Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview What happens when trauma remains unresolved for years? Todd Maguire joins Coach Liz Blanding for a powerful conversation about traumatic loss, avoidance, self-destructive behavior, and recovery. After his partner died by suicide in 2000, Todd entered a nearly 20-year period marked by alcohol misuse, emotional avoidance, and extreme risk-taking during his career as an undercover police officer. Todd shares how writing his memoir, Donny: An Undercover Cop with ...
Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 5 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we explore one of the most powerful shifts a leader can make: moving from fear-based leadership to empowerment-focused leadership. Trauma often teaches people to seek safety through control, perfectionism, hypervigilance, or rigid expectations. While these patterns may have served a purpose during dif...
Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 4 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we explore a topic that is often overlooked in leadership conversations: organizational trauma. While trauma is commonly viewed as an individual experience, it can also exist within teams, workplaces, ministries, organizations, and communities. When fear, inconsistency, poor communication, high turnov...
Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 3 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we explore how trauma can shape the beliefs we carry about ourselves, our abilities, and our potential. Many leaders possess the skills to succeed but remain limited by internal narratives that were formed during painful experiences, rejection, adversity, or survival seasons. Thoughts such as "I'm not g...
Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 2 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we take a deeper look at the relationship between unresolved trauma, emotional intelligence, addiction patterns, and leadership effectiveness. Many leaders are highly skilled at helping others while quietly carrying unaddressed emotional wounds of their own. Trauma does not always appear as crisis or dy...