RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines

RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines

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RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines episodes

  • TIL 7/40 Self Awareness The First Compass Point
    🎙️ New Episode Announcement
    What happens when two leaders, two communities, or even two people you love hold values that seem completely opposed? A Muslim and a Christian. A Democrat and a Republican. A parent and a child.
    In Episode 7, we step into one of the hardest realities of leadership: navigating diametrically opposed viewpoints without losing fairness, dignity, or integrity.
    You’ll hear how trauma-informed leadership changes the way we approach disagreement. Instead of collapsing into “us vs. them,” we look at how to hold space for complexity, practice curiosity without compromising conviction, and preserve nuance in a world that demands oversimplification.
    We’ll also explore real-world stories where leaders either bridged divides—or burned bridges beyond repair. And we’ll ask: what happens when leaders’ decisions in these moments ripple far beyond the room, shaping communities, movements, even nations?
    If you’re tired of the polarization tearing families, schools, workplaces, and governments apart, this is a conversation you need to hear.
    🎧 Listen now on Spotify: Trauma-Informed Leadership Series
    📅 Book a call with Krista to see how this program can transform your leadership or schedule your organization’s custom training series: https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass
    9 min
  • KidSAFE: EP1 The New Paradigm of School Safety

    Episode 1: The New Paradigm of School Safety

    🔥 Safety has evolved. The question is — have we?
    The old model of school safety was built on fear, drills, and disconnect.
    The new model begins with humanity.

    In this opening episode, Krista Fee — bestselling author, award-winning

    keynote, and accredited trainer — challenges everything we thought we knew
    about crisis preparation.


    Discover how trauma-informed design, neuroscience, and real-world

    readiness can protect both hearts and lives.
    Because safety isn’t about control — it’s about connection, calm, and
    community.

    🎧 Listen to Episode 1: The New Paradigm of School Safety —

    and step into the movement reshaping how we prepare our kids for anything.

    💪 Proceeds support Battle2be, delivering real boots-on-the-ground

    crisis response and resilience programs for military, first responders, and
    communities.

    ❤️ Become a sponsor or bring RISEUP training to your organization.

    Book a call with Krista here

    15 min
  • TIL 6/40 False North Stars, When Values Go Wrong

    🎙️ New Episode Announcement

    Not every compass points to truth. Some leaders build entire movements

    around false North Stars—visions rooted in ego, greed, domination, or
    fear. And the results can be devastating.

    In Episode 6, we tackle this difficult but necessary topic. How do

    leaders discern between a true North Star that fuels integrity and healing, and
    a false one that leads to exploitation or harm? We’ll examine historical
    cautionary tales, modern examples, and the subtle ways leaders can lose sight
    of their values without even realizing it.

    Trauma-informed leadership gives us unique insight here. Leaders carrying

    unexamined wounds may chase power instead of purpose, recognition instead of
    responsibility. This episode helps us name those distortions—and more
    importantly, offers tools to return to integrity when we realize our compass
    has drifted.

    If you’re serious about leading with impact, this is one you cannot

    afford to miss. It may challenge you, it may unsettle you, but it will equip
    you to recognize the difference between leadership that heals and leadership
    that harms.

    🎧 Listen now on Spotify: Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Series

    📅 Book a call with Krista to see how this program can transform your

    leadership or schedule your organization’s custom training series: https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass

    11 min
  • TIL 5/40 The Compass-Defining Your North Star

    🎙️ New Episode Announcement

    Without a compass, even the strongest leader drifts. Without a North

    Star, even the most passionate movement loses its way.

    In Episode 5, we explore the essential practice of defining your North

    Star—the core values and guiding principles that shape every decision,
    every strategy, and every sacrifice. I’ll walk you through why this matters not
    just in theory, but in practice: leaders without a clear compass often become
    reactive, swayed by pressure, money, or public opinion. Those with a compass?
    They stay the course, even when storms rage.

    We’ll also explore the trauma-informed angle here: how unresolved wounds

    can distort our compass, how clarity of values provides both healing and
    direction, and how leaders can ensure their compass points toward integrity
    rather than ego.

    This is a must-listen for anyone who feels pulled in a hundred

    directions, unsure of which battles are worth fighting. By the end, you’ll not
    only understand the power of a North Star—you’ll know how to define yours.

    🎧 Listen now on Spotify: Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Series

    📅 Book a call with Krista to see how this program can transform your

    leadership or schedule your organization’s custom training series: https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass

    9 min
  • TIL 4/40 Movement Based Leadership

    🎙️ New Episode Announcement

    What makes a movement last? It isn’t charisma alone. It isn’t money. It

    isn’t even strategy. It’s the kind of leadership that ignites conviction and
    multiplies courage.

    In Episode 4, we dive into what I call movement-based leadership—leadership

    that goes beyond transactions and titles to ignite something deeper. We’ll look
    at the difference between traditional leadership models—transactional,
    transformational, authoritarian—and leadership that fuels movements grounded in
    moral clarity, shared vision, and lived example.

    You’ll hear stories of historical and modern leaders who didn’t just lead

    organizations, they sparked revolutions—whether social, cultural, or spiritual.
    We’ll also unpack why trauma-informed leadership is uniquely suited to this
    kind of work: because when you’ve known brokenness, you understand the kind of
    healing and fire that can carry people forward.

    If you’ve ever wondered how to inspire people not just to follow you, but

    to fight for the cause alongside you, this episode is your roadmap.

    🎧 Listen now on Spotify: Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Series

    📅 Book a call with Krista to see how this program can transform your

    leadership or schedule your organization’s custom training series: https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass

    12 min
  • TIL 3/40 Trauma And The Human Condition

    🎙️ New Episode Announcement

    Trauma isn’t just what happens in war zones or crisis situations—it’s in

    classrooms, workplaces, homes, and even organizations. It shapes how people
    think, how they respond under stress, and how they relate to leaders.

    In Episode 3, we dive deep into the human condition and the way trauma

    impacts individuals and communities. I’ll walk you through what neuroscience
    tells us about the nervous system, why trauma narrows perspective and isolates
    people, and how leaders can either compound the damage—or become powerful
    agents of healing.

    This is the foundation of trauma-informed leadership: the recognition

    that every decision, every interaction, every word you speak can either trigger
    old wounds or create space for resilience. For leaders who want to make a
    lasting difference, this is not optional knowledge—it’s mission-critical.

    If you’re a school administrator, nonprofit director, CEO, or simply

    someone who leads in your family, this episode will give you tools to
    understand the weight of trauma and the hope of healing in the way you lead.

    🎧 Listen now on Spotify: Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Series

    📅 Book a call with Krista to see how this program can transform your

    leadership or schedule your organization’s custom training series: https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass

    13 min
  • TIL 2/40 Leadership More Than a Word We Toss Around

    🎙️ New Episode Announcement

    “Leader.” We throw the word around every day—in offices, in politics, in

    nonprofits, even in families. But what does it actually mean?

    In Episode 2, we strip leadership back to its core. Titles don’t make you

    a leader. Positions don’t make you a leader. Leadership is about
    responsibility—carrying weight for others, setting direction when no one else
    will, and making choices that ripple through people’s lives.

    I’ll unpack the difference between positional leadership and true,

    trauma-informed leadership—leadership that doesn’t dominate but serves, that
    doesn’t wound but heals. We’ll look at why the culture of leadership has become
    so diluted, and how we can reclaim a model that restores trust, integrity, and
    hope in the places we serve.

    If you’ve ever sat in a meeting and thought, “How did this person get

    called a leader?”—this episode will give you clarity on what real leadership is
    and how to embody it yourself.

    🎧 Listen now on Spotify: Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Series

    📅 Book a call with Krista to see how this program can transform your

    leadership or schedule your organization’s custom training series: https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass

    11 min
  • TIL 1/40 Leadership as Responsibility Not Position

    🎙️ New Episode Announcement

    Picking up the bloody microphone

    Leadership today is not casual. It is not a title, or a stage, or a

    social media badge—it is a weight. In this very first episode of the Trauma-Informed
    Leadership Series, I share what it really means to pick up the bloody
    microphone: to speak when it costs you something, to stand when others sit, and
    to understand that leadership isn’t about privilege, it’s about responsibility.

    We’ll explore why silence is no longer an option in the world we live in,

    and why leadership—true leadership—demands trauma-informed awareness. I’ll take
    you through the foundations of this entire series: why neuroscience,
    psychology, and lived human experience must shape how we lead if we want to
    create movements that last.

    This episode sets the stage for everything that follows. If you’ve ever

    felt the burden of leadership pressing down on you, if you’ve ever wondered
    whether you can carry it without losing yourself, this one’s for you.

    🎧 Listen now on Spotify: Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Series

    📅 Book a call with Krista to see how this program can transform your

    leadership or schedule your organization’s custom training series: https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass

    11 min
  • TIL 0/40 What is Trauma Informed Leadership

    🚨BONUS EPISODE RELEASE! 🚨

    Before we dive into the full Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Series, I want to invite you into the heart of what
    this is all about:

    👉What is trauma-informed leadership?

    👉Why does it matter to everyone—from government officials
    and organizational leaders to CEOs, school administrators, parents, partners,
    and even the way we lead ourselves?
    👉And how can this framework transform not just how we lead, but how we live?

    In this Pre-Series Episode, I lay

    out the foundation:
    ✨Why leadership today cannot afford to ignore trauma.
    ✨How neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience prove that unresolved wounds
    shape systems, and leaders have the power to either replicate harm or model
    healing.
    ✨Modern examples of what happens when leaders embody steadiness, compassion, and
    accountability—and the devastation when they don’t.
    ✨Why every one of us is a leader somewhere (at home, at
    work, in our communities), and how trauma-informed principles can change the
    outcomes for those who depend on us most.

    🎧Listen now and join me for this special episode:

    👉Spotify Podcast Link

    And here’s what makes this even more powerful: the Trauma-Informed

    Leadership Training & Course is now available, complete
    with IACET CEUs for professionals. You’ll not only
    learn the framework—you’ll leave with practical tools to implement
    trauma-informed leadership into every facet of your life and work.

    📅

    Book a call with me to see how this program can transform your
    leadership, or schedule your organization’s custom training series here:
    👉https://calendly.com/riseupphoenix/compass

    This is more than a podcast. It’s the beginning of a movement.

    🔥RISEUP out of the ashes of old systems and lead with fire, integrity, and
    resilience.

    14 min
  • In the. Wake of Charlie Kirk's Assassination: Unbroken Voices

    Title: 🎙️ Unbroken Voices: In the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

    This week’s episode is different. It’s heavier. It’s raw. And it’s necessary.

    On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking on stage at Utah Valley University. No matter where you stand politically, the fact remains: a man was killed for using his voice. For standing in conviction. For refusing to bow to the cultural demand for silence.

    As someone who also takes the stage—speaking out against human trafficking, the abuse of children, the exploitation of women, his death hit me hard. Because it’s not just about politics. It’s about courage, conviction, and the cost of refusing to stay silent in the face of hatred and fear.

    In this episode, I wrestle with the hard questions:

    • Was his “sin” his politics? His skill in debate? Or was it, more likely, his unshakable faith?

    • What does his assassination mean for those of us still willing to speak truth into dark places?

    • How do we respond—not with silence, not with fear—but with integrity, courage, and love?

      This is not just about Charlie Kirk. It’s about all of us. It’s about choosing to leave a legacy of truth, defiance, and fierce love—even if it costs us everything.

      🔗 Listen now:

      https://open.spotify.com/show/6IpBgf3j2RC4pKVMKxMkx6?si=3a827a5dc06c4790
      #VoicesThatMatter #UnbrokenVoices #RISEUPPhoenix #CharlieKirk #FaithAndFreedom #HumanTraffickingAwareness #TraumaHealing

      7 min

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