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How to be a leader every day
Learn how to step up and become an LGBTQ leader every day with Ash Beckham on this Queer Money®. Then kick off your financial independence journey now by getting your free copy of the 7-Step Credit Card Debt Slasher.
Are you willing to change to be the change?
The LGBTQ+ community needs leaders. Yet many of us wait until we graduate or get a promotion to step into leadership. But what if you don’t have to wait for some kind of external achievement? What if you can practice being a leader right now as part of your everyday life?
Ash Beckham is an equality advocate and keynote speaker on a mission to spread inclusion and inspire queer folks to step into their power as leaders. She is also the author of Step Up: How to Live with Courage and Become an Everyday Leader.
On this episode of Queer Money®, Ash joins us to explain how our non-traditional skills and life experiences qualify us to lead and why it’s beneficial to practice leadership in low-risk situations. Ash challenges us to develop empathy for people with different opinions and describes when it’s better to call people IN rather than calling them OUT. Ash shares how to engage in difficult conversations to be the change we want to see.
Listen for Ash’s insight on learning how to step up to become an everyday leader:
Topics covered on how to be a leader
- What inspired Ash to write a book about stepping up to be a leader in your community
- How our non-traditional skills and life experiences qualify us for leadership positions at work
- Why Ash suggests practicing leadership skills in low-risk situations
- Developing empathy for people with different opinions and understanding where they’re coming from
- How Ash thinks about the meme, ‘Don’t tell me you love me and then vote against me’
- What we can do to empower straight, white, cisgender men to be the allies we need
- The difference between calling somebody IN vs. calling them OUT (and when it’s appropriate to employ each strategy)
- Ash’s perspective on cancel culture and the inconsistency in our application of ‘the rules’ online
- The responsibility we have to educate ourselves before we engage in difficult conversations
- Why it’s invaluable for young and older queer people to share their lived experiences with each other
- The question leaders should ask their teams to help people be more authentic at work
Connect with Ash
Resources on how to be a leader
- Ash’s Talk at Ignite Boulder
- Step Up: How to Live with Courage and Become an Everyday Leader by Ash Beckham
- Amber Hikes
- ‘America Has a Free Speech Problem’ in The New York Times
Connect with David and John
- Debt Free Guys on Facebook
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- Debt Free Guys on YouTube
- 7-Step Credit Card Debt Slasher
- CreditWise
- Queer Money Facebook Group
- Queer Money on Instagram
- Subscribe on iTunes
- Email [email protected]
Get more on how to be a leader
- 16 Thought Leaders Talk about LGBTQ Financial Wellbeing
- 5 Things Effective LGBT Leaders Always Do
- Why We Need More Queer Business Leaders
We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys and hosts of the Queer Money® podcast. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously not fabulously broke by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs, and 3) save and invest for retirement.