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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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12:16

Overdoing: The Game of Avoid + Seek

Joyful Leader ·

2026/04/16

Overdoing.It doesn’t matter what. Work. Netflix. Pinot. If you are taking an action over and over again that has a negative effect on your life, here’s what’s important to know: all overdoing is a pattern of avoidance + seeking. We’re avoiding something (usually a feeling), and seeking something else (see earlier parenthetical). And often, this pattern has us trying to “fix” a “problem” with the entirely wrong solution. On today’s podcast, we’re going to talk about how to bring this to light, and

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12:28

Busy Season, Crunch Time + Launch Week, OH MY!

Joyful Leader ·

2026/04/02

Most of us have experienced a “busy season” — either because our work flows in seasons, or because of project crunch time, or for some other “work is going to get wild for the next few weeks” reason.The thing about busy season (no matter what you call it in your world) is that it has a sneaky way of keeping itself alive and relevant. Meaning the more we accept it as fact and brace for it, the more stressful it can become. On today’s Joyful Leader, we’re breaking down why this is and what to do

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18:17

Getting it All Done

Joyful Leader ·

2026/03/19

If you added up every incoming request, data point, question, and flashing blip that enters your brain daily, the number would be enormous.Many of us walk around carrying these things as psychic weight, feeling pressure and burden about not being able to get it all done, or respond quickly enough. Today, we’re going to break down some of the twisted socialization that’s at play here and peel back the layers of this situation, so that we can look at it from a different angle. If you are one of the

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9:22

Overwork Causes Underperformance

Joyful Leader ·

2026/03/05

One of the things my clients and I find when coaching about working less is a subconscious belief that if they work less, they will somehow be worse at their jobs — their brains have linked the quantity of their hours to the quality of their performance.Today on this podcast, we’re talking about why the exact opposite is true — how overwork actually causes underperformance, and why working less drives up the quality of our work. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on

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0:18

Quick heads up: podcast frequency update

Joyful Leader ·

2026/03/05

Hey everyone! After this week's episode, Joyful Leader will now be released every TWO weeks. See you in a couple of weeks. 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 schedule a free 60-minute consultation to talk about working with me as your coach. You can also find me on Instagram @mimigordoncoaching. Help other people find exactly what they’re looking for — take two minutes to rate

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14:02

The Big Truth Blocker

Joyful Leader ·

2026/02/26

Do you know your own truth? About your relationship with your job, for example? Or to specific family members? Do you know the truth of what you want in your life, and what you don’t?I’ve spoken to so many incredible people who feel like they’ve lost touch with what they want — they tell me they used to know, but can’t access it anymore . . . or that they feel overwhelmed when they even ask themselves the question. In our lives, many, many things act as obstacles between us and the voice inside us

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13:27

Future Orientation, Forward Momentum

Joyful Leader ·

2026/02/19

There's a trait that's common amongst good leaders: future orientation and forward momentum.These two things, when combined, create a sense of energy, agency, and self-esteem within leaders themselves and within the teams and organizations they serve. Today on the podcast, we're going to break down what these things are, why they're helpful, and how you can embody them. 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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11:23

Meeting Your Own Needs

Joyful Leader ·

2026/02/12

There's a model that I bet you've seen many places. In relationships — whether those relationships are romantic, friendships, or employment-related — we have needs, and it’s the responsibility of other people to meet them.This leaves us waiting for other people to notice our needs, which we may or may not have expressed. It leaves us waiting for them to take action to meet them. It leaves us waiting. Today, I’m making a pitch for thinking about this differently. And for meeting your own needs

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14:15

Taking In vs. Taking On

Joyful Leader ·

2026/02/05

We all face challenges in our work and lives, and we all make mistakes and find ourselves in uncharted territories — situations that we’ve never encountered before, and so need to learn to navigate.How well we navigate these moments, how quickly we move through their challenges, and how much we learn from them often comes down to one thing: what we make them mean. I sometimes describe this as whether we “take on” a situation (making it mean something about who we are, wearing it like a weight) or

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15:43

Culture Eroder: Assumption of Inclusion

Joyful Leader ·

2026/01/29

Today, we’re talking about another culture eroder: the assumption of inclusion.Assuming inclusion is often innocent — it’s the assumption that if we haven’t heard that we’re being exclusive, we must be doing alright. And while this is sometimes true, often, we’re being unintentionally exclusive in ways we can’t see. This can happen in the context of the diversity of our team, but in other ways, too. Some of which are quickly and easily corrected. We’ll talk about both, and I’ll also gush about one

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18:54

Receiving Feedback

Joyful Leader ·

2026/01/22

We’ve been talking all about feedback — focused mostly on giving.Today, we’re turning around some of the tools we’ve discussed and applying them to receiving feedback. We’ll talk about how to identify the feedback you want, and how to make sure you get it. And, we’ll discuss why getting in the habit of asking for feedback is so important — for you AND your team. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on this podcast? Visit mimigordon.com to find articles, classes, and

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25:37

Giving Actionable Feedback

Joyful Leader ·

2026/01/15

Good feedback is actionable. It allows the person hearing it to know exactly what to stop, start, or continue doing — immediately. And, the best feedback puts these things in the context of a larger goal or purpose.Today we’re going to talk about all of this — a rich, saturated episode of feedback approaches + tools that you can begin using immediately. Thanks for listening. Hungry for more of the things we talk about on this podcast? Visit mimigordon.com to find articles, classes, and other

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21:01

The Feedback Mindset

Joyful Leader ·

2026/01/08

In our second feedback episode, we’re talking all about mindset.Last week we talked about the mindset challenge — what stops us from giving feedback enough to create a habit. And this week, we’re talking about the feedback mindset to cultivate. Whether a small note or a more weighty performance conversation, there are common ways to think about the feedback we’re giving. 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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17:45

Feedback: Why It’s Important and What Gets in The Way

Joyful Leader ·

2026/01/01

Your team’s results are created in your culture. » Your culture is built on trust. » Good feedback is essential for trust-building and growth. » Feedback is important.Today is the first of several episodes all about feedback: why it’s important, what gets in the way, what makes feedback good, how to build a healthy feedback culture on your team, and strategies for delivering it well. Whew. Tune in for this first episode, where we’ll talk about the purpose of feedback, its link to the cultural

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5:32

A Lovely Little Metaphor

Joyful Leader ·

2025/12/25

Today’s podcast is a story.I’m sharing a beautiful metaphor created by a client many years ago in a moment of new understanding. It’s short, sweet, and a perfect reminder for everyone. 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 schedule a free 60-minute consultation to talk about working with me as your coach. You can also find me on Instagram @mimigordoncoaching. Help other people

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13:14

Value

Joyful Leader ·

2025/12/18

Look up right now and you’ll likely find some reinforcement of the message that what makes you valuable in your professional life is the number of hours you put in. Or the number of tasks you check off your list.Many of us are taught early in our careers that these are the things that determine our value. Which can create a never-ending chase toward longer hours and more tasks in order to offer greater value. This is a hamster wheel. Today, we’re talking about what really determines the value we

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8:29

"I don't know what I want."

Joyful Leader ·

2025/12/11

Today’s episode is all about a single sentence: I don’t know what I want.This thought can create a truly paralyzing cycle of confusion and stuckness. It’s vicious. And it’s never, ever true. I’ve worked with so many people who struggle with what they want: in their careers, relationships, etc. And every time this thought enters the picture, it does damage. Let’s talk about what happens when we think this seemingly innocent and true little sentence. And what to do when it seems true, but is stopping

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31:11

Emotional Resistance

Joyful Leader ·

2025/12/04

True facts: I didn’t really know how to process my emotions until I was in my 40s. Like many of my GenX cohorts, teaching and attending to emotional fluency hadn’t been part of my upbringing.So when I experienced discomfort or emotional pain, I usually resisted it, pushing it away and finding a way to distract myself from it. Today on the podcast, we’re talking about emotional resistance — the process of avoiding discomfort — and what it costs us. We’ll also talk about the huge gains that result

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20:16

Culture Eroder: Lack of Appreciation

Joyful Leader ·

2025/11/27

The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it.This episode is the next installment of the culture eroder (and corresponding culture builder) series. And today’s culture eroder is: lack of appreciation. Lack of appreciation—whether it’s an organization-wide mindset or a simple lack of thanking people for their work—leads to disengagement, feeling unseen, and many other things that drag your team down. Appreciation is really about awareness, and on today's episode, we’ll talk about

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12:28

Resistance

Joyful Leader ·

2025/11/20

You feel called, drawn, compelled. To a project, a role, a career.And this thing that you feel drawn to, you also feel incredible resistance to. You avoid putting yourself in the chair and doing the work. You fight your way through doubt and overwhelm as you do it. You dread the delivery of the thing you created. Welcome to resistance — the force that often shows up between us and what we’re here on the planet to do. What is it? Why is it? Is it normal? We’ll answer all these questions and more on

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