Episode 4: Joan Kuhl on Digging Your Heels In

Joan Kuhl is an author, speaker, and unabashed champion of girls leadership and advancing women in the workplace. She speaks internationally and consults with Fortune 100 companies and top 20 Business Schools as well as serves as a Board Member for the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute and Girls Inc.. Her expertise has been featured in the NY Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC Success Magazine and she is a regular contributor to ForbesWomen. Joan is the author of 3 books, including “Dig Your Heels In: Navigate Corporate BS And Build The Company You Deserve”. She earned her MBA from Rutgers University where she studied global business strategies in China and is the mother of two daughters. After spending 14 years in the pharma industry, Joan transitioned to mentoring and coaching and launched her company, Why Millennials Matter. In this inspiring episode, she shares her journey. Through her work, Joan empowers women at all points of their journey from early childhood through college and business school and at every level in the workplace. Listen in as she shares at which stage she finds that women meet the greatest obstacles and how she help them overcome these obstacles. We also discuss the common self-limiting behaviors that hold women back, including Imposter Syndrome, Stifled Authenticity, Perfectionism, & Overthinking and how her book “Digging In Your Heels” helps with these and so much more! DID YOU KNOW?! Joan’s first job was at McDonalds at just 14 years old. In this episode, you’ll hear the two major life lessons she learned while on the job that proved transferrable to her life-long career. DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION? Visit www.golivegirl.org/podcast to submit a question YOU want us to answer on an upcoming episode. As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!