The Alignment Table

You are six days away from the second half of 2026. Before you get there, there is one conversation worth having. Not with your team. Not with your business partner. Not with anyone who needs something from you. With Yourself!

In this episode ,Sharon Preston pull together the themes from June and asks the honest questions underneath them all:-

- What have you actually decided about what the next chapter of your leadership looks like>

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Not ready is one of the most used phrases in senior leadership and one of the least examined.

In this episode Sharon Preston gets honest about:-

• what it actually means
• what it is protecting you from
• why the leaders who build the most significant careers are not the ones who waited until they felt ready. They are the ones who decided that ready was the wrong standard entirely.

This episode drops mid June. What you do with it in July is up to you.

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There is a specific kind of loneliness that arrives at a certain level of leadership. Not the loneliness of being isolated. The loneliness of being surrounded by capable, well-meaning people and still feeling like nobody around you quite operates at the level at which you are actually thinking.

In this episode Sharon Preston gets specific about

• who you genuinely need around you at this level
• why those people become harder to find as you move up
• what it actually takes to build the kind of circle that makes your next level possible

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You have broken through a ceiling before. You know what that feels like. So why does a new version of the same ceiling keep appearing at every level?

In this episode Sharon Preston explains:-

• the specific mechanism that reinstalls the ceiling even after you think you have moved beyond
• why it is almost never about capability, always about belief
• what it actually takes to stop the pattern recurring rather than just interrupting it temporarily.

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Most leaders review their business regularly. Very few ever honestly review their leadership.

In Episode 28 of The Alignment Table™, Sharon Preston walks through the leadership audit that most high achieving people avoid, not because it is complicated, but because it requires a level of honesty that is genuinely uncomfortable.

What it uncovers, what surfaces, and why it is one of the most useful things you can do at the midpoint of a year.

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Most people in leadership can recognise ego in others immediately. Very few can recognise it in themselves.

In Episode 27 of The Alignment Table™, Sharon Preston explores one of the most important and least honestly examined distinctions in senior leadership: the difference between genuine authority and ego-led leadership. Not the obvious version of ego. The subtle one. The kind that looks like high standards, like perfectionism, like caring deeply about the work. The kind that is genuinely difficult to see from the inside and genuinely costly to the people around you.

This episode explores:

• what genuine authority actually is
• how ego-led leadership shows up in ways most people never recognise
• how to tell the difference from the inside
• what shifts when the move from one to the other is genuinely made.

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If every significant decision in your business still runs through you, if your team brings you problems instead of answers, if the whole thing would slow down the moment you stepped away then this episode is for you.

In Episode 26 of The Alignment Table™, Sharon Preston gets honest about the dependency trap that the most capable, high-performing people tend to create without realising it.

• Why it happens,
• what it is quietly costing you
• what actually needs to change.

This is not about delegation tactics. It is about the identity and beliefs underneath the behaviour. Direct, honest and in plain language throughout.

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What would actually happen to your business if you disappeared for 60 days?

Not the version you would tell a client. The honest version. In

Episode 25 of The Alignment Table™, Sharon Preston uses the 60 day question as a lens to examine what genuine business sustainability looks like, what it requires you to build, and why most high-performing businesses are one person's absence away from a crisis they have never prepared for.

This episode covers:-

• client relationships
• team capability
• operational systems
• personal financial resilience
• the specific human infrastructure that makes a business genuinely sustainable in an AI world. Direct, honest and entirely in second person.

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This episode is about failure. Not the polished, retrospectively reframed version that sounds good in an interview. The real kind. The kind that costs something, teaches something and builds something that no amount of success alone ever could.

In Episode 24 of The Alignment Table™, Executive Mentor and Strategic Advisor Sharon Preston explores:

• What failure actually produces in female founders and senior leaders who allow themselves to sit with it honestly.

• Why the fear of failure is one of the most expensive things a high achieving woman can carry.

• What becomes available on the other side of the willingness to get something significantly wrong.

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In Episode 23 of The Alignment Table™, Executive Mentor and Strategic Advisor Sharon Preston explores where the discomfort around money comes from for high achieving women, how it shows up in leadership and business, and what genuinely changes when female founders and senior leaders develop an honest and powerful relationship with their own financial worth.

This is not a conversation about budgeting or investment strategy. It is a conversation about identity, worth and the specific beliefs that have been quietly running the financial decisions of brilliant women for far too long.

Topics covered:

• Female founders money mindset
• Women in leadership undercharging
• Executive women financial worth
• Senior leaders investing in themselves
• Women and wealth, leadership identity and money
• Female entrepreneur pricing.

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