Episode 3: Owning Your Personal Leadership with Steve Rio & Jacqueline Jennings

ABOUT THE EPISODE

“One of the things that I think is super key around habits and routines, both on an individual level and a team level, is having boundaries and basically taking back control over your time and attention.” – Steve Rio

No matter what the challenge a business is facing, your team is always a part of the solution. Without a team’s buy-in, commitment, and execution, your business would not survive. In this episode, we explore productivity, personal leadership, and what makes outstanding teams operate at their best with Steve Rio, CEO and Founder of Nature of Work. Then, we discuss purpose, wellbeing, ancestry, and cohesive partnerships with Jacqueline Jennings, Director of The Freeweed Fellowship. Touching on values-based leadership, optimizing processes, and listening to our bodies, this episode will have you owning your personal leadership style and feeling confident to steer your team into options.

In this episode:

Steve shares the importance our discovering our habits involving technology
Learn how to plan your day to improve productivity
Jacqueline offers an idea of de-siloing experiences and expectations
Discover how the secret to owning your personal leadership

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Spiral Dynamics by Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan
Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
Strength Finder
The 5 Love Languages (take the couples quiz)
Syncing your Career to your Cycle by Jacqueline Jennings
Your Period May Be the Secret to Productivity by The Werk
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“Umm... I Missed That”

Entrepreneurship is a world of its own, which means the some of the lingo used might get lost in translation. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Here are a few of the key terms you’ll hear on this episode of The Go-To and what they actually mean.

Biomimicry: a practice that learns from and imitates structures and strategies found in nature to solve human challenges.

Decolonization: the process of undoing colonizing practices

De-siloing: to deconstruct practices, rituals, institutions, processes and other human-designed constructs to uncover their original meaning, intent and significance

Holacracy: a method of management where the authority and decision-making are in which authority and decision-making are distributed to self-organizing teams instead of management

Transactional communications: often seen as impersonal or dehumanizing; communications that lack engagement and exist to get something or complete a task

Meet Our Guests

Steve Rio, CEO and Founder, Nature of Work

#ResilienceIs: remembering the big picture.

Steve Rio is a visionary entrepreneur, leader, futurist, philosopher, investor, transformational coach, and musician based on Bowen Island, BC. He is the Founder of Nature of Work and Briteweb, and the host of NOW with Steve Rio, a podcast that explores what it means to live a good life. Steve is an expert in performance and wellness, team culture, purpose-built organizations, future of work, remote and distributed teams, and technology. His passion is helping people and teams expand their consciousness and realize their full potential.

Follow Steve on Instagram at @steverio
Learn more about Nature of Work at natureofwork.co

Jacqueline Jennings, Director, The Fireweed Fellowship

#ResilienceIs: about community care versus self-care… we are starting to hear about self-care as it relates to entrepreneurial wellness because the burnout rate is so high. What I recognized, and this goes back to decolonizing, is that I can take all of the bubble baths and manicures and yoga that I want but if I don’t have a community of people supporting me in my life, then my business just doesn’t work, especially as we are working in communities that have been marginalized

Jacqueline Jennings (she/her) is of mixed heritage; Cree, Metis, Anishnaabe and European settler descent. She is the Director of the Fireweed Fellowship - a national Indigenous Entrepreneurship Accelerator program; a co-facilitator of Decolonizing Practices, and a group facilitator with RADIUS SFU. Jacqueline's background with iconic Canadian fashion retailers Aritzia and Lululemon have created a foundation of knowledge in the development of robust, vertically integrated purpose driven brands.

Through one-on-one coaching and in program design and delivery at three Canadian startup accelerators, Jacqueline has guided and supported entrepreneurs in creating dozens of impactful community-focused businesses.Jacqueline is also a mother, a plant-medicine and gardening enthusiast and a horsewoman residing on what is currently known as the Sunshine Coast of BC.

Learn more about Jacqueline at jacquelinejennings.com and the work she does at Fireweed Fellowship, which is an accelerator program for Indigenous entrepreneurs, go to www.fireweedfellowship.com.