Melissa L. Stone, Ph.D., is a human development advocate with more than 20 years of experience managing international programs at the intersection where social and behavioral determinants of health, peace, and security meet the public policy agenda promoting human rights, rule of law, and democratic process. She specializes in the wide-angle definition of health, particularly for vulnerable populations, including women; racial, ethnic, national, linguistic, and sexual minorities; children; persons with mental and/or physical disabilities; migrants and displaced people as well as persons deprived of their liberty and those at risk of being trafficked. In this episode, she shares a personal inquiry that has guided and informed her work. We explore how she uses humor and human connection in her leadership and the importance of setting healthy boundaries and self-care. 

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Becca is an environmental social justice advocate who works on the state and national level. She describes herself as « deeply honoring all beings of the natural world, including the winged swimmers, creepy crawlies, standing people, and furries ». She was raised by women who conveyed to her a deep resonance with animals and  plants. In this episode, she shares how, as an elementary school teacher she cared to awaken a connection to nature with her students, and how her love of nature has evolved into her practices of organic gardening and “walking the land” which she now shares with her community. 

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Margot Andressen is a Senior Speech Writer for the Canadian Minister of International Development.  In this episode, Margot speaks of a spontaneous experience of connecting to Source as a young reporter,  and how that experience was pivotal in pursuing her career in journalism and then as a Speech Writer.  We explore how writing speeches is, for her, a way to touch people's hearts and infuse light and magic into the world.  

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Marie Anne Amadieu is a leader in a major humanitarian organization and holds a mandate in response to the Syrian Crisis. 

 In this podcast, she shares her initial struggles to fit into her organization, how that didn’t work for her, how she eventually learned to lean into her gentle and sensitive nature instead, and how that makes her a better leader and a happier human being. 

 She shares the limits of a leadership culture that only focuses on exterior delivery at the expense of human relations and well-being.  

As a leader straddling both worlds, she speaks to the emergence of a new paradigm of feminine leadership that acts as a bridge between generations. 

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