095 - How to Advocate for Ourselves as Women with Heather Hansen

Have a passion or big ideas but afraid to show it? Step into your own and learn how to advocate for yourself as a woman in today's podcast with Heather Hansen.    This week's episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen interviews Advocacy and Credibility Consultant, Author, Keynote Speaker, and Host of The Elegant Warrior Podcast Heather Hansen on how to advocate for ourselves as women.   Heather Hansen is the premier expert on how to advocate for your big ideas. She is the CEO and founder of Advocate to Win and has given thousands of clients the knowledge and tools they need to become better advocates and win support, attention, loyalty and engagement for their big ideas.    For over 20 years Heather has been an award winning trial attorney, giving clients the skills to share their big ideas with juries, who initially don't want to be there and don't understand the issues.  Heather has a degree in psychology, is a certified mediator, and has provided expert analysis for CNN, Fox News Channel, NBC, Fox Business, Good Day Philadelphia, and The Dr. Oz Show.    Known for her insight and energy, Heather has been invited to speak to audiences across the world, everywhere from Kuwait to Ireland, to share with them the tools to advocate for their big ideas. Her interactive and energetic keynotes leave participants with actionable tools they can use that very same day to stop simply communicating and begin advocating.    Heather is the author of The Elegant Warrior-How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself, which Publisher's Weekly called, "A template for achieving personal and career goals." She is also the host of The Elegant Warrior podcast.  #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at [email protected].   About the Episode: Read the blog for this episode at karenyankovich.com/095 Read the transcript for this episode at karenyankovich.com/095transcript   Episode Spotlights:   Where to find everything for this week's episode: karenyankovich.com/095 Audio review from Domonique Townsend, Founder and CEO of We Optimize Work LLC.  (2:38) Introduction and background to Heather Hansen (5:23) Heathers journey from a trial attorney to news personality (7:39) Do women struggle to advocate for themselves more than men? (9:49) The difference between communicating and advocating (10:47) How using your voice is the most important part of advocating (15:27) What started the conversation around this discussion of advocating for yourself (21:13) Places to advocate for yourself and get your message out (28:01) Resources that Heather has made to help step into advocating yourself (30:55) Recap of todays episode (34:37) Resources Mentioned In This Episode:   Sign up for Karen's brand new, free LinkedIn profile challenge at linkedinprofilechallenge.com Heather's book: The Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself Where to find Heather: Instagram Website Heathers Elegant Warrior Podcast Events Karen will be attending and speaking at: karenyankovich.com/events Karen's expert LinkedIn services: karenyankovich.com/linkedin-services  Join my free Facebook Group to share how you use LinkedIn and get support tips Follow me on Instagram for more content Help Us Spread The Word! It would be awesome if you shared the Good Girls Get Rich Podcast with your fellow entrepreneurs on twitter. Click here to tweet some love!   If this episode has taught you just one thing, I would love if you could head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review. Maybe you'll get a shout out on the show!   Ways to Subscribe to Good Girls Get Rich: Click here to subscribe via Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe via PlayerFM You can also subscribe via Stitcher Good Girls Get Rich is also on Spotify Take a listen on Podcast Addict