Finding Brave

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “When we don’t take action, we become complicit with the status quo, meaning we are ok with how things are, how things are unfolding, and how our culture is. That’s why it’s important to realize that we all have a role to play to stand up, to move from being a bystander of something to an upstander for what we believe is right.” - Karen Catlin Being an ally and building a more inclusive work culture is a job for everyone in the workplace, not just for people who work in Diversity and Inclusion roles. Today’s Finding Brave guest shares how being an ally is a journey that starts with a single step, and in this episode, she reveals what we all can do to ensure equality in the workplace, and in all parts of society. After spending 25 years building software products and serving as a vice president of engineering at Adobe, Karen Catlin witnessed a sharp decline in the number of women working in tech. Frustrated but galvanized, she knew it was time to switch gears. Today, Karen is a leadership coach and a highly acclaimed author and speaker on inclusive workplaces. She is the author of three books, including Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces, which we will discuss today. There is so much that we’re not aware of that gives us benefits and privileges, but as an ally, the more that we can become aware of and explore these seemingly small things, while not judging or avoiding these issues, the better we all will be. I encourage you to review Karen’s list, “50 Potential Privileges in the Workplace” that is linked in the show notes for this episode, and explore the emotions that come up for you with each one. The work won’t be easy to do, but it is necessary for us to see real change in the world. And check out our recent interview in my Forbes column on 5 Errors Managers Make When Providing Feedback To Employees. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://karencatlin.com/  or https://betterallies.com/ 

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “When you’re getting together with family, friends, your parents, and with your siblings, don’t keep using the stories from the past as an excuse to feel what you feel today.” – Kathy Caprino I’m excited to bring you this “Special Holiday Pick” episode, perfect for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, and for the upcoming holiday season You may think that pain and conflict with family and friends during the busy holiday season is unavoidable, but on today’s episode of Finding Brave I’m offering 5 practical and doable strategies that will help. These strategies aren’t just what I’ve learned as a therapist and career coach supporting others, but what I talk about today touches on real-life challenges and struggles I’ve personally experienced throughout my life. Using these strategies will allow you to find ways to be more loving, compassionate, joyful, and grateful all at the same time. Given all the challenges we’ve experienced these past months and years together, it’s time to dig deep in our hearts and spirits this holiday season and embrace more joy, empathy and kindness – in ourselves and others.  Make a commitment today to see more good in others and the world and to emphasize and build on what you have in common, what you love and cherish together. This will help your holidays with family and friends go very differently, I guarantee it. Since this episode originally aired, I’ve recorded more amazing interviews with guests that offer transformative strategies that are helpful in reducing conflict not only during the holidays, but throughout the year. Check out the show notes below to find these resources. And please let me know how these ideas and suggestions help you navigate conflict in new, more productive ways. I’d love to hear from you.

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “Cash loves clarity, and the clearer that you can be on who you serve, what you provide, and how you help, the more referable you will become, the easier it becomes for people to talk about you, and the easier it becomes for business to come to you. That’s how we transform businesses.” - Laura Khalil There are key pitfalls that coaches, consultants, and creatives make when growing their businesses, but today’s Finding Brave expert guest shows how it is possible to accelerate growth with just a few small, key shifts. In this episode, she reveals three simple questions that business owners can ask that will provide predictable revenue, and consistent growth. Laura Khalil is the founder of Brave by Design and her key focus is on rebalancing the scales of financial justice for women. Laura helps consultants and creatives move from burned out to building thriving businesses filled with ideal clients, in only 30 minutes a day - even if they hate sales and marketing. As a business owner, you will find it requires bravery to ask and answer these questions and implement the changes necessary, but the strategies and perspectives that Laura discusses today will help you move down the path to getting what you want, and what you deserve through offering your great work in service of others. For more information about today's guest, visit: https://www.bravebydesign.net/ 

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “I realized I was playing a role, and in fact, many different roles depending on the room I was in. These are stories, and I can change the stories. I can choose a different story, or I can choose another adventure at any moment or time.” - Heather Hubbard So much of what we experience in our lives is a result of the stories that we tell ourselves and others, and today’s Finding Brave guest shares how it is possible to rewrite these stories so that they empower you in ways that you never could have imagined. Heather Hubbard is the Founder of Simple Courage – a media company, movement, and community focused on cultivating the courage needed for individual and collective change. Prior to starting her own company, Heather was a prominent, award-winning entertainment and intellectual property attorney and manager at one of the largest law firms in the U.S., as well as a go-to business advisor and strategist. She's been featured in Forbes, NBC, Business Insider, Grammy Magazine and more. The personal stories and insights that Heather reveals in this conversation are so deeply honest and authentic, and what she shares is the epitome of courage. This is why I’m so pleased to introduce her to you. To learn more about Heather and her mission at Simple Courage, visit https://simplecourage.com/ , where you can sign up for the newsletter list to be notified of her free upcoming challenge.

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “Know that you’re amazing. Every individual on the planet is, and the world needs your talents and your abilities desperately. Can you trust and accept the fact that you are special and you are unique, and that now is the time to recognize that clearly?” - Kathy Caprino  We’re thrilled to share today’s 200th episode of Finding Brave with you!  Before we begin, I would like to thank each and every one of you, our listeners, for helping us reach this big milestone of our 200th episode. We’re so grateful for your amazing support, feedback and listening ears helping the show thrive over these three years. We’re so very grateful to you. Creating this podcast has been one of the most joyful and rewarding professional endeavors I’ve ever worked on, and I pinch myself every day for the blessing of learning from so many or our amazing guests, and hearing from our listeners who share their riveting feedback. I also want to send a huge thank you to my team at Kathy Caprino LLC and PodAssist.com, whose magic helps make this show possible. Together, we look forward to continuing to bring new content to you each week.  To celebrate this milestone, we are offering something special that we hope will move you forward fast on your “finding brave” path to building your career, life and business as you truly want it.  As we’ve had so many amazing guests who’ve inspired us with their messages, books, talks and more, and we have compiled a selection of brief highlights from 16 episodes over the past three years that reflect the following characteristics. They: 1) Are among the most downloaded and listened-to episodes of the show 2) Impacted me personally in a very powerful way and created an immediate and potent shift for me, in mindset, behavior or perspective 3) Received the most number of shares and comments, either to me directly or on social media where listeners accessed these episodes. I’ve included several solo episodes that were the most popular as well.  I do hope that these excerpts will make a positive difference in your life. And I hope you’ll go back and listen to the full episodes that have been excerpted, to benefit from the rich conversations with each of these inspiring guests. A Word About My New Course The Most Powerful You Before we begin the episode, I would like to ask a favor regarding my new course, The Most Powerful You. This course is the digital companion to my new book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss. The training course is designed to help professionals of all levels and careers -- and their organizations and leaders - receive the training they need to close what my research has found are the 7 most damaging power gaps that impact 98% of women and 90% of men today.  These gaps block professionals from reaching their highest potential at work, and their most rewarding and thrilling goals and visions for their careers and professional roles. When we face these gaps, we struggle and fail to thrive in our work, careers and businesses.  If you are a manager, leader, or serve in HR or DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) capacities or know friends and colleagues who do, I sincerely hope you will point them to The Most Powerful You course at https://mostpowerfulyou.com --  or feel free to reach out directly for more info. This course is truly transformational in helping professionals contribute as they long to, making a positive and powerful impact. Thank you and I hope you enjoy this special episode! As always, We’d love to hear your feedback on this show, and for those who haven’t rated or reviewed Finding Brave on Apple Podcasts, please consider doing so as it truly helps expand the reach of the show.

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “I wanted to stay connected to my own roots, but I also wanted to open a window so that Americans, or whomever would watch [La Frontera] would understand the Mexico that I missed, that I loved, and that nurtured me and my family so much.” - Pati Jinich Today’s Finding Brave guest has dedicated her career to building a shared understanding between her two home countries, Mexico and the United States, through the lens of food, culture and community. In this episode, she not only reveals how she is furthering this mission through two new and exciting projects, including a PBS Primetime special, but also shares about the many twists and turns on her beautiful journey that have helped her arrive at where she is today, inspiring, entertaining and educating thousands around the world. Pati Jinich is the James Beard Award-winning Mexican chef whose long running PBS series Pati’s Mexican Table has brought Mexican flavors, colors and textures into American homes and kitchens, as viewers have watched Pati thoughtfully and enthusiastically guide them through the various diverse geographic regions of the country. Named one of the “100 Greatest Cooks of All-Time,” Pati has won a Gracie Award for her television work, is the resident chef of the Mexican Cultural Institute, has been named one of the “Top 5 Border Ambassadors” by The Council of Americas, and has authored two cookbooks highlighting Mexican cuisine. Her third cookbook, Treasures of the Mexican Table, releases this November and is the culmination of over a decade of travel across her birth country, as she showcases the diversity of Mexican cuisine and sheds light on some lesser known dishes and recipes. Earlier this month, Pati made her PBS Primetime debut as the host of the new culinary travel special, La Frontera, which highlights the fascinating, yet misunderstood, US-Mexico border region where countries and cultures collide. In following Pati’s journey since 2014 when I first featured her work in my Forbes column, she has inspired me and so many around the world, with her brilliance, light, creativity and insight. Today on the show, I ask Pati not only about her professional journey but her personal one, and what she believes are keys to achieving the impact and reach she has. Pati’s messages inform and inspire us to follow the recommendations she offers: to find work and endeavors that make you proud, to build a solid foundation from which to grow, to continue to hone your skills and knowledge, and most importantly, to commit to doing what feels good and right to you, that is true reflection of all that you are and wish to be. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://patijinich.com/ 

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “You have to know how [to invest], but personal finance it’s not enough just to know how. We also need to be able to take and apply these things we learn and make them real in our lives.” - George Grombacher When it comes to money, there seems to be very few people who don’t have at least a few struggles associated with it (in earning enough, saving, investing in a smart way, spending it consciously and wisely, and more). As today’s Finding Brave expert guest reveals, often the key to overcoming financial challenges ties directly to addressing internal blocks that are holding us back from earning and having exponentially more money. However, it’s not enough to just learn about and know what to do specifically with your finances; it’s also about knowing how to make these principles real in your life, via a sustainable practice to follow daily. George Grombacher has worked in personal finance for 20 years and has been named a top 100 financial advisor in the US by Investopedia for the past three years. He’s working hard to encourage, empower, and entertain others with critical and compelling information to help them create more financial success and live as they wish to. George is the President of Financial Consulting Professionals, the Founder and Chief Community Officer of Money Alignment Academy and the host of the LifeBlood podcast, which I had the great pleasure of joining recently. We’d love to hear from you! What’s your most difficult financial challenge and what is your biggest takeaway from our conversation today? If you’ve taken an action step towards addressing your internal blocks around money, or you plan to, we’d love to hear! Please reach out below and let us know how you are using George’s tips to expand your financial success. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://moneyalignmentacademy.com/ 

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “What you want to understand is that before you leap you need to take action to address what is making you so miserable. If you don’t do that, you are going to wake up two years later in the new career and you’re going to be having the same problems.” - Kathy Caprino I haven’t released a solo episode on the podcast in some time, but I want to take this opportunity today to talk about something that is so relevant for the people I speak with each day in the career coaching and training work that I do. In this episode, I share the 5 biggest blunders career changers make, and I have to admit that I have made each one of these mistakes myself, which is why I can speak to how easily they can happen if we’re not aware of them and making the right decisions and choices. These blunders are costly and take a tremendous toll on your self-esteem, confidence, and your hopes and visions for the future. But there is a way to avoid these career change mistakes, and it starts with remembering that you are an amazing individual with so many important gifts, talents and capabilities to share. The question is how to get on the path to leveraging these talents and abilities in ways that are going to authentically fit who you really are, and what you want for your life, your family and your livelihood. Listen in for a full look at the 5 biggest career change blunders and stay to the end as I reveal the 5 essential steps to take when you want change of any kind, in your career and in any area of your life. As always, thank you for listening, and as always, please do let me know if the information I share today helps you navigate these particularly challenging and ever-changing times we find ourselves in right now.

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “There are things you want for yourself. You do deserve abundance, and if you’re selling in this way while caring about the impact [you’re making], you should be the one that attracts the most energy. This energy can be in the form of money, or whatever currency is most valuable to you.” - Jason Marc Campbell What emotions emerge for you when you hear the words “sales” or “selling” or when you think of having to engage in sales for your own business or services? The act of selling often has a poor reputation, but the people who lose most from this mindset are good folks selling great products and services. Today’s Finding Brave expert guest helps us fundamentally shift the way we view sales by approaching the process with love, which will allow you to generate more sales than you ever thought possible, in ways that feel authentic and right to you. Jason Marc Campbell is the author of the upcoming book on Selling with Love. He interviews thought leaders from around the world on topics of leadership, team building, communication, productivity and more. He is a public speaker who’s shared the stage with the likes of Gary V, Jason Silva, Vishen Lakhiani, Lisa Nichols and more. Jason is also the host of The Superhumans at Work Podcast from Mindvalley, which I’ve had the great pleasure of joining. His mission is all about teaching companies to care more. As businesses have so much power in our world, if we can educate businesses and business leaders to take on more responsibility on how they sell, how they market, how they treat their employees and how they invest their money, we start shifting the planet to a better place for all. In this episode, Jason reveals the real reasons why most of us have resistance to selling, and how to remove those blocks once and for all. As he shares, once you identify and understand the 5 loves of selling, it will fundamentally shift how you view this topic forever. To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://www.jasonmarccampbell.com/ Become a Sponsor! Do you have an amazing product or service that supports female podcasters, authors, thought leaders and/or women in the workplace or running their own entrepreneurial ventures? We’re excited to be accepting new sponsors for Finding Brave now! If you have a business, program, product or service that helps professional women thrive and that aligns with the messages we share on Finding Brave, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact us via our contact form on the Finding Brave site (https://findingbrave.org/contact) to share more about your work/organization and your proposal. We’d love to speak with you!

Thank you for listening to our Finding Brave show, ranked in the Top 100 Apple Career Podcasts! “The process of making peace is forgiveness. It’s perfectly ok to be angry, and it’s perfectly helpful to become bitter, protective, and even depressed for a bit, because we’re overwhelmed and we can’t take in this information.” - Dr. Fred Luskin Forgiving others is not easy to do, and forgiveness is often misunderstood as letting those who have wronged us off the hook without any consequences. But on today’s Finding Brave show, our guest explains why we need to forgive others, and how we can learn to do it, in order to free ourselves from the fear, shame and lack of confidence that so many of us continue to experience when we cannot forgive. It’s all about healing and empowering ourselves to release our experience as “victim” and finally becoming freer to create life as we truly want it, rather than staying stuck in a prison of long-held grudges and desperately-wanted retribution. A top expert on forgiveness, Dr. Fred Luskin is the director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects, a senior consultant in wellness and health promotion at Stanford University, and a professor at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Greater Good Science Center. He serves as department chair of the PsyD program at Sofia University and is the author of the bestselling titles Forgive for Good, and Forgive for Love. His research interests are in stress management, emotional intelligence, positive psychology, forgiveness and wellness.e, career and relationships, both at work and at home. In this episode, Fred looks at the most common things that hold us back from the act and process of forgiving, as well as provides powerful strategies and tips to help us forgive what we may have previously found “unforgivable.” As he shares, when you learn to forgive for good, it changes you for good (and for the better). To learn more about today's guest, visit: https://learningtoforgive.com/  Become a Sponsor! Do you have an amazing product or service that supports female podcasters, authors, thought leaders and/or women in the workplace or running their own entrepreneurial ventures? We’re excited to be accepting new sponsors for Finding Brave now! If you have a business, program, product or service that helps professional women thrive and that aligns with the messages we share on Finding Brave, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact us via our contact form on the Finding Brave site (https://findingbrave.org/contact) to share more about your work/organization and your proposal. We’d love to speak with you!