Empower Hour with Lady J
Welcome to Empower Hour with Lady J (formerly The Jodi Watkins Show and originally Breaking Barriers Now).
This is where faith, leadership, healing, and intentional living come together through honest conversations and practical wisdom. Whether I'm sharing lessons from my own journey or sitting down with inspiring guests, every episode is designed to help you move forward with greater clarity, courage, and purpose.
What You'll Hear
• Honest conversations about leadership, resilience, faith, personal growth, and legacy
• Practical strategies you can apply in your everyday life
• Stories of overcoming adversity, rebuilding after setbacks, and choosing purpose over fear
• Thought-provoking discussions with leaders, entrepreneurs, veterans, authors, and everyday people creating meaningful impact
Some episodes feature special guests. Others are conversations directly from me, sharing insights, experiences, and lessons I'm learning along the way.
Why Listen?
If you're navigating change, rebuilding after disappointment, growing as a leader, or simply striving to become more intentional in the way you live and lead, you're in the right place.
This isn't about perfection.
It's about progress, personal responsibility, and choosing every day to become the person you're called to be.
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Inside the Podcast Group, you'll find episode discussions, resources, opportunities to connect with guests and other listeners, and additional content designed to help you put each episode into action.
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Let's rise...together.
Empower Hour with Lady J
Just Decide with Steve McElmurry
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This week's guest is Steve McElmurry, the founder of MacsImpact, LLC.
Steve's resume resembles a sampler platter rather than a main course, and his career path looks more like a toddler's crayon drawing than an engineer's precise blueprint. Through necessity, Steve has developed exceptional agility in pivoting, navigating career transitions, and rapidly acquiring and applying new skills.
For many years, Steve viewed his broad experience as a liability. However, he eventually recognized that his ability to authentically and quickly connect with a diverse range of people in various contexts is a significant asset, shaped by how he responded to the series of successes and failures that make up his "history." This ability to "Fail Forward" has become one of his greatest strengths.
Now, as a board-certified nurse coach and a member of the Maxwell Leadership Team, Steve supports individuals and organizational teams in bridging many of the growth gaps he has personally navigated. His process begins with deep listening and includes humor, stories, analogies, metaphors, and various interactive and engaging tools. These approaches help people play to each other’s strengths and allow each team member to thrive in their "zones of genius."
Whether in the family room, breakroom, or boardroom, Steve helps people connect when they communicate, enhancing their effectiveness in relationships, increasing their levels of influence, and closing the gap between where they are and who they want to become.
Connect with Steve. Whether you're leading yourself, your family, a team, or a company, he is eager to support you on your journey to becoming an even more effective leader.
This track was made by my daughter, Jasmine. She is my why for everything I do.
The Jodi Watkins Show, formerly known as Breaking Barriers Now, is sponsored by Convene Connections Corporation and Lady J Global Enterprises LLC.
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Thank you all for being a part of this mission and for allowing me to facilitate these stories in ways I never imagined being able to.
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