The Bleacher Years: What Leadership Looks Like From the Stands

You're at your kid's game, phone in hand—technically present, but are you really there? In this deeply personal kickoff to her summer series Leading Through Every Season of Life, Coach TaSheena unpacks the difference between being in the room and being present in it. After a night at her son's basketball game made her confront a years-long pattern of showing up without actually being there, she started connecting the dots between the life you live outside of work and the leader you become inside it. Drawing on Harvard research on parental presence, Gallup's end-of-career regret data, and a University of Texas study on phones and connection, she makes the case that how you show up at home is the same muscle that makes you a better leader at work. In this episode: Why quality of engagement—not quantity of time—shapes how our kids turn out What people actually regret at the end of their careers (it's never the extra emails) The leadership link most people miss: presence at home and presence at work are one practice Three tools to shift from distracted to dialed-in—the Countdown, the Intention Check, and the Weekly Audit Your question for the week: Where are your bleachers? Who is asking for your full presence and getting something less—and how many summers do you have left in it? Count your summers. They're going by whether you're present for them or not. 🎧 Book a coaching call (https://coachingwithtasheena.as.me/sales) • Follow on Instagram @coach_tasheena New episodes every Wednesday.