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Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
Where Real Leaders Talk About the Hard Stuff
Welcome to Leadership Uncensored—the podcast that cuts through the polished scripts and curated personas to bring you raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about what it truly means to lead in today’s world.
Hosted by Dr. Dawn Emerick, a national voice in trauma-informed leadership and systems change, this podcast goes beyond buzzwords to explore the messy, meaningful, and transformative moments of leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive, a changemaker in the making, or someone navigating the tension between personal healing and professional growth, Leadership Uncensored is your space.
Each episode features courageous conversations with leaders across sectors—corporate, nonprofit, government, and education—who are willing to pull back the curtain. We talk burnout, breakthrough, betrayal, bias, boundaries, and becoming. No fluff. No filters. Just truth.
Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
Season 1 Episode 2: Cultured Milk
Courage, fearlessness and having the ability to judge what is right and wrong and act according are core pillars to servant leadership. Strong servant leaders are people who push through uncomfortable situations, who are willing to make difficult decisions and who do not back down when work ceases to serve the people. The residents of Jacksonville, Florida never realized just how fortunate they were to have Hope McMath until the day she followed her moral compass and walked away from her role as the Director of the Cummer Arts Museum position in 2016.
Despite a successful portfolio, the envy of many, and with an unstoppable career trajectory, it was the disturbing racist reactions from both the community and museum to her “LIFT: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience,” installation that gave the city Hope, and introduced the world to Yellow House.
Episode 2, Cultured Milk gets real about the importance of courageous, servant leadership when things go sour.