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Leadership conversations for the moments that test you.

Honest conversations on pressure, growth, responsibility, and the human side of leading.

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Honest conversations for leaders choosing growth over ego. Browse show notes, guests, and listen wherever you get podcasts.

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Ep. 8

Leading When You're Tired

A grounded episode about capacity, boundaries, and how leaders can tell the truth about energy without abandoning responsibility.

· 47 min

Ep. 7

When Growth Feels Messy

Growth is not always graceful. This episode explores the awkward, uncertain middle where real leadership development often happens.

· 39 min

Ep. 6

Clarity Without Control

How to create direction without micromanaging, over-functioning, or turning leadership into constant control.

· 44 min

Ep. 5

The Cost of Performing

A conversation about polished leadership, emotional labor, and the quiet exhaustion that comes from always trying to look like you have it together.

· 36 min

Ep. 4

Trust After the Pivot

How leaders rebuild trust after a change in direction, a missed expectation, or a decision that did not land the way they hoped.

· 41 min

Ep. 3

Choosing Growth Over Ego

A grounded look at ego, defensiveness, humility, and the leadership that becomes possible when growth matters more than being right.

· 45 min

Ep. 2

The Hard Conversation

A conversation about the moments leaders avoid, the cost of silence, and how to move through conflict with clarity and care.

· 38 min

Ep. 1

Leading Without the Mask

Lory opens the conversation around honest leadership, the pressure to perform certainty, and what changes when leaders stop pretending.

· 42 min

About the show

A podcast for leaders who choose growth over ego

Each episode dives into the moments that shape us: the pivots, the people, the hard questions, and the leadership that emerges when we stop pretending and start becoming.

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