When the World Won't Calm Down: Leading from Your Center
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Erin Dunn discusses how to lead effectively amidst chaos by building inner resilience.
Episode 38 - Erin Dunn: "When the World Won't Calm Down: Leading from Your Center" You can't eliminate the chaos. But you can stop letting it run you. What if the real leadership skill isn't handling pressure — it's building something inside you that pressure can't reach? Every ambitious leader knows what it feels like when everything hits at once. The demands stack, the environment is loud, and you're expected to perform anyway. Most leaders white-knuckle it — they power through, suppress the signal, and wonder why they feel scattered three days later. This episode is for the leader who is ready to stop surviving the chaos and start operating from above it. Erin Dunn spent 10 years in the Air Force — six in public affairs and four as a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. She went on to serve as a geopolitical planner and foreign policy advisor with the joint staff, earned her law degree while deployed as a government civilian to Iraq as a single mom, and retired from federal service. She is now focused full-time on veteran advocacy. What she learned — through post-traumatic stress, through grief, through a VA system that largely failed her — is a…
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