Welcome to shameless leadership. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. This show is for women, transgender people, non-binary folks, as well as allies, who are committed to advancing their leadership while also advancing the leadership of those around them. In each episode, we will offer practical tips, leadership strategies, and inspiring

stories to help you become a more confident, compassionate, and inclusive leader. The truth is,

you were born to lead. What might happen for you if you were to wholeheartedly embrace that

part of yourself? So let's start now, together. Hello, shameless leaders. I'm excited to be here with you today.

I'm excited because it's sunny out in February in Seattle, which it makes it feel like maybe

there's a little glimmer of hope for spring being just around the corner, which feels

just very exciting this time of year, especially in Seattle when we're still in a season

where at any given moment,

it could start raining for like 42 days straight. So that feels hopeful and optimistic today.

And I'm excited about our topic. We're going to be talking about resilience, which is probably

somewhat familiar to you in terms of what resilience is as a concept and also how you've

had to be resilient many, many times in your life. But we're going to be talking about resilience in a new way, which I think will be very

enlightening and illuminating. I feel like it could be one of those episodes where you're like,

oh, wow, now that I'm seeing this familiar concept in a new way, I will never see this

concept the same again. So my hope is that you'll really learn something today about how you are growing in leadership,

how you show up as a leader, how you practice resilience, how you talk about resilience,

and also how you reinterpret resilience in order to protect yourself in new ways.

So let's dive in.

So let's talk about resilience in a new way by identifying the potential that perhaps leadership resilience is actually a trap

for women. Now, what does this mean? So when we think about resilience, we think about oftentimes

with pride, we think about the things we've had to go through, the things where we've figured things out and gotten through hard times and charged forward and pushed ahead and made it through adversity. And those are all great things, right? And we get to own that. When we go through those hard seasons, we get to get through the hard season, we get to own it, we know that we're stronger on the other end. We've built that resilience,

and that is a positive thing. But, and what if we also examine who benefits from women's

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