Your Growth Doesn't Require You to Become Someone Else

Your Growth Doesn't Require You to Become Someone Else

June 5, 2026 · 26 min · Season 3 · Episode 23

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Coach Dora Mendez and Sammie Walker Herrera discuss the impact of corporate standards on personal identity and the essence of true leadership.

When we discuss leadership, corporate environments tend to direct our attention entirely toward bottom-line outcomes, execution, and performance matrices. But what happens when the standards for how a professional is "supposed" to look and communicate end up fracturing their identity? In this encore presentation, Coach Dora Mendez welcomes public speaking coach Sammie Walker Herrera to look closely at the personal transformations underpinning real leadership. Sammie courageously tracks her pe...

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