299: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want

With Contagious You author Anese Cavanaugh

Regardless of where you are in your career, today’s guest says, how you show up matters.

Your intentions, energy, and presence as a leader set the tone, creating a positive – or negative – culture and results.

In her follow up to Contagious Culture, Anese Cavanaugh offers the tools, and inspiration we need to become dynamic leaders who have the power to influence and create the impactful change we want to experience.

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That new book is called Contagious You: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact you Want.

In it, she shows you how to own your leadership and effectively guide, inspire, and serve those around you.

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In today’s episode, I ask Anese about:

  • How little time you have to make a first impression and what to do about it
  • Her 5-Step Framework for helping determine what we actually want and how to make it happen for real AND authentically
  • How to stop putting self-care on the backburner 
  • And lots more!

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Anese’s Book

You can order Contagious You: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want right now!

Anese in Action

Books Anese Recommends

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

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Be sure and grab your copy of Anese’s book now.

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