Confident Leadership. In Colour.

Hanna Zaxmy - Builds confidence in everyday life - Coach & leadership-developer

Leadership isn’t black and white – it’s a living palette. Join Hanna Zaxmy, leadership coach and creator of The Confident Framework, for honest conversations and practical tools that help you lead with more courage, clarity, and authenticity. Through solo episodes and guest talks, explore what it means to lead with heart, brain, and gut — and build the confidence to lead in full colour. Membership: https://patreon.com/ConfidentLeadershipInColour Get CONFIDENCE BOOST: https://migmatit.se/en/confidence-boost/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hanna.zaxmy/ podcast@migmatit.se

  1. 1d ago

    Who Are You Becoming as a Leader? Truth, Identity and Self-Leadership

    What feels true about the leader you are becoming? In this short In-Light Moments episode of Confident Leadership. In Colour., Hanna Zaxmy invites you into a gentle leadership reflection connected to Truth in the CONFIDENT Framework. Before we move into focus, decisions or next steps, it can help to pause and notice what is already becoming clearer, steadier and more aligned within us. Truth in leadership is not about finding one perfect answer or performing a polished version of yourself. It is about listening for what feels honest, grounded and alive now. This episode is a hammock reflection for your Leadership Palette — created for a walk, a quiet coffee moment, a journal pause or a few minutes where you finally have space to hear yourself think. In this episode, you’ll reflect on: What feels true about the leader you are becomingWhy identity matters in self-leadershipHow truth can guide focus, habits and next stepsThe difference between becoming someone else and becoming more fully yourselfThree simple journal prompts to explore your leadership identity Reflection question:What feels true about the leader I am becoming? Journal prompts:I am becoming a leader who…I no longer want to lead from…I want to lead with more… Follow the podcast so you don’t miss the next episode in the In-Light Moments summer series. Be confident – Be you. Timestamps00:00 Welcome to In-Light Moments00:35 Continuing through the CONFIDENT Framework00:59 Today’s question: What feels true?01:03 Truth, identity and becoming01:37 What feels aligned now?01:47 When truth becomes clearer02:21 The leader you are becoming02:50 Truth does not always arrive loudly03:15 Why this matters in self-leadership03:38 Before focus, pause with Truth03:51 Today’s In-Light Moment question04:14 Examples of who you may be becoming04:54 Three journal prompts for reflection05:14 Write without overthinking05:42 Carry the question with you06:04 Closing and follow the podcast

    Who Are You Becoming as a Leader? Truth, Identity and Self-Leadership
  2. Jul 8

    Lead from a Steadier Place: Nurture, Self-Leadership and Sustainable Leadership

    What would support you to lead from a steadier place? In this short In-Light Moment, Hanna Zaxmy continues the summer series Hammock Reflections for Your Leadership Palette and moves into N – Nurture in the CONFIDENT Framework. After reflecting on Ownership in the previous episode, this episode invites you to notice what helps you carry what is truly yours with more steadiness, clarity and care. Because leadership is not only shaped by what you know, your experience or your plans. It is also shaped by the state you lead from. When you are rushed, tired or overwhelmed, you may listen, respond and decide differently. But when you lead from a steadier place, you often have more access to patience, courage, empathy and clarity. This episode offers a simple reflection exercise for your extra ten minutes today: Create two lists: What steadies me?What drains my steadiness?Then choose one small supportive action that helps you lead from a steadier place today. Follow Confident Leadership. In Colour. so you do not miss the next In-Light Moment. Be confident – Be you. Chapters 00:00 Welcome to Confident Leadership. In Colour.00:23 In-Light Moments: Hammock Reflections for Your Leadership Palette00:39 Recap of the summer series so far01:01 Moving from Ownership into Nurture01:09 Today’s reflection question01:38 Leadership is shaped by the state you lead from02:35 Why nurture is part of sustainable leadership02:50 Hanna’s personal reflection on movement and pausing03:16 Simple things that create steadiness04:00 Reflection: What would support me?04:56 Practical exercise: two simple lists05:25 Choose one small supportive action05:41 Your state matters05:54 Follow the podcast for the next In-Light Moment

    Lead from a Steadier Place: Nurture, Self-Leadership and Sustainable Leadership
  3. Jul 1

    What Are You Carrying? Healthy Ownership and Sustainable Leadership

    What are you carrying that is not actually yours to carry? In this short In-Light Moment of Confident Leadership. In Colour., Hanna Zaxmy continues the summer series Hammock Reflections for Your Leadership Palette with a reflection on Ownership in the CONFIDENT Framework. Ownership is an important part of leadership. But healthy ownership is not about taking responsibility for everything. It is about taking responsibility with clarity. Sometimes we carry concerns, tensions, expectations, decisions or emotions simply because we care, because we notice things, or because we are moving too fast to pause and ask: Is this mine to carry? This episode invites you to slow down, notice what you have been holding, and sort what belongs to you — and what may need to be released, clarified or handed back. In this episode:00:00 Welcome to In-Light Moments00:38 Looking back: Clarity and joy00:53 Ownership in the CONFIDENT Framework01:01 Today’s question: what are you carrying?01:26 Why we need to slow down before answering honestly02:05 When we pick things up without noticing02:20 Healthy ownership is not carrying everything02:40 Caring without carrying every decision, tension or feeling03:12 The core reflection question03:49 What is yours to carry, influence, release or hand back?04:04 Practical exercise: three columns05:03 A small cue for the season ahead05:29 Final reflection and invitation to follow the podcast Reflection question:What am I carrying that is not actually mine to carry? Practical exercise:Create three columns: Mine to carryMine to influenceNot mine to carryThen sort the thoughts, worries, relationships, responsibilities, tasks, decisions, tensions or needs that have been taking up space lately. Follow Confident Leadership. In Colour. so you do not miss the next In-Light Moment. Join the Confidence Boost newsletter:https://migmatit.se/en/confidence-boost/ Be confident – Be you.

    What Are You Carrying? Healthy Ownership and Sustainable Leadership
  4. Jun 24

    What Has Sparked Joy? A Self-Leadership Reflection for Clarity and Energy

    What if joy is not just a lovely feeling — but a clue to your clarity? In this short In-Light Moment of Confident Leadership. In Colour., Hanna Zaxmy invites you into a gentle summer reflection from the hammock, the walk, the quiet coffee moment — or wherever you finally have space to hear yourself think. This episode continues the Hammock Reflections summer series and stays connected to Clarity in the CONFIDENT Framework. Instead of asking what needs to be solved, Hanna invites you to ask: What has sparked joy in the last six months? Not as a way to avoid what is difficult, but as a way to notice where energy, meaning, colour and aliveness have already been present. Joy can be a clue. Not the whole answer, but a colour on your Leadership Palette worth noticing. Use this episode as a short leadership reflection — and then take 10 extra minutes to journal, walk, breathe or look back through your camera roll and notice where joy has been showing up. In this episode:• Why joy can support clarity in self-leadership• How to notice patterns in what gives you energy• Why joy is not always shallow or easy• A simple reflection question for your next season• How your camera roll can become a map of meaning and colour Reflection question:What has brought joy in the last six months? Chapters:00:00 Welcome to Confident Leadership. In Colour.00:20 In-Light Moments: Hammock Reflections00:41 One question to carry with you01:01 Looking back at the previous clarity reflection01:25 Today’s angle: what has sparked joy?02:08 Noticing patterns in moments of joy02:38 Joy as a clue towards leadership direction03:00 Joy is not always shallow03:52 Joy as a colour on your Leadership Palette04:08 Clarity questions beyond logic and expectations05:10 Today’s In-Light Moment question05:41 Your extra 10-minute reflection06:05 Use your camera roll as a joy map06:37 Let yourself enjoy what has already given life06:59 Carry the question with you07:12 Closing and invitation to follow the podcast Follow the podcast so you do not miss the next In-Light Moment. Join the Confidence Boost newsletter:https://migmatit.se/en/confidence-boost/ Be confident – Be you.

    What Has Sparked Joy? A Self-Leadership Reflection for Clarity and Energy
  5. Jun 17

    What Needs Your Attention? Self-Leadership, Clarity and Hammock Reflections

    What is asking for your attention right now? In this first episode of the summer series In-Light Moments – Hammock Reflections for Your Leadership Palette, Hanna invites you into a short clarity reflection for your self-leadership. Instead of rushing into action, this episode creates space to pause, notice and listen inwardly. Sometimes clarity begins not with a big plan, but with one honest question: What is asking for my attention right now? This episode connects to the C – Clarity part of the CONFIDENT Framework and is designed to give you one question to carry with you on a walk, with your coffee, in the hammock or during a quiet summer moment. Use the extra time after listening to reflect, journal, pray, walk, breathe or simply notice what is already moving within you. In this episode: 00:00 Welcome and connection to the bonus episode01:22 Introducing the In-Light Moments summer series02:08 Today’s reflection question02:18 Why pause and rest matter for sustainable leadership03:58 Creating a summer edition of the podcast05:26 What is asking for your attention right now?06:30 Noticing without solving06:55 Today’s In-Light Moment question07:18 How to use your extra 10 minutes08:06 What to return to after some distance08:30 Hammock reflections for your Leadership Palette08:48 Closing and invitation to follow the podcast Follow Confident Leadership. In Colour. so you do not miss the next In-Light Moment. Join the Confidence Boost newsletter:https://migmatit.se/en/confidence-boost/ Be confident – Be you.

    What Needs Your Attention? Self-Leadership, Clarity and Hammock Reflections
  6. Jun 14

    One Millimetre of Courage Is Still Courage | Truth, Self-Leadership & Small Brave Steps

    In this personal and stripped-back episode of Confident Leadership. In Colour., Hanna speaks directly to the listener who is longing for change, but quietly thinking: “I could never do that.” Through an honest reflection on comparison, courage, faith, self-leadership and small beginnings, this episode explores the Truth part of the CONFIDENT Framework — the courage to stop measuring your beginning against someone else’s five-year journey, and instead take one small step that is true for you. This is not an episode about changing your whole life overnight.It is an invitation to notice the one millimetre of courage you already have — and let that be enough for today. In this episode, you’ll reflect on: Why comparison can shrink your own longingHow courage often begins in hidden, almost invisible placesWhy small steps still count as real movementWhat it means to take a step that is true for youHow self-leadership begins with honesty, not perfectionTimestamps 00:00 – “You are so brave… I could never do that”01:10 – The longing hidden inside comparison02:25 – Don’t compare your beginning with someone else’s journey03:40 – The first millimetre: tears, prayer and no clear plan05:15 – One millimetre of courage is still courage06:20 – Why many changes begin invisibly07:45 – Stripping back, creating space and listening inwardly09:30 – Courage, strength training and letting go of “shoulds”11:10 – Taking a step that is true for you12:40 – What is your millimetre today?14:00 – One small honest step is enough Follow Confident Leadership. In Colour. for more reflections on self-leadership, confidence, sustainable leadership and leading in colour. Be confident. Be you.

    One Millimetre of Courage Is Still Courage | Truth, Self-Leadership & Small Brave Steps
  7. Jun 3

    Keep the L-Plate On: Habits, Faith and the Courage to Continue

    What if the sign of growth is not that you never lose momentum — but that you are willing to start again? In this episode of Confident Leadership. In Colour., Hanna Zaxmy shares a shortened and adapted version of a sermon about life as learner-driving, habits, faith and the courage to continue. Through the image of keeping the L-plate on, Hanna reflects on what it means to build habits from the heart — not from pressure, performance or trying to become someone else, but from identity, faith and what God has already placed within you. This episode connects to the Discipline part of the CONFIDENT Framework: building helpful habits, consistency and intentional action over time. You’ll be invited to reflect on where you may have lost momentum, where you may have slipped back into an old pattern, and what small faithful practice could help you continue this week. Follow the podcast for more reflections on self-leadership, faith, confidence and leading with courage, colour and heart. Chapters00:00 – What if growth means starting again?00:41 – Welcome to Confident Leadership. In Colour.01:16 – Thank you for the micro-pause reflections0:16 – Today’s theme: habits, faith and life as learner-driving03:48 – The learner-driver story05:16 – Guidance in different seasons of life06:40 – Life with God as learner-driving07:16 – Peter, courage and starting again09:40 – Why habits are not always neat11:23 – Identity, wholeheartedness and lasting habits11:51 – Timothy and fanning into flame what is already there14:06 – Small faithful practices, not striving15:23 – Becoming one per cent clearer16:01 – Power, love and self-discipline17:05 – The L-plate as a sign of willingness18:20 – Reflection: where have you lost momentum?19:11 – The Holy Spirit as guide and helper19:49 – Closing: keep the L-plate on

    Keep the L-Plate On: Habits, Faith and the Courage to Continue

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Leadership isn’t black and white – it’s a living palette. Join Hanna Zaxmy, leadership coach and creator of The Confident Framework, for honest conversations and practical tools that help you lead with more courage, clarity, and authenticity. Through solo episodes and guest talks, explore what it means to lead with heart, brain, and gut — and build the confidence to lead in full colour. Membership: https://patreon.com/ConfidentLeadershipInColour Get CONFIDENCE BOOST: https://migmatit.se/en/confidence-boost/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hanna.zaxmy/ podcast@migmatit.se