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Joyful Leader
All things team culture, leadership, AND leader mental health. Leading your time, goals, team, and company are important. Your engagement, joy, balance, and badassery are even more important. We go deep into all of it on Joyful Leader.
Episodes
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The Vulnerability Trio
Leadership can make us feel exposed and vulnerable. We can feel scrutinized and under pressure — either from the outside or inside. Through many coaching…
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Partnership
When working with others, the relationships we most value feel like partnerships — collaborative, mutually respectful, and effective. But what makes a…
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I vs. WE
You can tell a lot about a person’s leadership style from how often they use “I” vs. “we.” This is true when recounting history . . . describing a past project…
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Going With the YES
If you’re a theater kid at heart like me, you know the first rule of improvisational theater: go with the YES (AKA, “yes, and”). On today’s podcast, we’re…
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People Rise and Fall to Your Expectations
Today on Joyful Leader, we’re talking about a truism you’ve likely heard: people rise and fall to your expectations of them. If you lead, you know. A HUGE part…
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How to Look at Your Strengths (+ Weaknesses)
I work with growth-oriented people. People who are always moving forward, making an effort to be better today than yesterday. And in the process of growing, we…
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How to Be More Effective
Most leaders (YOU) want to be effective, use their time wisely, and prioritize the right things. There are two questions, asked in tandem, that can be…
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What Leaders Feel
I used to think that being an exceptional leader meant not feeling. I thought that leaders who had it together never felt anger, frustration, stress, or…
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Leading as a Whole Human
We often think that our various roles — woman, leader, wife, mom, CEO — require different things from us. Different skill sets, lenses, and emotions. Sometimes…
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Service + Leadership
Most leaders feel called to leadership because they want to serve. And there are two warped ideas about what service means that I have seen adopted, then…
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The Power of Significance
Last week, we talked about bringing purpose to our roles as leaders, and today, we’re diving into one specific aspect of purpose: significance. We’re going to…
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The Power of Purpose
Humans love purpose. We crave it. We want a connection to meaning in our lives and in our work. Having purpose makes us go farther by lightening our steps on…
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People Support the Things They Help Create
On Mike Birbiglia’s podcast, he regularly asks guests to share the best piece of advice they’ve received that they actually used. Every time I hear him ask, I…
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Be a Weirdo
Do you know what obstacle many people find when attempting to transform their work lives? Not wanting to be weird. It sounds funny, but it’s true. Claiming the…
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Overdoing: The Game of Avoid + Seek
Overdoing. It doesn’t matter what. Work. Netflix. Pinot. If you are taking an action over and over again that has a negative effect on your life, here’s what’s…
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Busy Season, Crunch Time + Launch Week, OH MY!
Most of us have experienced a “busy season” — either because our work flows in seasons, or because of project crunch time, or for some other “work is going to…
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Getting it All Done
If you added up every incoming request, data point, question, and flashing blip that enters your brain daily, the number would be enormous. Many of us walk…
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Overwork Causes Underperformance
One of the things my clients and I find when coaching about working less is a subconscious belief that if they work less, they will somehow be worse at their…
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Quick heads up: podcast frequency update
Hey everyone! After this week's episode, Joyful Leader will now be released every TWO weeks. See you in a couple of weeks. Thanks for listening. Hungry for…
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The Big Truth Blocker
Do you know your own truth? About your relationship with your job, for example? Or to specific family members? Do you know the truth of what you want in your…
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Future Orientation, Forward Momentum
There's a trait that's common amongst good leaders: future orientation and forward momentum. These two things, when combined, create a sense of energy, agency…
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Meeting Your Own Needs
There's a model that I bet you've seen many places. In relationships — whether those relationships are romantic, friendships, or employment-related — we have…
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Taking In vs. Taking On
We all face challenges in our work and lives, and we all make mistakes and find ourselves in uncharted territories — situations that we’ve never encountered…
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Culture Eroder: Assumption of Inclusion
Today, we’re talking about another culture eroder: the assumption of inclusion. Assuming inclusion is often innocent — it’s the assumption that if we haven’t…
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Receiving Feedback
We’ve been talking all about feedback — focused mostly on giving. Today, we’re turning around some of the tools we’ve discussed and applying them to receiving…
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Giving Actionable Feedback
Good feedback is actionable. It allows the person hearing it to know exactly what to stop, start, or continue doing — immediately. And, the best feedback puts…
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The Feedback Mindset
In our second feedback episode, we’re talking all about mindset. Last week we talked about the mindset challenge — what stops us from giving feedback enough to…
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Feedback: Why It’s Important and What Gets in The Way
Your team’s results are created in your culture. » Your culture is built on trust. » Good feedback is essential for trust-building and growth. » Feedback is…
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A Lovely Little Metaphor
Today’s podcast is a story. I’m sharing a beautiful metaphor created by a client many years ago in a moment of new understanding. It’s short, sweet, and a…
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Value
Look up right now and you’ll likely find some reinforcement of the message that what makes you valuable in your professional life is the number of hours you…
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"I don't know what I want."
Today’s episode is all about a single sentence: I don’t know what I want. This thought can create a truly paralyzing cycle of confusion and stuckness. It’s…
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Emotional Resistance
True facts: I didn’t really know how to process my emotions until I was in my 40s. Like many of my GenX cohorts, teaching and attending to emotional fluency…
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Culture Eroder: Lack of Appreciation
The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it. This episode is the next installment of the culture eroder (and corresponding culture builder)…
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Resistance
You feel called, drawn, compelled. To a project, a role, a career. And this thing that you feel drawn to, you also feel incredible resistance to. You avoid…
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Emotional Weight
What’s the most emotionally heavy team you’ve ever worked on? You probably had an immediate answer to that question. Heaviness, or emotional weight, is…
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How to Know What Your Team REALLY Thinks
You consider yourself an open-door leader. And yet, there are times when you want more feedback from your team. Maybe you get crickets when you ask for…
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Culture Eroder: Lack of Ownership
The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it. This episode is the next installment of the culture eroder (and corresponding culture builder)…
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Role Modeling
No amount of training will help your team grow as much as what you show them. Who you are as a leader — how you make decisions, who you consider when making…
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Being Accountable for Your Team's Autonomy
There’s an honest mistake that organizations make when hiring capable people. They think that someone’s capacity and depth of experience mean they will be…
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The Constant of Culture
Step one: build a strong culture. Step two: maintain a strong culture. Daily. It’s common to think that culture is something you build once and lasts forever…
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Knowing Your Reasons, Liking Your Reasons
There are many rubrics and wisdom out in the world about decision-making. Today on Joyful Leader, I’m sharing a tool to help you understand a decision before…
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Culture Eroder: Power Language
Welcome to the next installment of the culture eroder (and corresponding culture builder) series. And today’s culture eroder is: power language. Power language…
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Why You're REALLY Not Giving Feedback
On the horizon is a series of episodes all about feedback . . . get excited. But today, we’re starting with a client request. Many of my clients have had a-ha…
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The Values Differentiator
If you’ve listened to the podcast, you know that culture is my middle name. Culture — the values of your organization and the behaviors they drive — is queen…
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The Leader Model vs. The Work Model
As a leader, there are three general components to your work experience: you, your team, and the work you do. How you think about these things, and the…
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Culture Eroder: Indecision
The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it. In our 2nd Culture Eroder (Culture Builder) episode, we’re talking about indecision. Indecision…
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The Anatomy of a Decision
On today’s Joyful Leader, we’re talking more about decisions. Specifically, how to break down a decision into its component parts — or anatomy — and how doing…
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Decisions: Yes AND No
Decisions are how we move forward and generate momentum in our lives and work. We decide, we move forward, we learn . . . lather, rinse, repeat. Over the next…
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Trust Fundamentals
When I first began supervising people, one of the first components of my management training was a session all about building trust. Trust is fundamental. It’s…
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Culture Eroder: Wasting Time
The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it. And today, we’re talking about a big culture eroder: wasting people’s time. Time wasting often…
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Goals Are For Skill-Building, Not Worth-Building
In my community, we do goals. We love goals. Setting them, achieving them. And, we do goals in some very specific ways. Today I’m sharing my rules for goals…
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Emotional Fuel
Our emotions are like fuel in our tanks. They take us where we need to go, and like actual fuel, have different properties. Some burn clean for miles and…
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Your Job Is Not Your Purpose
Last week we discussed purpose — and how it is always internal, never external. In our lives, we choose containers in which to express our purpose, including…
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Finding Your Purpose
I hear from a lot of people that they are looking for — or haven’t yet found — their purpose. In today’s episode, we’re going to clarify where purpose lives…
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Radar
An essential part of leadership is knowing where to direct your attention. Given the number of things we have on our plates at any one time and our finite…
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Objectify Your Story About Yourself
On a regular basis, my clients bring up observations about the way their companies operate, often in the context of their leadership teams. They notice default…
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Confidence vs. Arrogance
Confidence and arrogance are VERY different things. They are both emotions, but come from different mindsets, and look very different. AND YET. :) We sometimes…
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Tool vs. Weapon
We use so many tools throughout our lives and work — project management, life management, mind management. Tools, systems, frameworks, and rubrics are…
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Rewiring Your Brain: Reps at the Gym
We’re talking about how to think about the process of change — which is essentially rewiring your brain. When we change anything, we switch from an existing…
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Rewiring Your Brain: We Develop Habits For Good Reasons
Every time we change anything in our lives — habit, relationship, attitude, anything — we are essentially rewiring the brain. We’re creating new patterns of…