About this episode
Host Julia welcomes transformational coach Sheila Belanger to discuss how leaders can resource themselves as business paradigms shift and old models become unfit.
Sheila emphasises reconnecting with nature and activating “other ways of knowing” beneath the strategic mind: body/gut instinct, heart wisdom and emotional intelligence, and imagination. She offers practical steps such as breathing before meetings, feeling feet on the ground, and briefly touching the heart to regulate and sense the room.
Sheila also introduces “inner team” stewardship—tracking who has “the keys to the car” (e.g., wounded or reactive parts) and returning leadership to the wiser self.
She shares an elemental-season framework (earth/summer grounding, water/autumn emotional release and sovereignty, air/winter navigating change, fire/spring renewal, ether throughout) and defines “edge work” as moving through the unknown without reverting to old roles.
00:00 Why Leadership Must Change
01:39 Meet Sheila Belanger
03:12 Beyond Strategic Thinking
05:09 Practical Body Heart Tools
09:12 Animal Instinct and Horses
11:42 Steward Your Inner Team
14:40 Elemental Spiral Seasons
18:49 Edge Work in Uncertainty
22:36 Self Care and Maintenance
26:21 Resources and Closing Takeaways
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