Ep 084: Reinventing Yourself, Sadie Robertson Huff, Paula Faris & Jason Jaggard

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Is God trying to move you into a new season? Are you feeling an ache in your spirit? All leaders experience seasons of reinvention that are both exhilarating and terrifying. And as you grow in your leadership, you start to recognize the internal and external signs indicating its time to chart a new course. In this episode of the GLS Podcast, Sadie Roberson Huff, Paula Faris and elite executive coach Jason Jaggard discuss the key questions you should ask yourself as you consider a big move and the truths you can lean into to calm your fear.

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Sadie Robertson Huff

Live Original

A role model for her generation, Robertson shares messages of hope through her writing, Live Original speaking tour, social platforms and media appearances. Robertson’s podcast, WHOA, That’s Good, reached more than a million unique downloads after only 15 episodes, her blog has reached more than 2 million people in over 195 countries, and her Instagram posts reach 3.3 million. Robertson’s entrepreneurial spirit and flair for fashion has led her to develop a line of prom dresses with designer Sheri Hill and new clothing for her Live Original brand. Committed to philanthropy, she launched a campaign to inspire her generation to make a difference—her current focus being ending world hunger in partnership with organizations, including World Vision. Her books, Live Original and Live Fearless, made it to the New York Times bestseller list, and her most recent release is LIVE: remain alive, be alive at a specified time, have an exciting or fulfilling life.

Paula Faris

CARRY Media™

Paula Faris is an Emmy-Award winning journalist, speaker, best-selling author of Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs For A Life Of True Calling, and host of the Paula Faris Faith & Calling podcast, where she talks to inspirational people about what they're called to do and who they're called to be. Faris spent the last nine years at ABC news, during which she was co-anchor of Good Morning America weekend edition and co-host of The View. While at the network she reported on everything from politics, news and entertainment to sports and faith. In 2022, Faris launched CARRY Media™ with the desire to champion, advocate and celebrate working mothers across America.

Jason Jaggard

Novus Global

Jason Jaggard is an entrepreneur, author, executive coach and speaker. His work has been translated into over 50 languages and has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Magazine. He is the founder of Novus Global, an executive coaching firm working with Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, elected officials and some of the most famous entertainers on earth. He also co-founded and is on the faculty of The Meta Performance Institute, which helps coaches create six figure practices serving high performing leaders and teams. His next book, Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know about How the Best Get Better is out this May, 2023.

Show Notes

SUMMARY:

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

It may be time to reinvent yourself when you have a sense of what you want to do and who you want to be. It may be just a direction, but it’s enough to know it’s time.
You can’t let other people define who you are; you have to keep becoming who you are. And sometimes you just have to tell other people who you are.
Sometimes we choose the change and other times we don’t choose the change.
Seeing myself as doing one thing for the rest of your life can be a trap. Peel back the layers to understand why you are good at what you do by asking yourself three questions:

What are you good at?
What do you love?
What do trusted people around you notice that you’re good at and love?

My worth isn’t in what I do. My calling isn’t just my career.
Sometimes you don’t know the strategy to reinvent yourself; you just have the “ache” or a stirring, and sometimes it’s enough to just follow the voice. Just get started.

Sometimes tragedy and opportunity can coexist, and give us badly needed “wake up calls” that we need to change.
Flaws and failures can be successes because that’s when we learn the most.
Peace and fear can co-exist. Learning to expect and anticipate fear can help.
Some practical techniques for fear:

Breathing techniques

Handwarmers (if your hands get cold, it can trigger physical reactions in your body that contribute to anxiety and fear.)
Run hands under hot water
Drink four glasses of water

Learn to advocate for yourself. If you’re not a healthy leader, you won’t have a healthy team.
When you want to do something new, you have to put the work in. You get your foot in the door and then you kick it down.

Everybody has to work to get where they’re at. It’s easy to convince yourself that everybody else is just gifted, but that’s not the case. You have to confidence and humility to develop your gifts.
When you believe in something bigger than yourself it’s easy to invite people in to be a part of it.
People don’t always want to cling to a person; they want to cling to a purpose and vision.
Don’t just know what you’re against; know what you’re for. Focus on solutions, not just issues.
Be the kind person that people WANT to help:

Dream bigger
Know what you are for
Champion others

You elevate yourself by elevating others.
Success means sacrificing distractions, which can be anything that take your eyes off of what you’re called to do: even some relationships, “fun times”, etc.

There are also things that you should not be willing to sacrifice: your family, you friends, your health, etc.
There’s a difference between loving what you do and being defined by what you do. Ask yourself these questions:

Are the choices I’m making clashing with what I profess to be of value to me?
Am I finding significance in something that’s going to shift (i.e., a job, a bank account, a relationship)?

Find out who you are outside of what you do. Write that down. That’s your purpose statement. Everything else is going to change but your purpose is not going to change.

If you allow God to build the house on solid ground, you can have security in who you are and not just the things that you’ve done. It keeps you humble.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS:

As leaders, you are constantly working to manage change. In what area of your life or leadership are you sensing it might be time for reinvention?

In this podcast, Paula outlined three questions to understand why you are good at what you do. These things will never change, even if you are going through a major change. How would you answer these questions?