FLEX Live: Getting Out of Your Own Way: Leadership, Self-Awareness, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

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Why do smart, capable leaders sometimes become their own biggest obstacle?

In this episode of FLEX Live, Whitney Munro sits down with leadership coach, Lead Into It founder, and FLEX Partner Sara Greco for a candid conversation about what happens when fear, control, frustration, old stories, and other people’s reactions start taking up too much space.

Drawing on Sara’s experience in the U.S. Air Force, corporate leadership, and coaching, they talk about the role self-awareness plays in becoming a better leader—and why knowing yourself may be more important than trying to manage everyone around you.

They dig into:

• How great leaders create space for people instead of controlling them
• Why micromanagement often says more about the leader than the team
• The stories high achievers tell themselves that can eventually hold them back
• How to recognize when concern has turned into unproductive anxiety
• What to do when you’re spending energy on something you can’t control
• Why leadership growth often begins with getting honest about your own patterns
• Practical ways to get out of your own way and make a different choice

Sara and Whitney also share how they met at the Female Founders Collective conference, the leadership lessons that shaped Sara’s career, and why some of the most important leadership skills are things no one ever formally teaches us.