Influence with Integrity: The Moment I Stopped Negotiating With Myself

About this episode

Leslie Gaudet reflects on the importance of honoring oneself amidst the pressures of high achievement in this personal solo episode.

What happens when the woman teaching other people to honor themselves realizes she hasn’t fully been honoring herself? In this deeply personal solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet opens up about the emotional and physical cost of becoming the infrastructure for everything she’s building — from podcasting, coaching, and content creation to supporting a law firm and carrying the invisible labor that comes with being the one everyone depends on. This is the final episode in the May solo series — Influence with Integrity — and it’s an honest conversation about the gap that can slowly form between what we teach, what we value, and how we’re actually living. Leslie shares the internal negotiation so many high-achieving women quietly live inside: • the pressure to keep going, • the discomfort around asking for support, • the normalization of exhaustion, and • the moment she realized her body was asking her to stop overriding the very truths she teaches other women to honor. If you’ve ever felt like you’ve become the nervous system for everything around you…this conversation will likely feel very personal…

People in this episode

Host: Leslie Gaudet

Topics covered

• self-honor
• emotional cost
• high-achieving women
• support
• exhaustion
• personal growth

Keywords

• influence
• integrity
• self-improvement
• negotiation
• support
• exhaustion
• personal development

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