Practical Leadership Cast
We cover topics related to everyday issues leaders face in corporations. While the founders are from the tech sector, many of our conversations have ideas that can be applied outside tech companies. Please join our Discord where you can talk about leadership issues and the podcast: https://discord.gg/ewhPY6akRF
Episodes
9 episodes
Solo Cast: Creating Psychological Safety
In this episode Forest talks about creating psychological safety. She gave a related presentation at the Lesbians Who Tech and Allies Pride Summit. This episode gives tips of how to create psychological safety with examples. Psycho...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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21:26
Solo Cast: Leadership Resources
Forest gives a brief review of all the podcasts and books she's read related to leadership. Here are links to all of the podcasts. For the detailed reviews and book list please listen to the audio or read the transcript:Podcasts:
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Episode 8
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22:14
Guest Cast: Sean Ilenrey on LinkedIn, Executive Leadership, and Humble Beginnings.
Forest interviews Sean Ilenrey, the VP of Support at Dutchie, about his leadership experience and his humble beginnings. He gets into some details about what it's like to be an executive and how to make the role sustainable. He gives us a previ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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40:26
Book Club: The Coaching Habit
In this episode Forest Handford discusses her notes on Michael Bungay Stanier's book, The Coaching Habit. The book details a list of questions that have evidence showing to be successful in coaching. Some relevant links:
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Episode 6
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24:06
Guest Cast: Dana Ross on Recruiting, Leadership as a Trans Person, and Star Trek!
Forest interviews Dana Ross, a Senior Engineering Manager at Grindr, about her insights as a leader. We chat about how to successfully interview candidates. There is a discussion about how gender impacts empathy and leadership. During the gende...
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Episode 5
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41:31
Reading Cast: Larry - A Reading About Allyship
This episode is a reading of the chapter Larry from Forest's memoir, A Trans Feminist's Past. The chapter is about how to be a good ally. As a leader, it's important to be able to be an advocate for people who have less privileged identities.&n...
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Episode 4
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8:37
Guest Cast: Raymond Martinez on Leadership for Support Organizations and ERGs
Forest interviews Ray about his leadership experience as a senior manager for a support team. As support teams are often metrics driven the discussion gets into how to responsibly use metrics as a leader. They also discuss how to give bad news....
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Episode 3
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28:30
Guest Cast: Lance Wilkinson on Leadership and Personal Finance
Forest interviews Lance Wilkinson, an experienced support and implementation manager. He’s also a personal finance coach. In this episode we learn from his experience as a leader.Lance Recommend reading Radical Candor by Kim Scott, a boo...
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Episode 2
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27:31