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This one is a little different.

After seven episodes of tracing organizational silence through policies, systems, and the people they affect, Dr. Ashley Newcomb steps back — and gets personal.

It started with a trip to Savannah, Georgia with two of her nieces. And what that trip reminded her of became the foundation for this episode: that the most resilient leaders and followers are never people whose entire identity lives inside their professional role. They are people who have built a life that is bigger than their career.

In this episode, Dr. Newcomb shares her own story — including the toxic leadership experience that sent her straight into a Master's program, and eventually a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership. She talks about what it means to be more than your title. About the research on what happens to people who retire having identified only as their job. About the particular guilt that women carry when they choose to have both a career and a life. And about what personal resilience actually has to do with organizational resilience.

Because you cannot pour from an empty cup. And an organization full of empty cups is not resilient. It is one crisis away from collapse.

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Topics covered in this episode:
Work-life balance | Personal resilience | Organizational resilience | Professional identity | Women in leadership | Leadership burnout | Personal development | Self-care for leaders | Retirement identity crisis | Permission to rest | Leadership sustainability | Followership wellbeing | Career and family | Mental health at work | Whole-person leadership