Your Future Realized
A trusted advisor for hundreds of leaders, Laura brings her years of experience as an operations executive and change management strategist to the microphone. She launched Your Future Realized podcast to help other ops execs gain the self-awareness and confidence to build relationships and make a bigger impact.
Episodes
87 episodes
86: How Ops Execs Can Stop Drowning in Priorities
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/86.If you’ve ever gone sailing, you know you can’t focus on every wave. You have to pick your course and stick with it, or risk spinni...
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Episode 86
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85: Why Every Ops Decision Builds Your Reputation
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/85.Your reputation as an operations leader isn’t built in a single moment. It’s shaped by every decision you make, day in and day out....
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Episode 85
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84: How Ops Execs Decide Fast Without Regret
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/84.You know that feeling when you’re stuck in a decision? The more you think about it, the harder it gets to move. I’ve be...
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Episode 84
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6:05
83: The Secret to Ops Team Trust When Everything Changes
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/83.This spring, a pair of eastern bluebirds nested on my back deck for the fourth year in a row. I have no idea why they keep coming b...
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Episode 83
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82: Unlocking Introvert Potential in Operations with Dr. Jennifer Kahnweiler
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/82.Speaking as an introvert who spent years working in operations, I wish I’d met today’s guest sooner. Dr. Jennifer Kahnweiler has be...
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Episode 82
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28:05
81: How Ops Execs Can Stop Being Overlooked and Start Being Heard with 3 Actionable Moves
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/81.Melanie*’s job as an operations leader means she often has to say things people don’t want to hear. She got the role because she’s ...
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Episode 81
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5:06
80: Should Ops Execs Stop Picking Up the Slack?
Find the full episode at yourfuturerealized.com/80.Yesterday someone kicked off our conversation by saying: "Why do I feel like I’m the one always picking up the sla...
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Episode 80
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79: Hey Ops Execs, Here’s the Time Management Hack You Actually Need
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/79.You know Florence Griffith Joyner, right? The fastest woman in history. What makes her legendary isn’t just her speed, but how she ...
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Episode 79
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78: 3 Ways Ops Execs Nail Presentations Without Self-Doubt
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/78.Once upon a time, there was an operations executive who was brilliant. For years, she’d been the go-to problem solver, building a c...
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Episode 78
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6:19
77: What Happens When Ops Leaders Go Unnoticed?
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/77.You know how Chewbacca didn't get a medal at the end of the first Star Wars movie? I never understood that, considering how importa...
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Episode 77
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5:58
76: Are You an Ops Exec Who's Drowning in Team Drama? Here's How to Stay Afloat.
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/76.Picture this: You're in your office, and there's a knock on the door. It's Sarah from Accounting, and she's got that look on her fa...
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Episode 76
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75: How to Lead Operations Through Change Without Being a Pushover
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/75.Ever catch yourself biting your tongue in a meeting, agreeing to yet another project when you're already swamped implementing big c...
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Episode 75
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5:10
74: Why Ops Execs Should Brag More (Yes, Really)
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/74.Did you know that, according to Harvard Business Review, the average executive spends 23 hours a week in meetings*? Yet mo...
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Episode 74
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73: The Ops Leader's Guide to Projecting Confidence Under Pressure
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/73.A client reached out, caught off guard by her boss’s unexpected invitation for coffee the next morning. Out of the blue. No details...
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Episode 73
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72: How Operations Leaders Shape Organizational Climate
Check out the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/72.Are you feeling like you're always putting out fires instead of making real progress at work? I recently got to chat with Kristy Farewell, the brains behind Kairos In...
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Episode 72
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71: The Human Side of Operational Leadership
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/71. One of the worst pieces of advice I ever got was from a boss who thought being powerful meant being detached. To her, emotion...
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Episode 71
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70: How Ops Execs Transform from Busy to Brilliant
For the full transcript, visit yourfuturerealized.com/70.What if you didn't have to choose between working hard and taking care of yourself? Is it possible to find that right balance?
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Episode 70
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69: Mastering the Strategic ‘No’ in Operations
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/69.Working with operations leaders has shown me time and time again just how essential you all are in transforming chaos into order. Your strength, creativity, and humility are the back...
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Episode 69
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5:19
68: When Personal Branding Doesn’t Work for Ops Execs (and How to Fix It)
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/68.How often do you find yourself dwelling on a moment where you didn't quite shine? Perhaps it was a presentation that f...
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Episode 68
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67: How Shrewd Ops Execs Escape the Trap of People-Pleasing & Imposter Syndrome
Find the full transcript and more resources for operations executives at yourfuturerealized.com/67.Being an operations executive is no easy feat. Your attention is constantly pulled in lots of directions to keep the gears of your compan...
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Episode 67
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5:32
66: Empowering Your Ops Team with Clear & Effective Feedback
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/66.Adam seemed like the perfect leader for a tech start-up: visionary, problem-solver, and a great team motivator. But as year-end neared, some cracks started to show. Adam had trouble ...
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Episode 66
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65: 5 Survival Strategies for Overworked Operations Execs
Find the full episode at yourfuturerealized.com/65.Operations executives usually love to solve problems. And why not? It’s not just about fixing issues. It’s about creating seamless systems, putting the kibosh on bottlenecks and breakdo...
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Episode 65
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5:59
64: Networking Secrets for Introverted Ops Leaders
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/64.Does the idea of networking make you cringe? I get it. I've often joked that I'd rather re-grout my bathroom tiles or even sit through a root canal than network. As an in...
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Episode 64
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6:01
63: The Unseen Strength and Emotional Labor of Ops Leaders
Find the full transcript and more resources for operations execs at yourfuturerealized.com/63.To everyone out there leading operations: I see you being the glue holding your orga...
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Episode 63
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62: The Secret to Staying Overwhelmed in Operations
Catch the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/62.Life in the fast lane. That is leading operations. Your calendar is a marathon of day-to-day firefighting and your to-do list stretches well past the hours in a day. You may not hav...
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Episode 62
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