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Ep. 126, When Resistance is a Timing Signal with Ipek Gray
What if the problem isn’t what you’re doing as a leader… but when you’re doing it?
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Leaders are taught to push through resistance, decide faster, and trust the data—even when something feels off....
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Ep. 125, Staying Human When the Stakes Are High: When Good Becomes Radical with Heather A. Campbell
You don’t lose your humanity overnight as a leader.
You trade it away one “this is just how it has to be” moment at a time.
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Leadership pressure has a way of quietly narrowing us—our choices, our...
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Ep. 124, Joy as Resistance: How Leaders Stay Human When Pressure Is High
What if joy isn't denial...but an act of rebellion?
When the world feels heavy, choosing joy can feel naïve—or even irresponsible. But it's actually the very thing that keeps you going.
In this opening episode of...
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Ep. 123, Designing Your Life for Joy While Living in Reality
You don’t need a new personality, a new job, or a vision board with unhinged optimism. You need to live in the joy ratio.
In this final episode of the New Year mini-series, Jenn walks you through how to actually...
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Ep. 122, Your Personality Isn’t Holding Your Leadership Back—Your Fear Is
Personality tools were meant to create clarity—not shame.
So why do so many leaders leave personality conversations feeling worse?
In this episode, Jenn tackles one of the most misunderstood leadership tools out...
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Ep. 121, The Stories Exhausting Your Leadership (And Why They Feel So Responsible)
If you’re doing “all the right things” and still feel tired, tense, or quietly resentful…
It might not be your workload.
It might be the story you’re leading from.
In this episode, continuing the New Year. New...
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Ep. 120, The New Year Trope Leaders Keep Believing
“New Year. New You.”
Hard pass.
In this solo episode, Jenn calls time-of-death on “New Year, New You” and offers a far more grounded, powerful alternative: New Year. New Opening. Instead of reinventing yourself,...
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Ep. 119, Joy Is a Practice: What Writing a Book Taught My Family About Leadership
You don't cultivate joy in a vacuum.
You practice it at the dinner table, in hallway drive-bys, during crunch time, and when the person you love most has the office door shut… again. In this episode, I invited my...
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Ep. 118, Leadership Requires Joy in Community, Disney & the March Girls Part 2
Grit isn't it. You need joy in community. In this second half of our Disneyland conversation, we shift from rides and rain ponchos to something deeper: how community and belonging make joy stick when life is brutal....
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Ep. 117, Leadership Playbook: How Curiosity, Wonder, and Rest Improve Performance, Disney & the March Girls Part 1
Real leaders. In the rain. Still celebrating.
In this behind-the-scenes joy experiment, I take you to Disneyland with three of my closest friends—including one who witnessed the birth of the Joyosity book idea…...
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Ep. 116, You Asked. Jenn Answered. (And It Got Real.) Part 2
What if the very thing you were told was “too much” is actually your greatest gift? In this Q&A episode, Jenn Whitmer continues the conversation from last week with listener questions about speaking, writing,...
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Ep. 115, You Asked. Jenn Answered. (And It Got Real.) Part 1
Questions aren’t just curiosity—they’re power.
In this special Q&A episode, Jenn Whitmer answers listener questions from Instagram about leadership, life, and the Joyosity™ framework. From how to rest in...
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