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Writing Your Own Job Description with Dr. Emily Langdon
What do you do when you move to a brand new city for someone else's dream job and there's no roadmap for you? Emily Langdon just wrote her own.
We had one of our favorite kinds of guests in the studio this week, someone from our own community who we've watched become part of the fabric of Duluth. Dr. Emily Langdon is married to Charles Langdon, the Chancellor of the University of Minnesota Duluth, and when they moved here for his role, there was no job description waiting for her. So she wrote her own.
Monique met Emily years ago at a holiday party and has been singing her praises ever since, and once we heard Emily speak at Leap about the leadership work she's building at UMD, we knew we had to get her on the mic. This episode is part origin story, part leadership masterclass, and part honest conversation about what it looks like to build a role, and a life, from scratch.
KEY THEMES + TAKEAWAYS
The winding road that took Emily from California to Ohio to Merced to Duluth, and what it taught her about partnership
What it's really like to be a spousal accommodation and how she turned that into her own lane instead of someone else's shadow
Why leadership can and should be taught, not just modeled or hoped for
The metaphor that changed how we think about learning: reading the book versus cutting open the frog
Why women especially need permission to fail forward instead of beating themselves up
How co-curricular life on college campuses (clubs, sports, sororities) quietly builds the leaders of tomorrow
The reminder that self-led people don't buy into the noise, they know what real leadership looks like
OUR FAVORITE QUOTES
"I whisper to my baby, I'm gonna get you out of here."
"If you want someone to make all the decisions, then you just get to sit back and judge and throw rocks."
"When you self lead, then you're not buying into the propaganda or the machine."
"You have to cut up a lot of problems to know what's going on in this animal."
"Stop beating yourself up and move forward with more information, with this knowledge you've gained."
CHAPTER MARKERS
02:13 Welcoming Emily to the show
05:15 How a Minnesotan husband led her to Duluth
09:23 Building a university from a golf course in Merced
14:32 Writing her own job description as a chancellor's partner
20:02 Why leadership became her whole thing
26:24 The women who quietly get everything done
38:23 Her go to leadership resource
YOUR TURN
Where in your life have you had to write your own job description because no one else could?
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All Heart & Soul's Details:
Website: https://www.heartandsoulmastermind.com/
Join the mastermind program: https://www.heartandsoulmastermind.com/heartsoul
Say hi to Mariah on Instagram: @mariahmckechnie
Say hi to Monique on Instagram: @moniqueforcier
Leave a review on the Apple Podcast app and the Spotify app: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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By Mariah McKechnie and Monique ForcierWhat do you do when you move to a brand new city for someone else's dream job and there's no roadmap for you? Emily Langdon just wrote her own.
We had one of our favorite kinds of guests in the studio this week, someone from our own community who we've watched become part of the fabric of Duluth. Dr. Emily Langdon is married to Charles Langdon, the Chancellor of the University of Minnesota Duluth, and when they moved here for his role, there was no job description waiting for her. So she wrote her own.
Monique met Emily years ago at a holiday party and has been singing her praises ever since, and once we heard Emily speak at Leap about the leadership work she's building at UMD, we knew we had to get her on the mic. This episode is part origin story, part leadership masterclass, and part honest conversation about what it looks like to build a role, and a life, from scratch.
KEY THEMES + TAKEAWAYS
The winding road that took Emily from California to Ohio to Merced to Duluth, and what it taught her about partnership
What it's really like to be a spousal accommodation and how she turned that into her own lane instead of someone else's shadow
Why leadership can and should be taught, not just modeled or hoped for
The metaphor that changed how we think about learning: reading the book versus cutting open the frog
Why women especially need permission to fail forward instead of beating themselves up
How co-curricular life on college campuses (clubs, sports, sororities) quietly builds the leaders of tomorrow
The reminder that self-led people don't buy into the noise, they know what real leadership looks like
OUR FAVORITE QUOTES
"I whisper to my baby, I'm gonna get you out of here."
"If you want someone to make all the decisions, then you just get to sit back and judge and throw rocks."
"When you self lead, then you're not buying into the propaganda or the machine."
"You have to cut up a lot of problems to know what's going on in this animal."
"Stop beating yourself up and move forward with more information, with this knowledge you've gained."
CHAPTER MARKERS
02:13 Welcoming Emily to the show
05:15 How a Minnesotan husband led her to Duluth
09:23 Building a university from a golf course in Merced
14:32 Writing her own job description as a chancellor's partner
20:02 Why leadership became her whole thing
26:24 The women who quietly get everything done
38:23 Her go to leadership resource
YOUR TURN
Where in your life have you had to write your own job description because no one else could?
-----
All Heart & Soul's Details:
Website: https://www.heartandsoulmastermind.com/
Join the mastermind program: https://www.heartandsoulmastermind.com/heartsoul
Say hi to Mariah on Instagram: @mariahmckechnie
Say hi to Monique on Instagram: @moniqueforcier
Leave a review on the Apple Podcast app and the Spotify app: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
MB011ESEG6C0U0Z