Learn what you should stop doing in your career and recognize the repeating patterns that are keeping you stuck. Receive the proven steps on how to breakthrough as a leader of influence and commit to action right away. Enjoy this 50-minute virtual class to shift your mindset and focus on what you want. *Old school paper notepad and pencil required! Get ready to silence the inner crow. By taking a seat, you’re going gutsy no longer settling for anything less in your career and your *life*. Gutsy leadership – it’s a mindset thing. See you on the other side!
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It’s one year from today.
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What would have to happen for you to feel fulfilled in your career?
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- Change how I am perceived as a professional expert.
- Consistently speak my results. Communicate my value.
- Transition to a new position in my career.
- Lead with influence in a higher senior-level role.
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- Clear the clutter. Focus on my career w/ fierce time management.
- Increase sales, double my results in my business.
- Find clarity on my personal brand. Authentically sell my unique value.
- Ease back into the workforce, return to my career.
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Own Your Authority. Speak Your Results as an Expert of Influence.
Results that work every area of your life, not just your career.
Until you’re owning your value and able to“sell” your ideas and recommendations, secure buy-in, push back where needed – you can’t change how you are perceived and advance further. In order to see change, you have to change. It doesn’t have to take years or require a “wait and see” approach. Change your mindset with proven tools that work.
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- Expand your influence speaking to larger and/or more senior audiences.
- Remain calm and prepared to respond when your ideas are pushed back on.
- Package your expertise as a trusted advisor hired for your best practices and how you will make an impact.
- Enjoy more vibrant professional and personal relationships.
- Stay focused on your goals when everyday stresses take away your best time and energy.
- Stay the course with consistent accountability checks and reminders.
- Leverage your “know, like and trust” relationships and prepare for opportunities that would skyrocket you.
- Replace suppression with joy. Learn new skills easier, with a renewed growth mindset.
- Simple straight-forward principles. Extraordinary results to achieve what matters most.
- Intelligence training combined with compassion and heart-centered accountability to keep you going and in faith.
- A tried and true formula for living a fulfilling life with inspiration and motivation to keep you growing.
- Wave away anxiety and fear of rejection or failure.
- Master the art of “small talk” to lean on a trusted referral network for years to come.
- Own your authority with clients, prospects, patients, management or peers.
- Distribute a compelling story about the results you deliver.
- Become comfortably confident being more visible and asking for opportunities.
- Engage others making them your best customers creating collaboration.
- Delegate the work activities that rob you of time.
- Use already done-for-you scripts, dialogue, e-mails, and templates to hit the ground running.
- Speak without apology in any business situation where you are called to share your expertise.
- An inspirational and motivational road map proven to reach your version of success.
- Personal achievement resulting from a consistent thinking, doing, planning and following-through approach which yields CHANGE.
- Shift your mindset and limiting beliefs.
- Lock-in your vision and breakthrough goals with clarity and courage.
- Confidently communicate, projecting your credibility as an expert in your field.
- Market with meaning. Attract opportunities aligned with your purpose.
- Clear the clutter, knock out time-management challenges to pull your goals up in priority.
- Influence with storytelling and leveraging your soft skills.
- Develop a social media presence, others remain plugged into.
- Double your impact, and free time by letting go, finding more balance in your life.
- Unlock your fears and embrace positive expected outcomes.
Coaching Training Accountability
Receive the step-by-step success principles, mindset and proven leadership system to build your brand and accelerate in your career, NOW.
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- 90-Minute Strategy Planning
- 1-month feedback and guidance
- LinkedIn profile / CV review
- Weekly Accountability
- Recording replays to recap notes
- 13 Training & Coaching Modules
- 3-months, 1-hour monthly Q&A calls
- Weekly accountability
- Downloadable worksheets
- Cheat Sheets, Templates, Scripts
- Video replays to recap notes
- Audio Replays to lock-in motivation
- Anxiety and Phobia Cure exercises
- 12+ hours access to VIP training
- Online Learning. All Access Pass.
- Up to 6-months, private coaching
- Up to 6-months, accountability
- Unlimited feedback, and guidance
- Downloadable worksheets
- Cheat Sheets, Templates, Scripts
- Replay recording and recap notes
- 90-minute Strategy Planning
- 5-minute emergency phone calls
- Meeting, Interview, Presentation, RFP prep
- Recording replays to recap notes
- LinkedIn profile + CV review
- Flexibility to freeze coaching time
- DiSC Leadership Profile

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The longer you wait to take action on something that’s good for you, (something you’ve really wanted to do), the higher the likelihood is that you won’t ever take action. It’s universal law.
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Gutsy Leadership Curriculum (Business Leadership Modules)
The Gutsy Leadership System teaches how to make mindset shifts about your value as a professional expert alongside learning a practical proven set of leadership and communication tools as an intrapreneur inside an organization or entrepreneur running a practice. It will stretch you outside your comfort zone taking manageable steps towards a new level of how others perceive you. It walks you through simple authentic ways to own your authority, find your voice, repackaging yourself to a professional level where you never have to be weighed down about your marketability, value you deliver and self-worth – ever again.
You will be shown EXACTLY what to start doing–and stop doing to confidently attract business opportunities. It is all step-by-step, not overwhelming theory and feel-good advice, taking you in every direction. This program offers simple, concrete HOW-TO tools on what to do, not concepts. But before you can implement any leadership education, the truth is, you need to change how you see yourself in your career or business and move out of your own way learned through timeless success principles to make mindset shifts. The system works no matter where you are in your career: just starting out, mid-way, senior-level, re-entry or pre-retirement.
Success Principles Curriculum (Self-Leadership Modules)
Live life by design, not default. The success principles component teaches a proven system to achieve anything you want leveraging mindset, clarity, intention, focus and time-management methods, staying the course to your commitments. Get the tools and teaching you need to dramatically increase your free time, improve your relationships, create more balance and joy in your life and experience a new level of happiness. You will learn the tools to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize your ambitions. This step-by-step live course spells out timeless principles and practices used by the world’s most successful men and women—proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life. Based on The Success Principles TM curriculum – this course has helped thousands of people achieve success in their life. This is a system designed to teach you the proven, step-by-step success strategies to designing and creating the life you want both professionally and personally.
Is this program a good fit for you? View Frequently Asked Questions.
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Ready to get started? Get the Curriculum. View Program Modules.
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The Breakthrough Program changing how professionals do business.
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Professional Support. Ask for what you need.
Receive support based on where you are and where you want to be in scheduled Q&A Calls where you receive the answers you need, when you need. *Expert and Impact programs only.
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Self-Paced Training
Guided “Power Hour” Step-by-Step Training and Video Course(s) with library of Motivational Audios. Assignments, templates* and scripts* (exactly what to write and say – “tweakable” to suit your authentic style). Easily download, print and save.
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Success Principles to Strengthen your Focus
Enjoy a blend of proven success self-leadership principles with career leadership how-to proven advice which will strengthen your focus and intuitive skill to achieve your breakthrough goals.
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Weekly Accountability Checks
Receive consistent accountability checks each week to keep up the momentum and remain on track with your goals.
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Unlock 12 hours Access to Previous Training Calls
Learn and listen to previous training and mentoring calls held from our VIP GOLD private classes with professionals who have been in your shoes.
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Lifetime Access to your online classroom.
Training materials are yours forever. Receive new modules as they are added to any course to stay plugged in. As your career or business evolves, so will our delivery to meet your needs.
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Risk Free Guarantee
Join us for the first two weeks in Gutsy Leadership Academy. If you do the work and don’t receive value, we will happily issue you a refund – guaranteed.
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Exclusive Savings
Enjoy discounted savings on any private coaching program or training product.
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The full end-to-end program of the entire Gutsy Leadership System contains self-paced video training modules, a collection of motivational audios, step-by-step learning with assignments, templates, scripts (exactly what to say and write) and cheat sheets that delivers complete training on how up-level your career and action that gutsy breakthrough goal immediately. Plus support to ask for what you need in our monthly Q&A calls based on where you are and where you want to be. Training, Coaching and Accountability based on your schedule, whenever you wish to start the clock and begin or freeze when the unexpected happens. Nowhere else will you find this combination of mindset, career guidance, proven success principles and personalized career support in a professional development program. We understand our students need consistent guidance and feedback to stay the course.
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About Marisa Santoro

Founder and CEO of In Our Shoes, Marisa Santoro is an American career leadership trainer and business coach recognized as a global leadership expert for the Gutsy Leadership™ System, an inside-out, self-aware leadership approach to recognizing your value in order to successfully drive change. In Our Shoes is a professional development training and collaboration platform consisting of self-paced online courses and live training delivered through Gutsy Leadership Academy ™, which promotes a global community for professionals to share their same struggles in a trusted safe environment. She empowers workplace professionals, practice owners, sales agents, physicians and small business owners to move into higher levels of leadership roles across corporate and the health care, real estate, education, music, writing and coaching industries.
Former IT Executive on Wall Street, Marisa has a 21+ year corporate career and is a recent honoree of the “Women of Influence” award by New York Business Journals given her years of heart-centered mentoring and leadership programs for women in the workplace.
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Take a non-negotiable approach to leading without permission. Gutsy Leadership – is a mindset thing.






