What if great leadership meant everyone succeeds, not just the person at the top? Meet leaders choosing kindness and succeeding. LEAD ME ON brings you curated candid conversations with fascinating humans, from nonprofit directors to business owners to community organisers, who lead with justice, empathy, and radical kindness. Their approach delivers real results: stronger teams, healthier communities, and outcomes that benefit everyone. This isn't theory. It's practice. Subscribe to LEAD ME ON: your reminder that hope isn't naive, it's necessary. <br/><br/><a href="https://leadmeon.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">leadmeon.substack.com</a>
Lead Me On: A People's Leadership Podcast
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What if great leadership meant everyone succeeds, not just the person at the top? Meet leaders choosing kindness and succeeding. LEAD ME ON brings you curated candid conversations with fascinating humans, from nonprofit directors to business owners to community organisers, who lead with justice, empathy, and radical kindness. Their approach delivers real results: stronger teams, healthier communities, and outcomes that benefit everyone. This isn't theory. It's practice. Subscribe to LEAD ME ON: your reminder that hope isn't naive, it's necessary. <br/><br/><a href="https://leadmeon.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">leadmeon.substack.com</a>
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June 1, 2026
Leadership on Hope — Season Finale
<p>Making this podcast has been an act of resistance.</p><p>Independent media is shrinking. And in that context, putting five conversations into the world, proof that empathy, justice, and joy are not alternatives to leadership but leadership itself, feels more important than ever.</p><p>In this season finale, Lead Me On host Alexandra Lopoukhine reflects on a season of extraordinary conversations with Shaka Senghor, Mihoko Kashiwakura, Victor Ochen, Julisa Tambunan, and Claudia Balladelli, and what she's carrying forward as she steps into a new leadership role herself.</p><p>The slow work is the real work. The first 90 days matter. And hope isn't naïve, it's a strategy.</p><p>Lead Me On is pausing, not ending. Season 2 is coming.</p><p>Three asks: share an episode, subscribe on Substack, and send Alexandra the name of someone she should interview next.</p><p>——</p><p>Subscribe on Substack → <a target="_blank" href="https://leadmeon.substack.com/">https://leadmeon.substack.com/</a></p><p>Guests this season: Shaka Senghor | Mihoko Kashiwakura | Victor Ochen | Julisa Tambunan | Claudia Balladelli</p><p>#LeadMeOn #Leadership #HopeIsNecessary #PeoplesLeadership</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lead Me On: A People's Leadership Podcast at <a href="https://leadmeon.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">leadmeon.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 25, 2026
Leading as a Cultural Connector: Claudia Balladelli and the Music Movement Changing Ottawa
<p>What does it look like when someone leads with pure joy? Meet Claudia Balladeli, the co- founder of <strong>Axé World Fest in Ottawa</strong>, Canada. They <strong>curate music, artistic events, shows, concert series, and conferences </strong>dedicated to getting local and international artists in front of the audiences they deserve.</p><p>Claudia represents Canada's music scene at global stages from Senegal to Korea, and describes herself as a cultural connector. In this conversation, she shares how she built Axé<strong> </strong>World Fest from the ground up, why she created a festival specifically for women in music, how she leads and motivates an almost entirely volunteer team, and what she hopes Ottawa's music scene looks like in ten years.</p><p>This is leadership through love, and it's contagious.</p><p>Quick note: this was our very first episode, and the mic quality is a little rough, but stay with us, because the conversation more than makes up for it.</p><p>🎙️ Follow Lead Me On so you never miss an episode.</p><p>To learn more about Axe World Fest: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.axeworldfest.com/">https://www.axeworldfest.com/</a></p><p> </p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lead Me On: A People's Leadership Podcast at <a href="https://leadmeon.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">leadmeon.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 18, 2026
Leadership through Collective Care with Julisa Tambunan
<p>Julisa Tambunan grew up singing banned songs in the back of her father's car under a military dictatorship in Indonesia. Today, she's a Global Obama Fellow and is working at the intersection of data and justice, fighting for a world where the numbers we collect reflect the full humanity of the people they represent.</p><p>In this episode, Julisa and Alexandra explore what feminist movement building really looks like in practice: intersectional, collective, and rooted in care. They talk about why dismantling patriarchy is a win for everyone, how data becomes a tool for political pressure and liberation, and why joy, real, collective joy, is not a luxury but a form of resistance that sustains the work.</p><p>This is a conversation about building a bigger room. Not selecting who gets in, but changing the room itself.</p><p>Hope isn't naive. It's necessary. Subscribe to Lead Me On.</p><p><strong>About Julisa</strong></p><p>A feminist leader with close to two decades of experience advancing justice and collective liberation, from grassroots movements to global policy spaces. Julisa works across the coalition and engages governments, multilaterals, and civil society, using data to center the lived realities of women and girls in global development. Julisa is also the co-founder of GirlSPARKS, a social enterprise promoting girl-centered design. Their past experience spans journalism, humanitarian response, and leadership across Asia Pacific, SWANA, East Africa and Europe, always with a commitment to shifting systems, not just programs. Julisa’s leadership is rooted in care, courage, and accountability, with a focus on building systems that honour wholeness, collective power, and dignity for all.</p><p><strong>About Lead Me On</strong></p><p>Lead Me On is a people's leadership podcast built on one belief: that empathy, justice, and kindness aren't alternatives to leadership. They are leadership.</p><p>In every episode, curated conversations with nonprofit directors, changemakers, entrepreneurs, and community organisers prove that leading with humanity creates stronger teams, more resilient communities, and better outcomes for everyone. This isn't theory. It's practice. Subscribe to LEAD ME ON, your reminder that hope isn't naive, it's necessary.</p><p> </p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Lead Me On: A People's Leadership Podcast at <a href="https://leadmeon.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">leadmeon.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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