As leaders, maintaining strong leadership in your company is really difficult. Leadership is full of loneliness, weariness, and abandonment. Learn how to fight through those struggles to truly become a leader. Join your host, Dr. Tracey Jones, as she goes 1-on-1 with Caterina Rando on how she handles a leadership position. Caterina is the founder of Thriving Women in Business Community and Center. She helps women entrepreneurs succeed with development training, speaking training, and more. Learn what Caterina has to say about leadership and how to run it.

The best leaders understand that leadership, beyond the ego and pride associated with it, is a humbling experience. It asks you to see people where they are at so you can guide them better towards the overall goal of the business or organization. Taking this to heart is Amey Sgrignoli, the President and CEO of Belco Community Credit Union. With a career in financial services that spans 25 years, Amey has the wisdom and experience to tell us the price she had to pay for leadership. She shares all of those with Dr. Tracey Jones in this episode, letting us in on what she thinks about loneliness, weariness, abandonment, and vision. Amey then talks about the lessons she learned during this pandemic and how it reminds us of what truly matters, especially as leaders in business.

Even the best leaders feel weary at times. After all, they’re only human and the demands of leadership can sometimes be very taxing physically, mentally and spiritually. In the past people would talk about balance, but it has become clear that balance is not so something that’s achievable or even desirable. What you should look for as a leader is integration – that sweet spot where your conditions of satisfaction are met and where you’re aligned with whatever your ultimate goals are. Dr. Tracey Jones brings in a unique guest to talk about this and other leadership concerns in this episode. Tricia Benn is the Chief Community Officer of the C-Suite Network and the General Manager of The Hero Club, an invitation-only membership organization for CEOs, founders, and investors.

Setbacks are inevitable in life. How you deal with them is what sets you apart from the rest. Mike Ciorrocco, the founder of What Are You Made Of? has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to use setbacks as rocket fuel for their comeback. He joins host Dr. Tracey Jones to talk about how he paid the price of leadership and shared it with others, helping them out of the challenges they are facing and leading them to success. He talks about overcoming loneliness with the help of his family, holding people accountable, combatting weariness, honing the vision for your business, and more. Plus, Mike also shares why gratitude eliminates anything to complain about and how to see our unlimited potential.

Leadership can be a lonely place on top, but it need not be. It is a place of personal power, but also of tremendous personal responsibility. Today, we take a closer look at leadership from a leader’s perspective as Dr. Tracey Jones interviews Dan Silberberg, a true visionary who has been engaged in personal transformation and development for more than 40 years. Together, they unpack loneliness, weariness, abandonment, vision and other concepts that leaders wrestle with on a daily basis from their place at the top. At the end of the day, leaders are humans too and there is a price that they have to pay to be called true, authentic leaders. Dan also emphasizes the need for leaders to create their own narrative that sets them up for success. Listen intently and watch out for value bombs – they’re everywhere.

As we strive to achieve the life of our dreams, we sometimes have to make sacrifices along the way. But what if you can still create the life you want without having to give up some of the things you love? Dr. Tracey Jones’ guest for this episode, Laura DiBenedetto, teaches people how to do that. Laura is the number one bestselling author of The Six Habits, a TEDx speaker, a Life Mastery Coach, and Founder of an award-winning marketing company called Vision Advertising. In today’s show, she shares with us the price she has to pay for leadership and how she overcame them one by one. Laura also tells us her next radical journey of self-discovery, research, testing, and determination to find energy and lasting fulfillment and happiness in all areas of life. She shares the six factors that can help us in this conversation.

As more and more businesses utilize digital tools to build their online presence, you can just imagine how tough it can be for a leader leading in that space. Carol Kaemmerer, an internationally recognized executive branding expert, speaker, and author of the award-winning book, LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive, joins host Dr. Tracey Jones to share what she has to say about paying the price of leadership. She taps into the cure for loneliness, weariness, and feelings of abandonment and shares what she does to stay focused and gain clarity for the next great thing. Join Carol in this episode, where she shares more timeless insights and truths that will surely provide comfort to those struggling with being a leader and more.

When you step in to become a leader, you will always have to wear the hat of leadership, representing and embodying your organization. Sometimes, this could take a toll on you, leaving you feeling lonely at the top. Sharing his thoughts on the price of leadership that leaders have to pay, Dr. Tracey Jones invites Phil Puleo, the Superintendent of the Christian School Association of Greater Harrisburg. Phil shares his experiences and insights as a leader at the school, where loneliness becomes uncertainty, and how he overcomes that. He also talks about how he stays refreshed and replenished amidst dealing with parents and kids in the most important years of their lives, how he deals with critics, and more.

As our parents grow old, we want most to repay them with the love and support they have given us by taking care of them back. Nancy May started her business called CareManity to provide family caregivers with structures to obtain practical knowledge, resources, and access to much-needed support. In this episode, she shares with Dr. Tracey Jones her journey to setting up her company, the inspiration for it, and the lessons she learned along the way. She imparts her insights on the price she had to pay for leadership and gives some helpful wisdom on navigating the role. Plus, Nancy also shares some tips for those of us that have been through aging parents or are going through it.

Choosing to become a leader is like choosing to go out into the open seas. You will definitely have to face the tides and weather some storms. One to prepare leaders for some of the inevitable tougher stuff that is going to come their way is Bill Prater, the founder of Business Mastery and Scaleology. In this episode, he joins Dr. Tracey Jones to talk about how he is helping business owners and entrepreneurs accelerate into the future they dream of. He reveals some of his wisdom with us by way of speaking about the price to pay for leadership—how to handle loneliness, weariness, and abandonment. Bill then takes us deep into Scaleology, discussing the things that signify growth and profitability and how they are leading people who are tired of the status quo to change their business from ordinary to extraordinary.

Leadership doesn’t come for free. It comes with a price, and sometimes, it could take its toll when you don’t have the mindset to tackle the challenges head-on. In this episode, Dr. Tracey Jones sits down with editor, reporter, newspaper owner, and publisher, Jerry Bellune, to talk about what leadership cost him and how he is overcoming them. He shares his take on loneliness, abandonment, and weariness and then provides great insights around gaining vision and more. Jerry then takes us into his career journey, from editing and working for newspapers to eventually having one of his own called the Lexington County Chronicle, while telling us of the importance of taking care of your people.