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Do Your Leaders Lift Others Up?
What are the real mobilizers of a thriving culture? When you look at your team of leaders and their influence, are they high performers and extraordinary leaders committed to protecting and building your culture? Do they inspire and lift others up? In this week's...
Transparent Business Practices: A Leadership Story with David Billstrom
What is the impact of implementing transparent business practices in your organization? In this week's podcast episode, Laura Juarez welcomes David Billstrom. David is one of the leaders of Kitsbow Cycling Apparel in Old Fort, North Carolina. He is an entrepreneur,...
Who Wants to Have a “Hard Conversation”?
What's the Alternative? Almost every leader I work with has one thing in common- a dislike of “hard conversations”. You know what I dislike? The term “hard conversations”. Don’t get me wrong, I still use it because I haven’t found an alternative that makes me cringe...
Why A Rhythm of Reflection Matters
For all the planning and preparation we may put in, sometimes the path to our goals doesn't go the way we expect. In these moments, remembering to pause, reflect, and integrate your learnings as part of reaching your goals or initiatives, allows you to realign your...
Creating Workplace Connections with Jeremy Fojut
Are you creating real opportunity for authentic workplace connections in your organization? In this week's 10X Impact Conversations podcast episode, Laura is joined by Jeremy Fojut. Jeremy is a serial entrepreneur, outdoor enthusiast, community builder and passionate...
Remember What Matters Most
Do you find yourself reinforcing busy culture? Yes, we all experience busy seasons. But do you get caught up in the story of being "crazy busy," without realizing how it may be affecting your wellbeing? When we are wrapped up in busyness and don't check our...
Stop Contributing to a “Fitting-In” Culture
What Fitting-In Requires When did you realize the difference between fitting in and belonging? For many, that realization hasn't happened. And if you’re like me, it feels like it needs to be re-realized over and over again. Not because I don’t understand the...
Building Trust in Relationship Systems with Amber Banks
What impact can we make when we commit to creating and repairing trust at work? In this week’s podcast episode we are joined by Dr. Amber Banks. Amber is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Trust and Transformation - a collective dedicated to advancing trust as a...
Mindfulness Tools for Leaders
Check in with yourself: How present and aware have you been in your work this past week? Oftentimes, we as leaders find ourselves in a state of constant forward movement and reaction. We have a lot going on, we want to solve problems, and we want to move on to the...
Prioritizing Joy at Work with David Reed
Many companies strive to build a strong culture of happy, fulfilled employees. But how often are those culture-building efforts put into genuine practices that elevate the whole system? In today's episode we are joined by David Reed who shares his leadership journey...
Work-Life Balance is a Hoax
We spend a lot of our time at work. It is an important and essential aspect of selves, our identity, of the impact we are having, and certainly of allocation of our time and resources. So why do we strive for this precarious work-life balance between our personal and...
Drop the Open Door Policy
Open door policies don’t work. I’m not saying that no one will ever “pop” in, they may. What I am saying is that using an open door policy as your answer to people surfacing issues, questions, uncertainties, and challenges is not only unrealistic, it’s blind and...
A New Way to Train That Sticks
Almost every leader has the good intention of creating a sense of belonging, trust, inclusion, high-performance, engagement, inspiration, and meaning. Unfortunately, those good intentions, regardless of the goodwill propping them up, often fail to translate into...