Trust Your Voice

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When to Say Yes with Karen Wells Jun 30, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with Karen Wells to talk about having the courage to say yes and creating new experiences rooted in the ability to move forward.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Karen discuss:

Saying yes and stepping into different experiences
Knowing yourself and appreciating others by using tools such as the DISC
Being result-driven and measuring impact
Creating opportunities
Journey with Bridge Communities
Making a difference

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Starting with Strengths with Nathalie Sabourin Jun 16, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with Nathalie Sabourin to talk about amplifying your strength to achieve your full potential in life and at work.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Nathalie discuss:

Elevate your Leadership: Be at your best and release your potential
Build your Co-Leadership Potential: Accelerate your goals and objectives with diverse perspectives and confidence
Rediscover your strengths with an Inquiry and Growth Mindset
Actions to go to the next level:
- Being a Lifelong Learner (Always Learning)
- Mentor, coach, guardian angel, sponsor
What are the challenges when you embark the journey of knowing yourself
How to use the results when interacting with others, when making decisions or building a team

Minimizing to Maximize Your Success with Taylor Shanklin Jun 02, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with Taylor Shanklin to talk about the method - minimize to maximize.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Taylor get into and discuss:

Event that impacts health
Branding and Definition of Success
Three steps to Minimize to Maximize

How to devote your time. Do it, Delegate It, Drop it.
Show up as your authentic self every day.
Recognize and Accept that change does not happen overnight. Trust the process.

How to talk about the refugee crises Jun 01, 2022

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Trusting your voice requires expanding your knowledge and your perspective, sometimes on complicated topics. In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down to review a brief and topic covered by The Policy Circle, refugee crisis.

Sylvie walks through this topic that can feel rather difficult to navigate and understand, by giving listeners insight into:

Sylvie’s “Lens of Care” and personal lens at looking at the refugee crisis
International Laws and Definitions around refugees - United Nations Refugee Convention (1951)
Definition of Asylum Seekers
Role of US Federal Government
Role of Congress - judiciary committees
Executive Branch & United States Refugee Admissions Program
Refugee Act of 1980 established formal refugee and asylum programs in the U.S., and brought U.S. law into greater alignment with the UN Refugee Convention.
Difference between Refugee and Asylum Seekers
Special Immigrant Visas (interpreters) - and Humanitarian Parole “allows an individual to be in the United States for a temporary period for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”
Process for specific individuals who have met humanitarian priorities - Refugees (P1), Asylum Seekers have 2 paths - Affirmative Asylum Processing with USCIS or Defensive Asylum Processing with EOIR
Management and funding of refugee-related programs and services comes from the federal government, implementation is the responsibility of states and localities
PRIVATE SECTOR - Federal, state, and local governments rely on non-governmental partners to provide resettlement assistance and services to arriving refugees. See Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Challenges & Areas for Reform - Backlog of Asylum Cases
Impact on communities
Ways to Get Involved/What You Can Do

To learn more on this topic, The Policy Circle recently published a brief on Responding to the Refugee Crisis – you can find it on thepolicycircle.org

Building a Network and Finding your Focus with Beth Feeley May 19, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with Beth Feeley to talk about building a network and finding your focus by stepping out of your comfort zone and making an effort to stay informed.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Beth get into and discuss:

The launching of The Policy Circle
Building a network that started with The Policy Circle discussion and briefs
Finding your focus
Goals, structure and lessons learned in launching the New Trier Neighbors

Connect and listen to Beth Feeley through her podcast: Take Back our Schools with Andrew Guttman and Beth Feeley

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Building your Personal Brands and Why it Matters with Lindrea Reynolds May 05, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légèresat down with Lindrea Reynolds about personal branding.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Lindrea get into and discuss:

What is a personal brand and why is it important
Some examples of different personal brands
What do you do with your brand and how to stay true
Recommendations on how to communicate your brand with teams and other people.
What is the first step to articulating your brand.

Broadening our Ecosystem of Relationships Enriches Life with Laura Cox Kaplan Apr 21, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with Laura Cox Kaplan, to talk about building an ecosystem of relationships that enriches our life because we are wired to connect, to help each other achieve our full potential.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Laura get into and discuss:

The importance of building a network - an ecosystem of relationships.
Being intentional about building a network.
Seizing opportunities to broaden and diversify relationships.
Deepening relationships and keeping them alive.
How to use your network.

Understanding the Language of War with Dr. Kim Kagan Apr 11, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with Dr. Kim Kagan, to talk about the language of war.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Dr. Kagan get into and discuss:

The mission of the Institute for the Study of War and why it is established.
Where is Dr. Kagan’s confidence rooted and how did she build and nourish the ecosystem of relationships that enable her to do the work.
The three keys to understanding the Language of War
What is the role of the United States in conflicts?
How will future conflict end?
As everyday citizens, what can we do to help in ending war?

Here are some useful links about the recent Ukraine-Russia Crisis and on which Dr. Kim Kagan participated at the end of the Policy Circle program on Disinformation on the Ukraine-Russia War.

https://www.thepolicycircle.org/minibrief/russia-ukraine-crisis/

https://www.thepolicycircle.org/war-of-words-the-ukraine-russia-war/?is_blog=1

Other useful references:

https://spiritofamerica.org/

https://kse.ua/support/donation

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/join-kyiv-school-economics-direct-220500705.html

Antitrust: Balancing Competition and Innovation Mar 24, 2022

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Sylvie walks through this topic that can feel rather difficult to navigate and understand, by giving listeners insight into:

What are antitrust laws
History on antitrust laws
How these laws are enforced
The role of government
How these laws affect the private sector
How these laws affect big tech companies
The issue of privacy
The topic of market concentration
Free speech
What you can do in regards to antitrust laws

To learn more on this topic, The Policy Circle published a brief on AntiTrust - you can find it by visiting thepolicycircle.org.

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From an idea to a published book: Uncovering the process with Keri Wyatt Kent Mar 10, 2022

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In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with the co-author of her new book to talk about the process of taking an idea all the way through to a published book.

In this conversation, Sylvie and Keri get into and discuss:

The importance of working with a collaborative writer to build rapport and trust
The process of taking an idea all the way through to a published book
How the two collaborated by recording interviews and shaping those interviews into book chapters
The importance of good writing, self-editing, and rewriting when necessary
The process of self-publishing

Enjoy the episode and tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Stay tuned for more episodes and be sure to subscribe to your favorite podcast player.

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