Shameless Leadership

Shameless Leadership

Welcome to Shameless Leadership! This show is for women, transgender people, non-binary folks, and allies who are committed to advancing their leadership and the leadership of those around them. In this space, we believe everyone deserves to feel seen, heard, valued, and supported. Our mission is to help you foster these feelings within your own circles of influence to build trust, psychological safety, and a culture of belonging. In each episode, we dive into essential topics impacting women in leadership - everything from shutting down your inner critic and imposter syndrome to overcoming perfectionism to using your voice in new ways to advocate for yourself, your ideas, and other folks carrying marginalized identities. You'll hear practical tips, effective strategies, and inspiring stories that will not only enhance your leadership skills but also broaden your perspective to become a more confident, thoughtful, and empathetic leader. Our stories come from people carrying identities who are often underrepresented, underestimated, and excluded. By sharing their experiences, we aim to provide you with invaluable lessons that will transform your leadership journey. We are thrilled to have you join this community of Shameless Leaders who are actively creating a world where everyone, regardless of gender, can intentionally lead through a more curious, compassionate, and inclusive lens.

Episodes

945: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES: How Leaders Can Build Team Trust

June 24, 2025 • 37 mins
Over the last few years, I’ve been developing curriculum and resources that help leaders establish trust with their teams and enable teammates to build trust with one another.  Because different people have different needs around trust, it can feel tricky to know exactly the right formula to help build trust with others.  In spite of that, there are plenty of small things you can do every single day to help people understand who yo...
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944: LEADERSHIP MINDSET: The Gifts of Suspending Certainty

June 16, 2025 • 32 mins
I was recently sitting in one of my Change Leadership classes for my Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership, and my teacher asked us, “What would it look like if, as change leaders, we were to suspend certainty more often?”  I immediately made a note to myself, “podcast episode on suspending certainty!”  As someone who craves certainty but understands that nothing is certain, I often think about becoming more comfortable wit...
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943: Maria Ross: The 5 Pillars of Effective Empathetic Leadership

June 10, 2025 • 47 mins
I met Maria Ross 12 years ago when we shared the stage at a women’s event. Her work is centered around human behavior and empathy in the workplace. What I love about talking to Maria is how she can dig into the nuts and bolts of concepts and theory while also making tricky concepts very approachable and applicable to everyone. If you want to cultivate more empathy or help others cultivate more empathy, Maria is your gal.   Maria i...
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942: INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP: Stephanie Chung: Breaking Barriers in Aviation Leadership

June 2, 2025 • 58 mins
Stephanie Chung is a leader, fighter, survivor, breast cancer warrior, and barrier-breaker in corporate leadership who consistently embodies resilience and courage.  I knew from the moment we met online that this would be a special conversation, which is why Stephanie is the first guest to join me on Shameless Leadership! As a pioneering woman of color in the aviation sector with 35 years of aviation experience, Stephanie has asce...
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941: LEADERSHIP TIPS: Consistency is Your Leadership Superpower

May 27, 2025 • 26 mins
Consistency is pretty boring. It might be the least glamorous component of leadership.  This is probably why it tends to be an underrated leadership superpower. However, consistency is a key ingredient to leadership success, primarily because it allows you to create compounding interest. Your tiny gains over time build up to massive outcomes.  Consistency also thwarts perfectionism. Showing up repeatedly becomes more important tha...
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940: LEADERSHIP MINDSET: How to Overcome Visibility Avoidance

May 19, 2025 • 29 mins
During a recent retreat I led for my business coaching clients, we had the opportunity to do a deep dive into visibility avoidance.  We discussed this phenomenon that happens when we want to grow in new ways, but the prospect of heightened visibility holds us back.  Sometimes, when we take steps into higher visibility opportunities, we are excited by the outcomes.  But, shortly after the perceived win, we feel a sense of vulnerabil...
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939: INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP: Redefining Executive Presence to Diminish Bias

May 12, 2025 • 34 mins
I’ve recently been in a few conversations about executive presence with colleagues and coaching clients.  These conversations keep coming up because of major misconceptions about executive presence.  When we think about executive presence, we tend to think about traits that allow for high control, high volume, and high power.  However, executive presence is not about dominance or taking up more space than the people around you.  It...
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938: LEADERSHIP TIPS: How to Turn Panic Into Power When You Freeze in a Critical Moment

May 5, 2025 • 29 mins
We have all been in situations where we are asked a question or called out in a moment, and we completely freeze.  We can feel the room go silent as the spotlight shines brighter and brighter on us, and we can’t overcome the silence that has invaded our bodies. It feels like time has stopped, and it is up to us to make it start again, yet we feel completely unable to access the tools to do so. This can feel scary, overwhelming, and...
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937: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES: 4 Truths To Hold When You’re Doing Hard Things

April 29, 2025 • 27 mins
937: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES: 4 Truths To Hold When You’re Doing Hard Things Stepping into a new challenge or opportunity as a woman in leadership can bring up all kinds of fears—fear of failure, fear of judgment, fear of not being enough. In this episode, I’m sharing four powerful truths to hold onto when you're on the edge of doing something bold, unfamiliar, or downright scary in your leadership. These reminders are here to groun...
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936: LEADERSHIP TIPS: The Alarming Costs of Avoiding Disagreement

April 22, 2025 • 27 mins
I don’t know anyone who loves engaging in disagreements.  In fact, most of the women I know avoid disagreements, conflict, and confrontation at all costs.  However, there are great costs to this avoidance, including missed opportunities for creativity and innovation, poor communication and growing resentment, slower or stalled decision making, a lack of trust and psychological safety, and higher potential for burnout and turnover. ...
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935: LEADERSHIP MINDSET: 6 Ways to Improve Your Growth Mindset in Tough Times

April 15, 2025 • 30 mins
There is no denying we are in an extraordinarily tough season.  When things feel heavy and hard for an extended period of time, it’s easy to feel a sense of constriction in our thoughts, mental health, and worldview.  It’s easy to fall into a funk.  And, it can feel impossible to pull ourselves out of it.   During challenging seasons, it is crucial that you maintain a growth mindset. While it’s important to acknowledge what is hap...
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934: INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP: Survivor Serves a Leadership Masterclass on Inclusion

April 8, 2025 • 34 mins
In 934 episodes, I’m not sure I’ve ever shared lessons learned from a TV show, much less a reality show.  However, the way a recent episode of Survivor has stuck with me is making it impossible for me not to talk about it here.   Before I dig in, I’ll admit that my husband and I are probably two of maybe 15 people who still watch Survivor faithfully.  We have watched every season together since we met 22 years ago.  I have to say,...
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933: INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP: 3 Steps To Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

April 1, 2025 • 23 mins
Could you benefit from improving your emotional intelligence? If so, do you know how you can go about this? It seems there are constant references to the benefits of higher emotional intelligence, but actually attaining that is more elusive. In fact, it might even feel daunting if building a stronger connection to your emotions feels vulnerable to you.   As I’ve been speaking recently, I’ve been sharing some simple ways leaders ca...
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932: LEADERSHIP TIPS: Your Leadership Doesn’t Have to Be Loud to Be Heard

March 25, 2025 • 23 mins
I'm here to share something that might give you great relief.    Your leadership doesn’t have to be loud to be LOUD. When I’m working with leaders and people who are developing leadership skills, there is a common misconception that you have to get louder in volume to be heard.  By volume, I mean auditory volume and quantity.  People assume they have to speak in a louder voice and/or say more things all the time.   To become a bett...
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931: LEADERSHIP MINDSET: Upgrade Your Internal Dialogue Defaults

March 18, 2025 • 26 mins
Over the last couple of months, I’ve had the opportunity to speak on communication confidence at a handful of leadership events. One of the things that has been really eye-opening for attendees is learning about the connection between their internal communication and external communication. So, I thought this would be a helpful (and fun!) topic to dig into on the pod.   Let’s start with defining each of these terms. Internal commun...
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930: LEADERSHIP TIPS: The Hidden Costs of Women Masking at Work

March 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Can we talk about women masking at work? I spend a lot of time in conversation with women who are the only woman or one of very few women in the room at work. There is a fatigue and malaise that comes from being in this position long term - even if you enjoy and respect many of the men you’re sitting beside. When a person is notably different from the majority of the people around them, they mask themselves to fit in, be taken seri...
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929: INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP: How to Show Up for Your Emerging Leaders

March 4, 2025 • 31 mins
I’ve recently had multiple conversations with women leaders who have expressed their desire to intentionally build part of their leadership legacy around supporting emerging leaders. Of course, this makes my heart sing. As someone who has benefited from the guidance of women who came before me, I know firsthand how impactful it can be when just one person shows they believe in you. In this episode, I explore how women leaders can e...
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928: LEADERSHIP MINDSET: The Myth of Filling Your Cup

February 25, 2025 • 21 mins
“You can’t pour from an empty cup!” There is this long-standing narrative that women should practice filling their cups so they have something in their proverbial cups to pour out and share with others in the form of time, energy, love, and/or care.   This narrative reinforces that women should take care of themselves for the purpose of being better caretakers of others. Because, as the cultural narrative goes, caretaking at home, ...
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927: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES: 6 Steps to Be More Seen as a Woman Leader

February 18, 2025 • 27 mins
"I see you pulling a Beyoncé here,” I said to my client who was really tapping into her own inner Bey.   I’m referring to how Beyoncé broke the mold and rewrote the rules for herself—without anyone’s invitation or permission—to win her recent Grammy for Album of the Year. I saw the same thing with this client: breaking the mold and rewriting the rules for herself, without waiting for anyone’s invitation or permission. In fact, a nu...
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926: LEADERSHIP STORIES: Why Women Leaders Need to Manage Their Brain Health

February 11, 2025 • 37 mins
Every single time I mention being diagnosed with ADHD in my forties, women reach out to me. This has become the thing middle-aged women want to connect with me about the most. 10 years ago, I could have never guessed I would be talking about the importance of brain health for women leaders. This wasn’t something that was on my radar until two things happened: I realized through a series of doctors and diagnoses over the course of ...
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