765: How to See What’s Holding You Back, with Marty Dubin

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Careers, Business, Management

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Marty Dubin: Blindspotting

Martin Dubin is a clinical psychologist, serial entrepreneur, business coach, and adviser to C-suite executives and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. He has founded several companies, including a multimillion-dollar health-care company where he also served as CEO. He is the author of Blindspotting: How to See What’s Holding You Back as a Leader (Amazon, Bookshop)*.

Whenever I ask leaders, “What’s getting in the way of you moving forward?” the most common answer I hear is, “Myself.” In this episode, Marty and I explore what’s likely holding you back and how you can take the first steps to get traction.

Key Points

Many leaders don’t recognize the need for change and succumb to an identity blindspot.
You don’t have to change your identity, but there’s a mismatch between role and identity, that’s a major problem.
Shifting your identity is not changing who you are. Identities help us to sort through people and situations so we know who we are in relation to them.
An identity that many have worked before can get in the way today. Common ones are: imposter, independent thinker, rule follower, unworthy, entitled, rebel, and peacemaker.
Look back through your calendar over the past three months and determine how well your activities match up with the identity your role demands.
Embody the new identity you are aiming to shift to, even if you’re not yet feeling it.

Resources Mentioned

Blindspotting: How to See What’s Holding You Back as a Leader by Marty Dubin (Amazon, Bookshop)*

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0:00.0	Whenever I ask leaders, what's getting in the way of you moving forward? The most common
0:06.2	answer I hear is myself. In this episode, what's likely holding you back and how you can take
0:13.3	the first steps to get traction. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 765.
0:20.5	Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.
0:28.9	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm
0:34.2	your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born. They're made. And this weekly show
0:40.5	helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. A conversation that comes up a lot
0:47.8	in my work is with leaders, especially leaders who have hit an inflection point recently,
0:53.8	on trying to figure
0:55.4	out what is holding them back. They have a title, a role, things on the outside seem to be
1:01.5	going okay, and yet something doesn't quite feel right yet. Today, a conversation about how
1:09.5	we can better see what's holding us back and be able to move
1:13.6	forward to be so helpful to certainly our own work, but more importantly for our teams and
1:20.0	our organizations to help others thrive. I'm so pleased to welcome Marty Dubin.
1:24.9	Marty is a clinical psychologist, serial entrepreneur, business coach,
1:29.2	and advisor to C-suite executives, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. He has founded several
1:34.2	companies, including a multi-million dollar healthcare company where he also served as CEO.
1:39.1	He is the author of Blindspotting, How to See What's Holding you back as a leader. Marty, what a pleasure
1:45.7	to have you. Thank you, Dave. Really looking forward to the conversation. Me too. You talk in the
1:51.9	book about co-founding a company. You've had several iterations of your career. And in the company
1:58.6	you co-founded, things were going great for a long time over 15 years.
2:03.5	And then they weren't.
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