The Executive Exhale Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore the powerful connection between wellness and leadership success. Discover how prioritizing your well-being can sharpen your focus, elevate your performance, and help you achieve true work-life balance.  If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the demands of leadership or wondered how to create a sustainable path to success, this episode is for you. Tune in f...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast episode features a conversation between host Tammy and guest Ian McLeod, focusing on leadership, wellness, and personal development. Ian, with 15 years of management experience in a large nonprofit organization, shares insights on leadership challenges, stress management, and the importance of understanding human psychology in leadership roles. We cover a variety of t...

Send us Fan Mail As an executive coach, I am seeing negative trends and patterns in the areas of leadership wellness. High-performing executives struggle to integrate work pressures and daily demands with their mental and physical health. This results in executives dealing with the impacts of chronic and intense stress, fatigue, or, worse yet, complete burnout.  Wellness retreats offer a restorati...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I chat with David Martinek. David is a communications and marketing professional for over 30 years. He has worked with all manor of organizations, from for profit billion-dollar tech giants to non-profits and public service organizations. He is a people person who is passionate about growing tomorrow's leaders and being a mentor. We talk about the power of em...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore a powerful blend of leadership, life lessons, and wellness essentials with our guest, Mike Phillips. Tune in as we discuss the journey from youth coaching to senior leader mentorship, unveiling lessons learned along the way about influence, boundaries, and balancing high performance with personal wellness. We dive into the importance of prioritizing peo...

Send us Fan Mail Turns out that anything and everything your heart desires is an inside job! In this episode, I speak with Max Latimer, a coach/consultant who is also a heart-led creator in his life. His journey is bringing him to a place where he can help high-achieving humans who have lost themselves in the pursuit of more and to reconnect to and learn to trust in their inner knowing so that the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with special guest Loretta Cella. Loretta is a friend, colleague, alma mater, mentor and the curator of her trademarked HeartBreath™ modality. She explains how her lifetime of human services and leadership development work led her to create this transformational modality rooted in heart-centric and neurosciences. HeartBreath™ is a powerful practice that co...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I tackle the topic of why investing in wellness in leadership gets a bad rap. This is a result of a conversation I had recently with a fellow coach around the wording of some marketing material...and I wanted to share why I think we really need to start shifting the narrative around wellness support in leadership. We need to demystify the notion of wellness and us...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome the The Executive Exhale Podcast ! Mindfulness and Meditation does not have to take up a ton of time or effort, but the results of doing these things, even in less than 5 minutes can be immense! In this episode, I talk about the benefits and provide a number of options for you to try in your daily practice! Even for the busy leader, I promise there is SOMETHING in here for...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   This week, I explore the connection between career challenges and childhood experiences, such as trauma. In fact, many studies and articles have been written about the link between childhood trauma and the derailing of your career or leaders...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   In this episode, I explore how to maintain work life balance in remote work. Working from home, especially since COVID/2020, has meant the blurring of boundaries and lines between work and our home lives. Maintaining that balance while being...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   This week, I explore the connection between career challenges and childhood experiences, such as trauma. In fact, many studies and articles have been written about the link between childhood trauma and the derailing of your career or leaders...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   In this episode, we tackle organizational betrayal where your trust has been betrayed at work. Organizational betrayal is toxic and erodes the trust and confidence you have in your organization. I share some thoughts on how to deal with this...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   In this episode, we are going over how to thrive in your career through self advocacy! There are 3 main things to consider when looking to self advocate. If you want to lead effectively and grow your career, you will have to learn, and get c...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .  In this episode, I am sharing a podcast conversation on the topic of diversity and leadership - specifically, the value of diversity in organizations and how important the leadership is in continuing this conversation. This can be a sensitive...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   If you are feeling stuck in your career, this video is for you. I go over a few simple things that you can do to start moving forward to make that career change or start planning your exit. Feeling stuck in our career is never fun, and it is...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   Are you feeling like a fraud and a failure as a leader? The truth is that many very successful leaders often experience this feeling - especially when times are challenging and there are competing priorities. As a leader, it is important to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is a replay from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   This week's episode is a podcast edition. I interview, Rodric Lenhart, a Michigan-born leader, personal development coach, author, volunteer, fundraiser and as he claims, “all around nice fella”. Rodric is a business leader who has buil...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is an excerpt from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   Has success caused more trouble for you? Maybe you have tall poppy syndrome. In fact, a recent study showed that well over 85% of women experienced tall poppy syndrome over the course of their life. In this video, I share what tall poppy s...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is an excerpt from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   In this episode, I explore how to keep good employees from leaving your workplace. Keeping good employees comes down to a few simple things that we, as leaders, can do! For more information on the services offered at Executive Exhale Inc.,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is an excerpt from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   This week is all about breaking bias in the workplace! While putting supportive measures is an important step - I think we are asking and focusing on the wrong things. To break bias in the workplace, we need to assert different outcomes an...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is an excerpt from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   In this episode, I explore how to handle hard leadership decisions. Every manager and leader has to deal with this and this is meant to help you support you through these hard decisions. For more information on the services offered at Exec...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is an excerpt from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   In this episode, I explore how important it is to have the courage to care as a leader in the workplace. It is a vital component of leadership and the 5th principle of The Leadership Challenge of Kouzes & Posner. #leadership For more i...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is an excerpt from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   In this episode, I explore the top 5 Leadership Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. He taught us to love, respect, stand up, lean in to our voices, etc. I wanted to pay honour to this historical figure as the U.S. observes Martin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Executive Exhale Podcast - this episode is an excerpt from my previously branded podcast 'On the Level Leadership' .   Understanding your saboteurs and how they can understand your success - or derailment to success - is an important factor in pushing through those times when they pop up. I have battled my own challenges with my saboteurs and it is in unde...