Lead Like You : How Authenticity Transforms the Way Women Live, Love, and Succeed.

Author
Wagstaff, Jo. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
  • Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2024.
  • ©2024.
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Is the life you're leading true to you? Do you feel like you're endlessly striving in a world that never stops asking for more? Too often, we exhaust ourselves in pursuit of supposed ideals. We give everything in search of 'success,' while struggling with stress, guilt, self-doubt, and burnout. It's time to dismantle the illusion of external validation. It's time to embrace your inherent worth as a woman and a leader. Lead Like You is a roadmap for rediscovering the authentic you and realising a new way to live and lead. The key to true transformation, radical resilience, and deep fulfilment lies within: learning to know yourself, care for yourself and truly be yourself, at work and in life. Lead Like You will show you how to ignite this personal and professional revolution. Through courageous stories, evidence-based practices and insights from psychology, author Jo Wagstaff shares indispensable tools for forging a profound connection with -- and caring for -- the self. Learn how you can lead your career and lead yourself with more purpose and power. Understand and overcome the external and internal forces that limit your potential Increase your self-awareness and identify your motivations, limiting behaviours and boundaries Discover the strength and power in mindfulness, self-care and self-compassion Learn how to forge authentic connections and healthier, more meaningful relationships Access and leverage the advantages of authentic leadership to make a difference within your organisation and the world Lead Like You shares the tools and knowledge you need to feel calm, confident, and empowered as a female leader. You'll discover how to find power in vulnerability and return to your true values and purpose. This book will inspire you to do the inner work and redefine your vision for success -- so you can live and lead true to yourself.
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  • 1. Not every self-care activity feels good
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Contents
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I Know yourself
  • Chapter 1 Why is it so hard to live true to ourselves?
  • How our histories shape us
  • It starts at the beginning
  • Then everything changed again
  • The challenges of instability
  • Learning to 'earn' my worth
  • How trauma shapes us
  • But my childhood was normal
  • We are not meant to do it alone
  • Chapter 2 Learning to get our needs met
  • Why are we working so hard?
  • Three unconscious strategies for getting our needs met
  • Leadership Circle framework
  • Complying tendency: Moving toward
  • Controlling tendency: Moving against
  • When we are over-activated in our controlling tendency
  • Protecting tendency: Moving away
  • The root of all three tendencies
  • Awareness. Acceptance. Action. Afterburn.
  • Awareness
  • Acceptance
  • Action
  • Watch out for the afterburn!
  • Chapter 3 Learning to dance in relationships
  • Learning to dance
  • 'Good enough' parenting
  • Dancing blindly
  • How do you dance?
  • 1. Secure attachment: The rock of reliability
  • 2. Insecure ambivalent/anxious preoccupied: The yearning for connection
  • 3. Insecure avoidant/dismissive avoidant: The island of independence
  • 4. Disorganised/fearful avoidant: The pendulum of confusion
  • Resolve your trauma to heal your attachment style
  • Attachment in the workplace
  • 1. Anxiously attached in the workplace
  • 2. Avoidantly attached in the workplace
  • 3. Securely attached in the workplace
  • Hold your heart gently
  • Chapter 4 The many forces that hinder our authenticity
  • Our brain is wired for survival
  • Our internal threat, drive and soothing systems
  • Our threat system
  • Our drive system
  • Our soothing system
  • Dependency and interdependency
  • Adult stages of development
  • Stage 3: Socialised mind
  • Stage 4: Self-authoring mind.
  • Stage 5: Self-transforming mind
  • Our core beliefs colour how we see the world
  • Getting stuck in identity and our narrative
  • Who am I without my identity?
  • The gift and challenge of being a mum
  • Perimenopause and menopause
  • The reality of a patriarchal, white-privileged and outwardly focused society
  • #metoo
  • Workplace gender bias
  • Moving forward
  • Good enough
  • Changing our template
  • Part II Care for yourself
  • Chapter 5 The challenge and gift of being our own best friend
  • Becoming our own best friend with self-compassion
  • Learning to love myself
  • But isn't it just self-indulgence?
  • How shame cripples us
  • Why do we resist self-compassion?
  • Replace the inner critic with the inner coach
  • Chapter 6 Finding our boundaries
  • The need for compassionate boundaries
  • Get clear on your priorities
  • Chapter 7 Tuning into our needs
  • Tuning into your unmet needs
  • Metta meditation
  • Tend and befriend
  • Self-care is about valuing and respecting ourselves
  • 1. Not every self-care activity feels good
  • 2. Self-care isn't a one-time thing
  • Prioritising self-care
  • Chapter 8 Getting practical with self-care
  • Gut health, stress and burnout
  • Hustling to prove my worth
  • Managing gut health with lifestyle choices
  • Essential practices
  • Start slowly
  • Ten wellbeing practices
  • 1. Consistent sleep for at least seven to eight hours each night
  • 2. Regular exercise and physical movement
  • 3. Nutrition
  • 4. Meditation
  • 5. Reflective journaling
  • 6. Write a gratitude list
  • 7. Digital detox
  • 8. Stop, rest, relax and nourish your soul
  • 9. Daily self-compassion practice
  • 10. Human connection
  • Create daily rituals
  • Chapter 9 Financial self-care
  • Confronting my financial demons
  • Learning to respect and value ourselves
  • Exploring our beliefs and assumptions about money
  • Valuing ourselves at work.
  • Three financial self-care practices
  • 1. Live within your means and do not burden your future self
  • 2. Provide your future self with a financial cushion
  • 3. Financial hygiene checklist
  • Part III Be yourself
  • Chapter 10 Finding our authentic selves
  • What is authenticity and how do we become truly authentic?
  • 1. Self-awareness and personal growth
  • 2. Embracing our individuality
  • 3. Overcoming stereotypes and biases
  • 4. Building genuine connections
  • 5. Honesty and transparency
  • 6. Balancing vulnerability and strength
  • Chapter 11 Finding our authentic values and purpose
  • A reflection for discovering your core values
  • Who do you admire?
  • Purpose makes our lives meaningful
  • Seven steps for discovering your purpose
  • Step 1: List ten things you want most out of your life
  • Step 2: List ten things that you most want to see happen on the planet
  • Step 3: List ten characteristics/traits that best describe you
  • Step 4: List ten skills or abilities that you can do and love to do now
  • Step 5: Identify your top priority from each group
  • Step 6: Write a first draft of a personal mission statement
  • Step 7: Rewrite, finesse and share
  • Forget the grandiose purpose
  • Chapter 12 Translating our values and purpose into vision
  • Create your life vision
  • Stage 1: Your life vision
  • Stage 2: Your career and leadership vision
  • Ignite new possibilities
  • Chapter 13 Being ourselves in relationships
  • Why are relationships so difficult?
  • The past is intimately connected with the present
  • The five core human needs
  • Transference
  • Transference in the workplace
  • The shadow mirror of our triggers
  • Chapter 14 The art of being both soft and strong
  • Five practices for cultivating the art of soft and strong
  • 1. Deep listening
  • 2. Emotional intelligence
  • 3. Courage
  • 4. Giving and receiving constructive feedback.
  • 5. Conflict resolution
  • Chapter 15 Redefining success
  • The quality of our future lives depends on the choices we make now
  • Slowing down and shifting from burnout to balance
  • Comparison kills our innate confidence and sense of success
  • Cultivating satisfaction and joy is an inside job
  • Grace, faith and letting go
  • The gift of prayer
  • Chapter 16 Leading trueto ourselves
  • Embodied leadership presence
  • Support your nervous system to stand in your power
  • The feminine leadership advantage
  • A final reflection
  • Acknowledgements
  • Resources
  • References
  • EULA.
ISBN
9781394248735 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
1424751534
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