The Alignment Table

Sharon Preston
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Sharon Preston is a British entrepreneur, executive mentor, strategic advisor and keynote speaker. She has over two decades of experience shaping leaders and scaling luxury brands. The Alignment Table is where she explores the real psychology of identity, clarity and the next era leadership. These are conversations that help you pause, think deeper, lead stronger, and step into the person you are becoming. Website: https://www.sharonpreston.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/_sharonpreston_ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/sharonpreston1

Episodes

  1. Rest As a Power Strategy

    14 DEC

    Rest As a Power Strategy

    Most women in leadership do not burn out because they are weak. They burn out because they have been taught to perform through pressure rather than lead through presence. In this episode of The Alignment Table, Sharon Preston breaks down why rest is not a luxury for leaders - it is infrastructure. When women operate without physical, emotional, or cognitive recovery, performance deteriorates. Decision making weakens. Authority dilutes. Communication becomes reactive instead of intentional. Sharon explores the seven types of rest every woman in leadership needs - from emotional and sensory rest, to creative, social and identity rest - and how each one directly shapes your clarity, confidence, nervous system, and leadership effectiveness. You will learn: • why rest is a power strategy, not a personal indulgence • how nervous system regulation expands strategic decision-making • the cost of depletion on influence, culture, and executive presence • the relationship between identity, leadership behaviour, and capacity • practical micro-rest rituals you can integrate immediately This conversation is direct, science backed, deeply human, and designed for women navigating high-pressure environments in tech, luxury, and corporate leadership. Your next era of leadership will not be created through hustle. It will be built through clarity, alignment, and the capacity to think, feel, and lead at a higher level. This episode invites you to reclaim rest as a strategic advantage, one that fuels influence, improves performance, and strengthens the future woman you are becoming. Listen now. Your next level requires a regulated, resourced, and rested you.

    24 min
  2. Fuelling Your Leadership

    4 DEC

    Fuelling Your Leadership

    Fuelling Your Leadership: The High Performance Nutrition No One Talks About Most women in leadership are unintentionally running million pound responsibilities on energy levels that could barely power a desk lamp. In this episode of The Alignment Table Podcast, Sharon Preston breaks down the truth behind leadership performance, burnout, decision making, energy and why your biology is the foundation of your leadership identity. Drawing on her experience of mentoring leaders, Sharon explores how under-fueling affects clarity, emotional regulation, confidence, communication, and authority. This is not a conversation about dieting. It is a conversation about capacity, cognitive performance, nervous system regulation, and sustainable leadership. You’ll learn: • Why the prefrontal cortex is your “leadership HQ” • How blood sugar, hydration, and protein impact decision-making • The connection between nutrition, burnout, and emotional resilience • Why women leaders often ignore their basic needs, and how to break the cycle • The Leadership Plate Method for high-performance days • How food influences confidence, authority, presence and communication • Practical habits that elevate clarity, stability, and long-term leadership success Whether you’re a founder, senior executive, or emerging leader navigating fast growth, this episode helps you understand the biology behind your brilliance, and how fueling yourself intentionally strengthens your influence, impact, and long-term success. Tune in to elevate your energy, sharpen your decision-making, regulate your nervous system, and lead with the clarity and capacity your next era requires.

    16 min
  3. A.I. for Leaders: The Internal Intelligence System You’re Not Using Yet

    27 NOV

    A.I. for Leaders: The Internal Intelligence System You’re Not Using Yet

    A.I. for Leaders: The Internal Intelligence System You’re Not Using Yet Most leaders think their next breakthrough will come from better strategy, better systems, or better productivity. In reality, your greatest competitive advantage is your internal operating system - the A.I. no one talks about: Aligned Intention™. In this episode of The Alignment Table Podcast, we dive into the psychology, neuroscience and leadership behaviours that quietly sabotage high-achieving women. You will learn why identity drives behaviour, why your nervous system shapes your leadership presence, and why overwhelm, indecision and people-pleasing are not time issues but internal alignment issues. We explore: • The hidden cost of running your career on outdated leadership identity • Why high performers stall when their internal bandwidth collapses • Nervous system regulation as a strategic leadership skill • How fear, overthinking and emotional labour dilute decision-making • The A.I. Leadership Loop™: Awareness, Intention, Integration, Identity, Navigation, Execution and Direction • Practical steps to create clean decisions, stronger boundaries and clearer authority • Why leaders who master aligned intention outperform those who focus on external strategy alone This episode is for women in tech, luxury, leadership and executive roles who want sharper clarity, stronger influence, improved decision-making, healthier capacity and sustainable success. Listen now and upgrade the internal intelligence system that shapes everything you build next.

    17 min
  4. The Invisible Saboteur

    20 NOV

    The Invisible Saboteur

    In today’s episode of The Alignment Table, Sharon Preston opens a powerful conversation about The Invisible Saboteur - the quiet identity patterns that limit even the most accomplished women in leadership. This isn’t fear. It isn’t imposter syndrome. It is something deeper and more nuanced: the outdated identity running your decisions long after you have outgrown it. Sharon explores how this internal saboteur shows up through delayed decisions, diluted authority, overfunctioning, carrying emotional labour, and underplaying your voice in rooms where you should lead. You will learn how identity shapes behaviour, behaviour shapes environment, and environment shapes results, the human algorithm behind aligned leadership. You will also hear how invisible saboteurs impact team culture, leadership confidence, and the organisation’s performance, and why intentional identity upgrades are essential for women navigating senior roles in tech, luxury, and corporate leadership. This episode blends psychology, leadership strategy, emotional intelligence, and nervous system regulation, offering depth, insight, and practical steps for women entering their next era of clarity, confidence, and calm authority.

    30 min
  5. The Pause: Redefining Productivity Through Stillness

    13 NOV

    The Pause: Redefining Productivity Through Stillness

    We live in a culture that glorifies motion - inboxes, meetings, goals, growth. Yet every high performing leader eventually reaches a moment when doing more stops working. In this episode of the Alignment Table, Sharon Preston invites you to explore the power of the pause - not as a weakness, but as a refined leadership discipline. Drawing on neuroscience, performance psychology, and her own, advising executives and founders, Sharon reveals how stillness recalibrates the nervous system, expands strategic thinking and restores creative capacity. You'll learn: • Why the brain's default mode network activates breakthrough during rest. • How micro pauses in your day can prevent cognitive fatigue and emotional burnout. • Simple rituals the re-align your focus and leadership presence. • How redefining productivity through stillness build trust, clarity and calm authority. Wether you're leading a global team or guiding your own next era, this conversation will help you shift from constant output to intentional impact - leading with clarity, confidence and composure

    22 min
  6. The Quiet Cost Of Doing It All

    6 NOV

    The Quiet Cost Of Doing It All

    When your success starts to hurt, it's Time to pause. In this episode, Sharon Preston guides you through the hidden patterns of over performance that lead to exhaustion, and how to rebuild your rhythm from a place of calm, strategy and self trust. You'll discover: • The invisible emotional cost of "doing it all" • Why high achievers struggle to rest, and how to change that. • A powerful reframe for redefining productivity. • Three calibrations for restoring your leadership capacity. • Gentle reflection practices top help you realign your energy. This episode if for the leaders, founders and executives who appear composed but feel the quiet fatigue of holding it all. Listen now to reclaim your clarity, rebuild your capacity and re-enter your next era with confidence and calm authority.

    29 min
  7. The Identity Shift

    30 OCT

    The Identity Shift

    In this episode of The Alignment Table Podcast, Executive Mentor and Strategic Advisor Sharon Preston explores The Identity Shift - the powerful transition every person or high performing leader, entrepreneur, and executive, faces when the success they've built no longer feels aligned. Drawing on over 25 years of experience in global business growth and brand leadership, Sharon shares a deeply personal story of reinvention - from corporate redundancy to international recognition. Revealing how moments of loss often hold the key to your next era of growth. You'll discover: • What an identity shift really means. • How to lead through uncertainty. • The three psychological stages of evolution every successful leader experiences. • • Why alignment, not achievement, is the true measure of sustainable success. If you have ever felt you have outgrown your old identity of wondered why's next in your leadership journey, this conversation will help you find direction, peace and power in the transition.

    29 min

  8. 27 OCT

    The Science Of Alignment

    In this episode of The Alignment Table, executive mentor and strategic advisor Sharon Preston unpacks the science behind alignment — how your thoughts, emotions, and nervous system shape the results you create in business and life. Discover the neuroscience of clarity, the psychology of self-trust, and the physiology of calm performance. Sharon reveals how high achievers can rewire patterns of stress, overwhelm, and burnout to lead from presence rather than pressure. Whether you’re scaling a business, redefining success, or navigating change, you’ll learn practical yet profound tools to regulate your energy, sharpen decision-making, and return to your authentic rhythm. Alignment isn’t spiritual fluff — it’s strategy, science, and self-mastery in motion.

    24 min
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Sharon Preston is a British entrepreneur, executive mentor, strategic advisor and keynote speaker. She has over two decades of experience shaping leaders and scaling luxury brands. The Alignment Table is where she explores the real psychology of identity, clarity and the next era leadership. These are conversations that help you pause, think deeper, lead stronger, and step into the person you are becoming. Website: https://www.sharonpreston.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/_sharonpreston_ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/sharonpreston1

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