320: 5 Steps to Heart-Driven Leadership with Hanna Bauer

https://youtu.be/nZ_4d91QlUk Hannah Bauer, CEO of Heartnomics Enterprises and a leadership strategist grounded in Lean Six Sigma, Zig Ziglar, and Baldrige Excellence, is driven by a personal ‘Why’ of transformation—helping people live with love, excellence, and fulfillment. We explore Hannah’s remarkable origin story: diagnosed with a serious heart condition as a child, enduring years of unpredictable tachycardia and two heart attacks at age 10, and ultimately receiving a pioneering ablation procedure that saved her life. Out of that journey, she built Heartnomics—the “economy of the heart”—and teaches her HEART Leadership Framework: Hope, Empowerment, Accountability, Results, and Trust, a values-based model that fuses emotional resilience with operational discipline to create ethical, high-performing leaders and cultures. — 5 Steps to Heart-Driven Leadership with Hanna Bauer Good day, dear listener. Steve Reda here with the Management Blueprint Podcast, and my guest today is Hannah Bauer, a leadership strategist who teaches leadership performance, continuous improvement. She’s also the CEO of Heart Enterprises, and she is well-versed in Lean Six Sigma, Zig Ziglar Baldrige Excellence, and many disciplines. So I’m excited to welcome you to the show, Hannah. Thank you Steve. Thanks for having me. Alright, so you have lots of interesting stories and lots of interesting concepts and frameworks, which we are into. I’m also interested in your personal ‘Why,’ and how are you manifesting that in your coaching practice? Well, my personal why is transformation. I believe that as human beings, we have the authority and ability to transform, and I believe the way that we do that is through love and excellence. We've all been created by love and the ability to do good works, excellent works—the ones that are going to leave a positive footprint.Share on X That’s my why. I want to be able to be fulfilled in what I do and help other people be fulfilled in the lives that they live. Wow. So love, access, and fulfillment. That is a very positive vision. I am happy to sign up for that. It’s positive. It’s true. You know, and I think that’s the thing. It’s like we really can attain that in this lifetime. And sometimes we look at it like, “Oh, it’s so far away.” or “One day,” but it’s like—that’s the amazing thing that we have as human beings. We have the ability to live that out regardless of what’s going on. Well, that’s a very significant for you to say that because it’s part of your story that when you were 10 years old—and correct me the details—you were diagnosed with a serious heart condition. So tell me your origin story, and how did you actually beat out of this huge challenge and obstacle that you had, the kind of life that you are teaching others right now? Yeah, absolutely. Well, thanks for asking that. Yeah, I will say probably the ones harder than me. I would think of many points as my parents, because I was the kid, right? I was the kid. I was diagnosed at four, when at the time was considered a terminal diagnosis with heart; a lot of research had not been done yet at that time—we’re talking about like the late seventies, early eighties. So there was not really much information on heart disease.—for women, much less on kids. Kids just don’t get heart disease, right? I mean, if there’s anything, it’s like a structural thing. In mine, it was where my heart would go suddenly really fast into tachycardia, but it would also be arrhythmic, which would be abnormal rhythms. It was unexpected. It could be just—I’m just talking to you—I sneeze, and then it would just go into tachycardia, or I’m in the middle sleeping and I turn the wrong way, it will start going into that tachycardia. And that would be like—think about a resting, normal resting heart rate is between the sixties to eighties. Well, for me, a normal heart rate would be anywhere from 180 to 240. So basically like on—yeah, on like that zone five—what you all are feeling when you are working out. That’s what my heart would be as a kid. But it wouldn’t just be for like, a few minutes. It could last hours, days into the extreme. It lasted weeks, and drugs didn’t work for it. Interventions didn’t work. I’ve had a DH of 10 actually, which was significant at that time. So I went through two heart attacks. That’s really what— really the both a miracle and what opened the door. I think always our greatest opportunities are always surrounded by the greatest of circumstances and obstacles. And as much as painful as that whole experience was, it also opened the door for my parents to courageously uproot our family, come to the US in search of a cure that didn’t yet exist. And it was a journey for about five years. Nothing really inside as far as the, “Hey, if we do this, this will happen. If we do that, again.” It was a lot of the things that happened ...