HeyJaredThe Leadership Story Podcast
Real Woman, Real Leadership, Real Resilience!The Leadership Story is where real women share real leadership built on real resilience. Lisa Jones sits down with incredible women from every industry who have powerful stories about leadership.
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Midlife Career Change: Giving Yourself Permission | EP20 (opens the original)
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Lisa Jones sits down with career coach, speaker, and learning and development facilitator Kay Kirkman to unpack why so many people feel stuck in careers that no longer fit, especially in midlife. Kay shares how her own nontraditional path, broadcast journalism background, and experience getting fired from her dream radio job shaped the way she now helps people reimagine work and reclaim the parts of themselves they set aside. Key Topics We Explored * Permission to Dream: Why giving yourself perm
The Surplus Problem: What Burnout Is Really Costing High-Performing Women | EP19 (opens the original)
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Burnout does not come from having too little. It comes from gathering more than the day requires. In this solo episode, Lisa Jones revisits the story of manna and surplus through a resilience lens links it to one word: capacity. She shares how a routine walk helped her identify her own burnout, clarifies the difference from stress, and explains why the surplus we keep carrying has a real cost. Supported by research on the invisible work women absorb, the hours lost to low-value tasks, and why wo
How to Lead, Mentor, and Manage Up |EP18 (opens the original)
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Kate Lunger, Director of Workforce Initiatives at the Philadelphia Energy Authority, leads programs that expand equitable career pathways for adult learners, re-entry individuals, and marginalized youth in clean energy. In this conversation, she and Lisa talk about what it takes to lead a young team, providing structure without stifling growth, addressing conflict in real time instead of letting it linger, and teaching people the difference between something being personal and something just bei
I Built Resilience Programs, Then Got Laid Off: Job Loss After 40 | EP17 (opens the original)
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You can spend your whole career helping other people through crisis — and still not see your own coming. This is about what happens when the person who builds resilience programs becomes the one who needs them. In this solo episode, Lisa Jones gets honest about unexpected job loss: the grief no one gives you permission to feel, the pressure to bounce back before you’re ready, and the harder reality facing women over 40 in this market. Part lived experience, part strategy, all real. This episode
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