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Leading Yourself
The Leading Yourself Podcast is your go-to space for personal growth, career and leadership development, habits, relationships, and more. Each episode delivers practical insights, tools, and strategies to help you unlock your potential and become the best version of yourself. Join me for real conversations, tough love, and actionable advice designed to help you take meaningful steps toward the life you want. No fluff, just the mindset shifts, habits, and strategies that lead to real results. If…
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- Leading Yourself
381: Ambition without the Hustle
Week 2 of Sustainable Ambition moves from the personal to your career. Once you know what success means to you, the next question is how fast you chase it, and…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: The Balance Between Success and Happiness
“Success depends on high expectations. Happiness hinges on modest expectations.”
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380: Sustainable Ambition
Welcome to November: Sustainable Ambition. This month is about achieving without burning out, and it starts with the most personal question of all. Whose…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: The Real Reason You Overthink
Harsh truth: People overthink because they don’t trust themselves to make a decision
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379: Where Do You Want More Influence?
Imagine it’s the end of a long week. We’re sitting together over a cup of coffee, and I ask you one question: where do you want more influence? Not where you…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: The Relationship Paradox
The relationship paradox: the happier you are alone, the better your relationships become
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378: Reading the Room: The Skill Nobody Taught You
You’ve felt it: a meeting shifts underneath you, nobody says why, and you have half a second to decide whether to push forward or hold back. Nobody ever taught…
Leading YourselfThe Power of Showing Up
“Consistency isn’t exciting, but it’s how ordinary people get extraordinary results.”
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377: Four Ways to Move Things without Authority
You’ve watched it happen: someone with less context, less experience, maybe even a weaker idea, makes the call, and yours gets quietly set aside. Not because…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Moments vs. Timelines
Stop measuring your beginning against someone else’s decade of work.
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376: Leading Without a Title, Starting Now
Most of us were taught that influence looks like the big moment: the promotion, the title, the seat at the table. It doesn't. Real influence is quieter than…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Gratitude & Ambition
You can be grateful for your life and still want more for yourself. Appreciation and ambition were never meant to be enemies.
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375: The Questions I Hear Most - Career Squad Edition
This is the last episode of the September series, and I wanted to close it differently. Instead of teaching the framework one more time, I'm answering the nine…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: When It Doesn’t Work Out
“No one glows more than someone who didn’t get what they thought they wanted, healed, and realized something better was on the way.”
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374: The Two Seats Most People Leave Empty in their Career Squad
Since 2023 I have talked about the Career Squad Framework with hundreds of people. Two gaps come up more than any other, every single time. The Sponsor is the…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: The Next Level Might Feel Different
“Your next level might have less to do with working harder and more to do with you finally believing you’re allowed to have a life you actually enjoy.”
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371: Live from the Book Launch: Build Your Career Squad with Charlie Ackerman and Andy Storch
What if the most important infrastructure of your career has nothing to do with your skills, your credentials, or your hard work, and everything to do with the…
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370: You Were Never Meant to Drive This Road Alone
This week, I'm doing something different. Instead of talking about the book, I'm reading it to you, straight from the opening chapter. It starts in Honduras…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: People Who See You
“The right people won't just celebrate your success. They'll care about who you're becoming along the way.”
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369: Ready or Not, We're Driving
On September 5th something that's lived privately in my head, my laptop, and stolen early mornings for two years becomes a real, my book The 9 People you Need…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: How Do You Want to Feel?
“Your dream life isn't just about what you accomplish. It's about how you feel when you wake up every morning.”
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368: Leading through Transitions: What Are You Transitioning From, and To?
One question to close out the month. It sounds simple, and it is not. What are you transitioning from, and what are you transitioning to? Most of us cannot…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: You Don't Need Their Approval
“You don't need everyone to understand your decisions. You need to understand why you're making them.”
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367: Leading Through Transitions: The Messy Middle
This is the most personal episode of the series. I share the two years I spent in the middle with this book: writing, deleting, scrapping whole sections, and…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Be Different
“When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different.”
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366: Leading Through Transitions: The Window You Run Past
Think about the last time you started something new at work. What did you do in those first few days? If you are like most high performers, you got moving…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: The Standard Starts With You
“Your relationship with yourself sets the standard for every relationship you allow into your life.”
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365: Leading Through Transitions: Who You're Becoming
Have you ever caught yourself describing who you are with a label that is not quite true anymore? Not a job title , a label. The strong one. The reliable one…
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364: The Recalibration I Did Not Plan For
I almost did not record this episode. Not because I did not have something to say, but because I was not sure it fit. I just got back from six weeks traveling…
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363: Course-Correcting Without Starting Over
You did the assessment. You saw what needs to change. And now the question sitting underneath everything is: how do I actually change it without blowing up…
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362: Your Career at the Halfway Point
Most professionals do a version of a mid-year check-in that looks like this: count what got done, calculate what is left, get back to work. That is a…
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361: The Life Check-In You Have Been Skipping
Half the year is gone. Before you sprint into the second half, stop for a minute and actually look at where you are. This week on Leading Yourself, we are…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: The Power of Coming Home
After almost 3 weeks in Spain visiting my parents, siblings, family, and lifelong friends, I’m back with a full heart, and a powerful reminder. In this special…
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360: Build your Career Squad
Back in February 2023, I recorded an episode that I had no idea would become one of the ones you all keep coming back to. I've gotten so many messages about…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: The People Who Change Us
“Be careful with the idea that everyone is replaceable. Some people only come into your life once.”
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359: What conversations are you still avoiding?
Four weeks. A lot of ground covered. And one honest question to close it out: What conversation are you still avoiding? This week's episode is the June series…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Forgive. Act. Adapt.
“Be forgiving with your past self. Be strict with your present self. Be flexible with your future self.”
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358: The Three-Phase Framework for Difficult Conversations
Most hard conversations do not go wrong because of what gets said. They go wrong because the person went in without knowing what they actually needed to say…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Fall in Love with Boring
“The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.”
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357: The Ask You Keep Not Making
For years, I was the highest-performing person at my level. Recognized constantly. Delivering results her peers were copying. And significantly underpaid. I…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Who Are You Becoming?
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"
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356: The Conversation That Changes Everything
There is a conversation you have been avoiding. Maybe for weeks. Maybe longer. You tell yourself the timing is not right, things are fine, it is not a big…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Stay Long Enough to be Found
“A lesson I wish I learned earlier: you get opportunities by showing up long enough for the right people to find you.”
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355: Your Visibility Inventory
Four weeks. Three dimensions. One through-line: you are worth being seen. Fully. Strategically. Without apology. This is the finale of the May Visibility…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Think Big, Move Small
“When making plans, think big. When making progress, think small.”
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354: Why Good Work Isn't Enough: The Third Piece Most High Achievers Are Missing
She owns her worth. She makes her work visible. She shows up, delivers, and has stopped waiting quietly in the background. And she is still not getting where…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Emotionally Invested
“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”
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353: Making Your Work Visible (Without Feeling Like You're Bragging)
More times than I can count, I've come up with an idea that got implemented, became a best practice, and changed how something was done, without my name on it…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: I've wrote a book!
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352: Owning Your Worth Without Apologizing
You work hard. You show up. You contribute. And yet when someone asks what you've been working on, your first instinct is to downplay it. Sound familiar? This…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Design you Environment
"You don't have to be the victim of your environment, you can also be the architect of it"
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351: Your Confidence Inventory
We made it to the final week of April. And I want to close this month the way it deserves to be closed, not with a lecture, but with a conversation. This…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Distractions
If you don’t separate yourself from your distractions, your distractions will separate you from your goals.
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350: Stop Waiting to Feel Ready - The Sequence You've Had Backwards
For years I had the sequence backwards. I thought the path was believe in yourself, then act from that belief. So I tried everything to manufacture the belief…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: Keep Showing Up
The most underrated skill in life is to keep showing up… even when you don’t feel like it
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349: Take Up Space
Last week we built the foundation — self-trust. This week we take it to work. Think about the last high-stakes room you were in. A meeting where direction was…
Leading YourselfMorning Brew: You are not behind
You’re not behind in life. You’re just comparing your path to people you don’t even want to be.