What is Leadership?

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key Guiding Principles in her work and business. Post-Capitalist Business is the exploration of that as a possibility. She invites us into this conversation of imagination and experimentation, unpacking what is seen - how our planet is ravaged by capitalism and those values are deeply ingrained within us - and what she cannot yet fully see - what would a post-capitalist World look like? If the whole system is not to crumble entirely in our own lifetimes, what is possible now, and what small steps might we boldly take towards answering the brave question of 'What World do I want to belong to?' For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Interdependent Emergence is the exploration of how through braiding together our individual and collective gifts, we can co-create a world we can belong to and thrive in. Chela discusses how this lens can help us co-create with both seen and unseen forces, enabling us to bring about opportunities and possibilities that our own imaginings simply could not conjure alone. She provides the comforting thought that we are not meant to do it all, and that by leaning into interdependent emergence, we can also sink deeper into our own unique genius. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, bestselling author and mother. She's the founder of the Origin Company, a multimedia company reaching hundreds of thousands globally and the author of Do Less. She's on a mission to collectively reimagine work and have more by doing less. In this episode she shares the principles and practices that underpin her work, how working with seasons, cycles and our bodies' rhythms are revolutionary in a culture and system of extraction. She shares her own personal challenges, stories and wisdom that contribute to the mission she's stewarding and how shifting from a me to we orientation of leadership is changing everything. She's funny, brilliant and bringing it. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast/

TJ Dawe is a Vancouver based writer, director and performer of new theatre. He's toured to more than one hundred theatre festivals on four continents. He leads a course on creating a one person show and has built a 20 year + successful career in the arts in a niche that's fully and uniquely 'him'. In this episode, TJ shares wisdom, science and experience around the key ingredients to leading a creative life, bringing forth art in many forms. He addresses the importance of personal developmental work to combat the ego's sneaky ways of sabotaging one's art, creativity and leadership. Think you're not an artist? TJ challenges you to think again. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Sigrid Tasies is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author of the book "Intimacy Within", and host of the top rated Podcast "Sacred Leaders". In this episode, Sigrid dives into what it means to lead from the inside out and the necessity for leaders to be doing deep inner work in order to truly lead others (versus leading from and for individualistic ends). They talk about what it means to embody knowledge versus operating from surface or cognitive understanding, models for leadership that attends to right relations with self, others and nature, the power of plant medicine and the prison of identity that can grow alongside success. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Join contemporary alchemist, Simon Goland, as he poses the questions Why are you here? And... What has your life been preparing you for? These questions are what gets answered through his work as an educator, facilitator, leader and coach. Listen in as they play with and discuss Presence, and how returning to presence becomes the basis for knowing what is needed, moment by moment, including the practice of emergent dialogue. They jam on the enneagram, their histories with personal transformational journeys, the spiraling nature of inner work, its role in the pursuit of right livelihood and what it means to embody one's education, going beyond frameworks and theories of leadership. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

This episode is part of the Guided series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Seasons as a Map and Compass is the exploration of the seasonality of life, work and development. Life and death cycles and how they can show us where we are, what's needed and what's coming. Chela discusses bringing this lens to the creative process, business building and executing on projects. She explores the interdependent nature of nature and how looking to seasonality when it comes to project planning and moving through phases or work can bring heaps of wisdom, acceptance and relief. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Self-As-Instrument, Work-As-Service is our second episode in the series: Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode dives into the question: What does it mean to be an active participant in our collective evolution? Chela explores how her own personal development and approach to work and business are a means of answering and living this question. She shares what it means to develop ourselves as the instrument of service and change and why that's fundamental to conscious leadership. She explores various ways of relating to work and why being of service must begin with yourself to be sustainable. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

This episode is the first in a series called Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode introduces the principles, philosophies and values that are key to her leadership and contribution as she helps leaders grow their capacities, carve their own paths and contribute to societal change. Listen in as she speaks about what it means to listen for and meet your calling, develop your Self-As-Instrument, navigate personal and professional growth through both an Emergent Leadership and Seasonal lens, all while imagining post-capitalist business models for our collective evolution. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast