What is Leadership?

Jennifer England supports soul-aligned missions for the collective good. As an Integral Master Coach™ and highly skilled facilitator, she helps high performing leaders and teams access deeper fulfilment, clarity and alignment to succeed in transition, uncertainty and emergent collaboration. In this episode, Jennifer shares the value of bringing the principles of improv to our lives, and how our ability to improvise in times of challenge or disruption can actually be the soil of our resilience and creativity. They explore the relentless pursuit of ‘self-improvement', and discuss the concept of ‘holobiont' - that we become and are becoming an assemblage of the experiences and identities shaped by the ecosystem of our lives. For links and show notes: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

Kathleen Smith is a singer-songwriter/producer whose music has been heard on radio, TV and film. She is also a music supervisor for Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and the popular podcast & Netflix show - Song Exploder. In this episode, Kathleen discusses her new record ‘Medicine', which she wrote - and taught herself to produce - in an old barn in New Mexico. She unpacks her early artist years - from seeking validation from an extractive industry to finding sovereignty - and the significance of deep spiritual practice on that journey. The dance between being a visionary and present reality, and the importance of listening to our hearts - the interface between source and the horizontal plane of human existence. For links and show notes: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Bradley Morris is the founder of Majik Media - helping leaders unleash their majik to leverage their life's work - as well as Majik Kids, the Creator's Club and is also a professional golfer - and no, you will not find him on social media. In this episode, Bradley shares his decision to leave social media, highlighting the negative impact of algorithms, the divisive nature of the platforms, and a scary realization that compelled him to make a permanent exit. Discover how Bradley's departure from socials transformed his business model - and expect practical marketing alternatives - including nurturing your email list, guest appearances, good old fashioned PR and the power of developing a transformational signature workshop. For links and show notes: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

Lael Couper Jepson is all about change powered by women. Founder of SheChanges, she makes it her business to hold space for those willing to live from the crossroads of conventional thought and unconventional wisdom. In this episode, they discuss important conversations often buried - which Lael is passionate about uncovering -  and the language needed to disrupt traditional leadership thinking. Lack of safety in organizations, and welcoming the ‘dominant cast' to the change conversation with compassion and enthusiasm - because for things to change, everybody needs to be at the party. The ripple effect of public courage when making unconventional choices, being true to oneself and collapsing what's not working in order to rebuild. For links and show notes: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

Sydney Craig, is the owner of Pilates Tonic, a studio she founded over 17 years ago, which has expanded into online movement learning. In this episode, Sydney emphasizes the importance of body as instrument - for moving through the world and finding guidance - inviting curiosity about what our body is communicating. The initial challenges she faced as a business owner revealed that her external struggles reflected internal struggles, and she shares how taking self-responsibility allowed for significant change. They discuss the importance of leading from and listening to our bodies, steadiness and showing up over time, and the presence that takes vs. the instant success narrative created by a fast-paced world. For links and show notes: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

In this episode, I share about how the Creative Cauldron came to be, how it works and what to expect if you decide to join us this upcoming season! About a year ago, I was feeling creatively dry. I decided to finally take a course a friend of mine has on writing and performing solo shows, and the experience made me realize the importance of giving reverence and dedicated time to my creative writing. Knowing that I uphold my commitments to others, I decided to start the Creative Cauldron, a community where us artists and creators could gather, support each other, and work on our projects in community. If you're curious to hear all the deets, check out this episode!

Rob McNamara is an author, leadership coach, advisor and consultant with expertise in adult development and human performance. Co-founder of consulting firm Delta Developmental and faculty member for the Ivey School of Business' LIFT Advanced Coaching Program, he advises, trains, and coaches on a broad range of initiatives for individuals, organizations, and governments navigating complex, civilization-wide problems. In this emergent conversation, they explore the necessity to inquire into ways you are failing as a leader, rather than emphasizing expertise. Our insatiable human desire to acquire more - extracting of ourselves and our World. The gestalt of maturity through ensoulment, development and liberation, and Rob sharing his edge which leads to an emergent insight. For links and show notes: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Are you a service provider struggling financially, despite having a very successful practice? In today's ‘Dear Chela', I answer a therapist's question about how to make ends meet, speaking to: the wider context of the struggling economy and the historical possibility of supporting large families on a single income in comparison to today's conditions. I offer possible tangible shifts - including reassessing business models and alternative income sources. I encourage seeking support - both seen and unseen - focusing on building relationships, connecting with peers, leaning into their deep spirituality and joining communities of practice. I close with encouraging an honouring of the Winter they are in and to allow time to incubate ideas. To submit to Dear Chela: https://cheladavison.com/dear-chela-submission/  

Known for her raw, honest, and nuanced approach to spirituality and the healing arts, Elizabeth DiAlto is an Embodiment Specialist, a Mystic, and host of the Embodied Podcast. In this episode, Elizabeth describes the journey towards her Soul's work - how being a personal trainer in NYC led to questioning societal beauty standards, inspiring her to create her own business. They explore: Elizabeth's unique capacities - including committing to being unabashedly herself and a love of comedy. Humour, humanity, and humility in our Soul's journey and alchemizing anger into something useful. The image trap of being "evolved”, and the importance of clear community agreements for safe spaces to actually be safe. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Rachel Flood is a technology enthusiast, operations consultant, and enterprise architect with over 20 years experience in for-profit and non-profit sectors. She is passionate about leveraging systems to simplify and automate mundane manual tasks, freeing up the ‘beautiful minds' of operational workers - insisting the work should be repeatable, but the person not replaceable. In this episode, Rachel discusses hiring operational help - including training up current employees. She emphasizes the importance of spending time on system implementation and documentation for sustainability and scalability potential. Her course “Stop Using Spreadsheets” teaches a 5-step process designed to help people doing good things in the World do what they do - but better. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

In this episode, I share some massive shifts in my life's work over the past couple of years through devices I use with clients - calling, seasonality and impact statement - in the hopes that it may contribute to your own unfoldings. I discuss the four cornerstones of a calling, how mine has been evolving and personal experience of a “forced winter” to heal and do the inner work. An unexpected hobby that led to claiming a dream I've had since I was a child, and what this all means in terms of a decade's body of work and what I'm doing with it in order to deeply heed this call. For links and show notes go to: https://cheladavison.com/podcast

Heidi Rose Robbins has been a professional astrologer for 25 years, helping thousands of global clients live with more authenticity and clarity. She hosts two podcasts, THE RADIANCE PROJECT, featuring poetry, astrology, and good company, and CHART YOUR CAREER, with co-host Ellen Fondiler. She's written two poetry books and has been a featured poet at two TedX events. Her latest book, Everyday Radiance, launched this January. In this episode, Heidi beautifully weaves astrological language throughout as she describes her work's evolution, as well as astrology as a developing field. She speaks to the growth and importance of connections, and how astrology shapes her life, business and connections with her children. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast  

Feeling personal-developed-OUT? Pounded with ways to progress, longing to just ‘be'? Done with morning routines - burning to pump the brakes on evolving for a single moment - so you can just sip your darn coffee in peace!? Then check out this episode of Dear Chela, as I speak to external expectations and overwhelming standards that have us feeling ‘never enough'. I talk input detoxes, awareness of internal stories and remind you to check intentions when it comes to morning practices. I offer a practice to lean into what's sufficient and set fire to standards,  leaving you with an excerpt from my solo show that speaks to this endless pressure to evolve. To submit to Dear Chela: https://cheladavison.com/dear-chela-submission/  

Tired of being tired? Does hustle and grind culture have you by the short and curlies? If you've set your hopes on regenerative ways of living and working - wondering how you'll know when you've exited cycles of hustling & grinding - this episode is for you! Jacquie read my article ‘Discipline & Heat = Spaciousness & Relief' and resonated with the quote: ‘I have worked so hard not to work so hard'. After 30+ years grinding, she asks - “How do I know, see, feel - when I've shifted away from the grind?” I offer ways to explore her beliefs, behaviours and ways of checking during a grind spell, and a possible new, regenerative way of being. To submit to Dear Chela: https://cheladavison.com/dear-chela-submission/  

Gayle Colman is a certified financial planner, coach, writer and entrepreneur. With four decades of professional experience in financial planning, her diverse training infuses Integral coaching and spiritual embodiment with practical financial savvy to bring somatic finance to life as an entirely new way of understanding and being in relationship with money. In this episode, Gayle names the necessity to bring the wisdom of our body to all matters of money in order to make whole human financial decisions. How building embodied sufficiency vs. scarcity helps to navigate external fear forces, how fully inhabiting our body moves us towards generosity and why ‘money is energy' glosses over a deeper conversation. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

Recently, I wrote a blog post called ‘Such a loser', and had some varied responses. One turned into a beautiful back and forth with a new reader. Part of her response was the question ‘Are you okay?', which I was so touched by, and further went on to ask - ‘Do some people experience emotions differently?' - naming that if she'd felt how I had described - she'd be worried. In this episode of Dear Chela, I discuss my own journey developing emotional capacity, speak to what capabilities can be built to expand your own - and how the not-so-positive emotional experiences can ‘hurt more, but bother us less' when we develop in this way. For links & shownotes, go to: cheladavison.com/podcast  

Melanie Sheckels is a registered nurse and a death, grief and trauma educator/guide, helping hundreds of humans move from fear and freeze into possibility and ease. Melanie founded ‘Threshold Doula' in 2019 after 7 years as a cardiac and hospice nurse, helping people navigate the healthcare system and dying process with greater understanding and confidence. In this episode, Melanie shares about her mother's passing which led to stepping into this leadership. How the Western medical system relates to the dying process (and an alternative approach for regret-free transition), a reframe for ‘legacy' and our part in the wider web of life, and ways to navigate expected and unexpected deaths. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Jennifer Chapman is the founder of ‘Ambition Leadership' which she leaped into on Leap Day 2012 - with a desire to build a company that embodied the leadership behaviours it promoted. She is an expert Leadership Coach working with STEM managers and leaders who want to increase their productivity and performance by strengthening their competence and people skills. In this episode, Jennifer provides practical tools for how to manage your boss - whether you have one or are one, varying personality types in the workplace and how to honour them, possibilities to influence culture without hierarchical power and an invitation to consider what type of work culture we want to belong to. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Meet The Call explores what a calling is and how we go about meeting it. Chela speaks to how a calling is part of us, but also beyond us. She names common patterns noticed when heeding a call - both her own and with her clients - including what our callings care about and what they don't. She speaks to misconceptions - like the notion that aligned callings should feel easy. Chela muses that perhaps our calling is always asking something new of us, inviting us to the question ‘What is calling to you right now?'. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Ali Phillips founded ‘Bust A Move Dance' in 2009 - one of Australia's first inclusive dance companies for children, teens and adults with disabilities - at age 17. Diving into entrepreneurship at an early age, she soon developed a passion for both teaching and leadership. In this episode, she speaks about how who we are is how we lead and how sensing into body and mind simultaneously, as well as defining and aligning with our core values, allows us to show up in leadership and in the World authentically. Ali defines self-awareness as a superpower, and the more we know ourselves, the better we can show up aligned in our purposeful work. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key Guiding Principles in her work and business. Post-Capitalist Business is the exploration of that as a possibility. She invites us into this conversation of imagination and experimentation, unpacking what is seen - how our planet is ravaged by capitalism and those values are deeply ingrained within us - and what she cannot yet fully see - what would a post-capitalist World look like? If the whole system is not to crumble entirely in our own lifetimes, what is possible now, and what small steps might we boldly take towards answering the brave question of ‘What World do I want to belong to?' For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

While working in senior leadership roles in corporate Australia, Gabrielle realised the power of storytelling in effective business communication. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker, educator and author of ‘Real Communication', ‘Stories For Work' and her latest book, ‘Magnetic Stories'. In this episode, she challenges corporate norms that facts and figures are primarily what matters, and instead describes the influential power of storytelling, both internally with your team and externally with the consumer. She helps us differentiate sucky stories from sticky stories, discusses how emotional impact of story precedes logic in consumer decisions and demonstrates how, when told well, our ordinary human stories can truly be extraordinary. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Interdependent Emergence is the exploration of how through braiding together our individual and collective gifts, we can co-create a world we can belong to and thrive in. Chela discusses how this lens can help us co-create with both seen and unseen forces, enabling us to bring about opportunities and possibilities that our own imaginings simply could not conjure alone. She provides the comforting thought that we are not meant to do it all, and that by leaning into interdependent emergence, we can also sink deeper into our own unique genius. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, bestselling author and mother. She's the founder of the Origin Company, a multimedia company reaching hundreds of thousands globally and the author of Do Less. She's on a mission to collectively reimagine work and have more by doing less. In this episode she shares the principles and practices that underpin her work, how working with seasons, cycles and our bodies' rhythms are revolutionary in a culture and system of extraction. She shares her own personal challenges, stories and wisdom that contribute to the mission she's stewarding and how shifting from a me to we orientation of leadership is changing everything. She's funny, brilliant and bringing it. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast/

TJ Dawe is a Vancouver based writer, director and performer of new theatre. He's toured to more than one hundred theatre festivals on four continents. He leads a course on creating a one person show and has built a 20 year + successful career in the arts in a niche that's fully and uniquely ‘him'. In this episode, TJ shares wisdom, science and experience around the key ingredients to leading a creative life, bringing forth art in many forms. He addresses the importance of personal developmental work to combat the ego's sneaky ways of sabotaging one's art, creativity and leadership. Think you're not an artist? TJ challenges you to think again. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Sigrid Tasies is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author of the book “Intimacy Within”, and host of the top rated Podcast “Sacred Leaders”. In this episode, Sigrid dives into what it means to lead from the inside out and the necessity for leaders to be doing deep inner work in order to truly lead others (versus leading from and for individualistic ends). They talk about what it means to embody knowledge versus operating from surface or cognitive understanding, models for leadership that attends to right relations with self, others and nature, the power of plant medicine and the prison of identity that can grow alongside success. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Join contemporary alchemist, Simon Goland, as he poses the questions Why are you here? And... What has your life been preparing you for? These questions are what gets answered through his work as an educator, facilitator, leader and coach. Listen in as they play with and discuss Presence, and how returning to presence becomes the basis for knowing what is needed, moment by moment, including the practice of emergent dialogue. They jam on the enneagram, their histories with personal transformational journeys, the spiraling nature of inner work, its role in the pursuit of right livelihood and what it means to embody one's education, going beyond frameworks and theories of leadership. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

This episode is part of the Guided series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Seasons as a Map and Compass is the exploration of the seasonality of life, work and development. Life and death cycles and how they can show us where we are, what's needed and what's coming. Chela discusses bringing this lens to the creative process, business building and executing on projects. She explores the interdependent nature of nature and how looking to seasonality when it comes to project planning and moving through phases or work can bring heaps of wisdom, acceptance and relief. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Self-As-Instrument, Work-As-Service is our second episode in the series: Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode dives into the question: What does it mean to be an active participant in our collective evolution? Chela explores how her own personal development and approach to work and business are a means of answering and living this question. She shares what it means to develop ourselves as the instrument of service and change and why that's fundamental to conscious leadership. She explores various ways of relating to work and why being of service must begin with yourself to be sustainable. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

This episode is the first in a series called Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode introduces the principles, philosophies and values that are key to her leadership and contribution as she helps leaders grow their capacities, carve their own paths and contribute to societal change. Listen in as she speaks about what it means to listen for and meet your calling, develop your Self-As-Instrument, navigate personal and professional growth through both an Emergent Leadership and Seasonal lens, all while imagining post-capitalist business models for our collective evolution. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

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

Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and founder of Real Love Revolution, Boundary Bootcamp and author of the upcoming book, Boundary Boss. This episode kicks off by exploring the ways in which the work Terri is leading has really led and developed her in profound ways, no matter how far you go in your leadership journey, new ventures will humble you and how boundaries are fundamental to leading yourself, others and your initiative. She covers what it means to be a high-functioning co-dependent and three simple but profound questions to ask when you're stuck. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

How do we move coherently amongst each other, but all empowered in our gifts? This is just one of the questions brought forward by Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker and visionary artist, host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast and creator of the Mythic Masculine Network. Listen in as they cover what it means to work at the intersection of emergence, eros & village, leadership as a means to empower the gifts of others to come forward and the notion and practice of Communitarianism: You are only able to fully thrive and become yourself in a shared trust field with other people who care about you deeply. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Brooke McNamara, MFA, is a poet, dance-theater artist, teacher, and ordained Zen monk. She has published two books of poems: Bury the Seed (2020) and Feed Your Vow and is the creator and instructor of multiple online courses. She is most passionate about creating and tending genuine + diverse practice spaces and models this very capacity in this episode. We move from dialogue to practice together and invite you as listener to practice alongside. Brooke brings such heart and depth to this space, expect to be inspired and deeply nourished by this evocative conversation, the poetry of practice and the practice of poetry. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Shahar Rabi, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder and Director of Education for the New Earth Institute and author of Spiritual Misfits, Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World. We dive into the challenges and fears that arise when moving into collaborative leadership and how to cultivate unwavering trust, even in the face of immense adversity, mental health challenges and the global dying and rebirth it feels like we're in the midst of. Listen in to why he feels we need to get religious about our shared humanity to truly engage the individual and collective genius needed to evolve together and build new cultures and systems. If you're triggered by the word religious, definitely check out this episode! For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Erin Thorp cut her teeth on leadership early on, caring for her younger siblings in a challenging family environment. Her next big leadership challenge became building her career in construction engineering as a woman and emotional being. The modeling and leadership feedback she repeatedly received was that she needs to be less emotional. Her dive into emotional development resulted in writing a book called Inside-Out Empathy. Now she trains leaders on the power of empathy, helping those in corporate and organizational environments that are traditionally masculine and focused on problem solving just how much more effective leaders and teams can be with rich, whole and emotionally literate inner and outer worlds. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

This solo jam dives into the nature of suffering, from the small day to day grievances to the huge themes and challenges we're navigating as human beings. Chela explores our relationship with aspirations, pain and the resistance of reality as the seat of suffering. She shares her learning of why radical acceptance of what is, is the first step in being able to change what's unacceptable. How do we lead and take responsibility for the change we seek and do that in the fullness of our pained, broken and suffering selves? For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Holiday is a sociologist, integral coach, writer and speaker on the topics of philosophy, justice, culture and personal transformation. A recent viral article about performative allyship went viral and landed her as a voice in the public sphere on racial equity. This episode begins by discussing the various leadership identities that Holiday is swimming in as she shares the idea of leadership as an explorer. What does it mean to lead from the questions and with an earnest and intentional practice of taking as many perspectives as possible, exploring the weight and validity of them, while simultaneously leading from a solid center? For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Irene Lyon, MSC and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma and live full, creative lives. To date, her online programs have reached thousands of people in over 60 countries. With her Master's Degree in Biomedical and Health Science and a knack for explaining complex topics in easy-to-understand ways, Irene gives us an in-depth look at what the nervous system is and does. She also discusses the dangers she's identified with ‘trauma-informed' practice, the importance of boundaries as a leader, and how your upbringing likely influenced your tendencies around learning. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Sarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of Startup Pregnant and the host of The Startup Pregnant Podcast, where she helps working parents try to navigate everyday insanity. As both an entrepreneur and parent of two small children, Sarah offers parents of future generations (and anyone who ever was a child) sound considerations about how the working world is shifting and how to participate in shifting it to actually work for families. Sarah offers creative prompts around ways that we can adapt and shift our own individual and collective decisions in order to support our current and future realities. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Karine Bell is a somatics, embodiment & mindfulness teacher dedicated to healing through the body. We explore the converging threads of history and identity that's brought Karine to forming and leading an emergent embodied healing community called Rooted. We explore the ways our pain and trauma are not only doorways to healing, but can be the very catalyst for encountering and pursuing our calling. Karine shares the hot and messy edges of what it's like to lead from a vision for individual and communal liberation, with a collective, when you have no idea how you're going to make it happen. She's IN IT. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

In conversation with Leslie Williams, Master Certified Integral Coach, and President of LeaderShift Consulting, a global executive coaching practice. Leslie works with leaders who see their own development as the next step to greater impact and are working on behalf of social/global good. We explore the concept of aliveness as power, wellbeing as foundational for sustaining multigenerational missions and confronting the massive growth that's required within and around us navigating the pandemic. Listen in as Leslie drops serious wisdom about the role of grief and humility when leading in times like these. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast