Lida Citroën, Boomer, joins us to talk about her new book, The New Rules of Influence – How to Authentically Build Trust, Drive Change, and Make an Impact. Lida is a keynote speaker, author and executive coach empowering global executives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders to manage how they’re perceived and drive them towards ideal opportunities. She has helped thousands of individuals gain a fresh perspective on crafting a personal narrative that tells the right story to the right people abou...
Aug 27, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 187
This month we’ve been covering stories about fearless leadership and perhaps like you have been intrigued by the political landscape this month and seeing Kamala Harris emerge as what one can only describe as fearless. So I dug in and found some sources that can help us elements of her leadership that we’ve been covering on the show. Topics Covered: Early inspirations Competition Determination Resilience Networking Empathy Here are three takeaways from the episode: 1. Kamala Harris is breaking t...
Aug 22, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 187
Kim Dechaine , Gen X, joins us to talk about the fearless face of depression as part 4 of our 4-part series about the book Fearless Female Leaders by Kathy McAfee and Rosemary Paetow (Eps, 182, 183, 184). Kim is a recognized international speaker and facilitator who specializes in empowering professional women to stay in their leadership roles with more ease and joy, by navigating and preventing overwhelm and burnout. Through her journey with depression and suicidal thoughts, Kim has learned one...
Aug 20, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 185
Paula Stone Williams, Boomer, joins us to talk about the fearless face of authenticity as part 3 of our 4-part series about the book Fearless Female Leaders by Kathy McAfee and Rosemary Paetow (Eps, 182, 183). Paula is a Pastoral Counselor and internationally known speaker on gender equity and religious tolerance. As Kathy and Rosemary wrote this in their book after interviewing Paula: “She who had been born into a boy’s body and was given the name Paul by her parents knew she was meant to be a ...
Aug 15, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 184
Jane (Ballard) Dyer, Boomer, joins us to talk about fearlessness in the face of sexism. Jane is a retired Air Force pilot and found her determination and grit to graduate from her training school even though her class voted to make sure no woman would graduate from her class. She broke the team goal with style and grace. Whoa!! Her story is amazing and will leave you much inspired. It is featured in the book, Fearless Female Leaders , written by Kathy McAfee and Rosemary Paetow which we featured...
Aug 13, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 183
Kathy McAfee returns to the show! Yay! She was in Ep 13 where we discussed fearless leadership. She is an accomplished author and speaker, creative entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Kmc Brand Innovation, LLC. Kathy is joined by Rosemary Paetow, CEO of Think inStrategy who works with executives and their teams to become better, bigger, bold leaders of industry. Kathy and Rosemary have co-authored the book, Fearless Female Leaders, Stories and Strategies to Empower more Women to Lead. Recen...
Aug 06, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 182
This episode launches the “Girl, Take the Lead!” Heartfelt Cards & Gifts store located on the “Girl, Take the Lead!” website: https://girltaketheleadpod.com/shop Yo takes us through her own fearless journey to launch the store taking us along each step along the way. The store is an extension of the podcast inspired by listeners like you. 'Heartfelt Cards & Gifts' each all handmade by Yo Canny to inspire, support, appreciate, and celebrate you and those you care about. Proceeds benefit n...
Aug 02, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 181
In our episode 177 we covered the book, Worthy by Jamie Kern Lima. I’d mentioned my interest in a distinction she covered: Toxic Positivity. When I saw that part in her book I had visions of the Disney Pixar film Inside Out (2015) which did a fantastic job illustrating the dangers of being so over-positive that it can be damaging. I could totally relate to the character! Can you? Topics Covered: Defining “toxic positivity” Signs and problems with “toxic positivity” Melody Wilding’s Sensitive Str...
Jul 30, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 180
Have you ever found yourself working for or know a "control freak" – we tend to think they’re someone who engages in a series of behaviors that frustrate others and cause resentment. In this Sound Bite episode, which is a shorter episode about a topic we’ve previously covered, we’ll ask ourselves: What if there was more to understand about control? Topics Covered: Gabor Mat é definition of trauma Daniel Goleman insights about control Brené Brown’s thoughts about vulnerability and trust when it c...
Jul 25, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 179
Anne is a career advisor, strategist, and coach for executive and aspiring executive women. She applies her 20+ years of experience as an executive and leader in corporate, non-profit, privately held, and early-stage startup businesses toward supporting and elevating women into positions of influence in their careers and communities. Through 1:1 and group coaching, speaking engagements, and workshops, Anne helps women unlock their potential so they can reach new levels of impact and fulfillment....
Jul 23, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 178
In our previous episode with Melissa we talked about trauma and if not dealt with can result in being an over-achiever or trying too hard to more. And my take away was that it could results from an underlying belief that I am not enough. Jamie Kern Lima’s book, Worthy, jumped off my shelf and called to me. I knew it might be helpful for us to cover it and see what Jamie has to say about this as it relates to our theme for the month, self-care. Topics Covered: Self-Confidence vs Self-Worth Fear o...
Jul 18, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 177
Melissa Brunetti, GenX Certified SMGI® Practitioner, Trauma Healing & Mind-Body Coach with Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® & Mind Your Own Karma The Adoption Chronicles Podcaster, joins us to talk about her journey to educate people about adoption trauma, the Primal Wound and Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery. Her goal is to inspire people and remind us that we are only one decision away from a totally different life! She asks all of us to reflect on the question: is it ever too late to rei...
Jul 16, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 176
Alicia Berberich, GenX Motivation and Manifesting Coach, joins us to talk about how women can care for themselves and be more brilliant. “Too often”, Alicia says, “brilliant women feel stuck and don’t see the possibilities life has available for them”. She is passionate about helping women unleash their true potential to become who they are meant to become. She works with women to release the shackles that bind them to their old ways of thinking so they can achieve their goals. Alicia uses motiv...
Jul 11, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 175
Julie Bee, Millennial, joined Yo in Ep. 173 to discuss her new book: Burned, How Business Owners Can Overcome burnout and Fuel Success. There so much more we could have covered I wanted to share some more insights from the book in this Ep 174. 3 Topics covered in this Episode: Step 1: Identify two red flags The “I’m resilient” folder 3 Groups of resources to prevent burnout Here are 3 takeaways from the episode: 1. It takes work to find our red flags that can lead to burnout – we need to think o...
Jul 09, 2024•10 min•Season 1Ep. 174
Julie Bee, Millennial, joins Yo to discuss her new book: Burned, How Business Owners Can Overcome Burnout and Fuel Success. In addition to being an author, Julie is a business coach and speaker. She has solidified her reputation as a dynamic consultant, a riveting speaker, and a leader who sheds light on the darker side of business ownership. She shares her personal burnout story and impresses upon us that burnout is an epidemic and overcoming it by taking a vacation, getting more exercise, and ...
Jul 02, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 173
Emma and Kiki Canny return to join their mom, Yo, to talk about Cults based on the book, Cultish, The Language of Fanaticism. The topics of cults was interesting to all three of us as we’re a family that really enjoys Dateline together. Topics we covered: Why Emma recommended the Book Use of Language in cults Brandy Melville, Soul Cycle, Facebook, Podcasts, Multi-level Marketing, & Sororities Characteristics of cults & 3 levels: Charismatic Leader Indoctrination Group Mentality Control T...
Jun 27, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 172
This is a Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite – which is a shorter episode which is a bit more about the topic in our most recent episode. For this past month we’ve been talking about connections and some have been global, some have been local, and others have been non-human. Today we’ll build a bit more on those topics by covering the book, Together, by Dr. Vicek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, and I’ll share a real example of connection which occurred during my 50 year Chi Omega sorori...
Jun 25, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 171
This is a Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite – which is a shorter episode which is a bit more about the topic in our most recent episode. After hearing Suparna Vashisht talk about sea turtles and coyotes previously, I knew I wanted to learn a bit more about how we connect with animals. So I found a book, Our Wild Calling, How connecting with animals can transform our lives – and save theirs by Richard Louv. One of the book reviews said that it offers hope. While this review and title of the book were...
Jun 20, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 170
Suparna Vashisht joins us to talk about her passions: driving social change in the areas of sustainability, conservation, gender equality, and mental wellbeing. She's a founder of Women Back to Work, an initiative that helps create systemic pathways for women wanting to re-enter the workforce. For the last 20 years she has worked for conservation nonprofits in the areas of strategy, communications, and development. Suparna helps us learn about some fabulous nonprofits that are doing great acts o...
Jun 18, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 169
This is Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite building on our discussion with Heather McLeod Grant in Ep 167. She talked about philanthropy and women which left me with some questions like: Historically how have women given? What emotions are at the heart of giving? How can we build our own personal strategy when it comes to giving? What happens in our brain when we give, be kind or grateful? What are different ways to be kind? Here are 3 takeaways from today’s episode: 1. Historically women have been g...
Jun 13, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 168
Heather McLeod Grant (GenX), social impact and philanthropy advisor, thought leader, and social entrepreneur with 30+ years expertise in strategy, leadership, governance, networks, and leadership for social change joins Yo to talk about women and philanthropy. Did you know that there will be a massive asset-transfer of $30T over the next decade? And some estimate women will control 60-70% of the giving and control 85% of purchasing decisions? Heather lets us know that philanthropy doesn’t look l...
Jun 11, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 167
This is Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite building on our discussion with Claire Lachance in Ep 165. She talked about noetic sciences and “Wisdom Leadership” - and we thought you'd like to join us to learn more. The research for the episode included looking at: The history of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The role of Edgar Mitchell IONS research goals & hypothesis Dyadic theory Intuitive leadership Here are 3 takeaways from today’s episode: 1. Edgar Mitchell realized that the story of ...
Jun 07, 2024•12 min•Season 1Ep. 166
Claire Lachance, President & CEO of ReSurge International, a pioneering nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to life-changing reconstructive surgery in low income countries, joins Yo to talk about ReSurge’s programs and the positive impact the organization is making in global communities with life-transforming care. Did you know that five billion people do not have access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care worldwide, and every two seconds someone dies from a surgic...
Jun 04, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 165
Nicole Trick Steinbach (Millennial) returns to discuss the book, Quit, The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, by Annie Duke. Annie Duke is a former professional poker player and earned more than $4 million in tournament poker before retiring in 2021. Nicole and I had so much fun talking and I wanted to save every minute of our conversation, I decided to break the episode up into two parts. This is Part 2 of 2 . Below are the different topics we covered by part. Part 1: Grit vs Quit Intersection...
May 30, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 164
Nicole Trick Steinbach (Millennial) returns to the show to discuss the book, Quit, The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, by Annie Duke. Annie Duke is a former professional poker player and earned more than $4 million in tournament poker before retiring in 2021. Nicole and I had so much fun talking and I wanted to save every minute of our conversation, I decided to break the episode up into two parts. This is Part 1 of 2. Below are the different topics we covered by part. Part 1: Grit vs Quit I...
May 28, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 163
Hannah MacDonald-Dannecker, Gen Z, joins us to discuss topics you’ll find super interesting. She offers us amazing insights and advice all generations can learn from. She is on a mission to bridge the gap between previous working generations and Gen Z to create an open environment where we can work Better Together. In 2023, she published her first book, entitled, “Well Sh*t: Time To Grow Up”, a post-graduation memoir in which she explores moments from her childhood, as well as her journey after ...
May 23, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 162
Hannah MacDonald-Dannecker, Gen Z, joins us to discuss topics we hope you’ll find super interesting. She offers us amazing insights and advice all generations can learn from. She is on a mission to bridge the gap between previous working generations and Gen Z to create an open environment where we can work Better Together. In 2023, she published her first book, entitled, “Well Sh*t: Time To Grow Up”, a post-graduation memoir in which she explores moments from her childhood, as well as her journe...
May 22, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 161
In our previous Ep 159 we spoke with Irene Sim about ego and the role it played in leadership. But I wanted to dig in a bit more about this and had what may be a basic question: what is the ego and what are current thought leaders in the field saying? So I did some research and found some insights I thought you might find interesting. Episode sources: Consumer Behavior, Babin + Harris, 2022 Brené Brown’s book: Rising Strong Brené Brown’s Quote Explore Psychology Website : Ep. 76 ‘Don’t Take It S...
May 16, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 162
Irene Sim joins us to discuss some topics I think you’ll find interesting like the power of emotions, new thinking habits, systemic bias and racism, and emotions and ego. Such good stuff! Irene is the Managing Director of Coaching Alliance Group, an accredited Executive Leadership Coach, Mentor and Facilitator. Her career is amazing. She was the inaugural Chief of Staff at APEC and first Asian woman to be promoted to the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Treasury and the Australian Taxa...
May 14, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 158
In our previous Episode 157 we heard about Mothers’ Day Movement and the African Education Program and I was struck with the fact that $35B is spent on Mother’s Day gifts. How could that be? And what’s the history of the holiday? And where’s the motivation coming from? So I dug into some articles and searched for insights I thought you might find interesting. https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day Mother’s Day 2024 https://time.com/4771354/mothers-day-history-origins/ The Surprising...
May 09, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 158
