My loves. This is episode 144 and it's all about leadership, what it is, what it isn't.

I remember coming across the concept of servant leadership, quiet leadership, and it actually

kind of scrambled my brain, I thought. Aren't leaders loud, colorful, vivacious, dynamic and out and front?

Aren't those some of the key characteristics of being effectual? And the answer is not always.

So this is a discussion about how unchecked ego can look like shiny, effectual leadership, but is actually destructive

and derailing teams from vision, and how heart-centered leadership, which is really about

being proactive with your woundedness so you don't bring your messiness to the table

and you aren't projecting all of your unheeled stuff onto your team.

Your team does not exist to make you feel like a better leader.

I also talk a bit about the fact that being a leader isn't about being popular. It's really about

having the courage to be visionary. And you can only have the courage to see into a more

ideal future when you have worked on your stuff. Please consider now or at the end of this episode

forwarding this to your team, your co-parents,

and any elected officials, because really this is about how to be more generous and how we

govern in all areas of our life. And I am so glad that you are here. So let's talk about

the ego as a foe, a false leader.

Lots of people in society-sanctioned leadership roles in politics, business, educators, moms and dads, coaches, mayors, social media, quote-unquote, influencers.

But they're not necessarily governing from higher consciousness,

even though they are in society-sanctioned leadership roles.

What we often have is a masquerade of wisdom or knowledge.

And this acting like a leader, it can happen from lots of people,

from a sweet, traditional mother, just playing the part of a parent. Or more obviously, it can come

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