The Visibility Factor

65. Leveraging Opportunities to Show Your Value

65. Leveraging Opportunities to Show Your Value
Today’s episode is focused on how to leverage opportunities to show your value. When you look at the choices that you make every day, are you focused on doing the easy things that keep you in the background or the harder things that could put you into the spotlight? This isn’t always a conscious thought, but more than likely the easy things are what you already know and would be considered the safer choices. 
Finding gaps, problems to solve and identifying solutions can be hard and that is why no one else is doing them. Choosing these harder options are giving you a way to stand out. They can help you be more visible and give you more career options. They are scarier to do and will require you to put yourself out there, but what if you did them well? What if people saw you in a new way because you tried doing them? Focus on doing something that pushes you out of your comfort zone and can provide so many more opportunities for you.
In this episode:
Are you staying safe or are you finding ways to put yourself out there in a bigger way?
Look for the problems that no one else is solving so you can stand out.
What can happen if you work on gaps, problems and solving them?
Taking the initiative to solve problems and gaps shows your management, your interest in building skills, and being ready for more.
Are you spending your time working on the high value things?
Take advantage of opportunities to build a bigger career for yourself.
The Article Mentioned in the Podcast:
Don’t Wait to Be Asked to Lead by Harry Kraemer
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/ 
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

64. Networking to Build Connections and Visibility

64. Networking to Build Connections and Visibility
Today we are talking about how to use networking to build connections and increase your visibility. I will be approaching this from both the in-person view as well as online. I find that many people know that they need to expand their network, but they don’t know exactly how to do it, so they push networking to the bottom of their priority list.
In this episode:
What networking is and why it is important.
How to use curiosity to help you to have networking conversations.
How introverts or anyone who is uncomfortable with networking can create a plan to execute.
What an informational interview is and some examples of questions that you can ask.
How to leverage LinkedIn to search for people to network with and reconnect with people who are already in your network but you haven’t spoken with recently.
How you can improve your network in only 15 minutes a day.
The Articles Mentioned in the Podcast:
5 Powerful Questions to Ask at a Networking Event
You should be requesting informational interviews
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/ 
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

63. Embrace the Power of You (with Tricia Montalvo Timm)

63. Embrace the Power of You (with Tricia Montalvo Timm)
Tricia Montalvo Timm is a first-generation Latina board director, venture investor and speaker. With her new book, Embrace the Power of You, she hopes to inspire anyone who has ever felt like an “other” in the workplace to embrace their true selves, own their identity and achieve success and fulfillment in their life and career.
In this episode:
Tricia shares her experience from a young age where she realized that people thought her last name wasn’t considered “American” enough for her to get acting roles.
How she navigated the high-powered career as a lawyer when she became a new mother.
Who her book, Embrace the Power of You, is for and what she hopes people will learn from it.
The importance of helping people feel like they belong in organizations and how her manager strategies in the book could help with that.
How her scan-evaluate-adapt process worked for her in networking conversations and what she realized was different for her vs her husband in similar situations.
How debilitating perfectionism can be and how much energy it takes from you.
The important of self-care, resting through the contraction times in our lives so we are ready for expansion opportunities.
Information on Tricia:  
TriciaTimm.com
The Book that Tricia Recommends:
 The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America by Deepa Purushothaman
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

62. Three Ways to be More Prepared to Speak Up at Work (with Kristy Olinger)

62. Three Ways to be More Prepared to Speak Up at Work (with Kristy Olinger)
Kristy Olinger is a 20-year veteran of corporate life who knows that soft skills are the hardest thing we do at work. As a communication consultant and speaker, Kristy helps teams and individuals to communicate better at work through interactive programs that deliver practical solutions that translate with ease to everyday work life.
In this episode:
Kristy started off talking about all the passions that she has and loves doing.
Why so many people in the workplace struggle with difficult conversations.
Understand the other person to be a great communicator. Communication is for the other person, not for you.
The importance of creating workplace harmony for yourself.
To ensure everyone can engage in a hybrid environment, with meetings that encompass people in person and others who are remote, it is important to set guidelines and structure.
Kristy shares what the Mirror Exposure Effect is and how to give feedback effectively using the Situation Behavior Impact model.
Working on the passion areas in her business gives Kristy joy and energy.
Top three things you need to do to be able to speak up in a meeting.
 
Information on Kristy:  
www.KristyOlinger.com
Kristy Olinger on Instagram (@ko.communication)
The Opposite of Small Talk Podcast on Instagram (@theoppositeofsmalltalk)
The Book that Kristy Recommends:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

61. Pivot to Make a Bigger Impact (with Vidya Ramachandran)

61. Pivot to Make a Bigger Impact (with Vidya Ramachandran)
Vidya Ramachandran, founder of Warrier Strategy LLC, is a self-leadership catalyzer and recalibration strategist who helps women be their most unapologetically expressive, free, vital, unique, creative selves. Through her Unapologetic Recalibration framework, Vidya guides women to break free from the societal, cultural and familial norms or systems that prevent them from thriving. Vidya’s a strong advocate for boldly claiming one’s values and soul desires despite others’ expectations, accessing mind-body wisdom, and honoring the natural energy cycle to avoid burnout. Her core values are joyous laughter, freedom, connection, and creativity.
In this episode:
Vidya shared her past roles and the paths that she took to start her own business.
She shared the importance of checking in with yourself to see how you feel in new situations.
How so many people listen to the “shoulds” instead of trusting themselves.
She explained why she calls herself a self-leadership catalyzer and a recalibration strategist to help her clients.
The importance of focusing your energy on the positive.
How creating boundaries gives you more space in your life.
Information on Vidya:  
www.VidyaWarrier.com
Vidya Ramachandran on Instagram (@vidya.r.warrier)
The Book that Vidya Recommends:
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

60. Conflict Can Be Good (with Liane Davey)

60. Conflict Can Be Good (with Liane Davey)
For the past 25 years, Liane has researched and advised teams on how to achieve high performance. Known as the “teamwork doctor,” she’s worked with teams from the frontlines to the boardroom, across a variety of industries, and around the globe from Boston to Bangkok. In working with hundreds of teams, including 26 Global Fortune 500 companies (and counting), she has developed a unique perspective on the challenges that teams face – and how to solve them.
Beyond her work in the boardroom, Liane is a New York Times Bestselling author of You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done and The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track. She is also a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and has been sought by several media outlets for her expertise on increasing productivity, enhancing engagement, developing leaders, and as one client put it, “dealing with the damn drama!”
In this episode: 
Liane shared a summary of her new book, The Good Fight, and what readers will learn by reading it.
What causes conflict with leaders and teams in companies today.
Ways to build trust with team members when they are remote and have cultural differences.
The difference between being conflict averse vs. avoidant.
The guide to the list of bosses on her website to help leaders if they work for one of those types.
She walked through her tools from the book - the U tool and the Tarp tool.
We discussed the last chapter of the book on conflict at home.
Information on Liane, her books, and all her resources:  
www.LianeDavey.com
The Book that Liane Recommends:
Wonderhell by Laura Gassner Otting
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

59. You Are The CEO Of Your Life (with Becca Powers)

59. You Are The CEO Of Your Life (with Becca Powers)
Becca Powers is an award-winning hi-tech sales executive, best-selling author of Harness Your Inner CEO and The Workplace Burnout Workbook, keynote speaker, as well as the Founder and CEO of Powers Peak Potential. With 20+ years of experience, her career boasts Fortune 500 giants such as Cisco, Dell, and Office Depot. Becca intimately knows the struggles that have come as a cost to her high achievements. Through nearly losing it all, she was forced to discover a more supportive and sustainable path to success. Becca now empowers even the most disengaged individuals to rise into their personal power, reignite their passion, and relish in prosperity. 
In this episode: 
Becca shared some of the challenges that have been an adjustment in her role as a Sales Executive due to not being able to meet with clients in person.
The situation in her life that led her to write her book, Harness Your Inner CEO, and what she hopes people will learn by reading it.
The importance of maintaining your own boundaries.
She shared how her priorities were upside down which led her to create the ladder of self-worth.
Her own experience with burnout led her to interview 8000 leaders and learn what their experience is with burnout.
She walked through the five stages of burnout in her new Workplace Burnout Workbook.
The lessons that she has shared with her kids and what they have been able to do because of what they have learned. 
Information on Becca, her books, and her podcast:  
www.BeccaPowers.com
The Book that Becca Recommends:
Soul Searching by Bill Philipps
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

58. No Permission Needed (with Tissa Richards)

58. No Permission Needed (with Tissa Richards)
Today’s episode is my interview with Tissa Richards. She is an award-winning author, repeat software founder and CEO, and a sought-after leadership expert and keynote speaker with a mission to create unshakeable leaders, teams and organizations. She speaks to and trains executives at Fortune 500 and hypergrowth organizations – including Nasdaq, NYSE and Forbes – guiding them to create blueprints for individual and organizational success, develop high-performance cultures, and to diversify c-suites and corporate boardrooms.
In this episode: 
We talked about her experience as a CEO and Founder.
How she made the transition into working with c-suite leaders, became an author and keynote speaker.
She shared who she wrote her book No Permission Needed for and what does it promise them?
What she means by the term “unshakeable sense of self” in her book.
What is the FARE Framework - Fearless, Authentic, Resilient and Effective?
What she does to help women get on boards and the challenge that women face to be on boards.
The biggest takeaways leaders would have if they took her courses
The topics that she speaks about in keynotes that have seen have the highest impact.
Reach out to Tissa here:  
www.TissaRichards.com
The Book that Tissa Recommends:
Tales of Potential by Joanna Bloor
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

57. The Art of the Difficult Conversation

57. The Art of the Difficult Conversation
Today’s episode will focus on difficult conversations. There isn’t one formula to follow for every conversation. Every situation is slightly different, and you are dealing with human beings who are all coming at the situation from their own perspectives and experiences. That is why I think of having difficult conversations as an art that managers need to find a way to create and manage. 
In this episode:
What managers need to consider if they need to have a difficult conversation with someone.
How to prepare in advance for a difficult conversation.
Why you shouldn’t avoid these kinds of conversations.
Having a productive difficult conversation is possible.
Advice to use for your next difficult conversation.
The Book Mentioned in the Podcast:
The Good Fight: Use Constructive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back On Track by Liane Davey
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/ 
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

56. External Validation vs Internal Validation

56. External Validation vs Internal Validation
Today’s episode will explain the difference between external vs internal validation, why it is important to understand it and how focusing on external validation can hold you back in your career and your life. 
In this episode:
When I first learned about external validation and the aha moment I experienced.
How people become “addicted” to external validation, crave it and why it is important to recognize it.
How external validation is tied to self-worth, self-esteem and behavior.
Quotes from author Byron Katie on the subject of external validation and how I have seen those situations in myself and my clients.
How to begin focusing on self-trust and listening to your own opinions first.
The importance of trusting yourself and a self-validation action step to take.
The Book Mentioned in the Podcast:
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
The Visibility Factor Podcast is brought to you in part by the 90-day Visibility Breakthrough Accelerator program.
Do you believe deep down inside that you can have a bigger career, but you don’t know how to get there?
This 90-day program is a powerful experience that is unique to you and provides dedicated time to focus on your specific challenge. This dedicated time will help you see new possibilities, recognize your strengths, and take away key insights that can be leveraged immediately.  Are you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?
If you are interested in learning more, visit:
susanmbarber.com/visibilitybreakthroughaccelerator/ 
Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast
Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.
As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!
If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!
Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast!