This is a Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite which is a short episode which may be a bit more about a topic we’ve covered like our episode today or a quick inspiration. This episode builds on Tara Mohr’s book, Playing Big, which we covered in our previous episode. Here are 3 takeaways from today’s episode: 1. As women transition from student mode to career they need the ability to improvise, challenge authority, trust they already know and make their work visible. 2. Knowing your personal brand can h...
Jan 19, 2024•10 min•Season 1Ep. 127
This episode is for anyone that wants to speak up, create and lead and as Tara Mohr says it’s Playing Big, the title of her book which was named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks. Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She is the creator and teacher of the global Playing Big leadership program for women, and of the Playing Big Facilitators Training for coaches, therapists, managers, and mentors. She is a Co-Active Training Institute certified coach with an MBA from ...
Jan 18, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 125
For the past couple episodes we’ve been looking at play and leadership what also comes to mind for me is that leadership needs to be easy And it just so happens that Susie Moore has a book on this very topic. So for our first book of 2024 we’ll be covering Let It Be Easy…almost sounds like a prayer, no? A little about Susie Moore – she’s a life coach and advice columnist for some of the world’s biggest media outlets and she has a podcast. She was a sales director and advisor for Silicon Valley a...
Jan 11, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 125
In Ep 123 we put forward some questions that Brené Brown offered us that I had to research. She called it Wholehearted adult play. And I was really struck by this: Play? Do I play? Do I play enough? What is play anyway? I was kind of terrified I wasn’t fun or playing in my life! So I found there’s an actual National Institute for Play (NIFP) which is a non-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to advancing society’s understanding and application of play — a long-ignored biological capabili...
Jan 09, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 124
We all know the beginning of a new year can offer us all a reset button, a time to look back and be hopeful about going forward. We’ve done some episodes about this over the past 2 years and give a quick summary in this episode of what we learned from them. We’ve also introduced some new sources to help ground our conversation, including some generational statistics to help us see where we’re headed going forward. Yo offers her intentions based on a simple question that Mel Robbins offered: what...
Jan 03, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 121
The end of a year is always a good time to reflect back on the year and celebrate our accomplishments. This episode captures the amazing women leaders who stood out in 2023. A lot of the foundation for the episode came from a Forbes article I found (link below) and the inspiration from our Six Peas in a Pod group which is all about supporting each other in our podcasting and business. Links for them are also below. Mentioned in the Episode: Forbes Article https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser...
Dec 28, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 121
In Ep 120, we asked the question as we look at the holidays as a time for giving, why not give to yourself? In that episode we spotlighted authors we’d talked with on the show. In today’s episode, I’ll give you my top 12 books everyone should have in their library. We researched these books which provided us some juicy stuff we hope you found interesting. Books covered in the episode (links to book and episode): #12 Trust Yourself by Melody Wilding, Ep 82 https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ZGZ...
Dec 21, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 121
As we look at the holidays as a time for giving, why not give to yourself? Over the past couple years we’ve had some fabulous authors and covered some of the top books on the market, all with the goal of learning more about ourselves. Digging into books and researching important themes has been a key element of our podcast hoping to save you time and mine the books for the juicy stuff you’d find interesting. Since launching we’ve discussed 62 books! That’s a boat load of books!! That empty book ...
Dec 14, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 120
This episode puts several of our past episodes together and they feature Brene Brown, Terri Cole, Emily & Amelia Nagoski, Jay Shetty, Dr. Ilene Cohen, and my friends, Sheila, Toni & Cynde. We’ve got some real badasses in the house!! Let’s break the overdoing cycle! Mentioned in the Episode: Ep. 47 , Tis the Season for Overdoing: What Brene Brown and Cory Muscara Have to Say! Ep. 16 , Part 2 of Brene Brown, Atlas of the Heart, How Do The Emotions of Stress and Overwhelm relate to Leadersh...
Dec 06, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 119
With Giving Tuesday around the corner, we wanted to spotlight some of organizations we’ve had on our podcast which you may want to consider for your giving. If you’re inclined to give to them, you’ll find all links to their donation pages below. Mentioned in the Episode: Ep. 7, Girl Scouts Ep. 27, Lazarex Foundation Ep. 68, Mothers’ Day Movement Ep. 31, Holly Springs/Fuquay-Varina & Apex Liberal Ladies Ep 98, Daughters Are Special (Giving Canvas) Ways to Donate: Girl Scouts Note: While this ...
Nov 27, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 118
With the holidays around the corner this episode with Yo is inspired by some of her learning about gratitude while podcasting. And whenever she wants to learn more about an emotion, she always goes to Brené Brown and her book, Atlas of the Heart. Brené wrote in that book that the expert on gratitude was Robert Emmons, a professor at UC Davis and one of the leading scholars in positive psychology movement. So she'll dig in and offer you her insights into his book, Thanks! His work on gratitude ha...
Nov 20, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 117
This is Part 2 of a 2 part series with our guest, Uri Talmor (Gen X) and Kiki Canny returned to join our discussion about Internal Family Systems (IFS) based on the book, No Bad Parts, by Richard Schwartz, PhD. As we noted in Part 1, Kiki had recommended the book and as we read it, we realized it would be great to have an expert on the subject and Uri was that expert. In Part 1, Uri, Kiki and I talked about what IFS was and the elements of the different roles within our parts. Uri explained why ...
Nov 15, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Uri Talmor (Gen X) joins Kiki (GenZ) and Yo (Boomer) to talk about Internal Family Systems (IFS). Uri has been a psychotherapist since 2004 and has been using Internal Family Systems or IFS since 2003 in his practice. The goal of IFS therapy is to help people identify and accept the different parts of themselves and heal the parts that are wounded. Kiki had recommended the book, No Bad Parts, by Richard Schwartz, PhD, for the podcast and Uri has graciously shared his expertise. This recording wa...
Nov 15, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Christie Garcia (Millennial), Ego Management Expert and seasoned Leadership Coach, joins Yo to discuss living a more fulfilled life through ego-management. Christie shares her process to her clients find their ego behaviors, how they’re triggered, and become more powerful from making choices. Together they talk about confidence, trust, and personal freedom. In past episodes we’ve talked about working with someone with bullying behaviors and Christie provides a perspective on these difficult rela...
Nov 08, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Nicole Trick Steinbach (Millennial) joins Yo to talk about ego bravery. Nicole is the international bravery coach and she's the first to tell you bravery does not come easy to her. She is a former executive in technology and has worked in over 25 countries. Together they explored questions like: What is bravery? How can we connect with own bravery? How can we learn bravery? How are failures a stepping stone to building a braver life? And you’ve got to hear about what the “up the octopus” is all ...
Nov 02, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Today’s episode is a short Sound Bite episode which builds on our previous 2 episodes about Daniel Pink’s book, The Power of Regret. In this episode we’ll go deeper into the techniques to help prevent regretful situations AND of the 7 he offers, the one that screamed at me was doing a failure resume. Listen in to Yo’s experience in doing one and take a look at the one she created using the link below. Mentioned in the Episode: The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink “Celebrate Screwups” by Jen Mil...
Oct 31, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Today’s episode is a short Sound Bite episode which builds on our previous episode about Daniel Pink’s book, The Power of Regret. In this episode we’ll go deeper into the steps for reckoning all regrets as well as how to optimize our regrets. Mentioned in the Episode: Ep 110 Regrets 12 Steps Of Recovery Related Episode: Ep 61 About Forgiveness How to reach Yo Canny: Our website: www.girltaketheleadpod.com You can send a message or voicemail there. We’d love to hear from you! email: yo@yocanny.co...
Oct 26, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 111
I first heard Daniel Pink on LinkedIn in a webinar and then got his book – What a title: The Power of Regret, right? And when I saw that Brené Brown had praise of the book on the back cover, I was in, and thought you’d like to hear about it, too. She said in her quote that regret was one of the best and toughest teachers in her life…and that it deepened her connection to herself and to others. And that the idea of “no regrets” doesn’t mean living with courage – it means living without reflection...
Oct 24, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Today’s episode builds on our previous episode about the Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey book: 'Build the Life You Want' – The Art and Science of Getting Happier. The authors brought a ton of information about emotions that we didn’t have time to cover so today’s episode will go deeper into what they have to say. As I read the book, I broke up the emotional self-management sections into 6 steps which can be a path to make us much happier as a person freeing us from being managed by your feelings...
Oct 19, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 109
So the book by Arthur C Brooks and Oprah Winfrey, Build the Life You Want, The Art and Science of Getting Happier was an instant #1 on the NY Times Bestseller list when it was published Sept of this year. And I knew immediately we had to cover this on our podcast. Plus there’s been so much promotion about it, I wanted to see what the sizzle was all about. You probably know Oprah and who she is but what about Arthur Brooks? He is a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and professor of management p...
Oct 17, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Today’s episode is a Sound Bite – which is a short episode which may be a bit more about a topic we’ve covered like our episode today or a quick inspiration – which is our hope for today. A few days ago I received an email from my friend, Rachel Brumberger, who is a fellow podcaster and has dedicated her life to healing and wellness. She is someone I admire greatly and often takes the lead to inspire others, she did so again in the email she sent. I knew when I read it, I had to share with you a...
Oct 13, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 107
In today’s episode Yo builds on Ep 105 where we began our interview with executive and career-life coach, Randi Roberts. In that episode we talked a lot about how we can get in the driver’s seat for our own careers. This episode will take things a bit further as we explore what keeps us from self-promotion, personal branding, and how confidence works. All elements we need to lead!! Mentioned in the Episode: Harvard Business Review article, How to Self-Promote (When You Don’t Like to Self-Promote...
Oct 12, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Randi Roberts (Boomer), Executive and Career-Life Coach, joins Yo to discuss career fulfillment and enjoyment. They both want everyone to jump out of bed and want to go to work! They discuss reasons to be optimistic about younger generations becoming leaders, obstacles that can get in the way and practices, like gratitude, that can make the road smoother. They also talk about the leadership skills involved in managing change. 3 Takeaways: 1. The biggest obstacles of enjoying our work can be inte...
Oct 10, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Today’s episode builds on our previous episode with Maria Morukian (Ep 103), recognized organizational development practitioner specializing in training, coaching, and facilitation with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and intercultural competence. This Sound Bite takes a look at some of the current trends I thought you might find interesting based on some research I found. We also include a clip from our Ep. 19 with Anh Thang Dao-Shah, Ph.D., Executive Director of Belonging and Eq...
Oct 05, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Maria Morukian (Gen X), recognized organizational development practitioner specializing in training, coaching, and facilitation with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and intercultural competence, joins Yo to discuss trends in DEI, emotions that can be present when leading DEI initiatives, and how “jaggedy” those efforts may appear. They also get into intergenerational expectations and how the societal polarization could be shifting its way back. Maria is the President of MSM Global...
Oct 03, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 103
In today’s Sound Bite, Yo continues the discussion started in episode 101 with Dana Rubin, author of the book, Speaking While Female, and creator of the Speaking While Female Speech Bank (SpeakingWhileFemale.co). Her purpose with the speech bank is to broaden our understanding of the role of women orators in history. It’s the world’s largest online archive of women’s speeches from around the world and across time, free for anyone to use. And in today’s episode, we’ll share some excerpts and quot...
Sep 28, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Dana Rubin, author of the book, Speaking While Female, joins Yo to discuss why it’s been so hard for women to speak in public historically. They also take a look at why speaking in public can be difficult and Dana offers some advice to help overcome the discomfort. Lastly, Dana (Boomer) offers great insights into how younger generations are leading the way when it comes to speaking up with confidence. 3 Takeaways: 1. Women have been speaking throughout history – for every effort to silence a wom...
Sep 26, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 101
After recording our Ep 98 with Meenakshi I knew I needed to write a letter for our 100th episode…and it needed to go to my daughters and you, dear listeners, to share what I’ve learned about leadership over the past 100 episodes. Thank you for being here and for taking this journey with us! Related Episodes: Ep. 98 , A Daughter is Special with Meenakshi Sinha: Letters from a Mother in India to her Daughter Living Abroad. Ep 1 , Wait, I can sound wimpy? Ep.15 Part 1 of 3 – Atlas of the Heart (Bre...
Sep 19, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 100
After doing Eps. 98 and 97 my heart was full thinking about my Hispanic heritage. With the kick off of Hispanic Heritage month today, I wanted to share my family's story - we're the other Chavez family. Enjoy!!
Sep 15, 2023•3 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Today’s Sound Bite episode builds on Ep 98 where we discussed the book A Daughter is Special by Meenakshi Singh which was about the letters sent by her mother in India while she was studying in the U.S. – it brought the following question to mind for me after that episode: What do we think about letter writing, as defined as either handwritten or typed AND mailed versus an e/m sent digitally? So I did some research and checked in with my new best friend, Chatgpt and asked why letter writing is i...
Sep 14, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 99
