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The UpLevel Podcast
Conscious leaders create conscious cultures.
The UpLevel Podcast is a transformational resource for leaders, coaches, and people managers who are ready to lead with greater presence, purpose, and humanity.
With 85% of employees disengaged at work and mental health challenges
costing organizations thousands per employee each year, the demand
for emotionally intelligent, trauma-aware, and consciously coached leadership
has never been more urgent.
Each episode explores what it truly means to uplevel within ourselves, our organizations, and the systems we move through. Themes include emotional embodiment, grief, right relationship coaching culture, and the ROI of investing in human well-being.
Named one of the web’s Top 10 Coaching Culture Podcasts and a Top 50 Best Workplace Mental Health Podcast by Feedspot, the show is a core part of UpLevel’s mission to build a more conscious, compassionate, and humane world by making deep, healing, and actionable conversations accessible to all.
Hosted by Christie Mann, certified coach, author, and co-founder of UpLevel,
the podcast invites you not just to do better, but to be better.
The UpLevel Podcast
From Executor to Builder: Meeting Your Future Self | Coaching in Real Time with Marlenne Johnson
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Many talented professionals reach a moment when they know they're capable of more influence, more impact, and more leadership, yet something keeps them standing at the edge of that next chapter.
In this episode of The UpLevel Podcast, we invite you inside a real coaching conversation with Marlenne Johnson, an organizational transformation strategist, storyteller, and systems thinker who helps organizations move through complexity with greater clarity, intention, and humanity.
Throughout her career, Marlenne has partnered with leaders and teams to guide change, strengthen employee experiences, and create meaningful transformation. Now she finds herself facing a leadership question of her own:
How do I move from being known as an executor to becoming a builder, thought leader, people leader, and community leader?
Together, Christie Mann and Marlenne design a coaching alliance and explore the beliefs, habits, and assumptions that can keep even the most capable leaders from fully stepping into their potential.
Through a future-self visualization rooted in Co-Active coaching, Marlenne connects with the version of herself she hopes to become, only to discover that the qualities she's seeking may already be present.
In This Episode:
- Designing an alliance for safety, bravery, and growth
- How future-self coaching can open up leadership growth
- Why so many leaders wait for permission before stepping forward
- The difference between executing work and creating lasting impact
- How self-trust shapes leadership presence
- The role community plays in personal and professional growth
- Practical ways to bridge the gap between who you are and who you're becoming
About Marlenne:
Marlenne Johnson is an organizational transformation strategist, storyteller, and systems thinker whose work lives at the intersection of people, power, and change. With a career spanning recruiting, employee experience, and organizational effectiveness, she specializes in helping leaders navigate complex transformation by turning ambiguity into structure and intention into action.
Her perspective is grounded in a deep curiosity about how individuals move within systems: how culture, incentives, and identity shape the choices people make inside organizations. Marlenne is known for her ability to see patterns others miss and for bringing both strategic clarity and emotional intelligence to conversations about leadership, transformation, and personal agency.
Through her writing and her work, she explores what she calls the work of the “Soul Architect”: the ongoing practice of examining the systems we inherit, the roles we play within them, and the conscious choices available to us as we build something new.
She is also the co-founder of the storytelling podcast My Story Is Not Unique, a space for honest conversations about identity, resilience, and the shared human experiences that shape how we lead, live, and grow.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlennejohnson/
My Story is Not Unique Podcast
🎉 The UpLevel Podcast was listed as one of the Top 10 Best Coaching Culture Podcasts!!! https://podcasts.feedspot.com/coaching_culture_podcasts
🎉 It was also ranked #4 among the top 50 Best Workplace Mental Health Podcasts! https://podcast.feedspot.com/workplace_mental_health_podcasts
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