Lead Like You Mean It: Speaking Truth and Leading with Heart in a World That Wears Masks with Melissa Dawn

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Dawn is a Master Certified Coach, bestselling author, and founder of CEO of Your Life. She guides retreats and executive leaders with this message: Lead with heart, not just strategy.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Authentic leadership starts with self-awareness. Removing the masks we wear—like the 'coaching mask" or the' professional mask"—frees us to lead with impact and integrity.

2. Heart-centered leadership is a strategic advantage. Being transparent, vulnerable, and real drives performance, trust, and long-term retention.

3. Speaking with clarity and care builds connection. In today's purpose-driven workforce, treating people as people—not tasks—creates loyalty and momentum.

Learn more about Melissa's coaching, retreats, and tools for heart-centered leadership - CEO of Your Life

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0:00.0	Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by
0:08.0	a high level, the all-on-one sales and marketing platform. Today we'll be breaking down,
0:12.2	lead like you mean it, speaking truth and leading with heart in a world that wears masks.
0:17.6	To drop these value bombs, I brought to Melissa Dawn into EO Fire Studios.
0:20.7	Melissa is a master-certified coach, bestselling author, and founder of CEO of Your Life.
0:25.8	She guides retreats and executive leaders with this message.
0:28.8	Lead with heart, not just strategy.
0:31.7	And today, Foundation, we'll talk about the moment Melissa realized that she was wearing a mask.
0:35.6	We'll talk about the turning point.
0:37.3	We'll talk about heart- point. We'll talk about
0:37.8	heart-centered leadership, speaking with clarity and care and, oh, so much more. And the big
0:43.3	take of response to today's episode goes to Melissa and our sponsors. Did you know Shopify is the
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1:26.7	your free trial today.
1:30.1	Melissa, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming
1:35.4	successful that most people disagree with.
1:38.5	I don't know if most people disagree with it, but a lot of people don't realize that
1:41.7	becoming successful is really about working on
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