Your Power Tribe Podcast - A Working Woman's Outlet For New Perspectives, Because Nobody Has It All Figured Out.

Season 2 is about to launch with a new name for our podcast:  Your Power Outlet. In this Episode, I share my raw and uncut journey to clarity around our name. If you are indifferent about the name change, no need to listen, but if you are curious, this is for you. I am looking forward to all that's coming in Season 2!    

NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ***** Season 1: Final Show Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “I am three years into my business. I’m literally up and down, feeling positive and negative all the time. I’m trying to overcome the lows when they happen. Trying to figure out what I need to do to sustain feeling good. I get busy, busy, busy, then it slows down. I am trying to figure out how to not let my self-doubt creep in. I am trying to even out my upwards and downwards roller coaster feelings. How do I keep it even?  How do I give myself the momentum to even it out? To keep me feeling good about what I am doing?”   Tune into the Episode 18, to hear how other women have navigated similar experiences, from which we all get to choose what resonates and what we want to be intentional about doing differently moving forward. And PLEASE: Subs

NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ****   Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “My life is such a state of transition. I sold my house, sold sign went up yesterday, literally the movers are in my house today. I don’t have a place to live. I have two kids and I will be an empty nester in the fall.  I am not sure where my daughter will go to university here or abroad, so she technically doesn’t have a place to live. I had a corporate job my entire life but I am now running my own business part time, not sure what I want. I have the job thing to figure out. I recently reunited with an old boyfriend I’ve known for 26 years that lives in another country. I am not sure if I’ll move there. I have so many unknowns. The only thing I am certain about is that my dog will be coming with me wherever I go.   Friends say I’m crazy to not have figured eve

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ****   Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “Well I am struggling with work things. I am professionally trained to be a certain thing, which is obvious to people and an easy job to have, vs my entrepreneurial side which has to be justified to people a lot more than my job. I am responsible for my family and so it would be very easy to flip back to my job, but I don’t know that it’s necessarily what would serve me and my family. It has a glass ceiling for professional growth and income, where my entrepreneurial venture could be far more lucrative but is unpredictable and I don’t have the regular pay check.  What I do have is flexibility to be there for my family when I need to be there and from a financial limit, the sky is the limit. I really struggle with people’s opinions. It would be easy to go back

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  *****    Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “My challenge is with my kids. I go from 0-100 in no time. I can lose my sh#t so quickly with them. The feelings is that if any one of you were in my house I’d be mortified. I am ashamed sometimes. Embarrassed if anyone would hear me. I know the trigger moments. I will be thinking about them, prescribing what I need to do differently, like take my few breaths, but when it doesn’t go according to plan, I lose it. I will say to the kids, in ‘that voice’. You know they’ve just dropped a load in their pants. Then when they are asleep I go and look at their adorable faces and feel guilt and shame. So my question is. In that moment, How do I…not go there? How do I navigate that?”   Tune into the Episode 15, to hear how other women have navigated similar experienc

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ****   Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “The feelings I am having are of loneliness. I am feeling unconnected to the world. I’m not a Facebook user and am terribly disconnected from everyone that does. I have no idea what my friends are doing. I feel disconnected in a technological way. Ironically, I’m totally connected in a business way, on LinkedIn. So my motivation has been around my business network, not my social network. I’m just feeling really disconnected. I’m feeling lonely and like I’m not connecting in the right way. How do you get on to this and do it the right way. I’m not a picture taker, my husband takes the pictures. I have nothing to share. How do I… get connected? I am missing opportunities to connect with my social network.”   Tune into the Episode 14, to hear how other women have n

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  *****   Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “We just moved, well not really it’s been about 2 years. We moved from LA. We don’t know anybody, we have no family here. We moved here to basically give our children a better life but it’s bee supper challenging professionally. My husband basically still works in LA and commutes. The kids are great. They love living here but it’s really hard to meet new people. To break into the city. A challenge we’ve all had. How do I make friends? How do I find my people? How do I not feel so disconnected? I am feeling frustration, gratitude, happy to be here, but I’m feeling challenged. We are different. We don’t fit into the box. I think for us how do we stay authentic to ourselves and feel connected to others? How do we remain authentic and not change?”   Tune into the E

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ****   Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “I have worked in my industry since I was really young. I’ve had a very blessed career, but I’ve had a very difficult year, where clearly one of my handicaps has come to the forefront which is that I really struggle with confrontation. Oddly in my careers, I came into a position where I was able to be a leader, early on, and so haven’t had to have a tone of confrontations. This year I have had two confrontations, that the other people have probably had several times in their careers and in business. For me, I think it really shut me down, more than it should have. I gave up things that I really shouldn’t have, to avoid the conflict. In every way I am trying to bring my daughter not to be, I am that. How do I ….. move forward in a way that allows me to enter c

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  **** Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “I have been an entrepreneur for over 10 years. I have also taken a few corporate gigs along the way. I have been finding, and I don’t know if it’s me telling myself stories, but I certainly know there are times when I’m not making it up.  I look young and when I’m in a room with directors and above which are usually all men - it’s like I’m not even at the table. Sometimes I feel like I always have to prove myself and because I am always proving myself it looks like I am bitchy or too direct. If a man did the same things, they’d say “wow he’s going for it”. I am small in stature, I look young and it feels s like they look at me and I don’t fit, so they create an opinion of me. A lot of times I am the most qualified person in the room to answer the question. The st

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  **** So, today’s episode is a little different. I am the only one at the table, sharing my perspectives about the way too many of us choose to speak to ourselves. I see it in my day-to-day, as well as in my recordings for this Podcast. There’s an epidemic in the way we choose to speak to ourselves and it’s not cool. It doesn’t serve to speak to ourselves the way we do.   There’s an urgency in this topic for me because I believe that our beliefs become our reality. Seeing as we talk to ourselves all day long, this creates a huge opportunity to choose our words wisely. We only stand to benefit from choosing to think about ourselves with kindness, positivity and open possibilities.   Tune in to Episode 10 to hear how I chose to shut down my incredibly unkind inner voice and the following 3 ways that you

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  **** Here's the Power Seat's Challenge: “I am afraid of missing the moments. My kids are little and I was home for many years. I am started my own business one year ago. I am stuck because I am scared about not being there for pick up, not being there when they come home and tell me about their day. In my head I know they will be fine, I am making excuses about lining up the appropriate help so I can spend more time on my work. I need help. How do I ….. give myself permission to delegate and let other people help me at home in order to grow my business. I love my fam, I am passionate about being a mom but I am also passionate about what I’m doing. I am having difficulty finding balance, because I really suck at delegating.”   Tune into the Episode 9, to hear how other women have navigated similar exp

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  **** Here's the Power Seat's Challenge: “I am at a crossroads; I worked in a career path for 10-15 years. After my third child was born I stayed home for a while, then went back to another career, that suited me in many ways, but not in my heart, so I quit. I was trying to talk myself through it “Lots of people don’t like their job, etc..” but with other pressures from extended family and my family, I had to scale back. Now I have no plan. My big challenge is to learn to listen to my own voice again. I haven’t listened to it for a while. There is so much noise coming in, I can’t find a way to shut it out right now. I am vacillating between hopeful and hopeless. Now I feel lost and my confidence is low. I just want to figure out what is next and how can I get myself there. HOW DO I How do I find my pat

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  **** Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “I started my own business 2.5 years ago. It’s been going well. I gave myself permission for the first two year to go with the flow. Now I feel like I should pick an area of focus.  This should be an exciting time, but it isn’t. My feelings around having to make a decision are rooted in fear.  I am procrastinating and making excuses. I am feeling stuck. I have goals, and I’ll tell people what they are, but then I’ll say “I am too busy working in my business that I can’t work on my business”. I need to get out of that! How do I stop being a chicken. Pick an area of focus and take it to the next level. If I do that I’m coming out of my shell out of my shell, but I feel like I’m holding myself back. It feels like I am self-sabotaging.”   Tune into the Episode 7, to

Content Starts: 1 min 58 sec.   Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “I am a serial entrepreneur.  I love to work. I always knew I wanted to be a mom, but was surprised when I got pregnant. I now have a 2.5 year old at home. I struggle because I don’t have an idea of what I want ‘being a mom’ to look like. I am on an adventure figuring out my roles, mom, wife, and all my other roles, etc… My son just started to go to day care and I love it.  It gives me some freedom. I struggle with being a good mom, being myself, chasing my dreams, being a good wife. I want to be there unconditionally, but can’t do it if I am with him every single day. I feel really torn inside every day. I haven’t defined what it means to be a mom. It’s a tender spot inside because I haven’t figured out and some days it’s scary. I am having a tough time finding the balance of being a mom and my work. I love what I do and I truly feel like I’m trying to save the world at work. Balancing the two is a real struggle. I have a lot of expectations.

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  **** Content Starts: 1 min 58 sec. Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “My career is in academics. I’ve always wanted to be professor; however I had a game changer.  One of my kids was born with medical issues and continues to have special needs, and ever since my career has been in a start stop. I’m doing my PHD and teaching, researching attending conferences and writing…then sometimes I actually withdraw from the University because I don’t have the time. I constantly feel, like I’m self-disgusted. Saying to myself “Why aren’t you motivated to finish what you started? Everyone else who started with you is so much further along.” I’m losing friends, who have moved on, whether mutual or I just can’t reach out right now because they are doing so much and I am still back here. Mostly though, I feel very con

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ***** Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “I own my own business and I consult companies. I am considered an expert, but there are a lot of times that I feel like I am the biggest phony and fake and I am waiting for them to realize I don’t know anything. I’m trying to tell myself that I do know a lot, but I really don’t know about everything about the current industry I’m serving. I keep thinking they are going to say “she doesn’t know what she’s doing’.   How do I…. How do I believe in myself a little more and give myself a little slack when I don’ t have all of the answers and everything figured out?”   Tune into the Episode 1, to hear how other women have navigated similar experiences, from which we all get to choose what resonates and what we want  to be intentional about doing differently moving for

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ****   Content Starts: 1 min 58 sec. Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “I had been off work for 12 years. Three years ago I wanted to go back to work, probably financially driven but not sure. I have stories around never having enough money. I decided last summer to find a job, then it all came around really quickly. I didn’t think anyone would want to hire me, but they did. I took the job, it’s been 5 months and it’s a full time sales job.  I have 3 kids, one with complex special needs. My life is full. I’m dissatisfied, but it’s become a trend. I was dissatisfied at home, so I got a job. Now I’m dissatisfied at work.   I don’t want to do this, but I don’t know what I want to do.   I don’t want 2 full time jobs. I don’t want to fail. I don’t want to get fired. I want to find joy. But I’m so overwhe

PLS NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  **** Content Starts: 1 min 58 sec. Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: “10 years ago I quit my job and started a company. Thinking “this will be a nice hobby, part time so I can spend time with kids”….low and behold, 10 years later my company is extremely successful and grown way beyond what I had ever thought it would be. Taking way more of my time and impacting some of my other values. Do I sell my company, because of the values conflict? Do I give everything and give the company all of me?? Do I truncate myself from the company – in the past I have felt like not doing a great job at anything! I feel a lot of guilt, around asking my husband and family for what I need from them so I can do what I need for my company. I’m right in it right now, trying to figure out where to go. I feel huge guilt, both at

NOTE: This episode was published before we changed the show's name to Your Power Outlet.  (If you are curious as to Why?, tune into Ep. 19, where I share my raw and uncut journey to finding clarity).  ****** Content Starts: 1 min 58 sec. Here’s the Power Seat’s challenge: I am ready to transition into a new career. I have had some great successes in my current career, that’s over a decade long. In the last year I’ve felt that I’m not growing or developing in the way I want to. I feel like I’m actively being channelled into projects that I’m not at all interested in, in spite of all joy and success I used to experience. With the help of a life counselor, I’ve found joy in other parts of my life and how I want to define myself. I’ve had a few interviews here and there, and there’s forward movement. But my challenge is: How do I…., in the face of possible constant rejection, not forget the success I’ve had and to feel like I have the right to expect big things in the next thing I do. I feel sheer terror and inse

Hey and welcome to the Podcast. This Podcast started out as Your Power Tribe, but I changed the name to Your Power Outlet in Season 2.   You if you are curious Why, you can listen to my uncut and raw journey in Episode 19. Otherwise, below are my notes from when and where I started. For now, I feel compelled to leave them as is. ******* I am your host Victoria Turner and I am thrilled to have you here. I am an executive coach, entrepreneur and mother of three who works with professional women to get out of their own way, or as I like to say #GOOYOW, but for Your Power Tribe Podcast, I am not coaching. My mission here is to create an outlet where working women can tune in to gain new perspectives by hearing how other women are navigating the similar challenges we all face, the things that are keeping us feeling stuck or bringing us less than joy….  Because we are not alone. This is a place where women choose to ditch their need for perfection, open their armour and show up authentically.   Each episode has 3 s