“5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a CEO” with Nicole Moore of Love Works

An Interview with Phil La Duke

It takes an incredible amount of emotional fitness and maturity to be an amazing CEO and you’ll need this because your team is responding to your energy. I remember times in the beginning of my career where I would be stressed out from a team member sending out an email incorrectly or a launch not working or a tech error happening and visibly show my upset to the team. But what I realized over time is that whatever you are feeling, your team members feel that 10x more because they feed off of and respond to your energy. A great team requires an emotionally centered CEO to lead it well. It’s not about being a robot and hiding your emotions, but a great CEO must be keenly aware of not displaying their stress to their employees or letting their own emotions spill over into interactions with the team. Develop the emotional fitness to deal with your own feelings first so when you show up in front of your team, they see and feel a calm, centered, confident leader not a stress case on the verge of barking at you if you don’t get it right.

As a part of our series about strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Nicole Moore. Nicole is the CEO and founder of Love Works and is a Love Coach and who helps powerful, influential women find their ideal partner. Using her signature Love Works Method, she’s helped hundreds of women find lasting love fast (for example, she helped a client who had been single for 10 years find her dream man in under three months). Nicole started her Love Coaching company while she was in…