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As women in leadership, we may feel equipped to lead our team and ourselves.. But what about our finances?

In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, I’m joined by Shashi Behl, Founder & CEO of Joydrop, for a powerful conversation on the part of business we often avoid. 

We get into what it really means to lead your financial future with clarity and confidence.

✨ Episode Highlights

• Financial reframes to take a more grounded approach to your finances
• What it means to take agency over yourself
• Investing in yourself, your business, and beyond, in ways that support your future
• Becoming the CFO of you

When you're clear on your numbers, you're clear on your decisions. And when your people, your plan, and your financial vision are aligned—you stop playing small and start scaling something built to thrive!

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Success isn’t just revenue, fame, or milestones—it’s about alignment, fulfillment, and leading from your values. In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, I share why money is a metric—not a value—and how confusing the two leaves businesses looking great on paper but empty in reality.

From family connection to authenticity, team growth to legacy, grounding success in what matters most transforms not only your own fulfillment but also your culture—where your team feels real ownership and pride. That’s the kind of success that lasts.

✨ Episode Highlights

• 💡 Why money is a metric, not a value
• 🪞 How to define success from the inside out
• 👩‍👧 Family, authenticity, and other values that truly measure success
• 🏆 Building accountability and ownership in your team through shared values
• 🌱 Redefining business success to include impact, culture, and legacy
• 🔑 The questions to ask your team about what success means to them

Real success looks different for everyone—and that’s exactly the point. When you get clear on your personal definition, you show up as a more grounded leader, and your team rises with you. That’s how we create sustainable, meaningful growth that goes far beyond the P&L.

👉 Access my Resource Vault and download the free Values-Based Success Reflection Worksheet to define success on your own terms and spark powerful conversations with your team. https://go.highvoltageleadership.ca/resource-library

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Entrepreneurship teaches us to move fast: fail fast, scale fast, bounce back faster. But here’s the truth—when you’re always in overdrive, you’re not leading, you’re redlining. And eventually, that pace will cost you your clarity, your creativity, and your joy.

In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, I’m unpacking why slowing down might just be the most powerful leadership strategy you’ve been overlooking. Because real growth doesn’t come from constant hustle—it comes from creating space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters.

Episode Highlights:

⏱️ Why our cultural obsession with speed leaves leaders stuck in fear and urgency

💔 What we lose when we trade reflection for rushing—joy, freedom, and fulfillment

🧘 The power of the pause: how rest fuels resilience and stillness creates strength

🔥 Practical ways to break the hurry habit and redefine success beyond speed

If you’ve been running at full throttle and wondering why it still doesn’t feel enough, this episode is your invitation to slow down—so you can lead better, live better, and actually enjoy the business you’ve built.

📩 DM me the word PAUSE and I’ll send you my favorite reflection questions to help you lead with more calm and clarity.

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If you’re a founder, you’re probably swimming in advice—coaches, consultants, mentors, LinkedIn posts, podcasts… everyone has an opinion about how you should run your business. But here’s the truth: the wisest voice isn’t out there. It’s in you.

In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, I’m helping you sort through the noise, trust your intuition, and reconnect with the most powerful advisor you’ll ever have—your inner leader. Because true leadership isn’t about collecting endless strategies. It’s about discernment: knowing which voices to trust and when to let them go.

Episode Highlights:

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The difference between a coach, consultant, and mentor (and how to know which one you actually need)
• ⚡ The signs you’re stuck in a loop and it’s time to seek outside perspective
• 💡 Simple practices—like journaling, meditation, and reflection prompts—that strengthen your inner leader
• 🔥 Questions to ask yourself to discern whether advice serves your values, your team, and your vision

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by too many opinions—or doubted your ability to make the “right” call—this episode is your reminder: you already have the wisdom you need.

📩 Download my FREE The Inner Leader Check-In Template—your guide to making clear, aligned decisions.

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You didn’t start your business to babysit, micromanage, or do all the things yourself. But if you’re stuck in the weeds, carrying the weight of every decision, and wondering why scaling feels so heavy—you’re not alone.

Here’s the truth: your people are your business. And if you’re not treating them like the valued employees they are, you’re leaving money, energy, and opportunity on the table. In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, I’m breaking down how to shift from helper to high-impact leader—so you can build a team that grows your business without burning you out.

Episode Highlights:

• 🧠 Why the “self-made” myth is stalling your growth 
• 💡 How your team creates value beyond deliverables
• 📊 The simple ROI audit to see who’s driving outcomes 
• 🔥 5 shifts to start leading for freedom, growth, and impact 

If you’re ready to scale your business and your leadership, this is your playbook. Undervaluing your People Strategy leads straight to burnout, and you can take steps today to start leading for growth, freedom, and impact.

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Quick question: When did running your business start to feel like dragging a dumpster fire uphill… in heels… during a hot flash?  Today's episode of Female Founder Unplugged is for every midlife woman out here building a business, raising a family, caring for aging parents—and wondering when the ‘freedom’ part is supposed to kick in.

I’m talking to my brilliant friend Brenda Rigney about what really goes on behind the highlight reel—and how to build a business that doesn’t burn you out. This one’s real, raw, and ridiculously validating. Trust me, you’ll feel seen, and you’re not gonna want to miss this.

Episode Highlights:

• 👩‍💼 Why midlife women are building businesses and battling burnout 
• 💥 The surprising truth about why female founders struggle with leadership identity
• 👜 Instagram glam vs. entrepreneurship reality—the myth we need to bust 
• 🧠 Self-leadership, menopause, mindset & the myth of “having it all” 

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Let’s be honest: you didn’t start your business to spend your days playing referee, therapist, or emotional clean-up crew. But if you’re finding yourself caught in team tensions, tiptoeing around tricky conversations, or putting out fire after fire—you’re not alone.

Here’s the truth: drama is a leadership tax—and it’s one you don’t have to keep paying.

In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, we’re breaking down exactly where drama hides in growing businesses—and how to lead with clarity instead of chaos.

Episode Highlights:
🧠 Why drama thrives in small teams—and why it’s not about the people (3:56)
🧩 The #1 mindset shift that gets you out of “fixer” mode (6:00)
📋 How to install communication systems that reduce chaos and emotional load (6:45)
🔥 The surprising ways your inner people-pleaser may be hijacking your leadership (9:05)
💬 Why you need to have the damn conversation—and how to start it with heart (14:20)

This is your invitation to stop managing emotions and start leading with calm, confident authority. If you’re ready to detox the drama and step fully into your CEO role, this one’s for you.

📩 D𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘅 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝟱 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀

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Resilience Isn't a Buzzword—It's a Skillset. Here's How You Build It.

Let’s be real: “build resilience” gets thrown around like it’s just another item to check off your to-do list. But what does that actually look like when your launch flops, your team’s floundering, and your inner critic is on a rampage? 

In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, we’re cutting through the fluff and breaking down what real resilience looks like for you and your team…when things don’t go as planned.

🔥 Episode Highlights:

 🧠 How to hit mute on your saboteur and lead with your Sage self instead (6:33)

 🛠️ The 5-minute nervous system reset that builds real-time resilience (9:06)

 🚀 Why your team’s resilience starts with you—and how to lead by example (13:01)

 Download my FREE Resilience Reboot Toolkit → https://go.highvoltageleadership.ca/resilience-reframe

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💡 Ready to lead with resilience—even when things go sideways?

Inside the LPC Accelerator, we help female founders like you lead with clarity, confidence, and a people strategy that actually scales. If you’re tired of holding everything together on grit alone, this is your next move.

We’ll help you:
 ✨ Build a team that doesn’t fall apart under pressure
 ✨ Create a culture where resilience isn’t just a buzzword—it’s built in
 ✨ Step fully into the next level of your leadership

📩 DM me “LPC” on Instagram @highvoltleadership or learn more and apply here → The LPC Accelerator

Because resilience isn’t something you do alone—and you shouldn’t have to.

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If you’ve ever avoided a hard conversation until everything was on fire— hi, me too. No one hands us a playbook for how to speak up with courage...but over the years, I’ve learned that if I want to grow a business with integrity, I can’t keep tiptoeing around the truth.

In this episode, I’m sharing the exact mindset shift and 5-step framework I use to lead difficult conversations—whether it’s with a team member, a client, or someone I love.

Episode Highlights:

🧨 Why conflict avoidance used to cost me time, energy, and trust—and what finally changed. (0:37)
 😬 The 3 saboteurs that kept me stuck: the Pleaser, the Perfectionist, and the Martyr. Sound familiar? (2:20)
 📋 My CLEAR Framework for hard conversations—center yourself, lead with curiosity, express the impact, ask for what you need, and reinforce the relationship. (6:43)
 🌱 What actually shifts in your business when you start leading like a grown-up instead of people-pleasing through it. (13:50)

If you’ve been putting off a conversation that’s weighing on you—this is your permission slip to stop avoiding and start leading. You don’t need to be fearless. You just need to be clear.

📅 Special Masterclass: Difficult Conversations in Difficult Times — happening July 24 at 9am MT. I’ll be coaching you through this live. (16:05) 

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Let’s get real: You didn’t build your business to be the overworked taskmaster, the fill-in-the-gaps manager, or the fire-putter-outer.

But if you’re stuck in that role, chances are your team isn’t set up to thrive—and that’s holding you back from the very things you crave:
 ✔ More freedom
 ✔ Bigger impact
 ✔ Real, sustainable scale

Episode Highlights:
 🔥 Your people add ALL the value in your business. Not some. Not a little. All of it. (1:40)
🔥 Is the “self-made” badge blocking your growth? (2:47)
🔥 Why your team is the product—even in a service business. (3:29)

This episode gives you the mindset, tools, and people strategy to shift from overwhelmed operator to empowered CEO.

BONUS CONTENT: The 5 Shifts to Scale Your Leadership (and Your Business)

Once you've had a chance to listen to the show, take a few moments to do your own reflecting. Here's my tips to start shifting you leadership right now.

1. Shift Your Mindset – You’re a CEO, Not a Chief Everything Officer

• 🧠 Reflection: What tasks are you still doing that someone else could own?
• 💡 Action: Make a list of 3 things to delegate this week.

2. Audit for ROI – Your Team Should Be Driving Results, Not Just Taking Up Space

• 🔍 Reflection: Who’s delivering? Who’s underutilized? Who’s on the fence?
• 💡 Action: Do a quick team audit using a simple “Keep, Coach, Cut” framework.

3. Design for Ownership – Roles that Empower, Not Confuse

• 📋 Reflection: Are your roles designed for clarity and accountability?
• 💡 Action: Draft or revisit 1 role description. Include KPIs and what success looks like.

4. Invest in Development – Starting With Your Own

• 🔥 Reflection: Are you modeling the leadership you want from your team?
• 💡 Action: Choose one leadership development habit to build this month.

5. Celebrate & Connect – Recognition is Retention Fuel

• 🎉 Reflection: Do your people know why their work matters?
• 💡 Action: Send 1 meaningful recognition message this week (use their "love language").

💬 Bonus Prompt at the End:

Want help implementing these?
These 5 shifts are exactly what we cover in the LPC Accelerator — a high-touch, high-impact program that helps you scale your team and your leadership. If you're nodding your head while reading this, hit reply or DM me “HIGH IMPACT” and let’s talk.

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