Girl, Take the Lead!

By: Yolanda Canny
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  • Each week we explore Womanhood and Leadership with the goal to question the status quo and challenge our thinking so we celebrate every woman as a leader. Our episodes will interview leaders in the field, meet authors, explore books on the subject, hear inspiring stories, or talk with organizations leading the charge for women to lead. We’ll look at the different topics from different generational perspectives as my daughters, a Millennial and a Gen Z, will join me, a Boomer, from time to time. We hope to make you laugh and leave inspired as you hear our voices on this very important topic.
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  • 205. Resilient Leadership and Gender Norms: Insights from Lisa DeFrank-Cole

    205. Resilient Leadership and Gender Norms: Insights from Lisa DeFrank-Cole
    Dec 3 2024
    Lisa DeFrank-Cole, Gen X, joins Yo who talks with us about resiliency and other important traits for women leaders. Lisa is Director and F Duke Perry Endowed Professor of Leadership Studies at West Virginia University, and is widely known for her academic and practical expertise in women’s leadership. She is a leadership coach and has been coauthor/coeditor of the following three academic books about women and leadership including an award-winning textbook:. Women and Leadership: Journey Toward Equity A Research Agenda for Gender and Leadership Women’s Leadership Journeys: Stories, Research, and Novel Perspectives Lisa overcame many stereotypes as a first-generation college graduate from Appalachia to reach where she is today. WV Living magazine named her a “Wonder Woman” in 2019, celebrating her for defying barriers and working towards uplifting West Virginia. Topics Covered: Why resiliency is an important leadership trait What other skills/traits women offer What are gender norms & alignment Likeability vs competence Masculine and feminine traits What are different strategies to promote equity What is a leader identity (claiming vs granting) 3 Episode Takeaways 1. Hardiness is needed for women to be leaders. Resilience is the ability to get back up after being knocked down and trying again. Women face challenges that are different than men when it comes to leadership. 2. There’s a flexibility and empathy women bring to leadership situations. Because we are scanners women can assess where people are coming from. Research states women bring a transformational approach into organizations. Women can be the “glue” that holds things together which can be unrewarded and overlooked. 3. Gender norms are changing but not equable yet. It is going in both directions for men and women. Leaders are seen in their ability to make decisions or be agents of change, and how society perceives these differently for men and women is the real challenge. Card or Gift Items Lisa Liked from Our Store https://girltaketheleadpod.com/shop Snarky Cat, Trust Your Gut Card Enjoy the Journey Bookmark More About Lisa: Lisa has 15+ years as a speaker at the International Leadership Association Global Conferences presenting on Women and Leadership. She has been recognized with awards for dedication to women and leadership, including the Mary Catherine Buswell Award, the West Virginia Wonder Woman Award, and the Harriet E. Lyon Endowed Professorship in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is a Fulbright Specialist Scholar and taught leadership to women in the Middle East. How to reach Lisa: LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-defrank-cole-7b32286b/ eMail: L.DeFrank.Cole@gmail.com Website: lisadefrankcole.com How to reach Yo Canny: Our website: www.girltaketheleadpod.com You can send a message or voicemail there. We’d love to hear from you! And you can check out our Heartfelt Cards & Gift Shop. email: yo@yocanny.com FB group: Girl, Take the Lead https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share IG: yocanny YouTube LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/
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    37 mins
  • 204. Acts of Kindness: Celebrating Giving Tuesday

    204. Acts of Kindness: Celebrating Giving Tuesday
    Nov 29 2024
    Giving Tuesday is December 3, 2024 and we wanted to share some ideas for organizations you might want to consider in your giving plan this year. In the past year we’ve been fortunate to have had the following guests that featured very cool organizations and you’ll find the ways to contact them for any donations below: Organizations: Ep. 135, Unleashing Creative Brilliance: A Conversation with Lane Gardner https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/ZQM2HynUQOb THREAD: www.threadconnects.org Ep. 149, Turning Pain into Purpose: The Origin of Blue Faery w Andrea Wilson Woods https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/62UN0s3wIOb Blue Faery: https://www.bluefaery.org/ Ep. 157, Mothers’ Day Movement 2024: Supporting African Education Program https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/EQGXupd5HOb Donate: https://www.mothersdaymovement.org/ Ep. 165, Global Impact & Leadership: ReSurge Intl’s Mission with Claire Lechance https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/O3v4rnd5HOb Donate: https://resurge.org Ep. 169, Suparna Vashist: Creating Pathways to Sustainability, Conservation, Gender Equality and Mental Wellbeing https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/HFj4omd5HOb Marine Institute Maui Ocean Center www.mocmarineinstitute.org Maui Nui Marine Resource Council https://www.mauireefs.org/ Project Coyote https://projectcoyote.org/ One Reef Micronesia https://onereef.org/ Ep. 190, Wealth, Resilience, & Abundance: Insights from Scott Galloway and the Nancy Walton Laurie Leadership Institute of Chi Omega https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/XAqhdG9uQOb Donate: https://give.chiomega.com/CSiDonate/Give.aspx/Y7QYEDTW#c Ep. 167, Empowering Women in Philanthropy: Heather McLeod Grant Redefines Traditional Giving https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/R7UhWmd5HOb How to reach Yo Canny: Our website: www.girltaketheleadpod.com You can send a message or voicemail there. We’d love to hear from you! email: yo@yocanny.com (Yo) FB group: Girl, Take the Lead https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share IG: yocanny (Yo) YouTube LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/
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    15 mins
  • 203. Embracing Conflict: Transforming Tension into Growth with Judy Bornstein

    203. Embracing Conflict: Transforming Tension into Growth with Judy Bornstein
    Nov 26 2024
    Judy Bornstein, Boomer, joins me to discuss conflict – whoa! Judy is the Founder of C Suite Resolutions, where she provides mediation, ombuds services, conflict and negotiation coaching, and corporate trainings to organizations and executives. She has worked extensively as a CFO and Chief Compliance Officer, and brings her business experience to her work in addressing conflict. Topics Covered: Conflict definition Disagreement vs conflict Gossip Consequences of pushing down conflict Costs involved in unresolved conflicts How organizations set themselves up to handle conflicts Ombuds (trained independent designated neutral to build trust) Working in conflict and understanding our reactions Mediations Three Episode Takeaways 1. If we only think of conflict as a fight we can lose that it can be a really powerful engine for creativity, change, and self-reflection. 2. Responses to conflict can fall along gender lines. Many women are raised to “be nice” and “be good”, and told “don’t make a scene”. Women may be uncomfortable acknowledging a conflict so will be quiet or not address it directly, and there is less latitude for women to express conflict than is often afforded to men 3. Humans are naturally (evolutionarily) wired to not like conflict, so that means our managers, bosses, and leaders probably don’t like conflict. As a result conflict may pushed down or silenced, which can lead to unintentional consequences like blaming the people involved rather than learning from the situation. Conflict is an inherent part of growth and innovation in organizations. Great Quotes: Hope is not a strategy. We may have conflict because we are wise enough to see the complexity in our world. If you have conflict in your life it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you. Conflict can be perplexing. Episode Resources: Baruch Bush: https://www.beyondintractability.org/bksum/bush-promise More About Judy: Judy is a doctoral candidate at Penn State University where her research interests center around organizational conflict. She holds a Masters in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law, and an MBA from Simmons University in Boston, where she graduated first in her class. Judy is a Mediation trainer and serves on the San Francisco Bar Association Mediation Panel and on the Arbitration Panel for FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). She is a regular mediator for the Congress of Neutrals where she mediates court cases in Contra Costa County, CA. Judy also co-facilitates a Transformative Mediation group inside San Quentin State Prison, where she offers mediation and conflict-resolution training to incarcerated men interested in non-violent conflict resolution. How to reach Judy: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judybornstein/ Email: jb@csuiteresolutions.com Website: www.csuiteresolutions.com How to reach Yo Canny: Our website: www.girltaketheleadpod.com You can send a message or voicemail there. We’d love to hear from you! email: yo@yocanny.com FB group: Girl, Take the Lead https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share IG: yocanny YouTube LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/
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    44 mins

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