WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk with Elaine Lou Cartas
Struggling with what to do next? Need honest realtalk cause you're tired of the curated highlight reels on the socials? And want strategies to get out of your own way?
Your host, Elaine Lou Cartas, the oldest daughter of a Filipino immigrant, is an award-winning Business and Executive Career Coach for women of color and allies. Elaine is like you - she’s been fired, quit jobs, changed careers three times, and been in debt. Elaine’s success story? She’s always done what’s true to herself and wants you to know it’s possible too. She’s a former grassroots organizer and nonprofit fundraiser who raised $11 million.
LA Weekly awarded Elaine as the #1 Thought Leader in 2023, and MSN recognized her as the Best Leadership & Executive Coach in 2024. Elaine has online courses with LinkedIn, Duke, Brown, Penn and USC.
On the WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk® Podcast (formerly known as the Color Your Dreams podcast), Elaine reminds you that your definition of happiness in work and life can evolve. Elaine's podcast guests include team members, clients, friends, and even family members who discuss real challenges and how they honored their own voices. As a business owner and career leader, this podcast is here to help you overcome overwhelm, while protecting your peace. So bring your coffee, tea, or boba for some realtalk every other Thursday! @elainelou_ // www.elainelou.com
WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk with Elaine Lou Cartas
137: Difficult Conversations & Self-Defense: In the Boardroom and on the Streets
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Main Points
Self-care is more than just getting a massage, mani/pedi, it’s listening to those whispers of what you need to change in your life.
This is a replay of my talk from the Women Leading Travel Forum in New Orleans with top female leaders from travel and hospitality, where I was leading a leadership workshop on how to handle difficult conversations at work; plus a live self-defense demo I brought onto the main stage. Whether it’s in the board room or in the real world, it’s the same strategy.
In this episode:
- The exact script for dealing with a narcissist at work: The neuroscience behind your trauma response, and the 1 calm question that makes them short-circuit.
- How to manage up and down without burning out: Why "my team is overwhelmed" doesn't land, and the script that actually gets you heard.
- My raise/promotion homework, plus a live self-defense demo
Resources Mentioned
- Women Leading Travel
- Autoimmunity and the Good Girls by Sara Hirsh Bordo
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Where We Can Connect:
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