Loving Your Leadership Life™: Recent Episodes
Dr. Julia Barrow
You have gotten this far in your leadership life, now it's time to level up. You can learn the tools to reimagine, reinvent, and even love your leadership life. Are you ready? Let's go.
Sometimes it seems impossible to stay on top of that to do list.
Trying to keep up with it feels so overwhelming.
What might happen if you loosen up your grip on it?
Listen to discover:
- What an invisible mental load is and how it makes you feel.
- What might happen if you loosen up your expectations of yourself?
- How to do a risk assessment on tasks you are most attached to on your to do list.
- The message you might be sending to others who are watching how you hold on to your to do list.
- The feelings you can experience when you flip the script on how you think about the daily churn.
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The human body always wants to be calm but goes into survival mode when it is under constant stress.
If you notice your body trying to self-soothe, there are some ways to help it.
Listen to discover:
- The two driving systems that control your emotional state.
- How you contribute to your primary emotional state.
- What it takes to change your emotional state for the long term.
- Three easy leadership calming tips to try today.
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There is an invisible part of leadership that requires way more of you than you might expect.
When you learn to deal with it all, though, look out.
Listen to discover:
- The invisible part of leadership.
- What leadership brings to the surface time and time again.
- Why leadership really takes courage.
- What it takes to hold the hard parts and the joyful parts of leadership at once.
- The extra benefits of doing your inner work.
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Are you stuck on negative thinking?
We have all been there.
According to the National Science Foundation, we have a lot of repetitive and negative thoughts.
Listen to discover:
- Just how much repetitive and negative thinking we do.
- The brain’s top three objectives and how they influence our results.
- How our thinking habits and filters are formed and what we might miss because of them.
- How our default thinking habits influence our leadership and health.
- How to work your way to having more empowering thoughts.
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Have you or your team ever gone off the rails just as you were about to reach a big goal?
The cause is likely not what you think.
Listen to discover:
- What really causes self-sabotage.
- What we are trying to avoid when we self-destruct.
- How to spot self-sabotage in yourself and your team.
- How to keep you and your team from self-sabotaging.
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Forming new habits can take time and sometimes we just give up and go back to our old ways.
Here are some ways to improve your chances of making those new habits stick.
Listen to discover:
- The missing piece that most of us leave out.
- What can get in your way without you even noticing.
- The one question you can ask yourself to help you be more intentional with your habits.
- How to pick the right habits for you and how to know which ones to drop.
- Where the real power is when it comes to building new leadership habits.
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Leadership is challenging enough. You have to be sure to get out of your own way.
Thought management in leadership is a must.
This is the second part of a two-part series on lessons learned from a master of the human mind…President Abraham Lincoln.
Listen to discover:
- How Lincoln was able to build trust with his team even though it was made up of his political rivals.
- The other side of Lincoln that we don’t normally hear about in the history lessons.
- How Lincoln managed his emotions to his benefit.
- What Lincoln had and used to drive his decision making and his team.
- What helped him to succeed against all odds.
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I remember being told by someone on my team that they could not hear me. That was on me.
Which is why I was so intrigued to read about how President Lincoln made himself heard to unite both his team and his country. I learned so much by reading Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biographical portrait of the political genius of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Listen to discover:
- Why being heard is important in leadership in the first place.
- What Lincoln knew he needed to do to ensure that he was heard.
- Some of the ways we use his technique in education and child rearing.
- The muscle you have to build in order to increase the likelihood of truly being heard.
- The leadership benefits you gain by practicing what Lincoln did so well.
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Shortcuts can be helpful in getting what you want quickly but sometimes they can sabotage your leadership.
Noticing the mental shortcuts you take and practicing how to work around them can increase trust and relationship building in your leadership.
Listen to discover:
- Why we are becoming more accustomed to taking mental shortcuts in leadership.
- How to notice when we are taking mental shortcuts that can cause us to miss important information.
- Three steps you can take to keep mental shortcuts from betraying your leadership.
To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership, go to drjuliabarrow.com and the Work With Me page for more info. We’d love to see you there.
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Have you done your mid-year review?
Since learning all about how our thoughts and emotions work, I have added a meaningful step.
Listen to discover:
- How checking in with your future self helps to make your goals more attainable.
- How to take to engage your future self.
- What you learn about yourself and your goals when you tap into your future self.
- How to use your connection with your future self to reignite a passion for your leadership.
To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership, go to drjuliabarrow.com and the Work With Me page for more info. We’d love to see you there.
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What have you been unwilling to create?
What problem is out there waiting for you to solve?
Listen to discover:
- What creating in leadership is and why it is important.
- Reasons we are not willing to change, create, or innovate.
- How to think about creating to be able to stick with it despite challenges.
- What to tie your creative ideas to in order to gain momentum.
To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership, go to drjuliabarrow.com and the Work With Me page for more info. We’d love to see you there.
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It’s a lot easier to spot a false front in others than to spot when you are putting one on yourself.
Listen to discover:
- What a false front is and why we use false fronts.
- Examples of false fronts that you might be using yourself.
- How false fronts keep you from growing into your leadership.
- How to drop and show up without false fronts.
To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership, go to drjuliabarrow.com and the Work With Me page for more info. We’d love to see you there.
If you think this content will help or be of interest to someone you know, send them our link!
Sometimes we get stuck creating the same results in our lives with our default thinking and automatic responses.
What might happen if we engage the power of pause more often?
Listen to discover:
- How our human GPS can help us to get better results.
- Why we keep thinking the same and getting the same results.
- When to pause and how to access clarity with a simple question.
- Why practice is important to growth and the freedom to get unstuck.
To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership, go to drjuliabarrow.com and the Work With Me page for more info. We’d love to see you there.
If you think this content will help or be of interest to someone you know, send them our link!
When our kids are young, their window of possibility is wide open.
As toddlers, they are so present and are focused on being.
They don’t know about impossibility.
But as we age, as we experience life, we start to be more past focused and less open to possibility.
Listen to discover:
- The natural state a child is born with and the opposite state a child can adopt later in life.
- What happens when a child does not feel seen, heard or validated.
- How we sometimes inadvertently close a child’s sense of possibility.
- Why a child who has grown up in psychological safety is better able to deal with life’s challenges.
- How we can help children and youth keep their possibility windows wide open.
To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership, go to drjuliabarrow.com and the Work With Me page for more info. We’d love to see you there.
If you think this content will help or be of interest to someone you know, send them our link!
These days, it seems like most of us are leading and living from survival mode. I created The Leadership Life™ to help us lead and live our lives too. By doing so, we can help our world do some rebalancing and healing. After all, as the leader goes, everyone they influence goes too.
Listen to discover:
• the model that helped me see how we can lead and live our lives too
• why so any of us are in survival mode in the first place
• the mechanism we have that nobody has taught us to leverage
• what happens to us when we are in a constant state of survival
• the one thing you need to do to improve your overall health
• the first step to getting out of survival mode
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