Blog — Hear Her Roar

The Connection Between Culture & Leadership

Marie Gervais took the time to interview me on my background as a first generation Greek American and see how my upbringing and culture informed my leadership and coaching. You can listen to the episode now!

InterviewsChristina StathopoulosJanuary 6, 2021

What I Learned from Writing 50,000 Words in 30 Days

I spent the last month – also known as national novel writing month, NaNoWriMo – writing 50,000 words of fiction in 30 days. What an amazing project!

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosDecember 11, 2020writing, NaNoWriMo, fictional writing, goals

Let Your Roar Be Heard

I joined Jory Fisher on her live radio show, Heart & Soul, to chat about what Hear Her Roar really means. Interested in being seen and heard? Catch the recording of the show here.

InterviewsChristina StathopoulosNovember 17, 2020leadership, coaching

Collaboration vs. Criticism

I recently worked with a group of other coaches who are newer to the profession. They're honing in on who they want to serve, and how they want to serve them. In our discussion, I noticed a very familiar way of trying to identify who that “perfect person” or “ideal client” would be for each of them.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosNovember 12, 2020collaboration, marketing, take action

Why Feedback is Necessary

Janelle Lynnae had me on the Next Level Confident Podcast to talk about amplifying your voice in the workplace and in return being able to empower feedback.

InterviewsChristina StathopoulosOctober 27, 2020leadership

7 Powerful Ways to Stay Motivated

Guest Contributor, Janelle Lynnae drops some wisdom on how to stay powerfully motivated, click to read more!

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosOctober 27, 2020tools & exercises

Leader Nourishment

I set out to make 2020 the year had my roar heard for more people in different communities and audiences. And as part of that, I recently sat down with other female leaders and entrepreneurs to record five different podcast episodes to share my story and what I know about leadership development. It was incredibly fun and I can’t wait for you to hear those podcasts. Keep an eye on my social media feeds so you won’t miss them as they are released over the next couple of weeks and months.

Today’s blog is going to cover a common theme that popped up in every single podcast conversation: How to feel nourished as a leader and how to actually allow your community to nourish you.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosOctober 16, 2020leadership, values, coaching

All Team Members are Leaders

Today’s blog is inspired by a conversation I just had with my cohost, Mery, on our podcast, Coachtaku.

(If you haven’t checked out Coachtaku yet, I highly recommend it. It's about making anime your new life coach. We go into the lexicon of amazing anime – both retro and current – and point to the life coaching themes that occur in these shows. We even offer some coaching pointers to some of the characters, as if they existed in real life. It's amazing.)

The way coaching and animate transitioned into leadership coaching, this week, was during the recording of an episode around coaching teams. Specifically, how do you elevate the voices of every single member of your team?

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosOctober 7, 2020coaching, team collaboration, take action

Your Values Will Guide Your Results

Today’s’ blog is inspired by a real conversation that I had with a client about her core values.

I’m going to share a bit about our session. Keeping confidentially in mind, I’ll share the logistics of the experience but leave out the personal details. We’re going to talk about why values are important as well as why knowing your values is really important.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosSeptember 16, 2020values, vision, leadership

Bringing Celebration to Leadership

Let’s talk about appreciation and celebration and why they matter.

We associate celebrating with things like birthday parties, weddings, and life events. We don’t associate celebrating with the appreciation of things in our daily lives.

Is that a weird suggestion for a leadership coach to make? Well, my assertion is that celebration and appreciation are even more important in leadership development.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosSeptember 9, 2020appreciation, leadership, celebration

When You Don’t Feel Like It

Let’s talk about feelings versus commitments.

Specifically, what does it mean to choose from our feelings versus to choose from our commitments?

This is a really appropriate topic for me, this week, since I almost didn’t write anything because of how I'm feeling. I’m going to use myself as an example to talk about feelings and commitments and where we choose from. We’ll also talk about applying this concept to yourself.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosAugust 26, 2020feelings, commitment, tools & exercises

Coachtaku!

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you’ve seen the teaser for my brand-new podcast that I’m co-hosting: Coachtaku.

This podcast is all about making anime (Japanese animation) your life coach. It’s been a project that my good friend Mery J Trochez Alberto and I have been talking about since February. We have a couple weeks’ worth of episodes lined that we’ll be releasing every Friday at 9:00 a.m. EST.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosAugust 21, 2020podcast, coaching, authenticity

Becoming Your Best Self

Jas and Jo of the Abundant Culture podcast brought me onto their show to talk about what it takes to become your best self as a leader. I had so much fun talking about empowerment, permission, and all things coaching. Click the link to listen.

InterviewsChristina StathopoulosAugust 20, 2020leadership, coaching

What Amoeba Tag Can Teach Leaders

Most people know how to play Tag. I tag you, you're it, I get to run around. Tag me, I'm it, you get to run around. Amoeba Tag is a fun adaptation of the classic game, where once I tag you, rather than running off, we're now linked together.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosAugust 19, 2020team collaboration, leadership, take action

Why I Love What I Do

My Facebook feed recently reminded me that I had reached the 4-year anniversary of the first time I posted my Hear Her Roar branding. It left me sentimental, grateful, and thinking about why I love what I do.

I am incredibly lucky to have been doing what I love for nearly 5 years.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosAugust 5, 2020coaching, leadership, leave your mark

Inviting ALL Types of Feedback

I want to talk about the importance of allowing for all types of feedback, in whatever space you're in.

I’m not talking about just creating an environment where everything you hear is positive all the time, but purposefully allowing for some of the negative or less savory feedback to come out.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosJuly 29, 2020magic, authenticity, feedback, be heard

Flocks vs. Packs

Who doesn’t love a good animal metaphor?

This week, I want to talk about leading teams through the lens of pack mentality. Specifically, I want to share some differences between sheep and wolves. I’ll then tie these differences back into leadership.

Hear Her Roar BlogChristina StathopoulosJuly 23, 2020leadership, take action, motivation

Ask Me About Your Gremlin

Two months ago, I launched the Leadership Gremlin Quiz: A free resource to provide some whimsy and wisdom to your leadership development. I created the quiz with two goals in mind: 1) Appeal to anyone who loves a good personality quiz, and 2) Develop a way for someone to create awareness around the strengths and weaknesses of their current leadership style.

The Power of Silence

Colette Stefan, host of The Truth is Funny Radio Show, had me on to share the value in not just being outspoken as a leader…but also silent as one. There is power in silence, tune into the recording to learn more about what I mean.

InterviewsChristina StathopoulosJuly 1, 2020woo woo