What if the way you speak is the most powerful leadership tool you're underutilizing? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Julie Holunga, to explore how trust, communication, and intentional leadership language shape influence at every level of an organization. Julie shares her journey from nonprofit and corporate leadership into building a consulting practice rooted in integrity, trust, and meaningful impact.

If you're a heart-centered leader, consultant, or professional considering a transition into more purpose-driven work, this episode offers both insight and grounded, real-world wisdom.

What You Will Learn:

How early life experiences can shape curiosity, empathy, and a lifelong desire to help others lead more effectively.

Why being a natural helper can sometimes create tension in leadership and consulting roles.

How to recognize when people want support versus when they are resistant to being helped.

What inspired the transition from corporate and nonprofit work into building a consulting practice.

The unexpected challenges and joys of starting a values-aligned business.

Why managing every part of a business alone eventually limits growth and impact.

How strategic delegation and hiring the right expertise can dramatically elevate a consulting practice.

What the Trusted Voice Paradigm is and how it reframes leadership through trust and communication.

The four core pillars of trust and how each one shows up in leadership behavior.

Why aptitude and honesty about capability are essential to sustaining trust.

How leaders unintentionally break trust when they promote technical experts without leadership support.

What it looks like to lead with integrity while still honoring business results.

How deep cultural change happens when leaders commit to doing the hard work together.

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