It can seem like a noisy world out there. With all the social media posts and content channels like blogs and podcasts, it can feel like everybody’s out there shouting at the top of their lungs and nobody’s actually listening. But as I will keep repeating: You have something valuable to say. 

Now that you’ve found and owned your story, it’s time to and share and spread it. If you want to know how to have people actually listen and provide them with something valuable to take away from what you share, then this is the episode for you!

Tune in to this episode for the five steps to share and spread your story:

1. Define your dream listener
2. You get what you give
3. Consistency is key
4. Create a game plan
5. Build a toolkit

The resources mentioned:

• Your guide to finding & owning your story
• 7 things to ask yourself before you launch a podcast to grow your business
• Collaborate with me as a podcast strategist & coach

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“Through failure, you realize what other strengths you have.”

In theory, we all know that we should look beyond official credentials and what’s on paper and place more value on someone’s talents and passions. Yet reality rarely works that way. That’s why Cilia Kanellopoulos is a true leading rebel: She knows from personal experience how you have to get scrappy to effect the change you want, which is why she’s all about paying it forward to others and giving a chance to the underdogs. And in the work she did with the women’s empowerment impact accelerator F-LANE, she experienced time and again how that strategy pays off for everyone!

Tune in to this episode to hear from Cilia about:

• Taking a chance on a new direction
• Speaking up when you have a different opinion
• Learning the power of saying no
• Deciding which advice to take – and not to take
• How to guide feedback to make it constructive
• The power of “sorry, not sorry”
• The importance of paying it forward and learning from everyone
• Hidden gems creating social tech startups that have a female empowerment
• The rewards in taking risks

Cilia’s recommended resources:

• The Silent Rise of the Female Driven Economy by Danielle Kayembe
• The Story of a Fuck Off Fund by Paulette Perhach
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Daughter by Puno Selesho
• THR Comedy Actresses Roundtable
• How to translate a joke by Emi Mahmoud

About Cilia Kanellopoulos

Cilia is a tech enthusiast and female empowerment specialist, ever since she started working in Berlin. Through her work, she seeks to shed light on how digital technologies can transform industries, governments, and societies, and empower people, especially women. Her passion lies in bringing more women into the spotlight and creating opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds, while volunteering for FidAR, an initiative for more women on boards.

In her previous role, she worked as Head of Social Innovation at the Vodafone Institute, where she was charged with developing programmes and events for the Institute, and was running the impact accelerator F-LANE – an international programme that supports early stage social tech ventures that have a female empowerment focus. As of September 2019, she has joined the Vodafone Group as Global Innovation Lead, where she is helping drive the global innovation agenda through collaboration with startups and scale ups while sourcing for emerging tech solutions that can solve business problems.

Learn more about Cilia: Twitter | Gal Talks Tech | Vodafone Institute | F-LANE

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“There is no right or wrong speed. Your journey is highly individual.”

With 40% of Americans having a side hustle, it’s safe to say that side hustles are no longer a trend, but a reality for many! Often though, we see them as a quick stepping stone to leaving our job and diving in fulltime to entrepreneurship. But that’s not necessarily always the right path! Meet Erica Liu Williams, a Silicon Valley techie-turned-food-entrepreneur and founder of gr8nola. That turning moment though took her almost 5 years – after she had already nabbed a spot as a supplier for Google. And Erica doesn’t regret waiting – just the opposite, she credits much of her success to keeping gr8nola a side hustle for longer than most would have.

Tune in to this episode to hear from Erica about:

• Why quitting her swimming career despite being an Olympic Trials swimmer was an important rebel move for her
• Going against the grain of her culture 
• Switching jobs while growing her side hustle
• How having a job kept her patient when getting nos at the beginning of her business
• How being time-constrained keeps you focused on the priorities
• Being transparent with your boss about your side hustle
• Knowing where you get your energy inspiration from and setting actionable goals
• How network leads not only to support & knowledge but to unexpected opportunities
• Identifying as a girlboss
• How living your values gives you the drive and passion to go

Erica’s recommended resources:

• How I Built This with Guy Raz Podcast
• The Accidental Creative Podcast

About Erica Liu Williams

Erica Liu Williams is a former Olympic Trials swimmer and Silicon Valley techie-turned-food-entrepreneur. She came up with the idea for gr8nola by accident when she was searching for a delicious, yet healthy snack for a post-Super Bowl “cleanse” she and her NFL hubby do each year. Stuck with few options, she created her granola recipe using clean ingredients and superfoods. Her granola was such a hit that she created a side business out of it in 2013, selling gr8nola out of her home at her local farmers market while working a full time tech job. She finally took the pling 4.5 years later and today, she supplies some of the largest tech companies like Google, Twitter, Linkedin, Dropbox, Microsoft, Slack and more. Her granola is are sold on gr8nola.com and Amazon Prime.

Learn more about Erica: Gr8nola | Gr8nola on Amazon

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There are 700k podcasts already out there, with almost 160k being launched in 2018 alone. Yeah, that can make you feel like a little fish in a big pond! But that doesn’t mean podcasting has reached its peak as some have been saying. Sure, it’s going more mainstream now, with more and more people at least knowing what a podcast is.

But that just means there’s a bigger audience out there! Actually, the more people listen to podcasts, the more podcasts they listen to: On average one person listens to seven podcasts. And as you know – since you’re a podcast listener – podcasts are the best way to connect on a human level. And that’s key for your business too – it’s about building up that whole “know, like, and trust” factor.

So If you’re a solopreneur – freelancer, coach, consultant – or a business thinking about launching a podcast to grow your business, this episode is for you! Because look, while I’m 110% convinced of the power of podcasting, that doesn’t mean that launching one is the right thing for everyone.

In this episode, I’ll dive into the 7 things to ask yourself before you decide to launch a podcast to grow your business:

1. The stage your business is in
2. Your audience size
3. How much time you have
4. Your available headspace
5. How you like to communicate
6. Your commitment
7. What your goals look like

Take the free quiz to find out if a podcast is the right next step for your business

I’ve also got a special surprise for you: I actually created a handy dandy quiz that covers the seven areas I talked about to help you get a quick answer to whether you should launch a podcast to grow your business! Take the free quiz now to not only find out if podcasting is the right next step for you, but to also get my top tip for the stage you’re currently at:

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If you want some more stats about podcasting, here the articles I reference:

• Podcast Statistics (2019) – [Infographic]
• Overwhelmed by the sheer number of podcasts? It’s not just you.

“Your brain is either your biggest enemy or your biggest friend.”

Barbara Lampl is a “badass with a big heart” as her friends call her. And she’s not just a badass in business as a self-made entrepreneur, she’s also a badass in life. For a long time, she says she didn’t quite feel human. When she was 30 the explanation came: she is on the autism spectrum. Today, Barbara is a neurodiversity role model that champions strength in diversity, confidence in yourself, and embracing failure.

Tune in to this episode to hear from Barbara about:

• Why she decided to combine psychology and mathematics
• What older role models taught her about not caring about what other people think
• What gymnastics and mathematics taught her about failure
• Burning half a million with one of her first companies
• The danger of connecting your self worth with your roles and work
• The intersection of science with intuition and spirituality
• Being a neurodiversity role model

Barbara’s recommended resources:

• Connecting with your core through yoga or meditation
• Writing about the end of the year like you’re telling someone about what you’ve achieved. Start off with “2019 was the best year of my life. You won’t believe what happened … ”
• Morten T. Hansen’s books around productivity
• Fiction books by russian authors like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Bulgagov
• Finding your tribe: Don’t be afraid to reach out to people on social media!

About Barbara Lampl

Barbara Lampl is not only a successful self-made entrepreneur and kickass business woman, she is a speaker, mentor, lecturer, a result junkie, and a hacker with passion. With her company Empathic Business, she stands for a business and life as authentic and individual as your signature and so helps you to understand your sales by understanding your customers. Barbara empowers others by mentoring fintech startups, giving lectures at the Hochschule Fresenius, and bringing women together as head of the German Lean In circle. She is an empathetic hacker, who wants to understand and enable other people to succeed and to gain trust and control over themselves.

Learn more about Barbara: Empathic Business | Facebook | Instagram

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“What looks like a failure to me, looks like a success to you.”

When we look around, we can often feel like everyone is ahead of us. Be it that colleague that just got a promotion we’ve wanted for years, that friend that is killing it in her business, or that younger sibling that is getting married first. But as serial entrepreneur Anne Cocquyt says, comparison is the best recipe for unhappiness. Our failures can look like success to someone else and vice versa. So the key is defining for yourself what success looks like to YOU.

Tune in to this episode to hear from Anne about:

• How to use “you can’t” as a motivator
• Travel as the perfect way to learn how to lean in
• How to hone in and follow your inner compass
• What entrepreneurial failure taught her about being humble
• How getting married two months after meeting her husband taught her how to trust her instincts
• The importance of female networks
• Why thinking about the worst outcome actually gives you courage
• The importance of fighting for your values

Anne’s recommended resources:

• Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
• Piloting Your Life with Terri Hanson Mead
• Advice to my younger me with Sara Holtz

About Anne Cocquyt

Anne Cocquyt is a serial entrepreneur, corporate and non-profit leader with a passion for innovation and execution across a broad range of projects, products and technologies. She leads startups, communities and a non-profit organization focused on closing the gender gap for female entrepreneurs and women in leadership roles in technology. She pioneered the first startup challenge in the healthtech space and recently launched the first advocacy study for women in product to discuss solutions to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship and corporations at the World Economic Forum. She is the founder of the GUILD, an AI-powered networking platform providing women with actionable networking connections. Anne mentors and advises startups in digital health, advises UNBOXD, a STEM publication, invests in social impact startups and speaks at industry events and conferences.

Learn more about Anne: Website | GUILD | LinkedIn | Twitter

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When you think of storytelling, what comes to mind? Standing on a stage? Sitting around a campfire? Those are totes arenas where stories are told, but when it comes to telling our own, we often jump ahead of the process, wanting the tactics and tools to share and spread our story.

Don’t get me wrong – that’s super important too! And there’ll be an episode on that on the Leading Rebels podcast too. But before we get there, here’s the most important step: finding and owning the stories you want to tell.

Tune in to this episode to hear about:

• Connecting your values & passions with a story
• The importance of looking at the why behind past achievements
• How others can highlight things you don’t see
• What thinking like your biggest cheerleader can do
• Why finding your agency matters
• The magic power of the third person

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“I decided not to be a victim. I decided to take my life in my hands.”

Sharing stories of our achievements or how we actively turned something around can already be a challenge for some of us. But stories of failures? Of things that happened to us? Those are even harder. Which is why Elisabeth Ippel is such an inspiration. After being banned from the US, even spending one night in jail, she decided to not see herself as the victim of her story, but to redefine and own it.

Tune in to this episode to hear from Elisabeth about:

• Taking the leap without having your next step planned out
• Not burning bridges when transitioning
• How liberating it is to downsize
• Finding your way back to what your heart wants
• Getting off the treadmill of life
• Reframing stories to see your role and the positive in them
• How freeing standing up for yourself is

Elisabeth’s recommended resources:

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R. Doty
• Life Is Now
• Fried Green Tomatoes

About Elisabeth Ippel

Elisabeth is the founder and owner of the PR agency actioncommunication. Elisabeth is originally German and grew up in Tanzania, Africa. Since her twenties, she has lived in different parts of the world like the UK, Switzerland, Italy, and Hawaii. She is the voice for innovative and daring startups and projects worldwide. Elisabeth has over 10 years experiences in the corporate communication – through her various positions in big corporations as well as her involvement with world-known projects like the first solar plane which flew around the world. Elisabeth is a strong believer in infinite possibilities and in following your heart’s desire. When being banned from entering the US, she turned the situation around and started to take this setback as a chance to create her life as she had always wished for: Elisabeth married the love of her life (who lives part-time in Hawaii), she sold all her belongings, and lives in her van or in furnished houses all around the world with her 4 cats. Right now she is in Portugal, near the ocean, where she learns to surf and offers yoga sessions as well as yoga retreats, while supporting startups with their communications worldwide. Elisabeth is a trained chakra healer, reiki therapist, and yoga coach. Her aim is to help humans to change their life around so that they live their full potential by creating their own life. Elisabeth is available for online life coach sessions. Or you dive into the magic of a week of yoga, meditation, and visualization in Portugal or South of Italy with her.

Learn more about Elisabeth: actioncommunication | Medium | Instagram

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“This is actually not a vacation, this is my life.”

Traveling the world while working on your laptop from anywhere, from the beach to the city. Sounds like a dream, right? It’s a dream Meesen Brown made come true for herself, becoming a bona fide digital nomad. She quickly realized though that 1) you want and need to stay in a place longer than a week to really experience local culture and 2) the logistics of finding a new home, workplace, and fitness studio can get old fast. She decided to create the perfect solution for both and went from digital nomad to being a nomad founder, bringing the Behere platform to life. The one thing travel, being a digital nomad, and founder have most taught Meesen? Confidence.

Tune in to this episode to hear from Meesen about:

• Moving across the world
• Having the confidence to give up a permanent home
• How to be productive when traveling
• Making new friends and keeping old ones
• Traveling and working with your partner
• Founding a business without a HQ

Meesen’s recommended resources:

• TED talks (Meesen’s tip: Listen on 1.5 speed!)
• How I Built This with Guy Raz
• Grit by Angela Duckworth
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

About Meesen Brown

Meesen Brown is the cofounder and CEO of Behere, an all in one platform for women to find and book private apartments, workspaces and fitness studios, in cities around the world. She’s lived in over 10 countries and knows new places and experiences fuel inspiration and creativity.

 

Learn more about Meesen: Behere | Behere’s Instagram | Meesen’s Instagram

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Define what success looks like for you.

Be authentic. Go off the beaten path. Define what success looks like for you. That all sounds awesomesauce, doesn’t it! But what does working and living on your own terms actually look like in practice? If you’ve been wondering that too, then the Leading Rebels podcast is here to offer some answers.

I launched the podcast over two years ago now when I became the Head of Marketing at a tech startup where there were few women in leadership. I had many questions about being a female leader that I heard others wondering about as well. Being a journalist and storyteller, I decided to go out to get answers – and take you along for the ride!

Since then, I left that job to go out on my own – co-founding Germany’s first community club & coworking space for women in Berlin, CoWomen, and helping others to get heard as a podcasting & marketing consultant. I deeply believe everyone has something valuable to say.

I also noticed that a common theme throughout the first two seasons of the podcast was having the confidence to find your authentic style, not just in leadership, but in life & work generally – to actually be a rebel.

That’s why the podcast has now evolved right along with me: In this third season of the Leading Rebels podcast, launching on July 18th, you’ll hear inspiring interviews with women walking the talk. From fighting for diversity to working and traveling the world as a digital nomad, these badass ladies have broken free from doing what’s expected of them and instead are following their inner compass.

I don’t want to spoil what’s coming up too much, but tune in to the season 3 trailer to hear:

• Some of the truth bombs the kickass rebels in the upcoming season are dropping
• My own three rebel moves that got me to where I am today
• About an exciting motivational goodie I created for you to celebrate the launch!

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We make an average of 35,000 choices per day - crazy, right? And while some of those might be smaller, like what to have for lunch, leaders often have to make split-second decisions on some pretty big things. So how can we start making better decisions? Neuroscience consultant and mindset change & mindfulness coach Dr. Francesca Mega has a suggestion: Intuition. Tune in to this episode to hear Dr. Francesca discuss: - Why combining the body and mind is integral to making good decisions - Why intuition doesn’t deserve the bad rep it has - How we rationalize intuitive decisions after the fact - What to do to tune into your intuition - How to help your team use intuition-based decision making Learn more & see Dr. Francesca’s recommended resources at www.leadingrebels.com/27 More about Dr. Francesca: www.embodiedintuition.net | www.instagram.com/embodiedintuition | www.facebook.com/embodiedintuition | www.linkedin.com/in/dr-francesca-mega --- Title music: I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque