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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:

110: Hilary Hendershott Profit Boss Radio Mar 15, 2017

Show notes

Hilary Hendershott has an impressive resume as a financial planner. She owns Hilary Hendershott Wealth Management and is the host of Boss Profit Radio (an awesome podcast). She’s a TEDx speaker. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, NBC, ABC, FOX, Forbes, and various other media outlets. She has made over 30 expert television appearances and she’s been recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

But, what you’ll probably most enjoy about Hilary is that she is REAL. She tells it like it is and she’s not afraid to be 100% forthcoming with her own story of hitting her debt rock bottom.

I know you’ll all appreciate her # 1 Rule: No Financial Drama. She’s not in the biz to shame people or scare people. She wants to help you neutralize your relationship with money so you can make decisions that empower your life.

Listen in to hear Hilary share:

What it’s like to be a female in a male driven industry
The 6 (quick & easy) daily steps you can take to simplify your finances
How to stop hiding from debt
Ways to take the fear out of money
How much you should really have in savings (and why it shouldn’t all be cash based)
How to be more Shameless with your money

Hilary also gave some really helpful tips on getting involved in the stock market (where more women NEED to play!), and she shared “The 3 F’s in Finding a Financial Advisor:”

Fees
Fiduciary
Philosophy (ok, technically a PH!)

Links Mentioned:

Website: http://www.hilaryhendershott.com/

Email: info@hilaryhendershott.com

Free Guide: Mind Over Money

Stock Market Training: Investing With Freedom for Smart Women

Article: Fiduciary

Podcast: Profit Boss Radio

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109: Lessons Learned Traveling with 8 Kids Mar 13, 2017

Show notes

We recently got back from a weeklong trip with 4 other families. Our group consisted of 10 adults, 5 four year olds and 3 two year olds. We had a blast. But, don’t mistake fun for rest. I wouldn’t say it was relaxing….

This is the second year we have traveled with this group. After doing this twice, I can say I wholeheartedly endorse group travel when you have little kids. BUT – you must be prepared and know what you’re getting into.

This episode will highlight my 8 lessons learned traveling with 8 kids:

Snacks all the time, everywhere
Eat in vs eating out
Meltdowns
Adult free time
Daily down time
The beauty and fallout of treats and screens
Buffer day
Nothing is as great as it seems, nothing is as bad as it seems

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108: Leanne Kabat- When You Only Have 5 Years To Live Mar 08, 2017

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I have to start this by letting you know this was easily one of my favorite interviews ever. You are in for the most gut wrenching story, told by the most amazing heroine and SuperMom, Leanne Kabat.

Leanne moved to From Ottawa, Canada to Sammamish, Washington in January 2016. Before she had a chance to make any friends, her husband left on a week long business trip. Leanne was home with her 4 year old and her 2 year old, and she was 5 months pregnant.

Her husband had been gone a for a few nights when Leanne woke up to pee one night (remember all the pregnancy peeing?!?) When she got out of bed, she passed out, falling on her belly, and woke up on her bedroom floor paralyzed. She would lie there for hours unable to move or speak.

After hours of willing herself to GET UP, she finally regained enough mobility to get up and get herself, kids in tow, to the hospital. What followed were months of testing, the birth of her third baby, tons more testing, and ultimately this prognosis, presented by a large panel of doctors and medical experts:

“We don’t know what you have. But we can tell you that based on the brain damage we are seeing from your ‘incident’, you only have 5 years to live.”

Listen in to hear:

what Leanne’s life was like after receiving a death sentence
her ultimate breaking point 3 years after her diagnosis
how drugs ruined her and mindset saved her
how she finally stumbled upon her MamaCon tribe and how life changing and life giving this tribe has been
why she chose to buy MamaCon based on “the utterly unshakeable belief that no mama should mama alone”

Links Mentioned:

MamaCon website: www.mamacon.net

MamaCon on Facebook

Book: Harold and the Purple Crayon

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107: 4 Reasons You're Not Meeting Your Goals Mar 06, 2017

Show notes

I have been working with goal setters for the last 14 years. Working in the fitness industry, goals are always part of the conversation with clients. I’ve witnessed women on top of the world because they just crushed a goal. I’ve also witnessed women set the same goal over and over, feeling defeated and deflated in their self-proclaimed failure to ever reach said goal. This can be a viscous cycle that is really damaging to one’s mental health.

Here are 4 reasons I frequently see women fail to meet their goals:

1. You haven’t seriously considered how amazing your life would be if you actually met your goal. Have you really deeply considered what your life would be like if you meet your goal? Would you be more patient with your kids, more productive at work, have more desire to fuel your body well? Would you have more energy and less anxiety? Would you feel more in control of your life and more assertive in your relationships?

2. You’re not putting enough structure around them. If you’re not specific about your goal and the EXACT steps you need to take to accomplish it, you’re not going to succeed. A blueprint of sorts is essential.

3. You’re holding out for a quick fix or next week, next month, next year.

Stop waiting and start taking action. It is really as simple as that. A quick fix is a temporary bandaid. It will wash off after just a few days. Life will always be busy. The “right time” will never present itself. If you’re serious about accomplishing something, you must START.

4. You don’t believe in yourself and you’re quick to give up. Self-limiting beliefs are the silent killer of most goals. You must take steps to improve your head game and tell yourself you ARE worth it. Talk out your plan with a friend or mentor you know would be a great cheerleader. Seeing someone else’s confidence in you will give you confidence in yourself. You must be kind to yourself every damn day – telling yourself you ARE worth it and you CAN do it.

Listen in to this episode to hear exactly how you can combat these hiccups and roadblocks. I have seen women and moms just like you turn their lives around because they made a plan and committed to working the plan. You truly can do anything – as long as YOU believe you can.

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106: Susan Weeks How to Find Yourself when Everything Changes Mar 01, 2017

Show notes

Susan Weeks is a podcast producer who helps other entrepreneurs get started in podcasting or step up their game in podcasting. Susan’s work online started out of her desire to stay out of the corporate world that had been a part of her past.

After becoming a mom unexpectedly at 39, while newly divorced, Susan’s life changed in every way you could imagine. With a partner who struggled to stay in one place long enough to put down roots, Susan spent years raising her son in many different homes in many different countries. In hindsight, she can clearly see how she lost herself in her relationship and in motherhood.

In recent years, Susan has put down roots and built a life that is true to her identity as a leader and guide to those around her. She has built a business that can be flexible with motherhood and also allows her to put to use her best attributes to serve others.

Listen in to hear Susan share:

How she dealt with divorce, selling her house, walking away from her job and then discovering she was pregnant all in one month.
How she moved all over Europe living someone else’s dream and lost herself
The steps she took to build an online business around her strongest personality traits and her best skill sets from her corporate experience
Why being selfish in motherhood is appropriate and sometimes necessary

Links Mentioned:

Susan’s Website: www.PodcastProgress.com

Susan on LinkedIn

Susan and Podcast Progress on Facebook

Susan on Twitter @sueweeks

Freebie: The Podcast Launching Kit

Freebie: Using the 12 Week Year with Trello

Book: 12 Week Year

Book: The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months By Brian Moran

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105: 7 Secrets to Slow Down & Simplify Feb 27, 2017

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Can we all agree to tear off our Busy Badges and chill out a little. Life is only as hectic as you make it. If you find yourself living in constant overwhelm, it’s because you are allowing that to happen. Let’s all start taking Radical Responsibility for our time and our priorities. And for goodness sake, stop indulging your ego by telling others how busy you are.

When I started taking Radical Responsibility for my busyness, I became a LOT less busy. I was able to slow down and simplify my life in a number of ways. I no longer wear my Busy Badge. I tore it off and stomped on it until it was no longer recognizable.

Here are 7 secrets to help you slow down & simplify:

Meal Plan – do not be a slave to the 4:45pm “what’s for dinner” trap. Listen in to hear my top tips on how to make meals suuuuper simple forever.

Time Block Chores – stop doing chores everyday. Yep, I’m giving you permission. It’s a waste of your time and an energy drain. Listen in to hear how to do less laundry and less bathroom cleaning (and stop dusting!)

Divide & Conquer – you are not the only capable person in your family or your neighborhood or your children’s school. Listen it to hear how to enlist help and support.

Social Boundaries – Your kids have social boundaries at school, right. There is a time for play and a time for work and a time to chill. You should have the same at home, especially on the weekends. A go-go-go lifestyle is not good for your kids or for you. Listen in to hear how to create some rules around your social calendar.

Stop Over Scheduling – you and your kids don’t need to be involved in everything. It doesn’t make them more well rounded. It doesn’t make you more important. It just makes everyone a little more nutty. For real. Stop. Listen in to hear how to pick and choose activities.

Quality Quiet Time – this is my best secret. You have to do it. I promise you’ll thank me.

Outsource (groceries, yard work, laundry) – free up mental space and create more time and energy by getting help. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Listen in for cheap tips!

If you can follow any of these 7 steps, you will:

free up mental space
reduce decision fatigue
create space for peace and calm
model good habits to your kids
tear off your Busy Badge

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103: The Truth About Momming Feb 20, 2017

Show notes

Adele inspired me in a million ways at the Grammy’s. But what touched me most deeply were her comments on motherhood.

In today’s episode I’ll share more about what Adele said and why it was so important, as well as go in depth as to why we lose ourselves in motherhood.

I’ll confirm for you that you are KILLING it, even though no one has thanked you in a really long time.

I will touch on how you do all you do - that you don’t even know you are doing – making you a superhero of the most invincible kind.

I’ll discuss your supreme and extreme sense of responsibility that no one else in your household can relate to.

I’ll award you with your Masters Degree from Newborn University that you gained overnight, while you were in labor, since everyone else probably forgot to give it to you.

I’ll give you permission to be more shameless and more selfish #everydamnday

Links Mentioned:

SMA Episode 22: Erin Brown - Letters to Lola

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102: Scott Colby: Say it with Gratitude Feb 15, 2017

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Scott Colby is an adventure lover who has created businesses around his passions. Although he has spent over a decade in the fitness industry helping people create transformations, it is his love of international travel and thirst for adventure that has led him create his favorite brands - Say It With Gratitude and Unplug and Play Adventures.

I invited Scott to come on the show because I wanted to talk to him about the power of gratitude in his life and how he has used it to fuel his career. Scott recently launched Say It With Gratitude, a movement designed to help people have more gratitude and happiness in their lives. It starts with thank you cards, designed by kids impacted by charity.

Scott’s mission with Say It With Gratitude is powerful. The impact gratitude is having on his life and on those he serves is profound. Scott is also quick to clarify that gratitude, while it should be practiced consistently, can be practiced imperfectly. There are no strict rules or “right” ways to do it. The power is in doing it in a way that you are reflecting positively on your own life and touching others in a positive way.

Ways to practice Gratitude:

Say Thank You out loud and often
Appreciate the little things in your daily life
Acknowledge what you DO have in rough times
Acknowledge people with your words and actions
Notice simple pleasures
Notice, take in, and appreciate your surroundings
Get out in nature
Not comparing yourself to others – embrace your unique path and own it
Live your life as if everything is a miracle
Smile at others and make eye contact
Make small talk with strangers
Give compliments freely
Volunteer
Impact on your community

Listen in to hear Scott share:

How gratitude can change your life
How to practice gratitude in new, simple, easy ways
Why we need to resurrect Thank You cards
The power or pivoting
The magic of asking for help

Make sure to check out Say It With Gratitude and the charities and people Scott is currently working with. I was particularly touched by Joshua’s story and Be Strong, a charity to fight bullying.

Links Mentioned:

Website: SayItWithGratitude.com

Scott’s fitness website: ScottColby.com

Scott’s Podcast: The Power to Change

Book: Evolved Enterprise By Yanik Silver

Book: Miracle Morning By Hal Elrod

Book: The Gratitude Connection By Amy Collette

Book: Deep work, Rules for Focused Success In A Distracted World By Cal Newport

App: Insight Timer

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101: 6 Steps to Fall in Love with Your Life Feb 13, 2017

Show notes

Last weekend Vinnie had two friends overnight for a sleepover. For 24 hours I played mom to 3 kids. DAMN. That is serious business, friends.

It was a very action packed 24 hours, to say the least. And at the end of it all, I learned something really valuable about myself and my current life. I suddenly felt grateful that our IVF experience over the summer had not resulted in a pregnancy. I saw the simplicity of our current life in a new light. I fell a little more in love with my life than I have in a long time.

Over the last week, I have been thinking about what it takes to Fall In Love With Your Life. It takes a lot, but it also takes very little.

Listen in to this episode to hear my 6 Steps to Fall In Love With Your Life:

Embrace a Growth mindset
Quite the comparison trap
Practice daily gratitude and wins
Take radical responsibility for your joy
Find the cracks
Keep your shield up

It is entirely possible to fall a little more in love with your life every single day – if you choose to do so. Let these 6 steps be your guide.

Links Mentioned:

Book: Mindset By Carol Dweck

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100: Amy Moses, PT: Truths and Myths about Your Mommy Bladder Feb 08, 2017

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Amy Moses is a physical therapist who works exclusively in women’s health with a specialty in pelvic floor physical therapy. I met Amy a few years ago when she was my pelvic floor PT. I quickly developed a huge girl crush on Amy, as she made me feel so comfortable at such a vulnerable time in my life. She helped me heal my body and become stronger as a women and a mom.

Amy and I dive deep into the world of pelvic floor rehab today – discussing incontinence, pain with sex, and pelvic pain that happens to most women after giving birth (as well as to women who have never given birth!) Amy is on a mission to normalize these kinds of conversations and to bring pelvic floor rehab to all moms.

Perhaps the best part of this conversation and Amy and I disclosing our own personal experiences with pelvic floor dysfunction after having babies. It’s not pretty, friends…. But it’s TOTALLY NORMAL. I think you’ll get a few good laughs as we share our personal journeys – and perhaps you’ll be able to relate!

Listen in to hear Amy share:

The truth about incontinence, pain with sex, and pelvic pain the most of us experience
Why understanding this major women’s health issue is critical in the current political landscape
How Kegels can make everything worse
Why the pad/panty liner industry is making a KILLING off you
What you can expect when you go to pelvic floor physical therapy
How to find a pelvic floor PT near you

Links Mentioned:

Amy Moses on Facebook

Amy Moses at Moye Physical Therapy near Memphis, TN

Directory of Herman Wallace Pelvic Floor PTs

Directory of Women’s Health PTs

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