Dr. Chad explores the concept of happiness, distinguishing between fleeting, superficial happiness and deep, lasting joy. He references ideas like Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Aristotle's hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. He highlights Robert Biswas-Diener's perspective that these two types of happiness are interconnected. Turns out, self-validation is crucial in measuring one's happiness. ﻿Unlock your mental and emotional wellbeing with <a href="https://myemmaai.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emma</a>. Emma is your emotional and mental wellbeing available to everyone. You'll wonder where she's been all your life. Want to give us some love but don't know how? Leave us a review and subscribe on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-humanist/id1485907203" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple iTunes</a> or Subscribe on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1yx9VzUCRcYezd7cUlSRn4?si=a21c70eccd3940e3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a>!

Dr. Chad explores the concept of happiness, distinguishing between fleeting, superficial happiness and deep, lasting joy. He references ideas like Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Aristotle's hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. He highlights Robert Biswas-Diener's perspective that these two types of happiness are interconnected. Turns out, self-validation is crucial in measuring one's happiness. ﻿Unlock your mental and emotional wellbeing with Emma. Emma is your emotional and mental wellbeing available to everyone. You'll wonder where she's been all your life. Want to give us some love but don't know how? Leave us a review and subscribe on Apple iTunes or Subscribe on Spotify!

Dr. Chad explores the concept of happiness, distinguishing between fleeting, superficial happiness and deep, lasting joy. He references ideas like Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Aristotle's hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. He highlights Robert Biswas-Diener's perspective that these two types of happiness are interconnected. Turns out, self-validation is crucial in measuring one's happiness. ﻿Unlock your mental and emotional wellbeing with <a href="https://myemmaai.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Emma</a>. Emma is your emotional and mental wellbeing available to everyone. You'll wonder where she's been all your life. Want to give us some love but don't know how? Leave us a review and subscribe on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-humanist/id1485907203" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple iTunes</a> or Subscribe on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1yx9VzUCRcYezd7cUlSRn4?si=a21c70eccd3940e3" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a>!

Is There a Higher Level Happiness?

You've achieved the success. You've checked the boxes. But something still feels off.
Welcome to Leading Human—a podcast for high-achieving leaders, founders, and mission-driven professionals who are questioning whether the life they built is actually the life they want. This isn't about productivity hacks or surface-level self-care. This is about the real work: reclaiming your authentic self beneath the conditioning, the burnout, and the unconscious patterns running your life.
Hosted by Chad Prevost (and sometimes Shelley), co-founders of Big Self School, Leading Human explores conscious leadership through the lens of depth psychology, the Enneagram, and the emerging role of AI in human development. We believe burnout isn't something that happens *to* you—it's something that happens *for* you. It's a soul crisis revealing where you've been abandoning yourself.
Each episode tackles the friction between who you are and who you've become. We explore how personality operates beneath the surface, how ego hijacks your calling, and how to lead from your Big Self—the deeper, truer essence beneath the masks and cultural programming. We talk workplace communication, difficult conversations, sustainable leadership cultures, and how tools like Emma AI can quantify emotional intelligence to support the inner work between coaching sessions.
This show is for leaders who don't just want to recover from burnout—they want a radical reorientation of their lives so they never get lost again. For those ready to stop trading life force for external validation and start leading from alignment, presence, and sustainable purpose.
Because the greatest leaders don't just manage their teams. They manage their reactivity, wrangle their ego, and bring their biggest, most authentic gifts into the world with grounded wisdom and deep humility.
Go big. And go home.

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You've achieved the success. You've checked the boxes. But something still feels off. Welcome to Leading Human—a podcast for high-achieving leaders, founders, and mission-driven professionals who are questioning whether the life they built is actually the life they want. This isn't about productivity hacks or surface-level self-care. This is about the real work: reclaiming your authentic self beneath the conditioning, the burnout, and the unconscious patterns running your life. Hosted by Chad Prevost (and sometimes Shelley), co-founders of Big Self School, Leading Human explores conscious leadership through the lens of depth psychology, the Enneagram, and the emerging role of AI in human development. We believe burnout isn't something that happens *to* you—it's something that happens *for* you. It's a soul crisis revealing where you've been abandoning yourself. Each episode tackles the friction between who you are and who you've become. We explore how personality operates beneath the surface, how ego hijacks your calling, and how to lead from your Big Self—the deeper, truer essence beneath the masks and cultural programming. We talk workplace communication, difficult conversations, sustainable leadership cultures, and how tools like Emma AI can quantify emotional intelligence to support the inner work between coaching sessions. This show is for leaders who don't just want to recover from burnout—they want a radical reorientation of their lives so they never get lost again. For those ready to stop trading life force for external validation and start leading from alignment, presence, and sustainable purpose. Because the greatest leaders don't just manage their teams. They manage their reactivity, wrangle their ego, and bring their biggest, most authentic gifts into the world with grounded wisdom and deep humility. Go big. And go home.

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