The Visibility Factor

11. Are You Playing Small?

11. Are You Playing Small?
Continuing the focus on the Impostor Types from The Visibility Factor book, today’s episode is going to focus on the fourth type of impostor syndrome: Devalued and Diminished, which can be thought of as someone who plays small.
In this episode:
An excerpt of a client coaching session on playing small from my book The Visibility Factor
Defining what playing small is for a leader
Examples of where I played small in my career
Provided some impactful questions to reflect on to see where you may be playing small
How to see your own value
The importance of acting as if to start showing your value in a bigger way
Click here to listen to Episode 6 – "Fear and Impostor Syndrome."
 
Announcement
The Visibility Factor Audiobook is out now! You can find it wherever you listen to audiobooks!
 
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Check out my website and the 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!

10. No Need to Compare

10. No Need to Compare 
In episode 6 I talked about imposter syndrome; today’s episode is the continuation of the review of all the impostor syndrome types that were discussed in my book The Visibility Factor. This episode going to focus on the third type of impostor syndrome: Image Judger (a.k.a) someone in comparison.
In this episode:
Everyone compares themselves to others at one time or another.
What does someone who is an image judger look and feel like?
Discussion of an article by Joshua Becker called: A Helpful Guide to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others.  
Ask yourself these key questions to build awareness of where you are judging your image against other people.
How much time is wasted on comparison?  
Suggestions to stop focusing on comparison and instead focus on your own successes.
Resources:
Click here to listen to Episode 6 – "Fear and Impostor Syndrome."
Click here to read "A Helpful Guide to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others" by Joshua Becker.
Click here to read "How to Stop Comparing Myself to Others on Instagram" by Tish Weinstock.
Click here to buy the book Loving What Is by Byron Katie.
 
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Check out my website and the 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!
 

9. Just Say No (a.k.a. Boundaries)

9. Just Say No (a.k.a. Boundaries)
In episode 6, I talked about impostor syndrome, how it can impact your success and the six types of impostor syndrome from my book, The Visibility Factor. I will include the link to that episode in the show notes so you can go back and listen to it if you missed it. Today’s episode is going to focus on the second type of impostor syndrome: just say no (a.k.a) boundaries.
(You will notice that this type of impostor syndrome has a lot of overlap with the first type of impostor syndrome we talked about in Episode 8: Are You an Agreeable Accommodator?)
In this episode:
What are boundaries?
What does someone who can’t say no or has no boundaries look like?
Reasons that saying no can be hard.
Examples of how to say no to your manager or a friend without breaking the relationship
How do you know that you are letting others break your boundaries?
What happens when you say yes to everyone else?
Key questions to ask yourself and others to ensure you maintain your boundaries
What are some prepared responses you can use when you need to say no.
Rise and Shine Visibility Tip
Resources:
Click here to listen to Episode 8 – “Are You an Agreeable Accommodator?”
Click here to listen to Episode 6 – "Fear and Impostor Syndrome."
Click here to listen to Episode 4 – “Heart Value with Mary Tess Rooney”
Click here to read “3 Simple Steps to Establishing Boundaries that Stick” from the Curry Psychology Group
 
THE VISIBILITY FACTOR WITH SUSAN M. BARBER
Check out my website and the 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!
 

8. Are You an Agreeable Accommodator?

8. Are You an Agreeable Accommodator?
In episode 6, I talked about impostor syndrome, how it can impact your success and the six types of impostor syndrome from my book, The Visibility Factor. I will include the link to that episode in the show notes so you can go back and listen to it if you missed it. Today’s episode is going to focus on the first type of impostor syndrome: agreeable accommodator a.k.a. people pleasing.
How do you recognize someone who is challenged with being an agreeable accommodator?
Shared a movie example that demonstrates someone who people pleases.
How does people pleasing start?
Client example of how challenging it is when you are an agreeable accommodator?
What are the classic behaviors of an agreeable accommodator?
How can you say no without breaking a relationship?
What happens if you continue to be a people pleaser?
Learning to trust and value yourself.
Link here to listen to Episode 6 – "Fear and Impostor Syndrome."
 
THE VISIBILITY FACTOR WITH SUSAN M. BARBER
Check out my website and the 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!

7. How To Get a Raise at Work with Laura Browne

7. How To Get a Raise at Work with Laura Browne
Interview with Laura Browne, Author of Increase Your Income
 
Laura Browne is a corporate trainer, author, speaker, and certified business coach with more than 20 years of experience in global human resources and management development. Laura spent 9 years delivering coaching and training to high potential female leaders from Fortune 100 companies through WOMEN Unlimited. She’s written for Forbes and has been quoted as a business expert in major publications including Cosmopolitan, Family Circle magazine, and USA Weekend. Laura is the author of 10 books including Why Can’t You Communicate Like Me? How Smart Women Get Results At Work and Increase Your Income – 7 Rules for Women Who Want To Make More Money at Work.
Interview Highlights:
We started off discussing Laura’s latest book, Increase Your Income and why it was important to write this book for women.
Her book highlighted a list of reasons that hold women back when it comes to asking for more money and how she helps them move past these challenges?
Laura grouped bosses into types to help her readers negotiate in a way that aligns to their bosses’ style and how those approaches are working.
It is great that you also include a section on helping entrepreneurs and consultants who are also negotiating for money on the engagements they have with companies. How has this been received by the people that you work with?
The case studies that you have in the book are gold! How have you seen that the case studies are impacting people?
We discussed another one of her books, A Salary Cinderella Story (Or How To Make More Money Without A Fairy Godmother.) and how it differs from Increase Your Income?
Her online training programs on how to be more confident and negotiate for higher salaries.
Go to https://learn.careertipsforwomen.com/ and use the code “visibility” to get a 10% discount on any of her courses!
She also shared how she helps women move past their money stories to get the salaries that they deserve
 
Laura's Contact Information:
Laura Browne on LinkedIn (in/LauraBrowne)
Career Tips For Women on Facebook
 
RISE Up and Be Visible Quick Tips:
Laura shared so many practical approaches to salary negotiation and called being visible “essential.”
Her book recommendation was The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor.
 
THE VISIBILITY FACTOR WITH SUSAN M. BARBER
Check out my website and the 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!
 

6. Impostor Syndrome

6. Impostor Syndrome
In today’s episode we are going to talk about fear and impostor syndrome, how it can impact your success and the six types of impostor syndrome from my book, The Visibility Factor. Just like me, there are so many leaders who have so much potential, but don’t believe how great they are, no matter how many people tell them that they are amazing. I am excited to talk to you about this today to help you see how impostor syndrome can challenge and impact everything that you do. This awareness will help you move past it and take action to break this habit.
How does fear play a role in impostor syndrome
What does the research say about impostor syndrome?
How does impostor syndrome show up for leaders?
What are the different types of impostor syndrome?
How do the different types impact a leader’s success?
Upcoming episodes will review each type of impostor syndrome in more detail
 
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Check out my website and the 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!

5. Leverage Your Creativity (with Susie deVille)

5. Leverage Your Creativity
Susie deVille is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build wildly successful businesses by rediscovering their creativity and leveraging the power of their true nature. An author, coach, and entrepreneur who built and sold a highly profitable real estate firm, she has been researching innovation and creativity since 2005. She is the founder and CEO of the Innovation & Creativity Institute and trained as a coach with Dr. Martha Beck. Her first book, Buoyant: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free, will be published in September of 2022.
Susie shared insights into her upcoming book, Buoyant and why it was important for her to write
Key takeaways that readers will gain from her book
The breakthroughs that everyone is having in her Sketchbook Entrepreneur Masterclass. The class helps participants use creative activities to get their ideas out and helps them take imperfect action…the messier the better.
The Buoyant book was written for entrepreneurs, but Susie shares how it can apply to leaders or other professions where they could benefit from creativity.
Isn't creativity just for a select few and not all of us?
Susie shared her ideas and advice for visibility
Book Recommendations:
Still Possible by David Whyte
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Susie’s Contact Information:
IMetSusie.com
    Go to the above link to find her website and sign up for her newsletter to learn more about  her book and upcoming masterclasses!
Email: susie@innovationcompass.com
Facebook (@susie.deville)
Facebook (@innovationandcreativityinstitute)
Instagram (@susie_deville)
LinkedIn (Susie deVille)
Twitter (@susiedeville)
InnovationAndCreativityInstitute.com
 
THE VISIBILITY FACTOR WITH SUSAN M. BARBER
Check out my website and the 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!
 

4. Unlocking Your Heart Value

4. Unlocking Your Heart Value
 
Mary Tess Rooney founded True Stride to create a movement where individuals unlock their Heart Value to deepen personal fulfillment, increase meaningful relationships and elevate joy.
 As a Heart Value expert, author and speaker, Mary Tess created strategies and tools to help people like you voice your value, activate appreciation and prioritize fun. In Heart Value, Mary Tess guides readers to recognize that every experience is an accrual of value, and to honor what lights them up in order to live their epic adventures.
Prior to True Stride, Mary Tess was a strategy and communications executive who naturally sifted through noise, crafted plans, achieved results and enabled teams to get their stride on within multibillion-dollar businesses. Her business savvy and proficiency in sales, training, communications, public relations and project management empowers individuals to achieve success based on their own personal mission and vision.
 
Interview Highlights:
Discussed what she did in her corporate career and how the transition into being an entrepreneur was for her.
Mary Tess wrote the book Heart Value, shared why it was important for her to write and the key takeaways for readers.
Mary Tess also shared what heart value means to her and how her Feel, Choose, Act amplifier process is making a difference for people who use it.
As the host of The True Stride podcast, Mary Tess shared who the podcast is for and described the “wise walks that helps her listeners go through a self-reflection walking meditation.
She shared her advice on what leaders can do to reconnect with their value even when they are so busy.
 
RISE Up and Be Visible Quick Tips –
Mary Tess shared so many practical approaches to visibility and shared a great experience she had once she got a “seat at the table.”
Her book recommendation was The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
 
Ways to connect with Mary Tess Rooney:
LinkedIn (Mary Tess Rooney)
MaryTessRooney.com
Instagram (@marytessrooney)
MaryTessRooney.com/Podcast
Purchase the Heart Value Book
 
THE VISIBILITY FACTOR WITH SUSAN M. BARBER
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!
 

3. Mastering the Art of Influence

3. Mastering the Art of Influence
A leader can be visible in so many ways. Today’s episode will be focused on one of the key ways to leverage influence and to build it. Visibility can be gained as the person who has influence, but a person can build their influence by meeting with influencers.
The definition of influence
Social media, people, places, advertisements find ways to influence every day.
Why is it important to create influential relationships and what prevents us from building them?
How do you find influencers in your company?
Building relationships external to your company is necessary too.
What are the characteristics of a good influencer?
Planning for a Successful Influencing Conversation.
What type of influencing approach will you take?
What does influence have to do with visibility?
Rise Up and Be Visible Quick Tips –
Identify the influencers in your organization, reach out to them to introduce yourself and set up time to meet with them
Pay attention to the people who influence you. What can you learn from them to help you grow?
Take action – plan out the conversation and outcomes that you want
Focus on adding value multiple times before you ask them for help
Continue to build out your internal and external networks so you have them if you need them.
Introverts can build their influence and visibility through one on one conversations with influencers.
 
Check out my website and the 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!

2. Inside The Visibility Factor Book

2. Inside The Visibility Factor Book
 
Hello, everyone. In today's episode, I wanted to share a behind-the-scenes view of what it was like to write "The Visibility Factor" book. The path was not always easy or straight, but the bottom line is not to give up.
The Visibility Factor Concept
Keys to Success
Community
Great Experts Around You
Vulnerability
Relatable Stories
Who is The Visibility Factor For and What Is the Core Message?
The RISE Process
Impostor Syndrome
Vanilla vs. Rocky Road Situations
Visibility in a Remote Environment
Visibility Tip
Check out my website and the resources on The Visibility Factor book.
For more information on AJ Harper and the Top 3 Book Workshop click here: https://ajharper.com/
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!