Lighthearted Leadership with Lizette

Learn the tricks, tips, techniques and strategies for being HAPPY at work and at home in this episode with Jessica Weiss.

In this episode of "Light Hearted Leadership with Lizette," Dr. Lizette Warner explores the importance of using your authentic voice and communicating with confidence and clarity. She acknowledges the struggle many face in advocating for themselves and staying silent. Lizette offers a self-advocacy workshop that provides strategies, worksheets, and practice sessions to help individuals improve their communication skills. The workshop is available for a limited time at a discounted price of $37. Lizette encourages listeners to take action and unleash their unique voices with confidence and clarity.

Key takeaways:

1. Your unique voice is valuable, and it's essential to use it.
2. Effective communication requires both motivation and skill.
3. The self-advocacy workshop offers strategies, worksheets, and practice sessions - the key to self-advocacy.
4. The workshop is available at a discounted price of $37 for a limited time.
5. Taking action and participating in the workshop can empower you to communicate with confidence and clarity.

In this episode of "Light Hearted Leadership with Lizette," Dr. Lizette Warner explores the theme of authenticity and shares strategies for stepping back when you have a lot on your plate whether you own a business or want a life. She emphasizes the importance of planning for replacements, training clients and children to adapt, training yourself and potential replacements, and trusting the process.

Key takeaways include

• planning ahead,
• setting boundaries, and
• embracing the support of others.

Learn the difference between a hobby and a business on this episode.

Walk away with

• an understanding of the similarities and the differences between a hobby and a business
• how to overcome the biggest business hurdle, FEAR
• resources to use to launch and grow your business

Learn how the Power, Poise, and Presence book can help you with

• risk
• improving your marriage
• identifying your unique biomarkers




and so much more.

Two readers Donna, from Tennessee and Miriam directly from Australia join me on today's podcast.

In today's show you'll learn the secret to

• having more energy
• how an embarrassing story led to an authentic moment
• authenticity

If you struggle with how to show up in different places being the same person on the inside as you are on the outside, this show is for you.

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Master Coach Jonathan Reitz takes over Lighthearted Leadership for a special edition in celebration of ...

We assume confidence shows up when we do the thing, and we do it well. What if we have it backwards? What if you were able to change the conditions for when? That and more on the podcast.

This is a call to arms for Power, Poise and Presence hidden within stories from Ireland.

Trying times are ushering in new levels of anxiety and stress. The Great Resignation - is it the new Great Mid-Life Crisis? 

On the show we talk about how to make course corrections and provide a few seasoned leaders tips.

What does mental fitness mean to you? I have a hard time picturing my brain lifting weights or doing a cardio workout but that’s what I think of when I say mental fitness. The gym is a good analogy for mental fitness because there are various parts of mental fitness that we ignore to our detriment. We are going to talk about the good the bad and the ugly of mental fitness. I’m going to share with you some of the latest research, findings, and ways you can up your own mental fitness. How is that for a mental workout today? What makes you mentally tough? What does it require you to do? Or indeed not to do?

This episode was shot on location in Greenwich, UK.

Today's show explores burnout and addresses how to avoid the most common type of burnout.

Join us on the show for our interview with Dr. Kelly Paradis, a Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist and Chair of Equity and Inclusion for her Department at the University of Michigan. Kelly shares her experiences with us and give us some best practices that might help you in your area.

Plus you'll get to hear her 30-second recap of what is a Medical Physicist. Welcome to the show:

Find the shownotes here for Season 2 Episode 3: 

Today's episode reveals some deep insight from CS. Lewis.

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Today's show explores how to stay positive when everything is a mess.

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On today’s episode we are heading into unhurried conversations. I am just wrapping up a coaching group Unhurried at work where we spent 6 sessions exploring unhurried conversations and how unhurried habits can help you elevate your own communication style. We are going to talk about that today.

There is something about this time of year that just gets hurried for me. A quick transition from one month to the next to wrapping things up to starting new things and it all tends to mush together and as we discovered in our coaching group, it doesn’t have to be like that.

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On today’s episode we are heading into distraction. If you’ve joined me before you know don’t you my lighthearted friends how easily I get distracted on the show and we’re going to talk about that today. We are also going to talk about how you get distracted. How many times a day do you pick up your phone? When we go the gym I must pick up my phone after every rep. I don’t know what I’m thinking, that my step count went up by what 3 steps.

What is it for you? Does your phone have the winning lottery numbers? Is it about to give you unlimited wisdom?

On lighthearted leadership we are going to explore how you can reign in distraction.

There are so many paradoxes women face in the workplace and how to get ahead when you, if you are a woman listening are faced with these paradoxes. Paradoxes like (according to HBR) women need to be demanding yet caring, authoritative yet participative, advocating for themselves yet supportive of others and maintain distance yet be approachable. If you’re banging your head against a wall, On today’s episode we are heading into how to advocate for yourself. 

Are you confused or are you on the edge of your seat waiting for the insight bits? You will walk out of here today with insight on how to advocate for yourself. 

On today’s episode we are heading into how you can help women advance in leadership. The statistics are  sobering. In most organizations over half the members are women, and you’ll find less than 1/3 of women in leadership roles for that same organization. We explore some ways you can help women advance in leadership, regardless your role in the organization.

On today's episode we are reviewing modern psychological tools you can use to avoid conflict. How does that sound?

We are diving into Transactional Analysis and we'll only be skimming the surface but the surface may be deep enough for you to take some tools with you that you can apply in your conflict scenarios.

Blog Post on How to Avoid Conflict

On today’s episode we are heading into dignity. We seem to be in an employee’s market that’s been dubbed the great Resignation or as a coach with busy Organizations working to retain their staff, the vision from the organization is the Great Retention. In either case if you have another job offer and you are resigning, how do you do so with dignity? Do you counter offer? Do you accept a counter offer?

Wherever you seem to find yourself, the topic we’ll kick around today is how do you leave with dignity, whether it’s by choice or by force. Yeah, even in this day and age in an employee’s market, companies are slashing jobs. On lighthearted leadership we are going to explore dignity today. That and more on coming right at ya.

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On today’s episode we are heading into change. What’s your feeling about change. Do you run from it? Welcome it? What happens when your organization makes change decisions? What if you are an executive in an organization and you are driving change?

Whatever your experience with change, today we are going to explore the change space and we’re going to uncover some change wisdom for you. On lighthearted leadership we are going to explore change. That and more on today’s show.

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On today’s episode we are heading into decisions. What’s your feeling about decisions. Do you make them easy? Do you take your time? Do you make a list? Pros, cons? Or do you decide quickly or do you meet in committee, take consensus, and walk away with inaction?

Whatever your experience with decisionmaking today we are going to explore the space around making a decision. We won’t delve deep into how to make the decision only how you know you’re ready to make a decision and we’re going to dig into some spiritual wisdom for this. On lighthearted leadership we are going to explore some spiritual wisdom for your decisionmaking process. That and more on today’s show.

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When you think about the workplace. Where do you fit in with emotions? Many of my clients are not comfortable with emotions whether it’s crying, laughing, anger, frustration sometimes people - and I work in a technical field so it is perhaps exacerbated this concept that we work without emotion because emotions means, you aren’t working to optimal efficiency. Or something like that. We are humans complete with a full spectrum of emotions and that’s what we’re going to explore on today’s show. Emotions. That and more on today’s show.

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On today’s episode we are wading out into the unknown. Nothing terrifies me as much as the unknown. I say terrify but you can also replace that with thrill. Truth be told nothing terrifies me or thrills me as much as the unknown. Today we are going to play with the unknown and see if we can’t discover some ways you can get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

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I was in a conference last week where as an executive coach, I was asked multiple times, how to avoid zoom fatigue. In the conference I gave a couple of quick suggestions. On today’s show we are going to go a little bit deeper to leave you with a few provocative thoughts on how you can avoid zoom fatigue. That and more on today’s show.

Today we are going to explore some coaching wisdom and how you can use it to your advantage to level up your meeting experience and hit effective meeting level.

On today’s show we are going to play with some coaching tools, some executive coaching tools and one in particular called the coaching agreement. We aren’t going to go deep into a coaching agreement but we are going to explore what this little handy dandy tool can do for your own meeting effectiveness. That and more on today’s show. Join us.

What can you do when you are on a sinking ship, metaphorically speaking? There are times when you are legitimately sinking or at least it feels like it. You’re overwhelmed, more and more is piling up on top of you and it’s not fun to be you.

I find that this topic comes up a lot this topic of being overwhelmed in over your head, too much to do, feels like I’m sinking, a bunch of different activities happening. Help! The ship is sinking and I’m on it. Help is on the way!

An important topic is the relationship between performance and stress. There is a relationship captured in several articles that shows that performance increases with stress but only up to a point. When the level of stress becomes too high, performance decreases – aka I’m on a ship that is sinking, I’m about to drown. There's more: The shape of the curve varies based on the complexity and familiarity of the task.

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Lord of the Rings! We are talking about taking a Lord of the Rings retreat. Are you interested? I know I was. In today's show I talk with a retreat master, Fr. Tom Behrend, about how you can take a leadership retreat, types of retreats he's taken, benefits of retreats, and how you can incorporate retreats into your life. The best part is we get to dive into the wisdom from Lord of the Rings.

In today's special show I finish our inspirational talk with elite level athlete and gymnast, Gage Dyer - men's gymnast who flies through the air on floor and vault. Speaking of flying through the air, check out his instagram page:

In today's special show I talk with an amazing athlete, Gage Dyer - men's gymnast who flies through the air on floor and vault. Speaking of flying through the air, check out his instagram page:

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Saying "No" can be easy for some and nerve wracking for others. To complicate matters hearing "No" can have some repercussions for you. In this episode we are going to explore some ways you can communicate "No" without actually saying no.

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Recently the BBC had a story on why we buy into the cult of overwork and LinkedIn followed that up with stories on how rising and grinding is bad for you. In today's show we’re going to dive into how you can be upwardly mobile, and successful by cultivating breaks. Breaks are important whether they are scheduled or impromptu and today's show may just inspire you how to start incorporating them as a regular part of your life.

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Welcome to the show notes for Lighthearted Leadership with Lizette.

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On today’s show we’re going to the serengetti. Does it every feel like you work at a zoo? Does it feel like a zoo is calmer than your workplace? If you feel that way, you are not alone. Today we are going to talk about how to work with a rampaging rhino and other office wisdom.

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In today's show we talk about appreciation, the benefits of appreciation and how you might be able to use appreciation as a motivating source. We also have a special guest on today's show who has a stupendous gift of motivating others.

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We take on the not so lighthearted topic of long working hours and discover how to fuel and balance work and life. We also take a peek at rocket fuel in today's show.

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In today's show we explore how to use lightheartedness and how being lighthearted can increase your effectiveness, communication, engagement, trust and even your pay. Managers who lead with fun and levity benefit from employee engagement and overall success and the research shows that playfulness can elevate your status and lower your stress. Too good to be true? Decide yourself!

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Today's show explores the latest news on how to give feedback and we explore some ways you might consider to incorporate into your own feedback process.

Today we talked about how to give critical feedback, aka opportunities for grow

We recapped news and guidance from Entrepreneur magazine on their top 4 things business leaders should consider before giving critical feedback.

We talk about a few different techniques to consider

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In today's show we talk about the recent humorous news out of Microsoft's Human Research Lab and the connection to busy people everywhere. Are you busy stuck in more and more meetings? You're not alone.

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