Reframe to Create

Turtles win the race.  This is what I always say. 

But sometimes turtles are a reminder that life doesn’t have to be a race at all!

Neither does creating.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned through experience this year it’s that consistency beats intensity, every time.  

Sometimes it’s better to just take one step in front of the other and then another.  

What we do consistently is what makes up our character and identity.  And more important than creating some big flashy thing is the ability to develop the character of a Creating Maven.  

This is someone who shows honor and respect for their gifts by consistently creating.  

But maybe you haven’t had a very consistent year and would like things to be different for next year.

This episode is about helping you put the 3 things you might be missing in place to get and stay consistent with creating.

Because if you’re going to bring beautiful things to life with your gifts, this is what you need!

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

Do you struggle with commitment? 

Did you struggle to commit to creating this year? 

Maybe it’s because you didn’t know how things were going to go or how to guarantee that they’d go well.

It’s okay.  

This is a common hang-up that gets folks stuck.

But the truth is there’s no way around commitment.  

You must commit first and know the details of how later if you’re going to do anything that’s truly meaningful for your life.

In this episode, I show you how this is true and push you to get ready for the leap we’ll all be taking in the new year.  

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

You want out. 

The job you're currently in is dead to you.

But I hate to break it to you, so is that dream job you’re fantasizing about. 

Trying to find it will just be you jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. 

No, really it’s actually like jumping out of the frying pan and into a great void. 

The dream job is dead and so is the one you're currently in. 

So what now?

What now is you have to move beyond the idea of finding your dream job and instead move on to creating what is next for you.

You must create it!

But how? 

In this episode, you'll learn the 3 steps you need to to build your runway that’s going to help you create rather than find your next job.  It’s going to come from you positioning yourself in a completely different way so you can work in a different way. 

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

You’re clear beyond a shadow of a doubt.

It’s time to move on from your job.

But how do you make sure that you don’t jump out of the frying pan and into the fire as you make your way to your “next”?

It takes having the right mindset. 

And this right mindset is four reframes I share in this episode so that you’re set up to take the right practical steps to your next job. 

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

Have you ever eaten something that had gone past its expiration date? Yerk! It was awful and you probably immediately spat it out of your mouth!  Well, things can feel just as awful when you stay in a job or any environment that’s gone past its expiration date for you.  It’ll get your stomach in knots and feeling all kinds of sick.  

But why do we get into and stay in these past-due-date situations?  Often it’s because we don’t know how to read the expiration date on a job or situation the way we can easily read it on the label of a bottle.  

Sound familiar?  Maybe you’re in it right now?   

In this episode I wanna help you get better at reading the signs and specifically 3 signs that show you when you’re in a job environment that’s no longer for you.  

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

Have you ever tried so hard to win someone’s approval that you lost yourself?

It’s hard to admit it but like me, I’m sure you can think of at least one area in your life where you've done this. 

How does it feel when you come to your senses and realize that you've wasted your time? 

Big ouch!

It’s not that there’s anything inherently wrong with wanting to be approved of by others.  

After all, we are social beings living social lives in a social world! 

But things can go wrong when we’re chasing approval from those who are unable or unwilling to see the true value of who we are and what we bring to the table.  

The cost of chasing their approval is not just our sense of self but everything we have to offer.  

It often means we are not focused on creating with our gifts and making our unique contribution to the world. 

This is precisely what happened to P.T. Barnum in the musical The Greatest Showman and it was a tragedy!

But there’s much we can learn from how he bounced back and got back to who he was and what he created.  

In this episode, you’ll learn 3 of these key lessons so that you can also get back to creating with your gifts and making the contribution that only you can make!

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

Have you ever been in a bad relationship you just couldn’t seem to get out of? 

Sometimes this bad relationship is with a job that’s no longer working out for you.

But you can’t always just up and leave! 

Enter the emotional breakup. 

Breaking up emotionally with your job is for you if you keep finding yourself drowning in drama and swirl of their job to such a degree that it’s sucking all of your creating power out of you.  

In this episode, you’ll learn the why, when, and how of breaking up with your job emotionally so you can get back to creating what matters!  

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

Maybe you’ve heard the following David Foster Wallace parable that goes like this:

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What in the world is water?”

We can all identify with these fish because like them we are also swimming around in our own water. 

That water is our narrative and it influences everything about who we are and what we do. 

Do you know what narratives are running your life right now? 

Are you ready to take responsibility for building a new one so you can create a better work and life future?     

My guest in this episode is Guillaume Wiatr who is an expert on helping entrepreneurs and businesses build strategic narratives that align their teams and help them innovate.

But his work and model don’t just apply to these groups.  

There’s something very powerful here for you that’s going to help you change the water you’re swimming in!

By the end of this episode you’ll learn:

• The difference between story and narrative and how they influence your life
• How when narratives change, worlds can change 
• How to build a new strategic narrative to change your life and impact your world 

About my guest: Guillaume is the author of Strategic Narrative: A Simple Method That Business Leaders Can Use to Make Everyone Understand Their Business, Get Behind it and Believe In It.  His company, MetaHelm, guides CEOs, founders, and business owners to align teams and accelerate innovation adoption.  A former big-firm strategy consultant, Guillaume has founded four ventures. 

He is sought after by senior executives of companies like Alaska Airlines, the Gates Foundation, Generations For Peace, AIG, L’Oréal, Spencer Stuart, GAP, Google, Microsoft, and the US and French governments.

After helping to save a 20M euros venture during the dot-com boom, Guillaume went on a mission to turn every company into a source of inspiration that few can resist.

Guillaume teaches and mentors entrepreneurs at startup incubators, EMLyon international business school, and the University of Washington Master of Science in Entrepreneurship, ranked #3 in the US.

Contact Guillaume: 

Website 

LinkedIn 

Twitter 

Youtube 

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

The message is clear.

You gotta either be going hard on your job or going hard on your side hustle to turn it into your business.

But are these truly the only two options? 

Does freedom really mean hustling to create a side gig that turns into a full-time business that helps you tell your full-time job to kick rocks? 

In this episode, my guest Ijeoma “Ije” Obidegwu says no! 

There’s a third way that defies the calls to go fast and hard and break things. 

There’s a third way that will be an inspiration to all of you who won’t be telling your full-time job to kick it to the curb anytime soon. 

But you’ll learn an invaluable lesson about how to put it in its proper place.   

You’ll learn how to prioritize creating. 

And you’ll learn just how creating can give you the freedom you’re looking for without you having to escape to a desert island! 

About my guest: Ijeoma “Ije” Obidegwu is the owner of Pies on the Side--a fresh-baked dessert boutique/business that specializes in creating specialty pies and cakes for all occasions. What was designed to be a hobby to bring lovingly made desserts to dinner parties, blossomed into a growing interest in requests from friends of friends wanting desserts for their special moments. Her signature rum cake is a scrumptious dessert infused with homemade vanilla from Madagascar and Haitian rum, every slice is exquisite in taste and flavor. All of her fresh-baked desserts are made to order to ensure freshness, quality, and consistency with a focus on enjoyable flavor.  

Follow Pies on the Side on Instagram - @piesontheside and visit her website at www.piesontheside.com 

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

Are you trying to fit your entire ocean into a tiny plastic bucket? 

That’s what the thought that your job is your real work ends up looking like.  

But it’s not and if you’re going to truly experience work in a new and better way you need to get your understanding right. 

In this episode, I’m diving deeper into this idea so that you can learn to liberate your work and build a diversified work portfolio. 

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations.  Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy.  This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future.  It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.  

Follow Joy on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/

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