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Nurture the Leader in You

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.

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Episode 24

Composure Under Pressure: A Leadership Practice for Reactive Times

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.

Episode 23

You’re Not Lost, You’re Disconnected: Reconnecting to Your Calling as a Leader

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.

Episode 22

Finding the Pattern Beneath Pressure

A near-death stroke and the symbolism of thread reveal inherited patterns beneath personal and organizational pressure, and how to change those patterns intentionally.

Episode 21

Know the Season You’re In Before Pressure Decides for You

Explore spiritual discernment and how to recognize the season you are in before fear, control, avoidance or over-functioning begin making your decisions.

Episode 20

What Pressure Reveals About Your Organization

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.

Episode 19

Hope Again: How to Meet Yourself with More Compassion and Grace

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.

Episode 18

Don’t Panic in the Pause: How Leaders Stay Focused in Seasons of Slow Growth

Still water and changing seasons offer a lesson in patient leadership: apparent slow growth may mean deeper roots, stability and wisdom are taking shape.

Episode 17

The Pause That Protects Trust: During Difficult Conversations

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Episode 16

What Nature Teaches Us About Intentional Transformation

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Episode 15

Leadership Clarity | 6 Strategies for Protecting Your Focus and Judgment in a Noisy World

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Episode 14

Women’s History Month Reflection: Embracing the Wisdom Within

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Episode 13

Enlist Allies: How to Build Your Support System

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Episode 12

Adopt Change: How to Strengthen Your Internal Posture

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Episode 11

Release Patterns: How to Let Go of What Restricts Progress

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Episode 10

Stop Reacting, Start Responding

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Episode 9

Don’t Give Up! Restore Yourself Before Setting Goals

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Episode 8

Think Deeply Questions

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Episode 7

Harvest Wisdom: How to Gather Lessons From Disruption Before You Move Forward

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Episode 6

Think Deeply: When Life Disrupts Who You Thought You Were

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Episode 5

Weaving Your Life Back Together #1

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.

Episode 4

Rising Stronger in Hard Seasons

Explore resilience after adversity, reclaiming confidence, choosing truth over title, releasing survival patterns and rising through difficult seasons with courage and compassion.

Episode 3

The Other Side of Rejection

Reframe rejection, grief and endings through five reflective practices: humming, coloring, crying, stillness and self-inquiry, informed by textile and tapestry symbolism.

Episode 2

From Crisis to Clarity

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.

Episode 1

Introducing the T.H.R.E.A.D System for Leading Through Change

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.

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Meet Dr. Leonie H Mattison

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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