Leading Yourself

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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 you’re ready to stop waiting and start growing, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to The Leading Yourself Podcast!

  1. hace 1 día

    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. The one who always says yes. The words come out the way they always have, and somewhere in the middle a small part of you notices: that is not really me anymore. That moment is what an identity shift feels like from the inside. And it is where we start this month's new series: Leading Through Transitions. In this first episode, I open up about the go-to person I used to be, the one who needed to be in every room, involved in every decision, and the honest truth that the need came from two places at once: real drive, and real fear. I share why, after I left and started over, I chose on purpose not to become that person again, and what was left once the fear got quiet. I am more grounded now than I have ever been, and the purpose that was always underneath just takes a different shape. We talk about why we hold onto old labels, why the messy middle is where the real work happens, and how to move through a big change while staying anchored to what is actually true about you. If something in your life is shifting right now, and you are not sure who you are on the other side of it, this one is for you. In this episode: Why you never notice an identity shift while it is happeningThe two things we do to avoid the discomfort, holding on and grabbing aheadA personal story about the label I chose to set downHow to tell the difference between drive and fearA simple three-part way to hold any transitionWhy the unsettled feeling is a marker, not a warningTwo questions to sit with this week Listen to my conversation with Anthony Trucks referenced in today's episode here: 83: Identity Shift with Anthony Trucks

  2. 27 jul

    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, three of which I spent in Spain. And somewhere between the long lunches that nobody was rushing, the evenings that wound down slowly, and the walks that were not workouts, something shifted. Not in a dramatic way. In the quiet, clarifying way that only happens when you step far enough outside your normal to actually see it. Here is the thing about going back to where you are from after years away. You think you are going home. And you are. But you are also holding up a mirror to the life you built since you left. And some of what I saw in that mirror surprised me. My routines, which I am genuinely proud of, which are one of my real strengths, looked different against that backdrop. Some of them were still serving me. And some of them I was doing out of habit, out of identity, because I am a disciplined person and this is what disciplined people do. Not because I had recently stopped to ask whether they were still the right fit for this season. That question is what this episode is about. In this episode: What three weeks of living at a Spanish pace did to my HRV, and what that data pointed toHow I went hours without looking at my phone and did not even noticeThe difference between a disciplined relationship with food and a healthy oneWhat I am actually changing: walking, meals, mornings, evenings, connection, and the honest reason behind each oneThe "tranquila" mindset and what a different relationship with urgency feels like in your bodyThe question I came home asking myself and have not stopped asking since This is the final episode of our July mid-year recalibration series. And it turned out to be the most personal one.

  3. 20 jul

    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 everything that is working? That is what this episode is about. In Week 3 of the mid-year recalibration series, we are going to get practical. Not the inspiration version of change, the real version. The one that happens inside a full life, with real constraints, over actual time. We will start by naming the cognitive trap that derails most recalibration before it begins: the instinct to conflate seeing something that needs to change with needing to start over entirely. Then I will walk you through the four specific failure points where recalibration breaks down, not because people lack motivation, but because the process itself has predictable places it goes wrong. And we will close with a five-step framework for what sustained course-correction actually looks like: how to sort what you found, find the highest-leverage adjustment, define the smallest version of change that still matters, build the anchor before you move, and give it long enough to actually take hold. This is the episode for anyone who has done the inner work and keeps stalling at the step where it becomes real. In this episode: Why the brain jumps to starting over, and why that instinct usually costs more than it fixesThe difference between a verdict and a signal and why it changes everything about how you respondFour failure points that derail recalibration even when the motivation is realHow to tell whether you are dealing with an external problem or an internal patternWhy changing everything at once is not commitment, it is a setup for collapseWhat anchoring actually means and why it is the step most people skipThe minimum viable change framework: small and sustained versus large and abandonedWhy six weeks is the real timeline and six days tells you almost nothing

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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 you’re ready to stop waiting and start growing, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to The Leading Yourself Podcast!