Michelle Pollack built a career most people would envy, from Broadway with the producers of Rent and Avenue Q to network television in Hollywood. Then she caught herself doing exactly what she swore she never would: giving up her integrity to climb the next rung. Today she is an executive leadership coach and the creator of compassionate command, a framework for leaders who feel successful and stuck at the same time. In this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, Michelle and Ron talk about the ladder, the lies high achievers tell themselves, and how to lead with both clarity and care.

In this episode:

• The two lies high achievers believe: "I'll breathe when I get there" and "I have to blow it all up to change"
• Why most of Michelle's clients who come in ready to quit end up staying and making small shifts instead
• Slow down to speed up, and why busy leaders don't have time to skip the inner work
• Ron's pit stop analogy: why rest has to be a full stop, not a slowdown
• Treating change like a science experiment so one failed attempt doesn't make you abandon ship
• The Hollywood moment Michelle realized her integrity was five rungs below her on the ladder
• How fear and sunk cost keep leaders silent when they know something is off
• Why curiosity beats assumption in conflict and in leadership
• What a real coach does, and why the best athletes lean on their coaches more as they rise
• Compassionate command explained: why clear is kind, and why compassion is not the same as being nice
• How to give tough feedback and leave room for the other person to respond instead of react

Michelle Pollack is an executive leadership coach who works with high achievers one on one and inside corporations on leadership, clear communication, and healthy conflict. Before coaching, she worked on Broadway and spent years as a network television executive in Hollywood.

Learn more: michellepollock.com
Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn. She answers every DM.

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