CEO School with Suneera Madhani

In today's episode, Suneera shares her top five time-saving productivity hacks for every CEO. She talks about the importance of utilizing your calendar to the fullest by creating zones, this will ensure quality work. No more hour meetings, Suneera shares how shorter 20 or 40 minute meetings will give you some time afterwards to get actionable steps done. Know what tasks need to get done, deleted or delegated and a virtual or executive assistant can help make sure tasks are completed. Prioritize your “needle moving” tasks first. And lastly, stop having coffee or lunch dates, instead have more purposeful, shorter meetings on your time. By following these five hacks, Suneera guarantees you’ll get so much of your valuable time back. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL HEAR: -How to be most efficient with your calendar by creating zones, which will ensure better work quality -Set up shorter meetings, only 20 or 40 minutes so you have time afterwards to take action on those tasks -Having a virtual or executive assistant to help ensure all your tasks get done through proper delegation -Prioritize getting your “needle mover” tasks done first -Eliminate coffee and lunch dates, instead create small windows of time for those types of meetings where you can be more intentional Hello there, future leader. The CEO club is a monthly digital membership where female entrepreneurs come together to up-level their businesses and lives. The doors are now open: https://theceoschool.co/ceo-club-2022 Connect with Suneera: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ Connect with CEO School: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in CEO School, Suneera is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joann Lublin to discuss the influences of trailblazing women in the business world, as well as their thoughts on the importance of female entrepreneurs having access to business knowledge and the presence of women making more money. She described situations that were seen as powerful statements about women not being pushed around and being heard and seen and getting known to the public eye. The conversation inspires women to be pioneers in men-dominated fields to open doors to fellow women. Having access to business knowledge and the presence of more women making money will create a more equitable business world. ​Joann is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and speech and leadership speaker; she launched the Wall Street Journal’s first career column and remained a regular contributor. She’s the author of two books about female business leaders. The first is Earning It: Hard Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World, and the second one, which we’ll talk about today, is called Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life. Working Mother Medium ranked Power Moms as one of the best 21 books for working moms in 2021. She also won a 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Loeb awards, the highest accolade in business journalism. In this episode: Power Moms, How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life Being United to Advocate for Women's Rights The Impact of Working Mothers in Corporate America. Benefits of Family Over Business in the American Workforce Dramatic Increase in the Number of Women in the Business World  Connect with Joann: https://www.joannlublin.com/ Connect with Suneera: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ Connect with CEO School: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ Hello there, future leader. The CEO club is a monthly digital membership where female entrepreneurs come together to up-level their businesses and lives. The doors are now open: https://theceoschool.co/ceo-club-2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Suneera welcomes Ragnhi Naidu, the first female Indian immigrant to have founded and owned a wine brand in Northern California and beyond. Raghni shares her journey of starting in the wine industry with no prior experience, and how she was able to transfer her life skills to succeed in this new field. They explore the challenges Raghni faced in building the life she wanted, including the barriers she faced as a woman and as a person of color in a predominantly white and male industry. She talks about how she overcame these obstacles and built a successful career through perseverance, hard work, and a willingness to take risks. Raghni also shares her experience of pivoting in the face of unforeseen circumstances, such as the pandemic. She talks about the challenges she faced in adapting to new market conditions and the importance of staying positive and focused on the future. Throughout the episode, Raghni emphasizes the importance of being brave in the face of perception, and not letting other people's opinions or expectations hold you back from pursuing your dreams. Her story is a powerful reminder of the resilience and strength of the human spirit, and the potential we all have to create the life we want. Raghni successfully launched Naidu Wines amidst the pandemic in 2020. In this short span, her wines have won acclaim, including Double Gold, Golds & Silver, at prestigious competitions such as the SF Chronicle Wine Competition, the largest competition of American wines worldwide. Her label is on the wine list at Michelin-starred restaurant Single Thread Farms, voted one of the top 50 restaurants worldwide. She was recently listed as one of the 22 people to watch in 2022 in Sonoma County. Connect with Raghni: Website: https://naiduwines.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naiduwines/ Join The Wine Club: https://naiduwines.com/pages/wine-club Hello there, future leader. The CEO club is a monthly digital membership where female entrepreneurs come together to up-level their businesses and lives. The doors are now open: https://theceoschool.co/ceo-club-2022  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Suneera welcomes Dr. Neeta Bhushan. Dr. Bhushan offers valuable insights in this thought-provoking discussion, teaching strategies to deal with negative emotions and overcome obstacles. She emphasizes the importance of feeling emotions, recognizing limiting beliefs, and reframing our thoughts to grow from mistakes, setbacks, and failures. We can transform negative emotions into growth opportunities and cultivate resilience by confronting them. Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a mother, wife, entrepreneur, and world-renowned expert performance coach. As co-founder of the Global Grit Institute and the Dharma Coaching Institute, she has helped thousands of change-makers, high achievers, and burnt-out professionals pivot into careers they love and create lives where they thrive. A cosmetic dentist turned acclaimed transformational speaker, emotional health advocate, and best-selling author, her new book That Sucked, Now What? was sparked by her life experience of overcoming multiple adversities, including being orphaned at a young age, surviving an abusive marriage of domestic violence, and extensive loss. She is also the host of The Brave Table podcast. Connect with Dr. Neeta: Website: https://neetabhushan.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neetabhushan/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@neeta.bhushan Order your copy of “That Sucked, Now What?” Book: https://neetabhushan.com/book\ Hello there, future leader. The CEO club is a monthly digital membership where female entrepreneurs come together to up-level their businesses and lives. The doors are now open: https://theceoschool.co/ceo-club-2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, we invite you to Day Three of the CEO School Experience with Suneera Madhani. In this final session of this series, Suneera shares The Path to 2%: Your 7-Figure CEO Roadmap. Get clarity about what it takes to go from starting a business to being a CEO (even if you feel like you've been winging it!). Build the company of your dreams with your heart first. In this episode: Effectively setting goals that turn into action How to map out your time and energy investment for the year Strategically combine high and low impact and effort The process of identifying needle movers How to write a powerful vision statement that you will actually use The CEO School Experience Resources and Replays: https://theceoschool.co/helpful-links Connect with Suneera Madhani: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ Connect with CEO School: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ceoschoolpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, we invite you to Day Two of the CEO School Experience with Suneera Madhani. In this session, Suneera shares The People Playbook. To grow into what you want to create, you need committed team members who see the vision and help you build your company. People can be scary - and people are definitely the most challenging part of the job, but they can also be the favorite. There’s no such thing as self-made - it takes people (the right people!) to get you there. In this episode:  Why 1+1=3 Analyzing your leadership Identifying key roles and responsibilities How to create your ideal organizational chart Sharpening your interviewing skills Training and Retaining A Players  The CEO School Experience Resources and Replays: https://theceoschool.co/helpful-links  Connect with Suneera Madhani: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ Connect with CEO School: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ceoschoolpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the CEO School Experience with Suneera Madhani. In this session we are all about creating YOUR 2023 Annual Operating Plan. This will let you walk into the year ahead with clarity around your decisions, a forecastable, profitable business and a plan. We’re going to create the business plan you want to achieve, so you can see how you are going to get there. The CEO School Experience Resources and Replays: https://theceoschool.co/helpful-links Connect with Suneera Madhani: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ Connect with CEO School: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ceoschoolpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Suneera welcomes Melissa Bentivoglio, CEO, and co-founder of Frame. Melissa shares her entrepreneurial journey and how she developed the idea for the first at-home, digitally-connected Pilates Reformer. She candidly shares some of the “myths” of being a founder, the creative and funding process in creating Frame, and the obstacles she faced as an aspiring female CEO. Melissa is a classically trained ballet dancer and a renowned Pilates and fitness instructor. She credits her dedication to Pilates as having changed her life after years of elite-level performance. In 2018, she designed her own proprietary Reformer for her studio. By launching Frame, she hopes to make Pilates more widely available and accessible so that everyone has the chance to improve their quality of life. Melissa and Frame have been featured in Women's Health, Forbes, Goop, and more. Connect with Melissa and Frame: Website: https://www.framefitness.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/framereformer/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialframereformer Hello there, future leader. The CEO club is a monthly digital membership where female entrepreneurs come together to up-level their businesses and lives. The doors are now open: https://theceoschool.co/ceo-club-2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you find the confidence to get on your metaphoric stage? Dancing with the Stars’ Cheryl Burke shares how she finds her confidence and courage and why putting herself in service of others has brought her so much success in her career. Cheryl shares about possibly hanging up her dance shoes and donning a CEO hat in her developing mental health and movement app.  With over twenty-five years of dancing experience and several championship titles under her belt, twice Emmy-nominated professional dancer Cheryl Burke first discovered her love of dance at the age of 4, taking ballet lessons and performing throughout the San Francisco Bay area of California. At eleven, she discovered what would be her winning talent, ballroom dancing, and decided to hang up her ballet shoes to begin training competitively all over the world in both Ballroom International Standard and Latin styles. At age 20, Cheryl rocketed to stardom as the star of ABC’s surprise hit television show, Dancing with the Stars, becoming champion twice with NFL superstar Emmitt Smith and 98 Degrees singer Drew Lachey. In 2015, Cheryl starred alongside Joe Jonas, Ciara, Nicole Scherzinger, and Marlon Wayans in NBC’s I Can Do That, a variety show that challenged celebrities to live outside their comfort zones. 2016 marked Burke’s return to Dancing with the Stars. Since then, she’s danced alongside infamous Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, NFL Hall of Famers Terrell Owens and Ray Lewis, Telenovela actor William Levy, reality stars Rob Kardashian and Jack Osbourne, and Backstreet Boy, AJ McLean. Most recently, for her twenty-fifth appearance on the long-running program, she partnered with Peloton instructor Cody Rigsby to a third-place finish on Season 30, marking Cheryl’s eighth appearance in the Finals. In 2016, Cheryl created, produced, and starred in Love on the Floor, a live stage show featuring professional dancers and Olympic and World Champion ice skaters coming together to tell a story of love and its many stages. The evocative stage show includes many forms of dance choreographed by Emmy Award-winning choreographers. Cheryl, who created and served as the show’s producer alongside live event giant IMG, was joined on stage by Kristi Yamaguchi, Meryl Davis, Charlie White, and Daisuke Takahashi when the show made its worldwide premiere in June of 2016 in Tokyo, Japan where it grossed over two million dollars in ticket sales in ten sold out shows. In 2017, Cheryl took Love on the Floor back to Japan for the second time, where it again played to sold-out audiences. Cheryl made headlines in 2016 when she was cast as the replacement coach on Lifetime’s long-running reality series Dance Moms. Hired to replace the legal battle embroiled and controversial Abby Lee Miller, Cheryl went toe to toe with difficult dance moms in season seven. She strived to coach the girls toward success by embracing their unique differences to become the best possible dancers that they could be. In 2020, Cheryl teamed with Backstreet Boys superstar and former DWTS partner AJ McLean to host the iHeart Radio-produced podcast Pretty Messed Up. The duo and their 3rd host Rene Elizondo, created a podcast that touched on topics ranging from reality tv to sobriety and mental health. Cheryl currently has her own podcast, Burke in the Game, with the streaming giant and top podcast-producing company, iHeartRadio.  In the spring of 2008, Cheryl opened her first of several dance studios, the highly successful Cheryl Burke Dance. In early 2011 Cheryl’s biography Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life was released. The book addresses topics that shaped Cheryl throughout her life, from the childhood abuse and abusive relationships she lived through to harsh criticisms of her weight and body in her early twenties. Not limiting herself to the dance studio, in 2015, Cheryl launched her own clothing line CeeBee, a collection of activewear and workout... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera shares the top six things she believes we should all quit making room for growth in 2023. You'll hear how quitting people-pleasing requires accepting that people will be disappointed, each of us has shortcomings, and misalignment happens. You'll learn a natural self-defense mechanism that we use to protect ourselves but hurts us in the long run and one healthy way to stop overthinking conversations and actions to free up mental space and grow as a leader. Suneera also explains why leaving the past behind you is necessary to move forward in your business and personal life. Hello there, future leader. The CEO club is a monthly digital membership where female entrepreneurs come together to up-level their businesses and lives. The doors are now open: https://theceoschool.co/ceo-club-2022  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices