[Women Presidents’ Organization] The Space Between

Mary Jane Pioli

Mary Jane Pioli is the President of MJ Pioli and Company, a firm that provides executive coaching, business strategy, peer advisory, and facilitation services. As an executive coach, peer group advisory leader, and business development strategist, Mary Jane is passionate about developing conscious leaders who are happier and more effective in their organizational roles and in their lives. She collaborates with leaders to help them become more intentional about their goals and strategies and find the best ways to inspire others and implement programs, products, and services for success.

Mary Jane is currently the Co-leader of the Seattle and Bellevue Chapters of the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), a Group Leader for the peer advisory group CEO Connect, and an executive coach to managers, directors, C-suite executives, teams, and professional service firm partners. She has enjoyed running her business for the past several years after earning a coaching certification degree and spending the first 15 plus years of her career in the corporate environment. She left the country and traveled for a year through Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, harnessing her type A personality, which allowed her a successful re-entry into the world of business and motherhood.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • How Mary Jane Pioli started her own coaching business and what led to her success
  • Mary Jane’s work to create happier and more effective leaders
  • The value of focusing on the positive versus the negative during coaching
  • How Mary Jane empowers leaders to improve through peer advisory groups
  • How Mary Jane leads like a woman and how the leadership lessons she has learned have impacted her parenting
  • The most challenging part of Mary Jane’s work — and her experience taking classes in basic keelboat sailing and coastal cruising
  • The most impactful piece of advice Mary Jane has received from a mentor
  • Mary Jane talks about her superpower and shares her contact details

In this episode…

To become a better leader, it is important that you learn how to listen, be present, and speak up. This is what Mary Jane Pioli learned from one of her mentors while working in the corporate world. 

You don’t always have to solve every problem on your own, and it is important that you learn how to take a break and relax. Creating a space between allows you to stop worrying and know that the most important thing is taking the first step when you don’t know what the future holds. It helps you work on yourself, avoid burnout, live a happier life, and become a better leader. It helps you learn how to be

In this episode of the Lead Like A Woman Show, Andrea Heuston interviews Mary Jane Pioli, the President of MJ Pioli and Company, about executive coaching and helping leaders become happier and more efficient. They also talk about toxic positivity, empowering and serving other leaders, and how Mary Jane leads like a woman. Stay tuned.

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You Cannot Sit on Two Toilet Seats at the Same Time

Sari Davidson

Sari Davidson is the Owner, Founder, and CEO of BooginHead. What she built in her kitchen in 2005 has grown into a globally distributed brand of stylish baby essentials trusted by parents around the world to keep their babies safe, comforted, and soothed. With innovation and drive, BooginHead has claimed and maintained its space in the hyper-competitive juvenile market industry next to giants such as Munchkin, Newbie, and Dr. Brown’s.

Sari and the company have been recognized as Puget Sound Business Journal’s Fastest-Growing Business and as a 2020 Innovator of the Year, Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman Entrepreneur, Babble’s Top 50 Mompreneurs, and as a Finalist for The Nellie Cashman Award. Sari has been featured on HuffPost, The Wall Street Journal, LadyBossBlogger, Medium, Inc., and 425 Business Magazine as their powerhouse entrepreneur who is changing the business landscape in Washington state.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • What inspired Sari Davidson to leave Microsoft and go into entrepreneurship?
  • Sari explains what BooginHead means and how she grew the business organically
  • The company’s first product and the people that helped with product manufacturing
  • How Sari juggles a professional career with motherhood
  • Sari talks about her hiring ability, the most impactful piece of advice she has received, and her advice to fellow women looking to do something new
  • Sari’s superpower and how to get in touch with her

In this episode…

If you are an entrepreneur and have been struggling to work on two or more business ideas at the same time, then you are sitting on two toilet seats at the same time. When you do that, you fail to give each idea the attention it needs and cannot complete it to your best ability.

Most entrepreneurs tend to work on many business ideas at once — and this can have a negative effect on their efforts. Sari Davidson found herself doing this while simultaneously working at Microsoft and managing a growing business. After some time, she realized that she had to let go of one to put her whole heart in the other.

In this episode of the Lead Like A Woman Show, Andrea Heuston is joined by Sari Davidson, the Owner, Founder, and CEO of BooginHead, to talk about managing life and a growing business. Sari explains the process of starting her own business, how working full time at Microsoft helped her to bootstrap the business, and how she juggles a professional career with motherhood. Stay tuned.

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This episode is brought to you by Artitudes Design by Andrea Heuston. Artitudes Design is an award-winning creative agency that has been creating visual communication for Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years. They have worked with notable companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Expedia, and have also served startups and nonprofit organizations.

They specialize in connecting speakers with audiences by creating visual value with presentations and through the creation of motion graphics, video, and content.

To learn more about Artitudes Design, visit their website today. Checkout their portfolio to see their previous projects, and contact them today to find out how they can help you bring your business a cut above the rest.

Don’t Look For a Blueprint

Tracy Deforge

Tracy Deforge is the Founder and CEO of The Players’ Impact, a venture platform for professional athletes. As an attorney by training, an entrepreneur in spirit, and an executive leader through experience, Tracy’s career has focused in the sports industry on startup companies, technology offerings, and pioneering business initiatives.

Tracy has been starting, growing, and selling companies for over 20 years. After earning her J.D. at Seton Hall University, she worked for the National Hockey League and then Major League Baseball Advanced Media, and was a Partner in the first of its kind venture investment firm focused on companies that intersect sports, technology, and media entertainment. She has two children, is a six-time marathon finisher, a secondary black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and a 2018 Haymakers for Hope fighter.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • Tracy Deforge’s reasons for founding The Players’ Impact and what she loves about her work
  • What went right for Tracy when she started The Players’ Impact?
  • How Tracy supports athletes through her program
  • Tracy’s role as a board member of the USA Team Handball and how she empowers women as the Chair of the Board of Advisors for the National Women’s Soccer League Players Association (NWSLPA)
  • How Tracy leads like a woman — and the most impactful piece of advice she has ever received
  • Tracy’s advice for a woman looking to do something new in her life
  • Tracy talks about Women in Sports and Events (WISE), her superpower, and contact details

In this episode…

When women are empowered, happy, and rise to positions of power, families end up happier and companies become more successful. For Tracy Deforge, leading like a woman means leading in a way that lifts up others. You have to create your own path — think outside the box and don’t look for a blueprint.

One of the best pieces of advice Tracy has received is to never let a bad minute mean a bad life. To live a good life, you have to define yourself and not base your journey on a blueprint or some bad moments. You have to get back up and make a decision to create a more meaningful and valuable life for yourself.

In this episode of the Lead Like A Woman Show, Andrea Heuston interviews Tracy Deforge, the Founder and CEO of The Players’ Impact, about her work in supporting athletes through her organization. Tracy explains why she founded The Players’ Impact and talks about how she empowers others as a board member of the USA Team Handball and the National Women’s Soccer League Players Association. Plus, Tracy shares how we can all take action to spark change. Stay tuned.

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They specialize in connecting speakers with audiences by creating visual value with presentations and through the creation of motion graphics, video, and content.

To learn more about Artitudes Design, visit their website today. Checkout their portfolio to see their previous projects, and contact them today to find out how they can help you bring your business a cut above the rest.

Show Up Boldly

Trish Blackwell

Trish Blackwell is a confidence coach and the Founder of The College of Confidence. She is an expert at empowering people to get past self-doubt, overcome self-limiting beliefs, and perform at their highest levels. She is a confidence coach to Olympic athletes, Ironman champions, CEOs, high-achieving entrepreneurs, and cultural influencers.

Trish is an author, wife, mom, surfer, snowboarder, runner, and Ironman triathlete. She is also the host of The Confidence Podcast, a top-rated podcast for self-improvement. She has been featured by TLC, Entrepreneur, and Elite Daily as one of the top confidence coaches in the world. She specializes in helping high achievers think with more power, clarity, and belief.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • Trish Blackwell talks about her struggles with perfectionism and what inspired her to start podcasting and coaching
  • What went right for Trish when she started podcasting and developing apps?
  • The importance of embracing failure
  • How Trish deals with imposter syndrome and coaches her clients out of it
  • Why you should stop caring what others think about you
  • The most challenging part of Trish’s work as a confidence coach
  • Trish talks about The Confidence Podcast, The College of Confidence, and the most impactful piece of advice she has received from a mentor
  • What Trish is currently curious about and her advice to women on being brave
  • Trish’s superpower and where to learn more about her

In this episode…

Having self-doubt is part of being human, and failing to embrace this is the reason why many people suffer from imposter syndrome. Overthinking causes these feelings which, in the long term, drive people to perfectionism — and this can take a toll on their happiness. Overthinking amplifies your self-doubt and makes it louder than your beliefs, and you end up sidelining yourself and losing your self-confidence.

As a confidence coach, Trish Blackwell gets to work with many women who struggle with their confidence. She helps them see that their value lies in who they are and not what they do. She advises them to be brave and avoid trying to be perfect. Trish also believes in the power of embracing failure, disappointments, and being vulnerable. No one knows everything, and life is about learning from your mistakes and showing up.

In this episode of the Lead Like A Woman Show, Andrea Heuston interviews Trish Blackwell, a Confidence Coach and the Founder of The College of Confidence, about how she helps women build confidence, achieve their life’s purpose, and live boldly. Trish also talks about The College of Confidence, the importance of failure and not caring what others think, and how she deals with imposter syndrome. Stay tuned.

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Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Artitudes Design by Andrea Heuston. Artitudes Design is an award-winning creative agency that has been creating visual communication for Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years. They have worked with notable companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Expedia, and have also served startups and nonprofit organizations.

They specialize in connecting speakers with audiences by creating visual value with presentations and through the creation of motion graphics, video, and content.

To learn more about Artitudes Design, visit their website today. Checkout their portfolio to see their previous projects, and contact them today to find out how they can help you bring your business a cut above the rest.