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.
Episodes
5 episodes
Episode Five: The Flight & Fight Response
In this episode we dive into the fight and flight response and some tools we can use to move through our stress. We'll learn how this is showing up for us and how regulation can help us to become better leaders. To join the Means to...
Episode Four: Tools to Overcome Fawn & Freeze
In this episode we normalize the stress responses fawn and freeze and talk about gentle strategies to move through them. If you'd like to join our free leadership group "Means to Ascend" you can sign up
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,...
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. Join our ...
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...
