

The H2 Leadership Podcast
H2 Leadership
Leadership is complex, but it doesn’t have to be lonely.
The H2 Leadership Podcast is the place for leaders who want to be healthy and high impact.
Each week, you’ll be shaped by our coaching, our experience, and the voices of expert guests.
We ask deep questions and share practical tools to help you gain clarity, build courage, and create culture where leaders and teams thrive.
This is more than a podcast. It’s the most practical resource available to help you take your next right step toward healthy and high impact leadership.
The H2 Leadership Podcast is the place for leaders who want to be healthy and high impact.
Each week, you’ll be shaped by our coaching, our experience, and the voices of expert guests.
We ask deep questions and share practical tools to help you gain clarity, build courage, and create culture where leaders and teams thrive.
This is more than a podcast. It’s the most practical resource available to help you take your next right step toward healthy and high impact leadership.
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Jun 8, 2021 • 17min
206 - Alan Briggs ”This changed my life”
In this episode Alan chats with a coaching client who has had his life changed through coaching. They throw back the curtain behind his life change and tells us more about how coaching changed his life.
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Jun 3, 2021 • 33min
205 - Chris Coultas ”Are you a leader worth following?”
In this episode Alan talks to another leadership coach and consultant about why knowing what drives and drains you is crucial
About Chris
Chris Coultas serves as Vice President, Product Innovation, at Leadership Worth Following, LLC. In this capacity, Chris focuses heavily on data management and infrastructure, process improvement, predictive talent analytics, new product development, and cutting-edge research in the fields of leadership, assessment, development, coaching, and talent management. Much of his research focuses on the intersection of values, cognition, teamwork, and leadership. Most recently, he has led a firm-wide initiative to develop a proprietary tool for assessing drivers, motives, and values in leadership. Since joining LWF, Chris has built an expanding team of researchers and analysts and has overseen key hires in these areas. Additionally, he is responsible for developing and leveraging our Science Advisory Board for key insights, wisdom, and guidance.
In his role as a consultant, Chris conducts remote and in-person leadership assessments at a variety of organizational levels, ranging from manager to executive, in a variety of industries (e.g., Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services). He leverages tools such as 360-degree feedback, client interviews, assessment centers, and psychometrics to provide data-driven insights into leaders’ strengths, opportunities, motivators, and blind spots. Additionally, Chris has designed and delivered several workshops that incorporate recent research into the role that leadership values have on outcomes such as personal brand, engagement, customer service, collaboration, and organizational culture.
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Driven Not Drained
Twitter
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Explore Coaching

Jun 1, 2021 • 24min
204 - Kelsey Chapman Part 2 ”Honest talk about female leadership”
In today's episode we conclude part 2 of a conversation Alan had with author, digital marketer and coach Kelsey Chapman about the joys and challenges of leading as a female. We talk about some crucial topics here that you don't want to miss
About Kelsey
Hi, I’m Kelsey!
When I first launched my own brand in 2015, I felt all the overwhelming feelings, too. It was scary to take such a huge leap and commit to showing up for a dream I didn’t know would pan out. Mentorship is what pushed me to RISE UP. Over the first few years of business (and even now!) I leaned on the shoulders of incredible mentors who took me under their wing and taught me how to make the jump from dreamer to doer. I needed their expert wisdom to shift old perspectives, discover the next right steps that would help me execute my vision, and stay hopeful throughout the journey. Because this entrepreneurship thing is a journey, amiright?
My mentors helped shape my character so I could become the CEO and leader I am today. I want to pay it forward and be that cheerleader for you, too… because I believe YOU can turn your wildest dreams into REALITY.
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Book
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Help Leaders Avoid Burnout
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May 27, 2021 • 25min
203 - Kelsey Chapman Part 1 ”The road back to health”
The pursuit of health is an ongoing journey where every finish line is just another starting line in disguise. What happens when you experience a season of un-health? how do you find your way back to health?
In this episode and part 1 of a two part series, Alan interviews digital marketer, author, and coach Kelsey Chapman about her story, her road back to health, and the community that shaped her.
About Kelsey
Hi, I’m Kelsey!
When I first launched my own brand in 2015, I felt all the overwhelming feelings, too. It was scary to take such a huge leap and commit to showing up for a dream I didn’t know would pan out. Mentorship is what pushed me to RISE UP. Over the first few years of business (and even now!) I leaned on the shoulders of incredible mentors who took me under their wing and taught me how to make the jump from dreamer to doer. I needed their expert wisdom to shift old perspectives, discover the next right steps that would help me execute my vision, and stay hopeful throughout the journey. Because this entrepreneurship thing is a journey, amiright?
My mentors helped shape my character so I could become the CEO and leader I am today. I want to pay it forward and be that cheerleader for you, too… because I believe YOU can turn your wildest dreams into REALITY.
Connect with Kelsey
Website
Book
Instagram
Facebook
Podcast
Take your next right step
Help Leaders Avoid Burnout
Right Side Up Community

May 25, 2021 • 38min
202 - Daniel Harkavy ”What separates great leaders”
Daniel Harkavy, a world-class executive coach and founder of Building Champions Inc., shares his insights on leadership challenges and decision-making. He discusses the critical moments that shaped his journey from loan officer to coach, emphasizing the power of intentional curiosity. Harkavy highlights the importance of a strong morning routine for leaders to enhance well-being and effectiveness. Additionally, he explores essential qualities for modern leadership, including adaptability and continuous learning, to foster thriving work environments.

May 20, 2021 • 21min
201 - Alan Briggs and guests ”What coaching clients are learning”
At Stay Forth Designs we call ourselves mountain guides for the leadership journey. We're not in the leadership business, we're in the freedom business. We help people take next right steps toward health and impact.
On today's episode, Alan has a series of surprise conversations with a few coaching clients and they hash out what they're learning.
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Pursue Coaching
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May 18, 2021 • 23min
200 - Stay Forth Team ”Where we’ve come from and where we’re going”
Guess what? The Right Side Up Leadership Podcast is officially 200 episodes old!!!!!
In this episode Jonathan and Alan celebrate the 200th episode by looking back to some highlights of the podcast and from Stay Forth's journey and look ahead to what's coming in the future
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May 13, 2021 • 34min
199 - Enneagram Prison Project ” Freedom from our own prisons”
On todays episode, Alan interviews the founder and current leader of the Enneagram Prison Project about how the Enneagram his helpful to leadership and marriage and how they had to adapt when prisons were closed.
About the Enneagram Prison Project
The Enneagram Prison Project is on a mission to understand why we do what we do, using the Enneagram to inspire transformation on both sides of the bars through self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-compassion; we do the work together. Learn more
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May 11, 2021 • 43min
198 - Aaron McHugh ”How to find the work you love”
On today's episode, Alan talks with career liberator Aaron McHugh about his journey to his work becoming meaningful and aligned to who he is and how you can take steps toward that also
About Aaron
Aaron McHugh is a writer, blogger, podcaster, and career liberator. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that includes rhythms of play constantly woven in.
From Aaron,
I want to help you restore balance and discover your path to a well-lived life. I write and speak on how to make adjustments to your thinking, your beliefs and your habits. The rewards are experiencing more joy, adventure and connection.
In Work, I have covered the spectrum from ringing in the Opening Day trading bell at the London Stock Exchange to humble beginnings of selling office supplies door-to-door. My experience in sales and marketing, brand development, broadcast media, and technology startups prepared me to launch my own Work Life Play podcast and blog in 2010. I'm a graduate of Baylor University.
In Life, my wife Leith and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage. We have three children and live in the Colorado Springs area. My family and marriage have survived the death of our daughter Hadley in 2011. Despite our losses, we are moving from surviving to thriving.
In Play, I am an adventurer. I'm an Ironman triathlete, mountaineer, and learning to surf, sea kayak, and long board. In the Colorado winters, I get to snowboard with my daughter. I recently accomplished a Life List dream of mountain biking the entire five hundred-mile Colorado Trail from Durango to Denver.
Connect with Aaron
Book: Fire Your Boss
Podcast: Work Life Play
Website: www.aaronmchugh.com
Social media: @aarondmchugh.

May 6, 2021 • 30min
197 - Kiana Clay ”From heartbreak to pro adrenaline athlete”
On today's episode, Alan talks with pro snowboarder, surfer and motocross athlete Kiana Clay about tragedy, family, adrenaline and how Jesus holds it all together amidst the pain.
About Kiana
Southern California native, Kiana Clay, has always had the need for speed since she can remember. From the time she could walk, she's always wanted to go fast. Whether it was on her skateboard, snowboard, scooter, bicycle, or roller blades, you'd find Kiana zooming around somewhere. At the age of 7, her father, Roger Clay, purchased her first motorcycle which was a PW80. She rode it in trails, tracks, and in her front yard. The first time she rode, she was hooked. By the age 11, she was competing nation wide on her KX and YZ85. Little did she know, that the sport she loved would make her disabled.
On November 18, 2006, Kiana was racing at Freestone County Raceway in Wortham Texas. As it had rained the day before, the track was muddy and deep. It was during practice when she crashed on the back side of the finish line jump from her back tire sliding out and got landed on by another rider that was right behind her. The front part of the other riders bike landed right on her neck, which severed her nerves with a complex neck injury called brachial plexus. As she woke from being knocked out for about 4 minutes, she noticed that she could not move her arm whatsoever. After being sent to 3 different hospitals, she finally received her diagnoses which was full paralysis in her dominant right arm. About a month after her racing accident, her and her father got in a car wreck and flipped multiple times in their truck from a drunk driver. Because of that wreck, she lost all chances of her getting her arm back.
Today, Kiana has fully adapted to the one handed lifestyle. She's learned how to write and draw again, as well as play Xbox with her feet, put her hair up with a doorknob, and live everyday life as normal as anyone else would. After being off of the bike for 7 years, she started riding again in fall of 2013 and started competing just 3 months after being back on the bike. In 2015, she also got accepted to be on the Adaptive Action Sports Team for snowboarding where she is currently training to make the USA team for the Paralympics for 2022 in Beijing. She will be the first female upper limb competitor and will create a category for other future upper limb females. Kiana was also the first female to compete in the Moto Sport Adaptive Championship Series for motocross where she placed a 3rd overall in the upper limb category against men.
When the weather is warm, you will find Kiana wake surfing at your local lake, or training with the ISA in Newport CA where she will be competing in the adaptive world circuit. She also does motivational speaking and mentoring at her church, tracks, schools, as well as some major companies. She's very positive about her injury and is actually grateful she is disabled. She stated, "I wouldn't want my life any other way. I'm grateful for what my disability has shown me and has taught me. I wouldn't be who I am today without it. It's really humbled me to be grateful and thankful for the little things".
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