You’re Either the Lid for Your Team or the Vision of What’s Possible
Level Up with Debbie Neal
Debbie Neal, Upstarter Podcast Network
5.0 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m sharing a powerful leadership truth that can either unlock explosive growth in your business or quietly hold your team back: you are either the lid of your team, or the evidence of what’s possible. I talk about the importance of self-leadership, consistency, energy, and showing up with vision and conviction, even before you have a team watching you.
If you’re ready to break through your next leadership lid, reignite your belief, and lead with purpose, this episode will challenge and empower you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome to Level Up with Debbie Neal. I am your host. There is nowhere. I would rather be |
| 0:09.9 | than right here, right now with you. This podcast is all about leveling up in all aspects of our lives. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you for being here. I am so grateful. I'm excited to be on this journey with you. Together, |
| 0:23.0 | we are leveling up. You ready? Hello, friends. Welcome back. I'm so grateful as always that you are |
| 0:34.4 | here. I am really fired up about today's episode because today we're |
| 0:39.1 | talking about something that will either unlock everything in your business or it will quietly |
| 0:46.5 | cap your growth without you even realizing it. So what we're talking about today is you as the |
| 0:53.5 | leader of a team or a team to be, you are either |
| 0:55.9 | the lid for your team or you are the evidence of what's possible. |
| 1:00.7 | So I want that to really sink in because whether you like it or not, whether you're aware |
| 1:07.5 | of it or not, you are influencing every single person around you. |
| 1:14.2 | And you might be listening to saying, well, like, I don't have a team yet. |
| 1:17.4 | You have people watching you, whether it's on social media or in real life, and you are |
| 1:22.0 | influencing them to either join you or not join you. |
| 1:25.8 | So your team is watching you. They are reading your energy. |
| 1:29.7 | They are modeling your behavior. They are deciding what's possible for them based on what they see in you. |
| 1:39.1 | Now, it's ironic because some people are like, well, I don't want to have that type of responsibility. |
| 1:42.7 | Friends, that's called leadership. |
| 1:45.6 | Leadership is a privilege. |
| 1:48.6 | God gifted you the gift of leadership. |
| 1:54.9 | And you do have that much responsibility because when we sit in our own stuff, our own stories, |
| 2:04.2 | our own excuses, we hold other people back from their future and their potential. So the real question is not, |
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