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Meditations on Leadership with Don Carpenter
Leadership begins within.
In Meditations on Leadership with Don Carpenter, author, youth development pioneer, and relational leadership coach Don Carpenter invites you into a weekly practice of deeper reflection, personal clarity, and meaningful connection.
Each episode begins with a short meditation from Don’s soon to be released book, The Inner Work of Leadership: 52 Meditations for a Life of Meaning, Courage, and Growth. From there, Don offers personal commentary and lived insights before welcoming a guest, leaders from all walks of life, to explore how that week’s theme plays out in their own professional journey. The episode closes with two powerful questions to help you pause, reflect, and grow as a leader from the inside out.
Whether you’re leading a team, a classroom, a nonprofit, or your own life, this podcast is a companion for those committed to doing the inner work that sustains courageous outer change.
Meditations on Leadership with Don Carpenter
Latest Episodes
Systems Hold The Vision
In this episode, Don reflects on the difference between having a vision and building the systems that can actually sustain it.He also explores the personal side of that work: how we begin to close the gap between who we say we want to be...
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Only Go Where You’ve Been
In this episode, Don reflects on what happens when leaders offer direction to places they have not yet been willing to go themselves, and how the inner work we avoid often becomes the limit of our ability to stay present with others.He i...
When Providence Moves
In this episode, Don reflects on what happens when leaders find themselves waiting for certainty, when what the work may really need is commitment, and how the path often begins to appear only after we take the first step.He is joined by...
What the Body Refuses to Hide
In this episode, Don reflects on what the body often knows before we are ready to say it out loud, and how the parts of ourselves we learn to silence can still shape the way we lead.He is joined by his wife, Sheryl Carpenter, a fo...
When Discipline Wears a Mask
In this episode, Don offers a solo reflection on the complicated role discipline can play in a leader’s life. Discipline can help us show up, follow through, and build something meaningful, but it can also become a way of staying above reproach...