Success, Addiction and Authentic Leadership with Leah Johnson

Episode 2

Leah Johnson speaks on Healing, Owning Your Story, and Showing Up as You Are

Leadership looks different when you stop performing it.

In this episode of the Leadership That Shines Podcast, host Natnat sits down with Leah Johnson, former elected official, creative spiritual mentor, author of Finding Fantastic Joy, and founder of the Her Voice Rising community. Leah spent 25 years in politics driven by something she did not fully understand until everything became too heavy to carry: an addiction to success rooted in the belief that love and worthiness had to be earned.

What followed was one of the most honest leadership stories you will hear on this show. Leah walked away from a reelection campaign, withdrew from politics publicly, rebuilt herself quietly, and emerged as a leader whose entire mission is giving women permission to show up as exactly who they are.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why leadership ownership is the hardest and most necessary skill any leader can develop, and what it actually looks like when you practice it
• How the addiction to success quietly erodes your leadership, your health, and your ability to show up for the people who need you most
• What Leah learned after 25 years in politics about the difference between performing leadership and practicing it
• How burnout, chronic depression, anxiety, and the pressure to prove something are signals that your leadership needs to look different, not disappear
• Why authentic leadership requires unlearning the rules society placed on you long before you ever stepped into a leadership role
• How creativity, storytelling, and community become tools for healing and growing as a leader
• What Leah's Her Voice Rising event is building for women who are ready to reconnect with their voice and lead from a place of genuine alignment
• The one piece of advice Leah carries from her 25 year career that every leader in this audience needs to hear

This episode also opens up a raw and honest moment between Natalie and Leah as the conversation surfaces Natalie's own relationship with the fear of success, what keeps the motor running, and why the most important leadership work happens in the private seasons nobody sees.

Connect with Leah Johnson:

Website: www.findingtasticjoy.com

Social: @findingtasticjoy

Her Voice Rising Event on June 26th 8:30 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

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Natalie Davis is a licensed real estate agent in the State of Colorado. Her license is with Keller Williams Realty Downtown, LLC.