Nobody Prepared You for This Part of Leadership

This is the trailer for Grief Has a Personality™, the podcast exploring how grief and leadership intersect in ways most leadership training never addresses.

If you are a leader navigating grief, loss, or disruption while still showing up for your team, this show was built for you. Whether you are experiencing workplace grief, recovering from personal loss, or leading through organizational crisis, your grief style has been quietly shaping your decisions and your leadership presence longer than you realize.

Host Brigitte Brown Jackson, leadership strategist and behavioral consultant, introduces the framework that connects personality to grief response and what that means for how leaders lead after loss.

This is not therapy. This is leadership clarity for grieving leaders who are still standing.

Subscribe and visit griefhasapersonality.com to take the free Grief Response Profile and discover your grief leadership style.

Transcript

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Hi, I'm so glad you found this show. My name is Bridget Brown Jackson, and I'm a leadership strategist, a behavioral consultant, and a minister, and honestly, a person who has had to figure out how to lead through some of the hardest seasons of my life while still showing up for everyone else. And if you're here, I have a feeling you know something about that too. This show is called Grief as a Personality, and I want to tell you exactly what that means because it is not what most people expect when they hear the word grief. Grief is not just about death, it's about loss. The loss of a relationship, a role, a version of yourself you thought would always be there. A loss of a business, a dream, a season that ended before you were ready. And what I've learned after more than 30 years of working with leaders in that grief does not disappear just because you have a title or a team counting on you. It goes underground and it shapes the way you lead, the way you decide, and the way you show up in ways you may not even recognize yet. Here's what this show is built on your personality style shapes how you grieve. And that grief is shaping your leadership, whether you name it or not. On this show, we're gonna name it. We're gonna talk about what happens to leaders after disruption. We're gonna have honest conversations with guests who have been through it. And I'm gonna teach you frameworks that help you understand yourself better so you can lead because of what you have been through, not in spite of it. This show is for leaders who are still standing and running on empty. It's for the executive who handled the crisis and now can't figure out why everything feels so flat. The business founder who lost something significant and went right back to building because stopping did not feel like an option. The ministry leader, who shepherds everyone through their hard times and rarely lets anyone shepherd them. Yeah, I see you. This show is for you. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you want to know your actual grief style right now, go to griefhas a personality.com and take the grief response profile. It is absolutely free and it will tell you more about how you are wired than you might expect. Again, I'm Bridgie Brown Jackson. Welcome to Griefhas a Personality.