How to Receive the Support You've Been Building for Everyone Else

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of recognizing and receiving support, particularly for high-performing leaders, featuring Sarah Merwin from Holbrook Farms.

Episode 42: "How to Receive the Support You've Been Building for Everyone Else" You can see exactly what everyone around you needs. Recognizing it in yourself is a different skill entirely — and many high-performing leaders never develop it. Sarah Merwin is Executive Director of Holbrook Farms , a nonprofit retreat community serving military widows, women who have lost a sibling in service, and mothers who have lost a child in uniform. She walked into the first retreat she planned with the itinerary ready and her perspective clear: this is for them. By the time dinner ended on night one, she knew she was one of them. The need she had named and structured for every woman in that room had been living quietly in her the whole time. This episode is part of the Wilderness Series. The caretaking wilderness accumulates before we can name it — the things we stopped asking for without noticing, the slow drift from measuring what we receive to measuring only what we produce. What Sarah built at Holbrook Farms over twelve years proves that peer support fills a need that nothing else reaches. Getting it without having to explain is its own category of care. IN THIS EPISODE: ✓ Why the leader…

People in this episode

Guest: Sarah Merwin

Topics covered

• peer support
• leadership
• self-care
• nonprofit
• military families

Keywords

• support
• leadership
• nonprofit
• military widows
• peer support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Holbrook Farms

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