I will get started with the presentation. So hi everyone. Thank you for coming to this session.I don't know if it's the morning for you, the afternoon for you, the evening, but whatever time of day it is, welcome. And just to let you know, so the biggest thunderstorm ever just started where I am delivering from. So if there are flashes, if there are booms, that's thunder and lightning, it's all perfectly normal. So welcome to this session called maximize your impact in tech, master your four energy sources. So this is a topic I love talking about and I hope you're going to enjoy this today.

So my name is Mary and as you can kind of see with those letters on the slide, I am a coach. So I'm an ICF certified coach. I am also a chartered mechanical engineer. That's my background and I'm also a project management professional. So I've had an interesting career so far before being here today to talk to you women in tech about your four energy sources. So first I want to tell you a little bit of a story. So this is a story about a woman in tech. Now you might recognize her. She looks rather similar to the person giving this presentation. So this is me about five or six years ago. So where was I? I was working for a big technology company. I had a really, really interesting job. In fact it was a new job.

So a new role that actually quite recently been created and it was one that I really wanted and I got the job. Fantastic. My daughter, who you can see in these pictures here, was about 18 old. I'd gone back to work full time. That's what I wanted to do and yeah, on paper everything looked fantastic. You can see a photo there with my stepkids as well. I also have three stepkids. We love the outdoors. We do lots of wonderful things together. I have a fantastic family. I had a wonderful job, but, somehow things were not kind of how I expected them to be with all of those things being true. So I had the great job. Like I, I've worked really hard throughout my career.

I've ticked all the boxes, I've progressed and there was a certain amount of satisfaction in having done that. I had this fantastic family. My daughter was happy, healthy, not sleeping through the night yet, but you know, nevermind. Everything on paper looked good, but somehow I did not have, and there's a poll that's just, I've just put up there that you can have a look at. I did not feel energized. I would go to work, feel like with all the stuff I had to do in the mornings before I got there, feel kind of exhausted before I even started. I wasn't getting the kind of satisfaction out of the things I was doing at work like I did before.

You know, when you're doing something you're really inspired by, you're really interested, you get that great feeling about the work that you're doing. I wasn't getting that so much of the time. And then the other things that I'd always done in the past to kind of keep me happy and on track, like sports, so I've always done lots and lots of sport. It just wasn't doing the same things for me anymore, and I just constantly felt completely de energized, kind of flat, and, like, there just wasn't that spark there anymore. Now I don't know if any of that speaks to you, but it certainly speaks to a lot of people that I've met and that I work with. And it's such a shame because we have so much to offer.

There's so many things that we'd like to do and somehow this feeling of being completely de energized and depleted just gets in our way. So what happened to me? Where does this story go? This is what happened next. So what this is, if it's not obvious, is COVID. COVID is what happened next to me. So all of a sudden the world stopped. We couldn't go out of the house. I couldn't go to work. The prospect of being stuck in the house, all six of us all the time was more than terrifying. But interestingly, sitting out in my garden during COVID, I get up very early in the morning. I had a little window before the craziness would start every morning. Seeing the motorway with no cars on it, seeing the airport with not a single plane moving.

Somehow that whole slowing down process gave me the opportunity to take a step back. And when I started looking into who I am, what am I doing? What do I want? I started realizing lots of things about how I was showing up in my family, at work and the fact that lots of things just weren't really working for me anymore. So I went looking for solutions. And of course I worked with a coach. I highly recommend working with a coach, but I also did a lot of my own research as well. I'm an engineer, right? So I need, I need some data. I need some information. And I started to find things that answered the questions I had about my energy. And this is me today.

So I am a business owner now. I've been running my own business for the last few years. I am a certified coach. So is that something completely new that I added into my life. I am also a leadership trainer now. I'm still a mom. I'm still an engineer. All those things continue to be true, but my life really looks quite different now and I feel very differently about the work that I do and the way that I'm showing up every day for my family and for all the people around me. So this is the secret that I want to share with you. It's all about energy. So I'm sure you already have. These are people, you are all working in tech. Most probably you have your own ideas about what we mean by energy. So what I'm talking about here is our personal energy. We might know lots of things about technically how energy works.

I'm going to talk about how your personal energy works and it's a little bit different. And the really interesting thing about energy and our personal energy, it's a bit like a muscle. So if you think of it that way, the more you, the more you work a muscle, the more capacity you start to get. And that is actually how your personal energy works. So just a few things about the reality for, of life for women in tech. So I don't know what roles, what positions you all have, what industries you're working in, but in the kind of jobs that we might be doing, we're going to be leading teams. We might be analyzing data. We might be putting strategies together. We might be planning.

We might be putting construction projects together, all sorts of very fascinating, demanding, very interesting work. And that demands an awful lot of energy. So not just our mental energy, but also emotional energy. There's a lot of people to get organized, to get mobilized and we show up and we do all of those things. But in parallel, there's a whole lot of other things going on in our lives as well. Of course there is. And back to data again, I don't like to generalize too much about what everybody's, personal life situation is, but at least for, and here there are many studies which have demonstrated this and it seems it's got become more the case ever since COVID for most, at least, heterosexual couples.

It is something like eighty percent of households where it's the woman who is doing the majority of the childcare, household tasks, family organization, this kind of thing. So there's a whole load of other work that needs to happen, whether it's taking kids to football matches or events, taking care of young children, buying food, preparing things to eat, organizing stuff, having medical appointments, whatever all these things might be. That's an awful lot of other responsibilities and responsibilities we're going to take very seriously. And every day when we're showing up, we've got to be showing up for all of those responsibilities and we're showing up for the work that we're doing. So really understanding and getting a grip on how energy works is so, so important. There's an awful lot of things to do and often also kind of a conflict sometimes between our priorities. So it's really important to get this energy thing right.

So exciting news. Time is finite that we know. And I'm sure if I ask any of you, I didn't do a poll on this, but you can always put an answer in the chat. You will all say you don't have enough time. I think we all say it at least once a day, maybe more often. The great news is time is finite. Energy isn't. So we have, now we're getting into the theory. We have four energy sources, spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional, and they all work together and they can also all be developed and we can use them like I described as muscles and we can actually increase their capacity. So I'll explain a bit more. First of all, physical energy. I start with this just because it's maybe the easiest to understand.

So physical energy is all about the quantity of energy that we have. So this is things like the food that we eat, how much water we drink every day, how much sleep you got the night before, what are you doing in terms of sports, movement, yoga, walking, whatever the things might be. All of those things are going to contribute to your physical energy. So if those are things which you know are not optimal, then they're certainly going to play into your emotional, mental and spiritual energy levels and your overall energy. So by exploring your physical energy and what boosts it and what drains it is one fantastic resource for boosting your overall energy. So that's the first one, your quantity of energy. The next one is your emotional energy.

So this is all about the quality of energy that you bring to any situation, whether it's at work, whether it's in your personal life and the two of them generally all get mixed together. So our emotions, we have all sorts of them. They exist on a scale and we go from what I call catabolic energy. Some people might call this negative emotions. So things about feeling sad, feeling frustrated, feeling angry. We experienced those emotions and they're extremely important. But if we spend a lot of time in those emotions, that's really going to drain us in terms of our energy. And as we move up that scale, it's what we call anabolic energy. That's going to be happiness, joy, excitement, feeling in flow, doing things we feel inspired by. Well as you move up that scale, that's called anabolic energy and that's going to boost our energy. So really exploring your emotional energy.

What is it that sends you down? What is it that takes you up into those higher levels and learning to master that energy is what's going to improve the quality of energy that you bring to any situation. Next one, mental energy. So mental energy is all about focus. So we're talking about being able to concentrate on things, being able to do some kind of deep analytical work about being able to move from subject to subject. I don't know what any of your days look like, but the, when I was working in industry towards the end and I would have days where I had meetings back to back all day long. And as I went from one to the other, we would be speaking about topics that were completely different from the subject before.

And having that agility to go from one subject to another throughout the day, that's really quite draining mentally. So having that focus of energy is really, really important. And then the last one, and I would say the most important one, is your spiritual energy. So I often get questions about this one. Well, what do we even mean by spiritual energy? So what I'm talking about here, it's about your beliefs, your purpose, what inspires you. And that's a very personal thing, but we all have a kind of engine within us, which is about our spiritual energy. And that's what gives us, gives us a force of energy. So it's about what are my values? What do I feel like I'm here for? How much do I feel like I'm spending time doing things which are actually aligned with that or things which make progress on topics that I feel are really important.

And when we really start tapping into that spiritual energy part and learning how to use it, it brings an enormous amount of force. And even when all those other ones, the physical energy is low, the emotional energy is low, the mental energy is low. When you have something that's connected to your spiritual energy, it's amazing how much extra energy you can bring to a situation. So by learning and exploring these different energy sources and understanding how they work for you, because it's also very personal, there's some things which are generic about, okay, some of the physical parts, perhaps emotionally, there are things that most of us get angry about or feel happy about, but how will those things work is very personal to you.

And once you start to get a handle on managing those four energy sources, there is a whole wealth of extra energy that becomes available to you. So how do we do that? Well, there are things which are going to boost your energy and things which are going to drain your energy and each of those energy sources interact with one another. Let me give you an example. So let's say you're doing something very focused mentally. You're working on some data, you're doing some analysis that's going to require quite a lot of intense mental energy. Now, whatever we're doing, our energy works cyclically. So we need a period where we're focused and then we need a period of recovery.

So if you're working very intensely on something that's requiring a lot of mental energy, an hour and a half is about the maximum time that you can actually be efficient without needing to recover to bring that energy back up again. And what you might do in order to do that could be all sorts of different things. Doing something physical is usually quite good. Completely changing context, go for a walk, move your body. That can immediately change something. And I'm sure all of you have had the experience of noticing that often when you're stuck for an idea or you're looking to solve a problem, the best ideas come when you're in the shower, when you're out for a walk. And there's a reason for that. It's because you've actually changed gears. You're in a different environment. Your brain is to, to some extent having a rest and then it becomes free and recovered and able to actually help you with that problem that you had before.

Another example. So I'll take a more personal example for me. So I described how a few years ago I was feeling terribly drained and exhausted and I just felt absolutely like I didn't have enough time. So what happened in this process that I went through about learning about my energy? I also had a look at my career and what did I want to do. And the conclusion I came to was that I wanted to work for myself and I wanted to focus on this coaching and training space. So a bit of a shift of perspective, although I'd actually been delivering quite a lot of training in my engineering role before. So in order to do that, one of the things I did was sign up for a coach training course for one year.

So on top of all of the things I was already doing, getting all the kids to school every day, taking care of my daughter, doing my full time job, still doing some sports, still doing some other things. I added a whole load of other stuff onto my schedule and I felt so much more energized than I did before. So on paper that makes no sense. But the point was I was really focused on something that I started to love. When I got into coaching, I discovered how much I enjoyed it. I felt like I was more aligned with the spiritual part, but, okay, I really think this is something aligned with what's important to me, what I think maybe my role in life is. It's amazing the boost that it gave me. It also helped me learn some different things about my own emotional energy and I just started getting back some of that sort of physical part that I felt like I'd been missing too.

I mentioned this before, like I really love sports and it had just kind of lost its fun, its passion for me. All of these things started working differently. And what was really interesting was that even though in the back of my mind when I was going to work, I was on a plan to do something different. I was showing up differently at work. I became immensely more impactful. And okay, I didn't notice that at first and it wasn't necessarily my objective, but things started changing. I was offered another really exciting career opportunity. I started managing a team and getting into a really good dynamic with that team, and we started doing some really, really fantastic things. And things started coming to me instead of me constantly kind of fighting and looking for them.

And I kind of realized that the way I'm actually doing what I do is completely changing, but without saying, okay, tomorrow I'm going to show up and do things differently because I had more of a handle on my energy because I was more able to focus on what was important to me and therefore prioritize things differently, put different things in place in the way I was showing up at work.

I was having loads more impact than before. So as we draw this almost to a close, what I would really, really encourage all of you to do is to build your toolkit. So what does that mean? There are all sorts of ways you could look into this topic further. If you would like to use some tools that I can offer on my website. So my website is www.resonance.coach. I can pop it in the chat. There is a free, what I call an energy profiler. So you go on there, it's completely free, answer a few questions and that will just give you a first little idea of, okay, where maybe is it more my mental energy? Is it more my physical energy where maybe I've got some work to do? If you want to take that process further, you can explore that with me further.

So what I do when I work with clients, either I do this as a training course or I do this by working with people one to one. We really start digging into those different energy types and what is it that works for you? Like I said, it's quite personal. So for your mental energy or your emotional energy, it's going to be a little bit different for me. So we really start digging into that. And then it's a question of tools. What are some of the things that you can use that would help you? Quite often it's a question about priorities. We can all get that a bit muddled up and back to front sometimes, but getting really clear on that and using some tools to do that can really help you. Or it might be looking at resilience. And how do you build that for you? And again, I've got a host of tools for that.

So I encourage you to look at my website. I've got some questions here. I will pop the address in the chat and also my email address. I will keep going. And the really important message that I have for you today, success isn't about doing more. It often feels like it. And Oh my goodness, the amount of more I have often tried to do in the past. It's not that. It's about doing what matters with energy that really sustains you and figuring out what that looks like for you. And I'm not saying it's easy. I'm not saying it's straightforward, but you can do it and it really, really does work. So if you want to get in touch with me or jump onto my website, everything is here and I will pop the website address in the chat or by all means, of course, just directly message me and I will very happily get into more of a conversation with you about this.

So hopefully I have respected the timing for this conference. I really hope you've enjoyed this session and I would love to hear from any of you who would like to learn more. Thank you.