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
100 episodes
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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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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6:07
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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6:19
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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5:24
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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6:27
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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5:53
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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