You don’t need a title to be a leader.

And you don’t need to be flawless to influence.

In this empowering episode of The Leadership Wound, we explore what it really means to lead — not from position or perfection, but from presence, influence, and authenticity.

Amanda unpacks the everyday nature of leadership, reminding us that we all lead simply by how we show up. Through deeply personal stories and spiritual insight, she challenges the performance-based model of leadership and offers a fresh vision rooted in love, dignity, and shared humanity.

Together, we’ll explore:

✨ Why every human carries influence — and what it means to steward that well

✨ The importance of normalizing leadership wounds (because we all have them)

✨ What it looks like to lead for others, not over them

✨ How leadership happens at the table — not from a platform

✨ The power of future-focused, soul-aligned decision-making

Whether you’re managing a team, raising a family, or navigating hard conversations with courage — this episode will remind you that your presence is leadership.

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Leadership isn’t about control.

It’s about presence.

And it’s time to lead like you.

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You’ve named the wound.

You’ve accepted the pain.

Now comes the hardest — and most transformative — part: tending.

In this final episode of The Leadership Wound Healing Path™ series, we step into the slow, sacred work that turns awareness into wholeness. Tending isn’t about fixing or rushing. It’s about returning — again and again — to care, presence, and healing that reaches your body, your leadership, and your soul.

In this episode, Amanda shares personal reflections from her family garden, explains why so many leaders resist this stage, and offers a path forward that is both grounded and embodied.

Together, we’ll explore:

✨ Why tending is so often skipped — and why it's essential for lasting transformation

✨ How hustle disconnects us from healing and why presence is the pace of wholeness

✨ What embodiment actually means — and how to recognize when you're not living from it

✨ Four practical ways to tend the wound daily:

 • Pause and feel

 • Guard the gate

 • Set gentle boundaries

 • Seek safe reflection

If you’ve been stuck in burnout, chronic disappointment, or performing for approval…

This episode is your invitation to begin tending your leadership wound with care, compassion, and courage.

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🎧 Episode 7 — The Healing Work of Leadership: Part 3 Accepting the Wound

So many leaders carry hidden wounds. 

Wounds they’ve denied, rushed past, or justified away — because facing them felt too heavy, too vulnerable, or too painful.

Maybe that’s you.

Maybe you’ve told yourself, "I should be over this by now."

Or maybe you’ve been stuck replaying what should have been — while life and leadership quietly lose their joy and clarity.

Here’s the hard truth: Acceptance is often the hardest and most misunderstood step in healing.

But without it, wounds can’t fully heal. They continue to shape how we live, lead, and love — often from the shadows.

In this honest and tender episode, we explore:

✨ Why running from or rushing through your pain is costing you more than you realize

✨ How acceptance shifts us from victimhood to wisdom

✨ The difference between wounds and scars — and why scars don’t mean you lost, they mean you healed

✨ What Jesus' scars teach us about rewriting the story of our pain

✨ How acceptance frees you to stop pretending, start releasing, and begin leading from wholeness

If you’re tired of being defined by your leadership wounds...

If you’re ready to stop performing and start leading with strength, clarity, and purpose…

This episode is your invitation to begin.

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🎙️ Episode 6: The Healing Work of Leadership – Part 2: Naming the Wound

Leadership can leave wounds that remain unnamed—yet they influence every decision, relationship, and moment of self-doubt. In this second installment of The Leadership Wound Healing Path™, Amanda Rohrer guides you through the transformative process of naming your leadership wounds.

Drawing from her personal journey and years of coaching experience, Amanda illustrates how unacknowledged pain often masquerades as burnout, imposter syndrome, or simply "the cost of leadership." She emphasizes that naming these wounds is not about assigning blame but about reclaiming your voice and initiating healing.

In this episode, you'll:

Explore the subtle manifestations of unhealthy leadership, including control disguised as spiritual authority, avoidance, and emotional coercion.

Learn about the seven categories of hidden leadership wounds: relational, emotional, cultural, spiritual, physical, legacy, and identity.

Engage with reflection prompts designed to help you identify and articulate your own leadership wounds.

Understand the spiritual significance of naming your pain, drawing parallels from biblical narratives.

Whether you're beginning to question the dynamics around you or seeking deeper self-awareness in your leadership role, this episode offers a compassionate space to start naming and healing your wounds.

✨ Reflection prompts and a free coaching invitation await at the end of the episode.

🎧 Subscribe now and join a growing community of leaders embracing authenticity and healing.

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Leadership can leave wounds no one sees — but you carry them every day. In this kickoff to the new four-part series The Healing Work of Leadership, Amanda Rohrer invites you into the often-avoided first step of true leadership healing: Feeling the Wound.

Drawing from 25 years of leadership and coaching, Amanda shares her personal mission to help leaders stop performing through their pain and start healing from the inside out.

You’ll hear raw stories of rejection and shame, explore how leadership wounds live in your body, and discover why acknowledging your pain isn’t weakness — it’s wisdom.

This episode offers a spiritual and practical framework to:  

• Recognize the invisible leadership wounds you’re carrying
• Understand how suppressing pain isolates you from healing
• Learn why your feelings are messengers, not your identity
• Practice a body-centered reflection to locate and honor your stored pain
• Thank your body for protecting you — and begin reassuring it that it's safe now
• Reframe pain as a sacred invitation, not a personal failure

Whether you're weary of armoring up or just starting to feel the cracks, this conversation will help you slow down, breathe, and begin the courageous journey toward healing leadership.

✨ Reflection prompts and a free coaching invitation await at the end of the episode.

🎧 Subscribe now and join the growing community of leaders choosing truth, embodiment, and freedom.

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Authenticity Isn’t License — It’s Responsibility

In a culture where “being real” is often used as a free pass to speak without reflection, it’s time to redefine what authenticity in leadership truly means. In this episode of The Leadership Wound, Amanda Rohrer unpacks the misunderstood use of “authenticity” and contrasts it with the sacred responsibility of showing up with intention, humility, and emotional clarity.

You’ll hear a raw personal story about emotional projection, explore what authenticity is not, and be invited into a deeper, spiritually rooted model of embodied leadership. You’ll learn how to recognize your emotional patterns, lead from your wholeness—not your wounds—and reconnect with the divine image you were created to reflect.

Whether you're tired of pretending or just beginning to question your leadership mold, this episode invites you to slow down, reflect, and lead like the person you were always meant to be.

✨ Reflection prompts and a free coaching invitation await at the end of the episode.
🎧 Subscribe now and join the movement of leaders stepping into truth, integration, and freedom.

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Rising After Rejection: Leaving the Grave Clothes Behind

Rejection isn’t the end — it’s the invitation. In this soul-stirring episode, Amanda Rohrer shares a powerful reflection inspired by the story of Lazarus, revealing how the pain of rejection can actually be a sacred doorway into our truest leadership. Through honest storytelling and spiritual insight from her Holy Hour, Amanda unpacks what it means to rise again — not by striving, but by shedding the "grave clothes" of shame, labels, and expectations that were never ours to wear.

Now’s the time to walk away with permission to reclaim the parts of yourself you’ve hidden, and discover how integrated, embodied leadership creates space for transformation — not just for us, but for everyone we lead.

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Episode 2: Burnout Is Not a Badge

Summary:
Burnout isn’t just a sign that you’ve been working hard — it’s a signal that something deeper is misaligned. In this episode of The Leadership Wound, we unpack the glorification of overwork, the systems that perpetuate burnout, and the personal cost of trying to lead in a way that doesn’t fit.

Drawing from 25 years of leadership and coaching experience, Amanda explores how disconnection — from our bodies, values, and authentic selves — quietly fuels burnout. You’ll hear powerful insights on the myth of solo leadership, the exhaustion of performance, and what it means to pursue a model of leadership rooted in alignment, presence, and shared strength.

If you’ve ever wondered whether leadership has to cost this much — emotionally, spiritually, or physically — this episode is your invitation to pause, reflect, and imagine something different.

Because burnout is not a badge of honor — and you don’t have to lead like this.

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In the inaugural episode of The Leadership Wound, host Amanda Rohrer invites listeners to confront a hard truth: You can’t lead like that. Trying to fit into someone else’s mold of leadership is not only exhausting, but it’s also holding you back from being the leader you’re truly meant to be.

Drawing from over 25 years of experience leading and coaching individuals in both the church and non-profit sectors, Amanda shares her personal journey of breaking free from the expectations and scripts others imposed on her. She describes how, for years, she tried to meet everyone’s standards — sacrificing her own voice, values, and peace in the process.

Amanda dismantles the illusion of external validation and people-pleasing, exposing it for what it often is: a projection of others’ unresolved wounds and insecurities. She emphasizes that healthy leadership is not about pleasing everyone or being universally accepted. Rather, it’s about leading from a place of integrity, authenticity, and conviction.

In this episode, Amanda challenges listeners with a powerful question: How long will you allow the effects of performing and pretending to rule your leadership? When is enough, enough?

Key Takeaways:

True leadership requires authenticity. Trying to fit into someone else’s expectations is a recipe for burnout, resentment, and feeling disconnected from your true self.

Healthy leadership is not about pleasing people. It’s about serving from a place of integrity and showing up as your true self, even when it disrupts someone else’s comfort or expectations.

The only way forward is to lead like you. At some point, you have to decide that the cost of pretending is too high and reclaim your voice and vision.

This episode sets the stage for a powerful journey of discovering your true leadership style, breaking free from the performance trap, and embracing embodied living.

🔔 Subscribe now and join Amanda on The Leadership Wound as she unpacks the journey from pain to permission and offers practical guidance to help you lead authentically.

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Welcome to The Leadership Wound — a podcast exploring the hidden cost of leadership and the journey from pain to permission. Hosted by Amanda Rohrer, founder of Authentically You, this show creates space for honest stories from leaders who’ve faced rejection, burnout, and unraveling — and found their way back to authenticity. If you’ve ever been told you’re too much or not enough, this podcast is for you. Here, we grieve, forgive, and reclaim leadership on our own terms — embodied, unapologetic, and true. Subscribe to discover the leader you’ve always been.

Book your free Growth Plan Consult at AuthenticLeadershipCollective.com and get access to my free morning meditation and other soulful leadership tools.

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Resources & Links:

• Learn more at: AuthenticLeadershipCollective.com
• Schedule a Free 30-minute Growth Plan Consult
• Get a Free Morning Meditation, and start your day off right, by signing up for my weekly leadership emails
• Follow Amanda on Instagram
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• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!
• Subscribe and leave a review to help others find the show!