HeyJaredHolding It Both Ways
For leaders navigating the in-between—where inclusion, identity, and impact meet.Through real human stories and lived experience, each episode offers reflections and insights to help you lead with greater depth, courage, and care. fortlage.substack.com
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Leadership Needs Empathy and a Backbone (opens the original)
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In this episode of Holding It Both Ways , Cynthia Fortlage is joined by leadership coach and Next Level University co-founder Alan Lazaros for a conversation about the tensions great leaders learn to hold. Drawing on his own journey through loss, ambition, professional success and a life-changing car accident, Alan explores how those experiences shaped the way he thinks about leadership today. Together, Cynthia and Alan unpack some of leadership’s most important dualities: confidence and humilit
When Acceptance Becomes a Leadership Practice (opens the original)
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Yesterday felt like one of those days where the universe was trying to get my attention. I know. A little Cynthia woo woo to begin with. But between the eclipse, the Perseids meteor shower, and the wider sense of movement in the sky, something about the day felt significant to me. Not dramatic. Not theatrical. More like a quiet insistence that something was shifting. This morning, I think I understood what the shift was. For nearly ten years, I have spoken about Acceptance without Understanding™
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