Episode 202: Heather Adams

 

 


I am so happy to welcome Heather Adams to the show today. I was in Nashville this past September and was able to sit down face to face with Heather. Heather is the founder of a boutique public relations firm called Choice Media & Communications. And I’ve had the opportunity to work with her firm over the last few years and they are so kind and gracious to work with.

Not only is Heather a leader and entrepreneur but she is also a boy mom. So you know we had to talk a little bit about what she’s surviving currently as a boy mom to tweens. Then, we had a really insightful conversation about mentorship. We talked about the importance of pivotal relationships, advice she’s learned from them in regards to leading others, advice for finding a mentor and advice for being a good mentor.

 
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Survival Kit:

  • Her boy’s baseball teams

  • Exercise - Garage Barre Studio

  • Entertaining in her home

  • Drinking water

  • Smoothies every morning - @bwellbykelly and book, Body Love by Kelly LeVeque

  • Advising a sorority chapter at MTSU

Takeaways:

  • Hire better and smarter than you. Don’t feel threatened by having someone who is more competent than you in a certain area. They will make you better.

  • Change the way you see your competitors. Become their ally. Get rid of the mentality that you must beat them.

  • Advice for finding a mentor:

    • Take inventory of your immediate community and network

    • Make specific request with why you want that person to mentor you

    • Find virtual mentors - you may not know them personally but you can read, watch or listen

  • How to be a good mentor:

    • listen more than advise

    • be invested in a longterm development rather than a short-term coffee meeting

    • limit how many mentees you have

    • be nurturing and kind but firm

  • Her last piece of advice: take care of people as human beings first.

Discussion Questions:

  • Take some time and look back on your life, who were some pivotal relationships that intersected with your life and helped shape you or push you forward?

  • Have any of these relationships been a mentor to you?

  • If you’ve ever had a mentor, how did you find that person?

  • What holds you back from mentorship?

  • What is one thing that this episode inspired you to do this week?

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Connect with Heather:  Instagram // Website

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