Best Of Episode 1: Libby Gill - a podcast by Ladies We Can Have it All! A Weekly Podcast Interviewing Successful Women

from 2016-03-29T02:20:28

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Libby Gill is the former head of communications and public relations for Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting. She is the founder and CEO of executive coaching and consulting firm Libby Gill & Company. An international speaker, bestselling author, and former Dallas Morning News columnist, she has shared her success strategies on CNN, NPR, the Today Show, Business Week, Time, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more.

Libby helps established and emerging leaders at companies including AMC Networks, Avery Dennison, Cisco, Disney-ABC, Go Daddy, Kellogg’s, Microsoft, PayPal, Royal Caribbean, Safeway, Warner Bros., Wells Fargo, and many more drive high passion and high performance.

Current Business: Executive Coach and Speaker.

Roles in the Game of Life: Mother, Wife Daughter, Sister, Entrepreneur

Definition of Success : In earlier stages of life it was survival. Later it was Finding a satisfying professional life, starting a family and raising great kids, giving great value to my clients, helping my family and my loved ones be healthy and happy without getting in their way or interfering with their right to make mistakes and also to learn and grow as an individual. When she has that in balance it's a good day or a good year.

"Recipe" for Success:

Clarify the vision.
Simplifying the pathway by getting the wrong things out of the way and bringing the right things in.
Executing the plan.
Lesson(s) Learned: She feels she could have saved 5-6 years early on in her entrepreneurial journey by getting professional help from a mentor earlier. She really encourages people to get the help early on even if they don't feel they can afford it.

Huge Time Savers Delegation Station: Housekeeper, Planning Travel, Administrative Tasks, Accounting.

Daily Practice: "Gratitude Blast," Write, Meditate (sometimes), Exercise ( a minimum of 1/2 hour a day).

Stress Reliever: Accountability partner(s) for business and friendship, writing fiction.

Recommended Apps: Airline Apps in general, Kayak, Daily Reset Break with Tessa Todd, Audible, Waze

Recommended Books: You Unstuck, Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow, Change or Die, Traveling Hopefully