Belonging & Leadership

Welcome to unlikely leadership with Audrey and today we are going to be talking to Lauren Humphrey. She is the co-founder and CEO of The Mintable, which gives people managers the learning, community, and tools to succeed (so everyone else can too). Prior to starting the company, she was on the executive team at Brightwheel (6x valuation) and commercialized the health insurance business at Gusto (>$10M ARR / 0-to-100 FTE in 3 years). She's served as the President of The Seneca, Inc, and studied Organizational Psychology at Harvard. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights.

Welcome to unlikely leadership. This is Audrey and today's topic is angry leadership, angry leaders. Perhaps you've been one. Maybe you've reformed from being one, or you've transformed. Possibly, you have worked someplace or are currently working someplace with an angry leader. Asking yourself this main question, how does this person even have a job? Angry leaders, lets release fear and embrace change today.

In today's episode, Audrey will be engaging leadership styles rooted in swift decisiveness vs making intentional choices. Do you have a problem with indecisiveness? Do you prefer to take the time you need to make the right choice? Listen in as Audrey journey's through the challenges of expanding our minds as we strive to improve critical thinking strategies in leadership.

Do you agonize over even the smallest mistakes or flaws in your work?  Do you attribute your success to luck or outside factors?  Are you very sensitive to even constructive criticism?  Do you feel like you will inevitably be found out as a phony?  Then you suffer from Imposter Syndrome and anxiety.This episode is about about 3 simple ways to get rid of it forever and function at your highest-level.

The important thing about connecting feelings to leadership is if one's own self, one's own feelings are not examined imagine the sort of the blind spots and the impact that might present itself when now you're accountable for others. Errin Merrihew, an empowerment coach discusses feelings, worthiness, and introverts with Audrey.

Welcome to the unlikely leadership podcast with Audrey. And today is a special part one of a two part episode on a very powerful, timely and urgent dialogue of practices for us to be engaged in as leaders, which is trauma in leadership. How does trauma, historical trauma, recent family trauma, recent incident trauma, racial trauma, affect who we're being as we lead, and not just who we're being, but the outcome, the limits the patterns, the perpetual nature? Imagine, if a collective of us a critical mass of US leaders in all industries, touching 1000s upon hundreds of 1000s upon millions of lives, took on healing, what would be possible in that outcome? Resmaa Menakem is a healer, author, master coach and trauma specialist. He helps people communities and organizations heal from and build resilience around historical and racialized trauma through body centered psychology. He is a best selling author, a New York Times bestselling author of several books, including my grandmother's hands racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and our bodies, a deep exploration of how trauma affects us all. It combines theory and analysis with practical strategies for healing ourselves. Now, what you're going to hear and find is that the ability to metabolize trauma that is located store sickly in our bodies, is not a big aha moment. It is actually small practices over time, almost like siphoning out something I would imagine, right? So, grab a journal or a notebook, lean back, open your mind and your body for this two part conversation. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About Our Guest In addition to his work as a writer and therapist, Resmaa focuses his expertise on coaching other leaders to learn this embodied approach, including police chiefs, nonprofit executives, CEOs, athletic directors and managers, government leaders and many more. “While we see anger and violence in the streets of our country, the real battlefield is inside our bodies,” he says. “If we are to survive as a country, it is inside our bodies where this conflict needs to be resolved.”

This is a special episode in honor of the late Virgil Abloh. Who incidentally was on my list of upcoming guests to be invited. If you don’t know who Virgil is, you will soon be inspired by him in this episode. If you do, you know that not only was he a genius, he was a shining example of...an unlikely leader. An exception.He was the founder of Off-White, artistic director of Louis Vuitton, and many other collaborations.Virgil Abloh died on November 28, 2021, after a private battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer. He was 41. He was a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a friend. He was a design icon and now an angel among us.

A powerful conversation on loss, suppressing our feelings and freedom with Kathei McCoy, affectionately known as Coach Kathei, is a Minister, Author, Speaker and Life Coach, After grieving the painful murder of her only child, she is turning his tragic death into a movement called “Save our Sons” for Black Mothers Raising Black Sons. She is the author of the book, “To Mothers Raising Sons: How to Love Them to Life Instead of Death.” This book sheds light on the negative impacts on male children when raised by women who struggle with self-love and provides mothers with tools to foster the emotional health of their sons.Currently, she volunteers for Choose 180, an organization that is transforming systems, communities, and lives through the power of CHOICE. She also serves on the Survivors Advisory Board for Collective Justice, a Restorative Justice organization in Seattle that is building spaces for wellness and healing for people on all sides of harm.

Do you feel exhausted, depressed, find yourself avoiding certain people, and procrastinate in areas of life that are important to you? It could be deep-rooted fear of failure. Listen in as Audrey talks about unraveling hidden belief systems around goals, accomplishment, and winning in leadership.

In todays Unlikely leadership episode, Audrey gives you a powerful exercise to do to get to your purpose and talks about the power of purpose in leadership distinct from savior-mentality.