EP5:  Part Four of The Safety Briefing turns the mirror.

After unpacking hunger, red flags, and the hustle of healing, this episode asks a harder question:

What kind of power do you carry; and are you equipped to hold it?

It’s one thing to spot distorted leadership.
 It’s another to examine your own readiness to guide, teach, initiate, or influence.

In this conversation, Priestess Francesca and trusted colleague Brittany Wittig synthesize the red flags discussed in Episodes 2–4 (controlled initiations, moving goalposts, pride masquerading as divinity, the delusion of “happily ever after”) and pivot toward responsibility.

Because insecurity in a leader is not harmless.

As Francesca’s colleague Alison Strickland says:
 “Leaders who move from insecurity are a liability.”

This episode introduces the concept of leadership “height checks” — not as perfection standards, but as capacity requirements.

Before you pick up the torch of guidance, can you answer these honestly?

• Have you dismantled your perfectionism?
• Have you strengthened your repair muscle?
• Do you know what it feels like when you’re off?
• And do you have the skillful means fortified to get back on?

Through real-life examples (from pricing models to going off-grid for six months) Francesca and Brittany demonstrate what alignment, recalibration, and embodied listening actually look like in practice.

Leadership is not about control.  It is not about certainty.  And it is not about being untouchable.  

It is about integrity under pressure.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• A recap of the Spiritual Industrial Complex red flags
• Why insecurity-driven leadership creates harm
• The danger of needing your audience to regulate your worth
• Dismantling colonial perfectionism
• Why repair (not perfection) builds safety
• The “hairline fracture” feeling of being off
• Deep Listening as a leadership skill
• Abundance as “all that you need and a little bit more”
• Why control is often disguised as devotion
• The real responsibility of picking up the torch of power

Timestamps

00:00 — Auditing Responsibility
 02:30 — Insecurity as Liability
 04:15 — Dismantling Perfectionism
 06:00 — Strengthening the Repair Muscle
 08:30 — Knowing When You’re Off
 10:00 — Real-Life Examples of Alignment
 12:00 — Control vs Trust
 14:30 — The Height Checks for Leadership
 17:30 — Power Is Not Picked Up Lightly

We’ve spent the last four episodes examining how power becomes distorted when people are hungry for meaning.  

Next week, the focus shifts again.  

In Episode 6:  Are You Tall Enough to Ride? (The Height Checks)

Before you enter BDSM, kink, non-monogamy, or high-stakes intimacy, you need to know whether your internal safety mechanisms actually work.

Take the Engineering Hotness Quiz to audit your system under pressure:

👉 PriestessFrancesca.com/Quiz

Because discernment is not optional if you want to play in the dark. 

Until next time, keep your mind in the gutter.  You’d be surprised at what you find in the dark.