Writing Your Own Job Description with Dr. Emily Langdon
About this episode
Dr. Emily Langdon shares her journey of creating her own job description after moving to Duluth for her husband's career, discussing leadership and personal growth along the way.
What do you do when you move to a brand new city for someone else's dream job and there's no roadmap for you? Emily Langdon just wrote her own. We had one of our favorite kinds of guests in the studio this week, someone from our own community who we've watched become part of the fabric of Duluth. Dr. Emily Langdon is married to Charles Langdon, the Chancellor of the University of Minnesota Duluth, and when they moved here for his role, there was no job description waiting for her. So she wrote her own. Monique met Emily years ago at a holiday party and has been singing her praises ever since, and once we heard Emily speak at Leap about the leadership work she's building at UMD, we knew we had to get her on the mic. This episode is part origin story, part leadership masterclass, and part honest conversation about what it looks like to build a role, and a life, from scratch. KEY THEMES + TAKEAWAYS The winding road that took Emily from California to Ohio to Merced to Duluth, and what it taught her about partnership What it's really like to be a spousal accommodation and how she turned that into her own lane instead of someone else's shadow Why leadership can and should be taught…
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