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In RONderings, Ron talks to his guests about their superpowers, including career advice, diversity, mindset, wellness, and leadership.
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Pausing Unlocks Possibility: Sabbaticals, Burnout, and Rest as Organizational Resilience with Elandria Jackson Charles (opens the original)
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Executive coach and sabbatical guide Elandria Jackson Charles makes the case that a leader stepping away for three months is not a perk. It is an investment in organizational resilience. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Elandria, founder of Ayoka Partners, to talk about sabbatical care and what changes when rest is built into the structure instead of left to the individual. Elandria grew up an only child outside Atlanta, raised by parents from Macon whose sacrifices never added
Whistleblowing With Rhythm: Coast Guard Reform, Carnival Energy, and Practicing the Future with Dr. Kim McLear (opens the original)
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Civic designer and movement strategist Dr. Kim McLear spent twenty years in the Coast Guard, and ten of them running a whistleblowing campaign built on carnival rhythm instead of the lone hero. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Kim, a systems engineer turned artist and movement builder, to talk about how she reimagined whistleblowing as a collective practice with rhythm and discipline. Kim is a first generation American raised by Trinidad and Tobago immigrant parents who each ser
Create the Conditions: Authentic Leadership, Code Switching, and Being the Only One with Gold Chhim (opens the original)
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Gold Chhim leads national partnerships at Education Pioneers. For years he kept his identity and his leadership in two separate lanes, and closing that gap is what he now means by authentic leadership. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Gold, Managing Director of Partnerships at Education Pioneers, to talk about what it costs to be the only one in the room and what changes when you stop paying it. Gold grew up on the east side of Compton, the son of a Cambodian refugee mother who
Philanthropy Needs Courage, Not a Fancy Pitch Deck: Funding Bravely, the Great Wealth Transfer, and Refusing to Shrink with Marvin L. Smith (opens the original)
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Philanthropy does not fail for lack of money. It fails when nobody in the room has the courage to put the issue on the table. Marvin L. Smith has spent twenty years watching that happen from the inside. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Marvin, founder of the advisory practice and podcast Funding Bravely, for a conversation about what it costs to keep your voice inside systems that were never built for you. Marvin grew up outside Boston, a Black and brown kid in a predominantly w
Invest in Your Energy: Liberation, Burnout, and Leading Without Shrinking with Shayna Renee Hammond (opens the original)
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Executive coach and Lead For Liberation founder Shayna Renee Hammond has spent two decades coaching Black leaders through burnout, and she says the work starts with energy, not strategy. In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Shayna, founder of Lead For Liberation and Indigo Unbound, for a conversation about what it costs to lead inside systems that were never built for you. Her first day of school was in Pinckney, Michigan, a rural town known for the Ku Klux Klan. She was five, the o
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