Just Start: From Ideas to Action

Our individual defaults can either help us or slow us up. This is your opportunity to get a head start by being realistic about your defaults.

Let's get started!

Do you have a supportive crew of folks to help you get a head start? Well, search no more. 

Let's get you the crew that you need to get started!

Do you realize that we all get 168 hours each and every week?

Have you ever audited where you're spending your time. If you do, you might realize that there are a lot of lost hours, because you're not earmarking and preserving your time!

So, let's learn how to earmark your time to start the things that you want to do!

If you want to get a head start on your future, there's one thing that you can do now - give yourself permission to start... like today!

So, let's learn how to do that!

This dynamic conversation with Carlotta Tutt Holloway leaves no stone unturned. What a great opportunity for you to hear from a seasoned and accomplished marketing professional, who has a unique perspective about mistakes, and wastes no time going after the big projects (now)!

Are you ready to get inspired to start the things that you want to do? Well, then... let's get started!

Can you believe that you are the person that is supposed to be the expert on you? It may be hard to accept, but its true. And, by claiming responsibility for ownership over you, you have the opportunity to identify your defaults.

Today's episode will help you with that. Let's get started!

Do you ever have a hard time sharing the work out of fear that someone will not do something exactly like you do?

SURPRISE - you're right. No one will ever do things like you because they aren't you. They may get close, but never exactly. And, just because someone doesn't do something like you does not mean that they can't get it done effectively.

If you want to continue to grow, thrive and make space for you to do new things, delegation has to be your friend.

Let's explore the 4 levels of delegation to help you get started and elevate!

Have you ever been afraid to share your ideas out of fear that someone would steal them? Yeah... I've been there. Well, fear no more. How about we share the resources of the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

I had a wonderful converation with Elizabeth Dougherty, who shares the story of how she got started and how she leverages her role at the USPTO to help starters like you get started and keep growing?

I think its time for us to get started...

Competition is all around us all the time, but competition isn't a bad thing. Competition can be collaborative and create winning opportunities for everyone.

Are you willing to make room for others in your lane?

We hear about leadership all the time, but not a lot about self-leadership.

Let's talk about how you can use self-leadership to help you start the things that you want to do and lead in your lane. 

Leading in your lane can be hard if you keep believing that you're not even supposed to be in the lane.

Tune in today as we explore the opportunities for you to minimize your negative self talk so that you can get in and stay in your lane!

City scapes, landscapes and beautiful photos - those are all things that you can visualize during this wonderful conversation with Morgan Mickens.

We explored how she used her love and relationship with photography and architectural drafting early in her life to fuel what is now Red by Morgan. From trying to be all things to all people to navigating to specifically focusing on which part of photography that she loves the most, this was a fascinating and inspiring conversation.

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Yes - you can lead in so many lanes, including the legal lane. What a great conversation with Margeaux Thomas, as we explore how she used her expertise to give herself permission to get started and launch her own firm!

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What makes you unique and different? (ponder on that for a while) I'll share my reality. While many people get recharged and refueled by going to the spa, taking multiple days off of work or binging their favorite shows, I have to tell you - that does not do it for me.

I get refreshed from short, spurts of rest and I don't need or like to take off long period of work. I like mini charges and I know that works for me. While I have people in my life who remind me to slow down and take breaks (and I do), my requirements for respite and breaks is best served up for me in shorter periods of time.

I want you to be aware of what best works for you. If what you need is a refresh/recharge, remember that it only works if you do it in a way that is unique and effective for you!

Just a few weeks ago, I went to dinner with a good friend of mine, Jacqueline M. Welch, who also wrote the foreword for my latest book, The Unexpected Leader.

I can guarantee you that every time I meet with her, I walk away feeling positive, filled up and refreshed. Do you have a friend in your life like that - one that always leaves you and you feel better than when you first came into their presence.

Let's explore how you can refresh by getting the right people around you. 

Do you open up and close out your day or do you find yourself shuffling papers from one part of the desk to the other trying to find a slither of space to actually get things done?

On Part 2 of this series on the power of refreshing, let's explore the opportunity that you possess to have a grand opening and grand closing every day. 

I hope that you didn't see the P word - purge, and it worried you. I mean, there was an entire movie about purging and (spoiler alert), they weren't purging clothes or paper. What I want you to think about when you hear ME say the word purge in this episode is purging things for clarity, peace and freedom.

Because of a few past scenarios in my life, I find myself being a regular purger. It helps to provide mental and physical space in my life to actually think creatively and get things done.

Join me for part 1 of this 4-part episode as we explore the world of Positive Purging.

How? How can you go from having all these ideas and potential opportunities to turning then into action?

Well, I suggest that you embrace Expansive Thinking and give yourself permission to turn it into action.

Let's explore that in this episode of Just Start: From Ideas To Action!

Let's be honest. Getting stuck sucks. Use these quick strategies to get unstuck, start and keep going!

Food! Do I have your attention? I hope so, because that's what we're talking about today.

Chef Earl Stewart III joins us on this episode to explore the world of advancing from a 20 year corporate career to giving himself permission to start and grow Earl & Associates, focused on menu consulting, catering and the private chef space. From mistakes to what's next, we explore it all.

Join us for this exciting conversation. I hope that it inspires you to start the things that you want to do!