Episode 29: Choose Your Own Adventure with Angie Chaplin



My guest today is Angie Chaplin.  Founder and owner of Mindful Leadership + Recovery, Angie Chaplin is a speaker,

facilitator, educator and author with more than 20 years of work in human resources and organizational development. Leveraging her own journey from alcohol addiction to business owner, Angie guides leaders to live, love, and lead extraordinary lives of their own design.

In this episode, Angie walks us through the principles of leadership and how to  apply them to Personal Leadership. Her Value Mapping Model teaches us to use our own values as a guide to living AF. Angie shares her framework for change based on the 4 pt. Behavioral change model and shares how to create a WRAP a wellness recovery action plan.

This episode is chock full of practical tools and practical steps. As Angie says, life after alcohol is a ‘choose your own adventure’.

Grounded in research and guided by behavior, Mindful Leadership expands in 2022 to lead recovery at a higher level. As a certified SMART Recovery meeting facilitator, Angie’s weekly online meetings attract participants across the country and around the world, including France and Australia. Applying everything she learned from leadership to everything she needs to know about recovery, Angie’s mastery is unparalleled as evidenced by her content, credentials, and connections.

As a sought-after values expert, speaker, facilitator, educator and consultant, Angie exemplifies authenticity, resilience, and compassion as she inspires audiences to live into their values everyday with intention and action. She is a well-respected Certified Master for The Leadership Challenge; a contributing author to The Leadership Challenge Workshop Facilitator’s Guide and The Leadership Challenge Activities Book; and her Values to Vision Cards guide leaders in exploring and expressing their values at work, at home, and in life.

 

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