762: Show Up Better, Faster, with Claude Silver

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Claude Silver: Be Yourself at Work

Claude Silver is on a mission to revolutionize leadership, talent, and workplace culture. She is Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX and partners with CEO Gary Vaynerchuk to drive their success. Claude has earned Campaign US’s Female Frontier Award, and AdWeek’s Changing the Game Award and she’s the author of Be Yourself at Work: The Groundbreaking Power of Showing Up, Standing Out, and Leading from the Heart (Amazon, Bookshop)*.

We’ve all heard the advice to be ourselves at work. It’s easier said than done. In this conversation, Claude and I explore how we can actually move past some of the unhelpful self-talk so that we can show up better, faster.

Key Points

We all have songs that play in our heads. When the song isn’t working, it’s time to change it.
Labels are for soup cans, not people. Stop treating negative self-talk as gospel.
Begin by identifying the label you’ve put on yourself that’s harming you. When it’s hard to see a harmful label, use times of either reflection or agitation to help surface it.
Find the internal evidence for this label and record what confirms this belief and also what challenges it. If that’s hard, invite someone else (a partner, friend, or therapist) to help you see it more objectively.
Evolve by creating a new mantra for who you are becoming. If it doesn’t seem doable today, ask yourself if you can envision it being true in the future.

Resources Mentioned

Be Yourself at Work: The Groundbreaking Power of Showing Up, Standing Out, and Leading from the Heart by Claude Silver (Amazon, Bookshop)*.

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0:00.0	We've all heard the advice to be ourselves at work. It's easier said than done. In this episode,
0:07.2	how we can actually move past some of that unhelpful self-talk so that we can show up better,
0:14.0	faster. This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 762.
0:19.5	Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.
0:27.8	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:31.1	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiak.
0:36.0	Leaders aren't born.
0:40.3	They're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. One of the messages that I often hear from many
0:50.3	folks who have inspired me over the years. And I try to pass along to others whenever
0:55.4	possible is two words, show up, show up. And if we can, show up a little bit better,
1:02.7	maybe a little bit faster than we have before. Today, a wonderful invitation for all of us
1:08.6	to do that in a way that's genuine, that helps us to
1:12.9	lead ourselves better so that we can do so much better for our teams and our organizations.
1:19.6	And I'm so pleased to welcome someone who's going to help take us on that journey.
1:23.2	I'm pleased to introduce Claude Silver.
1:25.0	She is on a mission to revolutionize leadership,
1:28.0	talent, and workplace culture. Claude is chief heart officer at VaynerX and partners with
1:33.7	CEO Gary Vaynerchek to drive their success. She earned Campaign US's Female
1:39.3	Frontier Award and Ad Weeks Changing the Game Award. And she's the author of the new book, Be Yourself at Work, the groundbreaking power of showing up,
1:49.8	standing out, and leading from the heart.
1:52.4	Claude, it's such a pleasure to meet you.
1:54.6	How are you?
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