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Hosted by Heather Haigh & Alicia Saint · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 10 episodes
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Leadership today asks a lot of people. Leaders make decisions with incomplete information, navigate competing priorities, support others through change, and respond to challenges that rarely have simple answers. In the midst of all that, it's easy to keep moving without creating space to think. Hosted by Heather Haigh and Alicia Saint, The Pause Before You Lead is a podcast for leaders navigating growth, complexity, and uncertainty. Each week, Heather and Alicia explore the conversations, assumptions, patterns, and tensions that influence how leaders think, decide, communicate, and lead. Drawing on decades of leadership experience and more than ten years coaching, consulting, and partnering with leaders and teams, they bring thoughtful dialogue, practical wisdom, and powerful questions to the real challenges leaders face every day. Whether you're leading a team, an organization, or your own next cha
Heather Haigh & Alicia Saint hosts The Pause Before You Lead, a business show with 10 episodes published.
You delegate. You build a capable team. You genuinely want others to take ownership. So why do you keep stepping back in? In this solo episode of The Pause Before You Lead , Heather explores a pattern she noticed in her
Leadership can sometimes feel lonely. But is loneliness simply part of leadership, or could it be connected to the stories we carry about what leadership requires? In this first solo episode of The Pause Before You Lead,
Many leaders work hard to create psychologically safe teams. But when safety becomes the goal without the emotional maturity to navigate disagreement, teams can unintentionally avoid the very conversations that lead to b
When every request feels urgent, leaders can find themselves trapped in a cycle of constant reaction. Strategic work gets postponed, boundaries disappear, and teams begin believing that everything is a priority. In this
Many leaders become successful because they're dependable. They solve problems, step in quickly, and keep everything moving. But over time, those same strengths can become the very thing that prevents others from learnin
Many leaders become successful because they're dependable. They solve problems, step in quickly, and keep everything moving. But over time, those same strengths can become the very thing that prevents others from learnin
Trust doesn't usually disappear overnight. More often, it erodes quietly through everyday interactions that seem helpful on the surface. Leaders offer advice, share ideas, move conversations forward, and try to help. Yet
Trust doesn't usually disappear overnight. More often, it erodes quietly through everyday interactions that seem helpful on the surface. Leaders offer advice, share ideas, move conversations forward, and try to help. Yet
"If only I had more time." It's one of the most common frustrations leaders bring into coaching conversations. More time to think. More time to lead. More time for what matters most. In this episode, Heather and Alicia e
Leaders today face constant pressure to respond, solve problems, and keep things moving. Yet many tell us they're capable of clearer thinking, better decisions, and more intentional leadership than they're currently acce
Alicia recently joined a breakout discussion about psychological safety and immediately found herself feeling excluded. The irony wasn't lost on her. A group gathered to discuss psychological safety unintentionally creat
Have you ever walked away from a conversation thinking, "We've talked about this before"? Many leaders find themselves repeating the same messages, giving the same advice, and feeling increasingly frustrated that nothing
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