Writing Your Own Job Description with Dr. Emily Langdon

What do you do when you move to a brand new city for someone else's dream job and there's no roadmap for you? Emily Langdon just wrote her own.We had one of our favorite kinds of guests in the studio this week, someone from our own community who we've watched become part of the fabric of Duluth. Dr. Emily Langdon is married to Charles Langdon, the Chancellor of the University of Minnesota Duluth, and when they moved here for his role, there was no job description waiting for her. So she wrote her own.Monique met Emily years ago at a holiday party and has been singing her praises ever since, and once we heard Emily speak at Leap about the leadership work she's building at UMD, we knew we had to get her on the mic. This episode is part origin story, part leadership masterclass, and part honest conversation about what it looks like to build a role, and a life, from scratch.KEY THEMES + TAKEAWAYSThe winding road that took Emily from California to Ohio to Merced to Duluth, and what it taught her about partnershipWhat it's really like to be a spousal accommodation and how she turned that into her own lane instead of someone else's shadowWhy leadership can and should be taught, not just modeled or hoped forThe metaphor that changed how we think about learning: reading the book versus cutting open the frogWhy women especially need permission to fail forward instead of beating themselves upHow co-curricular life on college campuses (clubs, sports, sororities) quietly builds the leaders of tomorrowThe reminder that self-led people don't buy into the noise, they know what real leadership looks likeOUR FAVORITE QUOTES"I whisper to my baby, I'm gonna get you out of here.""If you want someone to make all the decisions, then you just get to sit back and judge and throw rocks.""When you self lead, then you're not buying into the propaganda or the machine.""You have to cut up a lot of problems to know what's going on in this animal.""Stop beating yourself up and move forward with more information, with this knowledge you've gained."CHAPTER MARKERS02:13 Welcoming Emily to the show05:15 How a Minnesotan husband led her to Duluth09:23 Building a university from a golf course in Merced14:32 Writing her own job description as a chancellor's partner20:02 Why leadership became her whole thing26:24 The women who quietly get everything done38:23 Her go to leadership resourceYOUR TURNWhere in your life have you had to write your own job description because no one else could?-----All Heart & Soul's Details:Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.heartandsoulmastermind.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the mastermind program:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.heartandsoulmastermind.com/heartsoul⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Say hi to Mariah on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@mariahmckechnieSay hi to Monique on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@moniqueforcierLeave a review on the Apple Podcast app and the Spotify app: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️MB011ESEG6C0U0Z