260: What Table Were You Actually Built For? A Self-Leadership Framework for Small Town Business Owners
About this episode
Molly Knuth shares her personal journey of self-leadership and the importance of finding the right path for small town business owners.
This one is personal. Episode 260 is a solo cast, and it's the episode I've been sitting with for a while. I'm sharing what's been happening in real time in my career this year, not as a pivot story or a comeback story, but as a self-leadership story. Because I think a lot of people listening right now are living inside someone else's version of success and just don't have the language for it yet. This episode is that language. I'm talking about what happened when I chased bigger clients, bigger cities, bigger budgets...and why something still didn't feel right. I'm talking about the small moments of friction that accumulated until I couldn't ignore them. And I'm sharing the four-step self-leadership framework that helped me stop asking how do I get to the bigger table, and start asking what table was I actually built for. In This Episode: The honest truth about what I was chasing when I stepped away from Molly Knuth Media in 2025 Why "bigger is better" is a societal signal that hits especially hard when you're from a small town of 2,000 people What it actually felt like to sit in those bigger rooms with bigger clients and still feel something was off Why coming back to small…
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