Loving Your Leadership Life®

Bouncing back fully from adversity takes time. Here is how we can start to build leadership resiliency. Listen to discover: How to think about resiliency to build stamina for the long run. How to do some reframing to help yourself bounce back fully. How even one nourishing practice can help. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leadership Life™, click here ! If you think this content will...

I just heard the best advice from a world class athlete about handling the competition and performing at your best. You won’t believe what he said was the number one thing he recommends. Listen to discover: Why the number thing is so important and what it has to do with performing well. What he said about the topic featured in the last three episodes of this podcast! Why building your mental muscl...

We can learn a lot by tuning in to our emotions. They can serve to help us navigate. Listen to discover: What emotions teach us about ourselves. How we have used emotions to survive. How we can use emotions to navigate challenging times. Five questions to ask yourself to gain more insight. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leadership Life™, click here ! If you think this content will he...

Not being happy all of the time is normal. We are supposed to deal with difficult emotions part of the time. Listen to discover: How emotions do a lot of the driving and why it helps to pay attention to them. The idea we were sold on that can keep us stuck. What the Rule of Thirds is and why we should embrace it. How using the duality of emotions can enhance a leader’s effectiveness and foster a p...

When we temper down or avoid difficult emotions, we end up doing the same for all of the emotions on the emotional spectrum. Here is how to experience emotional richness instead. Listen to discover: Why and how we avoid difficult emotions. What we miss out on when we don’t give time and attention to our emotions. The benefits of building our emotional range. How to build the ability to experience...

We make so many decisions every day. What does it take to make them high quality decisions? Listen to discover: How being well rested supports your decision making. What a high-quality decision is and what it entails. What indecision causes and how to get unstuck. What to do to get support for your quality decisions. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leadership Life™, click here ! If yo...

It’s one thing to sleep. It’s another thing to sleep well. Listen to discover: The relationship between the pressure on your nervous system and the quality of your sleep. What a lack of good sleep does to your body and why it pays to lift the mental, emotional, and physical weight of leadership. Practical strategies you can try tonight to sleep better to lead from your best. To stay up t...

I used to want to go straight to sleep when I got home from work. Does this happen to you? Listen to discover: Why you want to sleep after a stressful workday. What survival leadership is and how we get ourselves into it in the first place. How the brain and body respond when a threat is perceived. Practical ways to get into a state of calm and build resiliency. To stay up to date on everything Lo...

Are you missing out on the joy that is right in front of you? Your elder and wiser self might be able to help you gain a clearer perspective. Listen to discover: What can keep us from focusing on what really matters. What many of us sacrifice to justify our existence and to prove our worth. Practical strategies to balance the demands of leadership with a more present life. To stay up to date on ev...

Think you are sending out the signals you want to send out? Think again. Listen to discover: What really regulates your facial expressions. How you can inadvertently be sending out warning signals that keep others from building relationships and communicating well with you. What you can do to send out welcoming signals instead. Why the leader has to have the most managed mind. To stay up to date o...

What are the real drivers of workplace wellness? There are twelve of them and most might surprise you. Listen to discover: Three important findings that are helpful if you are in a leadership role. What dynamically influences workplace wellness. What the wellbeing and behaviors of leaders are linked to in the workplace. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leadership Life™, click...

A focus on wellness increases both productivity and profit in the workplace. Those are the findings in a new Oxford study. Listen to discover: Why even though most executives and managers agree with the findings, only one out of every five actually make wellness a priority. The kind of gap that exists between what organizations say they value and what employees actually experience. Why it always s...

What are you attracting into your leadership life? Does it align to what you are thinking and feeling? Listen to discover: The first rule of the law of attraction. Why it’s important to think about the messages and energy you are sending out to others in your leadership life. How becoming a gratitude magnet helps you to attract abundance and the outcomes you desire. How a gratitude mindset is help...

Nobody taught me how to lead without depleting myself. How about you? Listen to discover: Why self-sabotage is more common than you think. What the root cause of self-sabotage is all about. Some ways that self-sabotage shows up in leadership. The domino effect created when you work on self-leadership instead. How to promote a health and thriving team and culture. How resisting can be self-protecti...

Conflicts at work? It could be that you are reacting when you can be responding instead. Listen to discover: What reacting and responding look like in the work world and what they create. What plays a big role in how you deal with conflict in your leadership life. Tips for how to be more responsive than reactive. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leadership Life™, click here ! If you th...

It’s hard to show up from your best self when the going gets tough. You can build yourself a cushion to land on and build your resiliency. Listen to discover: Why we can get stuck in the negative. What to drop to lead from a more effective space. A common leadership habit that wastes a lot of time. Three recharging habits that will keep you going strong. To stay up to date on everything Loving You...

Sometimes we get stuck and hold on to our problems. We complain and complain and wish for a miracle to feel better. Listen to discover: How to broaden your perspective to get unstuck. Solution focused questions you can ask yourself to gain insight. How you might feel if you take on that miracle. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leadership Life™, click here ! If you think this content w...

What is the basis of your leadership style? Is it keeping you from being the best leader you can be? Listen to discover: The real reason behind seeking to control outcomes. How we end up adopting and justifying leadership styles that may not be helpful. How to shed some light on how you got to where you are and to see fresh perspectives. Questions to gently release justifying lies that might...

Sometimes it’s hard to see the answers you seek even when they are right in front of you. All it takes is a little self-observation. See what you can learn by putting your thoughts on stage. Listen to discover: Why practicing self-observation is useful. How to get better at managing your emotional temperature. Examples of common unhelpful thoughts. The key to getting better at electing more helpfu...

Are you adding to your own stress? You can minimize it just by being more aware. Listen to discover:  What avoidance has to do with adding to your stress. How we sometimes undermine ourselves by seeking comfort in stressful times. How knowing about stress creation cycles can help right away. How to think about stress and use it to your advantage. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your L...

Did you know that even Lionel Messi has been known to throw up before a game? Leadership anxiety is real. How does it connect to overthinking? Listen to discover: What Lionel Messi does to conquer his game time nerves. Common human fears that result in overthinking and anxiety. Strategies to help you loosen the grip that overthinking and anxiety have on you. To stay up to date on everything Loving...

Sometimes we stress ourselves out. What might happen if we reduce the intensity a bit? Listen to discover: How the brain perceives pressure and how it responds. How you can reframe performance pressure to free up mental and emotional resources. The kind of freedom you can gain when you try out the strategies included here to ease off the stress. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leaders...

“ You claim your greatness and your own genius. The day I became a star was when I realized everybody was one.”                                                                                   &...

Don’t you hate it when you are wrong? Sometimes, it’s a hard pill to swallow. Listen to discover: Why we don’t like being wrong. Why kids and adults avoid being wrong. The thought you can try to ease into accepting being wrong. How accepting being wrong can help develop your leadership maturity. To stay up to date on everything Loving Your Leadership Life™, click here ! If you think this content w...

Conflict is not something I ever looked forward to in my leadership. Yet, it might serve a good purpose. Listen to discover: The thought to use to rethink conflict and use it for good. How to use conflict to improve leadership maturity. Three questions to ask yourself to keep from going into fight or flight during a conflict. How to use conflict to shine a light on what can use some improvement in...