Leadership Without Burnout with Janelle Alba Garner of Tanglaw Advisory

Ep 145: Leadership Without Burnout with Janelle Alba Garner of Tanglaw Advisory Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 How do you keep a mission alive without burning out the people carrying it? Janelle Alba Garner is the founder of Tanglaw Advisory.

She spent years supporting founders doing genuinely great work and watched them sacrifice themselves to do it. She doesn't think that's the deal.

Tanglaw is a Tagalog word meaning guiding light, and that's roughly the job. What We Talk About What regenerative leadership actually means, and why she shows up to meetings in a hoodie rather than a three-piece suit Why an outside advisor hears things from your staff that you never will, and what that unlocks How hard it is to slow down when everybody around you seems to be moving faster The unexpected turn: this is her third business, and the one that finally felt right started when a client made her dread Mondays until she remembered she could just fire her If you love a conversation about building something that doesn't cost you everything, this episode is for you.

All about Janelle Alba Garner You're gonna love Janelle. She's a strategic advisor working on a version of social impact where organizations can sustain both the mission and the people serving it.

Her point of view comes from a decade inside mission-driven organizations and from becoming a founder herself, which is how she learned what it costs to carry a mission that's outgrown the structure holding it. Alongside the advisory practice she runs Tanglaw Collective, the community and philanthropic arm, offering pro bono and low-cost support to community-based organizations on Chicago's South and West Sides: office hours, quarterly partnerships, workshops, monthly volunteer days, and resources.

Things We Mentioned Tanglaw Advisory → · janelle@ Tanglaw Collective, the community arm Monthly community volunteer days, third Saturday, with partner organizations Her monthly small-group conversations on a single topic, unrecorded, open to whoever shows up She's on LinkedIn, where she describes herself as yelling into the void about taking a lunch break This series is supported by Off the Grid, a podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing their clients. Find them at offthegrid.fun 🖤 Connect with Janelle Alba Garner Website: LinkedIn: Stay Connected 📬 Get the noseyAF Dispatch → Subscribe here 🏡 Grab the Good Neighbor Playbook → Download it free More ways to connect Email: stephanie@ Follow on IG: @stephaniegraham Listen to more episodes: Support & Feedback noseyAF is listener-supported ; thank you for being here. 💛🫶🏾 ⭐ Rate & Review the Show 📣 Share noseyAF with a friend who needs to hear this Episode Credits Produced, Hosted, and Edited by Stephanie Graham Lyrics: Queen Lex Instrumental: Freddie Bam Fam Cover Art: Emma McGoldrick