Leading Yourself

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!

Leading Yourself is a business podcast hosted by Carolina de Arriba, with 595 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Carolina de Arriba hosts Leading Yourself, a business show with 595 episodes published.

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  Episode #367

  367: Leading Through Transitions: The Messy Middle

  Aug 17, 202622 minS7

  This is the most personal episode of the series. I share the two years I spent in the middle with this book: writing, deleting, scrapping whole sections, and the quiet stretch where I thought I might not finish. I also share something I am not proud of, that I broke my own pattern and never announced it, because I was afraid I would fail. And I talk about the moment it stopped being a question about the book and became a question about me. Maybe I am not a writer. Maybe I am not the person who writes a book. Then we get practical. The two ways we all get the middle wrong: freeze and thrash, and the three-part anchor that actually gets you through when certainty is not coming: your values, your throughline, and your next honest step. If you are in the foggy, unglamorous, nobody-claps-for-this middle right now , this one is for you. I am in one too. In this episode: Why the middle is where transitions are actually won or lost Freeze and thrash: the two failure modes, and how to tell which one you are in Two years, one book, and the middle I went through over and over When a practical question quietly becomes an identity verdict The three-part anchor: values, throughline, next honest step Why clarity comes from the walking, not before it The Anchor Card, and two questions to sit with this week Submit questions you would like me to answer live on the next episode here: https://forms.gle/7YdF8VMa3voUnjA69 Subscribe to the Monday Brew here: https://leadingyourself.myflodesk.com/mondaybrew Check out my upcoming book here: ⁠https://buildyourcareersquad.com⁠

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  Leading Yourself

  Morning Brew: Be Different

  Aug 15, 20267 min

  “When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different.”

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  Episode #366

  366: Leading Through Transitions: The Window You Run Past

  Aug 10, 202628 minS7

  Think about the last time you started something new at work. What did you do in those first few days? If you are like most high performers, you got moving fast, head down, proving you belonged. And you ran right past the one moment that mattered: the quiet window at the very beginning, before anyone had decided who you are here, when you could have asked a different question. Not how do I prove myself. But who do I want to be here? This is week two of Leading Through Transitions, about the loud, visible career changes (new jobs, promotions, pivots) and the ones nobody hands you: the scope you stretch into, the project you raise your hand for, the decision to show up differently. I pick up right where last week left off, and get specific about what I did when I switched companies: I slowed down, blocked time each morning to map how the place actually worked before volunteering, and chose who I wanted to be as a leader before I got busy proving myself. Then I bring back the Four Zones of Work as your compass, and explain why the transitions you choose yourself can be the sneakiest burnout traps of all. If you are starting something new, thinking about raising your hand for something, or just deciding how you want to show up this season, this one is for you. In this episode: Why every new job, team, role, or project is a window, and why it closes fast What running past the window actually costs you six months from now The question to ask before what do I want to accomplish here The concrete slow-start practice I used at a new company, and what it produced The Four Zones of Work, and why high performers burn out in the Excellence zone A three-step Four Zones audit you can run today

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  Leading Yourself

  Morning Brew: The Standard Starts With You

  Aug 8, 202610 min

  “Your relationship with yourself sets the standard for every relationship you allow into your life.”

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  Episode #365

  365: Leading Through Transitions: Who You're Becoming

  Aug 3, 202617 minS7

  Have you ever caught yourself describing who you are with a label that is not quite true anymore? Not a job title , a label. The strong one. The reliable one. The one who always says yes. The words come out the way they always have, and somewhere in the middle a small part of you notices: that is not really me anymore. That moment is what an identity shift feels like from the inside. And it is where we start this month's new series: Leading Through Transitions. In this first episode, I open up about the go-to person I used to be, the one who needed to be in every room, involved in every decision, and the honest truth that the need came from two places at once: real drive, and real fear. I share why, after I left and started over, I chose on purpose not to become that person again, and what was left once the fear got quiet. I am more grounded now than I have ever been, and the purpose that was always underneath just takes a different shape. We talk about why we hold onto old labels, why the messy middle is where the real work happens, and how to move through a big change while staying anchored to what is actually true about you. If something in your life is shifting right now, and you are not sure who you are on the other side of it, this one is for you. In this episode: Why you never notice an identity shift while it is happening The two things we do to avoid the discomfort, holding on and grabbing ahead A personal story about the label I chose to set down How to tell the difference between drive and fear A simple three-part way to hold any transition Why the unsettled feeling is a marker, not a warning Two questions to sit with this week Listen to my conversation with Anthony Trucks referenced in today's episode here: 83: Identity Shift with Anthony Trucks

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