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Hormones affect the entire body, and you only have one so you have to take care of it. But first, you have to know where you're at in order to know where you're going, based on your goals. Don't miss this week's episode where Nancy starts to unpack women's health and why a balance in your gut system will truly optimize your hormones. She'll dive into why having everything in balance is key so you can live a long life young, and even how she can help you reach your destination.  In this episode, you will learn: Why getting your hormones in balance is important. (1:26) Some tips on how to fuel your body to make sure your microbiomes are functioning properly.  (4:06) How Nancy can help you with your body composition, compete on stage and age gracefully. (15:05) -   This episode is brought to you by Transcend.  Transcend is taking preventative healthcare beyond the restrictions of traditional medicine.  Through their Advanced Hormone Replacement Therapy and innovative Telehealth system,  Transcend will help you receive the best care on the cutting edge of medical science.  Whether you are looking to improve your sexual wellness or optimize your health, Transcend's approach to transparent and simplified care will help you achieve the life you've always wanted.  Visithttp://hormonesandpeptides.com/ (  http://hormonesandpeptides.com/) today to start your journey to a better you.  -  If you loved what you heard, please Follow, Rate and Review on https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/women-rawc/id1487587809?l=en (Apple Podcasts ) You can also listen to the show on: https://open.spotify.com/show/2FpmTRDTqlJQvnAoYWCcv2 (Spotify) https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vd29tZW4tcmF3Yy8 (Google) https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e16e3ebb-36de-4590-b937-2401c437a41a/WOMEN-RAWC (Amazon Podcasts) Subscribe to Nancy's Youtube Channel:https://bit.ly/3wn8Z1f ( https://bit.ly/3wn8Z1f) If you would like to be a guest on the show, email Nancy at Nancy@NancyAnderberg.com - Connect with Nancy: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nancyanderbergcoach/ (@nancyanderberg) Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NancyAnderbergCoach/ (@NancyAnderbergCoach) Twitter - https://twitter.com/fit4rawbynancy?lang=es (@Fit4RAWbyNancy) Website - https://www.nancyanderberg.com/ (nancyanderberg.com)

The word “midlife” is often associated with “crisis”, reducing this time of every person's life to something negative. The truth is that when you reach your midlife there are indeed some changes, but they are not bad. Like every other change in life, they need to be accepted and embrace. Midlife is an amazing opportunity to rediscover yourself and your passions. Today's guest, Nancy Baker-Belda, a successful woman that was able to reinvent herself a few times during her life, will talk about Midlife and how women often lose themselves in this particular time of their life. Nancy will tell us her tips and advice on to how fully embrace our creativity, life experiences and reinvent ourselves.Nancy Baker-Belda became a registered nurse in 1969 and has worked in various roles throughout her career but has found her true calling and personal development. She is also a speaker, a coach, and trainer, and has experience working with women in midlife. Tune in to Season, Episode 1 of Amiga, Handle Your Shit and learn Nancy's reinvention story. Some Questions I Ask:What's your story, Nancy? (4.48)What's your next big thing? (24.46)What are the tips you can give to our Amigas out there? (31.28) In This Episode, You Will Learn:How Nancy started her Pampered Chef career. (12.12)How Nancy succeeded in singing the National Anthem at Wrigley Field. (18.19)What Nancy will talk about in her next course about Midlife. (24.46)Connect with Jules Martinez HirstFacebookInstagramEmail: nancy@nancybelda.comLet's Connect!WebsiteFacebookInstagramLinkedInJackie Tapia Arbonne websiteHow To Handle Your Shit Amiga & Have a Better Life! - Free masterclass See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Heather interviews Nancy McSharry Jensen, CEO, and Co-Founder of The Swing Shift, the destination for women in career transition.   Tune in to hear their conversation on: "I was kicking around this idea of working with women who took breaks or wanted to do something different." – How Nancy and Sarah Duenwald met and formed the Swing Shift. "COVID hit and we needed a hard, fast shift to digital." – Shifting how their services were offered when in-person events and coaching were not feasible with a focus on building community and guidance without 3-hour zoom calls. "In January women lost 156,000 jobs and guys picked up 16,000 jobs. So, it's a net loss all at a working woman's expense." - The overwhelming impact of COVID on women in the workplace and what needs to change to fix it. "When it's time to go back it may have been years since they have looked for a job and they don't really know how the game is played." - How Nancy's Back to Business book and e-course guide people through the entire process of returning to work and finding a job at their own pace. "Don't let them funnel off – keep them in." - The Swing Shift's latest offering, Career Break Initiative, focused on helping companies recruit and retain employees and build loyalty with the company by developing support programs and benefits to allow career breaks for employees. Visit mavensdoitbetter.com for full show notes and more.

We need to talk about attachment some more. Interesting new questions and insights about attachment have emerged as a result of our soul intercourse series. Let's spin. — (4:03)  Inner disagreement and ongoing friction fueling attachment — (9:24)  The implications of attachment in politics and group dynamics — (14:44) The mechanics behind the hate/love relationship attachment types have with us — (20:42) How Nancy and DG self-locate their preferences — (33:15) Hexad vs attachment on arguments and disagreement — (40:57) Attachment types coming to terms with how they're giving away their autonomy — (46:56) Putting it all together with how and why attachment types get lost in the sauce — (49:18) Why attachment types think hexad types are ‘cool' and get triggered by them Call the Loveline with your comments and thoughts about this episode at (323) 696-0647 today. Or you can also email bhepodcast@gmail.com with a voice note.

What does it mean to be typecast and how does typecasting perpetuate stereotypes in the media and society? This week, I interview Nancy Wang Yuen - scholar and author of the book "Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism." Her data dives deep into inequities in Hollywood as well as how structural racism plays out in films. Guest: Nancy Wang Yuen Podcast Show Notes Episode title: Nancy Wang Yuen Topics discussed in this episode: Topic 1: How Nancy is practicing self-care Topic 2: What Nancy identifies as and her background Topic 3: Cinema and TV influencing society Topic 4: Nancy’s Book - Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism Topic 5: The message Nancy wants future agents to take away Topic 6: How she works with studios Topic 6: Rapid Fire questions Handles: https://www.nancywyuen.com/about.html Twitter - https://twitter.com/nancywyuen Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nancywyuen/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyyuen/ https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/nancy-yuen Resources mentioned in this episode: Nancy’s book: ‘Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism’ https://bookshop.org/books/reel-inequality-hollywood-actors-and-racism/9780813586298 ‘Racial and Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Children’s Television Use and Self- Esteem: A Longitudinal Panel Study’ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0093650211401376 ‘The Rooney Rule’ https://www.visier.com/clarity/how-hr-can-tackle-diversity-using-the-rooney-rule/ Mentioned Notes: Mulan, Pachinko, Gran Tarino, Crazy Rich Asians SAL Links: Website - https://strongasianlead.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/strongasianlead_/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/strongasianlead David's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/davidmoriya/?hl=en Music Up In My Jam (All Of A Sudden) by - Kubbi https://soundcloud.com/kubbi Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/tDexBj46oNI

Today on the podcast I'm excited to be joined by Nancy Taylor.  Nancy helps teachers to build a brand on Youtube. In this episode you'll hear about:How Nancy got started in businessWhat a typical day is like for NancyThree tips for building a brand on YoutubeConnect with me on Instagram HereGrab the Show Notes Here

How many of you have spent time wondering about all of the different ways you can cultivate your audience and grow your community? If you’ve done your research, you’ve no doubt come across the impressive earning potential of live video. If you feel shy or apprehensive at even the thought of doing this, you’ll find comfort in the fact that so many people have been in your shoes. The idea of putting ourselves out there isn’t easy. But, when you invest in the tools you need to build this confidence and skill-set, the ROI is wildly impressive!Today you’ll hear from 3 very special guests. These are women who’ve come through my LVM course and found it to be instrumental in their success in terms of connecting with their audience. Cathleen Elle is a successful author who found the ideal way to connect with others like her who are healing personal trauma. Nancy Belda is a professional coach who now uses live video to help women in mid-life create the perfect path for their next chapters. Shirley Whing Chow found a more authentic way of connecting to her audience in her social-emotional intelligence coaching business from behind the camera lens.Over the last few episodes, you’ve heard directly from graduates of my FREE Masterclass who’ve shared their personal experiences. LVM is the path towards proven, exponential growth. Instilling that confidence in yourself is the ultimate game-changer. Who’s ready to invest in my expertise and get camera-ready? There are truly no limits to what you can accomplish by mastering live video, and I’m so excited to help you at every step along the way! In This Episode You Will Learn: The 4 elements Cathleen was able to access through LVM (5:30)How Cathleen utilized live video to become a best-selling author (7:41)The hidden benefit of LVM (10:58)Why it’s never too late to master LVM (22:37)How Nancy found her client niche (28:08)The difference between acting and communicating from behind the lens (30:52)Why you actually become less judgemental of your performance when recording live (34:33)How Nancy plans to use LVM in her business (39:01)Why Shirley found so much value in my Seven Steps Pitch approach (43:27)How a perfectionist learned to let it go through LVM (45:24)People Mentioned in this Episode:Evan Mark KatzJack CanfieldJoseph McClendon III Gary VaynerchukConnect with Cathleen Elle:WebsiteTwitterInstagramFacebookConnect with Nancy Belda:WebsiteFacebookTrainingEmail- nancy@nancybelda.comConnect with Shirley Whing Chow:WebsiteFacebook LinkedInResources: My FREE Masterclass: How to Master Zoom and Live Video Sales Like a Pro Free MasterclassBeyond Your Best Plan PodcastBook- Shattered Together: A Mother’s Journey from Grief to Belief by Cathleen ElleBook- Women Who Rise featuring Cathleen Elle See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What We Covered:01:03 – Introducing today’s guest, Nancy Shadlock, who shares how she has embraced her spirituality and sexuality and speaks to the work she does as a coming out coach 04:34 – Nancy shares a particularly inspiring coming out story from her work at a recent retreat 07:21 – Nancy talks about the creativity she’s employed to enhance the experience for her clients amidst COVID-1911:06 – The importance of having a strong support system as an entrepreneur 13:43 – How Nancy balances her own self-care 15:57 – Nancy provides their thoughts on why it’s important to celebrate queer entrepreneurship 20:38 – What Nancy loves most about her work and why coaching matters Tweetable Quotes:“I thought I had to divorce my spirituality in order to embrace my sexuality. And when I realized I could bring those together and be authentic in all of who I am, I was able to use my Master of Arts and spiritual formation to help others.” (01:37) (Nancy) “You learn more from the ‘screw-ups’ than from the amazing successes.” (09:00) (Nancy) “What I’ve been leaning into lately is that my queerness is my path to wholeness. And so as I’ve been able to own that and lean into it, so much has opened up as far as my business because it’s so much more authentic of who I am. So that’s why I love helping other people with that.” (16:25) (Nancy) “I had to wait until I had a community that had wrestled with this and said, ‘No, you can totally be gay and that’s okay.’” (18:04) (Nancy) “One of my favorite things is helping people realize what is special about them and then empowering them to share that with the world.” (20:58) (Nancy) Links Mentioned:Nancy’s Website Nancy’s LinkedInNancy’s PodcastNancy’s EmailMichelle’s WebsiteLink to Episode on YouTube

In this episode, Dr. Don is joined by Nancy Dent, an advocate for change in legislation for chiropractic care. Nancy’s daughter came into the world with compromised abilities and neurological issues, which led to challenges with her care. Nancy decided to look beyond what the conventional medical field had to offer. At age 4, her daughter began seeing a chiropractor. Exploring Chiropractic care led her daughter to transform in incredible ways. After a short amount of time, she was able to walk independently, increase her spatial awareness, and enjoy her life more. This is why Nancy is passionate about seeing chiropractors be able to share what they can do with the world. Nancy has become an advocate for chiropractors by working to change the current legislation that restricts chiropractic care.   Key Takeaways: Nancy’s story about how and why her daughter’s journey with chiropractic care began. [5:25] The progression of her daughter’s care and how it has improved her quality of life. [9:55] Why Nancy is passionate about advocating for chiropractic care. [12:00] How Nancy became an advocate to change legislation for chiropractors. [13:55] Clinical trials versus lived experience. [16:15] An update on how Nancy’s daughter is doing now, and why she has to continue advocating for change moving forward. [20:38] How the current regulations impact a parent’s ability to care for their child. [27:02] The best way to connect with Nancy. [31:10] Final thoughts on making change and advocacy. [33:00] Parting words of inspiration from Nancy. [35:38] You can find Nancy on Facebook here.  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005178015921  Find out more about The Vitality Shift: https://www.thevitalityshift.com/fb-popup-group

In this week's episode, Kayla chops it up with Nancy Chen! Nancy is a marketing manager for a health and wellness startup, a freelance marketer for up and coming startups in the wellness space, and the creator of Nourish by Nancy, a blog based on whole foods and empowered living. She’s an advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity, as well as a boxing and yoga instructor, CPT, and author (her first book is coming out in January 2021). We chat about: How Nancy defines food freedom Healing from binge eating The importance of giving ourselves the permission to heal & not feel like we have to earn it Her take on why we’re our harshest critics  How we can cultivate growth in ways that feel good to us Living with mental health and the self awareness component of mental health This episode is brought to you by: Wellness Glow Up Media   Links mentioned in this episode Love self care? Download your free '9 Steps to Self Care' guide here: https://wellnessglowup.com/newsletter Nancy's website Click here to subscribe via RSS feed (non-iTunes feed): https://wellnessglowup.libsyn.com/rss Social Media Info Wellness Glow Up Podcast – @wellnessglowuppodcast Kayla Nedza – @kaylanedza Nancy Chen - @nourishbynancy Did you like this episode? If you did give it a 5 star rating and share it with your friends.

Today's episode features headshot photographer, as well as hair and makeup artist, Nancy Vela.   Connect with Nancy! Instagram: @nvofphotography Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.vela.73   Things they chat about:  How Nancy and Vilma first connected, and how they eventually built a professional relationship Her story of getting into hair and makeup as a child How she's comfortable talking to anyone, even though she's an introvert! How an actor should feel in their headshot session Tips on how to dress for a headshot What to know about lighting - especially if you're doing a self-tape Why "smiling" in a headshot isn't enough This podcast was edited by Tony Rossi. (He's pretty great...) Instagram Website  More about Dream Team:  Dream Team Productions Facebook Instagram  Dream Team Talent Agency Website Instagram Facebook  Vilma Llaguno Instagram   Thank you for listening - and don't forget to dream out loud :)  

In today's episode the Passive Movement Dental Podcast, we talked to Dr.Nancy Gill of Golden Dental Solutions located in Golden, Colorado. Nancy is also the co-host of the Middle-Aged Wisdom Podcast with her husband Dave. On this episode, we chatted about, How Nancy got her start in dentistry. How Nancy used early setbacks as a pivotal learning lesson to grow her dental business. And how creating positive relationships with friends, family, coworkers, and patients is the key to true personal and business growth. Nancy was also kind enough to share with us her strategy of how you can use text messaging to streamline reactivating your patient list and fill up your calendar. You really do not want to miss out on this strategy! So if you are a new dentist just getting started, a seasoned dental practice owner, or maybe somewhere in between, then this episode is filled with golden nuggets that will entertain, educate, and help you scale and grow your dental practice! Learn more about Dr. Nancy Gill Check out Nancy and Dave’s Podcast: Middle-Aged Wisdom https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/middle-aged-wisdom/id1524385056 Check out her dental practice: Golden Dental Solutions. https://mygoldendentist.com/ Connect with Dr. Nancy Gill Link to Instagram https://www.instagram.com/middleagedwisdom/ Link to Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-gill-26b07916/ Link to Email nancy@middleagedwisodom.com Are you ready to shake things up and have a new approach for your dental business growth? Book a free 30 min dental business growth consultation with someone from the Passive Movement Dental Marketing Team. www.passivemovement.com/30mincall

Today's guest is Nicole Zhao, a native New Yorker who will talk about the importance of antiracist education. We have lots of history on structural inequities, systemic racism, and the different experiences within Asian immigrant communities and across racial groups. We grew up in very different communities and Asian American experiences. I was NOT woke at all in high school, and Nicole went to a high school that required standardized testing and an application to get in! We, unfortunately, both have Trump supporting parents. How do you talk to parents about that, and take into consideration how their immigration stories have shaped their beliefs? We also recount some racism and micro aggressions we’ve faced. (2:00) - Nicole's introduction. The diverse community in Queens.(2:30) - How did growing up NYC vs. California shape political beliefs? (6:15) - What is a specialized high school? (10:45) - Education on the history of the U.S. should be embedded in the K through 12 system. (11:45) - Asian American history is erased from social studies. (12:00) - The Page act and how laws shaped racial stereotypes about Asians today.(14:40) - Importance of gender studies.(15:30) - How Nancy was a republican misogynist and racist in high school and college changed that.(22:00) - Classes in college that were life changing. (24:00) - Asian solidarity and the formation of Asian American as a political and racial group.(25:00) - Asian Black Solidarity and taking to Asian parents about #blacklivesmatter. (32:30) - Trump supporting Asian Parents. Why immigrants like Trump.(37:00) - Different ideals of America from immigrant parents. (40:00) - Racial identity as a west coast Asian. (41:30) - Facing racism and microaggressions in college, sorority rush, running, and work. Contact Nancy at:interpellasian@gmail.comWebsitePOC Podcast has an Instagram now!And a Twitter!Nicole:InstagramTwitterRice's Diversity Education Must Include Anti-RacismWelcome to Progressive Opinions of Color (POC), a podcast that seeks to create space for more people of color in politics and economics. With the 2020 presidential election coming up and the state of the economy during COVID-19, it is more important than ever to think about who we include in the conversations about politics and economics. I am Nancy Wu, your host. I’m also an Asian American woman, an economist, and a huge politics and policy nerd. I triple majored in Economics, Government (Political Science) and Gender Studies at Dartmouth and have a Master’s in Development Economics from Oxford. I work as an Economist full time and have previously worked in economic policy at the White House (under Obama, of course) and progressive think tanks. The goal of this podcast is to engage the Asian American community and other POC and BIPOC voices in an industry that is so heavily represented by old white men. The POC Podcast will host conversations on the 2020 Presidential Election, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the coronavirus pandemic, the state of the economy, and other pressing topics in politics, economics, and culture, all through perspectives inclusive of the lived experiences of people of color. Whether you're new to politics or already a huge politics nerd, I hope this podcast inspires community and conversation among us. Join me in reimagining politics and economics with underrepresented voices. The economy is complicated enough. Learn about it through stories from real people.

Nancy is the CEO and Founder of PathMatch, a platform that matches students to in-demand careers, helps them prepare, and then connects them to top employers.  She’s also a Talent Partner at Hypothesis Ventures, a Venture Capital firm, where she advises high-growth companies on hiring.  Prior to this, she was former CEO of FILD, a recruiting firm that connects top talent to some of the most well-respected companies around the country. After spending two decades helping companies hire, she noticed a huge skills gap emerging.  Students were graduating from college without the requisite skills and experience to land most entry-level jobs companies were looking to fill.  After working with hundreds of students, she realized this was a result of students' lack of knowledge of the modern career paths available today.  She and her team built PathMatch to connect students to compatible career paths and then help them build the relevant skills and experiences they need to land top jobs. Nancy holds a BA in Psychology and Music from Emory University. Connect with Nancy Soni PathMatch Instagram Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Some of the Topics Covered by Nancy Soni in this Episode How Nancy got her start in recruiting Hiring over 100 people in 5 years How and why Nancy started FILD and its early growth The impact of having seen over 4 million resumes The challenges of scaling FILD and building a team The unexpected effect Coachella had on Nancy’s business Things companies should be thinking about regarding hiring and how to know when to hire a recruiting firm Resources Nancy recommends for entrepreneurs to find talent Selling FILD and transitioning to PathMatch What PathMatch began as and how Nancy decided to start it What PathMatch offers today and moving from high-end consultancy to a “freemium” service How Nancy acquires customers How COVID changed things for Nancy and PathMatch How Nancy creates content Joining Hypothesis as a Talent Partner How Nancy went about hiring for PathMatch PathMatch’s traction in the first two years Helping students understand their hireability rating Expanding beyond entry level to mid- and late- career coaching Nancy’s book recommendations  How Nancy recharges from work and her advice for entrepreneurs Links from the Episode FILD Lunchclub Career Karma Hypothesis Ventures The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore Start at the End by David Lavinsky Traction by Gino Wickman The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib The Leader's Guide by Eric Ries Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely Hooked by Nir Eyal Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown Mastering the VC Game by Jeffrey Bussgang Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson Zero to One by Peter Thiel Trillion Dollar Coach by Erich Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle You are a Badass by Jen Sincero #137: Cole Zucker on His Remarkable Journey from $0 to $60M in Revenue, Selling a Company, and Starting the Influencer Platform Hey Hero

“I waited for a crisis to make the changes that I needed to make in my life and I now help people make change without waiting for the crisis.” – Nancy Levin   Today’s featured international bestselling author is TEDx speaker, poet, and master coach Nancy Levin. Nancy and I talk about her decade of rebirth, the power of friendship, what would have happened to her if she didn’t learn how to effectively set boundaries and more!!!   Key Things You’ll Learn: What led Nancy to start writing poetry. How Nancy took an unconventional route to success. Why genuine friends are necessary for your rebuilding phases of life. What the transformation equation is.     Nancy’s Site: https://nancylevin.com/ Nancy’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Levin/e/B004KZ2U4U?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000   The opening track is titled “MoreStrangeSunset~Strange Sunset Remix” by Project R (AKA Rukunetsu). To listen and download the full track, click/tap the following link. https://soundcloud.com/rukunetsu/morestrangesunsetstrange   Related Episodes: 81.5 (Local Author Bonus Special) [LABS] - "A Beautiful Tragedy" with Retta Timmons (@ImagineMeLLC): http://goingnorth.libsyn.com/815-local-author-bonus-special-labs-a-beautiful-tragedy-with-retta-timmons-imaginemellc   112 – “The Art of Making Things Happen” with Steve Sims (@SteveDSims1): https://goingnorth.libsyn.com/112-the-art-of-making-things-happen-with-steve-sims-stevedsims1   134 - "The Courage Self-Love Journey" with Erica Glessing (@EricaGlessing): http://goingnorth.libsyn.com/133-the-courage-self-love-journey-with-erica-glessing-ericaglessing   151 - "The Superstar Paradox" with Keren Eldad (@CoachKeren): http://goingnorth.libsyn.com/151-the-superstar-paradox-with-keren-eldad-keldad   189 - "Blessed With Poetry" with Michelle Smith: https://goingnorth.libsyn.com/189-blessed-with-poetry-with-michelle-smith   194 – “A Badass Butterfly Conversion” with Rev. Dr. Jane Galloway: http://goingnorth.libsyn.com/194-a-badass-butterfly-conversion-with-rev-dr-jane-galloway-chaostoclarity   240 – “Living An International Life” with E.J. Moran: https://goingnorth.libsyn.com/240-living-an-international-life-with-ej-moran  

When I first heard Nancy Lucina share her birth story on the Free Birth Society Podcast, I had chills. After hearing countless stories of women leaving a hospital birth experience disempowered, I knew I wanted to sit down with Nancy and hear her wisdom firsthand. We talk about the journey from pre-conception to birth: from how to connect to the spirit of your baby long before even conceiving, how to let go of control when hoping to conceive, as well as how to navigate challenges and differing desires with family and partners when following your heart in how to bring your child into the world… In this episode we discussed: The powerful transition from maiden to mother Nancy’s three unique birthing experiences and what led her to have empowered unassisted free births Navigating the challenges of “what people will think” when you follow your intuition to a less-than-mainstream course in life and birth Conscious conception and connecting with your spirit baby Activating your sovereign divinity as a woman and birthing in power What the children who are incarnating now are here for and what they need from us as parents and guardians The birth process our world is going through + the crossroads we are at Conscious parenting + being present through the process How Nancy navigates fear and the unknown   Links in this Episode: Nancy’s birth story with Elijah on the Free Birth Society Podcast   Stay in Touch with Nancy: Instagram:  @nancylucina Website:  www.nancylucina.com Sovereign Birth Series Course:  https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/the-sovereign-birth-meditation-series Conscious Conception Course: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/spiritbabies   Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders: Patreon Instagram Facebook Group   Nancy Lucina is a mother of three, doula, shamanic facilitator, sacred sound therapist, and women’s coach. She is the creator of the “Sovereign Birth Meditation Series” that helps women to actualize their dream births as well as the "Conscious Conception: Welcoming your Spirit Baby Home" course. She uses her gifts of voice, sound, sensitivity and connection to spirit to guide women from all around the world to awaken their ancient deep feminine wisdom, embody the Wise Woman within and live in truth and power.

We all know those people that are always on the go: they never seem to rest, they are always busy doing something and they seem to accomplish so much. Perhaps you are one of those people! But did you know that this could also be a sign of high-functioning anxiety? In this podcast, I speak to therapist and licensed counselor Nancy Jane Smith about the signs and symptoms of high-functioning anxiety and how to overcome it, as well as how to deal with perfectionism, people-pleasing and avoid burnout. High functioning anxiety is a form of anxiety that you won’t get diagnosed with, but it is similar to generalized anxiety, and also involves gastro symptoms, headaches, panic attacks, racing thoughts and so on. It is essentially a way of coping that pushes you harder and faster, which often leads to perfectionism, people-pleasing and burnout. On the outside everything may look great, but, on the inside, everything is falling apart, which is why high functioning anxiety is so hard to recognize. In fact, a lot of people aren’t aware that you don’t have to live with this kind of “hustle, hustle, hustle” mentality this because they do not share how they feel with the people in their lives. Special offer from this week's sponsor: -Thrive Market: Try Thrive Market today and become a member risk-free! Go to https://thrivemarket.com/drleaf. Join today and you’ll get up to $20 in shopping credit toward your first order! Podcast Highlights 2:24 How Nancy’s dad felt like a failure, and how his inner critic affected his final moments 4:30 Why some people are driven by their inner critic, and how it leads to high functioning anxiety 7:36 How do you recognize high-functioning anxiety? 10:42 Perfectionism and high-functioning anxiety 12:22 How is high-functioning anxiety different to generalized anxiety? 14:14 Our different inner voices: who are you listening to? 18:56 Tips to deal with our inner critic 25:40 How positive thinking can exacerbate high-functioning anxiety 36:00 How to speak to a friend or loved one with high-functioning anxiety Read the episode blog and transcript here: https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/high-functioning-anxiety-signs-symptoms-and-solutions-how-to-silence-your-inner-critic-overcome-perfectionism-and-people-pleasing-and-avoid-burnout-with-therapist-nancy-jane-smith For more info on Nancy and to get her book or sign up for her coaching program visit: https://live-happier.com/about/ Additional Resources: -Sign up to join my free text program and receive mental health care tips and strategies, exclusive offers and more! Just text DRLEAF to 1 (833) 285 3747 (*Only available for U.S numbers at this time) -Get my new brain detox app SWITCH on sale now! Get 50% off a 3 month subscription. Just look for Switch on Your Brain in the App Store or Google Play or visit: https://theswitch.app Follow me on social media for daily mental self-care tips! -Instagram: @drcarolineleaf: https://www.instagram.com/drcarolineleaf/ -Facebook: Dr. Caroline Leaf: https://www.facebook.com/drleaf -Twitter: @drcarolineleaf: https://twitter.com/DrCarolineLeaf -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/drcarolineleaf If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5 review on iTunes, Google Play, or wherever you are listening! And don't forget to subscribe and share this podcast with friends and family! I love seeing your posts on social media! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, we’re exploring the unexpected ways that aging affects our happiness. If you do a Google search for the word “midlife,” you’ll instantly be greeted by the autofilled word “crisis.” It’s a time when almost everyone asks themselves, “Is this all there is?” and finds themselves facing new challenges, both internally and externally. However, as you’ll hear from my guest today, midlife is also an extraordinary time. It’s a time of lasting friendships, of greater confidence, and of having the wisdom to do remarkable things. With a deeper understanding of where all the negative tropes around midlife come from, you can find happiness not just in it, but in the decades to come. Today, I’m joined by Nancy Davis Kho. She’s the host of the Midlife Mixtape podcast and the author of The Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time, who is here to share what she learned from her own pursuit of happiness. So, if you’re ready to bust the myths about middle age and better understand what happiness is really all about, this episode is for you. Tune in to Profit Boss® Radio today! Here’s what you’ll find out in this week’s episode of Profit Boss® Radio: Why midlife - the period between 30 and 60 - is a really great phase of life to be in. What the happiness curve is, why it’s consistent across species, and how it forecasts our ability to become happier as we age. How to measure success as we get older - and how this moment in history is giving so many people perspective. How Nancy cultivated gratitude at a challenging time in her life - and why choosing to not madly pursue happiness actually makes us happier. Show Notes To get access to the full show notes, including all the resources mentioned, visit HilaryHendershott.com/164. Follow Hilary on: Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Facebook YouTube Subscribe to The Retirement Years on Profit Boss® Radio Apple Podcasts Overcast Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts

Something as simple as setting boundaries can have a profound impact on your life. It’s so true that boundaries help you to carve out time for yourself and your creative endeavors. In this episode, I was joined by Nancy Levin, a master coach and best selling author. Nancy and I talk about why so many people aren’t setting boundaries in their relationships, careers and life. She talks about the indicator that you need to create boundaries and two questions to ask yourself every day to make sure you’re tending to yourself.  What’s in this episode: Nancy’s background and how she got to this place in her life Getting clear in your own capacity of what you’re available for Giving yourself permission to carve time out for yourself and your creative endeavors The effect of falling victim to codependency  Making sure your needs and non-negotiables are met so you show up as your best self Why many people don’t set boundaries The telltale sign that a boundary needs to be put into place Two questions to ask yourself every day Boundaries that Nancy sets for her own journaling practice How you can reclaim your selfishness Letting go of the pressure to fix, save and rescue How Nancy learned to honor herself and get in alignment with her truth Paying attention to how powerful the choices you make are About Nancy:Nancy Levin is a Master Coach and bestselling author of several books including her latest, Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free. Formerly the Event Director at Hay House for over a decade, Nancy is the creator of Levin Life Coach Academy, and offers in-depth coaching and training programs designed to support clients in making themselves a priority and setting boundaries that stick. Connect with Nancy:Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Links:Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free: The Ultimate Guide to Telling the Truth, Creating Connection, and Finding Freedom by Nancy LevinPermission to Put Yourself First: Questions, Exercises, and Advice to Transform All Your Relationships by Nancy LevinMary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet by Meggan Watterson Hope you’ve enjoyed this episode! Would love to hear from you. What is one thing you can do with the wisdom and guidance you’ve extracted from this episode to make a positive and lasting change in your own life? Connect with me on social media. You can find me @amytangerine on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and pretty much anywhere. If you’re enjoying this podcast, please rate and review on iTunes, subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and let your friends know about it too! The more we spread the creativity and happiness that comes from pursuing our passions, the better off our amazing community will be. Hope you feel uplifted, energized and inspired. You are awesome! I’m Amy Tangerine encouraging you to embrace the collective pause and find things that can bring you deep, internal joy!

If you think of yourself as a people pleaser or perfectionist, this is a MUST listen. I’m not kidding. In merely days, this life coach & best selling author helped rewire my brain to finally set boundaries and say no with greater ease.  Nancy Levin’s methods (featured in her book “Setting Boundaries will Set You Free”) are unlike ANYTHING I’d ever heard and are life-changing if you find it hard to say no or put everyone else first.  Nancy appeared to be a confident high performer with “it all together”. But she opens up about the true reason she was obsessed with perfectionism and why it was a huge flaw. She overcame burn out and started a life coach business where she ended up:  Leaving her 1st marriage (and why that was so traumatic) Letting go of “perfect” and learning to delegate - even though that felt impossible Writing 5 books and becoming a best-selling author Starting her own certification program where she now has a membership, group coaching AND private coaching  You are going to learn SO MUCH from this episode it’s unreal. Get on your no-more-people-pleasing pants and hear:  How Nancy appeared a powerhouse at work but a doormat in her 1st marriage (+ finding strength to leave) The real reason Nancy was obsessed with being a “perfectionist” (that’s likely true for YOU) A life-changing concept in the book that I can’t shut up about - and I asked Nancy to dive deeper into How Nancy went from Event Director at a huge company to a life coach + best selling author The #1 way Nancy got coaching clients from the very start, without a big audience that ANYONE can do Sneaky pitches Nancy made early on that led to big results and clients later How to delegate and outsource, even if terrifying At what point EVERY entrepreneur needs to hire a VA The exact types of VAs and team members Nancy has now + her approach to hiring How she created a program that certifies other coaches  FOR MORE OF NANCY LEVIN: Nancy Levin WebsiteInstagram: @nancy_levin

About Today's Show In this episode, we visit Aramark Executive Chef Nancy Gilmour, who oversees all of the food options at Seneca College.  Ever wonder how they decide on what specials to offer?  This episode introduces you to one of the people who make Seneca College such a delicious place to work and study.   Also in this episode, you will learn: 1.  How Seneca College menus differ from campus to campus. 2.  How Nancy gets the input of our international student communities and staff to help her dishes stay as authentic as possible. 3.  You will also learn that if you make chocolate cake with eggplant, it's actually really good!  :) About Today's Guest, Nancy Gilmour Often times the most rewarding journeys aren't made in a straight line, and that's certainly the case with Nancy Gilmour.  Being a successful food professional wasn’t always the plan she had for her life.  She originally set out to be a painter and sculptor, and like many with a passion for the arts, she supported that passion with work in the restaurant industry.  While living in Spain in her 20s she discovered her passion for cuisine.  Living with a group of artists, money was understandably tight, but despite that, they always managed to eat well.  With beautifully set tables, and beautiful food, Nancy discovered that she could combine her love for art, and a newfound passion for excellent food.  That journey led to her owning and operating her own restaurant for eight years, as well as working with some top chefs, before accepting her role as Executive Chef at Aramark. This Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts! #SenecaProud Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, which means it's available pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.   Click here to subscribe. While you're there, please give us a rating and leave a comment.  It really helps get our podcast found. Thanks for listening!   Pat Perdue

Episode 92  Recovering from Alcoholism and Cancer with Nancy McKay  In this episode, I talk with Nancy McKay, a Certified Life Coach about what it was like growing up in an alcoholic home, being sober for ten years, and surviving ovarian cancer.   Nancy is a certified Wayfinder Life Coach from Martha Bec, Inc. as well as a Mind-Body-Eating Coach from the Institute for Psychology of Eating.   Topics include:  Growing up in an alcoholic household Losing her father to suicide How Nancy's drinking picked up after her fathers death Nancy's failed attempt at suicide How AA saved her life Her cancer diagnosis and recovery How being vulnerable can help you conquer anything Getting beyond fear and self-doubt  You are not too old, and it is not too late    To Find Nancy:  Amazing Outlook Coaching  Email    To find Lori:  Website  1:1 free coaching session  Join ELEVATE  Instagram     

Not sure what you’re REALLY good at? Convinced there’s nothing all that special about your particular combination of talents and abilities? Then it’s time to uncover your Deep Genius, the unique blend of inherent strengths, life experiences and AHA moments that make you distinctly YOU. Nancy Marmolejo is the creator of Talent and Genius, a consulting practice dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs, executives, founders and thought leaders who want to achieve a greater level of contribution. She has more than 20 years of experience helping people awaken to their Deep Genius and unlock the vision for what they’re here to create—personally and professionally. Nancy has 100-plus media credits to her name, and she is passionate about inspiring her clients to leverage their Deep Genius to make a difference in the world. On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Nancy joins Emerald to discuss the curiosity that fuels her own Deep Genius and explain why knowing your innate strengths is the prerequisite for speaking your truth with confidence. She shares her playful approach to creativity, describing the environmental, dietary and spiritual factors that influence her flow. Listen in for insight around the spiritual tools that help Nancy reconnect with her vision and learn the three-step process for uncovering the full depth of YOUR Deep Genius. What You Will Learn The curiosity and creativity that fuel Nancy’s Deep Genius The prerequisite for speaking your truth with confidence Nancy’s exercise for uncovering the depth of your genius Innate strengths Life experiences Formal learning How Nancy leverages unlimited thinking to create flow The many factors that influence Nancy’s creative flow Valuing your vision internally before sharing with others The spiritual tools that help Nancy reconnect with vision How knowing other’s deep genius lends to collaboration Connect with Nancy Marmolejo Talent and Genius Connect with Emerald GreenForest Emerald’s Website Emerald on LinkedIn Emerald on Twitter Emerald on Instagram Email listeners@wickedlysmartwomen.com Leave Us A Message On Our listener line:   540-402-0043 x4343 Resources Professor David Lane

Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts endometriosis patient advocate and educator Nancy Petersen, (@nancynursez637) retired RN who developed with David Redwine, MD, the first endometriosis excision treatment program in the United States. Nancy has spoken on the topic of endometriosis across the nation and currently serves as a mentor to women with the disease through Nancy’s Nook, a Facebook resource for endometriosis education, discussion, and support. They discuss: Are residents exposed enough to endometriosis education? Targeting MIGS programs The role of imaging in identifying endometriosis and preop planning The importance of patients having high-volume surgeons The strength of a multidisciplinary team Nancy’s knowledge gathering in the disease state Nancy’s Nook educates patients with endometriosis to advocate for themselves How Nancy selects surgeons to be on their recommended list Pregnancy before or after surgery? Contacting physicians that you’ve visited in the past with no cure Nancy’s one piece of advice to physicians who treat endometriosis Multispecialty treatment centers * * * Resources http://endopaedia.info/ * * * This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @MeganEvansMD For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts

(Summerfest) In this episode, Devi chats with Nancy Guberti about “Re-Inventing Yourself for a Higher Purpose”. Nancy has eighteen years in private practice in functional medicine and nutrition, creating customized regimes to reach peak performance in body, mental health, and overall wellness. She is the founder of Total Wellness Empowerment membership, Total Wellness Empowerment podcast, Look & Feel Great Method, and Raising Achievers program and podcast.  Recognized as a thought leader in healthy living, Nancy has been featured in Associated Press, P&G Everyday, Shape, Oxygen, Eat This Not That, Bella NY & LA and other media outlets. She shares her expertise on the DDP Yoga shows and teaches practitioners for homeopathic and supplement companies. She believes awareness will empower others to take charge of their health!   Prior to private practice, Nancy enjoyed fifteen years in brokerage and was former Vice President of Goldman Sachs, E-Commerce division, where she managed and worked with high performers at 150 institutional clients. For Raising Achievers program, now more than ever you need to be proactive in raising achievers, the next generation world leaders. The program combines the corporate achiever’s traits and discipline, along with the clinical research in biomedical science for optimizing focus, drive, positive mental health, mentoring to turn purposeful passion into achievement for your youth. It’s never too young to start raising achievers and givers. Devi and Nancy discuss: Nancy’s wonderful and inspiring life story Living from spiritual connection How Nancy started and worked hard for this calling The 12-steps to healthy living Letting go of what you love for the one that you love Nancy’s advice to people who are shifting into their calling Figuring out what it is you want to go into Having stability and abundance Planning strategically what you need to do How to deal with being paralyzed when the overwhelm sets in Making  some quiet time to think about your current situation Looking at your “circle” Being aware of your current state Learning from other people’s experiences How to stay balanced when reinventing yourself for a higher purpose Finding out what it is that you have to do with your current situation The importance of researching in moving into your new calling Following and being successful with your plan  Setting your goals Checking on your plans and goals at least once a week Keeping walking even when you’re going through hell Being aligned with someone who can guide you on your path and more... Connect with Nancy @ www.nancyguberti.com Free Gift: https://nancyguberti.com/gtest/

Are you truly living? Are you alert and awake and alive? Being the best versions of ourselves can be tricky, especially when it comes to focusing on both health and wellness together. Working hard to eat all the right things and do all the right exercises is great, but without any happiness or fun thrown into the mix this lifestyle change is unsustainable. In this episode, Nancy Guberti discusses the powerful experience of being empowered to advocate for your own health and wellness. As a nutritionist and functional medicine specialist, she’s taken impressive steps to make the world a better place, one person at a time. Nancy specifically emphasizes the importance of finding what works best for you, as an individual, to be both happy and healthy. So tune in to learn how to become the healthiest, happiest, and overall best version of yourself today! Some Questions I Ask:What does a functional medicine specialist do? (3:16)Tell us about Total Wellness Empowerment? (12:35)Do we have to give up fun to focus on wellness? (21:58)What advice do you have for seniors? (26:25) In This Episode, You Will Learn:How Nancy got to where she is today in her career. (9:29)How Nancy empowers others to be their best self. (12:46)What foods Nancy eats that allows her stay healthy and have fun. (22:28)How Nancy incorporates sleep, exercise, and mental health into her health and wellness practices. (24:39) Connect with Nancy Guberti:WebsiteNancy’s ProgramsTotal Wellness Empowerment PodcastInstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedInPinterest Resources:Website: www.thementalhealthgym.comBook: Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm with Dr. Ron Kaiser See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nancy Giordano (@nancygiordano) is an entrepreneur, futurist, consultant and techno-optimist committed to building societal structures and behaviors that keep up with tech to ensure a safe and thriving future for us all...Nancy's been recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and guiding a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands through her work with Play Big Inc.She's also frequent panelist at South by Southwest (where she produced the first Career Fair For the Future to help college + high schools more actively design the future of their work), is global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecturer and world’s first TEDx licensee.You can listen right here on iTunesIn today's episode we discuss:* How Nancy thinks about the future of work* Why the mental health epidemic is a bigger deal than we think* The power of system thinking* Why GDP's an awful measure of progress and how to replace it* What can we do to fix politics* The ways we can redesign education for the 21st century* Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes* The UBI question and how to reframe it* What will be AI's actual impact* How organizations like Singularity University inspire change* What technologies most worry Nancy* Why we can engineer the future of our choosing* The pesky problems of incentives ruining our world* What to think about social media and blockchainMake a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The DisruptorsMake a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The DisruptorsThe Disruptors is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.Donate  

Nancy Hensley is the Chief Digital Officer for IBM Analytics, a multi-billion dollar IBM software business focused on helping customers transform their companies with data science and analytics. Nancy has over 20 years of experience working in the data business in many facets from development, product management, sales, and marketing. Today’s episode is probably going to appeal to those of you in product management or working on SAAS/cloud analytics tools. It is a bit different than our previous episodes in that we focused a lot on what “big blue” is doing to simplify its analytics suite as well as facilitating access to those tools. IBM has many different analytics-related products and they rely on good design to make sure that there is a consistent feel and experience across the suite, whether it’s Watson, statistics, or modeling tools. She also talked about how central user experience is to making IBM’s tools more cloud-like (try/buy online) vs. forcing customers to go through a traditional enterprise salesperson. If you’ve got a “dated” analytics product or service that is hard to use or feels very “enterprisey” (in that not-so-good way), then I think you’ll enjoy the “modernization” theme of this episode. We covered: How Nancy is taking a 50-year old product such as SPSS and making it relevant and accessible for an audience that is 60% under 25 years of age The two components Nancy’s team looks at when designing an analytics product What “Metrics Monday” is all about at IBM Analytics How IBM follows-up with customers, communicates with legacy users, and how the digital market has changed consumption models Nancy’s thoughts on growth hacking and the role of simplification Why you should always consider product-market fit first and Nancy’s ideas on MVPs The role design plays in successful onboarding customers into IBM Analytics’ tools and what Brian refers to as the “honeymoon” experience Resources and Links: Nancy Hensley on Twitter Nancy Hensley on LinkedIn Quotes: “It’s really never about whether it’s a great product. It’s about whether the client thinks it’s great when they start using it.” –Nancy “Every time we add to the tool, we’re effectively reducing the simplicity of everything else around it.”–Brian “The design part of it for us is so eye-opening, because again, we’ve built a lot of best in class enterprise products for years and as we shift into this digital go-to-market, it is all about the experience…”–Nancy “Filling in that “why” piece is really important if you’re going to start changing design because you may not really understand the reasons someone’s abandoning.”–Brian “Because a lot of our products weren’t born in the cloud originally, they weren’t born to be digitally originally, doesn’t mean they can’t be digitally consumed. We just have to really focus on the experience and one of those things is onboarding.” –Nancy “If they [users] can’t figure out how to jump in and use the product, we’re not nailing it. It doesn’t matter how great the product is, if they can’t figure out how to effectively interact with it. –Nancy Episode Transcript Brian: Today on Experiencing Data, I [talked] to Nancy Hensley, the Chief Digital Officer of IBM Analytics. Nancy brings a lot of experience and has a lot to say about how user experience and design have become very integral to IBM’s success especially as they move their applications into the cloud space. They really try to bring the price point down and make their services and applications much more low touch in order to access a new base of subscribers and users. I really enjoyed this talk with her about what the designers and people focused on the product experience have been doing at IBM to keep their company relevant and keep them pushing forward in terms of delivering really good experiences to their customers. I hope you enjoy this episode with Nancy Hensley. Hello everybody. I’m super stoked to have Nancy Hensley, the Chief Digital Officer of IBM Analytics. How’s it going, Nancy? Nancy: Good. I’m happy to be here. Happy Friday. Brian: Yeah. It’s getting cold here in Cambridge, Mass ; [ you’re] in Chicago area, if I remember correctly. Nancy: Yeah, it’s a little bit chilly here as well. Brian: Nice. So it begins. You’ve done quite a bit of stuff at IBM when we had our little pre-planning call. You talked a lot about growth that’s been happening over at IBM. I wanted to talk to you specifically about the role that design and experience has played, how you guys have changed some of your products, and how you’re talking to new customers and that type of thing. Can you tell people, first of all, just a little bit about your background, what you’re currently doing, and then we could maybe […] some of those things. Nancy: Sure, happy to. Thank you for having me again. I think I’m one of those people that doesn’t fit nicely into a box of, “Are you product? Are you marketing?” I am a little bit of both. Most of my IBM career, I have moved in between product marketing and product management. That’s why I love digital so much because it really is a nice mixture. And in particular, growth hacking because it combines all the things I love, including data as a part of what we do. What I’m doing right now as a Chief Digital Officer in the Analytics Division and Hypercloud is how do we transform our products to make them more consumable, more accessible? We have best in class products in data science, in unified governments and integration, in hyper data management products, but our products and our business is built on a traditional face-to-face model. There is even a perception that we’re not as accessible to them and that’s what we’re looking to change. Creating those lower entry points, making it easier for people who didn’t have access to us before, to start small and grow through a digital channel, through a lower entry point product, and then scale up from there. That’s really what we’re trying to do and as part of a bigger mission to really democratize data science—I kind of cringe when I say that word—I think it’s really important for more clients to be able to be more data-driven, have tools that are easy to use, and leverage data science to optimize their business. Part of the way we’re doing that is to develop a digital route to market. We’re pretty excited about it. Brian: I think a lot of our listeners probably come from internal roles of companies. They might be someone that’s purchasing vendor software as opposed to a SaaS company where they may have a closer role to marketing and all that. Can you tell me what you guys are doing there? Part of the thing with my experience is that some of the legacy companies, the older companies that are out there tend to get associated with big giant enterprise installations, really crappy user experience. It’s just so powerful, you have to put up with all these stuff. People’s tendency these days to accept that poor experience as just status quo is changing. What have you guys done? Not that you’re to blame but I’m sure that opinion exist. How do you guys adapt to that and wonder if upstart analytics companies coming out with other things, what do you guys to to address the experience? Nancy: There’s certainly a perception that IBM is that big, complicated, enterprise-focused product out there. We see the data. There’s a lot of articles, there’s a lot of feedback, there’s endless report that all validate that clients are trading off complexity or features and functions for consumability, because they got to get things done, they have less people to do it. We fully recognize that. Where we started to look for that was how we first started to make things much more accessible, not just our cloud products because that’s pretty easy if you have stuff in the cloud—it’s pretty accessible—but our on-prime products as well. So, for clients that are running analysis behind the private cloud, whether it’s a statistical product, or a predictive analytics product, or data science project, or even what they’re doing on their data catalog, all of that was not something people would go to the cog to look for it. There are some things they need especially financial and health care, and there’s large and small companies on both sides. One of the things we set out to do is how do we create that cloud-like experience for clients that are running things behind their firewall. We started a project about a year ago to look at some of our on-prime products and create that experience where literally you could, within a couple of clicks, download, try, and be using a product within 15 minutes. That was our goal. As opposed to before where you would have to contact and IBM salesperson, get them to come out and meet with you, and then set-up a trial. That’s what we started to change was that at least make it accessible. As we progressed that capability, we started changing our pricing and packaging to be appropriate, to create that entry-level point, to create a shift to subscription. You want to buy everything on subscription these days, I think. The last part of that shift for us has been to really focus on the experience because a lot of these products were not born digital. We really need to make sure that when clients were coming through that channel, that it was a great experience. That’s really where design experience came into play for us. Brian: How did you know of what’s wrong beyond broad surveys or just that general feeling that like, “Oh, it’s the big giant bloated software…” the stereotype, right? How do you guys get into the meat and potatoes of like you said, sounds like there’s a benchmark there, 15 minutes on that first onboarding experience, but can you tell us a little bit of maybe if you have a specific example about how you figured it out? What do we need to change about this software application to make it easier to get value out of the analytics of the data that’s there? Nancy: I’ve got lots of examples. We’ll opt with one that clients actually are very familiar with, which is SPSS Statistics that a lot of us used back in college. That was a product that actually turns 50 years old this year. It’s been out a while, a lot of people still using it a lot, and most of our base of users for statistics, I think if you look at the demographics of it, over 60% are under the age of 25. So, their buying preferences were very different than they were when they started out in 1968. We look at the verbatims from our NPS feedback and it was clear that clients really wanted a much more simplified and flexible experience than buying SPSS Statistics and having access to it. A lot of times, students have to get it really quickly for a project because they’ve might have waited until the last minute and they wanted a much more flexible subscription-based program. They might only use it for a few months and then come back to it. That was one of the first things that we implemented was to change the buying experience for the consumption model. We didn’t actually change the product at that point. We just changed the consumption model to see if in fact that actually will help us have some growth on that product, and it absolutely did. Since then, we’ve actually gone back and change the product as well. It’s got a whole new UI for its 50th anniversary. Joke around that it’s got a face lift for it’s 50th anniversary. Brian: Does it have a green screen mode? Nancy: It is a completely different experience, not just from a buying perspective, but also from a UI perspective as well. We have other products, too, that have been around maybe not 50 years but have been very popular products like our DB2 Warehouse on Cloud and our DB2 database that clients have been buying for years to run their enterprises. We wanted to make that again, as we created a SaaS alternative of these products that it was extremely consumable. So, we’ve been looking specifically, is it easy to figure out which version to buy? How much to buy? What it’s going to do for you? Like I said, which version? How do I calculate things? We’ve been really looking at the experience of that is, if there was no salesperson at all, how do we help clients through that buying experience? Brian: I’m curious. When you decided to helping them through the buying experience, does any of that thinking or that strategy around hand-holding someone through that experience happen in the product itself? I’m guessing you’re downloading a package at some point, you’re running an installer, and at that point, did you continue that hand-holding process to get them out of the weeds of the installation and onboarding again to the actual, “Is this tool right for what I needed to do?” Everything else being friction up until that point where you’re actually working with your data, did you guys carry that through? Can you talk about that? Nancy: You’re hitting one of my favorite topics which is onboarding. Because a lot of our products weren’t born in the cloud originally, they weren’t born to be digital originally, doesn’t mean they can’t be digitally consumed. We just have to really focus on the experience and one of those things in onboarding. Let’s say, DB2 in particular, which won the process of creating onboarding experience for DB Warehouse on Cloud. For anybody who’s used DB2, we do have an updated UI for that. They can jump in and start using it. But that’s not everyone, the people that haven’t used it before. So, we just started working with a couple of different onboarding tools to create these experiences. Our goal was to be able—at least I’m offering management side alongside our partners but design—to create these experiences in a very agile way and make them measurable—my second favorite topic, which is instrumentation—but not have a burden on development, because the fact is, in almost any organization, development wants to build features and functions. Whenever we talk about this, they were prioritized lower because they want to build new capabilities. They’re less enthusiastic about building in things like onboarding experiences. With some of the tools like [.DB2..] give us, is a way to make it codeless to us. We can create these experiences, then pass the code snippet, and then measure whether those are effective or not because we actually see those flowing through segment into our amplitude as a part of the shuttle. We’ve got some great feedback as to whether they’re working or where they’re falling down. We can create checklists of things that we want the clients to do that we know makes the product sticky, and see if they actually complete that checklist. It’s giving us so much better view because before, what we would see with a client is register for trial, they downloaded the trial, they’ve created their instance, and then boom they fall off the cliff. What happened? Now we’re getting a much better view to what’s actually going on for the products that have been instrumented as well as the view we’re getting in from the onboarding experiences. Brian: For every one of these applications that you’re trying to move into a cloud model or simplify whether it’s cloud, to me the deployment model doesn’t matter. It’s really about removing the friction points whether it’s on-premise software or not. I think we all tend to use the word ‘cloud’ to kind of feel like, “Oh, is this browser-based thing? There’s no hard clients? There’s no running scripts at the terminal and all that kind of stuff?” Do you guys have a set of benchmarks or something that you establish for every one of these products that are going to go through a redesign? Nancy: We do. We’ve got a set of criteria, it’s really broken down into two pieces. Whether it’s going to be a cloud product or an on-premise product—I actually have a mix of both—there is what we call the MVP side, which might be something that’s not born in the cloud, it’s not a new product, and we’re looking to create a lower entry point, a really good trial experience, a very optimized journey. We’re even doing things like taking some of the capabilities that we used to have from a technical perspective and making those more digitally available. Online proof of concepts, hands-on labs that you do online instead of waiting for a technical salesperson to come out to see you. Tap us that can answer your questions faster even before you talk to a sales rep. All of that is included in the what we call the MVP portion of the criteria that we look at. Pricing and packaging’s got to be right for the product, for the marketplace. Got to have that right product market fit that you’ve got a good valuable product but a low-enough entry point where somebody can start small and scale up. The second part of the criteria is where the growth magic happens, where we’re dumbing down a lot more on the experimentation, where we’re making sure that we’ve got onboarding, instrumentation we want done, and the MVP phase, we don’t always get it, but our development partners really understand the value of that now, which is great. Though more often, we’re getting into the second phase of where we’re more doing the transformation. Through that, then we’re getting a lot more feedback, where we can create the onboarding experience. We can do even more on the optimized journey. We’re doing a lot of growth hacking that’s based on terms of optimizing. Things like how clear is information on the pricing page? Is it easy for the customer to figure out what they need to buy? What the pricing is for that? Can they get their questions answered quickly? Can we create a deeper technical experience for them, even outside of the trial itself? Like I mentioned, things we’re doing with our digital technical engagement, thinking that what used to be our tech sales modeling and making it more digital. Brian: That’s cool. When you guys go through this process of testing, are you primarily looking at quantitative metrics then that are coming back from the software that you guys are building, or you’re doing any type of qualitative research to go validate like, “Hey, is the onboarding working well?” Obviously, the quantitative can tell you what. It doesn’t tell you why someone might have abandoned at this point. You guys do any research there? Nancy: We do. It happens in a couple of places. We run squads that are cross-functional across marketing, product, development, and design, each product. Then every Monday we have this thing called Metrics Monday where we get the cross-functional routines together, we share the insights around the metrics. If we had a big spike or we had a big decrease, or if we had a change in engagement, or if we did some experimentation that came out with a very interesting result, we actually share that across teams. We really focus on why did things happen. We have a dashboard. Everybody is religious in using on a daily basis that tracks all of our key metrics, whether it’s visits, engage visits, trials, trial-to-win conversions, number of orders, things like that, but we also want to dive deeper into the ebbs and flows of the business itself, why things are happening, and if the experimentation we’re doing is helping or not helping. We’ve got a lot of focus on that on a daily and a weekly basis. Brian: Do you have any way to access the trial users and do one-on-one usability study or a follow-up with them that’s not so much quantitative? Nancy: Our research team and design will do that and they’ll take a very thorough approach to both recording users using the product, getting their feedback. It’s pretty thorough and also gives us some feedback. We usually don’t do that until the product’s been in the market for a little bit longer. We’ve got some hypothesis of how we think it’s doing, and then the research team will spend a couple of weeks diving a lot deeper into it. We get some great feedback from that. Honestly, as a product person, as much as I’d to think I’m focused on a beautiful experience, my lens versus our designers’ lens is completely different and they just see things we don’t. Brian: Yeah, the friction points and filling in the why’s, it takes time to go and do that, but it can tell you things, it helps you qualify the data, and makes sense especially when you’re collecting. I’m sure at the level that you guys are collecting that, you have a lot of inbound analytics coming back on what’s happening. But it’s really filling in that “why” piece that is really important if you’re going to start changing design because you may not really understand the reasons someone’s abandoning. Maybe it’s like, “I couldn’t find the installer. I don’t know where the URL is. I ended up locking the server on my thing and I don’t know how to localhost, but I forgot the port number,” and the whole product is not getting accessed because they don’t know the port number for the server they installed or whatever the heck it is, and it’s like, “Oh, they dropped off. They couldn’t figure it out how to turn it on, like load the browser…” Nancy: Right, and even behavioral things that we don’t always think of, like putting a really cool graphic in the lead space that actually takes the attention away from the callback-ends. We’re all proud of, “Hey look at this cool graphic we built.” One of our designers uses a tool that tracks eye movements and [wait a second] “We’re losing the focus here.” But again, you don’t always see from that lens. The design part of it, for us has been so eye-opening because again, we’ve built a lot of best in class enterprise products for years. As we shift into this digital go-to market, it is all about the experience. It’s all about how good the experience is, how easy the experience is, how frictionless it is, and it’s also about how consumable and accessible the product is in the marketplace. Brian: You mentioned earlier, it sounded like engineering doesn’t want to go back and necessarily add onboarding on all of this. This gets into the company culture of who’s running the ship, so to speak. Is it engineering-driven in your area? How do you guys get aligned around those objectives? I’ve seen this before with larger enterprise clients where engineering is the most dominant force and sprints are often set up around developing a feature and all the plumbing and functionality required to get that feature done, but there’s not necessarily a collective understanding of, “Hey, if someone can’t get from step A to step G, horizontally across time, then all that stuff’s a failure. Step F which you guys went in deep on is great, but no one can get from E to F, so definitely they can’t get to G.” So, that’s you’re qualifier of success. How do you guys balance that? Who’s running the ship? Does your product management oversee the engineering? Can you talk a little bit about that structure? Nancy: We call operating management aside from product management for a reason, because we really do want the operating managers to feel like they’re the CEO of their business and run the ship. Of course, development has a big say at the table, but they have a natural tendency to want to build capabilities. It’s never going to go away. It’s been that way for ages. We just don’t want to fight that tendency. We want them to focus on building, not take six months to build an onboarding experience when they could build in really valuable functionality in that six months instead. So, we really run it as a squad, just like many other companies. Operating management does leave a lot of the strategy with our products and development, but I would say that design is also a really, really chief at the table, for sure, absolutely. Brian: Tell us a little bit about your squads and is this primarily a designer or a UX professional up in your offering manager? Are they a team and then you pull in the engineering representatives as you strategize? Nancy: My team is a digital offering management. We’re a subset of offering management better known as product management. We will run the squads and the squads will be a cross-function of our product marketing team, our performance marketing team, which is demand to and type marketing. They run the campaigns, design, developments, the core product managers because we’re the digital product managers and such, and then there’s the core product managers. They have all routes to market. We’re just focused on the digital ones. With that is the cross-functional squad that gets together on a weekly basis and they run as a team. From a digital perspective, it’s led by the Digital OM for our route to market there. Brian: That’s interesting. How do you ensure that there are some kind of IBMness to all these offerings? Your UX practice and offering managers sound like they are part of one organization, but I imagine some of these tools, you might be crossing boundaries as you go from tool X to tool Y. Maybe you need to send data over like, “Oh, I have this package of stuff and I need to deploy this model,” then we have a different tool for putting the model into production and there’s some cross user experience there. Can you talk about that? Nancy: That’s really why design’s been key because their job is to keep us onus making sure that the experience is somewhat consistent across the tools so they seem familiar to us, especially within a segment data science. Some of these are using our Watson Studio tool and then moves to our statistics for our modeler tool. There should be a very familiar experience across those. That’s why design is really the lead in the experience part of it. From pricing and packaging, we try to maintain a consistency as much as possible across all the products again. Whatever level of familiarity you have and how we price and package things should be consistent across the entire segment. So we strive for that as well. On the digital side, in terms of the experience on the actual web, we partner with a team called the Digital Business Group. They are basically the host of our digital platform and they maintain a level of consistency worldwide across all the products in terms of the digital journey itself with us. Brian: That’s cool that you guys are keeping these checkpoints, so to speak, as stuff goes out the door. You’ve got the front lenses on it looking at it from different quality perspectives, I guess you could say. Earlier, you mentioned democratizing data science and we hear this a lot. Are we talking about democratizing the results of the data science, so at some point there’s maybe decision support tool or there’s some kind of outcome coming from the data science? Is that what you’re talking about democratizing? Or are you saying for a data scientist of all levels of ability, it’s more for the toolers as opposed to the [consumers..]? Nancy: It’s about the capability. The ability to put more of these products or these products in people’s hands that bought, that they might have been out of their reach, or that they were too enterprisey, or that they are for big companies. That’s one of the key things that we want to do. When you look at some of our products, they start really, really low. Cognizant Analytics is another great example where people might have had a perception that it’s really expensive but we just introduced a new version of it, and it’s less than $100 a month. You can get these powerful tools for analysis for a lot less than you think. Statistics in $99 a month, one of our pay products are significantly less, and it allows these companies that might not have considered doing business with us, to smart small and build up. That’s one of the key things we noticed as we shifted to a subscription model. With that, we started to see double digit increases in the number of clients that were new on products. Just because opened up this new route to market, doesn’t mean that we still didn’t maintain our enterprise face-to-face relationships because, of course, we did, but this allowed us to open up relationships with clients might have not gotten to before. Brian: How are the changes affecting the legacy users that you have? I imagine you probably do have some people that are used to, “Don’t change my toolset,” like, “I’ve been using DB2 for 25 years.” How are they reacting to some of the changes? I imagine at some point maybe you have some fat clients that turn to browser-based interfaces. They undergo some redesign at that point. Do you have a friction between the legacy experience and maybe do you employ the slow change mentality? Or do you say, “Nope, we’re going to cut it here. We’re jumping to the new one and we’re not going to let the legacy drag us back”? You talk about how you guys make those changes? Nancy: We’re shifting towards the subscription model. Our clients are, too. We have clients that are demanding that this is the only way that they actually want to buy software is through a subscription model. So it’s changing for them as well. I think in many ways, it’s a welcome change across the board. I can’t think of any negativity that we’ve had in both the change for the consumption models on a subscription side, as well as the new UI changes and things that we’re doing to the product that really update them and give them a modern feel. I know a lot of the onboarding is a welcome change, even for clients that are familiar with us. It helps them because they have to do less training internally to help people use the tool because now we’re building it into the product. Brian: How do you measure that they’re accepting that? Do you wait for that inbound feedback? Do you see if there’s attrition and then go talk to them? I imagine there’s some attrition that happens when you make a large tooling change. Is there a way to validate that or why that happened? Was it a result of changing too quickly? Any comment on that? Nancy: I think it’s a couple of things. We’re constantly monitoring the flow of MRR and the contraction of revenue where the attrition that we get through some of our subscription, to see if there is any anomalies there. But also we’re always were very in-tune with NPS. A lot of our product managers live and die in the verbatims and with the integration of FLAX, they get a lot of it. They’re coming right at them constantly, that they respond to. We are very, very in-tune with NPS and the feedback we’re getting there. We’re also getting a lot of reviews now on our software using tools like G2 Crowd where we keep an eye on that. I think the feedback doesn’t just come from one place. We’ll look at things like the flow through Amplitude. Our clients, when they’re coming in and during the trial, are they getting stuck someplace? Are they falling off someplace? Are they falling off either at a specific page like the pricing page? Or are they falling off as soon as they get the trial because they don’t know what to do with it? We look at things like that. We look at NPS in particular after we’ve introduced new capabilities. Did our NPS go up? What’s the feedback? Are our clients truly embracing this? I think it’s a combination of things. There is a lot of information, a lot of data that we just need to stay in-tune with. We’ve got a couple of dashboards that I know my team wakes up with everyday and takes a look at, and the product team. The core product manager stayed very focused on NPS. Brian: Do you have a way of collecting end-user feedback directly? I would imagine maybe in your newer tools, it’s easier to tool some of that in, but is there any way to provide customer feedback or something to chat or any type of interactivity that’s directly in the tools that you’re creating these days? Nancy: Sure. We are rolling out more end-product nurture capability than we ever had before. That gives them the ability to chat directly within the product, as well as schedule a time with an expert. We’re working in making that even easier through a chat bot. So if you do get stuck and you’re chatting with that bot, you can schedule the appointment with an expert right there. I think there’s lots of ways to do that. I think sometimes I worry that there’s too much data coming at us but we [didn’t have enough..] before, so I’m not going to do that. Brian: Right. It’s not about data, right? It’s, do we have information? Nancy: Do we have information? Exactly. I would say my team spends a lot of time going through that, looking at Amplitude, analyzing the flows, looking in the patterns, in the orders, in the data, and the revenue. With the NPS feedback, it’s a combination of all of that stuff that really gives us a good view. As well as looking at the chat data, and analyzing some of the keywords that’s coming across on the chat, the Watson robots are constantly learning, which is great. We’re using machine learning to get smarter about what do people ask about, and that’s giving us also some good insight into the questions they ask, the patterns of information they’re searching for by product. Brian: In terms of the net promoter score that you talked about, tell me about the fact that how do you interpret that information when not everybody is going to provide a net promoter score? You have nulls, right? Nancy: Right. Brian: How do you factor that in? That’s the argument against NPS as the leading indicator. Sometimes, it’s not having any information. So you may not be collecting positive or potentially negative stuff because people don’t even want to take the time to respond. Do you have comments on how you guys interpret that? Nancy: I think you also have to look at the NPS is going to go up and down. If you have a client who has particularly a bad experience, it’s the week of thanksgiving, there was only X amount of surveys, and one of them had a bad experience that could make your NPS score looks like it drops like a rock. [right] you’ve got to look at it like the stock market. It’s more of the patterns over the long haul, what’s coming across within those patterns of information and feedback the clients are giving you. We react but you have to look at the data set, you have to look at the environmental things that are happening, and take that all into consideration from an NPS perspective. We’re very driven by that and that comes down from our CEO. She’s very cognizant, making sure that the product teams and the development teams are getting that feedback directly from the clients. As an organization—we’re a few years old—the way we used to do that is we would have these client advisory boards. It was a small number of clients that would give us feedback on our products, roadmap, and usability of that. The reality is just that then you end up building the product for 10% of your clients. Now it’s been eye-opening for us as we really open that up. Obviously, we’re still getting feedback from a larger community and client advisory board still, but NPS comments and feedback has really widen the aperture of the feedback we’ve gotten from a broader scope of clients. Brian: You brought up a good point. I had a client who luckily was cognizant of this and they did the same things where they fly their clients, they do two-day workshops, and they gather feedback from them. I was doing some consulting there and he said, “Brian, I’d like you to just go walk around, drop in some of the conversations and just listen, but take it with a grain of salt because I hate these freaking things. All we do is invite people that are willing to come for 2–3 days and tell us how much they love our stuff, it’s a free trip, we’re not getting to the people that don’t like our stuff…” Nancy: Or don’t use it. Brian: Or don’t use it at all. I love the concept of design partners, which is new, where you might have a stable of customers who are highly engaged, but that the good ones are the ones that are engaged who will pummel you when you’re stuff is not happening. They will come down on you and they will let you know. So it’s really about finding highly communicative and people who are willing to tell it like it is. It’s not, we’ll go out and find people that rah-rah, cheerleading crowd for you. Did that inspire the changes? Nancy: Even in the client advisory councils that we had—I ran a couple of them for products like Netezza for a while—we started to change the way we even ran those. I remember the biggest aha moment was, we had a client advisory board for Netezza one year and not too long ago. We decided to run a design thinking camp as part of the agenda, so that they would actually drive what they wanted from our requirements prospectus, going through the design thinking process through that. What came out of it was truly eye-opening. You know how a design thinking process progresses. I think even they were surprised at what they ended up prioritizing across the group of requirement. I think we’re really starting using differently about that feedback from clients. I do remember that day when we were looking at those things and that was not where we thought we would end up. Brian: Do you have a specific memory about something that was surprising to the group that really stuck? Something you guys learned in particular that stuck with you? Nancy: I think we focused a lot more at that point. At the time there was a lot of issues around security and what was one of our leading things going into the next version. What clients actually were not necessarily as verbal about was that, as they were using these appliances and they were becoming more mission-critical, they were doing more mixed workloads. Yes, security was still incredibly important, but what was emerging beyond that for them was workload management because they had this mixed workload that was emerging. So many different groups were jumping in with different types of workload. They have not anticipated on their [day route?] appliance, so it was something that I think came out of the next in the design thinking process that was important to them that they actually hadn’t been able to verbalize to us. Outside of that process, which was really, really interesting to us, we were on track with the requirements that we have but beyond that, the requirements that we just hadn’t thought of and quite honestly they hadn’t verbalized. Brian: You make a good point there. Part of the job of design is to get really good clarity on what the problems are and they’re not always going to be voiced to you in words or in direct statements. It’s your job to uncover the latent problems that are already there, crystalize them, so ideally whoever your project manager in the organization and your leadership, can understand and make them concrete because then you can go and solve them. When they’re not concrete and vague, like, “We need better security.” But what does that mean specifically? If you start there and really the problem had to do with the mixed workloads and managing all that, it’s like you can go down a completely different path. You can still write a lot of code, you can build a lot of stuff, and you can do a lot of releases, but if you don’t really know what that problem is that you’re solving, then you’re just going through activity and you’re actually building debt. You’re building more technical debt, you’re wasting money and time for everybody, and you’re not really driving the experience better for the customer. I think you made a good point about the design thinking helps uncover the reality of what’s there, when it’s not being explicitly stated, support requests are not going to get that type of information. They tend to be much more tactical. You’re not going to get a, “Hey, strategically I think the project needs to go this direction.” Nancy: Right and if you would have asked of us an open-ended question, you would have gotten and answer that could have been interpreted slightly differently. I think this was when I became the biggest fan of design is that, there was this magical person who was running this design camp for me that got information that I didn’t think I could get to. I mean, I knew nothing about the product. It was pretty amazing. Brian: That can happen when you also get that fresh lens on things even when they may not be a domain expert. You get used to seeing the friction points that people have and you can ask questions in a way to extract information that’s not biased. You’re not biased by the legacy that might be coming along with that product or even that domain space. It’s sometimes having jthat almost like first grade, “Tell it to me like I’m your grandfather,” or, “Explain that to me this way,” and then you can start to see where some of those friction points are and make them real. I always enjoyed that process of when you’re really fresh. Maybe this happens for other people but especially as a designer and consultant, coming into a product and a new domain, and just having that first-grader lens on it like, “Hey, could you unpack that for me?” “What is the workload in there like?” looking at you like, “What?” and you make them unpack that but you give that full honesty there to really get them to extract out of their head into words that you [and.] everyone can understand. That’s where some of those magical things happen like, “Oh my gosh. We had no idea that this was a problem,” because he or she thought it was so obvious like, “Of course, they know this,” and it’s like, “No. No one’s ever said that.” Nancy: Right. We’re experiencing that now. We have an embedded designer into our team that’s focused on our growth products. Again, she’s coming in with a complete fresh set of eyes and her perspective that she brings on the experience is just so completely different, not completely different but there are things that she flushes out we would have never see. It’s really helping because a lot of times, too, when you’re focused on the experience as opposed to the features and functions analysis, and you come down to looking at it from that perspective. I don’t want to go to development and tell them this because it’s like calling their baby ugly. But at the end of the day, the client needs to have a great experience. They need to see the value. When they’re even just trying the product out, they don’t get to that aha experience like, “I know how this will help me within 15 minutes.” We’re just not nailing it. If they can’t figure out how to jump in and use the product, we’re not nailing it. It doesn’t matter how great the product is, if they can’t figure out how to effectively interact with it. Brian: Effectively, none of the stuff really exist in their world. It just doesn’t exist because they can’t get to it. So, effectively it’s totally worthless. Whatever that island you have on the island, if there’s no bridge to get there, it doesn’t matter because its just totally inaccessible. Nancy: Right and it’s harder sometimes for even the product managers to see it. When I was sitting down in a demo of a product that we are going to be releasing, dude was cruising through the demo, my eyes were like glazed over, I just look and I was like, “Boy, we’re going to need some onboarding with that.” Great product, amazing capabilities, very complex and dense in its capability. It’s never really about whether it’s a great product. It’s about whether the client understands that’s great, when they start using it. Brian: Yeah and I think especially for analytics tools, highly technical tools used by engineers and other people that have better working in this kind of domain. Sometimes we gloss over stuff that seems like it would be totally easy or just not important. I have this specific example I was working on a storage application. It was a tool I think for migrating storage between an old appliance and a new appliance. At some point during that workload migration, something as simple as like, “Oh, I need a list of these host names and these IP addresses,” some other information that’s just basically setup-related stuff, and all the tool needed to do was have a CSV download of a bunch of numbers to be piped into another thing so that they could talk to each other. It’s not sexy. It’s literally a CSV. It was the only technical lift required, but it was not seen as engineering. It’s not part of the product. That has to do with some other product but you have to go type it into. It’s like yes, but that bridge is never going to happen. It takes them 10 years to go figure out where all these IP addresses are listed, domain names, and all these kind of stuff. It’s not sexy but if you look at the big picture, the full end-to-end arc, and if we’re all lying around, what is that A to G workflow, there’s six steps that have to happen there. This is not sexy, it’s not a new feature but this is the blocker from getting from B to E. They’re never get to A, which is where the product begins. Nancy: We definitely had those discussions in the early days about making it more consumable instead of giving it more features and functions, and can’t we really hack growth that way? That is a mind shift that if you are a design-led organization, you get it, and we believed in every part of our being that we are. Sometimes we still have that natural resistance that we really need to add more features and functions to make this product grow, but I think we’ve really turned the corner on that. Digital really has been the task for us to do that because we build the experience in the products as if there was no IBM sales team that’s going to surround you to help make you a success. That’s a very different way that we’ve done things for so many years, and the only way you can do that is by focusing on experience. Brian: You bring up a good point and I think that it’s worth reiterating to listeners. You can add these features but they do come at a cost. The cognitive load goes up. Every time we add to the tool, we’re effectively reducing the simplicity of everything else around it. Typically as a general rule, removing choice simplifies because you’re just removing the number of things that someone has to think about. So those features don’t really come for free. It’s almost like you have a debt as soon as you add the feature and then you hope you recoup it by, “Oh there’s high engagement. People are really using that,” so that was a win. If there’s low engagement with it, you just add it. It’s like Microsoft Word 10 years ago. You just added another menu bar and another thing that no one’s gonna use, and now it’s even worse. The pile continues to grow and it’s so hard to take stuff out of software once it’s in there, because you’re going to find, “You know what? But IBM’s our client, and they’re using it. IBM makes $3 million a year. We’re not taking that button out of the tool. End of story,” and now you have that short-term like, “We can’t take that out because Nancy’s group uses this.” Nancy: That’s right and we can’t point out exactly. I think my favorite story when it comes to that is the Instagram story that people talk about, where it was launched as a tool, a product called Bourbon. It had all of these great capabilities and it was going nowhere. So they dug into the usability side of things and said, “Well, what are people actually using?” which is what we do as well from an instrumentation perspective, and found that they were really only using a couple of things. They wanted to post a picture, they wanted to comment on the picture, they want to add some sort of emojis or in like system the picture and they are like, “Let’s [do.]. Let’s just do three or four things, do them really great, and relaunch the product,” and then of course the rest is history. I think that that’s a great illustration of more features and functions. If they’re not important, relevant, and consumable, all three of those things, are not going to give you growth. It comes down to, is it easy to use? Can I get value out of it? Do I immediately see that I can get value out of it? That’s all product market fit. That’s where we shifted our focus and digital’s helped us, too. That’s why my job is so cool. Brian: Cool. This has been super fun. Can you leave us with maybe an anecdote? Do you have a big lesson learned or something you might recommend to people that are either building internal tools, internal enterprise software or even SaaS products, something like, “Hey, if I was starting fresh today, I might do this instead of doing that.” Anything from your experience you could share? Nancy: For me, the biggest thing is just really focusing on product market fit because we build something sometimes to be competitively great, but not necessarily competitively great and competitively different, or that. So to understand that you not only have something that solves somebody’s problem but does it in a way that’s unique, and that’s so valuable that they’ll pay the price that’s appropriate for whatever they’ll pay for it. You’ve got to start thinking about that upfront because oftentimes, we’ll build something we’ll see a market opportunity for, but we may not truly understand product market fit whereas we know who the target is, we know what they’ll pay for this, we know what the value is, we know how to get to them, and I think you’ve got to start with that upfront, like you really got to understand product market fit or you’re never be able to grow the product. I’ve got a lot of religion around that and we really try very, very hard to create pricing and packaging around making sure we hit that, but the product has to have that value. It can’t be too overwhelming, it can’t be too underwhelming, it’s got to hit that great value spot. Brian: Fully agree on getting that fit upfront. You save a lot of time, you could solve a lot of technical debt instead of jumping in with the projects that you going to have to change immediately because you find out after the fact and now you’re starting it like… Nancy: See you in Instagram not a Bourbon, right? Brian: Exactly. Tell us where can people find you on the interwebs out there? Nancy: I probably spend a lot of time on Twitter. Maybe not so much lately. It’s been a little bit crazy but you can find me on Twitter @nancykoppdw […] or you can find me on LinkedIn. I am going to try and do better. I am on Medium. I haven’t done as good about blogging but that’s one of my goals for trying to get back on blogging. I’m usually out there on Medium or Twitter talking about growth hacking and digital transformation. I do podcast as well. Brian: Cool. I will put those links up on the show notes for anyone. Thanks for coming to talk with us, Nancy. It’s been fun. This has been Nancy Hensley from IBM Analytics, the Chief Digital Officer. Thanks again for coming on the show and hope we get the chance to catch up again. Nancy: Thank you.

Nancy Easton and Bill Telepan are the co-founders of Wellness in the Schools (WITS), an organization dedicated to teaching kids healthy habits so that they can learn and live better.   One of the reasons we love WITS is that they’re not just focused on improving school lunches, which is a big issue that needs to be addressed but, unfortunately, only a bandage on the childhood obesity epidemic. Instead, WITS is taking a holistic approach to wellness that includes nutrition, physical fitness, and lifestyle education with the goal of improving student outcomes and driving systemic, long-term change – ultimately shifting school cultures and putting an end to childhood obesity.   If you want to lend WITS your support, you can join us at the 12th Annual Wellness in the Schools Spring Gala on April 2nd, 2019 in NYC. You’ll have a ton of fun, eat delicious food, and get the opportunity to further this amazing cause. Even if you can’t make it to NYC for the event, you can still support the organization by bidding on items through Charitybuzz: https://www.charitybuzz.com/support/213.   We also chat about...   How Nancy and Bill first got into the world of wellness Why many children struggle to access nutritional foods in their daily lives – and why school is the only opportunity for many of them to have a hot and healthy meal Witnessing how poor nutrition impacts a student’s ability to learn What WITS is cooking in school cafeterias How WITS is making fitness fun What long-term, systemic change looks like in these public schools The battle against bureaucracy The challenge of educating parents, too   Resources: Learn more at http://www.wellnessintheschools.org/ Get a ticket for the Wellness in the Schools Spring Gala (4/2/2019): http://www.wellnessintheschools.org/event/wits-gala-2/ Support WITS by bidding in their online auction: https://www.charitybuzz.com/support/213 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wellnessintheschools/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WellnessintheSchools/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WITSinSchools   Have you tried Hungryroot?!   We’d like to thank Hungryroot for supporting this show and our health! These healthy foods are prepared and shipped to your door and ready to eat in less than 10 minutes. You can prepare them as instructed or customize the recipe to make it your own. Plus, they just taste delish and they can work with anyone’s lifestyle or food allergies. Get $25 off your first two orders using code “HTW” at www.hungryroot.com/HTW. Highway to Well is produced by Podcast Masters

Nancy Brown likes to joke around that she “sleeps around a lot… but in a good way!” Combining her love of horses with her passion for travel and writing, Nancy shares her adventures through her blog, website, and various publications.   Believing that travel is better on the back of a horse, Nancy has ridden in Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Portugal, all over the US, and in countless  other beautiful locations.   In today’s episode, Nancy recounts some of her favorite travel experiences on horseback, gives great advice and tips on traveling alone, and how to manage a lengthy horse ride at any age. She also talks about her top riding locations, her travel Bucket List, and her “must see” horse-related attractions around the world.   Topics of Discussion: [:19] About Elise’s guest today, Nancy Brown. [1:05] After having two hip replacements by the age of 55 and her doctor’s orders of “No more riding,” how long did it take Nancy before she was back in the saddle? [3:23] Nancy’s experience seeing marvelous sights from the saddle. [4:58] Nancy talks about horses in different cultures and countries. [8:02] What Nancy looks for when selects a destination to ride. [9:21] Nancy talks about her recent four-day ride in Utah. [11:09] How Nancy manages long rides. [14:12] Qualities Nancy looks for in lodging, rides, centers, and points of interest. [16:08] Nancy’s favorite riding locations. [18:13] Are there any places Nancy won’t visit? [20:00] Nancy’s experiences traveling alone and her advice for lone travelers (especially women). [21:11] Nancy’s favorite horse-related attractions. [23:01] About Elise’s book, A Parent’s Guide to Riding Lessons. [23:43] The locations at the top of Nancy’s Bucket List. [27:10] Nancy tells the story of an early travel experience in high school. [29:11] Elise’s guest on next week’s Because of Horses. [30:08] The adventures Nancy has planned for 2019. [33:38] Where to learn more about Nancy’s travels and follow her online.   Know Someone Inspirational, Whose Life Has Been Forever Changed Because of Horses? Because of Horses would love to get to share their story! To recommend someone please send an email to elise@becauseofhorses.com.   Mentioned in this Episode: Writing Horseback NancyDBrown.com Nancy’s Instagram @NancyDBrown Nancy’s Twitter @NancyDBrown Nancy’s Youtube NancyDBrown Nancy’s Facebook @WritingHorseback Chicago Tribune Alaska Beyond Magazine Shape Magazine Unbranded, the film Ruby’s Grand Adventure Echo Valley Ranch (in BC, Canada) Red Reflet Ranch (in Wyoming) Hill Country Equestrian Lodge (in Bandera, Texas) Gleneagles (in Scotland) Vienna Imperial Carriage Museum Irish National Stud A Parent’s Guide to Riding Lessons: Everything You Need to Know to Survive and Thrive with a Horse-Loving Kid, by Elise Chand United States Pony Club Arizona Cowboy College   Like what you hear? Because of Horses would love to hear your feedback! Please email elise@becauseofhorses.com to send Because of Horses your thoughts.   To Support the Podcast: ● Donate on Paypal to help keep Because of Horses running — all amounts are welcome! ● Subscribe: RSS Feed, iTunes, Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, and Player FM

Sports Nutrition, Eating Disorders, Supplements with Nancy Clark MS, RD, CSSD 3 Podcast Links Nancy Clark MS, RD, CSSD Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD is an internationally respected sports nutritionist, weight coach, nutrition author, and workshop leader. She is a registered dietitian (RD) who specializes in nutrition for performance, health, and the nutritional management of eating disorders. She is board certified as a specialist in sports dietietics (CSSD) and a certified WellCoach. FacebookTwitter Episode 14 of Daniel Weiss Podcast that focuses on health, nutrition and athletic performance. In the latest episode of my podcast, Nancy Clark MS, RD, CSSD shared with me her exhaustive experience and knowledge from years of working with athletes and the general public in the field of nutrition. We dive into the basics of nutrition and eating disorders in athletes, why eating more can be beneficial for your performance goals, why some people fall for fad diets and diet trends, we also mention things like if oil can be a part of a healthy diet and growing vegan diet. Show notes 00:01:50 Intro00:01:50 How Nancy got into nutrition00:03:20 What's her new edition of book is going to be about00:04:11 What is new in the world of sports science00:08:00 How Nancy works with athletes, amateur and elite (training low, personal goals...)00:10:00 We speak about the mindset, nutrition and training of amateur athletes00:15:45 The importance of being well-fueled, the optimal weight, 00:18:35 "There are athletes who eat and train and those who diet and exercise." - eating disorders00:24:00 Do you need to track your calories? "Your body is your best calorie counter".00:27:45 Diet fads vs. 'wise' diet - why we fall for diet fads00:30:40 Sports supplements (collagen, nitrates, caffeine in short) - 1/3 of people have good response, 1/3 of people don't respond and 1/3 of people respond negatively00:34:40 Nancy's position on vegan & vegetarian diet and recommendations00:40:23 Nancy's favourite food and cuisine00:41:50 Using oils in cooking   Related podcast episodes: Matt Fitzgerald Endurance nutrition, training and mindset Elisa Oras - eating disorders and intuitive eating Georgie Fear - Habits to get and stay lean Bob Seebohar - Metabolic flexibility training Mentioned in the episode: PINES - Professionals in Nutrition for Exercise and Sport (PINES) is a United States-based 501(c)-(3) nonprofit organization focused on linking professionals in nutrition, exercise and sport around the globe, thereby enhancing excellence in sport nutrition services provided to athletes and active individuals. Learn how to best fuel your bodyIf you want to learn how to best fuel your body, stop tracking your food and instead meet with Daniel who specializes in sports nutrition and can help you create a sustainable diet/food plan that fits your unique needs and lifestyle. After clicking the link below you will be redirected to an intake form where you leave your details. I will get back with you within 24 hours. Looking forward to hear from you, Daniel Apply for Coaching Categories eventy Mindsets Nutrition OCR Off-topic Podcast Podcast SK Recipes sk Training Uncategorised Tagsaddiction (4) athlete (11) carbohydrates (6) coach (7) coaching (7) dating (4) diet (6) fat (5) fitness (8) health (14) healthy eating (4) inspiration (5) intermittent fasting (4) interview (14) life balance (4) lifestyle (6) mind (8) mindset (25) motivation (4) nitric oxide (3) nutrition (41) nutrition advice (3) oatmeal (4) OCR (13)

Going live on Facebook can be a great way to connect with, and build, your audience. But it can also be election-night-level anxiety-producing. Luckily, the Wingnut Social Podcast has you covered. This week, Darla and Natalie discuss everything you need to have in place before you go live, what benefits you’ll see in collaborating on Facebook streams, and the one trick today’s guest uses to make Facebook Lives seem totally natural. And no, there’s no way you’re guessing it. Business coach Nancy Ganzekaufer joins Natalie and Darla on this week’s episode, breaking down how she got started on Facebook Live, and what her famous Weekend Wine Down broadcasts have done for her business. Through her work, Nancy empowers creative entrepreneurs to build the life and business they have always wanted. She leads by example through her hard work, encouragement, and most of all, her no b.s. leadership style. What You’ll Hear On This Episode of Wingnut Social [3:30] How Darla and Nancy bonded over too much whiskey [4:45] How Nancy started wining down and how that helped her level up her business [6:54] Start doing Facebook Lives on your personal page [11:30] How to get your Facebook Live game off the ground [16:06] Think of only one person you’re trying to talk to when you do your livestreams [18:30] The three words that will transform your business [23:15] How long you should give livestreams a chance before re-evaluating [25:27] What up, Wingnut? [30:58] Natalie and Darla’s takeaways Connect with Nancy Ganzekaufer Nancy Ganzekaufer Nancy’s Facebook page Nancy on Instagram Nancy on Twitter Resources & People Mentioned Nancy’s Weekend Whiskey Down with Darla A Well-Designed Business Podcast Actionable Entrepreneurs BeLive Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People The Interior Design Profit Formula Get your Audible Free Trial! Facebook collaboration has real-life ROI When Nancy first started her Weekend Wine Down Facebook Live shows, it was for a reason many people can relate to: She was uncomfortable talking to a camera all on her own. She was so uncomfortable, in fact, she put googly eyes on either side of her camera so she would have something to look at while she was talking. But what started out as daunting has now become second nature to her and a huge value to her audience. On this week’s episode, Nancy talks about how her weekly chats have brought in all sorts of different creative types, from entrepreneurs to fitness coaches. It’s a win-win-win situation for Nancy: Her audience learns from her guests, the audience values Nancy for bringing them that guest, and past guests have landed clients through the Weekend Wine Downs. How to get started with Facebook Live If you want to get started using Facebook Live, but aren’t sure how, Nancy recommends making it easy on yourself. Commit to doing a 15-minute show once a week where you’re giving tips in your area of expertise. And if you’re anxious about it, grab another designer from another state (so they can’t compete for your business) and have them do it with you. Getting up on Facebook Live and truly making it valuable for your audience requires just a little planning, a little commitment and maybe a couple tools to help improve the experience. Nancy uses a platform called BeLive which brings all the bells and whistles that makes it fun for an audience. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of all of the great advice Nancy delivered on this week’s episode of the podcast! Connect With Darla & Wingnut Social www.WingnutSocial.com On Facebook On Twitter: @WingnutSocial On Instagram: @WingnutSocial Darla’s Interior Design Website Subscribe to The Wingnut Social Podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, or TuneIn

On today’s show, we hear from Kelly McLeskey-Dolata and Nancy Liu Chin, Co-Founders of Oh So Inspired. Each successful in their own right, Kelly in planning and Design with her own company, Savvy Event. Nancy, a floral designer with her company, Nancy Liu Chin Designs. Oh So Inspired, is an annual 3-day retreat for wedding professionals. We will get to hear about Nancy and Kelly and what led them to where they are today, and what they are doing. Also, we will hear about the dynamics of creating a partnership in the industry.     Show Highlights: How Kelly got into the event industry Examples of partnerships Kelly used to grow her business How Nancy got in the event industry How Nancy and Kelly started working together Collaboration is key when working with other vendors at weddings Why Oh So Inspired came about How Kelly and Nancy created the perfect environment for the event The structure of Kelly and Nancy’s partnership How their partnership is organic Most difficult challenges in running the conference How their location for the conference is perfect “Frendors” help each other out Some of the common challenges the attendees have Pricing the conference How Nancy and Kelly each balance their lives Resources: The Wedding Biz Website Instagram: @weddingbizshow The Stylish Bride with Julie Sabatino A Savvy Event Website Instagram: @asavvyevent Nancy Liu Chin Website Instagram: @nancyliuchin Oh So Inspired Website Instagram: @ohsoinspired

Today’s guest is Nancy Ray of Nancy Ray Photography. Nancy has built a thriving photography business in Raleigh, North Carolina area, so much so that a few years in the business she realized that something needed to change for her to be able to both continue to grow her business and for her family to live the life they wanted to live. She built a team. That’s exactly what we’re chatting about in today’s episode. Nancy shares with us how to know whether you’re ready to build a team, what she’s learned from her own experiences, insights into how to decide who to hire and how she evaluates candidates. Before we get to the interview, I want to mention that Nancy is launching another platform for creatives over at nancyray.com, where she’ll be sharing all of her best resources on life, work, home and faith. If it’s anything like the resources she’s made available in the past, you’re going to want to check it out. Also, if you’re interested in building a creative team, but would like someone to walk you through the process step-by-step, Nancy is opening the doors to her popular team-building course this fall, and you can find a link for that in the show notes. Be sure to check out the show notes at daveyandkrista.com for the resources we mentioned during the episode. I like to hear from you about what kind of content you like to see on the Brands that Book Podcast as we move forward. I’d also like to know what episodes you’ve enjoyed so far and why. To leave your feedback, head on over to Davey and Krista Facebook page and send us a message. The highlights: 04:35 Nancy shares about her photography business and how she eventually got to the point where she needed to hire someone. 09:31 How Nancy determined what role to hire first for her business (and the value of starting with an internship). 17:00 The differences between an employee and independent contractor. 19:53 Where your business should be at before considering hiring somebody. 23:22 Creating and sharing a job listing. 25:23 How Nancy sorts through the applications. 28:23 Why Nancy uses a multiple interview process when hiring. 31:04 The training and on-boarding process when someone is hired (and the importance of feedback). 35:31 Making sure employees are in the right fit. 37:42 Communicating with clients about associate photographers and marketing their work. 47:43 How having a team enabled Nancy to take a three month maternity leave. Nancy is a believer, wife, mama, photographer, blogger, and speaker. She owns Nancy Ray Photography and leads a small team of wedding and family photographers. Nancy speaks regularly at several conferences and retreats, sharing her inspiration and foundations in building a successful business and a balanced life. She is passionate about her faith in Jesus, financial stewardship, strong marriages, and seeing small businesses thrive for God’s kingdom. She lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, Will, daughters Milly and Lyndon (with another on the way), and great dane, Winston. Find the show notes at https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-nancy-ray-episode-22.

Nancy Duarte is the world expert on designing and delivering presentations. Nancy’s firm Duarte, is the largest design firm in Silicon Valley. They help very big and famous companies and people, from Apple through to Al Gore, design and deliver great presentations.Nancy has also written several books about storytelling and presentations, including the Harvard Business Review guide to creating persuasive presentations.I’ve been a fan of Nancy’s work for a long time so I was very excited to chat with her. We covered a heap of ground in this interview, including:How Nancy overcomes writer’s blockHow email changes her body chemistryWhy Nancy hasn’t been on facebook for three monthsWhy Nancy always has a major and a minor work on the go at all timesHow she decides which opportunities to say yes toNancy’s ultra organised approach to managing her inboxWhy Nancy has reduced the amount of emails she sendsHer favourite “productivity” appHow Nancy prepares for her own presentationsNancy’s pre-presentation ritualAnd a whole lot more.If you want to read more about Nancy, you can find her on Twitter or via her firm Duarte.Full show notes and a transcript of this episode can be found at www.amanthaimber.com/podcastWant to get in touch? Reach out at amantha@inventium.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Running 100m seemed like a mile In one of Nancy’s first workouts, the coach said “run 100m, then do some other stuff” (kb swings, squats, etc) She had zero concern about the “other stuff”, but that run… Before she found CrossFit, Nancy had been walking about 3 miles each morning. She’d never run more than … Continue reading Living Better Podcast – Ep 29 – How Nancy got fit in her 60’s →The post Living Better Podcast – Ep 29 – How Nancy got fit in her 60’s appeared first on CrossFit Hale.

Nancy Youssef's initial attraction to broking was because of the flexibility that the role offered. Initially starting her broking business, Classic Finance, without a business plan and with the vision of taking more annual leave, Nancy has developed and grown the brokerage to one of the leading businesses in Australia and now offers mentoring and business coaching to others. In this episode of Elite Broker, Nancy shares why she became a broker, the importance of outsourcing, and how she ended up hanging out with Richard Branson on Necker Island. Tune in to find out: - How Nancy's charity work is effecting change and opened up networking opportunities - Why you should focus on your passion - Her top tips for new brokers www.theadviser.com.au

Nancy Stevens wrote one short sentence on the locker room mirror prior to the start of the 2017 season. She then repeated that season before her UConn Field Hockey team won the National Championship. One short sentence that empowered them, loosened them up, gave them confidence. What did she write?   Show Notes 6:20 How Nancy got started down the coaching path 11:50 Your team WILL have a culture, be proactive in shaping it 17:20 How do you recruit those inherent character traits? 27:35 Have we created athletes who care more about getting than giving? 32:55 The harder you try to win, the harder it is to get there 50:20 Once you achieve success, how do you sustain it? 58:35 You have to work with both sides of the brain    About Nancy Stevens Three-time national champion University of Connecticut field hockey coach Nancy Stevens and the word success are synonymous. Having completed her 28th season at Connecticut and her 39th overall as a head coach, Stevens has firmly secured the tradition of UConn field hockey among the nation's best.  Recognized as one of the top collegiate field hockey coaches in the nation, she has compiled an impressive 662-181-24 record for a .777 winning percentage over her previous 39 seasons.  Most recently, Stevens led the Huskies to their fifth national championship and third in five years, while guiding the program to its first undefeated season (23-0) and captured the sixth perfect season in the history of the NCAA sport. Just a few weeks prior, she led UConn to its sixth-straight BIG EAST Tournament title, 17th overall, including its 17th-ever BIG EAST Regular Season Championship. This years trip to the Final Four marked the program's 15th overall showing in the NCAA semifinals and fifth-straight appearance. In 2013, Stevens became the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I Field Hockey history, surpassing Old Dominion coach Beth Anders as the sport's all-time winner.    Get in Touch Website: UConn Huskies Field Hockey Email: Nancy.stevens@uconn.edu Twitter:@UConnFHockey   Become a Transformational Coach Today -   Join Us at Way of Champions 2018   Take your Coaching to the Next Level with Transformational Coaching    If you are enjoying our podcast, please help us out and leave a review on iTunes. How to leave an iTunes rating or review for a podcast from your iPhone or iPad   Launch Apple’s Podcast app. Tap the Search tab. Enter the name Way of Champions. Tap the blue Search key at the bottom right. Tap the album art for the Way of Champions podcast. Tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom. Thanks so much, every review helps us to spread this message!   Hosted by John O'Sullivan. Produced by Coach Reed Maltbie

Hello and welcome to this Episode #30 of the Mother’s Quest Podcast, a conversation I’m releasing for the second time with healer, artist, healthcare advocate and mom to two incredible girls Nancy Netherland. Between the hurricanes and the continuing devastation in Puerto Rico, the mass shooting in Vegas, and most recently the wildfires near where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I know so many people are struggling with how to find gratitude and meaning in the midst of adversity. I noticed myself coming back to the lessons I learned about finding magic, even in the most challenging circumstances, from Nancy’s stories about her and her daughters in this episode, originally #10. In our conversation, we explored how Nancy’s parents instilled a sense that anything is possible, something she has needed to draw on as she faced the loss of her husband and the serious, chronic illnesses of her daughters. And, she shared how she and her girls cultivate generosity and pay that generosity forward through something they created called “gratitools.” I decided to re-release the episode this week with a new dedication and challenge for all of us from my friend and colleague Lizzy Russinko. Lizzy recently moved with her family from Philadelphia to Petaluma in Northern California where they found themselves in the midst of the devastating wildfires. In her dedication, she shares a story of connection amid uncertainty and her commitment to engage her children in sharing some love and healing in her community. As we listen to this episode with Nancy, I invite us to think about where we can find magic and meaning during these difficult times.  And to join Lizzy in her commitment to pay forward love and kindness in some way to those who are suffering right now. Topics discussed in this episode: How Nancy’s parents influenced her childhood by teaching her that anything is possible Resiliency and mindfulness during traumatic events The importance of creating magic in our lives “Gratituding” as a verb Nancy’s favorite book “Man’s Search for Meaning” Advocating for your children’s health The importance of community, especially as a caretaker Building deep relationships with people of differing viewpoints Resources mentioned in this episode: Gratitool Choosing Gratitude Hepatitis C information Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Commonweal – where Nancy learned her framework for self-care Clinical Trials  a site that is open to the public to find life saving clinical trials UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital These Inspirational Notecards that Lizzy and her family will be passing around to her community This Week’s Challenge: Building on Nancy Netherland’s story, this challenge comes from Lizzy Rossinko who dedicated the episode. Over the next month Lizzy’s family is going to leave note cards of encouragement and hope around town for her neighbors to find and give, as their community at Sonoma County copes with the wildfires. This will be their little way of injecting magic and meaning into a time of significant adversity and change. Lizzy invites us to do something special to bring comfort and home in our neck of the woods. Announcements Mother’s Quest Circle Pilot You’re a mindful mother. And being present for your children in these years when you’re raising them is your highest priority. You’re also committed to making a positive impact in the world, something that feels even more important with all the challenges we currently face. If the description above sounds like you, the Mother’s Quest Circle Pilot, launching this fall may be right for you.  This signature offering provides inspiration, coaching and community to spark your E.P.I.C. life with intimate in-person reflective sessions over 3-4 months. Click www.mothersquest.com/mothers-quest-circle to learn and apply. The group starts in November so don’t delay if you’re interested. Questions? Email me at julie@mothersquest.com Visit the Website If you haven’t yet visited the website, head over towww.mothersquest.comto explore some of the ways you can get more connected. At the site, you can sign up for our email list (to get show notes delivered to your inbox and our new “Mothers on a Quest” features), click the link to join the Facebook group and press record to leave a voice message for me. You can also download the FREE Live Your E.P.I.C. Life Planning and Reflection Sheets. Sign up! – Free 30 minute Discovery Session  I’m rolling out my new coaching offerings and having great conversations with women who are ready to live a more E.P.I.C. life and interested in coaching. If you’ve had a spark moment setting you on a new path or are at a crossroads but feel unsure, guilty or overwhelmed, I’d love to talk with you about how working with me could help light the way, get you clear about what you want, shift your mindset from fear to faith, and get you moving into action. I’ve been there, I’m still on the journey myself, and I’d love to bring all I’ve learned from a decade of coaching, 13 years of motherhood and all the lessons from my podcast guests to support you. Send me an email at julie@mothersquest.com or sign up for a free discovery call by clicking this link if you’re interested in learning more. Women Podcasters in Solidarity After the events that took place in Charlottesville, I’m even more committed to a quest I’ve been on to understand the roots of racism and bigotry, how it still shows up today, and how I can become a better ally and advocate to fight against it. I’m raising awareness for myself, and inviting you to do the same, through this special podcast episode. I’m also pledging to donate to an organization supporting the Movement for Black Lives and to invite you to donate too leading up to Giving Tuesday in November. More on this to come soon. If you are a women podcaster yourself, I’d love for you to make a similar pledge to use the power of your platform for this cause. You can learn more and join the initiative by signing up at mothersquest.com/solidarity. 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Atlanta interior designer Nancy Braithwaite stops by the podcast to talk about her signature style, her book Simplicity, how she trained her eye to see rather than just look, and of course she helps us answer your decorating questions. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE: -Nancy talks to us about her style, how she zeroed in on it, and what steps she takes creating it  -Nancy talks about seeing vs. looking  -Nancy compares dressing a room with dressing yourself, and why accessories sometimes take away from your design  -Why proportion and scale are crucial to creating a well designed room  -She tells us a story about being mesmerized at a decorators showhouse in New York and how it changed the ways she decorates  -We ask Nancy how we can train our eyes to see instead of look  -Nancy tells us about working with Deanne Levison, one of the top American antiques dealers in the country  -How Nancy and Deanne came to work together and their adventures at antique shows all over the country  -How to compose your room -- start with large pieces then add what makes those large pieces feel better  -We talk slipcovers, which ones Nancy likes, and why she uses them so often in her spaces  -She tells us about staining the floors in a recent project black and why it transformed the space  -We talk about how she helped her daughter decorate her home which was featured in Cottage Living  -How you can learn from the best by studying their work and learning to see rather than look  -We talk about when to stop  -Nancy talks about when she started to really understand her own style and aesthetic  -Why it's so important to just go for it -- try something and move things around if they don't work  -We discuss one of the pillar's of Nancy's style -- whimsy  -Nancy chimes in about where you should invest your decorating dollars  -When to use symmetry and when to use asymmetry

Everyone's got things that they're naturally good at, but have you ever thought of your natural talents as a type of genius? If you can tap into those natural talents, you'll find you're more confident and productive than before. This interview with Nancy Marmolejo is the perfect way to kickstart your unique genius. Nancy Marmolejo is an educator, speaker, and author fascinated by the intersection of talent and genius. She's an expert at helping clients reconnect with their natural talents and passions in order to fuel valuable, authoritative businesses. Here's what you'll discover: What the word "genius" really means, and how it interacts with Nancy's work. How Nancy helps clients determine the difference between natural and acquired talents. The confidence boost you'll gain when you make using your inherent gifts a priority. How a story about her daughter's class podcast demonstrates the unique perspective each of us have. What aspiring thought leaders and business owners should do next if they want to integrate their natural passion into their work. You can find show notes and other information by clicking here: http://cashflowpodcasting.com/cfp026

Nancy Stevens, is a Lifestyle, Health, and Wellness Coach who lives with her family in Nashville, TN. Nancy teaches a variety of fitness classes and is most drawn to the mind/body connection of yoga. She made the shift to life coaching after feeling drawn to provide more personal one-on-one guidance. During our conversation, Nancy shares what it means to be mindful, how to be successful at keeping up a self-care practice, and examples of client breakthroughs. She speaks with many people who feel numbed and removed from their personal needs. In our discussion, she offers self-care tips that she uses with her clients to help get their life back in balance. These include: Creating a signature color or style. Ask yourself, "What says 'this is me?' Craft a vision for your life Give yourself permission to do something good for you Ask yourself "What do I need that I'm not getting. What can I do to make a change? Stay hydrated Go to bed early Add your most important self-care activities to your calendar like a weekly pilates class, a monthly hair appointment, or a pedicure. Key Takeaways: [5:20] How Nancy made the shift from being a Yoga Teacher to a Lifestyle Coach. [9:58] What it means to be mindful, and how to apply the practice. [13:16] Taking care of the body through movement and hydration. [22:12] The importance of maintaining social connections. [30:19] Nancy shares real-life stories of client breakthroughs. [40:45] How to say no, kindly. Quotes from Nancy: “Mindfulness is being present, aware, and connected to the present moment.” “Going to bed early is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.” “Ask yourself, what do I need that I am not getting?” Mentioned In This Episode: Nancy Stevens Coaching @lifecoachnancy Ever Better Podcast EP042 with Maggie Huffman discussing Aura-Soma Discover What’s Next Coaching @EverBetterU

Relationships, Business, Success, Responsibility, Goals   Summary   Dale Carnegie was right on the mark in one of his most famous sayings. We'll look at that in our Thought of the Day. And in our interview segment, Nancy Matthews explains to us how we can be THE ONE in other people's worlds. That and more on today's show. Bob's Thought of the Day   You'll discover:   How this principle from Dale Carnegie's classed How to Win Friends and Influence People can change your life: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” Three steps to becoming genuinely more interested in others. How the principle of “action precedes feeling” can help you become more interested in others and improve your relationships.   Interview with Nancy Matthews   You'll discover:   Nancy's journey from being a single mother living paycheck to paycheck, to a successful business leader and author. The power of Nancy's THE ONE philosophy and how it can help you honor and connect with other people. How to make a shift to being others-focused. The power of taking responsibility for your own life. How Nancy used THE ONE philosophy to help a man begin his journey toward the goal of becoming general manager of a professional hockey team. Why using THE ONE philosophy benefits you as well as the person you're focusing on. Why consistently focusing on others as though they are the most important person in the world can change your world dramatically. Click to Tweet   Focus on everyone U speak w as though they are the most important person in the world. @nancyprospers Learn how to focus on others & dramatically improve your relationships by using THE ONE philosophy. @nancyprospers When U treat others as the most important person in the world, it changes your world, too. @nancyprospers   Interview Links   The One Philosophy: The Little Message With a BIG ImpactNancyMatthews.comWomen's Prosperity Network Resources   Sell The Go-Giver Way Webinar GoGiverSalesAcademy.com The Go-Giver Leader TheGoGiver.com GoGiverSpeaker.com Burg.com How to Post a Review

Anthony first became aware of Nancy Duarte when he watched the Al Gore TED talk that featured the slide deck created by Nancy Duarte and her team. That’s when he began grabbing her books every time they came out and applying her concepts about storytelling and leadership to the things he was doing in the sales world. On this episode Anthony has the honor of speaking with Nancy and the co-author of her latest book “Illuminate,” Patti Sanchez. You’ll get an earful of great advice about how leaders can use stories to lead people where they need to go, on this episode. We need to understand storytelling on a larger scale ~ Nancy DuarteClick To Tweet Why leaders are torchbearers and the difference their role can make. Leaders, by definition, are leading people into something new, or different, or needed. It’s in this way that they carry a torch, illuminating the way before the team as they all move forward. Part of the way that good leaders do that is by leading with vision, empathy, and a deep understanding of the things that motivate their followers to move into unknown territory. The same principles apply for the salesperson who is truly trying to help their prospects move toward a purchase that will supply the solution to their problems. You’ll learn a lot on this episode, not just about leadership but about how salespeople can be leaders to their clients. Why leaders are often accused of lacking empathy. We all know that leaders are characteristically hard driving, vision oriented people. With a bent like that it’s not uncommon for leaders to be accused of lacking empathy toward those they are attempting to lead. The reason for that is simple: leaders tend to see the end goal or the vision very clearly and need to slow down long enough to understand that their followers likely don’t have the same clarity or drive that they possess. On this episode Nancy Duarte and Pattie Sanchez chat with Anthony about how leaders can modify their approach to leadership in ways that enable their followers to actually follow with more of their hearts invested. Many leaders focus too much on the “how” and not enough on the “why” ~ Anthony IannarinoClick To Tweet Many leaders and salespeople focus too much on the “what” and not enough on the “why.” In this great conversation Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez point out that leaders often emphasize the methods or steps that they intend for their teams to take in order to reach a goal. That’s good for as far as it goes, but that’s a long way from helping them understand WHY the goal they are headed toward is so doggone important in the first place. Helping your followers or prospects understand the NEED for the end goal, be it an accomplishment or a sale, is the most important aspect of good leadership because it is what maintains focus and motivation over the long haul. You can hear more on this episode of In The Arena. People don’t do things for your reasons, they do things for their reasons. In this conversation a great point is made in noticing that people don’t act because a boss, leader, or salesperson want them to act or think they should act, they take action because they have a personal and internal reason for acting. A good salesperson or leader becomes skilled at asking the kind of questions that reveal the true motives underlying the contemplation of a decision, so they can lead toward a decision in the most effective way. You’ll enjoy the creative and helpful insights you hear on this episode. People don’t do things for your reasons. They do things for their reasons ~ Nancy DuarteClick To Tweet Outline of this great episode [3:10] How Anthony came to be aware of Nancy Duarte. [5:03] How Nancy’s books came about and why she released them in the order she did. [7:33] What Slide:ology does for people who make presentations. [8:15] The idea behind the concept of a leader as a torchbearer. [10:09] How the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings themes emerged in th...

Nancy Fechnay is a Partner @ Flight Ventures where Nancy runs the UK syndicate which now has over 430,000 comitted to the syndicate and Nancy moved to London from Silicon Valley in 2014, having spent time with the likes of Kleiner Perkins and GE Ventures. Now in the UK, Nancy is the Interim Director at Techstars London as well as an advisor to several select UK and U.S. based startups and has a soft spot for wearables and other digital hardware plays, but invests across all sectors. Contained In Today’s Episode: 1.) How Nancy made her entry into the tech and investing world? What was it that attracted Nancy to the world of investments? 2.) Having working in both the US and UK venture scene now, when comparing the US and European scenes what are the biggest differences? Do the entrepreneurs have a fundamentally different mindset? Are UK entrepreneurs more risk averse, as is always suggested? Are investor expectations different in the US? 3.) Does the narrow exit funnel for European startups not concern NancySome suggest that startups must go to the valley if they are to be acquired for $bn plus or have a successful IPO. Does Nancy agree? 4.) Why did Nancy agree to setup Uk Technology by Flight Ventures with Gil Penchina? What is the mission? What is the average investment? Is there a plan to be investing further in Europe in time? 5.) At a talk with the Chicago Angels Network Nancy said that European investors are much more KPI led, in comparison to US investors who follow the passion of the team and the vision? Which side does Nancy fall on and what are the pros and the cons? 6.) What have been Nancy’s biggest takeaways from working with Gil Penchina? Shopping List From Today’s Show: Favourite book and why: Machine Learning: The Art Of Science & Algorithms That Make Sense Of Data by Peter Flach Fave blog or newsletter: The Memo, Term Sheet Most recent investment and why: Lystable As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com and see Nancy's latest tweets here: www.twitter.com/NancyFechnay