Come Home to You
Welcome to "Come Home to You," a down-to-earth, leadership wellness podcast hosted by Jenny Swim, a certified professional coach, specializing in leadership development and mental wellness.
Explore how to listen to your whole person, cut through the noise of the world, and foster a sense of home within yourself. With a focus on simplicity and curiosity, "Come Home to You" explores common concerns and provides practical tools to look within, listen to your own voice, and partner with your greatest resource: you.
Come Home to You
25: Permission to Play: Rethink How You Lead & Live With Dr. Patty Hohlbein
What if play isn't just for kids—but a powerful, untapped instinct that fuels emotional intelligence, creativity, and leadership? In this episode, Dr. Patricia Hohlbein joins us to challenge our cultural conditioning around productivity and "wasted time," revealing how play is actually essential to how we think, connect, and thrive.
We explore Patty’s fascinating doctoral research on the science and instinct of play, its ability to change your brain, and how adults can reconnect with play to unlock creativity and flow in both work and life. You’ll learn how a walk in nature, listening to music, or even a moment of daydreaming might be more productive than another hour at your desk.
💡 In this episode, we discuss:
- How play is an instinct—not just a pastime
- How play is trained out of us
- The neuroscience of how play resets the brain
- Easy ways to reintroduce play into your day
- The idea of a “play history” and what it reveals about you
Whether you’re a leader, a parent, a professional—or all three—this episode will help you rethink what it really means to be productive, healthy, and whole.
🎧 Tune in and rediscover the power of play.
To Connect with Dr. Hohlbein, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-patricia-hohlbein-edd-mba-9876664/
Additional Resources:
Hohlbein, Patricia J., "The power of play in developing emotional intelligence impacting leadership
success: a study of the leadership team in a Midwest private, liberal arts university" (2015). Theses and
Dissertations. 595.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/etd/595
Brown, S., & Vaughan, C. (2009). Play: How it shapes the brain, opens the imagination, and invigorates the soul. Avery.
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