How to attract opportunities for meaningful work

Season #1

“One of the ways that I find provides more successful outcomes in negotiations is when people have stopped thinking of themselves as having the possibility of losing. In negotiation, there is no winning or losing, it’s more like a team overcoming a challenge together. Negotiation is creative problem solving, and when you think of it like this it becomes less of an obstacle and more of an opportunity.”

In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska is joined by Heather Barnhouse, a corporate lawyer who works with many entrepreneurs to grow their businesses to discuss how to manage your time better and make it more meaningful, and her journey to finding balance in a world that keeps spinning.

Listen to this episode if you want to attract work that sits within your zone of genius so that your career fits into the path that you envisioned for yourself and your family.

Heather Barnhouse is a corporate lawyer who has extensive experience advising clients to scale their businesses in creative and non-conventional ways. She also has created a software program, Tusk, that helps caregivers of people with dementia to resources, real person help, and trackers. Connect with Heather at www.dementiaassociation.ca, her Facebook page www.facebook.com/tuskcare/, or on Instagram, Twitter, with the handle @tuskcares.

0:00 Intro

2:53 Meet Heather

5:38 How Heather found her passion through helping her aging parents

13:38 How to see negotiation as creative problem solving

19:49 Creative problem solving outside of the work environment

21:46 How to train your resilience muscle

25:59 Heather’s experience with fear and uncertainty

29:50 How to keep focuses in a distancing world

33:40 Connect with Heather

35:27 Endnotes

 

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Kinia Romanowska, BA, MA, is a well-traveled award-winning journalist turned entrepreneur, maternity leave strategist, and working parent whisperer. A wife and mom of three passionate about making sure the next generation doesn’t experience the “Motherhood Penalty,” she is the founder and CEO of Pros&Babes and creator of the MoMBA (Mom MBA), the pioneering 360-leadership and personal development program for the busy, ambitious mom in Canada. She is the host of the “Engineer Your Success, Leadership, and Life Harmony #likeamother” podcast.