The Leader’s Birthing Room Podcast ™

TASHA O

Most leadership development builds the role. It sharpens strategy. Improves performance. Increases influence. Then it sends people back into the weight of leadership without ever developing the person carrying it. That gap is why The Leader’s Birthing Room™ was created. Hosted by Tasha Odunuyi (Tasha O), Leadership Strategist, Leadership Speaker, National Board Certified Christian Counselor, author, and founder of The Leader’s Birthing Room™ and the Inner Healing Outer Wealth® Framework, this podcast develops leaders from the inside out. Built on the Inner Healing Outer Wealth® Framework, each episode explores Wholeness, Healing-Centered Leadership, Healthy Resilience, Anchored Leadership, Reinvention, Wealth Beyond Money, and Holistic Transformation to help executives, founders, entrepreneurs, and leadership teams build the internal capacity that sustainable leadership requires. If you’ve built the role but haven’t built the person carrying it, you’re in the right room. If traditional leadership taught you how to lead but never taught you how to build the leader, this podcast will challenge everything you thought leadership development was meant to do. Because leadership can never outperform the leader.This is where leadership development goes beyond strategy and performance to develop the person entrusted with the responsibility. Build the leader first. Everything else follows. www.iamtashao.com Email tashao@iamtashao.com Linkedin Tasha Odunuyi Book your Leadership Strategy Session https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/strategy-session Grab Your Complimentary Leadership Guide Here https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/lead-magnet-landing-page  Book Tasha for Speaking, Leadership panels, Key Notes, and Corporate Workshops/Events https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/speaking-landing-page

  1. Sep 20

    When Disappointing People Test Your Leadership Core Values

    Leadership gets uncomfortable when people question your decisions, push back, or feel disappointed by the direction you’ve chosen. Can you still lead beyond waving in your decisions?  That is when your core values have to become more than words on paper. I'm not speaking about organizational core values, yours. They should guide how you decide, how you communicate, and how you remain grounded when people disagree. In this episode, I’m talking about what happens when leaders are unclear about their core values. Fear begins influencing decisions. People-pleasing takes over. You start questioning what you already knew because the response was not what you expected. I also share questions to help you identify what is driving your decisions and whether your leadership reflects what you say matters.    Building who leaders before what leads for the Uncommon Leader this room is for.  Check out The Leaders Birthing Room™ on YouTube or TikTok, where I share leadership nuggets to chew on all week.    Ready to take a closer look at what is driving your leadership? Visit www.iamtashao.com Book a Leadership Intensive or invite me to speak at your next event, panel, or leadership workshop.   Booking for selective events to close out 2026 and scheduling for 2027. https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/consulting-landing-page-1   Don't forget to grab your complimentary leadership intensive with 5 shifts you can begin making today. https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/lead-magnet-landing-page #corevalues #leadershipdevelopment #anchoredidentity #executiveleadership #theleadersbirthingroom

  2. Aug 27

    Sometimes the Leadership Problem Is You | Leadership Self-Awareness, Emotional Maturity & Growth

    Sometimes the Leadership Problem Is You | Leadership Self-Awareness, Emotional Maturity & Growth   Leadership gets dangerous when every problem is always somebody else.   In this episode of The Leaders Birthing Room™, Tasha O challenges leaders to face the mirror and consider a harder possibility: sometimes the tension in the room, the communication breakdown, the damaged trust, or the unhealthy culture may be connected to you.   Your title can give you authority, but it cannot give you self-awareness. And leadership maturity requires the ability to recognize when your own wounds, reactions, patterns, assumptions, and unaddressed issues are shaping the way other people experience you.   Sometimes people are not resisting your leadership. They have learned to protect themselves from the way you respond.   This conversation is about taking ownership without losing authority, developing the leader behind the role, and doing the internal work that changes how you lead externally.   Because when the leader changes, the room changes.   In this episode:   Why self-awareness is a leadership responsibility How unresolved issues can shape leadership behavior and culture What happens when people begin tiptoeing around a leader The difference between authority and emotional maturity Why personal transformation improves the way you lead How healing creates clearer, healthier leadership   Reflection: What are people currently having to manage, avoid, or recover from in order to work with me?     leadership development, leadership self-awareness, emotional maturity in leadership, executive leadership, leadership growth, healthy leadership, leadership accountability, leadership blind spots, personal development for leaders, workplace culture, leadership communication, healing-centered leadership, Inner Healing Outer Wealth, The Leaders Birthing Room

  3. Aug 6

    We've Made Brokenness Functional and Called It Leadership

    We’ve Made Brokenness Functional   Leadership conversations usually focus on performance, strategy, and execution. Few ask what happens when the leader behind the title is quietly carrying unresolved pressure.   In this episode of The Leaders Birthing Room™, Tasha Odunuyi challenges a leadership culture that rewards productivity while ignoring the condition of the person producing it. Functional isn’t the same as healthy. Many leaders have learned how to perform through pain, normalize burnout, and call survival success.   If leadership starts with the leader, then healing isn’t optional—it’s foundational.   In This Episode   Why brokenness can become invisible in high-performing leaders. The hidden cost of functioning without healing.  Why performance should never replace personal development. What it looks like to build the leader before building the role.   Reflection Questions   What have I become good at surviving instead of addressing? Where am I functioning well but not living well? What is my leadership costing me personally? If my title disappeared tomorrow, who would still be left?   Key Quote   “We’ve made brokenness functional. Just because you’ve learned to operate through it doesn’t mean you’re free from it.”   Connect   If this conversation challenged your perspective, subscribe to The Leaders Birthing Room™, leave a review, and share this episode with a leader who’s ready to build from the inside out.   Connect with Tasha Odunuyi   Leadership Strategist • Speaker • National Board Certified Christian Counselor   INNER HEALING OUTER WEALTH®   Building who leads before what leads.   Website: iamtashao.com Complimentary Guide of 5 Shifts to Make Today https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/lead-magnet-landing-page   Book your leadership intensive https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/strategy-session-booking-form Book Tasha to Speak at your event, leadership panel, or for a customized workshop. https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/speaking-landing-page For Corporate Consulting https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/consulting-landing-page-1     #Leadership #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #EmotionalIntelligence #InnerHealingOuterWealth #TheLeadersBirthingRoom #ExecutiveCoach #Founder #LeadershipPodcast #HealthyLeadership #LeadershipMindset #PersonalGrowth #CorporateLeadership #ResilientLeadership

  4. Jul 13

    Why Identity Comes Before Leadership : Uncommon Leader

    Who you are will always shape how you lead. We've spent decades teaching people how to lead teams, build businesses, and manage performance. Yet many leaders are still exhausted, disconnected, and stuck repeating the same patterns. Maybe the problem isn't leadership. Maybe it's identity. In this first episode of The Uncommon Leader series, I unpack why identity is the foundation of every decision, relationship, and leadership challenge you'll ever face. Before strategy, influence, or vision, there is the person carrying it all. We'll explore why performance can never replace conviction, how an unsettled identity quietly limits your leadership, and what it looks like to build from the inside out. If you've ever wondered why success still feels heavy, why confidence comes and goes, or why leadership can feel like something you're constantly trying to prove, this conversation is for you. If this episode challenged your perspective, subscribe to The Leader's Birthing Room™ Podcast and continue the conversation on The Leader's Birthing Room™ YouTube channel, where I share leadership insights and Shorts that expand on these conversations. Connect with me at iamtashao.com Grab your complimentary guide here https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/lead-magnet-landing-page   Book Your Corporate Workshop  https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/consulting-landing-page-1   Let's begin the work here. https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/strategy-session   Subscribe, Like and Share with another leaders who needs to be on the room. Reviews help us spread the work being done here. We would love a few minutes of your time to leave one.

  5. Jun 7

    Why Building the Leaders Matters More Than Building the Business

    We're back for another episode discussing the importance of building the person behind the role.  Most leadership development focuses on building the role. The training. The strategy. The skills. The performance metrics. But eventually leadership exposes something those things can't fix.   The person carrying it.   In this episode of The Leaders Birthing Room™, I explore why so many leaders find themselves successful on paper yet exhausted in reality. We discuss what happens when achievement outpaces personal development and why leadership capacity is about more than competence. If leadership is requiring more of you than it used to, this conversation will help you understand why.   Topics Discussed:   • Anchored Leadership   • Healing-Centered Leadership   • Healthy Resilience   • Wholeness   • Reinvention   • Wealth Beyond Money   • Holistic Transformation   Leadership is not just about what you build. It’s also about who you become while building it.   Tag us on our socials with what resonated with you, review the episode so other leader's hear feedback on how the show spoke to them and subscribe to be notified of new episodes. This is bigger than episodes. It's a new leadership movement that starts from the inside out.   Email tashao@iamtashao.com IG iam _tashao Linkedin Tasha Odunuyi   Grab your complimentary leadership journal here to help you start making 5 shifts needed today. https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/lead-magnet-landing-page   If you're ready to go deeper schedule a leadership intensive session. https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/strategy-session   For speaking engagements or panel sessions book here. https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/speaking-landing-page   #leadershipdevelopment #executiveleadership #leadershippillars #responsibleleadership #Leadershipworkshops #leadershippanels #wholenessisstrategy #leadershipcorevalues #leadershippodcast

  6. May 24

    They Built the Role, But Not the Leader| Unprepared For The Weight

    You can tell when somebody has been carrying too much for too long. Not by how they perform at work. By how little of them is left when the day is over.   So they keep producing. Keep solving problems. Keep holding everybody else together. Meanwhile their personal life, emotional health, relationships, and internal world are running on fumes privately. This episode is an honest conversation about the part of leadership people avoid talking about. The pressure. The weight. The emotional cost of always being the one everybody depends on. Because many people were trained for responsibility but never developed for the human weight that comes with carrying it long term. And eventually leadership starts following you home. In this episode we talk about: The hidden exhaustion that hinders presence.  How it affects every area of life.  Why functioning is not enough to lead well.  The emotional cost of carrying too much for too long. The difference between building a role and building the person inside it. This conversation is for the leaders who are still showing up while quietly feeling depleted behind the scenes.  A lot of leaders have learned how to survive pressure without ever learning how to recover from it. Traditional leadership teaches performance and powering through. They develop titles and roles but not the human behind them.  This is what set's this room apart. Your humanity is welcomed and encouraged.    To book a leadership intensive session https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/strategy-session Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasha-odunuyi-a38105238/ For speaking engagements, panels or workshops https://www.iamtashao.com/book-your-experience Website www.iamtashao.com Like, subscribe and share with another leader who needs to join you in this room. Your reviews help reach other leaders walk into a room where the quiet parts of leadership are finally said out loud.    #Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveLeadership #LeadershipPodcast #EmotionalIntelligence #BurnoutRecovery #HealingCenteredLeadership #HighCapacityLeaders #PersonalDevelopment #MentalWellness #TheLeadersBirthingRoom™ #InnerHealingOuterWealth®

  7. May 4

    They Built The Role, But Not The Leader Behind It.

    Building who leads before what leads. Introduction to a 3-episode series. The Leader's Birthing Room™ is the leadership room C-suite executives, founders, and high-capacity leaders have been waiting for but most have never been invited into. They built the title. I build the person carrying it. Hosted by Tasha Odunuyi, Holistic Transformation Leadership Strategist and National Board Certified Christian Counselor, author and strategist. This is not another leadership podcast or movement. It is a confrontation with the version of leadership that performs alignment, monetizes burnout, and calls collapse "commitment." She guides listeners through reflective journal prompts to identify where they're carrying unsustainable weight and where patience and capacity are breaking down. The episode offers concrete action: pick one strained area this week, set a boundary or have the needed conversation, and create space for clarity. It's a call to build life structure that supports long-term leadership, not just short-term results. This is the room where leaders stop negotiating with their own values. Where the title finally meets the person. Where presence outranks performance every time and you're free to build a life your leadership can sustain.  Subscribe. Share with a leader who needs to be in the room. Leave a review and tag me on what resonated with you. This room is built for the leaders who know they are called to lead differently. Heal Deeply. Lead Boldly. Prosper Beyond Money.   #LeadershipPodcast #ExecutivePodcast #LeadershipDevelopmentPodcast #BusinessPodcast #EntrepreneurPodcast #ManagementPodcast

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Most leadership development builds the role. It sharpens strategy. Improves performance. Increases influence. Then it sends people back into the weight of leadership without ever developing the person carrying it. That gap is why The Leader’s Birthing Room™ was created. Hosted by Tasha Odunuyi (Tasha O), Leadership Strategist, Leadership Speaker, National Board Certified Christian Counselor, author, and founder of The Leader’s Birthing Room™ and the Inner Healing Outer Wealth® Framework, this podcast develops leaders from the inside out. Built on the Inner Healing Outer Wealth® Framework, each episode explores Wholeness, Healing-Centered Leadership, Healthy Resilience, Anchored Leadership, Reinvention, Wealth Beyond Money, and Holistic Transformation to help executives, founders, entrepreneurs, and leadership teams build the internal capacity that sustainable leadership requires. If you’ve built the role but haven’t built the person carrying it, you’re in the right room. If traditional leadership taught you how to lead but never taught you how to build the leader, this podcast will challenge everything you thought leadership development was meant to do. Because leadership can never outperform the leader.This is where leadership development goes beyond strategy and performance to develop the person entrusted with the responsibility. Build the leader first. Everything else follows. www.iamtashao.com Email tashao@iamtashao.com Linkedin Tasha Odunuyi Book your Leadership Strategy Session https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/strategy-session Grab Your Complimentary Leadership Guide Here https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/lead-magnet-landing-page  Book Tasha for Speaking, Leadership panels, Key Notes, and Corporate Workshops/Events https://tasha-odunuyi.mykajabi.com/speaking-landing-page