The Still Space Podcast

Hosted by Mary Lee Gannon

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Oct 2026

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The Still Space Podcast is where Executive Coach Mary Lee Gannon and her guests share fun and simple strategies to manage yourself so that you can show up the way you want in work, relationships and life and not default to past behaviors that leave you disappointed. The Still Space is where you learn to take an intentional moment to challenge habitual assumptions that hold you back with enlightened truths that boost your genius. We transform drama, resentment, doubt, unmet expectations, and self

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October 29, 202629 min

#233 Ten Pieces of Career Advice to Share with Your Children (That They Will Ignore Until They're 34)

My career advice has a remarkable track record with adult children. Every piece has been ignored immediately, rediscovered three years later, and then presented back to me as their own idea. "Mom, I learned something at work. You should always follow up in writing." Yes, sweetheart. I believe someone mentioned that. Possibly at Thanksgiving, 2019. Possibly while you were looking at your phone. So today I'm trying a new strategy. I'm putting my advice on a podcast. Young adults won't take advice from their parents, but they'll take it from a stranger on the internet. Let's use that. If you are getting passed over, this report that I recently completed will show you why and what to do about it - 5 Reasons Capable Leaders Get Passed Over - And How to Be the Must-Have : https://www.maryleegannon.com/5-reasons-you-are-being-overlooked-and-how-to-fix-it-this-week-ececb0bf-b7e9-4599-aeca-13af8b749ca1 Executive Presence Audit: https://www.maryleegannon.com/opt-in-f94fdd4a-8630-404b-99f6-4c9e4e2869ac Edge Assessment call: https://www.maryleegannon.com/Consultation For more information on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

October 22, 202640 min

#232 The Rules Nobody Wrote Down - Your culture isn't on the wall. It's in the hallway.

You can say your company values dignity, inclusion and growth, but your people believe what you tolerate, not what you frame. Through stories of leaders I've coached, this episode shows where culture quietly breaks down and what the organizations people actually choose do differently. If you are getting passed over, this report that I recently completed will show you why and what to do about it - 5 Reasons Capable Leaders Get Passed Over - And How to Be the Must-Have : https://www.maryleegannon.com/5-reasons-you-are-being-overlooked-and-how-to-fix-it-this-week-ececb0bf-b7e9-4599-aeca-13af8b749ca1 Executive Presence Audit: https://www.maryleegannon.com/opt-in-f94fdd4a-8630-404b-99f6-4c9e4e2869ac Edge Assessment call: https://www.maryleegannon.com/Consultation For more information on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

October 15, 202628 min

#231 Who Gets Promoted Is Being Decided Right Now – Your 100 Day Plan

In many companies, the conversation about who moves up next takes shape in a room you're not in, built on a one-sentence impression of you that formed months ago. In this episode of The Still Space, I show how that shorthand gets written, why capable leaders get labeled "reliable" instead of "next," and the 100-day plan to change the sentence before the conversation happens. This isn't about working harder. It's about precision. If you are getting passed over, this report that I recently completed will show you why and what to do about it - 5 Reasons Capable Leaders Get Passed Over - And How to Be the Must-Have : https://www.maryleegannon.com/5-reasons-you-are-being-overlooked-and-how-to-fix-it-this-week-ececb0bf-b7e9-4599-aeca-13af8b749ca1 For more information on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

October 8, 202643 min

#230 The Resentment Trap: What It's Costing Your Presence, and the Happiness You Think You Want

You may be completely right about the reason the promotion went elsewhere or the idea someone else got credit for, or the fact that your partner is not being very supportive during a difficult time, and it may still be costing you more than the original loss. In this episode, I show how resentment erodes your executive presence, bends your decisions, and lands on the people closest to you, while capping the happiness you let yourself expect. Then I walk you through five moves to close the account. If you are getting passed over, this report that I recently completed will show you why and what to do about it - 5 Reasons Capable Leaders Get Passed Over - And How to Be the Must-Have : https://www.maryleegannon.com/5-reasons-you-are-being-overlooked-and-how-to-fix-it-this-week-ececb0bf-b7e9-4599-aeca-13af8b749ca1 For more information on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

October 1, 202619 min

#229 I Don’t Like You Because I Don’t Like Me

In this episode we talk about what’s behind the behavior of people who are mean and dismissive of you. If you are getting passed over, this report that I recently completed will show you why and what to do about it - 5 Reasons Capable Leaders Get Passed Over - And How to Be the Must-Have : https://www.maryleegannon.com/5-reasons-you-are-being-overlooked-and-how-to-fix-it-this-week-ececb0bf-b7e9-4599-aeca-13af8b749ca1 For more information on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

September 24, 202622 min

#228 The Grief We Don’t Recognize

We think grief is a horrible feeling we experience when someone close to us dies. I’ve learned it is far more than that and it resurfaces in the most unsuspecting places when we don’t know how to deal with it. In this episode I share some very personal stories about how that happened to me and what I did about it to move on. If you want to have an outside perspective on what others see when they see you at work here is the link to The Executive Presence Audit >>> https://www.maryleegannon.com/opt-in-f94fdd4a-8630-404b-99f6-4c9e4e2869ac For more on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

September 17, 202639 min

#227 10 Ways to Stop Chasing Success and Start Feeling Satisfied

I ran organizations worth 37 million dollars and know the corporate expectation of head down, deliver, get the result. Wait for the satisfaction to show up on the other side of it. And somewhere in there, I noticed the satisfaction wasn't showing up. It kept moving. It was always one level up, one more win, one more quarter away. I hit targets that used to feel unreachable and felt the same flat nothing I'd felt before I hit them. For a long time I assumed that meant I hadn't hit the right target yet. I just needed the next one. So I found the next one. And the flat nothing came with me. In this episode we talk about how to break that cycle. If you want to have an outside perspective on what others see when they see you at work here is the link to The Executive Presence Audit >>> https://www.maryleegannon.com/opt-in-f94fdd4a-8630-404b-99f6-4c9e4e2869ac For more on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

September 10, 202646 min

#226 The Courage to Quit Chasing – Remembering What Was Always Yours

Have you ever reached a point where you realized you were exhausted—not from the work itself, but from constantly trying to prove that the work mattered? You keep asking yourself "Why am I still proving myself after everything I've accomplished?" "Why does success feel heavier than I expected?" "Why am I searching for the next answer when I already know so much?" In this episode we unpack the treadmill to nowhere and how to get back to what was always there but hidden from plain sight behind the longing, and the striving, and the dissatisfied ache. If you want to have an accountability planner to track your wellbeing here is the link to my Flow-on-the-Go Guide >> https://www.maryleegannon.com/flow-on-the-go-guide-email For more information on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

September 3, 202635 min

#225 Relevance Principle #4 - The Doorway In Is a Decision

You are standing in your kitchen. Afternoon. An official notice is in your hand with the sheriff’s letterhead on it that you had just ripped off your front door, telling you, in official language, that the house is about to be taken. Nothing about your circumstances has changed in the last ten seconds. The marriage is still what it was. The money is still gone. The four kids in the next room are still arguing about a TV show, and the cat is still brushing against your leg like this is a completely ordinary Tuesday. And somewhere in that ten seconds, something in you stops waiting. Listen to this episode and see how I tuned my life around. If you are getting passed over at work, here is a report that I recently completed that will show you why and what to do about it - 5 Reasons Capable Leaders Get Passed Over - And How to Be the Must-Have : https://www.maryleegannon.com/5-reasons-you-are-being-overlooked-and-how-to-fix-it-this-week-ececb0bf-b7e9-4599-aeca-13af8b749ca1 For more information on being undeniable in work and life, go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com or email me at marylee@maryleegannon.com

August 27, 20267 min

#224 The Patterns that Halt Careers and Relationships

In this short episode I show you the patterns of your thoughts, emotions, and actions that are constraining your ability to succeed and what to do about it. For more on the solution got to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

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