In this episode, Lis is joined by Praise Santos McKenna, founder of Come Plum, to discuss creating your personal brand, throwing out the “shoulds” in entrepreneurship, and manifesting ease. Praise works at the beautiful intersection of brand photography and personal branding for thought leaders.

In this episode, Lis is joined by storytelling coach Liz Morrison to discuss the power of reflecting on our own stories, how to become the author of your story this year and how you can use storytelling as a tool for connection.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Sam Hartsock, co-founder of qb. consulting, to discuss what it means to take a human-centered approach to ESG strategy and consulting, the Remake Ambassador Program, and balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Luisa Alberto, the CEO of People First Finance, to discuss what she wishes more entrepreneurs knew about money, the importance of money mindset for founders, and how to figure out profitability in your business.  Luisa shares her journey from running a juice bar to launching People First Finance. She discusses the challenges of rapid growth, experiencing burnout, and the importance of financial literacy. Luisa provides a simple framework for calculating profitability, highlights the importance of factoring in owner pay, and explains the role of bookkeepers in providing insights and helping business owners make informed decisions. Luisa addresses the harmful financial advice that can be found online and the importance of advocating for yourself and knowing when to seek professional guidance.  Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (02:56) The power of active listening and enjoying life (06:40) Opening and growing People First Finance (12:41) Business lessons of 2024 (16:40) Rebuilding from burnout (21:35) Learning to ask for help (29:29) Building a relationship with your numbers (34:07) Understanding the profitability of your offers (39:01) Debunking common money advice (42:44) Cultivating a healthy money mindset (47:30) Leadership means integrity (50:08) Thinking big and zooming out Resources Mentioned: Sign up for the email series "Savvy Scaling Beyond $500K" — everything your accountant never told you: https://peoplefirstfinance.com/savvy-scaling-signup Guest Info:  Connect with Luisa on LinkedIn Follow Luisa on Instagram Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.  

In this episode, Lis is joined by Jessica Lackey, a business and operations strategist, to discuss defining your business model, the six systems your business needs, how subcontracting can stabilize your revenue, and more. Jessica breaks down different types of business models and explains the importance of business foundations for sustaining long-term revenue and growth. Jessica breaks down the six systems your business needs and explores the power of combining corporate expertise with feminist business practices. She introduces the Three Sisters metaphor and how it relates to income diversification, shares insights on creating a safety net while bootstrapping a business, and offers a sneak peek into her upcoming book on sustainable business strategies.  Whether you're scaling a business, seeking clarity in your operations, or simply tired of wondering which tactics might actually get you results, this conversation is packed with actionable wisdom. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (02:51) Jessica’s day-to-day (05:56) Journey from corporate to entrepreneurship (12:00) Capitalism + feminism = commerce (16:30) The role of subcontracting for revenue stability (19:30) Business models and deeper foundations (24:05) Six systems of business (26:12) Types of business model (31:20) How the Three Sisters method of planting can be applied to business (37:20) Jessica’s upcoming book (43:10) Leadership and resilience in business Resources Mentioned: Subscribe to Jessica’s newsletter here. Register for one of Jessica’s monthly free Deeper Business Dialogues here. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What To Do About It  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Guest Info:  Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn Learn more on Jessica’s website Subscribe to Jessica’s newsletter Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Emily Empel and Nadine Hare, founding members of Advance Notice, a vision studio and dreaming collective. They discuss their Collective Wellbeing Report, wellness paradigms, spiritual foresight, and how they help people and organizations articulate their ideas for the future.  Building a new future of wellness has never been more important. Emily, a spiritual futurist, and Nadine, a medical anthropologist, share their collaborative process behind Advance Notice's work. An excerpt from their Collective Wellbeing report emphasizes the need to move beyond individualism to focus on the collective when it comes to our health and wellness, among other things. They outline the six dimensions of collective well-being, including the porous body and death as aliveness, and how these themes have impacted their experiences and perspectives. Nadine and Emily agree that leadership needs to be redefined and encourage thinking about relationality and collaboration as we write this new future. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (04:22) Excerpt from the Collective Wellbeing Report (05:45) Meet two of the women behind Advance Notice, Nadine and Emily (14:11) A vision studio and dreaming collective  (16:57) Collaborations to live into the vision  (19:56) The journey to becoming a futurist and medical anthropologist (23:06) The realities of wellness vs. the perception of wellness  (27:51) Six key dimensions of collective well-being (31:18) Death as aliveness, the aging body, the porous body (41:18) How to cultivate more well-being (45:33) Thoughts around leadership  (51:13) What’s next for Advance Notice and the future of wellness Resources Mentioned: Preview Collective Wellbeing: A Report on the Future of Wellness GCC x The Now Work: Community Power Hour, November 20th at 9 am Pacific Sophie Strand adrienne maree brown  Guest Info:  Connect with Emily Empel on LinkedIn Connect with Nadine Hare on LinkedIn Connect with Advance Notice on LinkedIn Follow Advance Notice on Instagram Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Emily Anne Brant, an Indigenous author, speaker, and mentor. She discusses her journey into decolonizing personal development and coaching, unlearning perfectionism, and how she calls upon ancestral wisdom in her everyday life.  Emily shares how she balances running her business with a full-time job, normalizing how supportive it can be to have both. She shares how a spiritual experience led to a path of healing around her Indigenous ancestry, how that impacted the direction of her business, and how she shows up in community. Emily defines colonization and white supremacy and shares what decolonization actually looks like in practice. She addresses the importance of unlearning perfectionism, especially as a woman, when embarking on a decolonization journey and the fundamental tenets of down-to-earth manifestation for achieving practical abundance rooted in ancestral wisdom. Emily also speaks to the impact she has experienced of a slow, intentional approach to business growth aligned with turtle medicine. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (03:13) Emily’s identities, privileges, and roles (06:11) Balancing business and a full-time job (11:18) Emily’s journey to decolonization work (20:49) Safe spaces and white supremacy  (25:48) Defining decolonization and colonialism (28:43) Decolonization mindset, words, and action (31:39) Getting started on your decolonization journey (35:52) Down-to-earth manifestation  (43:29) Turtle medicine and business growth  Resources Mentioned: White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao Guest Info:  Learn more on Emily Anne Brant’s website Follow Emily Anne Brant on Instagram Listen to the Soul’s Way podcast Join the Round Table or the Decolonized Coach Community. Use code LIS for 15% off the DCC! Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Jessica Custer, a social impact strategist and project management expert. She discusses all things social impact, corporate responsibility, theory of change, leadership, and her life-changing experience in the Peruvian Amazon.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Marssie Versola, Founder and CEO of Impact Table. She discusses her professional journey and how connecting with other women leaders has transformed her career—plus she and Lis share their vision for the upcoming Connect + Elevate Retreat in Calistoga. For so long, Marssie experienced a distinct lack of feminine leadership at her level and was frustrated in her desire to move to the next level. When she discovered how community could amplify and accelerate her, it was a game changer. She shares why it is vital that women gather to celebrate each other, how much more powerful we are together than alone, and how we can create more of these spaces. The more, the better! Marssie offers an actionable step for those of you looking to start investing more deeply in your relationships today. Marssie and Lis discuss the transformative power of retreats to nourish, change our perspectives, share resources, and deeply connect in ways that aren’t readily available elsewhere. Craving more? You’re invited to join Marssie and Lis at the Connect + Elevate Retreat for impact and sustainability leaders this October. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (04:02) How Impact Table supports leaders (08:13) Marssie’s leadership journey (20:27) Experiences in Corporate America (25:15) The potency of women together (33:18) Steps to take to create more connection today (37:44) Vision for the Connect + Elevate Calistoga retreat (47:08) How connection can transform us Resources Mentioned: Join us for the Connect and Elevate Retreat at Dr. Wilkinson’s in Calistoga October 27-29. It’s going to be magic! Huddle by Brooke Baldwin The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist Playing Big by Tara Mohr Guest Info:  Connect with Marssie Versola on LinkedIn Connect with Impact Table on LinkedIn Learn more on the Impact Table website Follow Impact Table on Instagram Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Suprita Kudesia, Founder of Feta, a family history tool that stands the test of time. She speaks about the role of a curiosity quest in her life and career, her experience developing an app alongside her life and parenting partner, and how her current hobbies bring her both joy and opportunities to be present. For many of us, organizing scrapbooks, photo albums, and memory banks is a task we don’t look forward to. Suprita shares how the app she and her partner are developing, Feta, is transforming the experience of memory keeping. This work embodies Suprita’s love for storytelling and desire to be a conduit for other peoples’ life experiences. Curiosity has been a throughline in Suprita’s professional journey from international development to the corporate world and now entrepreneurship. She shares how motherhood has inspired her practice of presence, her approach to hobbies and a portfolio lifestyle, and the magic she has experienced in past GCC Magicminds as both a facilitator and a participant. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (03:14) Suprita’s professional journey and story (10:29) Curiosity quest from international development to corporate to entrepreneurship (14:39) Feta’s origin story (19:46) Working alongside a life and parenting partner (24:40) The search for enoughness and presence (30:42) Financial decisions, values, and evolving priorities as an entrepreneur (37:43) Stop and smell the flowers (40:50) End-of-life doula training and learning (44:33) What leadership means to Suprita (47:14) The intentional magic of Girls Club Collective (50:11) Launching a Substack newsletter Resources Mentioned: Read Suprita’s beautiful musings over on her Substack community and be the first to know when Feta launches on Apple and Google App stores Get more information about the GCC Magicmind on our website Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur Guest Info: Follow Feta on Instagram: @feta.family Learn more on the Feta website: www.feta.family Read Suprita’s Substack: supritakudesia.substack.com Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective About Lis: Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Sarah Deane, the Founder and CEO of MEvolution. Sarah speaks on personal sustainability, energy management, and how to go from exhausted to thriving. Energy management is about finding a behavioral and cognitive formula that gives you clarity, focus, and performance. Through AI, neuroscience, and years of testing, MEvolution helps people identify precisely where in your lives you can improve your energy and guides clients in rewiring their brains past energy-leaking behaviors for sustainable results. Sarah discusses the human energy crisis and burnout epidemic, including how we got here and how we get better. She offers dozens of energy management strategies for individuals and leaders. If energy is our currency, optimizing what we bring to the world has never been more important. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (04:05) Welcome to the MEvolution (07:26) The 8 dimensions of positive energy (09:32) Common energy leaks (11:41) The neuroscience behind energy management (15:03) Sarah’s journey to MEvolution (23:23) Why aren’t we okay right now? (27:27) Common causes of ongoing burnout (32:24) “Rewriting the books” (35:18) Achieving work-life harmony (40:36) Ways to bring more energy into your life (44:08) Accountability and awareness as leadership qualities Resources Mentioned: Ep 70: Living Authentically with Drew Taylor Cohen Guest Info: Follow Sarah on LinkedIn: Sarah Deane Learn more on the MEvolution website: jointhemevolution.com Follow Mevolution on Instagram: @JoinTheMEvolution Get started with MEvolution’s Energy Management Quotient Evaluation or the Introductory Self-Paced Course here Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective Sign up to receive the monthly meditation newsletter About Lis: Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition and Host of the Sustainable Ambition Podcast. Kathy discusses how she has redefined ambition, built self-trust, and navigated transitions, both for herself and her clients. Kathy’s work focuses on the practice of using ambition as a guidepost along your career path and life journey. She supports entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds, especially those entering a transition period. Kathy describes how ambition is like a U-curve, as well as her method for determining where one wants to exist on that spectrum. She outlines several frameworks for getting to know your ambition, values, effort, and vision. Kathy also offers an empowering definition of leadership and reflects on her best practices for energetic maintenance. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (03:21) Introductions through being over doing (08:02) Origins of Sustainable Ambition (17:08) Navigating career transitions (19:53) The ambition U-curve (23:37) Determining how to direct your energy and ambition (32:09) “Right” effort, or managing both our effort and energy (36:18) Components of a sustaining plan (41:48) Leadership authenticity and service (45:33) Clarity of vision in transition Resources Mentioned: Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour Sign up to receive the monthly meditation newsletter Guest Info: Follow Kathy on LinkedIn: Kathy Oneto Follow Kathy on Instagram: @koneto12 Follow Sustainable Ambition on Instagram: @sustainableambition Learn more on the Sustainable Ambition website: sustainableambition.com/resources Listen to the Sustainable Ambition podcast: Sustainable Ambition Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective About Lis: Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Payal Beri, speaker and founder of RK Empathy. Payal discusses how cultural identity shapes our perspectives, how we develop empathy, and how it can help us overcome division and differences. Payal’s entrepreneurial journey speaks to the power of trusting our intuition and the space and self-trust required to slow down enough to listen to ourselves. Payal shares how she creates compassion-building experiences through RK Impact, which she describes as ”escape room-meets-cultural-IKEA.” Payal explains how compassion and empathy begin on an individual level and stem from nervous system regulation. Her work aims to reduce stigmas and stereotypes, shift conversations, and reinfuse compassion and humanity into solving major social challenges. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (4:06) Finding compassion, empathy, and accountability in today’s world (5:47) Payal’s lens as third-culture kid, choreographer, and empathy seeker (11:42) Business pivots and evolution (23:18) Balancing self-trust and external feedback (26:52) When to hire another coach (and when not to) (31:20) Holding space and creating accountability as a coach (34:55) Designing experiences that incite compassion (43:13) Self-compassion and tips for practicing it (48:52) How Payal practices self-compassion (53:34) Payal’s advice to her younger self Resources Mentioned: Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 Guest Info: Follow Payal on Instagram: @payalberi Follow Payal on LinkedIn: Payal Beri Learn more on RK Impact’s website: rkempathy.com Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective About Lis: Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Drew Taylor Cohen, an impact consultant, founder and values coach at Chosen Directions. Drew discusses how to unearth your chosen values, why values alignment is so important, and the role values can play in our careers, lives, and relationships. Drew’s work helps people navigate transitions with confidence and purpose. In this conversation, Drew offers guidance for identifying your chosen values and examples of them in action. Drew shares her incredibly inspiring entrepreneurial journey, which includes not only finding her own values and incorporating them across her life, but also intentionally finding a partner on Bumble by putting her values front and center. Drew gives embodiment prompts and roadmap suggestions for how to integrate your chosen values into “the magic three”: yourself, your relationships, and your work. We conclude with her vision for a more authentic future. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (04:22) Discovering how to live more authentically (06:40) Living in alignment with your chosen values (10:07) Finding your values and calling in a partner with aligned values (17:34) Incorporating your chosen values into your life (20:45) Real-life example of values alignment (25:42) The ongoing nature of healing (28:46) How values work supports life’s transitions (33:41) Where to begin your chosen values journey (37:36) The relationship between values and community (42:29) Building an authenticity-obsessed world Resources Mentioned: Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 Guest Info: Take the Chosen Directions Values Quiz: Values Quiz Subscribe to Drew’s Newsletter: Your monthly guide to living authentically Join the next How to Live Authentically workshop: Sign up here Follow along with Chosen Directions on Instagram: @chosendirectionscoaching Follow Drew on LinkedIn: Drew Taylor Cohen Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective About Lis: Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Freya Williams, a sustainability, brand purpose, corporate responsibility, and marketing leader with 20+ years of experience in sustainability. Freya discusses personal sustainability, green giants and green unicorns, how to make climate action cool, the importance of framing in marketing and messaging, and what leadership means to her today. We talked about how world-changing women can balance personal, professional, and planetary goals to avoid burnout. Freya shares how she incorporates meaningful personal sustainability into her work.  Freya offers expert insight into the role of green giants and green unicorns in the world, how a company becomes one or the other, and what she learned writing a book on these business structures. She then shares the six common factors her book identifies as contributing to the success of the green giants. Unfortunately, doom and gloom have become the norm of climate action conversations; sustainability marketing and messaging need a major update. Freya gives new ways to frame these important messages that feel more engaging and compelling.  Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (04:10) Building a career in sustainability and social impact (08:10) Personal sustainability and strategies for maintaining motivation (14:40) Importance of community to create momentum (21:14) Green giants and green unicorns  (26:33) Six key factors that contribute to becoming a green giant (30:20) How to make climate action cool (37:35) Effective approaches to sustainability marketing (46:40) Leadership for change agents  Resources Mentioned: Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9  Mainstream Green by Graceann Bennett and Freya Williams Rothy’s Shoes The Cool Down Guest Info:  Connect with Freya Williams on LinkedIn: Freya Williams Subscribe to Freya’s Substack: Green Giants Etc Buy Freya’s book: Green Giants Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Maria Estrada, PhD, an educator, facilitator, and coach. Maria discusses effective allyship, how to create containers that foster understanding, and what justice really means. We also get into the role of fire in climate action, why we need to center indigenous wisdom in climate work, and concrete examples of the innovation that comes from diversity. When engaging in collaborative work, voices from extremely varied backgrounds are often present. Maria speaks to the importance of creating appropriate containers and space for this work to unfold. She shares how her current projects integrate dialogue and justice, assuring that risk and benefits are equally distributed, the procedural aspects of decision-making are considered, and judgment is suspended. Maria defines allyship as taking individual responsibility for actively advancing the rights and inclusion of people who are different from us and provides a framework for considering our various layers of access and power. We wrap by discussing fire, which plays a critical role across ecosystems, as well as spiritually, and exploring the role of healing for our planet, ourselves, and our relationships. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (06:00) Creating effective containers for collaborative work in regenerative agriculture (12:00) The connection between dialogue and justice, plus an exercise to practice (18:14) How Maria’s immigration journey has shaped her (24:56) Defining allyship and how to leverage our privilege to help others (31:05) Examples of shifting power dynamics (35:34) Prioritizing Indigenous wisdom around fire and climate resilience (44:47) Why we should prioritize relationships over tasks for better collaboration Resources Mentioned: Emily Anne Brant Rebecca Magee Guest Info: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn: Maria Estrada Reach out to Maria directly: maria@thecollective180.com Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective About Lis: Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Anna Adlard, the President and Co-founder of Workshop, a design thinking practice that activates teams for climate action. Anna offers actionable and inspiring wisdom, including ways to build momentum for systematic change and leadership tips for effective project management.  Collaboration, teamwork, and a climate activation mindset are critical components to achieving sustainable change. Anna’s work details steps to bridge the gap between a great project plan and a finished result. She speaks to the imperative of having a heart-forward approach to drive change within the climate activism movement. This work requires more space for an emotional landscape.  Anna details the multiple qualities leaders can bring to their projects, which extend far beyond brainpower. Lis and Anna remind us that self-care is community care and emphasize the importance of resourcing ourselves and protecting our energy. Anna concludes by sharing advice for how to structure plans that reduce overwhelm and burnout while going after big, lofty goals. This conversation is a must-listen for change makers and climate activators! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (02:14) How Workshop is helping organizations advance climate action and its origin story (11:12) Why we may want to reframe “change agents” as “activators” (13:28) Tips to make collaboration more organic, fun, and joyful (19:09) Why women are particularly suited to lead collaboration  (24:53) Four types of intelligence necessary for creating systems-level change  (31:37) Leadership, not having the answers, and hope as a practice (38:03) Practical advice for working in systems change and creating momentum (45:00) What Anna would tell her younger self (47:30) Beginning every day knowing: “I have what I need” Resources Mentioned: Not Too Late, a project and book edited by Rebecca Solnit Guest Info:  Follow Anna on LinkedIn: Anna Adlard  Learn more about Workshop: Workshop website Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by the incredible Victoria Song, the CEO coach to billion-dollar companies and author of the bestselling book Bending Reality. Bending reality is something that becomes possible when we’re in a state of expansion, and Victoria shares not only how to embody this state but also how to apply it in your life.  Victoria’s insights are a synthesis of the larger patterns that emerged through teachings from coaches, business mentors, yoga instructors, and spiritual leaders. She shares the remarkable story of channeling the Bending Reality book during the pandemic and then offers a few of those frameworks to instantly apply to your life. Lis and Victoria work through relatable real-life examples around money and our bodies followed by a special deep dive into love and relationships. Victoria shares the alchemical medicine that runs through her courses and programs, as well as how this healing work can help bolster new generations of confident, soul-led feminine leaders.  Prepare to feel expansive! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (03:35) How Victoria became a CEO coach to billion-dollar companies (07:41) What is bending reality and learning how to do it (10:34) Victoria’s process of channeling her book, Bending Reality  (12:52) Where to get started on your bending reality journey (21:02) Contraction versus expansion in different areas of life (26:17) Learning to release subconscious programming around our bodies and appearance (32:18) Applying bending reality techniques to love (39:27) Victoria’s Alchemy Journey program and the shifts it offers participants (46:46) How we become each other’s medicine in intimate learning containers  (49:45) Ushering in a new heart- and soul-led generation of feminine leadership Resources Mentioned: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert: bookshop.org Guest Info:  Learn more about Victoria’s courses: Blending Reality courses   Get a free 7-day trial to Bending Reality Club: Embodied Buy Victoria’s book, Bending Reality: Available here Follow Victoria on Instagram: @victoriaesong Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for change agents, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Celi Arias, a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and selling 7-figure businesses and founder of Grown Ass Business™ (GAB). Celi offers insight into her GAB framework, why it’s so effective, and a few mindset shifts entrepreneurs can make right now. Each program that Celi’s company, Grown Ass Business™, offers addresses the fact that entrepreneurs tend to make business overly complicated when in almost every instance, some part of their business’s foundations simply needs to be fortified. Celi is truly a master builder of rock-solid foundations.  Celi and Lis discuss learning to read the story numbers tell, what can happen when you don’t have a firm business grounding (it happens to a lot of people!), and Celi’s choice to be transparent about fertility as an entrepreneur. Ultimately, Celi is determined to provide business owners with the tools they need to learn the rules and then break them so that founders can operate from a state of freedom (not overwhelm).  Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform. Episode Outline: (1:17) What is a Grown Ass Business™? (5:16) Two examples of solving simple problems that led to massive scaling (10:53) Celi’s 30-year path of serial entrepreneurship  (22:04) “Business can be easy, it’s usually us that makes it hard.” (31:55) Fertility as an entrepreneur  (42:22) Permission to be a leader using the strategy that suits YOU Guest Info:  Connect with Celi: LinkedIn Follow Celi on Instagram: @celigrowsbusiness  Join the next cohort: GAB Accelerator Book a call with Celi: grownassbusiness.com Follow Us: Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective  About Lis:  Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast. Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

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