Leap Lady Leader Podcast

Maureen (Mo) challenges women leaders to stop postponing meaningful work and offers a practical plan to begin. Using research-backed implementation intentions and her LEAP model (Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere), she explains how to create specific start times, make realistic room in your schedule, and ask for support when needed.
Listeners are given a weekly challenge to set a clear when/what/how action, reflect on barriers (capacity, uncertainty, exposure), and take a small, deliberate step toward their purpose.
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In this episode, Maureen (Mo) explores how experienced leaders can remain teachable and curious despite years of success. She offers practical strategies—separating observations from assumptions, revisiting past conclusions when conditions change, and practicing revising judgments out loud—to gather better information, update decisions, and maintain trust.
Listeners are encouraged to apply the LEAP model (Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere), reflect on a real situation, and practice asking one more question before deciding. The episode connects leadership growth with faith and provides concrete prompts and a weekly challenge to help leaders stay open to new insights.
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Host Maureen encourages experienced leaders to allow themselves to be new at a skill without negating their past accomplishments. She explores why learning can feel uncomfortable, shares research-backed mindset shifts, and introduces the LEAP model to set specific goals, seek guidance, and practice intentionally.
The episode closes with a concrete weekly challenge, a faith-centered reflection (Proverbs 18:15), and practical steps to make measurable progress while keeping humility and confidence in balance.
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This episode explores the tension leaders face when the right choice will disappoint others. Maureen explains how to balance courage, humility, and responsibility—seeking input, aligning with values, and communicating with compassion—so leaders can make principled decisions without losing empathy.
Listeners receive practical tools: four decision-making practices, the LEAP framework, and reflection questions to help act responsibly, remain accountable, and grow in wisdom when making difficult choices.
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In this episode Maureen ("Mo") helps leaders pause and discern whether their next step should expand, deepen, or change direction, reminding listeners that growth isn’t always "more."
She explains job crafting, warns against mission drift, and introduces the LEAP model—Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere—to evaluate opportunities with purpose and clarity.
Mo ends with a practical challenge: answer three questions about the leap you’re considering (what it will make possible, what you’d need to release, and whether you can meet the need by developing current work), then take one tangible step to gather information.
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This episode helps leaders reconsider past decisions without losing credibility, explaining why change is hard — from sunk costs to identity and organizational culture — and how to tell the difference between discernment and avoidance.
Maureen introduces the LEAP framework (Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere) and lays out practical steps: examine the original purpose, gather informed input, compare options against values and capacity, and follow through with clear communication and care for those affected.
Listeners are challenged to spend 30 minutes reviewing one decision, consult a trusted advisor, set a concrete next step within 90 days, and act with responsibility and transparency.
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Maureen (Mo) explores why sharing appropriate parts of our personal stories strengthens leadership, builds psychological safety, and connects us beyond titles and accomplishments.
She weaves industrial and organizational psychology, her LEAP model (Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere), and faith-based reflection into practical guidance, reflection questions, and a weekly challenge to help leaders use their experiences with discernment and compassion.
A resource for you: The Secure Soul by Dr. Alison Cook
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This episode explores how difficult temperaments affect workplace relationships and offers practical strategies for employees navigating hot-tempered bosses and for leaders who struggle with their own frustration.
Covering the science of temperament and emotional regulation, the host shares actionable steps—identify triggers, pause before reacting, set boundaries, and repair trust—along with the LEAP framework for intentional leadership.
Listeners will learn how to hold high standards without creating fear, build psychological safety, and turn emotional self-control into a leadership strength.
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Maureen (Mo) blends industrial-organizational psychology with nearly three decades of leadership to explore midlife career transitions. She helps listeners distinguish between simple exhaustion and a true call to change, explaining career adaptability and offering practical steps to discern what to keep, what to release, and how to test next moves without rushing into big decisions.
Using her LEAP model—Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere—Mo encourages small experiments, trusted conversations, and honest reflection. She anchors the episode in faith (Psalm 32:8), shares personal transitions, and issues a brief challenge: write three short lists to guide thoughtful, grounded next steps.
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This episode helps leaders discern when commitment has become costly by explaining the difference between healthy perseverance and escalation of commitment. Maureen shares a personal story of closing a nonprofit, explains sunk costs, and offers practical decision questions to evaluate whether to continue, adjust, pause, or end a strategy.
Using the LEAP model (Lead, Empower, Align, Persevere), she provides clear steps to return to purpose, gather honest input, align strategy with values and capacity, and act with courage and integrity. The episode ends with a challenge to review one initiative and decide whether it still serves the organization’s purpose.
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