Game Changing Conversations
Game changers have something most people don’t…highly effective communication skills that grow existing accounts, close new deals and allows them to work seamlessly with their team.
Join Heather Lisle, your podcast host and a communications and marketing expert with over 20 years of executive and leadership level experience, and learn about the tools you need to deeply understand your own communication style and how to have winning conversations with your colleagues, clients, and how to message your business in a way that feels good to you.
Episodes
57 episodes
Episode 57: Building the Life You Can’t Wait to Wake Up For Requires Bold Moves, with Erin Gerner / Founder, Powerhouse Lawyers
Building a life you can’t wait to wake up for…well, it’s a hard concept for many of us to fully embrace. It’s like…we want it (we want it bad!), but we don’t know how to get it and have it. It can sometimes feel unobtainable, right?I’ll ...
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Episode 56: Stop the Scroll With Your LinkedIn Content, with special guest Kacy Maxwell
The difference between corporate marketing and personal branding and how you do it effectively - meaning your ideal client is going to stop the scroll and actually read what you have to say - it’s from the content you post and the stories you t...
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Episode 54: How To Look Like You Own The Place, With Guest Elisa Ellis Of Turnkey Style
When it comes to how we show up online or in the face-to-face world, what we wear…it matters. Since 70-90% of communication is non-verbal, your clients and colleagues are making decisions about whether or not they will take your advice…listen t...
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Episode 53: How To Have Your Own Brand As a Corporate Exec
I work with a lot of executives who work for big companies (and smaller ones too), and one thing that comes up often is not understanding how to build your personal brand if you get a paycheck from a company you don’t own.It sounds daunt...
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Episode 52: How to Seal the Deal, with special guest Tiffany Carter
You can learn how to get anyone to work with you and buy from you consistently. But, you need to have clarity about WHO it is you want working with you…and HOW you need to message yourself in order for those people to not only be attracted to y...
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Episode 51: What Your Social Media REALLY Says About You with special guest, Jillian Murphy
When it comes to sales, I KNOW you likely have a used car salesman as the sales avatar, right?! Here’s the thing. Sales should NOT feel spammy and awful…it should be a natural process. In today’s episode, I talk with the Sales Queen herself, Ji...
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Episode 50: How to Work a Room & Network Like a Pro, with special guest Sarah Gemmell
Networking can either be your jam or something you really try to avoid for a variety of reasons. If you’re like a lot of the clients I work with, you likely haven’t been taught HOW to strategically network.Networking isn’t just showing u...
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Episode 49: How Confidence in Your Communication = Cash in the Bank with special guest, Nancy Medoff
When it comes to confidence in our conversations and how we communicate with others, there’s a way to effectively do this with kindness yet setting boundaries too.This also includes understanding how to infuse warmth (i.e., in your words and no...
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Episode 48: Why You Really Don’t Like Certain Types of Clients (or people in general)
We’ve all had to handle tough clients and team members from time to time, right? Managing tough personalities isn’t something any of us enjoy doing, but if you have an understanding of their triggers and what motivates them…it’ll help your conv...
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Episode 47: Leading by Example: How to Communicate with Anyone with special guest, Tracy O’Malley
We all tend to communicate with others the way we want people to communicate with us. The problem is - we all communicate very differently.Leading a team requires understanding and the ability to leverage diverse personalities and commun...
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Episode 46: Your Messages Matter
If you want to close more deals and make more money, understanding the art of connection and relationship building with ANY personality type is mission critical.In today’s podcast, we will dive into the four personality types, how to ide...
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Episode 45: The #1 Thing You’re Glossing Over That’s Costing You BIG Money
I’m working with a large accounting firm and was getting ready to present to a group of managing partners about a training series we are piloting. One of the topics was about how to message yourself in the digital space as a pro...
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Episode 43: Stop Taking Things So Personal…It’s Impacting Your Results
Have you ever worked with a client or colleague who absolutely cannot take feedback well?You know the type…. You’re working on a project together and when you give recommendations or thoughts to help improve things…you either...
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Episode 42: Stop Hiding Behind Compliance & Start Marketing Your Business
Believe me, I’ve talked to MANY professional services providers over the years…accountants, lawyers, commercial mortgage brokers…you name it.One thing that comes up over and over again is this:I work in a hig...
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Episode 41: How To Show Up Like You Own The Place
Have you ever had a closet edit?If you would’ve asked me a few months ago…I wouldn’t have even known what a closet edit is until a new friend, Elisa Ellis with Turnkey Style, attended one of my Chicks in Charge lunch meetings…we became f...
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Episode 40: Having a Great Personality Doesn’t Mean People Will Buy From You
If there’s one thing I’ve heard a LOT over my years working as a professional in the communications and marketing space, it’s this:Of course you’re successful - you have “that” kind of personality.I’m the INFLUENCER type on the Di...
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Episode 39: What To Do If You’re a People-Pleaser
I’m gonna bet that if you’re anything like me, you’ve likely had a people-pleasing phase of your life…or are still in it…or recovering from it.I call myself a recovering people-pleaser because…from time to time, I absolutely fall...
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Episode 38: You May Be A Jerk And Not Even Know It
Have you ever been in a meeting with someone who was loud-mouthed, obnoxious and completely unaware of any and all non-verbal signals coming from absolutely everyone in the room?You sit there…almost feeling embarrassed for that person…bu...
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Episode 37: If You’re An Extrovert, Here’s How You Need To Message Yourself to Land New Business
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Episode 36: If You’re An Introvert, Here’s How You Need To Message Yourself to Land New Business
If you classify yourself as an introvert, you'll want to listen in this episode! Today I will be talking all about communication strategies, and more specifically the verbal and non verbal cues to effectively identify and communica...
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Episode 35: How to Use LinkedIn to SELL As A Professional Services Provider
If I could give a dollar for every time someone has said that LinkedIn is only for job seekers, I’d be a rich woman…AND all those “someone’s” are wrong.LinkedIn is for job seekers…AND it’s for professionals who truly are looking to conne...
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Episode 34: Using The Same Selling Strategy For EVERYONE Isn’t Working
How many of you detest sales people? You know, the types that just want to “sell you” on something without first finding out if the thing they’re selling is actually something you need or want… UGH.I used to hate car shopping because I a...
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Episode 33: How to Get People to Take You Seriously Guest: Malena Putnam, Founder/Chicks in Charge
You want to be known as the industry leader.You want your voice to be heard at the table.You want to be taken seriously.But…how do you do it? What’s the formula?In today’s episode, I have the pleasure of talking with...
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Episode 32: Your Focus Needs to Stay on This ONE Thing in 2023
Raise of hands: do you get easily distracted?You have intentions set on getting that list checked off…and then, the car doesn’t start or a kid gets sick…or the pipes burst…or you lost track of time scrolling on social media.This p...
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