Podcast Episodes

Design Yourself 11: Storytelling – The Present

Carpe diem, baby. In part 3 of our 4-part miniseries on Storytelling, we go deep on the role of the present in shaping our stories. We explore the power of being able to bring new awareness to what you see right now using the wise words of the late writer David Foster Wallace (this is …

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Design Yourself 10: Storytelling Miniseries – The Past

Welcome to Part 2 of our 4 part miniseries on Storytelling. Today’s episode looks at the Past and the influence our telling of it can have on our present and even our future. Draw awareness to the importance of your story “up until now” and learn tips on how to revise and adapt your personal …

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Design Yourself 09: Storytelling Miniseries – Time Travel

Today we kick off our 4-part miniseries on storytelling. In our Kick Off Episode, you will learn about the power of owning your role as life author and learn about how different leanings in time affect the way we interpret and react to events around us. Sharon provides a quick snapshot of what each Time …

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Design Yourself 08: Ask For Help

Today Sharon explores the topic of asking for help. You will learn about why flexing this skill is a critical component of successful leadership and sane living, what holds us back from asking for help, and why we’ve got to push forth and ask anyway. Finally Sharon offers 5 Rules of the Road for how …

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Design Yourself 07: Fail Forward!

This week Sharon discusses the importance of embracing failure. (Fail forward!) Gain distinctions about how to own your own story, what it means to be (and be a part of) a deliberately developmental organization, and our default reactions to failure. Sharon shares tips for how to get comfortable stepping into the Fail Forward! mindset and …

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Design Yourself 06: No Such Thing As 50-50

Sharon reflects this week on work-life balance – or really imbalance. She shares the marriage advice that stuck with her as she nears her 9-year wedding anniversary: “Marriage takes 100% effort to be successful, but rarely is it split 50-50. Sometimes it’s 60-40. Sometimes it’s 90-10. But it always takes 100% effort to work.” After …

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Design Yourself 05: A Vision Meditation

Naming what you want is an incredible first step to any kind of change. In today’s podcast, Sharon shares the first step in her Go Beyond Vision Cycle: Getting clear on what it is that you want. To help listener’s see for themselves what it is that their hearts desire, she spends most of the podcast offering …

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Design Yourself 04: The Importance of Taking Breaks

In Episode 4 of Design Yourself, Sharon talks about why stepping away from your computer and taking a break is one of the best things we can do for ourselves – and our work too. Bonus: You can hear the birds chirping in the background of this episode recorded on Lake Champlain (NY) at sunrise. …

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