Your Authentic Executive Podcast
Your Authentic Executive Podcast
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Authentic Leadership. Profound Stories. Proven Lessons.Your Authentic Executive PodcastDropping the first Tuesday of every month, Your Authentic Executive is the podcast for leaders seeking real, unfiltered wisdom from top executives who have navigated the highs and lows of leadership.Hosted by Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D., a global executive coach and organizational sociologist with over 30 years of experience on seven continents, each episode delivers deeply human conversations that reveal the principles of authentic leadership.What Makes Us Different?We go beyond surface-level success stories to uncover the pivotal moments, mindset shifts, and game-changing lessons that shape top executives. Known for her masterful interviewing, Janyne draws out profound leadership insights that listeners can immediately apply.The Power of “Sparks”Before each full episode, we release three "Sparks"—short, compelling excerpts that highlight the most powerful stories and leadership lessons from our featured executive. These insights are designed to ignite reflection, fuel growth, and build anticipation for the full conversation.Why Listen?If you're an executive, entrepreneur, or leader looking for wisdom that transcends trends and gets to the heart of authentic leadership, this podcast is for you.✅ Full Episode – First Tuesday of Every Month🔥 Three Sparks – Bite-Sized Insights Leading Up to Each Episode🎙 Subscribe now and join us on a journey to uncover the stories, struggles, and strategies behind Your Authentic Executive.About Your Host: Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D.Dr. Janyne Peek Emsick is an executive coach, organizational sociologist, and change leadership expert who has spent over 30 years coaching and consulting leaders on seven continents. Her work spans global Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial ventures, government agencies, and mission-driven organizations, equipping executives with the insight, resilience, and strategy to navigate complexity with confidence.A Master Interviewer of Executive StoriesJanyne is known for her deeply insightful, masterful interviewing style that uncovers the pivotal moments that define authentic leadership. Her ability to draw out the hidden wisdom in executive journeys makes Your Authentic Executive a uniquely powerful podcast, delivering leadership lessons that are both practical and profound.A Passion for Authentic LeadershipWith a career rooted in organizational change, neuroscience, and leadership development, Janyne’s ...
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The podcast emphasizes authentic leadership principles and storytelling, featuring topics such as leadership resilience, workplace culture, and personal growth. Examples include discussions on the role of intellectual conflict in leadership through the story of Pat Kearns and the lessons from Susan Courtney's military background and career ascent in corporate America.
Authentic Leadership. Profound Stories. Proven Lessons.
Your Authentic Executive is where executives go on the record — the pivotal moments, the hard-won lessons, the vignettes that shaped who they are as leaders. Not polished success stories. The real ones. New full episodes drop the first Tuesday of every month.
About SPARKs Between full episodes, SPARKs deliver power-packed excerpts built to ignite action. Drop a SPARK into your next team meeting, play it, and use the Action4Traction™ and Talk4Traction™ prompts to open real leadership conversations and drive next steps. SPARKs drop Tuesdays 2, 3, and 4.
✅ Full Episode – First Tuesday of Every Month
🔥 Sparks – power-packed excerpts to share and ignite action.
🎙 Subscribe now and join us on a journey to uncover the stories, struggles, and strategies behind Your Authentic Executive.
About Your Host: Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D.
For 35+ years, Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D. has helped Fortune 150 companies, award-winning privately owned organizations, the public sector, global nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations on six continents. All engage Janyne for a specific reason: when the hardest things go unspoken, she names them — and does it in a way that opens the door rather than closes it. Ph.D. in transformational leadership | Harvard Law Executive Education | NeuroLeadership Institute | Founder, 5R Edge™. Pronounced jah-neen’.
Together, we’ve got this.
📌 Follow Janyne on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/janynepeekemsick
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Heart racing. Short of breath. Trying to calm down and feeling it slip away like sand. Robert Vause got tired of walking into hard rooms that way. So he took up freediving.
In this Favorites Replay, Robert shares what holding his breath underwater taught him about leading under pressure. The urge to breathe, it turns out, isn't really about oxygen. Once he understood that, he could train his brain to bring everything back down when every signal said bring it up.
Meet Robert Vause: Robert started leading adults in his family's agricultural equipment dealership at sixteen. He set out to become a Navy pilot, spent 39 months pursuing acting in Los Angeles, came home to help the family business grow, and moved into corporate leadership in the ag equipment industry. He now leads a region, and he's an avid reader, a learner, a husband, and a dad.
In this episode, Robert and Janyne explore:
– What freediving taught him about the stress response – and how he uses it in the boardroom
– Why he says trust is built ”against your self-interest”
– Starting a new job one week before the world shut down, and meeting his team in a parking lot
– The interview question that let him say, ”You would have never seen the fight in me”
– Going from a family business to a large corporation – from flying a fighter plane to flying a jet
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Action4Traction™ – Take one this week:
1. Before your next hard meeting, take five slow breaths with a long exhale.
2. Walk in with Robert's line: ”It's not going to be that bad. It's okay.”
3. Own one mistake out loud before anyone else points it out.
Talk4Traction™ – Bring one to your next team meeting to elevate the dialogue:
1. When pressure hits, do we bring everything up – or back down?
2. Where are we protecting ourselves at the expense of trust?
3. What's our ”rocket” right now – the thing we prepared for as a jet?
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Together, we've got this!
Janyne
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ENDNOTES:
[1] James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (New York: Riverhead Books, 2020).
Your Authentic Executive Podcast
Authentic Leadership | Profound Stories | Proven Lessons
Hosted by Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D.
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