{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 153: More Leading, Less Managing with Wanderwell Founder Kate Strathmann","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2420,"description":"\nThe Nitty Gritty\n\n* Why making decisions as a collective aligns with Kate Strathmann’s business vision instead of the “this way or the highway” mentality\n* How Kate pushed past her introvert tendencies to show up for team members and clients and the importance of meeting face-to-face as a remote company every week, even if there isn’t an agenda\n* How Kate sets healthy and strong boundaries with her team and clients — and how she supports her employees in bringing their full self to work\n* Why Kate values flexibility and autonomy as company-wide values so her team does what’s best for them\n\nKate Strathmann’s company Wanderwell Consulting pays homage to Aloha Wanderwell, the first woman to travel around the world by car during the 1920s — and a woman who continued traversing the planet for the rest of her life.\nThat same adventurous, quirky, and unconventional spirit threads through everything at Wanderwell, from how Kate hires and leads to how she works with clients in a “pretty off-beat, feelings-oriented, and very non-traditional kind of way,” she says.\nIn this episode, Kate shares how she leads a remote team in a democratic way, how she faced her own limitations to become a better leader, how she approaches work and life, and, of course, more about rebranding under the name Wanderwell.\nWe release new episodes of What Works every week. Subscribe on iTunes so you never miss an episode.\nThere is no “Right Way”\n“It’s really important to me that we don’t have any kind of “Right Way” or top-down old school way of saying: this is how you do business. The word wander in a literal sense speaks to the spaciousness and openness to what we’re trying to do and the space we’re trying to give the folks that we work with to find their own way and to say that: you’re not going to figure it out right away. This is a nonlinear process. There’s going to be lots of ups and downs and twists and turns… it’s kind of an adventure. But at the end of the day, we want to well, do well,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}