What is Leadership?

Sigrid Tasies is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author of the book "Intimacy Within", and host of the top rated Podcast "Sacred Leaders". In this episode, Sigrid dives into what it means to lead from the inside out and the necessity for leaders to be doing deep inner work in order to truly lead others (versus leading from and for individualistic ends). They talk about what it means t...

Join contemporary alchemist, Simon Goland, as he poses the questions Why are you here? And... What has your life been preparing you for? These questions are what gets answered through his work as an educator, facilitator, leader and coach. Listen in as they play with and discuss Presence, and how returning to presence becomes the basis for knowing what is needed, moment by moment, including the pr...

This episode is part of the Guided series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Seasons as a Map and Compass is the exploration of the seasonality of life, work and development. Life and death cycles and how they can show us where we are, what's needed and what's coming. Chela discusses bringing this lens to the creative process, business building and executing...

Self-As-Instrument, Work-As-Service is our second episode in the series: Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work . This episode dives into the question: What does it mean to be an active participant in our collective evolution? Chela explores how her own personal development and approach to work and business are a means of answering and...

This episode is the first in a series called Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work . This episode introduces the principles, philosophies and values that are key to her leadership and contribution as she helps leaders grow their capacities, carve their own paths and contribute to societal change. Listen in as she speaks about what it...

Heather Chauvin is a leadership coach who helps ambitious, overwhelmed women become leaders at work and home. Drawing from her experience as a social worker, raising three boys, and navigating a cancer journey, Heather helps her clients create and enjoy sustainability, profitability and ease in business and life. In this episode, Heather invites listeners to redefine and reclaim what they want for...

Jeff Harry is bringing the play to this space and it is an enlivening and juicy approach to leading! Jeff shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff is an international speaker showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. In this episode, Jeff shares how we as a society have no...

Fondly called "The Helper For Helpers and Sheepdog for Sheepdogs", Dr. Yvonne Ator is deeply passionate about serving those who serve and lead. As the Founder of Thriving Physicians and Thriving Idealist, she equips helpers and leaders struggling with overwhelm, overwork or feeling stuck with tools and resources to master themselves so they can live authentically and serve to their fullest potenti...

In this episode, Chela explores what it means to have and realize your Calling, how to be in an emergent relationship with your life's work that allows it and you to evolve over time. She shares the four cornerstones of a fulfilling and sustainable Vocational Calling and how to check for greater alignment with purpose. She also cautions against some of the cultural traps around rises in spiritual...

Jason Melchi is the founder and Chief Data Dude at Empact Solutions, a purpose-driven organization that is focused on transforming youth justice through an empowered and collaborative use of data. Think data doesn't apply to your role as a leader? Think data is boring? Jason implores you to think again. Leaders can exert a powerful effect on behaviour by providing and analyzing the right type of d...

Marsha Shandur of Yes Yes Marsha is a Storytelling, Communication and Speaker Coach who has taught hundreds of individuals and groups of executives, entrepreneurs and professionals across the world. This episode explores the role of storytelling in leadership and the importance of vulnerability when it comes to connecting and engaging with your audience. They talk about the fundamental rules of ef...

Shannon Thompson is the Founder/Visionary Director and Birth Mama of the social change organization, Shakti Rising, an expert in the field of addiction, recovery and leadership development and a highly sought after facilitator and consultant of interpersonal dynamics, leadership cultivation, and sustainable healing practices. This episode explores the power of feminine leadership and how to create...

Miriam Mason Martineau is a mother, therapeutic counselor, parenting coach, writer, speaker, and researcher who helps clients discover and express their evolving potential – in themselves, their relationships, and the world. This episode explores the interface between leadership, parenting, age transition, intimacy of family values and how that presses against the backdrop of what's unfolding in s...

This solo jam dives into the nature and wisdom of resistance, whether it's the voice in your head stopping you from pursuing an exciting but terrifying project or recurring behavioural patterns preventing you from taking action on things you know are good for you. Chela explores the most common resistance patterns, how to embrace change and tap into the hidden wisdom of our resistance. She explore...

Ellen Sprenger, CEO & Founder, Spring Strategies is a strategist and advocate for social and climate justice, working with over 200 organizations worldwide and sees leadership as being intentional about leaving a space better than you found it. This episode explores the power of collective intelligence and how to build healthy, generatives teams and culture. They talk about the personal and collec...

Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and founder of Real Love Revolution, Boundary Bootcamp and author of the upcoming book, Boundary Boss. This episode kicks off by exploring the ways in which the work Terri is leading has really led and developed her in profound ways, no matter how far you go in your leadership journey, new ventures will humble you and how boundaries are...

How do we move coherently amongst each other, but all empowered in our gifts? This is just one of the questions brought forward by Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker and visionary artist, host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast and creator of the Mythic Masculine Network. Listen in as they cover what it means to work at the intersection of emergence, eros & village, leadership as a means to empower the gifts o...

Brooke McNamara, MFA, is a poet, dance-theater artist, teacher, and ordained Zen monk. She has published two books of poems: Bury the Seed (2020) and Feed Your Vow and is the creator and instructor of multiple online courses. She is most passionate about creating and tending genuine + diverse practice spaces and models this very capacity in this episode. We move from dialogue to practice together...

Shahar Rabi, Ph. D., is the Co-Founder and Director of Education for the New Earth Institute and author of Spiritual Misfits, Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World. We dive into the challenges and fears that arise when moving into collaborative leadership and how to cultivate unwavering trust, even in the face of immense adversity, mental health challenges and the global dying and rebirt...

Erin Thorp cut her teeth on leadership early on, caring for her younger siblings in a challenging family environment. Her next big leadership challenge became building her career in construction engineering as a woman and emotional being. The modeling and leadership feedback she repeatedly received was that she needs to be less emotional. Her dive into emotional development resulted in writing a b...

This solo jam dives into the nature of suffering, from the small day to day grievances to the huge themes and challenges we're navigating as human beings. Chela explores our relationship with aspirations, pain and the resistance of reality as the seat of suffering. She shares her learning of why radical acceptance of what is, is the first step in being able to change what's unacceptable. How do we...

Holiday is a sociologist, integral coach, writer and speaker on the topics of philosophy, justice, culture and personal transformation. A recent viral article about performative allyship went viral and landed her as a voice in the public sphere on racial equity. This episode begins by discussing the various leadership identities that Holiday is swimming in as she shares the idea of leadership as a...

Irene Lyon, MSC and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma and live full, creative lives. To date, her online programs have reached thousands of people in over 60 countries. With her Master's Degree in Biomedical and Health Science and a knack for explaining complex topics in easy-to-understand ways, Irene gives us an in-depth...

Sarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of Startup Pregnant and the host of The Startup Pregnant Podcast, where she helps working parents try to navigate everyday insanity. As both an entrepreneur and parent of two small children, Sarah offers parents of future generations (and anyone who ever was a child) sound considerations about how the working world is shifting and how to participate in shifting...

Karine Bell is a somatics, embodiment & mindfulness teacher dedicated to healing through the body. We explore the converging threads of history and identity that's brought Karine to forming and leading an emergent embodied healing community called Rooted. We explore the ways our pain and trauma are not only doorways to healing, but can be the very catalyst for encountering and pursuing our calling...