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The CEO Sage

You’re vitally important and completely invisible. You’re performing in what you once dreamed. The thing you built to free you has become the thing you’re trapped inside.

You’ve built something real. A business that works. A reputation that precedes you. By every measure, you’re succeeding.
And something is wrong that you can’t quite name.

You’ve tried the frameworks. You’ve bought the courses. You’ve followed the gurus. And on some level you know that none of it is going to give you what you’re actually looking for, because what you’re actually looking for is yourself.

This is The CEO Sage—a podcast for the woman who is ready to stop looking outside herself for the answer.

Kris Plachy doesn’t offer you recipes or tactics or the “real way” to scale your business. She offers you something more rare: permission to listen to what you already know. In intimate, unflinching conversations, she names the truths you’ve been waiting to hear aloud. That your wisdom matters more than the strategy. That your self-trust is the asset worth protecting. That what feels like failure might actually be an invitation to something better.

If you’ve achieved the success everyone told you to want and discovered it wasn’t what you were looking for, this is for you. If you know something needs to change but can’t see the path, this is for you. If you’re ready to stop performing and start revealing—to yourself first, then to the world—this is for you.

The CEO Sage. Where the work of becoming begins with the work of remembering who you already are.

Copyright: Copyright © 2019 - 2021 Kris Plachy

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A Conversation with Krista St-Germain | S03E03 Mar 14, 2022

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When life doesn't go the way we think it will, it can seem like a reason to stop dreaming. Tragedy, especially, drives us into a place of acute grief, followed by days where just putting one foot in front of the other is our limit. Krista St-Germain, Life Coach for Widowed Moms, founder of Mom Goes On and host of The Widowed Mom podcast has lived this. Widowed at age 40, Krista discovered grief recovery through coaching and the ability to dream again.

In this podcast installment, Krista shares her warrior coach power and offers her viewpoints and advice regarding business, life and grief coaching. She touches on unexpected grief, unexpected growth, working with a team, the power of failure, and much more. I hope through hearing this episode, you are buoyed and strengthened in your own journey.

"'Wait a minute, what lights me up here? What would just absolutely feel like a dream to do here? And then follow that.' And then, boom! I solved the problem that I was so stressed out and losing sleep over. And then in an hour, it felt totally different." – Krista St-Germain

What You'll Learn

Unexpected tragedy, unexpected growth
Unplanned obligations
The who, not the how in business
Not minimizing grief in a society focused on happiness
Loving what you do and who you help
Going for the next evolution despite the fear
The strength in making things fun
The power of failure

Meet Krista St-Germain

Krista in her own words…

"When my husband was killed by a drunk driver, I was devastated.

Therapy helped me survive the tidal wave of grief and unfurl myself from the fetal position.

I went back to work. Everyone kept telling me how "strong" I was. I acted strong in front of my kids. But inside I felt hollow. All my dreams had included him.

I desperately wanted to believe I could still have a happy, fulfilling life but I wasn't sure how. Then I began to research grief, trauma and healing extensively. I studied cognitive behavioral coaching and read every book I could find. I combined what I learned about Post Traumatic Growth with cognitive science-based coaching tools and figured out how to turn my loss into a strategy for growth.

I learned to see myself as stronger because of what I'd been through instead of using it as a reason to stop dreaming.

I created a new life using small, manageable steps and techniques that made sense. The changes I experienced were so profound I became a Master Certified Life Coach and created a group coaching program for widows like us called Mom Goes On."

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A Conversation with Elizabeth Purvis | S03E02 Mar 07, 2022

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When you are fully dedicated and intricately tied to your mission, it will attract clients to you and allow you to build a team that is also devoted to that same purpose. The work becomes less about you, and more about the vision. One of the ways that allows business owners and CEOs to be able to do this and to make seven figures is through divine spiritual laws. In this episode, I'm excited to talk with Elizabeth Purvis as we dive into a conversation about bringing magic to the mainstream, the global shifting consciousness, and how she uses alternative transformational work to amplify leaders and their businesses.

Elizabeth Purvis is a master offers and messaging strategist, business coach, and metaphysical teacher to thousands of women worldwide. Her personal mission is to be a part of the movement to bring magic to the mainstream and to help thousands so that we can shift and elevate consciousness on the planet. With a background in computer science and engineering, she is grounded in the practical, while also fully embracing the "woo-woo" of magic and metaphysics. I absolutely loved this conversation and I hope it leaves you as motivated and excited as it did me.

"I attract people who want to be a part of something bigger and who want to bring their skills and their talents to be a part of something much bigger." - Elizabeth Purvis

What You'll Learn

The secret sauce of your offers
- Optimizing your message
- Relying less on social media
Using magic to make our lives better
- Law of desire
- Finding and following your passion
The energetic container of your business
- Mission, vision, and values
- Creating your business foundation
Elizabeth's biggest challenges
- Stepping back from service delivery
- Your team is your most important client
Creating magic for the people inside the business
- Creating the space for expansion
- Making the shift from "I" to "We"
Tapping into magic and leveraging it in your business
- Starting with universal spiritual laws
- Metaphysical teachings that go along with business teachings

Meet Elizabeth Purvis

Elizabeth Purvis is a master offers + messaging strategist, business coach and metaphysical teacher to thousands of women worldwide. She is the creator of Feminine Magic® series of metaphysical teachings and is the Founder/CEO of 7-Figure Goddess®, the premiere business mentoring company for "magicians" – coaches, healers, energy workers and spiritual teachers wanting to bring their Highest Level Work to the world by way of a high income, high profit business. Her proprietary scaling methodology, the Sustainable Scaling Method™, empowers coaches, healers, energy workers and spiritual teachers to create consistent high PROFIT months – without webinars, launches, events or sales calls.

7-Figure Goddess® is the go-to business mentoring group for transformational leaders who are ready to SCALE... without all the "marketing hustle." Our proprietary scaling methodology, the Sustainable Scaling Method™, empowers coaches, healers, energy workers and spiritual teachers to create consistent high PROFIT months – without webinars, launches, events or sales calls. Through highly efficient Hot Offers and effective messaging, we give our clients a clear path to scale to multi-six and 7-figures in two years or less, while cutting marketing and sales time in half.

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A Conversation with Erica Tingey | S03E1 Feb 28, 2022

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Naturally following your passion in life will lead you to success. Pair natural talent with tackling new skills, and you can become an unstoppable force. You only need to lock in and conquer those areas you find intimidating or scary or that seem insurmountable. By avoiding the lure of simply abdicating responsibilities and choosing instead to stand in your CEO role, you can wield the power of a confident woman. In this episode, I'm excited to chat with Erica Tingey, CEO of Women in the Mountains, all about this topic. As a former champion national and international mountain biker, Erica embodies lasting endurance, seeking skills improvement, building confidence, and releasing feminine prowess. A certified Master Mountain Bike Coach, Life Coach and Weight Loss Coach, Erica coaches, equips, trains and encourages other female athletes. I hope this episode invigorates you as much as it did me.

"The power of a woman confident on her bike is undeniable and far reaching in the world." – Erica Tingey

What You'll Learn

Choose confidence
- Seek to learn
- Not knowing doesn't equal disqualification
It's normal to want to hide or quit
- Employ mini-retreats
- This is not the day
A slippery thought: "Someone can do it better than me"
- Abdication = disaster
Humans are hard
- Team temperatures; people weather
- Donning the right weather gear
Bigger expectations
- The delight of being a powerful women
- Stepping into the mindset
The magic
- The beautiful life of a female athlete
- Creating a path for others

Meet Erica Tingey

Erica Tingey is the CEO of Women in the Mountains. She has been coaching mountain bike skills clinics since 2011 and has worked with over 2,000 athletes! Working with beginners to pro racers, she has been able to connect with every level of rider to help them build on their skills progression. Her Women's Mountain Mastery Course offers both in person coaching and online coaching.

Erica raced mountain bikes professionally from 2010 to 2017. She raced to the front of the field to secure multiple podiums on the National level over her career and raced several international World Cups on the mountain bike. She won 2 Masters National Championship titles on the road (Time Trial and Road Race).

She and her husband have a teenage son and live in Park City, Utah. With a great support crew and loving family, she is able to fulfill her dreams of empowering women on and off the bike. Along with being a master mountain bike coach, Erica is a certified Life Coach and Weight Loss Coach.

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A Conversation with Fabienne Fredrickson | S02E13 Feb 21, 2022

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When women have their own money (and lots of it), they have a voice and a choice. Through financial security, women are no longer indebted to anyone and can change the world. Their superpowers are set free by not being beholden to anything. It's time for women to claim more of a place in this world.

For this episode, I'm beyond thrilled to have Fabienne Fredrickson with me to discuss all this, along with some of the how behind making it happen. As a celebrated business coach for over 21 years, Fabienne has been helping thousands of female entrepreneurs scale their businesses to 10K a month and beyond. Through her signature program, The Leveraged Business, Fabienne and her team help take the overwhelmed woman from being controlled by her business to controlling her business. A woman in the place of financial freedom and security can open and follow the path of getting everything else back as well: her life, her body, and her sanity!

When more women feel unapologetically safe and powerful, there's nothing they can't do. – Fabienne Fredrickson

What You'll Learn

Why it's crucial for women to make their own money
- Controlled or in control
- Stepping into your rightful place
- Why you absolutely must work less for business growth
The biggest mindset shift
- Rejecting societal constructs
- Femininity with power
- Feminine energy versus masculine energy
Crucible moments
- Getting out from under the thumb
- The only choice
Universal spiritual laws around making money
- As above, so below; as inside, so outside
- Work through your incongruence
Entrepreneurship thrives on feminine energy
- Planning your energy
- Worthiness
- Being unapologetic

Meet Fabienne Fredrickson

Fabienne Fredrickson is a powerful mentor for solo business owners who seek to make the greatest impact they can in their work, all while creating certainty in their business and financial security in their lives. She believes that when women make their own money (and lots of it), they experience a profound feeling of safety in their life.

As the founder of TheLeveragedBusiness.com and Boldheart.com, Fabienne has been a mentor to tens of thousands of women business owners over more than 20 years. Her predictable process, taught in The Leveraged Business program, practically guarantees that a business owner will multiply their results with more downtime, once implemented fully. Her company has repeatedly been recognized by the media, and Inc. Magazine has named it one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for three consecutive years.

She is the celebrated author of The Leveraged Business: How You Can Go From Overwhelmed at Six Figures to Seven Figures (and Get Your Life Back) and Embrace Your Magnificence: Get Out of Your Own Way, and Live a Richer, Fuller, More Abundant Life.

Her Tedx Talk on Activating Your Potential for Greatness has gone viral. Fabienne is an inspiring speaker - sometimes even speaking to audiences as large as 7,000 attendees - and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., FastCompany, Amex Forum, and the New York Times.

In addition to teaching women (and heart-centered men) how to get out of overwhelm, and reach a million or more in their business with their life back, Fabienne sprinkles self worth and mindset principles onto all of her teachings. In everything she does, she teaches you to fight self-doubt, become infinitely more confident, believe in yourself, value your unique brilliance, and then get out of your comfort zone so you can create a magnificent life you love.

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Book Recommendation from Kris: True North by Bill George

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The Most Important Leadership Characteristic | S02 E12 Feb 14, 2022

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Whether good or bad, a leader is one who inspires others to follow. Beyond this definition, however, there are deep questions. What, exactly, makes a leader powerful and effective? What is the element that goes beyond strategies, methods and competency and taps into hidden CEO magic?

A big component is the currency of energy. To understand the existence of the currency of energy and to use that is huge. It releases the magic we all need and want. That, in turn, releases what I hold to be the most important leadership characteristic. I invite you to join me as I explore and share that magical characteristic in this episode.

What You'll Learn

The currency of energy
- Magic, hope and the power of your mind
Making sense of the unseen
- Spirituality
- Leading and creating your business
- Attracting followers
The most important leadership characteristic
When it's hard
Choosing, no matter what comes

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The Pure Magic of Leaders Who Listen | S02 E11 Feb 07, 2022

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When people feel heard, they feel known, valued – and this is desperately needed in our modern culture. It is, perhaps, an even deeper need for women in powerful leadership positions. Others listen to accomplished, successful women for the express purpose of acquiring knowledge for their own gain. But who truly hears and sees the strong, powerful women, herself, who is dispensing said knowledge?

Out of this reality comes the wisdom that all need to be truly seen and heard. To not be is quite lonely. As women especially, we naturally possess the ability to listen and alleviate this need, if we are intentional to sharpen our skill. Leaders who do so will draw others to themselves who are at the same level, which is both desirable and mutually beneficial. Through this episode, I hope to ignite in you the desire to awaken the deep, pure magic of being a leader who truly listens and sees.

What You'll Learn

Why we typically feel unheard
- Pursuit of knowledge
- Self-focused society
The magic of listening
- Connect with people at the same level
- Hold others in high value
- Some proofs you're truly listening
Cultivate being listened to yourself
Find people who see and hear you

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Punishment vs. Accountability | S02 Ep10 Jan 31, 2022

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Holding others accountable, especially employees, is one of the biggest and most common issues leaders face. Why is it so hard to get people to do what you want or assess performance and address issues? Why is holding people responsible so uncomfortable? I believe the core issue is this: We associate accountability with punishment.

Borne from the traditional masculine authority figure dynamic, we anticipate or associate a penalty exacted for an offense. We see this throughout society in various forms. And although punishment is a form of accountability, it isn't the type needed nor desired in business. It is neither relevant nor applicable. What we need and desire from those we lead is ownership, obligation, and investment in the outcome. We need proper accountability. So how do we nurture that desired environment of personal responsibility? To start, we must disassociate punishment from accountability.

What You'll Learn

Defining proper accountability
- The origin of punishment within accountability
- Emotions and personal investment triggers
Dirty vs clean accountability
- Remembering the purpose of having employees
- Divorcing emotion: loyalty, love and poor performance
Accountability is professional commitment
- Being held to account for ability is rare
- The uncomfortable place of being the first
- Clear expectations, clear agreement, and not meeting them
Earning their way up? or earning their way out?
- Neutral, not personal; steering clear of punishment
- Navigate with maturity and addressing commitment
- Sort your emotions before acting

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The Magic of NOT Knowing How | S02 Ep9 Jan 24, 2022

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We tend to be organized, especially as a society. Structured, linear thinking is expected and natural. This leads to us believing not only do we know what will happen but also why. And therefore, we believe we have control over things. This control thought-pattern then breeds a constant stream of how. How are we going to do this, how are we going to do that?

But what if not investing all our energy into the how frees us to lean into belief? Frees the magic of the creative process and fuels success for our vision? Let's recapture the what we've been kissed with through embracing the magic of NOT knowing how.

What You'll Learn

Why we lose the magic
- Vision getting lost
- Not knowing the how

An example from my life
- Absolute clarity, without any idea of the how

Loving what you do releases the magic
- Lean into joy
- Commit to being more of you

The missing piece
- How versus the energy of truly believing
- More than just tactics

Worry robs us
- Increased capacity
- Release your need to know

Ways the how generates more easily
- Nurture what you've been kissed with
- Refuse anxiety triggers
- Be healthy, thriving, open, free
- Achieve through proper work

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Leadership is the Problem and the Solution | S02 Ep8 Jan 17, 2022

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Does how you do things as a leader really matter? I absolutely believe it does. The typical CEO is tired and overwhelmed, and this often results in unwittingly creating problems. But CEO magic leadership can be the solution. It can take your business from just surviving to thriving. But how, exactly, do you learn to possess and dispense CEO magic?

In this episode, I talk briefly about CEO magic. It all starts with correctly identifying the root of problems, and properly addressing the mindset that perpetuates them. From there, you begin to grow, thrive, be filled with joy, and drive yourself and your team in a more positive direction. From that magical place of leadership, success abounds. After sampling the basics I cover in this episode, I invite you to consider diving deeper through my program, How To CEO. I've helped many leaders find their magic, and I cherish the opportunity to help you find yours.

What You'll Learn

Confusing leadership and management
- Evolution of your own growth
- Properly assigning blame
- Mistakenly perpetuating problems
- Correcting your mindset
How to CEO in 8 Weeks
- Power of a thriving leader
- Wield emotional fortitude
- Triage immediate needs
- Implement right changes
- Increase your revenue
- Identify repeating patterns
- Supportive team = Magic
- Resolve issues
- Deliver on your promises
- Clarity attracts the right people

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S02 Episode 7: How to Truly Celebrate Business Success Jan 10, 2022

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Do you truly celebrate your business wins? Or do you tend to just blow right past them and move on to the next goal? Yes, it's important to look forward, make plans, to do all the things to move yourself and your business forward. But might I suggest one additional but ultra-important thing to do? Let me encourage you to do what feels good. That is, celebrating yourself and your successes!

As humans, we create things first in our minds. Magical things happen when we imagine them, then make them reality. Through that process, we feel. And great things come to us through feeling. That's why giving space to celebrating, leaning into accomplishment, and allowing pride, joy and wonder to manifest will foster even more success. Celebrating your success breeds more success!

What You'll Learn

Make your list of magic
- What are the wins you didn't roll around in this past year?
- Feel your wins deeply
Explore why one success really hit you but another did not
- Is there unnecessary guilt or shame?
- Are you mistakenly building an entitlement environment?
Stop. Start. Continue.
- Thoughtfully choose
- Create from feelings
- Connect with feelings and allow yourself to feel…
  - Wise, competent, brave
  - Loved, worthy, valued
Trust your own wisdom
- Honor your success
- Use visuals to hold that space

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