Best Adria Sophia DeCorte | Message Clarity Coach Podcasts (2022)

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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196 A Persona vs Messaging that Feels Like You with Kat Frogosa 1:00:51

7M ago1:00:51

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Do you ever feel like there’s a certain way you need to sound to be heard online? An empath with a rebellious streak, Quiet Messenger Kat Frogosa is a natural-born nurturer with major resistance when being told to do things a certain way. If it doesn’t feel good deep down in her bones, she’s not doing it. She had seen so many women — especially bur…

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195 Neurodiversity, ADHD & How “Differences” Connect with Sarah Hennessey 1:06:53

7M ago1:06:53

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Sarah Hennessey is a Sustainability & Wellness Coach supporting self-identified female misfits who are looking for a sustainable and alternative twist on living a truly healthy life. As someone who was too shy to speak in school growing up, Sarah spent most of her life definitely not seeing herself as a Messenger. When she started her business as a…

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194 Your Invite to the Quiet Messenger Mastermind 8:37

7M ago8:37

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Popping in with a quick note on my Messenger Mastermind – what it’s all about, why I do it, how it supports Quiet Messengers – since we’re in final enrollment for the January cohort! The Messenger Mastermind is an intimate circle of sensitive, introverted women leaders who like cozy spaces for connection, growth and processing and who want to feel …

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193 Message Clarity Keys for Quiet Messengers to Be Heard 20:57

8M ago20:57

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This episode might seem to contradict the last. I said message clarity isn’t everything, and that what we really need is an ongoing messaging practice. That’s still true. But also, message clarity is the foundation that messaging practice is built on. That’s why I structure my Masterminds for Quiet Messengers with core content to keep generating ne…

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192 Why Message Clarity ISN’T the End Goal 21:33

9M ago21:33

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Ever feel like you keep getting *this* close with your messaging and then…Ugh, actually never mind, I don’t know if this is right. Or do you clarify your messaging and then lose touch with it and forget…How do I talk about this again? Is this really what people want? Two steps forward, one step back. Two steps forward, one step back. That’s because…

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191 Me, a Disruptor? A Framework for Quiet Disruption 23:57

10M ago23:57

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A couple of years back, when the book Disrupt-Her by Miki Agrawal (powerhouse cofounder of THINX and Tushy, two startups that disrupted the taboo categories of periods and toilets) came out, I read it, thinking: “This wasn’t written for me. I’m not bold or daring or loud. I’m not a disruptor. If anything, my natural tendency is to keep the peace.” …

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190 Social Media Angst & Where to Use Your Voice 40:35

10M ago40:35

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Have you felt any friction, resistance, or misalignment with social media lately? I know I have, for a few years now. So many of us are questioning: I can’t keep up. I wish I could do more. Is there something wrong with me? Look at her successful life – will I ever get there? Does anyone even care what I have to say? I want to close my account – bu…

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189 Honoring Your Capacity as a Sensitive Leader 44:18

11M ago44:18

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As a sensitive leader, I can lead a 90-minute coaching call for my Messenger Mastermind and be energetically DONE. Even though it was a fantastic, connected session that brought tears and aha moments to my clients and enlivened, inspired, and fulfilled me. I’m intense. Focused. In that hour and a half, I was fully present and gave my 100%. I left n…

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188 How to Find Introvert-Friendly Business Support 32:51

11M ago32:51

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When you’re a coach, the right support is key to growing your business. And when you’re a leader, the right support will help you unlock your voice and share your message with the world. I’ve spent several years leading programs for quiet leaders and a decade navigating business programs, coaches, and courses as a sensitive, introverted leader in t…

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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187 Sensitive Biz Owners are Actually Born Rule Breakers 16:31

11M ago16:31

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Have you ever noticed that there’s an assumption society makes that introverts and quiet folks MUST be followers? I had an aha moment while watching Nikki Ling’s TEDx talk “Quiet Confidence: Follow the Introverted Leader” where words were put to a bias that now seems so obvious. But, you know what I’ve noticed? Sensitive biz owners are actually bor…

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186 Being “On Brand” Doesn’t Work for Quiet Leaders 19:02

12M ago19:02

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If you’ve gotten a lot of solid, smart marketing advice from business programs BUT have been listening to your intuition and it’s telling you… That some of the strategies you were given don’t actually mesh for you. That what you were being told to do felt like putting on a persona. That the copy you created from that advice doesn’t really feel like…

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185 Models for Sensitive, Introverted Leadership 32:22

1y ago32:22

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Often as introverts and sensitive folks in a loud, outward-focused world, we have needs that get overlooked or make us feel weak or “too much” in some way. Whether it’s a need to leave early from a social situation when we’re tapped out, or to retreat to private space to ride an emotional wave, or to have less work tasks in a day to ease overwhelm …

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184 Introducing Quiet Messenger 7:17

1y ago7:17

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A month ago, I realized that there’s a topic I’ve been dancing around with you for the last two years. That my work is for sensitive introverts. Quiet Messengers. Big feelers who like cozy spaces for connection, growth and processing. We might be vocal and spirited in the small, intimate container of our Messenger Masterminds, but putting things ou…

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183 Messaging that (Lovingly) Calls In Your People 20:39

1y ago20:39

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Without being clear in your messaging, you can do a lot of marketing busywork that gets ignored, doesn’t build your community or doesn’t compel people to buy. YET… There’s a lot of messaging out there that is very clear but is also manipulative, selling at all costs and using unethical tactics that don’t leave customers making empowered decisions. …

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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182 Communicate What Uniquely Positions You 24:37

1+ y ago24:37

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I know you’ve got a big heart and you’re SO GOOD at your work…but in order to keep doing your work, you need paying clients. That’s where being able to clearly communicate what uniquely positions you comes in. Because when you are the ONLY one qualified for the job, your dream clients will happily pay you. Not in a way that’s sleazy or manipulative…

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181 Help Your People Say, “Hey, That’s Me!” 29:54

1+ y ago29:54

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Okay…so let’s talk about getting crickets and what it feels like to always be chasing clients. Ugh, I know. Frustrating stuff. Want to know one of the biggest challenges I see to coaches and leaders reaching their people? First, let me say that this is not about popularity, likes or followers. It’s about really reaching your people on a deeper leve…

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180 Tap Into the Message That Moves You 28:43

1+ y ago28:43

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If you’re anything like me, there are likely one or two TED talks that have made a big impact on you. Two for me are Susan Cain’s The power of introverts and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The danger of a single story. What do they have in common that made them land so powerfully? A clear message. But if you’re going to use your voice and share your tr…

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179 What is Messaging? What’s Values-Based Messaging? 31:01

1+ y ago31:01

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Today begins a brand new season of Unforgettable! A season dedicated to taking us back to the foundations of messaging. Starting with… What is messaging, really? Believe me, I’ve heard a lot of myths and misunderstandings in the past several years I’ve been leading messaging workshops and Masterminds! That it’s all about wordsmithing or dialing in …

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178 What I Learned from 6 Social Justice Leaders About Messaging 40:40

1+ y ago40:40

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Closing out Speaking to What Matters: Conversations on Messaging for a More Just World, here is my personal debrief with specific aha moments and learnings I took away from each leader about how to show up for social justice in your messaging. Listen in. A Few Takeaways: You can’t slap up new inclusive messaging on your website and expect more dive…

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177 Speaking About Issues Without Co-Opting Them with Nisha Moodley 1:05:19

1+ y ago1:05:19

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We’re all continually learning & navigating how to share in these times which are highly polarized and where a lot of our collective trauma is at the surface. As my guest today, Nisha Moodley, points out, we’re just at the beginning of learning how to be together on the internet. And we’re unlearning + relearning how to do it in a different, more g…

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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176 CIS-Centering, Pronouns and Leadership with Tamala Poljak 1:01:38

1+ y ago1:01:38

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After decades as an artist and musician, Tamala Poljak decided to become a therapist because they’re passionate about working with people who have felt othered. Now they almost exclusively work with the LGBTQIA+ population and a lot with triadic partnerships, polyamory and different ways that people create family and home. Coming from a generation …

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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175 Is My Niche Excluding Marginalized People? with Trudi Lebron 46:43

1+ y ago46:43

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Today we hear from Trudi Lebron, a sought-after DEI Consultant whose goals are to: Bring more Black, brown, indigenous, latinx folks and other people of color into the coaching industry, both as practitioners AND participants Help white coaches create more diversity, equity and safer spaces to bring BIPOC folks into With a Masters (and PhD-in-progr…

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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174 Feminist Marketing & Copy that Doesn’t Oppress with Kelly Diels 55:38

1+ y ago55:38

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If we design for the people with the most marginalized identities, the experience improves for everyone else. That’s a core belief of Kelly Diels, a Feminist Marketing Consultant who trains feminist copywriters and helps bake our beliefs into our business practices to generate money and justice. She saw that, working in the women’s empowerment spac…

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173 Evolving Your Work to Have a Social Justice Lens with Cher Hale 48:21

1+ y ago48:21

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Today’s conversation is with Cher Hale, a publicist & founder who’s using her PR company to amplify the voices of underrepresented and marginalized groups. After a year of offering podcast pitching services, Cher started noticing that the clients coming to her were mainly white upper-class life coaches. They were paying her well and sustaining a go…

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172 Being an Imperfect Ally…Even If You’re a Sensitive Soul with Erica Courdae 56:49

1+ y ago56:49

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Today, we’re joined by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Coach Erica Courdae in a conversation that will make it easier for you to keep speaking up ~ especially if you’re scared you’ll mess up. This is to get us into imperfect action…even that thoughtful, caring side of ourselves that second-guesses what we share and just wants to say it the “…

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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171 [New Series] Messaging For a More Just World 19:08

1+ y ago19:08

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Here we are, at the first episode of Speaking to What Matters: Conversations on Messaging for a More Just World. It’s my hope that this series of informal, real conversations with social justice leaders brings you at least one shift, aha moment, or breakthrough in how you want to show up. Here’s where we’ll be going & who we’ll be learning from: [1…

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170 Why You’re Not Expanding Your Impact 33:10

1+ y ago33:10

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Each time I have meaningful conversations with would-be messengers as I enroll my Messenger Mastermind, several shared beliefs emerge. These 6 beliefs, left unchecked, can easily keep you from expanding your impact as a Messenger. In this week’s episode, I’m going to show you how to transform those beliefs into your greatest allies so you can grow …

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169 These 5 Shifts Allow Your Message to Be Heard Online 16:24

2y ago16:24

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You care so much. You have something to say. You’re a Messenger… Or would-be Messenger. Because even though you’re out there sharing, you still feel invisible. Ooomph. I know the pain of that. It’s noisy out there. ...And it can sometimes feel like what you say goes into a black hole... so what’s the point. Your people need to hear your message. Th…

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168 [Case Study] Your Message Doesn’t Need to Be Loud with Lisa Thruston 58:23

2y ago58:23

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Two years ago, in the midst of one of my Message Clarity Challenges, Lisa Thruston realized that maybe there was more than one way to show up as a Messenger. …another way besides the outspoken, extroverted ideal held in our online business culture. (Which by the way, is also totally fine — it’s just not the only way.) >> Your message doesn’t have t…

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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167 Which Kind of Sensitive Soul Messenger Are You? 31:14

2y ago31:14

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I know you care so much. I know you’re here to make an impact. And I ALSO know you feel this pull to speak, for your voice and your message to be heard. A lot of people in my community have at least a touch of Sensitive Soul Messenger in them. Empathic, caring, big heart… yet not sharing their message as much as they could because they second-guess…

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166 Blocked? Get in Flow with Your Messaging 17:09

2y ago17:09

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Anyone who’s had a bored kid (or has been a bored kid) can tell you that inspiration doesn’t come simply from having lots of time. Living in the dobervan outside Steve’s biz partner’s metalworking shop the past few weeks reminded me of that. How NOT to flow? — Force it. When you’re communicating from the soul of your work, inspiration is not a one-…

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Quiet Messenger: Leadership through Brand Messaging for Sensitive, Introverted Coaches + Online Business Owners

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165 My Tool to Write Sales Copy that Moves Your People to Tears 23:41

2y ago23:41

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When it comes to copywriting, there’s a lot of focus in the online business space on tactics for things like “conversion” and “customer acquisition.” I call that HEAD messaging. As in ~ it gets you all wrapped up in figuring out your copy with your head. What you’re supposed to say. I teach HEART messaging. Because… Connected copy comes from writin…

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164 [Behind the Scenes] My Struggle Being Visible These Past Two Months 20:44

2y ago20:44

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Earlier in the summer, I told you I was taking a two-month break from the podcast. And I did. I’m writing this to the sound of forklifts and drizzling rain, from Steve’s biz partner’s metal fabrication shop in Oregon. I’ve been working from the road, living out of the dobervan with Steve and our pup. And…I love how every time things feel like I’m P…

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163 Summertime + An Introverted Pause 5:33

2y ago5:33

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I’m taking an introvert pause from the podcast for the next couple months. Here’s why. Being transparent about my own relationship with my voice as an introverted leader. Deeper support from me: What’s your Messenger Archetype? Take the quiz. In this time of “social distancing,” your online messaging is key. As a Copywriter + Messaging Expert, I cr…

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162 Break Through What’s Holding You Back From Sharing with Ashley Gordon 44:13

2y ago44:13

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My guest Ashley Gordon talks about how you can break through what’s holding you back from actually showing up and sharing that message.By Adria DeCorte

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161 Messaging is About Being a Messenger, Not Wordsmithing 12:58

2y ago12:58

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The most common question I get is “Can you help me create a dialed-in elevator pitch?” That’s because at the first mention of “messaging,” people often think we’re talking about wordsmithing. It’s not about getting the words right. It’s about being a Messenger. Yes, clear, connected messaging is important for people to understand the impact of your…

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160 #HowIMessenger: Being Still Without Being Quiet with Liv Hadden 57:53

2y ago57:53

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Right now, so many of us are being forced to pause, be with ourselves, and be confronted with things we can usually ignore. Liv Hadden is an author, podcaster, leader, Expressive Messenger Archetype, and one of the fiercest stands I know for what and who she believes in. And she has a hard time slowing down. (I so relate) Yet when her client work s…

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159 There’s No Perfect Way to Use Your Voice with Eff Perfect’s Jenna Teague and Ashley Looker 45:03

2y ago45:03

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Have you ever second-guessed your voice? …Said things because you thought that’s what others wanted to hear from you? …Felt pressure to do or say something as a leader because it was what you should do? Ashley Looker and Jenna Teague of Eff Perfect help women break free from the myth of perfection. I brought them on the show because… It’s time to b…

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158 #HowIMessenger: Reclaim Your Voice When You FEEL So Much with Veronica Marquez 44:36

2y ago44:36

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The first few days of self-quarantine, Veronica Marquez was feeling EVERYTHING at the same time. Frustration, gratitude, guilt. The controlling part of her wanted to micromanage her kids. The victim part was upset that it seemed like everyone else had all this time to read books when, as a parent, she was even busier now with her two young kids at …

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157 How Do I Position My Messaging for These Times? 22:06

2y ago22:06

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Right now is an opportunity to speak to how your work can support your people in our current pandemic world. Yet it’s natural to feel uncertain about your messaging and be left wondering how it all fits together or how you can stay relevant. Whether it be how you communicate your offering, talk about your work, or speak on social media, the most po…

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156 #HowIMessenger: Going Radio Silent without the Guilt with Shawnrey Notto 43:40

2y ago43:40

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When we got stay-home orders and the online space overflowed with voices offering support, my own voice felt the need to go SILENT. And so did Empowerment Coach Shawnrey Notto’s. Yet, as a leader, she felt the pressure to stand up and be out there for her people. For fifteen years, Shawnrey has used her roles as coach, speaker, professional dancer-…

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155 Being a Messenger During These Uncertain Times 13:14

2+ y ago13:14

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Right now, many of us are experiencing things we’ve NEVER experienced. Empty grocery store shelves… quarantines… canceled events and closed doors (in 30 years, this is the first time I’ve ever seen the Vegas casinos close). It’s surreal, isn’t it? Our current global pandemic has brought so much uncertainty, and many Messengers I know have been feel…

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154 Why You Should Absolutely Contradict What You Said in the Past 17:15

2+ y ago17:15

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If you’ve ever pivoted or evolved your messaging, you’ve likely wondered… Should I avoid contradicting what I said before? I’ve got a sea of content about my old topic – how do I transition to my new focus in a way that doesn’t confuse anyone or discredit me? A podcast listener asked in my Hotseat applications last month: “My business has been in a…

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153 Your Message is a Moving Target 22:12

2+ y ago22:12

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A few weeks ago, I put out a call to apply for a Hotseat with me. I loved reading everyone’s applications and learning about their businesses and messages. And I also saw a pattern I see often. We assume that any lack of clarity will be a simple fix ~ 15 minutes of coaching from me for a perfectly shiny and sparkly message. This thinking assumes th…

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152 Values-Based Marketing: How To Lead With Integrity 29:48

2+ y ago29:48

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I’m back today with a followup to 151 “Why I Stopped Sacrificing Integrity for Strategy.” Today we’re talking practical, tangible examples of how to choose integrity and trust your own knowingness. Real-world biz examples. Because I know some (myself included) need concrete examples in order to visualize and fully integrate. I talk about: Why I sai…

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151 Why I Stopped Sacrificing Integrity for Strategy 16:53

2+ y ago16:53

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When you’re thrust into this world of marketing strategies and sales tactics, there’s so much external noise, best practices, and “shoulds”. It’s easy to trust what experts say are good strategies over your own internal knowing and not give yourself permission to say NO. But you don’t have to use a strategy that feels off because it worked for some…

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150 What I’ve Learned in 5 Years of Podcasting (+ 150 Episodes!) 30:48

2+ y ago30:48

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Taking a moment to celebrate we just hit 150 podcast episodes. One Hundred and Fifty Episodes! Because even though I love it, it hasn’t always been easy. Multi-month pauses from burnout… new shows surpassing my downloads… feeling disillusioned… the increasing costs of production. It’s taken dedication. Devotion. I recorded this episode to share 15 …

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149 Leaning Into Growth as a Messenger 42:06

2+ y ago42:06

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In 2019, I deepened into what I stood for and said things publicly that made me cry I struggled to find balance between receiving support and maintaining connection with my people I cut out income streams in my business to be more in alignment (and proved the fear wrong by replacing that income) Next year, in 2020, I’m being called to use my voice …

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148 How You Give Reveals Who You Are 27:01

2+ y ago27:01

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What does giving have to do with leadership and your business, you ask? Giving is part of a compelling message because… Giving reveals your values, as a human being and a business owner. Giving deepens your mission. It sets an example and helps you step into your leadership. Giving creates connection. When you give back to people and groups that re…

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