WAKE UP! with Joni · Joni Caldwell Lerner: Leadership and Life Strategist Coach

NATASHA SKOLNY: Leadership, Wellness & You + Grounded Confidence + Living Consciously

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Natasha links burnout to “the bottom of the totem pole” and says success without integrity left her “resentful” and “depleted.”

1. WAKE UP! with Joni frames this conversation around conscious awakening, emotional mastery, and practical leadership guidance. 2. Joni speaks with Natasha Skolny, an NCCP skating coach, an HR leader, an ICF Accredited Life and Wellness Coach, and the founder of the Leadership Cabin. 3. The episode asks how Natasha’s leadership, wellness, and coaching work helps people live consciously, set boundaries, and recover their energy. 4. Natasha says she grew up just east of Toronto, started figure skating at 11, and skated through high school and university. 5. She describes coaching young skaters and helping them feel confident and comfortable on the ice. 6. Natasha says knee injuries and patellar tendonitis made her reconsider the physical demands of skating. 7. She explains that coaching led into human resources and leadership programming, where she focused on helping people feel authentic. 8. Natasha says that two young children and a demanding role in a large organization left her stretched thin in many directions. 9. She describes realizing that she was teaching best practices to leaders while not fully living them herself. 10. Natasha says that disconnect pushed her to step away and invest in her own leadership development. 11. Joni connects the body, age, and fitness to self-command, including her own weight-loss and health experience. 12. Natasha responds that caring for the body is one of the most important ways to support energy and purpose. 13. She says many clients need to reestablish trust with themselves by putting themselves first in that capacity. 14. Natasha argues that values, inner compass, and vision help people make decisions faster and set boundaries. 15. She gives the example of frustration with people who do not follow through, then using that reaction to identify integrity as a value. 16. Natasha says leaders often get promoted for expertise but receive little training in how to lead people, especially under stress. 17. Her style is conversational and reflective, with Joni asking personal follow-ups about parenting, burnout, and confidence. 18. Natasha’s answers stay practical, using examples like phone scrolling, Netflix, breath work, meditation, and hand-on-heart calming. 19. Listeners who like leadership coaching, burnout recovery, and values work will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a fast celebrity interview or a purely entertainment-driven format may skip it.

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Leadership, wellness, and conscious choice stay tied to daily life here.

The conversation treats leadership as something practiced in small moments, not as a slogan. Natasha Skolny comes across as a coach, parent, and human resources leader who reads people carefully, lowers the temperature, and adjusts to what each situation asks for.

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For when you want leadership advice that feels like real life, not a keynote.

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