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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Why It Hurts & How to Lead with Your EDGE
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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Why It Hurts & How to Lead with Your EDGE

Leadership will bruise you: emotionally, mentally, and energetically. But with the right system, you don’t have to break. You just need your EDGE.

Leadership will test your identity, stretch your nervous system, and demand more of you than any workshop ever prepared you for.

It’s not always calm.
It’s not always clean.
It’s definitely not always fair.

This week on The Leadership Locker Room, I’m pulling no punches: leadership is a contact sport.

And if you’re doing it right, it’s going to hurt sometimes.

In this final episode of the Foundational Series, I’m talking about:

  • 💥 The emotional toll of being the glue, the shield, and the steady one

  • 🧨 Why doing the right thing still feels lonely (and what to do about it)

  • 🔁 How to stop performing strength and start protecting your energy

  • 🧠 The EDGE Framework: my go-to system for staying aligned under pressure

🔁 Your EDGE =

  • E | Empower: Reclaim your internal permission to lead differently

  • D | Design: Build systems that protect your energy, not just your calendar

  • G | Guide: Lead through clarity, not martyrdom

  • E | Execute: Move in alignment, not anxiety

If you’ve been leading with your whole heart but feeling like you’re falling apart in the process - this episode is your armor.

Not the kind that hardens you.

The kind that holds you.

You don’t need to lead perfectly. You just need your EDGE.


⚙ Tools to Make it Stick

Practical application & practice is key. Here are tools that will make these concepts stick.


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