Leadership Excellence and Mastery for Women| S04E01

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Hi, how are you? I am so happy to have this time to talk with you today. I'm Chris Plackey. You're listening to the Leadership Is Feminine podcast. And today we're going to kick off a new season talking about you and mastery and leadership and really what it is that helps people like you become exceptional at what you do. Let's get started.

So, hi. Oh, my goodness. So we're coming off of an awesome season, right? Of so many powerful, fun, interesting interviews with so many of my outstanding, fun, interesting, smart clients. And I did that season, as I mentioned, with one really, really important reason in mind, and that was that I know how much powerful wisdom there is in the world that is being tapped into every day in small businesses and touching lives all over the world as a result. But for whatever reason, you know, marketing hashtag, we usually only hear from the voices that everybody else hears from.

And I think that's fine. Like, I think it's awesome to learn from thought leaders and masters in their space. But I also think there is a really important reason why we should be learning from everyday experts, everyday.

Champions who are sitting at a desk somewhere in the middle of the US Making it work. I think it's important to do that because it's more accessible. These folks that we hear from are often more relatable and it's more available to us to see and place ourselves in their circumstance. So we have the ability to look at a doctor in Florida or a veterinarian in Washington and we can say, hey, you know what? She sounds a lot like me. A lot of times people who have incredible wisdom and they have the platform and the microphone to share it across the masses, we lose connection in many ways. And while the lessons are equally valuable.

I always want to hold space for the day to day excellence that I think we're all trying to figure out. And so I like modern, normal, unrecognized experts who are doing it all every day. So I hope you enjoyed the season and I hope you enjoyed learning from and listening to the women that I am so lucky to work with. I have an incredible client portfolio and I'm very proud of who comes into my world and changes me just as much as I hope to impact them. So this season to me is about mastery and becoming more and more excellent in your role as an entrepreneur, leader and team manager. And I have Eleanor Beaton, if you don't follow her. I recommend it to thank for this. And she and I were having a conversation.

Not very long ago and we were Talking about the fact that I, I'm going through a real.

I would say a little bit of a metamorphosis, but in a kind of a really cool way. But, but part of that has been going through just about 10 years.

Of material. 10 years of material that I've created over the course of my business. July of this year will be a 10 year anniversary of me starting my company. And so I started going through just buckets of Dropbox folders. And I'm not embarrassed to say, but maybe a little bit, that it's a mess. It's just a closet with a ton of crap in it. That's how I feel about my Dropbox. So that's my goal, is to get it really cleaned up. And so, you know, I just am opening up files and clicking on it and reading it and, or watching. And there's a lot of videos and a lot of workbooks, worksheets, you know, things I've written. And my first thought process when I started looking at the things that I made five years ago, eight years ago, six years ago, four years ago.

Is how much.

I'm still saying the same thing. And at first I felt badly about it. I was like, are you kidding? Like, I'm still saying the same thing. Like, you can watch a video that I made on dealing with a difficult person and I could have made it yesterday. The tool I teach, the way I teach it, it could have been made yesterday. And at first, like I said, I was making that mean something bad about myself, that I haven't evolved, that I, you know, I'm just beating the same drum. And then I was talking to other people about it and I got very different feedback, which is, no, you're consistent, you're not grabbing the next shiny thing that the frameworks that I developed, to be honest, quite some time ago that I developed out of my own need because I worked as a manager in a startup culture and I needed frameworks. I needed to understand how to do what I was doing in a way that was authentic to myself. And it didn't exist. So I built it. And with every crucible moment, I built something new. And we're going to talk about one of these elements in this season, which is resilience. I really do believe the virtue, the characteristic of successful entrepreneurs. I think that one of the cores that they all share is resilience. And I'm going to talk more about that in an upcoming episode. But I do think that we tend to gain this level of wisdom for ourselves, all of us, and without realizing it, we hold on to it. Now what I think is really cool, now that I've been able to have brain shift about it and bringing it back to Eleanor is she said to me, mastery takes time. And she said, you teach principles, true principles. I don't teach you what's new, I teach you what is. Because there is a simplicity and beauty to managing and leading people that I think has been completely lost in layers and layers and layers of trainings and workbooks and binders and models. And I don't think it's that hard.

I do know what makes it hard is who we bring to managing and leading. What is the vessel that we're using to deliver management and leadership? That's where things get hard, difficult, challenging. It isn't the science of management. It's quite simple. So in this season, I want to talk with you as best I can about what are the simple factors that lead you through the process of achieving mastery as an entrepreneur who also leads and manages a team. Because I really do believe we can boil this down in a way that if you're listening to this and you do feel overwhelmed, burnt out, resentful, frustrated, lost, well, helpless, if any of that is resonating with how things are going in your team, I really do believe we can, through the work that we're going to do here in this season, we can help you resolve it. Because if I can help, you know what's simple, it can clear the deck for you, right? We can cut through all of the layers of complexity that I believe the world has shown you. And when we come back to basic truths, things get easier. And that is ultimately my goal. I've been given this feedback quite a bit in my life actually, that I make things that are complex more simple. And I'm happy to say that hasn't changed. I think this has been, you know, it's interesting that it's my 10 year anniversary and here I am still talking about leadership and management. You know, it's. I just started a leadership coach training here not long ago and it's so refreshing to meet other people who just got bit by this same bug. I mean, we all get bit by these things, right? We all get the dream placed on our heart. We all get kissed with an idea. We all have it, all of us do. I don't know why this is mine, but I'm so honored to be on this journey with so many people because I love watching the powerful ability of a woman once she no longer feels helpless to managing and leading people Once she's no longer helpless to the behaviors and choices of others, once she knows that there's nothing in her business that could happen, that she knows she can't handle. Watching that happen and being witness to women who experience that kind of resolve and knowing and wisdom has been so inspiring for me.

It doesn't seem fair that this is what I do for a living because I, I stand to watch such beautiful things happen for other people. So we're going to talk about how do we become that woman who can be shaken but not thrown and still be authentic and kind and gracious and loving and you know, all the words there that feel good to you, that we don't have to lose ourselves to become her. That version, that is tough. And what if all of that were possible? So we're going to do a few things over this season and I want to clue you in on some changes. So the first change, I don't know if I'd say it's a change, but the first thing that we're doing is we want to actually coach some of you. I would like to do a few coaching calls specific for the podcast. And those coaching calls will be about things that are going on in your team, areas that you feel like you need some true support because you bump your head into it all the time. Like it just. It might not be the same employee, but it keeps being the same issue. I'm going to coach women who are running their own businesses for founders. I'm going to record these calls anonymously so you won't know who the people are that are being interviewed unless they want to share. So if that sounds appealing to you and you would like to have a 10 minute.

Really quick, speed, deep, powerful coaching call with me, I'd invite you to email hello@chrisplacki.com and say, yes, I would like to be coached on the podcast and my team will send you a questionnaire. But you do have to be a female entrepreneur. You do have to be running your own business. And we're doing coaching on leading managing team, not on how do I lose weight or deal with my mother. There's other people who could help you with that, but that's not what we're going to do here. I want to do this because I want all of you to hear. I want you to see behind the curtain. I think for a lot of people who listen to this podcast, you're familiar with coaching, you have experienced it. You might be part of self coaching scholars or another coaching program. You might be a Coach.

I want you all to experience how I coach because I do things a little differently than other coaches. I consider myself both coach and advisor, coach and consultant. I actually toe the line between giving you advice and recommendations and coaching, which if in the traditional coaching world, there is no advice. And I want to show you how I do that. And I know that the people who I coach through this process will be people that will be just like you. So if that's something you'd like to do and you'd like to have a coaching call with me that will be recorded and shared on this podcast. As I mentioned anonymously, we make up all the names, and I like to have fun with that, actually.

I like to make up names that are silly and fun. It brings a little levity to it. Please email. Hello, Hrisplacky. That's P L a c h y.com and it's Kris with a K, y'. All. Can we get that right? Kris K dash R I s not K H R I s. Not C H R I s. Not K not C R I S. Okay, I'm just saying it's hysterical when people type my email, Chris. Hrisplackie.com In the email, they have to type it right? And then they put, hi, Chris, and it's ch.

I'm like, that's funny. So send that to. Hello. The second thing I want to tell you is we're changing things here in this business, and I'm really excited about it, and there will be more to come on that. But I want to let you know ahead of time, we've been doing the how to CEO program for almost two years. We have put several hundred women through the work that we do in how to CEO. It is a game changer. You know, women who go through it will tell you, and it's incredibly robust. We know that you don't have a lot of time, and so that has always been our battle, is how do we get you what I know you need, but do so in a way that sort of moves you through kind of an order of importance. But I know I can't give you everything I need to give you in eight weeks. I just know that's not possible the way that we've been doing it. Now, what's cool about how to CEO and the way that we built it is it was absolutely perfectly designed without intention for the pandemic. Right? We were able to come into the lives of our clients right on their TV screen, right on their computer screen, right on their phone, and get them the help they needed. Like during that two year period, my goodness. Right. We were all just trying to figure out the next two minutes, let alone the next two months. And so I'm so grateful to technology and the resources that were available to us in that moment to help people like you. But I will tell you that I am not, I am not an office hermit. I am not happy sitting in a box, being on a box. It's like my friend and coach Ali Brown the other day told me, zoom sucks my soul.

And I said, amen, mama. Me too. I can't, I can't. It's not enough. And now I know that even more because I started getting out. Now, for those of you who follow this podcast, you know that I've been quite the COVID anxiety ridden human and I still have my worries, but I'm much more.

Present in the world. And aside from going to Hawaii, which has been my, you know, my saving grace is to go to Hawaii and be with a small group of women and just have this incredible experience. I really haven't been able to connect. And before, before the pandemic, I was facilitating all the time I was out, I was speaking. I've spoken to thousands of people and I love it and I want more of it. And I think you do too. So I recently was a speaker at the Life Coach Schools Mastermind. That was amazing. There were like 1800, 1900 people there. Oh, it was electric. And then I was just invited to speak very briefly for Ali Brown's group, the Trust, which I'm a part of. And we did a whole session on how to manage difficult people. And I loved it. And so we've been talking about what is the best way to guarantee results for our clients. What is the best way. What is the best way to provide the most excellent experience for our clients? And I think that's a really good question for you to be asking yourselves as well. I would also ask it of you related to your employees. What is the best way for me to create an excellent experience for my team? And what I know is that several years ago when I decided to transition from doing corporate coaching to only coaching female entrepreneurs, Brooke Christillo created a week long Mastermind. And that mastermind, I think was six days, it might have been seven. And we met every morning, 9am sharp, we got in trouble if we were late. And then we learned what we were going to do work on for the day, in the morning. And then we did it. Done. Now I was in a business mastermind and I was rebuilding my business. So what I did was I built. I built a website. All the copy, videos, Facebook ads, had a photographer come to put my pictures on the website. Emails, pixels. Like we got. The amount of work that we did in this time frame was crazy. But guess what? I left that workshop done. Not with a bunch of stuff to do. And when I work with my clients, that's what I'm noticing is happening now. It's like we get an hour together and there's all these great things I know I want them to do and I know they need to do, but we get off this zoom call and then, you know, Joyce is in their office or in their slack, and they're, boom, they're off. They're in a whole other topic. They're in a whole other triage moment. They're on their way into something new. I know you know what I'm talking about, right? I have so much to say about this. I just was listening to a podcast. I can't wait to talk to you guys about this book. So that's another podcast. But we, as CEOs, we have to develop and honor time for deep thinking and execution. And so we are restructuring how to CEO. And it will be in person and it will be immersive. And you will leave with all team design, systems, practices finished. And not only that, you will be able to bring with you your right hand, your ops person, your assistant, your gm. Because no offense, my love, but as the visionary, it's hard for you to do the things. You need help. You need your implementer, you need your executor. Right? You need that person with you who can help you get it done. And we're going to get it done. So we're going to spend five days together, working hard, immersing you into this so that when you walk out the door, dude, you are built. You are done. I know the value of that to you. Imagine we need to get that posting out there. Oh, it's done. Oh, and so are all the interview questions. Oh, and so is the interview process. Oh, and so is the offer letter. It's done. We need to fire this guy. Oh, here's the process we're going to follow. Oh, here's how we exit him. We just made this hire. Oh, here's what we're going to do when we hire someone. Here's the checklist. Here's the plan. Training plan for every role. I know you know you want all this, and I also know that you want to punch yourself in the face every Time you think about doing it.

It'S the only way. It's the way I know to help you get exceptional results, which is my commitment to you. So I want to bring this back to the very beginning of this podcast where I talked about becoming exceptional and being a master. We all have mastery. We all are working towards being achieving a level of mastery in something. Right? I'm 52 years old. I've been doing what I'm doing for almost 30 years, y'. All. I'm excited to step into this space, space where I can bring you together and say, listen to me, this is how it's going to be. And I'm also excited to model for you and hold the belief for you that your investment in your time and your brain, like immersing yourself in that space. I hear it from y' all all the time. I wish I had more time to work on my business instead of in my business. If you have said that, do you mean it? Because there's never a perfect time. You know that, right? There's always another email, there's always another slack, there's always another meeting, there's always another phone call. I know you know what I'm talking about. We've got CEO add all over the place and it's affecting our joy, it's affecting our businesses operations and effectiveness and it's affecting success and delivery. So I'm excited, crazy excited. So the details are coming together. I've been with Michelle a rant all week, my director of operations. We've been building what we're going to walk you through. I'm so excited about it. It's almost done. We're trying to figure out where and when the first one will be. But we do have a place for you to go to put your name if you want to be on the wait list. And it's just CEO immersion dot com, just go there. It's a pretty rough page, but at least you can put your name there and then all the details will be coming out. And we're going to build a. Initially, we're just building a wait list. Then we're going to ask you to make a deposit if you're really serious about it. And then we're going to go from there. Okay. So I'm so glad to be here talking to you about these topics today. I know that it's been a while then I've been. You've been hearing the same message for quite some time because I wanted the intros to be the same for the interview. So I'M just so happy to kind of be here and have this chat with you today and give you my thoughts and where we are and where my business is and where I am. And I would love to coach you. So email hellohrisplacky.com and I would love to meet you and more details will be available if you opt in at CEO Immersion. So I hope I will see here from you soon and I'll talk to you next week. Take care. We have a lot of exciting changes coming up here at Chris Plackey Coaching Group, and I don't want you to miss out. From leaving social media to offering live interactions only to people on our email list, I want to make sure you don't miss out. Head on over to Chrisplacky.com and drop your name and email in our little box there. And that way you'll get all the updates well before everybody else and even updates that nobody else will know about. See you there.