Means to Ascend
Means to Ascend explores the real, imperfect journey of leadership and professional growth. Each month, we dive into topics like emotional intelligence, career transitions, setting boundaries, and building self-awareness at work. Brought to you by Ascendant, we believe progress—not perfection—is the key to becoming the kind of leader people trust, respect, and want to follow.
Episode 3: Nervous System Regulation 101
Today we'll talk about our nervous systems and some of the common stress responses we find ourselves falling into including fawn, fight, flight, and freeze. The biggest takeaway from today is learning that this responses are not inherently bad, but to bring some more awareness as to what we feel most often and what is triggering it. In our next episode we'll touch base on tools to regulate the fawn and freeze response.
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Episode Two: The Importance of Self Awareness
Join us as we chat about how important self awareness is in leadership and beyond. We discuss self aware vs. unaware traits in leaders, how to become more comfortable with feedback, how to shift our perspectives, and more.
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Episode One: Progress Over Perfection
Welcome to our first podcast episode as we introduce ourselves and talk about our recovering perfectionist journeys. We'll explain why perfectionism is so harmful to our mental health as well as detrimental to our leadership ability, and how we're finding more ways to lead imperfectly.
