Leading Beings

About Leading Beings

✨ Rethink work. Redefine success. Forge your own path. The Leading Beings Podcast is for indie professionals, creative leaders, and unconventional business owners who are done with trying to fit into traditional work and success models that were never designed for them. You’re not here to follow the default path—you’re here to craft a work-life rhythm that aligns with who you are, how you create, and what truly matters. Through deep conversations, solo explorations, and practical strategies, we explore how to: ⚡ Work in a way that energizes you, not drains you 💡 Design a career, business, or leadership model that actually fits 🌀 Navigate transitions, pivots, and personal evolution with clarity 🌿 Build success on your terms—without burning out or selling out We dive into topics like: 🎯 Conscious leadership & business – Running things your way, with purpose & integrity ✨ Creative productivity & flow – Working with your natural rhythms, not against them 🛠️ Work-life design – Questioning norms & creating a model that fits you 🔍 Self-awareness & inner work – Understanding yourself so you can create outward impact 🌱 Sustainable momentum – Building a pace that fuels both growth and well-being 🌍 Meaningful work & impact – Using your skills in ways that feel aligned & intentional You’ll also hear from remarkable indie leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers who are carving their own paths, breaking rules, and creating work that matters—without compromising who they are. This isn’t about productivity hacks or traditional career advice. It’s about rethinking what’s possible, challenging the status quo, and designing a professional life that’s truly yours. 🎧 Tune in and start creating success—on your own terms.

Publisher

Kate McCready - Leading Beings

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jan 2016

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Beyond Portfolio Careers: Why I'm Using Professional Architecture as a Modern Work Design Frame

   Portfolio careers are having a moment. But I don’t think everyone suddenly wants to ditch the 9–5, build five income streams and become a multi-hyphenate. I think the trend is pointing to something bigger: a growing need for more agency, adaptability and possibility in the way we work. In this episode, I introduce Professional Architecture — the broader frame I’m using to think about how we earn, contribute and design our working lives now and into the future. I explore why a portfolio career...

2. 

   19 Aug 2026

   Four months of reimagining my business brought me back to the work I can't not do.

   In April my corporate role was made redundant, which gave me what I'd wanted for a long time — my business, full time, again. Except the business I came back to wasn't quite right for the moment I was in, or the moment the world is in. So I set about reimagining it. What followed was four months of spinning: looping, second-guessing, arriving at clarity and then talking myself out of it. On reflection, less looping than spiralling — each pass over old ground landing somewhere slightly clearer...

3. 

   29 Jan 2025

   #53 What is an Indie Leader? The Future of Work Nobody's Talking About

   Kate McCready defines Indie Leadership as a mindset that fosters independence and innovation in work and life, potentially shaping careers and businesses.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

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

Quality

46

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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