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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:

532: The Gifts of Grief Mar 29, 2021

Show notes

Last week, we had to very quickly and unexpectedly say goodbye to our sweet dog of 14 years, Granny Dani.

Our hearts are broken.

My husband and I lost our first baby - this creature we doted on with all of our love and affection before welcoming Vinnie 6 years later.

Vinnie lost his sister - his best friend with whom he spent hours each day, snuggling and singing fart songs (that no one else in our house wanted to hear…)

We didn’t realize how much space our sweet girl took up in our home and our hearts until she was gone. Every room I walk into seems so big and so empty without her. Piper, our puppy, roams from room to room and dog bed to dog bed searching for her sister.

Our family is grieving for sure. But there have also been many gifts over the last week that have made this loss beautiful in unexpected ways. These gifts make the grief bearable.

We have all lost something over the last year. We are all grieving. I made this episode thinking of all the ways we all are grieving, in hopes that it might help you find the gifts in moments of loss that feel absolutely unbearable.

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531: Tiffany Bluhm: Why We Silence Women Who Tell The Truth Mar 24, 2021

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Tiffany Bluhm is the author of She Dreams, Never Alone, and her newest book Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up. She is a sought after speaker, writer, and podcast co-host of the popular podcast Why Tho, a show answering the existential and nonsensical questions we ask ourselves, with author and speaker, Ashley Abercrombie.

She speaks at conferences and events around the world, and her work has been featured in World Vision Magazine, TODAY Parents, the Hallmark Channel, The Jenny McCarthy Show, and more. She was named a Woman to Watch in 2018 by Premier Media.

Tiffany leads an engaged audience online around women’s issues, identity, and faith. As a minority, immigrant woman with a interracial family, she is passionate about women’s equality, justice, and dignity.

Listen in to hear Tiffany share:

How she operates at the intersection of women and justice
Why women are disposable vs men are indispensable
How white women’s proximity to power makes them complicit in many cases
The important difference between women being nice and being kind
How systems have been intentionally architected to oppress and silence women
How WOC are silenced in ways white women are not
The difference between fighting for power vs fighting for equality
How we are all passive vs active enabling of abuse and oppression
Specific ways you can help start breaking down systems of oppression

Links mentioned:

Get your Early Bird ticket to the Shameless Mom Con Collective

Connect with Tiffany: Tiffany Bluhm

Tiffany on Instagram

Tiffany on Facebook

Tiffany’s podcast: Why Tho

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530: Stop Staying Stuck In These 3 Ways Mar 22, 2021

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When you spend a year (or any season of life) worrying about what’s next and wondering how you’ll manage all the things you cannot control, you are likely to find yourself in exhausting cycles of fear and doubt. Then, to combat the worry and fear and doubt, you find ways to numb so that you may quiet the fear and the doubt.

This happens to us in the year after having a baby, the season after losing an important relationship, and certainly after a year of enduring a pandemic.

This leaves us feeling stuck as all get out - stuck in our heads, stuck in poor habits, and stuck in a life without much joy on the horizon.

At a certain point, you have to decide that you will stop staying stuck. You will take action to start moving forward. You will process the season you’ve been in so that you may move forward with less fear, less doubt, and better coping skills.

Also, you will create joy. Because joy matters. Even when you’re too tired to plan the joy, you need the joy. Create the joy, dammit.

In this episode, I’ll walk you through 3 ways you are likely staying stuck right now and how to get unstuck.

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529: Angie Trueblood: How To Share Your Stories With The World Mar 17, 2021

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As a podcast visibility expert and host of the Go Pitch Yourself podcast, Angie Trueblood knows that the only 'perfect pitch' is the one that leads with value and focuses on building a genuine connection. Whether she is teaching entrepreneurs how to pitch themselves or working behind the scenes to secure opportunities for others, Angie leverages her super-connector powers to grow businesses and build long-lasting relationships. When she's not working with her clients or being active in her local community, she loves exploring Richmond, Virginia's parks and playgrounds with her two kiddos, checking out new restaurants with her hubs, and laughing about motherhood over cocktails with friends.

Listen in to hear Angie dig into:

Why she elected to homeschool her kids this year and the gifts that have resulted
Why she left the corporate workforce even though she had loved her work and always been ambitious
How her corporate ambition in work transferred to ambition in motherhood
The significance of making the ask in order to get what you want
The power of curiosity in networking and and connecting
How motherhood led her to building a business amplifying women’s voices
Where to start if you have a story you want to share with the world
What you need if you want to pitch yourself to podcasts

Links Mentioned:

Apply for one-on-one business and leadership coaching with Sara
Get on me email list to get Shameless Mom Con Collective info
Connect with Angie: Angie Trueblood
Angie on IG
Sara’s interview on Go Pitch Yourself
Podcast: Go Pitch Yourself

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528: 5 Years Of Lessons On Leadership And Motherhood Mar 15, 2021

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5 years ago today I launched the first episode of The Shameless Mom Academy. To be honest, if it hadn’t been for a pushy coach I would likely still be saying, “I think I’m going to do a podcast soon.”

Starting is the only way to find the magic and I’m so glad I started when I did. I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing and I wasn’t quite sure why I was doing it. I only knew I had some things to say.

I wanted - no, needed - to talk about the trauma of motherhood. It had shaken me to my core. Nobody warned me about that part. Everyone told me I would be tired. No one told me I would be completely lost.

I also needed to talk about the shrinking of women. I was pissed that I had been a participant in an industry that thrives - to the tune of many billions of dollars a year - on telling women they must be smaller in order to be valuable.

So, yeah - I had things to say.

5 years, 264 powerhouse guests, 528 episodes, 3.5 million downloads.

I’ve a few learned things - and most of them haven’t been easy lessons. In today's birthday episode I will share the top 5 lessons I’ve learned on leadership and motherhood over the last year.

Thank you for listening and inviting me in to your ear week after week. It is a privilege I do not take lightly. I’m so honored to be on this Shameless journey with you.

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527: Racheal Cook: How To Conserve Energy, Set Boundaries And Reject Hustle Culture Mar 10, 2021

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As an award-winning business strategist, host of the Promote Yourself to CEO podcast, and best-selling author, Racheal Cook is on a mission to end entrepreneurial poverty for women. Over the last 10 years she has helped thousands of female entrepreneurs design predictably profitable businesses without the hustle and burnout that doing #allthethings inevitably accomplishes. In fact, Racheal is a sought after speaker on entrepreneurship, marketing, and productivity and has been featured by the US Chamber of Commerce, Forbes Coaching Council, Female Entrepreneur Association, and more. Her real passion, though, is supporting savvy, soulful women as they implement the strategy, systems, and support to uncomplicate their business so they can work less and live more.

Listen in to hear Racheal dig into:

The concept of entrepreneurial poverty and why women and moms are especially susceptible
How mismanaging time by overgiving time uses all your precious energy for the things that matter most to you
The problems of hustle culture and how women fall so easily into it
Boundaries around our different identities - employee vs mom vs woman
How the pandemic has amplified hustle culture for women
Her projections for women starting businesses in 2021
Why moms actually have new and more opportunities for employment in this pandemic
How she and her husband have navigated Racheal being the breadwinner
How they systematized their household to work for both of them
The gift and importance of therapy, now more than ever

Links Mentioned:

Apply for one-on-one business and leadership coaching with Sara
Submit your question for an upcoming Ask Me Anything episode
Racheal on Facebook: Racheal Cook
Racheal on Instagram: Racheal Cook
Racheal on Twitter: RachealCook
Racheal on YouTube
Racheal of Pinterest Racheal Cook
LinkedIn: Racheal Cook

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526: 1 Year Into A Pandemic. Moms Are Not Ok. Mar 08, 2021

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I have repeatedly likened our survival of this pandemic to our survival of Newbornland. We have endured a year of uncertainty and upheaval. We have made accommodations and adaptations to our lives that we never imagined - and often thought were not possible (hello virtual learning).

This has taken a toll on us physically, mentally, and emotionally. And, like surviving Newbornland, we cannot fully process the toll it has taken because we have had to focus on keeping our family units alive and safe - without having the time or energy to give any consideration to our own deep and chronic exhaustion.

We have carried the worry of our family’s health, security, and sanity as we have wondered how much worse things could get. And then we watched them get worse.

We have worried about the lasting impact of this pandemic on our children’s mental health, without considering that we ourselves are also moving through a chronic traumatic event.

We have used wine and workouts and Netflix and sourdough starter as coping mechanisms in hopes of a moment of reprieve.

We have cried in closets and bathrooms, and screamed at the people we love the most, and thrown in the towel as we’ve thrown ourselves on the floor, and then picked the damn towel back up and dried our tears and tucked our kids into bed - for 365 nights now.

We are not ok.

Links mentioned:

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Submit your question for an upcoming Ask Me Anything episode: shameless Mom

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525: Heather Chauvin: Dying To Be A Good Mother Mar 03, 2021

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Heather Chauvin is a leadership coach and strategic parenting expert who helps ambitious women become leaders at work and home.

Drawing from her professional experience as a social worker and her life experience raising three boys, Heather created a signature approach to focus her clients on sustainability, profitability, and ease in business and life.

She is the host of the Mom Is In Control Podcast where she reveals her most vulnerable truths about womanhood, marriage, parenting, living through stage 4 cancer, and running a successful business—without burning out.

Heather has been featured as a TEDx speaker and on The OWN Network, CTV, and The Jenny McCarthy Show. She has also appeared in Entrepreneur and Real Simple.

When Heather isn’t being a classic Canadian by driving her boys to hockey practice, you’ll find her curled up on the couch with her husband surfing the internet, researching their next family adventure.

Heather is a returning guest to The Shameless Mom Academy. She’s joining us to talk about her outstanding new book, Dying To Be A Good Mother.

Listen in to hear Heather share:

What inspired her book, Dying To Be A Good Mother
How we are all dying to be good mothers and how it’s killing us figuratively and literally
Why it’s not your job to make other people comfortable
The power of stillness and why you need it #everydamnday
The power of energetic time management
Why she doesn’t buy into “we can do hard things”
Her empowering and liberating alternative to doing hard things
The truth about resistance and how to specifically determine what you want
Why we need to give ourselves permission to want what we want

Links mentioned:

Get my newsletters and email updates
Connect with Heather
Get Heather’s book: Dying To Be A Good Mother
Heather on IG: heather Chauvin
Heather on FB: heather chauvin coaching

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524: How To Handle Rejection Mar 01, 2021

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People are going to tell you NO.

You will be rejected.

Over and over and over.

One of the gifts of being an entrepreneur is that you get rejected so often (especially early on) that you get a little callous to it - meaning, you let it roll off you easier and faster each time. This is a blessing.

Without this gift (which definitely doesn’t feel like a gift early on), you may find yourself crippled by the NO’s.

The rejection you face often has nothing - NOTHING - to do with you. Yet we are masters at internalizing it and defaulting to a place of self blame and self doubt, and sadly, even self loathing when we are faced with a NO.

In this episode I’ll talk you through the actual causes of rejection (vs the stories you make up in your head) and 5 ways to manage rejection in an objective way so you can KEEP GOING and get what you want out of relationships and circumstances.

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523: Nikki Tucker: Why Women Must Be Financially Independent Feb 24, 2021

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Nikki Tucker is a 16 year Finance Professional, Divorce Financial Strategist, and founder of The FIIRM Approach. She is also a mom of a teenage boy, part-time foodie, and oat milk latte lover who helps female breadwinners prepare their finances for divorce. She helps those early in the divorce process gain clarity and reduce overwhelm by arming them with information, strategies, and resources to confidently maintain their financial security whether they end up divorced or not. Nikki primarily works with clients through her signature program Silent Preparation Series which has both on-demand and live learning options.

Listen in to here Nikki share:

Why divorce can be empowering and positive and liberating
Why she has chosen to work exclusively with women in her business
Why it’s crucial for women to be financially independent regardless of the status of your marriage
Why financial independence is an insurance policy for women
How she works with women as a Divorce Financial Strategist
The two questions she helps women answer when they are considering divorce
The biggest myths about divorce that keep women in unhealthy marriages
How to redefine family in the face of divorce
How the pandemic is impacting divorce scenarios and divorce rates
Her “Bid ADO” philosophy (that you need now!)

Links mentioned:

Connect with Nikki: The Fiirm Approach
Get Nikki’s Free Ultimate Financial Resource Guide
Facebook: The Fiirm Approach
Instagram: The Fiirm Approach

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