What happens when leadership is not a position you hold, but a way you think, connect, act, and take responsibility?

And what are people learning from how you show up, especially when you think no one is watching?

In episode 9 of Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana, host Tina Eliana sits down with Bethany Rees, author of Leadership on the Rocks. It’s a candid, funny, faith-rooted conversation about influence, mindset, emotional intelligence, relationships, communication, accountability, family, integrity, and leading when life gets complicated.

Because leadership is not something you switch on after receiving a title.

Bethany Rees is a leadership coach, educator, speaker, author, entrepreneur, and CEO. Drawing from her experience as a teacher, school administrator, business owner, wife, and mother, Bethany brings practical wisdom and plenty of humor to leading people well at work and at home.

Tina and Bethany explore questions that reach far beyond organizational charts:

• When does leadership begin if nobody has given you a title?
• How do our attitudes, actions, and silence influence the people around us?
• What are others learning from how we carry difficult seasons?
• How can leaders interrupt emotional reactions before those reactions take control?
• Why are curiosity and emotional intelligence essential during conflict?
• Why should leadership begin at home before it appears at work?
• How can vulnerability help others navigate leadership for themselves?

The conversation moves through faith, family, difficult work environments, communication breakdowns, workplace email culture, boundaries, follow-through, systems, hard conversations, and the responsibility to model what we expect from others.

There are moments of laughter, honesty, and reflection that may make you reconsider what your behavior is teaching, how your internal dialogue shapes your external leadership, and whether the people closest to you are receiving your best or only what remains after work takes its share.

MEET BETHANY REES

Bethany Rees is the author and host of Leadership on the Rocks. She provides leadership coaching, training, and keynote speaking, with a special focus on new and emerging leaders.

Learn more and connect with Bethany:

jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com/bethany-rees

ABOUT JAM SESSIONS WITH TINA ELIANA

Jam Sessions With Tina is a leadership podcast hosted by Tina Eliana that explores intentional leadership beyond titles, positions, and organizational charts.

Here, we leave the titles at the door.

Through candid conversations across industries, communities, cultures, and lived experiences, Jam Sessions With Tina examines how people lead, influence, build relationships, navigate uncertainty, and shape the lives of others, often long before anyone officially calls them a leader.

No pedestal. No pretending.

Just meaningful conversations about how we show up, what we learn, and the influence we carry into the lives of others.

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Follow Jam Sessions With Tina Eliana for more conversations about intentional leadership, emotional intelligence, communication, accountability, personal growth, relationships, and leading without titles.

Where are you already leading without recognizing the influence you carry?

Explore episodes, guest spotlights, and more:

https://www.jamsessionswithtinaeliana.com/

ABOUT TINA ELIANA

Tina Eliana is a Leadership and Learning Systems Expert, author, speaker, podcast host, and community builder who helps people recognize the leader within themselves and helps organizations strengthen leadership through intentional learning systems.

Across her work is a simple belief:

Leadership isn’t reserved for people with titles.