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The Making of Dr. Molly: Purpose, Culture, and Authentic Leadership, Dr. Molly Stillwell, Ep. 560 (opens the original)
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Episode Summary🌍 Dr. Molly Stillwell’s leadership work across eight countries, with a focus on Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, and the UAE 👩🔬 Her PhD research on how humans find purpose through life transition, and founding The Uprising Collective 🚇 Cultural observations on gender and safety abroad from women-only train cars in Dubai to parallels with NYC and Mexico City 🤝 Building trust across cultures through curiosity, humility, and small gestures like learning a few local words 🇲🇦 Her deep pe
Finding Your Leadership FIT for the Future of the Workforce (opens the original)
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AI is rewriting job descriptions mid-career. Teams are more distributed, more multigenerational, and less certain than ever about what “stable” even means. And a lot of leadership development still trains people for a course that no longer exists which is a known ladder, a known org chart, a five-year plan built for a world that isn’t holding still long enough to plan for.This is the mistake I see most often with talented, capable leaders: they respond to uncertainty by trying to plan harder. Mo
The Emotional Triathlon: Christine Nobles on Turning Illness Into Impact, Ep. 559 (opens the original)
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Episode Summary🏆 Christine Nobles’ is the winner for “Entrepreneur of the Year” for Women in Cloud and her amazing story🩺 Her personal health journey: breast implant illness (BII), 2,200+ hospital days, two lymphoma diagnoses, and a recent breast cancer diagnosis💥 Founding Sick Titties / SickKitties.org and turning a personal crisis into a movement and brand🤖 Building “Karen,” an AI initiative with City of Hope to advance the science behind BII🚐 The Stand Up For Sick Titties Tour — a multi-city
Niksen, Not Burnout: What the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing Teaches Future-Fit Leaders About Pace (opens the original)
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The Mountain Doesn’t Reward SpeedOn the slopes of Kilimanjaro, our guides repeated the same two words every morning before we set off: pole pole which is Swahili for slowly, slowly. It sounded almost like a joke the first time I heard it, standing at the base of a mountain I badly wanted to conquer quickly. But the climbers who sprinted the lower slopes were, without exception, the first to turn back and undone not by lack of fitness, but by a pace their bodies couldn’t sustain once the altitude
Each One, Teach One: Cheryl Wilkins on Building Hope Behind Bars, Ep. 558 (opens the original)
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Episode SummaryCheryl Wilkins’s story starts at Bedford Hills, where she became part of a movement that brought college back to women’s prisons 🎓 at the exact moment federal Pell Grants had been stripped away by 1990s “tough on crime” laws 📜. What began as a handful of private colleges banding together — with Marymount Manhattan conferring the degrees — turned into a culture shift inside the prison itself: women who couldn’t speak English pushing toward ESL classes, GED prep turning into college
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