On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Laura Nespoli.

Laura has spent 20 years shaping brand, marketing, sales, and product stories for leading global brands and nonprofits. As Group Strategy Director at Article Group, she shapes strategic narratives for innovative product companies. Laura also founded Meshin Movement, a story consultancy that operates in the space between strategy, social impact and creative expression. Through Meshin, Laura speaks about the power of story to develop people, teams and leaders and also helps people and orgs develop their purpose stories.

5:30 Hear about how discovering the terms empath and highly sensitive person (HSP) unlocked a purposeful life path.

11:00 Learn how leveraging agency and creativity can help in finding your authentic story and self.

14:36 Hear how sharing your unique and authentic self and story helps to connect and create community as human beings.

27:25 Learn how to push the boundaries of creativity by embracing failure.

35:00 Learn how resilience and perseverance can be stoked by the flames of borrowing other people’s belief in you and your ideas, even when you’re struggling to believe in yourself.

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  • Find Laura at meshinmovement.com and on Instagram.

On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Emily Schneider.

Emily is a visual storyteller specializing in presentation design. Her passion for simplifying complex content has become a bit of a magical knack — blending storytelling with a keen design eye. She’s not just a designer; Emily is a strategic collaborator, dedicated to helping businesses confidently transform their messages into beautiful, effective presentations that truly resonate with their intended audiences.

4:10 Learn about how Emily’s passion for storytelling and creative problem solving was shaped by a deep wonder about how things come together to create an emotional connection.

8:00 Hear how leveraging our zone of genius, curiosity, and community can help us become more resilient in order to show up at our best and most favorite self so we can lead by example in uncertain times.

9:15 Hear about the power of connection, community and vulnerability and how we can strengthen, grow and evolve through failure and learning.

13:06 Emily turns the tables and asks Shawn the question, “When I’m hitting my goals consistently, am I setting the right goals?”

17:40 Hear about leveraging external influences for creative input and how boundaries create space to be able to find an edge.

20:00 Hear about the three critical things that make a presentation resonate.

24:40 Hear about the role courage plays as our personal seasons shift, evolving our relationships with ourselves, others, and our connections to things and ideas.

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• Find Shawn on Substack, LinkedIn, Instagram and explore Shawn’s coaching here.

• Find Emily at iamemilyschneider.com and on LinkedIn.

• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Klemp
  

On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Kerry Ann King.

Kerry Ann is the founder and CEO of Eluminate Labs, a software development company dedicated to building solutions that decolonize tech, creating inclusive tools for human wellbeing. After more than a decade working inside the tech industry to promote human-centered approaches to engagement, wellbeing and inclusion, Kerry Ann felt strongly that it was necessary to break free from the exploitative foundations of big tech in order to build software and applications that put people and their wellbeing first. Eluminate Lab’s debut offering Fin - Positive Productivity is designed to help neurodivergent adults learn about their productivity style through data and coaching.

2:53 Hear about the benefits of self-awareness as a method of data collection to help you better understand yourself and what will bring you contentment in your career and life.

12:40 Learn what decolonizing tech means and how it differs from what you might expect.

17:37 Hear about leveraging data to provide customers with better information (without taking an extractive approach) and how data can be balanced alongside other humanistic (rather than deterministic) approaches when managing employees.

24:18 Hear about the philosophy behind Eluminate Labs’ product and how it guides product development and the mission of providing value for neurodivergent individuals.

27:00 Hear about how to build and foster creativity in problem-solving as a leader.

Where can you find more?

• Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or using your favorite podcast app.

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• Find Shawn onSubstack,LinkedIn,Instagram andhere.

• Find Kerry Ann onLinkedIn, find Eluminate Labshere as well asLinkedIn,Facebook, andInstagram.