The Focus Bee Show

The planning fallacy – when you underestimate how long an activity or task will take – can be detrimental to both your productivity and your wellbeing. It can cause you to feel stressed as tasks pile up and are behind in your work. The number one way to avoid the planning fallacy and that almost all leaders do is to track how long you spend on different tasks. This will help you to gain clarity on how long these tasks actually take and help you to plan more accurately.Anticipate both the best and the worse type scenario – allow some room in your schedule if the task takes longer than you hope it will. Ask an external person to give you their input on your schedule – this will help you to see if it is realistic or if you have drastically underestimated how long it will take. Talking about it out loud can also be useful. The planning fallacy only occurs because we are overly optimistic, and we don’t use previous data to help us schedule in a more realistic way. By regularly tracking and reviewing your activities, will make a great impact on your scheduling and planning! VIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

Laura, a high energy brand manager, reveals her journey from Yang Productivity to a more Yin approach of self-compassionSome of what we cover:Yang productivity and its effectThe transition of a journey from efficiency to self-compassionRituals to nurture ourselvesImportance of flexibilityAnd so much more! ABOUT Laura Petrauskaite A bubbly character who turns ideas into action always with a positive attitude and high energy!Internationally experienced brand manager, Coaching practitioner, Relocation enthusiast who has lived in 7 different countries in the past 10 years. Passionate about Progress, Well-being and the World!CONNECT with Laura PetrauskaiteLinkedInVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

Meditation has been such a powerful and transformative experience for me, that I feel it is essential to share it with you! So many incredible benefits come from having a regular meditation practice! The greatest benefit is the extra mental space you obtain. Thanks to this extra mental space, you can better manage your emotions, improve your relationships, and be more focused and efficient! By bringing your awareness back to your breath, you improve your meta-attention: the awareness you have about how you pay attention. This meta-attention is a superpower! Thanks to it, you can better understand your own patterns of thought, emotions and behaviour. To build a meditation practice, you only need to find a good time slot (even of 5 minutes to begin with!) and spend that time focusing on your breath. Every time you have a thought, you come back to your breath. Meditation is simple but not easy. You can do this with/without music/app. Having meditated for years, I can honestly say that it has been the most transformational tool in my life. It has helped me through challenging emotional times, to manage my business, to better understand others and my clients, to understand my own triggers etc. The list goes on! I have seen similar results with all the people I know who regularly meditate! I wish you a wonderful journey with your own meditation practice! Mentioned in this episode:Insight TimerVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

Anna Liebel, a mind shifter that helps leaders tap into their genius, shares her knowledge and gold on how we can shift our perceptions, become a greater leaders and learn to love ourselves. Some of what we cover:The origin of mind-shifting Reducing perfectionism and impostor syndromeKey practices for self-love and compassionInner compass for genius leadershipAnd so much more! ABOUT Anna Liebel As a Mindshifter, Anna helps male leaders in tech get out of the firefighter mode, become the proactive Leaders they want to be, and enjoy the ride as they go. Anna’s background is in engineering and project management, and back in the corporate days, she met too many brilliant humans who acted as stressed, overwhelmed managers-firefighters. She is committed to shifting the workplace practices to empower these brilliant humans to become the Genius Leaders they can be.CONNECT with Anna Liebel Linkedin TwitterInstagramVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

We are often attracted by great goals and less by ongoing improvement. It feels more satisfying to have huge ambitions than to gradually improve every day. Yet, there is a reason why we often fail with New Year Resolutions. Big goals don’t work without a daily systematic process. You can call this habits or improvement. Daily 1% is more powerful over the course of time than big ambitions. Some ways of putting this in place are to: track your progress, increase time/quality/awareness or other factors in a specific area you are working on. By improving by 1% every day, leads to be 37 times better in any given area. Daily improvement helps with enjoying the process, consistency, and perseverance. Some examples could be exercise, meditation or business-related. The concept is similar: build small habits (even starting with 2 min.) and gradually improve them. Daily improvement has contributed to so much joy and growth in my own life & business and of my clients. It is astounding to see how habits compound to produce fantastic results! VIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

Lovelda Vincenzi, a world-renown MC and moderator, joins the show to share with us her journey and insights into the public speaking world! What a ride!Some of the gold:Lovelda’s journey into speakingHow to charge 4 figures + for speakingMoney mindset: what holds people backSales Coaching for female speakersAnd so much more! ABOUT Lovelda VincenziLovelda Vincenzi is a well-renown international MC, Moderator and Female Speaker Sales Coach.  Lovelda has been speaking on stages since age 13.She built her professional speaking business in 18-months.  Taking herself from unknown to introducing and/or interviewed households names Monica Lewinsky, Kunnal Nayaar (from the Big Bang Theory), and Paul Polman (Former CEO of Unilever and co-founder Imagine) to name but a few.As a sales coach for female business owners, Lovelda teaches the sales skills required to find and secure paid speaking engagements gigs to build influence, impact and bank balances.CONNECT with Lovelda VincenziLinkedInYouTubeFacebookVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

Our energy can be fuelled or drained by internal/external factors. Once we pause to analyse these factors, we can better replenish our energy! This impacts our focus, productivity, well-being, performance, etc. Vampires are the energy drainers. For example people, place, tasks that drain you. It can also be internal drainers, such as worries, anxiety and brooding. Fairies are energy boosters! They fuel you with life and energise you! Fairies can be external (also people, places etc.) and internal (emotions of excitement and joy, gratitude…)Raising your awareness to better understand what drains you and what fuels you is a fundamental pillar to improving your well-being. Through journaling, reflection, meditation, working with a coach, you will start to be more aware of your own vampires and fairies!  As much as possible, attempt to fill your days with fairies and reduce vampires.  The vampires that you can’t eliminate from your life, accept them and do let them take up all your mental space! The internal vampires are fully within your control! Find fairies through getting inspiration in podcasts, books, youtube, conversations… Start to pick up new ideas and inspiration as to what could fuel you! It all begins by having a clear awareness of your own vampires and fairies. Once you start to be more systematic and looking for fairies – they will show up everywhere! This takes practice but it is well worth it! VIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

Migle, the founder of VAMigle, is a passionate entrepreneur, who first fell in love with the VA world while reading Tim Ferris’ book: The four-hour workweek.  Some of the main insights of our conversation:Outsourcing: how and why it works!Zone of Genius and zone of excellenceEnergy boosts, habits, and successAnd so much more! ABOUT Migle KapoorMy name is Migle but in professional life, I’m more well known as VAMIGLE.   From an idea born more than 10 years ago to ➡️ a friend as my first client in 2016 to ➡️ a 7 people team right now, every morning I wake up with a mission to help my clients get: ✅ things done ✅ goals achieved ✅ big projects accomplished✅ repetitive tasks targeted & delegated✅ systems in place  All that done with a tried and proved remote outsourced resources: ✨ OBMs (Online Business Manager) & ✨ VAs (Virtual Assistants)  working as a team to help small business owners scale with sanity.   CONNECT with Migle Kapoor LinkedIn InstagramVIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance. CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM

When we hear the word transformation and are attracted to it, it means that there is something we are dissatisfied with. If you are looking for transformation, think about what aspect do you want to change or transform in your life? It is more effective to work on one area at a time than to transform everything in one go!Visualise what ideal would look like in this area of your life. Be very clear about what you want to obtain. Reflect on what is holding you back. Why are you still where you are in this area? Most of the time, there is a correlation with our comfort zone. Old patterns are comfortable (maybe unpleasant but comfortable because we are used to them!)Noticing the fears that come up – is natural as leaving our comfort zone always entails some fears. Beliefs are a key part of transformational work as they dictate the way we think and act. Our thoughts impact our actions. Our actions turn into results. Transformation begins with how we master our thoughts and emotions. A great pillar of transformation is identity. We have a preconceived view of who we are as a person and it can be challenging to change their perception. To define a new identity for ourselves, we can begin by first stepping into the shoes of this new identity. Imagining: ‘what would a healthy person do?’ or ‘how would a successful business owner think and act?’ (depending on which area you are working on). This will change your identity one step at a time. A virtuous circle takes place: internal work – outside results – confirmation of internal work – better outside results. We always seek strategies and methods to transform our lives, when in fact, it all lies in our mind and how we deal with our thoughts and emotions. Essential tools for such transformation include: journaling, meditation, work with a coach/therapist. Transformation is deep inner work that can take place over weeks, months or years. It is important to appreciate each part of the journey and not to be hooked on the results as it is a journey filled with ups and downs. Gradually though, through perseverance and consistency, you will be able to see the fruits of your efforts and notice how much you have indeed transformed!VIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders in peak performance.Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee': PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM 

Leslie Saglio is a master coach, facilitator and speaker. As the creator of feminine power and purpose immersion, she coaches women to activate their feminine power. I loved our conversation as we spoke about spirituality and inner transformation.  Some of the main insights:Leslie’s journey towards transformationKey practises tapping into feminine powerHow to start a breathwork practiceHow to find purpose (hint: it is not with our mind!)And so much more! ABOUT Leslie K SaglioLeslie is a Master Coach, Facilitator & Speaker with expertise spanning 15+ years, from Hollywood executive to startup co-founder, to now living and working in Europe. She coaches women to activate their feminine power so they can be happy and free to live a more purposeful and pleasure-filled life. A Los Angeles native, wife and mom of two, Leslie is the Creator of the Feminine Power & Purpose Immersion and the Founder of the On Purpose Collective.Leslie has been featured in Well+Good, mindbodygreen, Thrive Global as well as internationally with Virgin, White Ibiza, OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine and Yoga magazine and is a regular facilitator at Soho House.CONNECT with Leslie SaglioWebsiteInstagramLinkedInFacebook 3 keys to unleash your feminine power: https://lesliesaglio.com/freegift/ VIDEO of this episode:YouTube VideoABOUT Katie Stoddart:Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.  CONNECT with Katie Stoddart, aka 'the focus bee':PODCASTLINKEDINTWITTERFACEBOOKBLOGINSTAGRAM