If you missed one of our Courage & Coffee Sessions or simply want to hear it again, you have come to the right place.
5/10/23
Sparking Your Second Act
Shilpa Lewis, OMNI Mindfulness
Shine on the stage of life by SPARKING YOUR SECOND ACT
Shilpa is a Mindset & Meditation Coach, host of the Podcast Omni Mindfulness, Meditation Expert, producer of guided meditations on Insight Timer, and creator of her signature courses Awareness First, Happy Mind, and Second Act.
Shilpa understands the struggles of the modern professional woman who often feels unfulfilled, stuck, and overwhelmed.
Having spent years in the technology space, she witnessed the challenges of working in corporate cultures. She also experienced the challenges of being raised in the 70s in the United States, in an immigrant family, with traditional Indian culture.
Shilpa has had first-hand experience with the personal and professional pressures placed on women leaving them feeling that they lack time and energy for self-improvement.
Throughout her life, Shilpa has maintained her resilience through her spiritual and mindfulness practices.
As a child, she learned to meditate under the ancient Indian Vedic System. Over the years she refined her meditation skills through the influence of her yoga guru Paramahansa Yogananda who is considered 'the father of meditation in the West'. Through his teachings, offered through Self-Realization Fellowship, Shilpa studied Kriya Yoga meditation techniques. In her late 20s, she was initiated Kriyaban Yogi in the Self Realization Fellowship lineage.
As her spiritual self-awareness journey continued, she dove deeper into Vedic and Yogic teachings and went on to receive multiple yoga certifications.
In late 2018, after 20+ years working for Corporate Technology Leaders as a User Experience Researcher & Designer, she felt a calling to pause and pivot her professional path. She realized her "WHY" was her son, Omni. After the untimely death of her mom, she decided she wanted to be more present for my son and family.
In 2020 she received her Sura Flow Meditation Coaching Certification. This meditation style is a softer more feminine approach to meditation. It is a simple 3-step, heart-centered meditation approach that cultivates energy flow, creativity, and inner guidance for self-realization. Shilpa now combines classic meditation skills with more modern approaches to meditation that factor in the movement of energy.
Soon she established her coaching business, Omni Mindfulness named after her son who inspires her every day to do better.
Video password: SECONDACT
- My journey from overcoming cultural barriers both personally and professionally.
- How I utilized spirituality and mindfulness to build resiliency. Go from feeling:unfulfilled to revitalized
- stuck to relaxed
- overwhelmed to resetting your life
- How to create a daily routine that supports you personally and professionally through:
- Meditation develop AWARENESS
- Mindset techniques learned to take inspired ACTION
- Mindfulness tools to live an AUTHENTIC EMBODIED life
Shilpa is a Mindset & Meditation Coach, host of the Podcast Omni Mindfulness, Meditation Expert, producer of guided meditations on Insight Timer, and creator of her signature courses Awareness First, Happy Mind, and Second Act.
Shilpa understands the struggles of the modern professional woman who often feels unfulfilled, stuck, and overwhelmed.
Having spent years in the technology space, she witnessed the challenges of working in corporate cultures. She also experienced the challenges of being raised in the 70s in the United States, in an immigrant family, with traditional Indian culture.
Shilpa has had first-hand experience with the personal and professional pressures placed on women leaving them feeling that they lack time and energy for self-improvement.
Throughout her life, Shilpa has maintained her resilience through her spiritual and mindfulness practices.
As a child, she learned to meditate under the ancient Indian Vedic System. Over the years she refined her meditation skills through the influence of her yoga guru Paramahansa Yogananda who is considered 'the father of meditation in the West'. Through his teachings, offered through Self-Realization Fellowship, Shilpa studied Kriya Yoga meditation techniques. In her late 20s, she was initiated Kriyaban Yogi in the Self Realization Fellowship lineage.
As her spiritual self-awareness journey continued, she dove deeper into Vedic and Yogic teachings and went on to receive multiple yoga certifications.
In late 2018, after 20+ years working for Corporate Technology Leaders as a User Experience Researcher & Designer, she felt a calling to pause and pivot her professional path. She realized her "WHY" was her son, Omni. After the untimely death of her mom, she decided she wanted to be more present for my son and family.
In 2020 she received her Sura Flow Meditation Coaching Certification. This meditation style is a softer more feminine approach to meditation. It is a simple 3-step, heart-centered meditation approach that cultivates energy flow, creativity, and inner guidance for self-realization. Shilpa now combines classic meditation skills with more modern approaches to meditation that factor in the movement of energy.
Soon she established her coaching business, Omni Mindfulness named after her son who inspires her every day to do better.
Video password: SECONDACT
4/12/23
The Secret to Upleveling Your Leadership
Siobhan Ehle, Luminous Spark Coaching & Consulting
Ever find yourself looking for reasons you can’t have what you want? Maybe it feels too hard. Or, you don’t think you have what it takes. Perhaps you’re prioritizing others’ needs above your own.
The truth is: you’re capable beyond your wildest dreams.
The key to your growth is upleveling your psychology, especially what you think about yourself. As Maxwell Maltz said, “you can never outperform your own self-image.”
Password for Video: InspiredLeadership
3/8/23
Overcome Overwhelm
Holly O'Hanlon, The Daring Venture
Burnout numbers in the workplace are at staggering levels. People are feeling overworked, under-appreciated, and experiencing symptoms of burnout. These include decision fatigue, lack of focus, confidence, and motivation, irritability, and exhaustion. If this sounds familiar, join us to uncover the causes of your overwhelm, learn strategies to help, and commit to taking one step to reclaim your energy and well-being.
Takeaways:
PASSWORD: OVERWHELM
Takeaways:
- Raise your awareness of what’s causing you to feel overwhelmed
- Learn strategies to reclaim your energy
- Commit to one step that will help improve your well-being
PASSWORD: OVERWHELM
2/8/23
Real Conversations about Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging
Chaz Sandifer of TheNEWmpls
This session helps leaders facilitate conversations around diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Chaz is a community builder, entrepreneur, and leader in the wellness space. She is also the co-host of Stories Behind the Menu a creative endeavor to promote racial health, equity and inclusion, and bring healing and restoration to communities and society as a whole through food and stories.
Join us as Chaz shares her thoughtful, direct perspectives on how to engage in real conversations about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the workplace.
PASSWORD: REALCONVERSATIONS
Chaz is a community builder, entrepreneur, and leader in the wellness space. She is also the co-host of Stories Behind the Menu a creative endeavor to promote racial health, equity and inclusion, and bring healing and restoration to communities and society as a whole through food and stories.
Join us as Chaz shares her thoughtful, direct perspectives on how to engage in real conversations about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the workplace.
PASSWORD: REALCONVERSATIONS
1/18/23
"Call to Courage"
The Daring Venture
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What is your Call to Courage as a leader this year?
Join us to explore a core teaching from Dare to Lead™ which is to help leaders identify their own Call to Courage. Explore the concept of how “the cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.” As a leader, you will be challenged to explore where you specifically wish to be braver. In addition, you will identify action steps to put your ideas into action. Outcomes:
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12/14/22
"The Power of Joy"
Jennifer Peterson & The Joy Team
As a leader, what’s your current energy level? We’re hearing that many of you are exhausted, overwhelmed and just tired. Your team brings you problems, conflicts, issues and showing up in a positive and productive way is just hard.
What if there was a way to intentionally build an upward spiral of energy? What if cultivating this energy vortex could bring you more joy in your leadership?
Join us to understand how the energy of Joy can influence your energy levels everyday. Tap into the power of neutral and understand how this choice is available at any time to help manage energy leaks. Learn the JOY acronym and how it can be useful in cultivating joy. Come ready to build your awareness, skills and ability to bring more joy into your leadership and life.
Outcomes:
What if there was a way to intentionally build an upward spiral of energy? What if cultivating this energy vortex could bring you more joy in your leadership?
Join us to understand how the energy of Joy can influence your energy levels everyday. Tap into the power of neutral and understand how this choice is available at any time to help manage energy leaks. Learn the JOY acronym and how it can be useful in cultivating joy. Come ready to build your awareness, skills and ability to bring more joy into your leadership and life.
Outcomes:
- Understand how the energy of Joy can influence your energy levels
- Tap into the power of neutral and understand how this energy is available at any time
- Learn the JOY acronym and how it can be useful in cultivating joy
11/09/22
Present Like a Boss
Guest Speaker: Jennifer Espinosa-Goswami,
Certified Public Speaking Coach & Founder of Weightless
The amount of meetings have increased nearly 70% for working professionals since February 2020, where workers are forced to create an additional 7 hours in their schedules each week just to accommodate these meeting demands,
Being able to present “like a boss” within a meeting setting will demonstrate your leadership capabilities and increase production amongst your team. Say goodbye to boring talking-head presentations!
Join certified public speaking coach Jenn as she reveals:
PASSWORD: PRESENTLIKEABOSS
Being able to present “like a boss” within a meeting setting will demonstrate your leadership capabilities and increase production amongst your team. Say goodbye to boring talking-head presentations!
Join certified public speaking coach Jenn as she reveals:
- Why speaking is important as a leader
- Pre-speaking rituals to appear more confident (even if you don’t feel confident)
- Techniques to speak more effectively so that people will listen
PASSWORD: PRESENTLIKEABOSS
10/12/22
HeartMath®: Tools for Resilience
Guest Speaker: Jill Saunders, Coach + Creative
We think you would agree that we live in a world that can be filled with stress, challenge, drama, and demands. It can feel overwhelming, cause your physiology wear and tear, leaving you feeling overwhelmed or fatigued. What’s worse, is this experience of stress and overwhelm can become your new normal. You deserve better!
Join us for a Courage and Coffee session where we will learn from HeartMath® Certified Trainer and Coach, Jill Saunders, on a different way forward!
HeartMath® has been researching the heart-brain connection for over 25 years. It provides a unique combination of science, tools, and technology to help you thrive and perform in a world of flux and challenge.
Benefits of practicing HeartMath® include:
Jill will share with us in introduction to HeartMath® science and research, and a simple tool on how your emotions are either depleting or renewing you. Then, we’ll take a look at the technology that measures the coherence in your system, and learn tools for shifting into coherence in the moment.
This session is just an introduction, but we hope it piques your curiosity about how a genuine practice of the HeartMath® toolkit, can help you live your life with greater ease, clarity, balance, joy, and resilience.
PASSWORD: HEARTMATH
Join us for a Courage and Coffee session where we will learn from HeartMath® Certified Trainer and Coach, Jill Saunders, on a different way forward!
HeartMath® has been researching the heart-brain connection for over 25 years. It provides a unique combination of science, tools, and technology to help you thrive and perform in a world of flux and challenge.
Benefits of practicing HeartMath® include:
- More energy, resilience, and vitality
- Aligning the heart and brain for optimal performance
- Intuition on how to respond to change and challenges
- Reduced stress, worry, and fatigue
Jill will share with us in introduction to HeartMath® science and research, and a simple tool on how your emotions are either depleting or renewing you. Then, we’ll take a look at the technology that measures the coherence in your system, and learn tools for shifting into coherence in the moment.
This session is just an introduction, but we hope it piques your curiosity about how a genuine practice of the HeartMath® toolkit, can help you live your life with greater ease, clarity, balance, joy, and resilience.
PASSWORD: HEARTMATH
9/14/22
Change Isn't Hard
Guest Speaker: Pam Marmon, CEO, Marmon Consulting
We have been conditioned to think that change is hard, and as a result, we experience organizational change through that lens. But what if we were wrong?
As the speed of change in our world rapidly increases, organizations and people experience burnout, disengagement, and low productivity. The cost of poorly executed change is astronomical. Competing priorities in organizations cause inefficiency that negatively impact profits. Inconsistent leadership and lack of communications causes confusion and inaction. This is unsustainable and harmful to society.
We can change that! By shifting our mindset about change, we can position ourselves for positive outcomes that align with our desired results and enable us to live a more productive and balanced life. We can learn how to effectively lead ourselves and others through organizational change, and we can grow our personal change resilience to create room for greater efficiency and satisfaction.
We can’t slow down the speed of change, but we can learn to confidently anticipate, appreciate, and thrive during organizational change. This workshop will cover why change efforts fail, how to shift your mindset about change, and how to grow your change resilience.
Learning Outcomes
1. Why change efforts fail
2. Shift your mindset about change
3. Grow your change resilience
Pam Marmon is a progressive change management expert with over 17+ years of Fortune 500 experience leading transformational initiatives in the aerospace, technology, bio tech, insurance, healthcare, nonprofit, financial, banking, corporate retail, consumer packaged goods, engineering, manufacturing, and professional services industries.
Pam is also the best-selling author of “No One’s Listening and it’s Your Fault,” a book focused on how leaders can get their message heard during organizational transformations. She is also the creator of the L.E.S.S.® change management framework that brings precision planning and execution to effective organizational transformations.
Pam earned her MBA from Seattle Pacific University and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Calvin University. She was also an adjunct professor at Wheaton College.
PASSWORD: CHANGE2022
As the speed of change in our world rapidly increases, organizations and people experience burnout, disengagement, and low productivity. The cost of poorly executed change is astronomical. Competing priorities in organizations cause inefficiency that negatively impact profits. Inconsistent leadership and lack of communications causes confusion and inaction. This is unsustainable and harmful to society.
We can change that! By shifting our mindset about change, we can position ourselves for positive outcomes that align with our desired results and enable us to live a more productive and balanced life. We can learn how to effectively lead ourselves and others through organizational change, and we can grow our personal change resilience to create room for greater efficiency and satisfaction.
We can’t slow down the speed of change, but we can learn to confidently anticipate, appreciate, and thrive during organizational change. This workshop will cover why change efforts fail, how to shift your mindset about change, and how to grow your change resilience.
Learning Outcomes
1. Why change efforts fail
2. Shift your mindset about change
3. Grow your change resilience
Pam Marmon is a progressive change management expert with over 17+ years of Fortune 500 experience leading transformational initiatives in the aerospace, technology, bio tech, insurance, healthcare, nonprofit, financial, banking, corporate retail, consumer packaged goods, engineering, manufacturing, and professional services industries.
Pam is also the best-selling author of “No One’s Listening and it’s Your Fault,” a book focused on how leaders can get their message heard during organizational transformations. She is also the creator of the L.E.S.S.® change management framework that brings precision planning and execution to effective organizational transformations.
Pam earned her MBA from Seattle Pacific University and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Calvin University. She was also an adjunct professor at Wheaton College.
PASSWORD: CHANGE2022
8/3/2022
Wholehearted Living and Leading
The Daring Venture Team
What does it mean to move from scarcity to wholehearted living and leading? It means engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. cultivating courage, compassion and connection. Through grounded research and 1000's of interviews Dr. Brené Brown identified the 10 Guideposts for Wholehearted living and leading.
Join us to explore and move with intention toward these 10 guideposts.
- Cultivating:Authenticity,
- Self-Compassion,
- Resilient Spirit,
- Gratitude & Joy,
- Intuition & Trusting Faith,
- Creativity,
- Play &Rest,
- Calm & Stillness,
- Meaningful Work,
- Laughter, Song, & Dance
PASSWORD: WHOLEHEARTED
6/11/22
Vulnerability & The Enneagram Instincts
Special Guest: Nikki Shultz
The most vulnerable action we can take is to step on the path to deconstruct our personality. To understand this, we must first understand the practical reason why every human being subconsciously constructs a personality. The word personality itself stems from the Latin word persona, which refers to a mask worn by performers in order to project a different role and disguise their identity.
Our personality is our mask to stay safe in a very human world and is formed around early wounds. The word vulnerable is ultimately derived from the Latin noun vulnus: “wound.” We each have a mask to protect our true self from being wounded. Every human being develops a personality – an Enneagram Type - as a protective mask to function in the world. Paradoxically, our personality patterns are exactly what triggers wounds in others.
When we become aware to our personality patterns of thinking, feeling and action, we transform our relationship with ourselves and others to a place rich with love, compassion, empathy and understanding.
Key Takeaways:
1. What the Enneagram is and is not. Preview: it is not a test.
2. The 3 core instincts: Understanding what they do, how they manifest and why they matter in
relationships.
3. Each Type’s core fear and defense mechanism to avoid vulnerability.
Nikki Shultz is a speaker, leadership team coach, and founder of Courageous Roots Development. After a nearly two-decade career holding leadership positions in product development and operations, she followed her joy and landed in organizational development and coaching. She has completed years of advanced formal studies in vertical development and the Enneagram and
focuses on supporting senior teams to grow into their potential as an interconnected system.
PASSWORD: ENNEAGRAM
Our personality is our mask to stay safe in a very human world and is formed around early wounds. The word vulnerable is ultimately derived from the Latin noun vulnus: “wound.” We each have a mask to protect our true self from being wounded. Every human being develops a personality – an Enneagram Type - as a protective mask to function in the world. Paradoxically, our personality patterns are exactly what triggers wounds in others.
When we become aware to our personality patterns of thinking, feeling and action, we transform our relationship with ourselves and others to a place rich with love, compassion, empathy and understanding.
Key Takeaways:
1. What the Enneagram is and is not. Preview: it is not a test.
2. The 3 core instincts: Understanding what they do, how they manifest and why they matter in
relationships.
3. Each Type’s core fear and defense mechanism to avoid vulnerability.
Nikki Shultz is a speaker, leadership team coach, and founder of Courageous Roots Development. After a nearly two-decade career holding leadership positions in product development and operations, she followed her joy and landed in organizational development and coaching. She has completed years of advanced formal studies in vertical development and the Enneagram and
focuses on supporting senior teams to grow into their potential as an interconnected system.
PASSWORD: ENNEAGRAM
5/11/22
Use your Human Control Panel for Effective Leadership & Life
Special Guest: Naomi Banks
What would it be like if you were able to push a couple of buttons to shift how engaged, connected, calm and effective you are in any setting at any time? Sounds great and maybe like it’s too good to be true!
Within leaders’ internal and external environments, they are navigating many distractions and disruptions. Things that throw us off our game, take us by surprise, slow us down and even exhaust us. At the same time, many of us can think of moments where we were felt like everything was “O.K.” in our environment and with us. We might have felt like we were in “flow” or not having to try so hard to do our best thinking, be creative, or connect with others. So, how can you get more of that? Is it realistic?
This interactive discussion will bring you the most recent insights from neuroscience, physiology, and human development that are shifting the approach to wellbeing and performance. You will develop awareness of your personal human control panel and how to maximize its potential to increase your effectiveness, enhance your leadership presence and strengthen your resilience. Whether you are thriving, in the process of building a vision for your life or anywhere in between, you will discover important keys for optimizing your control panel that can be applied realistically and immediately.
Key Takeaways:
About Naomi Banks
Naomi is called to work alongside others in pursuit of their potential and vision for their lives through healing. She is also fierce about advancing equity and justice. Her training in social justice, racial healing and experience leading DEI is woven throughout all her work and partnerships.
Over the past 20+ years Naomi has served as a leader of HR strategy, leader of her own teams and executive coach in the tech and healthcare industries. She has observed that regardless of title, status, industry or background, her clients’ lived experiences play a role in how they are able to move past boundaries, create new patterns, and cultivate calm and resilience. She has also witnessed that lasting change doesn’t necessarily mean simply thinking differently. Naomi merges her experience in business, leadership, and coaching along with her extensive study and training in trauma informed models, such as polyvagal theory. Through this lens, Naomi is honored to co-create safe and brave spaces for her clients to honor their experiences and author a new way forward that truly supports them in all areas of their lives, including delivering business results and personal goals. Naomi is proud to partner with individuals and teams across a wide variety of settings such as healthcare, non-profit, higher-ed, and filmmaking. Be it an individual or a team, Naomi meets people where they are at now to walk with them toward what is possible.
When Naomi is not with her clients, you can find her with her family in Austin, Texas, spending time outdoors, listening to soul-filling music, and marveling at breathtaking sunsets.
PASSWORD: AWARENESS
Within leaders’ internal and external environments, they are navigating many distractions and disruptions. Things that throw us off our game, take us by surprise, slow us down and even exhaust us. At the same time, many of us can think of moments where we were felt like everything was “O.K.” in our environment and with us. We might have felt like we were in “flow” or not having to try so hard to do our best thinking, be creative, or connect with others. So, how can you get more of that? Is it realistic?
This interactive discussion will bring you the most recent insights from neuroscience, physiology, and human development that are shifting the approach to wellbeing and performance. You will develop awareness of your personal human control panel and how to maximize its potential to increase your effectiveness, enhance your leadership presence and strengthen your resilience. Whether you are thriving, in the process of building a vision for your life or anywhere in between, you will discover important keys for optimizing your control panel that can be applied realistically and immediately.
Key Takeaways:
- Develop awareness of your own personal control panel
- Explore how your human control panel developed and functions
- Identify ways to optimize your human control panel to level up your effectiveness and joy
- Solidify one optimization practice to try
About Naomi Banks
Naomi is called to work alongside others in pursuit of their potential and vision for their lives through healing. She is also fierce about advancing equity and justice. Her training in social justice, racial healing and experience leading DEI is woven throughout all her work and partnerships.
Over the past 20+ years Naomi has served as a leader of HR strategy, leader of her own teams and executive coach in the tech and healthcare industries. She has observed that regardless of title, status, industry or background, her clients’ lived experiences play a role in how they are able to move past boundaries, create new patterns, and cultivate calm and resilience. She has also witnessed that lasting change doesn’t necessarily mean simply thinking differently. Naomi merges her experience in business, leadership, and coaching along with her extensive study and training in trauma informed models, such as polyvagal theory. Through this lens, Naomi is honored to co-create safe and brave spaces for her clients to honor their experiences and author a new way forward that truly supports them in all areas of their lives, including delivering business results and personal goals. Naomi is proud to partner with individuals and teams across a wide variety of settings such as healthcare, non-profit, higher-ed, and filmmaking. Be it an individual or a team, Naomi meets people where they are at now to walk with them toward what is possible.
When Naomi is not with her clients, you can find her with her family in Austin, Texas, spending time outdoors, listening to soul-filling music, and marveling at breathtaking sunsets.
PASSWORD: AWARENESS
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4/13/22
The Power of Empathy
Presented by The Daring Venture Team
Empathy builds trust and connection in relationships and is a leadership super power. When done right, it gives people a soft place to land where they can be seen, heard and known. However, we often go to advice giving and problem solving. While these are well-intended responses, they don’t leave people feeling seen and heard.
Join us to learn what true empathy looks like and the power it has in relationships. Ultimately, youwill deepen your relationships, empower yourself and those around you, and become a more effective leader at home and work.
Key Takeaways:
The Daring Venture develops effective and courageous leaders from the inside out. We've been teaching courage building skills to 100's of leaders and teams for the past 8 years. We create a safe, judgment-free, space for individual leaders and teams to be challenged, dig deep and show up to live and lead more fully.
PASSWORD: EMPATHY
Join us to learn what true empathy looks like and the power it has in relationships. Ultimately, youwill deepen your relationships, empower yourself and those around you, and become a more effective leader at home and work.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the 8 common empathy misses.
- Learn the 5 components of the empathy skillset.
- Learn how to simply BE in hard places with people and ultimately cultivate deeper relationships.
The Daring Venture develops effective and courageous leaders from the inside out. We've been teaching courage building skills to 100's of leaders and teams for the past 8 years. We create a safe, judgment-free, space for individual leaders and teams to be challenged, dig deep and show up to live and lead more fully.
PASSWORD: EMPATHY
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3/9/22
Change your Narrative. Change Your Life.
Presented by Lisa Harris, CEO/Founder of Lisa Harris & Company
Life is a collection of events, both beautiful and heartbreaking. Narrative is the thread that weaves these events together to form a story. How we tell our stories changes everything. Too often, we focus on the dominant stories that do not serve us. In this session, narrative coach, Lisa Harris, talks about the power of storytelling, how to shift old narratives, and rewrite a new reality FULL of light. Together, we will practice re-authoring our stories by doing a writing and reflection exercise.
Lisa Harris is an author, storyteller, narrative coach and CEO/Founder of Lisa Harris & Company. Lisa’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2016 after publishing her book, Unveiled Beauty: Handwritten Stories From a Poetic Heart. Prior to, she spent +18 years in leadership roles working for many Fortune 500 companies and nationally recognized brands. Today, as a narrative coach certified in narrative therapy, Lisa uses storytelling elements and narrative therapy principles to help women shift narratives and reclaim their power through the lens of their own life stories. www.lisaharrisandco.com.
PASSWORD: CHANGE2022
Lisa Harris is an author, storyteller, narrative coach and CEO/Founder of Lisa Harris & Company. Lisa’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2016 after publishing her book, Unveiled Beauty: Handwritten Stories From a Poetic Heart. Prior to, she spent +18 years in leadership roles working for many Fortune 500 companies and nationally recognized brands. Today, as a narrative coach certified in narrative therapy, Lisa uses storytelling elements and narrative therapy principles to help women shift narratives and reclaim their power through the lens of their own life stories. www.lisaharrisandco.com.
PASSWORD: CHANGE2022
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2/9/22
Whyography® Workshop: Write Your Story
Presented by Chris Olsen, My Founder Story & Publish Her
A basic business bio doesn’t honor your journey or what it took to get where you are today. It’s all stats and no story. It’s focused on your WHAT and not your WHY. This workshop demonstrates the benefits and framework for creating your Whyography—your brand story fueled by purpose. This 60-minute workshop features interactive instruction.
Whyography Workshop: Write Your Story demonstrates the benefits and framework for creating your Whyography—your brand story fueled by purpose. This 60-minute workshop features interactive instruction. Participants are encouraged to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
My Founder Story
PASSWORD: MYWHY
Whyography Workshop: Write Your Story demonstrates the benefits and framework for creating your Whyography—your brand story fueled by purpose. This 60-minute workshop features interactive instruction. Participants are encouraged to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
- Whyography Journey Map: Map out key events and moments that influenced your WHY.
- Your Brain on Stories: Learn about the science of storytelling and how to use it to build a genuine connection with your audience.
- Whyography Framework: Discover the art of storytelling and the framework for developing your purpose-driven brand story.
My Founder Story
PASSWORD: MYWHY
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1/12/22
Armored vs. Daring Leadership
Presented by Molly, Holly & Jenny - The Daring Venture Team
Do you understand how your patterns of "armoring up" get in the way of courageous leadership? When we practice courage, it feels vulnerable and often we can feel discomfort or "less than" in new situations.
This feeling can lead to armoring up which takes us away from showing up as our best self. In this session, increase your self-awareness to understand your patterns and make more daring choices in leadership and life.
Key Takeaways:
This feeling can lead to armoring up which takes us away from showing up as our best self. In this session, increase your self-awareness to understand your patterns and make more daring choices in leadership and life.
Key Takeaways:
- Explore how we use one of three shields as strategies for disconnection – there are three patterned ways that we act in order to “be safe.”
- Reflect when and with who you might be using each of these strategies.
- Understand how armoring up might they be getting in the way of being a more courageous leader.
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12/8/21
Cultivating Calm During Holiday Chaos
Presented by Molly, Holly & Jenny - The Daring Venture
How can you cultivate calm even when life feels like it is moving too fast? Experience a slice of Dare to Lead™ Program, and learn how the patterned ways we all manage anxiety might be impacting your work and team; by either under functioning or over functioning. You will learn and discuss foundational practices that help cultivate calm and courage, and ultimately lead to more peaceful choices.
Key Takeaways:
VIDEO PASSWORD: CCCALM
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how our physiology reacts under stress and how breathing creates a deeper emotional connection
- Learn how anxiety is contagious and can impact groups and teams, not just the individual
- Understand two ways that anxiety can show up - over and under functioning - and how these may impact behaviors
- Learn Brené’s definition of calm (building perspective, mindfulness, manage emotional reactivity)
VIDEO PASSWORD: CCCALM
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11/10/21
Building a Positive and Supportive Feedback Culture
Presented by Pete Berridge, PCC, MAPP, Co-Founder Change Positive, LLC
Today's workforce says, "Coach me, don't criticize me"; This is an invitation to shift your mindset on feedback and see how positive psychology and building social support can create a more effective and energizing feedback experience. Whether it comes through a performance review or 360, the way feedback is delivered in most companies is broken. Intentions are compromised, context is lacking, and all too often feedback is focused on what’s not working vs. identifying what the individual could do to excel. Additionally, feedback systems lack ongoing support from stakeholders - the “people system” - to help the person successfully grow and change.
This session will cover concepts to address these shortfalls including positive psychology, system support, strengths-based coaching, solution-focused inquiry, and defining desired outcomes. This will shift participants’ mindset so that feedback becomes far more constructive and enjoyable for both those giving and receiving. Participants will leave with more energy and ideas for transforming feedback in their lives and organizations.
Learning outcomes:
This session will cover concepts to address these shortfalls including positive psychology, system support, strengths-based coaching, solution-focused inquiry, and defining desired outcomes. This will shift participants’ mindset so that feedback becomes far more constructive and enjoyable for both those giving and receiving. Participants will leave with more energy and ideas for transforming feedback in their lives and organizations.
Learning outcomes:
- Shift your mindset on how to give feedback
- Learn how positive psychology and system support can create lasting positive change
- Ideas and concepts to practice immediately
About Peter Berridge
Peter is an accomplished coach and facilitator who utilizes the sciences of positive psychology and executive coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations be more engaged, effective and productive. Pete became a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and is adjunct faculty with the St. Thomas Executive Coaching Certificate program. He is one of 350 people in the world with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Positive psychology is the study of human strengths and well-being which employs proven methods to promote the flourishing of people, organizations, and communities. It is with this training that the Shift Positive 360 was born; a unique way of gathering and giving feedback that is more effective and enjoyable. Pete was determined to bring the benefits of Positive Psychology into the feedback process, which led him to co-create Change Positive, LLC. Pete is also the founder and president of Shorebird Coaching and Consulting. When he’s not exercising his passions across his two businesses, he’s either whittling a bird or chilling on a Minnesota lake in his boat with his Labrador, Lloyd, and incredible wife, Jenny.
Pete's Website: www.shiftpositive360.com
VIDEO PASSWORD: CHANGEPOSITIVE
Peter is an accomplished coach and facilitator who utilizes the sciences of positive psychology and executive coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations be more engaged, effective and productive. Pete became a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and is adjunct faculty with the St. Thomas Executive Coaching Certificate program. He is one of 350 people in the world with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Positive psychology is the study of human strengths and well-being which employs proven methods to promote the flourishing of people, organizations, and communities. It is with this training that the Shift Positive 360 was born; a unique way of gathering and giving feedback that is more effective and enjoyable. Pete was determined to bring the benefits of Positive Psychology into the feedback process, which led him to co-create Change Positive, LLC. Pete is also the founder and president of Shorebird Coaching and Consulting. When he’s not exercising his passions across his two businesses, he’s either whittling a bird or chilling on a Minnesota lake in his boat with his Labrador, Lloyd, and incredible wife, Jenny.
Pete's Website: www.shiftpositive360.com
VIDEO PASSWORD: CHANGEPOSITIVE
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10/13/21
Listening to Life's Whispers
Presented by Jill Saunders
Have you ever wondered if life whispers to you? How often do you tune into your intuition and inner knowing? Learn the skill of listening to life's whispers to live a more joyful, courageous and purpose filled life. Life whispers to you all the time. In this session, you will learn unique ways to listen and why it matters! This conversation is meant for you if you are ready to tune into the guidance, insights, nudges, and knowing headed your way.
In this conversation
ABOUT Jill SAUNDERS
Jill Saunders is a mom, corporate facilitator, yogi, coach, and creative who lives in South Minneapolis. Over 10 years ago she made a clear request to the Universe for help, and began to hear whispers of insight. These whispers have been funny, heart-warming, serious, and inspiring. The whispers have brought her much peace and joy. She is a teacher and coach at heart, working with thousands of leaders in Fortune 250 companies. She believes she is teaching some of her most important classes yet – how to listen to the guidance, wisdom, insight, and knowing meant just for you!
Learn more about Jill: Website or Her Etsy Store
VIDEO PASSWORD: WHISPERS
In this conversation
- Be inspired by a few heart-warming stories from Jill about how her whispers have impacted her life.
- Learn a 4 Step Process on How to Listen to Life’s Whispers.
- Identify daily practices to silence the noise so you can listen to your center, your nudges, and your whispers.
ABOUT Jill SAUNDERS
Jill Saunders is a mom, corporate facilitator, yogi, coach, and creative who lives in South Minneapolis. Over 10 years ago she made a clear request to the Universe for help, and began to hear whispers of insight. These whispers have been funny, heart-warming, serious, and inspiring. The whispers have brought her much peace and joy. She is a teacher and coach at heart, working with thousands of leaders in Fortune 250 companies. She believes she is teaching some of her most important classes yet – how to listen to the guidance, wisdom, insight, and knowing meant just for you!
Learn more about Jill: Website or Her Etsy Store
VIDEO PASSWORD: WHISPERS
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9/15/21
You Are Here: Going From Stuck to Success
Presented by Jaime Taets
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We can all achieve great success, and we all get lost from time to time on our way there.We zig-zag through “shoulds” and the pressures of societal expectations by following rules rather than listening to our inner guidance. We let fear or uncertainty cloud our actions. We react with paralysis or avoidance because we feel stuck or have a hunch we could be doing more. The problem isn't that we have those feelings, it’s that we don't know how to move past them. You Are Here is here to help.
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Jaime Taets
CEO, host of “Superpower Success Podcast,” public speaker, author, podcast host, and thought leader…in every one of these roles, Jaime Taets helps people reach their potential. She isn’t afraid to have “get real” conversations about the things that often limit people from achieving success. Harnessing her own leadership experiences, she inspires frank and sometimes challenging discussions about the crossroads between high-performance and healthy change. Ultimately, her solution-focused insights help people go from stuck to success every day—at work, home, and in their personal lives.
VIDEO PASSWORD: UNSTUCK
CEO, host of “Superpower Success Podcast,” public speaker, author, podcast host, and thought leader…in every one of these roles, Jaime Taets helps people reach their potential. She isn’t afraid to have “get real” conversations about the things that often limit people from achieving success. Harnessing her own leadership experiences, she inspires frank and sometimes challenging discussions about the crossroads between high-performance and healthy change. Ultimately, her solution-focused insights help people go from stuck to success every day—at work, home, and in their personal lives.
VIDEO PASSWORD: UNSTUCK
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8/18/21
Emotionally Triggered?
Presented by The Daring Venture Team
Do you ever feel emotionally triggered and not sure what to do about it? This session will focus on how to recognize and utilize emotions as valuable data for decision making and growth. You will be challenged to look at how you are currently managing your own emotions, understand what emotions might be telling you, and learn strategies to mange them more effectively.
Key Takeaways:
Video Password: EMOTIONS
- Learn how emotions are connected to behaviors and thoughts and are influenced by stress.
- Understand emotions can help you identify what you need.
- Recognize how your habits of handling emotions.
- Learn strategies for recognizing and managing emotions in healthier ways.
Video Password: EMOTIONS
6/9/21
Replenishment: Burning Bright without Burning Out
Jamie Shapiro, Executive Coach & Author
Brilliant: Be the Leader Who Shines Brightly Without Burning Out.
How does your replenishment impact your ability to perform? Vitality is the typically overlooked foundation and needs to be reprioritized. The model of driving yourself into the ground is not sustainable and not the way to help our organizations thrive during this time. In order to be at our best, we need to bring our whole selves to the table. During this session, Jamie Shapiro, a leading authority on connecting wellbeing with leadership performance, will facilitate an engaging conversation on the connection between how we lead from within and the impact it has on our performance and lives.
You will
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Jamie@connectedec.com
Video password: BRILLIANT
You will
- Get reconnected to your energy replenishment and wellbeing
- Learn new tools to help you thrive
- Discover ways to make changes right away that impact your personal health, performance and team
www.connectedec.com
Jamie@connectedec.com
Video password: BRILLIANT
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5/12/21
The Five Foundations of Courage
Molly Conlin Peterson, Jennifer Peterson and Holly O'Hanlon
The Daring Venture Team
Learn and experience "The Five Foundations of Courage", these are deceptively simple practices that can become our "go to's" to in daily life or to look to when feeling stuck. Come and unpack how you might apply each of these to your leadership and life. Brought to you by The Daring Venture Team.
Outcomes:
The Daring Venture Team develops effective and courageous leaders from the inside out. As Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators, we've been teaching courage building skills to leaders and teams for the past 7 years. We create a safe, no judgment, space for individuals, leaders and teams to be challenged, dig deep and show up to live and lead more fully.
Password for video: FoundationsOfCourage
See PDF below for work sheet
Outcomes:
- Learn The Five Foundations of Courage
- Unpack how you may be able to apply these to your own life and leadership today.
- Understand how small shifts make a big impact.
- Leave with 1 commitment to do differently.
The Daring Venture Team develops effective and courageous leaders from the inside out. As Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators, we've been teaching courage building skills to leaders and teams for the past 7 years. We create a safe, no judgment, space for individuals, leaders and teams to be challenged, dig deep and show up to live and lead more fully.
Password for video: FoundationsOfCourage
See PDF below for work sheet
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4/14/21
Peer Power
Lani Basa, Founder BWC, (Business Women's Circles)
We have learned how to work from home, distance learn, social distance and mask up. We have also managed to move opportunities to network, connect and socialize to a virtual format. Unfortunately, all of this has also created another way for us to “armor up.”
What if there was a way to help you remove that armor while being supported by others who “get you”? Join us as we talk with Lani Basa of The BWC about how the power of peers help us grow in business, leadership and life.
Outcomes:
- Understand why peer power is important for your success - professionally and personally.
- Learn what makes a great peer group.
- Discover ways to harness the power of peers.
- Expand your network.
Lani Basa is the Owner of The Business Women’s Circle (The BWC), an organization that connects, builds communities and creates experiences for women to grow. Celebrating 10 years, The BWC continues to focus on supporting women in business through peer Circles, workshops and their Annual Forum.
Password for video: PeerPower
See PDF below for work sheet
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3/10/21
Pain to Purpose: How to Make this the Most Powerful Time of Your Life
Carin Rockind, MAPP
In this Courage and Coffee, we're joined by PurposeGirl founder, Carin Rockind, MAPP. Having survived abuse at 17, divorce at 26, armed robbery at 34 and miscarriages in her 40's, Carin has had her fair share of pain. But she's learned how to use all of it for Purpose. She turned armed robbery into the pivot to follow purpose and her miscarriages as the ignition to launch a worldwide movement to eradicate women's depression. Her philosophy is that every moment of our lives is for purpose and that we are the ones needed now. As a speaker for companies like Amazon and Capital One, and a coach to women worldwide, in this workshop, she'll teach you how to hone in on your purpose and ignite the fire within to make it happen. Plus, she will inspire you to live fully, and make the impact you were born to make in this world. You don't want to miss this powerful event.
Learning Outcomes:
Carin Rockind, MAPP -- PurposeGirl, LLC www.carinrockind.com
Password for video: CourageAndCoffeeCarin
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn how you too can turn pain into purpose.
- Shift your perspective from things happening “to you” to things happening “for you”.
- Identify your purpose by harnessing your individual strengths and messages of your life
- Leave with an action step forward to follow your deepest dreams and desires.
Carin Rockind, MAPP -- PurposeGirl, LLC www.carinrockind.com
Password for video: CourageAndCoffeeCarin
2/10/21
The Catastrophizing Cure -
How to Remain Safe, Sane, and Tranquil during Challenging Times!
Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis
The Catastrophizing Cure -
How to Remain Safe, Sane, and Tranquil during Challenging Times!
Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis
What would change if you could learn to get back to rational thinking and positive emotions more quickly? Join us for Courage & Coffee with our special guest Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis where she will share the 'How-Tos'” of thinking in healthy, rational ways during tough times in order to create healthy emotions and help those around us achieve greater equanimity too - no matter how dire the circumstances.
Outcomes:
Password for Video: CourageandCoffeeREBT
PDF of worksheet below
Outcomes:
- Learn the difference between rational and irrational thinking, and the tyranny of the "shoulds" !
- Understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy negative emotions.
- Discover the benefit and importance of daily gratitude and unconditional acceptance of self, others and life.
Password for Video: CourageandCoffeeREBT
PDF of worksheet below
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1/13/21
BIG - Boundaries, Integrity & Generous Assumptions
Molly Conlin Peterson, Jennifer Peterson & Holly O'Hanlon
The Daring Venture
Learn a key concept from Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™. The idea of living BIG means understanding the relationship between your boundaries and your beliefs about other people and yourself. Learn how to set healthy boundaries (what’s ok and not ok), honor your integrity, and make the most generous assumptions about others. As a result, you will lead with greater compassion and self-love.
Presented by Molly Conlin Peterson, Holly O'Hanlon & Jenny Peterson
The Daring Venture Team
Video Password: CourageandCoffeeBIG
Presented by Molly Conlin Peterson, Holly O'Hanlon & Jenny Peterson
The Daring Venture Team
Video Password: CourageandCoffeeBIG
12/9/20
Thinking About Your Thinking
Angel Jones
This session will teach you a simple strategy to gain control in day-to-day situations. If you are able to think about your thinking more consistently, you’ll be better able to navigate ambiguous, unexpected, and just plain annoying situations with grace and ease. This session will give you the framework to hone in on your thoughts and change the way those thoughts shape your emotions and behaviors.
Outcomes:
Learn about the research connected to “thinking about your thinking” how applying these concepts builds calm and resiliency.
Understand how habitual patterns of thinking can influence our “go to reactions” and influence outcomes of our daily lives.
Build confidence by identifying a place in your life where you can practice a more graceful response.
Learn more about Angelika Jones
Video Password: CourageAndCoffeeAngel
Outcomes:
Learn about the research connected to “thinking about your thinking” how applying these concepts builds calm and resiliency.
Understand how habitual patterns of thinking can influence our “go to reactions” and influence outcomes of our daily lives.
Build confidence by identifying a place in your life where you can practice a more graceful response.
Learn more about Angelika Jones
Video Password: CourageAndCoffeeAngel
11/11/20
Learned Hopefulness
Dan Tomasulo
Dan will share his research about the power of hope and how we can use it to help identify our strengths; ditch the self-limiting beliefs that diminish our capacity for positivity; and increase feelings of motivation, resiliency, and wellness. With hope as our guide, we’ll find that we can break free from hopelessness and start living a life of happiness and vitality.
Outcomes:
Learn about the research of “Hope” and how Dan has applied this concept to build resiliency and happiness.
Understand how our mindset around “Hope” can influence the process and outcomes of our daily lives.
Build confidence by identifying a place in your life where you can practice “Hope.”
Learn more about Dan Tomasulo
Video Password: CourageAndCoffeeDan
Outcomes:
Learn about the research of “Hope” and how Dan has applied this concept to build resiliency and happiness.
Understand how our mindset around “Hope” can influence the process and outcomes of our daily lives.
Build confidence by identifying a place in your life where you can practice “Hope.”
Learn more about Dan Tomasulo
Video Password: CourageAndCoffeeDan
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