Tina Paulus-Krause
135 episodes listed below
Leadership through healing, choice, and embodiment.
Your Leadership Legacy is a warm, interview-led leadership show built around personal change before professional performance. Conversations move from illness, loss, family repair, entrepreneurship, and emotional intelligence into practical reflections on how people lead themselves and others.
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Your Leadership Legacy approaches leadership as a human practice before it is a workplace skill. The show’s interviews are warm, patient, and emotionally direct, often beginning with the guest’s lived experience before drawing out a lesson about how people lead. Grief is treated as leadership material. So are illness, recovery, family conflict, entrepreneurship, burnout, technology, purpose, and self-care. Tina Paulus Kraus often mirrors what a guest has said, then asks for the deeper process underneath it. That gives the episodes a coaching-room quality rather than a polished business-panel feel. A conversation about artificial intelligence becomes a warning about the curse of knowledge and the need for human-centered design. A mother-daughter episode becomes a study in receiving, repair, and walking side by side. Meredith Breitstein’s story turns mourning and self-expression into a conversation about helping people shine. Kiva Shuler’s reflections on entrepreneurship move toward trust, sovereignty, and giving others room to lead in their own way. Michelle Petipa’s grief and chronic illness shape a discussion of body, mind, spirit, and community support. Anna Kowalska speaks about emotional intelligence, old pain, and the difference between seeking fulfillment and being open enough to feel it. Melissa Marks connects cancer survival with authenticity, congruency, and letting go of bravado. Rima Flowers brings self-care, intentional new beginnings, and humor into the same leadership frame. The show is spacious and affirming. It favors integration over quick fixes. Listeners looking for crisp management frameworks may find it loose, but those drawn to vulnerable, relationship-centered leadership conversations will find a consistent thread: better leadership begins with being more honest about the life underneath it.
Made for: For reflective leaders, coaches, founders, team builders, and high performers who connect professional growth with personal transformation. It especially suits listeners open to vulnerability, emotional intelligence, and leadership shaped by lived experience.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating leadership as embodied repair rather than a list of tactics. Its strongest moments come when personal hardship is allowed to stay personal while still becoming useful for work, teams, and legacy.
This podcast is dedicated to leadership, transformation and how to be the best possible leader of yourself and others to create a legacy that lives on. The goal is to empower leaders and teams to rise into their collective leadership, unleash team performance and ignite transformation and results in a new, remote business work place. – Your Leadership Legacy Podcast with Tina Paulus-Krause
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal turning points become practical leadership questions about vulnerability, team relationships, customer needs, and the behavior required to create change.
Your Leadership Legacy turns leadership into a close study of how people change. Tina Paulus Kraus leads conversational interviews that connect workplace questions with personal experience, asking guests to explain the emotional shifts behind a different way of leading.
A mother wants her daughter fixed; you might leave questioning your own script.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical reminder that AI still needs human judgment to make systems usable, safe, and trustworthy.
This discussion keeps its feet on the ground. It treats leadership, technical work, packaging, safety, customer satisfaction, and the human side as part of the same problem, not separate ones.
A calm reminder that leadership starts with how people are seen and supported.
Meredith Breitstein's turn toward motherhood and marriage gives the conversation its shape, but the stronger thread is how she keeps her sense of purpose intact while her identity shifts.
A close, human look at how healing changes family, leadership, and the way people receive one another.
This episode lingers on what happens after the reset, once ordinary life comes back into view. Tina Paulus Kraus and her daughter Courtney talk through mother-daughter retreats, recovery, and the shift from control to simply walking side by side.
Leadership here feels personal, grounded in emotional work rather than theory.
Your Leadership Legacy treats leadership as something built through emotional work, self-awareness, and the discipline to stay open to your own life.
A conversation about surviving cancer and rebuilding around what matters.
Melissa Marks talks through how cancer changed the way she led and lived. The episode stays close to her own words, and Tina Paulus Kraus keeps the conversation warm without overworking it.
Reinvention comes across as a steady discipline of honest boundaries.
The episode treats reinvention as something practiced, not declared. Rima Flowers' shift from sensing there had to be more to building a life in Maui gives the conversation its clearest shape, while Tina Paulus Kraus keeps pulling it back to the inner work of saying no and…
Business leaders, market lessons, real operating stories.
Leadership thinking under real pressure.
Calmer leadership, clearer teams, stronger trust.
Alex Liana Carter, a former director of educational technology and a master certified neuro coach, describes a fall 2019 burnout that kept her off work for six months and led her into neuro coaching.
Tina brings Melissa on as the show's first co-host, then William joins for a grounded conversation about technology, requirements, safety, design judgment, and customer satisfaction.
Tina Paulus Kraus welcomes Meredith Breitstein back for a warm catch-up that quickly moves into leadership, life change, and how identity shifts when career, marriage, and family all matter at once.
Tina Paulus Kraus sits down with her daughter Courtney and opens with the question of what really happens after a reset.
Tina Paulus Kraus opens with reinvention, transformation, and legacy.
Tina Paulus Kraus welcomes Melissa Marks with the easy familiarity of people who have worked closely together.
Tina Paulus Kraus opens the show with a welcome for high performers who want to reinvent themselves.
A leadership podcast dedicated to helping high performers reinvent themselves and their businesses to create a lasting legacy.
Tina Paulus-Krause interviews ergonomist Michael Jones about the importance of posture and ergonomics for desk workers to prevent chronic pain.
Tina Paulus-Krause interviews Sarah Parthasarathy about her leap from corporate to building a business focused on Indian food.