(un)leaderly—atypical leadership

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson considers what it means to be a girl's girl (woman's woman) and tracks her own relationships with women to figure out when she became one.

The phrase hasn't always been around, but women supporting each other has. What does it look like to choose the women around you over the men whose approval you might be tempted to pursue?

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson talks about servant leadership and its limits in our real world of emails and calls and meetings.

Servant leadership is often talked about as an aspirational leadership style, with stories of leaders in desperate situations of survival linked to it. That's great for those situations, but what about in day-to-day life? And why does talking about self-proclaimed servant leaders who don't prioritize their people feel like describing bad boyfriends?

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson considers some of her childhood memories. It's not specifically about leadership but we can all relate to her stories.

Can we all agree that our parents messed us up in some way, whether they intended to or not? Probably we can. One of the privileges of adulthood is being able to think back on moments that have stayed with us and interrogate them to discover what we might have missed when they were happening as we were children. 

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson gets personal about preparing now for the future. It's not specifically about leadership but we can all relate to her stories.

We all hope that we will have a future self. We can't know, of course, what our future will look like. But what if we had our future selves in mind when making some present decisions? Like taking care of our bodies, or thinking about downsizing. 

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson shares stories of encounters with two unleaderly leaders. 

The first is a CEO she worked with in a past job. He used an unusual rhetorical quirk to keep underlings feeling small and corrected. The second leader was one she didn't actually even encounter, but experienced their lack of leadership through the behaviors of the staff at a restaurant. Putting ourselves in the role of the observer can allow us to learn valuable lessons from people even when they're not specifically trying to teach us.

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson examines what she calls win-win-win conversations and how they differ from those that leave one person feeling small or like they've lost. 

When leaders or people in positions of power enter difficult conversations (which happen all the time!) wanting to win or make the other person feel small, they create breaks in relationship and remove psychological safety. What does a more leaderly approach look like and how do we get there?

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson gets personal with details of a trip to a Berlin museum and the frustration of not being in a space where you are able to do the work that brings you joy. 

Are we really not valuing people (specifically women) after a certain age? In the workplace specifically. Because it seems that the opportunities for women over 45 shrink if for some reason a woman leaves a position (out of choice or not) around that age. If you're feeling this, we hope you find some encouragement or at least you sense visibility in this episode.

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson discusses company and team cultures that make work life a nightmare: disruption and hacker mentalities. 

Sometimes team or company cultures develop in ways that are difficult to pinpoint. Disruption and hacker cultures can be like that. They can also gain momentum after bad behavior is accepted and not addressed. In these moments, good leadership steps in to check the behaviors. Poor leadership allows or even encourages the bad behaviors, creating toxic culture.

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. In this episode, host Barbara Iverson walks you through essentially a workshop on resiliency. Barbara has experienced loss and disappointment in her life and has pinpointed tools you can develop before you need them, which will help you be more resilient when life starts kicking you in the teeth, because it tends to do that from time to time.

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

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Welcome to (un)leaderly, the podcast that looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. We're taking a short summer break, and we have new episodes ready to go the first week of September. So be sure to like, follow, subscribe, leave a review, all the things! And check back in with us in September. If you want to catch up on old episodes, now is a great time to do that.

Barbara tells stories from her life and looks at the world through an atypical leadership perspective. Every week she offers a challenge or task for listeners, to prompt reflection or growth. This podcast is the perfect listen for someone who feels like they don't quite fit to the typical leadership profile. 

Find us on Instagram @unleaderlypodcast