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Powerful.
Strong.
Authoritative.
Direct.
Assertive.
Decisive.
These and so many more are attributes that are typically associated with the male model of a leader.
And so, for the better part of the last one hundred years as women have made their way into the fold, in a variety of leadership roles, we have learned and studied to walk the way of a men to achieve success.
Women dismiss their own knowing because we’ve been so indoctrinated in male leadership models.
We dismiss what we know for what others tell us to be and how to be seen.
There is another way to lead.
To be in alignment.
To not feel like an imposter.
It’s time for the reimagining of leadership. That’s not to disparage any of the progress that has come before us. Progress is progress. For those of us who stand in the footsteps of the women who came before us we are here because of their courage, bravery and resilience.
I wonder instead if women equally looked to the characteristics they learned from their mothers for leadership. I wonder if we were taught to lean on different qualities to drive success. I wonder what might happen then?
The traditional qualities of mothering are communication, nurturing, listening, strength, support, grace, and yes… love.
What if to be the best leader you can be as a woman, you integrated the best of both?
This is how women will stand with integrity in their role as leaders.
As women, we can be assertive, direct, powerful, and authoritative but we need not only rely on those attributes for success.
After 25 years of watching and studying leaders, I can tell you that for sure many traditional male attributes are effective in the short run, but they typically only serve a few. Whereas, when leadership is feminine. When the leader possesses the strengths of femininity and grace the results are for all.
This podcast is my like my gentle request and invitation to my fellow female leaders that we reclaim the world leadership as one that is a feminine definition. That we continue to work with all of our allies to build organizations and systems that include more support, collaboration, grace and communication. And that we do so not because we are uncomfortable with the more traditional male-dominating models, but because we truly do know that leadership is a feminine strength and attribute.
And the world needs more of us leading. Now more than ever.
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Submit ReviewAs we go along in our journey, especially as visionaries, we grow, we change, our thinking evolves. It can be liberating and scary and wonderful and nerve-racking, all at the same time. But it is inevitable. We don’t stay the same, and I would say this is good, as we shouldn’t stay the same in many regards.
In this episode, I talk about the visionary’s journey. About my journey. I share my thoughts, my heart, and how I’ve changed in the way I think about what I do as a result of my journey. If you’re a visionary, it’s likely you’re on your own journey. So I hope by sharing some of mine, I might offer you some insights and encouragement. Please come with me.
“That may mean that the business doesn’t have the same trajectory that it did under the visionary but that doesn’t make the trajectory bad.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Roadblocks to the visionary moving on
- Adjustments in trajectory
- Recognizing the time for change
- Building it to be independent of you
- Learning to lead, not just manage
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- COMING SOON: The Leader In Crisis LIVE Training with Kris. Sign up to be notified at krisplachy.com (scroll down slightly and click “JOIN THE LIST”).
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- Get on my Private Subscriber List! Hear about things no one else does: including opportunities, coming attractions, and more… Sign up TODAY: krisplachy.com (scroll down slightly and click “JOIN THE LIST”).
- Hawaii Retreat, June 2023: (open to anyone, you don’t need to be a current client). For info and details, register to join Kris for an Information Meeting and Q&A Session about ALL things Hawaii Retreat – krisplachy.com/hawaiiinfo.
- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
- I would love your review! It honestly is very helpful. If you can, lease leave one on your favorite podcast platform:
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
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Visionaries are more than simply dreamers. Visionaries focus not only on what might be but how to make it into reality. They hold a deep belief that what they dream can–and will–happen. To me, this is a sense like smelling or hearing. But what happens if this asset you’ve always relied upon suddenly isn’t there?
Every visionary has times when she cannot see. And it’s disorienting. It’s stifling. It’s paralytic. It’s shameful. But don’t worry, it’s okay. You’re not broken. It’s not a character flaw. After all, vision is ether. Let’s talk about it.
“I think you don’t know because the answer doesn’t exist yet. And we have to trust that.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Discomfort of visionary blindness
- When you can't see what’s next
- Triggers of visionary shame
- Uncertainty
- Changing the built thing
- Altering course
- The answer doesn’t exist yet; but it won’t pass you
- Just make room
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- Books:
- Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be by Steven Pressfield
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Recommended episodes that pair well with this one:
- EPISODE 103: THE IN BETWEEN: RESTLESS VISIONARY SYNDROME
- SEASON 6 EPISODE 13: ENTREPRENEURIAL BOREDOM
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- Get on my Private Subscriber List! Hear about things no one else does: including opportunities, coming attractions, and more… Sign up TODAY: krisplachy.com (scroll down slightly and click “JOIN THE LIST”).
- Hawaii Retreat, June 2023: (open to anyone, you don’t need to be a current client). For info and details, register to join Kris for an Information Meeting and Q&A Session about ALL things Hawaii Retreat – krisplachy.com/hawaiiinfo.
- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
- I would love your review! It honestly is very helpful. If you can, lease leave one on your favorite podcast platform:
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
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There is a myth that authority and leadership looks and sounds a certain way. Traditionally, this has been the expected look and voice pattern of a white, well-educated male. And, as a society, we’ve insidiously allowed that strangely ingrained falsehood to remain and grow deep roots. But it’s completely false.
Leadership does not have a specific look nor sound. Rather, it has characteristics. First of all, authority does not automatically equal leadership. One can have authority but not really be a leader or one can have and be both. Secondly, leadership isn’t telling other people what to do. That is authority. Leadership is so much more. Let’s talk about these important distinctions.
“What if it isn’t authoritarian approach? ‘Do what I say’. What if it’s more, ‘Hey, I’m doing this thing… Do you wanna come?... What if your primary role was the nurturing of and development of the future that you imagine?” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Traditional look of authority
- Authority isn’t automatically leadership
- Analyzing what we’ve known
- Leading with your voice
- Presence not authoritarian
- Production of fear isn’t leadership
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- Book: Permission To Speak: How To Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With You by Samara Bay
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- Get on my Private Subscriber List! Hear about things no one else does: including opportunities, coming attractions, and more… Sign up TODAY: krisplachy.com (scroll down slightly and click “JOIN THE LIST”).
- Hawaii Retreat, June 2023: (open to anyone, you don’t need to be a current client). For info and details, register to join Kris for an Information Meeting and Q&A Session about ALL things Hawaii Retreat – krisplachy.com/hawaiiinfo. The info session will be held Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. PDT.
- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
- I would love your review! It honestly is very helpful. If you can, lease leave one on your favorite podcast platform:
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
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As visionaries, it is vital we create and embrace the flexibility to be able to pivot within our businesses and our focuses. Even if and when things are going extremely well, there is always development we continue to need as women, both individually and as an overall group, plus as CEOs. Unfortunately, the fear of making changes–especially big ones–is where many leaders end up stuck.
The Kris Plachy Team has watched these truths unfold as we’ve worked with nearly countless female CEOs over many years. That’s why I am so very excited to have my team with me for this episode. Recently, I made the decision to change up a lot of what we do and they agreed to come on the podcast to talk about things they’ve both seen and experienced. Michelle, Crista and Chelsea opened up about topics like filling the vision hole, reconfiguring the picture, reassuring your team, embracing the spirit of possibility, and much more.
“I think all of us who run businesses… we have to have these moments where we’re willing to be in suspension, in the in-between. It’s where we get a lot of really good insight.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Initial team reactions: what to expect
- Filling the vision hole
- Reconfiguring the picture
- Reassuring your team
- Embracing the spirit of possibility
- Receiving hard truths
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Book:
Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
I want to thank my team, Michelle Arant, Director of Operations and Coach with the Kris Plachy Coaching Group, Crista Grasso, Fractional CMO, and Chelsea Sheridan, Executive of All Things Social Media, Landing Pages & Digital Marketing, once more for being on this episode with me!
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- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
- I would love your review! It honestly is very helpful. If you can, lease leave one on your favorite podcast platform:
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
Keeping a schedule may not come naturally to you. But developing the habit of holding specific hours gives you the boundaries and structure you need. Why? Not because you need to work more. But because you need to work less. Stick with me here…
Let’s be real, you don't need more “how to” courses or workbooks or whatever. You need time to sit with yourself, listen to yourself, talk about yourself, and come into the powerful place where you accept the reality that there can be so much more for you. I long to help you, to come alongside you, to hold that space for you. And it starts with setting appropriate office hours and honoring your priorities.
“Do you honor that vision that you had for yourself… that you wanted to be flexible, that you didn’t want to work 40, 50, 80 hours a week. That you weren’t going to create a job for yourself. Have you created a job that you’re trapped in?... A business that you’re trapped in?” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Ultimately creating ease
- You need time, not more to do
- Office hours boundaries
- An interesting conundrum
- Planning and honoring priorities
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- Get on my Private Subscriber List! Hear about things no one else does: including opportunities, what’s happening, and much more… There’s even a special preview experience coming up soon. So sign up NOW: krisplachy.com (scroll down slightly and click “JOIN THE LIST”).
- Hawaii Retreat, June 2023: (open to anyone, you don’t need to be a current client). For info and details, register to join Kris for an Information Meeting and Q&A Session about ALL things Hawaii Retreat – krisplachy.com/hawaiiinfo. The info session will be held Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. PDT.
- Recommended episodes that pair well with this one:
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- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- Access Kris’s Favorite Questions for a Personal Retreat: krisplachy.com/Retreatquestions.
- The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
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Sometimes you just need to be reassured: You are incredibly important, you are amazing, you are worthwhile. But I know you question from time to time. And you permit things in your life that aren't in your best interest. That's why I’m here to remind you of the truth of your worth.
As I’ve spoken into the lives of women over many years, I’ve always advocated strongly for them to value themselves more highly and to have agency in their lives. I want to help guide you into a place of vulnerability – not to other people, but within yourself. To explore and work through those spaces in your life where you know you’re working against yourself but don’t know how to stop. If this resonates within, this episode is my love letter to you.
“That little dark corner becomes a corner you use to define who you are in the world. And that is a lie. You are incredible. You are capable.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Little dark corner lies
- You’re not here to be a target
- True honesty
- Walking the path of the answer
- Necessity of going outside yourself
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- Get on my Private Subscriber List! Hear about things no one else does: including opportunities, what’s happening, and much more… There’s even a special preview experience coming up soon. So sign up NOW: krisplachy.com (scroll down slightly and click “JOIN THE LIST”).
- Hawaii Retreat, June 2023: (open to anyone, you don’t need to be a current client). For info and details, register to join Kris for an Information Meeting and Q&A Session about ALL things Hawaii Retreat – krisplachy.com/hawaiiinfo. The info session will be held Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. PDT.
- Recommended episode that pairs well with this one: EPISODE 100: HOW TO LEAD
Connect with Kris Plachy
- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- Access Kris’s Favorite Questions for a Personal Retreat: krisplachy.com/Retreatquestions.
- The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
- I deeply appreciate your reviews! It really makes a difference. Please leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform:
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- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
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Growing in leadership involves asking yourself: Where did I learn those things that aren’t really right? Especially as women. For instance, where did we learn to basically shut off our prefrontal cortex when it comes to making decisions? Particularly when leadership is involved? And where did we ever get the idea that we just need more templates, more how-tos, more quick fixes?
There are so many successful, competent and confident women in leadership who have the capacity to stand in their decisions but they waver. Why? It’s not that they don’t know. They are aware they’re abdicating their authority. And that needs to stop. We all, as female leaders, need to move into conscious competence. We each need to become the woman who knows who she is. Let’s talk about this.
“Templates… will not resolve the emotional distress you have as a leader… The only thing that’s gonna resolve that is you upleveling the way that you think about yourself as the woman who leads your company.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Wrong learning
- Abdicating authority
- Moving into conscious competence
- You don’t need templates
- Becoming the woman who knows who she is
- Choosing to not be alone
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Recommended episode that pairs well with this one:
Season 6 Episode 13: Entrepreneurial Boredom
Connect with Kris Plachy
- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- Access Kris’s Favorite Questions for a Personal Retreat: krisplachy.com/Retreatquestions.
- The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
- I deeply appreciate your reviews! It really makes a difference. Please leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform:
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- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
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Feeling bored, unmotivated, even lazy in building our businesses is normal. We hit inflection points in which we need to make and implement decisions that will change the course of our business – and often ourselves. Some things may need only slightly tweaking, some need almost completely retooled, and some need to be retired altogether. This is the inevitable evolution of business.
When you find yourself at such an inflection point, it may also hit you that you’ve become a bit of a lone wolf during the building of your business. Things are going well, and you're successful, but the team you’ve built does most of the work now. And you, as the business owner, find yourself at loose ends… experiencing entrepreneurial boredom. You feel trapped and tied down to your business, where once you felt invigorated and free. So you wonder, is it time to change what I’m personally doing? Yes. Let’s talk about it.
“But these inflections, these moments where you feel incredibly dis-eased, very uncomfortable, in your own business, this is what we’ve got to pay attention to… Let’s figure out what’s going on here for you. ‘Cause you’re spinnin’.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Onset of entrepreneurial boredom
- Inflection point emotions
- Unconsciously or Consciously and Incompetent or Competent
- Willing to go there – holding space
- Time for sage, CEO
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- SAGE WEEKEND - Let us know if you’re interested in the details: krisplachy.com/sageweekend.
- LEAD LIKE A WOMAN: LIVE, IN-PERSON EVENT – Are you ready to really step up as a leader, step into your own voice and feel amazing, confident and competent? Join Kris and her team May 9th, 10th and 11th, 2023 in El Dorado Hills, CA. Get all the details at krisplachy.com/lead.
Recommended episode that pairs well with this one:
Season 6 Episode 11: LIVE PODCAST: How To CEO Your Business When It’s Time For Massive Change
Connect with Kris Plachy
- Access Kris’s Favorite Questions for a Personal Retreat: krisplachy.com/Retreatquestions.
- The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
- I deeply appreciate your reviews! It really makes a difference. Please leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Podcasts
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- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
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As we go through life, we are given time to accomplish what we’re supposed to accomplish. Some get more time given to them than others. But every person’s fulfillment of what they were to do is valuable and special.
In this episode, I want to encourage you to look at what you are spending your time doing. Are you fulfilling your promise of a lifetime? Are you doing what you’re meant to do? Or are you dismissing what you’re capable of because you’re afraid? Let’s talk about it right now, before another moment passes.
“You don’t need more stuff. You need to get inspired. You need to be inspired to the point that you touch and tap into your own genius.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- The time is now
- Fulfilling or dismissing
- Ignoring your own truth
- You don’t need more stuff
- Reconnect through disconnect (aka personal retreats)
- Suppressive behaviors
- You’re worthy of time alone
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo – Ep #460: Yearly Retreats with Kris Plachy
- Access Kris’s Favorite Questions for a Personal Retreat: krisplachy.com/Retreatquestions
- LEAD LIKE A WOMAN: LIVE, IN-PERSON EVENT – Are you ready to really step up as a leader, step into your own voice and feel amazing, confident and competent? Join Kris and her team May 9th, 10th and 11th, 2023 in El Dorado Hills, CA. Get all the details at krisplachy.com/lead.
Connect with Kris Plachy
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
I deeply appreciate your reviews! It really makes a difference. Please leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform:
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Website: How to CEO
Email: hello@krisplachy.com
Work with Kris: How to CEO
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I almost called this episode, How Do You CEO Your Business When You Wanna Burn the Whole F-ing Thing Down? Because, let’s be honest, sometimes it seems like it would just be easier to wash your hands of the whole thing, right?
If you resonate with this feeling even a little bit, you’re in the right place. In this episode, I discuss the three biggest gaps I see over and over again that either cause massive change or are the result of it. I also tackle the underlying psychological components you’ll need to sit with, such as getting clean and clear, as well as preparing for people to take change personally. Finally, if after listening to this episode you realize you’re ready for more specific advice, I would love to work with you.
“Every visionary confronts moments where they don’t believe in their own vision.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Clean and clear
- Gaps for change
- Skill
- Support
- Belief
- Stop self-flogging
- People make it personal
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
I deeply appreciate your reviews! It really makes a difference. Please leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform:
Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Podcasts
Connect with Kris Plachy
- The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
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If you’re like so many business owners, you absolutely love what you’re doing, what you’re bringing to the world… But managing people? Not so much. In fact, if you could do everything without needing to lead others, you would. Unfortunately, you have to have help. You simply can’t do it all alone.
Regardless of where you feel you land on the capability scale, let me assure you: You can develop the necessary skills to lead well the gorgeous business you’ve been kissed with. But before you can make leading people easy, you must first believe it’s even possible. Let’s talk about it.
“The stillness of your own mind, without the clutter of the story, is where ease exists.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Creation of meaning
- Power of labels
- We get to choose
- Facts are just facts
- First decide
- Where ease exists
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
I deeply appreciate your reviews! It really makes a difference. Please leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform:
Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Podcasts
Connect with Kris Plachy
The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
- Medium
In my definition, addiction is doing anything against your own will, knowing it’s not good for you. After all, if you weren’t addicted, you wouldn’t do it. I believe people do things they know aren’t healthy for them because it’s a distraction from disquieting and distressing emotions.
Yet, in our society, being busy, hustling, going after it are applauded, encouraged, rewarded. Needing to work, wanting to work, those are accepted reasons to avoid all kinds of things. Therefore, I see a failure in our society to properly address this unhealthy addiction. But how do we know if we’re addicted to work? And what should we do about it? Let’s talk about this sensitive issue, love.
So for a lot of women who are opening up their laptop after the kids go to bed and saying, ‘Oh, I’ve got to work’: What are you not doing?... What do you have to confront in your life if you don’t have work as an excuse?” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Society’s wrong rewards
- Business as a buffer
- Becoming a meddler
- Self-care solution
- Deep rest
- Be honest and evaluate
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
I’d love to hear your feedback! Leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform:
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Connect with Kris Plachy
- The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
- Medium
The feminine CEO formula. What does it entail, exactly? How do you go from being kissed with an idea to having a thriving business with an incredible team? How do you transition from making so many decisions yourself to ascending into the next level of yourself where you’re not as involved anymore? Such transformation takes time and intentionality.
I want to help you with this intentional process. Walk beside you as you take the time and make the time to grow and change. As with anything, it’s always best to begin at the beginning so I decided to record this episode – a start here to become the CEO. Obviously, we cannot cover everything in one brief podcast but I want to offer my perspective regarding this road, both the positives as well as the pitfalls. It’s super crazy fun and super terrifying, so let’s go.
“What river do you want to be in? Do you wanna be in the one where you’ve got those frickin’ paddles and you’re working so hard to get there? Or do you want to try to figure out how to get into that river with the current that’s gonna help you move?” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Who your first hire should be
- Build clear framework
- More sales isn’t the answer
- The endless nature of life
- You’re the roadblock
- New you, moving forward
- Lies we believe
- Stop getting in your own way
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
I’d love to hear your feedback! Leave me a review on your favorite podcast platform:
Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Podcasts
Connect with Kris Plachy
- The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
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Being supported is a vital need but we struggle with seeking and accepting support. We know, intellectually, that leadership is an inside job yet we resist. The insights and changes that must take place in order for us to be more competent and confident women stay on a surface level.
Let’s call it out: female entrepreneurs struggle with support. Whether through societal conditioning or other influences, we act as though we don’t need help. Like we’ve got it all under control. The biggest issue with this fallacy is that it only harms us and holds us back. We can learn plenty of solid techniques and methods for success but those systems will only take us so far. If we cannot internalize insights and information, make them mean something to ourselves and our business, we will fall short of our potential. I don’t want to see that happen to you so let’s tackle it head on.
“You have to believe that you are worthy of being supported.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Too dependent on self
- Believe support exists
- You’re worthy of support
- An assignment executed with honesty
- Be willing and do the work
- Money factor
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
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The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.
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With calling comes responsibility. In order to fully embrace your calling, you first must know what it is – not just generally, but specifically. Then you must be ready to fully embrace the responsibility that comes with that calling. Yet, in order to embrace responsibility, it’s integral to identify the influences of your calling.
Who we are and who we’re called to be is interwoven with threads of influence, whether they be threads of encouragement or discouragement, of vocalization or of silencing. Leadership training, philosophies, and so on, creating vision and purpose, are most often based on ideas that came from the minds of men. Which I’m not saying is a bad thing. But if you believe as I do, that women often speak a different language, and that there is a divine element behind your calling, that this is about the soul of your business, this all deserves investigation.
“A calling is serving a soul.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- “You Are a Goddess”
- Language of women
- Divine calling
- Soul of a business
- Changing your relationship with your business
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Book: You Are a Goddess by Sophie Bashford
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
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- The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
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What are you all in on? Does it show? What happens to you when you think about going all in on what matters to you most? What precious things… and, more importantly, what discomforts… come to mind?
That's really the crux of the whole thing, isn’t it? Making the lasting behavior changes necessary to move through, to work in spite of, the discomforts. Love, let me give it to you straight: I’ve come to the place where I’m willing to be a hot mess, even in public, in front of others, for the sake of the thing I want most. Are you? Let’s talk about it.
“Are you willing to forgo comfort to achieve the thing you say you want most?” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Admitting the discomfort
- Willing to forgo, willing to be a mess
- Avoiding feelings
- Buffering behaviors
- Becoming the woman, not perfecting processes
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
The All-In Coterie for 2023: Helping women identify what they really want to achieve and really getting over their own hangups about it.
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
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- Website: How to CEO
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Firing people is extremely uncomfortable, to state the obvious. What may not be quite as obvious, however, is exactly why you’re not firing them, why you should and why you should right now. Don’t drag the same problems you’ve been having into another year.
To help you, I’ve gathered several thoughts I hope are enlightening, empowering and freeing. As I share, I want you to sit and really listen. Absorb the truth that you are not alone in this issue, that you must make firing “that” person happen, and that you can do it. Your business depends on it, your other team members depend on it, and you depend on it. If you don’t, you’ll continue to struggle, to lose sleep, and to stifle the growth of the business you’ve been kissed with. Let’s not let that happen. Let’s face this tough issue and deal with it.
“We don’t hire people to save them.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Why you have to fire them NOW
- We don’t hire to save
- What else they're ruining
- Let us help you
- You can’t change or force them
- How it will feel afterwards
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
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I do not believe that the strongest, loudest or most commanding are necessarily leaders. While there are some with great ideas or charisma, those qualities don’t automatically equate with leadership. And in many cases, there are people who are influential, even powerful, but their motivations for leading aren’t pure. What, then, is a true leader?
First and foremost, I believe women are born leaders. The idea that only men are true leaders is false. Secondly, and just as importantly, I believe it all boils down to leadership mindset. We must be willing to work hardest on ourselves. Dig deep into our own minds and deal with what we find there. Let’s talk about it, love.
“The leader has to understand the wake she leaves behind.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- When you raise your hand
- Power to disrupt and build up
- Mindset, not position
- Time for new
- Discomfort is not a stop sign
- You must understand yourself
- Tend the asset
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program.
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
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This week I’m featuring my friend Tanya Dalton on the Leadership is Feminine Podcast and I’m so excited!
You see, Tanya is the yin to my yang.
She helps my crazy visionary brain settle down and find the simplicity of what I want to create.
She’s able to do this so well, because she totally gets it. She is, after all, a very successful CEO of several companies she created and then sold!
So when Tanya decided to conduct a four week strategic planning circle this past November, I immediately registered. And of course it was brilliant, because she is brilliant! I was able to sort through my ideas and come up with some amazing plans for 2023. But not only did I come up with the plans, but I also put them on the calendar and really thought through all of the needs I have when it comes to achieving these big goals.
Well, Tanya and I just discussed that she’s going to do it again and she’s going to host the Strategic Planning Circle in January. I decided that I wanted to be able to provide access to this course to all of my clients.
So, she has agreed to provide all of my current clients a $500 discount, taking what is normally $2500 to $2000. The amount of value that she provides in these four weeks for $2000 is amazing. Tonya is such an accomplished wizard when it comes to productivity and efficiency, I feel like she’s practically giving this away for free.
So, if you’re a current client, we will be sending you a private link to use to register for Tanya’s course. (Please watch your email for that link.) If you are not a current client, and you become a current client before December 23, 2022, we will also send you the link to register for her amazing event.
In the meantime, you can learn everything you want to learn about this awesome experience by going to tanyadalton.com/2023. On that page Tanya will explain to you what’s included in this program and all of the deliverables you can expect.
I also invite you to tune in to the podcast this week to learn even more and to experience what Tonya’s philosophy is and what it would be like to work with her. I know you won’t be disappointed!
“By not planning, you are giving away your power.” – Tanya Dalton
What You’ll Learn
- Who’s driving the bus?
- Creativity through planning
- Giving away your power
- The Decision Making Machine
- Flexibility through vision
- Up and out
- Business around life
- Kris’s gift
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Tanya Dalton
Tanya Dalton is a best-selling author, speaker, and nationally recognized expert on purposeful productivity. She helps women step into intentional leadership in their professional and personal lives.
In addition to having her first book, The Joy of Missing Out, being named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the year by Fortune Magazine, Tanya’s podcast, The Intentional Advantage has received millions of downloads from listeners around the world. She is also a featured expert on several networks including NBC and Fox and is a VIP contributor for Entrepreneur.com.
Tanya has been featured in some of the world’s leading publications including Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, and Real Simple. She has been awarded the elite Enterprising Women Award and has been named the Female Entrepreneur to Watch for the state of North Carolina.
Tanya is also the founder of inkWELL Press Productivity Co., a multi-million dollar company providing tools that work as a catalyst in helping women do less while achieving maximum success.
Her highly anticipated second book, On Purpose: The Busy Woman’s Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success, launched last fall through HarperCollins Publishing.
- Website: tanyadalton.com
- Podcast: The Intentional Advantage
- Contact: tanyadalton.com/contact
- Strategic Planning Circle: tanyadalton.com/2023
Kris’s Gift: If you're a current client of Kris’s, you'll be receiving a $500 discount via email from Kris for Tanya’s 2023 Strategic Planning Circle!
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My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – but if you get on the REGISTERED NOW, you’ll get some amazing early registration offers. The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program. PLUS early registration includes work you can do right now, even before the program begins, AND you’ll lock in the lower 2022 price for yourself! So don’t delay! Get registered by December 23, 2022.
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Operations managers (or similar) often go into the work field and do great work for a CEO with training in things like operations, business management, and similar. And yet, they lack training in how to lead, how to manage people, and how to make decisions in challenging situations. As CEOs, it’s easy to overlook this integral component. What we think our management team ought to handle might be too narrowly focused or we might think they should intuitively know and effortlessly execute these parts of their job. But they don’t.
That's why in this episode, I explore why CEOs should train up their management team. Bottom line, you can’t do it all. Nor should you. That makes it critical to the building of your business. Without a management team who can lead effectively, your business growth will eventually stall. The solution is to invest in quality leadership training for your top people. It’s an investment both in your business and in yourself.
“It doesn’t do any good for you to have all this great leadership management and insight and practices and tools if you then don’t have a right-hand who can do the same. Because the goal… is to get to the point where you’re really not necessary in the business.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- The ecosystem
- Necessity of same training
- How you’ll grow faster
- What if they don’t stay?
- How we help you know
- Manager’s point of view
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
The CEO Boutique: Digital Clinics offered by Kris Plachy: Essential Practices for Women Who Lead. Shop what’s available, including Kickstart Team Ops, Team Audits, Dealing with Difficult People and much more!
My How to CEO program begins February 16, 2023 – but if you get on the WAITLIST NOW, you’ll get some amazing early registration offers. The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program. PLUS early registration includes work you can do right now, even before the program begins, AND you’ll lock in the lower 2022 price for yourself! So don’t delay! Get registered before prices increase in January.
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- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Join the email list: krisplachy.com
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Straightforward advice on what to do to manage people is invaluable, especially since typical management discussions center around how hard it can be. But there actually are some ways to make managing people easier. The trick is to not over-complicate issues. And the trick to not over-complicating issues is to recognize the ways in which you might be doing just that.
In this episode, I share the four reasons managing people is actually easy and simple. I hope as you listen, you gain some practical insights and even learn a bit about yourself, including some thought patterns that aren’t helping. I hope this advice, added to a few intentional tweaks to your approach, will guide you into alleviating your management problems. Now let’s talk managing made simple.
“You have all these truths that you believe about the world that you’ve never really checked. And those truths, while they feel so important to you, they’re not real... They’re your thoughts. They’re not the truth.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Why we avoid hard things
- Management as math
- #1: Control isn’t your job
- #2: Your emotional agency
- #3: It’s an invitation
- #4: Invitation progress follow up
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
My How to CEO program begins in February – but if you get on the WAITLIST NOW, you’ll get some amazing early registration offers. The updated version of How to CEO includes the opportunity for management training for anyone on your team, while you go through the program. PLUS early registration includes work you can do right now, even before the program begins, AND you’ll lock in the lower 2022 price for yourself! So don’t delay! Get registered before prices increase in January.
Interested in Sage CEO? Schedule an exploratory call with Kris at krisplachy.com/sageinfo.
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Website: How to CEO
Email: hello@krisplachy.com
Work with Kris: How to CEO
How to CEO DIGITAL: Available for entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
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From time to time, we need a reset. We may even need to burn it all down, let it all go and see what remains. But because many of us are healers and providers in one way or another, this can be difficult. As leaders, we consider how things will affect others. We find ourselves continuing things because we don’t want to cause potential harm to others. But this can be an anchor to ourselves.
That's why, in consideration of the new year, it may be time to make a new plan. One that might even involve letting some things go. By returning to the pursuit of the new, rather than feeling obligated to what we’ve already built, creativity can flourish again. Are you ready?
“The biggest anchor to a creator is the belief that we have to sustain something for others so they stay happy, safe, comfortable, whatever.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Biggest anchor to creators
- Pruning the correct stems
- Just too many things
- My expectations of myself
- Loving our roles as leaders
- Being willing to invest
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Book: Necessary Endings by Dr. Henry Cloud
Book and Skin Care Line: Radical Radiance and Savor Beauty by Angela Jia Kim
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- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
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We all go through periods of uncertainty about the direction of our business, about decisions, even about ourselves. Second guessing yourself is part of business. It’s part of life. But to build a business that both supports the life you love and can run without you, you must find a way through those times of doubt. And in order to find your way through, you absolutely must invest in yourself.
It is my earnest desire to challenge you into growth, into a new version of yourself and how you show up as a leader. What could be possible if you changed your mind? Questioned your beliefs about yourself and what you can accomplish? Didn’t simply accept that things are “just that way”? Let’s explore this together.
“And sometimes the bigger the decision, the stronger the blowback in our own mind… We are in habit to do that. And the only way to not have that be a habit is to keep doing it and choose another way.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Sources of second guessing
- Observing yourself
- Releasing your decision
- What we need most
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Interested in Sage CEO? Schedule an exploratory call with Kris at krisplachy.com/sageinfo.
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- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- How to CEO DIGITAL: Available for entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
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This question is so interesting to ponder. What do you do when all your dreams come true? And here's another to go with it: Have you had a dream come true but haven’t fully reveled in it? Because we should. It’s important to stop and savor the victories in our lives, to recognize all that went into making that dream a reality.
Along with that, it’s healthy to choose how we make our dreams come true. We had such a hustle culture in the past, then we were forced to slow down during the pandemic, and now we are in a place where we get to choose. We choose how we want to show up. We choose how we want to make the next dream come true. Let’s talk about accomplishing dreams and when it’s time for what’s next.
“You tell the story of a woman who is capable of making her dreams come true… And you also trust that there are… other playgrounds to find… And you allow yourself to be open to what comes with that.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Reveling in your dream come true
- Balancing hustle and passion
- Sharing the burden of choices
- Telling your story
- Opening yourself to your next
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Interested in Sage CEO? Schedule an exploratory call with Kris at krisplachy.com/sageinfo.
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- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- How to CEO DIGITAL: Available for entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- Get on the email list for valuable content: krisplachy.com, drop your name in the signup box!
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There is tremendous value in each woman but so many of us have felt unseen, suppressed and overlooked. In relation to this, recently the truth struck me that women are half the world but we birth the entire world. Take a moment to ponder that. It is inspiring. As women, we have such amazing worth and we are chosen to bring even more worth into the world.
On top of that, we have been kissed with businesses to spread even more good. But one of the biggest hurdles we face is coming into a place where we feel our true worth and operate in it. And from there, the next hurdle is focusing on anyone else who is top-most in our business. But without that focused recognition of value and empowerment, our impact will always remain diminished. And I say, No more! It is time you know and express your worth, Mama!
“If that's you… and you feel small and unseen and you feel like you’ve been disempowered… you do not have to feel that way. But you need support… The best gift you can give yourself, and your business, and the people who love you is your own self-growth… Your own self-understanding… Your own empowerment.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Your value
- Focusing on yourself and your top-level person (or people)
- Exposing the lies of diminished worth
- Finding your people
- Loving on yourself
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- How to CEO DIGITAL: Available for entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- Interested in Sage? Email me (Kris) at hello@krisplachy.com and tell me about yourself and why you’d like to be considered for Sage.
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Guiding women and solving issues is my passion. Tackling things that can appear to be unsolvable but really are not. Being real with thoughts and feelings and issues, and especially as entrepreneurial women in leadership. In this, I have found that I'm not alone. Many women crave true connection that speaks to deeper things in their lives and, particularly, in their businesses.
If you’re a leader, and all this resonates with you, you’re in the right place. I want to personally invite you to consider joining one or more of the opportunities I offer. I believe there is so much good for you to do and so much good for you to have, and I would be honored to help you bring those things to life. To help and encourage you to invest in yourself, to step into your power, to embrace the truth that YOU are the asset!
“You have days where you really are stepping into your power and your voice. And you feel really good about it. And you have to look at, ‘Okay, what happened on that day?’ And then there are days where you really question what you’re doing and you don’t know. And you have to look at what’s going on on that day.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- True connection
- Restorative opportunities
- Step into your power
- Come to transformative work
- Reject voices that pull you down
- Invest in yourself
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- How to CEO DIGITAL: Available for entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- Interested in Sage? Email Kris at hello@krisplachy.com. Explain about yourself and why you’d like to be considered for Sage.
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As women, we like to collaborate. It’s part of our makeup. However, it’s essential to know how to collaborate as an entrepreneurial leader because not all collaboration is beneficial. So in this next installment of the Leadership is Feminine Formula, we’re talking about the pluses and minuses of collaboration.
When we first start a business, most of us start out as solopreneurs. It isn’t until later that we add a team and add elements of collaboration. And as we work through this new jungle of business growth, it can be way too easy to tumble into the pitfalls. One pitfall is believing that you need others to direct your business. Another is avoiding discomfort. Another is developing an environment where everything has to pass through your hands or approval first. All of these can hinder the growth you desire and deserve. But positive, beneficial collaboration is achievable. Let’s talk about it.
“We collaborate out of scarcity. We collaborate out of believing our ideas aren’t good enough… No. It’s still yours. You always drive the result… and you are totally competent.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Journey into collaboration
- Staying strategic
- Embracing discomfort
- Retaining and teaching ownership
- Banishing Problem-Solver-in-Chief status
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Podcast episodes that pair well with this one:
- Leadership Is Feminine Formula: Day 1 podcast episode
- How to Hold People Accountable
- The Founders Curse
Connect with Kris Plachy
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- How to CEO DIGITAL: Available for entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- Get on the email list for valuable content: krisplachy.com, drop your name in the signup box!
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As women, we have enormous potential to lead. It’s inherent in who we are. But we tend to dismiss a lot of our feminine attributes as not being effective enough or strong enough. And this simply is not true.
That's why, for this podcast episode, my team and I want to share with you the recording from the first day of our live, free Leadership is Feminine Formula week. It was so powerful and we hope it emboldens you to no longer lead with just your masculine traits. Our desire for you is to compel you to be who you want to be – who you are designed to be – by putting to use all of your wonderful, valuable and dynamic feminine assets to lead and to lead well.
“When you think about yourself as a leader, how do you compare to what you believe leadership looks like? .... Do you align? And if not, where’s the gap?” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Learned leadership
- Feminine assets
- How you think about yourself
- The superpower of feeling things
- Holding boundaries
- The tendency to use masculine energy
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
LAST CHANCE TODAY – Sign up before this session registration closes: How to CEO
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Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.
Website: How to CEO
Email: hello@krisplachy.com
How does your self-worth relate to accountability? As women, we often relate our responsibility in needing to hold people accountable to how we view ourselves. The negative associations of accountability have grown to the point where setting boundaries seems nearly impossible. It’s gotten so bad that some female business owners have considered just ending their businesses altogether. They’re struggling with a nearly overwhelming number of issues: people not following through, not showing up, not keeping their commitments.
But is the issue of accountability really a direct reflection of us as female entrepreneurs? No, it isn’t. The core actually comes down to how we view our own worthiness. And there are people that want to work, want to do a good job, want to be part of something amazing. They exist. You just need to find them. And you need to reframe your beliefs to embrace that you – and your business – are both worthy and worth it.
“The reason that we allow people to not fully meet the expectations that we have of them in our business is because we don’t believe we are worthy of it.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Negative associations with accountability
- Questioning your worthiness
- True accountability
- Your real responsibility
- Good people out there
- Why you created your business
- Stuck in the cycle of compromise
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
FREE PASS WEEK! Join me every morning at 8:00 a.m. the week of October 10. We’ll be meeting for 5 days and having a series of business-building calls. It's your FREE opportunity to work on real issues you’re facing as a female business owner! Register today at krisplachy.com/freepass. Did I mention it’s FREE???
Leadership Is Feminine podcast episode recommendation: How to Hold People Accountable
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Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
Why is holding people accountable so difficult as a female business owner? How did simply holding people accountable become associated with being bitchy? Why do not only others tend to think that but we, as women, can even think that about ourselves? It’s not right!
In this episode, I tackle the problem of holding people accountable. It seems that in today’s age, this can be harder than ever before. But it shouldn’t be. All you’re actually doing is expecting people to do what they agreed to do. It’s not unreasonable. I’ve found that the most important and impactful form of accountability is holding ourselves accountable. What do I mean by that? Let’s talk about how to hold people accountable, without anger and while showing one of the highest forms of love.
“Women, over time, learn to not hold themselves to account when other people disregard, disrespect, do not follow through on – or just ignore – a grievance. Because they don’t want to be thought of as aggressive or bitchy… They get left out of the tribe. So what I want you to know is: You’re very welcome in my tribe.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Holding yourself accountable
- You’re very welcome in my tribe
- You don’t have to be mad
- What you’re really saying when you don’t address it
- One of the highest forms of love
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
FREE PASS WEEK! Join me every morning at 8:00 a.m. the week of October 10. We’ll be meeting for 5 days and having a series of business-building calls. It's your FREE opportunity to work on real issues you’re facing as a female business owner! Register today at krisplachy.com/freepass. Did I mention it’s FREE???
Book Recommendation: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Connect with Kris Plachy
Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
Finding the right people to work, especially in the last couple of years, has become very tangled. People have started new businesses, closed businesses, changed jobs, juggled an ever-changing job landscape… and so on. While experts in fields have become more scarce, many entrepreneurs have had businesses explode before they are even ready. And thus, they need help but it has been rather chaotic.
The frustration of finding enough good people has become very real. Business owners are finding what they’re seeking for their business is no longer matching what those who are skilled want. So does that mean it’s not going to work? Is it time to hang it up? Or is it time to approach and frame things differently?
“First of all, our clarity in how we design roles is critical… I need people who can think about what to do and they can actually do it... I have to hire strategists that also produce.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Where have all the experts gone?
- Segmented help
- People who actually know how to execute
- The need to develop expertise
- Identify potential
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
FREE PASS WEEK! Join me for 5 days, the week of October 10, for a series of business-building calls. It's your FREE opportunity to work on real issues you’re facing as a female business owner! Register today at krisplachy.com/freepass.
Connect with Kris Plachy
Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
Is CEO a noun or a verb? You may have never contemplated that question but the differences it implies are significant. What do you think of, what comes up for you internally, when you hear the word CEO? Do you have a visual in your mind of a particular person? A functional role? A personae? A specific vibe?
As we continue on our path of new and of change this season, I want to challenge your brain and your default thinking. CEO is an acronym that has, for decades, been a very masculine term and title. And, as such, has been difficult for some women to embrace. But what if we viewed “CEO” not as a noun, but rather a verb? What if it is about actions you’re taking to put your magic out into the world, to allow that magic of a business you’ve been kissed with to grow and expand?
“Whatever you choose to call yourself, my goal is always that it instills a little discomfort. And it invites you to a new level of gravitas, a new level of presence, and a bigger, bolder – but also authentic – voice in leadership.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Changing your voice and presence
- Implications of the term CEO
- Gravitas and out of the weeds
- Impairing growth in the moment
- Power and presence of CEOing
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
Want to be coached live by Kris for an upcoming episode? Send an email to hello@krisplachy.com and we’ll send you a questionnaire to fill out. Chosen listeners get a free coaching session with Kris and are kept anonymous.
Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.
Website: How to CEO
Email: hello@krisplachy.com
Can you be a successful entrepreneur but not a visionary? And vice versa, can you be a successful visionary but not really an entrepreneur? Perhaps before you can answer those questions, you must first decide: Are you an entrepreneur, a visionary, or both? And, most importantly, how does leadership fit into it all?
As we continue this brand new season (Season 5) of Leadership Is Feminine, I invite you to ponder these questions with me. Often, as business owners, there are questions we don’t think to ask ourselves but find if we did, we’d learn so much and find immense magic in the answers. To that end, I want to explore the difference between a visionary leader and an operational entrepreneur. Is being an entrepreneur simply the operational expression of the visionary? What is the value of being a visionary? Let’s dive in.
“When you’re a real visionary, when you really, really do see things other people don’t see, and you believe in the possibility of what you see that doesn’t exist yet, you have the potential to change the world with your vision.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Earmarks of a visionary vs an operational entrepreneur
- Shift in perspective
- Your ideas are the asset
- Leave survival thinking in the past
- Investment in yourself is never a waste
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
Want to be coached live by Kris for an upcoming episode? Send an email to hello@krisplachy.com and we’ll send you a questionnaire to fill out. Chosen listeners get a free coaching session with Kris and are kept anonymous.
Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
Why do I say yes when I really want to say no? Why do women, more often than men, gravitate toward people pleasing? I found myself asking these questions and thus pondering: What do I think I’m accomplishing when I’m so agreeable? What am I actually accomplishing? To take it a step further, I pondered the reverse: What am I actually accomplishing when I’m being more controlling?
As we start Season 5 of Leadership Is Feminine, I want to focus on a time of change and some decompression from the pressures we’ve all been under. One definite source of pressure as leaders is people pleasing, as is the opposite, which I term people depleting. This is when people are demanding and controlling, so they themselves can be the one pleased. An interesting fact is that we can find ourselves on either side, depending on the issue and circumstances. But no matter what side we’re on, we can help mitigate the resulting pressure when we better understand people pleasing and controlling as leaders.
“You’re saying yes… not to please the other person. You’re saying yes… because you don’t want to experience your own discomfort of saying no… So who are we really pleasing in the moment? And are we really pleasing anybody?” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- People pleasing and people depleting
- Who we’re really pleasing
- Delighting people instead
- Pleasing ourselves through control
- How either approach affects our business
- Taking personal responsibility
- Handling our own discomfort
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
Want to be coached live by Kris for an upcoming episode? Send an email to hello@krisplachy.com and we’ll send you a questionnaire to fill out. Chosen listeners get a free coaching session with Kris and are kept anonymous.
Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed.
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- Website: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
There’s a current phenomenon called “quiet quitting”. As business owners, we need to be aware of trends like this because they can potentially affect us. In particular, this approach to life is being promoted by Gen Zs but anyone could jump onboard with it.
So what exactly is “quiet quitting” and how can small businesses prepare for its possible impact? In this episode, I explore generational differences, the quiet quitting movement, post-pandemic mental health, clear expectations, having regard for others, and more. How does this all tie together and what might it mean for you and your growing business, lovely CEO? Let’s talk about it.
“We do have the least prepared workforce… I do not say that to be disparaging. I say that because that is true... There is more responsibility now than ever on employers to help people learn what it means to work. And also to work with balance.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Generational differences
- The quiet quitting movement
- Post-pandemic mental health
- Honesty, clear expectations, and quality communication
- Find balance and lead well because we need each other
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
Want to be coached live by Kris for an upcoming episode? Send an email to hello@krisplachy.com and we’ll send you a questionnaire to fill out. Chosen listeners get a free coaching session with Kris and are kept anonymous.
Reminders:
- Work with Kris! How to CEO
- Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed.
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help
Website: How to CEO
Email: hello@krisplachy.com
If you’re juggling the questions of “When should I hire?” or “Who should I hire?” – let me help guide you. The answers to those questions are completely tied to the answer to a question that should come first. That is, “What phase of growth is your business in?”
This episode idea sprouted from help I’ve been giving to many regarding hiring and two recent Live Coaching with Kris episodes. As we navigate what I call the “Messy Middle” in building an entrepreneurial business, we need help but getting the right kind of help, at the right time, is absolutely crucial. If you hire the incorrect people during the a phase, you can actually lose touch and control of your own business. Please don’t let that happen. Let’s talk about who to hire in the messy middle of your entrepreneur journey.
“Learn how to manage. Anybody could work for you then. It’s fine. If you learn how to manage. But otherwise, you set yourself up where you don’t have control of so much of your business.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Phases and stages of business
- Correct help in the Messy Middle
- Correct help in the Established Phase
- The quagmire of improper outsourcing
- Hiring right at the right phase
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Recommended previous episodes regarding hiring:
- Cautionary Tips When Hiring Employees from Corporate Culture
- Should I Hire a Friend?
- What Position Should I Hire First for My Growing Business?
- Hiring the COVID Candidate
Connect with Kris Plachy
Want to be coached live by Kris for an upcoming episode? Send an email to hello@krisplachy.com and we’ll send you a questionnaire to fill out. Chosen listeners get a free coaching session with Kris and are kept anonymous.
Reminders:
- Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed.
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
Get in on the CEO LIVE Immersion: CEOImmersion.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
As your business grows, you’re going to need help. You can’t build your queendom all alone. But what position should you hire first for your growing business? Should you hire someone to match your work and share the load? Should you hire an assistant to perform numerous tasks? Should you hire someone to complete just specific projects? Is there a way to know what the best choice is?
For this episode of Live Coaching with Kris, I tackle this inevitable growth question. My guest listener has grown her business to the point where she needs help but isn’t sure which position to fill first. She feels she doesn’t have enough revenue to hire more than one person but desperately needs help in more than one area. Together, we discuss the pros and cons of each type of hire, discuss the process of narrowing down hiring options, and ultimately, look at potential solutions in a whole different light.
“It does pay off… You’ve got to think about this as an investment… And you might have to kiss a few frogs. That’s part of the deal too. Just keep going.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Drafting detailed descriptions
- Calculating the cost of not hiring
- Pinpointing what you could give up
- Making offers
- Leveraging hires
- Kissing a few frogs
- Moving from solopreneur to CEO
- Avoiding certain options
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed.
Connect with Kris Plachy
Want to be coached live by Kris for an upcoming episode? Send an email to hello@krisplachy.com and we’ll send you a questionnaire to fill out. Chosen listeners get a free coaching session with Kris and are kept anonymous.
Reminders:
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
Get in on the CEO LIVE Immersion: CEOImmersion.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
“You should do this.” “You should do that!” “Hey, have you considered…” When you’re building a business, so many voices and ideas constantly come at you. You can become lost in all the possibilities and your business becomes your life. Maybe it’s time to build your businesses a little differently… Especially if you realize you’ve built your life around your business, rather than your business around your life.
But what if you intentionally built your business to nurture the life you want? How would you go about it? To begin, you need to quiet the noise all around you, to anchor to internal wisdom, and then act from there. Let’s talk about what it might look like to build a business that supports your life.
“We get so immersed in the business that we end up building a life around the business. We’ve accommodated the business by compromising our lives.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Noise of life
- Internal anchors
- Growth from the reaction phase
- Choose the life you want
- Ask the questions, make the changes
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed.
Connect with Kris Plachy
Reminders:
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
- Get in on the CEO LIVE Immersion: CEOImmersion.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
The cost of doing business seems to be rising by the day. Inflation is hitting small businesses pretty hard. The current economy and labor market are so different than even just a couple years ago. And when you’ve got a team, wages, in particular, are a big consideration in your budget.
Because of these unique changes, I hope to help you have a bit of a brain shift in this episode. As leaders, we have Two Buckets to recognize: Beliefs and thoughts (including the opinions of others) versus Facts. The impact of all the information constantly coming at us can make opinions appear as facts. This can dramatically affect how we look at, and what we feel about, everything going on in our businesses. It can especially affect our opinion about hiring and paying wages. So let me give you a bit of tough love and let’s talk about all this.
“Or you just decide, ‘You know what? I signed up to be a business owner. The economy’s a little wackadoodle right now. I’m gonna figure out my plan. And I’m gonna execute the hell out of it’.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
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The Two Buckets: Facts versus Thoughts
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Perpetuating facts
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Practical decisions without drama
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Wages and your philosophy
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Helpful adjustments
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed.
Connect with Kris Plachy
Reminders:
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Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
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Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
- Get in on the CEO LIVE Immersion: CEOImmersion.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
Countless methods and resources are available to help you grow your business. Courses, programs, systems, outside help, advisors, even business coaches. But should you hire a business coach? What do they do or not do? For that matter, is everyone with the title “business coach” actually a business coach?
In this episode, I share many thoughts and insights into what a true business coach does. From my own experience, I can confirm that a really great coach can bring huge value both professionally and personally. However, it is also my opinion that not every person who calls themselves a business coach really is one. That’s not to say they aren’t great at what they do, but rather to delineate between an actual business coach and someone who is more properly defined as an expert in specific aspects of business. Let’s talk about it.
“A coach says, ‘I know you know the right answer for you. And I’m going to help you discover that... But your wisdom is in there and I’m going to help you access it.’ That is coaching.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- What a business coach actually is
- How teaching, mentoring and advising differ from coaching
- Clarify what you’re actually needing
- Keep your coach as only yours
- How to know it’s time for a business coach
- Place boundaries around your coach search
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
Reminders:
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
- CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
Do your meetings with your team end up off track? Do you avoid scheduling meetings because they’re really not productive? If so, you’re definitely not alone. In this second installment of “Live Coaching with Kris”, I tackle this prevalent problem.
As I coach a listener about how to run a productive 1:1 meeting, clarity in business rises to the surface. When you’re running a business, clarity is necessary in every area. Clarity in job descriptions, roles and responsibilities, clarity in expectations and outcomes, and clarity in the direction each team member is headed. With these in place, meetings naturally become more focused. Couple that focus with praise and positive feedback, and you’ll soon be looking forward to meetings, rather than dreading them.
Speaking of clarity, if you missed the first installment of “Live Coaching with Kris”, I encourage you to go back and listen to it. In that episode, I advise around the common question: Should I Hire a Friend? Clarity is needed in that situation as well and I hope my coaching brings you an abundance of it.
“In my life, we’ve always talked about giving positive feedback as cookies, not crumbs… when you add detail, it really shows that you paid attention.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Take the vital signs of your business
- Clarity and purpose
- The Employee Continuum
- Coach for growth
- Coach for engagement and retention
- Not coaching, employing management
- Give cookies, not crumbs
- 4 Guiding Steps:
- Ask for input
- Choose measures
- Decide frequency
- Determine direction
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
Reminders:
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help
CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
All business owners face this dilemma: Should I hire a friend? Of course, there is an added emotional dynamic when employing someone close to you. Those ties do require consideration. However, regardless of who you hire, consistent frameworks need to be in place. Without them, decisions and potential outcomes can become very messy.
In this first installment of “Live Coaching with Kris” on my Leadership is Feminine podcast, I address the common question of employing people you know. As I coach a very successful business woman regarding this, we cover guidelines in employing people, clarifying expectations and defining roles, delegating not abdicating, and much more.
By the way, I’m very excited to add these episodes. I’m loving doing these live, anonymous coaching sessions with one of you, my listeners, recording it, and then sharing it so we can all benefit. It’s a blast! I can’t wait to share more of them with you all.
“I think I need to hire someone to support me. Not someone I’m going to support. And that was incredibly delineating for me.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Impart your vision clearly
- Don’t build for a specific person in mind
- Clarify what you need and outline the scope
- Define your values
- Delegate not abdicate
- Measurables
- Follow-through plan
- Timeline
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Kris Plachy
Reminders:
- Join Kris’ email list for valuable content by heading over to krisplachy.com and dropping your name in the signup box!
- Get FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
- Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com\
- Medium
Has believing you’re not business minded held you back? If so, I have good news to share: That may only be because being business minded may not be as you envision it. There is much more to it than stats, accounting and marketing. Don’t allow behaviors and skills that can be cultivated and activated – even if you weren’t good at them in the past – hold you back any longer!
Because how we think about all this can be such a hindrance, I wanted to address it. When I thought about how to approach this topic, my friend Jody Moore immediately came to mind. Jody is a gifted coach and she’s developed a program literally called “Business Minded”. As we recorded this episode, Jody shared how she used to believe she wasn’t business minded but learned differently. She and I go on to discuss several aspects of what it actually means to be business minded, including important metrics, consistent behaviors, sales approaches, and much more.
“Without consistent behavior, skills don’t matter. And, the good news is, you don’t even have to have the skills if you just compensate with behavior… And, then of course, ironically enough, the more behaviors you put in, the better your skills become.” – Jody Moore
What You’ll Learn
- What it is to be business minded
- Metrics that matter versus indicators that don’t
- Behaviors, skills and consistency
- Reframing making offers
- Is the Business Minded program right for you?
- Goals that pull
- Removing bottlenecks
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Jody in her own words…
Hello, I’m Jody. I’m a lot like you. I am a mother of 4, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and a woman trying to figure out how to minimize resentment, overwhelm and guilt, and replace them with happiness, gratitude and joy.
Three years after getting married I found myself with two kids under age 2, a loving husband, and a lot of self-loathing. I struggled with the duties associated with being a mom and wife and then I felt guilty for feeling that way. After all, this was the life I thought I’d always wanted.
I have a BA in Communications and an MA in Adult Education along with 15 years of experience as a Corporate Trainer and Leadership Coach, but what has helped me the most to overcome my struggles and to conquer all of my goals, are the tools I use now to coach my clients. Thanks to my extensive training with Brooke Castillo of The Life Coach School, I am now a Certified Life Coach, and I couldn’t be more proud of the work I get to do in the world.
What I learned when I found coaching (and now teach to others), helped me gain my confidence back. It helped me enjoy my kids and love my husband exactly as he is. It helped me create a successful business and be the kind of mom I want to be at the same time. The tools I teach are the ones that have helped me live gospel principles and develop a closer relationship with my Heavenly Father.
Today I have the honor of helping women (and a few brave men) achieve the results they desire in all areas of their life. My clients range from young newlyweds to empty nesters and together, we are changing the results in their lives.
I feel so honored to get to work with these individuals to improve their relationships, their confidence, their physical, mental and emotional health, their money situation and their contribution in the world.
I believe all of my previous education and experience has prepared me to do this work. I’m a lucky woman. And guess what?
So are you. I will help you find it.
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CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
- Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com
- FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed
- Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
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Stress is inevitable. We’re running our businesses, cherishing our personal lives, navigating the changing world around us… No matter where we turn, stressors are present. Simply trying to tell ourselves not to feel stressed, and to just relax or to just suck it up, is unhelpful and often ineffective. I want to offer an approach that helps: acknowledging the stress, identifying what’s going on when we feel stressed and knowing what we can do to mitigate it.
As we examine how to manage stress for women business owners, I want to discuss the elements of stress. I believe there are major contributing factors such as resistance to the truth, how we buffer stress, and our personal tipping points. In consideration of stressors, we have countless outside sources but the inner source – that is, our own inner dialogue – is the overpowering one. Therefore, the thoughts you think are the ultimate source of stress, and framing them is key to management. Let’s talk about it.
“That inner dialogue that you entertain is really, ultimately, the source that we have to talk to… that inner dialogue is either promoting your ability to be resilient and capable… or that inner dialogue is promoting your ineptitude, your lack of skill... But as you tell that story about who you are, I want you to look at what that does to how you feel emotionally and physically.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Resistance to the truth
- The skill of resilience
- Breaking down stressors
- Countless sources
- Stories we tell ourselves
- Victim vs. owner
- Framing your thoughts with power
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
- CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
- Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
- The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
- Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com.
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FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed
Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
Speaking of business mastery, having that throughout your business is crucial. Without it, your business won’t thrive. In Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I’m focusing on various aspects of business mastery. If you’ve missed any of the first three episodes, I encourage you to go back and listen to them. Thus far, I’ve talked about leadership excellence, the ‘Founder’s Curse’, and even how to fire someone nicely.
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
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Business models, kits, courses, systems and similar flood the marketplace. A simple online search pulls an overwhelming number of options. But finding a model designed for women, with women in mind is trickier. As female entrepreneurs, we possess natural strengths and assets which differ from men. We need a business strategy that leverages those.
In this business mastery episode, I address business strategy for women business owners. Before we begin, I want to establish that it’s healthy to periodically adjust and rework your strategy. As your desire for the results of your business changes, your strategy needs to as well. I find I adjust mine about every 24-36 months.
“And that is the part that is so dynamic: that your strategy has to be that fluid AND concrete… and fluid and concrete... It’s just an evolving process. It’s a breathing process. And I think that’s what so many models don’t account for.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Set a clear result
- Leading a heart-centered business
- Creating the life you want
- Sitting with your belief
- Clarify what drives revenue
- Your vital few
- Keep or go
- Plan for failure
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com.
Connect with Kris Plachy
Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
Speaking of business mastery, having that throughout your business is crucial. Without it, your business won’t thrive. In Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I’m focusing on various aspects of business mastery. If you’ve missed any of the first three episodes, I encourage you to go back and listen to them. Thus far, I’ve talked about leadership excellence, the ‘Founder’s Curse’, and even how to fire someone nicely.
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
- Medium
For many leaders, hiring is scary enough but what about when you need to let someone go? As I promised, throughout Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I’m tackling some of the most daunting and critical components of business mastery. And how to fire someone, and do it nicely, ranks right at the top for most leaders.
Knowing how to kindly part ways is an invaluable skill, not only for yourself but for the other person. You are able to soften an already difficult and very uncomfortable situation when you know how to address the problem. In this episode, I teach you some guidelines and share some wisdom on how to cause the least amount of injury and pain to both you and them.
“If I walked into your business today and asked people who worked for you if they knew what their goals were, if they knew what the result was that they’re responsible for, would they know? If your answer is ‘Ummm, maybe?’ or ‘Uh, probably not’, we already know we have a cocktail for confusion when it gets to potentially firing someone.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Honor that pain exists in firing someone
- Don’t surprise people
- Never assume roles are self-evident
- Come from a clean place
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Let me encourage you once more to listen to every episode from Season 3 of Leadership Is Feminine. The insights, ideas and magic shared by the women I interviewed are invaluable.
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What exactly is The Founder’s Curse? Of course, it’s not truly a curse but there is a genuine concept here. One that, for lack of a better description, plagues most founders.
As we journey together through Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I want to focus on business mastery. You already have mastery of what you do in the world, that is, your subject matter expertise or practitioner expertise. But what about mastery of the necessities of running your business, such as how to lead and manage teams? We can all use more mastery in that area. And one block to building that mastery is overcoming The Founder’s Curse. I want to bring that into the light, discuss it, and help you conquer it.
“For as long as you keep believing that you’re the only one, ultimately, who will ever really know how to make it work, you will remain the only one, who really knows – ever – how to make it work. And you will keep working harder.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- What is The Founder’s Curse?
- 3 ways you create delay
- Reaffirming unproductive habit
- Usurping
- Crippling accountability
- Recognizing you’ve got The Founder’s Curse
- Overcoming it
- Learning to leverage the skills, talents and minds of others
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
If you’ve not heard all of the amazing, everyday women I had with me in Season 3 of Leadership Is Feminine, I encourage you to go back and listen to all the episodes. The encouragement, inspiration and wisdom you’ll gain is phenomenal.
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- Sign up to be on Kris’s podcast as an anonymous recorded and shared coaching call at hello@krisplachy.com. For details, listen to this episode.
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This episode starts Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine. If you’ve not heard all of the amazing, everyday women I had with me in Season 3, I encourage you to go back and listen to all the episodes. The encouragement, inspiration and wisdom you’ll gain is phenomenal.
For Season 4, I want to focus on leadership excellence and mastery for women. In particular, I believe that the characteristic of resilience is a core quality. Embedded in resilience is consistency, and with consistency comes mastery. Mastery isn’t based on complex systems. It’s about basic truths, basic principles. In looking back on my own growth over the past 10 years, I’ve found that the same principles are still true, and they are what work.
“I love watching the powerful ability of a women, once she no longer feels helpless to managing and leading people… once she’s no longer helpless to the behaviors and choices of others… once she knows that there’s nothing in her business… she can’t handle… Watching that happen and being witness to women who experience that kind of resolve, and knowing, and wisdom has been so inspiring for me.” – Kris Plachy
What You’ll Learn
- Changes for Season 4
- Share real coaching calls
- Want to be anonymously coached on Kris’s podcast? Details are in the Contact Info below.
- Changes to connecting
- How to CEO in person!
- Get on the waitlist: CEOImmersion.com
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Eleanor Beaton
- Coach. CEO. Host. Writer. Mom. Founder of media.com/">SafiMedia.
- EleanorBeaton.com
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Changing your mindset as a leader is a magical gift. It allows you to manage yourself, and therefore, your team, with greater empathy. The beautiful truth about changing yourself is that some change can happen very quickly and it is always worth the investment.
In today’s episode, Dr. Camysha Wright and I talk about change as a leader. We discuss how empowering it is to make time for necessary changes, to refill your own tank so you aren’t always depleted, and the value in investing in your own leadership and management skills. We also revisit a very powerful statement Dr. Wright made during a previous discussion, one that has stuck with me ever since: many things can actually be accomplished in a day. And this can include changing yourself. As you listen to this episode, I hope this truth encourages you as much as it does me.
“I think the biggest gift for me has been the change in mindset… learning how to deal with my own mind… managing your team is definitely very important but you also have to manage yourself… changing the way that I see things and how I analyze, like a problem, has been a huge gift…” – Dr. Camysha Wright
What You’ll Learn
- Stepping into the ins and outs of business
- Empowering yourself to make time
- Investing in your own leadership and management
- Expanding your mindset is a huge gift
- Giving space for refilling your own tank
- Changing yourself in a day
Meet Dr. Camysha Wright
Dr. Camysha Wright is a Board Certified Ear, Nose and Throat Physician in Plantation, Florida and runs a full service clinic for children and adults. She is President-elect for the Florida Society of Otolaryngology head and neck surgeons and will serve as president in 2023. She is also currently the Allergy Director for ENT and Allergy Associates of Florida.
Dr. Wright is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. She is also board certified by the America Board of Otolaryngology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. Dr. Wright serves as Clinical advisor for NOVA University for physician assistants and allergy fellows.
She received her Medical Degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC and graduated with A0A honors and completed a General Surgery Internship and Otolaryngology Residency at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She also has obtained her Master of Public Health degree.
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- Instagram | @drcamyshawright
- cwmdpa.com
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Is it Me or Is it Them? Discover whether the difficulties you experience with your team are a “them” thing or a “you” thing. Running Live May 23-27, 2022. Sign up today!
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How much do you allow yourself to have in regards to money? As women, we are conditioned to “tuck it in” when it comes to being extremely successful in earnings. Shame often accompanies this conditioning and holds us back from fulfilling our full potential both for ourselves and for those we love. But a woman’s relationship with money is more deeply connected than it appears on the surface.
In this episode, I talk about women and money with award-winning leader and creative founder of the #1 business and money certified coach training academy, Kendall Summerhawk. Kendall specializes in and emphasizes putting the power to make money into every woman’s hands. We discuss how critical it is to rewrite our relationship with money, the impact of money stories, choosing to control and not control, and so much more. I hope her wisdom and experiences help you shift into magical CEOing and having an abundant life.
“It isn’t selfish at all. If you’re making money through your business… you’re working for it, you’re offering value, you’re changing people’s lives… you have to be the guardian of your dream.” – Kendall Summerhawk
What You’ll Learn
- You are in relationship with money
- Who has earned the right to know
- The impact of money stories
- The fix is your own growth
- Magical CEOing
- Sharpening the blade
- What you’ll learn working with Kendall
Meet Kendall Summerhawk
Kendall Summerhawk is an award winning leader and the creative founder of the #1 business & money certified coach training academy for Firestarter women who want to be high earning coaches.
When Kendall launched her coach certification academy, she pioneered a revolutionary approach that fills a gap other coaching schools miss.
Her revolutionary approach is why the women Kendall certifies make money, fill their coaching programs and stand in the power of creating financial independence.
Kendall runs a 7+ figure business working from home in Arizona, and enjoys riding dressage with her beautiful Spanish horses and spending time with her husband and business partner, Richard.
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Connect with Kendall Summerhawk
- Work with Kendall: kendallsummerhawk.com
- Email: connect@Kendallsummerhawk.com
- Get a FREE HOW TO pricing guide: kendallsummerhawk.com/pricing
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- The Team Audit 5-Day Course: krisplachy.com/audit
- Is it Me or Is it Them? Discover whether the difficulties you experience with your team are a “them” thing or a “you” thing. Running Live May 23-27, 2022. Sign up today!
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No matter how long we’ve been working at something or how much money we make, doubts will creep in and times of uncertainty will come. But we must learn to listen to that little voice inside that guides us. Tuning into the wisdom of that inner voice, as well as listening to the wisdom of others will fuel us with resolve to carry on.
In this episode, I chatted with Deborah Perlman, founder and CEO of Cocus Pocus about listening to that inner voice. We discuss building your own Queendom, dancing with failure, dealing with hires that don’t work out, and more. Deborah shares how she was encouraged to leave corporate America and do for herself what she’d been accomplishing for others. As you listen to her share her experiences and what she’s learned since becoming an entrepreneur, I hope you are emboldened to follow your own little voice.
“I look at these people in these high level positions and it looks like a golden cage to me now.” – Deborah Perlman
What You’ll Learn
- Building your own Queendom
- Rewriting expectations
- Dancing with failure
- Dealing with hires that don’t work out
- Changing your clothes
- Sitting with the thoughts as they come
- Listening to that little voice
Meet Deborah Perlman
Deborah is the Founder and CEO of Cocus Pocus, an international lifestyle brand that designs and curates clothes, art, accessories, gifts, stationery, and more. Their carefully curated goods are meant to cultivate a creative lifestyle and they are inspired by the power of friendship, the good old days, and all things fun.
Cocus Pocus is also really into supporting their community of customers, fellow artists, and like-minded brands. They think there is room at the top for all of us.
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- The Team Audit 5-Day Course: krisplachy.com/audit
- Is it Me or Is it Them? Discover whether the difficulties you experience with your team are a “them” thing or a “you” thing. Running Live May 23-27, 2022. Sign up today!
- Work with Kris: How to CEO
- Email: hello@krisplachy.com
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In our businesses, we all need someone who can help with the books. But we also need someone who can help us think forward. Someone who can help us forecast, not retract, and change our thoughts and habits around money. For me, that is my CFO and the owner of Nice Job, Inc., Emily Sandberg.
I wanted to have Emily on an episode to share some of her wisdom and magic, and she delivered. We discussed security, being properly connected to our money, leadership, protecting structures and roles, and much more. As a money genius, Emily gave several powerful statements revolving around how we think about money. She reminded all of us that money does not define us, and neither our businesses nor ourselves are fragile.
“One of the problems I see is women who use money to define who they are. They want the money to tell them they’re good enough, they’re smart enough, they’re capable enough. And so they think if they have enough money, then they’ll know that for sure. But when you're a leader, when you take leadership over the money, what you do then is you recognize money for what it is. It’s a tool.” – Emily Sandberg
What You’ll Learn
- Safety isn’t in the money
- Money doesn’t define you, it’s data
- The power in how you think about making money
- It’s never as bad as it feels
- Dynamic changes around decisions and entrepreneurship
- Protecting structure and roles
- I’m not fragile and neither is my business
Meet Emily Sandberg
Emily Sandberg is the owner of Nice Job, Inc. She’s a money coach specializing in cashflow and forecasting for online coaches and course creators. While most accounting looks to the past for guidance, Emily works with her clients to know the future of money in their business, so they can make strategic decisions with their cash. Her work has helped dozens of clients go from running a money-hungry business to a predictably profitable enterprise, by simply following her profit-centered framework. When she’s not running scenarios for her clients’ Facebook Ad Spends, she can be found playing pickleball or hiking in the gorgeous red rocks of southern Utah with her family.
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As your business grows, your role as a leader should change and evolve. This includes what you do on a regular basis and what you relinquish to others. As you realign your leadership into co-creation, you’ll face countless challenges, including properly choosing and nurturing a team, letting go of all the things you once personally did, and even breaking old habits.
In this episode, I converse with Erika Sinner, founder and CEO of Directorie™ about numerous facets of leadership. We talk about setting healthy standards and expectations both for ourselves as leaders and for our team. Erika shares her wisdom regarding trusting yourself and following what you know, deep down, is the next right thing. As we talked, Erika dropped a truth bomb that even I was challenged by. I hope you’re challenged and encouraged as well.
“When you think about things about your business, you always feel like… ‘We don’t have time to create training’, ‘We don’t have time to hire’... And if you replace that with ‘It’s not important to create training’... it changes! It shifts how you feel about the things you just said. Because when you really think about it that way, you have to prioritize the things that are important. Or something’s gotta give.” – Erika Sinner
What You’ll Learn
- Breaking corporate-world habits
- Trusting yourself
- Nurturing a growing team
- Realigning your leadership to co-creation
- Connecting for authentic validation
- Choosing whose advice you heed
- Replacing the “I don’t have time” mindset
Meet Erika Sinner
Enthusiasm, effort, and excellence: the keywords that embody all of Erika’s endeavors. And founding Directorie™ is no exception to this rule…she saw the need for a different model in the industry, and she stepped up to fill the void.
For nearly 20 years, she’s built successful teams, brands, and managed a myriad of agency relationships in the pharmaceutical industry. Her experience spans rare disease, high-science, and traditional medications delivered in the hospital, community setting, or by focused specialists. From clinical development through commercialization and lifecycle management, she challenges her teams and clients to always imagine a unique solution with an empathetic basis.
Erika extends that caring spirit to her family, foster families, and animal rescue organizations. You can participate in those adventures by joining her, her husband, Chris and her furbabies Kingston, Mishka, Edmond, and Theodore on Instagram @crazy4pei.
About Directorie™
Directorie™ is a highly-experienced team of pharmaceutical marketing pros ready to take projects to level 11. They confidently join teams with a whole stack of experience to commercialize and prepare organizations with one goal: Medications reaching patients who need them most.
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Connect with Erika Sinner
- Directorie.com
- Linkedin - Erika Sinner
- esinner@directorie.com
- Linkedin.com/company/directorie
- Instagram.com/directorie
- Facebook.com/Directorie
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With the demands of life and business in our modern times, peace can be elusive. Yet, as female CEOs, we sometimes talk ourselves out of creating that necessary environment of calm. We wrongly believe we’re not worthy or that it’s indulgent or selfish, but it isn’t. It’s truly an investment in yourself and your business.
In this episode, I talk with interior designer Tara Fust (Tara Fust Design) about the value of peace. We discuss fostering peace in all endeavors, whether it’s in your surroundings or within relationships. She shares about the joy of finding common ground with other women, the pitfalls of taking on a business partner, and the power of staying present through failure. As you listen to our discussion, I hope you find the inspiration to build beauty and serenity into your life and business.
“When you can create those moments of peace and quiet where you can just kinda get back to who you are… So powerful.” – Tara Fust
What You’ll Learn
- Finding common ground with others
- Contemplating taking on a partner
- Staying present in failure
- Owning your wisdom
- Investing in peace
- Not asking for permission
- Leaning into what you know
Meet Tara Fust
Tara is the founder and designer of Tara Fust Design. TFD is all about collected, casual, effortless style. It's home. The kind of place that makes you want to kick off your shoes, grab a drink, and hang out for a while.
Tara in her own words… THE FAT: I'm the daughter of an interior designer who grew up living in homes that were constantly evolving, changing… being redone. Combine that with the sunshine and beaches of Southern California and it’s no surprise I’m living a creative life that’s inspired by easy, beautiful living.
THE SKINNY: A move South and the springboard of a little home furnishings store—plus a handful of great clients—and I’ve found my place. It's about creating homes and spaces that invite you in, beg you to stay, and make your day when you come through the door.
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The power of showing up, rather than serving in sacrifice, cannot be overstated. When we commit, when we are there, even when no one else is, a superpower is released that often comes in no other way.
In this episode, I talk with Bernadette Doyle, owner and CEO of Bernadette Doyle.com about the superpower of showing up. Throughout our conversation, we discuss feminine leadership, thriving through the unknown, the disservice of sacrifice in business, and much more. I hope you receive a fresh perspective on the magic of committing to, and trusting, yourself.
“There is nothing, in my experience, that trumps that energy of just showing up, committed. I’m committed to serve. I’m here and I’m showing up, even if… you know, you do a Facebook live and you can see you might have no one on with you. But you just show up and you just give it your all anyway. And I think that is the powerpower.” – Bernadette Doyle
What You’ll Learn
- Thriving during the unknown
- Relaxing into tough conversations
- Embracing the feminine model of leadership
- The superpower of committing
- The disservice of sacrifice in business
- Facilitating mental work
- Recognizing existing support
Meet Bernadette Doyle
Bernadette Doyle has been helping coaches, consultants, trainers and therapists to get more clients organically for over 20 years. She is known for her down-to-earth, practical strategies that help her clients get results fast. Many of them are landing new clients within 48 hours following her approach. She gets a thrill from showing a simple path to 100k without complicated sales funnels, tech or constant launching. Having previously headed a 7-figure business with lots of complexity and moving parts, simplicity is now a core value. Embracing simplicity has allowed her space to run a multi-6 figure business from home, working less than 20 hours a week, so she has time for her passions of hot yoga and hiking.
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Connect with Bernadette Doyle
- Bernadettedoyle.com
- My Business Smarts With Heart FB group
- b@bernadettedoyle.com
- Get Bernadette’s FREE pdf Get Clients, Make Money: Bernadettedoyle.com/get-clients-free-pdf
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The power of attraction can be magical for a female CEO. Attraction brings clients, connections and even team members. And when building a quality team, in particular, it can be a secret weapon. People naturally want to work for someone they respect and who is generating good within a particular space. This alleviates the need to go looking for high caliber team members. It also allows the CEO to look into someone who expresses interest in working for them, without making any commitment to hire.
But what, exactly, is the power of attraction? In this episode, I discuss what it is and what it is not with successful CEO and entrepreneur, Karin Carr. Karin is the real estate team owner and CEO at Georgia Coast Homes, the creator of YouTube for Agents, and a coach for those in the real estate business (Karin Carr Coaching). We talk about creating solutions, learning to delegate, turning mistakes into opportunities, and the superpower of understanding attraction. I hope you’ll be inspired and moved to action by this chat. Before you listen, I’ll give you one tiny spoiler alert: The power of attraction isn’t about you looking a certain way.
“You don’t have to be young, you don’t have to be skinny, you don’t have to be gorgeous… By being on camera, yes, there may be trolls that say something negative. But you know what? We can’t let it stop us. You can have such an amazing career if you’re just willing to put yourself out there.” – Karin Carr
What You’ll Learn
- Moving into helping others
- Building a team through attraction
- Being the primary breadwinner
- Learning to let go and choosing what makes sense
- Responding to and making use of mistakes
- Allowing yourself to be seen
Meet Karin Carr
Karin Carr is the real estate team owner and CEO at Georgia Coast Homes, the creator of YouTube for Agents, and a coach for those in the real estate business (Karin Carr Coaching).
Karin has been a REALTOR® since 2005. She heads the GCH team with Real in Savannah, GA. Upon relocating to a new city in 2017, she decided to start uploading videos to YouTube to help her become known in her new market.
Her business exploded and within two years she had formed a team that now generates more than 80% of their closings from YouTube. With more than 13,000 subscribers, her YouTube channel, Georgia Coast Homes, gets more than 40,000 organic views a month. Serving markets throughout GA and SC, her team averages 3-5 inbound leads per day without buying leads. Karin’s love of all things YouTube led her to create a training program for other agents around the world who want to generate a steady stream of inbound leads through video marketing.
She is the founder and CEO of Karin Carr Coaching and is thrilled to see the amazing results her students are getting. She is also the host of the free Facebook group, YouTube for Real Estate Agents, which has over 20,000 members.
Karin is also a national speaker on video marketing. She was named the #1 BombBomb Real Estate Video Influencer in 2019 (in the Consumer Education category) and has been featured on Fox News and Time.com. She has spoken at real estate conferences around the country and is a frequent livestream and podcast guest talking about the effectiveness of video marketing.
She is also the Amazon bestselling author of YouTube for Real Estate Agents - Learn how to get FREE real estate leads and never cold call again.
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- Karincarr.com
- youtubeforagents.com
- Facebook.com/youtubeforagents
- Instagram.com/the.karin.carr
- Youtube.com/karincarr
- karin@georgiacoasthomes.com
- Get Karin’s FREE 5-Part Interactive Masterclass: Youtubeforagents.com/challenge
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Whatever your individual purpose is, you are designed to make a difference. Finding precisely how, although, can be a winding path. The very focus on making a difference can cause unwelcome detours, typically caused by fear… Fear of failure, lack of knowledge, feelings of inadequacy… But when you settle into being yourself, follow your heart, and trust in that, you will also achieve your goal of making a difference.
In this episode, I chatted with Jennifer Krepps, the owner of Kritter Kare’s Howliday Inn and Kritter Kare’s Pet Sitting all about this. We discuss wanting to bring an increase in the level of respect in her industry, the desire to thrive and not simply survive, moments that define your legacy, and much more. During our time together, Jennifer wisely compares scenic stops to enrichments in our life journey and I hope this podcast is a scenic stop for you.
“You’ve got to pursue what’s in your soul, what really matters to you. And, I think, in doing that, you will make a difference at the same time.” – Jennifer Krepps
What You’ll Learn
- Making a difference by being yourself
- Scenic stops
- Reinventing how to pull people in
- Thriving versus surviving: Who are you listening to?
- Moments that define your legacy
- Lies of sunny skies
- Scared but doing it anyway
Meet Jennifer Krepps
Jennifer in her own words…
“I am a down-to-earth, Midwest lady with a drive to design a life and legacy that reflects my core values in giving quality time and service to others.”
About Kritter Kare 4 U LLC (DBA Kritter Kare’s Howliday Inn)
Kritter Kare is a boutique style dog care facility & in-home pet sitting service located in Columbia, Illinois. They started providing in-your-home pet sitting/dog walking services in June 2009, and Jennifer Kreps, company owner, explained at that time what the company purpose was then and still today, “Kritter Kare is not just a pet sitting business, we are a pet caring company. That is our foundation. That is our focus.”
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The mindset of an intrapreneur (an introverted entrepreneur) is one of determination to fix what is wrong, even while it is not in their nature to seek a position of leadership. Rather, intrapreneurs frequently find others inquiring of their wisdom, following their suggestions, and asking them to lead. Insight and depth of caring flourish in the intrapreneur, fueling their innate drive to improve processes and ideals in order to improve the lives of others.
In today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Evelyn Hsu, MD, a natural intrapreneur. She discusses how, as a physician, clinician, teacher and researcher, she has found herself in leadership positions without seeking them. She shares at length about pushing past fear and discomfort to achieve worthwhile ends. We discuss the mindset of being an intrapreneur leader, current and necessary paradigm shifts, and how being maladapted (I love this term she uses) can actually be your superpower.
“I can’t accept things just being bad… Accepting the risk to do what’s right is something I’m really willing to do… You can be afraid of everything and do it anyway.” – Dr. Evelyn Hsu, MD
What You’ll Learn
- Defining the intrapreneur
- Navigating difficult conversations
- The power of doing it afraid
- Allowing curiosity of how things work in this great organism
- Shifting the physician’s paradigm
- Capturing the quiet
Meet Dr. Evelyn Hsu, MD
Evelyn in her own words…
“The only way we can change this system for the better is to stay in it as leaders.
I am an academic physician; I am a clinician, a teacher, and a researcher. I’m a former people-pleaser and perfectionist in recovery.
I love academic medicine for the space that it allows for ideas and research, and for the opportunity it gives us to shape the future of what is possible. I don’t love academic medicine for how it is deeply steeped in patriarchy, and the way it encourages us to pay for our progress with our blood, our sweat, and our tears.
I’m in it as a leader and a coach because I want to bring calm to your chaos without compromising your dreams, cutting down your time, or quitting your job. Simply by getting to the point you are at, you are brilliant and effective. Coaching can get you to the next step faster, and with more joy.
I know what it is like to exist within the system that factors in the combined pressure of clinical work, administrative responsibilities, teaching, leadership, and research excellence.
Only a coach who is also a physician can understand the unique pressures of academic medicine.
We will begin with career visioning and goal-setting. Follow-up modules will be tailored based on your needs.
Module topics inclusive of but not limited to: time management, relationships, people pleasing, perfectionism, negotiation, stress, anxiety, writing, projects and mind/life clutter.”
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- evelynhsumd.com
- Schedule a FREE 30-minute consultation: evelynhsumd.com/schedule
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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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The Widowed Mom podcast with Krista St-Germain: coachingwithkrista.com/podcast
Moms Go On program – Get a free, private training: coachingwithkrista.com/work-with-me
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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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“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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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.
Contact Info and Recommended Resources
Connect with Fabienne Fredrickson
Get a FREE strategy session! connect.boldheart.com
Get a FREE copy of Fabinenne’s book, The Leveraged Business: How You Can Go From Overwhelmed at Six Figures to Seven Figures (and Get Your Life Back).
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Twitter | @fabienne
Book Recommendation from Kris: True North by Bill George
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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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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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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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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
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Why we lose the magic
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Vision getting lost
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Not knowing the how
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An example from my life
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Absolute clarity, without any idea of the how
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Loving what you do releases the magic
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Lean into joy
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Commit to being more of you
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The missing piece
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How versus the energy of truly believing
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More than just tactics
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Worry robs us
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Increased capacity
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Release your need to know
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Ways the how generates more easily
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Nurture what you’ve been kissed with
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Refuse anxiety triggers
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Be healthy, thriving, open, free
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Achieve through proper work
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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
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Confusing leadership and management
- Evolution of your own growth
- Properly assigning blame
- Mistakenly perpetuating problems
- Correcting your mindset
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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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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
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Make your list of magic
- What are the wins you didn’t roll around in this past year?
- Feel your wins deeply
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Explore why one success really hit you but another did not
- Is there unnecessary guilt or shame?
- Are you mistakenly building an entitlement environment?
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Stop. Start. Continue.
- Thoughtfully choose
- Create from feelings
- Connect with feelings and allow yourself to feel…
- Wise, competent, brave
- Loved, worthy, valued
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Trust your own wisdom
- Honor your success
- Use visuals to hold that space
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Happy New Year! How are you?! I love the energy whenever the new year comes around! It’s a great time to pause and focus on your goals, intentions, whatever, right? So, I thought that, following the theme of CEO Magic, I would do a different kind of episode that would encourage you (as female entrepreneurs) to invest in yourselves and your wisdom. I saw that there were no affirmations for female entrepreneurs so I thought I would create some for you. Take from these what resonates as you launch into this new year.
What You'll Find in This Episode
1. Information about the upcoming cohort of How to CEO, the next Advanced Leadership Coach certification class, and the Sage CEO program. 2. Affirmations that will empower you into the new year.
Should you pay a year end bonus and give your employees extra? We expect certain results from the people we hire, and we pay them a salary for those results. Not for their time. Not for their experience. We can give them a bonus for just the simple joy of giving a gift or we can give them a bonus based on their individual results/ extra work. Making payment commitments to employees is a serious decision to make and should be greatly considered. A gift can turn into an expectation for your employees and a headache for you. No matter how you decide to pay your people it is an important thing to consider.
What You'll Find in This Episode:
1. Having a consistent payment philosophy is key. 2. Bonuses are extra pay for extra results (or they’re gifts). 3. Paying a bonus out over a year is a good way to ensure that the bonus won’t be wasted.
You, as an entrepreneur, have to be an optimist, right? You take risks and believe that something will work out and you cultivate that vision to get your team through the frustration and on to the next thing. Being a leader (as you are), you set the tone for your team. So, why not set an optimistic one?
What you’ll find in this Episode:
- There is a lot we need to appreciate and not take for granted.
- Entrepreneurs are resilient and optimistic.
- Optimistic leaders hire optimistic employees.
- Why believe in something awful when you can believe in something cool?
Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s possible for ourselves, right? I think having visual representations of things that evoke emotions in us can make our brains believe something exists in the world before it actually does exist. That’s why having a vision board is so important. Not just for your business, but also for you! Find some pictures in a magazine and rip ‘em out and place them where you can see them every day! Act as if that’s what’s gonna be in your life one day and just dream, dream, dream! And one day that dreaming will evoke reality!
What You’ll Find in this Episode:
1. You can evoke things in your life by visualizing them. 2. Being older doesn’t mean you can’t dream.
Part of our experience as a human is to feel discomfort. We struggle and often ask ourselves, “Why me? Why is this happening? What am I doing?” But none of these unexpected moments are stop signs. They are opportunities to make empowering choices and find what’s next for you.
What you’ll find in this episode:
- The magic of adversity can show you what you’re capable of.
- Sit quietly with yourself, a trusted advisor, or someone who loves you and find the part of you that you’re having a hard time seeing right now.
- Now it’s your chance to do that thing you’ve always wanted to do.
- An introduction to Season Two of the Leadership is Feminine podcast.
- The women who have made a significant impact on me and my life.
- Why I think it’s harmful to attribute someone’s success to “just luck.”
- The currencies that I believe magicians have mastered. (And how to tap into them yourself!)
- As a woman entrepreneur, it’s important for you to CHOOSE rest. Consciously choose to believe that rest is equally (if not more) valuable to the performance, success, joy of your life and business.
- It’s not sustainable for your business to be dependent on your hustle.
- You have to be, at some point, willing to relax. And willing to unwind yourself from everything. Give yourself permission.
I hear you, love. You're drowning in content. In quote tiles, free downloadables, and 'how-to' guides. You don't need more voices; you need an ear. But not your girlfriend's or your partner's-they can't give you answers or solutions, they can only offer you their opinions, however well-intentioned.
Take a look at your business and at yourself as the leader of your business. Where are your pockets of opportunity? Have discernment, where do you truly need development and advisement? Be intentional about which problems you want to solve in your business and then invest in them.
In this episode of Leadership is Feminine, I'm teaching you how to reinvent your relationship with time so you can prevent and reduce overwhelm as a woman entrepreneur.
What you'll find in this episode:
- A story about a client who realized the value of hiring talent for her business, rather than wasting time, money, and energy on more courses and masterminds for herself. Along with my own list of trusted coaches and advisors.
- The misconception that my premiere leadership coaching series, How to CEO, is just another online course, jam-packed with more content for you to consume, and not what it truly is: solving the problems that you're facing in your business faster by working with me and my team-like you have expert leadership coaches on retainer.
- You don't have to be 'taught' everything. You don't have to consume so much content, You just have to have someone who can listen to you and show you your own wisdom.
We've all had our fair share of challenges in 2021, haven't we? But, as women leaders, one of the biggest challenges we constantly face is believing in ourselves, in a world that constantly tells us that we're too emotional, too touchy, that we don't have a mind for business.
But guess what, Gorgeous? I think your emotions are your SUPERPOWER. Let me tell you why.
What you'll find in this episode:
- As women leaders, we're insidiously taught that we're too emotional. And isolation among women leaders only compounds the problem.
- You feel emotions, but you aren't them.
- You are allowed to feel an emotion, or 12, or 67, during your day.
- Your emotions are your most powerful indicators of what you're telling yourself throughout the day.
What you'll find in this episode:
- During the height of quarantine, many people were functioning but not really living. What we're experiencing now is an increase of people leaving the workforce, or not returning to it, because they have a backlog of living they need to do.
- Workers don’t want to go back to the world that they were in before, but a lot of employers have not made any changes to how their businesses operate.
- Great people always want to work for great leaders and always want to work for great companies.
- We’re relaunching and re-inventing. And as women, we can re-create environments for work in ways that we’ve never had before and in ways that can potentially heal a wounded world. Empower yourself by asking the question: what can you create that doesn’t exist?
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I’m using a really hot topic in today’s environment (getting vaccinated) to discuss values. Your values are a barometer. They are a compass, and they are driving your actions and your behaviors, whether you're paying attention or not. Let’s pay attention and talk about it!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- Women are incredible collaborators, listeners, and communicators.
- Some people are wanting to make this to-vaccinate or not-to-vaccinate thing a value-based issue.
- It has nothing to do with values; here’s why.
- We are more aligned in values than we are giving ourselves credit for, and we're just choosing different actions and behaviors to express them.
- Kris’s Hawaiian hotel incident as an example of differing values.
- Stop questioning people's values and start holding people accountable to clearly defined behaviors.
- You get to have values that you honor, and you get to have expectations of behavior for people you invite into your world.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Do you have an opportunity to reinvent your life or your business or both? Today, I not only want to talk with you about what you want to reinvent in your life, but I also want to help you unearth things that you may not even know are re-inventable. Let’s go!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- Reinventing or burning it to the ground?
- Feminine leadership and the cycle of life.
- Tethering to the future instead of the past.
- Making a list – keep with love and keep out of fear.
- Kris’s reinventions.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Nearly every client I have is telling me she can’t find anyone to hire right now. Whether you’re trying to hire frontline service level personnel or more mid-level professional positions, there are specific challenges. I have solutions!
You have to get into the COVID candidate brain. You've got to understand who you are attracting so that you can align. We're going to talk about some truths that will change how you hire for the better, and, I think, more simply. Join me!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- I'm going to host a masterclass on Tuesday, October 26th on what to do when you can't hire. Go to ceohiring.com.
- There needs to be a change in the candidate attraction and hiring process in order for you to align with where we are today.
- “Your willingness to solve a problem has everything to do with your willingness to make a decision.”
- Homework - what is it that you haven't fully committed to? What is the decision (that you haven’t made yet) that your intuition tells you is the solution?
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Visionary women experience similar challenges. A visionary woman isn't just a visionary in her business, she's a visionary in her life. She often feels unseen, unheard, isolated and empty because visionaries are the people that others go to for help, support, and love.
So where does the visionary woman go to work out her worry? If you're a woman with a big dream on her heart and you know that there's so much more you want to do, but you feel frustrated and don't know how to manifest it all – you’re in the right place. Let’s talk about it.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- 1. What is a visionary woman?
- The day to day fussy stuff that keeps us small.
- Peter Senge – do we change our reality to achieve the vision, or do we lower that vision to accommodate a comfortable reality?
- Kris’s latest Hawaii retreat attendees.
- Stop wasting time around whether or not you should do it. Instead, focus on actually doing it!
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Many of the women that I work with struggle when it comes to holding team members accountable. But the truth is that accountability is one of the greatest forms of self-care that you can create for yourself as a business owner—even when it’s difficult. When you’re not taking care of yourself, you’re not taking care of your business. Period.
In this week’s episode of the Leadership is Feminine podcast, we’re digging deep into the archives of my old podcast, How to Lead for Female Entrepreneurs, to bring you a relevant and timely episode that we thought worthy of another listen, given our theme of Leadership as Self-Care.
Let’s re-imagine what it means to hold others accountable, thus treating ourselves to more of the self-care that we deserve as women, business owners, and human beings.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN THIS EPISODE:
- What ‘accountability’ really is and when it can actually be a positive thing.
- How a lack of accountability can lead to mental and physical exhaustion.
- A client story that demonstrates the relationship between accountability and self-care.
- The importance of creating clear expectations for your employees and showing them how to win.
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Throughout my time as a coach, I’ve noticed a pattern of powerlessness when it comes to women. This is not only in their relationships with men, but also within themselves, and this general lack of power often leads to victimhood.
Another observation is that being an entrepreneur often pushes women to completely unexpected leadership growth which can cause challenges in their partnerships. Because in order to be the women needed to run their businesses, they have to stand differently in their relationships with their partners.
Let’s look at what it means to take back your power – to be the truest version of yourself, and how that can help you as both a person and a woman running a business.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- Different behaviors that can result from being a victim.
- About being a victim of your employees’ behavior.
- Fear around being powerful - around not being the victim, but to being the director of your life and your business.
- The story of the monkeys that were separated on an island by a huge wall.
- Affecting change for women around the world who are living in environments with little opportunity.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
In today’s interview, Kris talks with Tanya Dalton, a nationally recognized productivity expert, best-selling author and speaker. Tanya serves as a growth strategist for female leaders in the corporate and entrepreneurial sectors. Her 12 month mentorship program, The Intentional CEO helps female entrepreneurs grow thriving businesses and thriving personal lives.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- The three things Tanya is passionate about.
- More about Tanya’s new book “On Purpose: The Busy Woman's Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success.”
- Why we undervalue happiness.
- How women use the excuse of their kids to avoid following their dreams.
- Why choosing to choose is incredibly important.
- Girls are called “bossy” and boys are called “over-confident.”
- What choices you need to make on purpose, according to Tanya.
- How feeling like the world’s worst mom caused Tanya to change her work schedule.
- More about the Extraordinary Life Blueprint – a paint by numbers system to set up your year for success.
- Pre-order “On Purpose” and get the Extraordinary Life Blueprint course for free! https://tanyadalton.com/elb
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Learning how to lead, learning the systems, the practices, the techniques of leadership is one of the highest forms of self-care for a female entrepreneur. Let’s talk about responsibility, boundaries, expectations and how your growth and self-care ultimately lead to the growth, development and success of others.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- It’s intuitive and instinctual for women to care for, nurture and support people.
- Taking on more responsibility is fun!
- Having boundaries is selfish, unkind, irresponsible, not thoughtful, mean even.
- Female entrepreneurs and boundaries with their team.
- You can build leadership practices that are informed by your own feminine integrity.
- Keeping boundaries, even when it’s hard.
- Stop accepting other people's expectations as your responsibilities.
- How your self-care is the growth and development and success of others.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Welcome to my new podcast – Leadership is Feminine! I’m so happy you’re here. It’s my intention for this podcast to be a space for us to talk about the unique challenges that women leaders face. Let’s step into our strengths with confidence and quit trying to fit into a leadership model that is thousands of years old. Are you ready? Let’s go!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- I love men. This is podcast is not a rant about men.
- I see women trying to fit into a leadership model that is thousands of years old that requires tactics and approaches that don't suit them.
- More about this leadership crisis.
- The difference between masculine and feminine leadership skills.
- Why the “soft skills” are harder to learn than the “hard skills.”
- One of the main misconceptions about feminine leadership.
- This first season we're focusing on reimagining and reinvention. There will be 13 episodes.
- Kris’s goal is…
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Are you experiencing the hiring and talent crisis right now? Instead of getting upset about the situation, let’s instead do some quick analysis of what matters to you so you can go about your business. We’ll talk about keeping an open mind in order to be creative, resourceful, resilient, and determined.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- We are in a talent crisis.
- Do a quick analysis of what matters to you - what am I missing? What am I willing to change? What am I willing to consider? What am I willing to pay?
- Accept that the way you attracted and hired people in the past probably needs to change.
- You hire people to deliver a result. What is the value of that result to you and to your company?
- Are the results that you have committed to in your business realistic in this current market?
- Do you need to change where you’re going in order to find people?
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Did you know that you can always reinvent your business? I hesitate to say RE-invent only because it almost says that we're doing something again. But it’s actually less about RE-inventing, and more about IN-venting. We have all been very insidiously infused with what we think the world, life, leadership and business should look like. The world is ready for all sorts of new ideas about what it means to lead, run a company, create a company, and manage people, and we all need to be at the forefront of that. Let’s start today!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- The plans to rebrand and change the name of this podcast.
- Kris’s challenge choosing between a corporate job and starting a coaching business.
- The question she asked herself that changed everything.
- The episode titled Leadership is Feminine
- Why you can always reinvent.
- What would you like to invent or reinvent?
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Leaders go through several phases of leadership. What phase are you in and do you feel like you’re struggling? Today we’re talking about getting to that level of leadership success where you’re attracting team members who genuinely want to thrive with you and will do so over and over again.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- The different phases of leadership.
- The first phase of leadership.
- The growth phase of leadership.
- The juice that drives the growth of your business.
- Why leadership is not narcissistic.
- The reward phase of leadership.
- What servant leadership is.
- What's given leadership such a bad rep.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Behavior is born out of emotions. So, whatever you feel drives your behavior - your actions in the world. And the only thing that we all can assess about one another is our actions. When a leader is cruel or mean, that’s someone who doesn't know how to manage an ego, who doesn't have self-awareness.
One of the cornerstones of effective leadership is self-awareness. So today we’re talking about leaders taking responsibility for their space and not holding other people accountable for their emotional health.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- All I experience from you are the words that come out of your mouth, the tone that's in your voice, the things you do with your body.
- Why, if you're in a position of authority, there’s no reason for you to use the negative emotion that translates into unmanaged behavior.
- How the thought model comes into play regarding self-awareness.
- Downton Abbey and not being a tool.
- Why leadership is harder than being powerful.
- How to tell when someone doesn't have self-awareness on a regular basis.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
I know that you were born perfectly perfect. Your life “kit” was equipped with everything you need to live the life you want to live and to harness whatever you need to make things happen. But your kit didn’t come with instructions. So, this CEO tool allows you to use what you have without dictating to you who you're supposed to be. It leads to wisdom, and once you have wisdom, you can handle anything!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- We were all designed perfectly, as was the “kit” we were given.
- What’s missing from our kit – the “what’s included” sheet, directions for assembling and a picture of what an assembled kit is supposed to look like.
- Many people get hung up looking at what other people’s assembled kits look like, and they think theirs should look the same – but we don’t all have the same kit.
- Mimicking, copying, or duplicating other people doesn't help you develop what's in your kit.
- The Remarkable allows me to use what I have, and then it follows me instead of it dictating to me who I'm supposed to be. It's a reflection of me. I don't have to fit into it.
- In How to CEO, we give you all of the tools and the perspective and the support. Then you have knowledge. We then coach you so that you apply that knowledge to who you are and who you're designed to be. Then you have wisdom. And once you have wisdom, when it comes to leadership and management and the team part of your company, you can handle anything.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
It’s normal for human beings to desire comfort and to avoid change, but working for an entrepreneur can be “disruptive.” We need our employees to come along with us. So, what do you do when you have employees who settle and become complacent? It’s not really their fault. The first person you have to look at -- is you.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- How comfort and safety can become so much a part of what employees think and feel that they don't really take their job seriously anymore.
- Complacency is a natural part of most relationships.
- The importance of doing regular coaching sessions, one-on-one feedback sessions and some sort of performance agreement/review process.
- If you’re feeling like you're not getting what you want from people on the team, like they don't share your level of enthusiasm - the first person to look at is you.
- How having clear expectations and clear goals can help.
- If they've been in the job for a while, shake it up. Challenge them a bit!
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
For women who run their own companies, taking a vacation can be a challenge. And FYI - going somewhere just so you're not in your house, but still working, is not vacation. That’s just going on a trip. That's virtual work. I’m talking about a real getaway from work!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- The elements that go into being able to take a vacation.
- The dream is the team. Do you have a team that supports you?
- Why a clear business model and clear business processes are crucial.
- Why we need job descriptions, clear goals and knowing what results we're trying to achieve.
- The importance of developing your employees.
- The reason you must let go of “perfection.”
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Today we’re talking about “overwhelm” – probably in a way that you haven't thought or heard about it before – in hopes of providing you with some relief and the ability to move forward in a different way. Overwhelm is not an enemy - it's just an indicator light.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- Kris’s personal experiences with overwhelm.
- Why women need a place to go where they can just think and reflect and be filled up.
- How our life’s trajectory changes over the years.
- To the degree that you remain overwhelmed is parallel to the degree that you believe you are helpless to make change.
- The importance of when you say “yes.”
- Make a list of everything that you have on your plate, then really evaluate them from a feeling perspective.
- You created this. You can totally deconstruct it.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
Entrepreneurs are usually full of hustle. They’re scrappy and all about winning. And that works for a while, but it often leads to burn out and overwhelm. Despite all the winning, they may find that they don’t even love what they do anymore. Truth-be-told, scrappy and hustle isn’t a long term business strategy. Today we’re talking about the importance of “the way” - not just “the win.” So what does the way look like for you?
What you'll learn from this episode:
- Entrepreneurs are often so focused on winning, winning, winning.
- What the scrappy, hustle mentality looks like.
- How many entrepreneurs lose the love for what they do.
- What winning looks like for Kris and her team.
- Determine what it is that you just “have to do” in your business – then find another way. Be a maverick!
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
If you’re having a hard time finding good talent, and nobody's coming to the interviews, or those who do come aren't the people you'd hire – listen in folks. Don’t come at this from a place of scarcity. Regroup and rethink the way you hire. This is about making your work environment the one that everybody wants to work for, and I can help you do that.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- Vital lesson - you can do anything.
- 2020 was the “what if” year.
- There are really talented, ethical, honest, good people who want to work. You just have to attract them.
- How you hired people 16 months ago probably needs to change.
- Do you have an appealing, exciting, interesting, worth it place to work for the people you want to hire?
- Be careful about slipping into certain belief systems; then you don't invest in opportunity.
- How to be more competitive as an employer? Employee niche, vision and values, job description, compensation - this is all work I do in How to CEO with my clients.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
So, you’re thinking about promoting someone in your business. How do you know if it’s really time – if they’re really ready? CEOs need some kind of litmus test to use when they're considering promoting someone. Here’s the test!
What you'll learn from this episode:
- You should have a clear job description for this person’s current role - clear goals, and some sort of measurement process that you're following to tell you if this person is performing well in their current job.
- Define the new role – a clear job description, the key objectives, and day-to-day responsibilities.
- Interview that person against the new job description.
- Have them do a project as a test.
- The final hurdle - they must have a track record of consistent success.
- Pay them based on the role they're going into, not based on what they're making now.
- Who you promote speaks volumes about who you are and what you value.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
These are the key roles every woman who is leading a business and running a life must have filled. Every female CEO needs these people in order to be supported – not just in her business, but everywhere in her life.
What you'll learn from this episode:
- The importance of having someone who tells you the truth about money.
- Having a person to help take care of you.
- The necessity of a solid team.
- You need a coach.
- Why you must have a really good organization system.
- Having a really good friend is so important.
- Why you need a colleague who understands being an entrepreneur.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
In today’s interview, Kris talks with Dr. Shanita Williams, a TEDx Speaker, HR Leader and author of the newly released book, Feedback Mentality: The key to unlocking and unleashing your potential. Shanita specializes in helping people S.I.F.T. through the feedback that causes anxiety or stress and gives ideas for taking action in a healthy way.
TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRnsF_L9atU
Feedback Mentality Book: https://www.amazon.com/Feedback-Mentality-unlocking-unleashing-potential-ebook/dp/B08KJTGH3V
Website: www.feedbackmentality.com
Instagram: Feedback_Mentality
What you'll learn from this episode:
- How her book, Feedback Mentality, was born.
- How someone can get conscious enough to really develop that feedback mentality.
- “It’s the person giving the feedback that has to change the way they give it so I can hear it.” Why that’s a myth.
- What it means to get clear about your own personal triggers.
- Things to remember when delivering feedback.
- Throwing stones versus stepping stones.
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© 2021 Kris Plachy
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