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Plenty with Kate Northrup137: From Coach to Performer: A Story of Midlife Becoming with Chela DavisonHave you ever realized that the identity you’ve built—the one that’s kept everything running—might also be the very thing keeping you from your next becoming?In this week’s episode of Plenty, I get to sit down with someone who has witnessed me through many of my own becomings: my longtime friend and former coach, Chela Davison. Our conversation is an intimate, funny, deeply human exploration of midlife unraveling as an initiation into deeper truth, creative recovery, and a fuller expression of self.Chela and I trace the arc of her...
2025-12-0257 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodHow to Find a Calling That Feeds You | Chela DavisonThis week we’re hanging with our friend Chela Davison — facilitator, sacred mischief maker, former master coach, and writer of the Substack, Wisdotainment.She brings her trademark mix of depth and irreverence to the question of what it means to live a “regenerative calling”, a purposeful life that actually feeds you instead of wringing you dry.Chela walks us through 4 dimensions of personal calling:1. Interiority – the pulse of what’s meaningful inside you.2. Aptitude – the weird mix of things you’re naturally good at and the skills you might still need.3. Contribu...
2025-11-1100 min
Finding Your Way Home; The Secrets to True AlignmentEmbracing Creative and Spiritual Callings with Chela DavisonEmbracing Creative and Spiritual Callings with Chela DavisonGorgeous listeners, welcome to this week's episode of Finding Your Way Home; a little moment of deep connection, where we dive into the inextricable link between mind, body and realising your most authentic self.In this episode, we sit down with the wonderful Chela Davison; Master Integral Coach, Writer, Producer and all-round creative force, to share her profound journey of "finding calling". As a guide to thousands on the themes of artistic recovery and spiritual alignment, she walks us through the blueprint you need to...
2025-09-1659 min
MORE ALIVE PODCAST | with Andrea CrowderEp. 104 When the Life You Built No Longer Lets You Breathe -- The Identity Collapse That Called Her Home | Interview with Chela DavisonEver feel like your life was custom-fit for a version of you that doesn’t exist anymore? Same. In this soul-stirring, truth-baring, goosebump-triggering episode, Andrea sits down with the magnetic Chela Davison—a woman who walked away from a wildly successful coaching empire because her soul whispered (okay, screamed): “There’s something else.”
Together, they unravel what it means to answer the call of sacred artistry—even when it hijacks your identity, torches your plans, and seduces you into making something so alive it won’t let you sleep.
💥 Chela doesn’t just talk about creativity—she blee...
2025-05-061h 10
Making Majik Podcast with Bradley Morris from Majik MediaHow to Pivot Careers & Leap with Faith -- Like a Boss!In this episode, Bradley T. Morris and Chela Davison dive deep into the emotional rollercoaster of career pivots and life transitions. If you’re feeling uninspired, stuck in a rut, or scared to take that leap of faith that is calling you forward in life, this conversation is for you. Learn how to balance your existing commitments while pursuing new passions, maintain focus under pressure, and embrace the power of generosity in your career and personal growth. Walk away with practical tips, inspiration, and a renewed sense of direction to transform your life and career. This is a powerful conversation wo...
2024-05-2347 min
The Holistic GLP-1 Podcast with Elizabeth McGannTimely Thoughts on AI, the Age of Aquarius and Election 2024 (with Chela Davison)From the rise of Artificial Intelligence, to the Age of Aquarius to the frightening pastiche of Election 2024, this episode of Drop the Weight with master leadership expert Chela Davison covers a truly epic range of topics (with just a few apocalyptic notes to keep things interesting.) Through it all, Chela's sensible grounding in the real meaning of leadership both--both inward and outward, rooted in integrity through even the most incredible times of change--provide context and meaning that make the whirl of the discussion a lot less unsettling. Whatever your thoughts, predictions, ho...
2024-03-0130 min
2023-12-1149 min
What is Leadership?Episode 55: 'Intention and Improv' with Jennifer EnglandJennifer England supports soul-aligned missions for the collective good. As an Integral Master Coach™ and highly skilled facilitator, she helps high performing leaders and teams access deeper fulfilment, clarity and alignment to succeed in transition, uncertainty and emergent collaboration. In this episode, Jennifer shares the value of bringing the principles of improv to our lives, and how our ability to improvise in times of challenge or disruption can actually be the soil of our resilience and creativity. They explore the relentless pursuit of ‘self-improvement’, and discuss the concept of ‘holobiont’ - that we become and are becoming an assemblage of the exp...
2023-09-2059 min
What is Leadership?Episode 54: 'Medicine' with Kathleen SmithKathleen Smith is a singer-songwriter/producer whose music has been heard on radio, TV and film. She is also a music supervisor for Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and the popular podcast & Netflix show - Song Exploder. In this episode, Kathleen discusses her new record ‘Medicine’, which she wrote - and taught herself to produce - in an old barn in New Mexico. She unpacks her early artist years - from seeking validation from an extractive industry to finding sovereignty - and the significance of deep spiritual practice on that journey. The dance between being a visionary and present reality, and the...
2023-08-1153 min
What is Leadership?Episode 53: 'Business without Social Media' with Bradley MorrisBradley Morris is the founder of Majik Media - helping leaders unleash their majik to leverage their life’s work - as well as Majik Kids, the Creator’s Club and is also a professional golfer - and no, you will not find him on social media. In this episode, Bradley shares his decision to leave social media, highlighting the negative impact of algorithms, the divisive nature of the platforms, and a scary realization that compelled him to make a permanent exit. Discover how Bradley's departure from socials transformed his business model - and expect practical marketing alternatives - incl...
2023-07-2148 min
What is Leadership?Episode 52: 'Disrupting Leadership' with Lael Couper JepsonLael Couper Jepson is all about change powered by women. Founder of SheChanges, she makes it her business to hold space for those willing to live from the crossroads of conventional thought and unconventional wisdom. In this episode, they discuss important conversations often buried - which Lael is passionate about uncovering - and the language needed to disrupt traditional leadership thinking. Lack of safety in organizations, and welcoming the ‘dominant cast’ to the change conversation with compassion and enthusiasm - because for things to change, everybody needs to be at the party. The ripple effect of public courage when makin...
2023-07-131h 07
What is Leadership?Episode 51: 'Leading from the Body' with Sydney CraigSydney Craig, is the owner of Pilates Tonic, a studio she founded over 17 years ago, which has expanded into online movement learning. In this episode, Sydney emphasizes the importance of body as instrument - for moving through the world and finding guidance - inviting curiosity about what our body is communicating. The initial challenges she faced as a business owner revealed that her external struggles reflected internal struggles, and she shares how taking self-responsibility allowed for significant change. They discuss the importance of leading from and listening to our bodies, steadiness and showing up over time, and the presence...
2023-06-2340 min
What is Leadership?Episode 50: The Genesis of the Creative Cauldron with Chela DavisonIn this episode, I share about how the Creative Cauldron came to be, how it works and what to expect if you decide to join us this upcoming season! About a year ago, I was feeling creatively dry. I decided to finally take a course a friend of mine has on writing and performing solo shows, and the experience made me realize the importance of giving reverence and dedicated time to my creative writing. Knowing that I uphold my commitments to others, I decided to start the Creative Cauldron, a community where us artists and creators could gather, support...
2023-06-2115 min
What is Leadership?Episode 49: 'Failing toward Ensoulment' with Rob McNamaraRob McNamara is an author, leadership coach, advisor and consultant with expertise in adult development and human performance. Co-founder of consulting firm Delta Developmental and faculty member for the Ivey School of Business’ LIFT Advanced Coaching Program, he advises, trains, and coaches on a broad range of initiatives for individuals, organizations, and governments navigating complex, civilization-wide problems. In this emergent conversation, they explore the necessity to inquire into ways you are failing as a leader, rather than emphasizing expertise. Our insatiable human desire to acquire more - extracting of ourselves and our World. The gestalt of maturity through ensoulment, de...
2023-05-0556 min
What is Leadership?Episode 48: Making ends Meet with Chela DavisonAre you a service provider struggling financially, despite having a very successful practice? In today’s ‘Dear Chela’, I answer a therapist’s question about how to make ends meet, speaking to: the wider context of the struggling economy and the historical possibility of supporting large families on a single income in comparison to today’s conditions. I offer possible tangible shifts - including reassessing business models and alternative income sources. I encourage seeking support - both seen and unseen - focusing on building relationships, connecting with peers, leaning into their deep spirituality and joining communities of practice. I close with...
2023-04-1922 min
Making Majik Podcast with Bradley Morris from Majik MediaMeet Your Calling With Chela DavisonIn this juicy conversation, Chela and I talk about what it really means to meet your calling in life & life's work, and how to apply focus to your day-to-day rhythm, so you can get the most out of your time.
Chela shares a ton about her own inner metamorphosis taking place right now, the work we have been doing together at Majik Media AND the concept of seasonality when it comes to our work/life rhythms.
You're going to get a lot out of watching or listening to this one, so enjoy.
If you were inspired, join Chela's FIVE upcoming...
2023-04-1438 min
What is Leadership?Episode 47: 'Sacred Embodiment' with Elizabeth DiAltoKnown for her raw, honest, and nuanced approach to spirituality and the healing arts, Elizabeth DiAlto is an Embodiment Specialist, a Mystic, and host of the Embodied Podcast. In this episode, Elizabeth describes the journey towards her Soul’s work - how being a personal trainer in NYC led to questioning societal beauty standards, inspiring her to create her own business. They explore: Elizabeth’s unique capacities - including committing to being unabashedly herself and a love of comedy. Humour, humanity, and humility in our Soul's journey and alchemizing anger into something useful. The image trap of being "evolved”, and th...
2023-04-111h 02
Making Majik Podcast with Bradley Morris from Majik MediaLiving In Delight While Doing Your PurposeIn this Creators Club coaching sermon, Chela Davison spontaneously rifts on what it takes to live your life in delight WHILE doing the big work you're here to do in the world. Buckle your bootstraps and enjoy this powerful mic drop coaching moment.
Join Chela's Lead Your Self program at https://cheladavison.com/lead-your-self
Join Chela's upcoming workshops at https://cheladavison.com/lead-your-self/events/
If you want coaching support like this, apply to the Creators Club at https://majikmedia.com/creators-club
2023-04-0615 min
What is Leadership?Episode 46: 'Stop Using Spreadsheets' with Rachel FloodRachel Flood is a technology enthusiast, operations consultant, and enterprise architect with over 20 years experience in for-profit and non-profit sectors. She is passionate about leveraging systems to simplify and automate mundane manual tasks, freeing up the ‘beautiful minds’ of operational workers - insisting the work should be repeatable, but the person not replaceable. In this episode, Rachel discusses hiring operational help - including training up current employees. She emphasizes the importance of spending time on system implementation and documentation for sustainability and scalability potential. Her course “Stop Using Spreadsheets” teaches a 5-step process designed to help people doing good things i...
2023-04-0450 min
What is Leadership?Episode 45: Professional Metamorphosis with Chela DavisonIn this episode, I share some massive shifts in my life's work over the past couple of years through devices I use with clients - calling, seasonality and impact statement - in the hopes that it may contribute to your own unfoldings. I discuss the four cornerstones of a calling, how mine has been evolving and personal experience of a “forced winter” to heal and do the inner work. An unexpected hobby that led to claiming a dream I've had since I was a child, and what this all means in terms of a decade’s body of work and wh...
2023-03-3132 min
The Terri Cole ShowBurned Out? An Alternative to "Quiet Quitting" with Chela DavisonI am so excited to have my pal, Chela Davison, on the show to share her thoughts and observations on the "quiet quitting" movement. We dive deep into themes like living seasonally, pushing back against workaholism, figuring out our identity outside of work, and why working constantly simply isn't sustainable. We explore what it might be like to do "slow business," too. Chela is an original thinker and I enjoyed her take on this so much. I hope you do, too. As we said during our conversation, share your thoughts with us below! Read the s...
2023-03-1640 min
What is Leadership?Episode 44: 'Everyday Radiance' with Heidi Rose RobbinsHeidi Rose Robbins has been a professional astrologer for 25 years, helping thousands of global clients live with more authenticity and clarity. She hosts two podcasts, THE RADIANCE PROJECT, featuring poetry, astrology, and good company, and CHART YOUR CAREER, with co-host Ellen Fondiler. She’s written two poetry books and has been a featured poet at two TedX events. Her latest book, Everyday Radiance, launched this January. In this episode, Heidi beautifully weaves astrological language throughout as she describes her work's evolution, as well as astrology as a developing field. She speaks to the growth and importance of connections, and ho...
2023-03-0938 min
What is Leadership?Episode 43: Unhook from unbearable standards and expectationsFeeling personal-developed-OUT? Pounded with ways to progress, longing to just ‘be’? Done with morning routines - burning to pump the brakes on evolving for a single moment - so you can just sip your darn coffee in peace!? Then check out this episode of Dear Chela, as I speak to external expectations and overwhelming standards that have us feeling ‘never enough’. I talk input detoxes, awareness of internal stories and remind you to check intentions when it comes to morning practices. I offer a practice to lean into what’s sufficient and set fire to standards, leaving you with an excerpt...
2023-03-0814 min
What is Leadership?Episode 42: Exit Hustle and Grind Culture with Chela DavisonTired of being tired? Does hustle and grind culture have you by the short and curlies? If you’ve set your hopes on regenerative ways of living and working - wondering how you’ll know when you’ve exited cycles of hustling & grinding - this episode is for you! Jacquie read my article ‘Discipline & Heat = Spaciousness & Relief’ and resonated with the quote: ‘I have worked so hard not to work so hard’. After 30+ years grinding, she asks - “How do I know, see, feel - when I’ve shifted away from the grind?” I offer ways to explore her beliefs, behaviours...
2023-03-0119 min
The Practical Enneagram19 minutes with Chela DavisonAs many questions as I can ask inspiring and hilarious Integral Master Coach, Speaker, Writer and Entrepreneur Chela Davison (Sexual 7) in 19 minutes. What was the last fight you had with your husband about?What are you most excited about in life right now?What’s the biggest challenge you currently face?What’s an important habit for you?And your biggest vice?How would you describe your home in three words?When is the best time to ask you for a favour?And the worst time?What is the Seven...
2023-02-2821 min
What is Leadership?Episode 41: 'Somatic Finance' with Gayle ColmanGayle Colman is a certified financial planner, coach, writer and entrepreneur. With four decades of professional experience in financial planning, her diverse training infuses Integral coaching and spiritual embodiment with practical financial savvy to bring somatic finance to life as an entirely new way of understanding and being in relationship with money. In this episode, Gayle names the necessity to bring the wisdom of our body to all matters of money in order to make whole human financial decisions. How building embodied sufficiency vs. scarcity helps to navigate external fear forces, how fully inhabiting our body moves us towards...
2023-02-2358 min
What is Leadership?Episode 40: Emotional Range with Chela DavisonRecently, I wrote a blog post called ‘Such a loser’, and had some varied responses. One turned into a beautiful back and forth with a new reader. Part of her response was the question ‘Are you okay?’, which I was so touched by, and further went on to ask - ‘Do some people experience emotions differently?’ - naming that if she’d felt how I had described - she’d be worried. In this episode of Dear Chela, I discuss my own journey developing emotional capacity, speak to what capabilities can be built to expand your own - and how the not-so-p...
2023-02-0824 min
What is Leadership?Episode 39: 'Befriending Death' with Melanie SheckelsMelanie Sheckels is a registered nurse and a death, grief and trauma educator/guide, helping hundreds of humans move from fear and freeze into possibility and ease. Melanie founded ‘Threshold Doula’ in 2019 after 7 years as a cardiac and hospice nurse, helping people navigate the healthcare system and dying process with greater understanding and confidence. In this episode, Melanie shares about her mother’s passing which led to stepping into this leadership. How the Western medical system relates to the dying process (and an alternative approach for regret-free transition), a reframe for ‘legacy’ and our part in the wider web of life, a...
2023-02-011h 02
Making Majik Podcast with Bradley Morris from Majik MediaHELP! I am Overwhelmed & Drowning as I Try to Make My Dreams Come True!Question from a Creator: "Help! I am trying so hard to build my online business - but I am filled with anxiety. The tech stresses me out so much! I am on the verge of quitting, but if I quit I feel like i"m giving up on myself. What should I do? Thank you!"
Are you ready to meet your edge as an entrepreneur, leader & creator.... and grow beyond it? Apply to the Creators Club at https://majikmedia.com/creators-club
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COACHES:
Bradley T. Morris - https://majikmedia.com and https://majikkids.com
Chela Davison...
2022-11-1520 min
Making Majik Podcast with Bradley Morris from Majik MediaMeet your FOUR Creators Club Coaches (Bradley, Claudia, Neil & Chela)Are you thinking about joining the Creators Club? In this video, you get to meet the coaches behind the Creators Club. These are the folks who will be guiding you up the metaphorical mountain of taking your business & life's work to the next level. Apply to join the club at https://majikmedia.com/creators-club
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COACHES:
Bradley T. Morris - https://majikmedia.com and https://majikkids.com
Chela Davison - https://cheladavison.com
Claudia Miro - https://theinspiredbrand.com
Neil Santos - https://thepentatonicway.com
2022-11-1509 min
Making Majik Podcast with Bradley Morris from Majik MediaExplore your Edges as an Emergent Leader (with Chela Davison)What does it take to really find your groove, share your brilliance and succeed at building a soul-aligned business? The answer is: It depends. There is no secret sauce or one right path. As a creative entrepreneur, the answer is in leveraging your genius, acknowledging where you need to grow, and knowing how to exit your comfort zone.
The Emergent Leadership Workshop is about knowing and owning your unique ways of being, what’s strong and awesome, while taking an honest and self-compassionate look at what’s holding you back. You will leave with tangible and creative visions to carry you...
2022-11-111h 29
What is Leadership?‘Co-creative Leadership’ with Jennifer Chapman Jennifer Chapman is the founder of ‘Ambition Leadership’ which she leaped into on Leap Day 2012 - with a desire to build a company that embodied the leadership behaviours it promoted. She is an expert Leadership Coach working with STEM managers and leaders who want to increase their productivity and performance by strengthening their competence and people skills. In this episode, Jennifer provides practical tools for how to manage your boss - whether you have one or are one, varying personality types in the workplace and how to honour them, possibilities to influence culture without hierarchical power and an invitation to c...
2022-08-2448 min
What is Leadership?Meet The Call with Chela Davison This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Meet The Call explores what a calling is and how we go about meeting it. Chela speaks to how a calling is part of us, but also beyond us. She names common patterns noticed when heeding a call - both her own and with her clients - including what our callings care about and what they don’t. She speaks to misconceptions - like the notion that aligned callings should feel easy. Chela muses that perhaps our calling is al...
2022-08-1034 min
What is Leadership?'Who we are is how we lead' with Ali PhillipsAli Phillips founded ‘Bust A Move Dance’ in 2009 - one of Australia’s first inclusive dance companies for children, teens and adults with disabilities - at age 17. Diving into entrepreneurship at an early age, she soon developed a passion for both teaching and leadership. In this episode, she speaks about how who we are is how we lead and how sensing into body and mind simultaneously, as well as defining and aligning with our core values, allows us to show up in leadership and in the World authentically. Ali defines self-awareness as a superpower, and the more we know oursel...
2022-07-2759 min
What is Leadership?Post-Capitalist Business with Chela DavisonThis episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key Guiding Principles in her work and business. Post-Capitalist Business is the exploration of that as a possibility. She invites us into this conversation of imagination and experimentation, unpacking what is seen - how our planet is ravaged by capitalism and those values are deeply ingrained within us - and what she cannot yet fully see - what would a post-capitalist World look like? If the whole system is not to crumble entirely in our own lifetimes, what is possible now, and what small steps might we...
2022-07-1342 min
What is Leadership?Magnetic Storytelling with Gabrielle Dolan While working in senior leadership roles in corporate Australia, Gabrielle realised the power of storytelling in effective business communication. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker, educator and author of ‘Real Communication’, ‘Stories For Work’ and her latest book, ‘Magnetic Stories’. In this episode, she challenges corporate norms that facts and figures are primarily what matters, and instead describes the influential power of storytelling, both internally with your team and externally with the consumer. She helps us differentiate sucky stories from sticky stories, discusses how emotional impact of story precedes logic in consumer decisions and demonstrates how, when told well, our or...
2022-06-2941 min
The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaksThe Wisdom of Resistance- with Chela DavisonEver notice that sometimes it feels impossible to get momentum? No matter how clear your intention or the strength of your will, often a gap remains between where you are and where you want to be. You’re not alone. All inner (and cultural) change is accompanied by friction, tension and resistance. In this episode Jennifer talks with Integral Master Coach™, writer, speaker and host of What is Leadership? podcast, Chela Davison about the challenge and wisdom of resistance and how to work with it in our own lives. In this fun, lively and probing conversa...
2022-06-281h 12
What is Leadership?Interdependent Emergence with Chela DavisonThis episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Interdependent Emergence is the exploration of how through braiding together our individual and collective gifts, we can co-create a world we can belong to and thrive in. Chela discusses how this lens can help us co-create with both seen and unseen forces, enabling us to bring about opportunities and possibilities that our own imaginings simply could not conjure alone. She provides the comforting thought that we are not meant to do it all, and that by leaning into interdependent...
2022-06-2240 min
Embodied with Elizabeth DiAltoFollow Your Calling in Each Season of Life with Chela DavisonChela Davison works with individuals to help them discover the call of their soul and make the meaningful impact they wish to see in their lives. The core of Chela’s work is to help people meet their calling, discover what it is and develop the capacity to carry it out in the world. In Episode 392 Chela shares how her calling is evolving and how she is reckoning with that now, in the same way you may need to mourn when a role you’ve previously played no longer is sustainable in your current life. Becaus...
2022-06-131h 10
What is Leadership?Reimagining Work with Kate NorthrupKate Northrup is an entrepreneur, bestselling author and mother. She’s the founder of the Origin Company, a multimedia company reaching hundreds of thousands globally and the author of Do Less. She’s on a mission to collectively reimagine work and have more by doing less. In this episode she shares the principles and practices that underpin her work, how working with seasons, cycles and our bodies’ rhythms are revolutionary in a culture and system of extraction. She shares her own personal challenges, stories and wisdom that contribute to the mission she’s stewarding and how shifting from a me to we...
2022-05-251h 09
What is Leadership?The Art of Creative CuriosityTJ Dawe is a Vancouver based writer, director and performer of new theatre. He's toured to more than one hundred theatre festivals on four continents. He leads a course on creating a one person show and has built a 20 year + successful career in the arts in a niche that’s fully and uniquely ‘him’. In this episode, TJ shares wisdom, science and experience around the key ingredients to leading a creative life, bringing forth art in many forms. He addresses the importance of personal developmental work to combat the ego’s sneaky ways of sabotaging one's art, creativity and leadersh...
2022-01-261h 07
Making Majik Podcast with Bradley Morris from Majik MediaThe Biggest Booby Trap On The Internet (with Chela Davison)In today's Making Majik Podcast, my guest Chela Davison and I have a deep & philosophical discussion about the internet's biggest booby trap.
Perhaps this is a trap you're currently stuck inside of or trying to escape, but from the view you currently have, you see no way out.
The booby trap I'm referring to of course is Social Media.
In this discussion we talk about:
- Chela's and my journey of leaving social media
- Where we feel social media is bad for business & the world
- Accessing more depth, connection & creativity
- Alternative ideas for life and business outside...
2021-09-141h 00
What is Leadership?Embodied Leadership with Sigrid TasiesSigrid Tasies is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author of the book “Intimacy Within”, and host of the top rated Podcast “Sacred Leaders”. In this episode, Sigrid dives into what it means to lead from the inside out and the necessity for leaders to be doing deep inner work in order to truly lead others (versus leading from and for individualistic ends). They talk about what it means to embody knowledge versus operating from surface or cognitive understanding, models for leadership that attends to right relations with self, others and nature, the power of plant medicine and the prison o...
2021-09-021h 00
What is Leadership?Right Livelihood with Simon GolandJoin contemporary alchemist, Simon Goland, as he poses the questions Why are you here? And... What has your life been preparing you for? These questions are what gets answered through his work as an educator, facilitator, leader and coach. Listen in as they play with and discuss Presence, and how returning to presence becomes the basis for knowing what is needed, moment by moment, including the practice of emergent dialogue. They jam on the enneagram, their histories with personal transformational journeys, the spiraling nature of inner work, its role in the pursuit of right livelihood and what it means...
2021-07-011h 08
What is Leadership?Seasons as a Map and Compass with Chela DavisonThis episode is part of the Guided series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Seasons as a Map and Compass is the exploration of the seasonality of life, work and development. Life and death cycles and how they can show us where we are, what’s needed and what’s coming. Chela discusses bringing this lens to the creative process, business building and executing on projects. She explores the interdependent nature of nature and how looking to seasonality when it comes to project planning and moving through phases or work can bring heaps of w...
2021-05-1946 min
What is Leadership?Self-As-Instrument. Work-As-Service with Chela DavisonSelf-As-Instrument, Work-As-Service is our second episode in the series: Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode dives into the question: What does it mean to be an active participant in our collective evolution? Chela explores how her own personal development and approach to work and business are a means of answering and living this question. She shares what it means to develop ourselves as the instrument of service and change and why that’s fundamental to conscious leadership. She explores various ways of relating to work and wh...
2021-05-0434 min
What is Leadership?Guided by Principles - with Chela DavisonThis episode is the first in a series called Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode introduces the principles, philosophies and values that are key to her leadership and contribution as she helps leaders grow their capacities, carve their own paths and contribute to societal change. Listen in as she speaks about what it means to listen for and meet your calling, develop your Self-As-Instrument, navigate personal and professional growth through both an Emergent Leadership and Seasonal lens, all while imagining post-capitalist business models for our collective...
2021-04-1242 min
What is Leadership?Permission to Live with Heather ChauvinHeather Chauvin is a leadership coach who helps ambitious, overwhelmed women become leaders at work and home. Drawing from her experience as a social worker, raising three boys, and navigating a cancer journey, Heather helps her clients create and enjoy sustainability, profitability and ease in business and life. In this episode, Heather invites listeners to redefine and reclaim what they want for their life. She shines light on ways women ignore their natural rhythms and lose their identity adopting society's self-destructive addiction to faster living. Heather offers permission to take power back, walking us through practical ways to identify...
2021-02-2449 min
What is Leadership?Let’s Play - with Jeff HarryJeff Harry is bringing the play to this space and it is an enlivening and juicy approach to leading! Jeff shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff is an international speaker showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. In this episode, Jeff shares how we as a society have not only complicated but fear the act of play, ultimately leading to the theft of joy. He shares some practical and exciting ways to reclaim our precious time, our jo...
2021-01-271h 11
What is Leadership?Helping the Helpers - with Yvonne AtorFondly called “The Helper For Helpers and Sheepdog for Sheepdogs”, Dr. Yvonne Ator is deeply passionate about serving those who serve and lead. As the Founder of Thriving Physicians and Thriving Idealist, she equips helpers and leaders struggling with overwhelm, overwork or feeling stuck with tools and resources to master themselves so they can live authentically and serve to their fullest potential. Yvonne shares how to nurture yourself to better show up for others and for yourself, and the foundational skills required to lead mission aligned businesses. She also cautions the dangers and consequences of not setting boundaries and aski...
2021-01-201h 14
What is Leadership?Realize Your Calling - with Chela DavisonIn this episode, Chela explores what it means to have and realize your Calling, how to be in an emergent relationship with your life’s work that allows it and you to evolve over time. She shares the four cornerstones of a fulfilling and sustainable Vocational Calling and how to check for greater alignment with purpose. She also cautions against some of the cultural traps around rises in spiritual materialism and the dangers of commodifying our gifts and passion, while also the necessity of ensuring that you’re being paid and are in regenerative cycles to prevent burn out and...
2021-01-1341 min
What is Leadership?Data Informed Leadership - with Jason MelchiJason Melchi is the founder and Chief Data Dude at Empact Solutions, a purpose-driven organization that is focused on transforming youth justice through an empowered and collaborative use of data. Think data doesn’t apply to your role as a leader? Think data is boring? Jason implores you to think again. Leaders can exert a powerful effect on behaviour by providing and analyzing the right type of data. In this episode, they explore how to bridge the gap between the technical and human elements of leading a mission driven initiative, bringing both a strong understanding of data and a co...
2020-12-161h 02
What is Leadership?Power of Story with Marsha ShandurMarsha Shandur of Yes Yes Marsha is a Storytelling, Communication and Speaker Coach who has taught hundreds of individuals and groups of executives, entrepreneurs and professionals across the world. This episode explores the role of storytelling in leadership and the importance of vulnerability when it comes to connecting and engaging with your audience. They talk about the fundamental rules of effective storytelling, the key questions to ask yourself when writing a compelling story, and how your ability to be a good storyteller is irrelevant to the magnitude of your life experiences. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com...
2020-12-091h 16
What is Leadership?Liberation through Feminine Leadership with Shannon ThompsonShannon Thompson is the Founder/Visionary Director and Birth Mama of the social change organization, Shakti Rising, an expert in the field of addiction, recovery and leadership development and a highly sought after facilitator and consultant of interpersonal dynamics, leadership cultivation, and sustainable healing practices. This episode explores the power of feminine leadership and how to create coherence to be a fractal of healing, decolonization, and liberation as a leader and human. They explore the notion and characteristics of the modern leader and how it is impacting our society and relationships with Self, other and the Earth. For links...
2020-12-031h 29
What is Leadership?Parenting as Leadership - with Miriam Mason MartineauMiriam Mason Martineau is a mother, therapeutic counselor, parenting coach, writer, speaker, and researcher who helps clients discover and express their evolving potential – in themselves, their relationships, and the world. This episode explores the interface between leadership, parenting, age transition, intimacy of family values and how that presses against the backdrop of what’s unfolding in society. They talk about the foundation of any good leader - at home or in life, and ask challenging questions that will reinforce your beliefs and anchors in leading with heart, confidence, and grace. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast
2020-11-251h 11
What is Leadership?The Wisdom of Resistance - with Chela DavisonThis solo jam dives into the nature and wisdom of resistance, whether it’s the voice in your head stopping you from pursuing an exciting but terrifying project or recurring behavioural patterns preventing you from taking action on things you know are good for you. Chela explores the most common resistance patterns, how to embrace change and tap into the hidden wisdom of our resistance. She explores the teachings of resistance, how it can challenge our identity and invites us to cultivate a greater sense of trust in ourselves to overcome or move beyond it. For links & show notes go...
2020-11-1951 min
What is Leadership?Leading Leaps in Social & Climate JusticeEllen Sprenger, CEO & Founder, Spring Strategies is a strategist and advocate for social and climate justice, working with over 200 organizations worldwide and sees leadership as being intentional about leaving a space better than you found it. This episode explores the power of collective intelligence and how to build healthy, generatives teams and culture. They talk about the personal and collective relationships with money and what’s needed to transform economies and create life giving, financial resilience, as individuals and globally. Ellen is a curious optimist who truly believes in, and models, our capacity to create change when we work to...
2020-11-111h 00
What is Leadership?Boundary Boss - with Terri ColeTerri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and founder of Real Love Revolution, Boundary Bootcamp and author of the upcoming book, Boundary Boss. This episode kicks off by exploring the ways in which the work Terri is leading has really led and developed her in profound ways, no matter how far you go in your leadership journey, new ventures will humble you and how boundaries are fundamental to leading yourself, others and your initiative. She covers what it means to be a high-functioning co-dependent and three simple but profound questions to ask when you’re stuck. For links & sh...
2020-10-281h 00
What is Leadership?Emergence, Eros & Village with Ian MacKenzieHow do we move coherently amongst each other, but all empowered in our gifts? This is just one of the questions brought forward by Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker and visionary artist, host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast and creator of the Mythic Masculine Network. Listen in as they cover what it means to work at the intersection of emergence, eros & village, leadership as a means to empower the gifts of others to come forward and the notion and practice of Communitarianism: You are only able to fully thrive and become yourself in a shared trust field with other people who...
2020-10-211h 03
What is Leadership?The Poetry of Practice with Brooke McNamaraBrooke McNamara, MFA, is a poet, dance-theater artist, teacher, and ordained Zen monk. She has published two books of poems: Bury the Seed (2020) and Feed Your Vow and is the creator and instructor of multiple online courses. She is most passionate about creating and tending genuine + diverse practice spaces and models this very capacity in this episode. We move from dialogue to practice together and invite you as listener to practice alongside. Brooke brings such heart and depth to this space, expect to be inspired and deeply nourished by this evocative conversation, the poetry of practice and the practice...
2020-10-1454 min
What is Leadership?Getting Religious about Collective Genius - with Shahar RabiShahar Rabi, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder and Director of Education for the New Earth Institute and author of Spiritual Misfits, Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World. We dive into the challenges and fears that arise when moving into collaborative leadership and how to cultivate unwavering trust, even in the face of immense adversity, mental health challenges and the global dying and rebirth it feels like we’re in the midst of. Listen in to why he feels we need to get religious about our shared humanity to truly engage the individual and collective genius needed to evolve to...
2020-10-071h 10
What is Leadership?Engineering Empathetic Leaders - with Erin ThorpErin Thorp cut her teeth on leadership early on, caring for her younger siblings in a challenging family environment. Her next big leadership challenge became building her career in construction engineering as a woman and emotional being. The modeling and leadership feedback she repeatedly received was that she needs to be less emotional. Her dive into emotional development resulted in writing a book called Inside-Out Empathy. Now she trains leaders on the power of empathy, helping those in corporate and organizational environments that are traditionally masculine and focused on problem solving just how much more effective leaders and teams...
2020-09-301h 04
What is Leadership?Leading while SufferingThis solo jam dives into the nature of suffering, from the small day to day grievances to the huge themes and challenges we’re navigating as human beings. Chela explores our relationship with aspirations, pain and the resistance of reality as the seat of suffering. She shares her learning of why radical acceptance of what is, is the first step in being able to change what’s unacceptable. How do we lead and take responsibility for the change we seek and do that in the fullness of our pained, broken and suffering selves? For links & show notes go to: chel...
2020-09-2348 min
What is Leadership?Explorer of Liberation - with Holiday PhillipsHoliday is a sociologist, integral coach, writer and speaker on the topics of philosophy, justice, culture and personal transformation. A recent viral article about performative allyship went viral and landed her as a voice in the public sphere on racial equity. This episode begins by discussing the various leadership identities that Holiday is swimming in as she shares the idea of leadership as an explorer. What does it mean to lead from the questions and with an earnest and intentional practice of taking as many perspectives as possible, exploring the weight and validity of them, while simultaneously leading from...
2020-09-161h 27
What is Leadership?Knowing Your Nervous System with Irene LyonIrene Lyon, MSC and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma and live full, creative lives. To date, her online programs have reached thousands of people in over 60 countries. With her Master’s Degree in Biomedical and Health Science and a knack for explaining complex topics in easy-to-understand ways, Irene gives us an in-depth look at what the nervous system is and does. She also discusses the dangers she’s identified with ‘trauma-informed’ practice, the importance of boundaries as a leader, and how your upbringing likely influenced your tendenci...
2020-09-092h 20
What is Leadership?Imagining work that works for families with Sarah PeckSarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of Startup Pregnant and the host of The Startup Pregnant Podcast, where she helps working parents try to navigate everyday insanity. As both an entrepreneur and parent of two small children, Sarah offers parents of future generations (and anyone who ever was a child) sound considerations about how the working world is shifting and how to participate in shifting it to actually work for families. Sarah offers creative prompts around ways that we can adapt and shift our own individual and collective decisions in order to support our current and future...
2020-09-021h 22
What is Leadership?Rooted & Embodied Liberation with Karine BellKarine Bell is a somatics, embodiment & mindfulness teacher dedicated to healing through the body. We explore the converging threads of history and identity that’s brought Karine to forming and leading an emergent embodied healing community called Rooted. We explore the ways our pain and trauma are not only doorways to healing, but can be the very catalyst for encountering and pursuing our calling. Karine shares the hot and messy edges of what it’s like to lead from a vision for individual and communal liberation, with a collective, when you have no idea how you’re going to make i...
2020-08-261h 48
10% Happier with Dan HarrisThis Conversation Actually Explains Oneness With The Universe | Sebene SelassieI grew up with that famous Groucho Marx joke, "I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member." It always resonated with me. As my grandfather would say, "I resemble that remark." We all know that belonging -- to a tribe, a family, a group of any sort -- is a key part of human happiness; science bears this out. But my guest today, Sebene Selassie, is taking this concept of belonging to a much, much deeper level. To the "oneness with the universe" level. That's obviously one of the world's greatest spiritual...
2020-08-2657 min
What is Leadership?Animating Aliveness with Leslie WilliamsIn conversation with Leslie Williams, Master Certified Integral Coach, and President of LeaderShift Consulting, a global executive coaching practice. Leslie works with leaders who see their own development as the next step to greater impact and are working on behalf of social/global good. We explore the concept of aliveness as power, wellbeing as foundational for sustaining multigenerational missions and confronting the massive growth that’s required within and around us navigating the pandemic. Listen in as Leslie drops serious wisdom about the role of grief and humility when leading in times like these. For links & show notes go to...
2020-08-191h 09
What is Leadership?Justice Infused Business - with Kelly DielsIn dialgoue with Kelly Diels, Feminist educator, writer and coach, who brings fierce insight and strategy to what it means to bake justice into your business practices. Chela and Kelly look at the ways that we all exist in and perpetuate the culture around us, and where we have influence that can be leveraged for justice. This includes finding alternate business practices that allow us to thrive and take up space, especially in a culture that tells us that we shouldn’t. Discover what the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is, why it’s not a good thing, and...
2020-08-131h 06
What is Leadership?You Belong - with Sebene SelassieIn dialogue with Sebene Selassie, teacher, author and speaker who explores belonging and identity, deep diving into these topics in her forthcoming book, You Belong. Sebene offers up paradoxes for us to grapple with, inviting a reckoning with culturally created separateness and the ultimate truth of our belonging. Sebene and Chela explore many themes of belonging including the pathology of productivity and punitive self-development and the complex and messy territory of social justice, spirituality and cultivating community. Sebene brings thoughtful, deep and fiercely compassionate insight and practice to what it means to lead and to belong to all of...
2020-08-131h 04
What is Leadership?Leadership as Followship - with Rachael MaddoxIn dialogue with Rachael Maddox, trauma resolution educator, author, coach and guide. Chela and Rachael jam on domination and control versus co-creation and adaptability, hierarchy and its role inside of cooperation. Examine links between leadership and white supremacy, anti-Racism work, how to take care of yourself without bypassing, while learning about leadership from others. Explore what it takes to align with your own needs and health first and notions around competition, sharing responsibility, trusting in everyone’s unique roles. Rachael offers “What if the greatest leadership we can do is followship?” Tune in now for this powerful transmission of what’s...
2020-08-131h 26
What is Leadership?Living the Question - SoloWelcome to the very first episode of What is Leadership?! Chela invites you into the ongoing conversation that this podcast is initiating. She begins by asking questions she finds daunting, unanswerable even, the questions guiding her leadership, unique contributions and this podcast. Exploring how stories embed themselves into identities and approaches to leadership, she asks how we may tell co-emergent new narratives for a more life-affirming world. From grappling with the daunting complexity of contemporary existence, to how culture creates what we give our lifeforce to, this episode asks what it means to participate in evolution lays out the...
2020-08-1347 min
What is Leadership?Trailer: What Is Leadership?What do you think of when you hear the word ‘leadership’? Who do you picture when you see a leader? Announcing the August launch of my new podcast What is Leadership, where we explore this very question. It’s an invitation into a conversation about how we are creating a new world while navigating new and unknown territory. This is a claim that leadership is not just for those who wield power or the inside circle. We’ll examine what we need to be capable of to meet what’s coming, to evolve together, especially when we see things differentl...
2020-07-2904 min
The Well with Mandy BalakFind Your Calling with Chela DavisonChela Davison is an Integral Master CoachTM teacher, writer and speaker. She supports others to connect deeply with their own unique sense of purpose and how that's expressed through work and life. In this episode, we dig into the meaning of purposeful work and we also do a live coaching conversation on how to have a crucial conversation to dig deeper. Want more? Chela is taking the stage at our RISE Conference in Vancouver this October & will be sharing her wisdom and inspiring us to step into our true power. Head to jointherise.ca/vancouver to learn how to...
2019-10-2358 minEmbodied with Elizabeth DiAltoEP17: Chela Davison on Navigating Your Personal Evolution with LoveIn Feb 2015, I did a 5-day symposium consisting of 25 interviews with powerful and inspiring women sharing their stories and advice for transcending life’s struggles, fears and doing it their own way. We got so much incredible feedback on the interviews, we decided to turn it into a podcast. At times during the interviews when you hear us refer to the series or interviews that have already been done, keep in mind these interviews have been repurposed and may not follow the original order – but stay tuned because we’ll be airing four each month on Mondays alternating with fresh...
2015-07-1700 min
Embodied with Elizabeth DiAltoEP1: Turning the Tables - Liz Gets Interviewed by Chela DavisonIn Feb 2015, I did a 5-day symposium consisting of 25 interviews with powerful and inspiring women sharing their stories and advice for transcending life’s struggles, fears and doing it their own way. We got so much incredible feedback on the interviews, we decided to turn it into a podcast. At times during the interviews when you hear us refer to the series or interviews that have already been done, keep in mind these interviews have been repurposed and may not follow the original order – but stay tuned because we’ll be airing two each month alternating with fresh new episod...
2015-05-1900 min