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Episode 2: When Leadership Demands Too Much

Jun 27, 2025
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What if your next big leadership breakthrough starts with burnout?

In this week’s Inner Work episode, I sit down with Dr. Julie Kennedy, a functional medicine expert whose personal health collapse became the catalyst for a radically different way of leading. From lupus diagnosis to launching her own holistic practice, Julie shares how listening to her body reshaped her business and her life.

She shows us how overachievement, self-neglect, and stress are often the hidden roots of leadership fatigue and what it really takes to begin healing.

This conversation is a must for high-performers and visionaries who feel like their bodies are whispering (or screaming) for a new way.

Watch the full conversation →

The Inner Work - Healing to Lead Again: The Power of Slowing Down

 

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