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Your leadership gaps aren’t measuring what you haven’t learned. They’re measuring what you’ve been afraid to confront.

In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas names the five inner fears, including leadership self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and fear of failure that quietly run even the most accomplished leaders from the inside out.

This is Episode 2 of From Stuck to Leading, a 5-part self-coaching series built around the exact steps Bernadette uses with private clients. In this episode, you’ll finally see the direct line between what you’re carrying internally and the leadership gaps showing up in your diagnostic scores.

Be sure to DOWNLOAD your free leadership gap diagnostic and refer to it while listening thoughout the series - balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in

ABOUT THIS SERIES

• Episode 1 — DISCOVER: Who are you as a leader when no one’s watching? HERE

• Episode 2 — CONFRONT: Meet the 5 inner fears destroying your leadership ← this episode

• Episode 3 — SHED: What do you release, change, or expand? (coming soon)

• Episode 4 — CREATE: What does the leader you’re meant to be look like? (coming soon)

• Episode 5 — ACCELERATE: What’s the one move that changes everything? (coming soon)

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Why leadership self-doubt and imposter syndrome are creating your diagnostic gaps

• How to identify which of the 5 inner fears is running your leadership

• The direct link between your internal fears and your team’s trust, performance, and engagement

• A 3-step Confront framework for facing what’s been running your leadership from the inside

• How to read your Leadership Gap Diagnostic scores as fear gaps, not skill gaps

KEY QUOTE

“Your diagnostic isn’t measuring what you haven’t learned. It’s measuring what you’ve been afraid to confront.” — Bernadette Boas

EPISODE CHAPTERS

0:00 — Cold Open / Series Intro
5:00 — Meet Your Five Inner Bitches
7:00 — Inner Bitch #1: The Imposter
9:30 — Inner Bitch #2: The Failure Avoider
13:00 — Inner Bitch #3: The Control Freak
15:00 — Inner Bitch #4: The People Pleaser
17:30 — Inner Bitch #5: The Approval Seeker
21:00 — Leadership Gap Diagnostic Spotlight Introduction
22:30 — Spotlight Question 1: Self-Awareness
25:30 — Spotlight Question 2: Executive Presence & Influence
27:00 — The 3-Step Confront Framework
33:30 — Coaching Question + I Dare You
34:30 — Outro + Episode 3 Tease

RESOURCES

• FREE Leadership Gap Diagnostic: balloffirecoaching.com/opt-in

RELATED EPISODES

• Episode 1 — DISCOVER: Who Are You as a Leader? HERE

• Why Your Team Ignores You and What to Fix First

• Confident as F*ck: How to Stop Leading Through Fear with RACHEL LAWRENCE

ABOUT BERNADETTE BOAS

Bernadette Boas is an executive coach, speaker, author, and founder of Ball of Fire Coaching. 25+ years in corporate America. 18+ years coaching 400+ executives across Fortune 500 organizations. Host of Shedding the Corporate Bitch podcast.

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