Leadership With a Twist

Leadership With a Twist

Hosted by: Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler

Where mindful leadership meets practical action... Empowering Leadership Teams' Podcast, Leadership With a Twist, features mother-daughter executive coaching team Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler sharing...

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Navigating Entrepreneurship: Mieko Ozeki on Leadership and Personal Branding

Setting the Table: Authentic Branding, Community, and the Story Behind Your Business with Mieko Ozeki Barbara Schindler sits down with fellow Vermonter Mieko Ozeki, founder of Radiance Studios LLC and co-founder of...
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Exploring the 12 Zodiac Signs: Understanding the Language of Astrology

In this episode Barbara introduces the language of Astrology beginning with the 12 Zodiac Signs. The signs are grouped within the four elements (Fire, Earth, Air and Water) to understand the characteristics of...
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Harnessing Creativity and Leadership: Andie Asacker’s Entrepreneurial Journey

Andie Asacker was laid off in December 2020, and by the day she registered her LLC she already had clients. On this episode of Leadership With a Twist, Barbara Schindler talks with Andie, digital strategist and...
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The Symbolic Language of Astrology | Astro Vibes Episode 2

Your Birth Chart Isn't Good or Bad (It's Just You) Every birth chart is built on the same structure. In this episode, Barbara Schindler breaks down the foundation every astrologer works from, whether they lean into...
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Where Does the Sky Begin? Using Your Birth Chart for Self-Knowledge | Astro Vibes Episode 1

Barbara Schindler opens Astro Vibes with the question she comes back to again and again: where does the sky begin? We stand rooted on the ground and still live among the stars, and that tension is the whole point of...
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Lead by Following: Transformative Leadership Strategies

Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler open this conversation with an idea that sounds backwards until you sit with it. Real authority, the kind that actually builds team performance, comes from following your team...
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This Can't Be Normal: Chanie Wilschanski on the Invisible Weight of Leadership

Barbara sits down with Chanie Wilschanski, a mom of four, leadership advisor, and founder of Schools of Excellence. Chanie works with school owners and organizational leaders who have built genuinely successful...
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Scaling by Subtraction: Pam Langord on Marketing, AI, and the Blueprint That Doesn't Exist

Barbara sits down with Pam Langord, founder of Simply Magic Marketing and a fractional COO who spent over 30 years in marketing and operations, including years inside one of the fastest-growing online coaching...
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Navigating Business Evolution: Strategies for CEOs and Business Leaders

Every entrepreneurial business starts as one thing: the founder's brain and the business are fused together. Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler open this episode by naming the moment that fusion breaks apart. As...
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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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