The Non-Anxious Leader Podcast
Jack Shitama
The Non-Anxious Leader Podcast uses a family systems theory approach to increase your spiritual, emotional and physical well-being so you can be the best leader possible. Each episode explores research and practical tips to help you be a personal and professional non-anxious presence.
Episodes
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Mar 30, 2020 • 21min
Episode 64: If You Met My Family, You'd Understand-Chapter 9 Paradox and Playfulness
Relating to anxious people is a challenge. Your best tools are recognizing emotional process, then using paradox and playfulness.
Mar 23, 2020 • 19min
Episode 63: If You Met My Family, You'd Understand-Chapter 8 Self-Regulation
Self-regulation is the key to keeping your own anxiety in check, as well as to reducing the anxiety level in the system. A simple way to do this is to listen.
Mar 16, 2020 • 14min
Episode 62: If You Met My Family, You'd Understand-Chapter 7 Sabotage
Change in a system will bring resistance in the form of sabotage. Learning how to recognize it and how to deal with it can result in change that lasts.
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Mar 9, 2020 • 18min
Episode 61: If You Met My Family, You'd Understand-Chapter 6 The Leverage of the Dependent
It's the conflict of wills in a system that creates anxiety. Self-differentiation reduces this. It also helps us to deal with those who are emotionally dependent and try to hold us hostage.
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Mar 2, 2020 • 19min
Episode 60: If You Met My Family, You'd Understand-Chapter 5 Process and Content
Understanding emotional process distinguishes when it's helpful to engage in the content of the matter and when it's best avoided. This is simple, but not easy.
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Feb 24, 2020 • 13min
Episode 59: If You Met My Family You'd Understand-Chapter 4 Triangles
When we are uncomfortable with another, we often avoid dealing directly with that relationship by triangling a third person or issue. Understanding how triangles work and how to deal with them is essential to healthy functioning.
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Feb 17, 2020 • 16min
Episode 58: If You Met My Family You'd Understand-Chapter 3 All Change Is Loss
All change is loss, which can involve grief and pain. However, it also presents an opportunity for growth.
Feb 10, 2020 • 18min
Episode 57: If You Met My Family, You'd Understand-Chapter 2 Problem and Challenge
There is a difference between a challenge and a problem. Life is filled with challenges. They only become problems when we can't handle them. How we respond to a challenge influences whether it will become a problem.
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Feb 3, 2020 • 11min
Episode 56: If You Met My Family, You'd Understand-Chapter 1 The Symmetry of Life
I have decided to serialize my upcoming book, which is a family systems primer. Each week I'll read one chapter, finishing right around the book's release. This chapter is a reminder about what's important in life.
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Jan 27, 2020 • 18min
Episode 55: A Family Systems Take on "Megxit" (Harry and Meghan Step Back from the Royal Family)
The recent announcment by Prince Harry and Meghan to step back from the Royal Family provides a look into the Windsor family of origin. As with all families, intergenerational transmission and surrounding togetherness pressures are evident. Learning from their situation can help the rest of us grow as leaders.
Show notes:
The British royal family is struggling through scandals. Can ‘The Crown’ help? by Adrian Higgins
Fact-checking ‘The Crown’: Is Prince Charles really pushed around by an unfeeling royal family? by Michael S. Rosenwald
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