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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:

552: Summer Series: 7 Ways You’re Getting In Your Own Way Jun 07, 2021

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EEEK!! This is the first week of our Summer Series: Lead Like A Mother! Every Monday this summer, I will be sharing content around how to help you lead in bigger, bolder, braver ways.

For the month of June, we will be talking about how to get out of your own way. We will kick this off by talking through 7 ways you might be getting in your own way.

From playing small to getting stuck in analysis paralysis to being the gatekeeper of all.the.things., we all get in our own way - on the regular.

This episode will open your eyes to the ways you consciously and unconsciously get in your own way - which will be the first step in starting to GET OUT of your own way.

Let’s dig in!

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551: Stephannie Weikert: Making Peace With Stress, Surrender & Sexuality Jun 02, 2021

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Stephannie Weikert is a Certified Yoga Therapist who teaches smart, capable men and women to manage stress with some of the most fundamental, yet little-known principles of yoga.

She’s been teaching therapeutic yoga for stress in studios, hospitals, businesses, and with her 1:1 students since 2005. And now she’s on a mission to make meaningful personal growth doable and practical with her signature Make Peace with Stress method so more people can get unstuck from patterns of stress and be more present, calm, and confident—all without becoming a die-hard yogi.

When not mentoring people who struggle with stress, Stephannie can usually be found under a pile of books or working on writing her first book about how to take charge of your chaotic mind and focus on what’s really important to you.

I asked Stephannie to come on the show to talk about how she helps people manage stress, but also to share her own stories around mental health and sexuality that have guided her coaching over the years.

Listen in to hear Stephannie share:

How compartmentalizing different parts of our lives leads to hiding and shame
How she used numbing habits (esp drugs & alcohol) to cope
How her compartmentalization led her to struggling with Trichotillomania to the point of pulling out all of her eyelashes and eyebrows
The moment when she finally and truly saw herself and decided to start to change her habits
How she was able to create an entire new set of coping skills that served her throughout her life
How her she noticed shifts in her sexuality in her forties and how she responded
How we all have a inner compass that is exactly right
How to use self study, surrender and intention setting to manage stress and your life
Why you should pay more attention to discomfort and stress - and what it’s trying to signal
The gifts of yoga that carry over into all areas of life

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550: Permission To Bring The Summer FUN May 31, 2021

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Is your summer planned all around your child(ren)’s fun? When I look at everything we have planned for the summer, it’s clear that this summer (like all summers) is the Summer of Vinnie. Camps, camping, beach trips - all for the kiddo!

And what about YOU?

What are you planning for your summer fun?

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I’m a big fan of Summer Bucket Lists. Every year, we create a family summer bucket list that includes all the fun family activities we want to pack into the summer.

AND THEN, I create my own Summer Bucket List - the things I want to do just for me this summer. Some of these things are small, some a bit more luxurious and indulgent.

It’s funny that whenever I sit down to create my Summer Bucket List, I have to think through, “What is even fun for me anymore???” If you’re like me, this episode is for you. Join me to tap into how to make fun for yourself this summer. I promise you won’t regret it.

Let’s make Summer 2021 one for the books, shall we?

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549: Sabrina Torres: Finding Happiness By Losing Her Religion & Owning Her Sexuality May 26, 2021

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Sabrina Torres stands out in a crowd. With her unique point of view about the power of organic growth, engaging content, bold colors, and coffee (lots and lots of coffee), she started Be Truly Social, a social media marketing and sales company that helps business owners around the globe by making their social media pop in a busy online world. From her home in Nashville, Tennessee where she lives with her soon-to-be wife Jen and four children with autism, she puts her caffeinated energy to good use for her clients who range from solo startups to multi-million dollar organizations. They, together, also own a boutique ecommerce site, Great Democracy Tees.

I’ve been following Sabrina online for awhile now and as I’ve seen her share different layers of her story, I knew I wanted to have her as a guest on the podcast. She is a force and a giver. She is going to open your heart and mind as you hear her story about coming out and leaving her marriage in order to become more fully who she has always been.

Listen in to hear Sabrina share:

Her process of coming out as a pastor’s wife
How she’s coparenting with her wife-to-be, Jenn, and Jenn’s ex husband, all under one roof
How she discovered she was gay and decided to leave her marriage
The losses she experienced with coming out
Why she thinks she would not be alive if she had not met Jenn and the dangers of denying one’s sexual orientation
What it’s like parenting 4 children on the autism spectrum
How her children's disabilities inspired her to become an entrepreneur
Her lack of fear around sharing her identities around her sexual orientation and race vs her fear around building her sex toy business
Why she’s so passionate about her new sex toy business

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548: How To Deal With Doubt May 24, 2021

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We all carry doubt.

Even the most polished and pretty people on the internet. For real.

In recent months, a number of people have applauded the ways I’ve shown up online and in my business over the last year.

Friends - it is NOT without doubt from time to time.

I have doubt on a fairly regular basis, especially when things around me feel out of my control and unpredictable. So, you know, like every single day of 2020.

That said, I know how to manage doubt - perhaps on an expert level - because dread is one of the gifts (shall we call it?) of my anxiety. I manage a lot of dread. Like, every morning when I wake up. And this has been the case for as much of my life as I can remember.

This dread tries to tell me that things will be hard and maybe I won’t be able to figure them out or get them done or perform at the level I want. This dread leads to a lot of doubt, so I have to call him out as the big fat liar he is.

Because I manage anxiety and the accompanying dread on the daily, I am intimately connected to feelings of doubt. I have worked to overcome this doubt with some simple mental reframes that work very predictably well for me - thankfully!

After receiving so many compliments on how I’ve powered through the last year, it occurred to me that you are not seeing the full truth (read: doubt) behind my Instagram photos - and that’s not fair.

So, listen in to hear me share more about doubt and the 4 specific simple ways I reframe doubt #everydamnday.

What is true and what is beautiful
ID the hard feelings
ID where you have power in terms of options and paths forward
ID your superpowers and how you can apply them to this situation

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547: Jessica Butts: Healing The Hustle May 19, 2021

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Jessica is the Creator/CEO of Front Seat Life, Myers-Briggs Expert, Life/Business Coach for Intuitive Women, Author, Keynote Speaker, Podcaster, and Former Psychotherapist. She is an ENFJ, truth teller, F bomb dropper, lover of all things Maui, and fiercely dedicated to helping you be unapologetically who you are.

Jessica is a total go getter who has hustled her way to success in so many areas of her life. And now she’s ready for some rest and possibly even some, gulp, balance. She has seen the impact of hustle on her own life and the lives of so many women. Our obsessive need to hustle comes at a great cost. And it’s time to talk about that.

Listen in to hear Jessica share:

What prompted her to start “healing her hustle”
How to heal the hustle and still be ambitious and driven
Why we are hustling - as a result of nature and nurture
How 25% of us are innately programmed to always be looking for what’s next - and how this makes hustle to the point of burnout
How the patriarchy has forced women and POC to hustle in order to succeed and in many cases, just survive
How she realized she was hustled out and how she started to heal
The rule she made for herself to break her unhealthy phone habit and the immediate and massive impact it had
Why is so important to design a life for your specific personality type
How to embrace who you truly are and then lean into your truest self

Links mentioned:

Watch my free business training and learn about my Tenacious Mamas Mastermind
Join Jessica for Healing the Hustle Summer School
Podcast: Front Seat Life
Quiz link: jessicabutts.com
IG: @frontseatlife

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546: 3 Reasons Moms Secretly Fear Growth May 17, 2021

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Let’s be honest… growth is scary. It involves dancing with the unknown. Yuck, right? I’d rather dance alone in the safe isolation of my bathroom, thank you very much.

But growth is also incredibly rewarding. Growth shows you what you are capable of. It proves to you that you are strong, gifted, talented, and worthy in ways you didn’t know. This can be a game changer.

So, why do we stay stuck in fear when it comes to growth?

I think we fear growth because a lot of the most influential people in our lives also fear growth. They didn’t/don’t model growth to us. They modeled complacency. Complacency seems safer, more secure. Let’s not take chances. Let’s not risk failing. Let’s not make mistakes.

When I stopped fearing growth and started taking chances, I found new people to surround myself with. People who were committed to doing new things in unconventional ways - in order to let their unique gifts and talents SHINE.

I saw women around me breaking the mold. And I became friends with those women. Then I started breaking the mold too.

This is how you step out of fear and into growth. You find the places where you can be connected and supported by other people who don’t want to stay in fear, who don’t want to be isolated in constant self doubt, who won’t settle the way things have always been.

And from there, you start to believe in the possibility of a new reality and new rules. You start to believe that you are a trailblazer and a change maker. That you can grow and thrive in any direction you want.

Listen in to hear 3 reasons moms secretly fear growth and how you can overcome your fears around growth.

Links mentioned:

Watch my free business training and learn about my Tenacious Mamas Mastermind

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545: Pauline Cheung: The Cost Of Making Other People Happy May 12, 2021

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Pauline Cheung is a women’s leadership speaker and coach on a mission to show professional women how to trust their voices and create professional and personal success – without conceding to people-pleasing and perfectionism.

Despite 12+ years as an international executive working with Fortune 500 C-suite and senior-level leaders in the areas of strategy, marketing, and business development, Pauline comes from humble beginnings. She knows how challenging it is to step into the unknown and navigate the fear of failure and judgment. Her deep compassion for women wrestling with similar desires and demons helps her coaching clients and audience members break out of their fears and step into full visibility as their unique and brilliant selves.

Listen in to hear Pauline share:

How she had to juggle work with motherhood as her child needed extra medical attention
How she’s working on harmonizing her work and home life - and why the concept of harmonizing is more full of ease than seeking “work life balance”
Why time is currency and the value of time - sometimes over money
How she grew up with the message, “It’s not safe to be me”, as a Chinese girl growing up in England
How she found safety by making others happy - and the costs of making others happy
How she recognized the truth about fear and stopped letting it preventing her from going after the things she wanted (even if she didn’t know how she would actually get them)
Her journey from corporate to culinary school to coaching other women
The 3 specific ways women stay in their own way, preventing them from taking a stand in their life
What belonging actually looks & feels like, and how to own who you are to create a more confident sense of belonging
How we can overcome the constant internal battle of being “too much” and “not enough” at the same time

Links mentioned:

Connect with Pauline
Get Pauline’s Confidence Guide: 5 Ways to Practice Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone and into Greater Confidence

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544: Mental Health Awareness Month: My Diagnosis May 10, 2021

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Earlier this year I received two mental health diagnoses. One did not surprise me at all, but the second did.

I have been processing and thinking through the gift of diagnosis a lot over the last few months. Yes, the gift of diagnosis.

Receiving these diagnoses was more affirming and validating than I ever could have imagined. Instead of feeling plagued by some parts of myself that have been bewildering since I was very young, I now feel stronger and more connected to who I truly am and WHY I am who I truly am.

What a relief!

My mental health diagnoses are not my weaknesses, they are my superpowers. Because of them I am more compassionate, more empathetic, more conscientious, more thoughtful, more intentional, more talented in unique ways, more creative, more adaptable to things others can’t adapt to, more capable in ways others aren’t, and more sensitive to the world and other people in so many ways that make me a better citizen.

So, ye, I am delighted by my diagnoses - and everything that comes with them. Including medication.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I am sharing my story with you because mental health diagnoses are not something to be ashamed of. And mental health diagnoses are not uncommon - which I learned quickly as I shared my story with friends over the last few months and had so many of them quickly reply “me too.”

My hope is that this episode provides light and hope for anyone who might be struggling to see all their gifts right now. You are not alone.

Links mentioned:

Join my free business training: 3 Essential Building Blocks To Growing A Successful Business
National Alliance on Mental Illness Helpline: 800-950-6264
Depression Crisis Text Line: Text CONNECT to 741741
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255

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543: Trudi Lebron: From Teen Mom Of Two To Activist and Thought Leader May 05, 2021

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Trudi Lebron is an entrepreneur, coach, consultant, podcaster, and speaker working with social impact leaders, and transformative coaches who want to increase the impact of their efforts. Trudi is the creator and head coach of BeABoss a personal and professional development program for Millennial Women of Color, works with entrepreneurs to help them start social impact businesses, and supports social impact executives with leadership coaching, strategic planning, and creating systems and practices to bring alignment between your personal values and the way you work.

I asked Trudi to come on the show because I knew her story around motherhood as well as the deep impact of her professional work. I have been dying to interview her for a couple years now - and I can tell you this conversation was worth the wait!

Listen in to hear Trudi share:

Her experience of dropping out of high school and becoming a teen mom to two babies by age 16
How her traits of being stubborn and making her own rules served her well as a very young mom - and now as she has paved her way to multiple layers of success in education and business
How she can see the privilege she carried as a teen mom and why seeing all our layers of privilege is so important
How attaining her GED all on her own was the most impactful lesson of her life
How the welfare system tried to make her choose between food stamps and getting her college education - and how the system is designed to keep people in the margins down
How her experience as a Latina teen mom fueled her entire career
How she constantly chose to capitalize on her strengths in order to build success
How she uses discernment around her role as a mother to Black sons vs business consultant to lead conversations around her justice, diversity, equity & inclusion work
How she was able to listen to the urgent needs of her industry to show up & serve in a completely transformational way in 2020
Why we need to move from consumption of race education to taking action toward equity

Links mentioned:

Join my free business training: 3 Essential Building Blocks To Growing A Successful Business
Connect with Trudi
Attend Trudi’s May event, Show Up & Serve
Trudi’s podcast: Business Remixed
Trudi’s podcast with Weeze Doran: That’s Not How That Works
Trudi on Instagram

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