Undesign to Redesign: Leading Change in Healthcare with Chenny Xia
The Feminine Edge
Chenny Xia is an award-winning entrepreneur, designer, technologist, and CEO of Gotcare. After working within the healthcare industry and at multiple innovation consultancies for over a decade, Chenny realised that there needed to be changes made within the healthcare system to better support its workers. This lead to her co-founding Gotcare, a health tech company that is transforming in-home healthcare across Canada. “In order for us to help unburden people from the weight of the system, we need to change a part of the system and be very strategic about how we’re intervening.” Chenny...
info_outline
Cultivating a Mindset of Growth with Laura Valvasori
The Feminine Edge
Laura Valvasori is a Marketing Foundations Strategist & Mentor for Entrepreneurs and the Owner of Good to Grow Marketing. Leaving her corporate job to pursue self-employment, Laura discovered the shift from employee to entrepreneur is as much a personal growth move as a professional one. In her debut book, Good to Grow, Laura empowers new and seasoned entrepreneurs to cultivate the right mindset and habits to thrive and build a successful business and life they love. She touches on subjects such as the power of intention and how setting your intention can alter your entire work...
info_outline
Interview with Eleanor Beaton. Vision, ambition and a new business model for growth.
The Feminine Edge
Your vision is revealed to you, step by step, insight by insight and thread by thread. Eleanor Beaton shares her magnetic and clear vision for advancing gender equity by helping women entrepreneurs grow thriving businesses. Her vision guides everything she and her team at Safi Media do. She believes women entrepreneurs are the key to advancing global gender equity and a sustainable, healthy planet. As a woman founder and leader, learning to believe in yourself and your envisioned future is an evolving process. Aligning your ambition with commitment, actions and practice, your vision is...
info_outline
Mistakes: Manage the moment and mine the learning
The Feminine Edge
Mistakes. If you work long enough, you'll likely make one at some point, especially if you put yourself in positions requiring rapid learning and increasing authority and responsibility. Mistakes usually catch you by surprise, just when you think you've got things humming. Often it's unexpected and realizing you've made a mistake can be crushing. This is a pivotal moment to hold steady to manage the moment effectively. Whether leading in the workplace or your own company, you've got to collect your wits to focus on immediate recovery and then lead the followthrough; not only minimize damage to...
info_outline
Complacency is your enemy to growth
The Feminine Edge
Complacency is your enemy! One of the things that can slow down your effectiveness as a leader and in your results is complacency. You got to where you are by becoming an expert in your field, moving into leadership roles or carving out your own path as a business owner. But being an expert will only tak you so far and can derail your ambitions. If you become complacent as a leader, relying too much on your expertise, you will lose enthusiasm and risk the results you want. I walk you through several clues that you may be relying on your expertise and missing opportunities to accelerate...
info_outline
The Power of Effective Delegation
The Feminine Edge
If you’re anything like me, I imagine you’ve got a lot going on. Projects, hiring team members, putting out fires, keeping the day-to-day on track, and trying to lift your head and keep your team and initiatives on track. You’re longing to have more space and energy for yourself and the things that matter. And to do this, you know you need to hand off responsitibity to others on your team. But delegating isn’t like handing the baton in the relay. People and projects are complex, and to delegate well, we need to hone some new skills. Learning the skill of effective...
info_outline
From Bootstrapping to Sale: Interview with Mabels Labels Cofounder Julie Cole
The Feminine Edge
Julie Cole is a recovered lawyer, mom of six and co-founder of Mabel's Labels. She helped her company bring their product to a worldwide market, gain media recognition and win countless entrepreneur awards. Mabels Labels early beginnings were humble, starting as many women do bootstrapping and working late hours while the kids are asleep. Julie shares what it takes to start, the messy middle and the learning that comes from growing a business with partners to reach a point to be able sell it. Even if you're not thinking of selling your business, the sage advice from Julie paints a...
info_outline
Is your relationship with time helping or hindering your success?
The Feminine Edge
So, what is your relationship with time like? Time and the perception of time are elements of just about every part of our day. It comes up in most of my coaching conversations, and most often, it's about a lack of time, urgency or feeling that time is running our day. Your days are full of service delivery, taking care of your team, clients and all the details of running a business. Finding the time to work on the strategic growth initiatives you know will add value to your clients, team, and business can feel elusive. We can get caught riding on hope for more time to suddenly appear or...
info_outline
Advancing More Women to the C-Suite with Stacy Mayer
The Feminine Edge
How do we learn to advance our businesses and leadership by leveraging our feminine strengths? Executive Coach and Promotion Strategist, Stacy Mayer, shares how she’s integrated her feminine strengths in growing her business and serving her clients. Stacy is passionate about bringing more diversity to senior leadership roles. Her mission is to double the number of women promoted to the c-suite each year worldwide. We discuss the significant internal and external barriers women encounter when advancing their careers. Stacy offers women several key tactics from her recent book Promotions Made...
info_outline
Elevating Senior Fitness with Emily Johnson, Founder StrongerU Senior Fitness
The Feminine Edge
A passion for elevating senior fitness and breaking down outdated ageism narratives prompted Emily Johnson to make the leap and leave her corporate job to start her own business. Emily is the Founder and Creative Director of StrongerU Senior Fitness and on a mission to innovate and elevate senior fitness globally. Like many women entrepreneurs, Emily’s business started as a passion project while still working in her corporate job. When the pandemic hit, watching declining well-being for so many seniors was prompt to decide to leave her job and launch her company. StrongerU Senior...
info_outlineHave you ever had the feeling your time, skill and contributions are underappreciated? Or maybe you feel taken for granted. In either situation, It's not a great feeling. But the worst part is, it's frequently our fault. If we don't have and communicate what's ok and not ok for us, others are left to guess or figure it out. Having clear boundaries serve as a compass, helping align our actions and relationships with our intention, care and values. Boundaries help us make decisions and act as guideposts for the behaviours we will accept from others, what we will commit our time to and where to draw the line and say no. In this first two-part episode on boundaries, I share how boundaries are like fences, keeping out what we don't want and letting in what we desire. We'll examine the different ways boundaries can help us when working from home and in the various context of our life.