The Prioritizing Wellbeing Podcast with Gayleen Swiggum | holistic leadership, leadership wellbeing, military leadership, leadership development, faith-based leadership

Do you push through exhaustion because your team needs you? Do you wonder how to take care of yourself while taking care of everyone else? Are you tired of feeling like you have to choose between being a good leader and protecting your wellbeing? As a leader forged in military culture, I was taught that a leader's wellbeing was second to that of their people. After almost 10 years of leading teams around the globe in the world's greatest Air Force, I realized how untrue that teaching really is. Six months into my corporate transition from active duty service, I found myself in uncontrollable tears on the dingy carpet of my apartment floor. I thought I would finally be a part of an organization that would give me the time to take care of me because they cared about my wellbeing beyond what I could produce for them. I realized other than the title and the company, nothing had really changed. I was still working 12+ hour days, still fighting a system that put its g