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The Power Shift: Embracing Team Authority for Entrepreneurial Success
For decades the model was simple. One brilliant leader sits at the top, holds every answer, and the team waits for direction. Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler open this episode by naming exactly why that model...
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Mastering Intentional Leadership: Where's Your Energy Really Going?
Heather McGonigal opens this episode by naming energy as a resource with real limits, and Barbara Schindler builds out the framing they use at Leadership With a Twist: mindset, intention, and self-awareness. The...
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Navigating Modern Leadership: Authenticity Amidst AI Disruption
Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler open this episode from opposite coasts, one in a Vermont rainstorm, one in a California heat wave, and use the weather as an entry point into something bigger. Disruption is the...
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Mastering Mindset: The Path to Thriving in Business
Overwhelm rarely announces itself. It creeps in through the meeting that keeps repeating the same way, the fix that keeps resurfacing under a new name, the sense that you're pulling something off again without knowing...
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The Intuitive Leader: Harnessing Inner Wisdom for Innovation
AI can gather your data and organize your options in seconds. It cannot tell you when something feels off. Coach Heather and Coach Barbara sit down for a conversation about inner wisdom, the intuition and gut instinct...
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Leading Boldly: Harnessing Courageous Confidence
Being nice is quietly weakening your leadership.
In this episode, Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler name a pattern they see constantly in coaching: leaders who soften their message, pull back after one...
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Navigating the Human Element: Strategies for Sustainable Leadership
Your team is not an infinite resource. Neither are you.
In this episode of Leadership With a Twist, Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler dig into the human element of leadership, the people, the time, and the...
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Breaking the Bottleneck: Empower Your Team to Make Confident Decisions
Is your team holding decisions for you every time you step away? You come back from a day off and find a pile of 97%-done work just waiting on your sign-off. The frustration is real. And it is not a team failure. It...
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Lead With Purpose: Navigating Intention vs. Reaction
Most leaders aren't failing because they lack skill or effort. They're failing to lead themselves first. In this episode of Leadership with a Twist, Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler dig into the difference...
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The Leadership Wave: Mastering Change and Transition
Change is the one constant in life — but that doesn't make it easy. In this episode of Leadership With a Twist, hosts Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler dig into why change feels so hard, how transitions actually...
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Proactivity in Communication: Building Trust and Efficiency
Proactive communication builds trust by making sure people always know they'll be informed when it matters.
Are you waiting to be asked — or are you leading the conversation? In this episode of Leadership With a...
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Anchored in Intent: How to Lead with Clarity and Purpose
What is your leadership intention right now—and does your team actually experience it?
Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler discuss how intention helps entrepreneurial leaders move beyond task-focused “doing” and...
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