Name: Angelina Frost

Title: Executive Coach | CEO & Founder of White Buffalo Alliance, LLC

Organisation: White Buffalo Alliance

Angelina Frost is an emerging evolutionary trail guide who shows people how to work directly with the mind, body, and emotions to illuminate and activate purpose, discover and express their authentic leadership style, and amplify meaning in their lives and service to the greater common good.

Her approach to coaching is born of her hard-won recovery and a vision of Humanity healed, based on the emerging paradigm of Relationality. Over the past several decades, Angelina has gathered and cultivated skills with countless hours of practice in the private, corporate, and education sectors, bringing the soul back into personal growth and leadership development.

Thank you to the 2,000 leaders who’ve generously done the 7 Questions on Leadership!

I hope Angelina's answers will encourage you in your leadership journey. Enjoy!

Cheers,

Jonno White

1. What have you found most challenging as a leader?

Learning what it means to lead from within.

2. How did you become a leader? Can you please briefly tell the story?

As I reflect on my journey, I realize leadership wasn't an objective as much as it was incidental. It came more into my awareness the more I started noticing my patterns and noticing that not everyone is so naturally inclined to take a stand; to speak their hearts and minds.

As I matured, I noticed that it's especially like this for women. Those, who like me, are naturally inclined toward leadership, have a challenging journey—as is the case with any leader, certainly.

What makes it especially challenging for women, is that the cultural narrative, although changing, still isn't modeling what it means to be a woman, *and* a leader. Lots of the modeling we have seen - at least in my generation (X) has been more about women who lead, behaving more like men.

It's an understandable developmental stage from an anthropological standpoint, and, it is a stage who's seen it's day.

Because of my own challenges with balancing home, family, career and my identity as a person *and* as a woman, I have become a stand for women who desire to include the wholeness of their femininity *and* their masculinity in how they lead in their families, their workplaces and in their communities--leveraging their intuition and empathy as well as their logic and reason. Leading with heart and authenticity, from within.

3. How do you structure your work days from waking up to going to sleep?

I wake, do a deep breathing routine, drink 16 oz of spring water, meditate for at least half an hour, have my morning tea, check my socials and the news (15-20 minutes) and then dive into whatever the tasks are for the day.

Before lunch I get my move on with either a walk, some dancing if it's too hot or cold out, and either some yoga, chi gong or a short work out routine.

After lunch if there are no meetings, I write, do videos, or tinker around with whatever needs done in the business or technical backend.

Then it's time with the family and our dog, dinner together most of the time, cleanup and then check in with f&f who don't live near, participate in Wisdom talks and then my little puzzle video game before bed. :)

4. What's a recent leadership lesson you've learned for the first time or been reminded of?

That leadership is not necessarily authority. That personal leadership is the heart and essence of leadership. And that everyone is a leader, if true leaders are at the helm.

5. What's one book that has had a profound impact on your leadership so far? Can you please briefly tell the story of how that book impacted your leadership?

Good to Great - Jim Collins Excellently illustrates the difference between good leaders and what he refers to as level 5 leaders. The kind of leader I aspire to be. The kind of leaders I admire most.

6. If you could only give one piece of advice to a young leader, what would you say to them?

Stay true to your heart. It will never lead you astray. It's not easy and its outcomes might not always look, at first, the way you think they should, but in the long run, you won't ever regret it.

7. What is one meaningful story that comes to mind from your time as a leader, so far?

Some time ago, I pulled together a mastermind of some of the brightest leaders in my personal network. There was no objective, other than to support and receive support from others who are actively being a stand in their professional lives and in our shared world. After about a year of meeting weekly, something amazing happened: we came together around a unified vision for creating a syndication network together around environmental/climate happenings in the world that never make it to the news, but are not only noteworthy but tremendously hopeful and inspiring.

What a delightful and unexpected outcome. It's amazing what can come out of coming together for the pure sake of coming together with no agenda other than to support and be supported.