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The Executive Coach for Moms PodcastGrowth Mindset: The Key to Ditching Self-Doubt and Leading with ConfidenceLeanna explores the theme of confidence and how it plays a pivotal role in professional success. Focusing specifically on women in the workplace, Leanna shares lessons from her coaching clients and her own journey, highlighting the shift from knowledge-based confidence to belief in one’s problem-solving abilities. Through real-life examples, she explains how a growth mindset can unlock unshakable confidence, especially in environments where women often feel the pressure to have all the answers. For working mothers, this episode offers a gentle but powerful reminder: you don’t have to over prepare or overwork to prove your value. Leanna’s refl...2025-04-2416 minThe Executive Coach for Moms PodcastSlow Down to Speed Up: The Secret to Sustainable SuccessIn this episode, Leanna explores the concept of "slow down to speed up" and how it applies to high achieving working mothers balancing work, family, and personal well-being. She discusses how constantly pushing forward without pausing can lead to stress, overwhelm, and misalignment with long-term goals. Through real-life examples, Leanna shares how intentional slowing down, whether in decision making, parenting, or daily routines, can actually speed things up while lightening the heavy mental load.Topics covered include: How ambitious women often default to overworking as a stress response The importance of stepping back to align with...2025-03-2718 min
The Executive Coach for Moms PodcastDifficult ConversationsLeanna dives into a topic many leaders face: having difficult conversations. Leanna shares insights on preparing for challenging discussions at work and at home, drawing from coaching experiences and the book Crucial Conversations. She offers practical tools like defining clear goals, approaching with curiosity, focusing on what could go right, and breaking conversations into manageable parts. Whether you’re addressing issues with employees, peers, or family members, this episode will help you tackle those tough talks with confidence and ease. Full transcript available here.Connect with Leanna here.Leanna is offering Coaching for Cha...2024-10-1013 minThe Executive Coach for Moms PodcastCreating Your Own Definition of SuccessAs enrollment for The Executive Mom Reset is currently open, we’re replaying one of Leanna’s coaching episodes to give you an understanding of what a coaching session sounds like.Have you ever stepped back to figure out your own definition of success? In this episode, Leanna coaches Allie, who has been feeling stuck in her career and comes to the conversation looking for strategies for how to advance her career. But through the coaching conversation, she discovers that her definition of success and how she "should" be living is very much informed externally, and it may...2024-09-1243 minThe Executive Coach for Moms PodcastMom GuiltDelve into the pervasive issue of "mom guilt" with Leanna. She explores the root causes of this guilt, especially for high-achieving moms who often struggle to meet the same high standards at home as they do at work. She offers insight into how societal expectations, perfectionism, and the ever-evolving challenges of parenting contribute to these feelings. Leanna also shares practical strategies for redefining personal expectations, shedding light on the reality at hand, and finding balance.Full transcript available here.Connect with Leanna here.Join Leanna and other moms like you in The Mom...2024-08-2916 minThe Executive Coach for Moms PodcastGREATEST HITS - OverwhelmWelcome to the Greatest Hits Summer Series! We’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the first year of the podcast and sharing Leanna’s take on them from her current vantage point.In this episode, Leanna discusses the process of making conscious decisions. She shares her own experience of leaving her executive job to focus on her daughter and highlights the importance of aligning decisions with personal values and vision. Leanna provides four key insights to help listeners navigate decision-making and encourages conscious decision-making and empowers listeners to make choices that bring balance and joy to t...2024-08-2217 minThe Executive Coach for Moms PodcastGREATEST HITS - How Our Thoughts Impact Our ResultsWelcome to the Greatest Hits Summer Series! We’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the first year of the podcast and sharing Leanna’s take on them from her current vantage point.In today’s episode, Leanna dives into the self-coaching model, where she talks about how our thoughts shape our reality. She explains that our brains are meaning-making machines, turning neutral events into thoughts that can either empower or hinder us. Whether it's an email from the boss or a big life change, our interpretations of these events can profoundly impact our feelings and action...2024-07-1820 minThe Executive Coach for Moms PodcastGREATEST HITS - Conscious Decision MakingWelcome to the Greatest Hits Summer Series! We’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the first year of the podcast and sharing Leanna’s take on them from her current vantage point.In this episode, Leanna discusses the process of making conscious decisions. She shares her own experience of leaving her executive job to focus on her daughter and highlights the importance of aligning decisions with personal values and vision. Leanna provides four key insights to help listeners navigate decision-making and encourages conscious decision-making and empowers listeners to make choices that bring balance and joy to t...2024-07-0418 minThe Executive Coach for Moms PodcastGREATEST HITS - Why Working Moms Feel Like We're Failing at EverythingWelcome to the Greatest Hits Summer Series! We’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the first year of the podcast and sharing Leanna’s take on them from her current vantage point.On this week’s episode, Leanna shares how she used to feel like she was failing at everything, despite her accomplishments, due to five factors: perfectionism, all or nothing thinking, people pleasing, valuing work ethic as identity, and recurring negative thoughts. Unfortunately, many working moms can relate to these experiences, which is largely due to a broken system that fails to support working mother...2024-06-0623 min
Wander In Germany Travel And Trip PlanningWhat is the WIG Podcast and Meet Your HostAre you planning a trip to Germany and feeling overwhelmed with questions, unsure about where to start? Perhaps you're missing out on the authentic experiences and local insights that could make your journey truly memorable.
Join LeAnna Brown, Germany travel expert, expat living in Germany, and founder of the #1 Germany Travell Blog, Wander In Germany as she begins her Germany Travel Podcast Journey. Today, we set the stage and scene to let you know exactly what to expect from the jam packed, info filled, insider podcast for Wander In Germany Travel.
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Worthy Mother PodcastWorking Moms: Societal Pressures & Identity Shifts with Leanna Laskey McGrathWorking mothers are expected to work like they don't have kids, and parent like they don't have jobs. Balancing it all can be exhausting, and trying to live up to the unrealistic expectations can leave moms feeling defeated when they feel like they are failing in both areas of their lives. This week, I'm joined by executive coach Leanna Laskey McGrath to explore the identity shifts and pressures faced by high-achieving women once they become mothers, and what we can do to make working motherhood work. In the episode, Leanna and I talk about:The identity s...2024-02-2054 min