Leading Yourself

Carolina de Arriba
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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. Morning Brew: Distractions

    14H AGO

    Morning Brew: Distractions

    If you don’t separate yourself from your distractions, your distractions will separate you from your goals.

    4 min

  2. 5D AGO

    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: affirmations, journaling, hype playlists before big meetings. And it kept not holding. Not because positive thinking is worthless. But because feelings are not a stable foundation. They shift with every piece of feedback, every comparison, every moment where something doesn't go the way you hoped. The sequence that actually works is: act, build evidence, let the belief follow. You don't think your way to confidence. You do your way there. This is week three of our April series on Building Confidence, and it's the episode where the whole month clicks into place. We get into the competence-confidence loop: what it is, why it works, and the three places most people get stuck inside it. The perfection trap. The comparison spiral. The one-and-done fallacy. I also share something I don't talk about often: what it was like to start this podcast. The early episodes I still cringe at. The feedback that was uncomfortable but true. And what actually shifted by episode fifty, not because I believed harder, but because I had fifty episodes of evidence that I could do this. The confidence you're waiting to feel before you start? It's on the other side of starting. Not before. After. In this episode: Why affirmations don't work, and what to do insteadThe competence-confidence loop and how to get it runningThe three sticking points that stop the loop before it startsHow this connects to everything we built in weeks one and twoYour practice for this week: one rep, before you're readyThis is week three of four. If you haven't listened to weeks one and two yet, go back, this month builds on itself.

    26 min
  3. Morning Brew: Keep Showing Up

    APR 18

    Morning Brew: Keep Showing Up

    The most underrated skill in life is to keep showing up… even when you don’t feel like it

    6 min

  4. APR 13

    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 being set, where something important was being decided. Did you say everything you came in with? Or did you leave with something still in your chest — an idea you held back, a pushback you softened, a point you never made because the moment had already moved on? That's not a knowledge problem. That's not a preparation problem. I know, because I've been that person — the most prepared woman at the table, with the clearest perspective in the room, who said nothing. And watched us make the wrong call. And had to sit in the follow-up meeting three months later when we walked it back. This episode is about what drives that quiet. And what it actually takes to stop. Executive presence isn't a personality type. It's not about being louder or more aggressive or projecting some version of confidence you don't feel. It's self-trust made visible. And the shrinking — the internal audit before every sentence, the softening reflex, the waiting for the invitation — isn't who you are. It's a habit. Built in rooms that may have required it. That you're carrying into rooms that don't. In this episode: The four specific ways women shrink in professional rooms — and why none of them are character flawsWhy the most prepared person in the room is often the quietestThe direct bridge between speaking up and self-trustThe meeting I don't talk about — and the shift that came afterThree practices to start showing up differently this weekYour presence is a contribution. Your silence is a withholding. Last week we talked about trusting yourself. This week we talk about showing it.

    24 min
  5. Morning Brew: You are not behind

    APR 11

    Morning 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.

    4 min

  6. APR 6

    348: Build Unshakeable Confidence

    You don't need more information. You don't need another opinion. What you need is to trust the person who already has the answer: yourself. This week we're kicking off a brand new series: all of April, we're talking about confidence. Not the kind that comes from a highlight reel or a good hair day. The real kind. The sustainable kind. The kind that holds up when things get hard and the room is full of people who seem more certain than you feel. And we're starting at the root, self-trust. Because here's what I've noticed after years of leading teams and coaching women through some of the hardest decisions of their careers: the gap between people who move through life with real confidence and people who stay stuck isn't intelligence. It isn't experience. It isn't even ability. It's self-trust. And most of us have less of it than we think, not because we're broken, but because it gets eroded quietly, in ways that feel completely normal while they're happening. In this episode, I'm walking you through the difference between self-confidence and self-trust (they are not the same thing, and once you see it you can't unsee it), the three patterns that quietly chip away at your trust in yourself over time, what self-doubt is actually telling you, and the one practice that starts rebuilding everything, today, this week, no overhaul required. This is the foundation. Everything else we build this month: executive presence, competence, your confidence inventory, sits on what we lay down today. Come back every week this month. Each episode builds on the last.

    31 min
  7. Morning Brew: Do it for you

    APR 4

    Morning Brew: Do it for you

    You grow the most when you stop trying to impress everyone… and start doing it for yourself.

    5 min

  8. MAR 30

    347: Protect the Work - Integration Session

    Five weeks of building systems and boundaries , this is where it all comes together. Carolina leads a real coaching session that integrates the full month: what you built, what’s still in the way, and the one thing that will actually make it stick. Then four listener Q&As covering systems, personal boundaries, career boundaries, and starting over. Plus a direct bridge to April. IN THIS EPISODE →  A real coaching session integrating all four weeks: systems, boundaries, beliefs, and the one thing →  The question that ties it all together: do you trust yourself enough to keep what you built? →  Q&A: how to restart a system after falling off (Week 1) →  Q&A: how to hold a boundary with a parent who responds with tears or guilt (Week 3) →  Q&A: how to stop absorbing your team’s work without dropping the ball (Week 4) →  Q&A: is it too late to start building your career intentionally at 28? (Week 2) →  The bridge to April — why March was just the foundation

    29 min
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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!

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  • Creator
    Carolina de Arriba
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    565
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Carolina de Arriba
  • Show Website
    Leading Yourself

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