Leadership and Life Essentials: You Don't Need Permission to Lead - 100 Episodes of Lessons Learned

Let's go back and start with my company name and the title of the episode.

So I formed my company in 2019 and chose the name Leadership in Life because for me, leadership was entwined with life.

There was no way to separate them.

I remember writing out what are the skills that I need to be successful in life and what are the skills that I need to be successful in leadership.

And I put them in a Venn diagram because it's the teacher in me.

And most of them overlapped.

So what makes me a great leader also makes me a great teacher, parent, and general human.

So the name of my company.

When I went to create this show, I wanted it to be small, tangible bites.

And so essentials just kind of worked.

And thus, we had leadership and life essentials.

bigger struggles for a long time was seeing myself as a leader when I didn't actively manage people.

I've held lots of leadership roles, but I really equated leadership and management as equivalent.

And the more I learned and the more experience I had, the older I got, the more I was able to really separate them and see them as separate as they actually are.

I've done lots of leadership, but I haven't written performance reviews.

but I've coached.

I haven't actively promoted people, but I've given input and I've built skill sets and I've gathered people around a central vision or mission.

When I worked at one organization, I was absolutely seen as a leader, even though no one actually reported to me.

Managing requires the first level of John Maxwell's five levels of leadership.

Position.

People follow you because they have to.

The next four leaders are closer to leadership, permission, production, people development, and finally pinnacle.

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