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What does it take to be a leader?  Great leaders have great courage powered by their inner vulnerability and humility.  While you should only trust those who have proven their trustworthiness, you can be open, without expectation or attachment, to all people and outcomes in your life.  In fact, it’s only by being open, risking rejection, and releasing your resistance to failure that life can guide you towards all you’re meant to build and innovate.  Join bSMART Founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan for part two of their discussion on courage as they share how embracing fear—in a state of openness and relaxation—was the key to being the courageous leaders they were meant to be.

What does it take to be a leader?  Great leaders have great courage powered by their inner vulnerability and humility.  While you should only trust those who have proven their trustworthiness, you can be open, without expectation or attachment, to all people and outcomes in your life.  In fact, it’s only by being open, risking rejection, and releasing your resistance to failure that life can guide you towards all you’re meant to build and innovate.  Join bSMART Founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan as they share how embracing fear—in a state of openness and relaxation—was the key to being the courageous leaders they were meant to be.

What does it take to be a leader? All great leaders listen to their gut and heart when making decisions about their products or strategy.  But because we spend most of our educational lives listening to an external voice of authority, it can be hard to know how to tune out of our head and into our inner wisdom when making decisions.  Join bSMART Founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan as they share how they've learned to use their instincts and intuition to be the leaders they're meant to be.

What does it take to be a leader? Collaboration means listening as much as you speak and valuing the creative process.  But in a culture where men are 23% more likely to interrupt a women and dominate 75% of professional conversations, how can women assert their point of view, especially when it’s an opposing one? bSMART Founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan share how you can speak powerfully, know when to listen, and create a culture of collaboration.

Great leadership means proactively listening to your team, colleagues, clients, or constituents.  You don't have to be an expert, great communicator, or extravert extraordinaire; you simply need to care about what the people around you care about.  Provide holistic support by caring about the family, health, finances, career, and lifestyle of those you lead.  bSMART Founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan share how they've learned to give and receive support - without experiencing burnout.

What does it take to be a leader?  While you might feel disempowered by life events and other people, you can be fully empowered today regardless of your external circumstances.  Our culture has taught us to ignore our feelings, but emotions are the indicators of our inner life and must be fully acknowledged, felt, and released to operate from our true power source.  bSMART Founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan share their experiences of how they transformed disempowerment to true power, and how you can live an empowered life every day.

What does it take to be a leader?  Having a purpose-led life is essential to being the leader you're meant to be.  But how can you discover your purpose?  Does your purpose change or is it constant? bSMART Founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan discuss how your personal story is the key to understanding who you're meant to serve, why that's important, and how you're uniquely equipped to do so.  

What does it take to be a leader?  bSMART believes the first step to becoming a leader is having a vision for yourself and others.  However, society often limits our potential based on external factors such as age, race, or gender, which limits your belief about what's possible for you.  In this episode, bSMART founder Meagan Hooper and co-hosts Reed Rickards and Zoe Kaplan discuss how you can take back the vision for your life and become the leader you're meant to be.