This episode follows a leadership coach who has successfully rebuilt her identity after a deeply personal crisis, she reflects on her experiences with men in both family life and the corporate world, exploring how emotional suppression and an inability to hold women’s emotions shaped her childhood, her parents’ marriage, and her relationship with her father.

This conversation connects personal grief, leadership, and emotional intelligence, revealing how these patterns need to be disrupted in order for real leaders to emerge in the workplaces and inter-personal relationships of today.

SHOW NOTES

– Introduction and her work as a leadership coach
– Losing her baby and the health crisis that changed everything
– Rebuilding identity after grief and physical recovery
– Men, emotional suppression, and the inability to hold women’s pain
– How her parents’ marriage broke down
– Her strained and painful relationship with her father
– Parallels between family dynamics and the corporate world
– What leadership looks like when emotional safety is missing
– Redefining strength, vulnerability, and purpose

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S3E03: Deborah Henley - Why True Leadership Needs Emotional Safety