Are you a woman in leadership who is tired of feeling stuck in your career? Like your work isn’t getting the recognition it deserves? Like your voice doesn’t have the influence it needs to contribute to better solutions? Like no matter what you do, you can’t get promoted?
While these challenges don’t discriminate against gender, women need different solutions to overcome them.
It’s not enough for women to simply get leadership training and career advice. They need to learn how to lead with their feminine energy and use it as their biggest advantage.
On this show, career success coach Jill Avey and her guests explore how women can rise from director to vice president and beyond by fully leaning into their feminine energy as their biggest advantage.
In each episode, you’ll understand how women need to lead differently and how by doing so, women leaders gain influence and respect among their colleagues, restore balance to their role, and receive the recognition and promotions they deserve.
Each episode will highlight real-life stories, offer practical advice, and the science of feminine leadership so you can see how women are rising up as far as they want to go, without playing by the old rules that built these male-dominated industries and systems.
It took Jill 10 years to get promoted from director to vice president. She’s here to extend her hand to other women leaders to move past that rung of the ladder in months — or even weeks — instead of years — so we can create more gender balance within leadership positions and feel the effects of women’s influence on the world.
Jill is the founder of SisterSmart where she offers group and private coaching to help her clients find deep fulfillment in their careers, both personally and financially. You can learn more at sistersmart.com
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64: How To Bring Up A Problem At Work Without Sounding Negative
Saison 5 · Épisode 64
jeudi 8 octobre 2026 • Durée 18:33
Every company has a woman who says the thing out loud. She’s the one who names what isn’t working while the rest of the meeting studies the table.
If that’s you, you’ve probably noticed it doesn’t always land the way you’d hope.
You weren’t complaining. You wanted it fixed and you weren’t looking to pin it on anyone.
But naming a problem in front of people usually costs someone something, and most of us never got told that part.
Then it turns up weeks later in your review, in words like difficult, negative, or a little much. It’s hard to shake those words off once they stick to you.
Tune in to learn:
• Why great problem solvers get labeled negative
• The two questions to ask yourself before you raise a problem
Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
A replay will be available for those that register!
62: How To Stay Calm In High Pressure Meetings
Saison 5 · Épisode 62
jeudi 24 septembre 2026 • Durée 20:28
People are always deciding how you handle pressure, and most of the time they never tell you what they decide.
They’re going off whatever they saw the last time things got tense. Somebody pushed back, or a project went sideways, and they read how you reacted to it.
That read follows you around. It turns up later when somebody is weighing whether you’re ready for more.
Most of us put our energy into the wrong half of this. We work on feeling calmer and more sure of ourselves. Then we wait until we feel that way before we speak up or make the hard call.
But nobody you work with has any access to how you feel. They only ever see what you do with it.
Jill sat down with SisterSmart coach Kan Yue to go through all three facets of this one.
Tune in to learn:
• The three facets of how you present, and why two of them are not the same skill
• What it actually costs you when you lose your cool
• The one question to ask yourself when the tension spikes
📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
• Episode 61, the 5 qualities of executive presence https://youtu.be/wol4usjToSM
• Episode 58, on the voices in your head https://youtu.be/WMIR0EtJYGQ
👋 ABOUT KAN YUE
Kan Yue is a leadership coach, speaker and economics professor. She works with women leaders on self-leadership and emotional resilience, helping them turn uncertainty into clarity, doubt into confidence and ambition into meaningful impact.
Kan is a Mastery Method Certified coach through the Institute of Coaching Mastery. She has her PhD in Economics from Purdue and teaches as Associate Professor of Economics at Xavier University in Ohio.
💼 Connect with Kan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanyuecoaching/
61: What Executive Presence Actually Means
Saison 5 · Épisode 61
jeudi 17 septembre 2026 • Durée 17:08
Of all the feedback women get, ‘executive presence’ might be the most common and the least useful.
It turns up in your review. It turns up in the conversation about why somebody else got the role. And it almost never arrives with an example you could actually do anything with.
So it just sits there. You know it’s the thing between you and the next level, and you still have no idea which part of it you’re meant to fix.
That’s not you being slow on the uptake. Those two words cover fifteen separate things, and whoever handed them to you was probably only thinking about one.
Nobody tells you which one. So you work on all of it, or none of it, and the feedback shows up again next year.
So which one is yours?
Tune in to learn:
• What each quality looks like when it’s missing, and what it looks like when it’s there
• The one that most separates a director from a VP
Ten simple concrete moves that build the exact kind of executive presence we talk about in this episode. Pick one and try it this week. http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCommand
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Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
A replay will be available for those that register!
60: How to Answer "What do you want in your career?"
Saison 5 · Épisode 60
jeudi 10 septembre 2026 • Durée 19:23
One of the things women hardly ever do is own their strengths.
We're taught to be humble. To not get a big head. To not be too full of ourselves. So when you do sit down and really look at what you're good at, it can feel like you're overstepping.
So most of us just never do it. We stay busy and we do the work well and we never put words to any of it.
Then someone senior asks what you want next, and there's nothing there to draw from.
Because we try to answer "What do I want?" before we've ever really answered "Who am I?" And those are two really different questions.
Most people have never thought that through.
Jill is joined by SisterSmart mindset coach Kan Yue for this one.
Tune in to learn:
• Why ‘knowing your genius’ has to be written down and not just vaguely understood
• The difference between your skills and your genius, and why women mix them up
• Which of the five areas of your life is almost always the empty one
📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
• Episode 59, on your zone of brilliance and your realized and unrealized strengths https://youtu.be/aZ1jOrKc6H4
• Kan Yue’s first appearance on the show EPISODE 48 https://youtu.be/5rZsBuWvpYs
• Knowing Your Genius, the twelve part worksheet all of Module 1 converges on
• The aspiration statement, the piece that comes after it
👋 ABOUT KAN YUE
Kan Yue is a leadership coach, speaker and economics professor. She works with women leaders on self-leadership and emotional resilience, helping them turn uncertainty into clarity, doubt into confidence and ambition into meaningful impact.
59: Work on Your Strengths not Your Weaknesses
Saison 5 · Épisode 59
jeudi 3 septembre 2026 • Durée 15:54
Every leadership development plan starts in the same place. Here are your gaps. Now go work on them.
It is the most standard advice in corporate life and almost nobody stops to question it.
And you have done it. You took the feedback seriously. You worked the list quietly and mostly on your own time. You did get better at those things.
And the promotion still went to somebody else.
Here's the thing. Senior leaders were never reading down your gap list. They are trying to answer a completely different question about you, and getting better at your weaknesses does nothing to help them answer it.
Nobody has ever told you what that question is. Or that there are two kinds of strengths, and that the one that could change everything for you is the one you have never once been asked to use.
So what are they actually looking for?
Tune in to learn:
The one question senior leaders are actually trying to answer about you
The two kinds of strengths almost nobody has ever explained to you
Why your 'zone of brilliance' is the one thing you cannot see in yourself
• The Strengths Profile assessment, which returns your realized and unrealized strengths
• Knowing Your Genius, the worksheet all of this converges on inside Module 1
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Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
A replay will be available for those that register!
58: How To Stop Self Sabotaging Your Career
Épisode 58
jeudi 27 août 2026 • Durée 28:30
You’re up for the VP role.
On paper you’re the obvious pick. You have the results, receipts, and a team that would follow you anywhere.
And still there is a voice in your head that keeps you a half step back.
It tells you to check that deck one more time before you send it. To hold the work close because your team is maxed out already.
That voice feels like the very thing that got you there, your work ethic.
But what if you’ve been successful in spite of that voice and not because of it?
There are ten of these voices. One master and nine accomplices. Most women have no idea which ones are running the show.
So which ones are yours?
Jill is joined by SisterSmart coach Monica for this one.
Tune in to learn:
• What a ‘saboteur’ is and why yours shows up hardest at the director to VP line
• The two that almost nobody guesses about themselves
• What to do the moment you catch one in action
👋 ABOUT MONICA
Monica is a SisterSmart coach covering the UK and European time zones. She has been using Positive Intelligence and saboteur work with her clients for more than five years and brings it into her coaching with senior women leaders.
💻 READY TO LEAD WITH THEM INSTEAD OF AGAINST THEM?
Once you know your saboteurs, the real work is learning to lead with them. That is exactly what we do inside the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women. Six weeks, moving you from doing to leading, where you learn to catch that reactive voice and choose the response a senior leader would make. The next group starts September 11. https://sistersmart.com/SLA
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The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
57: How To Identify Your Core Values
Épisode 57
jeudi 20 août 2026 • Durée 18:44
You have two real options in front of you.
The promotion and the other thing. Or the stretch role and the job you already have.
And you are good at making decisions. You make hard calls at work every single day.
So you build the list. You weigh it out. You ask your boss, your mentor, your husband, the friend who always tells you the truth. Every answer makes sense and not one of them settles it.
Then it’s three in the morning and you’re lying there running it again. Same two options. Same ceiling.
Here’s the thing. You’re not stuck because you’re bad at this. You’restuck because you keep asking which one is the better opportunity, and that question has no answer. They’re both great opportunities. the whole problem.
There’s a different question sitting underneath it, and almost nobody has ever handed you the tools to ask it.
So what is that stuck feeling actually trying to tell you?
Tune in to learn:
• What a ‘peak experience’ is, and why the small strange ones matter most
• How to read the values hidden inside your own life
• Why one crushed value can make a good job feel unlivable
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Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Year
https://sistersmart.com/register-sil
56: How To Find a Strategic Project at Work with Jen
Épisode 56
jeudi 13 août 2026 • Durée 25:59
Somebody finally tells you to go be ‘strategic’.
So you sit down to pick a project, and you stare at a blank page.
You are a doer. You solve problems. Nobody ever taught you how to go invent something big and shiny to sit on top of the fifty things already on your plate.
You keep waiting for the right one to come along. And every week you keep quietly mopping up the same mess nobody else will touch.
Truth is, that mess is the project.
Jen is a senior leader at a professional services firm and she came to Jill completely stuck. One question changed what she was looking for, and what she found had been sitting in plain sight the whole time.
It became, in her words, probably the biggest thing her firm has done.
Tune in to learn:
• The one question that turns a blank page into an obvious project
• How Jen built the support to change how very senior people behave
• What it did for the firm, and what it did for how the partners see her
ABOUT JEN
Jen is a senior leader at a professional services firm and a seasoned project manager. She leads internal operations and professional development and is known inside her firm as the person who solves the problems nobody else will pick up. Jen is a graduate of the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women.
💻 READY TO FIND YOUR OWN STRATEGIC PROJECT?
The Strategic Leadership Lab for Women is a six-week live cohort led by Jill where you learn to be seen as strategic and walk out with a strategic project of your own. The kind of thing you can point to for years, the way Jen can. The next group starts September 11 and early bird pricing closes August 15. https://sistersmart.com/SLA
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The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
55: 5 Pillars of Strategic Leadership How to Be Seen as Strategic at Work
Épisode 55
jeudi 6 août 2026 • Durée 15:55
Have you ever walked out of a meeting knowing you saw the whole thing coming before anyone else did?
And then watched someone else walk away with the word 'strategic' next to their name instead of yours?
So most of us do the only thing we know how to do. We work harder. We take on more. And still that word floats just out of reach.
Here's the thing. Jill doesn't believe that's the truth about you. You're not un-strategic. You're just not being seen that way yet.
So what are the women who get promoted doing that you aren't?
Tune in to learn:
The five pillars of strategic leadership
What each pillar feels like when it's missing, and what it feels like when it's there
How to tell which pillar is costing you right now
💻 READY TO ACTUALLY LIVE THESE FIVE?
The Strategic Leadership Lab for Women is a six week live cohort led by Jill where you work these pillars in real time alongside a small group of women leaders making the same move. Six live sessions. Your own Big 5 of Strategy assessment and report. A real project from your real job. The next cohort starts September 11 and early bird pricing closes August 15.https://sistersmart.com/SLA
✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP
Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
Kan is a Mastery Method Certified coach through the Institute of Coaching Mastery. She has her PhD in Economics from Purdue and teaches as Associate Professor of Economics at Xavier University in Ohio.
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Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
We offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.https://sistersmart.com/leadership-courses
Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.
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