By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 29 It’s September. The plan you wrote in January, if you wrote one at all, might as well be from another lifetime. A human being could have been conceived and born in the time between then and now, and if that comparison lands a little hard, that’s the point. In Episode 29 of Wake Up Women Leaders, Victoria Whitfield and I built a

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 28 You introduce yourself at a networking event, and instead of naming exactly who you serve, you list everything you could possibly do for anyone who might be listening. Nobody in the room walks away knowing who to send your way. In Episode 28 of Wake Up Women Leaders, Victoria Whitfield and I dug into why so many women leaders resist getting specific

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 27 You love what you do. You’re passionate, driven, doing good work. And you still come home feeling like a slug, with nothing left to connect with your kids, enjoy your hobbies, or even make a decent dinner decision. In Episode 27 of Wake Up Women Leaders, Victoria Whitfield and I talked about why this happens to so many women leaders, and introduced

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 26 You sat in your corporate job imagining the other side of the fence. Rolling hills, sunshiny days, doing what you love and never working a day in your life again. And now you’re putting in more hours than you ever did behind that desk, dealing with leadership overwhelm and wondering if you should throw in the towel. In Episode 26 of Wake

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 25 Managing Proprioception as a Woman Leader: Why Looking Where You’re Going Actually Works You’re driving a motorcycle and someone tells you: look where you want to end up, not down at the handlebars. Your eyes are above your arms right now. Your arms are above your pelvic floor. Your body already knows exactly where every part of itself is in space, without

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 24 You stayed up until midnight to finish something because you’d already spent four hours on it. You kept going to that networking group for six months after it stopped producing results because you’d already paid for the year. And even when a deadline no longer mattered, you pushed through exhaustion to finish the project simply because you’d already started. That pattern has

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 23 91% of the top 100 best-selling productivity books were written by men. For men. The frameworks you have been handed, the 5am wake-ups, the three-hour deep work blocks, the uninterrupted focus sprints, were built by people whose domestic lives were largely handled by someone else. Someone who took the calls, managed the household, picked up the kids, and kept everything running so

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 22 You did not underprice your offer because you miscalculated. You underpriced it because charging more felt like too much to ask. And before anyone even pushed back, you had already adjusted the number down. Added a qualifier. Apologized for the invoice before it was opened. That pattern, and it IS a pattern, is what Episode 22 of Wake Up Women Leaders was

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 21 Most businesses do not fail because the owner stopped working hard. They struggle because nobody ever designed how the money should flow in the first place. The work is there. The clients are there. The skill is there. And the revenue is still unpredictable — because the structure that should hold it all together was never built. Building a profitable business by

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 20 For nineteen episodes, Victoria Whitfield and I have been bringing you conversations about leadership, business, money, mindset, and what it takes to build something that works and keeps working. Topics you can apply. Frameworks you can use. Real examples from our combined decades of coaching women in leadership. Starting now, we are adding something different. A real leader. A real challenge. Coached