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Deb and Mel Welcome you to the World of Influential SHE
This podcast is a candid conversation between us as we share insights of Influential SHE. We will take you on our sometimes crazy journey, beginning in 2017, and discuss how we arrived at this point today. It certainly was not clearly defined in our minds what we were wanting to do and create when we …
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Leveraging Self with Jennifer Blair
Today’s podcast features Jennifer Blair, taking a deep dive into the High Leverage Practice of “Leveraging Self”. The key to truly knowing yourself is by identifying your core values, and Jennifer is an expert in showing the way. She has helped countless women create life balance, unearth their strengths and values, overcome fears and limiting …
Leveraging Connection with Debbie Shore
Today’s podcast features Debbie Shore, talking about the High Leverage Practice of “Connection”. How often do you reflect on the quality of your connections? Debbie Shore shares the power of building a network of connections that can exponentially grow your influence. She talks about building trust that is based on reciprocity – helping others while …
Leveraging Possibility with Dr. Vicki Phillips
Today’s podcast features Dr. Vicki Phillips, who will talk with us about the High Leverage Practice of “Possibility”. When was the last time you pulled yourself out of your comfort zone with your goal of achieving something bigger than yourself or your circumstances? Vicki Phillips discusses how her ability to abandon familiarity in her early …
Leveraging the Practice of Self with Simintha Esson
This podcast features Simintha Esson digging into the High Leverage Practice of “Self”. Being authentically who you are in the world is not always easy. Simintha talks about how others would like to put values on you based on what they think they know about you, and how at her deepest core that did not …
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Leveraging Perspicaciousness with Stefanie Sanford
This podcast features Stefanie Sanford digging into the High Leverage Practice of “Perspicaciousness”. A new word for many, perspicaciousness is the ability to notice and understand things quickly. It’s being a perceptive observer of your own as well as other’s behavior, ultimately being able to comprehend and act upon patterns that are emerging. As Stefanie …
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Leveraging Doing with Shantel Krebs
Today’s podcast features Shantel Krebs, jumping into the High Leverage Practice of “Doing”. We can all be guilty of endless loop-thinking that results in feeling “stuck”. Shantel did quite the opposite, accepting each new challenge and exhibited the ability to move on to take the next opportunity in front of her. She did not allow …
Leveraging What Is with Sarah Brown Wessling
This episode features Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 national Teacher of the Year, offering compelling insights into the High Leverage Practice of “What Is”. Key to accelerating influence is honestly assessing both your internal and external environments, which is not easy to do. Sarah does not hold back in opening up the hard truths of …
Leveraging Story with Treopia Washington
This podcast features Treopia Washington sharing how stories powerfully connect us to others, becoming a catalyst for influence. Her amazing life has unfolded first person account stories that include President Eisenhower, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall. In 1957, Treopia’s brother was one of the Little Rock Nine, when the National Guard was called …
Leveraging Self with Joni Clark
This podcast with Joni Clark is an amazing story of “Self” reclamation. Joni lived in a religious cult for 13 years where her true self became buried, sharing “It’s sort of an abdication of your own responsibility to stay in charge of yourself. That’s the cult experience, but you can get that experience outside of …
Leveraging Connection with Nancy Segal
This podcast digs into the high leverage practice of connection, where respectful and meaningful relationships are built with yourself and with others. Influential women understand that connection extends far beyond passing out business cards or schmoozing. This podcast features Nancy Segal talking about how her depth of connections led to extraordinary changes. From litigating the …
Leveraging Bio You with Deb and Mel
In this podcast Deb and Mel open up the practice Bio You, talking about knowing your innate biologic self. Now what in the world does this have with being influential? Turns out quite a lot, because “making your way” takes energy, and the interconnected body is the driver for how much is available. Truly knowing …
Leveraging Bio You with Dr. Jane Murray
Dr. Jane Murray is a family medicine physician and certified expert in functional medicine. She digs into the science of how amazing the human body is, and how so many intricate interacting systems talk to each other and work together to create body balance. This balance is directly related to having the zest and energy …
Leveraging As If with Tracy McArdle
This episode features Tracy McArdle, wine expert and enthusiast, sharing how she lived the High Leverage Practice of “As If” and then realized her dream career. Too many times we wait and wait and wait for permission – to speak, to act, to grow. This exciting practice is the ability to act as if where …
Leveraging Story with Dr. Joan Wink
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Story with Dr. Joan Wink. As we talk with Joan about the power of story, she shares, “No one really wants to hear our theory, hear our philosophy or see our data, no one would remember it anyway, no one cares. But if we can connect our …
Leveraging Bio You with Teresa Parker
This episode features Teresa Parker highlighting the High Leverage Practice of Bio You. She talks about the interconnected body, and delicate dance between holding on and letting go to find balance. She sees so many women stressed to get everything done, many times trying to make other people happy rather than focusing on themselves first. …
Leveraging Possibility with Abby Javurek
This episode highlights the High Leverage Practice of Possibility with Abby Javurek, a woman who exemplifies what it means to be a “possibilist”. She shares a compelling story about believing in herself and saying yes to new possibilities in both good and challenging life circumstances. Abby will inspire all to quickly flip “it can’t be …
Leveraging Voice with Christine Hamilton
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Voice with Christine Hamilton. The way Christine lives her life exemplifies this practice in how she uses deep listening to develop relationship trust that elicits thinking in others. She talks about the wholeness of voice sharing “I think that we cannot separate our voice from our presence …
Leveraging Connection with Shirley Vargas
This episode features Dr. Shirley Vargas sharing her experience with the High Leverage Practice of Connection. Her success in authentically connecting with others is grounded in her belief that truly being listened to and heard is a basic need for all people. She shares how practicing connection based on reciprocal respect can lead to amazing …
Leveraging Perspicaciousness with Dr. Heidi Moline
This week features Dr. Heidi Moline living the High Leverage Practice of Perspicaciousness. From public health to being a pediatrician, she has traveled around the world caring for others and seeing the emergence of trends. At a very young age, Heidi has been able to connect dots of similarity – in arenas that on the …
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Leveraging Doing with Amy Skinner
This episode highlights the High Leverage Practice of Doing with Amy Skinner. As a podcast is being released at the height of a worldwide pandemic, Amy’s words ring true for all of us, “That which you put your mind to grows stronger. So sometimes when you are in those stuck places and you just don’t …
Leveraging As If with Mary Anne Arcilla
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of “As If” with Mary Anne Arcilla. Too many times we wait and wait and wait for permission – to speak, to act, to grow. This practice is about “proceeding until apprehended”, acting as if where you are headed has already been realized. Mary Anne’s story is a …
Leveraging Connection with Martha King, Episode 1
This is the first episode of a two-part conversation featuring the High Leverage Practice of Connection with Martha King. From being a “barefoot connector” in South Korea for the Peace Corp to working with legislators from all over the country with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Martha epitomizes the practice of connection. She …
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Leveraging Connection with Martha King, Episode 2
This is the second episode of a two-part conversation featuring the High Leverage Practice of Connection with Martha King. In a time of pandemic, she talks about how needed and powerful women’s connection influence can be, “Women play a special role because we’re natural healers, we’re natural connectors and I think our voices can make …
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Leveraging Perspicaciousness with Nadja Young, Episode 1
This is the first episode of a two-part conversation featuring the High Leverage Practice of Perspicaciousness with Nadja Young. She shares her compelling story of growing up with all the odds stacked against her – low income family, fatherless home, parents without college degrees, mother with significant mental illness, father in federal prison from robbing …
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Leveraging Perspicaciousness with Nadja Young, Episode 2
This is the second episode of a two-part conversation featuring the High Leverage Practice of Perspicaciousness with Nadja Young. She talks about how it is possible to rise above fractured circumstances sharing “There’s no way for our past to not define us, It is a part of our fabric, our psyche and our personality, but …
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Leveraging Story with Jane Berz
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Story with Jane Berz. Everything starts with a story. Stories powerfully connect us to others, and can hold the power to trigger imagination and empathy. Stories humanize, offering a glimpse of your authentic self. Jane does just that by relating her journey of living a disconnected life …
Leveraging Story with Terryl Cadwell
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Story with Terryl Cadwell. She powerfully relates how stories bring theory to life. Her fascinating real life stories titled Silas and the Beer Bottle, Death by Cop and Bloody Snow, are lessons of building influence by trusting oneself, seeking hope and understanding that things are not always …
Leveraging Daughters with Heather and Molly
This episode features our terrific daughters, Heather and Molly. In general we just love to hang out with them and thought it would be fun to hear their take on our Influential She journey. As up and coming professionals they share characteristics of women that have inspired them to grow, along with barriers they perceive …
Leveraging Self with Becky Nelson
This episode highlights the High Leverage Practice of Self with Becky Nelson. As a true risk-taker, Becky spent most of her twenties and early thirties in China. By living in four different cities and three different provinces, she uncovered her true self sharing, “Continually moving teaches you a lot about yourself – for better or …
Leveraging Doing with Katherine Bassett
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Doing with Katherine Bassett. Doing is all about developing the acuity to redirect actions, building decision making muscle that results in the ability to get things purposely done. Katherine exemplifies this idea in her personal and professional life, sharing that it is not always easy, “We as …
Leveraging Bio You with Jessica Morrell
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Bio You with Jessica Morrell, CNP. A true expert in women’s health, she digs deep into how the body responds to stress and what choices are best to stay in balance. Jessica shares “If you don’t have any energy and you can’t think clearly, there is no …
Leveraging Story with Julie Mathiesen
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Story with Dr. Julie Mathiesen. Her story is one of being a true innovator from the moment she pursued a “rare air” doctorate in Educational Technology. Using story as a powerful truth-telling about claiming authenticity, Julie constantly has charted new ground – including a year of wandering …
Leveraging Self with Brenna Pangelinan
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Self with Brenna Pangelinan. At 18 years old, our youngest guest-to-date, she shares an amazing story of getting to know her core self and then just “going for it.” From feeling restless and unfulfilled as a Sophomore, she talks about her journey of self-discovery and steps forward …
Leveraging Possibility with Amber Stegman
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Possibility with Amber Stegman. As a true “possibilist” she shares her delightful story of scary risk-taking that moved her from a clock-watching job to being a salon business owner with 21 stylists renting space. With her “I am not willing to fail” attitude, Amber cuts to the …
Leveraging Voice with Julia
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Voice with Julia. At 10 years old and our youngest podcast guest to-date, she lives with significant food allergies to eggs and mustard seed, Julia has had to find her voice and grow her confidence early in life. Wanting to “teach people that allergies are not …
Leveraging Connection with Senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, MD
Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, M.D. was appointed to be State Senator from the Democrat Party representing District 17 in NW Portland/Beaverton, Oregon. With strong support from her district, she returned to the Senate in 2012 and has been serving in that role since. Her primary areas of concern and expertise include creating an affordable healthcare system, …
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Leveraging What Is with Pras Ranaweera
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of What Is with Prasangi (Pras) Ranaweera. Growing up in London with Sri Lankan parents, early on she developed the skill of assessing the reality of her situation and moving forward based on clarity. With a well-traveled life that resulted in her becoming a United States citizen, she …
Leveraging Self with Dr. Melita “Chepa” Rank
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Self with Dr. Melita “Chepa” Rank. As a woman who grew up on a reservation being half Native American and half white, she opens up about her journey to claim herself. Chepa is totally raw and vulnerable from sharing how her name means “chubby” to the challenges …
Leveraging Voice with Sara Kindvall
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Voice with Sara Kindvall. A podcast of raw vulnerability, Sara recounts a journey of alcohol addiction, controlling relationships with one culminating in an “intent to kill” assault. With details that may be difficult to hear, she describes the assault, the outcome of her injuries and putting …
Leveraging Possibility with Eliza Blue
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Possibility with Eliza Blue. From being a singer and songwriter in big cities to falling in love with a man and the land in rural America, Eliza’s story reveals one possibility after another. She epitomizes being a “possibilist” always asking “What can we do if this is …
Leveraging Self with Dr. Lisa Mitchell
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Self with Dr. Lisa Mitchell. As a girl Lisa struggled mightily in school, until late middle school when she found something she loved and was really good at – theatre. Sharing “I learned more about me pretending to be someone else”, Lisa talks about uncovering her …
Leveraging Bio You with Dr. Deanna Minich
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Bio You with Dr. Deanna Minich. Hang onto your plates as Deanna tips “diet” on it’s head, delightfully sharing how color can change our lives, influence us, affect our feelings and alter our behavior. Her wisdom of “We need to expand the definition of nutrient to …
Leveraging Doing with Sharon McMahon
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Doing with Sharon McMahon. The consummate “doer”, in the fall of 2020 this social studies/government teacher turned photographer kept seeing the disconnect in facts circulating about how the government works. She decided to do something about it, and tapped into a huge hunger for the truth! In …
Leveraging As If with Dr. Jen Gresham
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of “As If “ with Dr. Jen Gresham. As a biochemist poet, her life and career moves have been the epitome of “proceed until apprehended”. Every career step thrust Jen into a space she didn’t feel prepared for. But she learned to embrace her vulnerabilities sharing “I’ve always …
Leveraging Self with Kimilu
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Self with Kimilu. As a woman of great courage following her heart, she relates moving from a place of feeling lost and empty to being a trailblazing first ever life coach in the Philippines. Through her work she “found herself”, and wants that same journey for everyone. …
Leveraging ‘As If’ with Rae Hughart
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of ‘As If’ with Rae Hughart. Rae struggled mightily with special learning disabilities in math, reading and writing. Defying all odds she has become a teacher extraordinaire, now inspiring 11 year olds in math. Sharing “If you’re going to struggle in life, then you better go out fighting …
Leveraging Perspicaciousness with Dr. Kathy Farah
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Perspicaciousness with Dr. Kathy Farah. As a physician pioneer certified in cranio-sacral therapy and mind/body/ spirit medicine, she has truly connected the dots about what it means to heal a whole person. Embracing the unusual power to comprehend and act on that which may be puzzling or …
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Leveraging Connection with Megan Peppenelli
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Connection with Megan Peppenelli, PhD. As a scientist following an untraditional path, Megan illuminates how deep connection – both with yourself and others – ultimately requires disconnect. She shares “Living in the uncomfortable is where you grow. And it can be a really crappy process. When have …
Leveraging Story with Molly Weisgram
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Story with Molly Weisgram. A raw and emotional podcast, Molly shares her story of facing the unimaginable when her husband suddenly becomes a quadriplegic on a ventilator in a matter of days with no promise of a full recovery. With a career and mom with four children, …
Leveraging Perspicaciousness with Anne Wicks
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Perspicaciousness with Anne Wicks. A national champion volleyball player from Stanford and now part of the George W. Bush Institute, Anne gets into how difficult it is to be perspicacious with chaos in the world. When events and connections are almost too much to take in, rising …
Leveraging Voice with Angela Jerabek
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Voice with Angela Jerabek. From school counselor to founder and leader of a national education center, Angie relates how she became the voice and not the echo, thus realizing her dreams for a creative and innovative life. She shares how to truly mature voice to accelerate influence, …
Leveraging What Is with Kristin Strobel
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of ‘What Is’ with Kristin Strobel. When faced with barriers of age, gender and looks – once being told “You’re in the room to improve the view” – she simply rolled up her sleeves and built integrity through hard work and grit. She shares how important it is …
Leveraging Voice with Lori Walsh
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Voice with Lori Walsh. As a radio host who has interviewed more than 6000 guests on-air, Lori claims she found her voice by being a ‘pro-eavesdropper’. In this not-to-miss podcast, she shares the incredible influence of deep listening where we can discover the similarities of humanity that …
Leveraging Self with Charlyn Stanberry
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Self with Charlyn Stanberry. Raised by four generations of influential women, at an early age Char developed confidence in truly being her authentic self. And yet, as she shares, being true to yourself is not always an easy path when “many times it means going against the …
Leveraging Doing with Hailey Steele
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Doing with Hailey Steele. As a singer/songwriter, she began massive ‘doing’ at a very young age. Sharing “I’m a go-getter, a chaser, a pursuer, a doer and will always stand up for myself”, Hailey talks about how hard and painful it can be to get going when …
Leveraging Connection with Grace Koh
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Connection with Grace Koh. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she lives up to her namesake in fostering influential connections. From negotiating D.C. “food fights” to being present and courageous when conversations are difficult, she will inspire all to grow in the skill of connection. Through her story-telling …
Leveraging Doing with Cynthia Newberry Martin
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Doing with Cynthia Newberry Martin. As a novelist and woman living on her deepest heart terms, she shares how important it is to “decide what you want and take a step toward it.” When the world pressures how life should be, Cynthia will inspire all by her …
Leveraging Self with Erleigh Wiley
This podcast highlights the High Leverage Practice of Self with Erleigh Wiley. With values mentored by her ‘force of nature’ mother Fern, she is clear-eyed about who she is and how she belongs in every room. As a judge, wife, mom and community leader, she had the courage to step into the District Attorney role …
Leveraging Voice with Susan Young
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Voice with Susan Young. It’s your worst nightmare – learning that your fifteen-year-old daughter has been sex trafficked right under your nose for 1 ½ years. Susan brings voice to this incredible horror that shattered her entire family. Her compelling story will open the eyes of all …
Leveraging Story with Jenny Q & Myshkin Warbler
This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Story with Jenny Q & Myshkin Warbler. In 2014 Jenny became dramatically ill, fighting sepsis for her life. Losing both legs below the knees, five fingers and multiple organs, enduring well over fifty surgeries and rising above opioid withdrawal, her story is one of always making the …
