The Changemaker’s Compass: Guiding Human-Hearted Leaders

Darren Stehle
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The Changemaker’s Compass guides you to cultivate your influence and impact as a Human-Hearted leader. Hosted by Darren Stehle, a coach for Changemakers and Social Entrepreneurs, this podcast empowers aspiring and established leaders to stand up for what’s right, support a common humanity of dignity and equity, and share their unique wisdom. Explore thought-provoking discussions, actionable strategies, and inspiring stories to embrace your role as a leader, define your core message, and lead with clarity, compassion, and purpose.

Episodes

  1. 01/20/2025

    How to BE WELL and Excel as a Changemaker for Our Common Humanity in 2025

    These are my thoughts on Monday, January 20, 2025 about the incoming president in the United States, and the corresponding recent changes to Meta’s platforms, i.e., the elimination of fact-checking and shifts in content moderation. These changes have sparked significant debate and raised challenging questions for leaders and changemakers. Subscribe to my newsletter for meaningful insights and guidance to cultivate dignity and equity for ethical changemakers and compassionate leaders who are determined to make a transformational difference for our common humanity.

    22 min

  2. 01/15/2025

    The Changemaker’s Compass: Guiding Human-Hearted Leaders

    This is your guide to cultivating your influence and impact as a Human-Hearted leader. My name is Darren Stehle. I’m a coach for Changemakers and Social Entrepreneurs. On the show, I share strategies to courageously stand up for what you know is right, and how to support a common humanity of dignity and equity by sharing your unique wisdom and guidance with those who need it most. This podcast empowers both aspiring and established leaders to chart their path to meaningful and transformational change. Through thought-provoking discussions, actionable strategies, and inspiring stories, you’ll discover ways to: Embrace your role as a thought leader and advocate for change; Define your core message and align it with your beliefs and values and; Develop the tools and mindset needed to lead with clarity, compassion, and purpose. Whether you’re refining your leadership blueprint or just starting to make a difference, this Podcast will help you navigate your way with heart and integrity. Subscribe to the show and my website at DarrenStehle.com to discover your path to create the meaningful change you want to see in the world.

    2 min

  3. 12/10/2024

    How to Lead Effectively and Get Things Done Without Burnout: Mastering the 3Es of Productivity

    Discover why managing your energy, emotions, and enthusiasm — the 3Es — is the key to getting things done, inspiring others, and avoiding burnout. Forget time-management hacks; this episode dives into how aligning your inner resources can transform your productivity and leadership.

    22 min

  4. 12/04/2024

    What Is the Biggest Challenge You Have As a Messenger?

    The impact of your message depends on how effectively you can communicate the change you want to create for a common humanity of dignity and equity. This is what inspires others to follow your lead. Are you receiving the attention and understanding you deserve?

    2 min

  5. 11/26/2024

    The Space Between Emotion and Reason: How Equanimity Transforms Leadership

    How can we practice a reasoned response instead of having an immediate (angry) reaction to other people and events? We can start with the practice of equanimity. Equanimity is the space between our raw emotions and logic where we access our humaneness — where we can observe without judgement or prejudice what we are feeling in response to reactions to events.  With equanimity, we observe WHAT we perceive of events (the data) and what that MEANS (the drama) through our emotions and feelings.

    21 min

  6. 11/19/2024

    What Is It You’re Not Seeing Because You’ve Never Questioned Why You Believe What You Believe?

    What beliefs are you holding on to that are limiting your ability to see the truth of other possibilities?

    9 min

  7. 11/17/2024

    What's REALLY holding you back making a difference as a Human-Hearted Leader?

    I bet you could come up with 10 reasons why you're not succeeding at making a difference. Guess what? Any of those 10 reasons could be absolutely true. However, there is ONE thing that is holding you back from solving EVERY single one of those challenges.

    12 min

  8. 11/13/2024

    Impatient Leaders, Weary Minds: Why Skipping Self-Care Sabotages Your Influence

    For many change-makers, leaders, and social entrepreneurs, their single most enduring challenge is that they don't take care of themselves first. Remember: if you don't FEEL well, you can't LEAD well.

    16 min

  9. 11/07/2024

    Why Anger Is Selfish: How to Lead From Unconscious Goodness Instead

    When your dominant emotion is “anger at someone or something” your entire focus is self-centred and self-serving, blocking or limiting acceptance, open-mindedness, respect, and understanding for others and the common good. Enjoy today’s video and let me know how you might find ways to “allow for” unconscious goodness in your life.

    6 min

  10. 08/30/2024

    If You Don’t FEEL Well You Can’t LEAD Well

    What are the core aspects that support how much influence and impact you will have when you LEAD? To explain, I’ve created an acronym. L.E.A.D. stands for: Love, Empathy, Actualization, and Direction.

    23 min

  11. 08/20/2024

    If You Don’t FEEL Well, Can You Truly Make a Difference?

    What happens when you don’t FEEL well? Is it hard to function as your most authentic, influential, and powerful self? Do you struggle to take a stand for what you believe is right or to engage in meaningful work that makes a difference?  When you know how you want and need to FEEL — your Freedom, Energy, Enthusiasm, and Love — you optimize your well-being and increase your influence and impact as a change leader.

    20 min

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The Changemaker’s Compass guides you to cultivate your influence and impact as a Human-Hearted leader. Hosted by Darren Stehle, a coach for Changemakers and Social Entrepreneurs, this podcast empowers aspiring and established leaders to stand up for what’s right, support a common humanity of dignity and equity, and share their unique wisdom. Explore thought-provoking discussions, actionable strategies, and inspiring stories to embrace your role as a leader, define your core message, and lead with clarity, compassion, and purpose.

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