Leading From The Edge Podcast

Most leaders believe they understand how they are showing up.

But leadership is not defined by what we intend.

It is defined by what we consistently reinforce.

In this episode of Take 5 With Me, Liz Murray explores the gap between the leader you say you are and the leader your behaviour reveals. Through simple but powerful examples, Liz highlights how hesitation, softened standards, and over-involvement quietly shape leadership identity.

This episode invites leaders to pause, observe their patterns, and ask a more honest question. Not “What should I do?” But “What am I actually doing?” Because the fastest way to shift your leadership is not to learn something new. It is to see yourself clearly and decide what changes.

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🎧 Listen to Take 5 with Me — short episodes designed to strengthen leadership from the inside out.

🔹 WORK WITH LIZ MURRAY

Liz Murray helps leaders protect their energy, sharpen their influence, and lead with emotional stamina through her online course Be Exceptional, one-to-one coaching, and high-impact workshops.

📩 Contact: [email protected]

🌐 Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Follow Liz: LinkedIn: Liz Murray

Instagram: @eopossibilities

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Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Strong leaders rarely lack clarity.

More often, they delay a decision they already know needs to be made.

In this episode of Take 5 With Me, Liz Murray explores how hesitation quietly lowers leadership standards and why confidence is often misunderstood in leadership.

Confidence doesn’t come before decisive leadership.

It follows it.

Through small moments of internal negotiation, postponing a conversation, softening a boundary, delaying a correction, authority slowly begins to drift.

This episode invites leaders to examine the subtle ways hesitation shows up and to consider the identity choices that shape leadership influence.

Because leadership isn’t built on certainty.

It’s built on decision.

What You’ll Learn

• Why hesitation creates ambiguity for teams

• The hidden leadership cost of internal negotiation

• How leaders protect harmony at the expense of authority

• Why decision speed matters in senior leadership

• The difference between thoughtful discernment and emotional delay

• How identity shapes leadership behaviour

Key Leadership Question

Instead of asking: “What should I do?” Ask: “What would the leader I say I am do?” Then act accordingly.

🎓 Join the Program 👉 Be Exceptional Liz’s signature course to help you master stamina, influence, and energy.

Connect With Liz

👉 Subscribe on YouTube for more episodes of Take 5 With Me

👉 Subscribe to Leadership Edge on LinkedIn for weekly leadership insights.

🎧 Listen to Take 5 with Me — short episodes designed to strengthen leadership from the inside out.

🔹 WORK WITH LIZ MURRAY

Liz Murray helps leaders protect their energy, sharpen their influence, and lead with emotional stamina through her online course Be Exceptional, one-to-one coaching, and high-impact workshops.

📩 Contact: [email protected]

🌐 Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Follow Liz: LinkedIn: Liz Murray

Instagram: @eopossibilities

Facebook: Edge of Possibilities

Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Take 5 With Me: The hidden cost of leadership hesitation

Many leaders believe they need more confidence before making a difficult decision. But in Liz Murray’s experience, confidence is rarely the real issue. The real issue is hesitation.

In this episode Liz explores the quiet pattern she sees repeatedly in leadership.

Capable leaders already know what needs to happen. They can see the performance gap, the conversation that needs to occur, or the direction the team should move.

Yet they pause.

They ask for more information.

They revisit the issue later.

They tell their team to leave it with them.

Over time those small moments create ambiguity.

And ambiguity quietly lowers the standards people hold themselves to.

Through practical leadership examples, Liz explores how hesitation affects team culture and why leadership confidence usually follows decision rather than precedes it. Because leadership authority rarely collapses overnight.

It drifts.

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

0:32 Why leaders think confidence is the problem

1:15 The subtle pattern of hesitation

2:05 How hesitation creates ambiguity

2:55 CEO example of delayed decision making

4:05 When protecting harmony lowers standards

5:10 How control replaces clarity

6:10 The leadership identity shift

6:55 Final reflection

🎓 Join the Program 👉 Be Exceptional Liz’s signature course to help you master stamina, influence, and energy.

Connect With Liz

👉 Subscribe on YouTube for more episodes of Take 5 With Me

👉 Subscribe to Leadership Edge on LinkedIn for weekly leadership insights.

🎧 Listen to Take 5 with Me — short episodes designed to strengthen leadership from the inside out.

🔹 WORK WITH LIZ MURRAY

Liz Murray helps leaders protect their energy, sharpen their influence, and lead with emotional stamina through her online course Be Exceptional, one-to-one coaching, and high-impact workshops.

📩 Contact: [email protected]

🌐 Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Follow Liz: LinkedIn: Liz Murray

Instagram: @eopossibilities

Facebook: Edge of Possibilities

Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Strong leaders rarely lack clarity.

More often, they delay a decision they already know needs to be made. I

n this episode of Take 5 With Me, Liz Murray explores how hesitation quietly lowers leadership standards and why confidence is often misunderstood in leadership.

Confidence doesn’t come before decisive leadership. It follows it. Through small moments of internal negotiation, postponing a conversation, softening a boundary, delaying a correction, authority slowly begins to drift. This episode invites leaders to examine the subtle ways hesitation shows up and to consider the identity choices that shape leadership influence. Because leadership isn’t built on certainty. It’s built on decision.

What You’ll Learn

• Why hesitation creates ambiguity for teams

• The hidden leadership cost of internal negotiation

• How leaders protect harmony at the expense of authority

• Why decision speed matters in senior leadership

• The difference between thoughtful discernment and emotional delay

• How identity shapes leadership behaviour

Key Leadership Question

Instead of asking: “What should I do?” Ask: “What would the leader I say I am do?”

Then act accordingly.

🎓 Join the Program 👉 Be Exceptional Liz’s signature course to help you master stamina, influence, and energy.

Connect With Liz

👉 Subscribe on YouTube for more episodes of Take 5 With Me

👉 Subscribe to Leadership Edge on LinkedIn for weekly leadership insights.

🎧 Listen to Take 5 with Me — short episodes designed to strengthen leadership from the inside out.

🔹 WORK WITH LIZ MURRAY

Liz Murray helps leaders protect their energy, sharpen their influence, and lead with emotional stamina through her online course Be Exceptional, one-to-one coaching, and high-impact workshops.

📩 Contact: [email protected]

🌐 Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Follow Liz: LinkedIn: Liz Murray

Instagram: @eopossibilities

Facebook: Edge of Possibilities

Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Self leadership is talked about constantly, but it is often described in vague or aspirational ways.

In this short reflection, Liz Murray grounds self leadership in what it actually looks like in practice. Not mindset. Not motivation. Behaviour.

In this episode, Liz explores:

• Why self leadership is about action, not intention

• What it looks like to stop keeping the peace at your own expense

• The shift from rescuing and overfunctioning to holding clear standards

• Why clarity does not need defending

• How cleaner leadership creates more space for everyone involved Self leadership is not harsher leadership. It is cleaner leadership.

This episode closes the February Clean Leadership series. Because clarity eventually asks us to choose, and that is where leadership really begins.

✅ Timestamps

00:00 – What self leadership actually looks like

00:10 – Why it is often described vaguely

00:18 – Grounding self leadership in practice

00:28 – Not agreeing just to keep the peace

00:40 – Addressing small issues early

00:50 – Fewer commitments, stronger follow through

01:00 – Trusting your perspective without over explaining

01:10 – Not rescuing or over functioning

01:17 – Cleaner leadership creates space

01:23 – Where leadership really begins

🎓 Join the Program: 👉 Be Exceptional

Liz’s signature course to help you master stamina, influence, and energy.

👉 Subscribe on YouTube for more episodes of Take 5 With Me.

👉 Subscribe to Leadership Edge on LinkedIn for weekly insights on leading with heart and clarity.

🎧 Listen to Take 5 with Me – short episodes to grow your leadership from the inside out.

🔹 WORK WITH LIZ MURRAY

Liz Murray helps leaders protect their energy, sharpen their influence, and lead with emotional stamina through her online course Be Exceptional, one-to-one coaching, and high-impact workshops.

📩 Contact: [email protected]

🌐 Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

💡 Follow Liz for more:

LinkedIn: Liz Murray

Instagram: @eopossibilities

Facebook: Edge of Possibilities

Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

Overfunctioning is one of the most socially rewarded habits in leadership.

It looks like commitment.

It looks like reliability. It even gets praised as leadership. But often, it is compensation.

In this episode, Liz Murray explores why capable leaders overfunction, how it quietly creates exhaustion, and why stepping in “just this once” can become a pattern that keeps you carrying responsibility that was never yours to begin with.

Overfunctioning keeps things moving. It keeps people comfortable. But it also keeps you tired.

In this reflection, Liz unpacks:

• What overfunctioning really looks like in practice

• Why it is usually about avoiding discomfort rather than control

• How difficult conversations and uncertainty drive compensation

• Why clean leadership removes unnecessary effort instead of adding more Leadership becomes heavy when we absorb what actually needs to be addressed. Clean leadership does not require more effort. It requires clarity and courage.

This episode is part of the February Clean Leadership series.

✅ Timestamps ''

00:00 – Overfunctioning is not leadership

00:10 – Why it gets socially rewarded

00:22 – The “just this once” pattern

00:36 – Carrying responsibility that is not yours

00:50 – Why it keeps you tired

01:02 – Avoiding discomfort and uncertainty

01:15 – Leadership becomes heavy when we compensate

01:25 – Clean leadership removes unnecessary effort

01:34 – Leadership gets lighter when you stop compensating

🔹 NEXT STEPS + RESOURCES

🎓 Join the Program:
👉 Be Exceptional Liz’s signature course to help you master stamina, influence, and energy.

👉 Subscribe on YouTube for more episodes of Take 5 With Me.

👉 Subscribe to Leadership Edge on LinkedIn for weekly insights on leading with heart and clarity. 

🎧 Listen to Take 5 with Me – short episodes to grow your leadership from the inside out.

🔹 WORK WITH LIZ MURRAY

Liz Murray helps leaders protect their energy, sharpen their influence, and lead with emotional stamina through her online course Be Exceptional, one-to-one coaching, and high-impact workshops.

📩 Contact: [email protected]
🌐 Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au
📱 Connect: LinkedIn | Instagram

Do you know a leader who always looks busy but sounds slightly uncertain?

Quick decisions. Constant reactions. No time to slow down.

In this short leadership reflection, Liz Murray explores how urgency can quietly cover a lack of clarity, and why constant movement is not always effective leadership.

When we feel unclear, speed can feel safer than perspective.
We tell ourselves we do not have time to pause.
But often, what we actually need is space to step back and see the bigger picture.

In this episode, Liz shares:

This reflection is part of the February Clean Leadership series.

Leadership becomes lighter when clarity leads.

Timestamps 

00:00 – The leader who looks busy but sounds uncertain
00:28 – When urgency feels productive
00:55 – How uncertainty drives speed
01:20 – The cost of constant reaction
01:45 – Why perspective creates clarity
02:10 – Slowing down to make smarter decisions
02:30 – Clean leadership and real productivity

Next steps 

👉 Subscribe on YouTube for more episodes of Take 5 With Me.    / @lizmurray_leadership   

👉Join Be Exceptional — https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.a... Liz’s online course to master stamina, influence, and energy. 

👉 Subscribe to Leadership Edge on LinkedIn   / leadership-edge-7370729283092160512   for weekly insights on leading with heart and clarity. 

🎧 Listen to Take 5 with Me – https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hbdf0k... short episodes to grow your leadership from the inside out.

🔹 Work with Liz Murray

Liz Murray helps leaders protect their energy, sharpen their influence, and lead with emotional stamina through her online course Be Exceptional, one-to-one coaching, and high-impact workshops.

Instagram:    / eopossibilities  

Facebook:    / edgeofpossibilities  

LinkedIn:   / lizmurrayedgeofpossibilities  

Twitter:   / eopossibilities  

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/

Have you ever noticed how often urgency takes over before clarity has a chance to land?

In this short reflection, Liz Murray shares what actually changed once she stopped rushing herself, not in a dramatic or performative way, but in the small, everyday moments where most capable people quietly override their own signals.

This episode isn’t about why slowing down matters, that conversation has already been had. It’s about what becomes visible after you stop rushing: how urgency can mask uncertainty, why fast decisions often cost more energy, and how clarity creates cleaner leadership.

If you’re capable, thoughtful, and tired of pushing momentum before things feel clear, this reflection will resonate.

In this episode, Liz explores: Why urgency is often internal, not external How rushing becomes a way to avoid uncertainty What changes when clarity leads instead of speed Why cleaner decisions take less energy, not more

Momentum doesn’t disappear when you slow down — it recalibrates.

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Timestamps (2:34 total)

00:00 – Something shifted after January

00:24 – How rushing overrides your own signals

00:49 – Everyday examples: emails & meetings

01:28 – When urgency is driven by uncertainty

01:55 – Why clarity changes how decisions feel

02:18 – Cleaner leadership, not faster leadership

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Website: www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au

In this short episode, I explain why I intentionally used January as a strategic reset, not a delay, and why reflection is a core leadership skill for getting clear before building momentum.

If you’ve felt pressure to “hit the ground running” or judged yourself for a quieter January, this message reframes self-improvement and personal development as disciplined self-leadership, not busyness.

Momentum doesn’t come from speed. It comes from clarity.

In this episode, I cover:

– Why January is about direction, not urgency

– How skipping reflection leads to rework, over-functioning, and decision fatigue

– What I consciously reset around energy, patterns, standards, and direction

– How I’ll be showing up differently this year as a leader If you’re ready for cleaner leadership and more intentional momentum, this is a good place to start.

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Timestamps

0:00 — January isn’t about speed

0:18 — Why clarity saves time later

0:42 — The danger of defaulting to old patterns

1:05 — Reflection as preventative leadership

1:28 — What I reset: energy, patterns, standards, direction

2:05 — How I’ll be showing up differently this year

2:22 — Why momentum follows clarity

You’ve made it to the final stretch of the year. If your brain is already in holiday mode but your calendar is still pretending it’s August, this short episode is for you.

This week’s theme is Gentle Futures, and we’re talking about a calm, pressure-free way to think about 2026. December is not the month to overhaul your entire leadership strategy. When leaders try to force big plans right now, those goals are often fuelled by exhaustion rather than clarity. Instead, this episode introduces the idea of gentle visioning or soft sketching. A way to reflect and look ahead without spreadsheets, panic, or “new year, new you” energy.

In this mini episode, Liz explores:

Why December planning often backfires

The difference between panic planning and pause-led clarity

Simple questions to guide gentle visioning What to carry forward into 2026

What to leave behind with zero guilt

Visioning does not need to be intense. It can be calm, reflective, and spacious. The best plans do not come from panic.

They come from pause.

✨ Download the free 10 Minute Leader Glow Up A grounding, feel-good reflection to help you finish the year proud and step into January with calm clarity.

👉 https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/pl/2148725323

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — You made it to the final stretch

00:12 — Leading lightly in December

00:22 — Gentle visioning for 2026

00:35 — Why December is not the time to overhaul

00:52 — Soft sketching instead of panic planning

01:05 — Key reflection questions

01:22 — Why pause creates better plans

01:35 — Free 10 Minute Leader Glow Up

01:45 — Closing and New Year sign-off

📣 NEXT STEP

✨ Download the free 10 Minute Leader Glow Up A simple reflection to help you reset, ground yourself, and enter January calmly.

👉 https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/pl/2148725323

💬 What is one thing you are ready to leave behind as you move into 2026?