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Where Real Leaders Talk About the Hard Stuff
Welcome to Leadership Uncensored—the podcast that cuts through the polished scripts and curated personas to bring you raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about what it truly means to lead in today’s world.
Hosted by Dr. Dawn Emerick, a national voice in trauma-informed leadership and systems change, this podcast goes beyond buzzwords to explore the messy, meaningful, and transformative moments of leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive, a changemaker in the making, or someone navigating the tension between personal healing and professional growth, Leadership Uncensored is your space.
Each episode features courageous conversations with leaders across sectors—corporate, nonprofit, government, and education—who are willing to pull back the curtain. We talk burnout, breakthrough, betrayal, bias, boundaries, and becoming. No fluff. No filters. Just truth.
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Season 5, Episode 22: LEADERS WHO READ: A Roundtable on the Books Shaping Us
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Season 4 Episode 21: Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership- Trauma’s Impact on the Labor Movement: Union Leadership, Collective Organizing & Working Class Solidarity with Ron Ruggiero
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Season 4 Episode 20: Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership- Building Trauma-Informed Teams with Matthew Cooke
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Season 3 Episode 19 Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: The Chicago Resiliency Network
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Season 3 Episode 18 Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: Leading Through Our Head, Heart, and Gut
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Season 3: Episode 17 Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: Trauma-Informed Design
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Season 3, Episode 16. Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: Daryl Tol, EVP with One Mind
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Season 3, Episode 15. Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: The Corvallis School District
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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TRAILER with Kelly Locey: Season 3: Episode 15. Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: The Corvallis School District
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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TRAILER with Joe Leykam: Season 3: Episode 15. Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: The Corvallis School District
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Season 2: Episode 13: Conquerors in the Workplace: When Leaders Become the Source of Trauma.
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Season 2, Episode 12: It's Lonely at the Top
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Season 2, Episode 11: Jake Jacobs. Leverage Change: 8 Ways To Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Season 2, Episode 10: Susan Schmitt Winchester. Healing at Work: A Guide to Using Career Conflicts to Overcome Your Past and Build the Future You Deserve
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Season 2, Episode 9: Dr. David Dull. Ensuring that History Doesn’t Repeat Itself: Leadership Lessons from the Pandemic.
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Season 2, Episode 8: Laurie Shakur--Putting the Human Back into Human Resources
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Season 2, Episode 7: Dave Walter. Keys to a Winning Vision & Strategy: Active and Visible Leadership, Managing People Through Change and Celebrating the Successes
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Season 2, Episode 6: The Dark Underbelly of Organizational Politics
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Season 1 Episode 5: Iron Fists Eventually Rust
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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3 Min Trailer, Episode 5: Iron Fists Eventually Rust
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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2 Min Trailer, Episode 4: There's No Crying in Leadership
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Season 1 Episode 4: There's No Crying in Leadership
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Season 1 Episode 3: The Only One
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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2 Min Trailer for Episode 3: The Only One
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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Season 1 Episode 2: Cultured Milk
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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1 Min Trailer for Episode 2: Cultured Milk
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Season 1 Episode 1: Hold My Beer
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Jul 28, 2020 |