The Jen Lister Podcast
I want you to figure out your own version of success and find a way to achieve it. In a post pandemic world, a lot of us have re-evaluated our lives and priorities. Balance is a really important thing. As a business strategist, coach and speaker, I am so passionate about helping people make their impact on the world - on their terms.In the Jen Lister Podcast I will be chatting about life, business growth strategies, and sharing my personal stories along the way.This is the podcast I wish I could have listened to to help me:Break down those barriers and believe in myself (I have always worried what others would think of me).Find the confidence to start and grow my own business (I was sucked in to the corporate world and felt very stuck)Feel empowered to make my own decisions and work on my own terms (I have created a work schedule that I love, with clear boundaries!)
The Jen Lister Podcast
Interview With Dr Hayley Lewis - The Psychology of Successful Women in Business
Hayley has identified through evidence based studies the 5 main psychological attributes it takes to be successful.
These are all things you can work on, the 5 attributes are:
1. Resilience is like a reservoir, sometimes it will be low and drought like, at other times it can be full to the brim. Hayely explains resilient people set challenging goals for themselves
2. Self belief, the belief that we have the skills, the knowledge, the the abilities, to successfully achieve, whatever it is, we've we've decided we're trying to do. From Hayeley's study she found women in business with high levels of self belief had role models, regularly listed their achievements, they also regularly visualised their desired outcome actually happening, for example when bidding for a piece of work they visualised winning it before it had happened.
3. Importance of relationships, building and nurturing relationships is something that consistently comes out across the research over the last 20 years, but also through my own studies that women who are successful in business do really well. It's one of our core strengths as business owners. Women are good at supporting each other in business and helping each other.
4. Business planning and organising, really taking the time to think carefully about what your business is about what success means to you. Who are the kind of clients you want to work with? What's your vision? What's your mission? And then on the back of that, what's your strategy to achieve that?
5. Commercial Awareness, one of Hayley's studies showed successful women benchmarked and payed attention to what was going on in the sectors that they specialised in. This helped them pivot accordingly. And they all had very clear pricing strategies.
Jen and Hayely dig deep into these 5 attributes and discuss what is important when you are starting your own business
Hayley's infamous 'Sketch Notes' which are a visual representation of psychology theories, books and research. How they help with cementing theories and breaking theories down. How the Sketch Notes can make complex theories accessible to everyone.
Hayley talks about her biggest challenges and how her resilience helped her continue to build a successful business.
Hayley’s website and socials
You can email Hayley for a copy of her business plan template:
Hayley’s infamous sketchnotes:
Book - Mindset Matters by Gemma Leigh Roberts
https://www.waterstones.com/book/mindset-matters/gemma-leigh-roberts/9781398605190
Duped Podcast
Think Again - Hayley’s sketchnote features in this book
https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/