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🎙️ A Leader’s Purpose with Tami Imlay The podcast for leaders who’ve outgrown surface-level success and are ready for soul-level impact. You’ve built the career, led the teams, checked the boxes—and yet, you’re still asking, “Is this really it?” Welcome to the space where high-achieving, faith-driven leaders come to get honest, get clear, and get aligned. Hosted by executive coach, speaker, and Master Certified Enneagram and NeuroCoach Tami Imlay, this show helps you rise into your next season with confidence, clarity, and purpose—without burning out, starting over, or chucking it all and moving to Bali (tempting as that sounds). With 20+ years of leadership experience—including military service, therapy and neuroscience training, and coaching high-level entrepreneurs and executives—Tami brings both strategy and soul to the mic. After becoming a Gold Star Spouse and walking through her own identity shift, she made it her mission to help other leaders do the same: step into a life and leadership that actually feels like you. Each episode blends truth-telling with tangible tools—expect a little sass, a lot of heart, and zero tolerance for performative leadership. We’ll cover topics like: ✨ Identity clarity & self-awareness using the Enneagram 🧠 Neuroscience-backed tools to rewire limiting beliefs 🎯 Purpose-aligned business and leadership strategy 🧭 Navigating transitions, pivots, and legacy-defining moves 🧘 Burnout recovery and sustainable success 💬 Authentic communication & emotional intelligence 🙏 Faith and leadership integration that doesn’t feel cheesy If you’re circling your calling, craving deeper impact, or just tired of pretending everything’s fine when you’re quietly questioning what’s next—this podcast is for you. Because here’s the truth: ✅ You don’t need another strategy. You need identity clarity. ✅ You’re not behind—you’re right on time. ✅ You already have what it takes. You just need to remember who you are. This is your permission to rise—without losing yourself in the process. Hit subscribe and let’s get started

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July 6, 2026Episode 36213 min

362| What Your Team Learned That You Never Meant to Teach

Your team isn't bringing everything back to you because they can't decide. They're reading a signal you're sending without knowing it, and that signal is teaching them what to do every time. The fix isn't more training. It's seeing the signal. Your team stopped listening to your words a long time ago. They're reading your behavior instead, and they're more accurate than you think. Every time what you say and what you do don't quite match, your team doesn't get confused. They get information. This episode names the gap most leaders never see, and shows you exactly what's been teaching your culture without your permission. What You'll Hear The real reason your team trusts your actions over your words Why repetition builds culture faster than any training program does What one leader discovered was happening underneath his own organization The question that starts to shift everything the moment you ask it Leadership Pattern to Notice There's a gap most capable leaders carry without ever naming it: what they say and what they do are running two different conversations, and their team only believes one of them. It isn't a confidence problem and it isn't a communication problem. It's a signal problem, and signal problems stay invisible until someone finally points at them. Sit With This What signal is my team receiving from me every single day? Ready to discover the gap for yourself? http://tamimariecoaching.com/call Enjoyed the Episode? If this spoke to you, I’d love for you to: ✅ Share it with a friend who needs this message! ✅ Leave a quick rating & review to help more people find A Leader’s Purpose podcast. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode! Thank you for being here, Friend. You are capable, you are seen, and you are ready to step into your calling. Choose joy until joy chooses you! 💛 Find me: @tamimariecoaching on Instagram and Facebook LinkedIn @tamiimlay Email me: tami@tamimariecoaching.com My website is www.tamimariecoaching.com Send me a DM! I would love to connect with you! For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026

June 29, 2026Episode 36112 min

361| Why Smart Leaders Edit Their Best Ideas

Smart leaders do not stop having bold ideas when they get "the" seat. They start editing them before anyone else sees them. The bold call gets made smaller, the real idea never reaches the table, and the leader is the only one in the room who knows what she left out. This episode names that pattern with precision. What You'll Hear The specific moment the bold idea becomes the safe recommendation What twenty years of watching this pattern looks like from the outside Why the edit feels responsible and costs like something else entirely What leading at full volume actually looks like for a leader at your level Leadership Pattern to Notice The most expensive edit in a senior leader's career happens before anyone else is in the room. She already has the bold read. She already knows what needs to happen. But somewhere between the idea and the table, a smaller version shows up instead. Steadier. More defensible. Less hers. The room follows the careful version of her. And she is the only one who knows what she left out. Sit With This When was the last time you brought the real version of the idea into the room? Something I Don't Want You to Miss The bold ideas did not go anywhere. They are still there. What has been running the edit is something precise and nameable. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it. Stop editing. Start owning. Connect If you are ready to see what becomes possible when this shifts, the Aligned Leadership Audit is where that conversation starts. 45 minutes. Just you and me. No homework. Just a diagnosis. Book your Audit: http://tamimariecoaching.com/call Want to go deeper on what leaders at your level are carrying that rarely gets named out loud? The Invisible Weight private audio briefing was built for exactly where you are. Six episodes. Free. Access here: http://app.helloaudio.fm/feed/c6ff1d1a-3115-4cc3-a54c-1af179e469e4/signup

June 22, 2026Episode 36012 min

360| The Reason Capable Teams Still Bring Everything Back to You

Picture walking into a week where your calendar already has the right things on it. The decisions you handed off held. The project that took a turn got handled before it reached you. Your team walked in knowing what to bring to you and what to own. That room exists. And in this episode, I name exactly what it takes to get there. INSIDE THE EPISODE What Tuesday actually looks like right now Before 9am the questions start. The decisions that belong to your team are already landing on your lap. I name the moment most leaders recognize themselves in and why it keeps happening. What you have been trained to do that is working against you You are not doing anything wrong. You are doing exactly what made you excellent at the last level. There is a name for what that creates at this one. Why delegation training did not fix it Not a delegation problem. Not a communication problem. Not a boundaries problem. I name what it actually is and why that distinction changes everything. The room I want you to walk into I paint it specifically. Not aspirational. Not theoretical. The week that becomes possible when the signal shifts. WHAT TO TAKE WITH YOU Your team is not failing you. They are following your lead exactly. That is the whole point. Leadership runs on signals, not announcements. Your title changed. The signal did not. That gap is where the routing lives. Being the answer was the job at the last level. At this one it is the obstacle. Not because you became less capable. Because the role requires something different now. SIT WITH THIS What signal are you still sending that belongs to the leader you were two levels ago? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The Friction Factor names what is underneath the routing before it becomes a leadership identity problem. Free, research backed, and built so you can see exactly where the gap is. Download the Friction Factor The Invisible Weight is my free private audio series for leaders carrying more than they should have to right now. Six episodes. Straight to your phone. Listen here Enjoyed the Episode? If this resonated, here is how to help more leaders find it: ✅ Share it with a leader in your world who needs to hear this. ✅ Leave a quick rating and review so more people can find A Leader's Purpose. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode. You already have what it takes. This is where you get to remember that. Find me: LinkedIn: @tamiimlay Instagram and Facebook: @tamimariecoaching Email: tami@tamimariecoaching.com Website: www.tamimariecoaching.com Ready to go deeper? Book your Aligned Leadership Audit: tamimariecoaching.com/call For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026

June 15, 2026Episode 35913 min

359| Why Your Best Leaders Are Quietly Cracking (And What They Won't Tell You)

She ended the day at 4:45 with her real work still untouched. Got up. Went home. Came back and did it again. If that landed anywhere, this episode was built for you. I give a name to something a lot of leaders at your level are living right now and have not had the language for. And I give you two things you can do differently tomorrow. INSIDE THE EPISODE Four questions worth sitting with honestly Before I name it, I ask you to answer four things. Not in your head the way you do when you are half listening. Actually stop and answer them. What quiet cracking is and what it is not It is not burnout. It is not a character flaw. It is something more specific than either of those and more important to name. What it looks like from the inside The conversations that used to feel like culture now feel like a drain. The goals you were hired to move have not been touched in weeks. Not because you forgot. I name what is underneath that. What becomes possible when it shifts I paint the day you are building toward. It is not a fantasy. It is what gets addressed when you stop managing it at the surface. Two things you can do tomorrow Not a framework. Not a system overhaul. Two moves. Either one changes something. WHAT TO TAKE WITH YOU There is a name for what you have been carrying. Hearing it does something that managing it never will. The things we do not name, we manage. And managing something unnamed is exhausting in a way a long weekend does not fix. You did not work your way to this level to spend it being everyone else's answer. SIT WITH THIS When you think about the leader you are at your very best, the one with real vision, the one who makes decisions that hold, the one who walks in the room and leads. Does that version of you feel like someone you visit occasionally instead of someone you are? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The Friction Factor names exactly what we talked about today. It is free and it is the place to start if you heard yourself anywhere in this episode. Download the Friction Factor The Invisible Weight is my free private audio series for leaders carrying more than they should have to right now. Six episodes. Straight to your phone. Listen here Enjoyed the Episode? If this resonated, here is how to help more leaders find it: ✅ Share it with a leader in your world who needs to hear this. ✅ Leave a quick rating and review so more people can find A Leader's Purpose. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode. You already have what it takes. This is where you get to remember that. Find me: LinkedIn: @tamiimlay Instagram and Facebook: @tamimariecoaching Email: tami@tamimariecoaching.com Website: www.tamimariecoaching.com Ready to go deeper? Book your Aligned Leadership Audit: tamimariecoaching.com/call For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026

June 8, 2026Episode 35810 min

358| What AI Can't Give You That Your Leadership Requires

AI can give you a competent answer. It cannot give you your judgment. The leaders who are using AI well are not the ones replacing their read on the room with it. They are the ones who bring their judgment first and use AI as the tool after. That distinction is the difference between generic output and a decision that sounds like you. WHAT THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT You are using AI and using it well. And you are still walking away from it feeling like something is missing. That feeling has a name. And it is not a problem with the tool. This episode is about what AI cannot replicate at your level, why it matters more right now than it ever has, and the one shift that changes everything you get back from it. INSIDE THE EPISODE The gap you have already felt but not named You have noticed it. I name it. Knowledge versus judgment They are not the same thing. The difference is everything at your level. The shortcut that is costing you I share a personal example. You will recognize yourself in it. What it looks like when you go in with your judgment first This is the shift. And it changes what you get back. What I am building with clients right now AI that is actually trained on you. There is a difference between a tool and a tool that knows your wiring. WHAT TO TAKE WITH YOU There is a name for what AI cannot give you. It is not a soft skill and it is not a mindset. Press play. The shortcut feels efficient. I talk about what it is quietly costing you at your level. The leaders who are using AI well are doing one thing differently before they ever open a prompt. SIT WITH THIS When you go to AI for an answer, are you bringing your judgment with you, or are you waiting for AI to give you one? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The Friction Factor is the research report I referenced in this episode. It pulls from over 60,000 leaders across Gallup, Harvard Business Review, and McKinsey and names something happening at the senior level that nobody is talking about out loud. If anything I said today sounds familiar, this is where you start. Download the Friction Factor The Invisible Weight is my free private audio series for leaders carrying more than they should have to right now. Six episodes. Straight to your phone. Listen here Enjoyed the Episode? If this resonated, here is how to help more leaders find it: ✅ Share it with a leader in your world who needs to hear this. ✅ Leave a quick rating and review so more people can find A Leader's Purpose. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode. You already have what it takes. This is where you get to remember that. Find me: LinkedIn: @tamiimlay Instagram and Facebook: @tamimariecoaching Email: tami@tamimariecoaching.com Website: www.tamimariecoaching.com Ready to go deeper? Book your Aligned Leadership Audit: tamimariecoaching.com/call For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026

June 1, 2026Episode 3577 min

357| Why Does Everything Still Come Back to You? (And It's Not a Delegation Problem)

Your team is capable. You know that better than anyone. So when everything keeps routing back through you, the instinct is to look at them. More delegation. Better processes. Clearer expectations. None of that is the real fix. In this episode, I name the one thing your team is missing and why giving it to them changes every conversation after it. INSIDE THE EPISODE The signal most leaders misread When your team keeps bringing things back to you, it is not about their capability. It is about information. I break down what that signal is actually telling you. The story that changed how I see this One leader. One meeting. A team that went from routing everything through her to running three steps ahead. Here is exactly what she did and what shifted. The picture you are carrying that your team does not have You have been in every closed-door meeting. You carry the full strategic context. Your team carries the task. That gap is where the routing lives, and it is smaller to close than you think. What Monday looks like on the other side I paint the inbox you actually want. The messages that come in when your team has what they need to trust their own read on the situation. WHAT TO TAKE WITH YOU Your team is not coming back to you because they cannot handle it. They are coming back because they do not have what they need to trust their own judgment on the call. The leaders who stop being the answer to everything are not better at delegating. They are better at sharing the picture. The context your team is missing is probably already in your head. You just forgot they did not have it. SIT WITH THIS What strategic context are you carrying in your head that your team does not have? Not because you are protecting it. Because it never occurred to you that they did not already have it, or that they needed it. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The Invisible Weight, my free private audio series for leaders carrying more than they should have to right now. Six episodes. Straight to your phone. Listen here Ready to look at what is creating the routing in your specific leadership situation? This is where that conversation starts. Book the Aligned Leadership Audit Enjoyed the Episode? If this spoke to you, I’d love for you to: ✅ Share it with a friend who needs this message! ✅ Leave a quick rating & review to help more people find A Leader’s Purpose podcast. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode! Thank you for being here, Friend. You are capable, you are seen, and you are ready to step into your calling. Choose joy until joy chooses you! 💛 Find me: @tamimariecoaching on Instagram and Facebook LinkedIn @tamiimlay Email me: tami@tamimariecoaching.com My website is www.tamimariecoaching.com Send me a DM! I would love to connect with you! For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026

May 25, 2026Episode 3569 min

356| I'm Not Different. My Choices Are. Memorial Day 2026

This one is personal. This is not a leadership framework episode. This is my story -- and I shared it because I think it belongs here. Fifteen years of Memorial Days. Fifteen years of going back to DC with my kids. Walking the same halls. Watching new families walk in carrying that same fresh weight we carried the first time. Someone asked me once how I am different from the families who have been coming for twenty-five years and are still standing in the same place emotionally. I told them -- I am not different. My choices are. That is what this episode is about. Not the circumstances. What we do with them. WHAT WE COVER I take you inside what it felt like to walk into that space for the first time -- surrounded by hundreds of people who did not need an explanation, who understood exactly what it meant to carry this specific kind of loss. I talk about what fifteen years of that same trip looks like now -- how the grief has changed, how my family has changed, and what I see when I walk through those halls today that I could not see in the beginning. And I share the five words I heard the day my world collapsed that I did not understand then -- but I do now. SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO CARRY You are not defined by what happened to you. You are shaped by what you chose to do after. Those are not the same thing -- and the difference between them is the whole story. The circumstances are not a choice. What we do with them always is. Sit With This Which hard are you carrying right now that was never yours to keep -- and which one is building something worth keeping? Enjoyed the Episode? If this spoke to you, I’d love for you to: ✅ Share it with a friend who needs this message! ✅ Leave a quick rating & review to help more people find A Leader’s Purpose podcast. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode! Thank you for being here, Friend. You are capable, you are seen, and you are ready to step into your calling. Choose joy until joy chooses you! 💛 Find me: @tamimariecoaching on Instagram and Facebook LinkedIn @tamiimlay Email me: tami@tamimariecoaching.com My website is www.tamimariecoaching.com Send me a DM! I would love to connect with you! For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026

May 18, 2026Episode 3559 min

355| You Already Made the Decision. You Just Haven't Trusted It Yet.

You've run it through every filter. Looked at it from every angle. Sat with it at 3 am. The decision settled. And THEN you opened it back up. Not because something changed. Because trusting your own read is harder than making the call in the first place. In this episode, Tami opens a brand new series by naming what it actually costs when decisions don't hold -- and what becomes possible when they finally do. This one is personal. It starts with a story about a leader who built something from nothing, loved it, lost the love, and slowly found his way back. And it ends with the one question that changes what you do with next week. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR Why the most exhausting part of leadership is rarely the decision itself. What it looks like when a leader keeps reopening something that already settled. The difference between a decision that was wrong and a decision that wasn't trusted. What changes when a leader finally lets a decision hold. Why this series exists and where it is going. LEADERSHIP PATTERN TO NOTICE There is a specific kind of exhaustion that shows up in high-performing leaders who are excellent at what they do. It is not the exhaustion of overwork, though the hours are real. It is the exhaustion of making the same decision multiple times. The decision was made. It was right. And then new information came, or the weight of it got heavier, and it got reopened. Leaders who carry this pattern are not lacking confidence in the traditional sense. They are carrying a gap between knowing and trusting. The decision and the trust in it are not the same thing. Most leaders have never been told that. CONCEPTS INTRODUCED This episode introduces the gap between a decision that settled and the trust required to let it hold. Tami also opens the new series, What You're Already Built For, and names the thread that will carry through the next several weeks: the wiring already in you that you have been second-guessing, editing, or waiting to fully own. SIT WITH THIS What have you already decided that you keep reopening? Not because it was wrong. Because you haven't let yourself trust it yet. KEY TAKEAWAYS The decision wasn't the problem. The trust was. When a decision doesn't hold, it doesn't disappear. It comes back with everything attached to it. The leaders who get their footing back are not the ones who finally got more information. They are the ones who stopped second-guessing the information they already had. Your body made that call before your brain finished building the case. That is not a flaw. That is wiring. Letting a decision hold is not passivity. It is one of the highest-leverage moves a senior leader can make. Enjoyed the Episode? If this spoke to you, I’d love for you to: ✅ Share it with a friend who needs this message! ✅ Leave a quick rating & review to help more people find A Leader’s Purpose podcast. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode! Thank you for being here, Friend. You are capable, you are seen, and you are ready to step into your calling. Choose joy until joy chooses you! 💛 Find me: @tamimariecoaching on Instagram and Facebook LinkedIn @tamiimlay Email me: tami@tamimariecoaching.com My website is www.tamimariecoaching.com Send me a DM! I would love to connect with you! For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2025

May 11, 2026Episode 35417 min

354| Why Leadership Gets Harder the Higher You Go (And What Changes It)- Leadership Myth #6

Leadership gets harder at senior levels not because the role gets worse, but because the weight accumulates without a system for what to put down. Experience increases visibility and stakes but does not reduce the load. What changes it is understanding your own wiring — how you define responsibility, what you carry out of habit, and what was never yours to carry in the first place. You have earned this seat. You know how to lead. And still, the weight of it follows you home. Not because something is wrong. Because no one told you to put any of it down. This is the final episode of the Leadership Myths series. Tami saved this one for last. Because this is the one every leader she has worked with has been carrying, and almost no one wants to say it out loud. What You'll Hear What experience actually gives you at this level and what it does not A real client story that changed how one VP understood what he was carrying The difference between load-bearing weight and weight you picked up somewhere along the way What becomes possible when that distinction finally becomes clear Leadership Pattern to Notice There is a version of responsibility that was built for a different level of leadership. It served you then. At this level, it has a cost that most leaders can feel but have never fully named. Sit With This What becomes possible when you stop carrying what was never yours? What's Coming Next The Myths series is complete. Next week opens something different. Eight episodes. One question. What are you already built for? Something I Don't Want You to Miss The weight does not go away at this level. But there is a difference between the weight that belongs to the role and the weight you picked up somewhere along the way and forgot you were choosing to carry. That distinction changes everything. Enjoyed the Episode? If this spoke to you, I’d love for you to: ✅ Share it with a friend who needs this message! ✅ Leave a quick rating & review to help more people find A Leader’s Purpose podcast. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode! Thank you for being here, Friend. You are capable, you are seen, and you are ready to step into your calling. Choose joy until joy chooses you! 💛 Find me: @tamimariecoaching on Instagram and Facebook LinkedIn @tamiimlay Email me: tami@tamimariecoaching.com My website is www.tamimariecoaching.com Send me a DM! I would love to connect with you! For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026 A Leader's Purpose is a podcast for senior leaders and executives navigating the real pressure of high-stakes leadership. In this episode, Tami Imlay addresses why leadership gets harder the higher you go — the exhaustion that does not resolve with rest, the 3am decision replay, and the weight that follows you home even when everything is technically going well. This is the final episode of the Leadership Myths series, and it is the one she saved for last on purpose.

May 4, 2026Episode 35313 min

353| You Are Not Lacking Confidence. You Are Performing It. Leadership Myth #5

The most capable leaders in the room are sometimes the most exhausted ones. Not because the role is too much — because they are performing something they already have. Tami names the myth that keeps senior leaders working harder at looking certain while the gap between projected confidence and actual certainty quietly widens. She draws a line between performed confidence and calibrated certainty — two things that look identical from the outside and feel completely different from the inside. This episode is not about building more confidence. It is about stopping the performance of the thing you already have and leading from the foundation that has been there all along. What You'll Hear Why the most put-together leaders in the room are sometimes the most exhausted ones A real client story that reframes what confidence at the highest level actually looks like The distinction that changes how your team reads you — and follows you Leadership Pattern to Notice The leaders who feel this most are the ones who look the most put together from the outside. They have learned how to hold a room. They know what composed looks like. And underneath that composure, there is a version of them working overtime that nobody sees. The performance is not a weakness. It is a response to a message that was never examined — that certainty is something you project rather than something you stand on. Key Takeaways Performed confidence and calibrated certainty are not the same thing Your team can feel the difference before you say a word The foundation has been there. This is just where you get to stop performing it Concepts Introduced Tami introduces the distinction between performed confidence and calibrated certainty — and makes the case that the performance itself is what erodes trust in the room, not the doubt underneath it. She also brings in the Enneagram 8 wiring as a diagnostic lens, naming the Sovereign leader type and the pattern of managing natural strength out of fear of how it lands. The through line: knowing your wiring is not self-awareness for its own sake. It is the foundation that makes calibrated certainty possible. Sit With This Where are you performing certainty you already have — and what would it cost you to stop? Links The Invisible Weight — Private Audio Series: http://app.helloaudio.fm/feed/c6ff1d1a-3115-4cc3-a54c-1af179e469e4/signup Aligned Leadership Audit: http://tamimariecoaching.com/call Connect with Tami Imlay Tami Imlay is an Executive Leadership Strategist and Advisor and the founder of Daily Choosing Joy LLC. She works with senior leaders who are performing at the highest level and want to understand the system running underneath their leadership. Website: tamimariecoaching.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamiimlay Enjoyed the Episode? If this spoke to you, I’d love for you to: ✅ Share it with a friend who needs this message! ✅ Leave a quick rating & review to help more people find A Leader’s Purpose podcast. ✅ Subscribe so you never miss an episode! Thank you for being here, Friend. You are capable, you are seen, and you are ready to step into your calling. Choose joy until joy chooses you! 💛 Find me: @tamimariecoaching on Instagram and Facebook LinkedIn @tamiimlay Email me: tami@tamimariecoaching.com My website is www.tamimariecoaching.com Send me a DM! I would love to connect with you! For more information on the song: Guitalele's Happy Place by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56194 Ft: Kara Square (mindmapthat) Copyright Daily Choosing Joy LLC 2026