Hey everyone, I'm Muriel Wilkins, an executive coach and host of Coaching Real Leaders.

And today we have a new kind of episode for you. It is called Ask Muriel Anything.

Each month will take a handful of questions that come up from

my coaching real leaders community, that come up from listeners like you that land in my

LinkedIn box. Some of them are from folks who have been on the show as my coaching guests.

And some of them are from individuals who applied to be on the show,

but unfortunately we were not able to have them on because we get so many applications.

And what we're going to do is we're going to hit on leadership challenges facing these individuals,

some of which are challenges that you may have faced yourself, and we'll try to give them

some guidance so that they

can move forward and you can use that information as well. And joining me today, yes, it's not

just me anymore for the first time ever in front of the mic is my longtime producer, Mary Doe. It took me 11 seasons to finally get her on the mic.

Say hello, Mary. Hello, Mary. You did it. You finally got me here. So all of you probably have

heard me say Mary's name at the end of every coaching episode where I thank

the fabulous team that helps put this together. Mary has been with me from the beginning and is

the magic behind the show. And so it's so great to have her in the room to help me move through

some of these questions that have come up. So Mary, why don't you take it away and kick it off

with some questions? Yeah, these are some hard

ones. You know, I'm not going to go easy on you just because it's our first episode like this.

As you never do. So the first question is about sponsors, one of our favorite topics. So this is

from a leader who's really interested in building more relationships, getting more sponsors.

They're doing well at the organization. They feel like they have good kind of formal relationships with the higher ups of the organization.

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