865: You’re A Leader, Now What?

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The day you became a mom you were catapulted into a new leadership role with no training and dire consequences if you couldn’t rise to the occasion. For months, you stumbled, fumbled, and slowly figured this new leadership role out. You learned new skills, you learned how to take care of those you were leading, and you advocated for those in your care at every turn. You felt protective in a way you have never felt protective before. You knew it was on you to figure this out quickly. And, you did it. Over the last couple of years, as I’ve had conversations with women in new leadership roles, I‘ve heard over and over about how hard it is to step into a new leadership role with little or no training. It’s overwhelming, disorienting, and exhausting. There are so many things to figure out - some inconsequential and some largely consequential. In many instances, folks who were once your peers are now the people you have to give hard feedback to. You have this sense that all eyes are on you - and maybe, just maybe, some folks would be happy to see you fail. So, there is no room for mistakes. And, it seems, no room to give yourself grace. As I stepped into community leadership roles over the last few years, I was excited to give back, make a difference, and have a voice. But having a voice feels scary AF when you go to open your mouth for the first time in front of a new audience. How can you instill quickly build trust and demonstrate integrity? How can you solicit support while sharing new ideas and opinions? Most opportunities to lead come too fast. You feel ill-prepared. You question if you are the right person or the right “fit” for the job. You are. You’ve been here before. You’ve figured it out. And, you’re sure as hell going to figure it out this time too. In this episode, I talk through why owning the title of leader might feel conflicting to you, 3 key responsibilities in any leadership role, and what to do when you find yourself in a leadership role that you don’t feel totally prepared for. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 865.
0:04.0	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going
0:07.7	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 865.
0:15.6	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:19.5	I'm here to give you and other passionate,
0:21.8	driven, unapologetic moms, stories, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you
0:27.4	lead more powerful, positive, and purposeful lives every damn day. So let's dive in.
0:37.6	Hello, Sham shameless moms.
0:39.2	Today we're going to talk about being a leader.
0:42.0	And so you're a leader now and now what?
0:46.2	It's been so interesting over the years as I've worked with moms and women in all sorts
0:51.1	of different roles.
0:52.3	How tentative and hesitant and even all-out resistant
0:56.1	moms and women are to calling themselves leaders. But at the same time, especially when you look
1:04.0	at motherhood, from the day you became a mom, you were catapulted into a new leadership role with
1:08.7	no training and dire consequences if you couldn't
1:11.1	rise to the occasion, right? So you suddenly have this baby in your house and like no,
1:17.6	there's no adequate training for this leadership role. And if you can't perform, this child will not
1:23.4	thrive. And so this is a very challenging leadership position. Now, most of us don't recognize
1:29.3	that that's what we've done when we've brought a newborn into our lives. We don't recognize like,
1:33.8	oh, I'm a leader now. I'm a leader of this baby. But that really is what it is. And when you look
1:38.4	back, you can start to see how you had to really dive right into the deep end, into a leadership role, and figure it out.
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