Lead, Inspire, Grow - with Raven Waterman Raven Waterman

If you're a helping professional ready to transition to a business owner, you may question how you do both and uphold the importance of ethics. More and more therapists and social workers are moving into the coaching space and wondering where and how to draw the line between their clinical and non-clinical orientation. Not only is serving the clients important but also remembering to uphold your professional ethics and personal values as a business leader. 
In this week's episode, we sat down with Lee Chaix Mcdonough, founder of Coach With Clarity: a training and education company for life and business coaches. Lee is the author of ACT on Your Business and the Coach With Clarity podcast host. Lee shares her personal experience with career changes and discovering coaching and how she uses her knowledge to help other helping professionals make that switch. We discuss Lee's 3 M's in business success: meaning, mindset, and mindfulness. Lee shares how she has incorporated the core principles of acceptance and commitment into a powerful approach. 
In this episode, you hear how the 3 M's support business leaders:
Meaning: Defining your purpose as a leader and what you believe in within your business. Mindset: Understanding what it means to overcome ourselves as we cope with the fear of failure and success Mindfulness: Learning to be present in the here and now and how that connects to meaning and mindset When things get challenging being a leader, it's essential to think about what is important to you. Starting within and being transparent with yourself is the first step in clarifying your leadership identity and vision. When we marry your talents, skills, values, and purpose, that's where the magic happens. If you're ready to focus on developing and building your leadership skills, visit here to learn more about leadership coaching and working with Raven Waterman.  

There's a lot to love about being a leader. Whether you are stepping up to a leadership role or taking the plunge into being an entrepreneur and running a business, you may be experiencing a mix of nerves and excitement. But then the real work begins, and you may wonder, "why am I doing this to myself." Being a leader is not for the faint of heart. We tackled some common leadership challenges of burnout and compassion fatigue in our past few episodes, but leadership can be gratifying.
While leadership can be challenging, it can also provide opportunities to do what you feel passionate about and grow. In this episode, Raven shares some of the highlights of being a business owner and leader. She's discussing how passion, creativity, and even hard work have kept her motivated and inspired.

Sometimes working and putting others first can spread you thin. As helping professionals and caregivers, you can begin to feel like you can’t see the impact of your work, and your professional environment is taking a toll on your emotional availability to others. You can present as disconnected because you are emotionally saturated and overwhelmed.
In this episode, we discuss compassion fatigue and acknowledgment of how you function as a professional to serve others and take some time for yourself. Raven discusses her own experience as a business owner and the consciousness of prioritizing change in her work habits and seeking support.
What we discuss in this episode:
Importance of acknowledging your work habits Comforting guilt and what that can do for your self-perception How to support your team as a leader/caregiver Why it is essential to be proactive in taking care of yourself Check-in with yourself! What do you need? What support would help me get through this? Figuring things out on your own is not always good as a leader. Recognizing when you need help can allow you to be a support for others that can also experience compassion fatigue/burnout by helping manage workload and having a proactive conversation with the team about how they engage in self-care. To learn more about leadership development and other resources, visit our website.

Let’s discuss burnout and how to combat it before it takes a long-lasting toll. We all have different thresholds of how much we can manage before we are overwhelmed, and feelings of exhaustion arise; sometimes, we are already in that space before we realize it. As a professional, you may carry responsibilities and lose a sense of purpose in your work. That space can signal that you are experiencing burnout.
In this episode, we’re discussing a shared experience, burnout, that many can encounter in their personal and work life as things build up. When reaching burnout, what you experience in different career fields can contribute to depletion in motivation over an extended amount of time and the internalization of others’ issues. While it is essential to show up as a professional, it is also vital to show up for yourself as a person when needed.
We are breaking down:
Defining burnout what factors contribute to it How it presents itself in professional experiences What is compassion fatigue, and how do both co-exist Importance of self-care and what you can do to take care of yourself better When imagining burnout, do you see yourself or other people? Is it time for a change? Sometimes we need to understand ourselves as a machine, and we need to pay attention to what helps us run efficiently, even if that means shutting these down for some time before going into overload.
You do not have to figure it out alone. Visit us here and set up a discovery call to learn more about how coaching might help you combat burnout and thrive in your career.

Leadership doesn't just happen in the boardroom; it occurs in every aspect of our lives. We get the chance to decide how we show up and what we do with our gifts and talents. We can often hit internal, mental roadblocks, like our inner critique or feeling like an imposter that can make the take of personal and professional leadership feel out of reach. So learning to be the C.E.O of your life by taking charge of your mindset can be an essential first step. 
Our guest Martha Ramos joins us to share the challenges and triumphs she has experienced in her life as a Latina in the corporate. She also shares what led her to develop the C.E.O method and how it helps women embrace their power. Martha is a self-described "Dominican- American, former corporate ladder climber turned entrepreneur and cheerleader of women to be, do, and have whatever the hell they want! She is also the host of the Audacious As F*ck Podcast. To learn more about Martha, visit here.
Check out the Leadership Success Path Course here if you're ready to step into your professional brand. The videos, activities, and workbook will give you tools to clarify your skills, talents, goals, values, and mission and control how you show up and how others see you as a leader. The course will help you develop your leadership presence, build confidence, and progress in your career.

If you've ever felt like your career was moving along with the tide, you're not alone. You may be making progress in your career or business goals but still not feeling like you're in the driver's seat. When people focus on their career path and build their leadership brand, they can take control and be proactive in achieving the success they want.  
Raven talks about the leadership journey and a common challenge she sees when working with senior and executive leaders in this episode. Even business owners can struggle with defining themselves as leaders and not just their role in providing a service. Developing leadership and a leadership mindset is not a linear process, and there are always new insights and ways to grow and learn, no matter your leadership level. In this episode, we focus on the seeking phase and how that is a place of opportunity and growth. 
What you'll learn in this episode: 
key steps on the path to defining your leadership what it means to be in the seeking phase of the leadership journey how to tell if you're in the seeking phase  why it's essential to understand where you are on your journey and how that can help you achieve career success Working with an executive leadership coach can help leaders navigate their leadership journey and help them create a clear set of goals, identify critical steps they need to take, and then put that into action.
Contact us here if you want to get support in assessing what phase of your journey you are in and want to learn more about working with Raven one-on-one or the leadership branding program.