Leadership Matters

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10/28/21 • 62 min

Tipping The Scales

On today's episode Shea and Tyneeha discuss the importance of strong, compassionate and authentic leadership, how leaders should be and what makes them. We need to figure out a new way to use and to teach “power” to people in a professional setting. When it comes to people, we shouldn’t be focused on conquering, but building up. When that happens, you can then conquer the goals of your industry.

We also need to simply be taught, too often because someone is good at one aspect of their job, they are promoted into a leadership role without any training or support. Being a good employee doesn’t always translate into being a good leader. Leadership is extremely important because strength comes from the top down. If you are a respectful leader, if you are a competent leader, your team is respectful, and competent. How do we get there; Shea and T speak specifics, but also the general truth of being a woman in industry.

We spend more time at work than we do at home, but as women we think that one must suffer for the other to succeed. We need to balance our scales of work and personal, because there is no set time when you aren’t dealing or focused on some aspect of your whole life. It may seem like common sense, but a lot of us aren’t paying attention.

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Dionna Widder Chief Revenue Officer for the Houston Dynamo, Houston Dash, PNC Stadium

Dionna Widder Chief Revenue Officer of the Houston Dynamo

Her love for sports started at an early age with a strong sense of belonging; her 14th birthday sitting court-side at a Detroit Pistons game, so inspired, it wasn’t the players on the court, but the people in suits she saw and said “I’m going to do exactly that”

Working in the sports industry may be “sexy” but it’s also nonstop and ultimately, it’s a lifestyle that you need to embrace and fall in love with. Something that she has done, loving coming into work each day and making a difference.

From the NBA, NFL, to the MLS the skills are transferable. Dionna learned how a business like the NBA runs and knew it could be applied across organizations, she also learned that she loves to lead and execute.

Having a work life balance isn’t something Dionna believes in. In fact she wonders why it only ever seems to apply to women. She feels that life isn’t about balance, but instead about commitment. Committing to being a better person, a better business person, a better mother, striving for greatness every day.

What does it mean to be leader – the most important lesson to be learned, it starts with authentic people not those who are here just for the title.

Next Episode

Mikal Bridges

Shea is back hot off OTE opening weekend and just in time to welcome Tyneeha's son, Western Conference Champion with the Phoenix Suns, Mikal Bridges. More than an insight into his basketball journey, Mikal reflects with the ladies on the behind-the-scenes story of how he grew up and what situations off the court shaped him into the player he is today.

Mikal discusses how he mentally prepared to play ball at Villanova, only to be red shirted, and how that year formed him. The laughs, the tears, those who inspired him through grace, and those who motivated him through struggle; We hear about his championship seasons at Villanova, the blessing that was being traded to the Suns on Draft Night, having a career high game during the NBA Finals and the feeling that came with signing a 4-year $90 million rookie extension.

This episode is full of basketball, no doubt, but more importantly it is a testament to a mother’s love, to the power of positivity and to the meaning of a balanced and fulfilled life.

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