42 min

Being the Leader You Were Meant to Be with Ashley Cox Good Enough For Now

    • Self-Improvement

In this episode of Good Enough for Now, Ashley Cox, a leadership coach and entrepreneur, shares her insights on building and sustaining a successful business by hiring and developing teams. With a mission to help more women become leaders and creating jobs for moms who can excel at home and at work, Ashley leans on her own personal experiences around self-awareness, negative feedback, perfectionism, personal development, and more.
 
Ashley believes everyone can be a leader: in their family, at church, in their community, and at work, and that women are their own worst enemy when it comes to hiring because they wait too long to take action. In this episode, we talk about intentional leadership, why trust is a big part of leadership, what accountability really means, and how to make sure that everyone you work with has their voice heard.
 
Listen in to hear more and to see what a true ray of sunshine Ashley is.
  What We Cover In This Episode:  
The challenges women face in stepping into leadership roles, including confidence and conditioning to be nice.
The negative stories we tell ourselves about our ability to lead and why everyone is a leader.
How to lead with intention, understanding your core values, and holding yourself and your team accountable to create a culture where teams thrive.
The benefits of cultivating self-awareness and self-love to make better hiring decisions and communicate honestly with your team.
How to view feedback as a two-way street instead of something negative we have to do.
Ashley’s mission to get more women into leadership roles and why it’s so important.
How perfectionism can be both good and bad, and why it's important to embrace imperfection to foster creativity, growth, and innovation.
 
Resources:  
Normalize Mental Health, Forge Habits of Hope with Lindsay Recknell
SproutHR
Connect with Ashley on LinkedIn
Follow SproutHR on Instagram
Follow SproutHR on Facebook
 
About Ashley Cox: Ashley Cox, PHR, SHRM-CP is the Founder and CEO of SproutHR, a boutique HR consulting firm that educates and empowers women-owned businesses on how to hire and lead profitable, sustainable, impactful teams with confidence, ease, and fun.
 
At SproutHR, Ashley and her team focus on values-based hiring, compassionate and intentional leadership, and amplifying impact. With over 16 years of experience as a certified HR professional, Ashley is also a subject matter expert, speaker, podcast host of The Impact Ripple, and author of the book, Transform Your Stories.

In this episode of Good Enough for Now, Ashley Cox, a leadership coach and entrepreneur, shares her insights on building and sustaining a successful business by hiring and developing teams. With a mission to help more women become leaders and creating jobs for moms who can excel at home and at work, Ashley leans on her own personal experiences around self-awareness, negative feedback, perfectionism, personal development, and more.
 
Ashley believes everyone can be a leader: in their family, at church, in their community, and at work, and that women are their own worst enemy when it comes to hiring because they wait too long to take action. In this episode, we talk about intentional leadership, why trust is a big part of leadership, what accountability really means, and how to make sure that everyone you work with has their voice heard.
 
Listen in to hear more and to see what a true ray of sunshine Ashley is.
  What We Cover In This Episode:  
The challenges women face in stepping into leadership roles, including confidence and conditioning to be nice.
The negative stories we tell ourselves about our ability to lead and why everyone is a leader.
How to lead with intention, understanding your core values, and holding yourself and your team accountable to create a culture where teams thrive.
The benefits of cultivating self-awareness and self-love to make better hiring decisions and communicate honestly with your team.
How to view feedback as a two-way street instead of something negative we have to do.
Ashley’s mission to get more women into leadership roles and why it’s so important.
How perfectionism can be both good and bad, and why it's important to embrace imperfection to foster creativity, growth, and innovation.
 
Resources:  
Normalize Mental Health, Forge Habits of Hope with Lindsay Recknell
SproutHR
Connect with Ashley on LinkedIn
Follow SproutHR on Instagram
Follow SproutHR on Facebook
 
About Ashley Cox: Ashley Cox, PHR, SHRM-CP is the Founder and CEO of SproutHR, a boutique HR consulting firm that educates and empowers women-owned businesses on how to hire and lead profitable, sustainable, impactful teams with confidence, ease, and fun.
 
At SproutHR, Ashley and her team focus on values-based hiring, compassionate and intentional leadership, and amplifying impact. With over 16 years of experience as a certified HR professional, Ashley is also a subject matter expert, speaker, podcast host of The Impact Ripple, and author of the book, Transform Your Stories.

42 min