What if the future of leadership isn't about working harder but about operating differently? In this episode of the Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell sits down with Simon Lüthi, a former corporate executive turned transformational healer. After three near-death experiences, chronic illness, and ultimately cancer, Simon discovered that traditional leadership models are outdated and actively depleting the very leaders trying to use them.

From existential guideposts and the red telephone of destiny to strength-based leadership and the daily Energy Audit practice, this episode offers both the medicine and the map. It's perfect for conscious leaders ready to stop running on outdated code.

What You Will Learn:

Why the American leadership model keeps employees and executives in a perpetual state of never being good enough.

How three near-death experiences between ages 3 and 18 served as existential guideposts pointing Simone toward his true purpose as a healer and teacher.

The critical difference between who you're conditioned to become and who you actually are at the soul level, and why that gap creates chronic illness.

Why strength-based leadership dramatically outperforms deficit-focused management and how companies are already implementing this approach successfully.

The foundational principle that if you can't regulate your nervous system, you can't regulate an organization. It's non-negotiable for modern leadership.

The simple Energy Audit practice you can use hourly to track whether meetings, conversations, and decisions are uplifting or depleting your life force.

Why Gen Z's demands for authenticity, transparency, and purpose-driven leadership aren't entitled but essential for the next economic evolution.

How conscious capitalism allows you to generate wealth while lifting people out of poverty and healing the environment.

What it means to be a medicine carrier who travels into energetic and ancestral spaces to identify root causes of illness that Western medicine misses.

Why the soft revolution led by younger generations won't look like the protest movements of the 1960s.

The concept of Transmutation Design as a regenerative leadership methodology grounded in neuroscience, polyvagal theory, and quantum energy principles.

How to move from autopilot leadership to conscious leadership that honors your energetic capacity and integrity.

Why integrating plant medicine experiences like ayahuasca and microdosing into your leadership requires a structured framework.

The critical question every founder must answer after a healing breakthrough.

How ancestral patterns and trauma from seven generations back can manifest as chronic illness in your body today.

Why giving up traditional medicine entirely is dangerous.

Resource:

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What if the most powerful thing a leader says takes thirty seconds and changes everything on the floor tomorrow morning? In this episode of the Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell sits down with Noel Massie, Former UPS U.S. Delivery Operations vice president. Noel led teams from fifty to thirty thousand and now teaches values-based leadership that actually holds up under stress. If you lead people or plan to promote yourself into your own company, this is a masterclass in leading with integrity and results.

What You Will Learn:

Why vision must come before any activity or action, and how creating clear direction serves as the foundation for all meaningful work.

How leadership often finds you rather than you finding it, and why recognizing this pattern early can accelerate your career trajectory.

The critical difference between being promoted for your technical skills and actually knowing how to lead people effectively in your new role.

Why baby boomer retirements are creating unprecedented promotion velocity and how this rapid advancement is causing widespread leadership derailment across industries.

The sobering truth that culture is executed at the bottom of organizations, not dictated from the top, and why this changes everything about strategic implementation.

How the Boeing door incident perfectly illustrates what happens when leadership vision fails to connect with frontline execution and quality standards.

Why people work for people, not companies, and how understanding this fundamental truth transforms your entire approach to leadership.

The concept of terms and conditions in leadership, and why every person has non-negotiable behaviors they expect from those leading them.

How to identify your own five non-negotiable leadership values and why making these explicit prevents emotional and physical turnover on your team.

Why there are no casual moments in leadership and how every interaction, whether on Saturday or Monday, shapes how your team perceives and follows you.

The critical mindset shift that you are the CEO to your nine direct reports, regardless of your actual title or position in the larger organization.

Why leadership development is owned by one person only, which is you, and how waiting for your company to develop you guarantees failure.

The powerful analogy comparing skydiving to leadership and why most people prepare more thoroughly for the former than the latter.

How part two of Noel's book provides specific techniques to deescalate situations, build confidence, teach, coach, and train effectively as a new leader.

Why leadership is fundamentally about influencing the behavior of groups or individuals in positive directions through coaching rather than commanding.

The natural law that people support what they help create, and how engaging your team in ideation builds ownership far beyond simple order following.

Why entrepreneurs must involve their team in the vision creation process from day one, rather than expecting people to blindly execute handed down directives.

The bank account metaphor for leadership relationships and why you cannot make withdrawals from your team without first making consistent deposits of investment and care.

How intentional leadership means acknowledging that terms and conditions exist, recognizing your responsibility to them, and behaving with values that support them consistently.

Why business owners often invest heavily in their children's values but neglect the value formation of the 200 people working for them daily.

The reality that you can control whether your team wants to introduce you to their family on Saturday or hide from you, and this choice happens through daily professionalism.

How masterclasses, mirroring each chapter of the book, provide practical application tools beyond just reading theory about

What if the leadership you've been searching for has been inside you all along? In this episode of the Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell sits down with Deremiah *CPE, visionary artist, educator, and transformational speaker. *Deremiah reveals the profound truth about authentic leadership.

Through riveting stories spanning from childhood visions of his own birth room to adopting and mentoring a 12-year-old into a nationally recognized artist, Deremiah shows us why all meaningful leadership starts with leading yourself first. Discover how the practice of "oneness" dissolves barriers, how pain becomes the portal to purpose, and why something as beautifully simple as smiling at yourself in the mirror can fundamentally shift your energy and impact.

What You Will Learn:

Why visionary leadership is a spiritual experience before it becomes a practical skill, and how honoring both dimensions prevents burnout while increasing impact.

How the practice of "oneness" immediately dissolves divisive thinking and brings crystal-clear guidance about your next right action.

The exact 60-second mirror smile ritual backed by neuroscience that elevates your emotional state and magnetic presence before you engage with anyone else each morning.

How to distinguish genuine spiritual guidance (clairaudience) from anxious mental chatter or intrusive thoughts.

Why authentic leadership must flow from self-love and radical self-honesty first.

The transformative process of alchemizing pain into purpose and turning purpose into movement that creates ripple effects far beyond your immediate circle.

A paradigm-shifting reframe on wealth and value that starts with recognizing the priceless gift of your own breath, biology, and unique presence on Earth.

How to stop exhausting yourself chasing leadership validation and instead release into the leader you were literally born to be.

Why your mother's ability to hold space for your differences shapes your capacity to express vision authentically as an adult.

The hidden connection between self-abandonment and leadership struggles, and how coming home to yourself unlocks influence you didn't know you had.

How adopting and mentoring others becomes one of the highest expressions of visionary leadership in action.

Why describing your vision through multiple creative channels strengthens the message and reaches souls who need different languages.

Resource:

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