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b'The Nitty Gritty\\n\\n* Why making decisions as a collective aligns with Kate Strathmann\\u2019s business vision instead of the \\u201cthis way or the highway\\u201d mentality\\n* How Kate pushed past her introvert tendencies to show up for team members and clients and the importance of meeting face-to-face as a remote company every week, even if there isn\\u2019t an agenda\\n* How Kate sets healthy and strong boundaries with her team and clients \\u2014 and how she supports her employees in bringing their full self to work\\n* Why Kate values flexibility and autonomy as company-wide values so her team does what\\u2019s best for them\\n\\nKate Strathmann\\u2019s company Wanderwell Consulting pays homage to Aloha Wanderwell, the first woman to travel around the world by car during the 1920s \\u2014 and a woman who continued traversing the planet for the rest of her life.\\nThat same adventurous, quirky, and unconventional spirit threads through everything at Wanderwell, from how Kate hires and leads to how she works with clients in a \\u201cpretty off-beat, feelings-oriented, and very non-traditional kind of way,\\u201d she says.\\nIn this episode, Kate shares how she leads a remote team in a democratic way, how she faced her own limitations to become a better leader, how she approaches work and life, and, of course, more about rebranding under the name Wanderwell.\\nWe release new episodes of What Works every week. Subscribe on iTunes so you never miss an episode.\\nThere is no \\u201cRight Way\\u201d\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s really important to me that we don\\u2019t have any kind of \\u201cRight Way\\u201d or top-down old school way of saying: this is how you do business. The word wander in a literal sense speaks to the spaciousness and openness to what we\\u2019re trying to do and the space we\\u2019re trying to give the folks that we work with to find their own way and to say that: you\\u2019re not going to figure it out right away. This is a nonlinear process. There\\u2019s going to be lots of ups and downs and twists and turns\\u2026 it\\u2019s kind of an adventure. But at the end of the day, we want to well, do well, and feel well.\\u201d \\u2014 Kate Strathmann\\nMy way or the highway doesn\\u2019t work. \\u201cThat kind of mindset isn\\u2019t as resilient over time,\\u201d says Kate. \\u201cIt tends to be overly dependent on one person and their personality. Some of those businesses rely on charismatic personalities and we\\u2019re seeing a lot \\u2014 especially politically \\u2014 how that doesn\\u2019t work.\\u201d\\nWhat does work? Realizing that your business is less about you and much more about your customers and clients. \\u201cThis business is about a larger mission in helping people do business in a different kind of way,\\u201d Kate says. \\u201cIt would be really out of alignment for me to say: this is exactly how you\\u2019re supposed to do this thing \\u2014 and you\\u2019re doing your business wrong.\\u201d\\nWhere do you notice this rigidity in your business or mindset?\\nFlexibility matters \\u2014 in life and in business\\n\\u201cOne value that\\u2019s really important to me \\u2014 and to my team especially \\u2014 is that of autonomy and having a lot of flexibility for our whole lives to be supported by our work and our business.\\u201d \\u2014 Kate Strathmann\\nFull-time workers spend the majority of their time\\u2026 at work. When that\\u2019s the case, says Kate, it\\u2019s incredibly important to support the full expression of who they are at work. \\u201cI think a lot about how we can support folks to show up as full humans in the space where they spend the majority of their time,\\u201d she says.\\nAt Wanderwell, for example, Kate\\u2019s created a strong vision of flexibility that plays out in the team culture. In a practical way, this looks like:\\n\\n* Encouraging team members to take a vacation and go completely offline for a real, true break.'