Leadership, Belonging, and Sustainable Care

Leadership is Not Meant to Be Carried Alone

Happy New Year. I hope 2026 is beginning with steadiness, intention, and moments that allow you to exhale.

We often focus on the mechanics of leadership: goals, performance, strategy. Yet what I hear most from leaders is something deeper—the isolation, the emotional weight, and the desire to feel grounded while carrying responsibility for others.

That's why everything I'm building this year centers on one truth: Leadership is not meant to be carried alone.

 What's Happening: Season 3 of Building Leadership Community Is Live 🎧

I'm honored to share that Season 3 of the Building Leadership Community podcast is now live—and this season, I'm bringing you conversations with inspiring leaders, dynamic authors, and public speakers who are reshaping what workplace wellness and authentic leadership can look like.

This season goes beyond strategy and productivity. We're exploring the deeper questions that sustain us: How do our personal stories shape how we show up? What does it mean to lead with both courage and care? How do we create cultures where people truly belong?

Each episode this season features leaders who:

• Challenge conventional wisdom about what leadership requires.

• Share honest reflections on identity, belonging, and resilience.

• Offer practical wisdom for creating workplaces rooted in wellness and humanity.

• Model what it means to lead from wholeness, not perfection.

These aren't conversations about quick fixes or resolutions. They're about remembering who you are while you lead—and discovering that you have more wisdom, courage, and capacity than you realize.

You'll walk away from Season 3 with:

• A renewed sense of purpose in your leadership journey.

• Deeper courage to stand in your truth.

• A powerful reminder that your voice, your story, and your presence matter more than you even realize.

WATCH ON YOUTUBE

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

New episodes release every Friday. If the podcast supports you, tapping “Follow” or “Subscribe” in your app helps ensure you never miss what's next.

More Ways to Connect: Leadership Support That Meets You Where You Are

Now on YouTube: Leadership in Real Time

I'm showing up weekly on YouTube with content designed to meet you where you are—short, practical, and human.

 Career Clarity Mondays

Each Monday, I share reflections and tools to help you navigate career transitions, leadership decisions, and AI-era workplace shifts with confidence and integrity.

Wellness Wednesday Shorts 

Midweek, I offer short, grounding practices focused on nervous system care, sustainable leadership, and wellbeing you can actually integrate into your day.

 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel

Engaging with these videos—liking, commenting, or sharing—helps grow this leadership community and ensures the content reaches leaders who need it most.

Weekly Sunday Morning Reflections on Substack

If you prefer quieter reflection Beyond Heritage Month celebrations, I also share weekly essays on Substack—exploring leadership, wellbeing, identity, and change with honesty and depth.

👉 Subscribe to My Weekly Substack

The Wellness Club: Founding Membership Closes January 18 🌿

All of these conversations—on the podcast, on YouTube, and in writing—lead to deeper practice inside the Wellness Club.

Founding Member enrollment closes January 18 at 11:59 PM EST.

As a Founding Member, you'll receive:

• Monthly live coaching and reflection sessions with me.

• Access to a private, values-aligned leadership community.

• Curated wellness tools and identity-based frameworks.

• Early access to future programs and resources.

• A lifetime founding member rate (this will never be offered again).

This is a space for leaders who are ready to stop pushing through exhaustion and start practicing care in community.

👉 Register as a Founding Member of the Wellness Club

I'm keeping this group intentionally small so we can build trust, accountability, and meaningful connection together.

A Look Back: Gratitude for 2025

As we step into this new year, I want to pause and honor what we built together in 2025—the conversations that deepened our practice, the leaders who showed up authentically, and the community that continues to remind us: we are not alone in this work.

Thank you for being here—listening, watching, reflecting, and choosing leadership that honors your full humanity.

See You in February

Here's to a year rooted in connection, clarity, and care that sustains you.

With gratitude,

Coach Dora

P.S. There's no pressure to do everything at once. Start with the podcast, a YouTube short, or a Substack reflection—and take the next  step when you're ready.