The Heart-led Leader
The Heart-Led Leader is a podcast for courageous souls who are ready to live and lead with authenticity, purpose, and joy.
Hosted by Melissa Thomson - Leadership & Transformation Coach, Speaker, and School Founder - this show shares powerful insights, inspiring guest conversations, and practical tools to help you
✨ignite your Inner Rebel - breaking free from outdated systems and structures,
✨cultivate courage for authentic expression,
✨lead a life aligned with your unique soul.
As the world rapidly changes, you’ll be inspired, uplifted and supported to embrace the most aligned version of you, for the greatest impact within your family, community and the world.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
The Heart-led Leader
Latest Episodes
The Power of Joy: A Heart-led Strategy to Boost Creativity, Culture & Connection
Joy creates spaciousness, creativity and opportunity, and is an underrated leadership strategy. Joy unlocks new capacities. We have the power to intentionally create opportunities for joy - both for yourself and for oth...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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11:45
Trust Your Guiding Spirit: Overcoming Work & Family Challenges Through Heart & Soul Alignment
This episode is a copy of the interview I was grateful to have with Aaron Schultz from The Outback Mind Podcast. Aaron is doing incredible work in the space of Men's Mental Health, Domestic Violence and Suicide Prev...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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How to Ignite Your Inner Rebel & Lead with Courage (Even When It's Hard)
This episode supports you to find your own sense of self-leadership, exploring how to ignite the 'Inner Rebel' within you, to break free from fear, overwhelm and uncertainty.Your Inner Rebel is not just a disruptor for the sake of disrup...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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17:06
Foundations of Heart-led Leadership: Vision, Authenticity, Connection, Courage, Joy
In this episode I share a little about my experience of leading from the heart, and the qualities or capacities that emerged as being foundational when I reflect on the experiences of starting a school, building community, driving legislative r...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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15:16
The Heart-led Leader : Welcome & Why Self-Leadership Changes Everything
Welcome and thank you for being here. This episode is the first for the Heart-led Leader Podcast, and introduces you to the intention of the show, and what you can expect. I'd love to walk this journey with you, so stay ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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