Leadership that Heals the World

Khe Hy is the founder and CEO of RadReads, helping high-performing professionals lead more productive, examined and joyful lives. Khe worked on Wall Street for 15 years and was one of the youngest Managing Directors at BlackRock. He had followed the playbook of status and income, but was hit with the striking realization: "Is this it?" At 35 years old, terrified that he'd spend the rest of his life going through the motions, he pulled the ripcord and started a radically new iteration of his life. Khe is the creator of the $10K Work Method and Supercharge Your Productivity. In this episode we talk about: counterintuitive steps towards legacy what it means to love unconditionally intentional parenting a product as a reflection of its creator self-actualization and being at peace the commitment to aliveness the time & money excuse possibility-based approaches transition as the felt sense of change _____________ Learn more: Connect with Khe here: https://radreads.co Connect with Franzi on IG @franzilovesmonday and Twitter @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Dan Doty is a wilderness guide, men's work leader, somatic meditation teacher, and executive leadership coach. Dan leads a part of the current global men's work movement. Dan is the founder of Fatherhood Unlocked, supporting fathers through the most profound portal of growth in their lives. This conversation connects multiple areas of shared reflection, from the path of somatic leadership coaching to a collective reckoning with modern healing culture. Dan embodies authenticity, grit, and grounded spiritual devotion in a very unique way. I am excited for you to get to know him. We talk about: the journey of developing emotional and somatic awareness meeting people exactly where they are Dan's path in the men's work world developing greater connectivity between all areas of life all relationship begins with embodiment individual empowerment vs. collective healing _____________ Learn more: Connect with Gentzy on IG @dandoty_ and through his website www.dandoty.com Connect with Franzi on IG @franzilovesmonday and Twitter @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Getro is a quickly scaling startup building white-label job boards and talent networks for venture capital funds and startup accelerators across the world, with the mission to accelerate companies and professionals doing work that matters. This episode is a conversation with Getro co-founders Evan and Raul.  The company's culture embodies deep intentionality and together we'll dig deeper into the way of leadership that builds this culture for Getro's team, clients, and the world.  This episode is especially expansive for anyone leading or being part of a remote team! Evan and Raul share about the values, practice, and challenges of their story. Franzi, Evan, and Raul talk about: the polarity of work and play & building a culture of synergy progressive companies creating a work culture that matters following your energy & listening to your body growing yourself while growing a company showing up every day rock bottom as the ultimate opportunity to rise the pain of now as the future story of becoming  building something bigger than ourselves co-founder fits & misfits partnership, trust & believing in each other more empathy for remote work cultures Find Getro's inspiring core values here. _____________ Learn more: Find Getro here: https://www.getro.com Connect with Franzi on IG @franzilovesmonday and Twitter @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Ken Andrukow is an experienced business owner and mentor with a demonstrated history of building businesses that scale, and Franzi's coach! He has over 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, building multi-million dollar businesses in multiple sectors. Ken now focuses of mentoring founders and entrepreneurs to unlock their potential, capabilities and scale their businesses while maintaining freedom of time, money, relationships and purpose. In this episode, Franzi and Ken talk about the notion of leadership being impact to positively influence the lives of many. In this context, influence arises through the principle of putting your people first and empowering others to stand in their own ability. Together, Franzi and Ken share an insight into their powerful coaching journey with each other.  Through his expansive experience and depth of being, Ken has such valuable perspectives to share. I'm excited for you to be able to sit with some of the notions discussed in this conversation! Franzi and Ken talk about: leadership as impact a way of holding money & "there is always more around the corner" the tool of somatic leadership: on standing in our own way & becoming able to see ourselves  enabling others to stand on their own stages systematizing the predictable and allowing people to humanize the experience the freedom to fail welcome to the club of the unrelatable _____________ Learn more: Read more about Ken here: https://twobraincoaching.com/mentoring/ken-andrukow/ Connect with Franzi on IG @franzilovesmonday and Twitter @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Jennifer Tescher is the President and CEO of the Financial Health Network, the leading authority on financial health and a trusted resource for business leaders, policymakers and innovators working to improve the financial health of their customers, employees, and communities.  This episode explores the impact of embodied leadership on re-shaping organizational culture at large scale. It's about spaciousness, slowing down, and doing less and ways to integrate these metrics into the context of organizational structure. This conversation centers the importance of somatic awareness as a powerful tool to lead well and enable transformation in people and processes. Franzi and Jennifer talk about: Jennifer's journey on the Camino de Santiago  presence & the ability to redirect mental attachment to the work ecosystem  the nervous system of the leader is the nervous system of their team and culture a sustainable work pace for ourselves, our teams, and organizations slowing down & doing less as part of organizational consciousness the relationality of leadership and culture sabbaticals & the importance of integration  the millennial work place culture awareness as the key to choice  _____________ Learn more: Connect with Jennifer on Twitter @jentescher and find out more about her work at www.finhealthnetwork.org Connect with Franzi on IG @franzilovesmonday and Twitter @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Gentzy Franz, Ph.D. is the founder of Lightly, conscious leadership coach, father, and seeker with an incredibly generous and beautiful heart. As fellow leadership coaches and dear friends, Franzi and Gentzy explore their experiences, stories, and perspectives on modern leadership and the countless threads of our lives that leadership touches and arises from. This is a contemplative conversation between two leaders deeply home in the field of conscious and transformative leadership. Their insights, questions, and pondering will inspire an expansion of the concept of leadership at large through a recognition of what our hearts know is possible. Franzi and Gentzy talk about: why we are all here to walk each other home and how to embody this essence in your leadership leadership on our own terms vs. transactional leadership what it means to lead consciously  the importance of somatic awareness  the embodiment of belonging, safety, and dignity in our leadership and the culture we shape the complication of organizational life and how to simplify receiving people exactly as they are silence as a way to fill your cup of capacity from which performance arises cultivating a "pull" relationship with ourselves  the hedonistic treadmill and the theme of "never enough" the dance of impermanence and effort _____________ Learn more: Connect with Gentzy on IG @drgentzy and through his website www.lightly.live Connect with Franzi on IG @franzilovesmonday and Twitter @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Patrick Lu is the Chief Business Officer at Concept Art House and Co-Founder of Playfull with an extensive history of building Startups and in the Web3 ecosystem. Franzi and Patrick have been working together through the process of choosing to leave a company and redefining a new path.  Through his contemplative entrepreneurial practice, Patrick embodies an impactful way of leadership that heals the world. His emphasis on somatic awareness, inner work, presence and relationships expands the map of the contemporary leader within unified and healing organizations. We talk about: the inner child narrative and how to choose yourself the transparency gap and neurosystem coherence entrepreneurship as a path of art and liberation how to make our body signals a part of our leadership experience contraction as an opportunity for collaboration the powerful metrics of "even if we have nothing, we have everything" being in environments that align with our spirit the emotional work of leadership: facing and seeing ourselves in order to see others the way we heal and post traumatic growth _____________ Learn more: Connect with Patrick on IG: @patricklu and Twitter: @P3tricks Connect with Franzi on IG: @franzilovesmonday and Twitter: @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Ray Gorman is the founder of Engage Movement, evolving the rehab industry by blending it with fitness. He helps coaches and rehab professionals keep their clients in the gym and return to the activities they love. Ray has worked with Franzi as his coach since choosing to make the end of a work relationship his opportunity to rediscover his identity, build his own business, and create an impactful legacy. This episode centers the various facets of solopreneurship and the process of creating an embodied work culture for ourselves, our teams, and the world that enables performance through capacity. We talk about: the journey of being in relationship with our identity and claiming our voice how to structure and re-structure getting things done as solopreneur & how to work with the lethargy of not killing your list the power of non-negotiables failures as opportunities to evolve the cyclical nature of creativity honoring each other’s humanity as the precursor for belonging the choice and power of leaders to create culture performance as an outcome, not an input and how to provide the ground for capacity why self-care needs to be a natural inclusion of leadership the concept of energy vs. time _____________ Learn more: Connect with Ray on IG: @raygormandpt www.engagemvmt.com Connect with Franzi on IG: @franzilovesmonday Twitter: @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

Nellie Coffy is the co-founder of Sunchaser, and Marketing lead at Instagram. Nellie started her transformational journey with me a little over a year ago. We are taking you on an immerse journey of someone who has been through it all: - understanding her own legacy as a first-generation Haitian immigrant identifying with scarcity - moving out of one of the lowest phases of her life that she perceives as "the lowest I've been on spiritual fire" - how moving into her body through Somatics has allowed her to move to understand her feelings of unworthiness and started to take up the space as a female, black founder she always wanted to be - How business became the most spiritual embodiment of her growth - How she was finally able to honor her feminine leadership power over her addiction to hustle and performance Nellie is an incredible soul, human, and founder and showed me as her coach the importance of spiritual resilience, deep belief in your power even if you can't see it at all times, and re-affirmed my deep conviction that all business is spiritual, and deep emotional work if we allow ourselves to see the signs. Since then, Nellie and her co-founder have come out of a deep low in their organization's performance, they hired a new CEO, are about to raise a solid seed round, and have sold out their products on a wild and seemingly weekday that put her role and legacy at Sunchaser at a completely new trajectory. If you are female, an entrepreneur, or a human on a journey towards safety, belonging, and dignity, you want to put your headphones in and enjoy this 60min episode. Share with me what resonated in the comments and what it means for the trajectory of your own life. _____________ Learn more: Connect Nellie on IG: @nellies.light Connect with Franzi on IG: @franzilovesmonday Twitter: @franziskagonder The Leadership That Heals The World Newsletter goes out every Monday: www.franziskagonder.substack.com Or email me directly at: franzi@franziskagonder.com or book a call here: www.calendly.com/franziskagonder www.franziskagonder.com

We hear "it takes a village to raise a child," and I have seen firsthand how this is very true in both a village's absence and presence. I also realized that it takes a village to raise a mother. I did it by myself. And I don't believe I should have. I needed a tribe. It would have made it more meaningful, connected, more accessible, and more fun. We are meant to gather, not isolate.

Coffee is NOT your best friend. Listening time: 5 minutes Key words: #somatics #neuroscience #adrenaline #fightorflight #caffeine #energymanagement #ship30for30 

This episode is a special one. Not only because it's our first episode of bravespace radio, but also because we are tackling an important world event, our role in it as citizen, the way we can better understand our way to formulate opinion and what we can do to be a more involved citizen in foreign policy (something that feels like we have zero power over) - So yes, we are talking about Afghanistan. At bravespace we try to tackle hard and uncomfortable things. This also means that we need to embark on a discourse to shed the black and white views and become open to shedding our personal biases. In this episode we are not trying to find answers; but aiming to find a common understanding on what it takes to understand what has happenend, what is happening, and how human decency allows us to go beyond sensational headlines and move into cultural awareness, mutual respect, and the courage to dig deeper and inform yourself beyond what is easily delivered and digested through media.  My 1st co-host is Gavin John, a passionate, and highly ethical freelance journalist based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He calls for all journalists to embrace the complexity, and intellectual courage it takes to report on critcal world events marked by conflict, unrest, and safety. He is an expert on the Afghanistan, the middle-eastern conflict, and embarked on several tours in Iraq.  My 2nd co-host is Kyle Henry, a digital nomad and world-traveller pursuing his calling to be a journalist for the people through encouraging everyone to go down the rabbit hole to truly understand personal biases, and become uncomfortable with the all the truths they haven't found yet. It is only through this form of intellectual and emotional inquiry, that we can start to understand ourselves and become one with those we feel no alignment with (yet :) ). He also happens to be my 6-year old son's best friend. If that doesn't speak for the caliber of human he present, then I don't know. Questions weare discussing and reflecting on: 1. What are the actual 2-3 sides of the Afghanistan story? What are the main point of view? There is so much surface level hype about the black and white answers to it such as should we have stayed or not, was is nation building or not.  2. From a leadership standpoint: What are we not seeing? We often see the tip of the iceberg, but there is so much happening underneath. Leaders understand that often times it's only the decisions that are visible to others, but the tedious, hard, complex work of getting there will forever be dormant. Maybe?! So... What is happening that is significant but is not receiving enough media attention? 3. As private citizens: What is the level of knowledge that we need to be equipping ourselves with in order to play our responsible role in foreign policy? What is that role? From a standpoint of intellectual humility: How and why do we as citizens have better information than the person who made the decision? How can I start formulating sound opinions? Where do I start? What is my research process?