#32. Distracted to Delighted: How to say NO without guilt with Melanie Sodka
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Hey you wild women!
Joining me today is Melanie Sodka, an award-winning speaker with an energizing and perspective shifting style from Niagara, Ontario. She has 15 years’ experience as a business professor, executive coach, author and podcaster and created Capacity Creator Corp.
The aim of Capacity Creator Corp is to allow female entrepreneurs to understand and assess their capacity and if they are operating within it. Capacity relates to all aspects of life, from career to spirituality. Melanie’s goal is to help her clients achieve life-changing transformations through understanding of their own capacity boundaries.
In This Episode, You Will Learn About:
Learning to communicate your message without overwhelming your community
Valuing your community: Why you need to listen more than you talk
How burnout led to the creation of Capacity Creator
Operating from self-awareness
The physical toll burnout took on Melanie
Being rewarded for overworking: Deprogramming yourself from expectations
The Capacity Matrix: A self diagnostic tool for understanding your capacity
How capacity impacts female entrepreneurs specifically
Societal expectations of women and how they contribute to overwork
Taking advantage of lockdown to assess your pace
Living in a state of indulgence and creating frustration
Learning how to say yes with discernment and no without guilt
What do Lego and capacity have in common?
The aspects of capacity: Career Health Intellectual Emotional Financial Fun
Auditing your capacity and creating space where needed
Why spirituality is so difficult to make space for
The 3 core values of capacity: Passion, Energy, Fulfillment
Moving through guilt to come from gratitude
The pervasiveness of ‘mum guilt’ for female entrepreneurs
Changing your language to focus on capacity
Allowing space for creativity
Recognizing the need to set parameters in work and life
Resources:
Website: Capacity Creator
Facebook: Capacity Creator
Instagram: @melaniesodka
TEDx talk: Burnout: How Addiction to Distraction is Eroding our Capacity
Podcast: Capacity Podcast
Public Shout Outs:
What it means to be a WILD woman:
“When I do disobey, I find a new part of me that I fall deeper in love with and that I am honoring.” ~ Melanie Sodka
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