Breathe in: BE. Breathe out: LOVED. You are beloved. Danielle goes deep fast into how to grow deep roots in our tree of life. What daily, weekly, and monthly postures and practices root us in love? Danielle shows us her personal transformational pathway. We like celebrating the fruit of our lives, but what if the fruit is rotten or bitter? Instead of “shoulding” all over ourselves, go back to the roots. They reveal our deeply held beliefs, which lead to the trunk or values of our life. The branches represent our actions and show up in the fruit of our lives. Danielle believes we must pay attention to our body, soul, and spirit in order to cultivate wholeness, but our body shows us what’s really going on. It will open us up to more.

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Transition and loss are inevitable if you’re a living, breathing human. When you’re a leader, those losses can be public and even more devastating. Ashlee Eiland knows this too well. She was in a public role at Willow Creek Community Church 18 months ago when the scandal broke. Over the last year and a half, she’s needed to navigate her internal journey alongside leading others through a massive betrayal and loss. With brave vulnerability, Ashlee lets us in on how she’s processed confusion, fear, loss, and feeling overwhelmed. She offers her own story as a guide for how to leave when you know your time is up, what to do if fear isn't a part of the equation, keys to not spinning out of control, the role of clarity in transitions, and what loss reveals. Ashlee also offers the #1 lesson she’s learned in transition. This episode is packed with wisdom. If transition or loss is a part of your own journey, this episode will breathe life and hope into your journey toward wholeness.

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If you find yourself overwhelmed by juggling the different demands, challenges, opportunities, + interests in your life, this episode will give you hope. As a wife, mother of four young kids, pastor, national speaker, writer, and justice advocate, Susie offers her own messy story as a way to pursue wholeness. Instead of looking at the multiple callings of our life like they’re competing for our attention, shift your mindset to view them as you would circuit training. We talk about “having it all” and offering a better word than “balance” to navigate life’s tensions. Susie is wicked smart, humble, and wise as she opens up about all things in partnership, rhythms, and paying attention to warning flags. You’ll manage your own life tension with more grace after listening to this spiritual leader.

If you’re an aspiring female speaker, check out the Women’s Speaker Collective Bootcamp.

Follow Susie Here: @susiekgamez + www.susiegamez.com(Coming Soon!)

The Enneagram is the most transformative tool we’ve both ever used in life + leadership (and we’ve used a lot of them)! In this episode we identify why it’s more than a personality or self-awareness assessment, and describe one opportunity and one warning for each type. If you’re new to the Enneagram, your curiosity will be peaked as we reveal how the opportunities and warnings play out in real life. If you’re a leader, you must listen to this for your own self-leadership, but also so you can lead those around you from a healthier place.

Here’s our best Enneagram recommendations: 

• The Road Back to You

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We're back! It’s the beginning of Season 3! As we kick off this season I'm taking you behind the mic with my brother from another mother, producer Michael Yoder, Founder of Truth-Work Media. We talk a bit about the impetus for starting The Global Fringe (HINT: it involved me getting fired) and a sneak peek about what’s coming this season.

Every episode this season will focus on guiding you toward wholeness in life + leadership in partnership between men + women. I grill Michael about what both wholeness + partnership looks like in his own life + leadership, especially as a privileged white man. I also spill the beans about the phenomenal guests coming this season. Welcome back, friends!

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• www.truthworkmedia.com

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We’re wrapping up Season 2 with this special episode! Season 2 has been focused around the big idea: DREAM BIG; DO THE WORK. At the end of the episode April also personally answers the three questions she's asked every guest this season.

Chances are, if you've been paying attention and have leaned into this season, it's provoked a realization that you are not where you want to be. That self-awareness is a great first step. But self-awareness can create the illusion of transformation. Knowing something to be true about yourself doesn't actually change that truth. 

In this season’s final episode, I share three transformational resource ideas to help you move from where you are to where you want to be. Find out more about them and register below:

• Reclaiming Your Story Online Course

Finally, if you've benefitted from "The Global Fringe" this season and you'd like to support the ongoing effort to produce this podcast, we'd so appreciate you become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theglobalfringe.

We’ll see you next season!

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When you’re a high performing leader contributing important work, doing what matters internally and in your work matters a great day. Leaders, activists, and helpers are known for getting things done, but doing the internal work so you can sustain the external work is vital to lead with wholeness. Jeremy Del Rio is a failed youth pastor, former lawyer, and current Founding Executive Director of the Thrive Collective in New York City. In 1998 as a 21-year old, he took on Mayor Rudy Guiliani as he battled for the educational rights of kids in his community. For the last 20+ years, Jeremy has been listening to the needs of his community, creating a plan, and doing the hard work to design a new future for the under-resourced in NYC. This episode will enlarge your heart and give you hope for sustainable leadership, even in hard places. BONUS: If you need a simple but effective evaluative tool to measure how you’re doing, ask: “What’s right? What’s wrong? What’s confusing? What’s missing?”

Support the Thrive Collective Here: http://www.thrivecollective.org

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• Facebook: Jeremy Del Rio

As one of the most successful social entrepreneurs on the planet, Tara knows the best work leaders can do is their inner work. Five years ago, she began an unwelcomed, “unraveling” journey that led to uncovering deep pain, and yet, the unraveling kept inviting her into freedom. During this pattern interruption, she noticed things that weren’t working for her and began integrating her life – especially her body – in new ways. In this episode, Tara gets vulnerable about how she’s reclaiming her story as a step toward wholeness and models how clarity, courage, and conviction leads us toward our best life. As she’s done the faithful, inner work, she shows how abundance is surrounding us if we will simply shift our mindset.

Follow Here: @taravrussell

What got you here won’t get you there. Disruptions and shifts are common for leaders and people committed to their own growth. But, if you’re going to get to where you want to go, you need H.A.B.I.T.S. You need new practices and rhythms to make room for growth in your life. Willpower, goals, and good intentions aren’t good enough. Yet there’s solace as we grow because as Dr. Goodloe says, “We are all hypocrites in transition. Beneath the beauty, there’s brokenness.” Paying attention to the broken can guide you to toward better ways to do your work. In this episode, we also talk about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a fringe leader who did a couple of crucial practices to keep his soul and leadership well. If you’re going to design a life you love, you need to do the work that will get you where you want to go.

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Self-reliance. Narcissism. Striving. Overwhelmed. Powering up. Pushing through. These are all words sometimes used to describe leaders. Leaders on the fringe desperately need to design soul care rhythms, postures, and practices in order to lead from a different place. It is possible to learn the unforced rhythms of grace and find rest for your soul. As a spiritual formation and soul care expert, Mindy Caliguire has experienced both ways of life and has some serious practical wisdom if you want to design a life of wholeness and thriving. In this episode she talks about the difference between self-care and soul care, and what practices leaders need to be well. She identifies the #1 problem for leaders and confronts the narcissism we see in spiritual leaders today. We talk about the “Popeye arm” and what’s necessary to develop soul-saving muscles for the long game.

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