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February is American Heart Month—a reminder of the importance of cardiovascular health and the signals our bodies send us every day.

In this deeply personal conversation, Wendy sits down with her dear friend Julie Habelmann—founder of Noble Tones, integrative sound healing practitioner, and women’s heart health advocate—to explore how a heart attack became a catalyst for profound life and leadership transformation.

After surviving a spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) in 2020, Julie was forced to slow down, listen to her body, and reevaluate everything. That experience ultimately led her to integrative sound healing and the creation of Noble Tones, a practice dedicated to helping others regulate their nervous system, restore balance, and reconnect with themselves.

Julie focuses on helping individuals move out of chronic stress and back into balance—supporting sustainable overall wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit.

Julie will also be facilitating mindset and nervous system sessions inside The Aligned Leader Collective.

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nobletones/

Website:
https://www.noble-tones.com/

Substack:
https://substack.com/@juliehaberman

The Aligned Leader Collective is a 6-month leadership experience for high-achieving women who are ready to realign with themselves and their next chapter of leadership.

This is not traditional leadership development.

It’s a space to:

• Reconnect with your vision and direction
• Reset your energy and nervous system
• Gain clarity on what’s next
• Lead from alignment instead of obligation

Julie will be facilitating three dedicated mindset and nervous system sessions as part of the program.

The next cohort begins in March.

Learn more and apply here:
https://culturecoachwendy.com/aligned

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There’s a moment in leadership that's that in-between phase where, on the outside, everything looks fine… but internally, something feels off.

In this solo episode, Wendy shares a personal story from her leadership journey—one where success, responsibility, and recognition continued to rise, while alignment quietly slipped away. She reflects on what happens when leaders sacrifice their own values, boundaries, and well-being in an effort to become what the organization needs—at the cost of who they are becoming.

This episode is for high-capacity leaders who are:

• Succeeding, but not feeling grounded
• Carrying increasing responsibility while losing clarity
• Feeling pressure, disconnection, or internal friction they can’t quite name

If you’ve ever felt successful but misaligned, this conversation will resonate—and may offer the permission you didn’t know you needed to pause, reflect, and realign.

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In this episode of The Culture Coach Podcast, Wendy Brand sits down with former CEO Barry Moline to explore what truly drives high-performing teams — and why connection, trust, and community matter more than strategy alone.

With nearly three decades of leadership experience, Barry shares real-world stories of early leadership mistakes, building intentional culture, strengthening collaboration, and guiding teams through crisis with clarity and trust.

Together, Wendy and Barry unpack how relationships are the foundation of strong culture — and how the same principles that build thriving teams also support leadership growth and transformation.

Here a link to Icebreakers for Team Building: https://barrymoline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ideas-for-Icebreakers-Team-Building-1-25.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-moline/

Website: https://barrymoline.com/

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Leadership isn’t supposed to feel this heavy.

Yet so many capable, driven leaders are exhausted. Carrying everything, fixing everything, and feeling constant pressure just to keep things moving. In this episode of The Culture Coach Podcast, Wendy Brand breaks down the real root cause behind burnout, team friction, and fragile workplace culture: misalignment.

Drawing from her own leadership journey and years of consulting with organizations, Wendy explores how personal misalignment shows up in leadership behavior — and how it quietly shapes (and strains) organizational culture.

You’ll learn:

• What leading without alignment actually looks like day to day
• How misalignment fuels micromanagement, disengagement, and burnout
• Why culture initiatives stall even when values are clearly defined
• The connection between personal alignment and sustainable organizational culture
• What begins to shift when leaders realign with clarity, values, and intention

Wendy also shares what aligned leadership creates instead — clarity over control, ownership over dependence, and systems that reinforce culture instead of constantly fixing behavior.

If leadership feels harder than it should…
If culture feels fragile or exhausting to maintain…
If you know you’re capable of more clarity, impact, and ease…

This episode will help you understand why — and what to do about it.

🌿 Ready to go deeper?

Wendy is hosting a live Information Session for women leaders on February 6th to share more about the Aligned Leader Collective, a six-month experience focused on personal and organizational alignment.

👉 Learn more at: https://go.culturecoachwendy.com/aligned

The Culture Strategy Lab also opens the week of February 16th for leaders ready to begin operationalizing intentional culture.

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Fresh off a week in Reno and Lake Tahoe working with Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) leaders, Wendy reflects on conversations with founders, CEOs, and franchise leaders navigating growth, change, and transition—and why alignment, not reinvention, is the real work leaders are being called to do in 2026.

Building on her recent newsletter and Substack article, “2026 doesn’t need a new you—it needs an aligned you,” Wendy unpacks how misalignment quietly shows up inside organizations long before leaders consciously name it themselves.

She also weaves in her CORE Culture Framework—Clarify, Operationalize, Reinforce, and Evaluate—to explain how leaders can intentionally operationalize culture and prevent teams from carrying the weight of unspoken ambiguity.

This episode is especially relevant if:

• You’re successful but sensing that something feels “off”
• Decision-making feels heavier than it used to
• You’re tolerating behaviors that no longer align with your values
• Your culture feels inconsistent, even though your values are documented

Resources & Next Steps

✨ Free Resource:
Download Wendy’s alignment workbook to help you clarify what matters most right now and identify where misalignment may be showing up in your leadership and culture.

✨ The Aligned Leader Program:
If you’re a successful leader navigating growth, transition, or recalibration—and want a structured, supportive space to realign without reinventing yourself—learn more about Wendy’s Aligned Leader Program:

👉 https://go.culturecoachwendy.com/aligned

This is a collective for leaders who want clarity, alignment, and intentional culture—without forcing change that doesn’t fit who they are now.

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In this solo episode of The Culture Coach Podcast, Wendy Brand is bringing awareness to leadership habits that may be quietly draining your culture — and holding your organization back.

If you feel like everything is urgent, you’re constantly stepping in to do work that isn’t yours, or every decision still has to run through you, this episode is for you.

Wendy breaks down three common leadership patterns that erode clarity and momentum inside organizations and explains how each one connects back to mission, vision, core values, and role clarity. Drawing on 30 years of leadership experience and culture consulting work, she shares practical ways leaders can simplify priorities, clarify ownership, and empower teams to make confident decisions.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why “everything feels urgent” is often a clarity problem — not a workload problem
• How unclear roles and responsibilities create burnout and role creep
• Why decisions bottleneck at the top when core values aren’t defined as behaviors
• How mission, vision, and values can become daily decision-making tools
• Where leaders can take immediate action to strengthen culture in 2026

Wendy also shares the different ways leaders can work with her this year — including culture consulting, leadership cohorts and retreats, and the Culture Strategy Lab, a monthly group experience for those responsible for building intentional culture inside their organizations.

If you’re a CEO, founder, executive, HR leader, or people manager who wants more clarity, alignment, and trust inside your organization, this episode will give you practical insight you can apply right away.

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In this episode of The Culture Coach Podcast, Wendy Brand sits down with Steven Puri —former senior executive at major motion picture studios, startup founder, and the creator of Sukha, a platform designed to help knowledge workers access flow state and protect deep work.

Steven makes a bold case: companies don’t win because TPS reports are filed on time or everyone hits inbox zero. They win because someone takes uninterrupted time to think, create, and solve meaningful problems—then brings back the insight that changes the trajectory of the business.

Together, Wendy and Steven unpack what “high-performing teams” really need right now: a culture that values deep work, clarity, and trust, not just busyness, meetings, and legacy processes.

Try these this week:

1. Protect deep work: Block 60 minutes, 3x/week where no meetings and no interruptions are allowed.
2. Normalize focus: Make it culturally safe to decline non-urgent pings during deep-work windows.
3. Use the chronotype grid: Have your team track energy + output patterns for 5–10 days, then align deep-work time accordingly.
4. Reward outcomes, not motion: Praise thinking, experimentation, and meaningful progress—not just responsiveness.

Connect with Steven

• Email: steven@thesukha.co
  
  
• Website (free 3-day trial): thesukha.co

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Greetings! This is a replay of an episode from this past summer on my CORE Culture™ Framework. Happy Holidays and I hope you enjoy.

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This week, I'm diving deep into my signature CORE Culture™ Framework, a proven model for helping leaders stop culture from happening by accident and start building one that drives retention, productivity, and purpose.

After a busy season of speaking at SHRM conferences in New Mexico and Alabama, I reflect on why I built the CORE Culture™ model and how it’s helping CEOs and HR leaders operationalize their culture in practical ways.

Whether you're building from scratch or refining what’s already there, this episode gives you the tools to make culture work for your business—not against it.

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