Dr. Leslie K. John
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first heard May 2026
last heard 4 May
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In fact, one of the faculty who was there later revealed to me 10 years later that he wrote a really great supportive letter for my promotion.
And the other thing, though, that I thought was really cool about it, other than the mortal humiliation, was that a couple of friends who went there a few weeks later
they were actually reasonable to them.
And so I thought maybe, maybe I helped just a little bit.
And this is related to something, I wouldn't call this exactly that, but something I call a catalyst confession.
So the catalyst confession is when someone who is in a leadership position
position comes out and says something really bold.
Like Magic Johnson in the 90s, he came out and said, I'm HIV positive.
And at the time, this was the gay disease.
This was highly stigmatizing.
And he really, really shaped the conversation in a positive way.
In fact, there have been studies that have looked at
like kind of pre-post his announcement.
And it was concluded that he probably caused about 900 additional people to get tested.
So I think the opportunity for revealing in leadership, yes, at the micro level, you can get feedback.
We can also talk about how you can, you know, gain more influence.
But I think the real magic of it, speaking of Magic Johnson, is in the ability to like use your position to like de-stigmatize and to really, that's real leadership in my book.
It is to share your feelings.
And now that you've listened to this podcast, you know I'm not being trite.
You know that there's a lot of heft in that.
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