Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic
163 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Rise Up to Your Best Self in the Workplace"
Whether you’re a corporate manager, CEO, employee, or an entrepreneur, there’s a deep-seeded desire inside all of us to want to do and be our best. As a manager or CEO, this may look like confidently leading an engaged team. As an employee, this may look like mastering a skill or role and promoting to a new position. As an entrepreneur, it may look like hitting new revenue goals or connecting with new clients.
But in order to reach goals and perform at your best, you need to garner self-awareness and understand what makes you the best, most unique version of yourself.
What are your communication patterns? What are your personality strengths and weaknesses? How do you best interact with others?
You can uncover all of this and more by adopting Your Brilliant Difference™.
Forming the foundation Finka Jerkovic’s bold executive training program, Your Brilliant Difference™ is the special gift you bring to the table in your work and personal life to make the world a better place.
In the Your Brilliant Difference™ podcast, get tips and strategies to understand how you can unlock your full potential and embrace your best self, helping you perform at your highest caliber. You’ll also get insight from other corporate leaders, employees, and entrepreneurs to learn about their journeys of embracing authenticity and who they truly are to drive the best impact and results for their business.
You’re one episode listen away from starting to unlock your full potential.
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Episodes
Episode 12: Identify What’s Not Working as an Opportunity to Transform. with Tara McMullin
February 09, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBHave you ever gone after something, achieved a goal or fulfilled a dream only to have it not turn out as you thought it would? We usually tell ourselves if we get the job, get a certain type of client or if you learned how to lead or sell like John or Jane, then did we’d be happier, more successful and feel fulfilled. But when we finally get there, the bill of goods we bought into was not all that it what cracked up to be. Some people will settle and say, it’s just the way it is. Oth...
Episode 11: Settling Into the Unknown? Take Time to Find the Desire for What’s Next with Jennifer Louden
February 02, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBMy guest today best-selling author, writer and business mentor Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book. Since then, she’s written six additional books on well-being and whole living, including The Woman’s Retreat Book and The Life Organizer, with close to a million copies of her books in print in nine languages. Her newest is Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next. Jennifer has ...
Episode 10: Be Loyal to Yourself, Even if You don’t Always Get it Right With Nancy Jane Smith
January 26, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes - 45.4 MBIn my book Sell From Love I do a deep dive into the five protector strategies we use when we feel fear, uncertainty, doubt, guilt or the pressure to meet expectations. The 5 protector strategies are perfection, pleasing, proving, performance and punishment. I’ve fallen prey to these more often than I’d like to talk about, and overtime have learned what I need to pay attention to and the triggers that activate one of these protection strategies. It’s made it easier to manage and even avoid...
Episode 9: Be Who You Are Meant to Be to Succeed with Robyn Sayles
January 19, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MBAre there qualities you bring to the table that are unique? Does this uniqueness feel more like a burden than a gift? Guess what? These differences and unique qualities you bring to your leadership, clients, and company is what you need to bring most. In my book Sell From Love – I talk a lot about how we need to love ourselves in order to sell, work and lead better. If you don’t love who you are how can you expect others to? If you’re not being valued or appreciated or if you’re not ...
Episode 8: How Would You Like to Be Addressed? It’s all about those finishing touches with Toi Sweeney.
January 12, 2021 05:00 - 39 minutes - 37.1 MBWhen you walk in a room, turn on your video for a Zoom call or make a presentation to your team or a potential client – how do you want to be seen? What do you want them to say, think and feel about You? Now I don’t enjoy spending a whole of time on thinking about what I’m going to wear or even shopping for my wardrobe. I’d rather spend time in a bookstore than a clothing boutique. But I do value style, feeling good and using what I wear as an expression of who I am. My guest today,...
Episode 7: Give Yourself Permission to Step Back to Move Forward with Dr Greg Wells
January 05, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this episode with best selling author, scientist and physiologist Dr.Greg Wells, we talk about the importance of taking time to slow down to speed up. It’s not about getting back to normal, rather re-imaging a future – is how he puts it. He shares insights on the patterns of elite athletes and how, when they learned to play less, they gained more. One of the things I really took away from this conversation is to allow ourselves to make burn out okay. Burnout tells us we stretched o...
Episode 6: Understanding You. Using your Brand to Pave your Path to Success with Amber Hurdle
December 29, 2020 05:00 - 54 minutes - 50.9 MBHow do you find and define your personal brand? Why do you need one and why is it important? When you know how you add value, the strengths and expertise you bring to the table, your most impressive personality traits and how make a meaningful difference to you clients and team you work with – your leadership, influence, and results you get will be transformed. Defining and living out your brand takes work. It’s a deliberate effort. Something you consciously choose to do, not haphazardl...
Episode 5: When Do We Speak Up? How Do You Want to Be Heard? with Andrea Wenburg
December 22, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBHow do you find your voice of influence? Does speaking up, declaring your opinion, sharing your ideas, or stating your needs cause someone else’s voice to dim down? I’ve often struggled with this exact question. I consider myself an empathic person. I’m sensitive to the needs of others and mindful of how my actions affect them. As a result, I’m acutely aware of when I take up space in a room. Often, I wondered am I making it all about me, is it self-fish, am I being self centric or narc...
Episode 4: Take That Risk and Move Forward. Let Your Voice be Heard with JeNae Clark Johnson.
December 15, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBIn a time when a pandemic, challenges in the economy and fear is running rampant how do you find your centre? How do you stay grounded? How do you have faith to move forward, putting one foot in front of the other when you’re not sure if a stone will appear for your foot to firmly land on. My guest today, JeNae Clark Johnson Founder of CTM Unlimited a human capital consulting firm who’s mission is to rescue geniuses shares her story on how she moved through the fear, uncertainties and the t...
Episode 3: How did I Get Here? Stay Aligned in a Chaotic Life with Lisa Hutcheson
December 08, 2020 05:00 - 48 minutes - 45 MBWhat does a life in alignment look like? I know all too well the price one pays when our people pleasing, perfection tendencies and doing what it takes to meet performance expectations take a hold of us. I’ve had a few life assignments come my way to learn this lesson. Often times, the way we learn this lesson is with a visit from the dark night of the soul. My guest today is Lisa Hutcheson, Managing Partner at J.C Williams Group, a boutique, global retail consulting firm that specializes ...
Episode 1: Don't Live in a State of Urgency - Bring Change to the World Around you with your Host Finka Jerkovic.
December 01, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutes - 19.5 MBWith current selling frameworks driving more fear into your selling experience and anxiety into your clients buying experience, it’s no wonder selling feels awkward, uncomfortable, and downright hard. There is another way, a better way. Sell from love is that the way. Imagine a world where you didn’t have to compromise who you were, what you were selling, or who you were selling to. That is the Sell from Love way. Sell from love will teach you how to authentically connect with clients...
Episode 2: Let's Refuel! Find Your Purpose and Reach Your Potential with Janet Lee
December 01, 2020 05:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBFear based selling has become the norm. And just because it’s become the norm, it doesn’t mean it’s normal. Normal is defined as: conforming to a standard, typical or an expected, average condition. With the current environment of living through a pandemic many want life to get back to normal. While I too am craving normal – how do we actually define it? Is doing what was familiar and routine define normal? Is going back to what was even though it wasn’t working – define normal? Today we’re...
Episode 0: Sell is not a bad four-letter word with Finka Jerkovic (Trailer).
November 27, 2020 01:30 - 2 minutes - 3.92 MBDoes it feel like you have to give up a piece of your soul to sell your product, service or expertise? Like you have to contort yourself into the always-be-closing, ‘mosquito-style pesky persistence or fear inducing frameworks, that have been the hallmark of used car lots and real estate brokerages in movies and TV. If you're ready to experience greater meaning in your work, reach the right clients and offer a valuable solution that people need, I can help you. I'm Finka Jerkovic, a...