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Adaptive HumansIt's Not a Talent Gap. It's a Capacity Gap.Most organizations call it a talent problem. It’s not. It’s a capacity problem. In this episode, Jami de Lou explores the invisible load shaping decisions, conflict, and performance at work. Not just personal stress, but the professional and cultural weight compounding underneath it all.Invisible Load Inventory:What am I carrying that has no place to land?How is it shaping how I lead?What do I need that I haven’t asked for?If capacity is the real constraint, what around you might be quietly draining it? The pace? The expectations? The unspok...
2026-02-1731 min
Adaptive HumansBegin AgainBeginning again doesn’t mean starting from zero. It means reentering from a nervous system that’s been adapting for a long time.In the Season Two opener of Adaptive Humans, Jami de Lou explores why recalibration often gets misread as hesitation, what sustained stress does to clarity and capacity, and how to begin again without forcing certainty or burning out.If this new year feels slower or heavier than expected, this episode offers language, permission, and grounding to move forward with care.
2026-02-0311 min
Adaptive HumansWhat This Year Asked of Us, and What 2026 Will Really RequireA year-end reflection on capacity, courage, and making room for joy.As we close out the year, this episode of Adaptive Humans offers a grounded reflection — not on resolutions, but on what this year asked of us emotionally, culturally, and physiologically. Beneath polished bios, many carried unseen stress, grief, and uncertainty. Jami explores why this wasn’t a talent problem but a capacity one, what it means to be brave enough before clarity arrives, and how making room for joy supports resilience. The episode closes with a gentle Just Be Reset to help listeners pause and enter the...
2025-12-1623 min
Adaptive HumansChange Fatigue in Leadership: How to Recognize, Recalibrate, and ResetChange fatigue isn’t a motivation problem, it’s a human one. In this short episode, Jami de Lou offers a real-talk reflection on how leaders and teams can navigate capacity, grief, and growth without burning out. From nervous system overload to compounding grief and year-end burnout, learn how to recognize the signs, recalibrate expectations, and reset with a more human-centered approach. A must-listen for anyone navigating big transitions. All in under 15 minutes.
2025-12-0913 min
Adaptive HumansEveryone Deserves an Advocate: Redesigning Birth with Equity, Dignity, and Care with Leah HairstonIn this episode of Adaptive Humans, Leah Hairston, founder of Sweet Bee Services, joins Jami de Lou to unpack how trauma-informed doula care shifts birth outcomes — and what leaders can learn from it.They explore cultural intelligence, systemic inequities, and how to build safety and trust in high-stakes spaces. This isn’t just about birth. It’s about leadership, healing, and how we care for one another.🔗 Learn more about Leah Hairston and her team: https://sweetbeeservices.com
2025-12-0255 min
Adaptive HumansNavigating the Holidays: When Life Is "Lifing" Hard, and Grief Is a Thief.Holidays aren’t neutral. They hold memories, expectations, cultural rituals, and often the ache of who or what is missing. Jami shares personal stories about grief, disconnection, and the moment she learned to let joy and sorrow coexist without hiding one or performing the other. She shares three Brave Enough Moments for navigating the season with honesty, compassion, and boundaries, plus a simple grounding practice you can use anytime. A gentle holiday season includes space for everything you’re carrying, but without the guilt.
2025-11-2515 min
Adaptive HumansThe Invisible Load of Caregiving (Part I) Caregiving is often a silent role—shaped by culture, emotion, family expectations, and the realities of aging across borders. In this episode, Jami de Lou shares the unseen labor of caregiving through her family’s recent loss and offers strategies to navigate it. She explores cross-cultural caregiving, the administrative and emotional load families hold, the rituals that protect dignity, shifting family roles, and why caregiving often stays invisible until you’re in it.
2025-11-1821 min
Inside The 90™EP.25 - Marketing with EOS with a Marketing Operating SystemIn this episode of Inside the 90, Jami and Andrew explore what it takes to build a high-functioning marketing system inside EOS-run companies. Jami shares the journey that led him to founding Wonder, highlighting lessons learned across decades in agency and corporate roles. They break down the difference between marketing and brand, how to build alignment between sales and marketing, and why cadence and clarity are essential for long-term success. The episode introduces Wonder’s “Next 90” process — a strategic 90-day onboarding system that aligns marketing with EOS goals and creates lasting marketing momentum. From mapping the first 90...
2025-10-3039 min
Adaptive HumansWhen the Ground Moves: Staying Human in Layoffs & ReorgsWhen change hits at work—a layoff, reorg, or new leadership—it doesn’t just shake your job. It shakes identity, belonging, and the body’s sense of safety.In this episode of Adaptive Humans™, host Jami de Lou shares practical, compassionate tools for navigating those first few days after everything changes. You’ll learn how to spot your body’s stress patterns, build a 72-hour plan to find stability, and support others through uncertainty.This episode is for anyone who’s been laid off, “survived” a reorg, or leads a team in transition.In This Episod...
2025-10-2137 min
Adaptive HumansLiving Your All: Flexibility as a Culture Shift (with Manar Morales)Flexibility isn’t a perk; it’s a culture shift. In this conversation, Manar Morales, CEO of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance and author of The Flexibility Paradigm, joins Jami de Lou to explore what it really takes to Live Your All at work and beyond. We unpack how to move past command-and-control leadership and design systems where ambition and well-being sit at the same table.You’ll hear:Why flexibility is a shared responsibility across orgs, leaders, and individualsThe mindset shift from either/or to yes/and—and how it unlocks collaborationPractical ways to build return o...
2025-10-1441 min
Adaptive HumansPart II, When Cultures Collide: Growing Your Cultural Intelligence (CQ)In Part II of our cultural collisions series, we go deeper into how to build your Cultural Intelligence (CQ)—the ability to shift perspectives and adapt across differences.You’ll hear:Why hidden codes at work create misunderstanding.The 4 dimensions of CQ: Drive, Knowledge, Strategy, Action.A Brave Enough Moment where I slipped into fawn mode—and what I learned.The ADAPT™ framework to reset when cultures collide.The Cultural Reframe: 4 steps to pause, breathe, name assumptions, and bridge with curiosity.Because the truth is, culture and identity are always in the room. Pretending they’re not onl...
2025-10-0713 min
Adaptive HumansPart I, When Cultures Collide: The Cost of Downplaying Differences When cultures collide at work, it’s not about “difficult people”—it’s about unseen cultural codes. In Part I of this two-part series, Jami de Lou explores how minimization (downplaying differences) erodes trust and clarity. Hear a Brave Enough Moment, learn a simple Cultural Reframe reset, and discover how naming and bridging differences builds collaboration and belonging.
2025-09-3014 min
Adaptive HumansNavigating the Q4 Storm: Finding Steady Ground in Work, Life, and TransitionThe final months of the year can feel like a storm from navigating deadlines, reviews, holiday stress, and even job loss or career transitions. In this episode, Jami de Lou shares ways to find steady ground in work, life, and transition. You’ll hear simple resets to notice stress, create space for others, and honor sacred holidays. And if you’re in transition or searching for a new role, this conversation offers encouragement and tools to help you navigate the storm with clarity.✨ Resource: How to Respect Religious Observances on Your Team
2025-09-2320 min
Adaptive HumansGrief Part II: Kerri Soukup on Suicide Loss, Creativity, and the Path to HealingIn Part II of our grief series, host Jami de Lou sits down with creative leader and Sentiment Project founder Kerri Soukup to explore how art and storytelling can transform how we process loss—including suicide loss.Kerri shares the unexpected origins of her project, how a single letter (“E”) became a path to empathy, and why feeling grief can open the door to healing. Together, they reflect on creativity as a safe container for grief, and Kerri offers a Just Be Reset with small practices to process emotions. Content note: ⚠️ Content Note: This episode discusses s...
2025-09-1654 min
Adaptive HumansGrief Part I: Navigating Loss Through Purposeful VulnerabilityThis is Part 1 of a two-part series on grief. In this episode of Adaptive Humans, Jami de Lou reflects on the quiet weight of grief anniversaries, including the collective memory of 9/11. She shares her own story of personal loss and generational impact, explores how purposeful vulnerability creates connection, and reminds us that acknowledging grief—in ourselves and others—can be healing. Plus, Jami offers a Just Be Reset with practical tools to release stress and honor emotions. If today isn’t the right time to listen to a conversation about grief, you’re welcome to come back when you’re ready.
2025-09-1025 min
Adaptive HumansWelcome + Brave Enough to BeginIn the very first episode of Adaptive Humans™, host Jami de Lou shares why this podcast exists and offers a peek into the show’s signature segments—Beyond the Bio (real stories behind titles), Brave Enough Moment (stepping forward even when it’s messy), and Just Be Reset (practical tools to restore and renew). Together, they set the tone for real talk and intentional growth each week, exploring how we work with emotions, bridge differences, and steady ourselves when stress runs high.
2025-09-0914 min
Career Coaching SecretsChange Is Possible: Jami de Lou’s Journey in Inclusive Executive CoachingJami de Lou, global executive coach and founder of de Lou Strategies, shares how she helps leaders unlock cultural intelligence and emotional adaptability to build inclusive, resilient teams. In this episode, Jami discusses the power of coaching, her top investments, and why she believes human transformation is always possible—even in challenging times.You can find her on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jami-de-lou/https://deloustrategies.com/Support the showYou can also watch this podcast on YouTube at:https://www.youtube.com/@CareerCoachingSecretsIf you ar...
2025-06-1028 min
Isn't It Lovely? PodcastS10:E4 Isn't it Lovely How You Make Someone Feel? with Terra Koupal“You are so capable of so much more than what you even realize.”
After surviving tandem bouts of Influenza B, Tracy and Rachel have rallied and are thrilled to usher in a fresh dose of inspiration by welcoming both springtime and Sioux Falls-based entrepreneur (and local fan favorite!) Terra Koupal to the show! Terra shares her journey to becoming an accidental influencer after welcoming two sets of twins (and celebrating the nuanced joys and challenges of in vitro fertilization) and explores the ways that the power of connection through family, business, and friendships can be used to comf...
2024-04-1936 min
Hype from Outer Heaven: A Nostalgia Podcast#18 - Bonus Features: The Lost Boys (1987)“SLEEP ALL DAY. PARTY ALL NIGHT. IT’S FUN TO BE A VAMPIRE.”
On this episode of Hype from Outer Heaven, join Kyle and Brandon (Prince is off on his travels and Caleb couldn’t get out of work for this one) as they re-visit one of their most formative movies from their childhoods; Joel Schumacher’s excellent 1987 black comedy, vampire flick: The Lost Boys.
Pulling in over $32 million against a $8.5 million budget, The Lost Boys was a commercial and critical success when it released in 1987, spawning multiple sequels and developing one hell of a cult follo...
2024-03-2641 min
I Could Get Into ThisSupport Valentine Crush - ICGIT15Support Leah and the movie that she wrote: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/valentinecrush/valentine-crush
This is a special episode that replays a part of the interview that we had with Jamie Wede, the director fo Valentine Crush.
Funds from the Kickstarter will go to the soundtrack. Music Artists Mentioned that are on the soundtrack: Bruiser Queen, Kristen Ford, Fea, Fuzzy Machete, Bridge City Sinners, E-Turn
Check out the whole list of artists on the soundtrack:
Kristen Ford
Bruiser Queen
E-Turn
Fea
Bridge...
2021-04-1451 min
Plant Trainers Podcast - Plant Based Nutrition & FitnessUnderstanding Heart Health with Dr. Jami Dulaney – PTP240In today’s episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast we talk to Dr. Jami Dulaney about everything you need to know about heart health and a plant-based diet just in time for February, which is “Heart Month”. She walks us through how she embraced a plant-based diet personally and how she brought it into her practice. Dr. Dulaney has literally traded her scalpel for a spatula. She went from doing multiple procedures a day to teaching cooking and plant-based classes. She does this to educate her patients and help them make changes in their lives that will help them have the be...
2018-02-2744 min