Episode #22: Live Your Full Color Life with Dr. Heather Denniston

11/07/20 • 37 min

How do your eyes see a sunset?
Do you even have the energy to climb up the mountain to see it?
The question you should ask yourself is are you experiencing life in full color, or moving through it in black and white? These are things our guest is super passionate about.
Today on the MOJO Maker Podcast, we welcome Dr. Heather Denniston, a popular health and wellness coach who speaks frequently to major tech audiences. Dr. Denniston is a seasoned chiropractor with additional certification as a wellness chiropractor. She is a NASM trained certified personal trainer, avid athlete, health enthusiast, and writer who has a passion for inspiring people of all ages to ignite the first step towards their personal best.
Dr. Denniston knows a thing or two about balance and living life in full color. Stay tuned for this highly energetic and inspiring conversation about taking the small steps that give big results, and help keep you in the best shape to live your best life.
Episode Highlights:

Dr. Heather shares more about her background as a chiropractor.
Her journey as she started working on her personal fitness lifestyle.
The importance of setting a firm foundation for a long-term shift.
Discovering your deeply moving wellness driver: Establishing your fitness “why.”
Should versus good goals.
A wellness pit-crew: Who is in your well-curated fitness support team.
Every decision you make will lead you somewhere: Where do you want to go?
A tiny shift made consistently will provide longevity.
The key role rest plays in our day-to-day life: Letting your soul catch-up.
Self-compassion can help you reach your goals.
Dr. Heather shares the concept behind A Full-Color Life.
We discuss her role to bridge personal wellness and professional success.
How to gain access to the free gift Dr. Heather has available: Deeply moving wellness driver.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Flameproof: How to Flameproof your career and your life and handle adversity like a boss
Karen Worstell
MOJO Maker
Dr. Heather Denniston on LinkedIn
Well Fit and Fed on Instagram
Well Fit and Fed on Facebook
Well Fit and Fed on YouTube
Well Fit and Fed
3-Day Reset
The Junk You Should Know Show Podcast

Dr. Heather shares more about her background as a chiropractor.
Her journey as she started working on her personal fitness lifestyle.
The importance of setting a firm foundation for a long-term shift.
Discovering your deeply moving wellness driver: Establishing your fitness “why.”
Should versus good goals.
A wellness pit-crew: Who is in your well-curated fitness support team.
Every decision you make will lead you somewhere: Where do you want to go?
A tiny shift made consistently will provide longevity.
The key role rest plays in our day-to-day life: Letting your soul catch-up.
Self-compassion can help you reach your goals.
Dr. Heather shares the concept behind A Full-Color Life.
We discuss her role to bridge personal wellness and professional success.
How to gain access to the free gift Dr. Heather has available: Deeply moving wellness driver.

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Episode #21: The Resilience Road to the Board room with Vanessa Pegueros

Resilience is a necessary condition for women to rise to senior positions in the tech world. Today we speak with OneLogin Chief Trust and Security Officer Vanessa Pegueros about what it would take to have more women in senior and boardroom positions.
We open our conversation by exploring Vanessa's passion-fueled career path and why, by following her intuition, she transitioned into cyber-security, despite it not being her area of expertise. After chatting about the power of networking, we talk about how falsely militant perceptions of cyber-security have frustrated women’s entry into the industry.
Vanessa dives into why security is ideal for women before sharing how women in tech have to constantly justify their skills and knowledge. We touch on other limiting factors including race, how our culture links appearance to ability, and how a lack of confidence can hamper your progression. We then discuss how sport and other competitive activities can build resilience in young women. Vanessa shares the virtue of healthy locker-room talk in fostering resilience, and we chat about the importance of looking after yourself. Near the end of the episode, Vanessa gives young listeners her final advice; change the tech sector by creating companies and hiring women. Tune in to hear more of Vanessa’s hard-won insights on what we can do to create a more inclusive tech scene.

Key Points From This Episode:

Introducing CISO, board member, and tech investor, Vanessa Pegueros.
Passion meets survival; hear about Vanessa’s early life and career trajectory.
Why following what you love leads to career success.
Listening to your intuition when making career decisions.
The power of your network to help you to find new jobs.
How perceptions of cyber-security led to the field becoming a male-dominated space.
Vanessa shares her thoughts on why there is a lack of women in senior tech positions.
Why having resilience is a requirement for becoming a senior woman in tech.
How race and gender can be a lightning rod for negative attention.
Why appearance is a poor indicator of ability and character.
How your feelings about yourself affect what you can bring to the table.
Vanessa’s advice to young girls; play sport — you will learn how to win and lose.
The unexpected value of having a locker-room mentality.
Dealing with stress and the importance of taking care of yourself.
Vanessa’s final advice to young women; “Go out and create companies.”
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Vanessa Pegueros on LinkedIn
Expedia
OneLogin
DocuSign
US Bank
Karen Worstell
MOJO Maker
Flameproof

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Episode #23: No More 'Only and Lonely' - Turn Your Uniqueness into Your Advantage with Michele Ashby

Now more than ever, boards are looking for qualified women candidates, but it can still be lonely at the top, especially with so few women in positions of corporate leadership. How can you turn your uniqueness into your advantage, and lead with your intellect and experience? In today’s conversation with Board Director, Michele Ashby, we came to the conclusion that we should no longer use the term “only and lonely” to refer to underrepresented groups and women in male-dominated work environments. Michele is an independent corporate director, named one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business in Colorado for 2019. She is an expert on board governance and helping you find your path to the boardroom. In this episode, we discuss visibility and having the strength to hold your ground, and Michele shares the personal transformation she had to undergo in oder to become a champion for women in the boardroom. She also has some poignant advice for women looking to climb the corporate ladder, proposing that they prioritize themselves and never settle for less. Listeners also find out more about Michele’s programs and courses, and she shares her goal to train 1,000 women from diverse backgrounds. Learn from Michele about how she leads with curiosity, is always willing to learn, and how she mustered the initiative and confidence to grow her network, build something out of nothing, and turn her uniqueness into her advantage. Tune in today!

Key Points From This Episode:

How Michele became a board expert with a background in mining and finance.
How Michele gained the support and visibility she needed to become a board member.
Being invisible isn’t something Michele accepts – she demands the attention she deserves.
Developing the necessary skills to hold her ground in a male-dominated environment.
The role Michele’s family played in helping her develop the confidence she needed.
Working with men versus working with women: Michele had to learn to trust women.
Becoming a champion for women in the boardroom and the internal transformation that meant for Michele.
Retooling or shifting her own thinking by talking to 200 women over 18 months.
Bringing women to the board as qualified candidates and teaching them executive vernacular.
Standing out as a young, motivated women in a male-dominated industry.
Michele believes that curiosity, openness, and being willing to learn are crucial traits.
Flip your thinking! Believe that you deserve to be paid for what you bring to the table.
Michele advises women to prioritize themselves, to cut out what is sucking energy from them.
No more only and lonely – if you’re standing on your own, you have the floor, so use it!
What Michele teaches the women in her programs, particularly her board certification course.
Overcoming the barriers the patriarchy has set up for women without creating new barriers.
Translating the patriarchal model into words that women understand.
How we can change the way we dance with adversity by appreciating what it’s teaching us.
Michele talks about her goal to train 1,000 women from diverse backgrounds to sit on boards.
The ongoing engagement Michele has with those who have completed one of her programs.