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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.

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362: Carol Gavhane: Surviving Secondary Infertility Aug 14, 2019

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Carol Gavhane is co-founder of Asha Blooms, a handcrafted purposeful jewelry company dedicated to inspiring and uplifting people.

Born out of her walk with secondary infertility, she and her husband created this business once it dawned on them that words and intentions really do matter. Each piece of jewelry is tied to a specific intention, and it’s their vision that others see themselves for who they already are – whole, loved, complete, courageous and renewed.

Everything about their first child was fairly typical, but trying to add to the family afterwards was incredibly difficult. During those years, they tried everything under the sun to get or sustain pregnancy - clean eating, support groups, fertility yoga, acupuncture, meditation, negotiations with God, many visits to the fertility clinic, and so on. These services absolutely helped as they provided comfort or bits of positivity, but there were many dark days thrown in the mix.

During this journey, Carol found a fertility bracelet that became a beacon of hope, a daily wearable reminder to continue on, which she did for nearly three years. Looking back, Carol credits science, hope, and intention with the creation of baby Henry.

I had the opportunity to meet Carol a couple months ago through a colleague and our connection was instant and deep. I relate to so much of her story. I know a lot of other mamas out there are with Carol and me, as well.

Listen in to hear Carol share:

What secondary infertility is and how it flipped her life upside down for 3 years
What infertility looks like on the outside vs. the inside of a woman's body and demeanor
How she found hope and comfort in an unlikely place
What inspired her to start a jewelry company and the special meaning behind her work

Links Mentioned:

Connect with Carol and see her gorgeous Asha Blooms jewelry
Asha Blooms on Instagram
Asha Blooms on Facebook

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361: Take Off Your Armor, Put On Your Cape Aug 12, 2019

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Are you ready for some truth-telling???

It’s time to take off your armor.

You deserve to embrace and appreciate all parts of yourself and your story, not just the pretty parts.

You deserve to reframe and reset your mindset around the struggles in your life, not settle for constant self-doubt and negative self-talk.

You deserve to get curious about who you are and where you want to go in life, not stay the course that is no longer lighting you up.

You deserve to grow and expand and become a more positive, powerful, purposeful version of yourself, not shrink in frustration and worry that you'll never get all the things you want.

Not only do you deserve all this - you are TRULY CAPABLE of all this.

You are capable of embracing all of you and all of your story.

You are capable of reframing and resetting your mindset so you can shut down that negative self-talk.

You are capable of getting curious about where you want to go in the next 3, 6, 12 months and actually starting to take steps to get yourself there.

You are capable of growing and expanding into a more positive, powerful and purposeful version of yourself starting right now.

If you're struggling with your identity - who you are, where you've come from, where you want to go - you are not alone. And it's time to take off your armor. The armor that you think is protecting you is actually holding you back from taking action, building momentum, and realizing what you're truly capable of.

Here’s what your armor might look like:

keeping people at arm’s length
Laughing when you are hurting instead of speaking up for yourself
Keeping secrets and holding shame around your stories
Playing small out of fear of failure or fear of looking silly
Making others look small in order to feel better about yourself (gossiping about other women, telling other women’s stories, passing judgment on other women’s bodies, choices, success stories)
Staying comfortable and stagnant instead of taking a chance to step into bigger roles/opportunities

Tune into learn 7 steps to take off your armor and put on your cape.

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360: Chrissy King: Strength, Power and Intersectional Feminism Aug 07, 2019

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Chrissy King is a writer, speaker, strength coach, and self-proclaimed truth-teller with a passion for intersectional feminism and creating a diverse and inclusive wellness industry. She has been featured in SELF, SHAPE, BuzzFeed, Muscle and Fitness, and Livestrong, among others.

She empowers individuals to stop shrinking, start taking up space and use their energy to create their specific magic in the world. When she’s not serving her clients by empowering them to create stress-free and sustainable lifestyles and feel confident and empowered in their skin, she spends her time lifting all the weights, reading, traveling, and hanging with friends and family.

I have wanted to have Chrissy come on the show for some time. I’ve followed her for years online and her messaging always resonates with me. I think this conversation is especially timely given the Monday’s episode about Beyonce’s recent messaging around body image. While I recorded this interview before the Beyonce episode, there are a lot of the same themes and reinforced messaging around the power in protecting and elevating women of all backgrounds, shapes, sizes, orientations.

Listen in to hear Chrissy share:

How passion in one area of your life can ignite passion in other areas of your life
What intersectional feminism is and how it pertains to you
Her terrifying move to publish an article titled, “Is Fitness Only For Thin White Women?” - and the response it drew
The importance of noticing inclusion and diversity in ALL spaces - and why you need to call it out when it’s missing (which it usually is)
How to manage your evolving relationship with your body

Links mentioned:

Facebook: Chrissy King Fitness

Instagram: I Am Chrissy King

Twitter: I Am Chrissy King

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359: What Happens When You Call Out Beyonce Aug 05, 2019

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Last week I called out Beyonce in a social media post. A lot of really interesting lessons and insights came from the ensuing comments and conversation. I thought it was worth dedicating an entire episode to the results of that one social media post because it brought to light:

The difference between shaming someone and holding them accountable
How you can simultaneously be a victim and a perpetrator of diet culture
Why thin women need to protect and elevate plus size women
Why women should be hypersensitive to body shaming and how being dismissive of sizeism compromises women’s power on a global level
How you can appreciate and find tremendous value in someone’s work and leadership while not agreeing with everything they say and stand for

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358: Anne Moss Rogers: Honoring A Son Who Died By Suicide Jul 31, 2019

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Anne Moss Rogers is a TEDx speaker and owner of the popular Emotionally Naked blog. She is a social media and content marketing expert who turned into an 'accidental leader' as a suicide prevention advocate after her son Charles, who suffered from depression and addiction, died by suicide in June 2015.

She has been interviewed by the New York Times and was the first suicide loss survivor ever invited to speak at the National Institute of Mental Health. Her blog, Emotionally Naked which focuses on subjects including suicide, grief, addiction, and mental illness reached over a half million views in its first three years. She has written a book, Diary of a Broken Mind that includes her son’s song lyrics, which will publish October 2019.

Listen in to hear Anne Moss share:

The warning signs of his son’s depression and anxiety
The days and events leading up to her son’s death
How she feels comforted and connected to Charles when she’s on stage talking about his death
How she finds purpose in her day to day life after losing her child
How she is leveraging technology and the internet to save the lives of actively suicidal people

Links Mentioned:

Connect with Anne moss
Anne Moss’s Blog
Anne Moss on Instagram
Anne Moss on Facebook
Special resources for Shameless Moms: Anne Moss
Help eliminate stigma, join the emotionally naked tribe and enter to win a free copy of Diary of a Broken Mind due out in October 2019.: Emotionally Naked (or text to join at 66866)

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357: Stop Making Other People Comfortable Jul 29, 2019

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Women are raised to believe we should make other people comfortable. We should be caretakers of others needs and desires and feelings - even when it comes at a cost to our own needs, desires, and feelings.

Because of this indoctrination early in our lives, we also take it upon ourselves to make sure that we don’t outshine others - because that could make them feel bad or less than. Instead, we let ourselves feel bad and less than.

We make it a priority to make other people comfortable. And in many cases this means we shrink and play small in front of others. We don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable and we certainly don’t want anyone to judge us for shining too brightly.

So, we stay small, quiet, dull, demure instead - because showing up as bold, bright, big, brave feels too risky.

Here are some instances in which you might make others uncomfortable with your shininess and badassery, as well as put yourself at risk of other people’s judgment:

when you lose weight
when you run a 5K, 10K or a marathon
when you quit your job to stay home with your kids
when you make a lot of money
when you write a book
when you start your own business
when you go for a promotion
when you go back to school to get an advanced degree
when you put your child in full-time childcare
when you go on an epic vacation
when you take every Friday off
when you get weekly massage
when you buy your kid something fancy/”spoil” them
when you buy a bigger house
when you buy a tiny house
when you announce you’re a photographer/event planner/jewelry designer/lifecoach/blogger/podcaster, speaker, writer
when you say you want to be a mogul

Have you ever achieved one of these items and intentionally not shared it with others? You kept is small and private out of fear that others would be uncomfortable with your success or achievement and/or that they might pass judgment on you and dull your shine?

I want to encourage you to reframe how you think about other people's opinions. It’s not your job to tend to other people’s opinions. In fact, you should pay them no mind.

It’s not your job to make other people comfortable. Their discomfort is about them, not you. And it’s their responsibility, not yours.

It’s not your job to play small and stay small because others can’t or won’t step up and shine.

Your job is to SHINE LIKE A MOTHER.

And when you do so you will become a mirror that attracts people who want to see you in all your big, bold, brave badassery. When you start attracting these kinds of people, you will continue to be able to shine in brighter ways for all your days.

Listen in for a deeper dive and 4 ways to deal with the uncomfortable, judgy people in your life.

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356: Susan Hyatt: BARE #everydamnday Jul 24, 2019

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Susan Hyatt is a master certified life coach who has helped thousands of women to

transform their bodies and lives. She’s the author of Bare, creator of the Bare Process, the Bare Deck, the Bare Podcast, and an online community called Bare Daily. With her fiery Facebook rants—including “Whoop Ass Wednesday,” where she reads a fresh batch of hate mail from Internet trolls and gives her sassiest response—Susan has gained an international following of women who love her honesty, humor, and fearlessness. Susan has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Woman’s World, Seventeen, and O: The Oprah Magazine, and was a Finalist for the Athena Award, honoring her work in the field of women’s empowerment.

Listen in to hear Susan share:

How she caught herself in cycles of emotional eating and how she stopped the cycle
How she moved from body hate into body love
How and why quitting diet culture will bring you more success (and more money)
The role of the patriarchy in inspiring her body love
How to use pleasure power instead of willpower to lose weight
Replacement habits for comfort and joy that don’t involve emotional eating or drinking
The importance of radical self-love and compassion and FUN in any achieving any goal

Links Mentioned:

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355: The Necessary Connection Between Courage and Confidence Jul 22, 2019

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The truth about confidence is that it REQUIRES courage.

If you take a good look back at your life, I bet you’ll see a clear connection between the times that you took courageous action and the defining moments when you became more confident. You’ll likely notice that these moments all involved:

getting uncomfortable
doing it scared
pushing yourself further than you’ve ever gone
facing fears head-on

Some examples of this might include:

Applying for a new, higher-level job
Signing up for a 5K, 10K, marathon
Speaking up in the face of injustice
Reporting an abuser
Asking for a raise
Setting a firm boundary with a family member or long-time friend
Moving across the country
Leaving an abusive relationship
Showing up to an event where you don’t know anyone
Traveling alone
Skydiving or bungee jumping
Climbing a mountain
Having a baby
Advocating for your child’s needs
Starting a business
Leaving your marriage
Fixing your marriage
Starting a blog
Asking for help
Finding a therapist or coach
Getting healthy

Courage is contagious. When you do one courageous thing and subsequently build a little confidence, you automatically start looking for more opportunities to be courageous. Over time, you build momentum around being an action taker and dream chaser who enjoys the discomfort that comes with courageous action because you know the outcome will be a more confident sense of self, a more joy-filled life, and a world with bigger dreams realized.

When you don’t take courage action on a regular basis, you become complacent. You don’t see yourself as someone who can grow or meet new goals. You feel stuck, unmotivated, uninspired. This is painful.

So, choose your pain.

The pain of complacency or the pain of courageous action. One has a much more positive and powerful outcome.

Tune in to hear 7 ways to build courage that will train your brain to take courageous, confident, life-changing action on a regular basis.

Links Mentioned:

Enroll in MOMENTUM Mamas and get a complimentary ticket to Shameless Mom Con 2020: Momentum

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354: Laura Cathcart Robbins: I Was The Only Black Woman In The Room Jul 17, 2019

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Laura Cathcart Robbins is a Shameless Mom, a writer, and a recovery thriver and survivor. In September 2018 she found herself in an all too familiar situation. She was the only one in the room. She was the only black woman in the room at Brave Magic, a famed writer’s retreat. After it was over, she wrote about her ‘only one’ experience in The Huffington Post and comments started flooding into her DM from people from all races, ethnicities, creeds, and nationalities who had felt ‘othered.’

Laura now hosts the podcast, The Only One In The Room, where she interviews a person about their ‘only one’ story each episode. On her show, you’ll hear raw, vulnerable, accounts from people who are like most of us. Laura’s hope is that The Only One In The Room will inspire a change of perspective in how we all see and hear each other’s stories. She hopes to make you think twice before judging the person standing next to you at a party, in the pick-up line at school or in a crowded subway car. Laura’s show and her work is for anyone who has ever felt alone in a room full of people – which is to say, her show and her work are for everyone.

Listen in to hear Laura share:

What it’s like to be the only black person in the room in 2018
The difference between visible only-ness vs invisible only-ness - like addiction, divorce, infertility, having a child with special needs
What it feels like to be the only one in the room and how we’ve all been the only one in the room at some point
The isolation of onlyness - and the antidote
How to create opportunities and cultivate your biggest gifts from your onlyness

Links Mentioned:

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353: How To Build Social Support Systems That Serve You Jul 15, 2019

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As you grow and evolve in different areas of your life it is imperative that you build support systems that serve you. This doesn’t typically happen by chance. It happens by design.

While this takes effort and often vulnerability, the value of safe and sacred support systems is immeasurable.

It is common to make the mistake of leaning on one person or one group for all your needs. If you want to be really well supported it’s important to have multiple networks and support systems to lean into.

Here are some of my networks/support systems (in random order):

Mom friends
Female entrepreneur friends
Podcaster friends
Running/workout/training friends
Forever Friends (high school/college)
My marriage

The purpose of these different support systems is that you need different networks to connect with people who are in the same place at the same time with the same needs, dreams, and interests. As you listen to this episode, you’ll learn why it’s not reasonable or wise to lean on one person or one group for all your needs.

It’s so important to build these support systems because:

You must have a place to shine
You must have a safe place to be seen as you grow
You must have sacred places to connect with like-minded people

All of this preserves your mental health, improves your sense of worth, and helps you build a more dynamic identity. AND all of this helps you minimize and mitigate loneliness, isolation, depression, and anxiety.

Listen in to learn:

How to build support systems that serve you
How to release relationships that don’t allow you to shine
Why some people are no longer your people and how to be ok with that
Where to find your squad and how to connect with them

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