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Amiga, are you tired of minimizing your gifts? Are you done feeling stuck and all over the place? This episode is dedicated to you. It's time to learn how to see yourself as the woman who can accomplish those BIG scary dreams. Who do you need to be to accomplish those bigger goals and dreams? It's time to embody HER - It's time to BE HER! - You've had such big dreams and ideas, and Amiga they are valid and beautiful. If you're feeling stuck it might be time to see yourself as the version of you who can actually achieve those passion projects and bigger goals. But it's not just about visualizing this version of you, you also have to embody her! Grab your Cafecito and let's dive into this episode. - Make sure to share it with your Amigas because something powerful happens when we lift each other up! Ready to finally stop minimizing your gifts? Wanna learn how to BE HER, the Mujer who can achieve those BIG scare dreams? It's time to switch your mindset, love yourself, and start leveling up your confidence - join me for the next 6 weeks as I dive into the BE HER Model with you. - You'll learn to tap into your high achieving version so you can accomplish those big beautiful dreams! Contact me now to learn more: fearlessmujer.com/contact or just send me a direct message on Instagram! @thefearlessmujerpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Based in wonder and optimism, Nancy Giordano is an exponential strategist focused on building a safe, inclusive, thriving future. Believing we have a once in a generation opportunity to rethink, reimagine and reshape every industry and social construct we call life, she supports and champions those actively architecting bold solutions and guides the visionary leaders eager to meet this call. An active strategist working on horizon solutions, Nancy is eager to share her insights on emerging technologies and shifting cultural expectations in ways that get everyone deeply motivated by the possibilities…and confident to start building.This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses.  Life hack - make up your job Job is labeled or defined Can't use a map anymore, so we need a compass - What does the future need and expect, and what am I in a unique position to create and contribute Compass allows you to sense and respond purpose and intention lenses to the future - personal, community, society expectations and opportunities as a member of the community Watched the movie “Her” It didn't come out of nowhere Speech that can be fabricated See Episode 537 History teachers may be best prepared. Literacies Dreams and the role they play in our psychological well-being Joined an AI startup 8 years ago. Humanity Bill of Rights How do we build better decision-making framing David Ogilvy - give me the freedom of a tightly defined strategy. We can all agree on these 10–12 things SAMR Model The more students have to go outside the system for what they think is important the less the value is that degree. It's a tool that helps us What are the use cases for AI? Responsible AI institute Scale the conversation around ethics Algorithm and data Huge structural changes Teachers who have it are that much more impactful and great. Part of the reason we have a mental health crisis is that kids don't feel totally prepared for the future. Gravitate towards those who are preparing us well. SWOT Analysis - RIFF Map - Relieved, inspired, frustrated, Fearful Things you're frightened by Head to nancygiordano.com and check out the book LEADERing. Summer of AI - learn all about AI in a safe, supportive community focused on school leaders and applications of AI to school environments - aileader.info We're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

Emily Zimmermann and my business is called Grace CommunicationsThe founder and CEO of Grace Communications, Emily Zimmermann, has over 15 years of experience leading marketing, public relations, event planning, and business development efforts for companies all over the United States. She has a demonstrated history of success with helping develop new companies and departments as well as extensive event planning and social media experience. She also has been responsible for public relations efforts in top markets all over the country such as Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Charlotte. Her passion for marketing and helping businesses grow is what led her to form Grace CommunicationsEmily also has a passion for speaking and educating others in fun, unique ways. Her It's A Match Workshops use the same fundamentals that are successful in dating, to help in the business realm. She has a variety of experience with public speaking including hosting fashion shows, events, live television segments, grand openings, conferences, and virtual training sessions.www.gracecommunicationsagency.comwww.marlanasemenza.comAudio : Ariza Music ProductionsTranscription : Vision In WordMarlana Now founder and CEO of Grace Communications, Emily Zimmerman has over 15 years of experience leading marketing public relations and business development efforts for companies all over the United States. Her It's A Match workshops is the same fundamentals that are successful in dating to help businesses grow. Welcome, Emily.Emily I'm so excited to be here. Thank you for having me on.Marlana So, I'm really intrigued by this handling business like dating. So first, tell us what you see some of the similarities as being?Emily I think there are unlimited similarities, honestly, this all came about because it was a way that I would kind of cope with the hardships of being an entrepreneur, it was how I would laugh about things. And I would find myself thinking like, this is like, when I used to be dating like this, or implying to me of how I felt before I got married, like, you know, and there were a lot of ups and downs, a lot of awkward situations. A lot of just, you know, are you a good fit? Are you not a good fit? Are you a match? Are you not a match. So, it was kind of one of those things where it was like a coping mechanism for me to change my mindset and look at it almost like a game or like something fun, when things would happen that were uncomfortable as a business owner. But some of the similarities, I think, right off the bat that most people are going to be like, Yeah, I can relate to that. Our rejection is a big one. So, as you know, a female entrepreneur or even just entrepreneur, in general, you don't have to even put gender in there. Rejection is just a constant, you know, you just have to be prepared for that. And I always feel like that if you can change your mind set on how you handle rejection, you can do almost anything, because there's that fear of being rejected that so many people have, it's the same in the dating realm. You feel like, one of the things that holds people back, I think, from putting themselves out there, and finding the one or whatever is, is rejection. And it's so easy to take it personally and to feel like, I'm just never going to find that right match, I'm never going to have never been a boyfriend, I'm never going to get married, or I'm never going to find that client, the clients that

**Minus the Marc Anthony Salsa Tracks*** Chart your course to the largest network of Latina women working across the technology sector! The Captain returns to the high seas with a fresh wave of Passion! On this spicy episode of The Cave Boat, the Captain invites Cruz Nieto for a short, but informative 30-minute cruise (see what I did there?) to discuss Latinas in Tech, a multi-chapter professional networking organization founded by Latinas and for Latinas. It was a real treat to listen to the good work this important organization is doing to inspire the next generation of Latinas and highlight the need for the benefit of diversity in the workplace. More about Cruz: Cruz Nieto is the Chief of the Project Management Office for the CA Environmental Protection Agency. She has more than 20 years experience in the public sector including multiple state departments. Her IT experience includes Chief Technology Officer for the Secretary of State and leading enterprise-wide projects from strategy development through implementation. Cruz also specializes in organizational change management with experience in communications, marketing and event planning. She graduated from Golden Gate University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, is a native of Sacramento and Chapter leader of the Latinas in Tech Sacramento Valley Chapter. Worth a listen! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michael-cave/message

Want to be successful? Then don't date or even marry the WRONG man. Today's guest Cena Martin Chandler. Mom of 2 boys, Author, and Producer. Cena helps health coaches who scaled fast;. onboard, hire, and train their first community manager. She writes... Q: Do you wish someone had conversations with you about relationships? Her: It would have saved me from going down a lot of dark roads on my own in the dating world. I was raised in a unique situation. My mom got involved with a cult and actually married one of the church leaders - so I learned unhealthy dating and religious abuse at the same exact time. Let's talk.... So who am I? Hi. I'm Reka. I'm an NLP certified life coach.

Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi, and welcome to the Sales Enablement PRO podcast. I am Shawnna Sumaoang. Sales enablement is a constantly evolving space, and we’re here to help professionals stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices so that they can be more effective in their jobs. Today, I’m excited to have Hannah from Red Canary join us. Hannah, I would love for you to introduce yourself, your role, and your organization to our audience. Hannah Ensler-Rivel: Sure. My name is Hannah Ensler-Rivel and I’m the director of revenue enablement over at Red Canary. Red Canary is a security company focused on the endpoint and investigating, detecting, and responding to threats there as well as being a security operations ally to our customers. I was hired as a sales enablement manager, the first enablement hire for Red Canary, in October of last year and recently was promoted to the director role, which is going to give me oversight into all of our revenue-facing folks and think about all the enablement they might need and start growing our enablement team over at Red Canary, which I’m really excited about. SS: Well, we’re also excited to have you joining us today. You mentioned on LinkedIn that you recently rolled out a new onboarding program. I would love to hear from you, what does that program look like? HER: Yeah, so not only was I new to the role, I jumped right in and built a brand new onboarding program because we hire for sales in cohorts. We were hiring for this next fiscal year in December, so in December we hired about 30 new SDRs and account executives. I spent January and February onboarding all of them in our new program, which we called Flight School. It’s been interesting approaching that challenge in such a high-growth environment. I think the framework I really wanted to think about was building purposefully for the virtual space. I think last year, most enablement professionals, we very suddenly and spontaneously had to make all of our enablement programs virtual, and most of us just took our in-person content and put it on Zoom and did our best. But now, a year into this pandemic and looking ahead to the future of work, which I think is going to look very different, I really wanted to build for doing onboarding virtually for the future. I really focused on really three things. One was lots of short sessions. It seems like a simple thing, but the human brain cannot do more than 90 minutes or so on Zoom. Even though it made the logistics a little more complex and it made the program a little bit longer, it was important to me to do a lot of shorter sessions. Each session was outcome-driven around a specific theme. Which made it really easy to check into the learning and know exactly what was going to happen. The second thing I was focused on was really utilizing the flipped classroom style of learning. This is something that I think became a little trendy when I was maybe in middle school or high school. I don’t know if a lot of schools are doing it anymore, but I always found it really appealing. Instead of doing your lecture in class and your homework at home, you flip the two. So, you do your lecture notes, readings, watching videos on your own. When you come to your classroom, in this case, your Zoom room, you’re doing the activities live together and getting immediate feedback. I found it to be a really effective way of teaching sellers because they get that immediate interaction, and they get to work with each other. I had them build a lot of resources that they were going to use in their day-to-day roles that way. I think it was a really effective way to make that virtual learning interactive. The third thing is just really including the voice of sales. I was brand-new to Red Canary. I learned quickly, but I certainly didn’t have the experience of some of our longest-tenured sellers. So, getting their buy-in to help and be co-facilitators and work on content, and we have such an incredible team here that really jumped in to do that and bring that voice of sales throughout. All of those were really important to figuring out a successful onboarding program, which we just finished, and I think went really well. SS: Congratulations on that. It sounds like a fantastic program and three very key areas. How can you ensure that the knowledge and skills that are learned in the onboarding stick long-term and really lead to the right behaviors? HER: Enablement doesn’t end with onboarding, although it’s such a vital part and it’s the first part. It’s so important to focus on it, but we have to continue that otherwise everything learned in onboarding is just going to fall by the wayside. I think it’s important to have an enablement brand, just like we have a Red Canary brand about allyship with our customers. We need an internal enablement brand aligned with similar values of allyship with our sales folks. For me, that brand is about being expected, repeatable, and consistent. With expected, that’s about when we’re doing enablement. We have our monthly all-hands, we have our QBRs, we have our regular newsletter and other channels of communication. So, sales always knows when they’re showing up to learn and can be in that right headspace with those correct expectations. From a repeatable standpoint, that’s to ensure everyone’s learning the same behaviors and that we’re really making sure to be consistent with that. To run enablement at scale, you really need to have that repeatable content, and that’s somewhere I really leverage content creation like videos to make sure we’re always using that repeatable enablement content. Finally, consistent. Every session we do, every enablement activity, has outcomes. Then, the content is driven by those outcomes. Also, it’s important to me that everybody who’s coming to speak to the sales team speaks in the sales voice. That often means I’m doing some translation for our product teams or our marketing teams or our engineering teams, anyone that wants to talk to sales. I want them to bring their knowledge to the table and then I want us to convert that to, why does this matter to me as a seller? How does this impact my pipeline tomorrow? How do I talk about this with a customer? There’s a fair amount of translation that needs to happen. That’s such a key role of enablement. I think focusing on those three things as the enablement brand ensures that everything you learn in onboarding continues to be reinforced throughout your Red Canary career. SS: That’s fantastic. Now, as you mentioned, Red Canary is growing rapidly. How have you gone about building enablement programs that are able to support the revenue teams as the company’s scaling? HER: We’re growing like crazy. We basically doubled our sales team this year, which has been really fun, but it’s also happening very quickly. There are a couple of things you need to do there. One is the right people. As I start to build my team, I’m thinking about this. One of the things that I really love about the field of enablement is that it’s so new. It doesn’t necessarily require or demand a particular background. It really harnesses a whole variety of skills, and those skills can come from a lot of different places. I was a teacher and then I was in recruiting and then I was in event management, and somehow all of those things added up to getting an opportunity in sales enablement, where I do apply all of those things. But I had that opportunity and I got to enter this world. As I take on a leadership position, it’s really important to me to be able to provide those same opportunities to others who might be coming from different backgrounds than we expect. Maybe not from sales specifically, but bringing incredible diversity and creativity to the table. When we do that, I think we really are able to reflect within our enablement team the diverse partners and customers that we serve. Enablement’s a really high visibility team and a driver of so much communication and collaboration. Having those really diverse, interesting teams I think is an important part of the puzzle of scaling – getting those right people in those roles. I think another part is the right tools. There’s a lot out there. Figuring out the right sales enablement tools for your business is really key to operationalizing and scaling what you do. You can create great content, but if you can’t figure out how to share that meaningfully, it’ll never get seen. Picking your tool stack is really key. Then, I also think just encouraging the right conversations. Figuring out how to capture institutional knowledge is such a tricky part of enablement, but so important, especially now that we’re all working remotely. All those opportunities that sales folks used to have to learn by osmosis just by sitting next to great other sellers and hearing their calls and turning them and saying, “Hey, can you look at this quote? Does this seem right?” We’re missing a lot of those opportunities now, especially when you come in brand new to a company. How do we capture that and make sure it resonates? Something we’ve done here is we built the Red Canary Rep Council or RC-Squared, and that’s made up of six of our longest-tenured sellers who are committed to being coaches and facilitators for a six-month term. They teach a lot of Flight School. They do a lot of coaching on pitches, feedback on our certifications, they’re the voice of sales for other organizations that need to understand what people are seeing in the field. I think that’s helped a lot for our new sellers to feel immediately plugged into smart people who’ve done this for a long time. All of those I think are helping scale this but there’s certainly a lot more work to do as we continue to grow at this rapid pace. SS: One other way organizations can scale success is through partners. Given your experience overseeing partner enablement programs in the past, I’d love to get your perspective. What are some unique challenges of delivering enablement programs to partners and how have you overcome some of those challenges? HER: Yeah, I’ve certainly come across some challenges with that. I think the first challenge, the biggest one, is every partner’s going to have a different knowledge base, different expertise, different resources, and a different level of commitment to the partnership. You could have a partner who’s basically just selling your products and an extension of your team. Then, you could have a partner who can sell 300 different things and is not focused specifically on your organization or product. Determining how to build enablement to account for all those different levels is really a tricky part of partner enablement. I think the way you do it is you have to make your content really flexible and adaptable. You have to build really brief self-paced videos and quizzes, you have to build in-person delivery that your channel account managers or other folks can do, you have to build some comprehensive technical courses as well to cover those folks that really want to get in-depth in your product. You just need to give partners all the different options to learn all the same things at the pace and level that they need to. If you make your content way too deep, you’re going to lose people who are only selling it 5% of the time. And if you make it way too high-level, you’re going to lose those deeper technical people who really want to get immersed in your product. A flexible, adaptable, wide range of content is really important. I think the second challenge is you can’t always just lift and shift your existing enablement content because the partner perspective and the partner voice are different. It’s different depending on what side of the table they’re sitting on: are they looking at integrating your product with a variety of other ones? You have to make it applicable to their mindset. Keep it simple, keep it connected to their day-to-day. One of the best ways to do that is to ask them. When you have great partners, ask them, what’s the best piece of content you’ve seen? What’s the best partner enablement course you’ve been through? Can I ride along with you while you’re selling our products and hear what’s going well and what’s not? Once you form some really good relationships, asking them what they need and what’s working will really help you adapt your existing sales enablement content for what they need to be doing on a day-to-day basis. SS: I love that term “lift and shift”. How do you ensure that you get broad adoption of your enablement initiatives with your partners? What are some tips to gain mindshare with partners for some of your enablement programs, given that it can be hard when partners have a lot of competing priorities? HER: They certainly do. The first thing is really being an ally to them. This is something I love at Red Canary. It’s so important to our brand that we are a security ally to our customers and to our partners. It’s not just lip service. It’s really something we provide in the knowledge share we do in the community at large. Establishing yourself as an ally overall helps a lot with this, showing your commitment to partners so they can count on you. But there’s a lot more you need to do as well. The first is really to demonstrate your value. When you have wins together, when you have enablement content that helped lead to sales, when you have certified partners who helped do the services, you need to highlight those wins publicly with your partners and show them how much they mean to your business. I’ve also found a lot of success partnering with internal marketing teams to do that. I’ve had a lot of success with partner marketing, working hand-in-hand with partner enablement to do events and to do various challenges and things we can do to build the overall brand together. That’s been really successful for me too. Really, it’s just showing that commitment to your partners, so they understand when they invest in you, it’ll be worth their time. Sometimes that’s just going to meet them where they are. Last year when the entire world shut down, I was actually in Australia on a two-week tour of all of the partners down there and going into all of their offices and walking through all of our content. It was a big investment on our part, but it was so important because we were able to show them how important they were to our business by going to them, not asking them to take time out to go to a conference, but saying, “we’ll come into your office on our own dime and teach you what you need to know.” It’s really just about demonstrating that commitment throughout the entire enablement experience. SS: The last question I have for you is one many of us often have to think about which is to be able to demonstrate the impact. How do you measure the impact of your partner enablement efforts? HER: It’s definitely something we all struggle with in measuring enablement impact. It’s really so hard and I think it’s something I still am learning as I gain more experience in enablement. One of the things that’s great now at Red Canary, I actually sit on our revenue operations team. I think that’s becoming a more popular model for enablement, but it’s the first time in my enablement career I’ve done that. I have a real bird’s eye view into all the metrics that are being tracked across the organization and what’s important to all the different teams, what they’re asking of our sales operations specialist and managers, what our CRO is asking for in dashboards. As a result, I can see where the trends are. I can see where the concerns are, and I can try to map what I’m doing in enablement to what those metrics are. On the partner enablement side, I think you can do the same thing, where you’re tracking how the enablement engagement is happening when it’s happening and then looking at when deals are coming in. Did we do a big enablement session? Then, did we see an increase in pipeline from that particular partner? That’s one of the easiest, most straightforward ways to track it. It’s a little bit of causation versus correlation, but I think again, if you can demonstrate that both to partners and to your internal teams, you get so much more buy-in for your programs that you can show it directly led to pipeline. I think one of the key things is just being in lockstep with your operations team. Even if you as enablement or partner enablement don’t sit on the revenue operations team, still really being connected to the folks on that team, to your sales operations manager and understanding what’s important to them, and then getting to map your efforts to that, that’s been really helpful to me. I sit on the same team as our great sales operations manager. I talk to him all the time about how do we track what we’ve just done in onboarding to what’s going to happen as these folks bring in their first deals. We are able to work together to build some of those dashboards. Collaboration with your operations team helps a lot with figuring out the impact of enablement. SS: Hannah, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us. I learned so much from you today and I really enjoyed the conversation, so thank you again. HER: Thank you, Shawnna, for having me. I really enjoyed it as well. SS: To our audience, thanks for listening. For more insights, tips, and expertise from sales enablement leaders, visit salesenablement.pro. If there’s something you’d like to share or a topic you’d like to learn more about, please let us know, we’d love to hear from you.

Main blog - https://mikemehlman.net/ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/mikemehlman Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mike_mehlman/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mikemehlman.net In this video I discuss a short point on how one can calibrate on the cold approach when the girl seems lean-unreceptive and doesn't want to talk right now. That is, you approach her directly and tell her she's cute. She instantly appears to be in a rush, or puts up her hand and says she can't talk now. Or she isn't necessarily rushing but is moving away from you as you're trying to carry the short convo. Greater than 99% of guys would interpret this type of girl as straight-up unreceptive and would probably quickly recede out of the interaction. I've talked about before how many girls who might seem unreceptive actually aren't. If the male is a little bit pushy in his interactions, he'll be able to exchange with quite a few girls whom the more novice male wouldn't be able to secondary to insufficient audacity. If you open a girl and she seems like she doesn't want to talk but is nevertheless responding minimally to you, one thing you can do is essentially hyper-emphasize that you're not going to consume her time. You're going to make it clear that you're not that guy who wants to consume 9 minutes of her time; you only want 15-20 seconds. You're making it clear. You say at least 3-5 times, while also gesturing with your body and pointing away from her, "Well anyway, I've gotta head that way," or "Well anyway, I need to go that way." Convo will go something like this: You: "Hey you're cute." Her: "Hey. I'm in a rush I can't talk now." (moving away from you) You: "I've gotta head that way. How old are you." Her: "Im busy now." You: "I'm Michael. Well I've gotta go that way. How old are you." Her: "22." You: "What are you doing now?" Her: "I'm going to go meet a friend." (moving away from you) You: "Well I need to go that way. Do you like tapioca." Her: "It's okay." You: "Alright well let's talk again. I need to go that way. Let's exchange." (She exchanges) Guy reading this says, "What? I don't get it. Is that really a thing? Sounds weird Michael." I'm just telling you one highly effective calibration I've evolved into when it comes to attempting to exchange with girls who are in a rush and/or are moving away from you and seem like they don't want to talk. This is not something I've romanticized or... Continue reading: https://mikemehlman.net/

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We're back!   And we're here for a silly goose time! This might be one of Wes's favorite episodes to date. We get started right away with the goof levels jacked all the way up, as Austin tries his best radio voice and Wes immediately ruins it. Next, we take down the boomers and set em straight! Really, Austin is just mad at one boomer, but we come for em all anyway! Don't steal chairs, it's not nice. Oh yeah! Did you know that genital skin doesn't work with touchscreens? Austin didn't and has sex with his phone... Ya'll ever seen HER? It was just like that. We get hacked in the middle of talking about technology and it turns out the dog did it... Harmontown finally ended and Wes cries a lot. Then, we contemplate time and existence, and we judge a juggalos rap skills! Those machines within must be really special.  And finally, we get to our favorite segment on the show, 2,000 questions about me (you, us, everyone really, who cares?!). Have you ever felt like you don't fit in? Has the internet burned an image into your head (cumbox)? What are you unapologetic for? And the important question we've all been dying to know the answer to, have you ever thrown bread for the ducks?! HAVE YOU?! All of this and more, only on your favorite science and technology podcast, BSFTB!  SHOUTOUTS TO Trevor Wallace and Cherdleys on YT Thank you for listening and please like, follow, and subscribe on all the things! and don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes! Do it, or we will write to your senator and tell them about the thing in summer camp. You know what I mean.  Please consider Donating to the show at PayPal it helps us keep doing whatever it is we're doing here! We also have a Venmo (@blueskiespod) and a Cash app account ($blueskiespod) if you prefer using those! FOLLOW US Twitter - @blueskiespod FB - Blue Skies from the Basement Insta - @blueskiespod Our home base - PodBean Email us to join the banana cult - blueskiespodcast@gmail.com Leave us a voicemail and have it played on the show - 614-600-2056 Hop on the Discord - https://discord.gg/fKtFYpw Check out our SoundCloud where Wes has been experimenting with samples and Austin has a freestyle - https://soundcloud.com/user-241247125 Blue Skies merch @ TEEPUBLIC  NEW DESIGNS UP NOW   and as always, don't mind me... I'm a tourist!

Me: “... but I need to lose weight”. Her: “Ok... I can see how you can think that.” Me: “Everything you are sharing with me makes so much sense and I can feel it inside of me, that it’s what I need [pause & sigh] … but I need to lose weight”. The tears started to roll off my cheeks. Uncontrollably crying. The tears were coming from the depth of my gut. It was one of those moments when you want to stop crying because you really don’t want to cry in front of strangers but you can’t... it’s not in your control. Her: “Stephanie, your desires to lose weight are valid. It’s normal that you want to lose weight. These desires are encouraged every day by the society in which we live in, an environment that is laden with weight stigma, body size discrimination, and fatphobia. It makes perfect sense that you want to lose weight.” I was deeply confused.  Life is on hold until I lose weight I was 38 years old and the last 25 years of my personal life had been a series pressing “pause” and “play”. I only allowed myself to “play” my personal life when I was at a weight that was recognized by others to be ok. If I was gaining weight or not working hard to lose the “not normal excess weight,” my personal life was on “pause”. Her: “So, let’s work through this, Stephanie. Why do you want to lose weight? What do you feel will happen when you lose weight?” Me: “ Uhhh.....”  No one ever asked me this question. I never asked myself this question either. My brain was stumped... blank.  Her: “It’s normal that you don’t know how to answer this question. You likely never thought of the desire to lose weight as optional therefore never considered why you were desiring it.”  She was right by that point it had been 27 years. Since my teens, I had lived on and off diets always chasing “another body”. The truth was my happiness was conditional to the way my body looked. Even when my body looked “ok” it was such a battle to keep it up that I didn’t have the mental space or time to fully enjoy my now “allowed happy life”. Me: “I guess you’re right...”  Her: “Until we see each other again I want you to ask yourself these questions: Where is the desire to lose weight coming from? What do you feel will happen if you lose weight? Will you be treated differently? Will you feel beautiful? Worthy? Healthy?   As a good perfectionist, I did my homework. I had so many Ah Ah moments... many realizations. It took me a while to fully accept what these questions forced me to see: As a strong, independent & feminist woman, I had given away my power. The journey back to my power The social conditionings of the patriarchy of our modern society had kept me very busy dieting and chasing after the false currency of beauty instead of chasing my dreams. Being consumed by the fear of how my body looks was keeping me away from my power. I found my power. My true power. The power to live my life now. I gave myself the permission to be enough unconditionally to what my body looks like or weight. I no longer needed to be perfect in “all the things” or to make choices to please others in fear of rejection In today’s episode, we welcome a guest, Aaron Flores is a Registered Dietician with a private practice is in Calabasas, CA. He uses Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size® in his work to help individuals learn how to make peace with food and their bodies. Aaron is a Certified Body Trust® provider and he also the co-host of the popular podcast, Dietitians Unplugged. On this episode, Aaron and I answered the following questions: Why do we feel the need to lose weight? Is the pursuit of weight loss helpful? Can we take a weight-neutral approach to health? My doctor said I need to lose weight How to manage our medical provider expectation and discussion with regards to bodyweight Mentioned on the show: "So... You Want to Lose Weight?" Workshop Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating    Discussed in the episode: Jes Baker episode Invisible Women book Health Beyond Dieting article Connect with our guest Website Instagram Facebook Dietician Unplugged podcast 

Purnima is the Operations & People Director at Sparta Global When Purnima started her career in technology there was no clear career path set out for her. With a degree and masters in economics, Purnima ended up in technology almost by accident. Her IT career started when she joined a company called Sun Systems. Whilst at this company Purnima got a really good understanding and appreciation of technology. Although she isn’t technical herelf Purnima began to understand a lot of the jargon being used in the business. She realised that if you want to work in an innovative sector you need to work in IT. It was a sector where you could be creative as well as innovative. After working at Sun Systems she spent 16 years working in an IT consultancy before moving to Sparta Global.

The goal of the National Cybersecurity Initiative for Women in Cybersecurity is to offer support and solutions to women in cybersecurity by offering skills training and identifying best practices for utilization by women in the cyber security field to help understand and influence perceptions. Women in Cybersecurity Leadership will cover best practices utilized by women in the cybersecurity field in various areas of critical infrastructure. Each podcast will feature a noted woman leader in the cyber security arena who will share with Who she is! What she does! and How she gets it done! Interviewee: Anne Kohnke, PhD is an Assistant Professor of IT at Lawrence Technological University and teaches courses in both the Information Technology and Organization Development/Change Management disciplines at the bachelor through doctorate levels.  Anne started as an Adjunct Professor in 2002 and joined the faculty full-time in 2011.  Prior to joining LTU, Anne worked in Industry for 25 years where she focused in information technology and management.  Her IT career started in the mid-1980's on a help desk, and over the years Anne developed technical proficiency as a database administrator, network administrator, and technical business analyst. After a decade, Anne was promoted to management and worked as a project manager, IT Director, and Vice President of IT and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).  Dr. Kohnke's technical experience and organization development background aided her in building collaborative, high performance teams to work on complex medium to large-scale technical projects. Anne has managed multi-million dollar IT budgets in fast paced entrepreneurial environments. As a former CISO, Anne has extensive hands-on experience in risk management, IT security controls, IT governance, and IT audits to include NIST and PCI certifications.   Dr. Kohnke earned her PhD from Benedictine University and an MBA from Lawrence Technological University.