Episodes

Juli Geske-Peer is our guest this week talking about the "5 Senses for Success" which is her new book. She shares with us the five senses and how we can apply them to leadership and our lives. We also spoke about my favorite topic, empathy, and shared our opinions about the importance of relationships. 1:17 Juli talks about her new book “The 5 senses for success” and when it will come out 5:22 The impact of her childhood that made her evolve and how she came up with the 5 senses 11:14 Some tips ...

Purpose reaches a different depth to any conversation and leadership is not exempt. In my opinion, we spend our entire lives trying to figure out what our “purpose” in this life actually is and do we have one? Well, I think we all have a purpose, in fact, many “purposes” in our lives. As far as leadership goes though, purpose is a direct reflect of your value in many ways and it’s why it’s important that you identify those values first (as I wrote about in part one of Be the Leader of Your Life)...

Understanding your mission in this life is key to understanding how to become the leader of your life. There are a lot of misconceptions about “your mission though.” I feel the word itself can sometimes be intimidating for a lot of people. But think of it this way, if a company or brand does not have a mission, then are we going to understand it, let alone support it? Probably not. That’s one of the reasons I feel discovering and having a personal mission is one of the four components to being t...

What does it mean to be the leader of your life? Well, to most people, they think that they have to have a title, a team, or someone appointing us as a leader in some sort of fashion. In my opinion, that’s not what makes you a leader, and I’ve spoken openly about this on my blog and my podcast for almost two years now. I talk often about being a leader before any of those moments happen to you… before you get the promotion to manager or director or VP and so on. When you step into your leadershi...

As President of Jackman, North America's leading customer engagement reinvention company, Sandra is responsible for both the business's long-term vision and day-to-day management. Sandra leads a talented team of 100+ reinventions with an engaging, highly motivating leadership style that fosters a culture of openness and champions ingenuity and collaboration. Sandra lives in Toronto, Canada, works across North America, and has been featured in major outlets like Forbes, Fast Company, and Thrive G...

In this episode, I have Beth Wonson; we discuss a couple of essential topics in leadership, ranging from her transition from being a team member to a leader, how to handle this transition, and becoming more self-aware. Beth Wonson started her career out in public education, and she went into public education because she had two little kids at home; she wanted to be able to have summers off with them and weekends, but she quickly learned that public education was not for her because it didn’t wor...

In this episode, I have Anne Arvizu. Together, we discuss the ups and downs of her journey as a female leader and dive into a couple of topics that include breaking the bad ceiling and the rising of women leaders. You don't want to miss out on this one; tune in with your favorite platform to listen to this amazing episode. Dr. Anne Arvizu, PharmD, FASCP, CPC, is a senior biotech Medical Affairs executive & organizational design expert in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry. As a seasoned C-suite...

In this episode, I dive into organizational culture and discuss how to build organizational culture while outlining some tips about culture. Culture is one of the most talked-about topics on this podcast. Every leader must cultivate a healthy organizational culture so the employees will see and emulate it. If there is no proper organizational culture in a workplace, you can expect lots of negativity and other issues to spring forth. Key podcast moments with timestamps [1:07]- Definition of organ...

In today’s episode, I have Brandi Bernoskie, a speaker and chief executive officer of Alchemy and Aim. We discuss topics ranging from her evolution to bits of advice for people starting with a website and include leadership styles and nuggets for leaders, among other things. It's a conversation you don't want to miss. Brandi Bernoskie is a speaker, strategist, and the founder of Alchemy and Aim, a brand involved in building excellent websites to support their clients. Brandi is a visionary that ...

Remote leadership has been around for awhile but not everyone has been a believer, let alone, a practicer. When the pandemic hit, most of us were not really given a choice about remote leadership. Those of use who have already led teams remotely in the past or who were already leading remotely definitely had a leg up when things went to hell fast in 2020. The pandemic has undoubtedly changed the way we do business and work forever which means it changes our management as well. In my opinion, rem...

Welcome to a quick Motivation Monday episode and Happy Memorial Day! I wanted to take a moment to honor those who have served. Thank you and I hope all of you have had some time to spend with your loved ones. This is a quick catch up episode about the MaYapinion™ Podcast and how we will be releasing episodes on Monday's only moving forward. But, don't worry, we will still have amazing women in leadership on the show. We are busy women so I decided that Motivation Monday was probably enough to ki...

The last year was undoubtedly a shock for everyone across the globe. As a leader, you would have to be a blind one, let alone, an inefficient one not to address the affect the pandemic had on the world. What does all this mean for leadership though? Some leaders may scrambling still to think about the future of their company, stakeholders, financials, and even, what does it mean for their own position? But in my opinion, the real question for true leaders now is what does that mean for the futur...

Welcome back to Women for Women Wednesday where I am joined by the one and only, Sheena Yap Chan. (No, really, she is the one and only). Sheena Yap Chan is a Keynote Speaker, coach and author on building self confidence. She is also the founder and host of the award winning podcast called The Tao of Self Confidence where she interviews Asian women about their inner journey to self confidence. Sheena says what makes her a leader is "Leading by example and constantly showing up even if it scary." ...

The last pillar of emotional intelligence is social skills or what some refer to as relationship management. In my opinion, I don’t think you need to be a particularly social individual to be a great leader, but you do need to have strong social skills to be an effective leader. That’s also the opinion of many leadership experts and why we find social skills as the final and four pillar of emotional intelligence. But, what does it mean to have social skills? I think sometimes we believe when thi...

Welcome to another exciting episode of Women for Women Wednesday. This week, I have Dr. Katrina Burrus (yes, she is also Swiss and into leadership) on the podcast. What does she do? Well in her own words, "I help transform Brilliant Jerks into Inspiring Leaders as well as help Leaders to Fast-Track to the C-Suite and Beyond." Need I say more? Among her many accomplishments, Katrina is the CEO/founder of Excellent Executive Coaching. She is a keynote speaker (which is obvious on the podcast) and ...

Once you have self-awareness and the ability to self-manage, the third pillar of social awareness naturally comes up in emotional intelligence and leadership. In my opinion, I think this evolution flows perfectly because you work on being self-aware, self-managing, and now, you look to your surroundings to learn about your social awareness. So, what does social awareness mean? Social awareness means “the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others, including those from diverse b...

It's an exciting Women for Women Wednesday here on MaYapinion as I sit down with Nichole and Sarah from Netflix's hit show, Marriage or Mortgage? Both of these incredible women are leaders in their industry and I could not wait to sit down and chat with them. Nichole is passionate about investing in a home and beginning to make memories with the right financial start. She has had the big wedding in the past and she is much more practical now. That's what makes her such a fantastic realtor. Sarah...

The second pillar in emotional intelligence is self-management. When I hear that term, it personally makes me feel like “can you keep it together?” or “how emotionally mature are you”? And, that’s actually what it does mean in some regards. The exact definition of self-management is “management of or by oneself; the taking of responsibility for one's own behavior and well-being.” But, we are diving a bit deeper here and looking at in regards to emotional intelligence. There are a few components ...

Welcome back to Motivation Monday! Many people believe that self-awareness is the foundation for emotional intelligence. I think it is not only the foundation for EQ but also, it’s essentially the ability to truly know yourself as an individual and a leader. In my opinion, it seems that we all like to believe that we are self-aware but are we really? Well, there was a study done about this exact topic pertaining to leadership. When asking leaders if they believed if they were self-aware over 90%...

Welcome back to another great episode of Women for Women Wednesday! This week, I am joined by Kerry Guard, COO of MKG Marketing. We talk about a lot of leadership topics but we specifically get right into remote teams. Kerry built her business with her business partner on the basis of having a remote team, and her team is still remote ten years later. She was truly cutting edge in my opinion. She talks about how you can maintain a successful work culture while continuing to be productive and gro...

Welcome back to Motivation Monday! I am kicking off my new series talking about Emotional Intelligence. In my opinion, empathy is the water that gives life to leadership, but emotional intelligence is the food that gives growth to leadership. So, it's only appropriate that we talk about emotional intelligence next. In this episode, I define what emotional intelligence actually is and why it is important in leadership. I also talk about the four pillars of emotional intelligence as we will be dis...

We are back with another incredible and inspiring guest. She's another Atlantan but she's originally from South Africa, Kim Normand Dobrin! Kim has an incredible background with so many accomplishments. As most of you know, I am extremely passionate about non-profit work and so is Kim. Join me in this episode as Kim shares her journey and successes and talks about her current passion, Free the Mind Co. You'll also have to have some compassion for me on this episode... I am dog mom and they were ...

Servant Leadership is a term that is hot right now in the leadership space and thrown around a lot. However, I find it quite interesting that there is a lot of confusion about what it really means. We talk about this term often and the importance of Servant Leadership. Why is servant leadership important? And what does servant leadership actually mean? Well, by definition, servant leadership “is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organization ...

I am joined this week with another inspiring woman, Tal from "Tal's Tips." It is the perfect week to feature Tal as I was on her own podcast talking about my tips and I had to have her on MaYapinion to hear her story and her opinions, of course. Tal's story is interesting as she has just started her podcast in late 2020 and is currently building her brand quickly while continuing to work fulltime. I hope this story is inspiring to all of you who are thinking about starting that business, side hu...