Podcast
Life and leadership reflections with Dr. Lee
A place to discover how Dr. Lee thinks, what she has learned, and the person behind the professional title. These reflections are grounded in leadership, but they make room for the full human experience of change, pressure, possibility, and becoming.
Begin with a conversation that meets leadership and life at the same time.
What happens when the things you have worked so hard to hold together begin asking more of you than you can give? This reflection sits with pressure, release, and the difficult grace of letting go before burnout decides for you.
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A visit to the Santa Barbara Zoo and a community garden offer lessons in composure under pressure, emotional presence, sound decisions and recognizing which responsibilities are truly yours.
After a funny, humbling moment during a high-stakes meeting, Dr. Lee examines leadership disconnection and six T.H.R.E.A.D. practices for reconnecting with purpose and meaning at work.
A near-death stroke and the symbolism of thread reveal inherited patterns beneath personal and organizational pressure, and how to change those patterns intentionally.
Explore spiritual discernment and how to recognize the season you are in before fear, control, avoidance or over-functioning begin making your decisions.
Using an umbrella, sunglasses, a Bible, a sweater and a baseball-bat redesign, Dr. Lee explores what organizational pressure reveals about culture, governance and operating systems.
Through humming and song, reflect on self-compassion, transition, loss and renewal. Discover how slowing down and caring for yourself can help restore clarity in leadership.
Still water and changing seasons offer a lesson in patient leadership: apparent slow growth may mean deeper roots, stability and wisdom are taking shape.
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Read the complete episode description on Podbean, including the reflection and practical takeaways.
Read the complete episode description on Podbean, including the reflection and practical takeaways.
Read the complete episode description on Podbean, including the reflection and practical takeaways.
Read the complete episode description on Podbean, including the reflection and practical takeaways.
Read the complete episode description on Podbean, including the reflection and practical takeaways.
Read the complete episode description on Podbean, including the reflection and practical takeaways.
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The first of a seven-part journey about naming disruption, recognizing fear, shame and blame, drawing on ancestral resilience and nature, and choosing a focus for rebuilding.
Explore resilience after adversity, reclaiming confidence, choosing truth over title, releasing survival patterns and rising through difficult seasons with courage and compassion.
Reframe rejection, grief and endings through five reflective practices: humming, coloring, crying, stillness and self-inquiry, informed by textile and tapestry symbolism.
Learn to move from disruption and emotional overwhelm to clarity using the Wheel of Life, the Feelings Wheel, soul listening, a desired outcome and one aligned next step.
Dr. Lee introduces the T.H.R.E.A.D. System™, its roots in her grandmother’s quilting table, and six practices for navigating personal and organizational change.
Meet Dr. Lee, learn how her journey from Jamaica shaped the podcast, and discover the quilting-inspired T.H.R.E.A.D. practices for living and leading with intention.
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The conversation doesn't have to end when an episode does. Join me for occasional reflections, new episodes, and ideas worth considering as we navigate life and leadership together.
