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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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16:30

The Anatomy of a Decision

Joyful Leader ·

2025/08/21

On today’s Joyful Leader, we’re talking more about decisions.Specifically, how to break down a decision into its component parts — or anatomy — and how doing this can help us make the right decisions in the right amount of time. Whether you’re applying this to your own life, to your team, or to your company, this breakdown will be tangible and immediately implementable. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on this podcast? Visit mimigordon.com to find articles,

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13:33

Decisions: Yes AND No

Joyful Leader ·

2025/08/14

Decisions are how we move forward and generate momentum in our lives and work. We decide, we move forward, we learn . . . lather, rinse, repeat.Over the next few episodes, we’re going to talk about decisions — what they are, how to make them at the right pace, and what makes a decision good. We’re starting with the idea of full decision-making. Or, acknowledging and understanding that every decision we make has a no that corresponds to its yes. And vice versa. So often, we make decisions for

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29:07

Trust Fundamentals

Joyful Leader ·

2025/08/07

When I first began supervising people, one of the first components of my management training was a session all about building trust.Trust is fundamental. It’s a building block of a healthy culture and a great work environment. It may just be THE building block — the thing without which you can’t create anything else. It’s always stuck with me that this was the first thing I learned — correctly placed in order and importance. Today, we’re going to talk about trust. I’ll share components of building

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22:51

Culture Eroder: Wasting Time

Joyful Leader ·

2025/07/31

The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it.And today, we’re talking about a big culture eroder: wasting people’s time. Time wasting often happens in some predictable buckets. Today on the podcast, we’ll dive into each of them so you can spot whether these are happening at your company or on your team. And nip them in the bud. I’ll also share the culture builder that prevents time wasting and creates the culture you want, not one you don’t. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more

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10:44

Goals Are For Skill-Building, Not Worth-Building

Joyful Leader ·

2025/07/24

In my community, we do goals. We love goals. Setting them, achieving them.And, we do goals in some very specific ways. Today I’m sharing my rules for goals, starting with the biggest and most important: goals are about skill-building, and never, ever about worth-building. Let’s talk more — about what this means, about the other goal rules that will help you have an amazing relationship to your own growth, and about how to apply the same rules to support, supervise and catapult the growth of your

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18:10

Emotional Fuel

Joyful Leader ·

2025/07/17

Our emotions are like fuel in our tanks.They take us where we need to go, and like actual fuel, have different properties. Some burn clean for miles and miles. Others burn hot and fast and powerful over a short distance. Today on Joyful Leader, we’re talking about emotions as fuel — why willpower is only useful to a point, and how to fill your tank with the fuel that will take you the distance. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on this podcast? Visit mimigordon.com

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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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