While traditional models of leadership are often grounded in hierarchy, logic, and competition, Cristin explores what happens when we embrace more feminine principles: collaboration, rhythm, creativity, and care. Drawing from her own leadership journey, evidence-based coaching studies, and lived experiences as a Black woman in the workplace, Cristin challenges the notion that effective leadership must be rigid or relentlessly productive.

Instead, she paints a vision of work and community built on trust, reciprocity, and emotional intelligence. This episode asks: What if success felt more like harmony than hustle? What if “feminine” leadership wasn’t just for women, but a blueprint for collective healing in a world out of balance?