The podcast with Carla Royal
What Holds
What Holds is a podcast about the work that holds what founders and leaders are building. Each conversation centers the person behind the visible work: what they are carrying, what the work asks of them, what has changed them, and what holds them as they continue to build and lead.
Latest conversation
When a Legacy Becomes Yours to Carry with Leah Wong Ashburn
Leah Wong Ashburn | Highland Brewing Company
What does it take to honor what your father built while finding the freedom to make it your own? Leah Wong Ashburn is president, CEO, and family owner of Highland Brewing Company, which her father, Oscar Wong, founded in 1994 as Asheville’s first brewery since Prohibition. When Leah joined...
Show notes and transcript
Nov 3, 2026 · 42 minutes
All episodes
When a Legacy Becomes Yours to Carry with Leah Wong Ashburn
42 minWhen the Business You Built Starts to Cost Too Much with Patrick O’Cain
51 minThe Cost of Leaving Yourself Out with Dr. Mamta Bhatt
35 minThe Messy Work of Being Fully Alive with Renee Moorefield, PhD
56 minSurrender, Acceptance, and What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Own Mind with Mike Oglesbee
49 minOver-Pleasing, Depletion, and the Pause Before the Reaction with Pam Dwyer
55 minThe Story He Thought Would Disqualify Him with Courtland Warren
50 minWhen the Goalpost Stops Moving with Maurice Philogene
56 minThe Cost of Keeping Yourself Contained with Jennifer Flynn
46 minThe Weight of Being the One People Look To with Daryl Dittmer
51 minGuests and appearances.
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