Lead Embodied: From Book to Practice

What if becoming a more grounded, authentic leader isn't about learning another leadership technique—but about coming home to yourself? In this episode of Imagine Belonging, Rhodes Perry shares what's coming this fall as Lead Embodied moves from book to practice. While Lead Embodied won't be available for retail purchase until January 2027, you don't have to wait to begin exploring its approach to embodied leadership, somatic awareness, authenticity, and navigating uncertainty with greater presence and less reactivity. Rhodes introduces three ways to experience Lead Embodied this fall: 🎨 The Lead Embodied Book Experience Beginning in October, paid subscribers to Rhodes Perry Leads can embark on a 12-month journey through Lead Embodied—one chapter, one practice, and one reflection each month. It's a self-paced opportunity to move beyond simply reading about embodied leadership and begin integrating it into everyday life and leadership. 🌿 The Lead Embodied Path Ready for a deeper experience? This six-week immersive journey brings the methodology to life through guided somatic practices, reflection, conversation, and community. Together, we'll explore how to cultivate the presence, awareness, wisdom, compassion, and authenticity needed to lead through change and disruption. 🏢 Lead Embodied for Organizations Organizations can bring this work directly into the challenges their leaders and teams are facing through customized executive coaching and cohort-based leadership development. These experiences help leaders strengthen their capacity to navigate uncertainty, difficult conversations, organizational change, and disruption while sustaining trust, connection, and performance. At the heart of every experience is the same invitation: Stop performing leadership. Listen inward. Come back to what matters. And meet whatever comes next without losing yourself—or one another. Episode Highlights Why we don't have to learn or lead alone Why Lead Embodied is designed to be experienced, not simply read The new 12-month Lead Embodied Book Experience on Substack How paid subscribers will receive one chapter and practice each month What makes the six-week Lead Embodied Path different from self-paced learning How somatic practice can cultivate greater awareness, wisdom, compassion, and authenticity Three ways to bring Lead Embodied into your own life, leadership, or organization How executive coaching and cohort learning can translate the book's ideas into everyday leadership practice Why embodied leadership matters when we're navigating uncertainty and relentless disruption Show Notes & Resources 📬 Join the Lead Embodied Book Experience Subscribe to Rhodes Perry Leads for reflections on embodied leadership, belonging, and the human side of transformation. Paid subscribers will receive exclusive access to the 12-month Lead Embodied Book Experience beginning this fall. Subscribe: https://rhodesperry.substack.com/p/leadembodied  🌿 Go Deeper with the Lead Embodied Path Ready for a more immersive experience? Join Rhodes for six weeks of guided practice, reflection, conversation, and community. October 15–November 19 | Thursdays, 4–6 PM PT Learn more: Lead Embodied Path 🏢 Bring Lead Embodied to Your Organization Explore customized executive coaching and cohort-based learning experiences designed to help leaders and teams navigate uncertainty, change, and disruption with less reactivity and more ease. Explore organizational experiences: https://www.rhodesperry.com/connect 📬 Stay Connected Subscribe to Rhodes Perry Leads for ongoing reflections, practices, and conversations about embodied leadership, authenticity, belonging, and the human side of transformation. Subscribe: rhodesperry.com/subscribe 🎙️ Have a Question for Rhodes? Enjoying the podcast? Send Rhodes a voice message with your question about leadership, authenticity, belonging, or navigating change. Your question may be featured on a future episode—and Rhodes will always send a recorded response back: https://www.speakpipe.com/RhodesPerry  ⭐ Enjoying the podcast? Follow Imagine Belonging, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use the reminder that they don't have to navigate change alone. The leader you've been searching for isn't someone you have to become. It's someone you've been learning to return to. Lead embodied—together, let's grow the belonging movement.