#89 LeeAnn Mallorie on reviving the feminine in workplace culture
“Much of my work at Guts and Grace is how have we internalised our oppression or how have we internalised the patriarchy? How have we become, based on how we’ve grown up, what we learned was okay or not okay, part of this expression of what I would call more of a ‘shadow masculine’ expression that has become workplace culture.
How do we dismantle the patriarchy that we’ve embodied for the sake of being a more balanced expression, for the sake of perhaps being more connected with our instincts? And if we happen to live in a female body or relate to the feminine, whatever gender we are, as being part of our selves, that we’re not in the habit of betraying that part or in the habit of not moving from that part. It’s almost more like allowing than choosing something that’s already there, it’s already a part of us.”
As many of our workspaces begin adapting to the increasing presence of burnout culture, what power does naming the disembodying of internalised systems as reviving the feminine hold for transforming the way we work?
In this episode, we are in conversation with LeeAnn Mallorie, author and CEO of Guts & Grace, who began her career as an executive coach in 2006, working with leaders and teams from around the globe. Yet she soon found something was missing—the body. This led her on a personal journey of physical, mental, and spiritual healing, to eventually embrace the feminine side of leadership. Committed to walking her talk, she brought these lessons back to her clients in the corporate, non-profit and government sectors, with surprisingly positive results.
Today, LeeAnn explores how the introduction of more diverse values into business could be a keystone to solving some of our world’s stickiest problems. She now helps female leaders and their teams creatively face bottom-line business challenges while dissolving both meaning depletion and burnout. Her work sparks radical innovation, using practical embodiment tools that bridge the gap between the hard-driving logical mind and the deeper wisdom of the soul.
What will be covered:
Practice as foundational to navigating and tending to burnout
Adversarial vs partnership relationship with body - practice being the anchor for deeper connection to the body
Reviving ancestral wisdom by tapping into the sacred potential of the body and re-embodying practices which were embedded in the day-to-day of our ancestors pre-technological takeover
Guts and Grace: 13 practices to help women unravel ways we have internalised the patriarchy
Shadow masculinity vs instinct/life-force driven
Reviving the feminine - driven by partnerships - to balance out shadow masculine driven by conquest and patriarchy
LeeAnn’s work with Guts and Grace looks at the internal landscape of feminine-informed workspaces (dis-embodying internalised patriarchy)
Challenging notion of insufficiency with the feminine, intuition and instinct to retain inner integrity
Confidence as a result and by-product of internal work
Resting as resistance - Trisha Hersey: we have to be resourced enough to stand up for ourselves and others
Body as sacred site: human body as designed to be conduit between earth and spirit
Sacred sites as geological, cultural and spiritual - finding sacredness in our backyards and bodies
“Retuning” human instrument of the body by tapping into its sacredness
Guts and Grace sacred site visits as intuitively guided - figuring out how to retune the body to become carriers of feminine-driven wisdom e.g. 5000-year-old olive tree
Cross-pollination of the feminine and masculine in the workspace through inviting intuition and gradual interventions for yourself to work towards building critical mass
Resources:
Find out more about LeeAnn’s work at gutsandgrace.com
Stay tuned for the launch of the Guts&Grace app!
