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037 | Brand Building for the Solopreneur
Brand Building for the Solopreneur Branding isn’t just about logos. It’s about leadership, identity, and making your complexity feel cohesive.
Key Takeaways
Brand ≠ Logo. It’s the total experience shaping gut...
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036 | Strategic Friendship: Beyond Proximity and Play
What happens to our friendships when we leave the structures that used to shape them—like school, work, or parenting schedules? And what if we stopped trying to recreate those old patterns and instead built something...
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035 | Slow Leadership: The Antidote We All Need Right Now
In a world racing to optimize, automate, and accelerate—what happens to leadership, to communication, to meaning?
In this soul-stirring episode of Emotional Organization, Dr. Denaige McDonnell steps away from the...
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034 | Burnout and the Psychological Contract Between You and Your Employer
In this episode of Emotional Organization, Dr. Denaige McDonnell explores burnout through the lens of the psychological contract—the invisible but powerful set of expectations between workers and their...
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033 | Workplace Mental Health: The Silent Strain
In this episode of Emotional Organization, Dr. Denaige McDonnell explores the invisible emotional weight many people carry at work—especially in environments where silence is rewarded, emotional labor is...
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032 | The Rhythm of Leadership: Lessons from Myth and Science
Keywords:
leadership, emotional intelligence, Persephone, Mayan calendar, artificial intelligence, timing, systems thinking, personal growth, mythology, productivity
Summary:
In this episode of Emotional...
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031 | Getting to the Heart of Risk: A Systems Approach to Upgrading Your Decision-Making Confidence
When you hear the word risk, do you immediately think danger, loss, or threat?
In this episode, we flip the script and take a deep dive into the real meaning of risk—and how your perception of it is silently...
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030 | The Myth of Freedom — Why Systems Are the Secret to Feeling Free
In this deeply practical and perspective-shifting episode, we explore a powerful truth: freedom doesn’t come from avoiding structure — it comes from understanding and designing your systems.
From decision fatigue to...
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029 | Project Life: How to Manage Yourself Like a Million-Dollar Project
Welcome to The Emotional Organization, where strategy meets soul—and today, we’re blending project management with personal transformation.
In this episode, host Dr. Denaige McDonnell reframes the five traditional...
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028 | Finding Your Audience Starts with Finding Yourself
If your marketing feels flat, your message feels forced, or your ideal clients keep ghosting you—it might not be your funnel. It might be your frequency.
In this episode, we dismantle the myth that market research and...
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027 | Leading Through Toxic Culture: How To Find Calm, Clarity, and Confidence
In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Dr. Denaige McDonnell confronts one of the most painful realities in modern work life—what it means to lead inside a toxic workplace. From politics and power dynamics to...
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026 | Mastering the Entrepreneurial Mindset: 5 Challenges Every Business Builder Must Overcome
In the final installment of our 4-part entrepreneurial mindset series, Dr. Denaige McDonnell dives into the five most common (and most disruptive) mindset challenges that business builders face—not in theory, but in...
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