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My guest today is Mary Justine Hockenberry (MJ),  a mother and student in life who never stopped growing even 26 years into sobriety. She is a public servant and is an elected official in her town of South Windsor CT as a town councilor.  MJ is also a great example of how much adversity a person can go through in recovery and still stay sober.

She learned to stick with the women who stepped up and carried her through a deep crisis early in her recovery. Then she took her doctor’s advice and went back to college to heal a brain injury. This path led to many volunteer opportunities and then a step up into leadership in government. MJ has great wisdom to share and is a powerful example of all you can do when you stay sober and keep growing.

If you’d like to contact MJ you can reach her by email at: [email protected].

If you’re interested in learning more about the Recovery@Work program, we have a new cohort beginning on February 27th if you want in. To learn more click here.

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I recently had my 36 year sober anniversary. The podcast today is a recording of a Facebook live I broadcasted on that day. I share a little bit about my journey in recovery and what I am doing now in my business. I’m launching a webinar this week on How to Decide if you should stay at your job or if you should leave it. It’s a great program if I do say so myself. However, I’m in the middle of trying to get all the technical issues ironed out with email nurture sequences, a new website with landing pages and all the software tools I need. So one of the things I had to do was purchase Zoom Webinar addon and in the process of trying to make it work, I had to put in a support ticket and guess what, it got hijacked. So in this episode I’m going to share with you what happened, how I dealt with it and a little bit about the Masterclass I’m facilitating and who it for. 

Feel free to sign up for the Webinar Should I Stay Or Should I Go?  This Masterclass is running Feb 8, 13 and 16th, 2021. Click the link for more details.

This episode is brought to you by:

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Today, I’m interviewing Janine Gutstein who is a dear friend from my home group. She has been sober since May 19, 2007 and is a recent graduate of my Recovery@Work program. Janine had been unemployed when she started the program but has since found a great job AND got herself back into nursing school so she can make a bigger impact.

Janine had a very challenging road in the beginning of sobriety because she and her husband were both struggling with addiction and juggling a high life profile with multiple homes and he had a high profile career as a TV Chef personality. But when the disease caught up with him and he lost his job, she knew the marriage was over because she needed to get sober and he was in the way of that. Then everything came crashing down around her with the loss of her children when he took them and left her while she was at the dog park! Then she almost lost her life when she relapsed. However, Janine miraculously awakened with a renewed determination to not only stay sober, but to get her children back.

This is an amazing comeback story of someone who lost everything but with a program of recovery was able to raise a family of three as a single mom and step into a new role as leader because she has a love of serving others. Janine is now working as an LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) and is back in school to get her RN (Registered Nurse) degree so she can make a bigger impact. 

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If you are interested in being a guest on Emerge. Evolve. Lead. please fill out our guest application and we’ll contact you. 

This episode is brought to you by:

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Check out our FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth?

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

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Do you often find yourself in situations where you are overwhelmed or scared, and you hear yourself saying in your mind “I can’t do this?” Maybe you don’t think you are competent enough or you’re afraid to fail and wonder what people will think of you? These are actually beliefs that you’d be better off changing. Your thoughts are the only thing you actually have complete control (truth). You get to decide what you believe and I believe that when you do this, you can create ANYTHING you want in this world! 

In this week’s solo podcast episode, I share a story about how I became a manager overnight, with no training, during a horrible lonely time in my life which turned out to be my bottom. Not a good time for a promotion right? But I learned so much because not only was I able to get sober, it was clear that many of my beliefs had to change. Hidden Beliefs will reveal themselves as you continue to see what shows up for you in your life. If you don’t like what you see and experience, there is an underlying belief you have that needs to change if you want a different future. As your beliefs get better, your life gets better!

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Take the Quiz HERE to find out what animal best represents your leadership style and get on the mailing list so you don’t miss an episode!

If you are interested in being a guest on Emerge. Evolve. Lead. please fill out our guest application and we’ll contact you. 

This episode is brought to you by:

Emerge, Evolve, Lead: A Facebook group specifically for Leaders who are in Recovery from addiction. Please join me there!

Check out our FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth?

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

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After what happened at the US Capital last week, I am more focused than ever on helping good people step up into leadership roles in every area of life. How we deal with each other in conflict will always bring out our true colors. How do you deal with conflicts? 

One of the blessings of working with leaders who are working on themselves is that they always look at their part and try to release their defects of character. 

Self-reflection and self-growth is the first step in being a good leader AND also it’s practicing spirituality. I believe that the healing of relationships is the art of being spiritual. And it’s by listening, keeping an open mind, and having some emotional intelligence to go within, and to listen for guidance, before we go making decisions in conflict. 

In this 6th episode of the podcast we’ll hear from Jim McLoughlin who shows us the way of integrating his spirituality  into his leadership practice. Jim is celebrating 31 years of sobriety this week! He has served as a leader for many of those years as a Firefighter and then in a senior role in a CT town in an emergency management leadership position. He has some great wisdom to share.

If you’d like to reach out to Jimmy Mac, you can email him at: [email protected]. 

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Take the Quiz HERE to find out what animal best represents your leadership style and get on the mailing list so you don’t miss an episode!

If you are interested in being a guest on Emerge. Evolve. Lead. please fill out our guest application and we’ll contact you. 

This episode is brought to you by:

Emerge, Evolve, Lead: A Facebook group specifically for Leaders who are in Recovery from addiction. Please join me there!

Check out our FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth?

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

https://Maureenrg.youcanbook.me 

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Happy New Year! This is our 1st episode of 2021

In this 5th episode, I’m chatting with an old colleague and friend in recovery, Jeff Rock. You’ll be interested to hear 3 specific questions you should ask yourself before you get into leadership. And when you can align your behaviors with your values, that is the feeling of heaven on earth. 

You know you need a transformation when you get clean and sober and Jeff is an example of being able to reinvent yourself at any time in life. It’s all about how do you rewrite the story in your head so that you can view it and see it differently. This will create quantum shifts in not only your understanding of who you are but also in figuring out who you can be.

If you’d like to connect with Jeff Rock you can find him on LinkedIn; you can email him at [email protected] or feel free to text him at 413-668-8433. 

Jeff also had a podcast called The Next Step with Jeff Rock a few years back and you can listen HERE.

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Take the Quiz HERE to find out what animal best represents your leadership style!

This episode is brought to you by:

Emerge, Evolve, Lead: A Facebook group specifically forLeaders who are in Recoveryfrom addiction. Please join me there!

Check out our FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth? We are launching Recovery@Work: Create Your Best Future With Confidence and Clarity, launching on January 18th! This is an 8-week group coaching program designed to catapult you into the next best job in your career. 

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

https://Maureenrg.youcanbook.me 

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It’s New Year’s Eve 2020! This is also the day that some of us alcoholics (past and present) call amateur night because all the people who don’t know how to drink end up getting trashed and driving. Yikes! So glad I’m not there anymore! 

It’s a good time of the year to take inventory of what you’ve accomplished and make plans for the new year ahead.

In this 4th episode, I share my insights on challenges we have encountered during the pandemic; and mostly, how you can emerge as a leader and improve your skills. You already have done so much work on yourself in recovery. 

I believe that many of us have thrived because we take full responsibility for our lives and our mental health now. For some of us, it take 3-5 years (or more)  to really clear out the cobwebs. But if a person gets pulled into service work, or if it’s just innate in their personality to help and work with others, then the self-centered will slip away much quicker.

You know that the biggest challenges you’ve overcome in your life have been the biggest blessings, right?

So when you get these concepts, own your shadow, take the obstacles as they show up, and use all the tools you’ve learned in the program, you can easily step up into leadership because you have learned the most essential skills. In this show, I’ll review more than 20 leadership skills you learned in recovery. If you are interested in taking your own inventory of these skills, click this link to download a worksheet I created for you.

Until next week, stay safe, (and sober, of course), and think about all the people you can help with the awesome skills you learned in recovery.

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Thank you for listening and being a part of a supportive community to help people with solid recovery step into leadership. If you loved this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show HERE through Apple Podcasts, or HERE if you’re an Android user, and help us spread the word about this inspiring free content. 

Take the Quiz HERE to find out what animal best represents your leadership style!

This episode is brought to you by:

Emerge, Evolve, Lead: A Facebook group specifically forLeaders who are in Recoveryfrom addiction. Please join me there!

Check out our FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth?

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

https://Maureenrg.youcanbook.me 

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This is our 3rd episode, and my guest today is Karen Perham-Lippman who is a dynamic executive and mission-driven business strategist with demonstrated results in diversity, equity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility, community outreach and consumer services in public, government, nonprofit and academic organizations. Karen now lives in Colorado with her twin boys and has one son in college.

We met in the rooms over 10 years when she lived in Connecticut and I have seen her grow into an incredible leader. First as a single parent of her children, then as a sponsor and volunteer in both the sober and non-profit community; and then, by expanding on those skills she developed in recovery, she advanced step by step, into senior leadership in her corporate career.

Karen has been clean and sober since August 31, 2005. And I am delighted to welcome her today to share her insight and wisdom. 

Things you will learn in this episode:

• The first time she struggled with addiction and the consequences that came with it
• How marriage and having children made her decide to face her fears and leave what was holding her back from being her best Self
• The day she fully committed and embraced sobriety
• How long took for her to emerge into leadership
• The key to success in her recovery
• How power dynamics in bosses with narcissism provided challenges but made her a better leader
• How she has been able to overcome some of the negative aspects of her personality
• Karen’s thought and advice for a recovering person who is interested in stepping into leadership 

You can connect with Karen here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenperhamlippman/

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This episode is brought to you by:

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Check out other FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth?

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

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In this second episode, I’ll be having my husband’s trusted friend, George Herrick, as my first guest. George has been sober since June 10, 1975 (45 years now!) and is currently a life and recovery coach, speaker, artist, and author who just released his incredible new book called The Stone Warrior: Confronting life's dark challenges with stone art and meditation. (You can find it on Amazon.)

Things you will learn in this episode:

• How George’s addiction affected his personal life, from losing his job to being completely homeless
• What made him decide to become sober and move forward
• Getting back on track by landing his first job in recovery despite the stigma and discrimination in the workplace
• Why did George decided to leave the corporate world and become a coach for people who had a period of recovery and wanted to figure how to have their life back
• How his creativity helped him to succeed in the coaching field
• His journey as a cancer survivor and why he created his new book, Stone Warrior
• Thoughts on leadership, spirituality, and his best advice to people who want to step into leadership in sobriety.

You can connect with George here: https://www.georgeherrick.com/

Or here: https://www.souldeep-living.com 

Grab a copy of his book here: Stone Warrior: Confronting Life's Challenges with Stone Art and Meditation

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This episode is brought to you by:

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Check out my FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth?

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

https://Maureenrg.youcanbook.me 

Connect with me:

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Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/mrgmentor/

LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenrossgemme

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In this first episode, I’m going to introduce myself, Maureen Ross Gemme, an ex-corporate career girl turned entrepreneur. I’m a personality expert, leadership trainer, author, and coach working with people in recovery to step into leadership at life and work. 

I created this podcast because I believe that people who get sober and get into recovery learn some of the most essential skills necessary to be a good leader at work, in the community, and in their family. I'll also share a sneak peek at what listeners can expect to hear in the future episodes that I will be releasing - specifically in the areas of recovery, and leadership using your personality and spirituality as a guide to others

If you consider yourself a leader and want to improve your skills while in recovery, this podcast is perfectly made for you, so stick around and check out our future episodes.

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Check out my FREE resources here: Emerge Leadership Academy 

Are you ready to create your best future in a job that is blended to your purpose on earth?

Schedule a free consultation with me today and let's get you going again:

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