{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Live Better. Sell Better.","title":"Power of Authenticity: Lessons for the Woman in Leadership with Katy McFee","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2461,"description":"This episode of the Live Better Seller Better Podcast features Katy McFee, Founder and Principal of i2a Insights to Action Coaching and Consulting. More and more professionals talk about becoming a woman in leadership but not enough talk about how to actually thrive in that space.\n\nKaty shares her insights on what it actually takes to take ownership and understand your role as a woman in leadership. She talks about how she started mentoring and teaches how to lean into your authenticity and succeed in the environment you're in.\n\n\n\nHIGHLIGHTS\n\nRealizing her passion for mentoring and working with women\nHow do you thrive as a woman in leadership?\nOwning one's authenticity and leaning into it\nIdentifying if you are in an environment conducive to women in leadership\n\n\n\nQUOTES\n\nOn being introspective - Katy: \"I think a lot of us just go through life and sort of see\n\nwhat happens and we don't spend a lot of time thinking about, 'what am I really good at?' And perhaps had I just gone straight up to VP, maybe I never would've done that. My struggle was kind of a blessing in a way because it forced me to really think about what does it take to get to this level?\"\n\nLeaning into your authentic self - Katy: \"I think there was a belief, it was more subconscious, but this idea that I had to act like the guys in the room in order to be welcome. And I found that my biggest asset or one of my biggest assets was the fact that I was different. I Ihad a different perspective. I had a different lived experience. So when I really shared that and led with that, even, it was well received and appreciated.\"\n\nDifference between good leadership and great leadership - Katy: \"There is sometimes I think a desire to blame a little bit. And even with my former boss, I don't think this person was trying to hold me back. I think he didn't know how to tell me how to get to the next level. I think had I been showing up as the VP I wanted to be, would he have made me a VP? Probably. But he didn't...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/McsxluMrH9m8Xm5x2s9lqkXDs1cAffXG0MtTw6h4N3A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MzVm/MDZlNTNkOGQzZWI0/NmE3NTdlOGM3MTZj/YjUyMC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}