Kandid Conversations

Quit or Push Through the Struggle w/ Darcy Eikenberg

Knowing when to quit or push through the struggle in your career, is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in life. You don’t have to make the decision alone. Today on the podcast, Darcy Eikenberg, shares the biggest mistakes most professionals make when they hit a difficult time at work and things you should do before making this life-changing decision.  Darcy also shares:

• Signs your career needs rescuing
• How the Illusion of transparency bias impacts everyday decisions and makes us unhappy
• Three things you should get focused on when going through a difficult time
• Tips for starting a tough conversation (without making matters worse for yourself) 
• Why you should plan to “drop the ball”

Darcy is the founder of RedCapeRevolution.com and an executive coach who focuses on how to save your career without losing your job.  As an executive coach Darcy has helped leaders at organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, State Farm, Deloitte Consulting, and more.

 

She’s also the author of Bring Your Super Powers to Work and Red Cape Rescue, a book that helps you change your life at work without changing everything in your life.

 

Her ideas have been shared in the Harvard Business Review, Thrive Global, and CNN.com. The Ladders, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Forbes, among others.

Connect with Darcy here:

Website: https://redcaperevolution.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcyeikenberg/

Purchase Red Cape Rescue: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Cape-Rescue-Without-Leaving/dp/1774581647

 

 

Courage Expert: Retrain Your Brain for Unstoppable Success w/ Candace Doby

Candace Doby is a Speaker, Courage Coach, and Author of the Cools Girls Guide to Courage- an inspirational self-love workbook filled with over 125 empowering quotes and journal prompts for girls and young women to find their courage, and build confidence. 

Today, she shares tips on ways to choose courage over comfort and activate it daily. Plus:

1. The one person you should compare yourself to
2. When making a tough decision, how to NOT seek approval or validation. 
3. Ways to turn shame into courage
4. Three questions you should ask yourself to move past your negative thoughts
5. How to detach yourself from the labels (and lies) given to us by society
6. Relieve yourself of society’s pressure to look, feel or act in a certain way
7. One rule that everyone should follow

Website: https://candacedoby.com/

Purchase the Cool Girls Guide to Courage: https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Girls-Guide-Courage-Confidence/dp/1728246482

Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CandaceDoby/

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candacedoby/

Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/candacedoby/

 

How to Figure Out What’s Next For Your Career w/Octavia Goredema

If you’re in the middle of looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence,  career coach, Octavia Goredema shares practical advice for women in the midst of a change. We also talk about what it means to know and remember your worth –because unfortunately your worth will be tested-Stay Ready!

 

Additional topics:

• The Great Resignation and its effects on underrepresented groups
• Tips for women who are juggling their role or as a mother or caregiver with their desire for change.
• How to manage your expectations about what it takes to successfully pivot
• What it means to know your worth and make your value known.

Octavia Goredema is a Career coach and author of Prep, Push, Pivot: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women— a career coaching guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence.

She has co-hosted HBR Now, Harvard Business Review’s weekly show about leadership. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo, The Guardian, Grazia magazine, and Black Enterprise, among others.

Originally from England, Octavia was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen (MBE). She’s also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, where she leads the Gender Equity Network in the United States.

Follow and connect with Octavia here:

• Website: https://www.octaviagoredema.com/
• Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/octaviagoredema/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/octaviagoredema/
• Purchase her book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119789079/?tag=wwwwileycom-20

Speak Your Truth-Powerfully and Skillfully w/ Charlene Wheeless

Sometimes the most difficult times in our lives prepare us to reach the next level of success and the next best version of ourselves. Today's guest, Charlene Wheeless, shares her process for finding, owning, and speaking her truth, from battling breast cancer and creating rules for her interracial marriage to advocating for herself during business negotiations and conflict.

 

Charlene Wheeless is  an executive coach, a senior advisor for equity and justice at APCO Worldwide and an author of the best selling book, I am Enough.

Named as one of the 50 most influential public relations professionals in the industry by PR Week magazine, Charlene is also a former Vice president of global corporate affairs.

During this episode we also discuss: 

• Self-care during trauma
• Worst career advice she’s ever received
• How 7 seconds of courage can change your life
• Negotiation tactics and the biggest mistake we make during the negotiation conversation
• How to determine if feedback is useful
• Navigating tough conversations around interracial marriage

Purchase her book: You Are Enough

Follow Charlene on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlenewheeless/

Visit her Website: https://charlenewheeless.biz/ 

Maintaining Balance? It’s Not What You Think w/Touré Roberts

If you’re ready to overcome any challenge in life and transform into a better version of yourself, I believe you’ll gain a ton of value from today's conversation with Touré Roberts about

• Maintaining balance,
• Getting out of survival mode,
• The power of soul awareness vs. self-awareness,
• Why unbecoming is more difficult than becoming,
• The everyday habits that make him a better husband, father of six children, and leader behind a thriving community of nearly one million people.

 

Touré Roberts' is a best-selling author of three published books, entrepreneur, and pastor behind one of the fastest growing congregations in the world, ONE (Formerly One Church LA).  Touré’s work has been featured on most major news outlets including CBS, MSNBC and Good Morning America in addition to guest appearances on the Discovery Channel, OWN, BET, and TV One. Touré’s work in entertainment also includes consulting on a FOX network drama series, writer credits with TV One, and co-executive producing a multi-cam sitcom, the pilot of which was ordered by ABC in 2019.

Touré is the son-in-law of a prominent pastor, businessman, bestselling author, film producer and philanthropist TD Jakes and, his wife, Serita Jakes the philanthropist and entrepreneur. 

Touré shares his life with his spouse and best friend, author, businesswoman, pastor and popular women’s influencer Sarah Jakes Roberts. The Roberts have six children together and reside in Los Angeles.

 

 

Reframe & Stop Comparing Yourself To Others w/Lia Garvin

From negotiating and having tough conversations to freeing yourself from second-guessing and comparing yourself to others--reframing is one of the most powerful (yet underrated) communication skills that can change your everyday life. So, I was thrilled to interview @LiaGarvin, a Leadership Coach, Team Operations & Inclusion Leader at Google, and author of Unstuck: Reframe your thinking to free yourself from the patterns and people that hold you back.

In this episode, we discuss:

🎤Why reframing is not only about seeing the positive side of things.

🎤Practical ways to reframe comparison and move past the “why not me” negative way of thinking.

🎤The benefits of having multiple truths.

🎤Programmed narratives we’ve been taught as children and ways to unlearn them.

 

Lia also shares one powerful way she’s teaching her daughter how to move past labels that limit our potential.

 

In her book she provides you with the tools you need to nail the technique of reframing, helping you transform the way you manage conflict, feedback, negotiations, decision- making and more. Learn how to speak up for yourself with confidence, silence your inner critic and open up a whole new realm of professional possibilities.”

Baby Steps Count Too

In this 6 minute episode, I share the advice I gave a woman who was struggling with an idea she couldn't stop thinking about yet she didn't feel motivated enough to start taking action towards her goals. 

Developing an Unstoppable Mindset

Mastering a skill was never really my problem. But mastering my BS (aka my belief system) including my insecurities, fears, and assumptions about how the world works- was the problem that held me back from achieving success. In this episode, I share the harsh and inevitable truth that's helped me get out of my own way--in hopes that it will help you too!

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Get on the waitlist for "The Confident Communicator Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs and Workplace Leaders"

https://kandia-johnson-665b.mykajabi.com/confident-communicator

Related Episodes:

1. The Best Things My Therapist Told Me This Year: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-best-things-my-therapist-told-me-this-year/id1519506695?i=1000540781312

2. Before You Give Up: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/before-you-give-up/id1519506695?i=1000539687920

3. You Don't Feel Like Showing Up, Now What?https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-dont-feel-like-showing-up-now-what/id1519506695?i=1000525576631

 

Why You Procrastinate (and How To Stop It)

If you get sidetracked, distracted, or discouraged because you can't stick to your goals or the things you say you want to do in your life,  let me be the first to tell you, procrastination isn't your problem. In this episode:

• The real reason you procrastinate and ways to get unstuck and make success happen for yourself
• Two mistakes you're making when writing a to-do list
• The "Who Not What Or How" technique for getting ish done

Get on the Waitlist for the Confident Communicator Bootcamp Coming Soon

https://kandia-johnson-665b.mykajabi.com/confident-communicator

Related Episodes:

Podcast 1: Triple Your Confidence: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-triple-your-confidence-in-2022/id1519506695?i=1000549118099

Say No To New Year Resolutions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-you-should-say-no-to-new-year-resolutions/id1519506695?i=1000546516411

 

Finding Your Purpose: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-youre-getting-wrong-about-finding-your-purpose/id1519506695?i=1000548237661

 

Impostor Syndrome? You’ve Probably Got It Wrong

Sometimes, it's not you, it's them. Today, I'm sharing what many coaches, courses, and experts are still failing to acknowledge about impostor syndrome. Mindset shifts and actionable ways you can shift your perspective about feeling like you're a fraud or incompetent. Plus I'm sharing the research and findings that led me to stop calling "it"imposter syndrome. 

Sign up for the  Confident Communicator Bootcamp Waitlist https://kandia-johnson-665b.mykajabi.com/confident-communicator

Related Episodes:

Negotiate and Communicate Your Value w/ Jacqueline Twillie https://KandiaJohnson.podbean.com/e/nah-pay-me-communicating-your-value-at-the-negotiation-table/

How To Regain Your Confidence After Workplace Bullying https://KandiaJohnson.podbean.com/e/find-your-voice-regain-your-confidence-after-workplace-bullying/

Don't Sleep on Yourself W/Elle Pierson https://KandiaJohnson.podbean.com/e/dont-sleep-on-yourself-welle-pierson/

 

 

 

How To Triple Your Confidence in 2022

If you're tired of doubting yourself and ready to show up in your life and career as you've never done before, take note confidence is not a fixed emotion.

In this episode, I'm sharing the real reason why you're struggling with a lack of confidence and  4 specific ways to not only triple your confidence but boost your impact and income as well. 

 

Get on the Waitlist for my upcoming LIVE Bootcamp:  The Confident Communicator https://kandia-johnson-665b.mykajabi.com/confident-communicator

 

Books Mentioned: 

• Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William Yuri
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss

• Don't Leave Money On The Table: Negotiation Strategies for Women Leaders in Male-Dominated Industries by Jacqueline Twillie MBA

 

Related Episodes:

• Nah Pay Me: Communicate Your Value and Make The Ask During Negotiations
• Stop Letting Your Emotions Sabotage Your Life and Career

 

 

 

What You’re Getting Wrong About Finding Your Purpose

Finding your purpose is often touted as being one of the keys to living a fulfilling life. But today,  I'm sharing what we often get wrong about finding your purpose plus, other beliefs you need to unlearn to level up in your life and your career. 

My 45+Day Social Media Detox (What I learned & Why I May Quit For Good)

I’m fresh off of a 3-day turned 45-day social media detox, so in my latest podcast episode, I’m talking about a few signs you need to take a break from social media. Why Social media isn’t really your problem. Plus ways to recharge, reflect and redesign your life for digital wellness instead of digital overwhelm. Listen and let me know what you think.

Why You Should Say No To New Year Resolution’s

In this episode, I talk about why you should stop setting New Year Resolutions, ways to set more meaningful intentions for the New Year, and how to write a one-sentence vision for yourself and live by it every day.

 

Links and Articles Mentioned During this Episode

• Free Mini Journal for Planning an Unstoppable 2022
• The Death (?) of the New Year’s Resolution

The Best Things My Therapist Told Me This Year

These two pieces of advice from my therapist shifted the way I approach my life and business.