Love as a Form of Leadership — Janna Meyrowitz Turner
What does love have to do with leadership? For Janna Meyrowitz Turner, everything.
After twenty years building power for women, shaping cultural narratives for brands like Estée Lauder and the WNBA, and organizing 150 venture capital firms behind reproductive justice, Janna had a revelation: the powerful women she'd spent her career building up were going home to men who weren't growing alongside them.
That observation became Antenna Up, a platform of summits and community infrastructure built to send new signals about the health and wellbeing of American boys and men. Recorded in New York as part of the East Coast Tour, Janna and Robin trace her pivot from the women's space to the men's space, and why she calls love a leadership skill. More than a conversation about men and women, this episode offers a framework for reimagining leadership itself, what changes when we build institutions, relationships, and culture around love instead of greed.
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IN THIS EPISODE
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:50) Meet Janna
(00:03:52) From Building Women Up to Seeing the Gap
(00:12:41) Founding Antenna Up
(00:18:39) Love as a Form of Leadership
(00:23:12) What Is Buoys Club?
(00:27:26) The Antenna Up Fund
(00:31:34) The Business Case for Healthier Men at Work
(00:37:40) The Vulnerability Gap
(00:47:08) Time, Money & Relationships
(01:02:17) Myths of Love & Janna's Definition
QUOTES
“I believe that love is a form of leadership.” – Janna Meyrowitz Turner
“We need to build organizations and institutions that are both financially rich and emotionally rich.” – Janna Meyrowitz Turner
“None of us are free until all of us are free. That applies to men and boys too.” – Janna Meyrowitz Turner
ABOUT THE GUEST
Janna Meyrowitz Turner is the CEO of Antenna Up, a company platforming events and conversations alongside brands, media, and corporate sponsors to send new signals about the health and wellbeing of American boys and men. A career strategist and entrepreneur, she spent 20+ years building values-aligned coalitions in the women's space — shaping cultural narratives for brands like Estée Lauder and the WNBA, and coaching Fortune 500 leaders — before having a reckoning that the men adjacent to the powerful women she was building up weren't growing alongside them, and the women in their lives were paying the price. Antenna Up and Buoys Club, Antenna Up’s 700-member ecosystem of men's wellbeing leaders across North America, operates with the core thesis that healthier men = healthier societies, workplaces, families and communities.
Antenna Up: https://www.antennaup.com
Buoys Club: https://www.antennaup.com/buoys-club
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannameyrowitz/
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