A local small business owner tackled a big project in the last year to address leaders who are burned out. Her intent: To provide insights and ideas on leadership to anyone interested — for free. 

“The Influential Leader” is a series of 23 experts (speakers, authors, coaches) Kathleen Riessen vetted, researched and interviewed in the last year. It’s available now, with one interview getting released each day through Dec. 31. 

Now, if you are interested and worried that you’ve missed many excerpts, don’t fret. For those interested and with some time on your hands with the upcoming New Year weekend, the series will be replayed Jan. 1-3. Sign up here. An email sent to you comes with a link to that day’s interview. 

“I’m really passionate about this topic because I see so many leaders that are burned out and the rates of depression and anxiety are off the charts, especially among entrepreneurs,” Riessen said.

Riessen’s career path took an interesting turn in the last year or so, including the uncommon step of slowing down.

She sold the small business she had helped to launch, Measured Intentions, and then took a year to figure out what she wanted — or was meant — to do.

“I had this feeling that I was meant to make a bigger impact,” she explained via email.  … It took me a year of slowing down, listening, learning and giving to figure out what that all meant. This interview series is meant as a catalyst for people that are having that same feeling that I had.”

So if you need some ideas, resolutions, goals or wisdom going into 2019, try it out.