Means to Ascend explores the real, imperfect journey of leadership and professional growth. Each month, we dive into topics like emotional intelligence, career transitions, setting boundaries, and building self-awareness at work. Brought to you by Ascendant, we believe progress—not perfection—is the key to becoming the kind of leader people trust, respect, and want to follow.
Join us as we discuss common job search misconceptions that people have to navigate. We break it down so that you can set yourself up for success and align with your next great position. If you'd like to learn more you can go to ascendantnow.com and send us a message.
10 Aug 2026
Episode 7: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Part 2
Join us for part 2 as we continue discussing The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. We dive into how we can work more effectively with others and take care of ourselves along the way. To join the Means to Ascend leadership community you can go to https://ascendantnow.com/means-to-ascend/.
15 Jul 2026
Episode 6: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Part 1
Join us as we discuss The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. We've broken this up into two episodes so you can really digest each of the seven habits. To join the Means to Ascend leadership community you can go to https://ascendantnow.com/means-to-ascend/.
3 Jun 2026
Episode Five: The Flight & Fight Response
In this episode we dive into the fight and flight response and some tools we can use to move through our stress. We'll learn how this is showing up for us and how regulation can help us to become better leaders. To join the Means to Ascend leadership community you can go to https://ascendantnow.com/means-to-ascend/.
7 Apr 2026
Episode Four: Tools to Overcome Fawn & Freeze
In this episode we normalize the stress responses fawn and freeze and talk about gentle strategies to move through them. If you'd like to join our free leadership group "Means to Ascend" you can sign up here. For more information on Ascendant's leadership style and strategies to implement go here.
17 Feb 2026
Episode 3: Nervous System Regulation 101
Today we'll talk about our nervous systems and some of the common stress responses we find ourselves falling into including fawn, fight, flight, and freeze. The biggest takeaway from today is learning that this responses are not inherently bad, but to bring some more awareness as to what we feel most often and what is triggering it. In our next episode we'll touch base on tools to regulate the fawn and freeze response. If you'd like to join our free leadership coaching program you can s...
19 Jan 2026
Episode Two: The Importance of Self Awareness
Join us as we chat about how important self awareness is in leadership and beyond. We discuss self aware vs. unaware traits in leaders, how to become more comfortable with feedback, how to shift our perspectives, and more. Join our free leadership community Means to Ascend and get access to amazing content drops, office hours and free workshops: https://ascendantnow.com/means-to-ascend/ To learn more about Self Awareness you can check out Dr. Tasha Eurich at https://www.insight-book.com/
12 Jan 2026
Episode One: Progress Over Perfection
Welcome to our first podcast episode as we introduce ourselves and talk about our recovering perfectionist journeys. We'll explain why perfectionism is so harmful to our mental health as well as detrimental to our leadership ability, and how we're finding more ways to lead imperfectly.
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