As 2023 takes its final bow, there’s no better time to reflect on your year and set informed intentions for 2024. Reflection is one of the most powerful leadership practices. It helps us learn, unlearn, and grow.Take time to sit with what happened in 2023 and get curious about how you want to enter the year ahead.

We all go through different seasons in life. Moments of profound learning and growth, setbacks, and obstacles. Think of them as chapters in your unique story.We can’t always control the highs and lows of our leadership journey. What we can do is build our resilience and tap into practices that allow us to embrace our seasons of growth, stand in self-compassion, and find purpose in the madness.

Have you been overidentifying with imposter syndrome, lacking confidence, and burning out?Here’s what to do:Appoint your own personal board of directorsBuild your personalized leadership brandLearn your limits and set boundariesPrioritize joy and connectionListen to the podcast to learn more!

When you’re caught in the middle of work, family, and just life in general, it’s so easy for the passage of time to feel like one big blur. That’s why this summer, I want to invite you to take time to pause, breathe, and reflect on your year so far. Learn. Refocus. Align. Take what you’ve learned to enter the last half of 2023 with intention by making conscious choices. Refocus on your goals and align with how you want to show up in the world. To receive a free reflective journal that guides you through this podcast, visit holonleadership.org/newsletter. 

An unstoppable force is changing how we work and live, says Gallup. The pandemic created a culture shock that shifted everything.The good news is that this gives leaders the opportunity to reflect on what role work plays in their life and wellbeing, co-design an engaging work experience, and apply their talents and leadership in the world with purpose.So ask yourself, can you make a difference where you work? And better yet – will you?

Is there a voice in the back of your mind that tells you you aren’t good enough? Does self-doubt get in the way of you and your brilliance?You’re not alone. Imposter Syndrome affects us all. It impairs our relationships, job performance, and overall fulfillment, and keeps a gap between who we are now and who we want to be. But it doesn’t have to. 

If you feel that you’re disconnected from the point of it all right now or like you’re running on fumes – you’re not alone, but you’re not stuck either.Get your head above the slog and clear the noise. This season of your life you’re in right now is exactly that, a season. Digging into your resiliency practices and aligning with your purpose will help get you through it.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.

Navigating uncertainty is hard. What helps? Letting go of your need to control the situation.  Sit with your emotions, acknowledge your fears, and face the unknown.To hold your big feelings, building the capacity to hold resiliency makes it a whole lot easier.  Create and commit to resilience-building practices to rely on that stock of resiliency when you need it. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.

Just like that, we find ourselves in the final month of the year. And with it comes the perfect opportunity to reflect back on 2022 and what it has taught you.Reflection is powerful. It helps clear the clutter and the noise and helps you focus on what’s important to you now. Let’s get intentional about the practice of learning and growth through the process of reflecting.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Receiving feedback can be difficult. Sometimes it’s solicited, sometimes not. Sometimes triggering, sometimes not. Regardless, it can be easy to take offense to any form of criticism and dismiss its value.The key here is to ground yourself and gain perspective so you’re able to handle that feedback and appreciate all that it’s trying to teach you.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Gratitude comes in the form of warm and fuzzies. There's no doubt about it. But it also comes from those places that you're avoiding, that are uncomfortable, that are triggering you, and that are pissing you off. Part of the practice of having gratitude is looking at the things that you don't want to be looking at, leaning into the discomfort, and learning from it.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Your inner work starts with setting healthy boundaries in your relationships.Boundaries are expectations and needs that help you feel safe and comfortable in your relationships, according to Nedra Glover Tawwab.Simply put, they help you prioritize self-care and allow your leadership to thrive.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Receiving feedback isn’t easy. It can be difficult to take criticism from others – even if it’s coming from a constructive place.But just like giving feedback to others allows us to move forward in relationship with others, allowing yourself to receive that feedback does the same. To receive feedback with curiosity, understanding, and self-compassion you need to do your own work, advocate for what you need, have a growth mindset, and integrate what you learned.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Being able to effectively provide feedback is an incredibly important leadership skill that needs to be cultivated. Why? So we can create healthy dialogue that allows us to effectively move forward in relationship with each other and get the work done.So how do you do it? Do your own work, frame up the conversation, listen with compassion, and create actions that allow for accountability. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

The average employee spends more than two hours per day on drama.Yup. You read that right. So how do we prevent this? How do we create aligned teams that are built on trust, clear communication, and shared goals? Design an alliance with your team that defines how you work so that you can do the work. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

We’re all entering into unchartered territory.As we return to work – whether that’s in-person, remote, or hybrid – we can’t go back to the way things were in February 2020. We’ve all had challenges and learnings over the past two years. Our priorities, desires, and mindsets have all changed. And while that might feel scary, I challenge you to join me in a stance of opportunity and optimism. We find ourselves now in the midst of a great reset. We have the chance to intentionally design how we work to best support our needs now. Let’s make the most of it. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

In the past two years, we’ve all experienced a massive shift. We’ve had to change the way we live and operate to adapt to the changing tides. Now, as people begin to reintegrate into society and head back into the office, we find ourselves in a moment in time where we have the opportunity – or perhaps the requirement – to change the way we do things based on what we need right now. Life doesn’t look the same as it did in February 2020. Our work shouldn’t either.This week on the podcast, I’m joined once again by Jason Doiron, co-owner of O Strategies, to talk about the company’s experiment of holding four-day workweeks. The result? Increased engagement, efficiency, and mental health benefits. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Designing meetings will make them meaningful, increase engagement, and enhance efficiency.  Not exactly news – but do you do it?Meetings can be tedious. Boring. You can find yourself and others fading, attempting to multitask, stressed to get real work done, or wondering how time could be used more effectively.In a time where we are redesigning how we work together – meetings need attention. What are the meetings that could be an email? That could be digital? That require us to be in person to cultivate connection and trust? Where are meetings that deliver information, versus ones where we dive deep into creative tension and ideate? In this episode, I’m joined by Jason Doiron, co-owner of O Strategies, to explore how to have more meaningful meetings.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

We’re all chasing what’s already within us. Confidence. This week, I’m thrilled to be joined by mindset coach Kirstin Battista to explore how to draw out the confident being that lives in all of us. Confidence looks and feels different for everybody. Tapping into it is a practice that has the power to change your life. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Do you ever watch something that resonates with you way more than you thought it would? That lights a fire under you? That inspires? Lizzo’s reality show “Watch Out For The Big Grrrls,” holds powerful leadership lessons around delivering feedback, self-accountability, shining a light on narratives and societal constructs, and owning your identities. These practices allow you to rise in your leadership. As Lizzo says, the world is waiting to hear from you. Will you speak up? For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

How do you navigate transition?Many of us are reintegrating back into society after two years of a global pandemic. Some of you might be starting a new job, shifting careers, or surfing any other waves of change life has thrown your way. That isn’t easy. Change isn’t easy. Let’s hold space to remember the leadership practices that allow us to tap into our resiliency through the changing tides.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

What do you do when it’s all too much? When the world feels heavy and your mind feels scrambled – how do you tap into your resilience?Airlines might have it right when they tell you to put your own mask on first. When the world is in disarray, it needs you to show up with kindness and compassion. Practice what it takes to get to that place even when it seems impossible. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Challenging times, volatility, and uncertainty won’t just disappear one day. We will always have muck sticking to our feet, fighting to bring us to the ground. So how do you fight it? How do you cut through the noise and rise? As leaders, we’re required to cultivate the conditions needed to practice resiliency in our leadership. Centre your why, connect with artifacts that remind you of what you stand for, and act as your own moral compass as you surf the waves.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Whether we suffer from it or perpetuate it, unconscious bias is all around us. Our brains climb the ladder of inference and make snap judgments and assumptions about others in the blink of an eye. So what is the leadership practice here to come into your agency to address and work on the biases you hold unconsciously? And what do you do when you’re facing unconscious bias yourself? It’s up to us as leaders to come into our own work and examine whether we’re cultivating spaces where diverse voices, perspectives, and lived experiences feel a sense of belonging.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

In the wake of the Spotify controversy surrounding Joe Rogan and the likes of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Brené Brown, and more, the question begs to be asked: how do we as leaders wield our influence and power? When making complex decisions that affect those around you… What do you say? How do you act? What do you share? As a leader, you center your values and wield your power and influence in a way that aligns with your leadership stance. How? By doing the inner work necessary to gain perspective, align your values, and stand beside your decisions.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Practicing your leadership means looking at who you are and who you are becoming. It means identifying your identities, examining how they intersect, understanding how they play into your power and privilege, and committing to doing your own work to understand your influence on others. Why? So we can understand ourselves and our leadership at a deeper level and so we can stand in a place of empathy, context, and perspective that is required to create places of equitable access into experiences, situations, conversations, and feelings of inclusion and belonging.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

We all get in the feels. Emotions are always present – but not always visible. Doing the work to make emotions visible allows us to collect data about ourselves and others, create healthy boundaries, and stand in a place of empathy. In this podcast, Saralyn is joined by artist, designer, graphic recorder, and so much more, Abby VanMuijen to talk about their Emotion Wheel – a tool that uses colour and language to help better understand how you're feeling and how to communicate those feelings to others.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

How do you trust yourself to make decisions in wobbly times? In this episode, Saralyn encourages you to stay with the wobbly, acknowledge your fears, and believe in yourself and your intuition. Decisions are sources of learning. Sit with your emotions, centre your values, identify your stance, and align with your purpose to self-author your path with conscious, learningful decisions.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Challenges. Grief. Setbacks. Growth. The pandemic has completely changed the way we live, work, and lead. It has forced us to tap into our resiliency. To prioritize rest. To redefine productivity. To learn countless lessons about ourselves, our leadership, and the world around us. As we near two years of living with Covid-19, let’s take a purposeful pause and reflect on what we’ve learned.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Grab your favourite pen, all. It’s time to do your own work. In this first episode of a two-part reflection series, Saralyn invites you to look back on your 2021 and all of its significant happenings and learnings, so you can begin to consciously craft meaningful commitments to your leadership and inner work moving into the New Year. Subscribe to our newsletter and receive a free worksheet filled with prompts used in this episode:  https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

In this second episode of a two-part reflection series, Saralyn invites you to take what you’ve learned from looking back on your year in order to consciously choose what practices – in your leadership and your life as a whole – you wish to take with you into 2022, and what you wish to leave behind. Subscribe to our newsletter and receive a free worksheet filled with prompts used in this episode:  https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

We’re taught to equate productivity with output. To bulldoze through even when we’re running on empty. To constantly do more. But what if we told you that notion is harming us, our teams, and our work? That reflection, relationship building, and even rest can be productive? In this episode, Saralyn is joined by Annika Voltan, Executive Director of the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia, to advocate for a drastic recalibration of how we define productivity for ourselves, our teams, and our organizations.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Team alignment matters. Why? The only way to create the meaningful change you were built for is to journey together with collective beliefs, actions, and behaviours towards your team’s purpose. But what does an aligned team actually look like? In Saralyn’s experience, an aligned team: actively defines and consciously works in a brave space that prioritizes psychological safety in order to hold difficult yet required conversations, deeply understands their shared priorities to ensure everyone and everything is pointed in the same direction, and operationalizes the behaviours of trust in a way that works for everyone on the team.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Create the intention, attention, and space required to cultivate psychological safety on your team. Why? So you can be intentional in your behaviours and align your heads, hearts, and efforts towards the impact you were formed for. How? Define it – Amy Edmondson defines psychological safety as “a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes.” Talk about it – Explore the lived experience of what psych safety looks like on your team. Cultivate it – Intentionally create the conditions and conversations needed to hold your team in brave spaces. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Teams must journey together. Both in the work itself, and by centring the team as the work.But how do you do that? How do you journey together to reflect on “us” as a team and build back stronger? In this week’s podcast, Saralyn explores how teams can benefit from the ferocity of reflection using the following practices:Reflection Studios – Take the time to integrate your collective learning and alignAdaptive Cycle – Examine how you behave together, creating space for new practicesOur No List – Create an inventory of what you have permission to not work onHopes & Fears – Explore your hopes and fears as a teamThe inner work of teams requires reflective, intentional practice so we can collectively learn and journey together. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

How do we work together? It may seem like a simple question, but it’s powerful. When teams talk about how they work together, they oil the machinery for doing the work together. In this episode, Saralyn explores asking this question through different lenses – accountability, power, discomfort, trust, and language – in order to hold a continual conversation around the required inner work of teams. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

As the podcast continues to hold conversations around optimizing team relationships and dynamics, Saralyn begins to explore the importance of focusing on the inner work of teams. In this episode, she explores the necessity of aligning and reflecting on your team’s behaviour, putting relationships at the centre of your team’s work, and doing your own work as a team so you can align towards your impact. Dysfunctions exist in every team. The inner work of teams is to journey together, intentionally.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Saralyn sits down with thought leader, social justice activist, and out-of-the-box thinker Tyler Colbourne to talk about how his new role has the power to pull one of the biggest levers in team dynamics of all time – focusing on the team so the team can focus on the work.This dedicated role sees the team as its work and cultivates the conditions to: Make space for conflict and difficult conversationsChallenge the status quo and patternsNavigate power and equityHold reflective pauses to integrate and take action Dance in the tension of empowerment and accountabilityHold relationships at the centre of it allThis is one of our 1:1 Power Conversations. We Learn Out Loud from Tyler’s experience in dedicating a role to cultivating the conditions for teams to thrive.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

We need to rethink burnout. It's no question that burnout is real and demands to be addressed. AND, there’s a rethink here.  Are the costs too heavily felt on the individual, and not enough on the organization? In this episode, Saralyn takes the stance of shifting the conversation around burnout from being something the individual is responsible for to an issue that teams and organizations need to acknowledge and address.  She is rethinking out loud in this episode how we approach burnout – that we need to shift our thinking and actions to seriously make a change here. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Gratitude means more than just giving thanks. It connects us to our joy, our vulnerability, and our self-belonging. In this episode, Saralyn discusses how incorporating simple gratitude rituals into your leadership practice can broaden your perspective on life so you have the resilience to ride the waves of chaos and uncertainty.  For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Being in community with others can be incredibly powerful. These spaces allow us to share our stories, learn from others who are on similar – or wildly different – leadership journeys, and take accountability to practice our inner work. In this episode, Saralyn discusses how harnessing the power of community allows us to turn up the volume on self-authoring your path, and turn down the volume on self-doubt. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Doing your own inner work is required. Rise in that responsibility. In this episode, host and leadership coach Saralyn Hodgkin explores why making the commitment to practice your own inner work – to ask yourself hard questions about your blind spots, triggers, strengths, and so much more – is essential to help you rise to your full leadership potential. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

What is your why? Understanding the reasons why you bring your agency out in the world in different ways – in your leadership, your relationships, your identity – is fundamental to your leadership practice. In our thirteenth episode, Saralyn discusses how clearly defining your why can act as a touchstone for you to orient your learning around on your leadership journey. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Let’s dive deeper into what it means to forge your own leadership journey. In our fourteenth episode, leadership coach Saralyn Hodgkin reflects on her own unique path, and explores the integral role that intuition plays in guiding you along your career path, rather than just following along with the narratives you’ve created for yourself, so that you can confidently create a path that aligns with the way you wish to live, love, and lead in this world. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

In the past year alone, over four million North Americans have quit their jobs in search of different opportunities that better align with their life, values, and leadership. At a time when the future seems unclear for many as they navigate their leadership journey, leadership coach Saralyn Hodgkin asks you to examine your timeline as one source of power to self-author your own path.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

What does it mean to practice self-care? In the words of self-described Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde, caring for one’s self is not an act of self-indulgence, but of self-preservation and political warfare. In this episode, leadership coach Saralyn Hodgkin explores how rest, relaxation, and refueling are required in your leadership practice so you can re-enter the world ready to rise.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Communicating your needs is important. It’s important simply because they’re yours. Own that. In this episode, Saralyn discusses why setting boundaries isn’t just helpful in your leadership practice, but why it’s required. Living and leading in alignment with your true, authentic self requires setting boundaries in relationships with others to protect your personal and professional needs. Listen to learn how to safely begin to set your own. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

This week, the Practice Your Leadership podcast tackled some overwhelming feelings you might encounter on your leadership journey, like stress and compassion fatigue. In today’s reflective episode, Saralyn helps you build your own resiliency toolkit – an essential pool of resources and practices to help you stand tall, grateful, and resilient in times of adversity. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Overwhelmed? Let movement act as your medicine. In our ninth episode, Saralyn explores the Nagoski Sisters’ concept of the stress cycle, the importance of dealing with stress itself – not just the stressor – and how this sometimes requires physically moving your body through a cycle of movement so you can come out on the other side ready to live, love, and lead.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Feeling powerless? Distressed? Like you’re caring for others more than yourself? In our tenth episode, Saralyn discusses compassion fatigue – a condition that many are dealing with during this pandemic that’s often described as the negative cost of caring. Saralyn walks you through the phases and symptoms of compassion fatigue and asks you to reflect on how compassion fatigue may be showing up in your life, in your teams, and in your leadership.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

In the past four episodes of our Growing Still series, you’ve begun to explore the importance of practicing inner work in order to foster a deeper relationship with yourself, others, and your leadership agency. You’ve also learned that this work can be incredibly hard, yet so rewarding. After beginning to examine the stories you tell yourself, dwelling in discomfort, and healing your wounds, Saralyn walks you through a reflective exercise to help unpack what you’ve learned.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

Practicing your inner work isn’t always easy, but it’s necessary in order to walk in alignment with the person and the leader you strive to be. In the third installment of our five-part Growing Still series, Saralyn discusses the importance of dwelling in the uncomfortable stories, narratives, and experiences you hold within yourself in order to find perspective and foster growth, and how exploring the discomfort in letting patterns that don’t serve yourself go is essential to your leadership practice.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

What does inner work mean for you? In the first installment of our five-part Growing Still series centering around practicing inner work to allow you to grow still and foster a deeper relationship with yourself, others, and your leadership agency, Saralyn dives deeper into the process of practicing your inner work. We’ll talk about how inner work requires you to unfold your self-awareness to explore your whole self, how it requires radical self-compassion you can only source from within, and how holding spaces for renewal can be revolutionary. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

After identifying the stories we tell ourselves and dwelling in discomfort, it’s time to heal your wounds so you can rise to your full leadership potential. In the fourth installment of our five-part Growing Still Series, Saralyn walks you through the work of healing by encouraging grieving, self-love, self-acceptance, and the importance of letting things go in order to shift patterns of behaviour that no longer serve ourselves or others in our lives. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

In the second installment in our five-part Growing Still series, Saralyn invites you to explore the stories and narratives you’ve constructed in your head, heart, and mind that have helped shape you for better or for worse. As part of practicing your inner work on your leadership journey, you’ll need to ask yourself what effect these stories have on your identity. Do these narratives serve you? Do they help you walk in alignment with the person and leader you strive to be? What can we let go of or reconstruct in order to make space for new narratives?For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

First times can be intimidating, uncomfortable, and nerve-wracking, but in this episode, we’ll explore why they’re necessary for growth in your leadership journey. As Saralyn embarks on a brand new opportunity hosting a podcast, she explores Brené Brown’s concept of Friggin First Times, how to work through them, and how gaining perspective can help you find the power within yourself to rise to your full potential and embrace new experiences, as scary as they may seem. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

How can we prepare ourselves to navigate our new reality? As the new school year approaches and her kids will soon return to in-person classes, Saralyn reflects on how adjusting to the world beginning to re-open after a year of social distancing will be a new experience for everyone. We’ll discuss the importance of setting boundaries with family and friends around what you’re comfortable with and setting expectations with yourself of what you’ll need in order to be resilient during this first time. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.

In Practice Your Leadership’s introductory episode, leadership coach Saralyn Hodgkin explores what it means to take on the stance that leadership is a practice and why it matters. We’ll discuss why leadership deserves to be talked about differently, how practicing your inner work allows you to step into the world ready to live, love, and lead, and how this show can help you forge your own self-authored path.For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.holonleadership.org/contact/newsletter/. Follow Saralyn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holon_leadership/?hl=en.Connect with Saralyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralynhodgkin/.Need help navigating your leadership journey? Learn more about Saralyn’s coaching services for individuals and teams today: https://www.holonleadership.org/services/.