Your Authentic Executive Podcast
Authentic Leadership. Profound Stories. Proven Lessons.
Your Authentic Executive is where executives go on the record — the pivotal moments, the hard-won lessons, the vignettes that shaped who they are as leaders. Not polished success stories. The real ones. New full episodes drop the first Tuesday of every month.
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About Your Host: Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D.
For 35+ years, Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D. has helped Fortune 150 companies, award-winning privately owned organizations, the public sector, global nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations on six continents. All engage Janyne for a specific reason: when the hardest things go unspoken, she names them — and does it in a way that opens the door rather than closes it. Ph.D. in transformational leadership | Harvard Law Executive Education | NeuroLeadership Institute | Founder, 5R Edge™. Pronounced jah-neen'.
Together, we've got this.
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Your Authentic Executive Podcast
The Neuroscience & Business Outcomes of Gratitude & Forgiveness with Jeffrey Snell, Ph.D.
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Gratitude and forgiveness sound like soft topics. In the brain, they're two of the hardest-working tools a leader has.
In this episode, neuropsychologist Dr. Jeff Snell and Janyne sit with the brain science of both — and why a team's energy either compounds or quietly corrodes depending on which one is being practiced. Gratitude is a gift you give someone else. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Both are learnable routines that physically rewire the brain, and both start smaller than you'd think.
Meet Dr. Jeff Snell: Director of Psychology and Neuropsychology at QLI, a post-hospital rehabilitation center in Omaha for people recovering from brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, chronic pain, and degenerative neurological conditions. For decades he has helped patients rebuild what injury took from them — and he translates that same brain science into how healthy leaders and cultures are built.
In this episode, Jeff and Janyne explore:
- Why "good job" falls flat — and what specific gratitude does to trust and belonging
- The reason a grudge feels as good as gratitude, and spreads just as fast
- Forgiveness as a deliberate decision, not a feeling you wait for
- The stream-and-leaves practice for the thoughts you can't stop
- Legacy resentments — how old conflicts keep running a culture, and how to release them
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Action4Traction™ — Take one this week:
1. Write one thank-you this week naming exactly what they did and the impact.
2. Name one grudge you're carrying and make the conscious choice to set it down.
3. When resentment surfaces, notice the thought and choose not to pick it up.
Talk4Traction™ — Bring one to your next team meeting to elevate the dialogue:
1. Where is our team's energy going to resentment that belongs to our real work?
2. What would specific, regular gratitude look like here — beyond "good job"?
3. Is there a legacy conflict we've inherited that we've never named or released?
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Together, we've got this!
Janyne
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Your Authentic Executive Podcast
Authentic Leadership | Profound Stories | Proven Lessons
Hosted by Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D.
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