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The Work of You
This is a podcast about the leadership that matters most — the kind that starts from within.
Hosted by certified behavioral coach and Enneagram expert Jen Ostrich, The Work of You is for high-achieving humans ready to stop repeating patterns and start leading themselves differently.
Through insights from coaching, the Enneagram, and her own personal inner overhaul, Jen brings honesty, humor, and sharp emotional clarity to the table. With real talk, self-awareness tools, and a healthy dose of tough love, she helps you uncover what’s driving you, shift what’s no longer serving you, and ultimately do the work of you — one honest episode at a time.
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about finally understanding yourself — so your choices, relationships, and leadership can actually align with who you truly are.
The Work of You
Summer Reflection - What Chapter Are You In? [S2 Ep27]
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We talk a lot about what's next. But before you can get there, you have to know where you actually are. This summer reflection episode revisits one of the most listened-to episodes of Season 1 — a deep dive into the Hudson Institute's Cycle of Renewal — because no matter how many times you hear it, it lands differently depending on which chapter of life you're currently living.
Season 1, Episode 17, framed with a personal reflection from Jen as she approaches her 50th birthday and a significant life transition of her own. The episode introduces the Hudson Institute's Cycle of Renewal — a four-phase model for understanding where you are in any major chapter of life or career. Jen walks through each phase (Go for It, the Doldrums, Cocooning, and Getting Ready), what they feel like from the inside, and what they ask of you. Whether you're mid-stride, stuck, healing, or quietly preparing for something new, this framework gives you language for what's already happening.
In this episode, we explore:
- The Cycle of Renewal: A breakdown of the Hudson Institute's four-phase model and how to identify which phase you're currently in across life, career, or relationship.
- Mini transitions vs. transformation: Why swapping jobs or changing your circumstances can work for a while — and what it means when it stops being enough.
- Being vs. doing: How the energy shifts between phases, and why slowing down in the right-side phases isn't stalling — it's the work.
- Coaching through the cycle: How this framework helps leaders meet others (and themselves) where they actually are, rather than where they think they should be.
The Work of You - Reflective Prompts:
1. What if we thought about our life in chapters?
2. How might that guide you differently for assessing where you are in life and how might it ready you for what possibly could be the next chapter?
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[S1 E17] Exploring Your Life Chapters
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