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Rob McNamara is an author, leadership coach, advisor and consultant with expertise in adult development and human performance. Co-founder of consulting firm Delta Developmental and faculty member for the Ivey School of Business’ LIFT Advanced Coaching Program, he advises, trains, and coaches on a broad range of initiatives for individuals, organizations, and governments navigating complex, civilization-wide problems. In this emergent conversation, they explore the necessity to inquire into ways you are failing as a leader, rather than emphasizing expertise. Our insatiable human desire to acquire more - extracting of ourselves and our World. The gestalt of maturity through ensoulment, development and liberation, and Rob sharing his edge which leads to an emergent insight. For links and show notes: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Are you a service provider struggling financially, despite having a very successful practice? In today’s ‘Dear Chela’, I answer a therapist’s question about how to make ends meet, speaking to: the wider context of the struggling economy and the historical possibility of supporting large families on a single income in comparison to today’s conditions. I offer possible tangible shifts - including reassessing business models and alternative income sources. I encourage seeking support - both seen and unseen - focusing on building relationships, connecting with peers, leaning into their deep spirituality and joining communities of practice. I close with encouraging an honouring of the Winter they are in and to allow time to incubate ideas. To submit to Dear Chela: https://cheladavison.com/dear-chela-submission/  

Known for her raw, honest, and nuanced approach to spirituality and the healing arts, Elizabeth DiAlto is an Embodiment Specialist, a Mystic, and host of the Embodied Podcast. In this episode, Elizabeth describes the journey towards her Soul’s work - how being a personal trainer in NYC led to questioning societal beauty standards, inspiring her to create her own business. They explore: Elizabeth’s unique capacities - including committing to being unabashedly herself and a love of comedy. Humour, humanity, and humility in our Soul's journey and alchemizing anger into something useful. The image trap of being "evolved”, and the importance of clear community agreements for safe spaces to actually be safe. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Rachel Flood is a technology enthusiast, operations consultant, and enterprise architect with over 20 years experience in for-profit and non-profit sectors. She is passionate about leveraging systems to simplify and automate mundane manual tasks, freeing up the ‘beautiful minds’ of operational workers - insisting the work should be repeatable, but the person not replaceable. In this episode, Rachel discusses hiring operational help - including training up current employees. She emphasizes the importance of spending time on system implementation and documentation for sustainability and scalability potential. Her course “Stop Using Spreadsheets” teaches a 5-step process designed to help people doing good things in the World do what they do - but better. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

In this episode, I share some massive shifts in my life's work over the past couple of years through devices I use with clients - calling, seasonality and impact statement - in the hopes that it may contribute to your own unfoldings. I discuss the four cornerstones of a calling, how mine has been evolving and personal experience of a “forced winter” to heal and do the inner work. An unexpected hobby that led to claiming a dream I've had since I was a child, and what this all means in terms of a decade’s body of work and what I'm doing with it in order to deeply heed this call. For links and show notes go to: https://cheladavison.com/podcast

Heidi Rose Robbins has been a professional astrologer for 25 years, helping thousands of global clients live with more authenticity and clarity. She hosts two podcasts, THE RADIANCE PROJECT, featuring poetry, astrology, and good company, and CHART YOUR CAREER, with co-host Ellen Fondiler. She’s written two poetry books and has been a featured poet at two TedX events. Her latest book, Everyday Radiance, launched this January. In this episode, Heidi beautifully weaves astrological language throughout as she describes her work's evolution, as well as astrology as a developing field. She speaks to the growth and importance of connections, and how astrology shapes her life, business and connections with her children. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast  

Feeling personal-developed-OUT? Pounded with ways to progress, longing to just ‘be’? Done with morning routines - burning to pump the brakes on evolving for a single moment - so you can just sip your darn coffee in peace!? Then check out this episode of Dear Chela, as I speak to external expectations and overwhelming standards that have us feeling ‘never enough’. I talk input detoxes, awareness of internal stories and remind you to check intentions when it comes to morning practices. I offer a practice to lean into what’s sufficient and set fire to standards,  leaving you with an excerpt from my solo show that speaks to this endless pressure to evolve. To submit to Dear Chela: https://cheladavison.com/dear-chela-submission/  

Tired of being tired? Does hustle and grind culture have you by the short and curlies? If you’ve set your hopes on regenerative ways of living and working - wondering how you’ll know when you’ve exited cycles of hustling & grinding - this episode is for you! Jacquie read my article ‘Discipline & Heat = Spaciousness & Relief’ and resonated with the quote: ‘I have worked so hard not to work so hard’. After 30+ years grinding, she asks - “How do I know, see, feel - when I’ve shifted away from the grind?” I offer ways to explore her beliefs, behaviours and ways of checking during a grind spell, and a possible new, regenerative way of being. To submit to Dear Chela: https://cheladavison.com/dear-chela-submission/  

Gayle Colman is a certified financial planner, coach, writer and entrepreneur. With four decades of professional experience in financial planning, her diverse training infuses Integral coaching and spiritual embodiment with practical financial savvy to bring somatic finance to life as an entirely new way of understanding and being in relationship with money. In this episode, Gayle names the necessity to bring the wisdom of our body to all matters of money in order to make whole human financial decisions. How building embodied sufficiency vs. scarcity helps to navigate external fear forces, how fully inhabiting our body moves us towards generosity and why ‘money is energy’ glosses over a deeper conversation. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.  

Recently, I wrote a blog post called ‘Such a loser’, and had some varied responses. One turned into a beautiful back and forth with a new reader. Part of her response was the question ‘Are you okay?’, which I was so touched by, and further went on to ask - ‘Do some people experience emotions differently?’ - naming that if she’d felt how I had described - she’d be worried. In this episode of Dear Chela, I discuss my own journey developing emotional capacity, speak to what capabilities can be built to expand your own - and how the not-so-positive emotional experiences can ‘hurt more, but bother us less’ when we develop in this way. For links & shownotes, go to: cheladavison.com/podcast  

Melanie Sheckels is a registered nurse and a death, grief and trauma educator/guide, helping hundreds of humans move from fear and freeze into possibility and ease. Melanie founded ‘Threshold Doula’ in 2019 after 7 years as a cardiac and hospice nurse, helping people navigate the healthcare system and dying process with greater understanding and confidence. In this episode, Melanie shares about her mother’s passing which led to stepping into this leadership. How the Western medical system relates to the dying process (and an alternative approach for regret-free transition), a reframe for ‘legacy’ and our part in the wider web of life, and ways to navigate expected and unexpected deaths. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Jennifer Chapman is the founder of ‘Ambition Leadership’ which she leaped into on Leap Day 2012 - with a desire to build a company that embodied the leadership behaviours it promoted. She is an expert Leadership Coach working with STEM managers and leaders who want to increase their productivity and performance by strengthening their competence and people skills. In this episode, Jennifer provides practical tools for how to manage your boss - whether you have one or are one, varying personality types in the workplace and how to honour them, possibilities to influence culture without hierarchical power and an invitation to consider what type of work culture we want to belong to. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Meet The Call explores what a calling is and how we go about meeting it. Chela speaks to how a calling is part of us, but also beyond us. She names common patterns noticed when heeding a call - both her own and with her clients - including what our callings care about and what they don’t. She speaks to misconceptions - like the notion that aligned callings should feel easy. Chela muses that perhaps our calling is always asking something new of us, inviting us to the question ‘What is calling to you right now?’. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Ali Phillips founded ‘Bust A Move Dance’ in 2009 - one of Australia’s first inclusive dance companies for children, teens and adults with disabilities - at age 17. Diving into entrepreneurship at an early age, she soon developed a passion for both teaching and leadership. In this episode, she speaks about how who we are is how we lead and how sensing into body and mind simultaneously, as well as defining and aligning with our core values, allows us to show up in leadership and in the World authentically. Ali defines self-awareness as a superpower, and the more we know ourselves, the better we can show up aligned in our purposeful work. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key Guiding Principles in her work and business. Post-Capitalist Business is the exploration of that as a possibility. She invites us into this conversation of imagination and experimentation, unpacking what is seen - how our planet is ravaged by capitalism and those values are deeply ingrained within us - and what she cannot yet fully see - what would a post-capitalist World look like? If the whole system is not to crumble entirely in our own lifetimes, what is possible now, and what small steps might we boldly take towards answering the brave question of ‘What World do I want to belong to?' For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

While working in senior leadership roles in corporate Australia, Gabrielle realised the power of storytelling in effective business communication. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker, educator and author of ‘Real Communication’, ‘Stories For Work’ and her latest book, ‘Magnetic Stories’. In this episode, she challenges corporate norms that facts and figures are primarily what matters, and instead describes the influential power of storytelling, both internally with your team and externally with the consumer. She helps us differentiate sucky stories from sticky stories, discusses how emotional impact of story precedes logic in consumer decisions and demonstrates how, when told well, our ordinary human stories can truly be extraordinary. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Interdependent Emergence is the exploration of how through braiding together our individual and collective gifts, we can co-create a world we can belong to and thrive in. Chela discusses how this lens can help us co-create with both seen and unseen forces, enabling us to bring about opportunities and possibilities that our own imaginings simply could not conjure alone. She provides the comforting thought that we are not meant to do it all, and that by leaning into interdependent emergence, we can also sink deeper into our own unique genius. For links and show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast.

Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, bestselling author and mother. She’s the founder of the Origin Company, a multimedia company reaching hundreds of thousands globally and the author of Do Less. She’s on a mission to collectively reimagine work and have more by doing less. In this episode she shares the principles and practices that underpin her work, how working with seasons, cycles and our bodies’ rhythms are revolutionary in a culture and system of extraction. She shares her own personal challenges, stories and wisdom that contribute to the mission she’s stewarding and how shifting from a me to we orientation of leadership is changing everything. She’s funny, brilliant and bringing it. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast/

TJ Dawe is a Vancouver based writer, director and performer of new theatre. He's toured to more than one hundred theatre festivals on four continents. He leads a course on creating a one person show and has built a 20 year + successful career in the arts in a niche that’s fully and uniquely ‘him’. In this episode, TJ shares wisdom, science and experience around the key ingredients to leading a creative life, bringing forth art in many forms. He addresses the importance of personal developmental work to combat the ego’s sneaky ways of sabotaging one's art, creativity and leadership. Think you’re not an artist? TJ challenges you to think again. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Sigrid Tasies is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author of the book “Intimacy Within”, and host of the top rated Podcast “Sacred Leaders”. In this episode, Sigrid dives into what it means to lead from the inside out and the necessity for leaders to be doing deep inner work in order to truly lead others (versus leading from and for individualistic ends). They talk about what it means to embody knowledge versus operating from surface or cognitive understanding, models for leadership that attends to right relations with self, others and nature, the power of plant medicine and the prison of identity that can grow alongside success. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast