The mission of the KTS Success Factor® Podcast for Women is to bring proven ideas female business leaders can use to increase their ability to achieve big goals and become happy, successful, and understood at work. All this in 25 minutes or less. Sarah E. Brown, Ph.D. is an expert on personalizing work to the unique interests, strengths, and needs of the workforce. A former Managing Director at Accenture, she is now on a mission to reach 250,000 women with knowledge of their unique gifts and the tools to be happy, successful and understood at work.
http://sarahebrown.com/podcast
Do Your Career Differently with Danielle deShaw
Are you struggling with your career right now? Do you want to know how to overcome those career challenges? Are you ready for the change that it will bring?
Unfamiliarity may be scary but it’s the hidden door that could unlock your full potential in your business and in your life. With this, changing the way you think can help you grow more and help you discover more things about yourself. The discomfort of change will help you grow and with this growth, you will be able to overcome the career challenges that you are facing.
Danielle deShaw is proving that when it comes to your career journey, where you start is not where you have to finish. She’s passionate about leading conversations that empower women 10+ years into their careers to do their careers and development differently, in a familiar way. A natural problem solver, as Host of The C-Suite on Roger TV, she connects career challenges facing women today to solutions provided by women entrepreneurs.
In this episode, Danielle shares her experiences in the big shift of her career journey, from working in a microbiology lab to becoming an award-winning businesswoman. She also shares the power of shifting your mindset and thinking differently.
What you will learn from this episode:
- Discover how to overcome career challenges by changing your thinking
- Learn more about the five-way process and how it can help you reflect more on your thoughts and actions
- Find out how thinking differently can help you grow and better know yourself and the career that is best for you
“Be in the moment, instead of wanting to solve the problem and move on to the next fire that's burning. Be present and start to ask yourself, what's really driving the actions and your decision.”
- Danielle deShaw
Valuable Free Resource:
- Check out Danielle’s goal-achieving method! Visit: https://www.flowcode.com/page/danielledeshaw
Topics Covered:
2:24 - Challenge is facing difficulties and problems with the same old habits and behaviors while expecting a different result while doing the same thing
05:04 - Doing everything on their own and all alone especially when handling problematic situations: the common mistake business women leaders make
06:03 - One free and actionable tip you can do to address these challenges and change your way of thinking: Become aware of how you’re making decisions and what is actually driving the actions that you are taking
07:58 - One valuable resource to help you start thinking differently in a familiar way: Check out Danielle’s goal-achieving method! Visit: https://www.flowcode.com/page/danielledeshaw
09:11 - Q: How has thinking differently allowed me to overcome career challenges?
A: Because I was thinking differently, and I created this almost game-changing competence for myself, I know now that I have value to offer people. I can create that positive impact. I found my voice and I know my worth.
Key Takeaways:
“When you actually start listening and becoming more aware, you become aware that most of your thinking and actions are learned, they're habits, and potentially they're part of the overall corporate culture.” - Danielle deShaw
“Once you're aware of this root cause of your thinking, you now know that starting point in which to start making paint, and when you paint you're thinking you can paint how you're seeing challenges and you become more open to identifying and taking actions on different solutions.” - Danielle deShaw
“Personal growth and thinking differently, and this idea around identifying a goal and knowing exactly what I wanted, and then she became a compass. No matter the highs or the lows that I was experiencing in my work, in business, or in life, I found that when I got focused on getting very clear on what it is that I wanted, and I took intentional action to move towards that, that goal and what I wanted, things always worked out.” - Danielle deShaw
“Because I was thinking differently, and I created this almost game-changing competence for myself, I know now that I have value to offer people. I can create that positive impact. I found my voice and I know my worth.” - Danielle deShaw
“At the end of the day, once I started thinking differently, and I saw the results, it became the data or that proof that really solidified that thinking differently works.” - Danielle deShaw
Ways to Connect with Danielle deShaw:
- Website: https://www.flowcode.com/page/danielledeshaw
Ways to Connect with Sarah E. Brown:
● Website: https://www.sarahebrown.com