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CHARGING UP LEADERSHIP
Energizing YOU from the inside out!
Welcome to the Charging Up Leadership Podcast, where the main focus is, you guessed it, LEADERSHIP. Ultimately, you are first and foremost a leader of yourself. Leadership starts with you, knowing yourself, stepping into your power, and while standing in that power—with full awareness—BE-ing the best version of YOU at your core. Personally and professionally.
With a variety of guests spanning from leaders with experience on various issues, topics, and aha’s, to experts in the field of leadership, development, motivation, health, and well-being. I promise, fun and insightful conversations to spark new thoughts, perspectives, and suggestions to help you to plug into your core.
Topics include transformation, change, accountability, people problems, emotional intelligence, action, strategy, and bottom-line results, as well as a few personal favorites like inspiration, energy, and intuition.
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Ep. 8 - Emily Kieliszewski, Municipal Empowerment Program Powerhouse & Former Miss Michigan: “The Emotions Behind the Mask”
Continuing the Convo - Part 2 with Municipal Empowerment Program Powerhouse & Former Miss Michigan, Emily Kieliszewski, as we discuss the emotions behind the mask.
In this episode, we finish the conversation we started, stopped, and started again in the last episode. After turning off the recording, there was more to be said about the hidden emotions, responsibilities, and comfort in wearing the mask.Emily talks about how playing the role and her own perspective handling the role, took her away from herself.
Emily Kieliszewski BIO: Emily Kieliszewski is the Michigan Municipal League’s Member Programs Manager where she coordinates services and programs for the League’s 525 member communities, including nearly 4000 local elected officials and over 10,000 appointed officials.
Emily leads initiatives including the League’s 16/50 Project and oversees the Elected Officials Academy, the Michigan Women in Municipal Government, executive search services, and member training and development programming.
Prior to joining the League in 2016, Emily began her career working with several nonprofit organizations and in a variety of roles in political campaigns. She’s also served as a staff member in the Michigan State Senate. Emily received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Michigan State University where she was selected as a Dean’s Assistant Fellow. She is also an alumna of the Michigan Political Leadership Program through the Institute of Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State.
Emily participates on several boards and in a variety of nonprofit leadership positions, including as Vice President of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – Michigan, the NAMI Northeast Michigan formation committee, and as a certified family support group facilitator. She also served her home state as Miss Michigan in 2015.
Ep. 7 - Emily Kieliszewski, Municipal Empowerment Program Powerhouse & Former Miss Michigan: “Empowerment”
Municipal Empowerment Program Powerhouse & Former Miss Michigan, Emily Kieleszewski, talks about her front row seat to the spectrum of "empowerment".
In this episode, we explore both the empowerment program Emily manages, as well as her life in the spotlight. She talks candidly and vulnerably about her experience, giving us a behind-the-scenes view, and what it took to rediscover herself. She concludes by offering her (now) perspective and definition of empowerment.
Emily Kieliszewski BIO: Emily Kieliszewski is the Michigan Municipal League’s Member Programs Manager where she coordinates services and programs for the League’s 525 member communities, including nearly 4000 local elected officials and over 10,000 appointed officials.
Emily leads initiatives including the League’s 16/50 Project and oversees the Elected Officials Academy, the Michigan Women in Municipal Government, executive search services, and member training and development programming.
Prior to joining the League in 2016, Emily began her career working with several nonprofit organizations and in a variety of roles in political campaigns. She’s also served as a staff member in the Michigan State Senate. Emily received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Michigan State University where she was selected as a Dean’s Assistant Fellow. She is also an alumna of the Michigan Political Leadership Program through the Institute of Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State.
Emily participates on several boards and in a variety of nonprofit leadership positions, including as Vice President of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – Michigan, the NAMI Northeast Michigan formation committee, and as a certified family support group facilitator. She also served her home state as Miss Michigan in 2015.