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The Spitfire Podcast with Lauren LeMunyan — 200 episodes

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The Accountability Move that Changes Everything (and most leaders never do it)

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Detach to Attract: Reclaiming Your Power by Letting Go of the Outcome

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The Power of "I Don't Know"

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We Don't Have an "Ambition Gap", We Have a Support Gap with Santana Inniss of The Glow Initiative

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Wrapping Up 2025... and Preparing for 2026

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Real Talk on Coaching, Advising, and Leading Through the Mess with Laurie Battaglia

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Middle Management Meltdown: Who's Really Holding Up the House?

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Telling Your Empowerment Story: From Survival to Self-Celebration

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Redefining Success: From Doing to Being in Leadership

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Please Dont Coach Me: The Cringey NPR Coaching Voice

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Introducing "Please Don't Coach Me"

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Is It Your Intuition or Are You Just Judgy?

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42 & On Fire: The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe & Self-Worth

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Breaking the Scarcity Cycle: Redefining Your Money Story for Financial Abundance

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10 Years, 10 Lessons: Entrepreneurial Truth Bombs from the Spitfire Journey

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Creative Sparks & Soul Shifts with Paige Williams: From Desperation to Awakening

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Cracking the Code of Clarity: Why Simple Is Harder (and Better)

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Recalibrating Your Values: When Old Drivers No Longer Work

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Limbo, Purpose, and the Messy Middle

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Through the Fire: A Summer of Survival, Strength & Future Self Design

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When Life Really Lifes on You: What I've Been Up to The Last Month and Change

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No Subtext, Just Truth: Fat Bias, F-Bombs & Fixing Leadership Culture with Shannon Malone deBenedictis

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I Was Wrong About 'Let Them': Why Critical Thinking Matters More Than Feel-Good Fixes

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Buzzwords & Bullsh*t: Exposing Performative Leadership

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The Power of Not Knowing: Leadership's Secret Weapon

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Leading Leaders: The Real Work Starts at the Top

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From Chaos to Clarity: Unlocking Resilience Through Somatic Coaching

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Reclaim Your Power: The 15-Minute Morning Reset

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Spitfire Sparks: Finding Joy in the Unexpected

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Does Self-Promotion Feel Slimy? Try This Instead

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Dressing Room Decision Making

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Embracing a "Let Them" Mindset

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Beware The Shoulds: How to Spot Coaching Red Flags

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The Power of Storytelling and Taking Back Control

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Judgment, Alignment, and Activating Your Inner Spitfire

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Curiosity Unleashed: The Secret Sauce for Smarter Problem-Solving

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A Fresh Take on Self-Care and Mental Health

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Yucking on Your Yum

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The ELMO Dilemma: Leadership, Respect, and Psychological Safety in Meetings

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Unlocking Simplicity: How We Miss Obvious Solutions & What To Do About It

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Talk vs. Action: Transforming Leadership Frustration into Forward Momentum

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The True Costs of Avoidance and Inaction

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Five Year Guided Meditation: Visualizing Your Future

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Episode 197: Embracing the Edge: Overcoming Vulnerability & Rejection

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Breaking Barriers: Revolutionizing Communication and Collaboration in the Workplace

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Celebrating Achievements: A Year-End Recap of The Spitfire Podcast

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The True History of Hard and Soft Skills and How it Impacts our Valuation of Leaders

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The First Stage of Burnout That No One Talks About

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Finding Healing and Growth with Andromeda Peters

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A New Strategy to Build Trust on Your Team (and with Your Teen)

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Unleash Your Inner Power: Transform Your Reality with Dr. Amanda

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Rethinking Feedback: How to be more effective and impactful in your feedback process

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At What Cost? The Underlying Toll of Always Being "On"

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Giving Someone the Benefit of the Doubt

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Flexing Your Truscles (Trust Muscles)

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Redefining Your Motivation

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Lessons Learned from Learning to Sail and Getting a Puppy

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My Rant About Venting

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Make Sure You're Always Half Full

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"You Should Do More"

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Episode 180: How to Receive Feedback and Use it As a Gift

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Episode 179: Everything is Better When...

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Episode 178: How to Determine Your Brand without Hiring an "Expert"

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Episode 177: Just Show Up

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Episode 176: Why Self-Help Books Don't Work

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Episode 175: How to Work With People You Cant Stand

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Episode 174: Stop Doing the Most - How to Sustainably Manage a Team Member Through a Performance Issue

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Episode 173: Why We Need to Be More Self-Centered

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Episode 172: The Difference Between Pressure and Intensity

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Episode 171: How To Protect Your Empathetic Energy

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Episode 170: The Impacts of VUCA and BANI on Employees

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Episode 169: 3 Things Middle Managers Need to Do to Manage Up and Down Effectively

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Episode 168: Why Your "Why" Doesn't Matter (And What I Really Think of Simon Sinek)

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Episode 167: Can You Say More With Less?

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Episode 166: Building Resilience Through Burnout Recovery

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Episode 165: Marketing Through The Customer Lens

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Episode 164: Leveraging Your Leadership Style to Maximize Your Influence and Impact

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Episode 163: How Much Do You Trust Yourself?

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Episode 162: Getting Dirty with Christina McInnis of AgriTech and SoilKit

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Episode 161: Time to Tell the Whole Truth

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Episode 160: Designing for the New Workflow with Lauren Chipman of Chipman Design Architecture

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Episode 159: Audacious Confidence with Alicia Couri

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Episode 158: How to Shift out of a Hunger Games Mindset in Small Business with Andrea Lyons

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Episode 157: The Need for Emotional and Mental Spring Cleaning

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Episode 155: The Great Numbing: How We Can Help One Another Reconnect

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Episode 156: Love and Light Goodbye with Tracy Litt

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From Referee to Coach: How to Lead Your Feuding Team Across the Finish Line

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Episode 154: Amanda Laden From Period to Pause

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Episode 153: The Painful Truth with Dr. Stacy

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Episode 152: From Performance Improvement Plan to Exceeding Expectations

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Episode 151: Intentionally Design Your Life in 30 Minutes

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Episode 150: Lauren Answers Psychological Safety Questions from Risk Summit

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Episode 149: The Magical Joy of Poo

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Episode 148: How to Come Back from Vacation Recharged

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Episode 147: How Take Make Decisions in Uncertain Times

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Episode 146: Being in Integrity

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Episode 145: Unpacking Your Internal Story

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Episode 144: Love and Leadership with Cornelia Shipley

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Episode 143: How to Make Friends as an Adult

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Episode 142: How to Stop Being a People Pleaser

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Episode 141: Changing Your Relationship with Time

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Episode 140: Why You Need to Stop Saying You're Fine

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Episode 139: The Dark Side of Servant Leadership

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Episode 138: Getting Back Out There (Reset Series)

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Episode 137: Expectations v Agreements (Reset Series)

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Episode 136: The Power of Forgiveness (Reset Series)

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Episode 135: Asking for What You Need (Reset Series)

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Episode 134: How to Be Consciously Profitable with Wendy Dickinson

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Episode 133: De-Niche-itizing Your Systems with Beate Chelette

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Episode 132: The Introvert's Playbook to Networking with Madeline Schwarz

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Episode 131: How to Handle the Incoming Workforce Tsunami with Amy Kan

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Episode 130: Climbing Through Discomfort with Christine Trumbull

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Episode 129: How to Make New Friends as an Adult

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Episode 128: Thriving as an Introvert with Alan Heymann of Peaceful Direction

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Episode 127: How to Find 25% More Time in Your Day

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Episode 126: What I Really Think About Resolutions

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Episode 125: Envisioning an Awesome 2021 with Caz Gaddis

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Episode 124: How Can I Feel More Productive?

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Episode 123: How to Shut Down Toxicity in Your Team Culture

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Episode 122: The Day After

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Episode 121: How Can We Make Things Easier?

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Episode 120: Compounded Employment Trauma and The Effects of Workplace Resentment

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Episode 119: How to Increase Engagement in Your Team Meetings

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Episode 118: How Inclusive and Diverse are Your Zoom Meetings?

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Episode 117: Stop Coaching Scared from September 10, 2020

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Episode 116: Taking Stock of Your Awesomeness

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Episode 115: How to Allow Your Business to Succeed (Even in a Pandemic)

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Episode 114: Using Your Feels to Resolve Your Blindspots

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Episode 113: Where Are You in Your Pandemic Journey?

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Episode 112: A Deep Dive with Ashley Powdar of Ruby Sampson

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Episode 111: How Do We Build Remote Trust?

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Episode 110: Routine Reset

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Episode 109: Finding Pockets of Opportunity in Uncertainty

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Bonus Show: Lauren and Justin Do a Living Room Concert (3 12 2020)

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Episode 108: Colleague Favor Foul

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Episode 107: Unpacking The Business of Subscription Boxes with Julie Ball

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Episode 106: No Buts About It

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Episode 105: What's the Difference Between Balance, Integration, and Alignment?

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Episode 104: How to Deal with Difficult Conversations

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Episode 103: Achievement Planning: The Four Step Process to Eliminate Excuses and Distractions

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Episode 102: Addressing Your Labels

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Episode 101: The Energy Scorecard - Your Secret Weapon to Saying No

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Episode 100: Pay Attention to Your Corners

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Episode 99: Using The Scaling Tool to Find the Gaps

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Episode 98: What Are You Willing to Let Go Of?

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Episode 97: Listen to This Before Making Your New Years Resolution

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Episode 96: SpitFire CEO Spotlight: Brett Snyder, Knucklepuck

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Episode 95: Are Your Support Groups Supporting You?

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Episode 94: Low Lift High Impact

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Episode 93: The Power of Gratitude

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Episode 92: SpitFire Spotlight: Holly Harper, Founder, Blue Bike Communications

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Episode 90: The 4 Ps That are Key to Productivity

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Episode 91: Micro-Goals for Your 2020 Vision

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Episode 89: SpitFire Spotlight: Sara Lingenfelter, CEO, Virtual Biz Partner

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Episode 88: Cleaning Up the Clutter

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Episode 87: Own Your Sh*t: Lessons Learned from a Weekend Women's Retreat

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Episode 86: Birthday Bummer

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Episode 85: SpitFire Spotlight - Lesley Pyle, Founder of HireMyMom.com

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Episode 84: Get Out of The Story

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Episode 83: Mapping Your Journey to Success

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Episode 82: Give Yourself The Credit You Deserve

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Episode 81: The Two Questions People Always Ask Me

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Episode 80: The Art of Interviews

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Episode 79: What Can We Do After a Tragedy?

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Episode 78: Self-Care Confessionals

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Episode 77: How and When to Leave a Toxic Job

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Episode 76: Pinpointing Workplace Stress

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Episode 75: Converting Feedback into a Gift

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Episode 74: Your Operating Principles and Universal Rules

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Episode 73: Owning Your Frustration at The Core

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Episode 72: New Beginnings Restarting after Change and Grief

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Episode 71: For You Not For You

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Episode 70: What Do You Deserve?

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Episode 69: Active v. Passive Voice

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Episode 68: The 4 Dimensions of You

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Episode 67: Fear of Success

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Bonus: Boundaries - How to Set and Maintain Standards to Amp Up Your Energy

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Episode 66: Balancing Priorities

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Episode 65: Taking Risks

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Episode 64: Help v. Support: One Shift Can Make All the Difference

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BONUS: March 5, 2019 Personal Branding Workshop Presentation for International Women's Week

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Episode 63: Marching Into Your Goals and Clearing out The Excuses

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Episode 62: Resentment's Role in Your Business and Relationships

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Episode 61: Is Bigger Always Better in Business with Guest Co-Host: Sharon Rowe

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Episode 60: How to Not Be Fake at Work with Guest Co-Host: Ginny Hill

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Episode 59: Using Your Bottom with Guest Co-Host Bobby Plagmann

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Episode 58: Owning Your Time and Schedule with Miss United States, Andromeda Peters

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Episode 57: Mind Your Mindfulness with Guest Host: Erin Sonn of Eat Yoga Drink

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Episode 56: Sparking and Maintaining Your Creativity with KiKi L'Italien of Association Chat and Amplified Growth

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Episode 55: DIYitis: Can you really do it yourself? Guest Co-Host: Chelsea Cole

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Episode 54: Rewriting Your SpitFire Story

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Episode 53: The Mad Optimist: They Give a Sh*t!

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Episode 52: 1 Year Update Show - Mindset Shifts, Celebrations and What's Next for Our SpitFire Guests

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Episode 51: Navigating Negative News: Emotional Range and Coping Mechanisms

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Episode 50: Guest Host - Justin Trawick, Do You Talk About What You Make?

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Episode 49: What's Your Power SpitFire Role?

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Episode 47: Guest Co-Host Justin Trawick

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Episode 48: The Leadership Lab with Chris Lewis, Founder and CEO of LEWIS PR

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Episode 46: Safe Goals and True Intentions (The Birthday Episode)

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Episode 45: To Discount or Not to Discount, That is the Question with Friends and Family