{"podcast":{"title":"AgilEmpath","slug":"agilempath-954070","podcast_index_feed_id":954070,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/59728.rss","website_url":"https://alexia.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/59728/72e734ad37e0a7f8133c11cf031fab83.jpg","author":"Empathetic agile strategies for stronger teams and better leaders.","episode_count":334,"summary":"Welcome to the AgilEmpath Podcast. With focus on empathetic agile methodologies in creative ways for team building. Our background in mental health counseling has provided us with knowledge of human behavior. Have you found yourself coaching a team,...","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agilempath-954070"},"episode":{"title":"I Was Selectively Mute. Last Week, 160 People Couldn’t Stop Listening.","slug":"i-was-selectively-mute-last-week-160-people-couldn-t-stop-listening","published_at":"2026-04-27T17:20:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agilempath-954070/i-was-selectively-mute-last-week-160-people-couldn-t-stop-listening","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agilempath-954070","url":"https://alexia.substack.com/p/executive-presence-sweet-spot-character-confidence-communication","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195644564/5546f840d9c8540434ba53b2c87b1d64.mp3","summary":"I’m going to tell you something that doesn’t make sense on paper. Last week I stood in front of a room at the Wellness State SHRM26 conference. The session was on happiness; my life’s work, the thing I’ve been building in Knoxville and beyond for years. The room was designed for maybe 130 people. 160 showed up. They filled every chair. They lined the walls. They stood in the back, shoulder to shoulder. Someone joked it was a fire hazard. They let them keep coming anyway. HR directors. Recruiters. Engagement specialists. People who spend their days trying to figure out how to make workplaces human. They packed that room to hear about happiness, and by the end they were laughing, connecting, leaning in — moved. And the woman standing in front of them? The woman who moved that room? She was selectively mute. Let Me Tell You Who I Actually Am I am 56 years old. I know what the world says about that. It says I should be winding down. Coasting. Planning the retirement party. Thinking about what I was instead of what I’m becoming. I proclaim … oh no. Fifty-six is only the start. Because I found it. The sweet spot. The place where everything I’ve been through, everything I believe, and everything I’ve learned how to say out loud finally converged. It has a name. It’s called executive presence. And it is how I moved that room; to laughter, to joy, to something real. But I need you to understand where I started. Because if you only see the woman on the stage, you’ll think this came naturally. It didn’t. It almost didn’t come at all. The Girl Who Couldn’t Speak I was born in 1970, a first-generation Greek Cypriot in Annapolis, Maryland, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. My father was a farmer turned biophysicist; he worked at Johns Hopkins before earning tenure as a full professor…","meta_description":"I’m going to tell you something that doesn’t make sense on paper. Last week I stood in front of a room at the Wellness State SHRM26 conference. The sessio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":138,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/agilempath-954070/episodes/i-was-selectively-mute-last-week-160-people-couldn-t-stop-listening/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agilempath-954070/i-was-selectively-mute-last-week-160-people-couldn-t-stop-listening.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}