RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines
by Krista Phoenix Fee
Elevate, Empower and RISEUP To Transform Your World Welcome to: RISEUP Voices from the Frontlines, the podcast that brings you closer to the heart of transformative change and human resilience. Enjoy show topics taken from our signature RISEUP framework of R-elationship, I-dentity, S-afety, E-motional intelligence, awareness and expression, U-nleashed and Empowered, and P-assion and purpose Episode Types: 1. Sparks Short, impactful, and loaded with actionable insights, Sparks are your go-to for "little bits of big information." These condensed episodes distill complex topics like family dynamics, community safety, mental health, and post-traumatic growth into bite-sized takeaways that you can implement immediately. Whether you're looking to strengthen your relationships or learn new strategies for personal growth, Sparks light the way. 2. Voices from the Frontlines: Step into the lives of those making a diffe
Episodes
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RISEUP Relationship-Safety Before Repair
A difficult conversation can be uncomfortable and still be safe. But if one person can't finish a thought, say no, ask for a pause, or speak honestly without fearing retaliation, a better communication script won't solve the underlying problem. In this episode of RISEUP Relationship Reset, Dr....
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RISEUP Responder-Personal Code
You may have a personal code you have never written down: “I cannot let anyone down,” “I must handle it alone,” or “If I can help, I have to say yes.” It may have protected what matters to you. It may also be driving a result you no longer want to keep repeating. In this RISEUP Responders…
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RISEUP Pro-Responsiblity Carries Weight
RISEUP PRO | Dr.Krista Fee | October 5 2026 | When something goes wrong at work, your team learns a great deal from what happens next. Do you name your part, ask how the decision affected people, and return with a workable response? Or do they have to wonder whether it is safe to bring you the…
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The Cost of Constant Readiness
🔥 EPISODE 1 The Cost of Constant Readiness: When Your Body Never Stands Down 🚨 NEW EPISODE RELEASE You made it home. The uniform is off. The shift is over. The calls are done. …and your body is still scanning the room. Still tracking movement. Still holding tension. Still waiting for something…
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TIL 40/40 Trauma Informed Leadership in the Real World: Episode 2
🎙️ New Episode Announcement We’re back with Part 2 of our live Q&A—going even deeper into the realities leaders face. Topics include: “This is how we’ve always done it.” How to transform rigid systems without losing your values. What to do when a leader’s discretion causes harm: repair,...
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TIL 39/40 Trauma Informed Leadership in the Real World: Question and Answer Episode 1
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Live from the frontlines of leadership, this conference-style Q&A tackles the questions you’re asking right now. How do I rebuild trust after a breach? How do I hold people accountable without shaming them? What do I do when my board, staff, or parents are polarized…
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TIL 38/40 The Peaceful Warrior
🎙️ New Episode Announcement When words no longer work, what then? Part 2 moves from philosophy to practice. We define the peaceful warrior: a leader who pursues peace relentlessly, prepares for conflict soberly, and refuses to dehumanize, even under pressure. You’ll learn how to set…
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TIL 37/40 Is Peace Possible in a Violent World
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Can we remain nonviolent in a violent world? In this episode, we wrestle with one of leadership’s oldest, hardest questions. We trace the arc from Gandhi’s "ahimsa" and King’s “soul force” to Churchill’s refusal to appease fascism and Mandela’s road from resistance to...
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The Bloodstained Microphone
The Bloodstained MicrophoneLeadership in an Age of Outrage, Influence, and Uncertainty In today's world, influence has never been easier to obtain. With a smartphone, a social media account, and an audience willing to listen, anyone can shape opinions, mobilize movements, and influence public...
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TIL 36/40 The Shadow Side of Leadership Language: When Words Harm and Divide
🎙️New Episode Announcement On today's episode we will lean into the dark side of language leaders often exploit to manipulate, control, or divide all in the name of fear, power, and corruption. We explore the us vs them model for dehumanization, the distance between contempt and atrocity and…
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TIL 35/40 The Weight of Words: How Language Shapes Identity and Legacy
🎙️ New Episode Announcement On today's episode we explore one of my favorite topics, the power of language to heal or to wound. We dive into some reframes that give power back where it is so often given away unintentionally. We look at hypnotic language, and the power of manipulation, control…
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TIL 34/40 Mentorship Gone Wrong: Lessons in Building Systems That Last
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Words outlive us. They shape identity, possibility, and the very scripts communities rehearse for generations. In Episode 34, we explore how language becomes legacy. From Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to King’s “I Have a Dream,” to Churchill’s wartime declarations,...
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TIL 33/40 Mentorship, Multiplication and Systems
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Leadership that dies with one person was never leadership—it was control. In Episode 33, we talk about mentorship as multiplication and systems as legacy. You’ll hear how movements endure when leaders empower others, codify mission and values, and build systems that...
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TIL 32/40 The Shadow Side of Legacy: When Wounds Lead
🎙️New Episode Announcement What does it mean to leave a legacy that heals instead of harms? Episode 32 goes deeper into the practices of building healing legacies. We talk about how leaders can disrupt cycles of trauma instead of repeating them, and how repair and reconciliation can become the…
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TIL 31/40 Building Healing Legacies With Intention
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Every leader leaves a legacy—the only question is whether it heals or harms. In Episode 31, we explore what it means to carry the weight of legacy with intention. From leaders like Lincoln, Mandela, Ginsburg, and Kirk, who left behind visions larger than themselves…
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TIL 30/40 Repair Without Victimhood: Reframing Identity at Scale
🎙️ New Episode Announcement What does it mean to lead with fire? In Episode 30, we close our exploration of scale and repair by talking about leadership that rises from the ashes of challenge, betrayal, and even collapse. We’ll look at how systems can evolve without becoming rigid, why “this is...
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TIL 29/40 Scaling Without Selling Out: Guarding the North Star of Leadership
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Repair is essential. But repair without wisdom can leave people stuck in perpetual victimhood. In Episode 29, we talk about the difference between validating wounds and cementing a victim identity. We explore how trauma narrows perception, how grievance can become a...
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TIL 28/40 The Shadow Side of the Power of Many: Protecting Movements From Collapse
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Growth is a double-edged sword. It can expand your reach or dilute your mission. In Episode 28, we explore the paradox of scale: how leaders can multiply their impact without losing their integrity. From historical cautionary tales of movements that collapsed under...
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TIL 27/40 The Power of Many: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Change
🎙️ New Episode Announcement One spark is powerful. But sparks become fire when the many join together. In Episode 27, we explore the Power of Many—the collective resilience that turns movements into lasting change. From the abolitionist and suffrage movements to civil rights and modern crisis...
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TIL 26/40 Breaking the Bystander Spell: Why Silence Kills and Courage Multiplies
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Courage is contagious. In Episode 26, we build on the Power of One to explore what happens when others witness courage. From the “Tank Man” of Tiananmen Square to modern community heroes, research shows that the first mover lowers the psychological cost of action,...
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TIL 25/40 The Power of One: Starfish, Scars and the First Spark
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Does one person really matter in the face of overwhelming odds? In Episode 25, we explore the Power of One: how a single act of integrity can ignite transformation. From Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat, to Malala Yousafzai’s stand for education, along with the...
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TIL 24/40 Holding Steady in Chaos
🎙️ New Episode Announcement The storm will always come—the question is, will you hold steady? In Episode 24, we explore what it means to lead like a lighthouse: steady, unshaken, and constant when everything around you is chaos. From the aftermath of 9/11 to crisis response in floodwaters and...
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TIL 23/40 Language as Legacy: The Words That Outlive Us
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Monuments crumble. Words endure. In Episode 23, we dive into the power of language as the most enduring legacy of leadership. We’ll explore how words shape identity, possibility, and justice—long after a leader is gone. From Lincoln to Martin Luther King Jr. to...
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TIL 22/40 Mentorship, Multiplication, and Systems
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Legacy isn’t carved in stone—it’s carried forward in people and systems. In Episode 22, we look at mentorship and multiplication as the true test of leadership. Charisma fades, but systems, values, and people endure. We’ll talk about why hoarding leadership kills...
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TIL 21/40 The Weight of Legacy: What Will Outlive You?
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Every leader leaves a legacy—the only question is whether it heals or harms. In Episode 21, we explore the sobering truth that leadership outlives us. The decisions you make today—your words, systems, and unspoken lessons—become cultural DNA tomorrow. We’ll look at...
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TIL 20/40 Multiplying Impact Without Losing Integrity
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Growth is tempting—but without integrity, it becomes empire, not leadership. In Episode 20, we tackle the paradox of scale. Leaders want to multiply their impact, but rapid expansion risks mission drift, burnout, and even replicating the same harms we set out to heal....
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TIL 19/40 The Power of Many: Movements That Outlast Heroes
🎙️ New Episode Announcement The Power of One can spark change—but the Power of Many sustains it. In Episode 19, we explore why lasting transformation requires more than lone heroes. From the Underground Railroad to civil rights marches to modern crisis response teams, history proves that…
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TIL 18/40 The Power of One: Leadership Begins with a Single Act
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Leadership isn’t always about grand speeches or mass followings. Sometimes, it begins with one small, courageous act. In Episode 18, we explore the Power of One—how a single act of integrity, courage, or defiance can disrupt silence, ignite movements, and change the...
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TIL 17/40 Holding Steady in Chaos: Leadership’s Proving Ground
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Chaos always comes. The real question is: will you hold steady when it does? Episode 17 takes us into the storms—floods, rescues, trafficking recoveries, even the unity forged in the aftermath of 9/11—and shows how trauma-informed leaders anchor themselves and others...
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TIL 16/40 The Lighthouse of Trust: Leadership’s True Currency
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Titles, money, followers—these are often mistaken as the currencies of leadership. But beneath them all lies the only currency that truly matters: trust. In Episode 16, we dive into the anatomy of trust—what builds it, what breaks it, and why without it, every system...
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TIL 15/40 Scars as Credibility
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Every leader carries scars. Some are visible. Others are hidden deep within. In Episode 15, we explore the way personal scars shape leadership—not as liabilities, but as sources of wisdom, empathy, and resilience. Drawing from my own journey as the throwaway daughter…
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RISEUP PRO- Neural Command- Trauma Informed Leadership Under Pressure
Neural Command™: Trauma-Informed Leadership Under Pressure RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines | RISEUP PRO Edition Host: Krista Fee, M.A. High-stress helping professionals are not failing. They are being asked to operate in environments that ignore how the human brain actually works under…
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TIL 14/40 Fire As Teacher
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Every flame casts a shadow. Episode 14 confronts the dark side of leadership fire—when ambition, ego, or unchecked rage consume leaders, organizations, and movements. From historical atrocities to modern scandals, we’ll examine what happens when fire is no longer fuel...
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TIL 13/40 The Myth of Endless Grit
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Fire is one of the most powerful forces in nature—and in leadership. It can ignite movements, warm communities, and light the way forward. But if left unchecked, it can also consume everything in its path. In Episode 13, we explore the paradox of fire as fuel and fire...
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TIL 12/40 When Leaders Drift The Cost of Compromise
🎙️ New Episode Announcement How do we hold nuance without losing fairness? How do we honor complexity without abandoning responsibility? In Episode 12, we wrestle with one of the hardest questions in leadership: when leaders make discretionary decisions that cause harm, how should they be held...
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TIL 11/40 Systems and Scars: The DNA of Trauma Informed Leadership
🎙️ New Episode Announcement What do organizations and human beings have in common? Both can carry trauma. Both can repeat harmful patterns. Both can heal. Episode 11 explores how the principles of trauma-informed care apply not only to individuals but also to organizations and systems. We look…
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TIL 10/40 The Crisis of Leadership Identity
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Every leader follows a compass—but not every compass leads to truth. In Episode 10, we dig into the idea of false north stars—the values, metrics, or ambitions that can look like guidance but actually lead us astray. Whether it’s the lure of profit over people,...
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TIL 9/40 My Compass: Scars, Story, Steadfastness
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Every leader has a compass. But for many of us, that compass isn’t abstract—it’s etched into our very scars. In Episode 9, I open up more personally than ever before. As the throwaway daughter of a victim of human trafficking, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and...
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Relationship Reset: The Overuse of "Narcissist": When Labels Replace Accountability
Not Everyone’s a Narcissist: Episode 1 of the RISEUP Narcissism Series These days, it feels like everybody’s ex is suddenly a narcissist. Social media turned the word into the new “toxic,” and while it can feel good to slap that label on someone who hurt you… 👉 Labels don’t heal you....
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TIL 8/40 Blind Spots That Break Leaders: When Fire Consumes: The Shadow Side of Leadership
New Episode Announcement Fire can warm. Fire can illuminate. But fire can also consume everything in its path. In Episode 8, we face the shadow side of leadership—when passion turns destructive, when charisma becomes manipulation, when movements burn too hot and leave nothing but ashes. We’ll…
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TIL 7/40 Self Awareness The First Compass Point
🎙️ New Episode Announcement What happens when two leaders, two communities, or even two people you love hold values that seem completely opposed? A Muslim and a Christian. A Democrat and a Republican. A parent and a child. In Episode 7, we step into one of the hardest realities of leadership:...
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KidSAFE: EP1 The New Paradigm of School Safety
Episode 1: The New Paradigm of School Safety 🔥 Safety has evolved. The question is — have we? The old model of school safety was built on fear, drills, and disconnect.The new model begins with humanity. In this opening episode, Krista Fee — bestselling author, award-winning keynote, and…
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TIL 6/40 False North Stars, When Values Go Wrong
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Not every compass points to truth. Some leaders build entire movements around false North Stars—visions rooted in ego, greed, domination, or fear. And the results can be devastating. In Episode 6, we tackle this difficult but necessary topic. How do leaders discern...
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TIL 5/40 The Compass-Defining Your North Star
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Without a compass, even the strongest leader drifts. Without a North Star, even the most passionate movement loses its way. In Episode 5, we explore the essential practice of defining your North Star—the core values and guiding principles that shape every decision,...
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TIL 4/40 Movement Based Leadership
🎙️ New Episode Announcement What makes a movement last? It isn’t charisma alone. It isn’t money. It isn’t even strategy. It’s the kind of leadership that ignites conviction and multiplies courage. In Episode 4, we dive into what I call movement-based leadership—leadership that goes beyond...
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TIL 3/40 Trauma And The Human Condition
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Trauma isn’t just what happens in war zones or crisis situations—it’s in classrooms, workplaces, homes, and even organizations. It shapes how people think, how they respond under stress, and how they relate to leaders. In Episode 3, we dive deep into the human…
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TIL 2/40 Leadership More Than a Word We Toss Around
🎙️ New Episode Announcement “Leader.” We throw the word around every day—in offices, in politics, in nonprofits, even in families. But what does it actually mean? In Episode 2, we strip leadership back to its core. Titles don’t make you a leader. Positions don’t make you a leader. Leadership is...
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TIL 1/40 Leadership as Responsibility Not Position
🎙️ New Episode Announcement Picking up the bloody microphone Leadership today is not casual. It is not a title, or a stage, or a social media badge—it is a weight. In this very first episode of the Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, I share what it really means to pick up the bloody microphone…
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TIL 0/40 What is Trauma Informed Leadership
🚨BONUS EPISODE RELEASE! 🚨 Before we dive into the full Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, I want to invite you into the heart of what this is all about: 👉What is trauma-informed leadership? 👉Why does it matter to everyone—from government officials and organizational leaders to CEOs, school...
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In the. Wake of Charlie Kirk's Assassination: Unbroken Voices
Title: 🎙️ Unbroken Voices: In the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination This week’s episode is different. It’s heavier. It’s raw. And it’s necessary. On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking on stage at Utah Valley University. No matter where you stand politically, the...
About this show
Elevate, Empower and RISEUP To Transform Your World
Welcome to: RISEUP Voices from the Frontlines, the podcast that brings you closer to the heart of transformative change and human resilience.
Enjoy show topics taken from our signature RISEUP framework of R-elationship, I-dentity, S-afety, E-motional intelligence, awareness and expression, U-nleashed and Empowered, and P-assion and purpose
Episode Types:
1. Sparks
Short, impactful, and loaded with actionable insights, Sparks are your go-to for "little bits of big information." These condensed episodes distill complex topics like family dynamics, community safety, mental health, and post-traumatic growth into bite-sized takeaways that you can implement immediately. Whether you're looking to strengthen your relationships or learn new strategies for personal growth, Sparks light the way.
2. Voices from the Frontlines:
Step into the lives of those making a diffe
Hosted by
Krista Phoenix Fee