Podcast - Leadership with Mercy

My Love of Children and the Outdoors

Mercy’s guest today is her sister, Mary Russell, M.Ed. & owner of Journeys Out Yonder, a nature-based education early childhood education program in Boulder, CO. As she tells the story of the evolution of her life’s passion into a purposeful joyful career, we explore what she learned from her students, in the public education system and outdoors. Embedded in her story is her growth in becoming a confident independent woman secure in herself and nurtured by the love of her students and their families. She shares her philosophy of nurturing children to follow their natural curiosity while becoming confident as learners and explorers. Get OUTSIDE and PLAY! Website: https://journeysoutyonder.com/

October 12, 2022

Respect: An Interview with Dr. Julie Pham

Today we will be talking with Dr. Julie Pham about how relationships with her family and community have shaped her life and her work. She is the author of a recently released book, “7 Forms of Respect: A guide to transforming your communication and relationships at work” which we will be discussing later in the show. Dr. Pham is the founder and the CEO of CuriosityBased, an organizational development firm based in Seattle. She is the author of the #1 Amazon New Release and Bestseller 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work. Dr. Pham has been recognized with numerous awards for her community leadership. She has applied her community building approach to building strong, collaborative and curious teams. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in Seattle. Dr. Pham earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and she graduated magna cum laude from University of California, Berkeley as a Haas Scholar. She earned her real life MBA by running her family’s Vietnamese language newspaper during the 2008-2010 recession. She has worked as a journalist, historian, university lecturer, marketer, nonprofit executive, and management consultant. Website(s): www.curiositybased.com | www.formsofrespect.com

September 28, 2022

Love Heals All Wounds

Linda Kent is the founder of Clearly Rising, LLC, with her certification as a Holistic Life Coach through Alan Cohen’s Foundation for Holistic Life Coaching. Her spiritual journey began in the early 1980’s when she began searching for spiritual meaning to my life. In the beginning she read many spiritual books and worked with my spiritual teacher, Carla Gordan. She was taught massage by a blind chiropractor and began practicing massage therapy before Texas required a license. She became more involved in energy work that complimented what I was doing in massage by way of intuitively receiving visions and auditory messages for my clients that was pertinent to what they most needed to receive. The spiritual guidance she received created a clear message to write a book. She was given the title at that time, “Love Heals All Wounds”. She is currently pursuing a new career as an author with this book that will soon be published.
Website: https://clearlyrising.com/

September 21, 2022

Parenting Styles: When Parents Don’t Agree

Today, I answer a Listener’s call about a conflict with her husband over mealtimes with their 4 year old.

I step back and start with the big picture. I discuss the fundamental differences between couples, based in sexual reproduction, the evolution of our species based in family and childbearing practices.

Then looking at fundamental emotional dynamics in the family, I give specific feedback and suggestions on how my listener can negotiate with her husband.

If you have a question that you would like me to speak about on my show, you can email me at mercy@leadershipwithmercy.com

September 14, 2022

Politics and Friendship

A listener writes in asking about her reluctance to talk about politics with a good friend. She knows this friend is “on the other side” in his political views. She does not believe either she or her friend can be persuaded by the other and therefore wants to avoid the unpleasantness of the inevitable conflict. At the same time she feels that there is an elephant in the room and she is not being an honest and true friend. In this show I discuss the pros and cons of political conversations with friends, Braver Angels – an organization whose mission is to bridge political divides and guidelines for navigating these relationships.
To explore Braver Angels go to www.braverangels.org

September 7, 2022

Anxiety About Money Runs in Families

Today, Mercy will continue to answer questions about friendships. She will review not only a listener’s dilemma and her response, but also moving along to answer about whether she should keep the friend. She will also chat about two other questions when a husband and his best friend and a friend threesome and give principles that you can use to navigate your friendships

August 24, 2022

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