As leaders, it is crucial to recognize the profound impact our emotional wounds can have on our leadership abilities and the well-being of those we lead. Unresolved traumas, past hurts, and unhealed emotional scars can manifest in various ways, such as difficulty in building trust, lack of empathy, and an inability to create a safe and supportive environment for our teams.
Healing our wounds allows us to lead with authenticity, vulnerability, and compassion, inspiring others to do the same and creating a ripple effect of growth and transformation throughout the organization. In this episode of Grow Black Leaders Podcast, we are joined by Favour Robinson, a bestselling author, transformational speaker, and coach who helps women to break limitations and become people of faith, to talk about the importance of healing our wounds as leaders.
Favour shares her earliest leadership memory, how her mother's death brought the leadership in her, what it takes to become a great leader, and the importance of healing our wounds as leaders. She also talks about the balance between being a vulnerable leader and a strong leader. Tune in to learn more!
Favour’s first leadership memory
How the loss of Favour's mother brought leadership in her
The experience of moving to the USA at the age of 19 without the family knowing
The perception of leadership versus the reality
What it takes to become a great leader
The different obstacles that Favour had to overcome in the various leadership roles that she had
The importance of healing our wounds as leaders
The balance between being a vulnerable leader and a strong leader
What Favour would say to her younger self
“If you can’t lead and govern your life, you should never be in a place to lead anybody else.”
“Moments of pain and difficulty are opportunities to figure out what you really have on the inside.”
“If you don’t heal what is inside of you as a leader, you will start to produce casualties with other people.”
“Great leaders have the capacity to help people reframe their perception about the journey ahead.”
“Many times as people, we see the results or see what people have, and we desire that, but we don’t realize what it took for them to get to that position.”Connect with Favour Robinson
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