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The Collective Growth Podcast: Inner Work

The Collective Growth Podcast: Inner Work

Hosted by: MaryAnn Means-Dufrene

This podcast explores the unseen personal journey of leadership, focusing on identity evolution, emotional growth, and inner transformation behind business success.

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Leadership Development Through Life’s Hardest Moments

What if your most painful experience became the doorway to your purpose?  In this raw and soul-nourishing episode of Inner Work, host MaryAnn Means-Dufrene sits down with Corinne King, mom, community leader, and now...
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Leadership Gets Real When Setbacks Hit

What do you do when a $2.5 million deal collapses days before launch? In this episode of Inner Work, Toan Luong shares the raw truth behind building Ampersand from rock bottom to award-winning success, including a...
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Redefining Leadership: Calm in Crisis, Power in Presence

What if the best leaders aren’t the loudest in the room but the calmest? Dr. Ashley Elgin-Barnes never chased a title. A lifelong introvert and clinician, she found herself repeatedly called into leadership, not...
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Trust Over Ego: Brad Wallace on Leadership

What if the feedback that stung the most… was exactly what made you a leader?  In this episode of Inner Work, Brad Wallace, Partner at LKCM Headwater Investments, opens up about the emotional turning point that...
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Building a Thriving Real Estate Empire

How do you go from burned-out solo agent to visionary CEO leading a multimillion-dollar real estate empire?  In this episode of Inner Work, host MaryAnn Means-Dufrene sits down with Ashton Theiss, founder of The...
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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Karen Finney on Leadership

What if your biggest leadership growth happens inside, not outside? In this energizing episode of Inner Work, host MaryAnn Means-Dufrene introduces Karen Finney, a powerhouse HR executive, leadership coach, and...
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From One Hotel to 37: Paul Coury's Secrets to Scaling With Heart

Can you scale a company without losing your soul or your sanity? In this episode of Inner Work, we dive into the real story behind a hospitality empire and the inner transformation that made it possible. Paul Coury,...
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Healing to Lead Again: The Power of Slowing Down

Leadership can demand everything until your body demands a reckoning. In this powerful episode, host MaryAnn Means-Dufrene sits down with Dr. Julie Kennedy, founder of Seed Wellness Co., to explore how chronic stress,...
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Leading from Within: Vulnerability & Growth

In this solo premiere episode, MaryAnn Means-Dufrene opens up about founding Collective Growth, wrestling with self-doubt as a "reluctant entrepreneur," and what it means to lead from the inside out. She dives into...
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