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
108 episodes
107: 3 Rules of Micro-Recognition Every Ops Exec Needs to Prevent Team Burnout
Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/107.Leading operations means balancing precision with people—and that’s not always easy.I know an ops leader in a fast-growing...
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Episode 107
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5:18
106: 3 Steps to Break Free from Micromanaging and Start Trusting Your Ops Team
Find the full transcript at: YourFutureRealized.com/106.When was the last time you truly left your phone alone for a whole hour? No peeking at Slack, or email? Does anyone do that anym...
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Episode 106
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5:41
105: Stop Chasing Perfect Info and Start Making Smarter Ops Decisions
Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/105.Ever have one of those days where even the smallest decisions feel impossible? Even the best ops leaders can freeze up, not for l...
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Episode 105
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5:43
104: How to Guard Your Reputation in Operations
Find the full episode and transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/104.Have you ever led a team and realized—maybe a little too late—that something was off? On the surface, everyt...
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Episode 104
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103: How to Make Neurodiversity Work in Operations, with Rachel Radway
Find the full episode, and more resources for operations executives, at yourfuturerealized.com/103.Ever notice someone on your team seems to operate on an entirely different wavelength...
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Episode 103
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22:43
102: What to Do When Your Ops Playbook Needs a Mindset Shift
Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/102. I want to tell you about Sam. Sam is an operations leader at a small business that’s growing and changing fast. He’s very u...
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Episode 102
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6:38
101: 3 Steps Ops Execs Take to Stay Ahead in a Changing World
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/101. How many of your meetings truly move the needle? I recently worked with someone whose days were full of urgent ...
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Episode 101
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5:47
100: What I’ve Learned About Operations Leadership After 100 Episodes
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/100.I’ve struggled with running for years. I’d push through 5ks, only to crash hard afterward, wiped out, knees spent, quitting for m...
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Episode 100
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6:48
99: How One Curious Habit Builds Resilience in Ops Leaders
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/99. Last week, I was chatting with a creative powerhouse of an ops leader who's been juggling a global team around the clock. She...
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Episode 99
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6:32
98: Hey Ops Exec, Stuck Spinning Your Wheels? Here’s How to Break Free and Gain Traction
Find the full transcript at: yourfuturerealized.com/98.Operations execs often tell me they’re running full tilt but are unable to make meaningful progress. Days packed with back-to-back...
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Episode 98
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6:30
97: How Ops Leaders Can Turn Conflict into Their Team’s Competitive Edge
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/97.At a successful, growing company, the sales ops team was split into two, to form dedicated sales and ops teams. It looked like the ...
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Episode 97
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6:14
96: How to Strengthen Stakeholder Relationships as an Ops Exec (and Become the First to Know)
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/96.You know what it’s like when you’re juggling a dozen urgent things, and suddenly a project just… stalls? Out of the blue. Later, yo...
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Episode 96
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95: How to Lead Operations When You Don’t Have All the Answers
Find the full transcript for this episode at yourfuturerealized.com/95.I’m looking at a little photo of a bluebird on my bulletin board, with a saying that’s stuck with me. It goes,...
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Episode 95
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6:08
94: Should Operations Executives Trust Their Gut?
Find the full transcript for this episode at yourfuturerealized.com/94.How often do you find yourself in a meeting, the conversation swirling, and suddenly everyone’s looking to you for...
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Episode 94
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5:49
93: 1 Simple Practice Every Ops Exec Needs to Take Back Their Day
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/93.You know that feeling when you log on in the morning, and before you’ve even had your first sip of coffee, the Slack pings start ro...
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Episode 93
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5:52
92: Navigating the Messy Middle and the Human Side of Operations, with COO Josh Renicker
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/92."I don't have the answers... I'm the guy that asks more questions." That's Josh Renicker, COO of Energy Access...
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Episode 92
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32:06
91: The Most Dangerous Habit in Operations Leadership
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/91.Ever been the only lifeguard at a packed pool? You’re perched up high, scanning every corner, whistle ready, always on alert. ...
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Episode 91
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6:22
90: 1 Simple Way to Make Your Value Visible in Operations
Find the full transcript at: yourfuturerealized.com/90.Have you heard this old joke?: “What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians? A drummer.” It always ...
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Episode 90
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89: A Guide to Accountability Conversations for Ops Leaders
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/89.“Ugh, I know I need to have this conversation. But I don’t want to sound harsh or make them defensive.”If your ops ...
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Episode 89
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6:23
88: Ops Leaders, Are You Ready to Lead Through the Chaos?
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/88.Some days it feels like you’re spinning plates on a windy day, and everyone’s counting on you to keep things from crashing.W...
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Episode 88
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5:40
87: Hey Ops Exec, Do You Need to Say 'No' More?
Find the full transcript at yourfuturerealized.com/87.Most ops leaders I know have a hard time saying no. They don’t want to let people down and just know what needs to be done. It can ...
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Episode 87
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5:49
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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