Shift Out Loud with Tracy Spears
Hosted by Tracy Spears, speaker, co-author of two best selling leadership books, founder of The Leader Lab, coach, and head cheerleader for anyone trying to play bigger. Shift Out Loud is a podcast designed to inspire you to play bigger. You'll hear from real live people sharing what their shift was, when it happened, and why it was out loud. What you think is true, and when you move from the external locus of control to the internal locus of control, your shift can happen and anything becomes possible. This podcast is your invitation to listen to others who have made the shift, and also serve as a catalyst for you to play bigger.
Shift Out Loud with Tracy Spears
Lifelong Learning and Shifting with Sara Larch
Have you thought about what your life will look like after you retire? During her career in the Physician Enterprise world, Sara Larch was known as a skillful leader. As the second woman in 75 years to become Board Chair of a large trade association, she co-founded a women leaders’ forum to prepare other women to follow in her footsteps.
Although Sara is now retired, that hasn’t slowed her down one bit. She continues to learn, grow, and shift, through joining boards, earning new certifications, and working with the Osher Lifelong Learning program to teach a course on creating a joyful life. Sara has not only created incredible shifts for herself through both her career and her retirement — she’s also helped to inspire some of my own shifts.
Listen to learn how retirement has changed the way that Sara thinks about playing bigger, the importance of truly listening to that little voice that says “why not?”, and the possibilities that can open up when you learn how to let go and let things happen.
Listen now to discover:
- How to distinguish between playing small and simply choosing your moment to play big
- The differences between women and men in interview situations
- How to “act from the middle” in order to have your message connect more strongly
Sara Larch brings 35+ years of consulting and real-world industry experience in large physician groups in Integrated Delivery Systems and Academic Medical Centers and eight years at Deloitte Consulting as a Managing Director and National Leader of the Physician Enterprise practice. She has C-suite experience as COO of the University of Maryland’s 900-physician organization and as VP of Inova Health System, leading teams of physicians and other leaders to define the optimized operating model.
Timestamps:
01:37 Intro
03:00 Meet Sara Larch
04:31 What “playing bigger” means to Sara
06:32 Lifetime Achievement Award
08:56 “Only one seat at the table”
10:21 Political activism
11:58 Modern, balanced leadership
14:57 Acting from the middle
17:21 St. Croix & back again
25:16 Osher Lifelong Learning
29:30 Choosing your moment
31:50 Gender differences
37:09 Joy class
44:34 Taking inventory & choosing joy
48:21 The COVID catch-up
52:22 Learning how to let go
Links:
Sara Larch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralarch2020
Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes
https://www.osherfoundation.org
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