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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 2: Episode 13: Conquerors in the Workplace: When Leaders Become the Source of Trauma.
The public/private sectors are in the midst of a turnover tsunami. Layoffs, stimulus checks, vaccine mandates have all been documented as reasons for the mass exodus. However, more and more outlets are beginning to reveal the ugly truth behind how internal politics, power, bullying and authoritative styles of leadership are contributing to the mass exodus and why workers are feeling undervalued, burned out, traumatized and for some, terminated.
American worker’s are exhausted, fed up and are choosing to sacrifice income security for happier, healthier and psychologically-safe working environments. Some are also choosing to use their voice to say, “we’ve had enough”.
This past summer, in a five-page letter to the Board of Health, Lyndia Wilson spoke truth to power and detailed numerous allegations of leadership failures, including unwarranted terminations, insulting and bullying behavior, fear of retaliation, and a total disregard for the expertise of the staff. She called for the termination of Health District’s Administrator for creating a hostile and toxic work environment.
Lyndia Wilson, the former Division Director at Spokane Health District, joins me for an exclusive podcast interview on the next episode of Leadership Uncensored.