152. Everyone Knows Someone Worth Knowing (with Janet Falk)

Janet Falk, Ph.D., is a Communications professional with more than 30 years’ experience in-house, as a consultant and at public relations agencies. As Chief Strategist of Falk Communications and Research (www.JanetLFalk.com), she manages pro-active media outreach and has secured placement of executives and events in local, national and international print and broadcast media. Janet is a versatile writer who can prepare newsletters, articles, website copy, LinkedIn profiles, presentations and speeches, as well as marketing literature. She has a broad network of contacts among graphic designers, web developers, photographers and printers to meet related client needs. Speak with her for a complimentary Strategic Communication Session to assess your Communications activity and online presence. She guarantees TWO IDEAS.

In this episode:

• Janet shared what she does and how that helps her clients to be more visible.
• We talked about the various mediums of media that can be used to share what you do.
• She shared the concept of content multiplication and how that one piece of content can be used in so many ways.
• She believes there are people who have problems and others who have solutions. She helps connect them together.
• What to do before, during and after a networking event to stand out.
• How to help someone who doesn’t want to brag learn to see the value that they bring and talk about it with others in media and networking.
• Janet shared her four As and how that has helped people in conversations.
• Her book Improve Your Marketing RBI: Five Ways to Get Business Book leverages a baseball theme to remember the steps to follow! Listen in for her tip to make sure you are doing this each week!

Information on Janet:

• JanetLFalk.com
• Janet Falk on LinkedIn (in/janetlfalk)

The Book that Janet Recommends:

• Everybody Writes by Ann Handley

Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast

• Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
• As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com.
• You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!

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151. Top 10 Lessons in Leadership

I was thinking about some of my top 10 lessons in leadership as I read an article by another leader who had put theirs together. I thought this would be a great topic for the podcast, so here is my list to share with you.

In this episode:

My top 10 lessons in Leadership (in no particular order):

1. Trust yourself.
2. Act like you are equals.
3. Bring value to your team and your company.
4. Make decisions with the company’s best interest and you will always do the right thing.
5. Leaders are superheroes who need to put their capes in the closet and create new superheroes.
6. Focus on being respected as a leader, not liked.
7. You are paid to think and plan.
8. Remember every interaction is an opportunity for visibility and to show your value!
9. Opportunities will show up when you least expect them. Be ready to step up and lead.
10. Seek clarity and ask for what you want.

Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast

• Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
• As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com.
• You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!

If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!

Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast!

150. Create Your Rules for Success (with Heather Whelpley)

Heather is a speaker, award-winning author, executive coach, and leadership development consultant passionate about empowering women to live, work, and lead with grounded confidence. With her unique blend of expertise and authenticity, Heather has become a frequent speaker for conferences and companies, where she creates engaging presentations that encourage people to share their voice, create impact, and step into their authentic leadership. Prior to becoming a speaker, Heather spent over a decade at Cargill and Ameriprise in a wide variety HR, leadership development, and change management roles in both offices and plants across the U.S., Latin America, and Australia. She’s the author of two transformative books—An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules and Grounded Wildness: Break Free from Performing Your Life and Start Living It. Heather lives in Colorado where she spends as much time hiking and exploring as possible.

In this episode:

• Heather introduces her book, An Overachievers Guide to Breaking the Rules, that contains a lot of her own experience of being an overachiever (listen to the poem that is read by Sue at the beginning!)
• How identity can be attached to achieving and where it starts.
• Why we focus so much on proving ourselves.
• How our dependence on achievement can be tied to our need for love and belonging.
• What can happen in our brain, when we try to slow down from our fast pace life.
• Rules may also be known as limiting beliefs or stories.
• Why are we so focused on being liked?
• What are some examples of rules that people may not realize are rules that they are following?

Information on Heather:

• HeatherWhelpley.com
• Heather Whelpley on LinkedIn (in/heatherwhelpley)

The Book that Heather Recommends:

• The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast

• Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
• As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com.
• You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!

If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!

Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast!