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Joyful Leader

All things team culture, leadership, AND leader mental health. Leading your time, goals, team, and company are important. Your engagement, joy, balance, and badassery are even more important. We go deep into all of it on Joyful Leader.

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14:27

Your Job Is Not Your Purpose

Joyful Leader ·

2025/07/10

Last week we discussed purpose — and how it is always internal, never external. In our lives, we choose containers in which to express our purpose, including our jobs.This week, we’re exploring a specific aspect of this — feeling like you’ve lost your connection to purpose at work. If you’ve been there, you know. Feeling like the thing you're doing no longer lights you up like it used to. Tune in to talk about why this happens. And of course, what to do about it. Thanks for listening. Hungry for

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13:20

Finding Your Purpose

Joyful Leader ·

2025/07/03

I hear from a lot of people that they are looking for — or haven’t yet found — their purpose. In today’s episode, we’re going to clarify where purpose lives. And where it doesn’t.So many of us think of purpose as a thing — something outside of ourselves that will light us up when we finally encounter it. But this definition has us looking in the wrong place, and can make us feel like we’re on a never-ending, futile search for an elusive and magical grail. Boo to that. Let’s look for purpose where

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13:36

Radar

Joyful Leader ·

2025/06/26

An essential part of leadership is knowing where to direct your attention.Given the number of things we have on our plates at any one time and our finite attention, how do we choose? Today, we’re talking about a simple tool for directing your attention and honing your instincts about what to give your attention to. This tool is also exceptional for developing your team members' leadership instincts and the collective awareness of your entire team. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the

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9:49

Objectify Your Story About Yourself

Joyful Leader ·

2025/06/19

On a regular basis, my clients bring up observations about the way their companies operate, often in the context of their leadership teams. They notice default communication styles, teaching styles, decision-making processes . . . and many other behaviors and attitudes that set tone and culture at their organizations.And, sometimes, they feel like their observations are just about them. They’ll say, “It’s not a big deal, it’s just my preference, so it’s fine.” And I always lovingly interrupt them

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19:09

Confidence vs. Arrogance

Joyful Leader ·

2025/06/12

Confidence and arrogance are VERY different things. They are both emotions, but come from different mindsets, and look very different.AND YET. :) We sometimes confuse them. We think that our confidence will come across as arrogance. We also often think of arrogance as all bad, and judge it harshly in ourselves and others. Today on Joyful Leader, we’re breaking down each of these emotions. We’ll talk about their differences, why a nuanced understanding of them is important, and how to tell them

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16:14

Tool vs. Weapon

Joyful Leader ·

2025/06/05

We use so many tools throughout our lives and work — project management, life management, mind management. Tools, systems, frameworks, and rubrics are everywhere. These things are designed to help us, to make our lives easier and more efficient. But every tool can be turned into a weapon.Today we’re talking about using your tools for you, instead of turning them into weapons against you. We’ll talk about what this means, how you know you might be doing it, and what to do instead. Thanks for

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14:34

Rewiring Your Brain: Reps at the Gym

Joyful Leader ·

2025/05/29

We’re talking about how to think about the process of change — which is essentially rewiring your brain. When we change anything, we switch from an existing brain habit to a new one.Today we’re discussing how this process FEELS like it should just happen overnight, as soon as we become aware of us. That would be fantastic. But in reality, the process is like building muscle. Repetition is what creates tone and strength. I share more about this in today’s episode and walk you through how we

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11:15

Rewiring Your Brain: We Develop Habits For Good Reasons

Joyful Leader ·

2025/05/22

Every time we change anything in our lives — habit, relationship, attitude, anything — we are essentially rewiring the brain. We’re creating new patterns of thought, feeling, and action.Many times, our existing patterns have been around for a very long time. Creating new ones doesn’t happen overnight. Today and next week, I’m sharing how I help my clients avoid frustration along the way — by sharing the two ideas that make the process of rewiring your brain feel like progress and momentum. Today,

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14:28

How to Plan Your Week

Joyful Leader ·

2025/05/15

Get ready to connect all the dots.In the last several episodes, we’ve been talking about using time well, and today, we’re bringing all the concepts together in a step-by-step guide to planning your week. This process gives you time for your highest priorities, clarity, allowance for emergencies, and a greater sense of calm about your week. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on this podcast? Visit mimigordon.com to find articles, classes, and other resources. Or to

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19:26

Doing: Following Through on Your Plan

Joyful Leader ·

2025/05/08

Today, we’re talking about the third phase of the accomplishment and time usage process: doing.While doing the thing — task, project, conversation — might seem like the most straightforward part, you and I know that it’s sometimes the part that feels most fraught. There are all kinds of external distractions and obstacles — the world doesn’t stop to honor our project priorities. But also, we experience internal obstacles. And today, we’re talking about all of it. I’ll share how I recommend you

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13:01

Deciding vs. Intending

Joyful Leader ·

2025/05/01

Way back a few episodes ago, when we launched the series about using your time well, I mentioned the idea of deciding vs. intending.It was sort of a gloss-over moment, but it’s a hugely important idea. I’ve gotten so many questions about this difference. Today, we’re looking at this concept, which is pivotal in understanding your time decisions (and many other things). It’s key to understanding why things that are important to you do or don’t happen. In fact, understanding this difference — and

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21:10

How Much Time Things Take

Joyful Leader ·

2025/04/24

I’ve thought it many times. And hear it often from clients.An obstacle to planning our time is that we don't know how much time things take. Surprising but true, this is the very definition of a self-fulfilling prophecy. When we believe it, that’s exactly what we experience. Inspired by a recent client conversation, we're going inside the brain, looking step-by-step at how this plays out. And then we’ll jump into the opposite thought process — that we decide how much time things take. If there are

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22:09

Time Design

Joyful Leader ·

2025/04/17

Continuing in our series about using time in alignment with our values and priorities, today we're talking about design.So many of us have experienced the feeling that time got away from us. Or the sense that our day got derailed. How we approach designing our time can make all the difference in minimizing or eliminating these experiences. In today's episode, I share my top three time-design recommendations. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on this podcast? Visit

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17:49

What to Prioritize

Joyful Leader ·

2025/04/10

We have more demands on our time now than we ever have. With all the noise, it can be difficult to figure out what to prioritize.Especially given that our mental, physical, and emotional resources are limited. We can't possibly do everything. In today's episode, we're talking about how to make that decision. I'll give you my take on what to prioritize when planning your time or your team's time. Links mentioned in this

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25:22

Time Decisions

Joyful Leader ·

2025/04/03

We’re slowing down to take a look at how we use our time.In this episode, we’ll look specifically at how we make decisions about time. We’ll ask two incredibly important time decision questions. One: when are we deciding how we use our time? And two: what do we decide to prioritize? I’ll share what three decisions I recommend you make and when to make sure your time usage aligns with your highest priorities. We’ll also talk about: constraint, making trade-offs, and setting priorities in a world of

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19:20

Time + Using it Well

Joyful Leader ·

2025/03/27

Many of my clients want to work on how they use their time.Sometimes in their personal lives — spending more time with family, for example. Sometimes in their professional lives — using their work hours for what’s meaningful and important. or working on those meaningful, important things when they have the greatest energy to give. No matter what their time use goals, the theme is wanting to use their most precious resource well. In alignment with their values. Today kicks off a series of episodes

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17:18

My Recent Experience Feeling Less Than 100%

Joyful Leader ·

2025/03/20

I recently had an experience that threw me. It was challenging mentally, physically, and emotionally. And for several weeks I didn’t feel like myself.But out of this came an opportunity I didn’t expect. I could see how I responded, what skills and techniques I used, and how I led myself through this experience differently than past challenges. It was imperfect. And messy. And I’m proud of myself for all of it. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on this podcast? Visit mimigordon.com to

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17:58

Impostor Syndrome

Joyful Leader ·

2025/03/13

I’m going to say it right off the bat: I don’t like the term impostor syndrome (or imposter if that’s your preference).It implies sickness, something for which we need treatment. And that it’s somehow something we “come down with.” Though I don’t love the term, it describes a very real experience of very many real human beings. 🙂 So today we’re going to break it down — what is it, why does it happen, and what can you do if you’re experiencing it? Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the

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16:33

Direct Your Spotlight

Joyful Leader ·

2025/03/06

Imagine you’re watching a play.And the theater has a spotlight operator — someone who directs a beam of focus on the appropriate dialogue or action at any given moment. This focus isn’t the only thing happening — other scenery, other characters — but it’s the most useful thing happening. The focus is on the thing that moves the story forward. Our brains have this spotlight ability — to focus on one thing amid myriad possibilities. And today on the podcast, we’re talking about how to use this

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13:27

Scientific Mindset

Joyful Leader ·

2025/02/27

Let’s talk about science. The scientific mindset, specifically.Last week, I shared that there are two skills that help us build habits that look big and impressive from the outside, but feel easy and delightful from the inside — embracing small steps and adopting a scientific mindset. And today we’re talking all about the latter. So often, when we try new things or start new routines, it can feel like we’re going for success — let’s get this 100% right, right away. But looking at change as an

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