The leadership conversation nobody else is having.
Most leadership content tells you what to do.
This show asks you to look at who’s doing it.
Every week Jen Ostrich goes beneath the surface of leadership — into the patterns, the blind spots, the unconscious strategies, and the stories leaders tell themselves — to explore what it actually takes to lead well from the inside out.
With honesty, humor, and a sharp dose of emotional clarity, each episode brings you insights from coaching, the Enneagram, and lived experience that you can apply immediately to how you lead, how you show up, and how you understand yourself.
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about finally understanding yourself.
Because the hardest person you’ll ever lead…is you.
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Ep 2: The Leadership Gap No One Talks About
What if the part of leadership that needs the most attention isn’t on your resume?
In this episode I talk about how professional development and personal development are not the same and it's critical to not assume one can accomplish the other. If/when professional development is a priority within an organization, aka there is budget, rarely does it focus on personal development – where the real work lies and where there is an ever greater impact for the leader and everyone around them. Professional development teaches strategy and execution, but not emotional regulation or inner clarity. Both are very important yet professional development most certainly cannot replace personal development.
Ep 1: Living in Alignment — The First Step to Leading You
Why are you the hardest person you'll ever lead?
In this episode we reflect on how we move through life often being out of alignment with our most authentic self. This makes leading you much more complicated. I share a simple framework I created that challenges you to see where you are living in full alignment with who you are, and where are you not? I share my crossroads moment and invite you to consider each and every aspect of your world and how it could be more aligned to you (vs the person you been hustling to be, feeling you should be, or trying to be to make others happy). This is when you're leading you.
Ep 0 (Start Here): The Work of You
What exactly does 'the work of you' mean and is this podcast for you?
Simply put -- it's the work of getting to know yourself and how to manage yourself so you are living and leading as your most authentic self. This show is for high achieving humans who are happy enough, maybe successful enough, probably high functioning enough, but also recognize there are areas that could be optimized.
In this episode I share a little bit of who I am and why I feel called to produce this podcast -- to help as many humans as possible deeply understand themselves so you can enjoy spending the rest of your life with the one person you're guaranteed to never escape - you.
The Work of You | Trailer
Welcome to The Work of You — a podcast about the leadership that matters most… the kind that starts from within. This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about finally understanding yourself — so your choices, relationships, and leadership actually align with who you really are.