The Unburdened Leader
Episodes
Ep 50: Embracing the Hot Mess: A Special Anniversary Episode with Alison Cook, PhD
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You carry life's burdens with you every day. Some days, they might feel heavy enough to break you.But they also have the power to inspire you.Your bur...
EP 49: Standing In Your Power: A Leadership Roundtable with Joon Park + Cha Barefield
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We can get so caught up in how we are seen that we miss opportunities to course correct and expand our views on the world around us. And admitting yo...
EP 48: Showing Up & Speaking Up in the Face of Racial Injustice with Y-Vonne Hutchinson, JD, CEO + Founder of Ready Set
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you choose to step into conversations about racism you risk giving up your comfort and the illusion of control on how you are seen.In essence, wh...
EP 47: Leading Through Embracing Your Multiplicities with Rev. Sarah Heath, Podcaster, Designer, Coach
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you do not know who you are, the world will tell you who you are. And If you lead from a place of who you think you should be instead of who you t...
EP 46: Leading from Enoughness with Martinus Evans
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all carry the burden of feeling not enough.All of us.Once we lose connection to our worthiness and sense of enough, the striving for approval and b...
EP 45: The Intersection of Evangelicalism, Business, and Consumerism with Tim Gloege, Ph.D
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, so many of us are connected through the shared emotional reactions to tragic events we have witnessed and continue to experience.Like all t...
EP 44: Collective Trauma: Remembering The January 6th Insurrection with Julie Tagen - Chief of Staff to Rep. Jamie Raskin
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Collective traumas and the weight of collective grief is real and rampant.There have been so many moments in just the last two years that we have all ...
EP 43: 2021 Review and Reflections
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rushing into the future can mean missing important data.Data, in this case, doesnât mean points on a graph but really looking in the face of your ex...
EP 42: Leading By Owning Your Activism with Karen Walrond
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you are a leader who embodies activism, you are moved by personal convictions that see beyond yourself and the bottom line. You boldly desire to ma...
EP 41: Leading Yourself First with Moorea Seal
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What motivates your dreams is just as important as the dream itself.Maybe even more important.These dreams for your future inform your daily decisions...
EP 40: Leading Authentically After Hard Falls with Ref Rodriguez, EdD
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What drives you can make you or break you.We often look to our values, commitments, and operations as a map to how we do life and work.But there are t...
EP 39: Leading with Generosity and Love with Terces Engelhart
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leading with questions instead of leading with answers is a powerful practice.Sure, in times of crisis, steady, knowing leadership is calming and ofte...
EP 38: The Unburdened Leader Roundtable Sessions: ADHD And Leadership with Tara Newman and Lindsay Padilla, PhD
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to lead yourself well, you have to know yourself well.The tricky thing is, it can be surprisingly hard to really know yourself.We live in ...
EP 37: Leading a Life of Radical Honesty with Tara Newman
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When you are not honest with yourself, you end up living a disconnected life.You may feel connected to your life when you get the dopamine hits of lik...
EP 36: Leading with Dignity: Hard On Ideas, Easy On People with Rosalind Wiseman
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are seeing conflict move so quickly to chaos these days.Anger, entitlement and self-preservation can kick into overdrive when you feel devalued. We...
EP 35: Navigating Career Pivots and Identity Crisis with Lindsay Padilla, PhD
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all grew up being told who was the creative one, who was the smart one, and who was the sporty one. There was no space for anyone to hold a multipl...
EP 34: The Unburdened Leader Roundtable Sessions: Kim Paulus, LMFT and Natalie Gutierrez, LMFT
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership and discomfort are inextricably connected. So much personal and professional development teaches us to figure out the problem and quickly ...
EP 33: Befriending Your Anger with Graphic Artist Sacha Mardou
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone gets angry. And most people have learned to hide their angerâoften at great costs. There is a LOT of baggage we carry around the emotion ...
EP 32: Committing to Sustainable Change and Giving a Sh*t About the Planet with Ashlee Piper
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We love to be right. So much so, that we often trade being right for being in relationship. Without relationships, we cannot experience meaningful ch...
EP 31: Building Resiliency and a Culture of Togetherness with Rev. Roberto Che Espinoza, PhD
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How you lead yourself impacts how you lead others. And how you lead yourself and others has a ripple effect in all the spaces you live and work. It ...
EP 30: Committing to Being an Engaged Leader and Engaged Citizen with Iowa State Rep. Jennifer Konfrst
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 The commitment to being an engaged citizen is a commitment to being an engaged leader.  When you make the choice to invest your energy into st...
EP 29: Frank Anderson, MD - Challenging the Fear of Rejection and Leading with Vulnerability - Part 2
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everybodyâs carrying a burden thatâs weighing them down. Â If you dare to care, it is inevitable you will end up carrying the burdens from gr...
EP 28: Leading by Speaking Up When the Stakes are High with Author Tiffany Bluhm
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 Toxic culturesâat home, school, work, in faith communitiesâmake it incredibly hard to do the right thing.  Choosing to risk your reputatio...
EP 27: Frank Anderson, MD - Challenging the Fear of Rejection and Leading with Vulnerability - Part 1
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 We watch leaders crash & burn all the time.  We watch with morbid fascination as leaders fall out of grace because their unaddressed pain ...
EP 26: Leading an Integrated Life Over a Divided Life with Stasia Savusuk, Creator of The REVEL-YOU-TION
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is time to stop living a divided life. Â When your life is divided between home and work, personal and professional, you're vulnerable to all ...
EP 25: The Boundary Barriers of Leadership with Psychologist and Author, Alison Cook, PhD
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 Boundary barriers become leadership barriers.  What gets in the way of setting and maintaining boundaries gets in the way of leading well.  ...
EP 24: Leading With Visual Language featuring Social Entrepreneur and Author, Sunni Brown
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our capacities are at an all-time low. Â Between the pandemic and politics and injusticeânot to mention our already overflowing lives and sched...
EP 23: Leading and Respecting Your Whole Self with Metalsmith and Founder of Artists & Profit Makers, Megan Auman
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Too often, we exile the parts of us that hold complex emotions and difficult parts of our story at the expense of our wholeness. And not respecting ou...
EP 22: Clear and Decisive Leadership with Founder of Frank and Eileen, Audrey McLoghlin
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 Never underestimate the power of your decisions.  Especially the little decisions you make each day.  How you go about making decisions of...
EP 21: Leading With Body Resilience with Co-Author of More Than A Body, Lindsay Kite, PhD
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 Caring about those you lead means caring about the harm you may unknowingly be doing. Many of us who fit western standards of beauty and live in co...
EP 20: Leading From Your Truth with the Founder of Binge Eating Disorder Association, Chevese Turner
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 There is nothing safe about catalyzing the much needed changes we need in our world today.  Speaking your truth feels loaded right now. Iâm ...
EP 19: Defining Your Own Version Success with Natalie Borton, Founder of Natalie Borton Designs
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The quickest way to crash and burn your business and life is to place your worthiness and safety with the opinions of others. Â This may sound like...
EP 18: Bold and Honest Beauty Activism with Content Creator, Storyteller, Self-Love Advocate Nikia Phoenix
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 We might want change nowâbut change is almost always met with resistance.  And resistance to change is, at its core, protective.  Yet,...
EP 17: Community Over Competition with Co-Founder of The Rising Tide Society Natalie Franke
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 Community over competition is indeed a well-worn hashtag. The cynical can dismiss it. Those beat up by year after year of injustice understandably...
EP 16: Leading with Comedy as a Catalyst for Change and Healing with Digital Strategist and Business Comedian, Rachael Kay Albers
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our workplaces need more laughter. Â Our homes need more laughter. Â The world needs more laughter. Â And I donât know about you, but I too...
EP 15: Leading with Integrity Through Controversy featuring CEO & Founder of Dressember Foundation Blythe Hill
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Avoiding controversy for the sake of comfort is not an option for you as you lead, do life, and rumble with all the big and little decisions before ...
EP 14: Consenting to Grief as a Leadership Practice with Dean Nelson, PhD
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grief is inevitable as it's simply the other side of love. The more you love, the more grief you feel. Itâs inevitable when youâre all in on life...
EP 13: Owning Your Choices To Gain Freedom and Healing with Former Congresswoman Katie Hill
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 One of the toughest and most important choices for a leader is to look within and do the deep work to heal the echoes of trauma. By looking and he...
EP 12: Choosing Scrappy Hope Over Cynicism with Ramon Galindo
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The belief that hope will kill you is a common reason that many people reject the practice of hope in the first place. Most would rather keep the ba...
EP 11: Befriending Your Anxiety with Chef Joel Gamoran
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 Instead of making an enemy of your anxiety, you can make a friend out of your anxiety.  This approach to the challenges of living with anxiety...
EP 10: Leading With Boundaries vs Over-Functioning with Krystel Stacey
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 Over-functioning is the default setting for so many leaders.  They want to fix and rescue everythingâand sometimes that looks like working ...
EP 09: Standing Up Against the Culture of Bullying with Gemma Went
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most challenging aspects of leadership is facing bullies.  âŠthe bullies from our past.  ...the bullies in our present.  ......
EP 08: Dismantling and Rebuilding with Ally Fallon
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 Most leaders go through a period where they take stock of the trappings of the life they believe they are âsupposedâ to live. They examine th...
EP 07: Healing Trauma and the Burden of Addiction with Andrea Owen
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 We push ourselves until we crash.  We people please until we lose ourselves.  We hide our truth until weâre crushed from loneliness and ...
EP 06: Leading & Loving Towards Beautifully Made With Intention with Arielle Estoria
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders are especially good at hiding from love and the vulnerability it brings in ways that look deceptively bold. This can be a dangerous contagion,...
EP 05: Exploring the Echoes of Past Struggles Through Creativity and Curiosity with Morgan Harper Nichols
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 The past often acts itself out in the present and this can be super frustrating for established leadersâespecially when it feels like youâve ...
EP 04: Leading with Grace and the Power of Emotions with J.S. Park
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 Leadership is hard and it is not for the weary.  Leading myself and others in the face of injustice while also staying aligned to my integrity...
EP 03: How Pain Can Inspire Growth & A Lifelong Mission with Jess Weiner
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
 Somewhere early in my life, I got the message that acknowledging my pain was not okay. Being vulnerable opened me up for attack. It was dangerous....
EP 02: How Self-Leadership Saves You From The Relentless Drive To Succeed with Dr. Richard Schwartz
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My body was telling me to take a step back and reevaluate. Five years ago I had pneumonia and I couldnât really do anything other than prop myself ...
EP 01: Take Time For The Deep Work So Trauma Doesnât Take You Out with Jonathan Merritt
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders often struggle to make time for healing until their body sends out an SOS. They postpone and avoid the need for deeper healing and then get s...
Introducing The Unburdened Leader
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet leaders who recognized their own pain, worked through it, and stepped up into greater leadership. Each week, we dive into how leaders like you de...