#241: The KEY To Building Confidence Through Failure, With Professors & Co-Authors Wendy Smith & Marianne Lewis

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Heather Monahan

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In This Episode You Will Learn About: The benefits of “Both/And Thinking” Learning about & accepting your WHOLE self Finding comfort in discomfort Resources: Websites: lerner.udel & business.uc.edu Read Both/And Thinking Email: [email protected] & [email protected] LinkedIn: @Marianne Lewis & @Wendy K. Smith Twitter: @profwendysmith & @MarianneWLewis Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Show Notes: When was the last time you shifted your mindset? It may not feel comfortable, but start expanding the possibilities in your own life and step into the unknown! By putting yourself out there and exploring uncomfortable situations that force you to GROW, you will start to see new possibilities unfold in front of you. Professors and Authors, Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis, are here to inspire us to incorporate Both/And thinking into our lifestyles. By seeing opposing forces as interdependent, we can find strength in EVERYTHING we do! So show up for yourself and embrace your FULL identity today! About The Guest: I have TWO amazing guests joining me today! Wendy Smith, the Academic Director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at The University of Delaware and Professor of Management, and Marianne Lewis, the Dean of Cincinatt’s Lindner School of Business and Professor of Management as well. Wendy and Marianne are the Co-Authors of Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, and they're here to help us open our eyes and BREAKDOWN the cycles of opposition. If You Liked This Episode You Might Also Like These Episodes: Stop Sabotaging! Find Out How to Have the Life you DESERVE With Dr. Josh Wagner How to DECODE The Secret Strategy to Achieving Greatness with Ron Friedman What To Do When The People In Your Circle AREN’T In Your Corner with Heather! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When we think about both and thinking, we think about a couple of things. One is we start
0:04.2	by saying you've got to change the kind of questions you ask. If you're always saying,
0:08.9	should I be brave or should I be vulnerable? You're missing the point because they go together.
0:14.3	How do I build confidence by putting myself out there in uncomfortable situations?
0:19.8	By learning through my successes and failures. So to us changing the question is absolutely vital.
0:26.4	How do you take those opposing sides and dive deeply into each one of them? How do you really
0:32.0	understand where, what are your fears coming from? I'm on this journey with me. Each week when
0:36.8	you join me, we are going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for better tomorrow.
0:46.8	Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week and ready to meet two
0:52.3	amazing guests. Wendy Smith is the academic director of the women's leadership initiative at
0:57.3	the University of Delaware and a professor of management. Mary Ann Lewis is dean of the
1:02.3	University of Cincinnati's Linda's School of Business and Professor of Management. They are the
1:07.4	co-authors of the book, both and thinking, embracing creative tensions to solve your toughest
1:14.8	problems. Ladies, thank you so much for being here with me today. How do I thank you for having us?
1:19.7	All right, so let's get right into this because I know everyone listening is thinking what the heck
1:24.0	paradox? Can you break down Wendy? What is this all about? What is a paradox?
1:29.0	Heather, thanks for having us. We are excited to be here in conversation with you and with your
1:33.9	listeners. We wrote this book because we both faced ongoing competing demands in our lives.
1:41.3	Just the same as everyone else does. And those demands bubbled up for us in how we thought about our
1:46.4	careers, where we wanted to take them, how we thought about our lives, our partners, our parenting,
1:53.0	how we thought about our leadership, and how we thought about our research. And part of how we got
1:59.9	to this idea was that as we were exploring these kinds of competing demands. So in our lives,
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