Balancing Life's Issues

About Balancing Life's Issues

This Is Your Job Now Season 2 of Balancing Life’s Issues the Podcast Because leadership means showing up—especially when it’s uncomfortable. Hosted by Wendy Wollner, CEO of Balancing Life’s Issues, This Is Your Job Now helps leaders navigate the hardest parts of managing humans—burnout, mental health, DEI fatigue, grief, and more. With expert voices, real stories, and zero corporate jargon, this show asks the only question that matters: Why should you care? If you’re leading people today, this is already your job.

Publisher

Balancing Lifes Issues

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Feb 2023

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

51 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Managing Seasonal Stress and Money Pressures

   The holidays bring joy, but they also bring pressure — packed calendars, financial pressure that carries real emotional weight, and expectations that can leave us feeling more drained than delighted. In this episode, host James Francis is joined by Shari Evans, a retired U.S. Army officer, leadership educator, and Accredited Financial Counselor who has spent more than twenty years helping people build stronger habits under pressure, to talk about getting through the season with your wellbeing intact. Shari shares why the holidays create a unique kind of stress, how to set boundaries without over-explaining, why a meaningful gift and an expensive one aren't the same thing, and simple grounding tools — including box breathing — for the moments stress spikes. She closes with a message of appreciation for the MTA community and a reminder that a calm season is worth more than a perfect one.

2. 

   2 Mar 2026

   Build Your Own Legacy: A Women’s History Month Call to Action

   Host Wendy Wollner interviews listeners about building their personal roster of women leaders to inspire and empower their own journeys.

3. 

   26 Jan 2026

   Unscarred at Work: Rethinking Tattoos as Healing, Art, and Identity (with Elise Jaffe)

   Host Wendy Wollner interviews Executive Producer Elise Jaffe about how tattoos serve as healing, art, and identity, urging leaders to look beyond stigma and understand the human stories behind body art.

Who has been a guest on Balancing Life's Issues

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Elise Jaffe
• Bill Doherty
• Dr Marsha Gordon
• Mike Schnaidt
• Kath Koschel

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

68,797

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

69

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

60

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