{"podcast":{"title":"Leading Women in Tech Podcast","slug":"leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160","podcast_index_feed_id":381160,"rss_url":"https://leadingwomenintech.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://tonicollis.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/5/1/f/851f9a04c34cf0d688c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Podcast_Cover_2023.jpg","author":"Toni Collis","episode_count":100,"summary":"For ambitious women ready to rise, lead, and thrive — without burning out. Are you delivering results… but still waiting to be seen as a true leader? Tired of performance reviews with praise — but no promotion? Hosted by Dr. Toni Collis, executive coach for women in tech, this podcast is your go-to leadership toolkit. Whether you're a rising Director, lone female VP, or overextended operator tired of being overlooked — you're in the right place. Each week, Toni shares real-world leadership strategies, career advancement frameworks, and executive presence tools to help you: ✅ Build strategic visibility ✅ Communicate like a trusted exec ✅ Navigate politics with integrity ✅ Advocate for yourself (without overworking) ✅ Lead with confidence, clarity, and influence You'll also hear powerful interviews with women who've paved the way — and candid conversations on the unspoken challenges women face in male-dominated industries. ✨ If you're ready to go from \"she's great\" to \"she's the obvious next Exec\" — hit follow.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-29T14:18:30.462471+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160"},"episode":{"title":"316: Coaching as Your Encore Career: Building a Practice Inside or Outside Your Company","slug":"316-coaching-as-your-encore-career-building-a-practice-inside-or-outside-your-company","published_at":"2026-09-01T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/316-coaching-as-your-encore-career-building-a-practice-inside-or-outside-your-company","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160","url":"https://tonicollis.com/leading-women-tech/316-coaching-as-a-second-act-building-a-practice/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/leadingwomenintech/LWIT_316_Final.mp3?dest-id=2183168","summary":"There's a question a surprising number of senior women in tech carry quietly for years: could I actually be a coach? Sometimes it surfaces after the promotion that didn't feel like you thought it would. Sometimes it's the realization that the mentoring conversations are the part of the week you actually love. Sometimes it's simpler: twenty years of hard-won experience, and a growing desire for work that's more yours. In this episode of Leading Women in Tech, Toni Collis takes that question seriously. What a coaching second act really looks like, inside your company, alongside your career, or as the next chapter entirely, what it pays, what it demands, and how to know if it's for you. What's covered: ➡️ The quiet question — why so many senior women in tech wonder about coaching, and why the instinct deserves more respect than \"maybe someday\" ➡️ The three shapes of a coaching practice — the internal coach-leader, the portfolio builder coaching alongside her career, and the full second act, and why you don't have to choose today ➡️ What you already have — why decades in tech are an asset most career coaches would kill for, and the credibility math nobody tells you about ➡️ What you don't have yet — the honest gap: mentoring instinct is not coaching skill, and why the leap from \"good with people\" to professional coaching needs structure, practice, and feedback ➡️ The \"can I really do this?\" objection — answered properly: no prior coaching experience needed, practice hours built in, mentoring from Master Coaches ➡️ The business reality — what building a paying practice actually involves, and the brand-new How to Build Your Coaching Business / Side-Hustle bonus announced today for the September Ignite Coach Academy cohort ➡️ The timeline — enrollment closes Friday 11 Septemb…","meta_description":"There's a question a surprising number of senior women in tech carry quietly for years: could I actually be a coach? Sometimes it surfaces after the promo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1693,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/episodes/316-coaching-as-your-encore-career-building-a-practice-inside-or-outside-your-company/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/316-coaching-as-your-encore-career-building-a-practice-inside-or-outside-your-company.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}