Leadership Is Not Self-Sacrifice — It’s Self-Preservation

About this episode

Alexis Frank challenges the traditional notion of leadership as self-sacrifice, advocating for a perspective of leadership rooted in self-preservation.

Send a text In this episode of F That: Shift Your Perspective, Elevate Your Power, Alexis Frank disrupts the glorified idea of leadership as self-sacrifice and makes the case for something revolutionary: Leadership as self-preservation. If you’ve ever felt burned out, bitter, or invisible in your leadership role — whether as a founder, parent, partner, or team lead — this episode is your wake-up call. Alexis breaks down why the narrative of “leading by sacrifice” is a product of capitalism an...

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Host: Alexis Frank

Topics covered

• leadership
• self-preservation
• burnout
• capitalism
• self-improvement

Keywords

• leadership
• self-sacrifice
• self-preservation
• burnout
• capitalism

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