Your Team Needs Your Armor, Not Your Feelings

Your Team Needs Your Armor, Not Your Feelings

From The Amy Porterfield Show by Amy Porterfield

April 7, 2026 · 1h 2m

About this episode

In this episode, Amy Porterfield discusses how to lead effectively under pressure with insights from Dr. NaTasha Jordan.

How to Lead Under Pressure Without Losing Yourself in the Process There's a version of you that is not built to lead. And every time you drag her into a high-stakes meeting, a hard decision, or a moment where your team needs you to be their leader, you pay for it. Your team pays for it. Your business pays for it. You walk away exhausted and wonder why running a company you built feels so relentlessly heavy. That weight has a name, and this episode is where you finally figure out what to do about it. Dr. NaTasha Jordan has worked with Fortune 500 executives and seven and eight-figure entrepreneurs, and she's watched the same pattern play out at every level: the more you've built, the more you're leading from a version of yourself that was never meant to carry it. I'll tell you something I don't love admitting. When Dr. NaTasha spoke at my Made to Scale Mastermind and asked the room "do you know who you are?", I raised my hand during Q&A, which I almost never do with my own guests, because I genuinely didn't have the answer. What came out of that conversation changed something specific for me, and I share exactly what that was in this episode. You'll walk away understanding…

People in this episode

Host: Amy Porterfield

Guest: Dr. NaTasha Jordan

Topics covered

  • leadership
  • business pressure
  • self-awareness
  • team dynamics
  • executive coaching

Keywords

  • leadership
  • business
  • team
  • pressure
  • self-awareness
  • executive coaching
  • entrepreneurship

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