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Kind of a Big Deal

Kind of a Big Deal

著者： Kristin Belden
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Ever brushed off a compliment? Downplayed a win? Made yourself smaller so you wouldn’t sound like “too much”? Yeah, me too.


Kind of a Big Deal is my love letter to women building careers and lives they’re proud of. This isn’t your typical Fortune 500 CEO interview. Instead, it’s real, relatable conversations with everyday women - corporate baddies, scrappy entrepreneurs, and everyone in between - who are leading lives we can all aspire to.


Through honest stories and hard-earned wisdom, we shine a light on the victories, the lessons, and the messy middle that rarely make the highlight reel. It’s about celebrating the impact women make (even when we’re tempted to shrug it off).


Because the truth is: you are kind of a big deal.

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  • When the Job, the Kids, and the Identity All Hit at Once

    When the Job, the Kids, and the Identity All Hit at Once
    2026/07/16

    What happens when a promotion, a pregnancy, and a full identity reckoning all land in the same year?

    That's where Misty Avila was when this conversation was recorded. VP and Chief Strategy Officer at the James B. McClatchy Foundation. Interim executive director at the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, brought on to stabilize it through a transition. And expecting her third daughter - right in the middle of realizing, by her own admission, that she didn't feel successful. Not despite the titles - while holding them.

    That daughter has since arrived. I can't wait for round two so we can hear what has evolved!

    What You'll Learn
    ⭐ Why Misty built her own "curriculum" instead of following a traditional path
    ⭐ What it means to lead a foundation designed to disappear
    ⭐ The moment she realized she didn't feel successful, even holding two major leadership roles at once
    ⭐ How motherhood is reshaping her sense of identity, in real time
    ⭐ Why funding local news by who it reaches matters more than what beat it covers

    Key Insights

    The Moment "Successful" Stopped Fitting
    VP title. Interim ED role. Third child on the way. Misty's own read on herself: not successful. She sits in that, without rushing to fix it.

    People Are Her Library
    Not a formal program. Not a degree. Misty's education came from travel, real skills, and real people - a philosophy that still shapes how she leads.

    A Foundation Built to Disappear
    The James B. McClatchy Foundation is on a Sunrise plan, intentionally spending down by 2030. Misty on what it takes to trust the work continues without owning it.

    Resources and Links

    Find host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/
    or at https://www.BeldenStrategies.com
    Book a Clarity Consult: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/clarityconsult
    Sign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/newsletter
    Connect with Misty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mistavila/

    If this conversation resonated, share it with someone who needed to hear it - and consider leaving a review. It helps more women find these conversations.

    #careerchange #careerreinvention #womeninmidlife #motherhoodandcareer #philanthropy #localjournalism #centralvalley #womenleadership #legacy #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden
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  • What If the Voice You've Been Ignoring Is the One You Should Trust Most?

    What If the Voice You've Been Ignoring Is the One You Should Trust Most?
    2026/07/09
    What does it actually look like to build a life around your truest gifts - not because someone gave you permission, but because you finally stopped waiting for it?Brett Blackburn has been doing exactly that for over 20 years. As a psychic intuitive, channel, Reiki master, and creator of Inspired Light, Brett helps people remove the blockages, limiting beliefs, and inherited programming that have been quietly running their lives, and replaces them with something clearer: access to their own inner knowing. She believes that when you clear what doesn't belong to you, you become your own ultimate guidance system.We talk about what it means to trust that voice before you have proof it's right, why so many women at midlife are finally willing to take action on what they've known all along, and what it looks like to build a business - and a life - that genuinely fits who you are. Plus Brett shares the one simple practice she recommends to anyone who wants to start reconnecting with themselves today.This one will stay with you.What You'll Learn⭐ How to tell the difference between your intuition and your mental noise⭐ Why listening is only the first step, and why action is the hardest part⭐ What it actually means to build a life around your innate gifts⭐ How to separate other people's energy from your own ⭐ Why midlife women are finally giving themselves permission to trust themselves⭐ One simple daily practice to reconnect to your highest vibrationKey InsightsThe Voice Has Always Been ThereBrett trusted her inner knowing from a young age - through a spiritual calling, a year in Europe, and a deliberate pivot away from the "responsible" path. Her lesson: that voice never led her astray. The question isn't whether it's there. It's whether you're willing to trust it.Listening, Trusting, Acting Most people actually receive the messages more than they think. What stops them is the second and third step: trusting what they heard, and then actually doing the thing. Brett calls this the real work, and the hardest part isn't hearing the voice. It's moving on it.Your Energy Has Boundaries. Start Treating It That Way.As an empath or highly sensitive person, absorbing other people's energy isn't inevitable - it's often a boundaries issue. Brett explains how keeping your energy in your own space (and everyone else's in theirs) is actually what allows you to connect more deeply, not less.Midlife Women Are Finally Giving Themselves PermissionBrett is seeing a clear pattern in the women coming to her right now: after years of accumulating evidence that listening to themselves works, they're finally willing to act on it. Not because life got easier, but because they've run out of reasons to keep waiting.Legacy Is Who You Show Up As Every DayFor Brett, legacy isn't what you leave behind. It's about fully, genuinely embodying your most authentic self and glowing that out into the world. Everything else follows from that.Timestamps00:00 Intro: meet Brett — psychic intuitive, channel, and Reiki master02:15 "Quick suit to psychic" — how Brett found her path05:08 Trusting your inner knowing from a young age07:22 It's not always a voice — the four clairs explained09:12 Tracking your intuition: a practice for building trust10:09 Building Inspired Light — the early days13:07 What it feels like to build around your truest gifts18:14 "Do I stay or do I go?" — how Brett helps people navigate stuck jobs19:37 The client who got fired — and why it was the biggest blessing23:26 Reiki as a gateway — and Brett's own formula25:15 The season Brett is in now: family, balance, and new offerings28:49 Parenting with intention — giving kids tools to come back to themselves33:16 The Essentials Class: grounding, boundaries, and clearing energy38:29 Separating other people's energy from yours39:07 Energy, empaths, and why boundaries are the real answer44:48 Awareness changes everything — even before you do anything else47:46 What Brett is hearing from midlife women right now50:09 Permission — the word that keeps coming up54:25 The one daily practice Brett recommends55:59 The legacy questionResources and LinksConnect with Brett Blackburn and learn more about Inspired Light: https://beinspiredlight.com/Find Brett's newest offering, The Essentials: https://go.beinspiredlight.com/theessentialsFind host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/or at https://www.BeldenStrategies.comSign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/newsletterIf this conversation resonated, share it with someone who needed to hear it - and consider leaving a review. It helps more women find these conversations.#intuition #innerknowing #womeninmidlife #psychicintuitive #energyhealing #reiki #selfpermission #midlifewomen #womenleadership #authenticself #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden
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  • You Don't Need 20 Years of Experience to Lead with Wisdom

    You Don't Need 20 Years of Experience to Lead with Wisdom
    2026/07/02

    What if the clearest leadership lessons don't come from decades in the corner office, but from paying close attention while you're still early in the climb?

    Savannah graduated into the pandemic with no real plan, found her way into chamber work almost by accident, and has spent the years since becoming the kind of person everyone in the room trusts - wise well beyond her years, with a steady presence that grounds people around her.

    She's just stepped into an expanded role at the Sac Metro Chamber, where she's spent years helping build the very community and leadership programs that shaped her own path, including Leadership Sacramento, the program where she and Kristin first met.

    We talk about what it's like to build a career and a real sense of community when the ground keeps shifting under you, the leadership lessons she's collected from watching mentors up close, the power of reframing your story instead of just telling it, and what legacy means when you're still early enough in your career to be figuring it out in real time.

    What You'll Learn
    ⭐ Why you don't need decades of experience to lead with real wisdom
    ⭐ How to build community and confidence when everything around you keeps changing
    ⭐ Why reframing your story matters as much as the story itself
    ⭐ How watching leaders up close can shape your own leadership style faster than any class
    ⭐ What it means to be a thoughtful observer instead of always rushing to react
    ⭐ How to start defining legacy even when you don't have it all figured out yet

    Key Insights

    Wisdom Doesn't Require Decades
    Savannah graduated into the pandemic with no map for what came next. The uncertainty that could have stunted her actually accelerated her growth, forcing her to communicate, lead, and carry herself with a maturity people twice her age often haven't found yet.

    Watching Leaders Up Close Teaches What Classes Can't
    From her first director who made sure to give credit and create safe space to make mistakes, to chairs who modeled decisiveness and joy, Savannah has built her own leadership style by collecting small lessons from everyone around her.

    Reframing Your Story Changes How You Move Through the World
    Savannah has made it a practice to focus on the positive in everyday moments - not avoiding what's hard, but choosing what she carries forward from it. It's a habit she's still building, one rooted in genuine self-awareness rather than forced positivity.

    Being a Thoughtful Observer Is a Leadership Skill, Not a Weakness
    Savannah has learned to sit back, take things in, and form her own assessment before jumping in. Far from indecision, it's become one of her clearest leadership strengths.

    Legacy Can Start Before You Have It All Figured Out
    Savannah doesn't have her legacy mapped out yet, and she's at peace with that. For her, it starts simply: having a positive impact on the people and community around her, and trusting that the rest will reveal itself with time.

    Timestamps
    00:00 Intro: meet Savannah and her new role at the Sac Metro Chamber
    02:16 Stepping into an expanded leadership role
    03:28 Finding her way into chamber work almost by accident
    06:17 What she's learned about her own leadership by watching others
    08:01 Sacramento's identity and why people show up for each other here
    14:44 Graduating into a pandemic and what it cost her generation
    22:38 Why you don't have to have it all figured out
    23:35 From media and journalism to storytelling at the chamber
    28:49 Reframing your story instead of just telling it
    33:01 The leadership lessons she's collected from mentors
    37:12 What four years of Leadership Sacramento cohorts have taught her
    43:11 The question that wasn't on her résumé
    46:10 The legacy question

    Resources and Links
    Find host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/
    Or at https://www.beldenstrategies.com/

    Sign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.beldenstrategies.com/newsletter

    Connect with Savannah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savannah-fox/

    If this conversation resonated, share it with someone who needed to hear it - and consider leaving a review. It helps more women find these conversations.

    #careerchange #womeninmidlife #leadership #youngprofessionals #womenleadership #careerreinvention #earlycareer #buildingcommunity #legacy #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden
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    52 分
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