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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:

231: 3 C's of Lasting Friendships May 14, 2018

Show notes

Last weekend I got to spend 4 days with friends from high school. We had not all been together for any length of time in 24 years. It was magic.

A few nights after I returned, I attended a happy hour with a bunch of preschool moms from Vinnie’s class. Also, magic.

These two events, while very different, had a lot of similarities. This got me thinking about the value of friendships and how we can find them and fuel them.

Listen in to hear me share the 3 C’s of friendship:

Connection
Camaraderie
Curiosity

I address each C and dive into how you can use it to deepen the friendships in your life. I also give you some solid pointers on finding friendships and connections if this is a struggle for you.

This is a good one – one worth sharing. Please share this episode with the other Shameless Moms in your life. If we all have more Connection, Camaraderie, and Curiosity in our relationships, the world would be a better place.

Links Mentioned:

SMA Ep 118 with Shasta Nelson: How to Deepen Friendships, Health & Happiness
Book: Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

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230: Kym Campbell: Motherhood and PCOS May 09, 2018

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Kym Campbell is the creator of the free 30 Day PCOS Diet Challenge and The Beat PCOS 10 Week Program where she seeks to help women overcome their PCOS diagnosis by applying evidence-based approaches to food, exercise, and emotional wellness practices.

After having struggled with health issues since her early teens, it wasn’t until her 30’s when she began struggling with infertility that Kym was diagnosed with PCOS. After a long journey of completely transforming her health through diet and lifestyle changes, Kym fell pregnant naturally after years of failed IVF treatments.

When not busy supporting women with PCOS, Kym’s other passions include writing and recording music, surfing, and spending quality time with her husband and her 10-month-old son.

PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. It is much more common than you might think and many women go undiagnosed despite their symptoms of irregular periods, unexplained weight gain, hormonal imbalances and more.

One of the great things about a PCOS diagnosis is that it is often very treatable through lifestyle changes, rather than long-term medications (that come with lots of side effects). Kym talks in depth about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

It is very likely that someone close to you struggles with PCOS – perhaps undiagnosed. For those who go undiagnosed, there is often a tremendous amount of shame around their symptoms and their bodies that seem like they are failing them at times. If you think this episode might be helpful to a friend or family member, please share it with them.

Listen in to hear Kym share:

Kym’s story about the impact of PCOS on her life
Common symptoms, struggles, and health concerns around PCOS
How PCOS impacts fertility
The 3 pronged approach to treating and managing PCOS long term
The most common missing link in treating PCOS

Links Mentioned:

The Free 30 Day PCOS Diet Challenge
Kym’s blog - http://www.smartfertilitychoices.com/
The Beat PCOS 10 Week Program
Kym’s PCOS Support Facebook Group

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229: On Dreading vs Dreaming May 07, 2018

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If you struggle with chronic worry or anxiety, it is very likely you go through life spending more time dreading what lies ahead than dreaming about the magic you may be about to encounter. Can you relate?

As someone who has made it my lifelong, full-time job to worry about everything (I mean everrrrrything), I can tell you I have wasted a lot of time and energy dreading, well, life.

And it has been a total waste.

Dread doesn’t serve you.

At all.

Dread doesn’t make your outcomes better. It doesn’t get you to your goals faster. It doesn’t make anything enjoyable.

Dread makes you feel powerless, exhausted and often defeated – before you’ve even tried taking action. Like I said – a TOTAL waste.

On the other hand, dreaming is expansive and promising. It helps you feel optimistic, hopeful, inspired and energized.

Dreaming about your day instead of dreading it can change the way you approach a situation, the way you take action, and the outcomes that you create for yourself.

So, how do we go from dreading to dreaming???

Listen in to this episode to learn how to:

Change hopelessness into hopefulness
Visualize a future you’re totally fired up about (whether it’s just getting through today or powering through the next 5 years)
Turn anxiety into action.

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228: Kate Swoboda The Courage Habit May 02, 2018

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Kate Swoboda (aka Kate Courageous) is a Shameless Mom to her three and a half year old daughter, the Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification and creator of YourCourageousLife.com, where she teaches people how to change old patterns of self-doubt and create courageous habits (and courageous lives) using the neuropsychology of habit-formation. She helps individuals who feel stuck start connecting to their most courageous selves, and she helps companies to create more innovative office cultures where teams at every level feel valued for their contribution to the whole.

Kate was deemed one of the top 50 bloggers in health, fitness, and happiness by Greatist. She has contributed to Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, Lifetime Moms, The Intelligent Optimist, MindBodyGreen, Business Insider, and more.

Kate works with companies, teams, and individuals around the topic of courage as it relates to personal development, releasing overwhelm, business and marketing, money mindset, wellness, increasing emotional resilience, and healthy goal-setting using habit-formation techniques.

Her first book, The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life (New Harbinger Publications) has just come out and you’ll definitely want to order it after hearing this interview.

Kate and I dug into a lot of great topics here, but I think I was most delighted by one her response to my final question, “What makes you a Shameless Mom?” Make sure you pay special attention to that!

Listen in to hear Kate share:

How to get out of fear-based patterns and habits
How to incorporate courage based habits
Her thoughts around perfectionism, pessimism, martydom, self-sabotage
4 essential behaviors that cultivate courage and emotional resilience
Why fear thrives in isolation and how to find your community
How to get around the fear of shining too brightly in your life

Links Mentioned:

Kate on Facebook

Kate on Instagram

Kate on Twitter

Kate on Pinterest

Program: The Courageous Living Program

Certification: The Courageous Living Coach Certification

Program: The Coaching Blueprint digital marketing program

Book: The Courage Habit

Free resources for listeners/viewers: Your Courageous Life

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227: Why I Sold My Gym Apr 30, 2018

Show notes

I made a major life decision and transition a few weeks ago and I can’t wait to share it with you today, as it very much impacts our future together in the Shameless Mom Academy!

Today I talk you through how I made the big, terrifying, overwhelming, and very responsible decision to sell my gym, Sync Fitness.

I share why you should not wait until your fully ready for change before you make big moves.

I walk you through how you can prove your strength, power, and resiliency to yourself so you can feel inspired to take on new challenges.

I teach you the value of leaning into all things exciting and scary – and why these are very specifically the thing you must lean into!

Warning: this episode may just inspire you to go take a flying leap! J

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225: How to Build Your Stage Apr 23, 2018

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I recently got an email from Shameless Mama Megan about her experience taking a stand against sexual abuse against children that is happening in the LDS church.

Megan shares how she stood up for herself and her beliefs even though her entire family did not have her back. She stood up through tears and discomfort. She used her voice even when it was shaky. She didn’t back down, even when that would have been the easiest way out.

Megan’s story is a powerful example of how practicing using your voice can change your life. Megan identifies herself as an introvert and a typically quiet person. But now she is also a marcher, a truth teller, an advocate, and a podcast celeb (after thousands of people hear her story here!)

Thank you for letting me share your story, Megan. Your voice matters. Your voice is NEEDED. Keep speaking, sister. It only gets more powerful, life-changing, and life-giving from here.

Listen in to hear Megan’s full story that is guaranteed to light a fire in you this week. Then, will take you through 4 ways to build your own stage, just like Megan did. I will also give you 10 warnings around what to expect when you build your stage, so you aren’t surprised when your knees shake – and you can look forward to the exhilaration that comes with owning your voice.

Links Mentioned:

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224: Sarah Peck: Start Up Pregnant Apr 18, 2018

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Sarah K Peck is a writer, startup advisor, and yoga teacher based in New York City. She’s the founder and executive director of Startup Pregnant, a media company documenting the stories of women’s leadership across work and family. She hosts the weekly Startup Pregnant podcast, and she and her husband are the instigators behind More Women’s Voices, a website that promotes women speakers and entrepreneurs.

She’s a 20-time All-American swimmer who successfully swam the Escape from Alcatraz nine separate times, once wearing only a swim cap and goggles to raise $33k for charity: water. To date, she’s written for more than 75 different web publications and has delivered speeches and workshops at Penn, UVA, Berkeley, Harvard, Year of the X, Craft & Commerce, WDS, and more. She’s currently writing a memoir of her experience working in the tech startup world while she was pregnant with her first kid.

Sarah is full of energy and passion around her messaging for moms and entrepreneurs. She is also very realistic and reasonable. She has simplified her life to make her dreams and desires very clear. By living with less, she has been able to create more for herself and her family on every level.

Listen in to hear Sarah share:

Why she left a startup to start her own startup early in motherhood
How she created time and money for herself to afford starting her own business (and some super simple budgeting tips!)
How to do less in order to accomplish more
Why you need to write your personal philosophy and how to make it actionable and not too “fluffy”

Links Mentioned:

Connect with Sarah: Sarah K Peck
Startup Pregnant: Startup Pregnant
Startup Pregnant on Twitter
Startup Pregnant on Facebook
Startup Pregnant on Instagram

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223: 3R's To Think About This Spring Apr 16, 2018

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Who else is dying for the season of sun, cherry blossoms, and grilling to GET STARTED ALREADY?!?

This is the perfect time to check in with yourself on how you want to Renew, Review, and Rejoice this spring.

In this episode I’ll talk you through:

How you can renew the habits that best fuel you (that may have fallen by the wayside over the winter)
How to access what you want more of and less of this spring and how to take radical responsibility to get it all
How to rejoice in the little things that light you up and find magic moments as the season's change

I’ll share specific examples from my life pertaining from all of the above. Feel free to copy/model/borrow/steal it all!

Happy Spring Shameless friends! Xoxo

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222: Sara LeHoullier: Shameless Stepmom and Busybee Apr 11, 2018

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Sara LeHoullier has always been a busy-bee. With a BA in English Literature and a Master's in Sustainable Development, she jumped from teaching English as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar to managing donor-funded projects with a large NGO, then dove into consulting with Microsoft before striking out on her own. She currently designs Squarespace websites and writes copy for passionate entrepreneurs and small businesses — she’s also the co-founder of Shop the Change, a web app designed to help consumers make value-based shopping decisions and support the brands working to make the world a better place. Her most challenging (and rewarding) position yet is being a stepmom. She’s deeply interested in social change, sustainable business, and creating space for conversations that improve the way we work and live on this planet.

This was such a fun interview. You will hear Sara’s magnetic energy from the very beginning of the interview. I loved hearing Sara’s story and I really appreciate how she opened up about some of the less talked about aspects of stepmotherhood. I know you’ll learn some valuable lessons from Sara’s journey.

Listen in to hear Sara share:

Her unexpected journey into motherhood
The challenges of building an identity as a stepmom
How she worked through the isolation of being a new mother figure and stepmom
How her entrepreneurial journey paralleled her motherhood journey
Where she is now – attracting all the right people at the right time

Links Mentioned:

Busybee: thebusybee.me
Busybee on Facebook
Shop the Change: shopthechange.com
Shop the Change on Facebook
Hotline: The Boys Town Hotline
Book: The Soul of an Octopus

Thank you to our sponsors:

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221: Seven Phrases of Freedom Apr 09, 2018

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There are a handful of phrases that can buy you A LOT of freedom. These are small statements you can use to convey big messages that will get you out of over-explaining yourself, stretching the truth to get your way, or rationalizing way more than you need to in any given conversation or situation.

For example, when we over-explain a “NO”, for example, we often say way too much, minimize our power, and give away way too much of ourselves.

These 7 Phrases of Freedom will give you back your time, energy, and sanity:

Not right now.
Let me get back to you.
Can you send me an email about that?
Thank you.
I appreciate you.
That has not been my experience.

Use them liberally, starting now!

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