Fearless Feminine Leadership

We were so completely enchanted to meet this month's podcast guest! Nina Simons is an Award-Winning Author and the Co-founder of Bioneers. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.

Grab your coffee and get ready for an inspiring conversation about the Unique Gifts That Women Bring to Leadership with our new friend, Nina Simons.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST:

NINA SIMONS is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Every Woman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.

She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—was released as a second edition in June 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Gold Nautilus awards in the categories of women, intersectionality and social justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.

Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth, and in 2017, received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel, for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.

Connect with Nina:

• Read the book! - Circle with friends regularly, and practice, to build courage and grow your leadership capacity well - Visit www.bioneers.org/ncs/ to explore bioneers world, and get a free download of the book’s intro.
• Facebook personal: https://www.facebook.com/nina.simons
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-simons/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ninabioneers
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1ninasimons/
• Websites: www.bioneers.org/ncsbook ; ninasimons.com ; conference.bioneers.org

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• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership Podcast for monthly support at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.
  
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• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building at www.raymafoundations.com.
  
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We were so completely enchanted to meet this month's podcast guest! Nina Simons is an Award-Winning Author and the Co-founder of Bioneers. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.

Grab your coffee and get ready for an inspiring conversation about the Unique Gifts That Women Bring to Leadership with our new friend, Nina Simons.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST:

NINA SIMONS is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Every Woman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.

She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—was released as a second edition in June 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Gold Nautilus awards in the categories of women, intersectionality and social justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.

Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth, and in 2017, received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel, for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.

Connect with Nina:

• Read the book! - Circle with friends regularly, and practice, to build courage and grow your leadership capacity well - Visit www.bioneers.org/ncs/ to explore bioneers world, and get a free download of the book’s intro.
• Facebook personal: https://www.facebook.com/nina.simons
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-simons/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ninabioneers
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1ninasimons/
• Websites: www.bioneers.org/ncsbook ; ninasimons.com ; conference.bioneers.org

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Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

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MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership Podcast for monthly support at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.
  
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy at https://www.raymateam.com/rayma-team-coaches.
  
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building at www.raymafoundations.com.
  
• Shop our books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/26Q8KFDAT9XQ8.
• Listen to more podcast episodes at https://www.raymateam.com/podcasts/fearless-feminine-leadership.
  
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

Alright, Leaders... today we are going to step into the shoes of a leader who says YES to what's possible! This episode is a sneak peek into our RAYMA Foundations™ Leadership Program - specifically module 3. Leaders that know how to say YES to what's possible, make a conscious choice to spark joy. Sparking joy is an unconventional leadership principle that typically gets ignored, but it packs a punch. It's more important than you realize! Grab your coffee and let's dive into YES Principle 1: Spark Joy.

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MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Get the YES Leadership Podcast at this link: https://www.raymateam.com/offers/kTXgHkkn/checkout
  
• Schedule a Needs Assessment with one of us to chat about bringing the RAYMA Foundations™ Mentor Group Program to your organization at this link: https://www.raymateam.com/mentorgrouprequest
• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.
  
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy at https://www.raymateam.com/rayma-team-coaches.
  
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building at www.raymafoundations.com.
  
• Shop our books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/26Q8KFDAT9XQ8.
• Listen to more podcast episodes at https://www.raymateam.com/podcasts/fearless-feminine-leadership.
  
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

Alright, Leaders... today we are going to step into the shoes of a leader who says YES to what's possible! This episode is a sneak peek into our RAYMA Foundations™ Leadership Program - specifically module 3. Leaders that know how to say YES to what's possible, make a conscious choice to spark joy. Sparking joy is an unconventional leadership principle that typically gets ignored, but it packs a punch. It's more important than you realize! Grab your coffee and let's dive into YES Principle 1: Spark Joy.

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Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

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MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Get the YES Leadership Podcast at this link: https://www.raymateam.com/offers/kTXgHkkn/checkout
  
• Schedule a Needs Assessment with one of us to chat about bringing the RAYMA Foundations™ Mentor Group Program to your organization at this link: https://www.raymateam.com/mentorgrouprequest
• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.
  
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy at https://www.raymateam.com/rayma-team-coaches.
  
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building at www.raymafoundations.com.
  
• Shop our books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/26Q8KFDAT9XQ8.
• Listen to more podcast episodes at https://www.raymateam.com/podcasts/fearless-feminine-leadership.
  
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

Dear Leader: If you've ever left a leadership event wondering where the depth was, this podcast episode is for you.

Over the last week, I've had conversations with female leaders in a variety of industries including: financial, direct sales, and engineering. While listening to their stories it became clear that female leaders are hungry for leadership training that has depth.

Just last week I sat in a lunch meeting with twenty women in our community. We were there to hear from a panel of three women leaders that lead in male dominated industries. I went there with the expectation that I would learn from their experience, so when the panel started, I grabbed my planner and took copious notes. Now, I wouldn't qualify this talk as a "deep" leadership talk. However, there were nuggets of depth there that really inspired me in many ways. I was able to grasp those tiny nuggets of depth because I set my expectations beforehand.

A few days after this event, I shared a story on Instagram about this topic and asked if people wanted a podcast episode on it. The response was an overwhelming YES! So here it is - a solo episode to help you consider what typically leads to a lack of depth in leadership events and how to begin changing it.

I've included a few of my notes below so you can refer back to them after hearing this episode...

Things to consider when planning, attending, or speaking at a leadership conference:

Formats that do not lend well to depth:

• Panels
• Conferences where you have a different speaker each session - depth requires vulnerability and vulnerability requires trust. That is really challenging to do when you are meeting a new presenter each hour. (This is why our Beautiful Wholeness event is so unique in our area! You only have two coaches/presenters for the entire weekend!)

Presenter Styles to consider:

• Most presenters speaking for a 60-90 minute session have a lot of information that they want or need to get through based on what they were hired for. Digging deep in a short amount of time requires two things in this situation:
  
  • Vulnerability on the part of the presenter.
  • The skill to pivot a session based on what the audience needs and a willingness to skip content that was planned in order to dig deeper when the audience asks for it in the moment.

Audience Expectations to consider:

• Check your expectation when you go to a conference, training, or luncheon. Are you expecting depth? If so, come prepared with some questions you want to ask the presenter during the Q&A time.
• Recognize the goal of the event. If the goal of the event truly is just to get a lot of training in a short amount of time, take notes on which presenters you connect with best and contact them individually to see what kind of services they offer to take their training deeper. For example: The goal of leadership conferences for Direct Sales Companies is to teach distributors how to sell. It’s typically NOT to help you become a confident person outside of their product or service.
• Don’t expect depth if you’re not willing to dig deep yourself.

These are the things to consider as to why your leadership conference lacks depth.

So what do you do from here?

If you are planning a leadership training: Keep in mind that depth matters to your attendees. Consider how you can tweak your schedule to allow more time with less presenters. Give presenters permission to pivot on the fly if the need arises.

If you are speaking at a leadership training: Prepare ahead of time and allow spots for content to be skipped over if the opportunity arises to dive deeper into one piece of the content. Let your meeting planners know that you are willing to do that. And if the meeting planners don't want this service, let your attendees know how to reach you so they can go deeper with you one on one.

And if you are attending a leadership training: Check your expectations. You get what you focus on. Bring a notebook and be ready to catch tiny nuggets of depth. Then, reach out and work with a coach one-on-one or in a group coaching program to really activate the depth you are desiring.

~Coach Mandy

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Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

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MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Get your ticket for Beautiful Wholeness at www.BeautifulWholeness.com.
  
• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.
  
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy at https://www.raymateam.com/rayma-team-coaches.
  
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building at www.raymafoundations.com.
  
• Shop our books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/26Q8KFDAT9XQ8.
• Listen to more podcast episodes at https://www.raymateam.com/podcasts/fearless-feminine-leadership.
  
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

Dear Leader: If you've ever left a leadership event wondering where the depth was, this podcast episode is for you.

Over the last week, I've had conversations with female leaders in a variety of industries including: financial, direct sales, and engineering. While listening to their stories it became clear that female leaders are hungry for leadership training that has depth.

Just last week I sat in a lunch meeting with twenty women in our community. We were there to hear from a panel of three women leaders that lead in male dominated industries. I went there with the expectation that I would learn from their experience, so when the panel started, I grabbed my planner and took copious notes. Now, I wouldn't qualify this talk as a "deep" leadership talk. However, there were nuggets of depth there that really inspired me in many ways. I was able to grasp those tiny nuggets of depth because I set my expectations beforehand.

A few days after this event, I shared a story on Instagram about this topic and asked if people wanted a podcast episode on it. The response was an overwhelming YES! So here it is - a solo episode to help you consider what typically leads to a lack of depth in leadership events and how to begin changing it.

I've included a few of my notes below so you can refer back to them after hearing this episode...

Things to consider when planning, attending, or speaking at a leadership conference:

Formats that do not lend well to depth:

• Panels
• Conferences where you have a different speaker each session - depth requires vulnerability and vulnerability requires trust. That is really challenging to do when you are meeting a new presenter each hour. (This is why our Beautiful Wholeness event is so unique in our area! You only have two coaches/presenters for the entire weekend!)

Presenter Styles to consider:

• Most presenters speaking for a 60-90 minute session have a lot of information that they want or need to get through based on what they were hired for. Digging deep in a short amount of time requires two things in this situation:
  
  • Vulnerability on the part of the presenter.
  • The skill to pivot a session based on what the audience needs and a willingness to skip content that was planned in order to dig deeper when the audience asks for it in the moment.

Audience Expectations to consider:

• Check your expectation when you go to a conference, training, or luncheon. Are you expecting depth? If so, come prepared with some questions you want to ask the presenter during the Q&A time.
• Recognize the goal of the event. If the goal of the event truly is just to get a lot of training in a short amount of time, take notes on which presenters you connect with best and contact them individually to see what kind of services they offer to take their training deeper. For example: The goal of leadership conferences for Direct Sales Companies is to teach distributors how to sell. It’s typically NOT to help you become a confident person outside of their product or service.
• Don’t expect depth if you’re not willing to dig deep yourself.

These are the things to consider as to why your leadership conference lacks depth.

So what do you do from here?

If you are planning a leadership training: Keep in mind that depth matters to your attendees. Consider how you can tweak your schedule to allow more time with less presenters. Give presenters permission to pivot on the fly if the need arises.

If you are speaking at a leadership training: Prepare ahead of time and allow spots for content to be skipped over if the opportunity arises to dive deeper into one piece of the content. Let your meeting planners know that you are willing to do that. And if the meeting planners don't want this service, let your attendees know how to reach you so they can go deeper with you one on one.

And if you are attending a leadership training: Check your expectations. You get what you focus on. Bring a notebook and be ready to catch tiny nuggets of depth. Then, reach out and work with a coach one-on-one or in a group coaching program to really activate the depth you are desiring.

~Coach Mandy

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Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

*****

MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Get your ticket for Beautiful Wholeness at www.BeautifulWholeness.com.
  
• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.
  
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy at https://www.raymateam.com/rayma-team-coaches.
  
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building at www.raymafoundations.com.
  
• Shop our books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/26Q8KFDAT9XQ8.
• Listen to more podcast episodes at https://www.raymateam.com/podcasts/fearless-feminine-leadership.
  
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

Hello, Fearless Feminine Leaders and welcome back to the show! This is going to be the last show of the year, and we thought it would be the perfect time to do a short 2022 Year End Review. In this episode, we give you three questions to ask yourself to prepare for the coming year. We also share our answers with you to give some behind the scenes insight on our lives and business plans for 2023.

If you'd like to dive deeper into your own 2022 Year End Review - complete with 2023 goals for your life and business - you can join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for an exclusive 2023 goal planning packet, and a group call with us on Tuesday, December 13th for a session focused on a deep dive year end review! Our clients told us that their favorite part of this is hearing everyone share their personal stories and insights and that challenges everyone in new ways! Join today at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.

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Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

*****

MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support here.
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy here.
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building here.
• Shop our online bookstore here.
• Listen to more podcast episodes here.
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

Hello, Fearless Feminine Leaders and welcome back to the show! This is going to be the last show of the year, and we thought it would be the perfect time to do a short 2022 Year End Review. In this episode, we give you three questions to ask yourself to prepare for the coming year. We also share our answers with you to give some behind the scenes insight on our lives and business plans for 2023.

If you'd like to dive deeper into your own 2022 Year End Review - complete with 2023 goals for your life and business - you can join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for an exclusive 2023 goal planning packet, and a group call with us on Tuesday, December 13th for a session focused on a deep dive year end review! Our clients told us that their favorite part of this is hearing everyone share their personal stories and insights and that challenges everyone in new ways! Join today at https://www.raymateam.com/rockstarleaders-membership.

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Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

*****

MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support here.
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy here.
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building here.
• Shop our online bookstore here.
• Listen to more podcast episodes here.
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

A few months ago, at our Fearless Feminine Leadership Event, a client asked us this question:

How can I be a Fearless Feminine Leader when my business has sort of taken the back seat due to lost momentum, no clients, etc?

Its a great question that every Fearless Feminine Leader needs to be ready to answer when the time comes! In this episode, we vulnerably share what we do when we find ourselves in the same situation. Tune in to find out:

• What you need to STOP DOING when momentum plunges.
• The first place you need to look to gain perspective and KEEP GROWING.
• Things you need to START DOING to gain momentum again.

*****

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

*****

MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support here.
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy here.
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building here.
• Shop our online bookstore here.
• Listen to more podcast episodes here.
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.

A few months ago, at our Fearless Feminine Leadership Event, a client asked us this question:

How can I be a Fearless Feminine Leader when my business has sort of taken the back seat due to lost momentum, no clients, etc?

Its a great question that every Fearless Feminine Leader needs to be ready to answer when the time comes! In this episode, we vulnerably share what we do when we find ourselves in the same situation. Tune in to find out:

• What you need to STOP DOING when momentum plunges.
• The first place you need to look to gain perspective and KEEP GROWING.
• Things you need to START DOING to gain momentum again.

*****

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to feature you! Take a screenshot and share it with us on Instagram. Be sure to tag us - @raymateam - so we can share your AH-HA moments on our IG stories. (Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes or Spotify.) 

*****

MUST HAVE LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Join the Rockstar Leaders Membership for monthly support here.
• Apply for Private Coaching with Coach Raychel or Coach Mandy here.
• Learn more about our Corporate Leadership Training and Team Building here.
• Shop our online bookstore here.
• Listen to more podcast episodes here.
• Follow us on Instagram and send a DM with any questions at https://www.instagram.com/raymateam/.