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Self-Awareness, Self-Forgiveness & Achieving True Personal Growth with Rita Mitjans

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Release Date: 02/18/2021

Mastering Communication with Meredith Bell

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Today, Meredith Bell shares her journey from teaching to co-founding her publishing and software company. She explains how the 360-degree feedback tool was developed and how it helps coaches and leaders. She reveals a simple method of raising self-awareness and a helpful lesson she learned in working with her business partner.

Building Your Network with Pat Hedley

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Today, Pat Hedley shares the most important lessons she learned in her career and why building a network is one of the most valuable things you can do for yourself. She highlights why having a diverse mix of people in your network is essential and provides practical tips for anyone that struggles to find the time to network.

The Female Edge with Mary McGuire

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Today, Mary McGuire joins me to share how her challenging childhood helped her build resilience. She reveals how she overcame her internal barriers and other peoples’ expectations to find her authentic path. She shares what inspired her to move from social work to corporate consulting and some of the challenges she experienced in a male-dominated industry. Mary also reveals how her programs help women find ‘the female edge’ and how she is expanding her reach across various industries.

Authentic Communication with Donatella Giacometti

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Today, Donatella shares her journey into coaching and how growing up in New York nurtured her passion for effective communication. She reveals what inspired her to start her business and the struggles she went through in her career. Donatella reveals a pivotal moment that helped her ignore her inner critic and the advice she would give her younger self. She also recounts an experience that helped her recognize her worth and explains why authenticity is crucial in communication.

Asking for and Accepting Help with Deborah Lansdowne

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Deborah Lansdowne joins me today to share her journey from a stellar IT career to running her own lifestyle management business. She reveals how she handled working in a predominantly male environment and how mentorship helped her during pivotal moments in her career. She offers some career advice she would give her younger self and why it's essential to not take things personally in business.

Being Human is Good For Business with Heather Marasse

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

In today's episode, Heather Marasse shares her journey through the corporate world and how it helped her identify her passion for consulting and coaching. She reveals some of the things she realized when looking back over her career and what she wished she could have known earlier in her working life. She shares some of the challenges she encountered in a male-dominated industry and how she found support during some of the most challenging times.

Be Your Own Best Advocate with Kerry O'Callaghan

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

In today's episode, Kerry shares her journey from studying sciences to an impressive marketing career with a global pharmaceutical brand. She reveals why she enjoys working in brand partnerships and the lessons she takes from seeing how these other businesses work. She shares some of the insights she gained early on in her career and some of the things she wishes she had figured out sooner. She highlights a trait she noticed among the men she works with and how she tries to apply it to her work approach.

Navigating Work and Life as an Executive Mom with Joann Lublin

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Today, Joann shares the story of her trailblazing career as a journalist and reveals some of the struggles she faced in the male-dominated industry of journalism. She shares her inspiration for her first book and the advice she would have given her younger self when navigating the unwritten rules in office politics. She reveals how she managed her "working mother guilt" and how the workplace has changed over time for different generations of working women.

Safe, Fair and Dignified Workplaces for All Women with Tina Tchen

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Today, Tina Tchen shares her journey through the corporate law world and why she decided to start the TIME'S UP Now organization. She reveals the struggles she faced throughout her career and one of her favorite moments during a corporate law meeting. She shares the advice she would give her younger self when starting as a woman in the corporate world and the revelations from her Impact Lab's research on sexual harassment.

Speak Up and Make Difference with Dayna Steele

The Unwritten Rules of Women's Leadership

Today, Dayna shares her incredible journey from a rock and roll DJ to running for Congress. She reveals why she chose to run and how her book on her experience can help anyone striving for any elected position. She shares memories from her days as an 80's DJ and what inspired her to go into radio in the first place.

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Rita Mitjans is the President and Founder of Bizguru Consulting; a firm focused on accelerating performance through sustainable cultures and business practices. Rita is an award-winning certified executive coach and senior executive. In her previous role of Head of Diversity and Social Responsibility at ADP, she significantly increased the number of women and minorities in executive leadership. She has held leadership roles at ADP, Deutsche Bank, and Bankers Trust and serves on the World Trade Resource Advisory Board. Rita earned her MBA from Harvard University and her Bachelor’s degree from St. John's University.

Rita joins me today to discuss how self-awareness is a crucial ingredient of learning to grow. She shares what she has learned throughout her career and highlights why it is essential to know when to ask for help and say no. She shares how perfection syndrome can affect women's careers and the struggle women endure with the work/life balance. We also discuss the importance of self-awareness, self-forgiveness, and the value of learning from our mistakes and weaknesses.

“Without self-awareness, it is very difficult to achieve any level of true growth - because that’s where it starts.” - Rita Mitjans

This week on The Unwritten Rules Podcast:

How to embed inclusion and diversity in an organization
The lessons Rita learned in her career including knowing when to ask for help
How perfection syndrome can affect women in their careers
Finding the work/life balance and job expectations of doing more with fewer resources
Knowing that you can say no and make your opinion heard
Why it is vital to recognize that you don’t need to be perfect
Self-awareness and how true personal growth begins with turning our failures into opportunities to learn

Our Favorite Quotes:

“In order to embed the concept of diversity and inclusion in a company or organization, you need to understand the organization and what it’s like to be one of those leaders.” - Rita Mitjans
“When you move into leadership you need to now be able to develop others to do what you are able to do well.” - Rita Mitjans
“No one is perfect. No one has all the answers.” - Rita Mitjans

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Writing the Rules of Women Leadership

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