Guest featured in this episode:
Karen Laos is a keynote speaker and leadership coach equipping women to stand out with confidence. She champions female business leaders to own their value and find their voice so they can be seen and heard. She also works with teams to create cultures of trust and function at their best.
She has coached leaders at Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo!, Sony, Microsoft, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Trip Advisor, Bacardi, Levi, and more.
She was the Senior Advisor to Program Delivery for Decker Communications, where she managed and mentored a team of facilitators delivering programs around the world. Karen coached executives on how to influence and speak more effectively. Previously, Karen was HR Director for Gensler Architecture, trained teams at Gap Inc and Wells Fargo. Her passion lies in developing others and she has done this throughout her career of nearly three decades.
One of her most fulfilling experiences was being on radio coaching callers on how to make powerful life changes. Karen speaks annually at the BASS Conference. She founded Kissing Frogs Project in 2010, an online community to help single women be true to themselves.
Karen received her BA in Psychology from Lafayette College in Easton, PA. Upon graduation, she spent 4 years traveling across the globe in the experiential education program, Up With People.
Karen’s style is fun, encouraging and results-oriented. She immediately moves past the “fluff” and gets straight to the issue (just ask her clients!).
Things you will learn in this episode:
- The SEVEN ways you can take your power back in life
- Own your unique value
- Promote yourself
- Leverage your voice
- Be focused (have a lead to your story)
- Avoid using minimizing language
- You decide who you are
- Stop accommodating everybody else and losing yourself
- and much more…
Karen Laos and Lucy Liu met in the Mic Drop community. If you are interested in becoming a speaker, check out MICDROP.
Lucy Liu is a master life coach helping women uplevel in business and life to confidently live an epic life! She is an unshakable optimist, wife, mom, entrepreneur, workshop facilitator, motivational speaker, best selling author and podcast host of The Lucy Liu Show.
Entrepreneurs & high achievers hire her to see clarity and take quantum leaps FAST. Because most of them are overthinking, scattered and self-doubting. She's best at helping you get unstuck, make faster decisions and fulfill higher potential. Bottom line: not only make more money and impact, but have more fun and live an EPIC life by design.
She has been featured in Medium, VoyageLA, Elephant Journal, ThriveGlobal, South China Morning Post and dozens of other media outlets. 
