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 

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