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We all face trauma, adversity and other stresses. Everyone will experience twists and turns, from everyday challenges to traumatic events with more lasting impact, like the death of a loved one, a life-altering accident, or a serious illness. Each change affects people differently, bringing a unique flood of thoughts, strong emotions and uncertainty. Yet people generally adapt well over time to life-changing situations and stressful situations—in part thanks to resilience.

Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. As much as resilience involves “bouncing back” from these difficult experiences, it can also involve profound personal growth.

While these adverse events are certainly painful and difficult, they don’t have to determine the outcome of your life. There are many aspects of your life you can control, modify, and grow with. That’s the role of resilience. Becoming more resilient not only helps you get through difficult circumstances, it also empowers you to grow and even improve. 

Listen in to our insightful conversation with a special guest, Squadron Leader Toolika Rani, an Indian ex-Air Force Officer, Mountaineer, TEDx Speaker and Writer as she delves deep into her experiences in Armed Forces, mountains across the world including Mt. Everest, and her lessons of courage and resilience. Today, Toolika will offer a roadmap for adapting to life-changing situations, and emerging even stronger than before.

Nobody is a born entrepreneur, different people take different paths to achieve success, and there’s no set-in-stone instruction for becoming a successful entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs take on a number of different roles and these roles can vary depending on the field you choose to enter. But, there are a couple of commonalities among the most successful entrepreneurs like having the right mindset. The first thing that new entrepreneurs need to know is that actually, failures are likely and success is certainly not a given. Understanding the risks that you’re taking and also understanding that you may not succeed immediately is absolutely key. You have to be honest with yourself: entrepreneurship is not an easy path. Excuses will simply not cut it in this field. If your business failed chances are that you research poorly, you hired the wrong people, or you just simply weren’t prepared. There are so many obstacles in the way of the entrepreneurial journey, as well as the pushing and the pulling in the driving forces that entrepreneurs encounter along their path.

And while no amount of preparation is going to ensure that your business will absolutely succeed, I will say you should have ample preparation before the big decisions need to be made. Of course, when you have an expert to help guide you, support you, and motivate you along the way. You are a hundred times more unstoppable than you would be alone. Mentorship allows you to take quantum leaps forward and avoid pitfalls, avoid the mistakes that could cost you your business and your future. And that’s why we’re. Excited today to welcome Bobbi Bidochka, who will share her unique path to success.

Setting boundaries is an important part of establishing one’s identity and is a crucial aspect of mental health and well-being. Boundaries can be physical or emotional, and they can range from being loose to rigid, with healthy boundaries generally falling somewhere in between.

Having boundaries simply allows you to make yourself a priority, whether that’s in self-care, career aspirations, or within relationships. Boundaries are a deeply personal choice and vary from one person to the next, and we shape them throughout our lives.

In fact, the word “boundary” can be a bit misleading. It conveys the idea of keeping yourself separate. But boundaries are actually connecting points since they provide healthy rules for navigating relationships – intimate, personal or professional. In that way, they actually bring us closer together than farther apart, and are necessary in any relationship!

Ultimately, even though personal boundaries can be challenging to navigate, setting and communicating them is essential for our health, well-being, and even our safety.

Listen in as Lisa Kaplin explains what healthy boundaries are and how to set them, why healthy boundaries are important for self-care, and how to explain boundaries to others. Learn how to show compassion and kindness to yourself by setting healthy boundaries – to avoid resentment, anger, and burnout.

Every woman is capable of making big sales – even to elusive corporate clients! Today, we’ll hear from Melinda Chen, Founder of Women Making Big Sales, who says that her years of experience working with different businesses have taught her that:

·      You are already connected to your big clients’ key decision-makers, but you may not be aware of it yet.

·      Your service or product is unique. You have the power to differentiate yourself from your competitors.

·      With big clients, you have the potential to become an industry leader.

As with everything in life, it takes work and perseverance. Effective sales techniques are intuitive and easy to implement – but their impact is dramatic and can significantly grow your business! 

Melinda Chen is a sales executive and trainer with 15 years of experience and a sales track record of generating 8-figures. She specializes helping entrepreneurs sell to “hard-to-access” decision makers, and really big clients. Listen in as we talk to Melinda about how female entrepreneurs can sell and land more corporate clients and close 5, 6-figure sales!

Digital media connects people in ways never before possible, enabling users to maintain friendships across time and distance. And, the speed and connectedness of digital media make it easier for women to amplify each other’s ideas. We can be empowered by sharing our thoughts and having a voice on social networks. Anywhere we choose to participate online, we can use our power or social influence to make a difference and to lead. Now, women are able to utilize digital media to make their voices heard and to stand out and demonstrate their knowledge and capabilities, which are then accessible by anyone with an internet connection. Today, we’ll talk with Charu Mehrotra, found of Womenlines, an online magazine, about the power of digital media to empower women across the globe, and how you can leverage digital media to accelerate your success.

We have a choice to hear what we are told. If we choose to hear “we are not enough”, we become less confident with low self-esteem and if we choose to hear “we are more than enough”, we can rise up and be anything and do anything. 

We have a choice to remember our experience, if we choose to remember pain, we feel fearful, and if we choose to remember that we survived the experience, we feel strength and become more resilient. 

We have a choice to see our strengths instead of our limitations. When we see our strengths, we can maximize our potential to succeed. When we see our weaknesses, we are limited and we are held back by our self-doubt.

Listen in as Eve Keil, Founder of EK Coaching, LLC, Women’s Empowerment Coach, Certified Leadership Coach, helps explain how your focus can become your future!

Much like confidence, belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are only what you believe you are. This applies in sales, too – your beliefs shape you, and thus your business. As a business owner, you’re in sales whether you believe you are, or not. Every day you have to sell yourself — and your product or service — to grow your business. Success is 90 percent mental. You can alter your life by altering your mind. You have to be a believer to be an achiever. 

So why are we so afraid to ask for the business? Why is it that we have difficulty talking about our pricing, and asking for the sale? Listen in as Debbie Mrazek, President of The Sales Company, discusses how to get more comfortable asking for the sale, and how to have a sales conversation that leads to YES! Take control of your fear – and begin closing more business than you imagined!

Good leaders often possess a combination of various “leadership qualities,” such as creativity, motivation, vision, and empathy. However, the most successful leaders are able to adapt to the needs of different situations, employing their diverse set of leadership skills in order to achieve their goals.

Traditionally, the idea of feminine leadership is used as a kind of shorthand for an approach that places an emphasis on empathy, humility, and relationship dynamics in business practice. The result can deliver a more considered—rather than impulsive—decision-making process and subsequent action.

Traits such as sensitivity, supportiveness, gentleness, warmth, cooperativeness, expressiveness, modesty, humility, empathy, tenderness, and being kind, helpful, devoted, and understanding have been cited as stereotypically feminine. But, Feminine Leadership belongs to all of us. It is a state of being that recognizes and understands the power of connecting, learning, sharing and evolving as a leader.

Feminine leadership creates space for unique creativity, inclusiveness, collaboration and supportive competition. Those that step authentically into their feminine when leading are able to demonstrate insight, kindness and the desire to energetically connect to and unlock true potential in others.

Listen in as Ela Staniak explains the Feminine Leaders Empowerment Methodology focusing on the three core pillars of alignment, beliefs and connection and the fundamentals of purpose, performance and creating the ultimate life!

Only 2% of companies founded and led by women get venture backing, though 40% of companies were founded by women, and they generate 26% greater return than those founded by men. Access to capital can be a big hurdle when starting, building, and scaling a business. It is the reason that 83% of new businesses rely on personal or family savings of the owner. So, how can you attract investment funding as a women-owned or women-operated business? 

Creating a convincing pitch that succinctly summarizes the value of your business is the first step – but, its no easy task. If you’re an entrepreneur, the stakes are high for a sharp pitch deck that tells the story about the problem you’re solving, the size of the market you’re addressing and whether your team has charted a viable roadmap to success with a clear exit. When pitching investors, founders need to build a case that adequately addresses the risk that investors bear with a compelling storyline about a winning exit.

There are plenty of resources outlining the common elements in all types of pitch decks regardless of industry – such as a company overview and corporate mission, a section outlining how to effectively size the market as well as an overview of the competition and key stakeholders along with the technical details of your solution and expertise of your team. The challenge is to present all of this in a smart narrative that is concise!

Through our discussion today, you’ll gain exclusive, insider tips on how to present your business to potential investors, and how to prepare for a pitch. Learn how to highlight the strengths of your business to earn the funding needed to grow and scale your business. Learn what investors look for so you can raise capital faster and increase sales!

We don’t tend to think of the workplace as a place where we need to overtly work with trauma. Trauma belongs in the domain of mental health. It belongs to your therapist, and not your leadership consultant or your executive coach. But here’s the truth: adults spend most of their time at work. Workplaces need to become places where we not only grow and develop—they also need to be places where we can heal and repair what has been hurt.

A basic definition of trauma is that it is an experience or event that overwhelms your capacities to depend upon or protect yourself.  Trauma impacts the way we behave, the way we interact in relationships and the way we can learn and grow.  And shifting from ‘what’s wrong with you?’ to ‘what happened to you?’ is needed in our places of work.

While much of the trauma that we think about is acute trauma or one-time trauma, like car accidents, a lot of the trauma that we experience is actually repeated trauma. With repeated trauma, our brains and bodies shift to protection. And this efficiency and repetition of protection becomes our way of living in the world—it becomes our personality. It becomes the way we lead.

Listen in as Linda Conyard, Australia’s leading pioneer advocating for trauma-sensitive change and informed responsiveness to trauma in the workplace, talks about how to overcome the traumas in your life in order to lead in a healthy, balanced and authentic way!