Leadership is Feminine – Details, episodes & analysis

This bonus episode is for you if you are you tired of dealing with team members who refuse to take ownership, accountability, or responsibility? Too much focus on blame rather than solutions? In our next Bonus Episode focused on the “biggest bummers you didn’t see coming as a small business owner, let’s confront what so many of you are facing… very real issues, that van feel like crisis levels of absent accountability and responsibility on the team.

✨ What's Inside:

- Real-Life Leadership Lessons: Kris shares compelling stories from her nearly 30-year leadership journey, revealing profound insights into dealing with accountability, ownership, and responsibility.

- Actionable Strategies: Learn how to address and manage employees who resist meeting expectations, and what consistent actions you can take to uphold business standards.

- Empowerment Tools: Equip yourself with the tools and confidence to hold your team accountable, ensuring they meet the goals and agreements they’ve committed to.

- Courage-Building Techniques: Discover how to become a steadfast leader who fosters an environment of excellence and accountability, even in the face of resistance and mediocrity.

Join Kris Plachy as she unpacks her personal mission of transforming how you, lead your team. This is more than just a podcast episode—it’s your blueprint for solving a very real, daily problem.

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Are you tired of feeling like a babysitter or a referee in your own business? Are your employees giving reality TV a run for its money with all their drama? Well, hold onto your ergonomic chair because we've got the cure for your workplace woes! Tune into our latest episode of The Leadership is Feminine podcast featuring the utterly fabulous Kris Plachy!

 Episode Highlights:

- Leadership Hacks for Drama Kings/Queens: Discover how to handle workplace drama without morphing into Jerry Springer.

- Real-World Case Study: Meet one of Kris's long-term clients who turned her chaotic soap opera of a workplace into a $30 million business. We’re not kidding—a few years ago, her employees were duking it out over parking spots!

- People Management Magic: From dealing with the office gossip to navigating messy employee breakups, Kris has you covered with tips that actually work.

- Positional Authority (Not a Fancy Throne): Learn how to leverage your position to enforce agreements and uphold company values, ensuring mutual respect without any Game of Thrones-style power plays.

 What You'll Learn:

1. Drama-Free Business Strategies: From parking lot fights to emotional breakdowns, make your office more zen and less wrestling ring.

2. Clear Communication: Learn how to have honest and direct conversations without channeling your inner drill sergeant.

3. Value-Based Leadership: Establish a culture where gossiping is as welcome as a Monday morning meeting.

4. Handling Personal Crises: Supporting employees through tough personal times without turning into their life coach.

5. Legal Guidance: When and how to seek accommodations for employees with medical diagnoses while navigating the legal maze without needing a law degree.

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- Exclusive Early Access: Be the first to sign up for Kris Plachy’s 'Lead for Women' program, an 8-week intensive designed to transform female entrepreneurs into confident, drama-free leaders. Our invitation list subscribers will receive advanced registration details on Friday, 9/13!

- Limited Time Invitation: Early registration opens this Friday for a select 24-hour window. Don't miss out, or you’ll be dealing with this year’s employee drama next year too.

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In the past 20 years, there has been a wave of women-owned businesses, and women selling those businesses. However, no one is really talking about it. In this mini series, host Kris Plachy is bringing women business owners on to talk about their experiences of selling their businesses. In this episode of Leadership is Feminine, Kris talks with Christina Scalera who shares her story of creating and selling The Contract Shop, and the emotional journey she experienced along the way.

As the co-founder of The Contract Shop, an online store that provided legal templates and courses for entrepreneurs, Christina shares her post-sale experiences, including her struggle with the shift in social currency and relationships. The importance of selling at the right time and critically assess leadership roles for women is also discussed.

Christina shares valuable advice about the importance of readiness for potential sales, setting up efficient business systems, and emphasizing unique aspects of a business - trademarks, business names, and the essence of a brand, to name a few. Join us for an engaging conversation touching on entrepreneurship, women in leadership, politics, business transitions, and a whole lot more.

“Practically speaking, the decisions that you make in your business are going to change your overall life and you can make that about something or not.”

Christina Scalera’s experience as a corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur is a true testament to the tenacity, innovation, and heartfelt commitment it takes to tackle complex challenges using scrappy solutions.

With over a decade of experience as an intellectual property attorney, Christina Scalera has navigated the murky legal waters on behalf of dozens of clients. This extensive experience was instrumental in founding an award-winning LegalTech company in 2015, which she successfully sold in 2022.

Christina Scalera now runs an of-counsel trademark firm supporting other attorneys and law firms, alongside a business consultancy.

Website: electelliott.org

Instagram: @electelliottt

1. The importance of female leaders and their confidence.

2. Emphasis on conversations as a tool for uncovering opportunities and finding clarity in desires.

3. Overcoming doubts about starting or selling a business.

4. Selling The Contract Shop: Systems and processes put in place to make a company appealing to buyers.

5. The value of trademarks in business sales and the potential difficulties for new buyers.

6. Selling at the Peak of Success: Maximize return, and the negatives of a "more, more, more", mentality.

7. The Process of Selling and Choosing a Broker

8. Advice for content creators on separating their personal brand from their business.

Become a Visionary.CEO/catalyst and spread the word! Kris explains all the details on the podcast this week. Essential, go to www.theVisionary.CEO/catalyst, Register, Grab the Visionary.CEO/Podcast link from your dashboard and SHARE IT with all the women you know in your friend, colleague and network circles.

We'll be tracking links by Catalyst and awarding each Catalyst who shares her link to at least 20 women with a free digital course from Kris's Boutique. 

The best leadership guidance and mentorship experience exclusive for women who lead. High performing teams require highly skilled, high performing leaders. It's time to develop exceptional leadership prowess. THE LEAD LESSONS for Women equip you with the tools and strategies to navigate the leadership landscape like a true visionary.

Our unique blend of Digital Lessons and live Mentorship-calls delivers the real-world practices you need for confident and consistent leadership. thevisionary.ceo/nextstep

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Guiding women and solving issues is my passion. Tackling things that can appear to be unsolvable but really are not. Being real with thoughts and feelings and issues, and especially as entrepreneurial women in leadership. In this, I have found that I'm not alone. Many women crave true connection that speaks to deeper things in their lives and, particularly, in their businesses.

If you’re a leader, and all this resonates with you, you’re in the right place. I want to personally invite you to consider joining one or more of the opportunities I offer. I believe there is so much good for you to do and so much good for you to have, and I would be honored to help you bring those things to life. To help and encourage you to invest in yourself, to step into your power, to embrace the truth that YOU are the asset!

“You have days where you really are stepping into your power and your voice. And you feel really good about it. And you have to look at, ‘Okay, what happened on that day?’  And then there are days where you really question what you’re doing and you don’t know. And you have to look at what’s going on on that day.” – Kris Plachy

• True connection
• Restorative opportunities
• Step into your power
• Come to transformative work
• Reject voices that pull you down
• Invest in yourself

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As women, we like to collaborate. It’s part of our makeup. However, it’s essential to know how to collaborate as an entrepreneurial leader because not all collaboration is beneficial. So in this next installment of the Leadership is Feminine Formula, we’re talking about the pluses and minuses of collaboration.

When we first start a business, most of us start out as solopreneurs. It isn’t until later that we add a team and add elements of collaboration. And as we work through this new jungle of business growth, it can be way too easy to tumble into the pitfalls. One pitfall is believing that you need others to direct your business. Another is avoiding discomfort. Another is developing an environment where everything has to pass through your hands or approval first. All of these can hinder the growth you desire and deserve. But positive, beneficial collaboration is achievable. Let’s talk about it.

“We collaborate out of scarcity. We collaborate out of believing our ideas aren’t good enough… No. It’s still yours. You always drive the result… and you are totally competent.” – Kris Plachy

• Journey into collaboration
• Staying strategic
• Embracing discomfort
• Retaining and teaching ownership
• Banishing Problem-Solver-in-Chief status

• Leadership Is Feminine Formula: Day 1 podcast episode
• How to Hold People Accountable 
• The Founders Curse

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As women, we have enormous potential to lead. It’s inherent in who we are. But we tend to dismiss a lot of our feminine attributes as not being effective enough or strong enough. And this simply is not true.

That's why, for this podcast episode, my team and I want to share with you the recording from the first day of our live, free Leadership is Feminine Formula week. It was so powerful and we hope it emboldens you to no longer lead with just your masculine traits. Our desire for you is to compel you to be who you want to be – who you are designed to be – by putting to use all of your wonderful, valuable and dynamic feminine assets to lead and to lead well.

“When you think about yourself as a leader, how do you compare to what you believe leadership looks like? .... Do you align? And if not, where’s the gap?” – Kris Plachy

• Learned leadership
• Feminine assets
• How you think about yourself
• The superpower of feeling things
• Holding boundaries
• The tendency to use masculine energy

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How does your self-worth relate to accountability? As women, we often relate our responsibility in needing to hold people accountable to how we view ourselves. The negative associations of accountability have grown to the point where setting boundaries seems nearly impossible. It’s gotten so bad that some female business owners have considered just ending their businesses altogether. They’re struggling with a nearly overwhelming number of issues: people not following through, not showing up, not keeping their commitments.

But is the issue of accountability really a direct reflection of us as female entrepreneurs? No, it isn’t. The core actually comes down to how we view our own worthiness. And there are people that want to work, want to do a good job, want to be part of something amazing. They exist. You just need to find them. And you need to reframe your beliefs to embrace that you – and your business – are both worthy and worth it.

“The reason that we allow people to not fully meet the expectations that we have of them in our business is because we don’t believe we are worthy of it.” – Kris Plachy

• Negative associations with accountability
• Questioning your worthiness
• True accountability
• Your real responsibility
• Good people out there
• Why you created your business
• Stuck in the cycle of compromise

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Leadership Is Feminine podcast episode recommendation: How to Hold People Accountable

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Why is holding people accountable so difficult as a female business owner? How did simply holding people accountable become associated with being bitchy? Why do not only others tend to think that but we, as women, can even think that about ourselves? It’s not right!

In this episode, I tackle the problem of holding people accountable. It seems that in today’s age, this can be harder than ever before. But it shouldn’t be. All you’re actually doing is expecting people to do what they agreed to do. It’s not unreasonable. I’ve found that the most important and impactful form of accountability is holding ourselves accountable. What do I mean by that? Let’s talk about how to hold people accountable, without anger and while showing one of the highest forms of love.

“Women, over time, learn to not hold themselves to account when other people disregard, disrespect, do not follow through on – or just ignore – a grievance.  Because they don’t want to be thought of as aggressive or bitchy… They get left out of the tribe. So what I want you to know is: You’re very welcome in my tribe.” – Kris Plachy

• Holding yourself accountable
• You’re very welcome in my tribe
• You don’t have to be mad
• What you’re really saying when you don’t address it
• One of the highest forms of love

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Book Recommendation: The Gifts of Imperfection  by Brené Brown

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Finding the right people to work, especially in the last couple of years, has become very tangled. People have started new businesses, closed businesses, changed jobs, juggled an ever-changing job landscape… and so on. While experts in fields have become more scarce, many entrepreneurs have had businesses explode before they are even ready. And thus, they need help but it has been rather chaotic.

The frustration of finding enough good people has become very real. Business owners are finding what they’re seeking for their business is no longer matching what those who are skilled want. So does that mean it’s not going to work? Is it time to hang it up? Or is it time to approach and frame things differently?

“First of all, our clarity in how we design roles is critical… I need people who can think about what to do and they can actually do it... I have to hire strategists that also produce.” – Kris Plachy

• Where have all the experts gone?
• Segmented help
• People who actually know how to execute
• The need to develop expertise
• Identify potential

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• Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
• CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.

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Is CEO a noun or a verb? You may have never contemplated that question but the differences it implies are significant. What do you think of, what comes up for you internally, when you hear the word CEO? Do you have a visual in your mind of a particular person? A functional role? A personae? A specific vibe?

As we continue on our path of new and of change this season, I want to challenge your brain and your default thinking. CEO is an acronym that has, for decades, been a very masculine term and title. And, as such, has been difficult for some women to embrace. But what if we viewed “CEO” not as a noun, but rather a verb? What if it is about actions you’re taking to put your magic out into the world, to allow that magic of a business you’ve been kissed with to grow and expand? 

“Whatever you choose to call yourself, my goal is always that it instills a little discomfort. And it invites you to a new level of gravitas, a new level of presence, and a bigger, bolder – but also authentic – voice in leadership.” – Kris Plachy

• Changing your voice and presence
• Implications of the term CEO
• Gravitas and out of the weeds
• Impairing growth in the moment
• Power and presence of CEOing

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• CEO Immersion: Five full days of complete immersion during which you’ll be coached and advised, and you’ll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately. (The week will be scheduled in October 2022 and take place in Sacramento, CA. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.) CEOImmersion.com.

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