Welcome to Intentional Conversations, the podcast where thoughtful leadership meets meaningful impact.
This week, Dr. Nika White is joined by LaShawn Davis, founder of The HR Plug and creator of The Greatness Lab, for a transformative conversation on leadership, identity, and purpose in the workplace.
Together they explore:
✨ What companies must redefine to retain talent and foster equity
✨ Why so many Black women are leaving corporate America—and what that means for the future of work
✨ LaShawn’s three types of leadership and how to identify your own
✨ What comes next once you understand the kind of leader you are
✨ Insights from her powerful new book and how The Greatness Lab is shaping the next generation of leaders
🎧 Grab your headphones, hit play, and join us for this timely and empowering episode.
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🟣 KEY TAKEAWAYS LASHAWN (We had SOO many key takeaways from this one, so don't just read them, you MUST listen to this episode!)
- You’re not meant to survive your work, but you’re meant to live your greatness! It’s not something you have to chase or define, it’s already in you.
- If I can’t attract one paying client, then it is not what I was created to do!
- There are NO failures in life, there is ONLY learning! The areas you learn from the most are the areas you’ve encountered the most in life. You have a whole master class from what you’ve learned.
- What are you struggling with in a business? What are you struggling with in a career goal? It’s probably because its not what you’re meant to do, you are just out of alignment.
- One way that we can lean into alignment is through emotional regulation. Don’t suppress the emotion, it’s a sign.
- Emotion is the very thing we give other people too much power over.
- The best revenge is your paper! Let you outcomes speak for you!
- There is power in agreement - focus on making YOU better and how that translates in work and what that requires.
- We’ve allowed our success in careers, to be determined by our job titles, etc, that we become strangers to who we are. Then you return as an indespensible asset.
- Start showing our value, identity, and powerfully so they know they can’t operate without YOU.
- We need to unlearn how we have defined professionalism, it isn’t what you look like, professionalism is simply how you show up to do what I’ve hired you to do.
- If you’re praying and not seeing results, it might be time for you to stop and listen.
- Thoughts come and go but when you write it down, it’s conditioned to stay there.
- You can condition your mind to receive what you’re putting on paper!
- Emotional regulation - we don’t realize how much we relinquish - stop emotionally relinquishing and start emotionally regulating!
- Knowing and articulating who you are - how do you expect people to respect you if you don't know who you are?
- Once you learn who you are, and the things you thought were bad, and that there is NOTHING wrong with you, once you know who you are, you’re able to flip that and explain why that is a power move instead!
- Black women are exiting corporate America faster than any other race.
- Tap into who you are because you cannot be rejected!
- 3 types that you lead in your life: discovering what type of leader are you: Visionary (see the future / plan for it), Alignment leader (get people together on one course), Execution (administration, planning, organization). We aren’t supposed to lead in all three, but we try to.
- What type of leader OF your life are you? Then...
