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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:

412: Katie Krimitsos: Changing Your Success Path Through Massive Self Trust Feb 05, 2020

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Katie Krimitsos is a mom, wife, adventurer, podcaster and seeker. She's committed to brightening the light of women around the world through the Women's Meditation Network, guided meditations, and resources that are specifically created with the special journey of women in mind.

Katie walked away from a business she built from the ground up at the peak of its success - because she had an inkling she was meant to do something different. She leaned in to self-trust - HARD.

I’ve watched her navigate this journey and it’s been pretty amazing. This is the reason I asked her to be a keynote speaker at Shameless Mom Con. I know she’s going to inspire your pants off today and at Shameless Mom Con.

Listen in to hear Katie share:

Why she decided to shut down her business after her first 6 figure year
How her mom allowed her to build massive self-trust
How she approaches tough, life-altering decisions
How to use meditation to be a better listener (to yourself)
How to know when you’re moving in the right direction (and when you’re not)

Links mentioned:

See Katie keynote at Shameless Mom Con 2020
Connect with Katie: Women's Meditation Network
Katie on Instagram Women's Meditation Network
FREE guide: 5 Simple Steps To Start Your Meditation Practice

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411: How To Create More Mental Space In Motherhood Feb 03, 2020

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No one told me…

I had no idea how much mental space motherhood would require. I didn’t know that my brain would learn to run endless concurrent lists of tasks and to dos and important data, all day, everyday.

There have been days that I thought my brain would explode from all the keeping track of things. All the remembering of things. All the planning of things. All the noting and filing away of things.

It never ends.

It’s exhausting.

But there are ways to better manage it. There are ways to protect your mental space - especially from the invasion of details, content, and drama that you don’t need, that sucks your precious mental space and mental energy when you let them in.

Listen in to learn 6 ways to create more (super precious) mental space in motherhood.

Links mentioned:

Join us at Shameless Mom Con 2020
SMA Ep 305: Managing the Mental Load of Motherhood
Apps: Calm App, Headspace app
Muse headband: Choose Muse
Podcast: Women's Meditation Network

Thank you to our sponsors:

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410: Ceca Mijatovic: The Misery & Magic of Infertility and Cancer Jan 29, 2020

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Ceca Mijatovic is a badass life coach and a host of the Truth & Dare Cancer Podcast. She focuses on helping women going through or living with cancer learn how to navigate their cancer journey alongside family and career, how to supercharge their self-healing, and how to recalibrate their lives by using cancer as a powerful catalyst for change. She has had her own battle with the “Big C” and it became a potent agent for positive change in her life, and now she wants to help other women use their diagnosis as an opportunity to transform their lives for the better.

Prior to becoming a life coach, Ceca was in numerous leadership roles at Fortune 50 companies as well as startups. She is a founder of the Truth & Dare Cancer coaching practice where she helps women with cancer take charge of their health, their body, and their outcome!

Listen in to hear Ceca share:

Her road through infertility and how she decided to stop pursuing motherhood
How she moved on and got closure on her motherhood dreams
Why her diagnosis of uterine cancer brought her peace
How she helps women find truth and strength and grace during cancer
Why women with cancer need massive mindset coaching after diagnosis and cancer treatment
How emotional healing parallels physical healing
Why cancer is full of misery and magic
The power of receiving

Links Mentioned:

Join us at Shameless Mom Con 2020
Truth & Dare Cancer Podcast
Connect with Ceca: Truth And Dare Cancer
DARE Cancer coaching community
Social FB + IG: @truthanddarecancer

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409: Your Critical Circles Of Self Trust Jan 27, 2020

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I recently did a full episode (Ep 391) on why moms lack self-trust. The quick & dirty is this: women are conditioned from a very early age to trust others thoughts/opinions/judgements/instincts over our own. So, by the time we get to motherhood, we are already struggling (greatly) to listen to our gut. And babies make this even harder - because we must prioritize their needs over our own. We stop noticing that we’re hungry or tired or in need of, well, anything. We learn to shut off our own needs entirely.

If you didn’t listen to episode 391, go back and do that. THEN, listen in here to hear how you can relearn self-trust. In this episode, I teach you two powerful feedback loops that will help you learn how to trust your gut and your power in new and profound ways. The second feedback loop is the most critical, so make sure to listen to the end - especially if you’re someone who struggles to find success in the face of failure and struggles.

I am dedicating myself to rebuilding self-trust in 2020. It is one of my top priorities this year. Any of you are welcome to join me on this journey of learning to trust again. I am ALL IN on listening inward this year. Let’s do it together!

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408: Casey McGuire Davidson: On Giving Up Wine To Gain Clarity and Connection Jan 22, 2020

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Casey McGuire Davidson is a certified life coach, the founder of Hello Someday Coaching and creator of the “Sober Girl’s Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips To Help Get You Through Your First 30 Days”.

She works with busy, successful women who want to reevaluate their relationship with alcohol, quit drinking, and create lives they love without their nightly glass (or bottle) of wine.

She’s also a wife, a mom, a practical dreamer, recovering corporate ladder climber, retired people-pleaser and ex-red wine drinker, who's been known to crawl into bed at 9 pm and whisper "Don't worry...you're still a badass" to herself.

Casey and I met at an event recently when she approached me as a fan of the SMA. We immediately hit it off and the second she told me that she works with moms who are reevaluating their relationship with alcohol I knew she had to come on the show. So many moms have a silent struggle with alcohol. I think it’s one of the most under talked about issues of motherhood. And that is not ok.

Listen in to hear Casey share:

How she relied on wine to manage her emotional and mental health
What pushed her to attempt 100 days of sobriety
What red wine represented for her and her fear of giving up something she loved so much
How to view giving up alcohol as a positive powerful choice vs sad consequence
The best question to ask yourself if you’re thinking about giving up drinking
The pros and cons of different sobriety programs and why she believes some are better than others for women

Links mentioned:

Join us at Shameless Mom Con 2020
Connect with Casey: Hello Someday Coaching
Free Sober Girl’s Guide To Quitting Drinking: Sobriety Starter Kit
Casey on Facebook: Hello Someday
Casey on Instagram: Casey Mdavidson

Thank you to our sponsors:

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407: 3 Things I Tried To Quit In 2019 - Not All Successfully Jan 20, 2020

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In 2019 I set out to quit 3 things that were no longer serving me. Not only were these three things no longer serving me, they were sucking precious time and energy to the point I could no longer ignore their negative impact on my life.

It would be cute and fun and just oh-so-perfect if I could have sat down to record this episode and shout from the rooftops, “I DID IT! I QUIT THESE THINGS THAT WERE NO LONGER SERVING ME!” But I didn’t.

I had varying degrees of “success” in the quitting of each thing. I put success in quotes because we tend to gauge success in really black & white terms and one of the best lessons I’ve learned over the last couple years (as someone who really likes to keep things black & white), is that often the magic is in the gray. We think “success” lives in the black & white. But true success is in the gray - where you have the power to shift your perspective #everydamnday in order to find wins, gain growth, and feel the magic even when you haven’t found the “success” you were initially looking for.

Listen in to learn with me as I share my “success” and my SUCCESS of kinda quitting three things that were no longer serving me.

Links mentioned:

Join us at Shameless Mom Con 2020

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406: Kaitlyn Gresham: Supporting Entrepreneurial Moms in Developing Countries Jan 15, 2020

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Kaitlyn Gresham is a Shameless Mom and the founder and Executive Director of Under the Same Tree - a non-profit organization that is preventing the effects of poverty through economic empowerment - equipping families affected by extreme poverty around the world to build their own income sources. They offer the opportunity for their supporters to match with a family served by their programs, to build meaningful relationships and the tangible opportunity to see the impact that is being made.

Kaitlyn was born in Southern California and now lives in Saint Louis, Missouri with her husband, David, and daughter Valeria, who joined their family via adoption from Nicaragua in 2017. She has a Master’s degree in International Relations with a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership, and she loves fish tacos, hiking, and sunshine.

I was introduced to Kaitlyn through her nonprofit and immediately wanted to interview, as well as support her amazing cause. I am so excited to share Kaitlyn’s message and mission!

Listen in to hear Kaitlyn share:

How she knew from a very young age that she wanted to grow her family through adoption
How she and her husband decided to adopt from the hardest to match adoptee list
The limiting factors of opportunities for women and their babies in developing nations
How her nonprofit provides opportunities for women in developing nations to start their own businesses and make their own money to create financial stability for their families as well provide economic growth in the local communities
The beauty and power of women invest in others when they have any extra resources
How she connects women entrepreneurs in the US to women in Kenya, Uganda, and Haiti

Links mentioned:

Connect with Kaitlyn: Under The Same Tree

Mentorship Collective

Kaitlyn on Facebook

Kaitlyn on Instagram

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405: Finding & Fine Tuning Alignment In The New Year Jan 13, 2020

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When you are “in alignment” your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions are all supportive of each other. You feel a sense of ease knowing there is congruence between your heads, hearts, and actions.

Alignment feels good - and powerful.

Alignment allows us to feel stable and confident and even eager about our days, in spite of the daily hiccups that inevitably get thrown our way.

When we are out of alignment, things feel quite different. We feel uneasy. We struggle in our relationships. We feel lost and unsure of our own sense of self and even our own self-worth. We tend to get sick more. We feel foggy and uninspired. We succumb to numbing behaviors like more alcohol, more sugar, more mindless social media scrolling, more TV binging.

Being out of alignment does not feel good. It feels disempowering, sometimes even crippling.

I want you to kick off this year with a conscientiousness around how congruent your thoughts, feelings, and motions are with your actions. Listen in to learn if you’re in alignment and how to get in alignment/stay in alignment in 2020!

Links Mentioned:

Join us at Shameless Mom Con 2020

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404: Casey O'Roarty: Joyful Courage & Parenting Teens Jan 08, 2020

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Casey O’Roarty, Med, is a facilitator of personal growth and development. Her work encourages parents to discover the purpose of their journey, while also providing them with tools and a shift of mindset that allows them to deepen their relationships with themselves and their families. As a Positive Discipline Trainer since 2007 and certified coach, Casey has led countless groups through workshops and classes that have left them feeling empowered and excited about parenting. She also offers an engaging podcast, live and online classes, and individual coaching at Joyful Courage. Her first book, Joyful Courage: Calming the Drama and Taking Control of YOUR Parenting Journey launched May 20th, 2019. Casey lives in the Pacific Northwest with greatest teachers – her husband, and two teenage kids.

Casey and I have been running in parallel universe’s for the last couple years. I knew she was someone I wanted to connect with - and had a sense we would hit it off BIG TIME. Spoiler alert: we hit it off BIG TIME. Listen in and laugh along with us!

Listen in to hear Casey share:

How she lives and leads and makes sh*t happen as an unapologetic extrovert
The basic human need of connection and mattering and how it relates to Positive Discipline Parenting
The truth about your kids living in a reactive state
How to find the courage to be imperfect
How to move from the role of pilot to co-pilot when parenting teens
Managing your own narrative vs your teen’s narrative

Links Mentioned:

2020 Plan & Prep Pajama Party
Connect with Casey: Joyful Courage
Podcast: Joyful Courage
Live and Love with Joyful Courage FB group
Joyful Courage for Parents of Teens group
FB Page: Joyful Courage
IG Page: Joyful Courage
Casey’s adolescent mental health summit: Joyful Courage

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403: How To Pick The BEST Theme Words For 2020 Jan 06, 2020

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Not gonna lie….

For years I thought this whole notion of picking theme words for the year was too “woo woo” for me.

I didn’t see the point. At all.

But then, a few years ago, I heard a colleague talking about her words for the year: Space & Grace.

And suddenly I was like, “I NEED THOSE WORDS IN MY LIFE #everydamnday!!!”

This was at a time in my life that I felt I had NO space and NO grace. I was overwhelmed, living in a lot of unknowns, and burning the candle at both ends - with no end in sight.

So, I borrowed these two little words - Space & Grace - for the year. They mattered. They helped me shift my perspective on my situation. They gave me hope and encouragement and strength during a phase of life where I felt I had very little control.

Ever since then, I have chosen words for the year. These words gift me intention and clarity focus. They create a filter through which I can make decisions for the year. They remind me who I am becoming.

Listen in to hear how choosing theme words for the year might help you (a ton), how to go about picking the best words for your current life and dreams, and how to give yourself just enough space & grace to patiently let the right words come to you so they can have maximum impact on your year.

Links mentioned:

2020 Plan & Prep Pajama Party

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