Who's Sitting at the Head of Your Table? Leading Yourself Before You Lead Your Business

Who's Sitting at the Head of Your Table? Leading Yourself Before You Lead Your Business

July 9, 2026 · 18 min · Season 5 · Episode 19

About this episode

Leslie Kane discusses the importance of leading oneself before leading a business and offers strategies to identify and manage internal leadership voices.

Before you hire your next employee, coach, or virtual assistant, there's one leadership team you need to pay attention to first. The one inside your own mind. In this episode of the Why Not Today? Podcast, Leslie Kane shares a powerful exercise that will help you discover how the voices influencing your decisions every day may be helping your business grow or quietly holding it back. What if fear isn't the problem? What if it simply has the wrong job? You'll learn how to identify who's sitting around your leadership table, decide who deserves a promotion, and create a strategy that moves your business forward with courage, focus, and intentional action. In this episode, you'll discover: • Why every entrepreneur has an invisible leadership team • Who you need to fire and who deserves a promotion on your internal leadership team • How to stop letting fear make your business decisions • The simple leadership table exercise that brings clarity to your mindset • How to use the three planning categories of Low-Hanging Fruit, Achievable, and Audacious to create momentum • Four questions that will help you turn great ideas into meaningful action Leadership starts long before you hire…

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