E170: I Didn't See Myself As A Leader, This Is How I Shifted That

The Jamie Sea Show

Jamie Sea

Entrepreneurship, Business

5.0 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Leadership isn’t a title you suddenly feel ready for, it’s something you grow into.

In this episode of the Jamie Sea Show, Jamie reflects on when she first felt like a leader and the internal work that followed. Jamie talks through how she untangled her discomfort with the word “leader,” what it took to release the fear of people leaving her team, and how she began defining heart-led leadership in a way that actually felt good for her nervous system.

Throughout the conversation, Jamie shares the practices and mindset shifts that you can start tapping into right away as you step into leading yourself and your team.

You’ll love this episode if you’re growing into leadership and trying to make it feel more you — a little softer, a little steadier, a lot more honest.

00:38 – When I first felt like a leader

01:45 – How I began untangling my relationship with the word “leader”

03:02 – How I worked through the fear of team members leaving

04:00 – What being a heart-led leader means to me

05:24 – How I ask for support from my team

06:30 – How I navigate leadership and the fear of responsibility

09:15 – How I approach leadership and personal boundaries

11:43 – How I handle hard conversations with team members

18:56 – How I use the Proof Stacking exercise to become a better leader

20:42 – How I think about paying people and holding their livelihood

26:50 – You’re already a leader

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jamie C Show. What does the word leadership mean to you? Today, I'm joined by my producer Natalie.
0:06.3	We're covering the topics of responsibility and relationships with leadership and being able to hire and be able to scale your company.
0:14.5	I'm going to be sharing a little bit more around my personal journey around the word leadership, what it's like for me to be able to scale and how I've
0:21.6	personally built my relationship with being a leader in my company. Okay, I'm very excited about
0:26.7	this one. You say that every time. I know. When did you first start to see yourself as a leader?
0:36.3	Probably about a year and a half ago.
0:38.0	What? For real? Yeah, no, for real. Okay. I have a very interesting relationship with the word
0:44.2	leader. As a projector, people would always say, human design projector, they always say,
0:48.2	oh, you're a natural leader. I was like, I don't feel that way. And when I was in the process of having the first, the first company that I had,
0:58.4	which was hair salon, right, I had to make a lot of decisions. And I also had to be really
1:04.5	decisive. And I also had to take team feedback. And I outsourced a lot of my decision making
1:10.5	because I didn't know how to communicate
1:13.9	in a way that didn't make me feel bossy. Those were intertwined and tangled. Other people
1:22.0	would see me as a leader. Could you give an example? Yeah. So if we were setting up a project or we were setting up a launch of
1:30.6	something, right? And they'd be like, okay, Jamie, I need you to make a decision on this or this needs
1:35.2	to be done. I would just, it would be there, but it would be the communication of just saying what
1:41.6	I need to say and not being afraid of how it comes across.
1:45.4	How did you work through that? It was untangling what the word leader actually meant
1:51.1	and what history I had assigned to it. Kind of what I had found out over time was that I assumed
1:59.2	that leaders were, I would say that I thought that they were a little bit more
2:05.2	abrasive or I had a lot of bosses in employment that were not great. And I assumed that's what
2:16.2	that was, was like a bad bad boss and so every word obviously
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