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The Leadership That Shines Podcast exists for the leaders who are done waiting to feel ready. Every week, we deliver leadership training built around three core values: impact, influence, and growth.
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Growth in Leadership: Why Growth Requires Change (opens the original)
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Growth requires change, and host Natalie Davis spends this solo episode of Leadership That Shines breaking down why that connection caught her off guard this year even after a decade of running her own business. Natalie walks listeners through the real-time story behind one of her three core values, growth, using her own business as the case study: a scrapped business plan, a hard coaching conversation with a longtime mentor, and a key team member who gave notice two weeks before this recording.
Listening to Understand vs. Reacting: A Leadership Lesson (opens the original)
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Most hard conversations do not fail because of what was said. They fail because one person was reacting instead of listening. In this episode of Leadership That Shines, host Natalie Davis talks with Dustin Shepherd, a nearly thirty-year military veteran turned leadership coach, about the difference between listening to understand and listening to react. Dustin explains why reacting carries an emotional charge while responding carries cognitive judgment, and why most communication breakdowns on a
Leadership Development: Chris Majer on Team Cohesion, Organizational Transformation, and Nearly 50 Years of Disruptive Leadership Training (opens the original)
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Leadership development does not happen through remedial programs, compliance checklists, or business school frameworks borrowed from people who have never led anyone into anything that actually mattered. In this episode of the Leadership That Shines Podcast, one of the top rated leadership business podcasts for professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives, host Natalie Davis sits down with Chris Majer, speaker, author of The Power to Transform, and nearly 50-year veteran of human performance, le
Leading Self in Leadership with Parker Gates (opens the original)
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Leading self comes before leading anyone else, and executive coach Parker Gates spends this episode of Leadership That Shines proving exactly how. Parker walks host Natalie Davis through a leadership journey that started by accident, running a deli kitchen at nineteen, moved through two decades in corporate IT, and landed in a coaching practice built around three daily practices: journaling, meditation, and movement. Parker traces the moment that changed everything, a week at Stanford's design s
Purpose-Driven Leadership: Blake Cooper Griffin on Resilience, Identity, and Building a Life Worth Telling (opens the original)
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Purpose-driven leadership does not come from a clean story. For Blake Cooper Griffin, it came from bullying in South Carolina, conversion therapy at 16, an agency that told him to hide who he was, and a moment at 22 years old with no money, no representation, and a decision to make about who he was going to be on the other side of all of it. In this episode of the Leadership That Shines Podcast, host Natalie Davis sits down with Blake Cooper Griffin, actor, author, activist, and founder of Brain
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