GPS Your Career: A Woman�s Guide to Success

Talent and hard work are no longer enough to ensure success. Strategy and planning now play a key role in moving to the top.

GPS Your Career: A Woman’s Guide to Success provides direction and tips to navigate the business world, overcome obstacles, and position women to win. The weekly show brings expertise and practical advice front and center for women to map their road to success.

Download the GPS Your Career weekly podcasts and listen to the experts discuss important topics such as how to successfully climb the corporate ladder, how to overcome gender related workplace issues, how to effectively promote yourself and your business, how to jump start your own business, how to network and attract clients, how to address work/life balance issues and much more.

Archived Shows

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How to Write a Book to Attract Clients and Benefit Your Business

How many times have you said to yourself that you have to write a book to help you promote your business and speaking, but you keep putting it off? It seems overwhelming. Where do I start? Do I even know if this book will help my business? Today we are going to discuss specifically how to plan and write a book that will help your business with my guest, Sophfronia Scott.

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Sophfronia Scott helps entrepreneurs and speakers to write and publish books to market their businesses. She is the author of the bestselling award-winning book, Doing Business By the Book: How to Craft a Crowd-Pleasing Book and Attract More Clients and Speaking Engagements Than You Ever Thought Possible. Her latest book is How the Fierce Handle Fear: Secrets to Succeeding in Challenging Times. Sophronia’s website: http://www.doneforyouwriting.com

Listen to the January 23rd, 2012 show.

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How to Be Authentic and Climb the Corporate Ladder

For years, women in business were told to hide their feminine qualities and act more like men in the workplace if they wanted to get ahead. These days female leadership style is embraced for its collaborative approach, vision, and intuition, yet women still need to be mindful of how they present themselves and their ideas to be heard. Tune in for some valuable advice from women’s leadership expert, Sally Helgesen, on how to climb the corporate ladder and retain your feminine qualities and values.

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Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant, and one of the world’s brand -name experts on women’s leadership and we are going to talk about the value women contribute to leadership positions and what women and organizations can do to take advantage of this. Sally’s most recent book, The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, explores this subject about how women’s insights can transform organizations. She is also author of the best-selling The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership. This book was called “the classic work” on women’s leadership style. Her earlier book, The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time. Sally has consulted with the United Nations Development Program on building more inclusive country offices and on strengthening women’s programs in Africa and Asia. She has led seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College, Northwestern University and the Lauriston Institute in Melbourne Australia. Articles about her work have been featured in Fortune, The New York Times, Fast Company, and Business Week. She contributes a weekly blog at Forbes.com. For more information about Sally, visit her website, www.sallyhelgesen.com.

 

Listen to the January 9th, 2012 show.

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How to Use Body Language Effectively in Business

Do you know that your body language can sabotage your message before you even open your mouth? This podcast will help us to learn about the common mistakes we make with body language and how we can use it to our advantage in business. It’s a fascinating topic and one we all need to know more about.

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My guest today is Carol Kinsey Goman. Carol is a keynote speaker and author of The NonVerbal Advantage-Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work and most recently, The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help or Hurt How You Lead. Her books are important resources for all of us who want to better position themselves in business and I’m sure you’ll agree after listening to Carol. 

Carol is president of Kinsey Consulting Services. She has worked with over 130 organizations in twenty-one countries. Her work has been featured on CNN, Bloomberg Television, and NBC News. Carol addresses associations, government and business audiences around the world on this and other strategic business issues. You can learn more about Carol and her books and services at www.NonVerbalAdvantage.com and www.ckg.com.

Listen to the January 2nd podcast.

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Creating Buzz for Your Business and Career

It’s vitally important that we have visibility in order to get more clients and get promoted at work. What is the best way to do that? Where do we begin? My guest, PR Expert Lisa Elia will give us valuable advice on how we can position ourselves in the marketplace to sell our products and services and promote our expertise in the workplace.

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Lisa Elia is a publicist, media trainer and CEO and founder of Lisa Elia Public Relations, a full-service PR firm in Los Angeles. She has secured placements for her clients in major media outlets, such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, Redbook, In Style and hundreds of others. She has positioned clients for book deals, endorsement deals, positions as contributing editors to magazines and even their own TV shows. As an entrepreneur herself for over 20 years, Lisa speaks at many events for entrepreneurs, sharing tips on publicity, internal communications, positioning oneself as an expert and a variety of other topics. She has created programs to teach people how to do their own PR and to improve their on-camera presence. For information about the many programs and services Lisa Elia, please visit her website, www.lisaeliapr.com.

Listen to the December 26th show.

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The Importance of Determination and Resilience for Success

Today’s show is all about the importance of determination and resilience for success; how we have the power within to overcome most obstacles we face in our lives and careers. You will hear an incredible story from my guest, Maureen Manley, that will forever change the way you look at your own life challenges and empower you to find your strength to achieve whatever you want. Maureen’s championship cycling career came to an abrupt halt with the sudden onset of Multiple Sclerosis during the Tour De France. She turned her determination and focus to a new journey, exploring ways to integrate her Mind, Body and Spirit in order to create optimal health and peace of mind. As Maureen shares her story of recovery, there are many life lessons for all of us about how to deal with life’s uncertainties and our own fears and limiting beliefs. And, in fact, we can all create a path of championship for ourselves by setting our goals, understanding and working through our limiting beliefs and keeping our focus and direction.

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Determination and resilience have served Maureen Manley in her many accomplishments. As a member of the US Cycling Team she won a National Championship, set a national record, earned a silver and 2 bronze medals at National Championships, competed in 3 World Championships and won a silver medal in the 1990 World Championships. Maureen’s cycling career came to an abrupt halt at the sudden onset of Multiple Sclerosis.She turned her determination and focus to a new journey, exploring ways to integrate her Mind, Body and Spirit in order to create optimal health and peace of mind. This inquiry led her to gain knowledge and understanding from a variety of fields, including: mind-body sciences, behavior sciences, faith based traditions, psychology, meditation, life coaching, and system’s theory. The application of her learning’s led her to a deeper understanding that true change and transformation originates from the inside. After completion of a Master’s Degree in Integrated Wellness, Maureen established her private practice and return to her much-loved sport of cycling. Maureen is a well respected speaker, counselor, educator and consultant. She currently delivers motivational presentations around the country, leads workshops, teaches classes, designs wellness programs and consults with organizations who wish to empower both their workforce and clients.

Listen to the December 19th, 2011 show.

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Living the Life of Your Dreams

Women certainly face many obstacles in business but perhaps the biggest challenge we have is to keep our lives in balance and maintain our own well-being. We are great multi-taskers! We think nothing of running a business, a family, doing volunteer work and putting our energy into keeping everyone happy and healthy. But what happens to our well-being in the process? Often we put ourselves last and burn ourselves out. My guest today, Marilyn Tam, has done it all with great success. She came all alone to the United States from China as a young girl, put herself through college and rose to become a high level executive; President of Reebok Apparel, VP at Nike, and CEO of Aveda. Tune in to hear Marilyn’s inspiring story as well as her valuable tips on how to keep your life in balance and live your life with passion and purpose.

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My guest today, Marilyn Tam, has done it all with great success. She came on her own to the United States from China as a young girl, put herself through college and rose to become a high level executive; President of Reebok Apparel, VP at Nike, and CEO of Aveda. She is also a successful entrepreneur, having developed and built three companies. As a corporate consultant, speaker, author, executive director and co-founder of US Foundation, Marilyn speaks, trains, and consults with companies globally on Leadership, Change Management, Diversity, and how to integrate social and environmental issues to develop successful organizations. Marilyn’s book, How to Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want, combines her business acumen with her goal of giving back to guide others to achieve their highest potential. In her newest book, Living the Life of Your Dreams: The Secrets of Turning the Life of Your Dreams into Reality, Marilyn reveals the secrets, principles, tools and strategies she and other experts learned and used to achieve a balanced, healthy and joyful life. You can learn more about Marilyn’s books on her website.

Listen to the December 12th, 2011 show.

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How to Network Effectively for Business

As entrepreneurs, we know we need to network to grow our business. As career professionals, we know we need to build relationships to help us advance our career. But how do we do this well? What do we need to know about networking to help us be successful? Diane Darling, founder of Effective Networking, Inc. joins me today to give us some advice on how to approach networking so that we are comfortable and effective. Listen to Diane’s great tips on how to approach new people at networking events and what the best way is to follow up and build relationships that last.

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Diane is the founder of Effective Networking, Inc. and is an expert on networking.Diane believes that everyone can learn to network well, once they find their own style. Her own story is that she is shy herself and needed to get over her fears and learn the skill networking. She not only mastered the skill , but then went to build a successful business from it. Diane is the author of The Networking Survival Guide and Networking for Career Success, both published by McGraw Hill. Diane has appeared on NBC Nightly News. She’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe. And she’s here today on GPS Your Career to offer us some advice on how to network to advance our careers.

 

Listen to the December 5, 2011 show.

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Power Tools for Success

Roseann Barr says, “The thing that women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” This is not an easy task for most women because of the complicated relationship we have with power. Activist, author, and speaker, Gloria Feldt, joins me to discuss this relationship and give us practical tips on how to step into our power and own our talent and unique gifts. Gloria will share with us some “power tools” from her popular book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way We Think about Power and Leadership, to help us re-frame our mindset about power and use it to our advantage in business.

Today, Gloria and I will talk about women and their relationship to power and specifically some of the ways women can “power up” to assume more leadership roles.

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Gloria Feldt has had an incredible career and track record of success. Former CEO of Planned Parenthood, Gloria is an activist, a celebrated author and speaker. This past year, she has been speaking all over the country about her latest book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way We Think about Power and Leadership. In addition to her inspiring keynote speeches, Gloria now offers customized No Excuses Power Tools workshops that include bite sized practical takeaways that participants can use right away. You can check out her website for more information.

Listen to the November 28, 2011 show.