Podcast appearances and mentions of lenore kantor

In this episode, Bard MBA student Anastasia 'Stacy' Gramotneva interviews Lenore Kantor, founder of Growth Warrior, about her journey from corporate marketing executive to transformational coach and author. Lenore shares her personal 'tower moment' that led to an existential crisis after 20 years in the financial technology sector, and how it sparked her mission to help others find alignment between their personal values and professional lives. She discusses her eight-step 'Authentic Alchemy Path' framework that combines business strategy, coaching methodologies, and holistic practices like Feng Shui and energy medicine. Lenore offers insights on recognizing misalignment, creating intentional space for change, and transforming breakdowns into breakthroughs, while emphasizing that 'we have more choice than we realize once we become aware of the ways we may inadvertently be blocking ourselves.

On episode 106 of the Attract and Stand Out podcast, host Darlene Hawley chats with transformational coach and author Lenore Cantor. Lenore discusses her journey from a corporate executive to a coach who helps high achievers find personal and professional fulfillment. She shares her story of overcoming burnout and emotional breakdown to align her work with her values. Lenore introduces her new book, 'So What Do You Do? The Authentic Alchemy Path to Find Who You Are,' and her framework for leading others to make conscious choices and achieve authenticity. The conversation explores themes of resilience, adaptability, and the process of reinventing oneself. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 00:51 Lenore's Background and Journey 03:12 Navigating Career Transitions 06:36 Challenges of Entrepreneurship 09:11 Adapting to Change 14:50 Authenticity and Leadership 23:52 Future Plans and Projects 26:59 Rapid Fire Questions 30:14 Conclusion and Farewell ------- Hi I'm Darlene Hawley, and I help entrepreneurs and executive leaders find their voice and mastering communication in high-stakes conversations and presentations, whether in the boardroom, on a sales call, or around the dinner table. Grab my 10 Do's and Don't for Effective Daring Conversations: https://mailchi.mp/297e8105e904/communicationguide Grab my 6 Steps To Attract & Stand Out digital guide, a free roadmap to create a successful business with less hustle and more ease: https://bit.ly/attractandstandoutonline Grab a Chai and let's Connect: https://darlenehawley.com https://linkedin.com/in/darlenehawley

Lenore Kantor attended Penn to receive her bachelor's degree in business administration. After spending many years working for large corporations, Lenore took a big leap and started her own business in 2013. Growth Warrior helps companies and leaders to manage growth through leadership. They help companies find solutions to help focus on growth through high impact strategy sessions, business analysis and growth coaching. Lenore prides Growth Warrior on being experts at aligning visions and values with brand, messaging, strategy, and culture. During our conversation, we went into detail about starting her business, how starting a business is different for everyone and some advice she would give a person starting their own business today.

Lenore Kantor is a growth consultant and leadership coach. She is the president of her company Launch Warrior. Lenore assists and coaches individuals in growing their business through leadership. Lenore shares her journey of coming out of business school focused and driven and working in the corporate world launching products and services for large companies and how she began to struggle with the corporate world, and its reputation of making money at the expense of other people began to weigh on her. She talks about how she realigned with the values that put her back on track to help herself and authentically assist people and businesses. Tune in to hear Lenore and Bob give a brief overview of their upcoming weekend workshop "Radical Abundance." @lenorekantor, @launchwarrior

You can find out more about Lenore Kantor at www.launchwarrior.net

About Our Guest Lenore Kantor is a strategic advisor to companies and individuals who are managing growth, innovation and change.  Lenore founded Launch Warrior to help emerging and established businesses and founders in the technology, creative, financial and professional services sectors to increase revenues, establish market leadership and achieve results by aligning their vision and values with their brand, messaging, strategy and culture. Lenore helps clients to clarify their positioning develop their leadership, manage corporate changes and go to market successfully.   Episode Summary Lenore tells the difference between those who want to launch a company and those who succeed in launching a company. She shares the importance of finding your market, appreciating feedback, being around creative people, and branding yourself personally and professionally at the same time. .   Insights From The Episode Secrets of the Launch Warrior beginnings The importance of having an internal drive to become an entrepreneur The importance of industry credibility The importance of getting a variety of experience while working in the corporate world How to choose the best clients for your business How to outsource chief marketing roles Strategies for breaking down barriers for a successful launch How to get past procrastination How to stay motivated when times are challenging The importance of bonding and networking with like minded individuals How to balance your spiritual and professional life The importance of goal setting   Quotes From The Episode   “I do believe people have these moments in their life where they realize something is not...the way they thought it would be.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “Having navigated the corporate world I have a lot of experience managing teams, ...building brands, working with organizations.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “Everyone has different experiences in life.  Then you need to look back and reflect and see what was the through line...the thing that made sense and tied everything together.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “What I found early on was there were people I really liked and I wanted to help but they didn’t want to invest in their business.  If they don’t want to invest in their business...it's kind of hard to grow if you are not looking to do the things you need to do to make your business better.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “I’m often working with teams...around what are you trying to achieve for the company, what are your priorities and goals, what are you trying to get to.  Then what resources do you have and what are your strengths so the two can come together so there can be a better focus and you can be more successful.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   Perfectionism holds people back.  “People think unless its perfect I don’t want to go live...nothing is perfect, you can spend forever and it will never be perfect.  There needs to be a willingness to take a risk, to try… stick your toe in the water, try it and see how it goes.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “The more clear you can be for your organization around what you are really trying to achieve... is that realistic?  If that is what you want to achieve then you actually have to say...what is it going to take to get there and am I prepared to make the investment necessary.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “Progress is better than perfection.’ - Kevin Y. Brown episode #112   “Free advice is what it’s worth, its free.”- Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “Passion can get you really far...but at the same time you need to know what it takes to get people to engage in using whatever you are building.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “ Correction is direction, feedback is love. by Dr. Rafael Moffitt” - Kevin Y. Brown episode #112   “Everything is a lesson and an opportunity to learn.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “Try to keep your vision and try to stay positive when you can.  The more positive and focused you can be, the more clarity you will have and the better opportunities to manifest what you want.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   “It’s really important to try and set goals...it will look different for different people.” - Lenore Kantor Episode #112   Resources Mentioned: Evernote, Smartsheet, 17 hats, Dubsado   Favorite Book: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert   Three keys to creating your best life: Work on yourself Treat people with gentleness and kindness Try and tap into what you really want to create for yourself   Stay Connected:   Create Your Life Series: https://www.facebook.com/cylseries/ https://www.instagram.com/cylseries/   Kevin: www.kevinybrown.com www.instagram.com/kevinybrown www.twitter.com/kevinybrown www.facebook.com/kevbrown001 Lenore Kantor: https://launchwarrior.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/launch-warrior https://www.facebook.com/launchwarrior/ https://twitter.com/Launch_Warrior Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on itunes, google play, stitcher and www.createyourlifeseries.com/podcast  

About our Guests: Eric Fondren is the CEO of Itell.io, a company that provides a digital advertising platform for ATM owners to digitally advertise to their customers. Lenore Kantor is a branding and launch expert who has introduced more than 100 new products, services and business processes across a wide range of technology and financial services companies over 20+ years. A hands-on executive, she has built new product management and marketing communications functions from scratch, led international teams and budgets both large and small.   Episode Summary Kevin, Lenore and Eric discuss their personal and organizational challenges that they are looking to improve upon. Each of them also outlines their goal setting and achievement processes for their businesses.  Insight from this episode: Identifying your biggest challenges in the CEO seat Understanding product market fit and the right customers key indicators of clients Get paid upfront from your time and effort = helps you distinguish    between clients that are serious How to hire virtually How to get to achieve your inner peace as a CEO The importance of a daily routine The benefits of investing in life outside of work How to close more by finding the right clients Breaking down goals for your organization   Quotes from the show: “whether or not you ask yourself if you’re doing enough is the mark of an entrepreneur and you shouldnt be upset about the question being asked you should be worried about how you are answering the question.” - Eric Fondren Episode #98 “We have to get beyond the transactional to the relational” - Lenore Kantor Episode #98 “If you have a role and your hiring for it the person needs to be able to come in and do that job, it should not be that they come in and learn” - Eric Fondren Episode #98   Stay Connected:   Create Your Life Series:   https://www.facebook.com/cylseries/ https://www.instagram.com/cylseries/   Kevin: www.kevinybrown.com www.instagram.com/kevinybrown www.twitter.com/kevinybrown www.facebook.com/kevbrown001   Eric: http://www.itell.io/ https://twitter.com/ericnfondren https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericnfondren   Lenore Kantor:   http://www.launchwarrior.net http://www.twitter.com/lkantor http://www.twitter.com/launch_warrior https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenorekantor/   Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on  itunes, google play, stitcher and www.createyourlifeseries.com/podcast