{"podcast":{"title":"Leaning into Leadership","slug":"leaning-into-leadership-4658926","podcast_index_feed_id":4658926,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/leaning-into-leadership/","website_url":"https://leaning-into-leadership.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/26612668-4329-493a-9769-3d139ea604b8/oY99Rab2W7NdcuUukmAYxLbN.jpg","author":"Darrin Peppard","episode_count":302,"summary":"We all want to see successes in both our personal and professional lives. Often, that requires strong leadership. In a time when leadership can be more challenging than ever, this podcast is dedicated to cultivating leaders by elevating the voices of leaders and promoting positivity. Join Dr. Darrin Peppard, lifelong educator and best-selling author, for this mixed platform podcast (some solo, some guest interview) for inspiration and insight, and some great leadership stories from those are living it, excelling at it, and celebrating it. Together, let's lean into leadership.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-27T16:17:33.437833+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 293: The Human Side of Leadership with Stacy Nation","slug":"episode-293-the-human-side-of-leadership-with-stacy-nation","published_at":"2026-08-16T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926/episode-293-the-human-side-of-leadership-with-stacy-nation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926","url":"https://leaning-into-leadership.captivate.fm/episode/episode-293-","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fb7e6d7f-8dbe-471b-b64e-08ed0e81a52a.mp3","summary":"Episode 293 of Leaning Into Leadership is a conversation about something every leader needs to understand: we lead humans, and humans bring their experiences, emotions, stress, and trauma with them to work. Darrin sits down with licensed clinical social worker, speaker, author, and military leader Stacy Nation to explore what trauma-informed—and ultimately trauma-restorative—leadership can look like in schools. Stacy challenges leaders to move beyond simply knowing that trauma exists and begin creating environments built around safety, connection, relationships, and restoration. As she explains, one of the most important resiliency factors is having a positive, caring relationship—which makes relationship-building far more than a “soft” leadership skill. The conversation also turns toward the adults in our schools. Are teachers able to meet their own basic needs during the day? What happens after a difficult interaction with a student? Do leaders create conditions that help adults regulate themselves before asking them to help students do the same? Stacy makes the case that supporting adults and maintaining high expectations are not competing ideas. Darrin and Stacy also dig into neuroscience and leadership, including the difference between the reasoning and emotional functions of the brain, why certain questions can immediately create defensiveness, and how leaders can communicate differently when emotions are running high. Stacy shares the story behind her book, What Really Happens in Therapy Behind Closed Doors: A Guided Journey to Healing , and how her experiences as a therapist, military member, parent, and someone navigating her own family story shaped the work. Finally, the conversation comes back to leadership: creating shared language around emotional regulati…","meta_description":"Episode 293 of Leaning Into Leadership is a conversation about something every leader needs to understand: we lead humans, and humans bring their experien…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2026,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leaning-into-leadership-4658926/episodes/episode-293-the-human-side-of-leadership-with-stacy-nation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leaning-into-leadership-4658926/episode-293-the-human-side-of-leadership-with-stacy-nation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}