bank to feed her family
What it looked like to lose so much while managing her Postpartum Depression, Postpartum Anxiety and rage
The mindset shift that allowed her to build A Purpose Driven Mom
How to use seasonal productivity to organize your life
How to ID the season you are in in life in order to give yourself permission to be present in any season and appreciate it for what it is
The 4 microseasons to prevent burnout
How to use microproirities to reach your goals
The problem with simply relying on motivation to accomplish things
Her 15 Minutes Formula and the magical power of only 15 minutes

Links mentioned:

Connect with Cara: apurposedrivenmom.com
Cara on IG
Cara on FB
Get Cara’s 15 Minute Formula: the15minuteformula.com/free

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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640: How to Find Your People Apr 11, 2022

Show notes

One of the most common struggles moms share with me is finding other mom friends. Making friends as a grown-up is so tricky. It can take a lot of time and energy - of which you have little (if any?) to spare.

My team and I recently created an Attraction/Amplification/Activation framework for my business coaching clients to help them build powerful business relationships. After I taught this framework, I realized it could be applied to friendships. So, that is what we are going to dig into in this episode.

Listen in to hear me share:

My Attraction/Amplification/Activation framework to finding awesome relationships
The 5 steps to attracting the right kind of friendships into your life
Specific conversation starters you can use with new folks you want to connect with and invite into your life
Ideas for new friend “dates”
How to connect with confidence when you might be feeling a little shy about inviting new friends into your life

Link mentioned:

Get my newsletter to learn about events where you can connect with other Shameless Moms: shamelessmom.com/newsletter

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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639: Kate Swenson: Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy Apr 06, 2022

Show notes

Kate Swenson is a proud working mama of four living in suburban Minnesota. She lives for coffee, preaches kindness like her life depends on it and is continuously surprised by the twists and turns of motherhood. Her son Cooper was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old and since then life hasn’t slowed down. Her daily life consists of keeping tiny humans alive and writing, creating videos, and influencing. She launched Finding Cooper's Voice 5 years ago for a place to share her feelings and today it is almost a million people strong.

Listen in to Kate share:

How she wrote a book as a pregnant mom of 4 during the pandemic
The process of her son Cooper being diagnosed with autism
The taboo nature of grieving your child’s diagnosis
How she held grief and relief simultaneously after Cooper’s diagnosis
How she and her husband grieved differently, leading to their divorce and eventual reconciliation and remarriage
What communication looks like for Cooper as a non verbal child
How to use language in an inclusive way (special needs vs disabilty, autistic child vs child with autism)
The backlash and bullying she received after going viral talking about autism
Her new book Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy - and why every parent should read it

Links mentioned:

Join my business training: Build Your Courageous & Confident CEO Blueprint: shamelessmom.com/ceo
Connect with Kate: https://findingcoopersvoice.mysites.io
Kate on FB
Kate on IG
Book: Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

638: Sometimes Quitting Is Upleveling Apr 04, 2022

Show notes

Quitting is often synonymous with failure or laziness or not enoughness. But the truth is… sometimes quitting is upleveling.

Recently, I was on a call with a coaching client and she was sharing some of the shame she was carrying around changing jobs 4 times in one year. As we talked through each job, she shared how her titles and roles became bigger and carried more responsibilities. She had made significant jumps in each new position. Then she charted out her salary in each position to see that she increased her salary with each new role, and over the course of the year, she doubled her salary. Doubled!

So, I asked her this:

Is it true that each job you quit allowed you to up-level in the next job?

When she realized this to be the truth, she became emotional, explaining that she never knew she could carry the title she now carries, nor support her family with this level of income.

Sometimes quitting is upleveling. In fact, sometimes the only way to up-level is to quit something.

When you quit one thing, you make space for the next thing. With every conscious choice to say NO to one thing, you make space for a YES somewhere else.

Whether you are quitting a job, a relationship, a task/chore, a role, spending your time or energy in a certain way, you are making space to move into jobs, roles, relationships, time & energy in a way that is more aligned with your values and who you are becoming. This is upleveling. This is growth. This is power.

Tune into this episode to learn more about the power of quitting and how to reframe quitting in your mind in order to step into growth in a more intentional way.

Link mentioned:

Join my business training: Build Your Courageous & Confident CEO Blueprint: shamelessmom.com/ceo

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

637: Sage B. Hobbs: How To Sit in Conversations About Race and Culture as a White Woman Mar 30, 2022

Show notes

Sage B. Hobbs is the author of Naked Communication and the host of Race, Culture, & Beyond: A Naked Conversations Podcast Series. Sage’s passion for maximizing human potential, building emotional intelligence, and cultivating cultures of equity has led to over 20 years of experience working in public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Her speciality is relational leadership and communication, enabling leaders and team members to create positive relationships and organizational cultures that ensure greater success and satisfaction.

With a commitment to continual learning of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Sage brings an equity lens to all of her work. She’s comfortable facilitating uncomfortable conversations in order to support the growth and impact that her clients seek.

Sage and I became friends after she was on my show for the first time a couple years ago. As her work has evolved to be more centered around DEI work, we have had some great conversations around what it means to be a white woman talking about race and culture in America. I know many of you are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion across your communities, so I thought this would be a really valuable conversation to have here.

Listen in to hear Sage share:

How we are building resilience in the smallest moments of joy right now
Her daily 10 minute practice with 3 girlfriends that has had massive impact over the last few months
Why she decided to launch her podcast, Race, Culture, and Beyond, and the considerations she made to create a show on race as a white woman
How she’s handled making inadvertent microaggressions on her show
The truth about being an ally, who gets to own that word and the significance of ally being a verb
How we can make equity a throughline in all the ways we show up in various communities
The power of choosing curiosity over assumption to de escalate conflict and come to a solution
How to make space for everyone, especially introverts and slower processors, in conversations

Links mentioned:

Join my April 6th business training, Build Your Courageous & Confident CEO Blueprint: shamelessmom.com/ceo
Podcast: Race, Culture, and Beyond
Connect with Sage: sagebhobbs.com
Sage on LinkedIn
Sage on Instagram: @sagebhobbs and @racecultureandbeyondpodcast
TV Shows: Queen Sugar and Remy
Book: Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

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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636: How to Get Grounded When Your World is Spinning Mar 28, 2022

Show notes

“I feel like I’m floating above my body, watching myself move through the world.”

At least 3 coaching clients have told me this in the last week or so.

So many of us are navigating big seasons of change, growth, and transformation. Sometimes that is accompanied by feeling like your world is spinning out of control like you’re moving through your days with no sense of which way is up like your feet are not planted firmly on the ground.

This might be because the pace of life is just really fast right now. It might be because you are entering a new season of uncertainty. It might be because there has been a big professional shift for you. It might be because a significant relationship in your life has shifted - or ended.

Regardless of why you’re feeling this sensation of floating over yourself, it is absolutely possible to bring your feet back to the ground and feel yourself planted in the moment and in your day. It is possible to bring back a sense of awareness to what you CAN control when things feel out of control. It is possible to learn to return to yourself and feel a sense of ease in moments of dis-ease.

In this episode, I walk you through 6 ways you can get grounded when you feel like your world is spinning out of control. These are simple things you can do to get your feet planted beneath you in order to feel a sense or calm and power as you navigate a hard day or a hard season.

Link mentioned:

Join my April 6th business training, Build Your Courageous & Confident CEO Blueprint: shamelessmom.com/ceo

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

635: Deeann Graham: Head On: Stories of Alopecia Mar 23, 2022

Show notes

Deeann Graham is the award-winning author of Head-On, Stories of Alopecia, and an alopecia coach/consultant, educator, and advocate. She was first diagnosed with alopecia areata (an autoimmune hair loss condition) when she was 7-years-old. She published Head-On, Stories of Alopecia to share stories and photos of people around the world who are living with alopecia, in order to provide a broad perspective on the journey of hair loss. Educating communities in order to empower others who have been diagnosed, especially in the beauty and medical industries, is an important part of Deeann's outreach. She is also the course creator of the Alopecia Roadmap, and host of the Alopecia Life podcast where she continues to educate and share stories to help others realize they are not alone.

Listen in to hear Deeann share:

Alopecia 101: what alopecia is and how it can manifest differently in people
The difference between alopecia and alopecia areata
What her life was like as a 7 year who experienced total hair loss
What it was like to not know anyone with alopecia like her for 30 years to then making 500 new friends with alopecia
Her decision to stop wearing wigs when her daughter was in the 2nd grade and how she handled kids at her daughter’s school talking about her
Where people experiencing hair loss can turn for support
What to say and what not to say to someone who is bald or balding

Links mentioned:

Join my free CEO training for small business owners: shamelessmom.com/ceo
Connect with Deeann: alopecialife.com/
Get Deeann’s Book: Head-On, Stories of Alopecia
Deeann’s Podcast: Alopecia Life
Deeann on IG
Deeann’s FB Group
Nonprofits: https://www.childrensalopeciaproject.org | https://www.naaf.org/

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

634: Struggling with Self Worth? Start Here Mar 21, 2022

Show notes

One of the most common struggles for women and moms centers around self-worth. Because we are taught from such an early age that we should look a certain way, act a certain way, desire certain things, reject certain things, we often spend a lot of our lives questioning ourselves.

We wonder if we are enough, if we are qualified, if we are making the right choice, if we should try harder if we should do things more like others are doing them,

We think about how we might be more perfect or polished or positive.

We assume other people have it all figured out.

We feel alone and isolated and confused.

Over the last 6 years, and in my 15-year fitness career before the Shameless Mom Academy, countless women have told me they struggle with self-worth.

If you struggle with self-worth, whether it’s been a struggle your entire life or it’s something that is hard for you in this particular season, this episode is for you.

Listen in as I walk you through 5 simple steps to start shifting your self-worth today.

Link mentioned:

Join my free CEO training for small business owners: shamelessmom.com/ceo

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

633: Reshma Saujani: The Future of Women and Work Mar 16, 2022

Show notes

Reshma Saujani is a leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms. She has spent more than a decade advocating for women’s and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and, most recently, championing policies to support mothers impacted by the pandemic. Saujani is also the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not Perfect, and her influential TED talk, “Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection,” has more than five million views. She began her career as an attorney and Democratic organizer, and she now lives in New York City with her husband, Nihal; their sons, Shaan and Sai; and their bulldog, Stanley.

I have been a long-time follower and admirer of Reshma’s work and her relentless commitment to her mission. I was so delighted when she said yes to this conversation. As you listen to Reshma share how she sees the future of work for women and moms in America, I think you will see yourself reflected over and over again as she offers story after story that Illuminates the impossible expectations put upon moms over the last two years.

Listen in to hear Reshma share:

What is the Future of Women and Work – and why is it different than we think
What women are looking for in an employer
The long term significance of 2.3 million women leaving the workforce in the last year
Her Marshall Plan for Moms, what came out of it, why it’s critically important in this historical moment
What all moms can do to be a part of the PAY UP movement to push through change for moms and women in the workforce across the country
Why it’s imperative that we “not waste a good crisis”
The constant cognitive dissonance for moms around being told we can have it all and not having access to having it
Why she is critical of the feminist movement and is still a Feminist

Links mentioned:

Connect with Reshma: reshmasaujani.com
Get Reshma’s Book: PAY UP: The Future of Women and Work
Reshma on IG
Reshma on Twitter

Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/

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