936: The 8 Super Powers that Unlock Gravitas with Lisa Sun

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Sun shares her tools for building true, lasting confidence.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What gravitas really means

2) The Six Forces ruining your confidence

3) How to discover your “confidence language”

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— ABOUT LISA —

Lisa Sun is the founder and CEO of GRAVITAS, a company on a mission to catalyze confidence. GRAVITAS offers innovative size-inclusive apparel, styling solutions, and content designed to make over women from the inside out.

Prior to founding GRAVITAS, Sun spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, where she advised leading luxury fashion and beauty brands and retailers in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America on strategic and operational issues. Her first collection was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, People, and the Today Show in the same month.

Sun and GRAVITAS have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, Fast Company, New York Magazine, Elle, Marie Claire, InStyle, and more. GRAVITAS includes among its activities a commitment to AAPI causes and New York City’s Garment District. Often called the “dress whisperer,” Lisa is also a highly sought-after public speaker who likes to impart her hard-won knowledge on gravitas and how to best harness it to other women.

• Book: Gravitas: The 8 Strengths That Redefine Confidence

• LinkedIn: Lisa Sun

• Quiz: MyConfidenceLanguage.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

• HBR Article: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey

• Past episode: 327: Unclog Your Brain through Unfocusing with Dr. Srini Pillay

• Past episode: 852: Dale Carnegie’s Timeless Wisdom on Building Mental Resilience and Strong Relationships with Joe Hart

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to be Awesome at your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	We've got to reframe confidence, gravitas, not as a behavior, but as a choice and a mindset.
0:15.0	Confidence is not a state of being,
0:18.0	it's a total approach,
0:19.0	because every single day you're going to face setback,
0:22.0	disappointment, fear, insecurity.
0:26.1	Most of us wake up in a deficit mindset focused on what's missing in our life or what the
0:31.1	weaknesses are versus focusing on the abundance we have, the
0:34.8	talents we bring are superpowers. If you reset that for yourself every day that
0:40.7	drives the behaviors and outcomes you want in life.
0:44.7	That's Lisa's son. She's known as the dress whisperer and her company
0:48.4	Gravitas is on a mission to catalyze confidence. Gravitas offers innovative apparel and content,
0:54.6	and before founding Gravitas,
0:56.2	Lisa spent 11 years at McKinsey and Company.
0:58.7	She's a sought after public speaker who imparts her hard-won knowledge
1:01.9	on gravitas and how to best harness it.
1:04.6	So you'll learn one, what gravitas really means.
1:07.0	Two, the Six Forces ruining your confidence.
1:09.9	And three, how to discover your confidence language. I'm Pete McKitis this is how to
1:14.4	be awesome at your job and now here's Lisa. Lisa welcome. Thank you so much for
1:19.4	having me Pete. Well I'm excited to dig into the wisdom you've captured and put together in your book.
1:25.1	Gravitas, the eight strengths that redefine confidence, because confidence is something our
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