Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer

Ep #226: How to Stop Asking for More Work-Life Balance and Actually Make It Happen You’ve been striving for that elusive work-life balance, but despite your best efforts, it still feels just out of reach, doesn’t it? Here’s the truth: You do not have to wait for your next promotion to find better work-life balance, and you don’t need to avoid promotions to protect your work-life balance, either. In fact, the way you're currently approaching work is exactly why your balance is off—and this will remain true whether you ascend to CEO or step back to middle management. The power to change your work-life balance starts with you. And it starts NOW. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m debunking the pervasive myths about work-life balance that make achieving it seem impossible. AND I’m also sharing practical, actionable changes you can implement today to create a better balance without needing to switch roles or land the 'perfect job'. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #225: Why the STAR Method Fails and My 3C's Approach to Interviewing Succeeds As you edge closer to the executive suite, are your interview techniques keeping pace? Conventional interview approaches like the STAR method probably served you well as a subject matter expert. But this strategy quickly begins to fall short as you reach the director level and above. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m breaking down all the problems with the traditional STAR method and walking you through my unique, elevated approach to nailing executive-level interviews. I’ll introduce you to my 3C’s Method—Culture, Confidence, and Commitment—and give you real-life examples of how my clients are using this process to get out of the endless interview cycle and finally land the high-level leadership positions they deserve. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #224: How to Turn Your Big Impact into Executive-Level Influence You’ve done things at your organization that no one else could do. Yet…That impact hasn’t translated into the recognition, title, or money you want, right? Here’s the problem: When it comes to earning your seat at the leadership table, influence matters more than impact. The power of influence is that it allows you to completely shift how the leadership team perceives you. It helps you transform the impact you are having into stories that not only highlight your accomplishments – but also demonstrates what a badass leader you already are. So how do you transform the impact you make into tangible influence that gets you what you want? And how do you do this while staying true to your authentic, powerful self? In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’ll guide you through my process for turning your impacts into influence using real-life examples from six of my clients. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #223: Speaking Your Brand with Carol Cox In an inspiring episode of "Women Changing Leadership," host Stacy Mayer welcomes Carol Cox, a figure whose transition from academia to tech entrepreneurship and finally to the helm of Speaking Your Brand, illustrates the essence of dynamic leadership. Their conversation delves deep into the art of navigating career shifts with grace, the critical role of personal branding, and the power of thought leadership in today's corporate landscape. Carol's journey, marked by resilience against adversity and a keen intuition for pivotal decisions, offers invaluable lessons on overcoming challenges and embracing one's authentic voice. This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for anyone eager to learn about transforming obstacles into opportunities and leading with conviction in the face of uncertainty. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #222: Unlock Your Executive Presence By Re-writing Your Leadership Story I've discovered the secret to being seen as an executive leader doesn't lie in a sharp suit or a firm handshake—it's in the power of my storytelling and the energy I bring to every interaction. In this week’s episode, I delve into how storytelling is at the heart of executive presence. I share insights on how to project leadership qualities that go beyond the physical, how to harness the power of energetic storytelling to define your executive aura, how to communicate with confidence and vision (not just demonstrating expertise), and more. You don’t gain power and influence by asking for recognition; it happens through confidently claiming your space at the leadership table. By moving beyond trying to prove yourself and instead narrating your experience as resourced, composed, and ready for that next step. It’s time to redefine our leadership journeys and learn to turn our stories into our legacy. Let’s go. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #221: How to Use Leadership Storytelling to Be Seen as an Executive Leader The fastest way to be recognized as an executive leader is to start communicating like one. That’s why executive communication isn’t just a leadership skill… It’s actually the entire foundation for every single other leadership skill you’ll need to master as you advance to the executive suite. And the easiest way to start showing off your executive communication skills TODAY is to start telling better stories. Better stories to your boss, to the executive team, and better stories to yourself. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m walking you through my unique leadership storytelling process so you can be recognized as the brilliant executive you are, land the roles you truly want, and be highly valued (and paid) for the impact you have at your organization. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #220: My New Definition of Selfishness and How to Use It to Get Promoted The women inside my programs are incredibly empathetic, compassionate leaders who are lifting others up and making a huge impact at their organizations. But in order to do that, they first had to become incredibly selfish. And I’m not talking about the run-of-the-mill selfishness that leads to so many a-holes being in executive leadership. I’m talking about the kind of selfishness that will allow you to do things like: Leave work every day at 4pm to pick up your kids; go on a 5-week sabbatical and still get promoted when you return; and bring more empathy, diversity, inclusion and compassion to the leadership table and completely change how business is run in the process. This is my new definition of selfishness. And on this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how you can use it to strive for greatness in your own way, on your own terms, and while carving your own path to the executive suite. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #219: The Problem with Corporate VIPs and How to Become an MVP Instead Are you on the path to becoming an MVP or a VIP at your organization? The difference may seem small, but focusing on the wrong path can create huge problems in your career. VIPs are the high-level leaders you may be looking up to at your organization right now. They have power and influence and they’re often respected and even revered. But here’s the problem: As you advance to higher levels of leadership...you may come to realize that you don’t actually like them. And when this happens – when you realize many of the VIPs you admired are actually total a-holes who don’t stand for anything as a leader – this can be incredibly demotivating for you and your career. But in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to help you bypass this problem completely by showing you another path. I’ll show you how focusing on being an MVP – NOT a VIP – will help you achieve everything you admire about VIPs (the title, pay, recognition, and voice) while also stepping into your authentic power and having a major impact as a leader. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #218: How Working Less Will Help You Get Promoted More You know that person at work who has a seat at the table, gets paid well, has lots and lots of influence, and continues to get promotion after promotion…but they also seem to put in less hours, deliver less projects, and maybe even care less about the organization than you do? You may be annoyed with this person, but I actually want you to follow their lead. At the executive level, you’re not getting paid by how many hours your butt is in your seat. You’re getting paid for your ideas, your visionary leadership, your ability to make hard decisions, your ability to problem solve at a higher level and more. And the best way to have the time and mental bandwidth to do all of the above and more is to start doing less at work. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership, I’m going to walk you through the advanced executive skills I have been teaching my clients so they can work less while being rewarded more than ever before. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Rerelease: How to Create a Workplace Where Everyone Can Belong with Minda Harts In each episode, I have rereleased carefully selected podcast episodes that will help you nail your next executive-level job interview and land the high-level leadership role you already deserve. While this final episode in the series isn’t specifically about interviewing, it does touch on one of the most important parts of my Executive Interview Strategy: Belonging. Because the best thing you can do when you walk into an executive-level interview is believe that you belong there. But really, truly believing you belong can be hard for women – especially for Women of Color. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I am bringing you an interview with the brilliant Minda Harts. Minda is a former corporate leader turned speaker, award-winning author, and all-around brilliant thought leader who is on a mission to improve racial equity in the workplace. In this episode, Minda and I discuss the trauma Women of Color often experience in the workplace, how corporate leaders can truly commit to racial equity and create a workplace that works for everyone, and more. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Re-release: How to Nail Executive-Level Job Interviews By Staying Curious There is a powerful career tool I’ve been coaching my clients on for years that directly influences their ability to get promoted to executive leadership. But I’ve barely ever mentioned it on this podcast. And that something is: Curiosity. Or as I like to call it: The Curiosity Index. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m doing a deep dive into how you can use your curiosity to generate higher and higher levels of success AND create opportunities for yourself that you never even could imagine were possible before. This is Part 2 in my 3-Part Executive Interview series. In each episode, I am rereleasing carefully selected podcast episodes that will help you nail your next executive-level job interview and land the high-level leadership role you already deserve. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Rerelease: 3 Advanced Interview Skills to Help You Land a Higher Leadership Role Here’s a little-known truth about job interviews: The way you show up can completely transform – or totally stall – your career. I’m not talking about whether or not you land the role. I’m talking about whether or not you’re seen as an executive leader. Because the reality is: The way you show up to an interview can keep you trapped in a technical role…or set you up for the career of your dreams. A career where you’re seen as an executive leader who can solve problems, make powerful decisions, have a huge impact, and be a vital part of the conversation. For the next 3 episodes of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I am re-releasing carefully selected podcast episodes that will help you nail your next job interview and land the high-level leadership role you already deserve. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #217: Get Promoted Faster By Co-Writing Your Career Development Plan Has your boss ever created a career development plan for you…and nothing really happened? Months or even years go by and you still don’t have the promotion or pay you want. Does this mean your boss doesn’t care about you? Nope. It just means that 1. It’s YOUR job to make your promotion happen, and 2. Relying on your boss to do all the work to get you promoted is usually a career dead end. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how to create a super effective career development plan with your boss and I’m going to give you my step-by-step process for turning that plan into reality so you can fast track your next promotion. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #216: Speak Up and Stand Out with Jessica Chang Irish It’s not enough to have a seat at the leadership table. You need to have a voice. But let’s be real: Leading a presentation, introducing yourself at a networking event, or speaking on stage can not only feel stressful…it can feel downright dangerous. So how can you consistently put yourself out there when the idea of speaking into a microphone sends you into fight or flight mode? I’ve invited public speaking coach Jessica Chang Irish on this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer to show you how. Jessica is an Emmy-award-winning news reporter turned public speaking coach who empowers and trains women in leadership to look and sound confident and credible when speaking on stage, in the boardroom, or at networking events. And in this episode, she is going to give you inspiring and highly practical advice so you can speak up, stand out, and be recognized as the brilliant executive leader you already are. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #215: The Gender Pay Gap and Why It's Time for a New Conversation The current discourse around the gender pay gap and how we’re going to fix it is in desperate need of an overhaul. Telling women to create boundaries, have a better work-life balance, and delegate their work is actually pretty useless unless we’re also giving women a practical, step-by-step guide for what it’s really going to take to advance themselves to higher levels of leadership. Here’s the thing: The corporate badasses I work with aren’t waiting for their bosses, their organizations, or society at large to change. They’re getting themselves promoted to positions of power and influence so they can create that change. If you’re sick of hearing the same boring and not-that-effective career advice…Or you’re just looking for real-world solutions for overcoming gender bias at work…This episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer is for you. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #214: Become Your Boss's Favorite on Your Terms If you want to be your boss’s successor, it can feel super demotivating when they have a favorite – and it isn’t you. On the other hand, it can also feel icky and super inauthentic to become your boss’s ‘yes’ person in the hopes of winning their favor and getting the promotion you want. But there’s a middle way. You can become your boss’s favorite on your terms, while also: building trust that you can lead at a higher level by including your boss in conversations the right way; proactively creating alignment with the entire executive team so you understand what really matters to your organization; and increasing your political savvy so you can disagree with your boss and still be heard. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’ll show you very specific tips and tools so you can set yourself up to become your boss’s successor and receive the promotion you already deserve. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #213: The Goal Delusion Problem and How to Set Better Career Goals for 2024 Are your goals for 2024 achievable? Or have you fallen into the goal delusion trap? Goal delusion is so insidious, because it not only stops you from advancing your career…but it can also sabotage your attempts to: build meaningful relationships with executive leadership, advocate for the raise you already deserve, and show up like the corporate badass you are to executive-level interviews. So if you struggle to achieve the career goals you set for yourself each year OR you do achieve them, but nothing really changes…then you may be suffering from a case of goal delusion. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how to know if you’re being delusional about your goals AND how to set better ones so you can achieve bigger, better results in your career and life in 2024. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #212: Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors with Erica Anderson Rooney. Welcome to 2024!!! I’m coming to you today with the perfect episode to kick off the new year. It’s with keynote speaker, author, Chief People Officer and gender equality crusader, Erica Anderson Rooney, and I’m so excited to share it with you because we dive into two topics that are near and dear to my heart: 1. This episode is going to arm you with the tools and knowledge you need to overcome your sticky floors (AKA: the things keeping you stuck in your current role) so you can smash the glass ceiling at your organization. And 2. The world – not just your company – needs your visionary leadership, and Erica is the perfect example of what it looks like when executive leaders put their powerful thought leadership out into the world. Let’s get started. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz 📝 www.ReadytoBePromoted.com

Ep #211: How to Advance Your Career as a Woman in Leadership You’re a corporate badass. You’re great at what you do. And in 2024, I want you to be rewarded handsomely for it. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m bringing you a training I did recently where I laid out exactly what it’s going to take to get the executive-level promotion you deserve (not to mention the recognition, money, and influence) in the new year. This is a back-to-basics episode packed with the exact promotion strategies that have helped my clients receive promotions, skip-level promotions, multiple six-figure salary increases (and more) without having to “work harder”, have all the answers, or be the smartest person in the room. We need you and women like you in the executive suite in 2024, and this episode is going to give you the fuel you need to get there. Are you ready to be promoted? Take this free quiz and find out. You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #210: Women in Politics with Mary Hayashi Mary Hayashi is a former California State Assemblymember and the author of Women in Politics: Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieve True Representation. And in our interview together, she shares that 100% of the women she interviewed for her book were motivated to use their positions of power and influence to advocate for others and make the world a better place. Sounds familiar, right? I know you want the title, recognition, and $$$ you deserve. But I know you want to do that while having a big impact, bringing more kindness and empathy to executive leadership, and lifting up diverse voices at your organization and beyond. So if you’ve ever wondered how to use your power and influence to make your organization and the world a better place, or you just want some major insights and advice from a brilliant woman leader in politics…this episode is for you. Unlock the missing piece in your leadership development. Take the quiz: www.ReadytoBePromoted.com