Dominika Turkcan, from Mothers’ Day Movement (MDM) joins Yo in this episode. The Mothers' Day Movement is an organization that grew out of a column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, where he made the case for moving the apostrophe in Mother’s Day so it honors not just one mother, but underserved mothers everywhere. It advocates to shift a portion of Mother’s Day gift giving to a carefully selected charity each year in honor of the women or person they love. Since 2011, the group has rai...
May 03, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Dr. Veronica De La Rosa (Dr. Vee) is an expert in the fields of numerology and leadership. With over 25 years of experience in leadership roles, she has developed a unique perspective that allows her to stand at the intersection of intellect and intuition. Dr. Vee’s career began with a focus on analytical thinking, as she pursued advanced degrees in law, a master’s degree, and a PhD. As a lawyer, researcher, and professor and researcher at various academic institutions across three different cou...
Apr 26, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Reflecting on Ep 63 about bullies, Yo wasn’t done and needed to go deeper to look at women who bully and along the way she learned more about the brain and shares a book she discovered, The Bullied Brain by Jennifer Fraser, PhD. This is a new book (published in 2022) and outlines ways the brain can be healed if you’ve been bullied. The 3 key things to remember from the episode: 1. Competition seems to be a common feeding ground for the bully. 2. Perspective and history has a lot to do with how w...
Apr 19, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Dr. Juana Bordas joins Yo today to discuss her book: The Power of Latino Leadership, Culture, Inclusion, and Contribution AHORA! Dr. Bordas or Tia Juana, as she likes to be called, is a recognized expert in the field of multicultural leadership. She has served as advisor to Harvard’s Hispanic Journal, the Kellogg National Fellows, trustee of Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership and the International Leadership Association (ILA). She was the first Latino to receive ILA’s life-time achievement ...
Apr 12, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Reflecting on Ep 58 about Apologies, Yo takes the topic of bullying further by researching the topic. She found two books: The Bully at Work by Gary & Ruth Namie PhD, and A**hole Survival Guide by Robert Sutton, a Stanford professor. The book title is actually different that A**hole but we don’t want to label the podcast as explicit so kept it clean but you get the drift. These authors offer us lots of learning that might help you or someone you know that is dealing with a bully or has dealt...
Mar 29, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Whitney Baker, Founder of Electric Ideas, joins Yo to discuss some of our favorite topics like work-life balance, asking for help, and what we can do to have “soul-care”. She offers us the benefit of her learning from coaching women seeking new possibilities. After listening to this episode we hope you’ll see some new actions to take, especially if you’re feeling burdened with “to-do” lists and losing your sense of purpose. Resource mentioned in episode: https://gabbybernstein.com/ More about Wh...
Mar 23, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Yo picks up where Ep. 58 about making apologies left off by looking at the topic of Forgiveness. She anchors the conversation with The Forgiveness Workbook by Dr. Ilene Cohen. After listening to this episode we hope you’ll see forgiveness as a process and how it heals you. Dr. Ilene provide a roadmap that includes forgiving ourselves and what it really means to truly forgive someone. She states the following benefits of forgiveness: · Less anger and resentment · Less guilt and shame · Healthier ...
Mar 15, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Gillard and Okonjo-Iweala offer us lessons from some of the world’s most powerful women: Jacinda Ardern, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Michelle Bachelet, Erna Solberg, Hillary Clinton, Theresa May, Joyce Banda, and Christine Lagarde. They researched 8 hypothesis with these amazing women and synthesized their findings into 10 lessons reviewed and discussed in this episode. In addition to Gillard and Okonjo-Iweala we call on Brené Brown and Mel Robbins to shed some light on guilt, blame and work-life bal...
Mar 08, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Colonel Kim Campbell joins Yo to share her principles of leadership that can serve as a resource for all leaders. It’s the kind of book you’ll want to keep on your shelf to reference through-out your career. Each chapter ends with a section, Considerations for Leaders, which provide keys to being a courageous leader. We’ll cover the April 7, 2003 mission and hear first-hand the decisions she’s faced while remaining calm in the chaos. We’ll also cover some of the steps she offers to lead others: ...
Mar 01, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Yo leads the way today picking up on the question asked in Episode #57: "Should Mikayla apologize?" Only Mikayla can answer that but she would do well to read this book first! Sorry, Sorry, Sorry by Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy outlines the case for making good apologies. They have been studying and analyzing apologies in their popular watchdog site, SorryWatch.com, since 2012. This is their first book together but have written many before. This book covers a variety of topics like: · Gend...
Feb 22, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Kiki and Emma return to co-host with Yo – yay, we got Canny girls baaaack in the house! And they are helping us make sense of “Lashlighting” (aka “Lashgate”) which is gaslighting but about wearing false lashes. You’ll hear different generational perspectives about authenticity and what they expect from influencers and beauty in general. We’ll cover, or uncover, some of the history of the rise of influencers and how things were when Yo worked in beauty industry. We also look at different examples...
Feb 15, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 57
With Valentine’s Day coming up, join Yo Canny to explore Love and Kindness and what they have to do with leadership. She digs into all the Brené Brown and Jay Shetty books she can to see what they have to say on the subject. She takes a deep dive into Perfectionism and ends by looking at the question: “How do we give love?” She provides a poignant passage from Braving the Wilderness. It’s a journey of choosing love and leading with vulnerability. Trigger Warning: We mention the Sandy Hook Elemen...
Feb 08, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Sheila Whitescorn , Certified Intuitive Life Coach, rejoins Yo as guest co-host to discuss Viola Davis’ movie, The Woman King and her book, Finding Me: A Memoir. While it took Viola 7 years to make The Woman King, this episode has been cooking since last April. You’ll hear our account of why this was all part of the plan. In the episode we explored the dimensions of Viola’s superpower of resiliency which included: · Lack of Academy Award movie nominations · V’s kick ass role in The Woman King · ...
Feb 01, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Yo Canny leads today taking time to celebrate our podcast accomplishments which we couldn’t do without you! In this episode we share what we did in 2022 and cover the vision we have for 2023. Key areas discussed were: · Going deeper into the 5 themes outlined in Ep 50: 1. Raising our voices 2. Observing our emotions 3. Learning from others 4. Developing strategies to break thru limiting beliefs 5. Having fun! · Continue finding those guests and authors we can learn from and be inspired by. · Con...
Jan 25, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Toni Morris , a boomer, and her Gen Z granddaughter, Taylor Herrera , join Yo today to talk about leadership and important perspectives of being a good leader. You may remember Toni from Episode 40 where we discussed Burnout by the Nagoski sisters. Toni and Taylor help us explore the following questions: · What is leadership? · What do we want in our leaders? · Who are or have been great leaders? · What challenges to we face leading people of different generations? Link to Ep 2 with Karyn and An...
Jan 18, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Yo Canny leads today discussing an important element of leading others: Your Personal Brand. Be prepared to do some work so you craft your personal brand rather than have others craft it for you. She'll show you how. Here are the questions we explored: What is personal branding? Why is it important? What is a personal leadership brand? How does positioning relate to personal branding? Why is story telling important when it comes to a personal brand? What are the 5 questions every personal brand ...
Jan 18, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Welcome to 2023! In this episode we explored the following questions based on Jay Shetty’s book: Think Like a Monk, Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day: What is the definition of intention and resolution? Why might intentions be a better way to approach 2023? Why do resolutions mostly fail? What are the 4 fundamental motivations? Why is the “Why Ladder” so important? Why isn’t having an intention enough? What else is required besides a “To Do List”? What do “Seeds & Weeds” have t...
Jan 04, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Yo looks at the five themes episodes covered in 2022: 1. Use our voice! 2. Become an observer of our emotions so we could become more effective leaders. 3. Learn from others like celebrities, key authors, and those younger or older than ourselves. 4. Develop strategies to help us listen to ourselves and break through limiting beliefs that can keep us from being our best selves in leading others. 5. Have fun! You can find all our clips here. We end the episode with the tradition of Auld Lang Syne...
Dec 31, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 50
All kinds of friends join Yo to discuss holiday traditions and rituals. These are the questions we explored: What are holidays about? What is the difference between a tradition and ritual? What are memories we have of our own traditions and rituals? How might becoming an observer of these help us with emotions that might come up? Link to book , We Are What We Celebrate . Links to Yo’s podcast friends on Apple Podcast: Melissa Brunetti: “Mind Your Own Karma, The Adoption Chronicles” Rachael Blair...
Dec 22, 2022•26 min
Andrea DeWitt joins Yo to discuss her book, Name Claim & Reframe, Your Path To A Well-Lived Life. Andrea is an author, speaker, and life coach and in this book she provides us a powerful model for handling stress, distress, and life’s turbulent plot twists. Her goals if for all of us to access our own personal power and potential in a way that aligns with our truth. Here are the questions we covered: · What are the steps to the way of the Gentle Warrior? · Can you explain the Spirit's Compas...
Dec 14, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 48
In this episode Yo explores the holiday time of overdoing with some of the following questions: What makes us overdo? What is the difference between stresses and overwhelm? How can we recognize stress is happening? Could perfectionism be at the heart of it? What is perfectionism about? How can we handle things better? Here’s hoping we can relax and breathe into our stresses!! Here are the books and Ted Talk mentioned in the episode: Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart Cory Muscara, Stop Missing Your...
Dec 07, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 47
In this episode Yo brings some Cher vibes to the podcast by discussing her autobiography, The First Time, published in 1998. The book became personal for Yo as she saw herself in Cher’s life journey. For example: · They were very shy kids · They felt darker skinned than others in their family · Identified with being called a ringleader as a child · Grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California · Went to the same elementary / junior high school · Had a traumatic subway experience in N...
Dec 02, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 46
This is a follow-up to Ep. 44 with Rebecca Cohn, Master Baker. You may remember her from Episodes 24 and 25. In this episode Yo completes the loop and tells you how her pie turned out. It includes lessons learned, testimonials from her family, and a little dance music from the Four Tops! You can see Ep. 44 for all the ingredients and measurements for the crust and her tips. You can hear more from Rebecca on Episodes 23 and 24 where she joined us to talk about the book, Bittersweet, by Susan Cain...
Nov 26, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Rebecca Cohn , trained pediatric physical therapist, international management consultant, elected California State Assembly member, lawyer, Texas rancher, and it turns out she’s also a Master Baker. You may remember her from Episodes 24 and 25. Today she joins Yoas guest co-host to talk pies and lead us from pie making disasters – perfect timing for Thanksgiving! Here are Rebecca’s ingredients and measurements for a single crust: 2.5 Cups All Purpose Flour (Rebecca recommends White Lily or King ...
Nov 21, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Coach Katie Wilcox, Kiki’s best friend, joins us to talk about her insights about sports and leadership. She has coached girls’ volleyball for over 10 years and during that time she has developed a leadership style that helps girls flourish by connecting with them authentically. Kiki also joins the discussion bringing her experience as a water polo player and mentor for Friends for Youth. These are the questions we covered: · What role have you seen sports play in helping girls learn about leade...
Nov 17, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Bren é Brown (Atlas of the Heart), Parker Palmer (Courage to Teach), and Cory Muscara (Stop Missing Your Life) help us look at the emotions that often accompany receiving feedback – particularly if we hear something negative. In a recent post, Cory Muscara offered this: “Next time you're given negative feedback, say to yourself: Oof, it hurts to hear this. But I know if I can hold the discomfort, I can uncover the lesson. So, in what ways can this feedback spark creative inspiration for my next ...
Nov 10, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Website https://www.cyndedenson.com Cynde Denson, amazing Mindfulness Teacher, Leadership Facilitator and Coach joins Yo today to talk about the book Ditching Imposter Syndrome by Clare Josa. We have probably all experienced it at some point and Cynde offers a mindfulness perspective and practice to help us in the moment when we’re filled with the belief “ what if they figure out I really don’t know ”. Here are the questions we explored: · What is Imposter Syndrome? · How do you spot Imposter Sy...
Nov 03, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Toni Morris joins Yo today to talk about the book Burnout. We have probably all experienced it and the authors, two sisters, Emily and Amelia Nagoski provide insights into how we can fight back. Toni brings a lot of insights and understanding to this subject as Executive Director of Experience and Engagement at John Muir Health, an integrated system of doctors, hospitals and other services in the San Francisco Bay Area. From about 2001 to 2013, Toni opened and led start-up health care facilities...
Oct 27, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Yo shares her learning from Terri Cole’s book, Boundary Boss, which has helped her enormously understand her tendency to perfectionism and having such a hard time saying no to things. Hard to be a good leader if you’re worried about doing things perfectly. Can you relate? Terri offers us the opportunity to break free from over-functioning, over-delivering, people-pleasing, and ignoring our own needs so we can finally live the life we all deserve! Whew, it is beyond “yummy” and “juicy” – it is mi...
Oct 20, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Yo takes on the emotion of Envy. Research indicates that envy is an emotion we don’t want to talk about and a recent article indicates that when we admit envy we also admit we feel inferior to another. This emotion is so difficult for us to accept but there’s a way out with Byron Katie’s help. Here are the links mentioned in the episode: Forbes , Why Most People Do Not Admit They Envy Success Ep 16 - Atlas of the Heart (Brene Brown): How do the emotions of Stress, Overwhelm, Comparison (Envy, Je...
Oct 13, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 38
