125. Own Your Career: Stand Up, Show Up and Speak Up (with Lisa Gillette) Lisa Gillette is an equal pay activist, speaker, podcaster, and ICF certified women’s leadership coach. Before starting her own business, Lisa spent 25 years in Entertainment Media; the last 10 as an executive in Sports Television. Lisa’s company, BIGSKY Coaching & Consulting…

124. Being Undervalued In today’s episode, we are going to talk about how leaders can feel undervalued and what they can do about it. There are examples of leaders who have gone through the experience of feeling undervalued in this episode, so you can see where it may be happening for you without realizing it. It is important to build awareness of …

123. Believe in Yourself to Achieve Success In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the importance of believing in yourself to achieve success. Believe in yourself. Trust that you have what it takes to achieve success and that you will figure out how to solve any challenges along the way. John Maxwell, author and leadership expert, shared, “…

122. What Makes You Unique? This episode is about what makes you unique. Do you celebrate your uniqueness or hide it to fit in and conform? So many people are trying to be like everyone else, but that doesn’t help you stand out. Let’s talk about examples of how you can see your unique gifts as a strength instead! In this episode: Uniqueness is cele…

121. Leading with Vulnerability This episode is about leadership vulnerability. I will share some of my own experiences of vulnerability, explain what vulnerability is, why it is important and why you should consider being a more vulnerable leader. In this episode: One of my first experiences seeing a senior leader be vulnerable. What I used to bel…

120. It’s Not Burnout, It’s Betrayal (with Lora Cheadle) Lora Cheadle, JD, Cht is the founder and CEO of Life Choreography® Solutions and is a recognized expert on burnout, betrayal, and self-expression. Her passion is empowering women to define and express themselves authentically in any situation, so they can feel calm, confident, and resourceful…

119. Where Are You Spending Your Time? Today’s episode is about where you spend your time each day. Are you spending it on things that are valuable and make an impact or on the easy things? Today I am going to share some of those insights with you and have you think about your time and how you spend it. In this episode: Is your calendar completely …

118. Visibility in the Workplace Today’s episode is about being visible in the workplace. This episode can be very helpful for you if you are new to visibility, but it will also spark some new ideas for those who are familiar with visibility but may have lost focus on it. Being more visible simply requires intentional and consistent actions that pe…

117. Managing Up Managing up is managing the relationship with your boss — developing and cultivating a productive working relationship with your boss. It is an opportunity to learn your boss's management, leadership and communication styles and preferences. This, in turn, will help you learn about your own work and communication style preferences.…

116. Your Leadership Impact Leaders have a choice of how to spend their time each day but they have a hard time letting go of doing things that aren’t adding as much value. It comes down to looking at the impact that they are making. If they aren’t focused on the high value things, then they may need to build stronger boundaries and systems to get …

115. Merging Money and Meaning in Business (with Bessi Graham) Bessi Graham is a Business and Leadership Strategist with over 20 years’ experience from the grassroots of sitting in the dirt working with business owners across the Pacific Islands through to the United Nations in Geneva. The ability to bridge the systemic and the practical is one of …

114. Inside the Visibility Factor RISE Process In today’s episode, we are talking about the RISE process from The Visibility Factor book, which is the four-step process used to help someone create their own visibility action plan. In this episode: How the RISE process was created. What does RISE stand for and how you can think about it. Review and …

113. Value Yourself In today’s episode, we are talking about valuing yourself. The internal belief that you know what you have to offer and standing up for it to anyone and everyone without apology. Every single day I meet with people who feel like they aren't enough. They have thoughts running through their heads that tell them other people are be…

112. Strategic Communication In today’s episode, we are going to talk about strategic communication. What I mean by that is the type of conversation where you are trying to influence someone to do something or align with you on what you want to do. However you need to plan this out strategically, you can’t just wing it if you want it to go well. Th…

111. What Are You Tolerating? On this episode we are talking about the things that you are tolerating, how it impacts your energy and your opportunities to do more in your career and life. To give you some context about what I mean, here are some examples of tolerations: things in your life or work environment that are irritating, people who don’t …

110. From Invisible to Visible (with Dr. Carrie Niederman) Dr. Carrie Niederman is an educator, speaker, entrepreneur, and equine veterinarian-turned-consultant changing the narrative for people who fall outside the lines of conventional medical diagnosis and treatments for certain chronic, long-term conditions. Carrie leverages her medical backgro…

109. Do Good While Doing Well (with Marcia Dawood) Marcia Dawood, an influential early-stage investor and author of Do Good While Doing Well – Invest for Change, Reap Financial Rewards and Increase Your Happiness, is key in advancing support for diverse, impactful startups. With roles in the SEC’s Small Business Committee, Mindshift Capital, Golden…

108. Letting Go to Embrace Something New Today’s episode is about letting go. We have opportunities to let go of things (and perhaps people) that don’t serve us anymore. We struggle with it because we grew up with messages that told us we need to make it work. Keep trying to make it work and if you don’t you are a failure. You should give it your b…

107. Acceptance is a Choice Today’s episode is about acceptance. In general, acceptance refers to the act of agreeing to or consenting to something. You can look at acceptance from multiple angles, but today we are going to focus on the acceptance of a situation, another person, and yourself. When change occurs, you have a choice. You can resist it…

106. Let’s Be Bold Today’s episode is about being bold. Do you remember when you were young and you jumped and ran all day long? You didn’t question whether you should do it, you just did it! You were bold and courageous. Somehow, we give away that gift of boldness as we grow older. We give away our power and become doubtful and fearful. It isn’t o…

105. It’s Time For Some Clarity In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the importance of clarity. I want to take this conversation into two directions. The first is from a perspective of a big decision that you may want to make and need clarity around before you share it with others. The second is how clarity helps to support you when talki…

104. The Resilience Plan (with Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier) Throughout her career in business management and psychology, Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier (MH) has spearheaded a dialogue on the crucial issues of leadership resilience and workplace health. Drawing on her extensive background in corporate, insurance, governance and public sectors, she brings…

103. The Leader's Legacy (with Scott Burns) Scott Burns is a leadership development consultant and certified ICF executive coach with The Leader’s Legacy, LLC. He has worked with senior leaders for 30 years and held senior leadership roles for 22 years. He knows what it takes to make great leaders great and shares this with his coaching clients. Sc…

102. Street Smart Safety for Women LAURA FROMBACH was introduced to technology in the U.S. Army working on Pershing nuclear missiles. Having spent much of her career as a technologist and engineer with IBM, HP, FedEx, Coca Cola Enterprises, Lenovo and others. A turning point in Laura’s life was the ‘aha’ moment when she correlated her mother’s ment…

101. Embrace Being Uncomfortable Today’s episode is focused on finding the best ways to start to embrace being uncomfortable. Doing things the same way you have always done them isn’t getting you what you want. Pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and getting uncomfortable is critical if you are going to be more visible. I don’t say that to sc…

100. Celebrating the 100th Episode Today we are focused on celebrating the 100th episode of The Visibility Factor Podcast! In this episode: Behind the scenes of how the podcast came to life in the span of a week! Milestone facts about the show! Lessons learned since the show went live. The Top 10 Episodes of the show! A few great reviews of the sho…

99. Nuances of Leadership Today’s episode is focused on the nuances of leadership. There are foundational concepts in leadership that you can learn in a class, but then there is the real-world application of leadership that you need to manage. Situations that don’t happen very often will occur. They can be extremely impactful and need to be address…

98. Reframing Your Limiting Beliefs Today’s episode is focused on reframing the way that we think about limiting beliefs. You most likely reframe your thoughts throughout your day without even realizing it. Reframing happens when someone shares a new perspective with you, shares some new information that you weren’t aware of or you learn something …

97. Unlocking Your Patterns Today’s episode is going to focus on patterns. As a coach, I am always keeping a watch out for clients who have patterns of behavior that are unconscious for them. Clients may do something at work and have no idea that they are doing that same thing at home. These patterns operate automatically until someone points it ou…

96. Designing your 2024 Welcome to 2024! Happy New Year! Today’s episode is going to focus on what you want out of 2024. If you haven’t listened to episode 95 (Looking Back at 2023) you might want to do that for some ideas on how to reflect on your 2023 before deciding what you want to do in your 2024! Let’s just focus on some ways to help you desi…

95. Looking Back on 2023 I can’t believe that we are at the end of 2023! This year has been so interesting for me. I want to share a little bit about how this year began, what happened and what I learned. In this episode: The New Years Eve reflection experience. Choosing a word or a theme for the year. How my choice of words showed up in my year. L…

94. Comparison of Bragging vs Visibility Today’s show is about the differences between bragging vs visibility. Bragging is defined as a pompous or boastful statement, arrogant talk or manner by someone. Bragging in the workplace often involves an inflated sense of self-importance and a desire to diminish the contributions of others. Authentic visib…

93. Leading With Authenticity Today’s show is about leading with authenticity. Being authentic is a major focus in The Visibility Factor book and it is an important value for me. Authentic Leadership comes through when you are transparent about things, have high self-awareness, care about those around you and you can be yourself. It is so much easi…

92. The Power of Storytelling (with Merri Beckfield) Merri is a technophile by day, and a professor by night. The fusion of her dual careers gives her a unique blend of real-world technology experience and a strong foundation in academia. She has spent years honing her expertise in business intelligence and data management working for the majority …

91. Building Your Visibility Through Relationships Today’s show is about taking the opportunity to build relationships with peers, influencers, your management, and other people in your life. It is a chance to show your value to others which helps you to be recommended for new roles or thought of for opportunities. In these conversations, it is abo…

90. Should Leaders Be Liked or Respected? Today’s show is about being respected vs being liked. For so many leaders, myself included at one point, I thought being liked was more important than anything, especially once I was leading a team. I see so many leaders that I coach who struggle with what they know they need to do, because there is a risk …

89. Leadership Assessment Today’s episode is about assessing yourself and your team if you have one. When was the last time that you took the opportunity to have a leadership assessment done for you and/or your team? When I start working with new client leaders, I like to give them an assessment to help them understand how they are showing up as le…

88. Writing a Book Can Change Your Life As this episode is being recorded, it is The Visibility Factor’s 2nd book birthday! The book was published on November 2, 2021! I wanted to share with you all what the journey looked like for me at the beginning up until now. Many unexpected things have occurred, and it all started with a dream to help others…

87. Visibility Can Be Fun There is a myth that exists that I used to believe for a long time, and I have heard others share with me as well. Visibility is extra work…it’s hard to do…I don’t have time for it. All those thoughts will be true if that is what you believe. However, what if you looked at visibility in a different way? What if you thought…

86. Overcoming Self-Sabotage Today we are going to talk about self-sabotage. Self-sabotage is a common phenomenon that affects many individuals in various aspects of their lives. It is a pattern of behavior where individuals unknowingly undermine their own success or well-being. Believe me, I know that being visible can challenge you to step out of…

85. Authentic Leaders (with Christopher R. Jones) Christopher R. Jones, the founder of Authentic Leader, has over 30 years of leadership development and consultancy expertise across Fortune 500 companies in technology, associations, and HR sectors. Christopher's passion lies in transforming new managers into authentic leaders of high-performing tea…

84. A Quality Brand Attracts Quality Clients (with Kim Brundage) Kim Brundage is a traveling premier personal branding and executive portrait photographer who helps entrepreneurs, coaches, speakers, influencers, CEOs, and executives get branded photos that truly represent WHO they are, so they can show up authentically no matter where they share th…

83. Creating Visibility Through Writing (with Melissa Newton) Melissa Newton is an author of 18 books. As a writer, editor, and publisher, she helps single authors and co-author teams to turn ideas into amazing books. She enjoys copyediting projects for experts who submit articles to trade/consumer magazines. Melissa is also a nature photographer, …

82. Embracing Your Mid-Life (with Michelle Newman) Michelle Newman, is a 50-something entrepreneur, executive coach, and the host of the top 2.5% globally ranked podcast The New Mid. Motivated by her own transformational journey and executive roles at ABC and CBS studios, Michelle is passionate about defying the expectations placed on women both on…

81. Take Imperfect Action Today’s episode is focused on Imperfect Action. Can you think of people in your life who seem to have it all together? They don’t let obstacles get in their way. They just keep making things happen no matter what. How do they do it? They take imperfect action where they do experiments and try new things instead of staying …

80. Habits Can Change Your Leadership Today’s episode is focused on the book titled Atomic Habits by James Clear. My recent listen to this audiobook inspired this podcast episode. I took away the key lessons that he referred to in the book and some great actions to implement for myself. My approach in this episode is to share the three lessons and …

79. Create a Thriving Workplace (with Trenia Parham) My guest on today’s show is Trenia Parham. She is a Leadership Consultant & Strategist for mission-driven leaders and organizations. As a Social Worker and Relationship Coach, she spent the last 20 years leading, training and mentoring in the nonprofit and public sectors as well as running a Rela…

78. Unlock Your Real Value (with Alison Leverett-Morris) Today’s episode is an interview with Alison Leverett-Morris. Alison Leverett-Morris is an entrepreneur and leadership coach with a focus on Neuroscience & Psychology. She's dedicated to empowering people to overcome self-doubt and live their true potential. Since graduating with a Fine Art de…

77. Leveraging Resilience Today’s episode is focused on how to leverage your resilience in difficult times. We are all born with resilience, but depending on what we have been through, some people are able to move through the changes faster. The changes that they have been through have helped them learn how to tap into their resilience. Learn more …

76. Slowing Down to Speed Up Today’s podcast is focused on slowing down in order to speed up. You might ask yourself why on earth would I slow down when there is so much to do? It is natural to think that way, but you can be so much more productive, strategic and even happier when you give yourself time to reflect and plan. I am sure you are thinki…