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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:

522: How To Lean Into the Layers Of Your Identity Feb 22, 2021

Show notes

If you were to sit down and make a list of all the identities you hold, what would be on your list? I made a quick list recently.

I hold the following identities (in no particular order):

woman, mom, wife, infertility warrior, anxiety manager, speaker, leader, hetero, cisgender, white, Seattleite, athlete, skier, writer, ally, podcaster, daughter, sister, business owner, child of divorce, 18 year entrepreneur, CEO, advocate

I’m sure I could come up with even more layers to my identity if I gave it more thought. We are made up of SO MANY layers. This makes each of us a true unicorn.

As we navigate our lives, we have the opportunity to embrace different layers of our identity in different ways during different seasons of life. What layers are you leaning into right now? What ones are most significant to you as we sit here in 2021?

You get to choose which parts of yourself you really want to lean into at any time. So, how do you lean into the most powerful parts of yourself? Here are a few tips:

Take responsibility for the stories you hold around your identities
Call yourself by your titles - out loud in front of other people
Find people who share your identities and be in community with them

In this episode, I talk you through how to lean into the layers of your identity that mean the most to you and have the most potential to deeply impact the world.

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521: Rho Thomas: Finding Financial Freedom After Incurring 670K In Debt Feb 17, 2021

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Rho Thomas is an attorney, mindset strategist, and personal finance coach who believes that true wealth is having control of your time. She helps lawyers make intentional lifestyle and money decisions to regain control of their time, build wealth, and live the lives of freedom and choice they deserve. She has been featured in outlets such as Yahoo! Finance, Refinery29, and Mic and hosts the Wealthyesque podcast, which explores how lawyers can achieve lifestyle freedom by reframing their mindset and by managing their money to achieve financial independence.

Listen in to hear Rho share:

How she has restructured her law career during the pandemic in order to step out of the hustle
How her and her husbands’ money stories around being raised by single moms on very limited incomes influenced them
How they ended up $670,000 in debt after having their first child
How they found hope and inspiration to start paying off their debt
The first strategic steps they took to start working on their debt
How paying down debt built her confidence and created momentum in her life
Why financial independence is a form of self care
How to rejigger finances based on what brings you joy - instead of mindlessly
How women are conditioned to shrink around money and finances and how to build financial confidence
The difference between media messages around money for women vs men
How she juggles motherhood, marriage, being a lawyer, and running her business to support women and finances
How Kobe Bryant’s death inspired her to start her business

Links mentioned:

Book: Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robin

Website: Rho Thomas

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520: How to Restore Hope, Power & Connection A Year Into A Pandemic Feb 15, 2021

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We are coming up on a full 12 months of enduring a pandemic that we initially thought would last 2-6 weeks. How are you? No, really?

This time is very much like navigating Newbornland - that phase when you’re totally sleep deprived, but you’ve been sleep deprived for so long that it just feels normal and you don’t know what it feels like to actually be rested. That’s where we’re at.

We’ve been in survival mode for a year. So long that it feels normal and we don’t remember what it feels like to not have to juggle constant worry and uncertainty.

So, in the face of this chronic worry and uncertainty, how are you holding on to hope, power, and connection? We must be able to harness these if we are to stay sane and functional.

In this episode I’ll give you tactical steps to restore hope, power, and connection in your everyday life.

Links mentioned:

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519: Shaunda Head: Flow, Alignment, and Multi Generational Caregiving Feb 10, 2021

Show notes

Shaunda Head is a Shameless Mom to her 2 year old daughter and a Shameless full time caretaker of her 96 year old Granny. She is also an Atlanta-based brand strategist and digital marketer who helps women align ALL THE THINGS in their brand so that their brand message can impact more powerfully. She creates and implements strategies in marketing, branding and copy to help her clients SHOW UP as their whole selves, and drive higher connection with their true, dream clients.

Shaunda has 16 years of experience, including brand design, marketing, communications and business development for global companies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UPS and E! Entertainment Television. She now coaches and consults for emerging and growing entrepreneurs — past clients consist of coaches, podcasters, stylists, therapists, bloggers, e-commerce site owners and more.

Listen in to hear Shaunda share:

How she juggles taking care of her 96 year old grandmother and 2 year old daughter full time - while running her business from home
How she leans into flow and alignment to thrive in her life and grow her business
How she started relying on her intuition and shut out the noise in 2020
How she leveraged being the only Black person and the only woman in many spaces inspired her career
What it’s like to be a caretaker in a multigenerational household
The decision process of bringing her grandmother to live with her immediately following the loss of her mother
How taking care of her grandmother prepared her for motherhood
What she wants her daughter to remember about growing up in a multigenerational household
The biggest gifts and biggest challenges of being a caregiver to 2 generations at the same time

Links mentioned:

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518: 4 Anchors To Keep You Grounded In 2021 Feb 08, 2021

Show notes

Months of unpredictability, instability, and chaos can leave a mama feeling disoriented, exhausted, and chronically overwhelmed.

I know I’ve been feeling this as the last year has started to catch up with me.

One of the things that really helped me to start feeling grounded again was to identify a few “anchors” that can consistently connect me back to who I am becoming, how I want to show up, and how I have promised to take exquisite care of myself this year.

The anchors I identified for myself are:

Self Trust
Nourishment
Nimbleness
Deep Work

In this episode, I explain what each of these anchors look like for me and how I’m consistently returning to them to stay grounded this year.

If these anchors appeal to you - STEAL THEM! They are all yours! And if they aren’t quite the ones for you, this episode will help you discern some other ones that might be a good fit for you.

2021 is your year to take back the reins and double down on YOU.

Links mentioned:

Join Abbi Perets and me on FB live Feb 8th at 10am PST/1pm EST: Facebook
SMA Ep 501 with Mia Hemstad: Nourishing Oneself While Living With PTSD and Depression

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517: Dayna Parish Dennis: The Only Black Student in Med School Feb 03, 2021

Show notes

Dayna Parish Dennis is a wife, Shameless Mom, and doctor. Originally from Oklahoma, she relocated to the Bay Area to complete her residency in pediatrics. She has served patients in low income, urgent care, private practice, and Hospitalist settings, and just recently made partner at a multi-specialty group practice in the Bay Area. She speaks a couple of languages, loves reading books with happy endings, and raising 2 free Black children.

Listen in to hear Dayna share:

What it’s like to be a doctor in this pandemic
How she’s managing her mental health as a physician, wife, mom, and woman during this time
What it was like to be the only Black person in her medical school class
The pressure of being the sole Black representative in conversations around race
The relief she found in moving from Oklahoma to Oakland for residency and to work with other Black doctors
How her employer (Kaiser Permanente) responded to George Floyd’s death and supported the Black Lives Matter movement
The benefits she’s seeing in living through this pandemic and why we need not desire going “back to normal”
The power in making partner in her medical practice this year
The legacy she is building to show her daughters that Black girls can do anything

Links Mentioned:

Connect with Dayna
IG: @wittyacronym
IG: @bookish.black.nerd
FB: Dayna Parish Dennis

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516: Rae McDaniel: Taking The Suffering Out Of Transitioning for Trans People Feb 01, 2021

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Rae McDaniel, MEd, LCPC, CST (They/Them) is a Gender and Certified Sex Therapist and Coach who works with folks feeling anxious and lost about a transition they’re experiencing in sex, gender, sexual identity, or relationships. Rae also provides consultation & training for professionals and organizations wishing to uplevel their knowledge and expertise in these areas.

Rae is the founder of Practical Audacity, a Gender & Sex Therapy group practice in Chicago, and GenderFck: The Club, an online group coaching community designed to help transgender/non-binary/questioning folks transition with less suffering and more ease.

Listen in to hear Rae share:

Their experience growing up adopted into a family of evangelical christian missionary puppeteers
The evolution of their identity from bisexual to queer to non binary
The relief of coming out as non binary
Why not everyone in your life needs to know all the ins and outs of your identity and how you can prioritize safety when coming out
How gender exists on a spectrum, not just two categories of male and female
Why they are having top surgery and how they came to this decision
Why they use they/them pronouns and why pronouns matter
Why it’s inaccurate to refer to someone’s pronouns as their “preferred pronouns”
How they are working to take the suffering out of transitioning for trans people

Linke mentioned:

Connect with Rae: Practical Audacity

Join Rae’s Genderfck program

Rae on IG/FB: @practicalaudacity

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515: Megan Hadley: Fork Your Food Rules Jan 27, 2021

Show notes

Megan Hadley, MS, RDN, and LDN is a nutrition therapist and owner of Simple Nutrition, a nutrition counseling practice in Greensboro, NC, and founder of Fork the Food Rules, a membership for people who have decided not to diet. She believes that all bodies are good bodies and that from cake to kale, all foods are good foods. After helping hundreds of clients recover from diet culture, Megan knows that when women think less about food and body and more about what really matters to them, they begin to thrive in all areas of their life.

When she’s not working, Megan enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters. She loves cooking, traveling, long naps, good wine, and french fries. Megan finds her strength, both personally and professionally, rooted in her deep faith in Christ, as she knows she was created to live a life of abundance and to help other women believe and discover that, as well.

Listen in to hear Megan share:

Why she walked away from the pharmaceutical industry to become a registered dietician in order to have a bigger impact in people’s lives
What originally drew her into her work with intuitive eating and health at any size
The difference between an eating disorder, disordered eating, and non-disordered eating
All the (tricky and subconscious) ways that negative relationships with food show up
What intuitive eating is and how it differs from food plans and programs
How the media breaks our ability to trust our own bodies
How restrictive eating is the number one predictor of overeating/emotional eating/binge eating behaviors
Why comfort foods can be beautiful and affirming and should absolutely be a part of your life
What steps to take to start being more intuitive with your eating
The truth about BMI and life span/longevity
What kind of freedom comes with choosing not to diet or changing your body

Links Mentioned:

Enrollment is open for Momentum Mamas
Connect with Megan: Simple Nutrition counseling
Fork The Food Rules
IG: @nutritionissimple & individual professional: @tasteandseerd
FB: Simple Nutrition Counseling

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514: Stop Faking Fine Jan 25, 2021

Show notes

Let’s just stop.

Stop faking fine.

When you’re hurting, let it be known.

When you’re tired, let it be known.

When you’re depleted, let it be known.

When you’re worried, let it be known.

When you’re lonely, let it be known.

When you’re uncertain, let it be known.

When you’re DONE, let it be known.

Stop faking fine.

Everytime you fake being fine, you perpetuate this ideal that women should button up and stuff it down and dishonor themselves by disowning their pain.

This is not only detrimental, it’s downright dangerous.

Model being less-than-fine to others.

You go first.

Let them know:

I’m struggling.

I’m hurting.

I’m tired.

I need help.

It is in owning and honoring where you’re really at that you will find the soft places and most sacred spaces to land - where others will be waiting to hold you, arms open wide.

Links mentioned:

Enrollment is open for Momentum Mamas

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513: Julie Neale and Caren Lettiere: Sisters Making Magic in E.P.I.C. Ways Jan 20, 2021

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Today we have an extra special episode with two guests, who are not only powerhouse Shameless Moms and entrepreneurs making deep impact in the world, but also sisters.

Caren Lettiere is the Founder and President of Democracy Clothing, the casual lifestyle brand designed for the modern, multitasking woman who grew up with fashion, then got busy with life.

Best known for its “Ab”solution jeans with fit technology, Democracy Clothing embraces women of all shapes and sizes, providing them with confidence-building clothing that helps them look good and feel good, while doing good.

Alongside Democracy, Caren’s proudest accomplishment is the fulfilling family life she’s built with her husband of 29 years, David, and their amazing kids Nicole and Josh.

Julie Neale is a life and leadership coach, community builder, writer, and mom to two high energy boys who challenge her to grow into her best self. Alongside a 20 year career in youth development, it was Motherhood that transformed her and set her on a course to live a truly E.P.I.C. life.

Now, as the founder of Mother’s Quest and the Mother's Quest Podcast, Julie provides inspiration, coaching, and community-building so that mothers, and those who care for young people, can connect to support and resources, fulfill their unique purpose, and live their E.P.I.C. lives.

I’ve been so excited for this conversation for months now and I just know you’re going to love so much about it.

Listen in to hear Julie and Caren share:

How you can have the audacity to forge your own path without having to prequalify yourself
The birth of Mother’s Quest podcast and Democracy Jeans
How their separate businesses and goals converged into a collaborative working relationship
How Julie and Caren were able to participate at Sybrina Fulton’s (Trayvon Martin’s mom) Circle of Mothers event to bring joy to mothers who lost children and family members to gun violence
Shawna Free Jeans Freakout article https://shawnamorrow.com/free-jeans-freakout/
Caren’s philosophy around “My body is the carriage I arrive in”
Julie’s philosophy of leading and living an E.P.I.C. life
The power of opening the door for yourself instead of waiting for someone else to open the door for you
How ignorance can actually help you be a problem solver

Links mentioned:

Make sure to sign up for my Momentum Mamas announcement
Mother’s Quest Podcast: Mother's Quest
Julie on IG: Mother's Quest
Julie on FB: Mother's Quest
Julie and Caren’s interview on Mother’s Quest Podcast:
Save 20% off your order of Democracy Jeans (my FAVE jeans): (1 use per customer for total purchase, ends 02/28/21)

Julie’s article on committing to anti racism

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