When you carry unfinished thoughts, feelings, and behaviors from one place to another, you live in a space where you don’t get to move yourself forward in a complete way. Your toxic boss from two jobs ago comes with you and impacts how you feel about your current amazing boss. Your perfectionism from high school AP classes still impacts how you make decisions about whether a project at work is good enough. When you look for “closure”, often that comes in the form of looking for help or apology from someone else – this means that someone else controls whether you get to feel like a situation is closed. But when you seek “completion”, you get a chance to do the work within yourself to determine to how to move yourself forward.

Join the conversation as John and Lauren explore how using completion as a tool has helped them – and how it can support you as a leader!

"What do you want?" is a question that can cause a feeling of dread for busy leaders. When there's so much going on, so many decisions to make, and so much to DO, stopping to think about what we want can be completely overwhelming, and so . . . we avoid even thinking about what we want. Join the conversation about how to start thinking about YOU in the swirl of busyness!

Today, Lauren and John explore the four step formula to get transformational results for yourself -- both professionally and personally. Join the conversation as we talk about how to use the formula, especially for the areas that we may not focus on as much when we're high achievers.

When we become leaders, it's because we've gotten really, really good at one (or many) things, and we're seen as the experts. This makes new beginnings -- well -- extra scary. In this episode, John and Lauren talk about why being a beginner is so hard and makes us want to run away and hide under the bed and what can be amazing about being a beginner. Join the conversation as we try to make the scary position of being a beginning just a little more fun!

We've seen so many companies have their ups and downs in the way they treat their most important assets: people. We've seen leadership fluctuate from "work from home is here to stay!" to "everyone back to the office because we don't trust you" and everything in between. Join the conversation as we talk about what the cost is of not treating humans as assets you need to protect, and also, what the benefits of recognizing how valuable your people are can be.

Leaders work hard to keep up with the required training and education we think we need in order to get paid, promoted, and respected. But as adults, we forget we're also allowed to choose what we want to learn at any age and stage -- and we forget we're allowed to carve out time for getting curious about, well, anything we want! Join the conversation as we talk about what it's like to choose our way through professional development (it's more exciting than you think!).

What if the universe isn't out to get you, but instead, it's out to help you? Today, we're talking about how the things that happen TO us might be happening FOR us -- don't worry, no toxic positivity in this episode (and we'll address the difference between toxic positivity and constructive moving forward!). Join the conversation as we explore what happens when we believe the universe is on our side.

Season 2 is here with all new topics about being both a leader and a human! We're kicking off with a dialogue about the value of taking a break.

So many of us live in the assumption that if we start something, we absolutely must finish it or risk being seen as a quitter or a failure. The truth is that taking a break, deciding to pause or even end something, can be really powerful. Join the conversation as we dig into our break from the podcast and other breaks we've both chosen to take in our lives.