The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast

Liz Jolley
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The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast is for capable, successful women who are tired of feeling overwhelmed, resentful, guilty, or like they are reacting all day. Hosted by Liz Jolley, founder of The School of Courage, this show helps women leaders and working moms create space, reclaim their power, and become grounded in the life they worked so hard to build. Because you can be a great leader and a great mom without losing yourself in the process.

  1. 5d ago

    129 Why I Can’t Make Myself Care About Work Anymore

    Free webinar: Stop Hating Your Job — Thursday, November 5, at noon Central. Get your seat: ⁠https://lizjolley.com/work⁠ You used to care about your job. You used to feel motivated. And now you're thinking, “I just can't make myself care about work anymore.” What changed? Maybe your boss stopped recognizing your contributions. Maybe you didn't get the promotion you wanted. Maybe the company changed direction, and you're tired of going along with it. But what happens when you start waiting for the company to give you a reason to care? In Episode 129 of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, leadership coach Liz Jolley explores why motivation at work comes and goes, and how relying on your boss, company, or coworkers to make you feel motivated can leave you frustrated and powerless. Through a real corporate story, an early-morning vacation analogy, and examples from Serena Williams and Dolly Parton, Liz challenges the belief that you need to feel motivated before you can take action. You'll learn why getting paid, having health insurance, solving complex problems, or working with people you love can all be compelling reasons to show up—even when you're not particularly excited about your job. And you'll leave with one question to ask yourself the next time you're sitting in the parking lot dreading work. You pulled into this parking lot for a reason. Ask yourself why. Free webinar: Stop Hating Your Job — Thursday, November 5, at noon Central. Get your seat: https://lizjolley.com/work Liz Jolley is the founder of The School of Courage™, where she helps high-achieving women and working moms feel more grounded at work and home.

    129 Why I Can’t Make Myself Care About Work Anymore

  2. Oct 19

    128 Is Venting About Work Making You Feel Worse?

    You go to dinner with friends, vent about work, and everyone understands. So why do you leave feeling even more discouraged? Venting about work can leave you feeling worse when the conversation repeatedly reinforces thoughts like “This place is toxic” and “It has never been so bad.” Those sentences can feel like facts—and we often don’t notice how believing them affects our mood, our relationships, and how we show up at work. In Episode 128 of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, leadership coach Liz Jolley helps you check your mindset and recognize when you’ve slipped into a negative thought spiral. You’ll explore:• How to separate workplace circumstances from your opinions about them.• What repeating these two thoughts may be creating in your daily life.• Who you would be—and what you might accomplish—without those thoughts.• How to notice things you sincerely appreciate while still addressing real problems. You can acknowledge difficult workplace conditions, make decisions about your career, and pay attention to the stories you carry into every conversation. Free performance review sessions: There are two weeks left to sign up for a free 45-minute session with Liz. Bring your draft or brainstorm together to identify your contributions and communicate the value of your work. Book at https://lizjolley.com/performance-review Liz Jolley is the founder of The School of Courage™ and a former corporate innovation and culture leader. She helps working moms feel grounded at work and at home without needing their jobs—or their entire lives—to change first. Want to stop hating your job? check out the next webinar. https://lizjolley.com/stop-hating-your-job

    128 Is Venting About Work Making You Feel Worse?

  3. Oct 12

    127 Dreading Your Performance Review? Here’s Where to Start

    “Ugh. I have to write my performance summary.” Sign up to book your session: https://lizjolley.com/performance-review You open the document, stare at the blinking cursor, and suddenly cannot remember anything you did all year. Or you begin typing about how you “leveraged cross-functional relationships” and “optimized stakeholder engagement”—then read it back and wonder what any of it actually means. In Episode 127 of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, Liz Jolley shares four questions that help you write a stronger year-end performance review self-assessment: 1. What did I actually do?2. So what?3. What made it hard?4. What can I do now that I could not do—or could not do as well—a year ago? You will learn how to remember the work you completed, show what changed because of your contribution, explain the complexity you navigated, and name the leadership capabilities you can carry into your next project, promotion conversation, job interview, or career decision. Your performance summary matters, but it is not a final verdict on your value or your career. It is one document that helps tell the story of your year. Want personalized help? Liz is offering a limited number of free 45-minute Performance Review Writing Sessions. Bring your draft, a rough list, or nothing at all. Reserve your session: https://lizjolley.com/performance-review Liz Jolley is the founder of The School of Courage™ and host of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast.

    127 Dreading Your Performance Review? Here’s Where to Start

  4. Oct 5

    126 Is Work Crushing Your Mental Health? How to Stop Feeling Powerless at Work

    Stop Hating Your Job workshop: ⁠https://lizjolley.com/stop-hating-your-job⁠ Your boss asks you to rework the numbers, presentation, or model for what feels like the twelfth time. You spend hours doing the work, but they barely acknowledge it—or immediately ask for another version. You think, “I cannot keep doing this. They don’t value me. They don’t care.” In Episode 126 of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, Liz Jolley explores what happens when work feels like it is crushing your mental health. You’ll learn how workplace stress, burnout, a difficult boss, and repeated requests can leave you feeling trapped, powerless, and unsure whether you should stay or leave. Liz teaches you how to use The Power of Creating Space™ to pause between what happens at work and how you respond. This isn’t about excusing poor leadership, pretending everything is fine, or forcing yourself to think positively. It’s about recognizing the thoughts driving your emotional reaction, asking what else could be true, and deciding how you want to show up. If you’re tired of letting work control your mood, your evenings, and your mental health, sign up for Liz’s free Stop Hating Your Job workshop: https://lizjolley.com/stop-hating-your-job Liz Jolley is the founder of The School of Courage™ and host of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast. She helps high-achieving women stop reacting on default, create more space, and become their Grounded Self™ at work, at home, and within.

    126 Is Work Crushing Your Mental Health? How to Stop Feeling Powerless at Work

  5. Sep 28

    125 What Do I Do When I've Lost Respect for My Boss?

    Join this week's webinar on How To Stop Hating Your Job Webinar HERE https://lizjolley.com/stop-hating-your-job What do you do when you have lost respect for your boss? Maybe your manager changes direction, avoids decisions, gives vague instructions, or seems disconnected from the work. Before long, every meeting, email, and request becomes more evidence that this person should never have been promoted. In Episode 125 of The Great Leader Great Mom Podcast, Liz Jolley explains why spending the day judging your boss can drain your energy and change how you lead. She shares her experience working for a leader nobody wanted to join, and shows how to stay grounded, speak with more intention, and respect yourself even when you disagree with the person in charge. This episode answers a practical leadership question: How can I work for a boss I do not respect without letting their behavior ruin my day? You will learn how to separate your boss's choices from your own, notice when frustration is shaping your behavior, and decide who you want to be in the room. Liz Jolley is the founder of The School of Courage and host of The Great Leader Great Mom Podcast. Through The School of Courage, she helps women leaders navigate career dissatisfaction, difficult workplace relationships, and the decisions that shape how they work and lead.

    125 What Do I Do When I've Lost Respect for My Boss?

  6. Sep 21

    124 When You’ve Had a Terrible, Awful, No-Good, Very Bad Day

    Why does one difficult day sometimes make your entire life feel wrong? Your child gets sick. A coworker criticizes your presentation. Your boss disappoints you. Your spouse leaves one more shoe in the hallway. Suddenly, your brain decides you’re unsupported, overwhelmed, and failing at everything. In this episode of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, leadership coach Liz Jolley examines the hidden belief underneath much of our suffering: “If I were doing everything right, my life wouldn’t be this hard.” Liz explains: Why good decisions don’t guarantee comfortable outcomesWhat it means to accept that life is 50-50How your interpretation of a circumstance creates your emotional responseThe difference between allowing negative emotion and becoming powerless inside itByron Katie’s concept of “my business, your business, and God’s business”How to return to what you can think, feel, do, and decide nextThis is not an invitation to ignore a harmful boss, tolerate an unsupportive relationship, or pretend everything is wonderful. It is a way to experience disappointment, frustration, and sadness without waiting for the entire world to change before you can feel grounded again. Learn more about Liz Jolley and The School of Courage™ at https://lizjolley.com.

    124 When You’ve Had a Terrible, Awful, No-Good, Very Bad Day

  7. Sep 14

    123 I Don’t Want My Boss’s Job. So What Am I Working Toward?

    What should you do when everyone believes you are ready for a bigger leadership role—but you aren’t sure you actually want it? You may be completely capable of doing your boss’s job. But that doesn’t mean the title, increased responsibility, long hours, travel, or reduced flexibility belong in the life you want to create. In Episode 123 of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, Liz Jolley explores the conflict many successful women and working moms experience when career advancement looks impressive—but may require tradeoffs they no longer want to make. Liz shares the story of a senior leader encouraging her to accept an intense, always-on position as preparation for moving higher in the company. Although Liz knew she could do the job, she also knew the cost wasn’t right for her while her children were young. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why being capable of doing a job doesn’t mean you must choose it How titles and promotions become proof of our value and leadership potential Why disappointing a boss or mentor can feel so difficult How to separate what you want from what others think you should want Why staying in your current role doesn’t mean you have stopped growing How to identify the career tradeoffs you are—and are not—willing to make Whether you want the executive role, greater flexibility, more meaningful work, or more time with your family, courage means knowing what matters to you and choosing it intentionally. Stop disappointing yourself simply because you are afraid of disappointing someone else. Learn more about The School of Courage™ and Liz Jolley’s leadership coaching for working moms:https://lizjolley.com/membership

    123 I Don’t Want My Boss’s Job. So What Am I Working Toward?

  8. Sep 7

    122 Tired of Doing More With Less? How to Stop Drowning in the Work

    What do you do when your company expects you to keep doing more with less—fewer people, the same workload, and no clear explanation of what should actually stop? If your first question is, “How am I supposed to get all of this done?” Liz Jolley wants you to ask a different one. In this episode of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, Liz explains why trying to complete everything on an overloaded list can keep capable, high-performing women stuck in overwhelm. Instead, she walks through her Power Question Framework™ to help you define what success actually looks like, identify how you’ll know you’re making progress, and uncover what is making success harder than it needs to be. You’ll learn how to: ·      question whether every task has actually earned a place on your list ·      define what success looks like when priorities and resources have changed ·      identify work that consumes time without changing a decision or meaningful outcome ·      surface barriers instead of silently absorbing more work ·      talk with your boss about priorities and tradeoffs from a grounded, strategic position ·      stop treating an impossible workload like a personal failure to execute If you’ve been working through lunch, taking work home, thinking about your job in the shower, or quietly wondering whether quitting is the only way to breathe again, this episode gives you a different place to start. The goal isn’t to magically become better at doing everything. It’s to get clear about what actually matters now. Learn more about Liz Jolley and The School of Courage™ at LizJolley.com/membership.

    122 Tired of Doing More With Less? How to Stop Drowning in the Work
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The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast is for capable, successful women who are tired of feeling overwhelmed, resentful, guilty, or like they are reacting all day. Hosted by Liz Jolley, founder of The School of Courage, this show helps women leaders and working moms create space, reclaim their power, and become grounded in the life they worked so hard to build. Because you can be a great leader and a great mom without losing yourself in the process.

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