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Deep Work Out Loud

Julie Harris Oliver

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Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 27

Welcome to Deep Work: Out Loud, The thinking that fuels our life, our work, and our leadership. I'm Julie Harris Oliver. This is the podcast where I sit with another professional coach and we do some work around a single concept, piece of inspiration, a topic we've seen come up in coaching. If we're very lucky, while talking about it, we might demonstrate what coaching might look and feel like. But we'll see how this goes. It's all an experiment. With any luck, you will leave with something you can apply and use in your work or your life or both.

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Meet Yourself Now or Be Replicable: Identity, Inner Images, and Animal Symbols with Helena Neubert

Season 1 · Episode 26

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 31:37

What if the clearest way to understand yourself wasn't a personality test, but a painting?

In this episode of Deep Work Out Loud, Julie Harris Oliver welcomes Helena Neubert, a Silicon Valley-based life guide and artist from Germany who uses visualization, coaching, and symbolic imagery to help entrepreneurs and leaders explore identity. Helena's background is in large-scale painting and corporate visualization, where she made business patterns and product stories visible through information-dense symbols long before she brought that same skill into coaching individuals.

Helena walks Julie through The Original, her four-week one-to-one process that integrates values, mission, personality frameworks, meditation, and guided inner journeys to surface a client's personal symbols, culminating in a bespoke painting of that person's essence. They talk about synesthesia and how metaphor and inner images build what Helena calls a landscape of meaning, one that supports clarity and decision-making in a way words alone often can't. Helena also leads Julie through a live conflict exercise using animal symbols, beaver and muskrat, and shares her own animal symbol along the way. The conversation lands on why self-knowledge matters more, not less, in the age of AI: it's grounded, personal, and far harder to replicate than anything generated for you.

In This Episode:

Helena's path from large-scale painting and corporate visualization into coaching
The Original, her four-week process for surfacing personal symbols through values, mission, and guided inner journeys
How a bespoke painting becomes a mirror for a client's essence
Synesthesia, metaphor, and building a "landscape of meaning"
A live animal symbol exercise using beaver and muskrat to explore conflict
Why self-knowledge is harder to manipulate or replicate, especially in the age of AI

⏰ Chapters
00:00 Welcome And Setup
00:32 Meet Helena Neubert
02:24 From Art To Visualization
03:20 Visualizing Business Stories
03:58 The Original Process
05:16 Coaching Through Metaphor
06:14 Values And Animal Symbols
08:16 Synesthesia And Inner Images
09:54 Inner Gallery Of Self
13:02 Guided Journeying Origins
15:51 Quick Animal Conflict Exercise
17:57 Muskrat Meets Beaver
19:12 Traits and Tensions
20:44 Image Reveal Surprise
22:21 Territory and Social Structure
23:32 Animal Symbols in Conflict
25:40 Guessing the Hummingbird
29:01 Finding Helena and Wrap-Up
29:49 Privacy and Final Takeaway
30:53 Podcast Outro Challenge

👤 About Helena Neubert
Helena Neubert is a Silicon Valley-based life guide and artist from Germany who helps entrepreneurs and leaders explore identity through visualization, coaching, and symbolic imagery. Her background spans large-scale painting and corporate visualization, and she now guides clients through The Original, a bespoke process culminating in a painting of their personal essence.
🌐 Website: https://www.helenaverse.co
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@helenaverse
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🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helena-neubert/

👤 About Julie Harris Oliver
Julie Harris Oliver is an Executive Coach, Leadership Development Professional, and host of the Deep Work Out Loud podcast. Through thought-provoking conversations with coaches, leaders, and subject matter experts, Julie helps professionals develop greater self-awareness, strengthen leadership skills, navigate career transitions, and create meaningful personal and professional growth.

Each episode explores practical insights you can apply to your work, relationships, leadership, and everyday life.
🌐 Website: https://julieharrisoliver.com

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The Power of the Pause: Responding Instead of Reacting in Leadership with Susan Lanphier

Season 1 · Episode 25

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 • Duration 26:22

Have you ever reacted to feedback before you even knew what you were reacting to?

In this episode of Deep Work Out Loud, Julie Harris Oliver welcomes coach Susan Lanphier to explore the power of the pause, a deceptively simple leadership and communication skill that creates real choice in emotionally charged moments. Drawing on her decades in tech and coaching leaders through change, Susan explains how a pause is what shifts us from reacting to responding, and how curiosity and empathy do the heavy lifting from there, especially in feedback conversations where defensiveness and anger are so often just fear wearing a different face.

Julie and Susan get into how leaders set the emotional temperature for everyone around them, why normalizing emotion at work still requires real boundaries and psychological safety to hold it, and what repair actually looks like when it's built on accountability for impact rather than good intentions, backed by self-compassion instead of self-punishment. They also talk about how judgment quietly blocks curiosity before it even has a chance, and why making time to pause, for strategic thinking and for your own priorities, takes boundaries and ongoing recommitment rather than a one-time decision.

In This Episode:

Why a pause is what creates the choice between reacting and responding
Using curiosity and empathy to stay grounded in feedback conversations
How leaders set the emotional temperature for their teams
Normalizing emotion at work without losing boundaries or psychological safety
Repair through accountability for impact, not just intent
Self-compassion as the foundation that makes repair possible
How judgment shuts down curiosity before it starts
Making time to pause through boundaries and recommitment

⏰ Chapters 00:00 Welcome and Format
00:35 Meet Susan Lanphier
01:31 Power of the Pause
03:41 Feedback Without Reacting
06:04 Leaders Set the Tone
08:15 Coaching and Practice 10:46 Emotions and Boundaries 15:08 Repair and Accountability 17:59 Assumptions Block Curiosity 20:24 Making Time to Pause 23:41 Connection and Next Steps 24:27 Find Susan and Closing

Redefining Leadership Value: Beyond the Checklist with Jennifer Tankersley

Season 1 · Episode 24

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • Duration 39:41

Have you ever ended a full, packed day of leadership and still felt like you didn't actually get anything done?

In this episode of Deep Work Out Loud, Julie Harris Oliver welcomes executive coach Jennifer Tankersley to unpack why senior leaders so often feel like they're "not doing enough," even when they're busy from the first meeting to the last. Jennifer traces her own path from data-focused management consulting into coaching, driven by a growing fascination with the human side of leadership that no spreadsheet could capture.

Julie and Jennifer dig into a real client case where a leader felt like "nothing got done" in a day that was, in fact, full of high-impact conversations, just none of them checkable off a list. From there, Jennifer lays out her value equation, a framework for what leadership value actually includes: tangible work, enabling other people's work, information flow and learning, reflection and sense-making, and self-leadership, meaning spaciousness, regulation, and intentional presence. They talk about how to make that invisible leadership work visible, how role chartering and managing up can align expectations, and how to tell the difference between real external urgency and the reactive urgency that comes from a nervous system stuck in threat response. Clarity, safety, recovery, and the willingness to pause come up again and again as the real practices underneath good leadership.

In This Episode:

Jennifer's path from data-driven consulting into executive coaching
Why a full day of leadership can still feel like "nothing got done"
The value equation: tangible work, enabling others, information flow, reflection, and self-leadership
How to make invisible leadership work visible to the people around you
Role chartering and managing up as tools for alignment
The difference between real urgency and reactive urgency rooted in threat response
Why clarity, safety, recovery, and pausing are core leadership practices, not soft extras

⏰ Chapters 00:00 Jennifer Tankersley
04:17 Jennifer's Path to Coaching 08:46 The Value Equation Framework 12:57 Making the Invisible Visible 17:56 Safety, Groundedness & Reactive Patterns 25:31 Urgency: Real vs. Reactive 31:22 Recovery & Restoration for Leaders

Anchored, Aligned, and Accountable: Aiko Bethea on Transcending the Bullsh*t and Living Your Real Values

Season 1 · Episode 23

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 35:48

Have you ever named your core values on the spot, without missing a beat, or drawn a total blank? In this episode of Deep Work Out Loud, Julie Harris Oliver welcomes executive coach and author Aiko Bethea to explore the gap between the values we say we hold and the ones we actually live by.

Aiko is the founder of Rare Coaching and Consulting, a senior leadership consultant for the Brene Brown Education and Research Group, and the author of the new book Anchored, Aligned, and Accountable: A Framework for Transcending Bullshit and Transforming Our Lives and Work. Forbes named her one of the top seven anti-racism educators for companies, and The Industry Leaders recently ranked her the number three executive coach in the world.

Aiko shares why she built her framework around naming behaviors instead of just naming values, why she calls the obstacles in the way of that work bullshit on purpose, grounded in the real bullshit asymmetry principle, and how she talks to her own kids about the parenting choices she'd make differently now. Whether you're a leader, a coach, a parent, or someone trying to figure out whose voice is actually running your life, this conversation offers a real framework for telling the difference.

In This Episode:

Why naming a value means nothing without naming the behavior behind it
The bullshit asymmetry principle, and why Aiko chose that word on purpose
Julie's own turning point: a birthday cake, a lunch break, and a career-changing decision
How to talk to your kids (or your team) about the patterns you're trying to unlearn
Building safety and trust by admitting what you don't know
How we collude with systems that don't serve us
The one question to ask anytime you feel obligated: "says who?"
Why permission to rest can feel like a radical act
Aiko's upcoming retreat in Costa Rica

Dr. Matt Kodsi on "A Story Tale: ABCs of the Stories We Tell Ourselves" | Deep Work Out Loud

Season 1 · Episode 22

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 24:14

Dr. Matt Kodsi on "A Story Tale: ABCs of the Stories We Tell Ourselves,"

Host Julie Harris Oliver welcomes encore guest Dr. Matt Kodsi to discuss his book, "A Story Tale: ABCs of the Stories We Tell Ourselves," and his journey into writing. Kodsi explains how people fill gaps in knowledge by creating stories—often with a negative bias—and shares examples. He describes the book's short, parable-style format (about 72 pages; 1 hour on Audible), its framing as a Zoom conversation between a corporate executive father and journalism-major daughter, and its ABC framework for examining stories and their impacts. Kodsi outlines a planned five-book series on presence, life strategies, organizational culture, and identity, notes the book's addition to the University of Georgia MHA curriculum, and shares where to buy it on Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and Audible.

00:00 Welcome and Format

00:31 Encore Guest Matt

01:22 Why Write a Book

02:22 Stories We Tell Ourselves

03:55 Real World Examples

07:11 Stories About Ourselves

08:13 Building the Book Plot

12:31 Series of Five Books

15:55 Catching Your Own Stories

19:38 Who Its For

22:28 Where to Get It

23:38 Closing Invitation

Buy the book

The First Work of Leadership: Wellbeing as a Foundation for Leading in Complexity with Dr. Michael Hein | Deep Work Out Loud

Season 1 · Episode 21

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 • Duration 31:19

Julie Harris Oliver welcomes Dr. Michael Hein, author of "Shifting Toward Unorthodoxy," to discuss "the first work" of leadership: prioritizing wellbeing as foundational leadership work in volatile, complex environments, especially healthcare. Hein explains that leaders often forget they have a body, yet leadership performance depends on physical health, recovery, relationships, and spiritual meaning; without these, leaders struggle to stay composed, curious, and effective. He describes how socialized workplace norms push high performers to work harder rather than recover, and argues CEOs especially must model healthy boundaries because behavior sets organizational expectations more than words. Drawing parallels to athletic overtraining syndrome, he notes burnout reflects the same maladaptive effects of unrelenting stress without recovery. Hein recommends a regular recovery cadence—daily routines, monthly reflection time, and periodic longer breaks—planned on the calendar and approached as experiments.

00:00 Welcome to the Show

00:37 Meet Dr Michael Hein

01:41 From CEO to Coach

03:12 Defining First Work

04:39 Body as Leadership Platform

06:51 Why Self Care Fails

09:57 Leaders Set the Tone

14:30 Athlete Burnout Parallel

17:58 Cadence of Recovery

24:42 Start Small Experiments

28:34 Wellbeing Is Leadership Work

30:21 Wrap Up and Invitation

To find Dr. Hein

—MEDI Leadership's page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/medileadership/

Listening to Your Inner Compass: Intuition, the Rational Mind, and the Protector with Louise Hansell | Deep Work Out Loud

Season 1 · Episode 20

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 • Duration 36:04

Host Julie Harris Oliver welcomes leadership coach Louise Hansell to discuss listening to and trusting your inner voice or "internal compass." Louise shares how she moved from corporate HR and transformation work into coaching, and explains that intuition is often subtle, felt through the body, and can be drowned out by societal, family, and logical "shoulds." They explore distinguishing intuition from the rational mind and a protective ego voice that reacts with fear and urgency, noting Louise's view that intuition appears in the first few seconds before other voices take over. Louise suggests building discernment through mindfulness, silence, and low-stakes experiments, using full-body cues like expansion, contraction, relief, tension, or persistence. They also address people-pleasing, clear no's, and tolerating uncertainty while doors gradually open. Louise closes with an Einstein quote about honoring intuition alongside reason.

00:00 Welcome to Deep Work

00:40 Meet Louise Hansel

02:18 Louise Coaching Origin

04:01 Theme Inner Compass

04:44 Hearing Versus Trusting

08:35 Body Based Yes No

09:29 Julie Pivot Story

13:32 Louise Three Voices

16:45 Naming Mind Protector

19:03 Ego and Body Listening

19:40 Mindfulness vs Thoughts

20:29 Silence and Inner Voice

23:02 Clean No Boundaries

25:15 Waiting for Doors

27:20 Trusting the Compass

28:48 Seattle Moving Example

31:26 First Three Seconds

32:42 Low Stakes Practice

I Am Who I Am, Not What I Do: Dion Elliott Jensen on Identity, Ego, and Love-Based Leadership

Season 1 · Episode 19

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 • Duration 27:53

Host Julie Harris Oliver welcomes Dion Elliott Jensen, author of "Conscious Footsteps," who describes becoming an "accidental author" by using writing and long walks to process intense life changes and consolidate his journals into a book structured as standalone "walks." They focus on Dion's central theme, "I am who I am, not what I do," shaped by being abruptly fired from a CEO role and realizing he had outsourced his worth to his job. Dion explores how "what do you do?" creates instant masks, bias, and power dynamics that block real human connection, and suggests asking disarming, deeper questions about who someone is. He reflects on hardship-driven ego death, and how he now leads with less outcome attachment, wider "guardrails," and greater softness, trust, and authenticity.

00:00 Welcome to Deep Work

00:39 Meet Dion Jensen

01:37 Why He Wrote

03:41 Core Theme Identity

06:05 Masks and Job Titles

12:28 Better Questions to Ask

15:46 Tell Me About You

18:50 From Ego to Love

20:55 I Am Poem Exercise

23:56 Leadership After Shift

26:05 Parting Advice and Links

27:13 Closing Invitation

Instagram: @dionelliottjensen

Web: www.consciousfootsteps.com

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/Dion-Elliott-Jensen/author/B0G3WJP22G?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Time Billionaires: Reclaiming 90-Second Gaps for Happiness, Focus, and Agency with Rebecca Shaddix

Season 1 · Episode 18

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 • Duration 34:48

Host Julie Harris Oliver interviews business leader and Time Billionaires podcast host Rebecca Shaddix on reclaiming 90-second to 15-minute gaps between meetings to reduce frantic context shifting and improve happiness, energy, and fulfillment. Shaddix describes how a COVID-era habit of replacing scrolling with tiny actions—like brief audiobook listening, pushups, breathing, or stepping outside—compounded into hundreds of books a year and a research-backed framework of six micro-moment categories (reflection/mindset, connection, movement, nature/sensory awareness, play/creativity, and gratitude/mindfulness). She emphasizes planning ahead via a weekly Friday reflection ("what went well, what didn't, what do I want more of") and focusing on a realistic "floor" rather than aspirational "ceiling" goals. They also discuss labeling meetings with a single intuitive word to clarify next steps and reduce lingering anxiety, and the broader theme of agency over time as a guardrail against resentment and burnout.

00:00 Welcome and Format

00:36 Meet Rebecca Shaddix

01:50 Time Billionaires Origin

03:35 Why Micro Gaps Matter

08:38 Nature Minutes Add Up

09:10 Plan Your Micro Moments

09:38 Six Micro Moment Categories

10:24 Tiny Creativity Reset

13:31 Balance Without Perfection

15:21 Micro Workouts Not Gyms

16:13 ADHD and Starting Small

18:35 Stop Self Blame

19:14 Floor Not Ceiling

20:13 Mindful Micro Moments

23:11 Gratitude Deep Dives

24:37 Mindfulness Anywhere

Leading with Humanity in a Polarized, Fast-Changing World with Dr. Kim Stepanski

Season 1 · Episode 17

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 27:45

Julie Harris Oliver welcomes Dr. Kim Stepanski, an executive coach and organizational psychologist, to explore what leadership feels like right now amid rapid change, AI disruption, geopolitical volatility, and polarization. They discuss how leaders face loneliness, pressure to have answers, and the challenge of guiding teams whose perspectives are shaped by narrowing information "echo chambers." Kim emphasizes building capacity to see beyond one's own lens, getting comfortable with not knowing, and using reflection, connection, and community to stay grounded and humane. Julie shares practices such as acknowledging heaviness, simple meeting check-ins (e.g., green/yellow/red), and creating space for people to share what they're carrying without leaders needing to fix it. Kim describes using small experiments, grounding tools, and peer groups—especially for senior women—to build vulnerability, perspective-taking, and support, and closes with ways to connect with her online.

00:00 Welcome to Deep Work

00:33 Meet Kim Stepanski

02:17 Why Kim Chose Coaching

04:16 Leading Right Now

06:56 Filters and Echo Chambers

09:30 Simple Human Check Ins

12:26 Coaching Tools and Experiments

15:07 Practicing the Uncomfortable

15:53 Building Leader Community

20:37 Systems and Human Centered Work

26:42 Staying Grounded and Closing

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