What is Leadership?

Heather Chauvin is a leadership coach who helps ambitious, overwhelmed women become leaders at work and home. Drawing from her experience as a social worker, raising three boys, and navigating a cancer journey, Heather helps her clients create and enjoy sustainability, profitability and ease in business and life. In this episode, Heather invites listeners to redefine and reclaim what they want for their life. She shines light on ways women ignore their natural rhythms and lose their identity adopting society's self-destructive addiction to faster living. Heather offers permission to take power back, walking us through practical ways to identify needs, embrace unique leadership expressions and set new rules. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Jeff Harry is bringing the play to this space and it is an enlivening and juicy approach to leading! Jeff shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff is an international speaker showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. In this episode, Jeff shares how we as a society have not only complicated but fear the act of play, ultimately leading to the theft of joy. He shares some practical and exciting ways to reclaim our precious time, our joy and invite new opportunities to expand as a leader. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Fondly called "The Helper For Helpers and Sheepdog for Sheepdogs", Dr. Yvonne Ator is deeply passionate about serving those who serve and lead. As the Founder of Thriving Physicians and Thriving Idealist, she equips helpers and leaders struggling with overwhelm, overwork or feeling stuck with tools and resources to master themselves so they can live authentically and serve to their fullest potential. Yvonne shares how to nurture yourself to better show up for others and for yourself, and the foundational skills required to lead mission aligned businesses. She also cautions the dangers and consequences of not setting boundaries and asking for what you need. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

In this episode, Chela explores what it means to have and realize your Calling, how to be in an emergent relationship with your life's work that allows it and you to evolve over time. She shares the four cornerstones of a fulfilling and sustainable Vocational Calling and how to check for greater alignment with purpose. She also cautions against some of the cultural traps around rises in spiritual materialism and the dangers of commodifying our gifts and passion, while also the necessity of ensuring that you're being paid and are in regenerative cycles to prevent burn out and build new cultures around work. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Jason Melchi is the founder and Chief Data Dude at Empact Solutions, a purpose-driven organization that is focused on transforming youth justice through an empowered and collaborative use of data. Think data doesn't apply to your role as a leader? Think data is boring? Jason implores you to think again. Leaders can exert a powerful effect on behaviour by providing and analyzing the right type of data. In this episode, they explore how to bridge the gap between the technical and human elements of leading a mission driven initiative, bringing both a strong understanding of data and a compassionate approach to serving others. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Marsha Shandur of Yes Yes Marsha is a Storytelling, Communication and Speaker Coach who has taught hundreds of individuals and groups of executives, entrepreneurs and professionals across the world. This episode explores the role of storytelling in leadership and the importance of vulnerability when it comes to connecting and engaging with your audience. They talk about the fundamental rules of effective storytelling, the key questions to ask yourself when writing a compelling story, and how your ability to be a good storyteller is irrelevant to the magnitude of your life experiences. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Shannon Thompson is the Founder/Visionary Director and Birth Mama of the social change organization, Shakti Rising, an expert in the field of addiction, recovery and leadership development and a highly sought after facilitator and consultant of interpersonal dynamics, leadership cultivation, and sustainable healing practices. This episode explores the power of feminine leadership and how to create coherence to be a fractal of healing, decolonization, and liberation as a leader and human. They explore the notion and characteristics of the modern leader and how it is impacting our society and relationships with Self, other and the Earth. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Miriam Mason Martineau is a mother, therapeutic counselor, parenting coach, writer, speaker, and researcher who helps clients discover and express their evolving potential – in themselves, their relationships, and the world. This episode explores the interface between leadership, parenting, age transition, intimacy of family values and how that presses against the backdrop of what's unfolding in society. They talk about the foundation of any good leader - at home or in life, and ask challenging questions that will reinforce your beliefs and anchors in leading with heart, confidence, and grace. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

This solo jam dives into the nature and wisdom of resistance, whether it's the voice in your head stopping you from pursuing an exciting but terrifying project or recurring behavioural patterns preventing you from taking action on things you know are good for you. Chela explores the most common resistance patterns, how to embrace change and tap into the hidden wisdom of our resistance. She explores the teachings of resistance, how it can challenge our identity and invites us to cultivate a greater sense of trust in ourselves to overcome or move beyond it. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Ellen Sprenger, CEO & Founder, Spring Strategies is a strategist and advocate for social and climate justice, working with over 200 organizations worldwide and sees leadership as being intentional about leaving a space better than you found it. This episode explores the power of collective intelligence and how to build healthy, generatives teams and culture. They talk about the personal and collective relationships with money and what's needed to transform economies and create life giving, financial resilience, as individuals and globally. Ellen is a curious optimist who truly believes in, and models, our capacity to create change when we work together, collaboratively. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast