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Heart-led leadership lessons with a twist. Quietly revolutionizing leadership for over a decade. leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/p… Barbara Schindler Heather McGonigal Tami Blodgett linktr.ee/empowering

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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 8h
Change is everywhere right now. AI. Instability. Tension in the air. People aren't asking for more answers. They're asking for more connection. The human element is your edge. How you show up for your people in chaotic times matters more than any strategy. You get to choose it every single day. 💜
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 15/10/2026
Same birthday. Totally different vibe. 🔥 That is your rising sign. Aries rising: "Here I am." Leo rising: "Hello, everybody." Sagittarius rising: "What else is out there?" Which one walks into the room like you? New Astro Vibes episode is live. #AstroVibes #Aries #Leo #Sagittarius #BirthChart
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Fire Signs, Rising Signs, and the Way You Walk Into a Room
Barbara introduces the fire signs -Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius- and explains how viewing the zodiac through elements (fire, earth, air, water) and modalities (cardinal, fixed, mutable) helps clarify s...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 14/10/2026
Let Some Things Wait. Leadership With a Twist Podcast New Episodes Weekly Listen in 👇 leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast #AuthenticLeadership #LeadershipWithATwist #WorkplaceCulture #TeamCollaboration #MindfulLeadership #EmpoweredLeadership #LeadershipCoaching
Let some things wait. Treating everything as equally urgent burns you out fast. The twist: most things aren't actually urgent, they just feel that way in the moment. Look at your list right now and pick one item to intentionally let wait until tomorrow. Notice what that does for your nervous system. - Empowering Leadership Teams
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 13/10/2026
In a crisis, you will not remember your best self-care habits. That's why you write them down now. Final episode of Coach Heather's Self-Care series is up. 🎧 #SelfCareActionPlan #LeadershipFundamentals #ExecutiveWellbeing #BurnoutPrevention #SelfLeadership #EmpoweringLeadership
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From Stress to Success: The Essential Self-Care Toolkit for Business Leaders
Coach Heather closes her self-care series with a decade-tested action plan tool for recovering yourself before stress and pressure take over. | Free Download
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 10/10/2026
Own Your Self-Care Leadership With a Twist Podcast New Episodes Weekly Listen in 👇 leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast #Work-Life #LeadershipWithATwist #WorkplaceCulture #self-care #MindfulLeadership #EmpoweredLeadership #LeadershipCoaching
Own your self-care. Running on empty feels productive. The twist: it's actually borrowing from tomorrow. Name one need you're ignoring today. - Empowering Leadership Teams
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 09/10/2026
Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) lead with expression. Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) build what lasts. Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) think it through. Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) feel their way in. Which one are you, and which one do you secretly need more of?
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Exploring the 12 Zodiac Signs: Understanding the Language of Astrology
The 12 Zodiac Signs as a Leadership Language: Elements, Modalities and the Way You Move Through Change | Astro Vibes Episode 3
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 07/10/2026
Barbara and Mieko discuss how Mieko sets the table for authentic connection, and how leaders can name their strengths and build teams that grow without dependency. #AuthenticLeadership #EntrepreneurialLeadership #WomenInBusiness #TeamCulture #PersonalBranding
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Navigating Entrepreneurship: Mieko Ozeki on Leadership and Personal Branding
Learn how Mieko Ozeki sets the table for authentic connection, and how leaders can name their strengths and build teams that grow without dependency. | LWAT Podcast #37
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 02/10/2026
Coach Heather isn't a nutritionist, and she'll tell you that straight up. What she offers instead is permission to stop chasing the perfect diet and start noticing what actually works for your body. New episode is live. #SelfCareForLeaders #ExecutiveWellbeing #LeadershipFundamentals #Leadership
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The Busy Leader: Healthy Eating and Enhanced Productivity
Coach Heather explores why healthy eating is a leadership fundamental, not a diet industry checkbox, and how to plan ahead for your busiest weeks.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 02/10/2026
Facts First. Story Later. Leadership With a Twist Podcast New Episodes Weekly Listen in 👇 leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast #Work-Life #LeadershipWithATwist #WorkplaceCulture #self-care #MindfulLeadership #EmpoweredLeadership #LeadershipCoaching
Facts first. Story later. Under stress, your mind writes a worst case scenario faster than you can catch it. The twist: separating the facts from the story is the fastest way back to clear thinking. Next time you're spiraling, grab a piece of paper and write down only what's actually true. Decide from there. -Empowering Leadership Teams
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 01/10/2026
Your best work might happen away from your desk. Andie Asacker calls it taking time to make time. New Leadership With a Twist with Barbara and Andie leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/p/harnessing... #LeadershipWithATwist #CreativeEntrepreneur #WorkLife #Solopreneur #EmpoweringLeadership
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Harnessing Creativity and Leadership: Andie Asacker’s Entrepreneurial Journey
Meet Andie Asacker, founder of Whirlybird, a one-woman marketing agency in Vermont, as she talks with Barbara Schindler about building a business she never formally planned. | LWAT Podcast #35
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 30/09/2026
Not everything urgent is an emergency. Leadership With a Twist Podcast New Episodes Weekly Listen in 👇 leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast #AuthenticLeadership #LeadershipWithATwist #Workplace #TeamCollaboration #MindfulLeadership #EmpoweredLeadership #LeadershipCoaching #SelfAwareness
Not everything urgent is an emergency. Culture trains us to treat every ping like a five-alarm fire. The twist: your body can't tell the difference between real danger and a Slack message, so it pays the same price either way. Pick one thing on your list right now and let it wait until tomorrow. Notice how much lighter that feels. https://leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 29/09/2026
Self-knowledge isn't a soft skill. It's the foundation every other leadership skill sits on top of. Debut episode of Astro Vibes offers a level of personal insight for empowering leaders. Watch time 11 minutes. #ConsciousLeadership #PersonalDevelopment #Astrology #AstroVibes #TransitionCoaching
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Where Does the Sky Begin
Learn the difference between the horoscope you read in a newspaper, general, broad, written for everyone born in a given month, and your actual birth chart, calculated from the exact moment you arrive...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 29/09/2026
Unconscious agreements don't disappear when ignored. They quietly run your behavior until you choose to surface and replace them. 🤔 #businessleadership #consciousleadership #empoweringleadership #workplaceculture #personalbehavior #entrepreneurism
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 28/09/2026
Calm is a leadership skill, not a mood. Leadership With a Twist Podcast New Episodes Weekly Listen in 👇 leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast #AuthenticLeadership #LeadershipWithATwist #Workplace #TeamCollaboration #MindfulLeadership #EmpoweredLeadership #LeadershipCoaching #SelfAwareness
Calm is a leadership skill, not a mood. You can't wait to feel calm. You have to choose it. The twist: your calm isn't personal, it's contagious. Your team absorbs your state before they hear your words. Check in with yourself before every high-stakes conversation this week. If you're not calm, get there first. Then speak. Leadership With a Twist Podcast
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 25/09/2026
Busy or Effective? This week, where did you let busy stand in for effective? Full calendar. Full inbox. Not necessarily full progress. Tell us the moment you noticed the difference, even if you didn't change course in time. We want the honest ones, not the polished ones. #Productivity #Workplace
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 24/09/2026
Coach Heather gets personal in this one: almost a decade of neglecting herself, a full burnout, and two years to rebuild. She's sharing it so you don't have to learn it the same way. New episode on exercise and self-care is live. #SelfCare #Leadership #Burnout #CoachHeather #HealthyHabits
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Boost Your Brainpower: Exercise Tips for Ambitious Leaders
Your brain keeps solving problems in the background while you exercise. Step away from the desk and the answer often shows up later. Part 3 of our self-care series breaks down why.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 24/09/2026
Listen in 👂 Leadership With a Twist Podcast New Episodes Weekly leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast #AuthenticLeadership #LeadershipWithATwist #HumanCenteredLeadership #WorkplaceCulture #MindfulLeadership #EmpoweredLeadership #LeadershipCoaching #SelfAwareness
Keep commitments to yourself first. You'll break a promise to yourself before you'll break one to a client. The twist: that habit is quietly training your nervous system that your word doesn't matter. Pick one small commitment to yourself this week, a walk, a boundary, a break, and keep it like it's a client meeting. Leadership With A Twist podcast
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 23/09/2026
Your next meeting has one assignment for you: speak last. It'll feel awkward. There might be crickets. Stay with it and ask "Tell me more" when someone finally jumps in. #LeadByFollowing #EmpoweringLeadership #LeadershipTips #LeadershipPodcast #BusinessPodcast
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Lead by Following: Transformative Leadership Strategies
Lead by following. Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler show mid-level leaders and CEOs how listening first turns quiet meetings into a collaborative think tank.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 22/09/2026
Listen in 👂 Leadership With a Twist Podcast New Episodes Weekly leadershipwithatwist.substack.com/podcast #AuthenticLeadership #LeadershipWithATwist #HumanCenteredLeadership #TeamCollaboration #MindfulLeadership #EmpoweredLeadership #LeadershipCoaching #NavigatingChange #SelfAwareness
Controlling isn't powerful. Empowering is. Micromanaging feels like control, but it's actually fear wearing a leadership costume. The twist: real power comes from stepping back, not gripping tighter. Try this. Pick one thing you'd normally control this week and hand it to your team instead. Watch what they do with it. Empowering Leadership Teams
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 19/09/2026
Rest isn't one-size-fits-all. What recharges one person might do nothing for someone else. New episode on building a rest routine that's actually yours. #Rest #SleepHygiene #SelfCare #Leadership #EmpoweringLeadershipTeams #CoachHeather #BurnoutPrevention #ExecutiveCoaching #HealthyLeadership
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Recharge and Lead: Why Smart CEOs Prioritize Sleep and Rest
Rest isn't one-size-fits-all. What recharges one person might do nothing for someone else. New episode on building a rest routine that's actually yours.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 19/09/2026
When your hardworking team member receives specific acknowledgment, they feel truly seen, which creates buy-in for future work.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 18/09/2026
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Pause before you push. Urgency tricks you into moving before you're ready. The twist: the pause isn't hesitation, it's power. It's the space between trigger and response where your best thinking actually lives. Next time you feel the urge to react, give yourself 90 seconds. Breathe. Then decide. That small gap changes everything that follows. Leadership With a Twist
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 16/09/2026
Sleep hygiene isn't a buzzword, it's the wind-down routine that tells your body it's safe to shut off. New episode breaks it down. 🎧 #Rest #SleepHygiene #SelfCare #Leadership #EmpoweringLeadershipTeams #CoachHeather #BurnoutPrevention #MentalHealth #ExecutiveCoaching #HealthyLeadership
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Elevate Your Business: Essential Self-Care Practices for Leaders
Ever been proud of something you accomplished while completely running on empty? Worth asking what it actually cost you. New episode of our self-care series digs into why exhaustion isn't proof of cap...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 10/09/2026
Hey leaders, when's the last time you pulled out your strategic plan with your team and actually looked at it together? That document is supposed to be alive. If it's been sitting untouched, your best new ideas have nowhere to land. #businessleadership #strategicplanning #intentionalleadership
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 09/09/2026
Barbara and Pam talk about why there is no blueprint for building a business, only your own true north star. New episode of Leadership With a Twist is live now. #Leadership #SmallBusinessTips #MarketingTips #ScalingWithHeart #LeadershipWithATwist #ConsciousLeadership
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Scaling by Subtraction: Pam Langord on Marketing, AI, and the Blueprint That Doesn't Exist
Barbara talks with Pam Langord, founder of Simply Magic Marketing, about why most businesses grow by piling on instead of cleaning up, and what happens when you finally look under the hood. | LWAT Pod...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 09/09/2026
Real authority has kindness built in, and it doesn't require you to disappear to prove it.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 02/09/2026
Come over to Substack and help us celebrate! substack.com/@empoweringl...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 01/09/2026
Before deciding what someone's behavior means, ask: — What happened, exactly? — What might I not know? — What would change if I assumed positive intent? Compassion does not excuse the behavior. It clears the way to actually address it.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 31/08/2026
Self-leadership = the choices you make every day about how you show up. Aligned with your values? Connected to your heart? That's where your power lives. 💪✨ #selfleadership #empowerment
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 28/08/2026
Reaction mode is exhausting, and a lot of modern work culture is built to keep you there. Part 1 of Coach Heather Fundamentals covers the pause that interrupts the cycle. #EmpoweringLeadershipTeams #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadershipCoaching #CEOMindset #PowerOfThePause #EmotionalRegulation
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 28/08/2026
Mindset, intention, and self-awareness get labeled soft skills, but they're the skills that determine how well you lead through change.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 24/08/2026
When leaders shift from managing appearances to authentic decision-making, they free mental bandwidth for better business outcomes. Try this today!
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 19/08/2026
Ever finish a workday and have no idea where the last eight hours went? That's the energy leak we're talking about this episode. #IntentionalLeadership #EmpoweringLeadership #SelfAwareness #LeadershipMindset #LeadershipDevelopment #EntrepreneurialLeadership
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The 90-Second Habit That Changes How You Lead
Where did your energy actually go today? Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler of Empowering Leadership Teams break down why energy, not just time, is the resource mid-level leaders and entrepreneur...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 18/08/2026
Proactive communication works best when it's systematic, not sporadic. Build a rhythm: agree on what, when, and where updates happen. Co-create it with your supervisor. Calibrate it each quarter. Then let the system do the trust-building for you. #WorkplaceLeadership #LeadershipHabits
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Proactive Communication: the Most Underrated Leadership Skill You Have
Learn how proactive communication builds trust at work, improves delegation, and sets your whole team up for success, with practical steps you can apply today.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 18/08/2026
There's an inner experience and an outer experience, and if you separate them, there's a disconnect. You're not having a good balance of wellbeing and bringing your full self to the work you do.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 14/08/2026
Entrepreneurial businesses have always done more with less. AI is the next great amplifier of that capacity. Use wisely.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 13/08/2026
Advocacy is not self-promotion; it is responsible stewardship of organizational resources.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 06/08/2026
#IntentionalLeadership #LeadWithPurpose #EmpoweringLeadership #SelfLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #EntrepreneurialLeadership
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Stop Letting Your Week Run You: A Guide to Intentional Leadership
Are you getting through your work weeks or actually winning them? Shift from reactive leadership to intentional leadership. Practical tools for mid-level leaders and entrepreneurial CEOs who are ready...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 06/08/2026
When teams sense their leader is managing appearances, they mirror that behavior and present polished versions of problems rather than messy truths.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 04/08/2026
Receiving outside expertise with genuine openness and filtering it through your team's actual capacity is not resistance to good ideas, it is the contextual judgment that leadership requires.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 31/07/2026
AI needs good human thinking alongside it. Without that direction, even the best tools fall short.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 27/07/2026
Your AI assistant can think with you, but it will never read the room for you. That's still yours to do.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 24/07/2026
Intuition is your innate guidance system. You're meant to listen to this internal voice that tells you what's working, what's not, and how you're really feeling in different scenarios.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 21/07/2026
Prep. Action. Result. That's the cycle. When results disappoint, the instinct is to throw everything at fixing it right now. Try this instead: stabilize, rest, regroup, come back with fresh thinking. Your team will thank you for it. So will your results. ✨ #LeadershipDevelopment #SelfLeadership
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Courageous Confidence: A Leadership Skill Hiding Behind Your Niceness
What does it mean to lead with courageous confidence instead of quiet niceness? Own your perspective, communicate so your message actually lands, and lead from self-leadership instead of self-protecti...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 20/07/2026
Intentional leadership is not about having a fixed style; it is about regularly discerning what this team, in this moment, most needs from you. #IntentionalLeadership #LeadershipWithATwist #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamLeadership #LeadershipHabits #EntrepreneurialLeadership #WorkplaceCulture
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Intentional Leadership: How Purpose-Driven Behavior Builds High-Performance Teams
Discover how leading with intention transforms your leadership effectiveness, builds your team’s trust, and shapes your reputation as a purposeful leader. Learn the intention-behavior-habit framework ...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 09/07/2026
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The Part of Change No One Talks About
Why transitions feel hard, what the "messy middle" really means, and how leaders can move through change — personally and professionally — with greater awareness and support.
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 06/07/2026
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Navigating Transitions: What Your Feelings Are Actually Telling You
Navigating a major transition and wondering when it's supposed to feel okay again? Heather McGonigal of Empowering Leadership Teams breaks down why discomfort in transition is normal, how to process b...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 23/06/2026
Coach Heather on The Future-Proof Leader podcast to talk about the art of collaboration in business. Explore what theater can teach us about teamwork, how psychological safety helps people contribute their best thinking, and how AI can create more space for meaningful human collaboration.
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The Art & Effective Techniques of Collaboration in Business
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 18/06/2026
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The Demonstration Gap: What Your Leadership Behavior Is Communicating
What is your leadership actually demonstrating? Learn how to close the gap between your values and your behavior with practical tools including leadership anchor statements, self-regulation practices,...
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Leadership With a Twist @empoweringleadershipteams.com · 16/06/2026
Real question: at the end of your work week, do you know if you won? Not "did I survive" or "did I get through it." Did you actually WIN? If the answer is unclear, this episode is for you. #LeadershipWithATwist #IntentionalLeading #LeadershipPodcast #HighPerformance #MidLevelLeaders
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Stop Reacting, Start Leading: How to Own Your Work Week
Are you getting through your work weeks or actually winning them? Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler of Empowering Leadership Teams break down the shift from reactive leadership to intentional le...
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