
936: The 8 Super Powers that Unlock Gravitas with Lisa Sun
02/15/24 • 38 min
Lisa Sun shares her tools for building true, lasting confidence.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What gravitas really means
2) The Six Forces ruining your confidence
3) How to discover your “confidence language”
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— ABOUT LISA —
Lisa Sun is the founder and CEO of GRAVITAS, a company on a mission to catalyze confidence. GRAVITAS offers innovative size-inclusive apparel, styling solutions, and content designed to make over women from the inside out.
Prior to founding GRAVITAS, Sun spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, where she advised leading luxury fashion and beauty brands and retailers in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America on strategic and operational issues. Her first collection was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, People, and the Today Show in the same month.
Sun and GRAVITAS have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, Fast Company, New York Magazine, Elle, Marie Claire, InStyle, and more. GRAVITAS includes among its activities a commitment to AAPI causes and New York City’s Garment District. Often called the “dress whisperer,” Lisa is also a highly sought-after public speaker who likes to impart her hard-won knowledge on gravitas and how to best harness it to other women.
• Book: Gravitas: The 8 Strengths That Redefine Confidence
• LinkedIn: Lisa Sun
• Quiz: MyConfidenceLanguage.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• HBR Article: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey
• Past episode: 327: Unclog Your Brain through Unfocusing with Dr. Srini Pillay
• Past episode: 852: Dale Carnegie’s Timeless Wisdom on Building Mental Resilience and Strong Relationships with Joe Hart
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Lisa Sun shares her tools for building true, lasting confidence.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What gravitas really means
2) The Six Forces ruining your confidence
3) How to discover your “confidence language”
Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep936 for clickable versions of the links below.
— ABOUT LISA —
Lisa Sun is the founder and CEO of GRAVITAS, a company on a mission to catalyze confidence. GRAVITAS offers innovative size-inclusive apparel, styling solutions, and content designed to make over women from the inside out.
Prior to founding GRAVITAS, Sun spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, where she advised leading luxury fashion and beauty brands and retailers in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America on strategic and operational issues. Her first collection was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, People, and the Today Show in the same month.
Sun and GRAVITAS have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, Fast Company, New York Magazine, Elle, Marie Claire, InStyle, and more. GRAVITAS includes among its activities a commitment to AAPI causes and New York City’s Garment District. Often called the “dress whisperer,” Lisa is also a highly sought-after public speaker who likes to impart her hard-won knowledge on gravitas and how to best harness it to other women.
• Book: Gravitas: The 8 Strengths That Redefine Confidence
• LinkedIn: Lisa Sun
• Quiz: MyConfidenceLanguage.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• HBR Article: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey
• Past episode: 327: Unclog Your Brain through Unfocusing with Dr. Srini Pillay
• Past episode: 852: Dale Carnegie’s Timeless Wisdom on Building Mental Resilience and Strong Relationships with Joe Hart
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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935: The Five Steps to Winning Every Week with Demir Bentley
Demir Bentley reveals the five simple steps to successfully plan and execute vastly more satisfying and productive weeks.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why nobody really plans their week—and how to fix it
2) The master key to getting ahead of your to-do list
3) How to transform your calendar into a power tool
Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep935 for clickable versions of the links below.
— ABOUT DEMIR —
Demir Bentley is an executive productivity coach, co-founder of Lifehack Method and WSJ Bestselling author of Winning The Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week.
He teaches hard-hitting efficiency techniques and proven accountability strategies that have helped clients generate millions in revenue while saving thousands of hours.
In the past eight years, he’s helped more than 70,000 professionals, including executives from Facebook, Google, Uber and PepsiCo, to prevent burnout and create more freedom in their lives.
• Book: Winning the Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week
• Website: WinningTheWeek.com
• Website: LifeHackMethod.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
• Past episode: 080: Finding and Doing the One Thing with Jay Papasan
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937: Speaking the Hidden Language of Connection with Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg shares the simple secret that helps you build powerful connections with anyone.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What supercommunicators know that others don’t
2) How to ask questions that deepen and enrich relationships
3) How one sentence can dramatically ease workplace conflict
Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep937 for clickable versions of the links below.
— ABOUT CHARLES —
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and other publications, was previously a senior editor at The New York Times, and occasionally hosts the podcast How To!
• Book: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
• Book: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Website: CharlesDuhigg.com
• Email: [email protected]
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “The Experimental Genesis of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and some Preliminary Findings” by Arthur Aron, et al.
• Book: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Book: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study In Human Nature by William James
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