Being a mom is hard enough and then we go and add having a career on top of it all. We so often feel like we arent doing either one well. Listen today to hear about how to be both a great mom and have an impactful career.

We have this false notion that we should never make mistakes or fail, so when we do fail, we beat ourselves up. Beating yourself is not helpful. It does not help you do better next time. It makes you withdraw and waste a lot of energy. To be our best self, we need to learn to talk to ourselves like someone we love.

We often find ourselves very annoyed at others and wanting them to stop doing something or do something different. Listen to how you can stop being annoyed using curiosity.

As leaders and as parents we want to be more self-aware, but not one teaches us about how. Listen to find out how to practice becoming more self-aware through starting to understand about emotions. Emotions are our super power if we know how to use them.

Making decisions can be stressful. We often belive this lie that there is a "right decision" and a "wrong decision" which holds us back and wastes a bunch of our time. Find out how to make clean decisions by getting clear on your reasons, knowing what the feeling is behind your reason, and having your own back after you make the decision.

We all crave to feel better. We want more connection, more joy, more love in our lives but we are solving it backward. We end up creating more of what we do not want. Listen to hear how to feel better.

We are going to talk about one of the most impactful and yet least used tools for leaders; courageous conversations.  So often the one thing that would change everything, is having better conversations. Right now, people don’t have them and so much resentment, confusing, and wasted energy happens because of it.

Once someone offers the feedback, no matter how it is served, pause, create that space. Tell yourself, their view makes perfect sense. If you can, ask them to "tell you more" or another question that invites them to get more specific, elaborate.

We feel the need to come up with an excuse that is good enough to convince people so we can do what we really want. We worry so much about what others will think of us. We want them to like us, so we end up trying to do things or say things that please them. We end up being what other people want us to be instead of being our authentic self.

We waste a lot of time because we solve symptons of problems and not the root of a problem.  To be more efficient with out time, we must ask better questions. Learn why we have lost the art of asking great questions, how to ask great questions, and why it matters. 

We are obsessed with labeling everything around as good or bad. We waste so much energy on this and it doesn't serve us as all. For example, people call us a name or are late for a meeting, we often make it mean, "this is bad" or "they are bad" when really it is just nuetral and we get to decide what we do about it. We get to choose our response. 

When life gives you lemons, what do you do? Our default is to go into self pity and wallow. To blame others around us. Usually it looks like, "if only.........." things had been different or they had been different. And living from this place takes us away from being our best self. Learn how to catch yourself in self pity and stop missing out on life's opportunities to grow and be more of who we are.